The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-05
FROM ALL SOURCES,

There are twenty-five contested
seats in the house of representative
When the Guikwar of Baroda re-
ceivsA the Prince of Wales ne had on his
person jewels valued at fs,0OOOOo sterling
The reduction made by the house
committee on appropriations in the consular
and diplomatic bill amounts to about $780,.
Schroeder's celebrated air ship,
which was designed to take the mails from
New York to London in twenty-four hours,
was reduced to splinters by a severe gale in
Baltimore the other day. The vessel was
not completed.
The suspension of the Tredegar
iron company, Richmond, is announced.
The works of the company were among the
lnrgest of the kind in the United States
Five or six hundred person thrown out
of employment.
The finest umbrellas have partridge
sticks mounted with beautiful crystal orna-
ments, or else a row of pearl studs on the
handle, or perhaps it has a knob of fine red
gold faceted: for these the finest quality of
oiEboiled silk is used, End the umbrella
costs from $50 to 500.
The Boston Traveller thinks that
one of the greatest evils that has grown up
of late with our large j>bbing houres is the
absurd custom of sending out drummers-
1--WE have the testimony" it says, "of one
large concern that il does not pay, nor never
has paid, and the abolishing of it would be
of immense benefit to the trade"
The glory of the farmer is that, in
he of loho - - IN 70
All the trades rest upon his primitive author
ity. He stands close to nature; he obtains
from the earth the bread and the meat. The
food which was not, he caused to be. The
first farmer was the first man, and all histor-
ic nobility rests on possession and use of
land.-EmeTsos-
T. Adolphus Trollope writes from
Rome to the New York Tribune that Prince
Torlonio has been for many years secretly
engaged in gathering antiquities, mainly
Etruscan, Greek and Roman marble and
bronzes, and row has a collection second
only to that of the Vatican. A colossal Mi
nerva In bronze, over twelve feet high and
perfect in form, is mentioned. This rich
museum is not open to any one.
California has refused to appoint a
Legislative chaplain, because "the appoint
ment, not being absolutely necessary for the
public good, involving preferment as to the
religious creeds, fostering spirit CT m airy
and contention among them, breeding ami
mostly and heartburnings, lowering the Dig
nifty of the minister to the arena OF party
politics, destroying the solcmnity of PRAYER
by reducing 1t to amere formula, tending to
unite church and state, and making an in
vldious distinction between the departments
of government by giving chaplain to some
and denying it to Others"
One of the strangest claims pending
before congress is that presented In the petit
ton filed in the senate by the children of
the late senator VIM. X. Sebastian, who was
reelected to his seat from the state of Ar
kansas for the term beginning March 4, 1859.
but was prevented from holding it by reso-
luton of expulsion passed at the special ses-
sion of congress which was called in July,
Immediately after the breaking out of the
war A resolution was passed July IL, which
recited that whereas certain senators, among
whom Sebastian was named, had failed to
appear In their seats, and it being apparent
that they were engaged in the conspiracy to
destroy the Union, they were declared ex-
PEELED The petitioners aver that Sebastian
was then a Union man, and remained such
until his death in Nav, 1865, and thew ask
the revocation of expulsion and the decIar-
alton that his legal right, that is the salary
for the term to which he was elected, inure
to his heirs. With the petition are number
of afidavits from various parties testifying
to the loyalty of Mr.. Sebastian.