The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
limited States at Large.

for $2j, 600.
! Wild turkies weighing thirty pound
are sometimes shot in Texas. =.
a New York Broadway millner is sad
to have an income 1880, 900 per year.
Ludington Mich, was visited by con
fagration which almost destroyed the
city.
Charley Collins is featuring in ireland,
and it is thought will induce many to emf
crate to this country. -..-.-....-.... .
Want of water and 4 fire department
that was not equal to the emergency, led
to the DISASTROUS conhaglntion at Quebec.
Mrs. Elkins Of Chicago, wife of well
known artist, sues a saloon keeper Tor
$25, 900, claiming he had ruined her hus-
band. .-..
The crops in the northwest are about as
far advanced as usual at this season ofthe
year, Notwithstanding the late opening Of
spring.
A great many people who permit them
selves to get excited in discussing the old
and new versions of the Bible have never
read either
A witness in an Ottawa court refused to
be sworn on the old version Of the old Bible
and the Judge allowed the use Of revised
New Testament.
One man on the Pacific slope employed
four weeks in writing 6, 81 words on a pos
tai card so that they can be read without
the aid Of Il glass. #.t tH A..
An Ohio physician regards lemons as a
certain preventative and pretty sure cure
for small pox. He cured himself, he
claims, by eating them. a
A poor fisherman Of Tallahassee, Fla,
while digging worms for bait the other
day struck brass kettle that was found
to contain 81 400 in coin
June Sth, a great fire IN Quebec, de
stroyed 500 houses, and left 5000 people
homeless, with a loss of five lives, and 81
100000 worth of property.
The Illinois settlement west of Midtown,
have ina large acreage of grain which looks
very promising. 1t is an cnteprising com
p. 4,
munity composed of excellent farmers.
Charles Martin, of Edgefeld Ind,
climbed tree to shake down COON but
the animal proved to be a bear, mdcutfed
him of "A limb fifty feet from the ground.
a barn containing six heavy horses was
lifted from its foundation and carried half
u mile without the least injury to the ami
mails IN II recent Storm at Worthington,
Iowa.
a fair survey of the fell at Albany
shows that the fight is still a pretty even
one Dispatches to the effect that Conk-
hing hascollapsed are as Sensational as they
are pnfoualed
Bob Ingelsoll has made $1,000 during
the past three months, lecturiug agalnst
the Bible. Hundreds Of elergymen have
not made 500 during the same period
preaching for the Bible.
According to statistics, there twenty
six females practicing medicine in this coun-
try with anaverage practice of $500 year,
Three earn from 5000 to $500, and four
each from So, oooto $4,000.
Clara Louise Kellogg is really aud truly
engaged to be married, the happy gentle
men Mr.. Andrews is about twenty-five
years of age, and Clara is---well she $ rich,
anyway.
A hermit has built little house in a
tree at Morrisville, vt, forty feet from
the ground Ae has had enough If earth
he says, and desires; to 1--we as far ttrs,Fn il;
as possible.
A Cheyenne boy sold one Of his teeth
to dentist for 800, to replace one lost by
Spanish lady Of Of great beauty
BY a fortunate investment Of this amount
! ne became rich, and is soon to marry the
girl
| An Albany spcial to the Milwaukee SEN
| tinel tibet President Garfield has written a