The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-07
GENERAL NOTES.

In private trial on the Columbus
track Maud S. trotted a mile in PIG.
GENERAL GRANT says no one has offered
to buy his farm Of eight hundred acres in
Missouri.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WooDFoRD, of New
York, has appointed as his assistants son
of Postmaster General James and nephew
of Roscoe Conkling.
IT is probable that not over $1,000. and
certainly not over 100000 persons, own
the entire debt of the country. ..
YALE COLLEGE has los instructors,
l,037 students, and 10000 volumes in the
| libraries.
PETER COOPER has decided to open
schools of instruction in type-writing and
photography in Cooper institute, New
York, at a cost of $4,000.
TIE Bradford oil district is alive with
excitement over two rich strikes across
the line in New York, flowing 100 to $50
barrels per day.
A RABBI at indianapolis has levied on
the cemetery of the Children of Jacob con-
gregation, and will advertise it for sale on
a Judgment for salary.
A FLOCK of carrier-pigeons owned in
Boston have been lessening the record.
One Of the number few from Schenectady.
n. Y, to Boston in four hours seventeen
minutes and fifteen seconds.
In consequence of the abandonment of
his German newspaper partnership in st.
Louis by Carl Schurz, the business man.
ager of the concern has been forced to re-
tire from the enterprise.
HENRY WILLARD and his associates have
filed at Portland articles of incorporation
of the Oregon Transcontinental company,
with capital of $50.0OO,O00.
TWELVE indictments were presented by
the grand jury al Albany, seven of which
were sealed. but the names Of the offend
ers can not be learned.
The directors of the De Lesseps canal
company have practically completed the
purchase of the Panama railway for s17,
100000, and the canal is to follow closely
the line of the track. r
ONE hundred Indiana journals were rep
resented at a convention of the Democrat.
ic editors of that state at Michigan City.
at the evening meeting Henry Watterson
delivered an address on "The Restored
Democracy"
/ THE Southern yacht club had an excit-
ing race on Lake Pontchartrain in which
the prize of 81 800, was taken by the Lady
Emma. The yacht Silence was brought
round from New York to enter the con-
test, and her hackers lost about $ll. 600.
TOBACCO cultivation in the United
States, for 1880, is placed at 473, l07 ,5S3
pounds. The average yield per acre is
shown to be 73l pounds, varying from
1859 pounds in Massachusetts, to All
pounds in North Carolina.
GENERAL BEUREGARD, the vicious horse
which recently killed two grooms in New
York, and has lately been in danger Of
starvation because no one dared to attend
him, was shot in his stall as an unsafe
beast.
GEORGE H. SPENCER, of St. Paul, who was
appointed agent of the Crow Creek Indians
on the recommendation of Bishop Hare,
speaks the Sioux language, was nearly
murdered in the outbreak of 1862, and
was rendered penniless by Indian plumber
srs Oh the site Of Ortonv;!le.
JOHN GYUMBER, the Hungarian who
has 30 greatly puzzled the authorities at
the poor-house at Reading, Pa. after alb.
solute silence for one hundred and thirty
five days found voice to express his thanks
for flower which was given him.
Ex-ALDERMAN CLANCY, of Ottawa, Ont,
entertained thousands of people by an ex-
hibition of his flying machine, on which
he has been at work for thirty years. 1t
has wings and is worked by a crank, and
!, he kept steadily in the air for quarter Of
mile at an average height of twelve feet.
The banquet of the sons Of Maine resi-.
dent in Chicago was in every sense a
, success, especially as a large delegation Of
the Pine Tree state were present as guests.
Judge Drummond delivered the address
of welcome and Professor Rodney WEIGH
8 the poem. Among those responding ia
b toasts were Hannibal Hamlin, E. B.
t Washburne, James II. Howe, and Mark
H. Dunnell.
The Iowa republican state convention
: called to the chair Hon. James Wilson.
The delegates in attendance numbered
: l,Ol9. Hon. John Y. Stone was made
permanent chairman. An informal bal.
: lot for governor gave Sherman 4l6 votes
Larabee sos, Harlan lac, Campbell rs, and
! Kimball II. On the twelfth ballot Sher.
man was nominated. receiving 500 votes
!, which was made unanimous. On the
! third ballot O. H. Manning, of Carroll
county, was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor. Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was
: selected a. candidate for supreme Judge.
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