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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
EPIGRAMs FROM EMERSON.

| A MANS action is only a picture
book of his creed. He does after
what he believes.
POETRY must be affirmative. 1t is
the piety of intellect. Thus saith
the Lord, should begin the song.
ANY word, every word in language,
every circumstance, becomes poetic in
the hands of higher thought.
THE philosophy which a nation
receives, rules its religion, poetry,
politics, arts, trades, and whole his
tory,
To the poet, the2world is virgin
soil; all is practicable; the men are
ready for virtue it is Away time to
do right.
l REQIRE that the poem should
impress me, SO that after have shut
the book it shall recall me to itself, or
that passages should.
AS the bird alights on the bough,
then plunges into the air again, so the
thoughts of God pause but for a mo-
ment in any form.
THE only teller of news is the poet
When he sings, the world listens with
the assurance that now a secret of
God is to be spoken.
The poet discovers that what men
value as substances have a higher
value as symbols; that nature is the
immense shadow of man.
The prayers of nations are rhyth-
mic-have iterations and alterations,
like the marriage service and burial
service in our iturgies.
THE writer, like the priest, must
be exempted from secular labor. His
work needs froEc health he must be
at the top of his condition.
POETRY is the perpetual endeavor
to express the spirit Of the thing; TO
pass the brute body and search the
life and reason which causes it to
exist.
Is not poetry the little chamber in
the brain, where is gathered the ex-
plosive force which, by gentle shocks,
sets in action the intellectual world?
A SYMBOL always stimulates the
intellect; therefore is poetry ever the
best reading. The very design in i'm
agination is to domesticate us In an
other, in celestial nature.
The humor of Falstaff, the terror
Of Macbeth, have each their swarm
Of fit thoughts and images, as if Shak-
speare had known and reported the
men, instead OF inventing them at his
lesk.
RHYME, being a kind of music,
hares this advantage with music, that
t has privilege of speaking truth
which all Philistia is unable to ehal-
enge. Music is the poor mans Par
lassIls.
Nautilus is the right organ of the
english proprietors; but We shall
lever understand political economy
lntil Burns or Beranger, or some
ther poet, shall teach it in songs, and
e will not teach, Malthuseanism.
THERE is no choice of words for
i'm who clearly sees the truth. That
rovides him with the best word. If
our subject do not appear to you the
over of the world at this moment,
on have not rightly chosen it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

In the case of the peas, as well as
of the beans, the plants from the
larger seed are better throughout the
season than those from the small seed 4;
the superiority of the former is speci-
ally marked i'll respect to the quality of
the seed harvested, as shown in the
table.
Prof. Lehman of Munich carried
out somewhat similar course of ex-
| periments with the same plant, and
with still more striking results i'll
favor Of the tise of large and carefully
selected seed and In his experiments
not only did the larger seed yield a
larger crop, from the same number of
| plants, but a much larger proportion
of the small seed failed to germinate
in the field, or at least to send the
young plants to the surface of the
ground, than of the large seed this
failure was not due, as might at first
be supposed, to imperfect seed, for be-
tween layers of moistened unsized pa
pa samples of all the seed used ger
minated equally well; more plants
came up in the field from the larger
seed, for the reason, probably that the
greater vitality of those plants gave
them more power to overcome the OBJ
stacles which must naturally come in
the way of the growth of the plantlet.
In one of these series of experiments
20 per cent of the small seed failed to
send plants to the surface, while only 8
per cent. of the plants from the large
seed failed to appear. In the other
set of experiments the corresponding
figures were 1913 and g.; between seed
of medium size, and in the largest size
there is no important difference in this
respect. Lehman divided his seed into
three sizes, small, medium and large;
100 plants from each size of seed
yielded s, II and 13 ounces of seed
respectively, about the same space being
allowed to each plant. As to the
quality of the produce, it was found
that that from the small seed had three
times us much seed injured by insects
or imperfectly developed, and the pro-
duce from the medium-sized seed had
twice as much, as an equal weight of
the crop of the large seed. On COM
pairing the weight of the crop with that
of the seed from which it came, it was
found that if the same space was
given to each plant, a given weight of
seed, whether large or small, yielded
nearly the same weight of crop, pro-
vided of course that the same proper
ton of seed came up in both cases
But land is not usually so abundant
and cheap that the farmer can better
afford to devote more surface to IL
burger number of plants from small
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

The old green box was carefully tieo
up and replaced in its corner, and
Aunt Hannah wiped her specks anG
picked up the grandchild's sock she
was darning, when another of the brood
came i'm and ushered a stranger, who
wanted to speak with Mrs. Cheney.
Aunt Hannah had hard time with a
family of coarse growing, ill-mannered
children. She was "put upon," as
the country saying is, by the hulking
son-in-law, whom they resembled.
And much of the old spirit was
crushed in the worn heart. So she
stammered, and faltered, rather
abashed at the presence Of man so
imposing as the stranger was, and
reached uncertainty behind to unite
the strings of a check apron, and fur
lively sought a stray white hair that
tell from her cap. But the tall strong
man cried out in shaking voice:
" If you are Hannah Cheney, you are
my mother, for l am Johnny who was
drowned in Boston harbor twenty
years ago"
And it was, for Johnny was picked
up by the outgoing Chinese junk that
was anchored SO long off Boston-a
wonderful vessel that was the talk of
the country at that time-and carried
to that far strange land. Years slipped
by, and he was 80 before either incli-
nation or ability prompted his going
home, or making an effort to commu-
nicate with his kith and kin. 1 don't |
think John Cheney was a rabidly af- |
fectionate man, but he rescued "Aunt |
Hannah" " from a bitter life of Deepen
1ence and hard work, and installed
her in a fine house in Boston, where
The had nothing to do but look after
he contents in the old green box,
whose memory set me off preaching
bout an old womans treasures, and
Hing up my space in this sort of fash
on.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
THE. ART OF LIVING TOGETHER.

THE ART OF LIVING TOGETHER
If people are to live happily together,
they must not fancy, because they are
thrown together now, that all their
lives have been exactly similar up to
the present time, that they started
exactly alike, and that they are to be
for the future exactly of the same
mind. Avoid having stock subjects of
disputation. Do not hold too much
to logic, and suppose that everything
is to be settled by sufficient reason.
IF you would be loved as companion,
avoid unnecessary criticism upon those
with whom you live. Let no flmili-
arity swallow up all courtesy. We
must not expect more from the society
of our friends and companions than it
can give; and especially must never
expect contrary things.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

CRACKED WHEAT PUDDING. Take
one quart of unskimmed milk, and
add to it one gill of cracked wheat,
mcooked, and one gill of sugar and a
small piece of thick cinnamon. Place
it in an oven of medium heat. When
about half done stir in the crust already
formed, and leave it to form another,
which will be sufficiently brown. Try
when it is done by tasting a grain of
wheat, which must be very soft. This,
when cold, makes delicious. creamy
pudding. A handful of raisins is an
addition.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

To ExTERMINATE vERMIN-A most
effectuaI insect powder is teyertew.
This, pulverized and pure, added to n1
equal weight of powdered boraX and
scattered in the haunts OF bedhu9SI,
reaches, or any other vermin, Will
scare them away sure; it can he rub
bed on dog to kill feas and will do
its work effectually.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

YELLOW stains, commonly called
iron mold, are removed from linen by
hydrochloric acid or hot solution Of
oxolic acid. Wash well in warm
water afterward.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

A GOOD temperance work-Remov-
ing the bar at the mouth Of the Mis-
sissippi.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

NtfIctr III IUcHI cOIIIulIls Ineerted Tor 20 Conts
per line for each insertion.
No proof Of publication OF legal advertise
ments will be made until our fee il settled
Announcing candidates for state and di-tfie,
Offices, as; and for county ofIicc-. $40.
Marriages and deaths published Zee ~
aries chargetkas advertisement
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

Kentucky paper. A short time ago
one Mr.. Ives discovered large cave
in the side of hill, and heard the
squealing of pigs inside. In attempt
ing to ascertain the cause, he saw pro-
truding from the mouth Of the cave
an immense rattlesnake with pig in
its mouth. Neighbors were sum-
moned with various weapons, a fire was
built in the mouth of the cave, and in
about an hour the reptiles came pour
ing out. They were fired upon from
the rock above, until 80 were killed,
but many made their escape. The
largest was ten feet long.
REMEDY FOR INsosfNIA.-The sim
pie remedy for insomnia suggested by
Frank auckland has attracted consid-
cradle attention on account, at least,
of its novelty. The fact that opiates
in any form leaves traces of their In
fiuences the next morning induced
him, he says, to prescribe for himself
as he has also frequently prescribed
for others--onions, simply common
raw onions. The well known taste of
onions is due to a peculiar essential oil
contained in them, and this oil has
highly soporific powers. which, in his
own case, Mr.. auckland AYERS, never
fails. If much pressed with work, and
feeling an inability to sleep, his prac-
tice is to eat two or three small onions,
the effect of which is magical in pro-
ducing the required repose. Such
remedy has a great advantage over
the Supplying drugs commonly resorted
to for this purpose, and is even pre-
ferable to the liquor opii sedat. and
and medical practice.
ANOTHER process is now proposed
for smelling iron, the idea being to
pulverize the ore and fluxing materials
with a certain proportion of carbona-
ceous matter, and incorporate the
whole, by means of hydraulic cement,
into solid masses or Jumps, like con-
crete or mortar, these blocks being
then placed in an ordinary smelling
furnace, in layers alternating with
such proportion of fuel as will, in con-
junction with that contained in the
blocks, effect the complete and
reduction of the Incorporated
ore. A supplementary fuel or COM
bustion chamber is provided, exterior
to the smelling furnace, with an open
ing into the latter opposite the blast
pipe nozzle by which means bitumin-
ious coal, coal-dust, or other suitable
fuel may be employed, in quantity
easily regulated, and burned under
the impact of the blast and supply
heat. The fueLchamber is also pro-
vided with feed, hopper, rod. and
alarum, to indicate when the fuel is at
such state as to require replenishing
OF renewal, this being indicated by
the descent of the rod, as the fuel is
burnt away, acting ON bell.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
Amussmenss.

MEMPHIS THEATER-To-night the Wal.
lace Sisters commence a weeks engage
ment at the theater, the opening play
being Jacquette, or in the Tolls, arc
mantle and melo-dramatic peice, said 10
be most attractive. An exchange has
this to say Of the debut OF the Wallace
Sisters at the Opera House in that city:
Whatever of cheer and incentive
there could be in a crowded house, they
had; whatever Of worth there was ia the
play or the acting, the audience had; for
there was never a trip nor halt. With
cloek-like regularity the play progressed
from the beginning to the end, gaining
IN interest with each act and culminat-
ing in a denouement that sent the audi
ence home delighted with the perform
ance, aud ready to swear by the dashing
Jack, the heroine Of the drama. It is
a play full of impossible situations, yet
so well acted. SO elegantly costumed, so
eharmingly set to music, and acted with
such vlgor that the improbabilities are
lost sight OF, and the audience settle
down to the thorough enjoyment OF each
scene, beguiled into satisfaction even
against their will. Criticism has no
chance in a race with J~acquette."
GREESLAw OPERA HOUSE. = Harrigan
and Harris celebrated combination will
appear at the above place of amusement
under the management of Colonel Pat
Short Of st. Louis. A New York Jour.
nal refers to their appearance as follows:
Harrigan's fine nervous organization,
oveiowing with natural wit and genius
for delineation, makes tae most Of such
characters as the excitable Italian roast
chestnut vender-a figure 30 true to real
life that it looks as though it had been
brought in from the nearest street corner
or the enthusiastic celebrator of St.
Patficks Day, dancing with delight be-
fore, behind and on all sides of the darl.
ing Sixty-ninth Regiment; while the
youthful Harris placid selfpoise and
pleasant Hibernian face, with its native,
engaging simplicity, forms and admirable
artistic counterpart either as a belliger-
ent irish apple woman or fine old lady
emigrant, bat especially as a fresh young
Irish servant girl, with her plain face,
blue eyes, iaxen hair, nez retrousse, thick
waist and "bog-trotters" to correspond.
MEYEE's Opera HoUsE.-To-night a
new troupe of artists will appear under
the management of Eugene German.
Among the new people are Leon Whit
ney, Baby Elephant Bolivar, Maud De.
Burg, Sig. Anderson, Susie Star, Lilly
Barretto, Flora Frauley, Kate St. Leon
and others. New bill every night.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
A sInecure ONCE.

There is a public pressure in favor of
r%etrenchment in all city expenditures
wherever 1t can be accomplished with
out serious injury to the public welfare.
For instance, the Office of City Recorder
is what may be deemed a s%inecure one
of pay without a corresponding amount
of labor being performed. The Recorder
has to sit on the bench from fifteen min
utes to half an hour per day and receives
a big salary for so doing. Our Police
Court reporter has often seer but three
and four cases on the docket, and these
were but plain DRINKS. Money is made
out ofthe Recorders office, far above the
salary by the incumbents issuing State
warrants in numberless cases and then
trying them as a justice of the peace,
each case bringing in fees varying from
two to five dollars, which makes the office
worth at least three thousand dollars per
year. By making the Chief of Police or
chairman of the Police Commissioners
ex-otficio recorder, to serve without extra
pay or salary, retrenchment and reform
will be apparent in Recorders Court
circles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
MEMPHIS C~UsrOx.HOUsE.
Text of BILL introduced by Con
gresham n. Casey Young.

Ao1t OF hAh1 by Con.
gresham IA. Casey Young,
We have received the text of a bill
introduced by our Congressman, q. c.
Young, to provide for the building of a
custom-house, p~ostofice, c~ourtrooms,
etc., in the city of Memphis. The bill
provides for the acceptance by the
United States of the land donated by the
city of Memphis for custsm-bouse pur-
poses, etc. that the Secretary of the
Treasury be authorized and directed to
cause a suitable building to be erected
thereon as provided by act Of Congress,
approved February 81, 1873, at a cost
not to exceed one million of dollars;
and that the Supervising Architect
shall prepare plans and specifications
for said building Immediately; and
that the Secretary of the Treasury
shall cause the actual construction
of the same to be commenced
prior to the oath of May, 1876. That the
Secretary Of the Treasury shall be au-
thorized to sell the lot of ground now
owned by the United States on the cor
ner Of Jefferson and Third streets, in
said city Of Memphis, for cash, within
six months from the passage of this act,
etc., and the proceeds arising from said
sale he shall add to the several sums of
money now in the Treasury, hereinbefore
appropriated by former acts Of Congress
for the construction Of the building afore-
said, and use the entire sum for that pur-
pose.
The above bill was introduced by Mr..
Young in the House Of Representatives
January s, 1876, was read twice aud re-
ferred to the COMMITTEES on Public Build
ings and Grounds and ordered printed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
J%ournaIisttc Homicide.

In yesterdays Avalanche and Appeal
appeared accounts of the accident on
board the steamer A. j. White on Friday
last, caused by the breaking Of the stage
plank boom, by which Mr.. Frank Nc
Cornell, a planter, residing near Jones'
Landing, a few miles below here on the
river, received severe injuries. The
Avalanche and Appeal announced that
Mr.. Mcconnell died Saturday afternoon.
This homicide or attempt to kill Mr..
Mcconnell by our contemporaries de.
serves the attention of the Criminal
Court grand jury, aud we have no doubt
but that bills of Indictment will be found
against them both here and in Critten-
den county, Arkansas. Yesterday after
noon Frank Mcconnell was alive and
able to sit up at his home in Arkansas.
His injuries, although painful and quite
serious, are not of a dangerous char
acter, and will neither kill him nor make
him a cripple for life. he was able yes
terday to enjoy reading his obituary no.
tees published in the Avalanche and
Appeal. Indeed he is the only man who
could enjoy such things, as the obituary
notices had quite an opposite effect upon
his friends in this city. The latest ad.
vices from Jones Landing are that Mr..
Frank Mcconnell will be all right in a
few days and that he will be able to visit
Memphis and contradict the rumors cir
culated as to his demise.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

GRAIN RATsERs REFUSE 70 sub
init to the wasteful and imperfect work Of
other Threshers, when post d on the vGst snPe-
fioritv Of this one, for SAW ug graln, saving
time, and doing fast, thorou. IN ana economi'
THRESHERMEN FIND 1T highly .sdyan.
tageous to run a machine that b rs no : Beat
ers," "Piokers," or Apron" that handles
Damp Grain. Long Straw, Headlines, Flax,
Timothy, Millett and all such ditirult grain
and seeds, with ENTIRE EASY AND
EFFECTIVENESS Cleans to perfection
saves the farmer his thresh bill by. extra So
ing Of grain, makes no "Litterings;' re-
quires LESS THAN 0NE-HAllF the usual
Belts, Boxes. Journals, and Gears; ca sier
managed; less repairs; one that grain raisers
prefer to employ and walt for, even AT
advanced prices, while other machines
are out of jobs" .
Four Sizes made with g, 8, 10 and
IL horse =" Mounted /" Powers, also
n speciality of S~epRratOrs "alOnes"
expressly for STEAM POWER. and
o match other Horse Powers.
II interested in grain raising, or threshing,
write for illustrated Circulars (sent free with
full particulars Of sizes, styles, prices. terms,
etc. NICHOLS, SHEPARD co,
9-15S6w BGfle trek. MichlO0n.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

The prince had good luck the other
day in Ceylon. He caught two elephants
and got a bite from atiger with common
worm bats. This said he. in the full
ness of his delight, this ere han't none
o yer tupp'ny 'ayp'ny sport, Hi tell yer.
This 'ere's rumny. alive 'ad more fun
than If Hid lost a il pun note. Hi say,
Russell, you hold sleepy cad, his there
any lor in Ceylon again fshink Nv a.
soadsyg'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
ZOE RENT or LEASE.

DOR RENT OR LEAsE-MY PLANTA-
= tlon in Crittenden county, Ark, imme-
diately on the river, 10 miles below Memphis.
Three hundred Gcres open, above overflow,
and very productive. House, outhouses,
stables and fences, in good repair. Gin. GIN
house and press on the place. Good landing.
Apply to me at Room Is, Planters Insurance
I'LL R. j. PERSON.
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Criminal Court.

The January term of the Criminal
Court was opened this morning by Judge
Adams. The following Grand Jurors
we're selected: R. S. Jones, foreman;
G. R. Ryan, R. W. Johnston, A. G. Ward,
G. R, Redford, 4. H. Estes, j. H. Lenow,
S. A. Moore, I. Foltz, W. II. Carver,
John I. Williams, H.. ]. Eskerly, ]. W.
McCown. The regular business Of court
will commence tomorrow morning.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

sentatives are likewise burdened. Our
Representative, Hon. H. Casey Young,
has no wife to be graded on the social
scale.
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FOR SALE.

EI0R SALE-WHEELER & WILSON SEW
L ing machine. Apply at Ill DeSoto street.
1l0.l34
EOR SALE NEW FORM OF TRUSTEES
[ DEEDS. just out; for sale at Ledger office.
DOR SALE-L0Ts ON LAUDERDALE,
T. Orleans, st. Paul and Carolina streets,
suitable for cheap residences.
l7 166 r. W. SMITH.
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FLOWERS, plants, trees at CRAIc's.
Federal Court.


In the above court the following or.
ders were made by Judge Brown tc day
in the case Of Harris Crime VS.. Planters
Insurance Company, of Memphis, heard
on demurrer of plaintiff to second and
third pleas Of defendant, demurrer sus-
tanned. In the bankruptcy case Of
Southworth 4 Thayer, a jury was ordered
to try questions of fact on specifications
of opposition to discharge. In the case
of Mrs. Z. M. Yergar VS.. the St. Louis
Mutual Insurance Company, Judge
Brown ruled that the policy was forfeited,
caused by the non.payment Of the inter
est due on premium notes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
TAXES.

+ B. EATON & co. NO. "a MADISON ST.,
IL. nave now complete indexes of All Exist
ing Tax Liens, including the year 1873, on all
real estate in the Fifth and Fourteenth Civil
Districts. including the city Of Memphis; also
dexes are by lots and tracts, not by name of
supposed owner, and are guaranteed correct.
1914 d, A. M00MBER, Sup't.
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Tony and Pan

Will open their new saloon, No. IL Mon
ros street, tomorrow at 10 o'clock, with
a fine lunch. Give them a call. lI7t
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sTRAYED.


OTRAYED-JANUARY 18TH. FROM JOHN
- O. Viewers residence. near State Female
College, on McLemore avenue, a compact
sorrel horse. seven years old. scar on inside
Of left hind leg. Suitable reward will be paid
on his delivery to JOHN Q WEAVER,
lls-l2l West of State Female College.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

The LEDGER job office, ID Madison
street, is prepared to execute any kind
Of job printing in a neat and tasteful
manner and at as low rates as any other
establishment in the city. t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

RUBBERs ! RUBBERS! RUBBERS !
500 Pairs Ladies' Over
shoes, 75c.
800 Pairs Mems OVershOes.
81. KAHN & FREIBERG,
1853, III, 17S Main ST., cor. Poplar.
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We make a Specially

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or India ink from old pictures or from
life, and at prices to suit the times. All
work guaranteed. For artistic finish aud
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Fine Art Studio, 25l Main street. sat