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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
General Joe Johnston.

General Joseph E. Johnston is here.
He came the other day, dressed in black,
with a straw hat and black band,
looking the typical old-timed southern
gentleman. He carries the finest head
at the springs. As DR.. johnson said of
Burke: eff you should meet him, a
stranger, under a bridge during a
shower, you would know that you were
in the presence of distinguished
man." He is about the medium height,
straight as an Indian, with o noble
head upon shapely shoulders, keen,
dark eyes, regular features, closely
clipped gray whiskers, thin, gray hair,
and as quick in his motions as a squir-
rel. No man upon the grounds, of his
age, or any other age, I was about to
say, is SO active. He is now probably
near sixty five certainly not younger,
for he was in the Black Hawk war with
Lincoln forty-three years ago. He
came from plain farmer stock, was born
near the Tennessee line, in Virginia, and
has several brothers, all of some prom
inence, but none that will rank in history
with Joseph E. "When the history of
the war comes to be written by an in
partial hand years hence" said Senator
Caperton to me, the other day, "no
southern leader will stand in front of
Joseph E. Johnston" The general
now lives in Savannah, and is, believe,
connected with some railroad. He
spends his summers here rugularly, as
much for pleasure rs for health per-
haps, for in all she long years of his
life he has never known a days sick
ness.-JH White Sulphur Springs (Va.)
Letter.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Morality of the Stage.

The Rev. r. B. Drummond writes in
the Victoria Magazine: There is no
institution which is SO entirely under
the public eye, SO wholly dependent on
public approval, as the theatre, and if
it is not all that it ought to be it is very
largely the public themselves that are
to blame. The stage, while no doubt it
reacts powerfully on the audience,
must still take its tone very largely
from the manners of the time, must
adapt itself to the feelings and expecta-
tions of the spectators. Instead, then,
of denouncing the theatre would it not
be far wiser in those who assume to
be the guardians of public virtue to
recognize it as great moral influence,
and to take care that, as far as in them
lies, its influence shall be good Let
them, by their occasional presence, en-
deavor to give right tone to the per
formances, and SO make the theatre not
merely place of innocent amusement,
but school of virture, noble means
of education and culture. And this, in
truth, is what the theatre ought to be.
I am by no means satisfied to regard it
as a mere place of amusement, however
far from wishing to discourage any kind
of innocent relaxation. But the theatre,
though it may be this, should also be
much more. It ought to be a moral
and educational influence co operating
with the church in the instruction and
education of the people, exhibiting be-
fore their eyes the noblest examples Of
virtue teaching them that in the long
run virtue will receive it's re ward, and
vice be overtaken by its fitting punish
ment that justice rules beneath the
seeming inequalities of life, and retri-
butive Providence presides over the
affairs of men.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07

CANNED GOODS PAoKERs.-TheA Amer
lean Grocer notices new organization
Eve trust it will not run into an often
sive monopoly. Last week, in Phila-
delphia there was summing up of the
work of the convention of canned goods
packers. Over forty packing firms
were represented, with constant and
undiminished attendance of over sew
enty gentlemen during the two days of
the meeting.
A national association of canned
goods packers was formed, which en-
rolls the names of over twenty of the
Leading houses in the business. 1t has
abolished the fallacious designation for
cans, of pound, pounds, etc., and
substituted the simple Nos. 1, 2, 81. 8.
It has designated the contents of Nos.
l and 2 for oysters, and referred the
consideration of the contents of other
articles to the executive committee, but
every can of every size and every class
of goods, whether first or second quail
ity, must be as full as it is practicable
to make them, and no so-called light or
slack weight goods are to be counte-
nanced. It has adopted an associated
trade mark, to be used by members of
the association only. The reform is to
date from January next.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
SHOW She Loves the Military 70

The following fattering epistle was
received by Colonel Loney, of the Fifth
Maryland regiment, recently, from q
young lady of Boston, whose name is
not made public. It was read at the
last meeting of the corps in the armory
in Baltimore:
Officers and Men of the Fifth Mary
land:
Will you now permit northern girl,
and an extremely patriotic one, to ex-
press a very small part of the admira-
ton she feels for your gallant regiment.
Your perfect bearing and appearance
as soldiers could only be excelied by
your magnanimity and the generosity
which you have shown as gentlemen,
making yourselves like that most perfect
gentleman and soldier, "First in war,
first in peace"
Be assured that when you return to
the south you will leave here a warm
feeling of admiration and respect for
men who could so chivalrously, grandly
forget the past and meet us more than
halfway i'm cordial fellowship.
fear you will think me highly I'M
ladylike to write you, but my enthusi-
asm is real and as this is the only way
to tell you SO, beg to be excused for
availing myself of it.
am no strong minded advocate of
woman's rights, and my nearest ap-
proach to it is at present, when I think
I would like to belong to the Fifth Mary
land regiment.
Respectfully, (Signed) - -.
The reading of the above letter was
Immediately followed by the election of
the Boston lady as an honorary member
of the company.
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Mistaken Kindness,

A correspondent of the st. Louis
Republican writes One day I sat in
the New York express, and saw an
elderly lady come aboard. Carefully,
in the dim religious atmosphere, she
put up an umbrella in the rack and de-
posted paper bundle and some hand
bags and baskets on the seat before
her. Then, as she settled herself, the
darkness was increased by the bulk of
a man in the doorway, who asked if
Mrs. Stebbins was in that car. The
elderly woman rose-"That's my name. /"
She got telegram from the man, man
aged to read it, and shrieked out s.Iet
me get of !" and get off she did. Two
or three oficious persons rushed down
the platform to get her trunk out of the
baggage-car, and gentleman raised the
window and transferred basket and
bags to the porter outside. We were
just in motion, gaining the mouth of
the cavernous depot. when in the re
turning light spied the old lady's
umbrella and one more small bag. The
window was still open, and, with wild
desire to benefit my sex and do q benevo-
lent act, fired the umbrella and shot
the bag out en- to the recediug platform,
and fell back with pleasing sense OF
performed duty. And them large.
aggressive looking man opened the door
and began poking in and under. the
empty seat. The gentleman opposite
asked pleasantly if he'd lost anything
My hair stced-up as he replied, FsWhy,
left my satchel and umbrella in this
seat" Oh, how studied the landscape
outside after one imploring glance at
the man across the way
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Fixed Not to be Fooled With.

The Oregon Statesman says: A GER
tain Oregon professor was a very fatherlv
sort of a man, particularly toward his
young lady pupils. Whenever young
lady would ask question, he would place
his hand quietly on her head and make
considerable more fuss than was neces-
sary OF course the girls got tired of this,
and conspired to break him OF his faith
erly proclivities. One of them hit upon
a plan. She fixed up q nice little pin
cushion, and the pins inserted SO that
they would stand on their head, point
upward, and then adjusted the internal
machine on top of her head, covering it
with Just enough of her hair to hide it
from view. This done. she left her seat
during the session, walked demurely up
to the professors desk, stood moment
in his august presence, and then, in
meek and plaintive tone of voice, she
asked him for the information as to
whether Washington crossed the Della
ware on the ice or on horseback when
he left Trenton. He raised his hand
over her head and soothingly said.
.sVhy. my dear little child We'll
have to end this sentence there, for the
balance of the exclamation was sort OF
half howl, half whoop which we can
neither write nor print. just as he
said "child," he lowered his hand
caressipgly but forcibly upon the crown
of the girls head, and the whole surface
of his extended palm felt the tickling
and exhilaratiDg sensation OF couple
of dozen of pin points.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Valuable Kinks in Cookery.

In this country fat meat, oftentimes
strong and rancid, is considered the
base of almost every description of
cookery. Eggs, chickens and b. efsteak
are made horribly indigestible by it,
plugs of the gross stuff dropped into
hash, greens, cabbage, beans, peas,
turnips and even asparagus, are STEPPED
in bacon grease, tasting more of the
hog than the delicious vegetables they
represent and, lastly, the simon pure
article itself is converted into salt sole
leather by the frying process, and then
consumed.
It may not be too much to say that
this Wholesale use of fat bacon is one of
the prolific causes of that almost uni
versal American complaint dyspepsia.
1t requires the stomach of an ostrich to
digest all this grease.
And the saddest part of the matter is,
that the people don't know any better.
This Is the season now when tender,
crisp snap beans are appearing upon
our tables. Let the reader change the
old way of cooking them for once, and
try the following method: Gather the
beans in the early morn and throw them
into a vessel of cold water Immediately.
String carefully, rejecting the pods that
are tough, and, as they are thus pre-
pared, covered with cold water again.
This abstracts the bitter taste and adds
greatly to the crispness of the vege-
table. When the dinner hour APP
proaches, boil rapidly, with little salt,
until the vegetable is perfectly soft and
tender, and then, after draining off the
water, servo hot, with the addition of a
little butter.
They will eat like marrow, and you
get the benefit of the full flavor of the
vegetable. Tnrnips, cabbage, squashes,
peas, bcets, and indeed almost every
other vegetable are also fac more whole
some and delicate when cooked by them
selves, and afterwards seasoned with
pepper, butter and other condiments
to the taste.
The preparation of Irish potatoes for
the table likewise, though exceedingly
is properly understood by but
few cooks. They usually appear hard
and sodden, and unfit to be eaten. To
have them daky and mealy, wash clean
without breaking the skin, and about
thirty minutes before the dinner hour,
drop the tubers into water boiling as rap.
idly as possible. and keep the heat until
tried with q fork they seem perfectly
done. Then draw off every drop of the |
water and cover over closely for n few |
before serving, and they will be |
20 mealy as almost to require handling |
with spoon. Eaten piping hot in this |
condition, no article of food il more
yholesome or delicious.
1t is unfortunate that the proper
of theit food is go much
neglected BY the masses, Both pyssu
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Measles Ptsiilenee In the Fiji Islands.

The London Spectator gives The fol-
lowing account of the fearful depopula-
ton of the Fiji Islands by disease since
their recent acquisition by Great Britain:
"A British ship, it appears, landed
there some returned emigrants i'll with
The measles, and these men scattered to
their homes. The disease being con.
sidered trivial by Europeans, no precau-
tons were taken, but, as usual when an
inferior race catches an infectious dis
ease from a superior one, it's virulence
was intensified, it speedily bee me a
plague, and the natives, naturally be-
lieving that it had been designedly in
troduced to kill them off, refused medi-
cine, and rushed into the sea to allevi-
ate the torment of the rash. The bath
ing produced acute dysentery, and it is
believed that most of the chiefs and
third OF the population-Eay $4,000 per-
sons-have died. There is no certainty
either that the worst is past, or that the
pestilenoe may not be followed by
native outbreak, against which the
colonial Office has taken precautions.
The native constabulary, who are under
have been compelled to sub
NIT to proper treatment, and none of
them have died but though doctors
and medicine have been ordered from
Sydney, 20 power exists to compel the
natives TO uee either.i'
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
ELSIE AND TIE LAN

One of Englsnds proudest daughters
cling in 4 castIe tall,
Mtue many fruitful acres,
Mine . great Ancestral hall.
Liyeried servants tbropg sround me,
Come and go at my command.
And their grudgipg 50 rice render
To the lady OF the land
But Elsie love's her mistressa simple little maid
And often Esies loving lips upon my hand laid.
Elsie trings my robes of velvet,
Clasping them with tender care,
And her fingers softly LnRer,
Towing with my glitteripg hair.
Elsie knows that I am lonely,
And the service Of her hand
Offers with gentle pity
To the lady Of the land.
For Else knows the stately brow she binds the gems
Unlike her own. will never wear the dadem of love-
My strong and sturdy gardener
Lives Elsie his life,
And when her mistress leaves the hall
Will make tie child his wife;
And through my fields and meadows
They'll wander hand in hand,
And hers will Re the brightest home
OF al her lady's land.
For while the stately hall beyond owns me as mis-
husband who Is lover too takes Elsie in his
When Psrii.ment shall close her doors
To keep the Esster-tide,
st. Georges nave shall tbrong with guests
Who wait to greet . bride.
A peer will claim the hand,
A coronet will deck the brow,
OF the lady of the land.
When Elsie speaks her tender vow to him she loves
My married hand will lie in that OF EngIand's
proudest peer.
No corouet gids Else's brow
Like that that CLEANS mine;
No ermine drapes her little form,
Dr. gold or jewels shine.
lips speak loving words to me,
0r stoop t. kiss my hand:
he love II Estes mine the place
0f q lady in the land.
ntfery that fame commands viii street, the
gtafesmans wife,
less life.
,nie day the pageant viii be OR,
And At the close Of life,
fhen Death shall claim With STERN command,
Both peers and PEASANTS wife,
lsie may wear q crown of gold
Shaped by an angel hand,
nd love may warm the lonely heat
OF the lady Of the land.
10 ief. ~ Nsznn e1ftn
Seen given:
n balance will DO struck beyond the stars in
heaven.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Getting Ont of Bed.

DIR. Hall does not approve OF the old
doctrine Which was formerly instilled
into the minds of chiidren-that they
should spring out of bed the instant
they awake in the morning. He says :
Up to eighteen years old every child
should bo allowed to rest i'll bed, after
the sleep ia over, until they feel as if
they would rather get up than not. 1t
is o very great mistake for persons, OLD
or youug-esp cially children or seden-
tary persons-to bounce out of bed at
the moment they wake up; all the in
stincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick
against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes
spent in gradually waking up, after tho
eyes are opened, and in turning over
and stretching tho limbs, do az much
good As sound sleep, because the, oper-
ations set the blood in motion ~ de-
grees, tending to equaIiso tho erred ia
ton for during sleep the blood tennis
TO stagnation, tho heart beats feebN
and slowly, and to ehock the system by
up IN On instant ard sending
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Social Life of Ants.

Mr.. Auguste Forel, a gentleman who
spends his life in studying ants and
their habits, and who tells some as
founding tales about them. Among
other things NJ. Forel says:
"They render each other mutual SER
vices when an ant has got besmeared
with mud. its companions set about
cleaning it most methodically. M.
Forel had, by way of experiment, dirt
led and deiormed some of the silky
cocoons that contain the ants nymphn !;
on the following day he found them all
perfectly clean dressed, and brought in
shape again. What has BEEN said by
Huber as to the precision with which an
expeditionary column of Amezones pro-
ceeds on its march, is only partially
true, for when the insects are laden with
heavy cocoons they can not mind any
order, but go on as they can. Under
such circumstances many lose their way,
but when they get into the right track
again they evince the greatest self con-
sequeutly, are endowed with memory.
scribed, but even here NJ. Forel has
something new to say. Some species
are tinid and cowardly, and always GEEK
safety in flight others are exceedingly
brave, and eeem to enjoy fight above
all things. But then there are others
whose courage requires exciting; they
hesitate at first, but gradually become
holder, and ultimately display foolhardi.
ness--in naroxysm of rage they will
let themselves be uselessly killed.
When an ant thus loses its self COM
mand. its companions will try to keep it
back by its feet until it has returned to
its eenses. The architecture of the nests
has received much attention from the
author, and he shows that tho same
species will build in different ways.
The locality, the season, the extent of
the population-aIl these circumstances
require special arrangements. The ants
will quarrel among each other about
constructions that are not equally con-
venient to all. When ants find a habi
tation unoccupied, or have driven the
inmates from it, they will retain the old
arrangements, making only slight i'm
provements in them.
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BOTH KILLED.

Ho,c T,co Southern Gentlemen Vo,ced Foy and
Kept II.
The Statesman, of Austin, Texas,
says: From Serbin comes the news of
the finale of fearful tragedy, and we
are able to gather the following details
in regard to it. Drs. Mallette and Man
ming were both practicing physicians in
the same neighborhood, and had been
living their for several years. Some
little professional jealousies sprang up
between them, and Mallette, in time,
began to talk about tie other doctor
in what was regarded as an unjustifia-
bic manner. He did not, as it is said,
confine his remarks about Manning in q
professional capacity alone. but had
placed him in wrong social light be-
fore others, and had also indulged in
reflections upon the character of a near
female relative of Manning. Manning
finally called upon Mallette to give an
explanation of his course, which resulted
in an agreement between them to fight.
They went to store, selected each of
them butcher knife, and then seeking
an open place commenced a work of
carnage. The knives, in their virgin
purity, did their work well, but before
either were MORALLY wounded they were
separated, Mallette weltering in his
gore, and Manning a wreck of his former
self. Though separated, and death,
in Manning's case, appearing imminent,
a fearful vengeance was mutually vowed
upon the spot and faithfully kept, as
the sequel shows. The combatants
slowly recovered from their wounds.
Manning's neck had been almost severed
from his body, and in his recovery he be.
came fearfully deformed, his head being
drawn by the severing OF the muscles
entirely ont of its proper position. He
went to the town of Bolton, in Bell
county, while convalescing, and remained
there for few months. Time rolled on,
and vengeance demanded that the vow
made on the day of the fight be fulfilled.
The forces of attraction that were Ito
bring these two men again together in
mortal combat were too great to with
stand, and Manning found himself, few
days ago, in the little town of Serbin.
Vengeance had claimed it's reward; and
no sooner had Manning become quietly
domiciled at his own home, than TIE
ferce Mallette loaded his gun with
de IDLY missiles, went in search of Man
ming, and followed him to his own door,
where he made On attempt to kill him,
which resulted in the immediate death
of Mallette. Manning had not for
gotten the mutual VOWS of vengeance,
and when Mallette made his appearance,
he too was fully prepared. Mallette
fell pierced through the heart with a
bullet, and fierce and bloody vow was
fulfilled,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
Lost Arts.

In mans haste to make discoveries.
to conceive novel inventions, and to
learn new things, he is liable to lose in
his excursions into the realms of the
unknown the knowledge of some of the
arts which he has been at great pains to
acquire. Consequently it nettles us to
hear that the ancients knew all about
malleable glass, and that some of their
artisans were able to execute various
works in q style that still excites our
envy and admiration. OF late, however,
there has been, and notably in Venice,
a revival Of some of the arts given up
as irretrievably lost. The ancient bro.
cade manufacture has been revived by
the Frateli Agnnio. The production Of
this fabric, which existed before that
OF Lyons, and was used by the Doges
for gifts to other potentates, employed
at one time fourteen thousand hands.
Some of the stuffs we're of extraordinary
qrality and great beauty, but the secret
died with the inventors. In recent
times some of the European nobility
have succeeded in obtaining the manu-
facture of very beautiful brocaded tapes
try, at cost of twenty dollars per yard.
The lace work for which the small island
of Burano, near Venice, was once
famous, IS also being revived. Under
the auspices of the Princess Giovanelli,
tie Countess Marcello, an aged woman
who remembers and understands the
art, has been engaged to give instruc-
ton in it. The cost of this lace is very
great, the production of a single yard
occupying woman constantly for nearly
six months. There is lively demand
for the first specimens. All this may be
indirectly attributed to the rage in
Europe for articles bearing the marks of
antiquity. At first dealers get to coun-
terfeiting, and afterwards competition
among themselves suggests the redis.
covery of the real thing. History CON
stantIy repeats itself, and if the exist
ence of this planet is prolonged through
a million years, the people of that age
will probably have forgotten many
things we now know, and will be scout
ing the idea of steam power and electric
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