The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13


North carolina -, iS6,OOt
<hiabinia 2o,ZSS,ut
Virginia .......- 1902 OOC
Mississippi 1887 ,0OG
New York Id, S07 .0N
Kansas. 1904 OOo
Wisconsin ID, 1917 OOC
Other States. 81, 739 ,0Oc
In all the States. $50, 14S, O0O
Agricultural returns for October
show the wheat crop of the present year to be
short one, and there is marked deteriorl-
ticn in quality. The average is about eighty
per cent OF last years production. If this
Indicates n total depreciation, it amounts
to nearly G2,0oO,OO0 bushels, and gives the
crop Mt PIG, 100000 bushels. In dual.
ity, the crop averages fourteen per cent.
below sound condition. The condition
of the corn crop is exceptionally high.
The produce reported this year falls
short of 1874, about 4 per cent. Oats
product ) per cent. greater than last year.
Potatoes prvmise to be extraordinary, both
IN yield and quality. Tobacco per cent
above the average. Barley is 81 per cent
of last years crop, and buckwheat not far
from the average.
A very curious circumstance con
nccted with the visit of H. T. H. the prince
of Wales to India, is the fact that it will in
voluntarily yield quite profit to the insur-
ance Offices. \ large amount of property is
held under lea &c for lives i'm various parts of
England, and the life of the prince has been,
in many cases, chosen for insertion, because
it can never drop without the fact becoming
known both to lessor and lessee Lessons
frequently in the habit of effecting a
policy the princes life to protect them
selves against the contingency of his death
avoiding the lease Insurance offices have
issued notices in regard to these politics.
stating that the visit of his royal highncss
necessitates an additional premium for extra
risk, which should be paid before his sailing.
THE burning of Virginia City, the
caterprising and thriving capital of Nevada
casts a cloud over the Frightening prospects
of the RVntry. The destruction of eight
millio4Ef property in day by fire is ca
lamlt that no insurance can cover and no
leympAfhy can alleviate. The losses in Chi
Pand Boston and Baltimore have taught
uSyhat such distinctions of property mean
and how much suffering they entail. The
causes of the fire have not been reported.
But the city was largely constructed of wood,
and it only needed the conjunction of wind
and flame to sweep it out of existence. 1t
certainly seems as though we have had con-
fiagrations enough to teach our people the
criminal folly of building tinder-boxes to in
yite destruction.
The Russians are discussing the con-
struction of canal to Join together the Cas-
plan and Black seas. The Caspian is a salt
lake of from four hundred to four hundred
and fifty feet depth of water which is
siderably below that of the Black, owing to
the copious evaporation under the fierce
summer heat The canal is proposed to be
seven hundred and fifty miles long, thus con-
shutting it a far larger and costlier enter
prise than the Suez canal. Russia actually
has Il coasting fleet of eight hundred vessels,
of sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten
tonnage, on the Caspian, and it is exclusive
mistress with the exception of few Persian
skiffs
An article on panics, recently read
mt the English Social Science association,
took the position that panics or commercial
crises occurred at regular intervals and that
every ten years one might be looked for To
guard against its evils it was proposed to
establish banks with a small amount of sub
scription to begin with, but as the capital
was not to be Withdrawn until the panic
occurred, the aggregate would amount to
vast sum- These banks would remedy the
Objects of the government banks which are
too inimobile, and not easily adapted to great
emergencies.
A medical contemporary, lauding the
system of international weather bulletins
lately established by our signal service bu-
reau, goes on to hope that similar scheme
may ere long be applied to the record of
prevalent zymotic diseases, in the form OF
IAN international bulletin setting forth Of
ficialIy the movements of the waves of cpl
demic disease from their initiation to their
decline, medical signal officers becoming
the counterpart of the weather observers"
The run of salmon in the Sacramento
river during the present season has been
something unprecedented Mr.. Livingston
Stone, in charge of the United States salmon
Matching station on the M'Cloud river, stating,
under date of August &c, that, in a space of
about a hundred yards by thirty, 3, 900 salmon
per hour could be seen jumping ont of the
water. Mr. Stone has actually counted 100
in n minute, and has seen eighteen spring
out of the water at once.
Foley's statue of Stonewall jackson,
which was unveiled at Richmond last week,
is thus spoken of by the London Atheneum:
"Of il, critically, we are bound to say that
we wish it had been a better work of art and
we say this not only for the reputation of the
sculptor, but for the honor of the heroic
general himself, as well as on account of the
sympathy which has led many English adj
inirers of 'Stonewall' to subscribe funds and
present the statue to the state of Virginia.
The merchants of Manchester, Eng,
the city which has been supposed to stand
unriyaled in the manufacture of cotton goods,
have begun to import calicoes from the
United States. This statement is made by
the London Times on the authority of the
Drapers Trade Journal The importers saw
that the American goods are much better in
quality and appearance than those of English
manufacture.
James Lick has just pro, oscd to
ON the summit Of a Mnnnt Ws;, Observatory
supervisors of Santa Clara connt, vii .nn.
strnct a railroad tbitber from San Iosn
Mount Hamilton is sixty-fiye miles from San
Francisco, and its summit is 4-1tO feet b;cb
II is thought by many that Mount Diablo
would be a better site.
Is it not astonishing that men, who
have the whole world to conquer, will bother
their great heads with the tightness of a
-if ,sIs -fI'ev MAX -your LeaJs L,TI -
rreasv as a .Iishclotb. vet Won wear ,bam
Would that some prophecies might arrive
in Israel and tell the awful consequences of
th;s fasI;on "
Bemarking upon the great rain
forms Of July, August and September, a
writer in the Country Gentleman says:
These great rains point to an open winter,
CHI h 10 for IL,