The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01
THE WEEK PAST.

THE WEEK PAST.
MYrA CLARK GAINES, who claims to
own much of the land on which the city
of New Orleans stands, has received
much encouragement by the late ruling
of the United States supreme court, aud
has gone back to New Orleans, where she
will reopen her suits for the estate which
she has been fighting for for the past half
century.
THE bill recently introduced into the
British house of lords Tor the regulation
OF the practice of .yivisection provides
that when no an;rsthetics are used the
experimesser must first furnish certifi-
cate tmtyivisectioRs 10 Indispensable to
the experiment, and the experiment
must be performed in registered place,
and by person specially licensed by the
government. - ~
EMofIoNAL INSANITY still has its
defenders in Illinois, the latest sufferer
being Mrs. Brita Nelson, who was placed
on trial for numbering her husband. On
two occasions she confessed the musder
and even told ths name of the affinity
who suggested the deed, but the jury
become convinced that she vas emotion
ally insane and acquitted her.
. TnE heirs of 4. T. Stewart are rapidly
increasing in number. The latest census
gives them at two thousand and upwards.
They may not succeed in breaking the
win, though experience shows that few
experiments of that character are hope
less; but it seems quite probable that
they will compel the executors to have
it approved again.
The Canadians are putting up the
bars against our new silver coins. At
Windsor, opposite Detroit, the merchants
have made solemn covenant not to re-
ceive it save at these rates: The three
cent silver coin at two cents; the FIVE
cent at four cents; the ten-cent at eight
the twenty fye-cent at twenty cents: the
fifty-cent at forty-cents; the dollar at
eighty cents. - L. -.
CoNcERNING the tobacco tax, the well
posted Washington correspondent Of the
New York Bulletin, telegraphs: ait
may be stated positively, on the author
ity Of nearly every member of the ways
and means committee, that there will be |
no bill presented TO change the tax on
tobacco at this session. state this so
authoritstively IN order to allay the ru-
mored generalization in the tobacco
trade brought about by some manufac-
turers who are working for a change in
the tax"
NJ. BoURBoUGE, of Paris, has lately
been partially successful in collecting
spontaneous electrical currents from the
earth. This announcement, though in
itself of simple character, contains sug-
gestions of a possible discovery of great
1t may be safely suggested
that until some method is devised for
securing the service of these natural cur
rents, no great advance will be made in
the adaptation of electricity to the per-
formance OF mechanical labor. Hence
all efforts in this field are to be COM
AMONG English scientific men the
belief is gaining ground that hydrophobia
may result from the bite of a perfectly
healthy dog. This theory would seem
to be sustained by case which recently
occurred in New York. Several months
ago a Mr.. Kelly was slightly bitten on
the hand by pet dog. The wound soen
healed, and as the dog was apparently in
a perfectly normal condition no uneasi-
ness was felt about the accident. A short
time ago, however, Mr.. Kelly exhibited
SYMPTOMS of hydrophobia. All efforts to
relieve him were In vain, and after few
days of intense suffering he died.
In his speech at the literary-fund din
ner. in London, lately, Mr.. Froude paid
Mr.. Disraeli high compliment. He
would net predict that in the year 5000,
men would still be reading Macaulay's
HAoeOAy VI I1o WOulu uOL
predict that they would be reading
Lothian" "But this 1 will say, that
if any statesman of the age of Augustus
or the Antonines had left us picture of
patrician society at Rome, drawn with
the same skill and with the same delicate
irony with which Mr.. Disraeli has de-
scribed a part of English society in
Lothian, no relic of antiquity would
now be deveured with more avidity and
interest"
The latest-and in some respects the
fishiest-fish story is from the st. Lotus
Republican. The pith Of it is that a
fisherman in that neighborhood, seeing
what looked like a fish "with a tail at
both ends" pulled it in with a gaff and
discovered that he had catfish with a
buffalo fish in its mouth. which it was
trying to swallow. The Republican says:
F., The catfish was found to weigh seventy
five pounds and the buffalo ten pounds.
Both were in good order and made pal
stable meal ss was tested by family in
this city" The story, on the whole, is
good one; but it is little Disappointing
u! not giving the numerical strength of
the family that made a palatable meal