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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
WOman's Dress.

"Never, perhaps" writes Paris co..
respondent, "hag woman looked more
lovely than at the present moment, when
not puff is seen Tin high life) to dis
guise the exquisite sy mmetry of woman's
natural shape. Those long plain skirts
are wondrously becoming, fitting tightly
round the body as they do, and falling
straight down, displaying the hips in
all their beauty and then falling in
long, narrow train at the back. 1t is
the poetry of dress-the dress sung by
poets and chiseled by the sculptor's
hand. 1t is the dress of Olympian god
desses-not as You see them ia bur-
lesque, but as painters have shown them
to MS. Heavy materials are still made
with the large quarduple plat at the
back, whilst light materials are partly
covered with founces, whilst the skirt
is tied we'll back by a scarf, which sur
rounds the body like the scarf OF the
Maid of Athens. Moyen age bodies
are still worn, only they are lorger
than they were last year; they now
reach half way down to the knees. They
are worn equally with high and low
bodies, and for the street as we'll as for
the drawing room. Ii they continue to
increase in length. dresses will soon bec
all body and no skirt" n
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Seven Churches In One,

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing
from Bologna, Italy, says San Ste
fano is in reality seven churches in one.
These seven churches are SO dependent
upon one another that if you were to
take away any one of the same believe
the other six wonld fall to pieces. They
are as closely knit as a honeycomb.
You go up stairs and down stairs and
pass from one church into another with
such suddenness that it is thoroughly
confusing. Then the doors that open
ont of them lead into different streets.
There are small courts thrown in
amongst them for breathing places, and
there are affairs and shrines in the
courts there are frescoes, mosaics, and
moral paintings and sarcophagi, contain
ing the bones of saints there are an
cient pillars with antique ionic capitals,
and venerable affairs with quaint, rude
sculptures of winged beasts as sacri-
fees. There is the tomb of st. Pesro-
MUS, in imitation of the holy sepulchre
at Jerusalem. A guide led me through
this seven-fold church; probably could
never have found my way ont alone or
have seen half the wonders of the int.
rior without his help.
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A I" Dark" Seance.

The st. Louis Republican says at
was rather queer sight to see dog
brin ing mans hand into the house,
their own dog and their own house too.
They were colored people, Jack and
Harriet Miller, and they lived in the
fear of ghosts and hobgoblins. OF
course, they were much frightened. The
hand was black and it looked like the
hand of fate The dog lay down in the
corner by the fire and commenced gnaw-
ing. Jack picked up the ugly thing
and threw it out into the gutter-or
tried to-but the hand just hoated away
and up until it seemed to join body
suspended in the air, and then the
thumb sought the nose, and the fingers
commenced gyrating, indicating that
all was we'll up there, and then the form
disappeared and left the darkies in a
state of profuse perspiration. That is
the way that some spirit of darkness
materialized itself for Jack and Harriet
Miller, and crowds have since visited
their house and seen them, and the dog,
and the window, and the gutter, but
never squint of any wonder as big as
a mans hand"
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Female BARRIERS in Cincinnati.

A report came into our office last night
that there will soon be opened in the
old church, south side of Sixth street,
between Walnut and Vine, new bar
Der shop. Now, the simple establish
ment of a new barber shop among us
is no astounding item of news. but this
particular barber shop Ito beg on Sixth
street will not be an ordinary one, from
the fact that lovely girls will WELD the
razor and .run the machine"
Rumor says these girls have been
especially trained for their responsible
positions, and that they manipulate the
razor with all the abandon of veterans.
The price for stsqnare shave" at that
establishment will be So quartah of a
dollah, if you pleathe thir." OF course,
that's big price you know now, but
when man wants rare article he must
expect to pay for it. just remember
hat these barberous damsels are fair in
.ooks if they are unfair in price. They
Won't chew tobacco nor eat onions
neither will they have two-inch finger
nails stuffed with the soils of seven
counties. Moreover, they will chuck
you under the chin with their soft
chubby hands, if you are a real nice
boy.
We feel sorry for the men BARRIERS of
the city. They will lose custom as sure
as that female church shaving shop
opens. OF course married men will
slip around to that shop sometimes, and
then there will be trouble in Gotham.
We have detailed special reporter to
work up all the domestic broils and
secret associations and sad suicides
which will surely emanate from that
new institution-that sharp-shooting,
Misunderstanding, shampooing, shing-
ling, shearipg and shaving shop.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
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The Two Republics.

Among the many important enter
prises now tending to the growth and
commercial prosperity of the United
States, the projected line of railway
connecting us with the republic of Mex
leo can be looked upon as one of the
most timely and desirable. In a COM
mercial point of view alone this road
will be of very great benefit. The pro-
posed line of road will require the
building of only 1,165 miles of railway
in all to unite the railway systems of
the United States and Mexico. The
construction of three intermediate Sec
tions of 285 miles from Rockdale to the
Rio Grande, of 600 miles from the Rio
Grande to Leon, and 27O miles from the
city of Mexico to Leon, and a line Of
railway communication from New York
to the capital of Mexico is secured.
The Mexican congress has airs ady ap-
proved contract with mixed Mexican
and English company that will secure
the prompt construction of the road
from the city of Mexico to Leon. A
contract has also been concluded be-
tween the Mexican government and the
International railroad company of Texas
for the construction of a road from
Leon to the Rio Grade, there to connect
with the international railroad of Texas,
and thus with the entire railroad system
of the United States. By means of
this road communication will be estab-
lished between all the principal centers
of population and production of the
United States and Mexico. Two nations
until by common interests will by this
road be afforded means of making an
interchange of a mutually profitable
commerce and strengthening those ties
of commercial intercourse that will in
sure peace and quiet to the long dis.
tracted condition of things on the Texas
border. From Louisville to the Rio
Grande, at the point where the proposed
conjunction of the United States and
Mexican line of railways is to take
place, the distance is but 1241 miles,
and the completion of this read places
us within but q few hours travel of
the many rich products of the tropics
Courier Journal.
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Hotel Improvements.

The San Francisco Post writes of the
new Palace hotel in that city: "The
Palace will be unquestionably hotel
born of new ideas. No modern i'm
provement will be ignored in it's con-
struction or equipment. The latest
novelty adopted is the introduction of
an automatic fire alarm apparatus in
every room in the building. The in
slant the temperature of the room
reaches above a certain degree the ap-
paratus will be affected and will trans
NIT wsrd to the fire indicator in the
off ,e, 80 that there can be no delay in
suppressipg the blaze. Three watch
men will be required to constantly
patrol the building. visiting seventy
one different stations and walking two
and three-quarter miles in their rounds.
At each station will be located an cleo
trical apparatus which will register the
time the Waterman visited it. These
will thus act as tell-tales on the watch
man, showing whether he is attending
to his b .siness or not. A large cleo
trical clock is to be placed in the main
Office, Dials in electrical communica-
ton with this clock will be distributed
to the number of 116 throughout the
building. There will be dial record
ing the time at the end of every passage
way. An electrical lighting apparatus
will also be among the features of the
interior. This will be on the same sys-
tenn as that in use in the California
theatre. Only the chandeliers in the
dining-rooms and the lamps in the cor
ridors will be lighted by the electric
spark. Eight hundred and twenty
burners in all will be lighted in this
way"
Il - :. Il
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SOMEBODY gives in substance the TO

lowing idea in regard to the proper way
of treating the secrets OF other people
which accidentally come into our posses
sion {: If you see person drop purse
In the street, and you pick it up, OF
course you return it to him or if you
could not give it back at once, you
would keep it safely until you could do
80. That is inst what you should do
with secrets when people drop them
accidentally, and you pick them mp
You have no more business to use them
than you would have to use money
which you obtained in the same way.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

Wind, and the sound of Sea,
Heard in the night from afar,
Spending itself on an unknown shore,
Feeling its way DER an unseen floor,
Lighted BY moon nor star;
Telling tale to the list'ning ear
OF wounds and woes that the rolling year
Hath brought to the human heart;
Telling Of passion and innermost pain,
Sinking and swooninR, and growing again
As the wind and the waves take part;
Lifting . voice to the voiceless skies.
Psuses Of sorrow that pass into signs,
Born Of . secret despair;
fiutterins back on the clear tide Of tone,
Gathering In force till the melodys grown,
Strong to interpret the accents unknown.
Haunting the dark fields Of air;
Speaking the Ioneings Of life, the full souls
Hidden desires in music that rolls,
Wave-fke, in search Of . shore:
1ddies Of harmony. floating around,
Widen In circles Of lessenlpg sound,
Dne in the distance, till silence IL found,
And earth redemands us once more.
All the Year Round.
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whispered as they were aroused from
their wretched beds.
"No-no-he's sober-he's going to
be good again |" she sobbed.
At midnight the voice of prayer,
broken by sobs, was heard in the old
howell, and Old Jim Drayton, kneeiing at
his chair, said:
" Mary-children- heaven help
me to be better man y
So may it.-Detroit Free Press.
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now do the shivery-shaky bushes
whit" tickle you up with it. Now yol
regain it-force me back-and fal
into huge pot of bears grease"
Smithers agreed. What deep desigl
underlay this fooling? You will see.
The next night, just before the seen,
was to be enacted which we had planned
1 stole down under the stage, and un
bolted trap on the spot where in
tended Smithers should stand. In tn,
midst of his harlequin play, I resolved
to push him on this pitfall that he nigh
precipitate himself down, and break hi
limb or his neck.
Cautiously stole back again, and oul
interlude commenced. After allowing
hi1l to culver and VIZ ggle in his
spangles while shook the baton ovel
him, placed my hand on his chest, and
pushed him on to the snare.
He did not fall To my amazement
the trap held.
Unsuspectingly Smithers then repos-
sessed himself of the wand, and pushed
me back. With a sudden grasp and
cry, felt myself plunging down in the
dark, striking my elbows and chin on
the edge of the open trap.
lay there under the stage with q
broken leg and fractured ribs. I had
unbolted the wrong trap, and fallen
into my own enare. The audience, as 1
heard afterwards, clapped and laughed,
ascribing my disappearance to a con-
cocted part of the business. An apology
had to be made. Luckily for the man.
ager, a fellow happened to be in the
company who was accustomed to go
Glowing in an amateur sort of way,
and he volunteered to finish the harle-
guinade. taking my place. After a very
short delay, filed up with dancing, he
was ready for his business.
They took me to the hospital, and
here have lain for weeks and weeks.
What my feelings have been in the long
night-watches I can never describe.
The remorse, the consciousness how
we'll I have deserved the doom I in
tended for another, the bitter repent
ance when George Smithers came to my
bedside full Of kindly solicitude, and I
burst not confess then, though I will
confess, please God, when I have re-
gained my strength-he shall know all.
But all this alienation of sorrow, re-
gret, and self-reproach, of desperate
doubt, and wild prayers for forgiveness,
is only known to heaven and me. It
has been a bitter passage, but it has
done me good. I am calmer now. I'll
get better I shall give up all thoughts
of Mary, and resign her to one who
never assailed fellow-creature's life.
III,
Tom Pudson, however, did not give
up Mary-irst, because Mary declined
TO be given up; and, secondly, because
Mr.. George Smithers, alias Signor To-
mato, gave her up first. The harlequin
was gay spark, who soon tired of Q
fancy. and a new face drove Mary out
Of his heart. So Mary returned to a
more constant attachment, and Tom
married her, made clean breast of it |
10 George, and received his pardon.
They are now doing pretty we'll for
though Pudson's career as clown is |
spoiled, he has taken to singing with |
lis wife in the music halls, and pros
oers comfortably.
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ing the day, about eighty degrees Fab
renheit, twenty-four hours is about the
right time. The must will then have
received sufficient amount of colorine
matter, boquet and tannin. When it is
ready to be drawn of, pull out the peg
at the bottom of the barrel and let the
must run of, but when quick work is
required it will not pay to wait. As
soon as the must ceases to run freely, it
is best to stop it and put the bulls in
| the press, where the balance can be
pressed out Immediately.
When the season has been dry there
is more saccharine matter in the grapes
rainy. hence the must requires more
sugar some seasons than others.
My way of doing is to raise the must
to ninety degrees on Oschles scale this
gives wine sufficiently sweet to please
the average consumer. Having added
the sugar, put the must in the barrels
or casks in which it is to ferment,
straining it through two or three thick
nesses of mosquito net place them in
the cellar, put one end of a syphon in
the bung, closely sealed, the other end
in vessel of water, SO that the gas can
escape without permitting the air to
get to the must. As soon as the gas
ceases to cause the water to bubble
freely, take out the syphon and close
the barrel, having first filled the barrel
to within about three inches of the
bung. The bung should not be left
quite on top, but little to one side,
SO that the wine will be against it, thus
preventing any evaporation. The
sooner the barrel is closed, without dan
ger of its bursting, the better. If the
barrel exhibits signs of bursting bore a |
gimlet hole near the bung. Let the gas |
blow off and close the hole Immediately.
About the first of January draw { #
the wine into clean, sweet barrels and |
let stand until the July following, then
draw it off again. It should now be |
ready for market.
Care should be taken, when putting
the barrels on the stand, to have the
end in which the faucet is put lower
than the other, SO as to draw off all the
wine without disturbing the lees. When
all the clear wine has been drawn off
the muddy wine and lees should be put
in one or more barrels and allowed to
settle until clear, when the clear wine
is again drawn of. Good authorities
state that fine brandy can be distilled
rom the lees but I have no expert
snce in the matter.
CONCLUSION.
From personal observation am sat
SIZED that the Scupperneng ripens two
weeks earlier here than in North Caro-
ina-said to be it's home. Our grapes
ire fuller, and think, sweeter. As a
vine grape, I would not recommend
my of the black Scuppernong-I think
he wine insipid and not marketable.
Parties in North Carolina tell me that
hey find it difficult to get a market
or it.
had grave doubts when commencing
o make wine of being able to find
ale for it, but my experience has
me, and now have no fears
N the subject. I have no wine on hand
,lder than the vintage of 1873. I have
lot advertised it or made extraordinary
forts to bring it into notoriety, yet I
ind ready sale for it at 80. Is per gallon.
-Eyori6n A 0,~ic,fZf,xriaf
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THE man only is truly educated who
has been SO trained in his youth that
his body is the ready servant of his
will, and performs with ease snd pleas
ure all the work that, as a mechanism,
it is capable of doing.
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COMMON sense is an element in which
many persons are sadly wanting. Com
mon seDne implies found perception,
correct reason, mental capacity, and
good understanding.
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uOWu 1ubO tuO On4ACA oAO AS"'So esae.
trash will remain in the shute brush
them out and throw in more grapes.
In this way three hands and two
horse team can gather an immense
amount of grapes in day. Care should
be taken to throw away the hard, green
and unripe grapes, and not to get too
heavy body of grapes in the wagon
at one time, or they will get crushed,
and thus lose large amount of juice.
MAKING THE WINE.
As Gin making hare soup, it is neces-
sary to first catch the hare" SO in MAX
ing wine, it is necessary first to get your
grapes. Assuming that you have done
this, let us proceed to make the wine.
And here wish to mention that it is of
the utmost importance that every vessel
connected with the making of wine
should be perfectly clean and sweet.
There should be a full supply of water,
80 that the tubs, barrels, etc., can be
rinsed as often as is necessary. The
barrels or casks in which the grapes are
to be fermented should be all ready on
the stands, a sufficient height from the
floor to permit barrel lying on it's side
to set under it. Set the mill on the
top of the barrel in which the grapes
are to be fermented, and grind away
until the barrel is full, then move the
mill to the next barrel, and SO on to the
end. The length of time the must is
left tn Torment on the bulls depends on
the state of the atmosphere. In snch
weather as we have here in the latter
part of September and beginning of
October, when tho thermometer is, dur
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-06

lease of power will be numbered
with the things that were. We be.
lievo the Southern people havo nth
sine to fear from the contemplated
visit of congressional committee to
the states in question. Though n
t,of the committees arc
Radicals, yet we believe thoy will
searooly have tho hardibood, even if
they have The opportunity, to per-
vert factsto sorve their own pur.
poses. Tile .aomooratic. membcrs
will be strong enough to prevent any
such iufuny.
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hossy. Dale.

Mr.. Editor:
10 the traveller, qs he wopds his
',er way across the burning sands of the
par0hsd desert there Is no placo to
wD,'h h0 looks with more, anxiety,
s"a whom psssed,'with moro pleasu re-
ana gratitude than the oasis dotted
n mere e. and there along his pathway ::
.or us 'hero that he slakes his thirst
anu r0news his strength, both of body
anu mind and thus prepares hi,osolf
20 continue his journey until bo reach.
es Tho desired haven. Altbouob =
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CONGRESSIONAL Invest gatior.

,'&ith!Ed \ few daayy: there will be.
gin an 'inyestigation into the politi
cal afairs.sf Equiisinpa and M!ssi:s.
,ippi by cGmw ittYes appointed by
,congfesss< TOR 'the purpose, This
species of nquiry6as of lato years
.beeNme nprominent feature Of the
iegfslhtion Of the :eountry-stase:
national ,Sba :, iiiS;,uipii;s,|S |Spatt-: -ena III
many oasss it has been fruitful Of
good Weregara it as unfortunate
However, that .iiere>should arise SO
many u'sstt' stts ei' efs tEdat require to be
looked INTO. But for lie corruption
of the Radical. purity, there would
be but,little cause for the appoint.
'nont of the oumittees, md, even
should they 10 organized to serve
partisan ;onds, they would hud bu,
little material ut hand.
The reconstructed States have
baen themo of much discussion
'evos" sihOe: :Thrd Stevens aud his
oo.wosEers ssoamped out side of the
constitution" anu far from being
wenriod,,: by. their continual .lebor,
and thelf RECEIPT fniluroo, the Kadi.
cal leaders are determined once
more to make desperate effort at
the manufacture of public sentiment
in their behalf. Tho co9g!ltiph "f
affairs iu:Loui>iana and Mississippi
has naturally excited much attention
and evoked much comment, and an
authoritative state ement Of the. situ-
alton will therefore bq srn!'fyi"g to
the entire country. il t abatract
propriety of congrosslon.l interfcr.
euoo with tho local 'ifaira Of the
states be- admitted, 4 { there can, Ger.
t"inly be no "ottthier tcId> of inq'ui.
ry, than that afforded bj the re-
const ;ucted states. Every measure
enforced Under the new order of
things has been instituted by the
Radical majority in. Congress.
The ceantsen!anop given to corrupt
carpet baggors in their many acke es
Of pla!nder, the free usS Of tho land
and nav al FORCES for political ends,
the support of defeated candidates
despite. tho will. Of the people os
d]eola1od ct tho ballot: boz, tho fire.
quent attempts to throw cloak of
oonoealment around The william o us
doirgs of state and federal officials,
tho absolute encouragement givou
to 70 scoundfels ike Kellogg, P,noh.
beck, Scott, Noses and Paterson,
these are tho true and only causes of
tho present unsettled state Of things
in Rortipns ofths soith..
We would fain hope that the in.
vostigatipg pommittees will keep be-
foro their. .eyes these stubborn facts,
snd not ignore them as has hereto.
fore boen the lmost invariable
prdeetico Of. Tie Dominant PARTY.
The people Of the South are not only
viilin 6, but heartily anxious for
full showing their condition be.
forethee eyes of tho nation. They
have h0thing to fear from suoh an
inquiry, while tho Southern Radi.
'als have everything to lose. Onoe
The roal state Of affairs is presented
o tho Northern pocple, the Raa;o.,