The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-02-10

81 Journal: A gentleman just down from,
Cheyenne river agency tells OF the Sioux that wen
down to Pierre TO the first train in. After
| their return they delighted to sit around on the
settlers store and tell the bucks who had no: been
down how the great iron horse breathed smoke,
and was fed on wood and black stones.
Senator Beck is reported having said In re-
| cent interview that 'shve men-Scott of the Penn
! sylvana railroad, Garrett of the Baltimore and
| Ohio, Huntington, of the Union Pa cific, Jay Gould
and Vanderbilt--can sit down, and in five minutes'
chat fix tax of $4,000 upon the commerce of the
! country, by raising freight cents e bushel, and
| do it acco riding to law.
! a Providence lady while walking along Fifth ave.
New Iorb, saw the sign of an artists studio and
| went in. She found man, we'll dressed, and. on
| her addressing remark to him he few at her
and choked her until she was insensihe, aud after
she had recovered, locked the door and kept her
TOR two hours, threatening to kill her with a large
knife. The maniac finally allowed her to go.
If the enyentor do not come to our relief the
American forests must diappear before the
shoe makers and match manufacturers. To make
shoe-pegs enough for Am eriean use, consumes an
nually 100000 cords of timber, and to make lucfer
matches 900 cubic feet of the best pine are re-
ouo cords of BIRCH beech and maple, and the han
dies OF tools, 500, 900 more.
Johnson county, lows farmer says that there
has been great fatality among his sheep aud lambs
caused PIP tape worms, which by scientists said
to be picked up on damp moist ground, where
the eggs found among the droppings and grass
es. A change to higher and dryer pastures
recommended; one-haK ounce OF spirits of tur-
pentjne in milk once day for those effected, is
prescribed, but should not be continued more than
three or four days at time.
There has been great floods in Oregon and Wash
ngton territories lately. very fell in
torrents for thirty hours, melting the large
quantities of which had fallen early in the
winter and swelling the rivers to an unusual hghts
in places the low lands inundated for miles.
bridges were swept away, wharves and ware houses
Hooded, and rail roads washed out. The damage
to property in Portland is very great The lower
stories of dwellings and several large docks
flooded, covering large quantities of grain which
could not be removed in time.
Ono CT the most extraordinary stories ever toll
appears in the Erie (Penn.) Dispatch an reads as
follows: "Brakenlan SnodSrass, of Cory, met
with all accident al that place while making coup
ling that hiss probably never before been e1T rnc
ed By any VINO lived to tell the tale. He had
his head caught between the bumpers, and was 30
horribly squeezed it was not deemed possible that
he could live, but he is now getting along finely.
His head, which was once round, was pressed by
the acci;:ont long and slim. He is also onehalt to
three-luarers of an inch taller. The terrible |
saueexs which his head received has made him
cross-eyed, bat his brain Is clear.
The appalling features OF East Indian crime ar,
disclosed in the recent reports: In Cuttack a
woman draws a child aside, takes the silver brace |
let's from her arms, and filings the little victim nto
Il tank, on the surface of which the body is seen
floating few days afterward. In Beuar man !
stranges boy nine years old for the sake Of his
silver bracelets and gold earrings, and throws the
corpse into sugar plantation. At Moorshedabed |
Chsmoo robs child aged tive and drops her into |
= deep and rapid part of the river. At Benares |
fellow entices boy twelve years old into his house,
and there cuts his throat in order to get possession
Of his silver bracelets while friend Look and ;
mildly e1postulates, but neither seriously Interfere
nor gives information to the police. Another takes
. neigbors son into the fields, under pretense of
helping him to fly kite there strangles him with !
his waistcoth and strips him of the trashy trinkets
with which he was adorned. Yet another conducts
p boy aged nine to witness religious procession,
but, passing near ditch suddenly throws him
down. partially strangles him, tears the silver
ments from his arms and feet, and filings him
into the ditch, which is fortunately dry, aud where
he is found before life is quite extinct.