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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
Randolph's Religious Services.

John Randolph was great bible
reader and was deeply concerned with
religious subjects. He employed an
excellent and eloquent man, MIR. Abner
Clopton, to preach every Sunday to his
negroes, in the large chapel he had
erected ON bis plantation. When at
home he invariably attended these SER
vices, taking lis seat by the preacher on
the open platform, from which the
preacher conducted the services. On
many occasions, while kneeling beside
the preacher, who was prone to be car
ried away by the fervor of prayer, Ran
dolph would slap him on the hack and
call out loudly, "Clopton, that won't
do; that's not sound doctrine. Clop-
ton, take that back" and if Clopton
demonstrated, Randolph, though keep
ing him elf on his knees, was ready at
once for an argument to maintain his
point. No one but Mr.. Clopton, who
knew the ecct ntricity and honest mo-
tives of the man, could have borne with
these irreverent Interruptions while IN
the midst of prayer; but Mr.. Clopton,
when he found Randolph determined to
argue the point. either gracefully yield
ed or proposed to note the point and
argue it at the dwelling house. To
visitors at the chapel, and they were
many, these scenes were exceedingly
curious and sometimes absurdly ludi-
crous. But that was MIR. Randolph's
way.
1t is said that on one cold Sunday, In
this chapel on Mr.. Randolph's planta-
ton, while giving out the hyran in the
old fashioned way, two lines at time
and it was being lustiloy sung by the
negroes. MIR. Clopton, the preacher.
observed q negro man pstf his foot, upon
which was a >brogan, on the hot
stove. Turning toward him, he said in
his measured voice, "You rascal you,
you'll burn your shoe; )" as tins was the
| rhymeSof the exact metre of the hymn,
IL all sung it in their loudes,
the error, the preached
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

"My colored friends, indeed you are
wrong; I didn't intend that for the
song :" but there it was again, another
rhyme in good measure, 80 the negroes
sung that too with pious fervor. Turn
ing to his congregation, the preacher
said somewhat sharply, 81 hope You
will not sing again, until I have had
time to explain )" but this only aroused
the negroes, who sang the last word
with increased vigor. Mr.. Clopten,
feeling that his tongue seemed to be
tuned to rhyme, abandoned all efforts
at explanation, and went on with his
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
The boiling shepherd heayes a sigh,

The boding shepherd heaves sigh,
For see! a rainbow spans the sky;
The walls are damp, tho bitches smell;
Closed in the pink-eyed pimpernell;
The squalid toads at dusk are seen
Slowly crawling DER the green;
Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry,
The distant hills are looking nigh
Hark how the chairs and tables crack,
Old Betty's joints are on the rack;
And see yon rocks. how odd their flight
They initiate the gliding kite,
Or seem precipitate to fall,
As if they felt the piercing ball
How restless are the snorting swine,
The busy flies disturb the kline;
Low DER the grass the swallow wings,
The cricket, too. how sharp she sings;
Puss on the hearth with velvet paws,
Sits wipipS DER her whiskered jaws;
The wind, unsteady, veers around,
Or, settling, in the south is found;
The whirling wind the dust obeys,
And DER the rapid eddy plays;
The leech disturbed is newly risen
Quite to the summit of his prison:
twill surely rain, see with sorrow,
Our jaunt must be put off tomorrow"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
UYGAT HERED LOVE.
BY PHILIP BounKE s1AHsrox.

When the autumn winds go wailing
Through branches yellow and brown,
When the gray sad light is failing,
And the day is going down
hear the desolate eve1in7 sing
OF a love that bloomed in the early spring,
And which no heart had for gathering.
1 aud my love we dwelt apart,
We twain may never be one
We shall never stand heart 10 heart,
Then what can be said or done,
When wind, and waters, and song-birdH sing
OF a love that blossomed in the early spring,
And which no hesrt bad for gatberingR
When the day is over ana night descends,
And dark mists circle and rice.
fan asleep. and slumber bsfriends,
For dream Of April skies.
But wake to hear the silence sing
OF love that bloomed in the early spring,
And which no heart had for gathering.
When the dawn comes in with the wind and rain
And the birds awake in the caves,
And rain-drops smite the window-pane,
And drench the eddyiug leaves
I hear the voice of the dAybreAk sing
OF love that bloomed IN the early spring,
And which no heart had for gathering.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
SAYINGS AND DOIN6S.

REST is not quitting
| The busy career
Rest is the fitting
OF self TO its sphere;
lis the brooks motion,
Clear without strife,
Flesting to ocean,
After its life;
It's loving and serving,
The Highest and best;
It's onward, unswerving-
And that is true rest.
HEAT is evolved by friction of ice.
Mr.. A. Taylor, in paper recently read
before the geographical society of
London, shows that heat evolved by
friction of ice upon ice is an important
element in glacial movement. By a
simple apparatus he reduced ice to
water in temperature of thirty-two de-
grees, at the rate of one and q quarter
pound an hour, by friction only of ice
upon ice, the pressure applied being
but two pounds to the square inch. BY
simple evaporation, the ice in the same
temperature lost one quarter of pound
in the same time. In a temperature of
fifty-four degrees the production of
water under friction was three and
quarter times greater than by simple
melting when there was no friction.
The actual heat evolved by friction of
ice upon ice is nearly the same as from
oak upon oak, when we'll fabricated
LAST verse of an ode to q Chicago
belle, Just published in St Louis
Her mouth! o mouth o fleeing hash!
From ear to ear lovely gash!i
mouth for kisses
o CANDY cavern, sloping down,
III hurl myself within and drown,
In awful blissesl
IT is we'll known that in the compart-
ment STYLE of railway carriages used in
England much comfort depends upon
selecting ones travelling companions.
Various devices are resorted to to pre-
vent intruders, and where party OF
tourists can secure baby for company.
they are generally avoided, and have
the compartment to themselves. Hence
this curious advertisement in q London
paper:
ssARTIFICIAL BABIES FOR TRAVELLERS.
The tariff of prices is as follows
"Common travelling infants, yielding
cries of fear, and capable
of being put in the pocket-10 shillings.
Second-class crying not too loudly,
but lamentably and insupportably-2O
shillings.
"Third class, full squallers, with a
very piercing and agravating voice OF
FIVE octaves-f2.
"The same arranged as prompt re-
IS.
"Fifth- class, first quality, capable OF
continued squalling-93."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
A DAY OF SUMMER BEAUTY.
BY G. BROOKE

Out in the golden summer air,
Amid the purple heather,
A woman sat with dropping head,
And hands close knit together:
Never bitter word she said,
Though all her life looked cold and dead
Cold in the glowing haze that lay
Over the fair green earth that day,
That day OF summer beauty.
Far, far away where leafy woods
Tou ched the sky, cloud-riven,
thousand birds rang out life's bliss
In jubilee to heavea.
How could the poor old withered throat
Carol echoes TO each soft note?
Every soGl must pay life's COST
Her deepest silence praised God most,
That day OF summer beauty.
Too dulled her soul. too worn, to feel
Summer delight acItely;
While earth was praisiUg God aloud
Her patience praised him mutely.
Her narrow life of thought and care
Not life to live. but life to bear,
Con.euted that her soul sad,
While all Gods souliess things were glad,
That day of summer beauty.
And where she stayed, dusky speck
In gorse and heather Glory
4 weary spirit watched and read
The pathos Of her story:
A spirit doubt-opprest and worn,
Had found smother more fo-lorn.
That trustful stayed, nor sought to guesI
Lifes meanings-which are fathomless,
Through all the summer beauty.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

To be a doctor among the Indians in
wolves no little risk. At Inyo, Califor-
mia, short time ago, medicine man
was stabbed and shot by one of the tribe
bee cause of his failure to cure his third
patient; this fact, according to an old
Indian tradition, authorizing the near
est relative of the dead man to kill the
physician at sight.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
Hints on Bathing.

The shock which all experience on
first going into cold water is communi-
Gated to the system at large. and the
first symptoms of it is a gasp, partly
nervous, and partly in consequence of
the sudden revulsion of blood to the
internal organs-lnpgs and heart espe-
cially, the heart being quickened.
Quickly, in a strong, healthy person or
in one to whom bathing is beneficial,
this first shock is succeeded by re-
action, this reaction being the natural
effort of the system to restore the
balance of circulating and nervous
power. In the sea this reactionary
effort is much assisted by the stimula-
ting effect exerted upon the skin by
the saline ingredients of the water, and
it is still more aided if the body be ex-
posed to the dash of the waves. In
fresh water, these aids to reaction being
absent, it is not SO thoroughly or
quickly established. According to your
power of reaction, which you cannot
fail to discover before long, should be
your exposure to the sea. If you re
main in the water until the system be-
comes so depressed that the power OF
reaction is nullified, nothing but injury
can result. You come from your bath
cold, blue and pinched looking. your
fingers white and dead, and your teeth
mayhap, chattering like nut crackers,
and for the rest of the day you are
probably languid, sleepy, miserable.
A strong person, and swimmer. may
stay in the water a quarter of an hour
or twenty minutes-even loDger-and
retain his power of reaction but Tor
some persons two or three minutes I'M
mersiop, or even a single plunge, is
quite as much as they can bear, at
least at first, and until they have gained
strength by their residence at the sea
side. Even if the shortest possible dip
is not followed by the health glow upon
the skin, and sensations of exhilaration
and increased power, it Is better not to
repeat it for few days. The want of
reaction or the production of depression
is summed up shortly-abstraction of
caloric or animal heat and we need
scarcely remark that the very fact of
person unused to it, entirely stripping
in the open air, is one means OF sending
off this heat, and that exposure to the
cold warer is another most potent
means. albeit, loss of animal heat in
wolves depression of vital action. There
are. however, other circumstances
beyond the constitution of the indi-
yidual to be taken into consideration
with respect to bathing agreeing or not,
and these are such as increase or miti-
gate the depressing effects. Thus,
person who could not ba'he on toler-
ably cold day might do 20 in the very
height of summer. and especially on
those low, sandy shores where the water
becomes raised in temperature by
passing over an extent of sand pre-
viously heated by the sun the water IN
such situations-aS everybody knows
who has any bathing experience-belng
warmer than on rocky or steep,
shingly shore.-Dr. Spencer Thomson.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
A WOMAN FREEMAsoN.-- Harper's Ba

A WOMAN FREEMAsoN- -Harper's Ba-
gar saws that it is a mistake to suppose
that the lady who concealed herself in
a room where lodge" was about to
to be held, and who when discovered
was compelled or allowed to beinitiated,
is a myth. The clock case may be n
myth, but the lady is not. She was the
Hon. Mrs. Aldworth, and continued
through life to take an active interest IN
the order into which in her youth she had
ostrangelygained admission. She found
ed the Dublin benevolent institution for
orphan daughters of masons. Her por-
trait still hangs in the principal lodge
room in Cork, and under it in a glass
case the apron and jewel she used tC
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

BYRoN.-A correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, who was introduced
to Lord Byron by Richard Brinsleey
Sheridan in the green room OF the old
Drury Lane Theater, thus describes the
appearance of the distinguished poet :
"Lord Byron was standing against
one of the pillars which supported
fantastic lantern. He was dressad IN
dark blue dress coat, loose white panta-
looms, and yellow The pantalo DPS
were very long and almost covered his
feet. A patural defect rendered him
very sensitive regarding one foot, at
least, He could not bear that it should
be looked at. His shirt collar was AM.
pie and turned down over the collar OF
his coat, SO as to show his neck, OF
which he had reason to Ec vain. 1t
was long and white and supported no,
BILE head, then decorated with natural
brown curls. / remarked that his hands,
one of which supported his head against
the pillar, were small and white"
A TABLESPOONFUL of black pepper pu
in the first water in which gray and buff
linens are washed will keep them from
sporting. 1t will also generally keep TIM
colors of black or colored cambrics o.
muslins from running, and does no
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
Some Embarrassing Questions.

A gentleman who recently passed over
the old Central railroad, from Rochester
to Syracuse, relates an amusing lhciueno
that came under his observation peiofo
reaching Auburn. An officer was on inc
train, having in charge two conVlcss
destined for Auburn prison. Inc hanus
of the convicts were free, and they SAY
opposite one another, with irons on tnelt
ankles, the officers occupying Ine sea-
with one of them. Presently a gentie-
man came in, whose hooked. nose, ola
fashioned silk hat and general eeedy APP
pearance indicated inqulsltlVenSss'
came along and took the vacant seat pc
side the convict, not noticing the IRONS
The convict was an intelligent fellow
and eyed his .fellow-passenger Closely.
Presently the stranger said Pretty
slow train. this" Convict suppose,
il is rather slow when one is In hurry
Stranger--"Yes you gong down the
road far ?" Convict" No, sill; l stop
off Mt Auburn" Stranger-"Ae! DO
YOU live there?" Convlct-"1 nave hoS
formerly" Stranger-"But you think OF OF
taking up your residence there, DO youf
Conyict-iT am thinking seriously OF IL,
yes. SIR" Stranger-''What business
are YOU in, if may ask?' Convict L
expect to be in theemploy of the state.
L ne stranger saw the irons and the sci
alb mt the same time, and eIaculated,
'Oa ali, yes, zee, and went mo INC
next car.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

A TuRKIsH PoRr CEDEp TO THE hHE-
pIvE.-The Ottoman government al
ways considered the port Aeliah as
forming part of the district of Hodei-
dah in the province of Yemen, although
situated on the African coast of the
Red sea. The revenues of tho town only
amounted to about $500 per nnnum,
and in an autograph letter sent by
the sultan TO the kbedive by
his abide. camp, Khalil Pasha, his
majesty allows the khedive to take pos
session of the place on condition OF IN
creasing the Egyptian tribute by Ei5,--
900. The bouyorOuldou on the subject
has been issued by the porto. One OF
the conditions Of the document is that
the sums already received by the minis
ter of finance from the port in question
shall be placed to the credit oil the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Notices in local columns inserted for 20 cents
per line for each insertion.
No proof Of publication OF legal ADVERTISE
mentz will be made until our fee is settled.
Announcing candidates for state and district
Offices, S15; and for. county offices, $40.
Marriages and deaths published free obitu-
aries charged as advertisements.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-03
THE CONSTITUTIONAL con-.
MISSION


In the dreary days of the session
last winter, the Legislature passed a
law directing the Governor to appoint
a commission of seven persons to OK
anime and revise the Constitution OF
1873, ito determine whetherany amond-
mcnts TO the Constitution of this Com
monwealth are advisable or necessary
and if any are found advisable or ne
cossary to prepare the same in proper
form, and make return to the Legisla-
ture at its next session"
In accordance with this law Cover
nor Hartranft, soon after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, appointed a
Commission, consisting of Chief Justice
Agncw, Of Beaver countyi Benjamin
ii. Brewster, ex-Attorney-General Of
the State, and q leading member of the
Philadelphia bar; Hon Samuel Il. Dim.
mick, of Wayne county, the present
Attornoy-General; Hon, William A.
Wallace, of Clesraeld, State Senator
Hon. ii. W. Williams of Tioga, Presi.
dent Judge of the Tioga and Mexican
Judicial district; A, T. McClintocls,
Esq, of Willksbarrc, Luzerne county,
and Hon. VIM. Ii. Playford, of Fay
cite county, State Senator
The Commission met in Harrisburg
on the first Monday Ia June, selected
Chief Justice Agnew as its Chairman
and proceeded TO the duty assigned it
Since then IL has held nine meetings
and yesterday reached conclusion
and sent In its report to the Governor
for transmission, to the Legislation. =
The commission although composed
of gentlemen of widely different politi-
cal opinions, unanimously agreed in
recommending certain Constitutional
amendments to the Legislature for sub
mission to the people,
The Commission rcportedto Governor
lIartranft on the 26th ult,, and on th,
9th, he sent message to the Logis
laturc transmitting the Report of thu
Commission. The Report was read
and two thousand copies were ordered
to be printed.
The report recommends twenty
amendments, and is a lengthy docu
ment, of sixty pages wewill publish
synopsis Of tho Committees report
next week. "'i
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-03

STRANG FINANcIERiNa.-Our State
authorities persist in collecting State
tax off the personal property amount
ing, according to the Auditor Generals
Report, to the sum of s545,523.A.-
The portion paid by our county is
s2,1OO Now, why persist in collect
ing this tax off the people, when the
balance annually remaining in the
State Treasury amounts to twice and
even three times that sum. We say
either stop collecting this tax or re-
deem more of our State obligations
No individual or private business firm
would do such dirty work; then why
should sworn State officers practice
such unbecoming political economy?
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-03
ASSOCIATED PRESS LETTER.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3, 1875.
THE REFORM EPISCOPAL MOVEMENT.

THE REFORM EPISCOPAL MOVEMENT.
Taking il for granted, that nine
tenths of your readers are openly, or
indirectly, connected with some Chris
tian denomination, and their taking
an interest In any new ecclesiastical
movement, has led me TO notice, in
this letter, what seems destined TO
mark an era in religious history. What
| do say is of reliable character, and
is given as, what ! regard, important
information, and without any prejudice
or partially whatever.
On the I'd Of Dec 1879, the dootrinal
troubles that Rave been so long agitat-
ing the Protestant Episcopal Church,
eliminated in schsm. A Bishop Of
that Church, with some eight minis.
tcrs and twenty laymen, gathered on
that day in the city of New York. The
object Of the meeting, as stated in the
call was ITO organize and not 10 dis
cuss,' and the men engaged in the
movement seem 10 have stuck to their
work, for by the close of the day, a
Reform Episcopal Church had been
organized, with Bishop Geo. ID. Com
Minis as its Bishop, Charles II. Cheney,
as o Bishop oloct with sovcn prcsby-
tcrs, perhaps thirty laymon, and two
church organization ready to vote
themselves In union. This bold, and
and In tho estimation of some, wicked
step, created quite an excitement at
the time H H
Since then, little more than year
hos passed, and without noise or special
effort, this new church Ia heitinning 10
locate Its ministers and 70 dot it's
churches in Canada and the States, and
even from across the water, a respect
able body Of English Christians---the
Free Church Of England--have reached
forth fraternal hands, which have been
clnspcd in close union. Episcopal
and Liturgical, and yet strongly Prot
estant, and liberal 10 o degree that
is emihcntly calculated to conciliate,
this church takes it's place among it's
sister organizations. In addition TO
the great work, ii has, in common
with other ohprchcs-the ingathcring
of souls-its adhorents regard It's pres
encc as n felt want among the Chris
tian bodies about them. If this be
true, u will bo 0 suocess for whatever
is wanted, will be sought after Al.
ready its ministerial and lay ranks arc
being recruited from oil denominations.
There are those who admire q liturgy,
but cannot accept tho pretensions Of
an exclusive Prelatical Church they
are compelled, therefore, TO forcgo their
taste, and continnc to worship without
form. On the other hand, there are
those who prcfera moderate Episcopal
cy, but desire more Freedom in tho use
Of q liturgy rather, however, than
give up the desired form Of church
government, they will submit 10 litur.
gical rlgidIty. 10 both Of these, the
Reformed Episcopal Church offers n
common ground NaH fI lI
Your readers may ask, is such church
neoded7 " there room for IL among
tho numerous divisions TINT alrcady
existf These qucstions win cali forth
different answers from different quar-.
: tors But there can he mo douht thos
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-03
TIE DIFFERENCE IN MEN


A Philadelphia correspondent in al
luding to public plumbers, points a NOR
al in the following contrast
Albert Dorminator, poor halfclad
darkey, who makes fires at police sta
ton houses in this city, was convicted
and sentenced to Is months imprison-
ment for stealing coat from man
who died at q station house. Doubt.
less the darkey imagined that in the
home OF the deceased a
coat was superfuity, and that here,
where polar waves freeze the marrow
of our lives, coat was luxury that,
under the circumstances, il was not
wrong TO covet II is due TO say that
when demand was made, prompt
restitution of the coat followed.
This reminds me that Jay Cook *
Co., who "got away with about s10,.
100000 of their neighbors' goods, pro
pose to restitutc, in cash, five per cent.
Of the amount of the liabilities; 35 per
cent. in Northern Pacific bonds nj 20
cents on the dollar; IA per cent. of
Oregon Steam Navigtion stock, at $40
per share, and per cent. of Lake Su-
perior and Mississippi Railroad boncs
at 40 per cent. of their face value
This shows an apparent restitution of
go per cent. on the dollar of their LA
bilities but as Northern Pacifics are
worth only 20 cents on the dollar, and
Lake Superiors have even less value
it would be putting it at n liberal figure
to say that Jay Cooke & Co. propose
to pay 20 per cent of their liabilities
The poor negro who stole coat
from dead man goes to prison, hut
the "Christian Banker" who robbed
his neighbors of ten millions of dollars,
is allowed to bask in a lordly mansion,
purchased by his wife.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-03
!. VORRYi REPAIR RJLL,S

A glance at the Auditor Generals
report for 1874, clearly sets forth the
fact that some handsome repairing has
been going on at the State Capitol du-
ring the past year, for which the
bills have been presented and cashed
at the State treasury. With the sala-
ries all doubled since the Democrats
were turned out, and the bills for re-
pairs alone greater than the original
costs Of the building, our Democratic
friends will not feel ut home when
they come to occupy those repaired
Offices. Here is list of the items of
repairs, as we find them in the docu-
ment referred to: