The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-04
NTON, D. T., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881.
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also Daniel Mcdonald, of the brig Swift

ish Empire, from Havana, was sent to tn,
yellew-fever hospital at New York, az wa
also Daniel Mcdonald, of the brig Swift
and Sure.
AN extensive bed of bituminous Goa
has been discovered at a point twelv,
miles southwest of Marshall, Tex. The
deposit lies but eight feet below the sur
face.
THE Northern Pacific will be opened to
the Yellowstone for the passenger trave
on August l. On the same day the Denver
and Rio Grandc will be in operation tt
Durango.
The negroes of Richmond, Va, are
deeply exercised over the midnight toll
ing of bell of Rev. John Jasper's church
Notwithstanding watch has been kept uI
Tor several nights.
THE city engineer of Montreal has
found woman who for sixteen months
has been engineer in boot-heel factory
has perfect knowledge of her business
and never had an accident.
TnE tobacco market in Cincinnati show.
ed great animation and high prices. The
sales in one day recently were 632 hogs
heads. one of white burely bringing $5(
per hundred pounds.
THIRTY mill hands at Saltwater. Mimi,
refused to 20 to work, but made tour OF
the lumber factories and secured a few
recruits. For visiting Staples mill the
second time, three of the ringleaders were
arrested.
A MAN armed with gun was stopped at
the door of the capitol at Albany, because
he declared himself to be the secretary OF
state. 1t was thought he had designs up
on Governor Cornell, but the weapon
proved to be unloaded.
NATHAN CLIFFORD, one of the Justices
of the United States supreme court, died
at Cornish, Me-, aged 78. He had twice
been member of congress. was attorney
general in the cabinet of President Polk,
and subsequently minister to Mexico.
AN attache of the Chinese embassy was
interviewed at Cheyenne on the with
drawal of students from the American
schools. He stated that his government
would hereafter send its young men to
England France. or Germany, beyond the
reach of the progressive ideas taught in
the United States.
Ten thousand persons, including William
IL. Vanderbilt, assembled at Philadelphia
to see Maud S. 20 against her Pittsburgh
record. She made the first mile in PIP,
the second in 2:l3l, and the third in 2:l2a,
which is considered the greatest of turf
achievements.
A JOURNALIST of Peoria claims to have
discovered that the internal machines
shipped to Liverpool were manufactured
in that city and charged with dynamite
in New York. On the contrary. maker
of burglar alarms in the latter city, an
nounces that he constructed the clock
work for mysterious customer last win.
ter.
ANTHONY c. Kissing has fled in the su-
perior court of Chicago, a bill in chancery
attacking the validity Of the ordinance to
vacate La Sale street. The document is
directed against w. L. Scott and the off,
GERS OF the board Of trade and of the city,
and boldly declares that Scott bribed ten
aldermen with $25, 600 to vote for the ordi-
nance. The court is asked to declare the
ordinance null and void, and to enjoin the
erection of building on the vacated
thoroughfare.