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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-05-13
CIR 4NT',S GAG-LAW

The Obstacles Ttrosrn ia the JVay of Iuresti-
cation.
Washington Special to the Chicago Times.
In response to note from Caulfeld's
committee to produce certain papers
needed in the pending inquiry, Bristow
sent note, Monday, in which the fol
lowing passage occurs: Gin reply, I
have to say that, in compliance with an
executive order prohibiting the removal
of original papers from the files of this
department, / must decline to grant
your request. / will add however, that
if you desire it, suitable room in this
department will be assigned to the use of
yourself or any member of your COM
mittee, for the purpose of enabling them
to examine any and all papers above re-
ferred to-"
This is the second response OF the kind
received by the committee. Bristow
declares his refusal to be the result of an
order from the president. 1t turns out
that the subject was discussed at the last
session of the cabinet, and Grant de-
clared his opposition to furnishing any
aid to the inquirers. This prohibition
was not made until Grant himself was
brought under fire by the committee in
the Davenport scandal. 1t is absolutely
essential that the committees have the
original documents in their possession.
Bristow's prefer of room in the treas
ury and clerks to aid is covert satire
on congress. No committee has a riybt
to hold its sessions outside of the regular
rooms assigned for the purpose. Fur-
thermore, to do as Bristow suggests
would be impossible in this case, as in all
Others
There is but one inference to be drawn
from this sudden determination of Grant
The investigations have thus far driven
one of his secretaries from office and the
appearances indicate that two more at
least will be put on the way TO the peni-
Even Grant himself cam, {
escape the condemnation of mankind i, |
the official documents are placed at the
free disposal of the hostile committees.
As precaution this prohibition has
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ECCLESIASTICAL.

Griffin is making strong efforts to Sc
cure the location there of the proposed
Georgia Baptist female seminary.
The younger DR.. Tying, announcing
the hymn to be sung on recent Sunday
afternoon, said: You may omit the
fourth verse. 1 don't believe it's true"
One female singer in church choir
in New York, who has had a salary of
1000 a year hitherto, has accepted a
call to another church upon salary of
$500. Already one hundred and ten
applications have been made for the va
cant place.
Mr.. T. NJ. Stewart, of Philadelphia,
was recently dropped from the roll of the
North United Presbyterian church in
that city because he belonged to the Odd
Fellows order. He appealed to his pres
bytery for restoration.
The Protestant Episcopal theological
seminary at Alexandria, Va, like the
Drew seminary, has lost large endow-
ment-$l00, 0OO-through the financial
embarrassment of the donor. 1t is
hoped, however, to make up the amount
in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York.
The secretary of the last class that
graduated at Harvard gives in his report
the following schedule Of the religious
views" of its members: Unitarian, 80
Episcopal, 35: Congregationalist, %
Baptist, IL; Presbyterian, 6; Liberal, 4
Methodist, 2; Roman Catholic, 3; Uni
versalist, 2; nationalist, 1 undecided, %
DIR. Wentworth, editor of the Ladies
Repository, estimates that there have
been admitted into the travelling con
nection of the NJ. E. church, in ninety
years, $4,000 preachers, of whom 1905
permanently located, $500 died, 1000
withdrew or were expelled, 1000 wen,
with the south, and that $500 are still
living.
The Christian, St. Louis, gives in the
following figures the accessions to the
Disciples reported during two weeks pre-
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KEEP THE BOYS At HOME.


Mothers, do you know where YOU
boys are after supper? Do you ever heal
your neighbor complain of annoyances
from the boys and wonder if your boy
was among them? If you do not know
where he was after supper that night
with sufficient certainty to swear to it in
a court room, he was probably one OF
them. A boy has no business away from
home at night. 1t never does boy any
good to be away from home after night
unless his parents are with him, and
only rarely then. You have no right to
let your boy run the streets at night, on
one pretext or another. You don
think that your boy would lie, do you
Well, unless you can tell where that boy
is every night after seven O'Clock, we
will solemnIy and sincerely assure you
that he lies like quarter horse, and
swears like a trooper, and smokes cigar
stumps from the gutter, whether you
will believe us or not, and if you will
make it an object we will undertake to
prove it, too. Now keep your boy at
home. That is where he belongs. Then
you can see what he does, and hear what
he says, and know that he does not
frighten the life out of your neighbors
and injure the property of citizens.
Then you will know that he doesn't miss
the calaboose every other night of his
life by hairs breadth. Keep your boy
at home and put him to bed. His body
needs the rest and strength, and you can
be certain that his morals are none the
worse for quiet lone hour of wakeful-
ness in dark upper room.
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THE REL W.ISHINGTON.

The Richmond (Virginia) Wing says
This centennial year is likely to be intro
duced to the true George Washington.
Through combined transformation and
deliberate art and artifice the moon faced
old granny painted by Stuart has come
TO be accepted by the whole civilized
world, America included, as the only
faithful likeness of the Father of his
country Everybody is familiar with
that venerable counterfeit, and it will be
hard for many to turn its face to the wall
and put another, although truer por
trait, above it. But the truth must
prevail. and to this end Col. Sherman
McRae will, at an early day, publish a
papcr to show that Stuart himself admit.
ted that the Houdon statue, now in the
capitol of Virginia, is the only true rep
resentation of Washington as he lived
Much stress has been laid on a paragraph
in one of GouverEeur Morris letters from
Paris, which has been construed into
meaning that Morris stood TO Houdon rs
his model for the statue; but Col. McRae
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Republican.
Democratic.

Three of the states set down in the
republican column-California Wiscon-
sin and Colorado-went democratic at
the last general election, and if they go
the same way this year, it will add nine
teen more votes to the democratic side.
Ohio, it will be seen, is given to the re-
publicans, and there is fair prospect that
it will go democratic. Altogether the
outlook for the democratic party is a
bright one.
The election of Morton or Conkling
means continuance of Grantism. No
reform need be expected from their quar-
ter. Blaine's election means the same
thing in lesser degree, with some room
however, for the reform element to play
in. But Blaine is the creature of the
political machine, and cannot wholly cut
loose from it. He would suit reformers
more nearly than either of the others, but
he would not realize the best hopes ofthose
who wish to see the country regenerated
and the evil influences of Grantism cast
out. There is one man, however, who
can be nominated and who is an as
surance of reform. That man is Mr..
Bristow.-Andianopolis Neus, L,dependcnt.
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singer sings the whole song, excepting
the chorus, Shiloh" which dissyliable
is generally ehanted by twenty or thirty
voicrs of abysmal depth at the same
time with a sound like the roar of twenty
Chinese gongs struck with tremendous
force and precision. The chorus is fire.
quently accompanied with that wonder
fully rapid slapping of thighs and hips
known as "patting Juba."
Niger an white man playin' seben up,
White man played an ace; an niger feared
to take it up.
White man played ace an Niger played a
nine,
White man died, an niger went blind.
Timber Jim,
GAlL1 Shiloh!
Talk it agin,
[An.1 Shiloh!
Walk back in love,
[All.l Shiloh!
You turtle dove,
TALL Shiloh!
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POLITICAL TOPICS.

The republican party has changed its
ideas about using the habeas corpus. There
was time when it snapped its fingers at
the great ego and fetch it" and tossed it
aside like schoolboy's ball. But now,
that so many of the party's leading lights
are being closed in upon. the writ is a
mighty good thing to have around
Kansas City Times.
Grant is accused of procuring, while
general of the army, an appointment tor
his brother-in-law's brother-in-law, whose
avowed object was to make money by
improper means. 1t is not often that
Grant has had to go as far from the fam
ily circle as his brother-in-law's brother
in-law to find a rascal to appoint to
Office, but he has never gone without
finding him.
If the dealing of Grant, Davenport
& Co. with the secret service fund and
their manipulation of the New York
election were all right and above-board,
how is it that the story only leaks out
at the persuasive call of congressional
committee? If it was in accordance
with law, why was it concealed? If
DavenPort's services were legitimate,
why were not his accounts audited and
paid in the usual way Detroit Free
Press.
Republican platforms thus far made
have not omitted to claim economy for
this administration. If, therefore, our
republican exchanges will forbear mo-
ment their stale delivery about the great
number of terrible rebels in congress, and
explain to us the necessity of having
lO2, JOG oficeholders in 1875, when but
5S,O67 were required in 1865, they will
be doing their party greater service than
by giving place in their columns to such
an amount of irrevelant nonsense as they
are daily publishing.-M. Y. Express.
The task of reform as carried out by
Gov. Tilden in this state was the butt Of
rebuke, ridicule, and threats, but who
can now look back and deny the wonder
full value of its effects? In the same
way the work of the democrats in the
house, when judged in the future in a
more dispassionate mood than at present
will receive due appreciation and be &C
credited with praise in due proportion
to its thoroughness, in other words its
uusavoriness. No criticism should de.
ter the democrats in the house from
making clean sweep of it.-Troy Press
The New York Express, few day,
since, offered the following, compiled
from the most reliable data, as the lates
| forecast of the presidential battle:
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To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become constipated, and the
system to remain in disordered condition. until
the disorder has time to develop ITSELF An ounce Of
prevention is worth pound of cure. is an old and
truthful saying. Therefore, advise all who are
troubled with the complaints very prevalent
headache indigestion, diserdercd liver, want of ap-
petite, nausea, fevcrish skin, to take, without
delay, Schenck's Mandrake Pills. We know of no
remedy so harmless and decisive in its action 1t at
once strikes at the root the disease and produces
a healthy tone TO the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition of the liver if they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications of
the malady. Families leaving home for the sum-
mer months should take three four boxes of these
pills with them They have an almost instantaneous
effect. They will relieve the patient of headache in
two hours and will rapidly cleanse the liver
OF surrounding bile and will etiectualIy prevent
bilious attack. They are sold by all druggists.
Z. J. HART & CO., Nos. 70, IS and II Tchoupi-
toulas St, New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
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THE pHILosoPHY OF HoEIyG.

1t may be overdone or underdone.
There is reason in everything, "even in
roasting eggs" as the saying is. So in
hoeing crops. If we hoe up the soil in
large Jumps, as we are apt to do with
the very serviceable modern prong hoes,
we let the keen, dry air into contact
with the starting but enfeebled roots,
and by their parching, an irreparable
injury is done. Such Jumps should be
crushed down so as to be permeable TO
air throughout and yet serve to protect
the roots from its free sweep. But as in
avoiding Scylla we may run to wreck on
Charybdis, so in crushing the soil we
may make it too fine, in which case the
first heavy rain will run the surface
together in crust impervious to the air,
and for want of enough of air, essential
to active root action, growth will be
checked until the hoe or its equivalent
is used.
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From the 81. Louis Globe.
There is probably no man to whom the
community owe so much as to the honest,
fair spoken physician, who does his actual
duty both to himself and to his patients.
Really skillful physicians are not SO numer-
Gus that their virtues need no mention, and
hence the advertisement of DIR. R. V. Pierce,
of Buffalo, may well claim the readers atten.
ton. DIR. Pierce is a type of a class of men
who obtain success by careful and well.
directed effort, not attempting too much, OF
creating false ideas as to ability. The only
reliable physician in these days of compli.
Gated disorders and high-pressure living is
the "Specialist," the man who understands
his one branch of the business. Such in his
line is DIR. Pierce. For the benefit of his
readers he has written a Common Sense
Medical Adviser" which is well worth read
ing by those who need such a work. With
strict business honor, high professional skill
reasonable fees, and large corps of compe
tent assistants, DIR. Pierce will doubtless make
his name familiar as "household words"
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EASTER,
BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.


When davns on earth the Easter sun
Inc dear SAINTS feel an answering thrill.
With vhitest flowers their hands they ill
And, singing all in unison,
Unto the battlements they press
The very marge Of heavep-hov neari
And bend, and look upop us here
With eyes that rain down tenderness.
Their roses. brimmed with fragrant dew,
anelL hnes lair they raise On high;
heioice The Lord is risen p' they cry;
Cnfist Is arisen" we prove it true!
Rejoice. and dry those faithlees tears
WIN wnicn our Easter flowers are stained !;
Share in our bliss, who have attained
The rapture of eternal years;
Have proved the promise which endures,
Inc Love that deigned, the l. We that died
Have reached our haven by His side
Are Cnrists, but none the less are yours
Yours with a nearness never known
ME parted by the wells of sense;
inhnite knowledge, joy intense
love which is not love alone,
I" But faith perfected. vision free.
And patience limitless and wise
Beloved, the Lord Is risen, arise.
Ana dare TO ba as glad as wei"
o blessed ones for ali your gain,
As dtnly through these mists of main
we eaten the cleaning Of your ranks
We will arise, with zeal increased.
blending, the while We strive and grope,
Our paler festival of Hope
win your Fruition's perfect feast.
Bend low, beloved. against the blue;
lih higher still the lilies fair
III, follow ing where our treasures are,
We come 10 Join the feast with you.
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"A disguised Frenchman writes to
Scotch journal: "a person angry says to-
day that he was from the theater gallery
spit upon. Very fine. also was spit
upon. Not ON the dress, but into the
eye straight it came with strong force,
while I look up angry to the gallery.
Before I came to your country / worship
the Scotland of my books, my Waverly
novel, you know; but now dwell here
since six months, in all parts the picture
change. Oh, to be spit in the eye in one
half million peoules tOwup'
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will show that Houdcn not only had
taken molds or casts of Washington's
face, if not of his whole person, but had
actually completed the statue before
Morris arrived in Paris. The paper will
not only be interesting, but important,
and will be anxiously awaited by all who
desire to know the great American as he
appeared to his contemporaries.
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Popnia- Beer ia Gals
fiOa. grIIobs JcouL
COUNTRIES.

"A country curate, in a letter to
Blackwood's Magazine, says that on one
occasion he baptized child named
"Acts." Afterward i'm the vestry he
asked the good woman what made her
choose such name. Her answer WAS
this: Why, sir, we be religious PEG
pie; we've got four on em already, and
they be caard Matthew. Mark, Luke and
John, so my husband thought he'd com
pliment the apostles bit" He has no
doubt she will 90 on to Revelation, they
being particularly religious people.
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: spEPAnna CO.. A"VIBRKToR Dr.

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AN EXTRA PRICE is usually paid for gftn and
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IN THE WET GRAIN of 1875, these were spbs,ans
tally the ONLY MACHINES that could ruzs.sz4rFfont
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ALL GRAIN, TIME and MONEY wasting compliea:
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FARMERS and GRAIN RAISERS who are posted
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BEER DRINKING.--A statistical paper
of Paris gives the following table of the
quantity of beer made and the quantity
drank per year by each individual in the
following countries, the figures being
principally derived from a compilation
made by NJ. G. Noback, an eminent sci
enlist:
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been ordered. The republicans have
been growing frantic over the daily de-
velopments, and this action of the presi-
dent is said to have been urged by lead
ing members of the party.
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Now-hem-in the old country, :

.Now-hem-in the old country, sir,
shilling is a shilling, and Il guinea is a
guinea, and | supposed a dollaw in this
as you say this is not dollaw may ak
you, sir, what is the dollaw OF this barstcd
country ?-Eagiishmaa in California.
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From statistics furnished at recent
meeting of Shakers in Brooklyn, it ap-
pears that there are in existence eight
cen communities of that sect, having
about sixty families each. Elder Evans.
explaining the belief of the Shakers,
said, at the meeting in Brooklyn, that
they did not consider Jesus as the Christ,
but as an exponent of the Christ spirit.
The line of prophets descended from
Melchisedec to John the Baptist. He
spoke of the Shaker adherence to the
non-combatant principle. War of all
kinds, national debts, poverty, and many
evils were the result of wrong organic
laws in government. Peace was the great
elimination of the Christ spirit, with a
Pentecostal church, where all things
would be held in common.
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Mr.. STURGEON has struck new idea
in respect to dispensing the gospel. Once
in each quarter he proposes to have a
service for those WHO are not in the habit
of attending at the Tabernacle" and he
has notified the regular seat holders
that they will not be entitled to seats on
those evenings. They can go elsewhere
if they like, and if they derive any
benefit from doing so he advises them to
continue going.
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Fabula narratur.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR.
Boston. April IL. 1876.

Boston, April Is. 1876.
AN EXPLANATION A LA PROCTOB.
Professor Proctor explains that in Des
Moines he saw but one man who at din
ner thrust his knife give inches" down
his throat; he does not wish us to believe
that people in Des Moines generally
treat the nsophagus in this way. We
are sorry we erred in this particular !;
having seen probangs go to great lengths
in the region, we generalized too rapidly.
The line of argument is something like
this: The throat of Des Moines man
is certainly not more than ten miles nor
less than three inches long. An acute
observer calculates the distance from the
teeth to the uvula to be five inches, but our
own observations, made with a probang
in the spring of 1868, show it on the av-
erage to be four and a half inches. What
is true of a Des Moines man we see is
true of all Others, for we have reason to
believe that all came into existence
in the same way, and observation shows
that in the matter of having teeth, eyes,
nose, and hair they are all alike; if in
these particulars. why not all? We
were therefore justified in believing that
if scientific observation of one Des
Moines man proved that he thrust his
knife five inches down his throat, the
same must be true of all This is the in
tellectual basis OF the proposed work on
"Other Mouths than Ours" -Daiiy
Graphic.
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PIMPLEs on the face, rough skin, chap
ped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous af-
fectiens cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use of Juniper Tar Soap.
That made by Caswell, Howard & c., New
York, is the only kind that can be rehe d on,
as there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
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SCARLET RED.

A CURIOUS incident occurred in the
Federal court at New Orleans last week.
The jurors were compelled to take the
iron-clad oath or stand aside. General
Cyrus Busy, an ex-officer of the union
army, declared that he could not take
the oath, giving as a reason that during
the war he had captured confederate
officer and had given him his last shirt,
when he knew that the same confederate
would again fight against the govern
ment. He had also given many other
things to confederates, and in his opinion
he had thus given aid and comfort to the
enemy. For this reason he could not
take the oath. He was excused.
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The empress-queen has directed the
following productions by herself and the
members of her family to be forwarded
to the exposition Twenty-six etchings
by her imperial majesty, two table nap
kins spun by her imperial majesty, a
banner screen, embroidered by the
Princess Beatrice, Il table-cloth embroid-
cred by the Princess Louise, of Hesse,
and Princess Christina, of Schleswig-
Holstein, two drawings of flowers by the
Princess Louise, the Marchioness of
Lorne These articles will reach Phila-
delphia early next month.
Daniel Drew says Vanderbilt is worth
nearer 500. OOO. 900 than 81. 600, 900.