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Retail Dry Goods.
THOMPSON BROS 4 KELLY, Il y. Summer st
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AdOrneHs-af-Laap

AttoTReys-dt-Latc.
r. l. cARUTHERs, Jr, g J. W. B0sSEB, No.
46k N. Cherry st.
wv. X. M~eALIsTER, yr.. IS n. College street.
SMITH, BAXTER s. ALLISON, No. 8 Porter
Block.
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AUCTION and Commission Merchants.
WINsrEAD, SHIELDS s CO., 81 Public Square.
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NOTICE.

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, THE DIXIE
Oil Company will pay S1.4O each for all good
Coal Oil Barrels, delivered at the Workson Nc
Lemore street.
ocst If ROBERT THOMPSON, Pres't.
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Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters.
DAVID GREWAR. 81 and 81 Church street
HENDERSON BROS & CO, 70 y. Cherry street.
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Dissolution Notice.

The eopartnership heretofore existing between
A Is. Howard and W. A SOule, under the firm
name of Howard & SOule, is this dav diSsoiveJ
by mutual consent. The Wheeler & Wilson
Manufacturing Co. will collect all accounts due
the nrm- A b. HOWARD,
W. A. SOULE.
Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 1, 1874. febI ct
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Hoop Skirt Mandatory and Ladies'
Goods.
d. LOYEHAN & CO., 16 Public Square.
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THE EraBsriHe Journal, the Repub-
Ican organ IN Southwestern Indiana,
makes this confession:
There are still enough black sheep
on the Republican side Of Congress to
make continued w~atchfulness necessa-
~, but future elections Will weed these
ont to give place to better men. This
Is inevitable. The people have received
lessons during the past year or two
which VIII not soon be forgotten"
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THE CIeCelGRd Leader, a Republican
journal. utters this warning:

journal, utters this warning:
THE civil service recommended by
the Commission and the President is
what the Republican party pledged it
self to give the country. And the
servants Of that party, holding a two
thirds majority in Congress, must not
lightly regard that pledge. Let them
profit by the lesson Of the salary bill"
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Ratrbm1kers and .JelreLers.

ATKINSON 4 uSTEAD. q n. Cherry street,
L. N. sOBRL 4 CO.. Is y. Cherry street.
b. II. STIEF, 5 Union street
L. WI6GERS, 3lX N. Cherry street.
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~COllegesTeet.
THOS. C%ALLENDER. 50 North Cherry street.
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Inc chances IOr a GIT are a. one 70 I'VE.
PRICE OF TICKETS
Whole tickets, $50; Halves, SIS; Tenths, or
each coupon, as; Eleven Whole Tickets for 500.
by Tickets for 81 900; lis Whole Tickets for
5000; ~ Whole Tickets for S1O,OO0. No dis
count on less than $500 worth of tickets.
The Fourth Gift Concert will be conducted, In
all respects, like the three which have already
been given, and full particulars may be learned
from circulars which will be sent free from this
Office to all who apply for them.
Orders for tickets and applications for agen-
cies will be attended to in the order they are re-
ceived, and it is to be hoped they will % sent in
promptly that there may be no disappointment
or delay in filling all. Liberal terms given to
those who buy to sell again. All agents are per-
emPtOrily required to settle up their accounts
and return all unsOld tickets by the 10th day OF
March
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE,
Agent Public Library Kentucky,
And Manager Gift Concert, Public Lib. Building
LOUISVILLE, KY.
dec13 dtues&fri W till mh3i
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Tobacco, Cigars, Etc.
]. & L. WHORLEY, At S. Market street.

Trunk Manufacturer.
WM. DUSSTEAD, 81 n. College street.
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Bakers and ConfectiOners.
L n. ELDRID6R. IS Church street.
r GEO. GREIG. AZ Union street
yUNGEREANN 4 CO., 81 Public square.
A. FANNIE. "a Broad and ZOE S. Market 81.
CHAS. ROBERTSON. q n. Market street.
g. II. VESSEL, 81 N. College street.
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Millinery and Dress-Making.
MRS. J. c. BARRY, 40 Union, near Cherry.
ARS. TINES, "A n. Summer street.
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Stores, Tinarare, Etc.
PHILLIPS, BUTTORFF s CO., 22N. College st.
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Photograph Galleries.
Renl Estate Anents

C. c. GIERS, IS Union street.
X. POOLE. corner Cherry and Union streets.
I. y. SALESMAN, 40 Union, near Cherry street
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LIABILITIES.
Losses adjusted and un-
paid.,---....--.... sss,144 9S
Losses in process Of adjust
ment............-...... 10000 90
Losses Resisted. .......... 1O,5O0 90
Reinsurance Fund on Poll
cies running One year or
less..................... 21s,4S5 75
Reinsurance Fund on Poll
cies running more than
one year-.............. 55,745 IL
All other demands, inelud-
ing taxes, commissions
and assessments $500. 12,14s 95
Total amount Of liabilities,
except Capital tOek,serip
reserve and net surplus$335, SS4 So
Joint Stock Capital, actual
ly paid up in cash.. 275,OO0 90
Surplus beyond Capital, as
regards pOlicy-hOlders... 24,O2O 10
s6s4,s54 95
PECK 6 CAHILL, Agents,
80 UNION STREET.
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Edgefeld Lots.

witness. WIN. G. BRIES.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-18

SUNDAY afternoon two young men,
named Walter Scott and George Grief,
were targetshooting with revolvers on the
commons near the north end of Prospect
street, when an old man named Sotisky, a
Polander, came along. The young men
saw chance for sport and they demanded
his hat. He seemed SO frightened when
he handed it over that they were encour-
aged to proceed, and they next demanded
his coat and boots, and finally left him
with nothing but his pants, socks and
shirt. One of them then said that they
were going to kill him, and the old man
started OF on run, screaming at every
jump, and did not stop until he reached
his home on Russell street. He was so
thoroughly frightened that he jabbered
away like an idiot. and SO exhausted that
he soon tainted away. 1t is said that the
occurrence has deprived him of his rea-
son, and that he covers in dark corner
some great peril. The young men became
frightened when they saw what their fun
resulted in, and gave a boy named Charles
Harper two shillings to take the old mans
clothes home. This boy was sitting on a
fence about five rods from the parties
while they we're demanding Sotisky's
clothes, and he says they were laughing
and joking all the time, and that he readily
understood them to be in fun; but the
affair may be something more serious to
them. The old mans friends were con-
sulting with the police yesterday, and if
warrants have not been issued they will
be to-day. Grief is employed at the juno
ton, and Scott is said to be brakeman
on freight train on the Great Western
Road.-Detroit Free Press.
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old hen herself, who, it seemed, had failed
to furnish the required egg.

old hen herself, who, it seemed, had failed
to furnish the required egg.
A NEAT little swindling game of the
bogus detective order has lately come to
grief IN New York. One Edward Cox
by some means discovered that John +.
Williams, a clerk in a drug store, had
Fl, 1870 in bank. Ascertaining that Will
Jams salary was only $14 per week, he
jumped at the conclusion that Williams
was robbing his employer. Cox sought
and obtained an interview with Williams
employer. As Cox was not willing to
tell the cause of his suspicion, the inter
view terminated without any decided re-
suit. 1t was, however, admitted that
there were doubts as to Williams honesty.
Thus fortified, Cox saw Williams, and af
ter telling him that he was private de-
tective, and that he knew of Williams
knocking down $40 rer day, offered to
compromise the matter and rid Williams
of the suspicion on payment of 5000.
This Williams agreed to, and arranged to
meet Cox next day and pay him. Mr..
Williams then notified the police. The
next day Williams met Cox and handed
him a package of $50 in 81 bills, care
fully marked. As soon as Cox had taken
the money he was arrested. AT his trial
at the General Sessions it TRANSFERRED that
he had lately been discharged from the
State Prison. He was sentenced to one
year in the Penitentiary for confidence
operating and matchmaking.
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CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY, APRIL 1s, 1874.

cries became clearer, and he instinctively
felt that he was pursued.
Fear lent him wings. He dropped a
saddle, hoping thereby to satisfy the
hunger of the lions. He found presently,
however, that they made no halt. 1t was
the young man they ragged after, and
naught but his blood would appease
them.
He now cast aside his remaining saddle
and his rifle, and leaned forward upon his
skates with all the power he possessed.
Yet the beasts gained rapidly upon him
He could hear their mighty bounds. At
times he fancied he could feel their hot
breath. He gazed over his shoulders, and
the glance revealed the lions, their
mouths wide open, and their blood-red
tongues hanging over their jaws, while
their cries were as frequent as the baying
of bloodhound.
He was now compelled to double on
his course, the weight and impetus of the
lions carrying them beyond him. Hap
PLY, Nicholas preserved his presence
of mind, and by his skill as a
skater, combined with wonderful &C
tivity, he eluded the efforts made by the
lions to seize him. and drew slowly toward
home. Presently he saw the smoke curl
ing from under the rocky shelf, and as he
shot past his ears were greeted by the
welcome crack of rifle, and one of the
lions tumbled over dead almost at his feet.
The voyager again turned toward the
rock. Jules had reloaded His unerring
aim stretched the remaining lion upon the
ice, and Nicholas was saved. 1t was some
months. however, ere he fully recovered
from the superhuman efforts made by him
in his race for life.
The next summer he served as a guide,
and it was while fishing in the same river
at he to ha fhrs1I
adventure.-Ed,oard B. Heaton, in What
Nertyo
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A Race for Life.

In the winter of 1866 a couple of
Canadian voyageurs by the names of
Nicholas and Jules Semineau, were
caught in a terrible snow-storm while
taking up their traps on the head of the
the Big Horn River, in the Rocky Noun
iains. The storm lasted for several days,
nor was there any hope of escape until
the snow should become compact enough
to bear their weight upon snow shoes.
The vOyageurs were yet striplings,
scarcely arrived of age. Hitherto their
father had accompanied them upon their
expeditions, but he was now at home at
his ranch on the great overland route.
The tepoe, or lodge, of the brothers
consisted OF couple of buffalo robes
stretched in front of an overhanging rock
that overlooked the river.
Here were slowed their furs, neatly tied
up in small bales, made up principally of
the skins of minks, offers and beavers,
with a few pelts of the silver fox Over
these were laid robes which served them
for bed. A little fire was replenished
from time to time by the dry branches of
pine and cedar, of which they fortunately
had an ample supply. Thus they were
enabled to pass the days pleasantly, not
withstanding the raging of the elements
without.
Up the canon through which the river
flowed the wind sucked and roared terri
bly,. The icy face of the stream was soon
cleared of snow, which drifted into the
lateral canOns, gorging them completely.
In order TO pass away the time, the
young men busted themselves in making
skates from the horns of an elk. The
art of skating they had learned while
boys, on the broad bosom of the St Law
renee.
Their meat running short, Nicholas
concluded to have a run on his skates
up the river, with the hope of killing an
elk, which were numerous on the pine
covered slopes of the mountains.
Rifle in hand, he started in high spir-
its, gliding by rocky cape and frowning
promontory, made by the sharp bends
and curves of the river. Where the ac-
clivities were gentler, forests of the yell
low pine, cedar and juniper lifted their
dark green heads, now burdened with
weight of snow. The quick gaze of
the mighty antlers of the elk, or the blue
coat of the black-tailed deer, the best of
all venison.
1t was not long ere he spied a herd of
the latter, of which he had the good luck
to kill two. The saddles of these he
secured together, strapped them around
his shoulders and started on his return
home, distant about four miles
He skated leisurely along, humming a
light French ar, when suddenly his ears
were struck by an uncarthly cry, which
he at once recognized as the roar of the
mountain lion, and he could distinguish,
also, that the cries proceeded from more
than one.
He quickened his pace. His skates
rang hard against the solid ice. The
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A Duel Between Boys.

AN extraordinary case was brought be-
fore the Lindsey Uinconshire) Magistrates
on March r. Two boys, Gerald Maurice
Brown and George Henry Seagrave, pu-
pills in a boarding school at Lincoln,
quarreled about a trivial matter, and
Brown; by way of settling the difficulty,
sent Seasrave formal challenge to fight
a duel. Seagrave duly accepted it, and
about two O'Clock, at which time the
boys are allowed to go out for walk, the
dueliss and their seconds started for a
secluded spot. Here Browns second, a
boy named Dawson, loaded the pistol for
Brown, and :. !, outh iiarned Walter Green
did Il like office for Seagr.ve- Both PTS
tolls were loaded with powder and ball.
DaW son measured the distance decided
upon-thirteen paces-and placed peg
in the ground for the antagonists to stand
against. Dawson then counted three, and
dropped a handkerchief. He counted
slowly, and the boys took direct aim at
each other, firing the instant the hand.
kerchief fell. Seagrave Immediately cried
out I'm HIT" and then lay down. 1t
was then found out that his pistol had
burst. The seconds then searched for
the wound and found it to be in the leg.
They bound up the wound, and, with the
aid of Brown, assisted the boy home.
The pistols used on the occasion were
bought on their route at a toy shop, SIX
pence each being the price given. One
of the witnesses (all of whom were schol-
ars) described the combatants as being on
apparently friendly terms while going to
the place of the fight, and said that no
ill-temper was displayed when on the
ground The Magistrates remandcd the
prisoner Brown and the two seconds until
Saturday, pending the doctors report OF
the state of Seagraye,- Mall London
Gazette
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Situations Wanted.

The Galena Gazette gives the following
advice to young men in reference to leav-
| ing the country for the city:
One can scarcely turn to any newspaper
of any of the large cities without at once
lighting upon advertisements of "situa-
atoms wanted" In the country news
papers such an advertisement is rarely
seen. In the Chicago Tribune, for in
| stance, how frequently do we see adver-
tisements like this: "Situation wanted by
a young man able and willing to work at
anything honest and that will keep him
from want"
We never read these advertisements
without feeling of sadness. In each we
seem to hear cry of distress, an appeal
to society to save some one from destitu-
ton, from want, perhaps from beggary,
possibly from crime. From events and
circumstances of this nature it is not diff
ficult to derive the inference that, in pro-
portion to the country, our cities are over
populated. And yet the tide is constantly
setting in from the country to the cities.
Young men are no sooner emancipated
from parental control than they rush into
the cities with the hope of there finding
at once employment that will be light and
lucrative, at which fortunes can be speed
lily made without toll.
The common mistake seems to have no
effect in curing itself. 1t is constantly re-
peated by other victims actuated by like
hopes and deluded by similar expecta-
tions. Meanwhile, what is the conse-
quence? The population of the country
is actually diminishing. while the popu-
lation of the cities, already overcrowded,
is rapidly increasing. And hence it is
that we find in all city papers these stir
ring advertisements headed Situation
wanted while nothing of the kind ap-
pears in the country papers.
There is to our young men lesson in
this. In the country you are needed; in
the city you are not wanted. The land is
full of employment, and living and wages
are good. The cities do not invite you to
come; the country does. Why then do
our young men cling to the cities? 1t is
no unfrequent occurrence to find men,
both able and willing to work, wandering
in want through the streets of our cities,
with pauperism at hand and beggary be-
fore them, when they know that days
travel would take them to where employ
ment is awaiting them, with all the abun-
dance that farm and garden can afford.
And still they cling to the bustling
street, finding food and sleep in damp and
noisome quarters, when they might
have both in places of health and comfort.
The facts are ominous of evil. They pro-
claim to the young men of the country
who have their fortunes and livelihood
to make, to shun the cities and bctake
themselves to the country, where employ
ment never fails, where advertisements
for situations are unnecessary, and where
comfort and contentment are the equiva-
lent of labor
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was about to find fault but in golden let
tiers she saw, " No fault-finding here"
After she was dressed she limped down
INTO the parlor, because the satin slippers
pinched her feet. There was seated a
whole room full of other little girls dressed
up as elegantly as she was They were
all very pretty, but very sober. They did
not look happy. In the middle of the
room was large basketful of candies
and cakes.
Eat all you want to, my dears," said
the fairy; the servants will bring them
to YOU" but no one wanted TO eat any.
In fact all the little noses seemed to turn
up.
Just then beautiful music was heard
and the fairy said:
Now, Bessy, sing if you want to-"
Bessy was good singer, so she COM
menced. Around the throne of God in
heaven
Up went the finger
1--WE want no Sunday-school songs
here; try again" said the fairy
Then Bessy tried little lullaby she so
often sang to her little brother.
Tut, tutr' and up went the finger.
"That's fOOlish.''
So no one tried to sing.
"Well, let's have some dancing" said
the fairy.
Ana the music struck up, and all com
menced TO dance; but they danced like
turkeys on hot irons; for their feet hurt
them so. All the little shoes were too
small; but no one dared to cry, for if they
did the finger would surely go up. just
then Bcssy felt something behind her ear.
and she was about to scratch it. Up went
the finger
mo scratching allowed here"
Then her nose tingled; but she dared
not scratch; then her other ear; then the
back of her neck. At last Bessy began to
get fidgety and cross, and the fairy's eye
turned toward her; then her nose tingled
inside, and Bessy burst out:
want to go home, and l will
scratch!"
Instantly all the fairies disappeared, for
Bessy had found fault. She looked up
and there was her father tickling her with
a straw.
He said: my little Bessie may scratch
if she wants to; and l think it time for
her to go home, for here it is five O'Clock
in the afternoon, and my little girl has
slept all day under this tree"
Bessy got up, and the first thing she did
was to look at her straw hat; then her
gingham apron, then her copper toes; and
she threw her arms around her fathers
neck and cried, and said: 80 papal am
so happy to be your little girl, and be
poor, and have to work, and have nice
bread and butter to eat; and where is ma
and the dear little baby?"
"Oh, they are WE'LL" said her father;
&c but l guess my little Bessy has been
dreaming."-Ihe Interior.
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Kites.

IT is great art to make a good kite.
1t should be shaped evenly so as to bal
ance we'll. The sticks should be just
strong enough for the size of the kite
without being too heavy. The paper
should be of proper strength and light
ness. The four cords that start from the
four corners should be gathered into one
and attached at just the right point to the
holding cord so as to insure its proper
angle against the wind. And, above all
Tor rather, below alD, the tail should be
long enough and heavy enough to balance
the teetery object in the air and make it
sail like thing of life. A tail too heavy
or too light for its length, or too short for
to make trouble in kite-fying. Now,
boys, whenever your kite aops and "don't
CO." you may be sure that she is wrong
in one or more of the aforementioned
Nicholas for April.
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ELECTION ITEMS.

IF last season was an "off year." is
not this an " offer ?"-St. Paul Pioneer.
"A month ago it was New Hamp-
shire. Now it is Connecticut. Next fall,
unless somebody is careful, it may be
Massachusetts, lNass.) Repub-
lican.
The Republican party has won its
last victory in Kansas. The long catalogue
of official crimes and swindles, State and
National, is too heavy a load to be pulled
through another contest.-Kansas City
Times.
THE truth is, that the conviction
has become fixed in the public mind that
the government of the country has fallen
into the hands of adventurers, and that
the only way to rescue that Government
is to crush the party which has placed
these adventures in power.-ALbdny
Argus.
Certainly no more significant nor
emphatic token of popular dissatisfaction
with Republican rule could be given than
has been offered by the people of Con-
necticut, following, as it does, the similar
rebuke administered by New Hampshire.
The frauds and rascalities of the party in
power, and the evidences of official cor
ruption that are being almost daily devel-
oped, are having their proper effect
Wheeling Register.
1t was not a question lin Connecti-
cut between Gov. lngersoll and MIR. Har-
rison-both eminerftly respectable gentle
men. 1t was not even a question between
MIR. Buckingham "a mild hypocritel and
his Democratic competitor for the United
States Senate. The people knew full well
that the election of Harrison would be
accepted in Washington as an indorse-
ment of everything done there during the
pas. year, including the salary steal, the
Sanborn contracts, the Jayne moiety bust
ness and the Louisiana outrage.-Utacd
Observer.
1t Connecticut election is the Sec
ond voice of the year, speaking even
more loudly in condemnation of the ex-
travagance, the usurpation, the arrogant
interference and the reckless mismanage-
ment of the Republican Government.
Sanborn contracts, Jayne extortlons, cur
rency initiation, Butler appointments, Lou
isIana iniquities, all are swept away with
the salary grab and CreditMobilier scan
dals on which the verdict was passed last
year, and an indignant people reasserts its
purpose of denying even moral support
To lettering Republicanism. There is no
mistake in this decision.-BostOn Post.