The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-06
Short Stops.

There are S4S Chinese children in the
San Francisco public schools.
A republican senatorial caucus has been
called for Saturday at Washington to de-
wise plan for organization
A St. Paul dispatch says that Secretary
Window wants to resign and be elected to
the United States Senate. ..a
Six thousand dollars in a single day is
reported as having been picked from peck
cts of people reading street bulletins in
Washington.
The Isthmus of Panama bristles with
snakes, lizards, bats, mosquitoes, ague,
fever, swamp, jungle poor whisky and
cholera.
A highly devout Babt'st woman at
Shetland, Ontario, tremendously baptizes
herself every day.
A girl slid from the arms Of her partner
in waltz at Davenport, Ia, and died
instantly. The cause was heart disease.
Gambling houses are licensed in New
Orleans, and the revenue from the gamb-
lers is used to sustained poorhouse,
which the system helps to fill.
A Virginia City dispatch says Senator
Fair has paired with Platte, of Connect
cut and will not 60 east.
Five carloads of dromedaries were re-
Gently shipped from Texas to Arizona, to
be used in transporting United States
mails.
Ira Sankey has hasted for Europe
where he will be joined by Moody, to
inaugurate an extended revival in Great
Britain ........
After halt year of lite at the White
House, replete with sickness and sorrow,
Mrs Garfield returns to her Mentor home,
where health and happiness had always
blessed the family.
A railroad collision between an excur-
sion and a freight train on the air line Of
the Great Western railroad occurred Fri
day forenoon few miles east of St.
Thomas, Ont. Several persons were xii.
led and a number badly wounded.
Lucius F. Hubbard, the successful can.
ddate for the nomination for Governor in
the Minnesota Republican Convention,
represented the wing opposed to the re-
nomination of Gov. Pillsbury.
1t transpires that the guard Magill at
tempted to kill Guiteau, but the assassin
got the better of him. If all the guards
about the jail are as poor shots as Mason
and Magill, there is really danger that
Guiteau may skip out of prison some fine
morning and escape. &8aa
Washington correspondents deserve
considerable credit for the extended infor-
nation upon coming cabinet changes,
What Arthur does not know upon the
subject a correspondent can mighty soon
tell him. .,-.. + ....g- a.a
Guiteau's Chicago brother-in.law, Mr..
Scoville, will reluctantly undertake his de-
tense as invited by the government. His
theory will be insanity. 4sE
BY the sinking Of a ierryboat near Sa-
vannah, Ga, eighteen colored people
went down, Of which twelve We're drown
ed, t3jii All oJai aRob aiaay
The Steamer Anchoria, Of tho Anchor
line, en- route from Glasgow to New York,
ran down and sunk small vessel, all on
board of which were drowned. .a3"
Miss Emma levitt, The Minnesota girl,
is now the champion equestrienne OF the
world, She was so declared after beating
Miss Williams at the Rochester, N. Y,
race course. .e IT, .H''',l' 81,
Iii reported in administration papers
that President Arthur vii! organize an
entire newcabinet and that names will be
sent to the senate at it, extra session.
AT Washington, Ohiq, Presley Cowal,
of St. Clairsville, Ohio, undertook to SO
up ip a balloon alone Nearing some trees,
he got scared, tried to catch tree top,
and fell fifty feet ~ the ground. na
An eastern exchange says, There are
seventeen and half men to every female
in the territory Of Dakota, swell. said
Miss Jones, spinster, when she read the
above item, ''if girls know what ! know,
they'd take that half man rather than
none at all. !" asI3l 8Y aea8sa
In the upper part Of !ssoaomsn county,
CAL, a railroad track crosses deep rayine
upon the upright trunks Of tai! trees,
which have been sawed Of upon q hor-
izontal l'ue, seventy-fye above tho
ground,
Two men watching tho heavy ses from
the promenade 1T Douglas, Ila Of Man,
usrs carried OF By Il ware, Both wsre
good swimmers, sad struggled to roach
tho shore again. Ropes and planks we're
thrown to them, but they sank within
twenty.yards ofthe promenade wall Hun.
dreds Of people wers boxing on.