The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-09-08
GENERAL NOTES

THE four chief hop-raising counties o
New York report that nearly an average
crop will be harvested.
THE Mutual Union Telegraph compan,
will commence business in October with
$4,000 miles of wire.
AN ice famine prevails in New Orleans
where customers can obtain only one
fourth the usual supply.
DIVIDENDS of II per cent have been de-
Glazed by the Union Pacific road, and O.
81 per cent, by the Illinois Central.
The federal grand jury at Deadwood il
engaged in investigating the mail service
over the star route to Sydney.
GENERAL MERRITT, late collector o.
customs at New York, has sailed to enter
upon his duties as consul general at Lon.
don.
MALONE has secured the removal OF
Geo. M. Arnold, the mulatto postal route
agent in Virginia, for attempts to manip.
ulate the republican party. Wilson, a
colored revenue official, expects to be
forced to walk the plank.
THE bark Western Sea has returned to
Boston with the cargo which Fuller and
his accomplices attempted to steal.
THE hurricane on the coast of South
Carolina caused loss Of forty negroes at
Port Royal ferry.
SENATOR BEN HILL is again troubled
with cancer on the tongue, and has started
for Philadelphia to consult his physicians.
A YOUNG man named Rector obtained a
verdict at Lewistown. ILL.,, of $4,000
against the Wabash road, for having been
forcibly elected from train.
w. F. DALRYMPLE, the wheat king, says
the yield ia Dakota will average fully
eighteen bushels per acre. He and his
brother have $4,000 acres to harvest.
THE drouth in Indiana has assumed
alarming proportions. White river has
dwindled TO mere brook, and farmers
are greatly troubled to obtain water ior
stock.
A FAMILY of five persons, named McMa-
hon, residing near Dubuque, have been
rendered insane by grief. The mother
and one daughter died in demented
mental condition.
A RAFT of pine logs, 800 feet long and
81 feet wide, has reached Boston from
Toronto, having been towed through the
Erie canal and Hudson river to New
York, and thence by sea.
A MATCH at lacrosse for the champion.
ship Of the world was played at Montreal
between the Shamrock club of that city
and the Torontos. The former won three
straight games. The betting involved
over $4,000.
A CLERGYMAN who has been taking &
census Of the Indian tribes, reports having
met at South Pass, Wyoming. a surveying
party If the Central Pacific, who have
found feasible route for a road from Or
den to Yankton.
GENERAL CARR is believed to have had
with him in the massacre FIVE officers anC
sixty-three men of the 9Th cavalry
There are ten thousand Indians on the
San Carlos reservation, and as many more
in the Navajo tribe, located sixty mile;
northward.
The national convention of free-think
ers, which has been in session for the pas
week at Hornellsyille, N. Y, expressed
admiration for Charles Bradlaugh, in
dorsed the action of the governor of fTe "a!
in refusing 10 call : day of prayer for The
| president, ami unffTYeu the publication OF
the letters of IDgersoll and Black.
TIE hostile Indians who have been
making trouble on the Menominee reser-
yation are encamped few miles from
Clintonville, Wis, and will resist any at
tempt at capture. They are well armed
and have plenty of spies. A company Of
troops with twenty days rations is march
ing toward the reservation.
THE cotton presses of New Orleans
which usually open on the first day Of
September, are confronted by demand Of
thirteen thousand laborers for an advance
of 25 cents per bale in handling. The
cotton factors have raised $250,OOO to
maintain the old rates, and are hunting
laborers in all the southern states.