The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-11-03
Short Stops,
Rife barrels are now made Of paper

| 1000 mormon women, and 5000 mel
is not fair dividend.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is said to hold $50, 900,
600 of government bonds.
A Boston firm has made $4,000 out o
the sale of Garfield pictures.
One fourth of the mail robberies las
year have been traced to employees in thu
service.
At his death Washington was the rich
est President we ever had. He left al
estate worth 100000.
Foxall the American horse is crowned
the greatest racer in the universe. HI
has won large sums for his master.
The water is reported still rising at Os
kosh, and the situation alarming, ant
manufacturers and business men becomin!
desperate.
A canvass of the field Of operations dis
closes the fact that there will be a decline
of 40 per cent. in the log crop on the Wis
consin this winter.
Low water in the boiler led to the ter
rife explosion of a steam thresher at Os
wego, N. Y, resulting in the killing anc
manning of several persons.
The Temperance vote in Ohio was 16,
600 The apple crop was short and the
mill streams dry, and turbine wheels and
cider mills were not in demand.
Hungary has a sensation in crime.
Burglars entered a house and murdered
the entire family of nine people, including
man 90 years old and an infant.
President Arthur's contribution to the
Mrs. Garfield fund was eight months sal
airy as president of the United States,
amounting to thirty-three thousand dol
lars.
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad
company has given an order for two hun
hundred and fifty new coal cars, twenty
locomotives, twenty passenger coaches,
and six dining cars.
The town of Edgefeld, S. c., was total
ly destroyed by fire Sunday, and the pee
pie were left destitute of supplies, and it
will be necessary to relieve their suffering
by subscriptions.
lie Dues tea farm is not failure.
Three thousand tea plants were sent from
it to the Atlanta exposition, Their aver
age height is nineteen inches, and they
look healthy and hardy.
A careful canvass among the mill and
elevator men of Minneapolis discloses the
fact that the greatest damage done to the
wheat crop so far developed is in the
southwestern part Of Minnesota.
The Albany, Ga. News and Avertiser
tells of deer that sprang into train just
after passing Walker Station, and in its
fright ran through the baggage car, botl
doors or which were wide open.
A little performance not down on thu
bills on circus day at Atlanta, Geo, was /
free fight, which resulted in the killing 0
a negro, a bear, the escape Of a lion and
general stirring up of the animals.
| A quartet ofquarrelsome cowboys visit
ed Tombstone, Arizona, to five the mar
shal and his friends little game, an,
three Of them died with their boots on
but it is feared that the other may re
cover. ~
4 An artesian well well being dug at Siou
City has become quite interesting to spec
tators on account Of striking oil. 1t
thought it will not be large find, bu
shows that this country abounds in valus
BILE matter of all kinds.
Among the august personages present e
to the marquis Of Lorne at the gran
ppw- WOW near Fort Macleod, was Eagle
sitting on-a-rock- with his tail hanging oy
en-" The style Of the bird quite paraly,
ed the noble Englishman.
!, !, Treasurer Dawson of Beaver count,
Pennsylvania, went to his Office in Rocl
ester Friday morning, and while in the a
f of opening the safe he was set upon |
! two men who knocked him senseless wit
a billy and then made off with $4,000
the county funds.
, The food in the lower Mississippi MAJ
: another bad break i'll the levee, Frida
g sweeping over the rich bottoms near Ha
/, nibal, with disastrous results Ov
9 100000 damage has been done alread
\ with dismal prospect iii the near futu
y for the fated farmers.
j. It is believed that an attempt will !
! made to appoint Governor for the Ter
:. :, tory Of Alaska, which includes a circuit
200 miles from Sitka, which is at prese
in the condition described in the GO
! Book where every man did that viii
i was right in his own eyes
r Gen. Grant has habit Of saying 60
,f things, and his epigrams stand as mode
5, In recently published letter in reteren
n 10 iirgii,liia politics he says The De-
" ocrats are in faver of acknowledging t
t. whole debt, principal and interest, but a
to opposed to paying either.
to Trey Times: Our lively Little Ia
en- correspondent writes: Alady once mt
ng ing in the best society Of New York n,
resides at Little Falls, and knows t
s. meaning Of sit might have been = ANh
i President Arthur was poor young m
and II 1-aap,5 tEat, fhS&lor