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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

STREET DODGING.-The st. Louis Re
publican thus points out the clumsy
dodger, man who everybody has met {:
"He is always on the street, and if you
walk much you will meet him at least
once week. He bears down at rapid
pace, and appears to be going to pass on
your left, but at the distant of two feet
he suddenly ducks to the right. You
put on your brakes and try to vcer to
the east, he veers to the east; you try
the west, he tries the west you try the
gutter side, he tries the gutter side; you
try the inside, he tries the inside; you
become excited and jump for an opening
on his right, he fushes up and jumps in
the same direction. There are but two
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
Emmett L. Ross & Co., Proprietors
VOLUME XII.


All day the white-haired woman sits
Beside the open door, and knits;
No living thing her dim eye sees,
As, busy with old memories,
She dreams her dreams of what has been,
And knits her old-time fancies in.
She thinks Of those who long ago
Went out across the threshold low.
How many times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps near,
And she has started up TO find
A dead leaf Iustling in the wind.
But never as of those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky,
With folded hands on quiet breast,
All wrapped about with peace and rest,
She thinks Of them. For her thew tread
The green earth with her. None are dead.
Though years have fallen like the leaves
Above the graves where summer weaves
Her graSs-fnnsed coverlet, TO keep
Safe hid from US the ones asleep,
she fees them all. Not grass nor mold
Can hide the ones she loved Of old.
She talks with them. When brown-wiiged bes
Make merry In the locust trees,
She thinks he comes and sits with her
Whose voice was loves interpreter
q dreamer young again to-day,
What matter II your hair Is gray
Sometimes she thinks that round her knee
Her children play in happy glee,
And when they tired and sleepy grow
She sings some song OF long ago,
And on her loving mother-breast
She rocks her little ones to rest.
o dreamer, knitting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray,
ioers is q happy, happy heart
haunted world from ours apart.
The years that turned your tresses gray
Have given you back your youth to-day.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
CRAZE AND Il ~

The habit of always being employed
is great safeguard through life, as well
as essential to the culture of every virtue.
"A Nevada man recently swallowed a
wooden toothpick. When he is stand
ing erect it doesn't bother him, but
when he sits down he is painfully con-
scious that he committed an indiscre-
ton.
"A Cleveland woman recently mar
| ried Chinese laundryman, and three
days thereafter the unhappy Celestial
appeared at BARRIERS shop and ordered
his pig-tail cut of, saying, in explana-
ton, "Too muchee dam yank."
The crown of mans manhood is some
insight or authority or knowledge that
puts him above the ordinary plane of
everyday things; ne must take hold
somewhere, spiritually or intellectually,
upon the things of God.
Everything is centennial, red, white
and blue, or star-spangled banner.
Maria," screams Flora McFlimsey,
.hand me down that centennial pink
silk of inine-that with the revolutiona-
ry bias cut on the John Quincy Adams
rufie."
Anxious mamma of three -four
season" daughters Speaking, she thinks,
to her husband -" James, dear, think
she has caught him. He must be pro-
posing" James with the tray)-"I
don't think ne am, ma am, he've just asst
me to bring him sandwich"
"A MEXICAN WAR
How they fight in Mexico!
The drums beat and the horns blow;
A hundred greasers all in a row,
Looped and Widowed raggedness show;
At their head is Don Pedro
Jesu Maria Porfiro,
Undes his nose a mustachio;
His eyes are black as the wing OF a crow
And glare with a most unearthly glow;
His hair way down to his waist doth grow;
He carries a long, sharp cuchillo,
And wildly bristles from top to toe,
And howls and yowls TO meet the foe.
Don Pedro wants to be president
That is what the rowdy-dow plainly meant;
And all the greasers are quite content
To fight, for peace is a punishment.
And in Mexico, you all do know,
There are always a hundred Pedros or SO,
And the way they fight
To see is sight.
Don Pedro
Comes up with gun,
And the other party sets of on a run.
Don Pedro =,
Without ado,
Runs the Rio Grande through.
His army desert,
And nobody's hurt.
And this is the way, as things now go,
A presidents made in Mexico.
Prof. Schem, one of the best of
American writers on statistics, estimates
The number of the population of the
globe under the government of Christian
rulers to be 6s5, 459, All, and the num-
Der under non Christian rulers at ILL.,
,S2. $50
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
An auburn haired blonde wei

An auburn haired blonde went
home from church with her young fellow
Sunday night, and they chilled and
cooed" until late hour The "old
man" made his appearance, looking like
the ghost of Hamlet, and informed the
Young man that "there was the door.
The young man "saw it," and before he
went through it was informed that che
must excuse pa, IA he often walked
about the house in his sleep that way u
But the young man went away thinking
that "pa" meant "busincss'' and would
have awakened himself up if he hadn't
lett when he did
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

HOPE dawns for the Texan border,
which has been left at the mercy of Mex
lean bandits for, the past dozen years.
Now that Gen. Sherman has recovered
control of the army, he expresses decided
views, and promises to put very differ
ent aspect on affairs in that quarter. All
he asks is the recruiting of two cavalry
regiments up to the war standard. as the
ready recommended
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
4" WITH MfLICE,

Monumental sculpture seems to he
the rock upon which most artists are
wrecked; but no people have ever been
called upon to endure so much as the
English in this respect. Although
Punch ridiculed the wooden Duke of
Wellington off his porch on Hyde Park
gate, the race of such statues will not
die out, and almos: the only figure in
London which could walk naturalIy-or
even walk at all-if it were alive, is Mr..
Story's George Peabody. An English
paper says of the recently-erected statue
of Lord Palmerston: 1t suggests the
valet, carrying his paletot, and explain
ing to the railway porter that his master
has got both their tickets" Another
critic says: Looking at it from Kina
street there is view of amazing shoul
ders with lady's waist, or an extraor
dinarily developed Roman fall" In
the course of time the American pcopl,
may be forced to endure an equal inhic
tien; but, thus far, they tolerate tn,
few conspicuous examples with censid
cradle patience. After having made NJ
their minds that General jackson mus
have been a noted acrobat, they are n,
longer surprised at his performance on
circus horse, at Washington; while tn,
spectator who places himself directly il
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

The great Corliss engine, which is in
tended to furnish the motive power for
the machinery in machinery hall, on the
centennial grounds, has arrived in Phil
adelphia from Rhode Island. Some idea
of its immense size may be formed from
the statement that its total weight liz
l, 1850, 5SS pounds, and that sixty cars
were required Tor its transportation to
its destination, the freight charges
amounting to $5,442.55.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

front of the statue of Lincoln on Union
square, and reads on the granite base
the words, with malice" (the rest of
the inscription being invisible from that
pointl, will require no further explana-
ton
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, APRIL %, 1876

ways to get by this excitable idiot. The
one is to right-about-face, and go around
the block; the other is to grab him
around the waist and hold him until
police man comes up and lets you go by.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

CREMATIoN.-The movement in favor
of cremation has been resumed in Ger
many by Dresden society, which has
addressed an appeal to all kindred So
cieties of the German empire, of Austria
and switzerland. The town of Gotha,
where the government has removed all
legal obstacles hitherto existing in re-
gard to fire-burial," is recommended as
the central seat of the new agitation. A
conference of delegates of the various as
sociations is convoked to Dresden for
ApriI H. The ancient custom of crema-
ton, which prevailed not less among the
Teutonic races than among the Indians
of old, the Ph9nicians, the Greeks and
the Romans, seems thus in a fair way of
being gradually reintroduced in Ger
many. In Italy, also, a cremation go
cictv has been constituted at Milan.
Several hundred declarations of assent
have already been sent in, among them
those of not a few men of note in science
and politics.
LOVING GLANCEs.-She was a pretty
girl, nicely dressed, and she sat diago-
| nally in Il rear corner of the street-car,
occupying about two seats. Another
lady came in and, turning herself side
WAYS, sank into a swan-like dip across the
three adjoining seats. The young lady
in the corner looked at the others back,
and shifted with her left nostril; looked
at the languid contempt of the attitude,
and shifted with her other nostril; then
regarding the lady's costume, and find
ing it elegant, shifted with both nostrils
Beginning TO get 'lad she rubbed her
nose violently, first with the second Joint
of her iorefinger, and subsequently with
her handkerchief Slowly their eyes
met One flashed undying hatred and
scorn, the other irradiated lofty pity and
disdaip. They had never met before
and now they met for only n moment
What had happened? We give it up
But let women have the ballet.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

From the effects of the sultans pecu-
liar financial policy, the Turkish treasury
has been SO thoroughly exhausted that
the government has not been able even
TO furnish hospital supplies for the troops
operating against the rebels in Herzego-
vinia- The mortality in consequence
has been terrific. A surgeon in the ser
vice reports that the losses of the force
in the field, mainly from disease imper-
fectiy treated, have not been less that
so, 900 men.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

THE Chinese have begun to take adj
vantage of the Supreme court decision
releasing them from the payment of
head-money, in such numbers, that Cal
ifornia is driven to its wits end in the
effort to check the infowing tide. Three
British steamers have been engaged ex-
pressly for the business of transporting
Chinese passengers, and the Pacific Mail
line has been secured for the same kind
of custom six months ahead. The legis.
1ature of the state has the matter under
consideration, and a committee of five
senator's has been appointed to prepare a
memorial to congress in regard to it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

The far-seeing Massachusetts legisla-
ture refuses to pay Moses Wheeler any
hing for his eight years of labor in their
penitentiary. though his innocence of the
crime for which he was imprisoned has
been established by the confession of the
real offender 1t would cost the state
too much to undertake to answer for all
the blunders of the learned Judge and
the intellectual jury.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

CROOKED WHIsKY.-A wealthy gen.
tleman in Chicago has lovely Peruvian
blonde daughter, for whose hand there
were three ardent suitOrs. The girl liked
them all, declared her inability to choose,
and left the matter to her father, who
determined that the one who could make
the best showing of commercial pros
perity should marry his daughter. The
first young man had a horse that could
trot in '35, three stacks of blue chips on
solvent faro bank, two decollette shirts,
and seal ring. He was bounced. The
second sutton had 81 900 in bank, first
class position, and was laying up money.
The third wasn't worth red, but had a
gauger's commission in his pocket. The
old man with tears in his eyes led him
to the daughter. joined their hands, and
said, Bless you, my children, bless you
to be sure Henri has nothing at present
but if he is energetic, and attends to hi,
work, in less than year you may BIZ
| living i'm Canada with fortune at YOU
command.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

II is arranged that if that American
infection, Sergeant Bates, undertakes to
carry his old flag across the centennial
grounds, he is to be escorted by police
man No. go, having one hand firmly
grasped on his collar and the other on
the seat of his trousers
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

Rooms for the Emperor of Brazil and
his suite have been engaged at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York. The impe-
rial party will take the whole of the
Twenty-third street side, and the south
corner in Fifth avenue up to the gentle
mems parlor. The entrance on Twenty
third street will be reserved specially for
the party, and they will occupy in the
whole twenty-five rooms and parlors.
The suite is composed of the emperor,
empress chamberlain, gentleman in
waiting to the empress, maid of honor,
a physician, private secretary, and
treasurer, with seven servants.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

In order to hit the " heather Chinee, +"
the generous Anglo-Saxon Of san Fran
cisco imposes q tax of $50 on all laun-
dries that don't use a horse and wagon,
and gets from $24, 900 to $4,000 year
towards the city expenses from it. The
white washerman rides while the heather
collects and distributes his wash on foot
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

MAKE THE Boys LEARN TO SWIM
Capt. Webb, the great swimmer, writes
in Cassell's Family Magazine: 1t
is the duty of every parent to insist
on his sons learning to swim. To teach
a very young child to swim, the best
place is large puddle in the sand, at
low tide. The child, like puppy, will
begin by padding. If you throw cork
into the water you will see the puppy
run in up to its depth and give snort
bark; and the chances are, especially If
there is grown. up dog that can swim to
set him an example, that in day or
two he will take his plunge of his own
accord, and very proud he will be of his
first success; only here again, don't over
do it. AS soon as the puppy has been
in, walk away, and call him, and he will
be more anxious to 90 into the water
another time. Now, treat your child
like your puppy. Entice him to 60 IN
and if you can get some older child who
can swim to go in with him all the bet
ter. hut let the child do just as he likes.
Get two children 10 play at splashing
one another; they will enjoy the fun,
and gradually getting excited VIII ven
ture deeper and deeper"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

THE CoMBATIvE GosHAwK. - DIR.
Wood, in the American Naturalist, tells
the following stories: "Our common
goshawk is the most daring and ventur-
some of any of our diurnal birds of prey.
A farmer who resides a few miles from
my Office, wishing to perpetuate the old
New England custom of having chick
en- pie for Thanksgiving dinner, caught
some fowls, took them to log, severed
the neck of one and threw it down beside
him. In an instant a goshawk seized
struggling fowl, and flying off some ten
rods, alighted and commenced devouring
his prey. The boldness of the attack so
astonished the farmer that he looked on
with blank amazement. Recovering
from his surprise he hastened into the
house and brought out his gun, which
secured him both the hawk and the
fowl. Another instance of still greater
daring occurred near a dwelling house
the door being open the hen flew inside;
the hawk followed and seized her in the
room occupied by an old gentleman and
his daughter. The old man FASTENED to
the rescue and struck the hawk with his
cane before it released its grasp. The
daughter caught the hawk as it at
tempted to fly ous of the door, and
killed IT
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

A PERPLENE PIUTE-Some lno'Vio
ual dropped some quicksilver on the side
walk on Main street to-day, and an IN
dian tried to pick it up. First he made
a grab at it with his thumb and fore
finger. and was astonishcd when he found
he couldn't pick it up. lie was de-
termined to have that quicksilver, any
how so he unwound q handkerchief
from his hat, and, spreading it out on
the ground, got chip and sciaped the
quicksilver into it. \ look of triumph
shot from his eagle eye rs he gathered
IN the four corners of the handkerchief,
put it was replaced by one of horror ana
DISGUST when the metal ran through the
fabric like water through sieve. LOOK
ing at the metal as it lay on the ground,
in a puz lied soit of way, for moment,
no launched a vicious kick ut 1t, and
utt,ring the ejaculation used by keno
plaver when some other fellow makes a
keno. he turned on his heel and LETT the
quicksilver for some other untutored son
of the forest to experiment on.-Reesr
Rirer Cal.) Rersiile.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
THE WEEK PAST.

The grangers are not referred to much
at present as a political element, but
they exist and are at work, and it may
be whispered in the ear of presidential
candidates that these same grangers have
SIS, GOO, 900 invested in their various en-
terprises.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

ROMANCE AND REALTY. "A New
York letter says: The gamblers vile
in the pages of fiction is heart-broken
female, whose plain stuff dress covers a
delicate, shrinking form, who spends the
night in watching for the return oil her
lord from the gambling-table and who
kneels before him on his tardy entrance
and begs Robert" or William with
streaming eyes, to cease to lure victims
to ruin and death. The gamblers wife
of reality, as attested by the daylight
vision of Sunday, is plump, pretty, and
weIl-fed female, who wears dainty high
heeled boots, pale yellow gloves on a
small hand, bites her roseate (three dol
lars box lips alluringly with pearly
teeth dis the best dentist IN New
York;, and wears what may be regarded
a. the uniform for "fast y ladies-a
black silk dress, jaunty round hat,
diamond soltaires, and camefs halr
shawl. BY their rags you shall know
them.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

THERE was never greater fraud sad
died upon civilization than the Black
Hills gold diggings. The men who have
been allured there find little but star
walton and any amount of distress
at the hands of unfriendly Indians.
Flour is quoted at 10 to IL cents a
pound, and bacon 25, sugar 40, salt IL,
and beans Is cents pound, while moIas-
ses sells at $3.50 to SO per gallon, and to-
bacco at from 81 to $3.50 a pound.
After travelling $50 miles by OK or mule
team from the nearest railroad point,
Cheyenne, the gold-hunter finds himself
at the diggings, where. if he is lucky
enough to get a claim and is an expert
mh-lH, he can by hard work make dol
lar day. A New York Times CORE
kpondent, who has investigated the
etter thoroughly, says that very few
n make dollar a day. Some fcrtu-
fellows have scraped up as much
65 month, but it takes about that
b to keep the industrious miner in
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

The Chinese have begun to take ad-
vantage of the supreme court decision
releasing them from paying head-money,
in such numbers, that California is
driven to its wits end in the effort to
check the infowing tide. Three British
steamers have been engaged expressly
for the business OF transporting Chinese
passengers, and the Pacific Mail line has
been secured for the same kind of Gus
tom six months ahead. The legislature
of the state has the matter under consid-
Grafton and a committee of five senators
has been appointed to prepare IA memo
rial to congress in regard to it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

The extradition of Winslow from
England is very doubtful, after all. Per-
haps he knew what he was about when
he went ashore this side of Holland. The
British government stand-, of course, On
its own strict Interpretation of the law
in the case, and according to this. before
extraditing him will demand assurances
that his trial will be limited to the
offence for which he is claimed. This
cannot be helped-unless, indeed, our
government should Immediately author
ize such an amendment of previous trea-
ties as should warrant freer action. 1t is
childish TO scold Great Britain for
standing on punctilio." Punctilio in
this case is law, and it must be oteyed
however its enforcement in a particular
instance may cheat justice and give en-
couragement to criminals.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

The diamond billiard champion cue
now belongs to Cyrille Dion, he having
defeated Rudolphe in the four-ball
carom game, 1880 points up, in New
York. RudoIphe's defeat was the most
signal he ever suffered, he only scoring
S92. In May, 1873, Maurice Daily won
this cue from Dion. In October follow
ing GARNER took it from DAILY, but two
months later Dion won it again and has
<held it without a contest until the
present match. 1t is stated there will
he no more four-ball carom games played
between experts, and Cyrille Dion is the
champion of the world at this peculiar
game.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-30
Assessment Notice.

THE Southern California Cooperative
! Warehouse and Shipping Association,
principal place of business. Wilmington, Los
Angeles county, California.
Whereas,an assessment of EN- (10) per cent.
per share was levied by the Board of Direc-
tors of the Sou hern California Cooperative
Warehouse and shipping Association, w l.
mington, California, on the capital stock OF
1875, made payable and delinquent on the 5,h
day of December, 1875; and whereas, due and
legal notice was given of said assessment by
publication, &C., In manner and form as re-
quired by the provisions OF the Civil Code OF
California for such cases made and provided;
and whereas, said assessment has not been
fully paid up by The shareholders of said
stock; and whereas. no noti e for the sale of
delinquent stock has heretofore been given:
Now, therefore, by virtue of the law, and the
said Board OF Directors having ordered and
directed the publication of notice of the sale
of said delinquent stock, all persons interest
ed herein will take
NOTICE
That there is delinquent on the following de-
scribed stock on accou mt of assessment levied
on the 9th day November, 1870 the several
amounts set opposite the names of the re-
spective shareholders as follows, to-wit:
Na"'e'' csrtiyacgte ay "a Shares. hS. g -'"'''
F. p. F. Temple. lU 100 0O
Ira Carpenter. None is'd 10 10 w
And in accordance with law and an order OF
the Board of Directors made on the Sd day of
April, 1885, so many shares of each parcel of
such stock as may be necessary will be sold
at the companys Office in the town of Will
mingtoE, Los ANGELES county, on the
10th day of May, 1875,
At II o'clock M. of such day. to pay delin-
quent assessments thereon, together with
d. w. ALEXANDER,
aprlS-11t Sec'y pro tenn.