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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

Mrs. PARAN STEVENS house in
Fifth avenue, New York, viii cost when
completed about s2,OO0,OOO. The, NAL,
achite mantels in the drawing room
alone come to $50, 900, and yet Mrs. Paran'
Stevens win one -dsy occupy a simple
vault, and upon the streets of New York
there arc thopsapds of women starving,
Mr.. Paran stevens. fhe maker Of an this
wealth, commenced business as third
rate tavern keeper in Boston.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

Whether the owners would sell, or
whether outside parties would buy them
at the figures named, is quite another
question. Still thesestinate is, perhaps,
as fair an one as can be made by a per-
son having no interest in them, and no
disposition either to overvalue or under
rata them
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

WHEN we recall the high Antisipa sicus
with which the SANTANA Bay company
! started in an Experiment chat was to rev
olutionize the trade with San Domingo
and the other West India isIands-the
lps and supplies provided, The efforts
to 'induce emigration and the general
high salk of those who had invested in
the SPECULATION seems melancholy to
think that the great company with all
its airy hopes lpuld have been closed
out at an auction sale for $50 to satisfy
a claim of $l1 900. r s-'ii
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
ECCT.ESL4STTCAL.

The total membership of Rev. Mr..
Spurgeon's. church is 4,S13. fy.f.s
=. Rev. ,Jabez Burns, the well known
Methodist divine and author, is dead.
The revenues, of the church of En-
gland sumsupt to SIS, O0o, 900 annually.
The grand total Of the Sabbath
school army Of this. continent is g.
$50, 1863.
Tie exact amount subscribed IN
Great Britain to foreign missions, in
1874, was &, 0OO,199.
lIha Unitarian church At Brookfeld,
Mass, have substituted water for wine
at the administration of the Lords
Supper. i 2 a5rsI = aSZs
Within the..last five years seven
hundred Buddhist temples in Japan
have been converted to other uses than
fol. worship - q fE4te.sI r,-se
BY a decree of the khedive of Egypt,
the Mohsmmedmg calendar was dis
placed January l, 1876, by the Gregg
Observation-Disclosures, though but, a
quarter of century cid, numbers 80, 600
members, and. $4,000 attendants upon its
public services. "a ~ p
The Rev. J.. A. Monroe, at Port
Jervis, N. Y, reports FOL conversions
and SOL probationers as the results of a
ten weeks meeting. 9 - .
The Mnhammedan population of the
world lis feckoncd at $50, ZOO, 900, and
has hitherto been unreached by any en-
ergetic or systematic christian effort. +;
The following is the value of church
property In this COUNTRY, according to
the census of 1870: Methodists, $685..
$50, 121; Presbytefians, $50, 1924, 511
Catholics, $50, 1882, $50 Baptists, SAL
608,19S; Episcopalians, $50, 511 ,495;
Congregationalists, 25,O69, 1858.
The Catholic cathedral in Boston is
larger Than the Strasbourg, Pisa, Sails
bury, Vienna, Venice, or Dublin cattle
drals, being 3o4 feet in length, and 222'
feet wide at the NmseEka i was begun
in 1877 and thSgH t1e 80, has besK
continued uninterrdptedfy ever since, it
is not yet quite hnishe1E 1.-The main
tower will be 300 feet high, and the
small one 100 feet. The pews can seat
$500, and there is standing room for as
many more. The organ ispnext in size
to that OF Music Hall. There is child's-
chapel in the basement which will seat
nearly 1000.
In. the ~yicinity-Of Stryker, Ohio,
there has been forming for forty years
community Of Huguenot immigrants
from southeastern 'Frsnce, coming from.
Mountbeliard, between the Jura and
Vosges mountains. Being of old Hugue-'
not blood, they have held to their faith,
but without organization or pastoral care,
save such as has been given them by the
Rev. Emilius Grandgirard, = of Chill
Gothic Presbytery, delegate to the Gen
eral Synod of France from the General
Assembly of the United States. Three
years ago they found young student,
Charles Chavez. BY the advice of NJ.
Grandgirard, he studied in the French
department of the Presbyterian Theolog-
ical School at Montreal, and last year he
completed his course, and was licensed
and ordained by Chihcothe Presbytery.
These people have increased to nearly q
hundred families, and have organized a
| church.-Ncw York Obserrer
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

II should not be supposed thsss-
are no Jews WHO would LID tersturn TO
the Holy Land, sTken4 a Jewhh %
ciety in Russia xhose members contri-
butte one rouble eash toa co~non fund.
At stated periods fortnustc rnsmhers are
chosen by lot and sent to Palestine,
where, OUT of this land, hey arg sup
ported foethe ma d.their live, and
permitted % pass hcf 6nes in nsedita-
ton. The society is called :. The In
quirers after the Welfare Of Zion.'r Z
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

Amid the cares and perplexities of
life there are few things that will make
a man carry his head so straight as to
have a ragged neck-binding on his shirt,
with plenty of starch on it well ironed
in
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

There may not be breath of
stirring, but try to light your cigar with
your last match in the open air and
there will come up a hurricane that viii
lift the hair right off your head.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

She became unconscious, and the sur
face of the body was turning cold, when
ammonia was injected The woman at
once revived and recovered.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

GEORGE .WAsHINGToN.-The dress in
which George Washington generally. APP
peared at church was laced hat, stone
colored coat with gilt buttons, blue sur
tout, buff knee brooches, s.boots and gilt
spurs, Being held the best horseman
and boldest fox hunter in Virginia, it
was natural that he followed the fashion
prevalent among the. young gallants and
came to church on horseback. He used
a Pelham bit and generally rode with
holsters at his saddle peak. The portrait
by Peale, which is considered by his
relatives the most correct one, represents
him at the age OF forty in. the uniform
of colonel of the twenty-second Vir-
ginia militia. There is no trace of re-
semblance to the grandmotherly portrait
by Stuart, even allowing for the diff
ference of age. The former agrees in
personal appearance with the character
given him by neighborhood tradition
bold, dashing gallant, even after his
marriage; rather foppish, to win lady's
smile or the fox's brush.
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ADVERTISING RATES.
RAVE IND e. az.

China has a population of 46O, OOO,-
900. 1t doesn't seem as if they'd miss a
man when he is decapitated for stealing
fiom the postoffice.
"A man has been sentenced 10 a
months imprisonment at hard labor, in
Enniskillen, ireland, for stealing sticks
valued at one penny from Lord Belmore's
estate.
The st. Louis Republican still in
sists that it is mean and low-down To eat
with knife Of course it is. Eat with
your fingers and then lick 'em of, one
at time.
The day has come when an -Ameri-
can capitalist is not ashamed to walk
into tobacco store and ask for a five
cent cigar. This was all the country
was waiting for.
What is life 2" says Pennsylvania
paper. AS near as we can make out,
it's a struggle to come out sufficiently
ahead to pay for a respectable funeral,
and most people die before they get
there.
When Boston girl breaks her en-
gagement with man, and her friends
expostulate with her, she only has to say
that his views on the -theosophic doc
trine of cosmogony are loose, and they
realize at once how impossible it is for
any true woman to risk her happiness
with such person.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

xS -
The reports of the destitute condition
of the children of Aagustus DICKENS
brother of Charles Dickens, have brought
out letter from H. ". T.SWentworth, {,
OF livingston street, New York, who is
first cousin of their mother and who
offers to provide for the orphans if some
one will undertake the expense of send
ing them to that city.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
THE WEEK PAST.

- - "a.
Dry GOODS were@never cheaper than
they are at presents MERCHANTS in the
business half century say they never
knew time when all sorts of wooden
and cotton fabrics were as-lew lhey
are to day
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

4
| No price is set on the lavish summer,
june may be had by the poorest conner"
I =. " Infants" says the Rochester Dem
ocrat, should not be allowed to use to-
bacco in any FORM" And it is sad
sight to see baby scarcely month old
lie in its cradle and puff forth great
clouds of tobacco smoke or roll guild of
fne-cut around in its mouth and squirt
the amber juice all over thes tove hearth.
"A prudent mother of wealth and re-
spectability has brought up her accom-
plished and beautiful daughters to do
washing and ironing When questioned
as to the cause of this somewhat unusual
proceeding, the prudent mother replied;
o, it is always well to be prepared for
any emergency. Perhaps some of my poor
children may marry an Italian count .
On cold, dark winter night, when
a young married man is taking in the
clothes, with frozen fingers and a mouth
full of clothes-pins, nothing gives him a
greater feeling of despair than to hear
his wife open the back window and say:
Joseph, you may bring yours in, but
guess you can hang mine back"
The tall towers are becoming nu-
merous here, but the old countries beat
us almost tout of sight, While the
highest point of Trinity church, n. Y,
is two hundred and eighty-four feet (and
there is no higher architecture in the
United States), the loftiest pyramid of
Egypt goes up four hundred and fifty
feet; st. Peters, Rome, four. hundred !;
Strasburg cathedral, four hundred and
sixty-one, and the new church of st.
Nicholas, at Hamburg, four hundred
and seventy-two.
The question of the feasibility of
doing away with "drummers," which
has agitated Boston so extensively dur
ing the past winter, was discussed some
what at the recent convention of whole
sale druggists at indianapolis. One
speaker said the additional expense in
CURED by the wholesale trade of the
west by reason of employing travellers
was at least three hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars year; and he
thought if all the houses would dispense
with "drummers they would sell as
much as ever.
Speaking of the attack of Philip the
II. upon England, CASTELAR,, the eele-
brated Spanish orator, says: "As a
Spaniard I regretted the disaster of our
fleet, but 1 could not forget that was
man more than Spaniard, and when 1
thought that without that disaster all
the world would have been an Escurial,
that Philip the IL, that insect of the
tomb, would have devoured England
and Holland, / thanked the winds and
God for having cast down into the
waves of a new Red Sea this new
Pharoah with his soldiers"
"A young women having taken a
course of chemistry, has been assisting
her father in his drug store. The other
lay there was sent in a prescription for
some simple medicine Tor a sick baby,
and next day the baby's father went
down town to buy pony coffin. The
chemist was requested to rise to per
sonal explanation. "Great Jehosha1
phat!'' he said, looking at the powder,
s why, there's arsenic in thisl 1t ought
to have been bicarbonate of soda Eliza,
how is this? ?" ooh, pal" replied his
assistant, eve had no soda,
and arsenic was the nearest shade that
matched :"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
SMECONTROL.

This. is the fixation Of the attention
upon one set of motives to the exclusion
of another set. In all cases the stronger
motive proponderates, but we make for
ourselves the strength of our. motives by
the degree in which we fix our attention
upon one motive rather than another.
When we want to withdraw our minds
from some feeling We ought not to enter
tain, We should not say" must not
think of this" for then our attention
will certainly be directed to it, but 81
will think of that" We ought to turn
our minds upon something that is attrac-
tive and worthy, and, by the fixation
of the attention upon that, to. strengthen
its attraction for us, and proportionately
weaken the attractiveness Of the other.
How the will dominates the cerebr1sm he
could net tell, but we have daily ex-
perience that it does, and our own ex-
perience and our own thoughts and feel
ings are far the most certain of all ex-
perience. The knowledge that we have
the power of self-direction is the funda-
mental fact in our whole nature.
am,""I ought, - g 1 can, WILL" are
the four words which man can say, and
the saying of which divides him from
the lower animals; for though dog has
a sense of duty, it is only the sense of
doing his masters likes. We can reach
the higher aspect of moral right and
wrong. az can," implies " can do as
1 ought" Therefore, although he went
entirely with his friends in asserting the
automatism of the animal and mental
mechanicism of men, he held that he
was not all. The state of sleep, SOM
nambulism, all the curiously induced
states of semnambulism, are SO COM
pletely divided from the state of the
man who has his mind "weH in hand"
as it may be said, that he could not see
how it was possible to deny the fact that
We have a controlling and direct will.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

ADvICE.-Every one must remark that
a favorite article of winter clothing for
children is comforter swathed around
the neck. This is great error the feet
and the wrists are the proper members
ngkeep warm; the face and throat will
harden into healthy Indifference to cold
but that muller, exchanged for an extra
pair of socks and knitted gloves, would
preserve boy or girl really warm and
we'll. Bronchitis. and sore throat have
declined fifty per cent. since the absurd
use of high collars and twice around
neckerchiefs went out of fashion; and if
the poor would take better care of their
children's feet half the infantile NOR
tality would disappear. 1t only costs
trife to put piece of thick felt or cork
into the bottom of boot or shoe, and
the difference is often considerable be-
tween that and doctors bill. with, per-
haps, the undertaker's beside.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

THE report of the Swings banks of New
York for the past yeas show some curl
Gus results. The number of depcsitors
has acknowledgements, giving unmis-
taxable Evidence of the, hard times pre-
vailing among the lower and middle
classes who usually patronize these insti-
tutions. For ten years previous, the
average incpeases IN the, humber of de-
pesitors wa. sixteen Thousand five hun
dred year, while 1875 shows decrease
of nine thousand, making difference of
twenty-five thousand. OF course it is
the smaller depositors who have dropped
of, drawing their all. On the other
hand, in the face of this decrease of De.
positors, the aggregate of the money de-
posted has increased seven millions.
The simple explanation of it is that
money usually employed N business has
sought The savings banks in preference
to the ordinary banks, because the former
pay interest on deposits, while the latter
do not. This increase in the aggregate
holdings of the savings banks is but
another evidence of the prevailing de
preston.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

The scarcity and dearness Of fish is
one of the melancholy exceptions to the
general decline of prices. Especially
that excellent breakfast dish, the mack
erel, is growing dearer and smaller. The
best mackerel are now $22 per barrel in
the New York market. against Gil Last
wear. The falling off in the supply is.
attributed by the trade to the abuse Of
the seine. Schools Of mackerel are cor
raIed in immense ssines and then dipped
up, vast numbers of fish being thus de-
stroyed which are too small for CON,
sumption or which spoil before they can
be cured.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

."Will it please the gentleman to
buy this canary?" said Highland boy,
newly imported into Glasgow, but as
sharp as the north wind, while attempt
ing, some time ago, to sell - canary to
an English gentleman. is it he
one ?" "Oh. sir" hesitatingly replied
the young Donald, who was at a loss to
know which OF the sexes the gentleman
would perfer; ooh, sir, she's kind of a
he, and shes no verv.he' neither.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

Earth gets its price for what earth givt u.s.
The beggar is taxed for a corner 10 die In,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives US
We fmrgain for tie graves we lie in:
At the devils booth all things are sold,
Each ounce of 'dross costs its ounce of gold:
For cap and bells our lives pay,
Bubbles we buy with whole souls fasking,
fis heaven alone that is given away,
IT'S only God may BE- had for the asking
No price is set on the lavish summer
june may be had by the poorest conner"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

DISCUSSING the peanut question, with
express reference to the consumption of
that edible in the street cars, the New
York Herald says: "The peanut suf-
fers from its vulgar name. 1t would be
more respected if it, wsres called the
Arachnis hypogea, a leguminous plant.
It is also an impressive fact, not gener-
ally known, that it is the root of Bunium
bulbocastanum,<an unbelliferous plant,
which is farinaceous, phosphoric, sweet
and considered nourishing. A pint of
peanuts may be vulgar refreshment,
but pint of roasted Arachnis hypog@e
deserves. to be looked upon with re-
spect."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
VOLUME XII.
OUR WOMEN.

What is the theme that now I sing
Z With railing bones and banio,s ring, .
Z Whih tambcuf&ne alDft fling = - "a -
Our Womeni
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

AccoRDIsG to thecseport Of Peko
Pauleffchs the commander Of the Her
zegovinian4u surgents, the recent battle of
Muratovizza resulted in a crushing de-
feat of the Turkish army. If the state
ment can be relied upon, the insurgents
will close the career of the "sick man "
before next summer at this nate, and
Prince Charles of Roumania will be very
foolish to pay his tribute Of $lSS. 600.
The restlessness of the Servian popula-
ton in view Of the general success Of
their neighbors easily comprehended,
and the report that the Servian troops
have been ordered TO the frntiw TO re-
pei Turkish incsrsions las the look Of
aggression on the part Of Prince Milan.
This feverish conditions of affairs in
western Turkey is periodical, but the
present uprising has a positive element
which betokens q speedy and radical
change in the relations between the sui
tan and his Christian subjects.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

THE Emperor William of Germany
possesses forty-three different, d&cdea-
tions, all of which, With tie essepf % pf
the Black Eagle order, are in some way
connected with martial glory. His 'irst
military decoration was the Russian Be-
George order of the fourth class, pre-
sented to hidd on the 5th of MarcA 1874
for valor in the face of the enemy; i've
days later, on the 10th Of March, he re-
ceived the Iron Cross of the second class.
His newest decoration is Che Swedish
Golden Sword medal, .pFeseited to him
by King Oscar H., IN Msy, 1876, ON the
occasion of theParade of the Garde
Corps. On ordinary occasions, the EN-
peror wears only the star of the Black
Eagle order, which incloses miniature
portraits of hii father and mother
Frederick william Ill, and Queen
LOUISE
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

Who Is it In our homes of ease,s
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
Through life's tight places men do squeeze
Our Women,
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1876-03-07
NENIECKO.

Stihani hrabete .Arnina Sc
dsjc houievnatou dislcdnosti.
Cisat zamitl jeho zados., ably bez
pFekafky = nemilych nasledki 5
smell naystiyiti sv6ho na smrtel-
nsm IGzku v Nsmecku Sc neehA-
zejicibo syna. Rodina stihaneho
hrabste pcdala cisafi zadost o mi
lost, na kterou sc il odpovsdi ne,
dostalo.-Arnim byl ma den 81,
dnora pied vrchni tribunal obe-
Sian. Doroeena mn byla obsilka
nemeckym konsulem We Florens
eli, hrabs il vsak nechal beg po-
vsimnutL Nsmecke noviny hlA-
saji, ze hrabe Arnin bude obfalo-
vas iesis veleErady, uratenf Ct,
safe, Bismarka q ministerstva "a
lezitosti zevnich. [ysecko v po;
tadku l-Jen &c -e bude vsemo.
houci Bissnark muset poradit 1
Norimberskou mestskou radon,
kterA nikoho peyfsi, poku6 ho
nema
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1876-03-07
sPANELsKO.

Brstroyrafedna valka We Spa
nslskp lest tedy ukonsena. Zboz>
ns iupis Don Karlos je jill We
Francii = hodlA pry do Anglie 80
odebrati. - Jiny Telegram Ease
prasi, ze Sc hodla tento krki vsech
brigantn trvaie usidiiti na sdsde-
nych statcich po vevodovi Z Mo-
deny, v krAioystvi aherskem.
(srastny Magyar orszagD zatim
ma Don Karlos truble > apglicky-
mn vsfiteli. kterych visi jenom
s s5. Ooo, 900. - We spanslsku pa
nuje velika radost mad ukonee-
MIN teto neblahe valky. Vojsko
karlisticke temsf smahem Sc vzds
10 vojsku kraiovsk6mu. Tiupy,
kters Sc posud v horach potlou-
kali, jsou kraloysktm vojskem
stib&ny. kZaroveh se oznamuje
lie bude nyni $4,000 muzd vojska
ma ostrov Kuba poslano.
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Soud Babcocka.

Kaadf kdo siedoval v5vin a
pr1beh soudu Babcocka oeekAva-
ii musll, ie Bsbapef prphlasen
buae xa neyina pfieiny nedo-
statku dtkaso. Jedlne d0k..r
pro jeho spoluvinnu na kofalee>
nich kradezfch, bylo nskolik Eas
hsdnisn teiegrama q svsdectvi it,
slsho Evcresta. Ztelegramn PHI
muI soud "a svedectyi jen takov6
z kterschz 80 dpkisati mohio, 10
skutesns pro Rabcocka urseny
byly q 10 je Babcock obdrzel.
Uuvidime tuto teiegramy kters
co svsdectvf pouxity byiy, Bah
coeka Primo sc tykajice.
GEN. Z. Babcock.
Name dfadni zrrava, 10 to o.
slabuie. Mute to. Syiph.
st Louis Q. pros. 1875.
Gen. q. Y. Babcock, Washing
ton. Postal secretaf neb komisaf
nskcho semi ~"
Washington =. pros. 1875
John Mcdonald st Louis:
Neslysel jsem ze nskdo Bel mob
jde. O. E. Babcock."
st Louis rs. hi. 1874
o. z. Babcpek Washington;
Aluyil iste d. I Jsou vsci v
pofAdkuy Jak je-f
Odpovsf. ~.
ST Louis 81. dubnA 1876
Gen. o. n. Babcock Washington
Rcete Mac-ovi, aby promluv,ls .
Parkrem. Colorado, . telegram
komisaFi Crush. st Louis.
Grit"
uen. W a. DaUSoCA washington
Jedu do San Francisco xftra
weber; nechf p. pdyoli svt iksa-
dalni psy, ktett1 Pouse oserhujf
upompku M ubohSho Fordu :
pfiteIe. ].
HIsvnf sv1dek, vile smfnxnf
Everest, dosvSdSovsl, 10 byl pfi-
tomsu, kdys Joyce (kter55 iis
pdsoszen jsst1 vkl6dal dvt p1ti~
stove bankovky do list0 nichx
jedsn adresovkn byl NJ Babcocka
. druhy m Avery ho.
Toto svsdectvi zvrkceno bylo
:vtdtem listonossm Aagill, tte-