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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

THE ship chandlery Of Wilcox Brothers,
in Toledo, has been burned, with 4 loss of
100000.
years halter milwaukee, has surprised
that community by making an assignment
his liabilities being $4,000.
A LOUISVILLE stove firm, Smith, Bayley
4 Co., have made an assignment their
liabilities being $4,000.
The Rockwell & Churchill printing es-
tablishment. at Boston was damaged $30.-
600 by fire Feb. %.
The ship carpenters Of Milwaukee have
resolved to strike for an increase of fifty
cents per day.
THE explosin of boiler in the soap
factory of T. w. Meyer, of Louisville,
Feb. oath, killed that gentleman and in
jured his son William
The families of Mewrs. Boyce and Eel
ter, of Roundout, N. Y, was found on the
18th inst, in dying condition from
trichiniasis.
An engine and snow -plow, while clear
ing the road near Hudson, Wis, rolled
down an embankment twenty-five feet
high. Two men were killed and several
scalded.
, SUNDAY evening d. B. Collins, an old
farmer of Union township, near La Porte,
Ind, accidentally shot and killed Charles
| Peterson. They were trying to kill rab-
bit. Collins has since become insane.
| Mrs. julius CLEMENS, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. victim of ofhereditary insanity,
rose from her bed in the night, went to the
barn, saturated her clothing with kero-
sene, and, lighting match, burned her
self to crisp.
WHILE operating jute-plcking ma
chine at Boyce's t1ax-mills, at Munice.
Ind, on the 23d of Feb, Erwin Weller,
son of John G. Weller had his left leg
caught in the machine and ground off up
to the knee. The lex was amputated
above the knee.
| A REPRESENTATIVE Of the Chicago Times
was dispatched to the cattle ranches to
investigate the losses from the unprece-
dented storms of the winter. He reports
that thousands of beeves line the northern
banks of the Arkansas, having drifted in
from the north, and that they are dying in
great numbers. A gentleman who has
Just reached Denver declares that he saw
fully five thousand dead cattle lying be.
side the Union Pacific rack in Nebraska
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

ONE who merely glances over the
list of casualties as reported by tele-
graphs from day to day can have but
little idea of the fearful loss of life by
explosions in this country. Since the
1st of January ffty-three lives have
been lost by boiler explosions, thirteen
by explosions ofoil, fourteen by powder
and nitro-glycerine, three by cellulold,
which is very explosive compound,
and twenty-nine by explosions in
mines. Besides these, large numbers
have been injured and manned fol
life. And this is not the entire list, as
solitary cases are rarely reported by
telegraph.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

JUDGE CHARLES E. FORBES, who died
recently at Northampton, Mass, left
$22O.OGO to build and maintain tree
public library in that town, $50, O,oOo OF
which is to be employed in building,
the income on $4,000 of which is to
90 for the maintainance of the build
ing, and the income of $4,000 for the
purchase of books. Under the will NO
minister of any religion is to have any
thing to do with the management OF
the proposed institution. If the city OF
Northampton shall not comply with
the conditions of the bequest, the
money is to go to Harvard university
to establish professorship of advanced
scientific research. Judge Forbes left
his half brother and sister an annuity
of 81 900 each.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

PARNELL has decided wisely. He
informs his friends in Ireland, who re-
quested him to visit America in their
interest, that his proper place at pres
ent is iii the house of commons, and
that he will remain in his seat and con-
tinue to make us good a fight for JUS
tice to Ireland as possible. Neither
Parnell nor any other agltator is needed
in America in behalf of Ireland. The
cause of Ireland is as we'll understood
here as it is in Ireland itself, and there
is no lack Of popular sympathy. The
place for the friends Of Irish liberty to
fight their battles is, not in America
but in Ireland and England.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
Criminal.

GREECE has called out her reserve
forces, and the largest college in Athens
has been converted into a military hos
pital.
J. P. DoUGHERTY. wAo swindled bank
atZeland, Mich, out Of 81 800, has been
jailed at Windsor, Ont, and will be extra
dited.
A number of gamblers and lottery
ticket dealers were sentenced to pay fine
and to imprisonment, in New York, on the
23d of February.
A FRENCH Catholic girl who had en-
braced the Protestant faith was forcibly
taken from procession at Hull, Ont, Feb.
81, by her brother-in-law and a large party
of his friends.
ANN HAsK1Ns, an old servant of the As
tor family, in New York, committed sui
eide by leaping from the second story Of
St. Joseph's Home for the aged.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred near Fort
Colville, on the 18th inst, from disappoint-
ed affection. Samuel Buchanan killed a
man, wounded alady, and shot himself
through the heart
In the circuit court al Corunna, Mich,
huKn 3Asoo' was awarded vefOlct vi
81 800 against y. E. White, his wife's
father, for alternating her affections from
him.
WILLIAM &; Bradley. late post master
at Princeton, KY, was arrested in Iowa
Feb. 24th, on charge OF rif1ing registered
packages and embezziing money-orce,
funds.
The Missouri Galley ba nix, which was
organized at Kansas City in 1873, with q
capital of 475, 600 has closed its doors. i
owes dspositors $3.50, 100. and was refused
aid by the other banking houses because
of the large amount of long paper it held
No less than $500 worth of Great
Western railway tickas, which were stoler
seven years ago, havl been found in the
Office d Abrahams Go, scalpers, at Mon
treal.
MIS- ADDIE BALL Of Cuba, ILL.,, wher
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Novel and Interesting News.

The Boston Globe has made q happy
deal. In an extraordinary special edi-
ton dated January l, 1884," it pre-
sents the news of one hundred years
from now, in highly interesting and
elating manner. The Phonograph in
Divorce suits, Sunday School Excur-
sion in Air Cars, Terrible accidents in
Mid-Air,-Invention of Burglar
Bouncer, are respectively treated from
the stand point of the advanced
journalism of that day. News by
the Talkogram and Photophone from
all parts Of the world is fully present
ed. To show the progress of those
times, it is only necessary to state that
isHiram Grants bay mare Broad S.
trot q mile in 1871" Every one
should secure from his News Dealer or
from Messrs. A. Vogeler 4 Co., of Bal
timore, Md, by whom this edition Is e1-
clnsitsly controlled and o,o,aed, q copy of
the Boston Globe for 1881" Mailed on
receipt of price FIVE CENTS. To read
it TO have grace and flexibility inn
parted to the intellect. and sstrong de-
sire to live ons-4As the poet would ex-
prtaru IL
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
Gentlemen Of Color In Georgia.
Columbus Ga. Enquirer


There is hardly day on which colored
men do not call at this Office and sub
scribe for the paper, and it is also true
that at the expiration of their time they
promptly renew. These do not come
any more from the town than the
country. Of the latter class, come the
farmers who are cultivating places of
their own, and desire to be posted on
the latest quotations and fluctuations
of the market, as we'll as the general
news of the day. They seem to care
less about political facts than any other,
but appear to be paying more attention
to their material adyancement. 1t is
an encouraging indication. AS the ne.
gro grows in prosperity he becomes
more conservative, desires good laws
and votes with the intelligence of the
country in order to secure them The
radical element has very little influence
with the better class of colored men,
who are consulting their own advance
ment in winning possession Of this
worlds goods. Business men report
that quite number of colored farm
ers on both sides of the river come to
the city and buy as judicionsly and
closely as those ofseemingly more ex-
perience and intelligence. With re-
gard to different markets they are well
posted. This comes from study If
newspapers and observation. Many
old-time ideas have been drawn from
the mind by the stern logic of facts in
the last decade, and we found
that many once firmly enter
tanned opinions were bad mistakes.
What drift of the future may be mortal
can not see, but we certainly have been
completely astonished at the number
of colored M n who have paid for this
paper in the last few years, and con-
,inue so to Go.
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10Th Congress.

THURSDAY, Feb. T.-Smate-The following
bills were tavorably reported and placed on the
calendar For government building ut Terre
Haute, Ind, and for Il fire. proof government
building at Columbus 0. Mr.. VOORHEES, offered
resolution, which was agreed to, instructing the
judiciary committee to inquire into the best meth
cd Of protecting innocent purchasers from impo-
sitons practiced by fraudulent vendors of patents
and patent rights, and report by bill otherwise.
The senate resumed the discussion of the funding
bill, with the generally understood purpose of dis
posing of the bill to-day, even if night session
lasting till two o'clock in the morning, the bill was
reported with the rate of per cent. maintained.
This leaves the funding bill substantially MS it
passed the house.
THunsDAy. February 17-House- A re-
port was submitted on the contested election
case from the second district Q. North Caro-
lima, declaring Kitchen, the sitting member, en-
titled to his seat. The speaker announced the
regular business to be the consideration of amend
ments to the river and harbor BILL which were
agreed to- Mr.. Robson moved to commit the bill to
| the committee on judiciary, with instructions to
report it back with an amendment confning the
expenditure therein appropriated, to the rivers
harrbors and streams within the maritime and ad-
mirality jurisdiction Of the United States. The
motion was defeated. Yeas, So; nays, l55. The
bill was then passed. Yeas. 1853: nays, 81.
FRIpAy Feb. 1s-Senate--The credentials Of
MessrS. an Wyk anu Miller, senators elect, were
presented, and filed.
Bills were introduced and referred: Senator
Vest, to incorporate the Inter-Oceani company
| Sen. Hereford, bill making an appropri
| alton to improve the Little Kanawaha and ELI
rivers, and to continue the Improvement of the
Great Kanawana and New rivers, in West Vir-
ginia
On motion Sen. Thurman, the senate passed
the bill to authorize the construction of fire.
proof building at Columbus, o., for the accommo-
| dation of the United States court etc. The cos,
Of the building was reduced from $500 900 t.
Eiouse. "A motion to proceed to business on thu
calendar, for the purpose Of taking up the fit,
John Porter case, was defeated, yeas al nay
III. Nj. Atkins reported q resolution granting
the family of the lnte Senator Farr the balanc'
Of salary which would b due him r 11.s msmbe
vress to appropriate $500. which salary woult
Be due him 8 member Of that eecongress
s;o. 20 The widow of Commodore McCauley.
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4 Story of steel Pens.

Few persons who use steel pens on
which is stamped "Gillot" have any
idea of the story of suffering, of in
domitable pluck and persistence which
belong to the placing of that name. on
that article. a.
A long depression in trade in England
threw thousands of Sheffield mechanics
out of work, among them Joseph Gillot
then 81 years of age.
He left the city with but a shilling in
his pocket. Reaching Birmingham, he
went to an old inn and sat down upon
a settle in the..top-room. His last penny
was spent for roll. He was weak,
hungry, and i'll. He had not friend
in Birmingham and there was little
chance that he would find work.
In his dependency he was tempted
to give up and turn beggar tramp.
Then sudden fiery energy seized him.
He brought his fist down upon the
table, declaring to himself that he
would try and trust in God, come what
would. He found work that day in
making buckles, which were then fash
ionable.
AS soon as he had made pound or
two he hired garret in Bread street,
and there carried on work for himself,
bringing his taste and his knowledge of
tools into constant use, even when
working ut hand made goods. This
was the secret of Gillot's success. 9th
er workmen trudged on in the old ruts.
He was wide awake, eager to improve
his work or to shorten the way of work
ing.
He fell in love with pretty and
sensible girl named Mitchell, VINO with
her brothers were making steel pens.
Each pen was then clipped, punched,
and polished by hand, and pens were
sold consequently at enormously high
prices.
Gillot at once brought his skill in
tools to bear upon the matter, and soon
invented a machine which turned out
the points by thousands in the time
that a man would require to make one.
He married Miss Mitchell, and they
carried on the manufacture together
for years.
On the morning of the marriage the
industrious workman made gross of
pens and sold them for $36 to pay the
wedding fees. In his old age, having
reaped an immense fortune by his
shrewdness, honesty, and industry, Mr..
Gillot went again to the old inn, bought
the settle, and had the square on which
he sat that night sawed out and made
into chair, which he left as an heir
loom to his family, to remind them of
the secret of his success,
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Cablegranl~.

The military authorities of Greece have
purchased forty ambulances in Lyons.
The czar has sent aides-de-camp to dis
tribute money in the famine stricken viii
lagos of Russia.
A RELIGIOUS fight at Beyrout, originat-
ing in the murder of a Christian by a
Turk, was prolonged for two days, ten per-
sons having been killed.
AN attempt to destroy barrack at
Dublin, bv dynamite was frustrated by the
merest chance on the 18th inst.
THE Albanian league has offered the
porte twenty thousand men in the event OF
a war with Greece.
In the chamber of deputies at Brussls,
the minister of the interior announced
that there had been no case Of trichinias
in the whole of Belgium.
The Swiss confederation has called Vice
President Droz to the presidency made
vacant by the suicide of Anderwert, in the
streets of Geneva, on Christmas eve.
IT is stated that the Spanish minister OF
finance intends publishing an account
of the actual position of the treasury
showing deficit of 300 100000 pesatos.
hE SdIiduldu RONeIIlulcIlt Has dSScSScu
l., 900 additional duty on the Philadel.
phians engaged in constructing the Chan
diere railway bridge, and imposed a fine
of $40, 900 for customs under valuations.
THE home-rule element in the British
house Of commons has given notice that
whenever urgency is declared, tho co.
ercion bill shall be passed without debate,
In his speech at Clara, on Sunday, Par.
nell is reported to- have advised tenants
in case of threatened eviction, to plow W
the land and prevent the landlord from
grazing his cattle. A formal question vii
be raised in parliament whether this i.
not an incitement to indictable ofenses
In the French chamber of deputies
Premier Ferry announced that neither the
war minister nor the government haC
ever promised thirty thousand muskets tc
Greece, as stated in the British Blue
Book. Greece had asked for them, but
been refused
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

FORMIDABLE preparations have already
been made by the British government
to enforce the Coercion act i'll Ireland
after it shall have become law. The
amy there now numbers 27,OO we'll
drilled men, made up Of 2O5OO in
fantry, 1000 cavalry and $500 artillery.
They have 40, 500 horses and seventy
guns. Besides this force, nine of what
are called "Flying Columns 'hsve been
organized, and are ready to move at an
hours notice. Their purpose to be
ready to concentrate strength anywhere
that it is needed in the shortest pos
sible time, and to keep communica-
ions Open
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

The most absurd of the many pre-.
posterous reports to which the present
agitation in Great Britain has given
rise is that the Irishmen in America
are sending men and money to the
colony of the Hollandish Beers in
South Africa, to assist them in their
war against the British. This report is
on par with that which threatens all
England with Fenian plots Of powder,
blood and plunder.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

NEXT to the river and harbor swindle
in point of cussedness was the steam
ship subsidy scheme, Of which John
Roach, the rich ship-builder Of Phila-
delphia, was the inspiring tiend. The
senate has been engrossed and torn up
over the latter as much as the house
has been with the former, and if the
harbor bill could be indefinitely post
pone |. as the subsidy scheme has been,
it would be a wholesome example and
. warning to all concerned.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

THE report that Jay Gould has
gained possession of the Central rail-
road of New Jersey is confirmed. The
supposed object is to form connection
with the Lackawanna extension to Buf
falo and Niagara Falls.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

WAR has broken out in Beyront, in
syria, between the Turks and the Chris
tians. Several persons were killed in
one fight, and at last accounts they
were again fighting.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

The blaze and smoke of the burning
feathers so sufocated the invaders
that they fell to the hearth, where she
dispatched them with the axe. Only
one escaped, and he was severely
wounded by a blow from the heroine's
deadly WeapOn.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

The Czauwitz (the heir-apparent to
the throne of Russia and his wife are
very kind to the poor. The Czarowitz
is nearly six feet tall, and is deep-chest-
ed and broad.shouldered. His eyes
are light gray, his complexion is fair
and his hair is auburn. He has scar
on his temple made by Turkish bull
let. He is, with his wife, very popular
with her native people in Copenhagen
but he is not popular in Germany, be-
cause he has French proclivities. He
;s very fond of the sea.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
NEWS NOTES.

The women suffrage movement has
received setback in Maine, the
senate of that state having decided
against it,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
SHOCKING DESTITUTION.
A raraiDy In Penneylvania Five Day
Without EO0d or WO0d.

a FAMILY In nFennsylYaN1o rive Days
Without Eo0A or WOod.
McCauley City, has recently been
greatly snOJzed by the revelation of q
thrilling case of desIir,.;nn 81 want.
The victims are Mrs George Kelisse5
four children, residents Of that quie
town, about eight miles from here
She is the wife of G. c. Kent, the no
torious piano-tuner, who has beer
playing his game oftrickery and fraue
in New York and Pennsylvania. Tht
family reside in a small cabin at the
foot of the west range O f the Moosit
Mountains, where the mercur,
has been 20 degrees below zero
several days during the pas
two months. On the night of January
Is, after they had destroyed the better
part of their household goods to keep
fire, the fuel gave out, and for five
days they endured the severe weather
with neither fire or provisions, except
few raw potatoes and some corn meal
which was substituted for food. On the
sixth day neighbor chanced to visit
the house and found the mother pros
trate and the children dying. Their
feet and hands were frozen, and it was
with difficulty that he aroused them.
the drifts were ten feet high at the door,
and the scene within was heart-rend.
ing. The story of the suffe.ings of the
family spread like wlldfire, and their
neighbors turned out en- masse to re-
lieVe their condition.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
Physieians Msve EeunA sut

That contaminatins and fersign element in the
blood, developed BY indigestion, il tho cause Of
rbea matism. This settles upon the sensitive sub
eutaneous covering Of the muscles and lissments
Of the joints, causing constant and shifting pair.
and sxRreesting - . calcaresus, chalky deposit
which produces stiffness and distortion Of the
joints No fact which experience has demon.
strated in regard to Hoststters Stomach Bittsrs
has stronger evidence TO support than this. name
y. that this medicine Of comprenensive uses
i it less positively established that it is prefer
.b. tae poison. often used to ..r:s. since
Il M & aIso : isnsi remedy for malarsal fssers CON
stipation, dyspepis. kidney and bl.dder ailments,
debility and other disorders. See that ct the
Genuine.
The Rev. George H. Paul, of New
Jersey, q Presbyterian clergyman, was
attacked with the smallpox in Brook
lyn, recently, taken to the county hos.
pital and died there, and was buried in
the potteris field, before any of his rela,
tiyes or friends knew of his fate.
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Accidents.

THE ship chandlery of Wilcox Brothers,
in Toledo, has been burned, with a loss of
SGO 900.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-20

Washington, Aug, 19.-Early this
afternoon young woman appeared at
the entrance to the executive mansion
grounds, attired in bathing suit, and
applied for admission, saying she must
see the president Immediately, or that
he would be dead in an hoar. She had
in her hand miniature saw and vial
containing liquid. A curious crowd
gathered around the female, and one of
the guards informed her that she would
have to go with him.
"What forp" she inquired.
why, said the guard, don't you
see what sensation you are causing?n
''That is not my fault" she quickly
responded, "you are policeman, dis
perse the crowd.'
After demanding again to see the
president, and stating that she was Just
from Manhattan beach, and that her
husband was a fireman in Brooklyn,
she suffered the policeman to take her
in charge. She was handsome and
young. snd gave her name as Mary
Louise Reminger. 554 Brooklyn, and
said she come from Paris especially to
cure the president. She was sent to
the government insane asylum. Under
her bathing suit she wore tue costume
Of ballet dancer and variety actress.
She was not violent.
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surgeons QuarreIs.

Washington, Aug 19.-Dr. Bliss says
DIR. Pomerine. of Ohio, who was sur
geon of Gen. Garfield's regiment during
the war, came here after the president
was shot and asked to be admitted to
the presidents room to see the patient.
Bliss replied that it could not possibly
do the president any good to let DIR.
Pomerine see him and might do harm,
but promised Pomerine to submit his
request to the other surgeons. He did
SO, and they fatty refused assent to per
mitting any visit from Pomerine. Bliss
reported the decision to Pomerine day
or two later. Says Bliss: "Dr. Pome-
rine went to the white house, went
through the reception room up stairs,
and slipped into the presidents room
while his surgeons were all absent from
the room. While Pomerine was beside
the president talking to HIM DIR. Rey-
burn entered the room and very per-
emptorily invited Pomerine to leave. -
Bliss says Pomerine s'sneaked'' into the
presidents room after having been re-
fused admission, and because he wa.
turned out he has since assailed thu
presidents surgeons.