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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

From the number of tramps that
infest our country, it is manifest
that there is q great lack of employ
mcnt, or q great lack of a willing
ness to work. We are disposed
however, to think that the reason
SO many mon are out of employ
ment is owing, in large dsgee, to
the fact that majority Of these I'M
employed men desire soft places,
and are not anxious to do real earn
est work. We know there are some
honorable exceptions. we meet with
them some times in our profession.
1t is rare case that o printer,
who is on the tramp, is unwilling
to give value received for assistance
given him. The trouble however
with most printing offices, is, that
they have noe ready employment
for their own force and every time
work is gwen to a printer out of
employment, for compensation ever
so small it is nearly always just that
much money out of the proprietor's
pocket.
But there il a class of tramps who
rove in tho suburbs of our town.
who beg tor victuals, and if YOU
wish them to cut q little wood, or
do half hours work in your gar
den, get very indignant, and arc
sometimes insulting to the women
and children about the place. 1t is
such cases as these that oftentimcs
prevent real worthy object from
receiving assistance and bring down
upon the heads Of many unfortu-
mates the condemnation of the pub
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Both branches of the lie ;islature
adjuarned from the 18th ult. to
the Cd inst, in order TO afford the
members an opportunity to visit
Now Orleans and Memphis during
Mardi Gras. We had thought that
such foolishness was alone n pecu-
liarity of the Radicals, and that our
present Legislature possessed too
much wisdom and too keen a sense
Of duty to the people of our state
TO be guilty of such an act. What
would the people say, should our
Supreme Court or one of our Cir
cult Courts adjourn right in the
midst of business and transport it
self to q horse race or cock fight ?
Would they not think that their
rights were being trifled WITH 1t
is urged by some that this recess
costs the state nothing, inasmuch
as our Legislators are paid by the
year, and then again that they
need rest and recreation after so
much arduous work. We think it
does cost the state something. 1t
costs the people much suspense and
anxiety, for they are impatiently
looking for the repeal of all obnox-
iOus and oppressive laws and for
the enactment of wholesome and
jast ones in their stead. With re-
gard to the rest and recreation so
necessary, II excites our rlsibilIties
to think of men who do not go to
work until ten o'clock am. and then
adjourn at two and three o'clock
pm. needing rest. If they do, how
about the farmer who tolls from
rise TO set of sun, how about the me-
chanirs who work twelve and four
teen hours per day? Do they not
need rest and recreation Indeed
they do, gentlemen Of the Legisla-
ture, and when they sent you 10
Jackson, they sen: you there to give
them rest from oppressive laws and
intolcrant rulers and recreation in
wholesome laws and their just ad-
ministration. They want rest from
high taxes, and recreation in the
economical and sensible conduct of
our state and local governments.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
OVER THE STATE.

Jackson Times: Three Cinnamon
are arranging the store on State
street, opposite Steers for the pur-
pose of establishing laundry.
Jackson's citizens will now have
an opportunity of testing the much
praised ability of the Cclcstials in
singing soap and fiat-iron.
Meridian Homestead: Joshua Max
well, one of the oldest settlers in
the county,wa accidentally killed at
his mill in the western part of
this county. He was caught by the
circular saw and fatally injured.
He died in few minutes.
The Columbus Democrat an.
nounces, as its choice for Congress
from the Sd district, Col. A. Y. Har-
per, editor of the Okolona States.
The same paper suggests for the
vacancy soon to be made by the
removal of Cardoza, Supcrinten-
dent of Education, Prof. Thos. S
Gathright, of Lauderdah.
Oxford Falcon J. b. Therkeld,
COL, who has been teaching pub
lie school in the neighborhood of
Taylor's Depot, was arrested and
taken before j. A. Browning. Esq,
Justice of the Peace, on the charge
of forging the name of Wiley Tay-
lor, Secretary of the Board of Trus-
tees of the above school, to his pay
certificate, and by that means draw
ing his pay. Esq Browning, after
giving the case patient hearing,
requiring John to give bond for his
at the next term of the
Circuit Court, in the Sum of 81 900,
in dcfanlt of which he was commit
ted to jail on Monday by BaiIiff
Morrison.
Meridian Homestead We were
pleased TO receive visit from Mr.
W. A. Keil an aged typo, last Wed
nesday. He was born in Norway,
in April 1900, and at the age of 16
he entered his fathers printing Of
fee. He has travelled through the
principal countries of Europe, and
can speaks five different languages.
At the commencement of the late
war he was in OHIO, and although
sixty-onc years of age, he enlisted
in the service in All Ohio regiment.
He has two sons in Salt Lake City,
Utah, both of whom have adopted
the Mormon religion; one hav-
ing seven wives and the other tour.
Mr.. KEEL has walked from New
York to New Orleans, TO this city.
He OH his way to the Centennial,
is in his seventy-sixth year, is hale
and hearty, and hopes TO reach his
to spend the remainder
of his days.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

A citizen Of Lexington, Ky, has
in his possession quill of a condor
which has history. 1t was given
to Henry Clay in 1924, with an
injunction never to cut it until he
WAS elected President, when he was
to write his first message with it..
In case he was not elect ed, it was not
to be cut until constitutional
President wrote q constitutional
message for all the states" After
Mr.. Clay's death it was given to
Millard Fillmore, but he was unable
to use it. During the late cam
paign the owner was determined
TO give it to Mr.. Greeley should he
be elected. The quill is as large
around as mans thumb.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
A pAtent outside cOtemuora

A patent outside cotemporary sa, s
we are prejudiced against the sys-
tenn. Yes, we are prcjudiced against
it, and SO is the pure woman against
the loose morals of Victoria Wood
hull.-Meridiaa Gazette.
A printers skeleton Of the closet
is the patent outside.-Merid,dn Ga
zetfe.
The Meridian Gazette is one of
our most valued exchanges. We
like Col. Fleet Cooper, and like hls
paper, but we do think, sometimes,
that he is too hard, too unkind, on
"we patents" Perhaps if the Col.
onel had adopted good auxiliary"
such an one rs we have, he would
be like us, on the high road to pros
perity, with little or no debt on his
shouidcr-, and no 1tru3t Decd" the
most ghOstiy skeleton" that ever
perci.sd upon the deor OF news
paper Office. haunting him day and
night. OF two evils We prefer the
least. ~ patent outside al Ways
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
Concerning the ys.r 1876, Their

Concerning the yssr 1876, there
are several noteworthy points be-
sides it's great feature as the Gen.
tennal year of American Indepcn-
dsnce. 1t is "Leap Year." which
Is said to invest ladies with the priv.
Aege of taking the initiative in max
ing matrimonial proposals, and it is
the Presidential election year, which
is u matter of great momen to ambi-
rious politicians and their constitu
cnts, as well as il is a year con-
tanning fifty-tRree Sundays, which
ought to give to 1t more than usual
grace among the church and Sab
bath schools. Each Of the months
Of January, April. July, October
and December, contains five Sun
days.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

An inquiry has been ordered by
the House of Representatives into tho
nature and history of the notorious
"real estate pool" in Washington,
in Which Jay Cooke & Co. We're corr-
csrned, and in the deeper recesses of
which some of the White-house fish
arc believed to be swimming. While
inquiries of this sort are in hand, it
would not be amiss to have infor-
nation authoritatively obtained
concerning the mining pool in Colo
RADIO, VIII ose members are reported
to have had influence enough In
Washington to procure IL recon-
struction OF the territorial judiciary,
for tho purpose of obtaining par
tIcular judgments affecting claims
to mining lands.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
General Babcoek is acquitted.

General Babcoek is acquitted.
Had We the Scotch intermediate YER
dict the jury would have returned
'Not Proven" instead of "Not
Guilty" 1t was not proven that
Babcock received part of the stolen
money from the conspirators or was
aware of the theft, but there is no
doubt that he was used by the
thieves, and must have suspected, if
he did not know, that thievery was
going on. Else why tho "Sylph
despatch ? That despatch remains
unexplained. Before he was indiet-
ted he wanted all evidence brought
out. After he was indicted his conn
sci offered every kind of objection
70 the dispatches, and secured his
acquittaI by guarding him with
fechLicaIities.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The sights at Mardi Gras are
nothing TO he compared with the
sights the people of our state will
see if our Legislature should fail to
sustain tie articles of impeachment
rreierre against Ames and on
which he is soon to be brought be-
fore the bar of the Senate for trial.
How important it is then that our
Legislators should be employed in
strengthening the charges and in
accumul ,ting evidence to convict,
instead of running off to Mardi
Gras, and getting their heads full of
phantom shows, hob-gobblings aud
the like, to say nothing Of divers
and sundry po'ntiOns of creok. Il
whisky. Just ut TIL Lime our Leg
islators' heads shoui.: be rs level aud
their brains as clear A. it is possible
W hav, them, It's most MON eat
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
The Cincinnati Journal has this

The Cincinnati Journal has this
to say about the Centennial arpro-
priation by the National Congress !:
An analysis OF the votes on the
passage of this undisguisably rob
berry of the public treasury for a
speculative job exhibits some Gu
riOus and instructive facts. The
ring of spectators who have been
engineering this scheme of robbery
through Congress claim with the
greatest audacity that the South
was "ulmost solid" in its favor.
The Southern Confcderates favored
this steal, said its promoters, as a
measure of "recOnciliatiOn,' as
mode OF shaking hands across the
bloody chasm," etc. The prcsump-
ton is that this bald clap-trap was
employed by the engineers of the
swindle for effect on those northern
doughfaces who stand ready 10 do
anything, to empty the national
treasury into the Potomac, or com
nat airy other act of spoliation or
rascaIity, which a "united south"
may ucHishuu. NO uouDC tuio lCp-
rcscntation of the ring-masters that
the South was unitedly in favor OF
the "Ccntennial" steal had its effect
upon many northern doughfaces.
The Great Speech of Carter shows
that his support in the steal was
really inspired by belief that his
old Southern plantation cronies
were in favor of it. How greatly,
then must the confederate dough-
faces of the north have been sur
prised to find that the Southern
Confederates voted almost to a man
against it. Does not the nearly sol
id vote of the Southern COnieder-
ates against the Philadelphia ring
steal show plainly that the false
representation of the ring-masters
that the South was united in favor
Of the steal, was made for fraudu
lent purpose.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The New York Times and St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, both decided
Republican papers, and the New
York Tribune, Independent Repub-
lican, all dissent from Morton's row
dictionary programme in regard to
Mississippi. The first says that his
premises are drawn from unfair ex-
parte statements of interested par
ties. The second is tired of these
"annIal hibcrnal Investigations"
and thinks that from Morton's own
representation, the discomfitted car
pet-bag claimant ought to be laugh
cd out of court and the third says
the people well understand that the
political revolution in Mississippi
was produced by the extravaganza,
corruption land miserable failure of
the vagahOnd element that have
ruled the state with high hand.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The United States Senate passed
the Southern Land Bill by vote of
10 TO II on the 18th ult. The bill
provides for the repeal of 80 much
ofthc statuteof 1866 us suspended the
operation of the presumption law in
the Southern States, and place those
States on an equality with the rest
of the Union SO far as concerns the
occupation of public lands by pre-
cmption or homestead settlers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Hon. J. NJ. Stone. who was Colo
mel of the Second Mississippi Regi-
mcnt, Davis Brigade, Army Of Va,
is the President pro tempore of the
State Senate, and in case Ames and
Davis are impeached, will be the
Governor of Mississippi. Although
Col. Stone will get the place by ac-
cident, he is every way worthy of
the high position, and the interests
and honor of the State will BIO safe
i'm his hands.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
il renorted 70 ne mr.,

Hog-cholera is reported to be pre-
valent in this county, in some p!ac, s
actually sweeping them by tens and
hundreds. This is discouraging to
our farmers who of late have been
giving their attention to raising
their own meat. Can't some one
suggest II solvent remedy !-Summit
Sentinel
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The Memphis Ledger says that
sowing to suits brough in the Fed
eral Courts for damages against
General Gideon J. Pillow, for sciz-
ures OF coal-bosts and tugs during
the way; while he was in command
of the forces of Tennessee, at Mem
phis, in 1861, was forced to file q
petition Of bankruptcy in the Unit
ed States Court on last Saturday"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The New York Tribune hears
that a reduction of salaries in
both houses of Congress is immi-
nent, and it adds truthfully:"l f they
carry out the project. the mem bers
will gain in popularity what they
lose in cash.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

A battle occurred, according to
the dispatches from San Francisco
of the 1879, between the Sonora rev.
olutionists and the sihte troops, near
the claims the troops returned
The insurgents have concentrated.
400 cavalry near Conyari.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Six men, four of them Indians,
one negro. and one white man. have
been condemned by the United
States Court at Little Rock, and are
to be executed at Fort Smith on the
fourth of April next. There were
SIX hung at the same place on the
fourth OF September last.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
NEW ADVERTlEEENTS.
ATTfCHMFHT NJTICE.

j. Il. Green Before II. F. An
VS.. Attachment. drews. J. r., Mali
OctaviCus Strait. son County. Mss.
"O OCTAVIUS STRAIT. OF GIN
l. CIENATI, OHIO :-Wherras. an
attachment has, on the 23l day of Febr,l-
airy, A. ID. 1876. been sued out before me.
the undersigned Justice OF the Peace If
District No. 3, county of MADISON. sta Z
of Mississippi, against you a> Il norl-rr>i-
dent of the State of Mississippi, by John
II. Green. for the sum of one hundred ami
thirty-iour 50-lOS dollars. (Sl:i4.:O) on
open account. rcturnable on the fourth
Monday OF March 1876.
Therefore. yOu are hereby cited 10 ap-
pear ut the office OF said Justice of the.
Peace at Madison Station, in said state
and county, on the said
4th Monday, 9th day of March, 1876,
and plead. answer or lemnr 10 said suit.
or Judgment by default will bp entered
against you and the property attached he
sold and the proceeds applied tOsthe pay
ment of said debt.
Witness my hand and seal. this 9th
day of February, \. ID. 1876.
II. E. ANDREWS. {Lsf
Justice OF the Peace.
j. w. JENKINS, ri IFS Atty.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The Clarion thinks that the i'm
parchment Of two or three official
vio,ators of the law will be of
more benefit to the Democratic
Conservative party than was the
blood of twenty-five .or thirty ne
groes to tho Radical party.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Spain has,sens o note to the for
eign powers explaining the situa-
tion in Cuba, but it does not cx-
plain why the revolution in the
s'carse' of the Antilles" is still d
powerful as when it commenced,
over seven years ago.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
w. T. GIBBS, Witness.

The State Of Georgia cxcmpts
from taxes cotton and wooden mills
aud machinery tor ten years from
the time the mills are started.
There is one mill in operation in
Angus containing % G0J spindles,
which has made IL dividend of 20
per cent among the stockholders.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Tom Scott assured Representative
Morcy. of Louisiana, the other day,
that the Vicksburg Shreveport and
Texas Railroad line would be in
ekuded in the Texas Pacific bill.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

We would not exchange our aux.
iliary on a firm financial basis with
a large list of cash paying subscri-
bers, for the Meridian Gazette with
its deed of trust and credit system.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Collin J. WcRae, agent Of the
Confederate Government abroad
during the war, died recently in
Honduras, where he had resided for
many years. He was a brother of
Gov. John J. McRae of this state.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

4. K. Davis has retained Hon. J.
s. Morris, A. W. Brien and Messrs.
Spears & Fitzgerald to defend his
impeachment case. The trial COM
merced yesterday. March Sd.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

for us rather than "decd Of trust"
which is nothing short of q patent
right to a trustee to destroy your
very inside and outside, aud swat
low you up at any moment.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The Centennial appropriation
bill is now q law. 1t was signed
on the 18th by the President, who
performed the operation with a pom
made from a quill rlucked from the
wing of an American eagle.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

GUS time with tbs. it is a time of .tecn
realities, and not For visions. It's n
time for sober thought and study,
and not for romance, recreation and
to1lificafion.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
Here is n copx of Inc dOcumen

Here is a copy of the document
npon which mainly will depend the
impeachment of A. X. Davis:
COLUMBUS, Miss, May %, 1870
Received of Henry Barreniine, five
hundred dollars cash, OH deposit, to
be paid to A. G. Packer upon the
return OF this receipt, accompanied
by the executive pardon of Thos. II.
Barrentine, charged with the killing
of Ann Thomas, of Lowndes coun-
V. This receipt givin in duplicate.
J. DOWNING.
w. 4 GIBBS, Witness.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

If the South had all the mon
ey she has sent to the west for
corn and meat she could build the
Southern Pacific railroad aud
scarcely feel the pressure.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Ex-President Tyler's grave, at
Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond,
so long neglected, is soon to be
paid the tardy honors OF q monu-
ment.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Bonneville Pleader: A natural
curiosity has lately been developed
in BoonviIlc, in the shape of a boil
ing well.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Tho man who pays moro for
shop rUnt than for advrtising don't
understand his business--Horacc
GreelcY.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Daniel Dennett's "IIouisfana as 1t
il, will SION be issued from the
press Ii is expected to be some
thing very interesting.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

The hand of Henry CIay's statue
nj Richmond ia broken, and they
are going TO deal him a new ono.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Harris & ffarris hold the MIR or
up to ,he..natives::of Crystal Springs
and tho country refnd about.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04
lSUifiA
NOTICE..

On and after the LIST day of June all
orders for Metallic Cases, Caskets and
Wood Collins must he accompanied with
the cash OF city acceptance, or they viii
not be sent ont.
". FITCHETT.
Canton. April 24-ly.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-04

Train No, 2 connects at Humboldt and
Milan from points south thereof for Lou
isville; at Guthrie with st |. Il 5 E Ry.;
at Lebanon June with Knoxville and Rich
mOnd Branches; at Cincinnati june with
!. G & l. II X for the north and east; at
Louisville with u ) Mail Boats for Gin
cinnati and with O Il VI R'y and j NJ &
IRR for the North, East and West.
Train No I connects at lliImbOldt and
Milan from points south thereof for Lou
isville: at Mckenzie with & Il st l. R'y
for the Southeast; at Guthrie with ST ].
and S f R'y; at Glasgow juno to and
from Glasgow; at Cave CITY TO a:d from
Mammoth Cave; ut Louisville with l. =
and l. Il r for the North and East
Train No. 6 connects ut Mckenzie with
n e. and st l. R'y for the Southeast.
u,uru aE upau AEE EARS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-09
nov THE o1sRermEs WE'RE sHor
Mistaken for Depstv Marshais By Illicit
Whiskey Distiiiers ir Arkansas.


mistaken for Depstv Marshais By Illicit
whiskcy DistiIicrs ir Arkansas.
From me LaiN Rock od~ae
few days since we published a state
ment that four ministers had been shot and
probably killed 10 Pope county, having been
Kline arc posse Deputy Marshal Kline and his
posse nave several times made trips into the
Dougiass's Store, Pilot Rock township, captured
a number of Illicit whiskey distillers. In all
"vs bseS To- sSs oS sn' TSee
have been, we believe, half dozen convictions,
and the men, with one exception. are now In the
peDitentiary. The residents Of the section
where the murder was committed had con-
ceivod deadly hatred for Kline. and determined
to take his life on sight. Seeing four men trdv-
cling on horseback, and believing them TO be
the Oincials. they sought the brush and turned
loose their weapons. How dreadfully mistaken
thev were. The men were the Rev. II. N. Will
liams, the Rev. Ambrose Williams, tho Rev. W.
N. Mathncy. and the Rev, George Pledger, who
were on their way home from the Yellvlllo Con-
ference. The williamses, f.ther, son, and moth
or. resided In johnson county, and Pledger 10
b n,u,,. me Youngest men, A. Williams snd
companions. and on arriving at Douelassvlle
dlsmounted to rest their horses and await the
about thirty yards to an open blacksmith shor,
aud while converting with the workman was
Mr. Williams hearing SnT sSs repopt Of The
gun ana seeing his friend fall, st,rted
for the shop, but was stopped by the black;
smith, who told him he would he murdered II
he went there. About this time the elder Wil-
liams and Mathney rode up, and, with the assist
anco OF the neighbors, carried the dying man to
the residence OF MIR. Wallace. The ministers
told the citizens who they were, and they ex-
pressed themselves as greatly Rrleved at the
dreadful deed. Soon after the citizons separated
for their homes, and Williams aud Mathney
walked out of the house to converse with
another party. Before going ten steps both
cried out, am shot aud fell to the ground.
Mr. Pledger and the elder Williams were shot In
the same vi zee, the bullets entering at the hip.
lodging in the backbone.
Mr.. Mathney's wound. reported fatal, was In
the right side. Toe men were all shot from the
side OF tho mountain, Douglassville being stu
ated atiss base. Tue minis ers inquired why
they were shot down, and were told they were
mistaken for deputy marshals. Gov. Garland
ana tue onic Il OF Pope county will spare no
efforts to bring the muruerets to Justice.