The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18

HE Bapils.s all over the country
are making preparations to celebrate that
denominations growth during the century
calling it the Baptist centennial though the
Baptist church is considerably older than the
nation. In 1776 they were only 25.0oc or
$1,000 communicates, but they now number
n2met'ains like 2.oeo.Ooo-
pull Morphy, the once famous chess
is not insane, according to New
aper, which positively eontradicts
3reeentiy circulated, and states
-. MorHhy was never in better health,
sieally ANIL mentally, than now. Mr..
dorPhy has given up chess-piaying, it APP
pears. for the practice of Law.
The surgical examination of the
body of Lexington, the great Kentucky race
horse, revealed the most singular canse for
his death. That part OF f}se skull under the
left eye, where the trouble of the horse
seemed to be located, was filed with at least
quart of masticated food, which had been
forced into the cavity throuel, an opening in
the upper Jaw, caused by the loss of a toeth.
Of the thirty-six- million inhabitants
of France only two million, or six per centum
have ixe incomes and occupation-tbe
other four million are workers; of these five
per centum belong to the so-called lsaeral
professions, hfty-two per centum are agricul-
surists, fourteen per centum are employed in
banki ng, mercantile and kindred pursuits
and twenty-three ref eentum are mechanics
A Miss Butler, fifteen years old,
daughtcrof a Waterman at Flint river bridge,
on the Southwestern railroad, in Georgia,
had been in the habit when the train was
approaching of putting her foot on the track
and drawing it back just in time for the car
to miss it, or getting the track and run
ming off just in time to escape; but a few
nights ago, standing on the track and facing
a Poll-car. which was running down grade at
a speed of twenty miles an hour, she put her
foot up as if intending to stop it. and ere
she could turn and leave the track the car
struck her, and she was crushed to death.
81 The commission appointed to in
quire into the route for the proposed ship
canal, TO connect the Atlantic and Pacifc
oceans reports their opinion after full in
yestigaHJn that Nicaragua is the best. and
estimate that the work from the harbor of
Rrainon the Pacific to Greytown on the At
can be constructed at q total cost rot
exceeding sixty-six million dollars From
this Investment the commission claims an
enormous retu, n would be made, especially
IN the shipment to Europe and American
ports on the Atlantic OF California products.
It is regarded OF the highest importance that
the United states take some action at once
20 carry out the plans of a ship canal in
order 10 Prevent France or England from
reaping honor and profit of a great enter
prise.
\ translation of the +" Pilgrims
Progress" has been issued by a native Jspa-
nese publisher. The vernacnlar literature OF
Japan * extending nj rapid rate atiapt;,-
tions Of the best English Textbooks OH
geography and physical science being pub
lished almost monthly, and, though far from
being perfect productions attaining n wide
circulation Jat,anesc writer's have the
greatest difficulty in finding accurate ecuiva-
Tents in their own language for European
words used To denote recent European dis
coyeries and scientific terms. they are
almost always obliged To paraprase; thus,
dynamite becomes "the powerful thing -
torpedo, underwater buster" and so on.
The great evil is that each different writer
chooses his own paraPhrase for such terms as
poisri sation, "spectroscopc," "proto-
plasrl,'' etc.
During the emperor of BraziPs alb
sence in this country and Europe next year
his daughter, the Countess D'Eu, is going To
run the government machine for him and
she Is the very girl to make il spin, too
tome time ago she wanted the emperor 20 re.
lease couple of Catholic bishops he had
sent to Jail, but the old man declined to do
1t, whereuPon Miss D'Eu walked over to the
corner grocery, bought broom, and, having
thrown her shoes and striped stockings into
the corner, went to sweeping the streets, de-
claring that she meant TO keep on sweeping
until the PAIR of bishops were turned loose.
The old gentleman knocked under, and D'Eu
washed her feet put ON her shoes and stock
tngs, and resumed the efnllroidering of the
yoke for Wamsutta clIemise where She had
left oil. When Dom Pre,lO comes out here
he needn't hurry back for fear she can't keep
things straight.
The California paperseontain great
many interesting minor incidents of the fire
at Virginia CITY, For instance, think OF the
barkeeper of a saloon getting a hot safe ont
of the ashes containing all the money of a
large gaInl ling establishment, besides much
valuable jewelry, and absconding with 1t
He hasn't since been heard of nor has the,
safe. Those who him ut work presumed
that being an employe Of the establishment
II was all right Yet another incident was
that Judge Whitman had Just completed a
new residence at cost of $4,000, and fur
nished II IN a very expensive way. lie was
Just about to move into his new home OF
which there is nothing now left except
the front steps, An undertaken fought the
flames till his face and arms were badly
burned in the effort 10 remove two c0rpses
from his ware-rooni. He saved the dead,
and that was. all from his establishment.
While the city was wrapped in q sheet of
flame, woman passed out of the sea of fire;
around her neck hung the frame of a look
ing-giass, and in her arms she bore n wash
tub She cried to a man whom she met,
$50, Mister help me carry this tub" But
when she added, ave got in here five Of the
handsomest bull pups you ever saw" the gem
theInan merely remarked, "Confound your
bun pups we've got dogs enough this
town = and left her to struggle mp the stee
dumps with her tub Of pups.
Few tragedies better deserve the
name of " horror" than that which transpired
but few days ago on the railroad near
GoPfritz, Austria At a few minutes past
one O'Clock in the morning as a train Of
fourteen carriages, with one hundred and
twenty-eight passengers, was crossing q
bridge some forty feet in height, the engine
ran from the rails and plunged into the
chaSm, dragging al but one Of the cars with
10. About dozen passengers were killed,
and as many more seriously injured the
Others wOndeful 10 relate flor the ears were
heaped on each other and smashed to frag-
mentsi, escaping with but slight wounds or
bruises. The engineer and stoker were
crushed to Jelly, and the chief guard decapi-
tated. A mail clerk was fatally scaIded,
though death did not release him for several
hours, during which he lay beneath the ruin,
audibIy lamenting the fate of his family and
entrealing for water, which could not be con-
veyed N him. y pregnant woman, whose
mothers brains were dashed out by an iron
b.Sliy her side, escaped Unin jurcd, and gave
I'm to her child while VET entanyIed in
he wreck Examination showed that the
daughter wns not the result of an accident,
for hands accustomed to railroad work hal
removed the nuts and bolts from FIVE rails
OF, one side az the curve, and then replaced
---sns xxil- that the track appeared safe and
Untouched The affair is all the more horri-
BILE because but a little while before three ut.
teinpts had been made in precisely similar
manner to wreck trains on another road