The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

cost from % to IS generally, but have been
known to sell for as high rs $500. Among
floral displays may be mentioned that which
was made at the obseqies of New York gen
tleman, which consisted Of a broken column
with an anchor leaning against it, sur
mounted by crown, the whole stand
ing Eve feet in height. 1t cost the pur
chaser 81 900. When the Grand Duke
Alexis arrived in New York CoIone
Fisk sent to him at his hotel three-.,er
American and Russian flags, while upon the
lower tiers appeared the words, Weicons'
Alexis" This cost $500. As an 80
horticultural writer's naively observee a IA q
recent issue, alt may be remarked tnat now
ers are expensive at this time oil year:
Er.n the little boutoneicfe or souvenir
Eh;cb lends an air 70 the lapel of gen.
mems coat though it be but neatly ar
ranged cluster Of lilies Of the valley or of
yioiets or = piece of smilax, costs from
twcntv-6vs TO Fifty cents. Quite recently a
anrslist sold Marshalneal rose for $40,
which is considered the largest price ever
paid in New York for a single flower
We are always laughing at the VAN
tiles of women and their absurdities in the
matter of dress, but the excentricities of many
dressy persons who profess to belong TO the
sterner sex are quite as laughable as any OF
the freaks Of the poor women, whom Nature
and the Fates seem to have oonsPired to
make ridiculous The man with the big
silk hat ard spring overcoat, fragile cane and
oJorous "cigyar," whose confidence in his
overpowering appearance is visible IN his
every look and gesture, is about as laughable
an object as the other sex can produce, while
the man who disappears in on Ulster and
goes about like n fashionable hermit, per
spring in an intolerable seclusion and leaving
the public to wonder whether the sweltering
fragment OF humanity passing them Is the
advance agent of theatrical troupe,
western state-driver, an exaggerated
pile OF bed.blankets set in motion, is as
comical spectacle as can be seen outside of
a theater. The man with the spring over
coat derives his self-satisfaction from the in
imitable style in which that garment is
thrown open for the display of the closely
buttoned undercoaf, and few fully compre-
able fashion upon the vulgar throng, which
has a limited sense of humof and is easily
overcome by appearances. Between the
man in the Ulster and the MAN in the open
spring overcoat, no cultivated mind need
seek the drama for amusement.-Conrier-
Journal
The following is full text of a bill
introduced by Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
10 provide for the redemption of legal ten
der United States notes, in accordance with
the existing law:
Be it enacted, etc, That to further en-.
able the secretary of the treasury to provide
for the redemption of legal tender United
States notes, in accordance with the existing
law, he is authorized to issue, sell or dispose
Of, at not less than par, in legal tender
United States notes, either OF the descrip-
tions of bonds of the United States bearing
interest ut rate not exceeding four and a
half per cent. per annum, described in act of
congress, approved July IA, 1870, entitled
I" An act to authorize the refunding of the
national debt" with like quantities and
privileges of exemption to the extent neces-
sary to carry into full effect the act Of con-
gress approved Jan. IA, 1875, entitled Gan
act for the resumption of specie payments"
and to use the proceeds thereof for the pur-
pose aforesaid, and the said legal tender
notes so obtained upon the issue of said
bonds shall be held and considered as a part
Of the final redemption of such notes, pro-
vided for in act of congress herein last men
toned, and shall be treated accordingly, and
cancelled; provided that the principal Of
the bonds herein authorized may be made
redeemable at any time not less than thirty
nor exceeding forty years from date of issue.
Be it further enacted, ETC., That all con-
tracts entered into or IN de after the first
day of January, 1873, shall be payable in ac-
cordance with the legal tender andard of
gold and silver, unless otherwise pro-
vided for at the time of the contract,
Be il further enacted, ETC., That all ma
tional banking associations shall be and are
hereby requested to hold in coin, as part of
their lawful money reserve on hand, after the
first day of January, 1877, one-fourth after
the first day of January, 1873, one-half, and
after the first day of October, 1878, three
fourths