The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-11
GENERAL NOTES

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GENERAL NOTES.
Z. H. ROGERS, United States consul a
Vera Cruz, is dead.
THREE huge sharks were recently caugh
IN the rivers at New York.
| VENNoR has made arrangements fol
frost and strong cold winds from Augxs
| 15 TO 20.
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON, of New York
is pestered by applicants for appoint
ments.
THE national Swiss festival at Newark
N. j., is attended by delegates from nearly
every city in the United States.
BISHOP E. 0. HAVEN, of the Methods,
Episcopal church, is lying at the point o
death at Portland, Ore.
THE strike on the Illinois Midland road
brought around the pay-car, and a freight
blockade Of week was raised.
THE veteran soldiers OF Indiana will be
reviewed by Governor Porter at the re-
union al Lafayette in September.
The wife of Gen. Alexander Med. Nc
Cook died at hotel in Salt Lake from
grief at the death of her mother.
A NEW granite monument, costing $4,000
has been placed over the grave of vii
liam M. Tweed, in Greenwood cemetery
New York.
MRS E. G. HARTsHoRNE has rendered
the free use of her Newport villa for Sep
tember and October to the president and
Mrs. Garfield.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, who has
arrived at New York. states that the po
lice of st. Petersburg opened her letters
and cut her newspapers.
REV. w. j. RUrLEDaE, of Jacksonville
| ILL.,, who was chaplain Of the l4th Illinois
infantry during the late war, has been ap
pointed chaplain of the Joliet peniten
tiarY.
! ONE HUNDRED counties in the regior
adjacent to Kansas City report largely
increased acreage in corn, but figure out q
smaller supply of hogs than last year.
| ROBERT FRYER, of New York, has made
model for an ocean steamer which will
be marine velocipede on three wheels
with which he expects to gain two days in
crossing the Atlantic.
IT will require 81 500 to help the Provi.
dence baseball club through the season
This statement was made at meeting OF
the stockholders, and the ensuing debate
prompted four designations from the
board, but they were finally Withdrawn.
THE city engineer of Montreal has
found woman who for sixteen months
has been engineer in a boet-heel factory,
has perfect knowledge of her bust ness,
and never had an accident.
lack of interest was shown by the fact
that the county in which Salt Lake is sit
uated, which includes three mining
camps, cast only 1877 votes, of which the
Gentiles had III.
THE reported arrest OF Patrick Grove.
of Peoria, on the order of Attorney Gen
eral MacVeagh, for constructing internal
machines to be shipped to Europe, is now
admitted TO be a hoax. Grove is serving
the city as lamp-lighter.
NATHAN CLIFFORD, one of the justices
Of the United States supreme court, died
at Cornish, Me-, aged 49, He had twice
been member of congress, was attorney
general in the cabinet of President Polk
and subsequently minister to Mexico.
OTro MEARs is en- route to the new Ute
reservation in Utah, and will be joined at
Salt Lake by Commissioner Russell. The
| Utes will next month be escorted to their
new home by six hundred soldiers. Major
Berry will continue as agent.
! Miss MARTHA VAN DUzEN, daughter OF
prominent Cincinnatian, rendered IN.
sane by religious excitement, left home
without money or baggage, for the camp.
meeting at Warsaw, Ind, but was de.
tanned at Indianapolis. She is a graduate
of the Virginia Female institute.
THE postal authorities of Canada and
the United States have resolved to have
all mail pouches sorted over at some point
in the Dominion and returned to their
proper place, after which international
pouches are to be used.
| JOSEPH MCKAY, the late millionaire
dry goods merchant Of Montreal, be.
queathed large amounts to religious and
charitable institutions. among them being
$45, 600 to the Presbyterians. The family
is to receive $l30.00O. and two faithful
servants pittance of 800 each.
The executive committee of the nation
al soldiers reunion is in session at Gin
cinnati, arranging details for September
| Private Dalzell sent in letter asking
that special invitation be extended to
/ Boston Corbett, the slayer of Wilkes
Booth, and transportation be furnished
him. as he is living in poverty in Phila.
delphia.
ORvrLLE GRANT, the youngest brother oi
Gen. U. s. Grant, died at Morris Plains
n. j., aged 4S years. He was partner Of
his father in the leather business at Galens
when the war broke out, but went to Chi
cago in 1865. Eight years later he was sent
to an insane asylum, where he has beer
under treatment for long time. x
A SYNDICATE OF American, French, anc
German bankers has resolved to construct
canal from Baltimore to the Atlantic
across the peninsula of Maryland ant
Delaware, at an estimated cost of IS, GOO, +.
GOO. The Sassafras route is the one Sc
lected, and the cut will he 120 feet wide
rs feet deep. and require eighteen month";
to complete. Baltimore commerce viii
thus gain 225 miles of sailing.
Those who have tried it confess tha,
large, healthy mustard -plas ter. worr
at the back contains more heat tlan 8
heavy overcoat.