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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Raising Tobacco in the South.

In many portion of the South, before
the war, very much of the tobacco used
among the farmers was grown upon
their farms and plantations. In Missis-
sippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the
Carolinas and Louisiana, there was
considerable tobacco grown but few
years ago. Now there is but little at
tention paid to growing this important
crop. The cons -mer confines himself
to better or finer cultivated and manu-
featured article. The old "home twist"
is hardly to be seen, where few years
ago little other was to be had. The
poorer classes, with colored population,
since the settlement among them of the
northern element, have received very
luxurious notions in their drinking,
smoking, and chewing habits. The finest
whisky or brandy is sought after. while
the old "white wheat" and "peach and
molasses" are fast going ont of use.
Fine smoking brands of tobacco are now
in use, as we'll as the most popular plug
and fine cuts. Those who should be
the producers are consumers of the very
article they could grow more cheaply
than others. How much like nonsense
it looks for Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri,
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennes-
see to raise tobacco for the south and a
large export trade /!
The idea that cotton had ceased to be
king in the south was a most absurd and
premature one. That more corn is
grown, we do not deny, but not to the
considerable extent we have been led to
believe by the reports of those who de-
sired to make it corn-producing coun-
try.
Experiments have been made in more
than thirty counties in Texas, the past
season, in growing tobacco of the vari-
GUS varieties, to test their adaptability
to that soil and climate. The greater
part of these tests have been made in
northern and central counties of the
state, where the Missouri and Ohio
population has settled. With a pro-
tracted drouth and an early frost, still
the result to the planters has been the
most satisfactory. Texas will become
one of our most excellent tobacco states.
Cor. Rural World.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Men We Don't Want to Meet.

The man who erunts and gasps as he
gobbles up the soup, and at every other
mouthful seems threatened with
choking fit.
The man who, having by an accident
been thrown once in your company,
makes bold to brawl your name out,
and to shake your hand profusely when
you pass him in the street.
The man who artfnlly provokes you
to play q game of billiards with him,
and, though he feigns to be a novice,
produce his own chalk.
The man who can't sit at your table
on any set occasion without getting on
his legs to propose some stupid toast.
The man who, thinking you are mu-
steal, bores you with his notions on the
music of the future, Of which You know
as little as the music of the spheres.
The man who wears white hat in
winter, and smokes a pipe when walk
ing, and accosts you as cold fellow"
Just as you are hoping to make good
impression on some well-dressed lady
friends.
The man who, knowing that your
doctor faces him at table, turns the
talk so as tossset him talking doctors
shop.
The man who, with look of urgent
business, when you are in a hurry,
takes you by the button-hole to tell you
bad joke.
The man who, sitting Just behind you
at the opera, destroys half your enjoy
ment by humming all the airs.
The man who makes remarks on your
personal adornmept, asks you where
you buy your waistcoats, and what you
paid for your dress-boots.
The man who lsrds his talk with lit
tie scraps of French and German after
his return from continental tour.
The man who spoils your pleasure in
seeing a new play by applauding in
wrong places, and muttering in stage
whispers his comments on the plot.
And, to finish with, the man who
draws back slightly to appreciate O
picture, cody comes and stands in 'front.'
of you, and then recedipg .also, treadS
upon your toes, Punc...
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

me care 80 much about that old young
man, for l never in my life exchanged
more words with him than you have
heard. But once when the clock Was
fast, and he hadn't made his appearance
at the hour, I sat quaking in my chair
and growing 60 nervous felt as if I
should fly, and when the knock came
started up with a scream. But this
was after we had been we'll nigh q score
of years accustomed to each other.
Earlier I was sometimes cross that
was when we hardly had any dodgers,
and the parlor never would suit. But
it was all one to him. He didn't mind
me pin-not even when, being in a
particularly good humor, I asked him
to stay and share my not very sumptu-
GUS dinner. He just looks as usual, as
if there was nobody in the world but
himself. Twas 80 nettled that thought
of repeating the invitation and point
ing to the young ladies' chair but it
was bad thought, and am glad now
that kept it down. He grew more
and more infirm until, at last. one New
Years he came and went in carriage,
although he would not make use of the
coachee's arm either in getting in or
out. I had a sore heart and dim eye
looking arter him.
"The next year, you may be sure,
was at my post as usual !; but when he
came near the house, I was SO fgety
and nervous that could not sit down,
but kept going from the parler window
to the door, and looking at the clock.
t'The clock struck and there was no
knock. Poor old young man! In ten |
minutes more there was the postman's |
knock, and took the letter he gave me |
into the parlor-slow and desolate like. |
The girl was out we had hardly any
dodgers things were very blue indeed:
our dinner was almost failure; was
sore cast down. But business is bus
mess, and opened the letter, which
was no doubt about the apartments, for
I never got any other kind
"This time it was from a country at
torney, telling nae of that death and
clause in the will leaving two thousand
dollars to me, for my trouble in show
ing the lodgings that wouldn't suit. l
tell You was took all of heap. The
whole twenty years seemed to be upon
my brain. The young mantle young
lady-the meeting he couldn't stand
the long loving looks across the street
the visits to the parlor where she had
lived, and sat, and never saw him-the
grave face-the sinking limbs-the
whitening hair-the empty lodgings
the money. I was alone in the house
felt alone in the world and straight
way I throws the letter down on the ia
BILE, and pumps me down in chair,
and burst out q crying and a-sobbing."
Here my landlady stopped, and here
ends tale that wants nothing but in
cident. plot, character, coloripg, be-
ginning, middle and an end, to be
rather more than of the common run.
The reader may write the history of the
young man in volumes, may complicate
the incidents to his hearts content, and
marry them all if so desired, but he
cannot now find my landlady in the
lodgings Lat wouldn't suit"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Postal Statistics.

The senate subcommittee on post
offices and postroads have been at
work on the subject of postal deficien-
cies, and the following figures are given:
The states which report an excess of
receipts over the expenditures are /;
New Hampshire. $41, 1895 Massa-
chusetts, $616, 77S.74; Rhode Island,
81, 1865. 70; Connecticut, $3.50, 811.33 !:
New York, 81, 121, 46S.98; New Jersey,
$47, 573.O5; Pennsylvania, $431. $50. 62
all the rest of the states show that their
expenditures are in excess of their re-
oeipts. Texas and California show the
largest deficiencies, they being as fol-
lows: Texas, S5,M, S54.O1 California,
$5O4, 1876. Next come, on the losing
side, Missouri, Utah, New Mexico, I'LL
nois, Nebraska. Ohio, Kansas and Min
nesota, all of which run over $3.50, 900,
and most of them $500, 900. The dis
trict shows deficiency of 1913 3O9,62.
The total deficiency is 81, 1909, S45. SO !;
total in excess, 81, $50, $3.50. From
this exhibit it will be seen that in the
New England states, where there is
dense population, postal service more
than pays for itself; whereas. in other
states, most of which are sparely set
tied, the post Office department is
minus.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
A Gigantic Water-LiIY,

While the celebrated traveller, M.
Marcoy, was exploring the tributaries
of the Amazon, he found in the Nuna
lake, near the mouth of the Ucagali
river, gigantic species of the Nym-
phaa which he concluded to belong to
the same genus as the Nymph@a Victo-
ria. The surface of the lake was, in
places, covered with the immense leaves
and magnificent flowers of this huge
water-lily. The leaves, of brownish
green tint, lay like broad carpets on the
water, a multitude of plovers, ibises,
spoonbills, Brazilian ostriches, and
other tropical birds, were running over
them without al y danger of being sub
merged. The outer petals of the flow
ers were of milky whiteness, and the
inner ones of a dull red with violet
spots. The weight of single leaf
which the discoverer secured was four
teen and half pounds, and its circum-
ference was twenty-four feet nine inches.
The flower, which measured four feet
two inches in circumference, weighed
hree and a half pounds. Its outer
petals were nine inches in length. A
bud weighed two and a quarter pounds.
The stout stems of the flower and bud
were covered with hairs three or four
inches in length. The leaf stalks were
as large as a ships cable, and resisted
the combined efforts # several men to
detach them from their anchorage at
the bottom of the water. They had to
be severed with a woodman's axe. The
veins of the leaf, which was perfectly
smooth on its upper surface, were an
inch in diameter and bristling with
prickles. This giant plant abounds in
various waters in the region of the
Amazons its interlacing stems often
forming an effectual barrier to the pro-
gress of a canoe.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
THE RATE OF INTEREST,
A World of Financial Philosophy 70
Money Lenders.

| A World of Financial Philosophy 70
| Money Lenders.
The usual rate of interest in the ives
is ten per cent, and It is generally be
lieved that this is the correct measur.
of the value of money. If the measure
of the value of commodity is what il
will bring, this is true but if the true
measure of valne is what the article car
be made to yield, it is not true. Elk
perienced capitalists and business mer
give it as their mature opinion that
there is no kind of property as profit.
able as money loaned at ten per cent
which is tantamount to saying that the
average yield of industries, enterprises
and speculations is less than ten per
cent. on the amount invested, or in
other words, that money is not really
worth ten per cent. There are several
considerations that strengthen this con-
clusion. Money loaned at ten per cent.
will double itself in seven and a half
years ten thousand dollars will grow
into twenty Thousand in that time, and
twenty Thousand will grow into forty
thousand. That the average investments
in business ventures and industries will
not do this is too we'll known to need a
demonstration. While hundred men
who loan money at ten per cent. COM
pounded, will, with prudent manage
ment, double their fortunes in seven
and half years, one hundred men who
borrow money at that rate will fall, in
spite of all the prudence and foresight
they may exercise, to double theirs. So
far from it, fifty of them, if not more,
will break. There is nothing more
clearly established by the experience of
business than the fact that a man who
conducts his enterprises on borrowed
capital-whose only resources, or chief
resources, are the products of bills
drawn on his shipments will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankruptcy,
and farmer who mortgages his farm
for half its value to eecnre money at ten
per cent. in hope that its net yield will
pay the interest and principal. will, in
four cases ont of five, be sold out.
These plain ard we'll known facts APP
pear to prove that the average annual
product of money invested in COM
MERGE. speculation, industry and agri-
culture is not ten per cent, and that,
while it may bring that price, it is
really not worth it. If all classes of
borrowers in the west could be brought
to appreciate this important fact, it
would be worth millions to this region.
There is world of financial philosophy
in it. Nothing is more absurd, and, in
the long run, more disastrous than the
1elusion that man can get rich by
money to speculate on it is
The secret of four-fifths of the cases of
that occur in business and
Of the sheriff's sales that take place in
;he CO ,ntry.-St. Louis Republican.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

A SOMEWHAT simple woman was asked
whether her husband feared God, and
replied 81 guess he does, for he never
goes out on Sundays without his gun
with him,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

BEFORE taking liberties with strange
dog observe his tail and wait for the
wag on.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

But now-now
She could not die-would to God
that she might She could not vanish
into the ground and become as naught.
But of one thing she was quite certain:
she would never be blemish in the
eyes of Tom Paget again.
And the W. rst of it all was that she
loved him still.
No one but God ever knew what the
poor girl suffered as the purple twilight
faded into dusk, and the stars shone out
above the white foamed tumult of the
sea. But her mind was made up at last.
"Mrs. Paget," she said, next morn
ing at the kfast-table-she could
utter the sweet word mother" no
more" will you grant me favor :?
Will you let me go home for awhile ?,
Mrs. Paget hesitated and played with
her crested chocolate spoon.
"I do not think Tom would ap-
prove"
"Tom is not here. And 1 cannot
stay here T. the girl interrupted.
Homesick, eh p said Mrs. Paget,
with little soft laugh that sounded
| like purr.
"Well, if you are determined upon
| it"
I" I am determined -
"You will be sure to write frequent
ly?"
"As frequently, no doubt, as you will
care to hear from me-" said Emily, not
without an accent of bitterness in her
voice.
"It's just as WE'LL" said Mrs. Paget,
afterwards to Diana Hall. eve can
have Sylvia Dare here now for the mas
querade hop at the Continental. And I
was bored to death with that half-civil-
lied girl p
81. don't wonder" said Miss Hall,
with curl of the upper lip, "She
seems perfect Goth T.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-06

u D E'S STEAM LINES
PHILADELPHIA, PROVIDENCE AND
BOSTON.
Steamers leave Alexandria EVERY TIrEs
DAY, and leave Philadelphia EV. -
EK1 SATu RDAY, at II O clock m. SSfSk
from Pier No. North Whsrves.
Thls line connects at Alexandria with the O.,
A. y nj. and W. s .. K. Rs, anG at Philadel.
phla with the new and popular Iron Line" for
Providence and Boston.
Freight forwarded with promptness and care
free of commissions. =
No charge for transfer in Philadelphia, and
no wharfage IN Boston. Through to Boston in
sixty-fve hours Through rates and Though
bills of lsding given. Insurance guaranteed at
less than usual rates.
Agents:
+. A. REED, Alexandria,
WIN. ?. CLYDE & CO., Philadelphia.
GEO. F. HYDE, Georgetown, D. 6.
jan 8-tt
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THE GAZETTE.
MONDAY EVENING. SEPT. 6

A PHILOSOPHICAL DEAD BEAT.-"Yes,
SIR, said gentemanly looking man on Wash
lngtoh st., Saturday, tho panic will have to
come-oo preventing it. You see that man
just going away? Well, he has bill against
me. aud he says if will pay him that he can
pay. some one else, or, in other words, that if
zach man will pay what he owes the others
can pay. and that thus, under the rules of po
lltlcal economy, the thing will travel around 10
circle. But he didn't calculate that the thing
must have bottom or the circle break
7 GU see owe him, but the trouble Is that no.
body owes NE, and that breaks the circle and
the broken circle makes panic | am the
starter. Aud he took peanut and started
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CANDIDA TEN.

ME- ARE authorized 10 announce Mr.. JAS.
:" P. MACHEN rs u candidate for nomina-
ton for the House of Delegates ut the primary
instant sep 3-te
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i LEAANDklA s. FREDERICKSBURG
~ RAILWAY
AND ALEXANDRIA & WASHINGTON
RAILROAD
EA 80 81 III sSessss Fs ssss 80


sSe " Hn Sh sssa--ssss2 ssas-sNSSfs. .SEs'
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILN AY.
After JUNE 2, 1875 trains will ru, 49,
follows
Leave South ward from Alexandra, & Fr,dor
icksburg depot at l2.u7 i. N. Southrrn E,nro,.
daily, eScent MnrI.v w. S"n,hr' EE1pr'Ss
runs thr ougE 20 Rel Il md without rhsngn nnns
meeting at kichmon,. for al roinls south
Leave Northwar,i fir, nj AlrAnnur,s& Frcot,
iclsburg depot 1t 3 SIS - IN. No-tLrrn Ernrls,
daily, except Monday, through North and
west Inc N0rlEern Express run through 10
"sSnoI' vhShse, e9hnScting "lif
Nm ia.i.I ou snv Nor'"erh 'enlr"' hallway for he
I'ol.1 anu w ss'
ALEXANDRIA, AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
After JUNE ID trains will ran, - follows,
daily, except Sunday:
Leave Alcxnndri: for Washington, from St
Asaph street dcpol ut 800 7WJ ) CO y tn 10 ~
and ll.oo Il. n.; and LOO $40, 10, 800, GO.
and 100 y. III.
Trains leaving NJ 600, 500 and lu0ja III. and
500 and 100 p. N. ru. daily; vii yttcrs daily
eh Tbe t nuna1 ta.r a,nx..,u;
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iATERPILLAR FRINGE-We have lust
~ received another lot Of Fringes, in all the
desirable shades; also 6ne assortment of Dress
Buttons at FERGUSON 81 RR(pS
my "a 06 King street
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t&MW Is ass ;sssss E asas,s
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, BEGINNING
APRIL ~, 1879.
TWO TRAINS DAILY, EXCEPT SUN
DAY, BErN ZEN ALEXANDRIA
AND ROUND HILL.

Leave Washington 1t 9 a. m. and 4 p. H., and
alexandra at >. III n. IN. and 10 y. N. Pass
i'eeSourg, gong westward, at ll.2O y. m. And
sop. M; and arrive ut Round Hill At II m
and I p. M. Leave Round Hill ut $40 n. M
and II 81 p. M pass Lccsburg, going eastward
at = y. III. and 10 p. m; and arrive at Alcxun-
dTia at 5. Is a. m. and Is y. m ; and at Wash
ington at $50 II. m. and 80 y. m.
Gss- Passengers from Washington will take
the Washington and Ohio cars ut the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad station at 3 u. IN. and !,
M, and 20 through TO Round Hill without
change of cars.
The y. 10 ~ m. train from Alexandria and 1880
p m trsin from Round Hill connects vt Round
HILL with harris Daily Line ct Coaches
Tor onlckersvllle, Rcrryvlllo ana Winchester;
also with keamer Line of Coaches, which enve
Leesburg daily for Aide and Mlddcburg.
Both trains, westward, make cI, Sc conacction,
at Vienna. with oisson's Line of Stages for FAR
fax Court House
Communication tickets, 3 cts. per mile
Annual tickets, $50.
il. II. HAVENER,
ap W-tf General Ticket Agent,
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The Montpelier Female Humane Association
chartered by tho Legislature of Virginia and
the Circuit Court of Grange county, proposes
by series Of Grand Gift Concerts, to establish
and endow a Home for the Old, lnGrm aid
the former residence OF President as Madison
The Association is under the control of eight
trustees, six OF whom are elected bi ennially by
the stockholders and two appointed BY the Gov
ernor of Virginia
References by permission His Excellency,
Excellency, Gilbert G. Walker, Gov. OF Va;
Hon. Robert Z. Withers Lieutenant Governor
Of Virginia and U. s. Senator elect Hon Eobt
w. Hughes Judge Eastern District of Virginia;
Senators and Members of Congress from Virginia
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MINED TR AIN.

co Il. M; arrive at Danvil.e II. Is u. m. Leave
DanVllle z % y. MI arrive at Lynch burg So
2. m. This traiil makes good connection y;
Danvllle with Richmond and Danvile trains
North ant South; and st Lynchbnrg, with reg.
ular Express Train on this line, in both drcc.
lions.
WARRENTON BRANCH.
Connection between Warrenton and Mali
Line to and from North and South bound Mail
and South bound Express Trains.
MANASSAS DIVISION.
Passenger Train daily, except Sunday, be.
tween otrsshurg and Was ingtou. Leave S;r,s.
burg junction ). So g. M, arrive at AlcaaD,-s
9.33 q. M, and at Washington $50 a. M. Leave
Washington 400 D. m, Alexandris 4 As y :,
arrive a, Strasburg Junction 8 10 o. m Cod
connection At Manassas junction with Main
Line Mail Train, both South and North bound
At Washington, full connection with North
and West; Il. Danville, to and from South AND
Southwest at Lynchburg, twice daily to Mem.
phls, Atlanta lew Orleans, Arkansas and Tex
~, and, at Gordonsvlle ard Charlottesville
with double daily trims on Ches. y Ohio Il. H.
East and v est
Eastward TO Richmond Petersburg ard South
and Westward to Staultrn WHITE SULPHUR
Huntington, Cine nnat and the Cir At West
ULLM AN SLEEPt KS ru2l Mrough uirh.
ont change 6etreen Bdttimor, a1.d Netr orleans
via l.yncntufg < ST. Trnncs>,e aid Atlanta
Line, and daily, w!lEou. cEa.gr, btwccn Bai,j-
more and y hite Sulpur Springs, leaving Bait
more nj 5 20 =. III.
Excursion tickets to al the Summer Resort.
on sale. Lowest rates ~ all poi;.L<
&. }. FOHEACRt, Gen. Manager,
j. NJ RRD1I.I' \ 4 -
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Governors Office, Richmond, July 3, IA
1t affords me pleasure to say that | am well
acquainted with large majority Of the officers
Of the Montpelier Female Humane Association
who reside in the vicinity of my home and L
attest their intelligence and their worth and high
reputation as gentlemen, rs well rs the public
confidence, influence and substantial means lib.
orally represented among them.
JAnEs L. kEAPER, Gov. of Virginia.
Alexandrla, Va, July 9Th, 1874
My personal acquaintance with majority of
the gentlemen controlling the Montpelier Fe-
male Humane Association and the reputation of
sll Of them enables me to commend them as fully
entitled TO the confidence Of the public. No act
or representation inconsistent with honor and
integrity need be unprecedented in the conduct or
representations Of thass gentlemen.
K. W. HUGHES,
U. $ Sndge East Dist. of Va.
For full particulars. testimonials, Sc, send
for circular.
Rem:ttsnccs for tickets may be made by ex-
press prepaid, postofice money order on Alex.
andria, Va. or ny registered letter, addressed
Hon. JAMES BARBOUR,
President Nj. +. H. A., Alexandria, Va.
&s- Reliable Agents wanted every whore
nov 2-td
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August l7th 1875
DEAR SIR: We, your friends and neghbors
~ who have known you Intimately in all the
relations Of life. desire to present you to the
voters OF Fauquier county a. candidate for the
next House OF Delegates.
We can fully endorse you as an intelligent
upright and pains-taking man of business, with
Qualifications which eminenty At you 70, USE
tulness in that body, and in whom we can entire
ly confde. We respectfully urge the use o.
your name.
TO d. Barnes Kerrick, esq.,. Markham station
j. A. Marshall, John T. Ashby,
James L. Strother Josiss Ferguson,
James NJ Marshall, K. Jacoueiu Amber.
Il. 81. Kidwell, John @ Str other,
James 4. Green, II. Widner.
George Slrother,s Claude Bailey, MD.
Alfred Gable, David Carper,
w. A. Martin, j. Marshall,
Robt M. Striblng, Jas. r. Kerchival.
VIM. G. Marshall, a. g. Green,
w. A. Hoffman, lessee c. Boen,
John Pearson, Thos. NJ Amber,
A. w. Phillips, VIM. II. Lake,
John White, Robt. B. Dawson,