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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-01-12
PERSONAL.
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NOAH WALKER K CO,
Tie Celebrated Glothiers Of Baltimore
Announce the Introduction OF P!aD OF ordering
CLOTHING AND UNDERWEAR BY
LETTER.
To which ,hry call sascial attention Thcv viii!
send nn application their ituprs.r, and accurate
RULES F0E SELF MEASUREMENT,
ans iniE line "f samples tom their stock
of C!o:hs, C"+aineres. CoNiimss, ShiItiugs &c.,
thn" enabling parties in any part of the country to
ORDER !he;r Cttn!ug aud shirts dirsc. from them,
With the certainty OF resolving garments OF
Tie li"y Lotcst Style
ind Most Perfect Fit
at'N'nSblc. Goods ordered eill be sent Ivy Express
t" Eoy part Of t!!e country. As is we'll known
tro"c f.nuI tht Southern Sta they have for Forty
tire: IFars rLcc!ied in all departments OF ,beir
huSiaess wlic'' is suhs TIA ,is gUataIIre iLs
cAs'Ect:T Of ;!c G"ccs they viii send olt A large
and ~r!l assorted e.uck UE
KEADN-MADE CLOTHING
ai~sys on trud. together With full lneof
FURNISHING GOODS
including all the la:~et t.ovcItiss in dcsign, and
At POPjL4N iRIGES
Wter G""ds per F:=prcss c. o D. t:.cre
wilt hc M c's;i, Ct'1': chs of gao md
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h'P""t''r'st which ways kept up highest
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-01-12

GFFICE Ia "LEE HALL" BuILBise.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-01-12
Spirit Of yefta.solr.

BY S. S. DALGARN, Trustee.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
Exercise for Breeding Ewes.

An Ohio fock-master of much expe-
rience, writing on this subject, say S
s'There is nothing so much neglected
by the shepherd III the management of
a flock of sheep as that of giving the
breeding ewes proper amount of ex-
ercise. A great many focks are put
into small yard or shed and are kept
there during the whole period of COSTA
ton, without even going outside of the
yard. 1t not only takes good feed. but
good keeping and proper amount of
exercise to give an animal strength.
Sheep that are intended for the sham
bles will more readily take on fat if
they are not allowed much exercise,
but where strength is required ex-
ercise is necessary. If strong
healthy lambs are expected, give
the eve good feed and moderate
exercise in the open air, for if they are
closely confined and fed high the lambs
will be weak and very hard to raise. -
Not many southern farmers keep their
sheep too long in yards or pens, yet it
is sometimes done. Not providing
clean pastures free from all burrs, which
SO often cover and greatly iniure the
the fleece, is the most common error in
southern sheep husbandry. Clean nice
wool is what brings the most money,
and why not desire it and get it? Fat
lambs are selling at seven cents or more
a pound. Raise sweet grass and other
heritage for this kind of stock which
comes into market SO early. costs little
labor, and may furnish crop of wool
that will not spoil as dairy products
often do, and will bear distant lranspor-
tation even better than cotton. In plain
truth, wool grows SO naturally, so easily,
so profitably, on a well managed south
ern farm, that we want to see it become
a great staple.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
Chinese MOney-BrOkers.

A San Francisco paper says that the
manufacture by Chinese in that city of
DO Dts, shoes, slippers, cloths of various
descriptions, jewelry, and the almost
unlimited number of other business en-
terprises in which they are regularly
engaged, is being daily augmented.
The latest branch of business which
they have taken hold of vigorously is
that of money brokers. A year or two
since one or two Chinese capitalists,
seeing a golden opportunity in this di-
rection, formed copartnership and
opened place of business in a retired
edifice off Dupont street, buying and
selling gold and silver coin. They did
a thriving business, and six months ago
one of the members of the firm departed
for his home in the Orient, having
amassed a fortune sufficient to satisfy
his wants during the remainder of his
days. The success attending his efforts
was not long in spreading, and has
since caused the establishment of five
or six other institutions of the same
character. The parties engaged in the
business are Cinnamon OF means, and
have from S., 900 to 500, 900 each. They
do large business in buying and SELL.
ing the new American trade dollar,
which is almost entirely superseding
the Mexican coin of the same demon
ination, and also exchange much paper
currency.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
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For all diseases of the Liver, Stomach and spleen.
AS a remedy in Malarious Fevers, Bowel Com
plants. Dyspepsia Mental Depression. Restless
ness. Jaundice, Nausea. Sick Heaoache, ColcS
1T HAS NO EQUAL,
It contains four m =dical elements. never united
in the same happy proportion In any other prepa-
ration. viz emile Gathartic, wonderful fonic,
receive IF all impurities of the body. such signal
has attended It's that II is now regard
ed as the Great UnfaiIing specific.
TESTIMONIAL
- have never seen or tried SUE h a $, mple ehica-
cious, satisfactory and pleasant remedy In my
life."-H. Hdiler, st. Louis, Mo. .
HON. ALEX. II. rTNPH ENs.-"I occasionally
use, when my condition requires II DR.. simmons
Liver r. gulator, with good effect. Hon. Ater.
Gov. OF Ala" Your Regulator has been in
use in my family for me time. and am per-
suaded IL is valuable addition 10 the medical
ence. ''-GoU. J. Gu Shorter. Ala.
=" have used the Regulator in my family for
the past seventeen years can safely recommend
IL to the world tine best medicine have ever
used for tina. class OF diseases IL purports TO cuIe
President CI.Y BANK -"Simmons' Liver
Regulator has proved a good and eilicHcious medi-
cine."-C.A N,ttinq III
DR.. sim mons Liver NJ edIcne Tor more than TWEEN
ty years, and know IL to he the rest Liver hegn-
iatOr offered to the public IN. r. Lyon and II, L.
Lyon. Bellefontaine. Ga.
was cured by simmons Liver Regulator, af-
ter having suffered several years with Chills and
Fever .'-R. =. Anderson-
TUE CLEHeY.-. MY wife and self have used the
Regulator for years and testify to Its treat vir-
tues."-Rey. j. r. fielder, Perry, Ga. - -
LADIES INDORsEAENT ~ have given your
medicine a thorough trial, and in no case has lt
tailed to give full satisfacuon."-Eften Aadchom,
hattahOorhee. Fla
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

1 stopped, with the fatal husky feel
ing in my throat. Cecilia was blushing
divinely l drew my chair close to
hers, with the sensation of man who
has just pulled the string of cold
shower bath.
"Who is the lady ?" faltered Cecilia,
as if she did not know perfectly we'll
already.
"Shall I show you her picture, Ce-
ella ?"
Miss Vernon inclined her head almost
to the level of my shoulder, to look at
the little carte dc Uisite l drew from my
pocket. 1 skillfully stole my arm
around her waist.
"See, dearest -
Bat, to my horror and dismay, she
snatched her band from my clasp, sprang
up, and started away, like some fair,
avenRing goddess
How dare you insult me thus, Mr..
Mar. ham?'
Cecilia how-whati-"
Don't presume to call me Cecilia,
sir!'' said the Indignant girl, bursting
| into tears, and swe coping from the room
/ sat ike one pslsied. What had l
| done? Why was the gracious mood or
my enchantress thus suddenly trans
formt to gall and bitterness? Surely
she would presently return and apologize
for her caplicious exit But she did not
return; and after waiting long IN vain,
L 81 eaked out of side door, and crept
| dejectedly home, my heart burning with
wonder and resentment. l had no mind
to meet the assembled family group, so
| [ admitted myself with my latch-key,
and stole noiselessly up stairs, where my
lamp still burned-Jhe lamp L had
| Hobted with such high aud bounding
hopes.
/ threw off my coat viciously as did
! so the forgotten carte de visite
dropped from my pocket. l stopped to
pick it up. 1t was the portrait of Bes-
sic Armitagei And there on the mantei.
where in my needless haste had left it,
was the divine countepance OF my Quee II
| Ceciliai I had shown her the wrong
photograph
All was clear now! Her Indignation
and resentment-the whole tangled
web of mystery was unraveled now.
| I caught up my hat to rush back to her,
but at that Rioment the clock struck
elevenl 1t was too late now. All apol-
oey and explanation must be deferred
until the morrow And with a discon-
tented spirit sought my couch.
! Early the next morning 1 walked over
] 10 the OlG 6fnOu CAPO'
ditious as L WAS, Trefoil had been there
before me. I met him coming whis-
thing down the walk, as self-possesse ed
| as ever.
GOOD morning. said, briefly, en-
decvoring to pass him !; but he detained
me.
"Congratnlate me, my dear fellow !;
1 am the happiest man in the world !!
Cecilia Vernon has just promised to be
my wife !"
1 stared blankly at him, and with one
or two unipt-liigible murmurs, turned
short round and walked home again.
My rival had improved the propitious
opportunity, and caught Cecilia's heart
| in the rebound.
Well, go goes the world, and I am a
bachelor vet. There is but one Cecilia,
and she, alas ! is married to Fitzhugh
| Traf0i1
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
The Telegraph in African Deserts.

A correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Berba. in tropical Africa,
says: 1t was singular to meet with the
telegraph in the heart of the desert be-
tw en- Aryab and Berba; not the tele-
graph put up in working order, as we
see it in Europe, but all the appurte.
nances of that instrument of civilization
carried on the backs of hundreds of
csmels, which, laden with coils of wire
and hollow iron posts, trod their toll
some path through the burning sand.
Every now and then we met one of these
poor beasts which, overweighed and
broken down by the weight of his load,
had fallen on the ground and been
abandoned a victim to the vultures.
All this telegraphic gear was marked
Siemens Brothers, London" and was
en- route to Khartoum, from which town
it will be forwarded on to span the
desert between Kordofan and Darfour
A good many lives will probably be
sacrificed before the line can be con-
sidered open, as the Arabs, who eagerly
steal every piece of iron they can meet
with for their spear points. have to be
very severely punished before they
leave off cutting down the poles. How
ever, this difficulty once got over, the
telegraph will be as easily worked as
the one between Khartoum and Cairo,
which, when it was first laid down, was
being interrupted.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
CON L..
BV ELEANOR c. poSNELLY.

She sighed in wintery days:
Alas that spring were here,
To wake the bloom in orchard ways,
And lilies iu the mere;
10 bless the icy streams, ami wandering breeze,
And hang new rCbCs upon the hag gard trees!'
The spring is crowned once more
With VIC cts and mist;
1t wanders in At open door
She does not list
1t goes and stands beside her grassy bed.
And blessss her and does not deem her dead
The trees. fair and strong,
Tap on the window pane.
And while the warm light breaks among
Their ieaves-tasy sing again
Of silver ms re, and empty, drifting boat
And torch ike lilies in the shade atioat
And from the rustic bridge
Where children are at play,
The blossoms glimner up the ridge,
WI ere winter went away;
Tracking is footsteps through a fragrant aisle,
Daisy buds, and Wild white camouilc.
Alas those snowy bells
May fuller grow and fair
And murmurs like the voice of shells,
Drift thro' the dreamy air:
But one young hand must miss the howery ST. re.
And one young ste shall press the bridge no incr'
The woods may flush with bloom,
The winds brt the from the seq,
But bloom or breath shall never con
darling unto thee,
Until the Judgment angel, bending saith.
" The morn - here; awake. child, from deaf
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
THE ICELAND VOLCANO
The Recent eruption very Seriou
Anafr-A Terrible shower of Ashes.

The Recent eruption Very Serious
Anair-A Terrible shower of Ashes.
Mr.. Eirikr Magnusson writes to the
London Times
The accounts just received by the last
mail from Iceland assume a far more
serious aspect than the first news would
have led one to anticipate. A resident
in Bardardal, valley short distance
west of the locality of the eruption.
writes What fearful times We have
had of it here in the north this winter !!
First we were visited by earthquakes,
which, in some places, terminated all
but fatally, and then came the eruption,
with it's concomitant dust q loom and
fall of ashes. The Dyngiufjoh are iu-
cessantly vomiting fire; every day we
watch the smoke column rising to an
apparently unmeasured height in the
air. The eruption is spreading steadily
over the wilderness, and it may be said
that the whole region of the Myratu
mountains is one blazing fire."
1t appears that westerly winds have
been chiefly prevalent and have borne
the ashes over the East Firths, covering
a very large area. On March 20 the
tall of the ashes was SO excessive that it
covered the eastern country sides,
Jokuldal, especially, with a coat six
inches at its thickest and all that day,
although it was bright and sunny, the
people spent in absolute pit h darkness.
Fountains and rivulets we're damned by
the ashes, and every mountain stream,
always of a crystalline purity in eastern
Iceland. where there are neither glaciers
nor moraine," ran dark and muddy
between banks covered with drifts OF
ashes. The farmers have fled out OF
the ash-covered country sides with cat
tie in quest of pastures not yet de-
stroyed by the soiri@, but with what
chanceof saving their live stock does not
appear. To all appearance, the present
| eruption seems likely to become a ca
lamitous event to Iceland.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
Conversion of Bones into Fertilizers

The Russians have credit for being
with unground bones in a way to render
the bones soluble aud powerful fertil-
ilzers, combined with the alkalies in the
ashes. Where one has a considerable
quantity of both long trench is dug
in the ground &c me three feet deep, and
filed with layer of ashes at the bot
tom, then one of bones, say six inches
thick of each, till the trench is full,
having ashes at the top as we'll as at
the bottom. Each layer of ashes aud
bone must be wet with water, for chem
ical action to take place, and the bones
become decomposed. Stakes are driven
into the pile three feet apart to the bot
tom, by the removal of which every
eight or ten days, as much water is
is poured into the mass as will keep up
the saturation of the fermenting com
pound. After eli yht weeks the ashes
and softened bones are mixed by fork
ing up the pile, which receives more
water unless wet, and the mass is left
for further decomposition.
In three months a rich compost is
ready for use. Where wood ashes are
not to be had as in countries where coal
is burnt, like in England, stable manure
take the place of ashes, with this differ
ence: The manure should be twelve
inches thick, and the bones three.
Bones are soaked several days in large
tubs, hogsheads and vat before laid
up with wet manure. The water in
which the bones were soaked, goes into
holes made into the compost heap as IL
timated. The pile is finally covered
heavily with a layer of earth, and re-
mains four or five months to rot. This
process renders all the virtues in the
bones available as manure. The addi-
ton of as much plaster as bones, and
half as much salt, greatly improves the
fertilizer. The best stable manure will
go from five to ten times further if
strengthened by mineral fertilizers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

DIR. j. Walkers California VIC
rgar Bitters arc a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from tho 1s-
tive herbs found on the lower ranges a.
the Sierra Nevada mountains of CaljtJ"
mia, the medicinal properties Of wtic>
arc extracted therefrom without the z5s
of Alcohol The question is alDjGe
daily asked. What is the cause OF -
unparalleled success of VINEGAR IA
TERSR" Our answer is, that they remo7I
the cause of disease, and the patient ~
covers his health They are the giosi
blood purifier and a life giving princiols.
a perfect Renovation and InvigOIatos
of the system. Never before IN Tbs
history of the world has medicine bean
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of eve-s disease man is heir to. Tte5
are gentb % -gative as well as Toujns
believing Congestion OF inflammation r.
The Liver and Yiscerai Organs. in Bi5tts
Diseases
The properties of DE, WALKEffa
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, DiaphoIel.o.
Carminatire, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuret1
Sedative, Counter irritant, Sudorifc AltesiA
i've. and Ant piH---
n. II. MCDONALD q CO.
Druggists and Gen. gs., San Francisco California.
and cor of Washington and Charlton SITS. N. Y
SOid by all Druggists and Dealers
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

better, the philosophy of human life.
For instance, the Americans have the
good sense to know that man is not
eternal Cd earth. He passes, he plants
his flag, and does not bother about his
epitaph. Here lies a man who work
ed" is the best of funeral oratlons.
For the American, life is voyage, the
earth is hostelry; while for the French
man life is the everlasting habit OF al
WAYS doing the same thing.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

i'll the Bavalian Palatinate. and the
material entirely the spells of war lately
in the form of French guns captured IN
1870. The bell ID to be gift from the
Emperor William to the Cathedral of
Cologne, and by far the largest IN the
empire. 1t stands nearly twelve feet
nigh, and about seventeen in diameter
at the mouth, weighing over 1000
pounds, rather more than the whole OF
the rest of the peal already hung. The
clapper weighs about sixteen cwt., and
it is calculated that it will take thirty
pairs of hands to use it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

In order to clean your kid gloves
thoroughly, put them on and wash
them, as if you were washing your
hands, in basin of turpentine, hang
them up in a warm place or where there
is a coed current of air, which will
carry off the smell of the turpentine.
This method was brought over rom
Paris, and thousands of dollars have
been made nv it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

WE copy the following from an ex-
change, which is important if true: Chronic
diarrhga of long standing, also dy sentery,
and all similar complaints common at this sea-
son Of the year. can be cured by the use (in-
terHally) of Johnson's Anodyne Lniment. We
know whereof we affirm.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

AFTER the proverbial two failures, a
third attempt to cast new national
bell worthy of the young German en-
pire is reported to have completely suc-
ceeded. The foundery employed is the
well-known private ono at Frankenthal.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

In the trousseau of Mile. Say, just
married to the Prince de Broglie, there
were thirty complete costumes, and
cancels hair shawls enough to make a
rainhOE
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

THE cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations OF this State are now compounded
and sold under the name of Parsons Purga-
tive Pills.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

DIR. TUFTS Hair Dye is easily applied, i'm
parts a beautiful black brown, aud acts like
magic Try box and you will not be d sappointed.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

of tb gentlemen from whom the re-
spective parties will be pretty sure to
select their candidates for president
next year are not many. Here is a cata-
l1nIia.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
ALCOHOLICS DEADLY RIVAL.
The Progress OF Opium Eating I'm I hi
Country

The Progress of Opium Eating I'm This
Country
One hundred thousand victims of the
opium habit in the United States Such
is a moderate estimate of the number
who are held in the clutches of this ter
rible passion. And yet it is probable
that the number of the wretched slaves
of this rapidly increasing vice is larger
than the figures given would indicate.
The basis of the calculation is the
amount of opium reported in the Gus
sents the importations of the drug at
New York, principally. But there is a
large amount obtained from other
sources, and the cultivation of the poppy
on our own soil to supply the constantly
growing demand for the stimulant may
we'll be regarded with alarm. As ap-
pears from the information given in an
other part of this article, the plant is
cultivated not only in the warmer lati
tudes of the United States, as in Arizo-
ma and California, but in Connecticut,
New Hampshire and Vermont.
The profit derived from the cultivation
of the poppy is SO large that with the
increase Of the habit of opium eating
there is certain to be corresponding
increase in the area of land devoted to
10 nnpderstood tbst dining the last five
Years there has been an increase of f,om
2fty 70 eeventy.f;va nor cent in the
n-n,bar ~ o,,;,;ro ao+ars tbron obont tbe
nonntrr "a a, O r,an I'll he ON ON
tar,a;nsa "p ~ tbo ;rnrnlsa y whiob snoh
increase ia certain to give. not onIy
To imnortaiions of the drue. but to its
crlt;vot;on in This connt,v r. No means
- -, - a.rn.t ~ 49, rror-ass ~
t nbe ea Hi, ~ n go ,n Eli 1870 -
see se the nonpV oecupy the position of a
f for er rival to the tobacco plant
very iaLse pioPor. I; u su sosso1 ~
iio'eo W 'ile use =. oplun aio iein''ee
Rom,nce of the West
A sad, sweet story is told of the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

THE New PANAoEA.-Modern science
having demonstrated that alcohol is
"neither food nor physic," but, on the
contrary. a species of poison, the intro
duction of potent tonic which is en-
tirely free from it is certainly subject
for congratnlation. DR.. Walkers Vine
gar Bitters is medicine which may be
fairly characterized as an unobjection-
able specific for many distressing and
dangerous diseases.
Temperance organizations, heretofore
in favor of permitting the sale of alco-
hol for medical purposes, are of opinion
that Vinegar Bitters possesses all the
efficacy as an invigorant that has ever
been even claimed for spirituous stimu-
lants, and on this account, as well as
because of the singular success which
has attended its use in dyspepsia, liver
complaint, disorders of the bowels, ner-
vous diseases, general debility, and all
maladies growing out of intemperance,
they warmly recommend it as a restora-
tive and Alternative of surprising excel
lence
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

Each of these lists seems complete as
the case stands at present. 1t is posi-
BILE, but not probable, that new men
may come up in the course of next fall
and winter. For instance, if Gen.
Hayes should be elected governor of
Ohio by rousing majority, he would
if he should be beaten, his chance of
reaching such distinction would be ex
tipguished forever. Most likely some
one of these twelve gentlemen will be
the next president, and we are bound
to say that it is possible to find a good
one in either list.-M. Y. San.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

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