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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-26

Springfield, Mass, Aug. 25.-The
Boston & Albany Railroad Directors
have voted to reduce the wages and
salaries of all employees of the Road
Der.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-26

Ottawa, Aug. 25.-Perley & Pattees
and a number of other numbering es-
Establishments will close their saw mills
on Saturday. This will throw about
two thousand men out of employment.
The story published by the Gin
cinnat Times about the finding of
Donaldson, the balloonist, by fishing
party, in the Ottawa District, near
Lake Desquine, is not credited here.
No such lake is known in Ottawa dis
trict.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-26

Jackson, Miss, Aug. 25.-The Re-
publican State Convention assemble
at noon to-day. Colored delegates pre-
dominate. There WAS considerable
delay over the selection of Temporal
ry chairman; a. L. Morgan was finally
chosen,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
Hospital for Sick Animals.

The Medical Press and Circular says
THE Brown Institution in the Wauds-
worth road is q curious feature in Lon
don at present. Lame dogs, sick
horses, and donkeys form the outdoor
patients of this hospital. 1t was estab.
Iished by gentleman who died twenty
years ago, leaving over EGO, 900 for this
purpose, bequeathed to the Chancellor,
Vice. Chancellor, and fellows of the
univer ,ity of Condor for the purpose
of establishing and upholding an insti-
tuition for Investigating. studying, and,
without charge beyond immediate e4-
penses, endeavoring to cure maladies
dlstempers, and injuries which any
quadrupeds or birds useful to man may
be found subject to. During 1878 there
were about seven thousand animals,
chiefly horses and donkeys, receiving
treatment at the Brown Institute. Many
of the horses, it was found, were the
property of rich proprietors, SO that
the trustees have lately restricted the
benefits of the charity to the poor.
Hence last year not more than four
thousand animals attended as out
patients. Of these 800 were dogs, and
among these about twelve cases of
rabies. The endowment of the charity
gives only some E900 year, which,
after all expenses are paid, leaves moth
ing for the purchase of diseased or in
jured animals or their carcasses for the
promotion of science"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
fhc Rio Grande.

A special to the News from Corpus
Christi says letter from the postmas-
ter at Neuces, who was robbed and had
his house burned by raiding Mexicans,
says: On the 26th instant, about four
o'clock, p. M, while conversing with
man named Smith, discovered three
Mexicans approaching my store. went
into the sitting room for rifle. Smith
rushed in, with a Mexican following
him with gun pointed prepared to
fire. My wife interfered, and prevented.
He then pointed the gun at me. 1
saved my life by taking his. I then
aimed at the nearest of the cut Threats
in the store, when discovering about
fifty outside, did net shoot, knowing
the only chance for my life was to Sc
crete myself, which 1 did in the SUBJ
terranean passage, where found Smith.
The robbers sacked my store, packing
valuables in wagons. About this time
the mail rider from San Antonio ar
rived. They took him prisoner, and the
mail never reached me.
Smith now left his hiding place and
ran. They gave chase and murdered
him. The store was fired and L was
forced to leave my concealment, which
1 did unnoticed and RENAME near and
Witnessed the destruction of my home.
The Mexicans left, believing me con-
sumed in the flames. Ny children were
shot at twice while they lay FRUSTRATED
on the ground from fright. The Mexi-
cans had several American prisoners,
stripping some and compelling them to
go bare footed.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

his back against the door "you have
shown yourself in possession of a secret
the custody of which may prove
dangerous p
am not unprepared for your
threat" 1 replied. " In the first place,
L did not come here unarmed in the
next, I have prepared a full written
statement of the facts to which have
alluded, with information, besides, of
my present visit to yourself. This
,Aper will be delivered to the friend to
whom it is directed, unless within an
hour reclaim it from the messenger,
who has been instructed for that length
of time to retain it.
His face grew livid. His frame quiv-
cred with mingled fesr and rage, and
his eye cleaned like that of wild
beast at bay.
what is your purpose ?" he ex-
claimed in a voice hoarse with sup
pressed passion.
"To keep your secret while you live"
1 answered, a" on one condition"
"Name It."
"That you write instantly to Julia
Parsons, rencuncing all pretentions to
her hand, and absolutely withdrawing
your proposal of marriage"
After a moments pause, he hastily
penned a brief note, which he submit
ted to my inspection it was quite sat-
isfac.ory.
''Be 50 good as to seal and address
it" said.
He did SO.
81 will see that it is delivered" l
remarked, taking it up and bowling my
self out.
When 1 met George Dickson that
evening. his old college look had come
back. He had great news to tell me.
The next thing was to take me to see
Julia; and it is needless to tell what
happy evening we three spent together,
and a happy marriage followed not long
after.
Eldridge Parsons, I have just learned,
emigrated for Australia, on board the
London and went down in that Inflated
ship.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
Rich Men Buying Winter Homes In
Florida.

Lake Monroe, which marks the head
waters of general navigation of the St.
John, is about six miles long by six
wide, and is beautiful body of water.
1t lies in latitude about 49, degrees,
about 1 900 miles south of Syracuse.
On the west border of the lake, Hon.
Henry s. Sanford, late minister to
Belgium, has founded a settlement
named after himself. He has bought,
I don't remember how many thousand
acres here, and is planting orange
groves and selling off homesteads by
Wholesale. He has brought over a
colony of Swedes and planted it here,
and, singular to say, these exotics from
the extreme north of Europe are -four.
ishing finely in this tropical cline.
The village .of Sanford boasts several
hundred Inhabitants, has two or three
churches-one, the Episcopal. beau
tiful edifce, the gift of Mrs. Sanford
and INDUCES in great expectations of
the future. Mr.. SANFORD is selling off
little plots. for winter residences, to
gentlemen OF wealth who will put up
creditable buildings. Among other
purchasers are Gen. Babcock, of Grants
staff, and Senator Anthony, of Rhode
Island.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
The Railroad War.
Freight Down to TWo-thirds of a Cent
Per Ton Per Mile.

Freight Down to Two-thirds of n Cent
Per Ton Per Mile.
Only 80 cents per 100 lbs. from Chi
cago to New York! Six dollars ton
for 900 miles, or two-thirds of cent
per m1leI at this rate, supposing the
actual costto be the lowest ever attained
in this country, about 4 2 3 mills, the
profit is only one mill per ton per mile,
and in order to earn per cent. interest
on the capital, the road costing $50, 900
per mile, and two-thirds of the earnings
coming from freight, a traffic amounting
to 1000, 900 tons over every mile of
road, or 1900, O0O,O 900 tons one mile,
must be secured. No road in the coun-
try ever has had a traffic anything like
as large, nor has any road ever attained
as low a cost of transportation as six
mills, except in coal. 1t follows that
the competition between the Baltimore
and Ohio and the other roads to Chicago
has now driven down the rates below a
living price, and the roads are doing
their low class freight business at
loss. The only question now is, which
can afford to lose most?-T. Louis
Democrat
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
The Old Man With the Saws.

On Congress street car, the other
evening, was very quiet lot of passen-
gers, and among them a man about
sixty-five years old, having foul or five
hand-saws under his arm, apparently q
sawfiler. Opposite the old man sat a
woman with a young babe in her arms,
and presently broad grin covered the
old fellows face, and he nodded to the
child and said:
"I never loved anything as 1 love
children! I can hardly keep from
biting his little ears p
He waited moment ard then asked ::
GLOW old is that beautiful child,
madam %
Eight months" she replied.
"Only eight months? Why, I've
seen children twenty-five years old who
didn't know as much as that child doesl
had child drowned in a barI once,
and you don't know, madam, how it
foored me!
He looked around the car for a mo-
ment, and then said, reading from the
card:
"Change to the amount of 50 will be
furnished by the driver. Well, that's
liberal enough. He hasn't offered me
any yet, but I suppose old customers
are served first"
The driver counted noses, saw that
he was one fare short, and he jipgled
the bell.
care we near some station?" asked
the ED man, standing up and looking
out.
He sat down after awhile, looking
around, and, his eye falling upon the
baby, he asked of the mother:
Couldn't you let me hold him lit
tie while? See him look at me! I'll
bet $40 he thinks I'm his father -
She refused to trust the infant off her
knee, and the old mans face grew sad,
and he sighed as he said
"Just think of it-that innocent child
has got to be buried in the ground and
be eaten up by worms, like the rest of
us -
He wiped his nose on one of the saw
handles, held his hat in bis hand and
his eye catching a sign on q grocery, he
exclaimed
"Sweet milk for sale here That
make me think, madam-do you bring
that child up on the bottle ?''
Her face grew very red, and she made
no reply. The old fellow looked his
saws over, one by one, laid them down,
and walking to the front end of the car
he picked up basket containing meat
and asked
"Does any one own this meat?"
A woman made motion to signify
that it was her property, and he uncov-
| cred the basket and called out:
"Pork chops and a small piece of
veal. People who want to eat veal can
gnaw away, but I don't want any |!
What are pork chops pound, madam?
She did not answer, and the old man
picked up his saws. and asked
"Does any one here know the name
of the man who invented saws ?"
There was no answer, and he pulled
open the car door and continued:
Z" Yes, I do love children. was a
child once myself, but didn't have any
fun"
AS he stood ON the platform. he went
on:
sit will be just like me to fall down
when 1 step off, but of course I can't
stay on this car forever. Well, good
by, everybody, and pleasant dreams to
you"
He stepped off the car, slipped and
fell fiat in the ditch, while his saws few
in every direction. As the car passed
on he was heard saying:
"They ought to have q machine to
lift people off the cars. Detroit Free
Press.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
Pimples. Eruptions, Rough skin.

The system being put under the influence
Of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
a few weeks. the skin becomes smooth, clear
soft, and velvety, and being Illuminated with
the glow of perfect health from within, true
beauty stands forth in all it's glory. The eff
fects of these medicines which operate upon
the system through the medium of the blood
are necessarily somewhat slow, no matter how
good the remedy employed. While one to
three bottles clear the skin of pimples,
blotches. eruptions, yellow spots. cemedones,
or "grubs," dozen may possibly be required
to cure some cases where the system ID rotten
with scrofulous or virulent blood poisons. The
cure of all these diseases, however, from the
common pimple to the worst scrofula is, with
the use of this most potent agent, only mat
ter Of time. Sold by dealers in medicines.
COVERED WITH ERUPTIONS. CURED.
CLAvERACK, Columbia county, n. Y.
DR.. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N Y:
Dear Sri am sixty years Of age, and have
be afflicted with salt rheum in the worst
form for great many years, until, accidently,
1 saw one of your books, which described my
case exactly. I bought your Golden Medical
Discovery and took two bottles and a half, and
was entirely cured. From my shoulders to my
hands was entirely covered with eruptions,
also on my face and body. was likewise af-
flicted with rheumatism, 80 that l walked with
great difficulty, and that is entirely cured.
May God spare you a long life to remain a
blessing to mankind. With untold gratitude,
Mrs. A. W. WILLIAMS.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

necessary business), as fast as is desir-
able. The bullion sent to Philadelphia
is to be coined into five and ten-cent
pieces. Our Branch mint will COM
mence shortly turning out the new com,
the twenty-cent piece, which will soon
be put in CIRCULATION. We may, there
fore, look hopefully to a speedy abate-
ment of the "bit " nuisance, arising
out of the difficulty of making proper
change where ten-cent purchases are
made and twenty-five-cent or five-cent
pieces rendered in payment.-San
L,ro,.jsno IHrODicLe
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
Ut0pias.


tributing practical good money TO Yards
the establishment of an impractical in
dustrial Utopia, where the steam engine
is to be ignored, the railroad banished
forever, and "none wretched but the
sick, none idle but the dead" Mr..
Lausop, also of England, has published
book entitled "Ten Years of Gentle
man Farming at Blennerhasset with
Cooperative Objects" in which he
gives an account of his remarkable and
costly experiment of farming with the
aid of steam ploughs and all other APP
planes of machinery, together with
ideas both of scientific agricultural ex-
periments and full cooperation of cap
ital and labor. His experiment, he con-
fesses, was failure, and has resulted
in sinking thousands of pounds and the
absolute abandonment of the enter
prise.
Nor are we without instances in our
own country of various attempts, with
various degrees of success or failure,
to construct industrial associations
which, in comparison with the general
condition of life, would be denominated
Utopias. Mr.. Nordhoff has recently
published volume of over four hun
pred pages, concerning the existing
included in the volume q biography of
the subject as an aid for those of his
readers who would desire to further
prosecute its study. His conclusions,
on the whole, are favorable, and vet
Vslcour-the latest experiment. of the
kind-has come to an untimely end,
and broken up In most prosaic lawsuit,
In which charges of quite worldly dis
honesty in money matters are made by
both sides.
That Utopias have their use, though
they are never practically realized, no
| one will doubt to whom the study of
the method of progress is subject of
interest. As Comte says, in his 'sPhil-
osopby Positive, q" Utopias are for So
| cial art, properly SO called, what geo.
metrical and mechanical types are
towards their corresponding arts. Be-
ing recognized as indispensable, in the
least construction, how shall we avoid
their use in the most difficult? Thus,
despite the empirical condition of pol
tics, very great change is preceded by
a century or two of an analogous
Utopia, inspired by the aesthetic genius
OF mankind, by confused instinct of
its situation and its needs"
Now, too, that the scientific move
ment of modern society has, in the
person of Professor Tyndall, justified
its Utopias of theory under the phrase,
the scientific use of the Imagination, we
may safely predict in all departments
of investigation an era of Utopias as a
prelude to the practical changes which
every one in some manner would claim
to be necessary.
The recognized laws of chemistry to-
day surpass the widest Utopias dreamed
OF by the alchemists, and though in
their discovery the scientific use Of the
Imagination played an important role,
let us remember that it was imagina-
ton in the hands of science. The very
definition of Utopia is, from etymology,
that which as yet exists nowhere as
soon, then, as it does exist it ceases to
be Utopia,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
An EPISODE.
By BARTON GREY.

And 30 the hour comes Mt last
When all the dream In over.
Inc Instant, passion-haunted mast
me rapture of the loverf
could not tell that would change
That fair and fragrant fancy.
ana YET, ah, me who COUNT suge
That time should kill the pansS
Our love was but q GUNNER flower,
tninS OF rings and posies;
A rail, sweet bud that bloomsd an hour.
Inen died-ike other roses.
L dreamed I neer had seen \ face
SO exquisitely tender,
And all my life to your dear grace
Bent down in frank surrender.
And now what need of vows and sighs,
And passionate pretenser,
10 US who are so sadly wise
In lordship OF the senses7
II was-It In not-let it pass
Though there has gone forever
The image from the magic glass,
The ripple from the river.
Your life shall flow above this shock
In truer, steadier fashion.
with inst that CULVER DER the rock
That marks q buried passion;
And II sometimes look behind,
1t will not be in sorrow,
For to the heart the heart il kind
loves Eden blooms tomorrow
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

A BONANZA SLICE Coming EAsT.-A
small slice Of our bonanza, in the
shape of million dollars in silver bull
lion, vii; be sent east TO be coined at
the Philadelphie mint during the month
of April, our San Francisco branch
mint not having sufficient capacity to
coin this amount Tin addition to it's other
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
A Miser's Methodic Madness.

Baltimore is called upon to mourn
the death of an elderly miser who,
In his journey through this world, had
spent little else than his life. There
was method in his madness, for surely
miser may be said to be mad. A
short time before his death, he informed
friend that he had never given away a
cent, nor spent one when the expenditure
could possibly be avoided. -Four years
ago he married third wife, and though
she was young, and he was in his
dotage he had entire ascendency over
her, compelling her to work in factory
and turn over her wages to him. He
assumed the whole responsibility of the
household, and, under his penurious
management, nothing went to waste.
Some fix years ago he purchased
cheap pine coffin, and stored it in his
tenement, hiding patiently the day when
he would need it for his final wrap.
Shortly before his death, he told his
wife that his funeral expenses must not
exceed $40, and to that emf he directed
that his body be carried to his grave on
the shoulders of men, instead of
hearse. Learning, however, that the
mode of conveyance would cost at least
So, he decided upon the employment
OF an express wagon, which could be
hsd for the purpose for about SIS.
Finding that bArber's tariff for shaw
ing corpse twas something more than
his charge for the same service to sick
man, he sent, on the night before his
death, for one of the razor craft, who
did the work to the old mans satisfac-
ton. The widow was mindful of her
deceased lords injunctions, and the
total expenses of the funeral were So rs.
'haT Icfk
900, the result of pinching himself and
family through long series of years.
BY his will it was divided between his
wife and son by former marriage.
COLONEL RIoE's TRowKL BAYoNEr.-
The reports of the experiments made
by officers of the army with Colonel
Rice's trowel bayonets have just been
published in pamphlet form at the ma
tional armory, Springfield, Mass. 1t
appears that five hundred trowel bayo-
nets were made at Springfield and
served out to the various companies Of
the third United States infantry, sta
toned in the department of the Mis-
souri,. After given number of exper-
iments the officers sent III their reports
on the subject, end it was found that
the colonel and two captains were not
IN favor of the weapon as snbst ifnte
for the ordinary bayonet while the
lieutenant colonel and all the other Off
GERS (niDeteen) were in favor of its adop-
ton, some of them testifying quite en-
Enthusiastically in its favor as field in
trenching tool, Subseque ntly board
of officers assembled at Springfield to
examine the weapon, and upon their re.
commentator the secretary of war Or
dered the manufacture and issue to the
troops of ten Thousand trowel bayonets.
The report is accompanied with excel
lent illustrations of the new arm, the
various species of handles which have
been recommended for this and other
bayonets, plans of field intrenchmenta,
with contrasting pictures of soldiers
'In the open" and Gin TRENCH" and
much other interesting matter.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
RpoScH1rIs OR CHRONIC SORE THROAT

1t is attended with irritation of the bronchial
tutes. which convey the air we breathe into
the lungs This irritation produces sore throat,
boarseness, coughing. and sometimes splitting
of matter streaked with blood. If it is neg
Iected it will extend down to the lungs. and
settles into confirmed consumption. Aliens
LING BaIsam will be found a most valuable
remedy fer curing this disease, and prevent
it's running into consumption.
For sale by all medicine dealers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

AT ING GrlaI OF One fuCuam, aG V II
ginia City, for leading an idle, dissolute
life, District Attorney Cambell defined
hummer as aggregated, concatena-
ted, congiomerated, segregated, con-
taminated, id loafer." This decided
the jury at once, and they found Put
nam guilty.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
Price of Tickets Reduced

The Texas Real Estate Drawing, at Houston
has been postponed to May 18th, 1878, and the
remainder of the tickets will be sold at the re-
duced price of 81 each, in order to make a full
and complete drawing. This enterprise is
under the management of an old and respon-
sible citizen of Houston-Capt J. f. Foster
who will furnish circulars to all applicants.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
new No. 6 SEWING MACHINE.

We, manufacturers of boots and
shoes. are using Wheeler & Wilson's
New No. Sewing Machine in all kinds
of stitching on our work, and conf
IDENTITY believe that it will supersede all
others IN this branch of manufactures,
for the following reasons
l. The work done by this machine is
superior to that of any other in variety.
amount, excellence and beauty.
2. This machine is more durable than
any other of its claes, requiring much
less outlay for repairs and RENEWAL of
parts.
8. It does the cording or staying of
button holes in most elegant and sub
stautial manner, without the expense of
royalty.
In short. because by the use of this
machine we can turn out superior UOrk
at less cost than with any other.
Signed by ma0ny.]
EgIt is fast supersediDg all other ma
chimes for leather work.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE. ALI nef

ELECTRICITY IS LIFE. nervous dis
orders, chrome diseases of the chest, head
liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, acbes aud
pan- nervous and general debility. etc,
quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing
Voltas Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable
book free, by Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

Capt. ]. E. Foster OF Houston, Texas, has
established an Emigration Bureau in connec-
ton with his old established Land Agency, and
will furnish pamphlets and maps descriptive
of Texas to all who wish TO come to the Lone
Star State.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10

THERE is no risk in buying a Mason
& Hamlin Cabinet Organ. These in
struments are known to be the best of
their class in the world. But if the
opinion of dealer he asked he will
frequently recommend some other, for
the simple reason thPt he can get
larger commissions for selling inferior
instruments