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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-22

The better to retain important facts in
the memory, am ever fond of reducing
the principles of good farming to brief
maxims and rules, COMPRISING into sin
gle short sentence the gist of many a
page. Thus 1 carry about the mental
pabulum to be digested at the handle of
the pillow or hoe. The following are some
of these principles:
First-The farmer who would succeed
we'll, and derive pleasure as we'll as profit
from his calling, must manifest an active
and abiding interest in his vocation. 1t
takes heart-work to make hand-work
pleasant.
Second-The farmer must study how
best to increase and maintain fertility to
his soils. There is no inertia in agricul-
ture. There must be progress, either
forward or retrograde.
Third-The farmer must strive to in
crease Inequality as well as the quantity
of his crops. 1t is the quality that de-
termines the price. In this Excelsior
should be his unvarying motto.
Fourth-The farmer must seek with a
watchful eye to improve his market IA
cilities. 1t is transportation that eats
up the profits.
Fifth-The art of raising better stock
is not as well known as it shoul be.
Keep no more animals than you have
the facilities to feed and care for we'll.
Sixth--The farmer must seek to i'm
prove his social, intellectual and finan-
cial condition.
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4 THIRTY IHOUS1ND ACRE FIRM.

On the writer's recent visit to st.
Paul he had the pleasure of meeting
Oliver Dalrymple, Northern Dakota's
great farmer. Much has been written of
Mr.. Dalrymple, who has cleared two or
three hundred thousand dollars in grow
ing wheat on a two thousand five
hundred acre farm in Washington
county, Minnesota. This spring Mr..
Dalrymple became interested with Cen
eral Cass and other eastern capitalists in
thirty thousand acre farm, about
fifteen miles west of Cargo, Dakota.
He put in this spring one thousand and
two hundred acres of wheat on ground
broken last season, and now has one
hundred plows in operation, intending
to break six thousand acres of prairie, to
be sown in wheat next year. He has a
large force of men at work erecting
stables, barns, dwellings for tenants, and
so forth, and other necessary improve
ments. The land selected by Mr..
Dalrymple is situated in one of the finest
and most productive valleys in the world !;
as it is more accessible to market than
any lands in Iowa or Southern Dakota,
or Minnesota, he has abundant promise
of millions. Other large farms are being
opened in the vicinity, and new buildings
may be seen on every hand. The one
thousand and two hundred acres of wheat
sown by Mr.. Dalrymple this spring on
Northern Dakota farm at this writing
June 1O) looka splendidly. and promises
to yield twenty or thirty bushels to the
acre.-Bisnlarck Tribune.
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SUPERSTITTONS.



With the old-time festivities and GUS
toms linger the old-time superstitions.
These affect social and business life. Men
believe in ghosts, in.haunted houses, and
unlucky days as devoutly as they do in
the Bible. Strange enough Saturday is
the unlucky day of the old New Workers.
l saw to-day a very intelligent lady who
refused to sign lease because the occu-
pancy was to commence on Saturday
Z" Saturday has always been the bane of
our family" she said. Some houses
have been unoccupied for months from
the reputation Of being haunted. There
is one to-day that stands in very eligi-
BILE neighborhood for the business to
which it is devoted. Everything around
it is snatched up readily. This, with
every improvement, stands idle. Parties
can be found brave enough to take the
house at a low rent, but they can get no
custom. The Nathans house was one of
the finest mansions on Twenty-third
street. Its location could not be sur
Firm avenue ard directly eri'ossS>s-<sI,
Fifth Avenue hotel. 1t was superbly
furnished, and was offered for song.
One or two families were willing to take
it, but no domestics would live in the
place. After standing idle two or three
| ladies would not cross the doomed
threshold. At last it was taken down
stone by stone, and warehouse erected on
the foundations. Even this does not
seem to have silenced the voice of blood
| A very famous mansion has just been
sold under the hammer on Madison
avenue. An old fellow with a BLACK
pipe has for years put his head out o
the upper windows occasionally, and ha
the ability to curse everybody who live
under the roof. The house has beef
searched from coal-bin to attic. N
matter who comes or who goes, the oil,
fellow abides. A strange fatality has St
far attended every occupant of the house
At one time it was the abode of fashion
, The lady of the mansion was the bell
of New York, and gave the most famou
parties on the island. Her entertain
l mcnts were the envy of New York, an
' the old Knickerbockers could not con
: pare with her in the magnifcence of he
! receptions. But her star waned an
S domestic disaster settled down on h,
) house. A wealthy New Yorker h:
n bought the place, and renovate it as i
r will, it Is believed that the old Imam vii
|. as of old, look out of the window and {
| mischief
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The Providence journal, in care
fully considered article, says that the
price of cotton is too high, considering
all the conditions affecting the market,
and that manufacturers must have
cheaper cotton before they can safely
manufacture anything approaching the
present production of goods. The Jour
nal argues that" if the manufacturer
is to be saved from ruin, one of two
things must hapren-goods must adj
cannot advance, for the supply is great
ly in excess of the demand, and the
production, larger than the consump-
ton, is constantly adding to the sur
plus stocks which now burden the mar
ket. And cotton will follow its natural
tendency to lower prices, while spin
ners, by their regular purchases, enable
the speculator to hold the market at its
| present rates." The Journal asks what,
under the circumstances, is to be done,
and gives the following rather startling
answer:
"There seems to be but one way fol-
| manufacturers out of their difficulties
and that is in general stoppage of the
mills of New England for the next two
months. 1t is hard alternative, but il
seems to be the only prudent and SAT-
course. 1t is better, however, for thos
who are employed in the mills that thei
means of support should be restricted il
, the summer than in the winter, and it
better for the manufacturer to suffer
few short weeks of embarrassment rathe
, than a long season of trouble and ruiz
AS it looks to us, stoppage of the mil
, for time would have a doubly benefici;
4 effect. 1t would to a great extent RI
r lieve the various distributing markets
, the overstocks which now burden the'
A and hold the prices of goods at the
e present depressed standard: it woul
$ tend to an advance i'll values AS the SUI
ply gradually approached the demand
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a E-IR0R-SItINH StftfbE MACHINE.

The recent suicide at Lafayette, Ind.
of one Moore, for horrible ingenuity has
rarely If ever been cxcelled in the an
mails of self murder. The poor wretch
made his preparation in every unique
way, and displayed an amount of inten-
tive talent which @auld have accom-
plished immense results if it had Leen
applied to a legitimate mechanical pur-
posse Since quietus can be made to
ones life with a bare bodkin, it will
| strike most persons that the Indiana
farm hand put himself to a good deal of
trouble with his ingenious machine for
head-cutting. His trouble, however,
secured absolute certainty in the opera
ton of his machine. The AK was sus-
pended in such a manner that it was
sure to fall in a certain direction at a
| certain time. He placed himself in the
path of its decent, so that there could be
no possibility of avoiding its edge, either
by voluntary or involuntary motion.
Where the ak would strike, he placed a
small box, open on one side, i'm which his
head reposed. He held his head firmly
in position and his chin up from his neck
by stick run across the box. He was
strapped tightly to the floor with two
straps, one around the arms and the
other around the legs, both straps being
screwed to the floor. Thus when the
candle which he had placed between the
cord holding the AK burned them off, the
weapon would swiftly and heavily fall
and perform it's horrible mission with
absolute certainty. Nothing but a
miraculous interposition could stop it.
Having thus perfected method which
was proof against failure, his next step
was to secure painless death. This was
easily done by filling the box, in which
his head reposed, with cotton saturated
with chloroform. Nothing could be
neater, surer, or more effective, and yet
nothing could be more grimly horrible
and desparingly courageous. The
denouement is more thrilling than any
thing in fiction. He cody suspended
the ak, at a point fifteen feet above
where his head would lay, by the double
cord fastened to the ceiling. He then
lit the candle, which was calculated to
burn down to the cords before he should
wake up from his unnatural slumber
By its light he arranged his box, stuffing
it with cotton and saturating it with
chloroform. Then he threw himselfupon
the floor and fastened his head into
fastened himself to the floor, so that
there was no possibility that the con-
vulsive movements which sometimes
follow the taking of chloroform would
disturb his position relative to the keen
edge above that was waiting for him.
The opiate did it's work. He went to
sleep with perfect confidence that his
machine would do its horrible business
in perfect satisfactory manner. The
brief candle shed its little light upon
the ak and reflect upon the face of the
sleeping man. Slowly and steadily it
burned down until it reached the cord.
In an instant the cord snapped, the Ak
decended with crash through the mans
neck, and buried itself in the floor I'M
derneath him. Its work was sure
There was no mutilation, no suffering,
no tortur. In an instant he was in
eternity, without pang or struggle.
Chicago Tribune.
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PROFESSIONS OF THE GENETI IWARD
BILL.

The hill for the further distribution of
the Geneva award, as adopted by the
bouse, provides first, for the payment of
losses caused by the exculpated cruisers
that is, the rebel cruisers-which were
not recognized by the Geneva tribunal.
The next payment of premiums is for
war risks, whether paid to corporations,
agents, or individuals, after the sailing OF
any confederate cruiser, but the actual
loss on account of war premiums only is
to he paid. Those claims must be paid
within six months from the passage of
the act, and the court of commissioners
of the Alabama claims is continued until
July 22d, 1877.
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THIRD CLASS MAIL ma TIER.

BY the section in the postoffice apPro-
priation bill relating to third-class
matter, all transient newspapers, maya
zines, books, and all printed matter, with
the exception of circulars unsealed' VIII
be restored to the former rate OF one per
cent. for every two ounces, while mer-
chandise and sealed circulars will remain
at the present rate. The bill apPropri-
ates for the transportation of the mails,
s15 ss7 ISL; that embraces the Star
routes and steamship lines at $6,137, S5l'
and railroad routes at 80, lO0,O 900, against
the estimates of the department OF little
more than SIT 100000 reduction upon
the estimate for the transportation OF the
mails of 81 $50, 149. There is nothing IN
the bill which affects the fast mails
such being, by special arrangement
between the postmaster-general and the
! railroads.
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4 GROCER'S TRICK.

The other day Grand River avenue
grocer purchased a thirty pound crock
of butter of farmer whom he had never
dealt with before, and while down cellar
emptying the crock he thought of Il
trick to surprise the agriculturist.
Finding stone weighing about eight
pounds, the grocer creased it, carried it
up stairs with the crock, and, pointing
to it, quietly remarked:
"This, of course, il to be taken from,
the gross weight, as well as the jar"
The farmer looked at the stone fol-
several seconds, and then in a voice SC
low that no one else could hear, replied
"Please kiver a piece of paper oveI
the jar, for there's a man out by the
door who knows me-"
The grocer finally explained his fiend
ish plot, and the butter-seller's face un
derwent sudden change. Reaching
over the sugar barrels to shake hands
he said:
al didn't hardly believe it, though
INV wife came from a tricky family, an'
I should have gone home and organize,
mourning and lamentation in that farm
house .''-Detroi Free Press.
Tt is stated that prominent Presby
ter an church recently had eighty appl
cations for its vacant pulpit.
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VOLUME XII.
4 BACHELORS REASONS,



You wonder at INV single life,
And say I'm breaking Natures law,
And tits high time took wife,
And that need the name OF Ia,
Well, welt 1 wont dispute your word;
YOU'RE right | guess, bout Natures law -
But shall tell you what heard?
Aud shall tell you what saw?
will. and then you'll hold your peace
Forever-as regards my wife;
Your interest in such things will cease,
And shall lead single life,
loved thought a fair Young maid
And had in view the wedding ring;
NY visits, too were frequent paid
Ny friends remarked "'tis lust the tn Ing"
One morning, on my way down town,
For reasons a visit paid;
found my charmer In n gown
That plainly spoke a slovenly maiu.
This was a trifle, sir, to some;
To me twas more than could bear;
ITO such base uses may we come
She realIy had not combed her hair.
Her mother was as gocd dame
As ever lived IN Sunny South;
heard this girl. who bore her name
say To her mother, shut your mouth
IT'S almost needless here to saw,
soon begged PARTON and retired.
never since have been that way,
For she's not fit to besadniircd.
year elapsed before tried
Another maiden for a wife;
But as I've lived, will hsve died
When have lost nay hold on life.
found no faults the other had,
But there was something else, sir, which
Was almost equally as had
Her hair was darker than her switch
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TRIjfPS.
The Gtc"f dri;'y Oh ths fm-.e0sc-So Uork,
No Money, No friends.

The Gtcnf 1Tity Oh ths fm~!eosc-Xo Uork,
No Money, No Friends.
Chicago Times, July LIST.
Last evening, when the northbound
way freight on the southern division of
the st. Louis, Hock tslahd and Chicago
railroad stopped at Winchester and Cha
pin, Illinois, about two hundred harvest
tramps boarded and took charge of the
train, in spite of conductor Bostock, who
brought them into Beardstown. The city
marshal was summoned, who called to
his assistance a suuad of men. After a
short fight with railroad pins, etc, the
train was rid of these nuisances, several
tramps being severely hurt. The great
army of tramps is still on the increase,
and is moving northward like swarm of
locusts, scourging the country as it goes.
More than two hundred stretched them
selves out in lumber-yards, sheds, barns,
and on the ground in and about Jackson
vile on Friday night. Sixty-five were
arrested and locked in the city prison
for petty offenses, but having no money
were turned loose the next morning,
and given one hour to leave the city. In
fact, all that could be seen were ordered
to leave town in an hour, on pain of
being formed into chain-gang, and made
to work on the streets. Many of them
were offered work, but refused it. Squads
of from ten to fifty boarded various
trains leaving the city, "dead- beating"
their way, az far as conductors did allow
them. At Chaplin, about sixteen miles
west of here, on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad, some two hundred
gathered on Friday afternoon, and
boarded a freight train. The conductor,
with shotgun, and the brakeman,
with revolvers, fred a volley into the
caboose among them, when they fled
pell-mell. None were seriously injured.
After the train started, the cowardly
vagabonds returned the fire with re-
volvers, shooting a brakeman named
Edward M'Keown, of Springfield. in
ficting dangerous if not fatal wound.
After the train had left, dispatches were
received at jacksonville for help, and the
sheriff, with posse of armed men were
dispatched at once. The man, who had
wounded the brakeman, giving his
name as Stone, was arrested and
remanded to Jail, but before the sheriff
and his gang reached Chaplin, about
one hundred and sixty of the tramps
had taken complete possession of a
train on the Rockford, Rock Island and
st. Louis railroad, and with the off
GERS under their control were making
north on that road at rapid rate, the
last that was heard of them. About
sixty were reported in the town of Chaplin
on Friday night, and some seventy-five
are yet hanging around Jacksonville.
What their intention is, or where they
came from, the most of them will not
divulge, and the stories of those who do
have anything to say do not harmonic
very we'll. They go in squads to houses,
begging food, and if refused, especially
where there are no men about the prem
ises, demand it. or help themselves to
whatever they want in the way of food
and clothing, and pursue their journey
onward. All trains passing through that
section of country are being armed and
guarded, and fears of bloodshed are
entertained.
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THE YR FIRE.
The C0nHdgrdtiOn in Witch TtreHty-f four
Young UOnen Peristed.

The COnttagrdtiOn in Which T,renty-f four
Young Uomen PerisI,cd.
Glasgow (ScotlandD News, june IT,
In few minutes those who had gath
cred round the spot where the fire origi-
mated were compelled to flee for their
lives, leaving portions of their clothing
and all they possessed in the mill behind
In the garnet overhead James Barr, fifty
years of age, was working with twenty
five young women under his charge. On
hearing the screams in the fiat beneath
he tried to keep the cries of those who
were apparently terror-stricken beneath
from penetrating its own department and
creating greater alarm than was neces-
imminent danger of the whole establish
ment, rushed up and gave the alarm, but
was too late to effect an escape for him
self or others, as the staircases were all
as no one could pass through and live.
The young women rushed to the win
dows and called for that aid which could
not be afforded them. They gesticulated,
and screamed and sobbed in the prospect
of death, and implored those outside to
save their lives.
Meanwhile the fire spread rapidly, the
buildings one by one were enveloped, the
flames shot high in the air, and before
long the spot where the helpless females
had been vainly seeking for succor was
reduced to ruins, and those who ouccu-
pied it were lost beyond hope of recall.
The old man Barr was, before the fire
obliterated everything, seen at one of the
windows waving his hands, apparently
calling ror rescue, and large number of
the girls were holding by him in the last
lingering hope of having theirlives spared.
One young woman jumped from the
height of four stories, and fell heavily on
the ground beneath. She expired in a
few minutes. Another young girl APP
peared at the window screaming. Her
sister, who happened to be beneath,
called out, Jump out, or you'll be
killed, and the littlegirl instantly leaped
over. The sister endeavored to catch her,
but as the height from which the leap
was taken was very great, both came into
violent contact, and were thrown down.
The sister escaped unhurt, but the
young girl was bruised, it is feared seri-
ously so. Her hair was burned off by
the flames.
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and it would place the manufacturer in
a stronger and more Independent position
at the opening of fall trade. The curtail-
ment of production would also have its
influence on cotton. If spectators
found no assistance from spinners, their
holdings would be forced on the market
at their legitimate value, and that value
would be determined by the probabilities
of a supply which, under fair reckoning
of favorable circumstances, promises to
be larger than ever known in the history
of the country"
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DEITII OF GEN. TER.


Startling intelligence reaches us from
Horn River Gen. Custer was in COM
mand of the Seventh regiment of regu-
lar cavalry. He came upon an Indian
camp of about two thousand lodges.
Major Reno, with four companies, was
sent to make an attack, three companies
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AN imperfect record ef the accidents
occurring on fourths of July in New
York city in the ten years from 1866 to
1875 inclusive, shows that thirty-ni
persons were killed and four hundred
and forty-two wounded, many of the
wounded subsequently dying, as result
of those accidents-an average of four
persons killed and forty-four wounded
for each celebration ef the fourth. Last
year the number of killed was eight and
of wounded one hundred and two. In
the period from 1868 to 1875 inclusive
there were in New York city two hun
dred and eighty-ene fires occa-ioned by
fireworks alone on the fourth of July, in
volving loss Of sl5s, 667, an average of
thirty-6ve fires and loss of $4,000 for
each celebration.
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RUSSIA proposes to try the protective
policy on a grand scale for the benefit of
its iron and steel manufacturers. There
are five special features embraced in the
policy, as follows: First. That in future
duty shall be imposed upon all i'm
ported rails. Second. That all conces-
sions to Russian railway companies shall
contain a clause compelling them to use
not less than one-half rails of Russian
manufacture. Third. To allow a pre-
MUM TO all rail manufacturers. Fourth.
10 give them orders for work extending
over four or five years. Fifth. To give
them special cheap rate of transit not
only for their manufactured rails, but
also for their ores, pig-iron, fuel, and, in
fact, all the materials of their trade.
How it would delight Pig-iron Kelley to
live in Russia. The new departure
which that country proposes must glad
den his heart. He might, however,
maintain that the object aimed at by the
Russian government could be accom-
plished more efectually by absolutely
prohibiting the importation of rails and
by providing that the government shall
purchase all the rails that may be man
ufactured in Russia at whatever rates
the manufacturers prescribe.
In the last annual reportof the British
registrar-general of births, deaths, and
marriages, a chapter is devoted to the
comparative duration of the life of per-
sons engaged in various occupations
From this it appears that the average
mortality of butchers and fishmongers is
very high; that publicans suffer more
from fatal disease than the members of
almost any other known class. Clergy
men and barristers, from twenty-five TO
forty-five, experience low rates of NOR
tality. Solicitors experience the full
average mortality after the age of thirty
five. Physicians and surgeons, from
youth up to the age of forty five, expe-
rience mortality much above the aver
age; after that they differ little from the
average. The mortality of chemists and
druggists is high; commercial clerks, ex-
ceptionalIy high; railway servants, high
veterinary surgeons and farriers, very
high carpenters and workers in wood
generally, low at all ages; drapers, above
the average, owing to the in door work
BARRIERS, high; shoemakers, rate below
the average, except from twenty to
twenty-five and at advanced ages; tailors
much above the average; bakers, little
above the average; grocers. low rate ;
tobacconists suffer very much at all the
younger ages, indicating that the use OF
tobacco is prejudicial to young men.
One of the most gratifying exhibits il
that made in respect to factory hands
and the report says that the wool, sill
and cotton manufacturing population nc
longer experience an exceptionally high
mortility.