The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-25
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taken there in 1853.
An anti-monopoly conference is in SEES
sion at Utica, N. Y. General G. s. Dew
en- was elected President. Messrs O. G.
Chittcnden and Horatio Seymour made
addresses.
A fellow representing himself to be {
commercial traveller is victimizing many
hotel keepers in Massachusetts, by taking .
room and then stealing all the bed clothes
and other small articles.
There is just now a novel state of affairs
in Vermont The old general statutes
became null and void on the lst of August
and the book containing the new revision
which went into effect on the same day,
has not been issued Therefore, estate
at present has no laws.
At 9 o'clock Sunday night comet CO..
was visible to the naked eye 1t is in ur-
sa major, about 100 below the bottom of
the bowels of the slipper and the upper
| one of the Parrot faint stars. Through
the opera glass the tail is distinctly visible.
Capt. II. W. Howgate was brought be-
fore the United States Commissioner yes
terday at Washington to answer to the
charge made by General Hazen of en-
bezzling $4,000 from the government.
Bail was fixed aes4O, 900 and the prelimi-
nary trial postponed.
A remarkable structure is just about
completed in New York, to be called the
Home for Homeless Boys" 1t cost
$500, 900 and was erected by means of
subscription, no one person giving more
than rs cents, and therefore represented
the contributions Of Of l. 200, 900 people.
A convict in a penitentiary near Mon
treal, spent fourteen days in cutting hole
through three-feet wall into an empty
cell, using a bit of iron from his bed He
then descended to the ground floor and
jumped through a window to the yard,
where he scaled twenty five feet wall !
with scantling torn from shed.
The bursting of steam flue caused
serious panic upon the Long Branch ex-
c,lrsion steamer Plymouth yesterday, and
a scene of great confusion and Imminent
danger followed. Order was with difficult
ty brought out of the chaos of madly
passengers, and it was foundno
one was killed, though many were bruised.
One by one the various articles of food
have been condemned by the experts in
The business as unfit for use, until it is
hazardous to eat anything.
Even corn bread is now under the ban, an
Italian government commission having
pronounced it the cause of a frightful cp-
,demic, resulting generally in insanity Or
leath, which has prevailed in the prov
nee of Bergamo
1t is too bad that the president Of the
United States should die from wound
inflicted by a worthless vagabond. 1t is
one Of the most sickening phases of the
calamity now impending. The death of a
brave man from the bite of dog is always
as horrible to contemplate as it is to wit
ness. In nearly all cases the dog is killed
as soon as he inAicts the wound In this
case, We are sorry to say, the cur still
lives.
Sioux City Journal: A gentleman from
the Nebraska side reports the water in the
big slough south jackson drying up, and
the fish that foated in there with the
food dying by the bushel Some of the
fish are good sized catfish and buffalo,
though most of them are minnows. The
slough abounds in snipc and young ducks.
and these furnish sepulchers for the small
er sized of their 6nny friends The snipe,
this gentleman said, also eat the live min
nows, taking them amidships and, break
ing their backs, swallow them doubled up.
A horde Of sacrilegious youths amused
themselves by engaging in match game
Of baseball in a Philadelphia graveyard,
and, without any regard for the sacredness
of the dean, the players did not hesitate
to utilize the toppling and age-won tomb
stones for bases, and one grave served as
a brace for the pitchers right foot. The
catcher stood in a half-sunken grave to
play his part Of the game, and the field
man seemed to to take an especial delight
in seeking positions on graves and tomb
stones.
There is a popular tradition that the
Indian woman is mere appendage to the |
warrior, living in state Of abject slavery,
and devoted wholly to waiting on her hus-
band. But this delusion is rudely dis
PEELED by the announcement that Is Sit
ting Bulls party Of Sioux were on the
boat they began making their toilet. The
bucks began unbraiding the hair Of the
squaws, combed it. creased it with pork,
and again reNaided it. The nearest ap-
proach to Offices Of that kind in civilized
domestic life is. the unbraiding which
sometimes goes on between married
pair.
An army officer stationed on the Platte
river says there is no danger Of Indian
outbreak, because the Indians would rath-
er eat than fight He says: Nothing,
l believe, but starvation will drive the In
dams in any great numbers on the war
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