The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Extremely Sharp Shooting.

Olive Harper, the sprightly. who is
wandering around Turkey, writes letter
from Albania to the Globe Democrat
from which which we clip these para.
| graphs:
Soon all assembled to dance, and
was amused as well as pleased to see the
dancing. The men are graceful, but
the women too funny for anything.
| They danced sort of figure very like
our Virginia reel, and it is very pretty.
After dancing couple of hours the
voice of the herald proclaimed that the
pistol and rifle shooting was about to
commence, and we accordingly took ou1
places again to view.
A mark about as large as ten cents
| was placed on q tree, and the men
| marched in line, and each one shot,
| and every one but two put the ball in
the same place. I should have said the
men marched up double-quick," and
| shot without resting an instant. The
weapons are long, ornate guns, and
carry ball round and as big as hazel
nut.
Then young man stepped forward
and threw piece of stone in the air
with one hand and shot with the other,
and hit it, breaking it into dozens of
pieces. This feat was performed by more
than forty men. After that gold ring
was fastened on a tree, and fifty-four
men put ball through it without
touching it. Then eight little boys.
from the ages of eight to ten years, put
balls through the same ring. The men
who missed the mark, were, amidst the
laughter of the crowd, condemned to
stand with an earthen cruise of colorec
water on their heads, and be shot at by
the others.
So, two men stepped forward, and
little cruises were carefully set on their
heads, and two men, each brother to
the one he aimed at, came forward and
shot. I closed my eyes, but, after the
shots, looked, and the two were covered
with the colored water which trickled
over their faces and clothes. while the
fragments of the little jugs lay around.
that the members of their families
stood like stoics, and permitted them to
shoot at eggs, apples, etc.
Twas too nervous to thoroughly enjoy
this display, but the old man told nae
not to be afraid, and taking up his gun
as he sat beside me, he lifted it, remark
ing that that red flower on a pomegran-
lite bush was in bad taste he shot, and
the flower fell. He then told me he had,
while in the war, given orders to his
sharp shooters to shoot every Turkish
officer directly in the left eye, and after
the battle was won there was seventeen
dead Turkish captains, all shot in the
left eye.
A JUST ADMISSION long, illus
trated article on caricatures of women, in
Harper's Monthly for August, closes
with the following just recognition of
the fac. that woman's inferiority in
business career and unwonted fields of
employment is due to previous con-
dition rather than natural want of
capacity, and will be fully remedied by
a different education and training:
"Equal rights, equal education, equal
chances for Independent careers-when
women have enjoyed these for so much
as q single century in any country, the
foibles at which men have laughed for
SO many ages will probably no longer be
remarked, TOR they are either the follies
of ignorance or the vices resulting from
a previous condition of servitude. Nor
will. men of right feeling ever regard
women with the cold, critical eye of a
Chesterfield or a Rouchefoucauld, but
rather with something of the exalted
sentiment which caused old Homer,
whenever he had occasion to speak of q
mother, to prefix an adjective usually
applicable to goddesses and queens,
which we can translate best, perhaps,
by our English word august.
CHINESE IMMIaRAT1oN.--TheS San Fran
cisco Call says: The grand total of ar
rivals of Mongolians at this port since
the year 1928 is 1904, of which
number los, 902 were males and 4,172
females. In the years 1868 and
1867 no Chinese females came to this
coast, and only one such arrival is re-
corded for tine year 1866 6. The greatest
number of Chinese arriving in any one
year since 1862 was 1888 in 1872 8.
No reliable data are at hand to present
comparison between the arrivals and
departures, but the number of Chinese
who return to their country permanently
is comparatively small. A very large
proportion of the Chinese who come to
this state belong to the lowest caste,
and their system of bondage holds
them here with firm grasp. OF the
large number of Chinese women now in
this state, there are few who do not
subsist on the wages of sin, and the
narrow confines to which this class
Of beings has been restrained in this |
city are rocking with filth and moral |
pestilence.
THE Duke of Edinburg, Queen Vic
borias second son and heir apparent to
The throne of SAKE. Coburg Gotha, in
Central Germany, has sold the right of
to that Duchy to the German
government for the consideration of an
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