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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES. +.

A COLLISION of trains in Savannah
caused the death of six laborers.
NINE business houses at Whitesbo ro
Tenn, were swept away by fire yesterday
A LOSS of $15, 900 arose from the burn.
ing of the old Mineral Springs hotel, at
Colfax, Iowa.
THE heavy gale which has ragged along
the coast of England nearly washed away
the new pier at Folkstone.
Two passengers on Philadelphia
street-car were killed by a runaway team
of the fire department.
A CASE of smallpox having been dis
covered at Council Bluffs, the mayor
caused the house to be tagged and roped
in.
THE safe in the furniture store of John
Samuels, No. All State street. Chicago,
was blown open by burglars, who carried
of about 800 in cash and $500 in valu-
able papers.
ANDREW M. BENHAM, one of the pro-
prietors of the City mills, Of Jackson,
Mich, was fatally injured by being caught
in belt.
AT Bangor, Me-, Milliken's tannery was
nearly demolished by a boiler explosion,
in which three workmen were seriously
injured.
The president of Mexico is SO i'll as to
vomit blood. The minister of finance
has resigned, and General Trevino intends
to give up the war portfolio.
2eTHE paraffine works OF the Standard Oh
company, in the southern portion of
Cleveland, with thirty large tanks, were
burned the other evening, causing loss
of $4,000.
E1GHT persons composing the families
of Frank Cuppernul and Charles Wilson.
hotel proprietors at Eel Bay, were
drowned by the upsetting of a small boat
while on their way to Gananoque, Ont.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
The Law of Finding,

The law of finding is this: The find
der has clear title against the whole
world except the owner. The proprie-
tor of coach or railroad car or of a
shop has no right to demand the prop
erty which may be found upon their
property or premises. Such proprie-
tors may make regulations in their
employees, but they cannot bind the
public. The law of finding was de-
clared by the Kings Bench, one hun
dred years ago, in case in which the
facts were these: A person found a
wallet containing a sum Of money on
a shop floor He handed the wallet
and contents to the shopkeeper to be
returned to the owner. After three
years, during which the owner did not
call for his property, the finder de-
manded the wallet and the money
from the shopkeeper. The latter re-
fused to deliver them up on the ground
that they were found on his premises.
The former then sued the shopkeeper,
and it was held as above set forth, that
against all the world bnt the owner
Iilc IiIle vi tne llnuer Is perIect. ana
the finder has been held to stand in the
place of the owner, SO that he was
permitted to prevail in an action
against the person who found an article
which the plaintiff had originally found,
but subsequently lost. The police
have no special rights in regard to
articles lost unless those are conferred
by statute. Receivers of articles found
are trustees for the owner or for the
finder. They have no power in the
absence of special statute to keep an
article against the finder, any more
than the finder has to retain an article
against the owner
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

bers of the German Reichstag have re-
suited in the election of nine conservatives
sixteen nalionul liberals, fourteen seces.
sionists, two liberals, twenty-three pro.
gressists. five members of the party of the
people, thirteen socialists. four particu
larists, and two members of the centr.
party.
NEARLY eighty thousand persons visited
the electrical exhibition in Paris on Sun.
day. President Grevy has telephone
communication between the Elysee and
the Opera Comique and Theatre Fran.
caise. and will this winter give a series of
novel receptions.
LORD HARRINGTON states that the sab.
commissioners in ireland found many
cases of rack-renting. which showed the
necessity of the land act. Sir William
Vernon Harcourt. in speech at Derby,
announced that the ministers would not
swerve from the path deemed best for the
interests Of the kingdom, whether they
gained or lost the Irish vote.
A SICILIAN named Maccaluso made an
attempt to shoot Depretis in the Italian
chamber of deputies, failing in which he
hurled at his head loaded revolver It
seems that in the morning the accused
presented himself at police station and
asked to be watched during the day.
GAMBETTA's organ prints telegram
from London, asserting that son of Bis
marck has arrived there to tender to Eng
land possession of Egypt to the exclusion
of France, with certain guarantees.
The recent storm in Great Britain in
hicted the greatest damage on the sea
wall of the Frith-and-F -Foeth, and killed
two farmers in Glasgow. At Queenstown
the gale was the tiercest known for thirty
years.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

SEVERAL correspondents wish to
know why Guiteau is tolerated in court;
why he is not kept in jail while his trial
proceeds, and the court saved the an
noyance of his presence. When Law
renee was on trial for the attempted
murder of President Andrew Jackson.
he behaved very much in the same
way as Guiteau does, speaking at all
times and disturbing the court The
judges, Justice Cranch and two others,
took under consid Grafton their right to
put Lawrence out of court, but, after d
full discussion of the matter, decided
that the trial could not continue unless
the defendant were present.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
GENERAL NOTES

SEVEN Kentuckians holding graveyard
insurance policies for 100000 on persons
recently deceased are at Harrisburg with
an attorney, engaged in the effort to COL
lect something.
The Illinois board of health has de-
cided to order the vaccination of every
child attending the public schools of the
state.
The success Of Mahone's movement in
Virginia has emboldened some ambitious
young democrats in North Carolina to at
tempt a break in the ranks of that state.
The postofice at Little Rock is still in
charge of Special Agent Cameron. X. A.
Edgerton and Jefferson Botsford are the
chief candidates for the position.
THE National Sunday School union of
the Methodist church is holding its nine
teenth annual session at indianapolis, with
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
FOREIGN.

FRENCH troops report brilliant victo.
ry over the Turkish insurgents, the chief
being captured.
T. P. O'CoNNoR, M. P. for Galway, is
on his way to Chicago to attend the Irish
national convention.
AN infantry division of the garrison of
Vienna has been ordered to be in readi-
ness to suppress brigandage in Krivoschie.
A FIRE at Ayr, Scotland, swept away six
teen houses, rendering thirty families
homeless.
1T is now positively asserted in official
circles in Canada that the Marquis of
Lorne will not return without the Prin-
cess Louise.
LEFRoY, who is under sentence of death
in London, has confessed that he murdered
Geld in a railway car and assassinated
Lieutenant Roper in Chatham barracks.
Z OWING to frequent raids in County Clare,
Ireland, a military patrol has been organ
lied. A farmer named Sullivan, return
ing from the fair at Skibbereen, was beat
en- to death and his corpse concealed, for
which five men were arrested,
E1aH-Y-EIeHT second ballots for mem
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

ACCORDING to statement submitted
to the secretary Of the interior by Gen
eral Francis A. Walker, late superin-
tendent of the census bureau, the fol-
lowing changes in congressional
representation, with the number Of
representatives still fixed at 203, will
occur in the forty-eighth congress:
Arkansas, California, Michigan, Missis-
sippi, South Carolina and West Vir-
ginia would gain two each; Alabama,
Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Hamp-
shire, Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont
would lose one each, Pennsylvania two,
and New York three. The other states
show no change.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
Rev. j. NJ. Freeman, of New York, in the

Rev. J. NJ. Freeman, of New York, in the
chair.
A PISTOL, supposed to be that with
which LEROY killed Gold in an English
railway coach, has been found beside the
track of the Brighton line.
TIE governor Of Massachusetts, failed to
signalize Thanksgiving by the pardon OF
convict from the state prison. Some of
the Fall River embezzlers had been cher.
ishing hope of release.
The Hebrew citizens of Baltimore
planted on the grounds of their hospital a
Garfield memorial tree, the first tribute of
the kind ever paid by Jewish leaders to a
representative of another race and re-
ligion.
A MOVEMENT is well under way in New
York to establish in Cyrus w. Fields new
building a stock exchange, trust com
pany, and a telegraph office having direct
connections with all the chief cities. The
capital of the new institution is to be
S,0OO,OOO, and its chief supporters will
be Gould and Field.
The police on both sides of the Niagara
river are watching the movements of
Ryan and Sullivan, prize-fghters, and
their seconds and friends, who evidently
expect to have mill in that region as
soon as possible. A Cincinnati dispatch
announces that Sullivan is in that city
with his trainer, and an Albany telegram
says Ryan is there.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01


The hypothetical question of the de-
tense in the Guiteau case is as long and
about as lucid as the speech of a
sand-lot statesman. In it the mental
integrity of the whole family for three
generations is assailed in the interest
of the egotistical wretch whose miser-
able life it is to be used to prolong. I'm
less the prosecution shall admit the
truth of the hypothesis, the defense
will be required to prove all this stuff
and nonsense before they can submit
their abominable question to the ex-
perts. The prosecution will hardly ad-
nit the verify ofthe twaddle.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
E divorced wife of Quit,

THE divorced wife of Guiteau, on her
way from Leadville to Washington as
a witness for the government, says the
reports of the trial remind her m ost
forcibly of the devilish quality of his
mental composition. This lady, whose
first venture in the matrimonial mill
wasworse than coming in contact with
a buzz saw, is now happily married,
and it would be according to the eter-
nal fitness of things if her husband
were to appear in the assassin act, as
Guiteau has most scandalously used his
wife's name since the trial began.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
MiltSankee VI urkel.

MILWAUKEE,. Nov. go. - Flour Quiet and
unchanged, Wheat - Steady at the decline;
No. hard, nominal No. 2, l254; 125A
or sell: November 1.25h for seller Deem
ber; l.247s for seller January; 1.259z for seller
February; l.264 for seller March; l.27 for
seller April; No, 3. 1.0eH; No 4, nominal,
rejected, nominal. Corn Stronger; No. 2 59h.
oats-Dull and lower; No. l, 42942H. Rye
Dull and lower; No. 95. Barley-Lower; No.
2, 81 for seller cash and November.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

BISMARCK is said to be very much
disgusted because his son was beaten as
member of the German Parliament
and the case was still further aggra-
waited by the fact that the young mans
successful opponent was the son OF the
counts bitterest personal enemy.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

THE newspapers of Georgia are call
ing upon the authorities to drive the
Mormon missionaries out Of the state.
1t appears that 800 converts to Nor
monism have been made in Georgia
within two years, and some of them
have returned to their old homes wiser
and poorer men.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

Mr.. EDWARD M. MARBLE. the United
States Commissioner of Patents at
Washington, has resigned, in order to
accept the Land Com mmissionership of
the Northern Pacific Railroad. There
s no intimation as to his successor.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
The Effects OF Clim ate.

A climate not necessarily unhealthy often
proves SO to those unaccustomed to it. The ac-
climating process seems unusually slow in some
constitutions. There is, however, medicinal
means of acclimating it Of which residents and
soiourners in unaccustomed or malarious climates
have not been slow to avail themselves. Hostel
ters Stomach Btters is medicinal safeguard and
accimating tonic of standard reputation, which
travellers, emigrants, tourists mariners, and others
whose tastes and pursuits entail exposure, sub
lection to changes of temperature, unusual or un-
wholesome diet or water, and the fatigue attcn-
dant upon long journeys by land or sea, concur in
pronouncing it reliable, agreeable and safe. As
a remedy Tor disorders of the liver, stomach and
bowels very prevalent in malarous regions and
the tropics, as preventive Of fever and ague,
rheumatism and kidney troubles, and as restor-
atve,of vigor, it is also held in the highest esti-
nation.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

CAPTAIN HowGATE, of the army, and
late of the government signal service,
has been indicted by the grand jury at
Washington. There are seven indict-
ments, one for forgery and the others
for embezzlement. .
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

SECRETARY BLAINE is reported to
have said that if he were to remain in
the cabinet he would seek to annex
Cuba by diplomacy. He thinks the
island would be cheap at $5OO,OOO, 900.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

AN attempt was made to kill Gui-
teau at about halfpast four o'clock
last Saturday afternoon, when the
prisoner was being conveyed in the
close prison van from the court house
to the jail. The assailant was on horse
back. He fired two shots, one of which
barely grazed Guiteau's arm, and then
rode rapidly away. A man named
Jones is under arrest as the would-be
killer, but there app ears to be serious
doubt Of his being the man who fired
the shots, but he has been held to
answer. The effect of the attack on
Guiteau was to frighten him almost to
death. ~
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

The New York Sun says that Blaine
means to give his whole time to secur-
ing the republican nomination in 1884.
To accomplish this he has determined
to remove to New York. secure control
of the machine in that state, and ex-
clude Conkling, Grant and all their
friends from confidential relations with
the new managers. James has identi-
fed himself with Blaine, and will be
made Cornell's successor. All this
looks nice on paper, but Mr.. Blaine has
not yet captured New York.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

BETHARD, the Wisconsin crank who
threatened to shoot Guiteau, has been
sent to the workhouse in Washington.
He is used to such places.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
AsuRuRNHAM Mass. Jan IL 1sso

AsHBuRNHAM, Mass, Jan. IA, 1880.
have been very sick over two years. They
all gave me up as past cure. ] tried the most
skillful physicians, but they did not reach the
worst part. The lungs and heart would fill up
every night and distress me, and my throat was
very bad. ! told my children never should die
in peace until had tried Hop Btters. have
taken two bottles. They have helped me very
much indeed. l am now well. There was a lot
of sick folks here who have seen how they helped
me, and they used them and are cured, and feel
as thankful as / do that there is 80 valuable
medicine made. Mas. JULIA G. CUSHING.
The Washington Post says Of the ap-
pearance of Mrs. scoville, Guiteau's
sister, at the trial: "Her sad face,with
its kindly expression, won for her the
sympathy of all present. She was
modestly dressed in deep black with
heavy nectie of black silk"
E. L. Loweree, Esq, cashier Of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, was cured by st.
Jacobs Oil of a stubborn case of rheu-
matism, which wouldn't yield to phv-
sicians' treatment. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

Winnepeg is grand place for girls.
1t is said that if it is found out that
young lady is on coming train, there
are sure to be about 200 eligible bach.
elors anxiously waiting at the station,
ready to propose matrimony.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

Judge Pierepont, of Vermont, is now
in his 10th year, and has been on the
bench twenty-four years, sixteen as
chief justice. He is suffering from no
disease, but gradually sinking from ex-
haustion of his vital powers. His men
tai faculties are still undimmed, but
his death is looked for at any moment,
though he may live for several weeks.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01

EDGAR M. LARBLE, commissioner vf
patents, has rendered his resignation.
IHE grand jury has brought in seven
indictments against Capt. Howgate.
The removal of Rear Admiral Howell,
on account of age promotes Comm ndore
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
THE ELEVENTH DAY.

was then called and testified as follows:
When Charles was twelve years old he
lived with witness for year in Chica-
go, where he went to school. She recol-
lected nothing peculiar about him then,
except he was very aftectionate, and
she was very much attached to him.
Five or six years later he went to Ann
Arbor to attend school; she went to Ann
Arbor to see him, as she had been in
formed he was going on worse than her
father had ever done. She found he
had abandoned studies and was giving
his whole time and attention studying
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

A despatch itou Washington, y g., April
-. 10 the philadelphia, Pa, Record, says
The Star Rosie onslauEhs Is sa.3 % be hai
the beginning Of the war oa Corrupttoa here,
TIE bead ct nearly every dlylsloa IN sac Pos.
Ofscc Department sal De changed except
possibly the Thtrd A sssssaai Postmaster tiru
rrai- * Senator S.ephen W. Dorsey and
ass friends Involved in ;he Star Eaats Goa
tracts arr wildly excited. They have already
Threatened to show ,has the same rnvu wba
are uaw being ''pashea 70 the sail EAve
SCOOPS one lamp 10 al ia carrying indsapa
Ass October, and thai tbs ieyy was made On
them wigh tiAr6cld's kaowlcdxv.
According % tse5r --latest s.oty, when Der
ssy aud Br4siy threatened 10 sasz haw tho
ladsaaa miracle wax weskeI and hos
Garfield was elected there wAs = pcrCrplh.g
weakening 80 FAR a. she talk abnat iadses
meat aud prasecattsn vas concerned Ihr
facts are sasd 70 lie "a writing Aad aFe being
used a. a clab Of defence - the contractors
friends. The whole business bcgsns 20 look
like .'iAH oat' in once happy fatally.
john &. Mes came here % tAy 10 help 4aet
the business n sae CITY 81 Indiana IL Is
charged that portion OF the Pel,ce Board
vas purchased ikres 3ays before The eleesaga
and the pol,ecmea Werp changed from ue9a
osra.s 10 Republicans. fhss wAs dsnc 9Th
for whereln q lobbyist secured Eve C5aSrcss-
men al SC mach per head 10 vote for the SsAr
Reute Deficiency bill, and whSa the lobbyist
seat for his 9aRey ia tie morains, be was
cooliy Informed By The agenl that his mea
we're Hos wanted because hve oiAers had been
secured darJag the nisas a. considerably re
daced hgurcs,
Chief Clerk Freach, OF the Contract oiics,
refused 10 resign ia compliance wlsa tbe De
usAnd Of Postmaster General James aaiess
"a iaamrt.iate investigation o. his department
vas maae. Ibis wAs agreed 10, and Mr.. Ly-
MAI, Of the Railaay Service, Ill! take charge
oil Ihe Office.
Preparations aFs beiag made for q rasd On
the Indian Bureau, Pension Bagraa and the
Land Office, aud the Treasury wilI also come
ia for ''cleAr out A lriead Of the Press
deni sald 70 dAy Garfield knous where 10
bit, and where fraai is. lie has not been
here eighteen years for Hothiag.
George 4. Sheridan, Register Of Deeds Tor
the District 81 Columbia. wiii be removed for
his completely 10 the Faymsn mail pouch
fastener contract, and Fred. Douglass, late
MayshsIl Of the District, IS booked fer his
place. The War Department will receive a
shaking up, and souae u the contracts for
river aad harbor Improvements will be ia
gIiFed into.
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A FOrgsr Aad Swiadlsr,

Josephas X Tarncr was a popular and
prgsps rsss yoapg iasyry a. Iuusvilie, Pa,
twelyc wears ago. He cna6aFksi IN q scheme
for the extensive sHIndi0g 81 the Govern
meat through the Pension Department, bis
companion Ia et1zne betag ~oalsn. ah0 per,
sunalei The wjvrs Of Numerous mythical dead
soldiers lie was convicted in twelve cases.
and ssufsaccd 70 iaeasg- tpar years tmPy5s
Ounrut. On hls way 10 The PRISON be plaag
cd thfuash = wludoa Of the eaF. though be
was if0ncd al his WRISTS An3 ankles, aad the
srzis as Eo5aE shiFiy mglss an boar. lie
fell irto = frozen stream, breaking thrpash
the ice, ard 8; pas Supposed that be vas
dgowEed bat be- rraily escaped WIih > broken
shoulder, ard Tor uoFc than q month ssplked
in uo54s aad barns, ssaersaE t'tghaally .rAm
cold. hanger. and BIS unset sh0aider. He
caaii n0; break ct Tee shaek.cs. and was At
last betrayed by q blacksmith =hcua be asked
to DO the job. After srrytns hgr wears Of bis
san;eace. be was psr4aae1. G5ias 70 Der
uer Spuugs. Mieh-, be started hte Aaes aalan (
strangers. and aeyiusrei good Legal practice.
His experience 10 FaseAlliy sEht 10 have been
a sufficient wafaisg against further exploits
ia tbs; line. bat il vAs nor. lie Is aos aader
arrest tor forgery.
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4 Tragic Death

Gioraaai Bgl.aerhJ1, master sadlcr ~
Turin, having been sammonei 10 Nice By
baaiuess engagements, took wish him his 0nty
daashief 80 gnieihEent ehlIa 81 seyea, whose
fondasss for massc prompted her father to
parehasc seats ia the theatre for the per
iormance which Terminated 50 tragtcsliy.
he secured places ia the troni row % the
gallery and vas ereapying them wlth has hale
zirl shyu the alarm 81 err rang throJga the
house. SnAtea Stag the ehlld up in his arms,
be endeavorei, aud successfully, 70 break
through the panic strickea ero@d % the gal
lsry daoF; b., during the struggle the giri vas
snrA from bis grasp. b. an almost saperhu-
man effort be caatrivei 10 reeuEer she gallery,
by that tme pluBged Ia al bas total darkness,
aad wAjle cropping aboat among the over
ihrosn seats, caught bold Of hs1le girl, IN
sensible FROM fright, whom he carried ous
iato the street., fully eeiesing her to be bis
own daughter She proved, however 10 be 4
strange child. Hastily setting her doan upon
the pavement, he desperately fought his way
tor the second time into the burning theatre,
from which he never again emerged alive.
His chaFred corpse vas ioaud, two days later,
among the ruins OF the gallery stairs.