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

DIR. Cumming, in recent sermon,
said that some time ago he preached at
Balmoral On the doctrine that people in
heaven would recognize those whom they
had known on earth, and find pleasure in
conversing on the events which had hap
pened to them in this world. At the
close of the sermon the queen thanked
him for the comfort his discourse had
afforded her.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

"Ah, Quilts, old fellow, saw good
thing in your paper yesterday Quilts
-"Indeed? Am glad you were pleased.
What was it ?" "a pound of cheese"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

If you have a discharge from the nose,
offensive or otherwise, partial loss of the
sense of smell, taste or hearing, eyes watery
or weak, feel dull and stupid or debilitated,
pain or pressure in the head, take cold easily,
you may rest assured you have the Catarrh.
Thousands annually, without manifesting
half of the above symptoms, terminate in con-
sumption, and end in the grave. No disease
is so common, more deceptive. or less under
stood by physicians. r. v. Pierce, NJ. D., of
Buffalo, N. Y, is the proprietor of DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy perfect specific for Ca.
tarrh, "Cold in the Head" or Catarrhal
Headache
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

Southern Hotel, 81. Louis, Mo-
The most complete hotel in all its appoint
ments in the West. The table supplied at all
times with the best the market affords.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

That young man doing business in
Boston who says it is impossible to sup
port himself and his wife and two chill
dren on less than $4,000 year is no
doubt the son of an old man who found
it impossible to support himself and his
wife and ten or twelve children on $500
a year-chieAy because he couldn't get
the five hundred dollars.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

-" Menu" we learn from the accom-
plished scholar of the Pittsburg Com
mercial, ais Latin for fodder" 1t is a
wise child that knows his own fodder in
these foreign dressings
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
Three Points for Consideration

During the past five years the VEGEN NJ mas peeh
steadily working itself into public favoE ana those
who were at first most incredulous in regard It's
merit are now its ardent friends and supporter
There are three essential causes for those having
such a horror of patent medicines, changing theii
opipion nd lending their influence toward vine az
vancement of vEGETINE. LIST. 1t is an h&nesdiy
prepared medicine from barks roots and herbR. "a
without leaving any bad effects in the system 30
1t presents honest vouchers in testimonials mon
honest well known citizens. whose signatures arg
sufficient guarantee of their earnestness in the marx
ter Taking into consideration the vast quantity of
medicine brought conspicuously before the public
through the advertisements in the newspaper
columns with proof of merit or genuine vouchers
of what it has done, should be pardoned for man
Testing small of pride in presenting the fol-
lowing testimonial from Rev j 5. DICkERSON, ID.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
ONE ACRE BETTER THAN TWO.

1t is better to raise one hundred bush
els of corn on one acre of ground than
fifty. The yield could be doubled on
nearly every acre of ground in cultiva-
ton in the west What is wanted is
deeper blowing and better preparation Of
the soil, and more thorough after culti-
walton. This skimming over the ground
is one of the great evils of western farm
ing. Plow deep and then cross pillow
deep, and you prepare food and moisture
for the plants, and enable them to resist
the droughts, and make them laugh and
thrive and bear abundantly. Many far
mers pillow but few inches deep and get
small yields. They have so much ground
to work that none of it is we'll worked.
Better by far to cultivate only half as
much and cultivate it better and get far
more than by the slip shod system of
farming too generally followed. 1t is
better to thin out the plants and keep
out the weeds, and cultivate fifty acres
as they should I've cultivated than to give
click and promise" to hundred
acres. 1t is better to harvest the same
yield off of one acre than to go over two
acres for it. This is the time that our
readers should think of these matters.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
PRODUCT OF JERSEY COWS.

A correspondent of the Vermont
Farmer says: l herewith send a state.
ment of the income of eight Jersey COWS
for the year ending January l, 1867:
Twenty-Five hundred and sixty-six
pounds eleven ounces of butter
Made and sold at FORTY cents per
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

A Portsmouth, n. H., young man,
who was inconsiderate enough to " come
in" after he had escorted a girl home
from prayer-meeting, the other Sunday
evening, was obliged to stop to family
prayers, which came on very soon, but,
when the pious householder prayed that
'sthe young man who, for the time being,
is one of our number, may be directed
toward his fathers house." he took his
hat and left without ceremony.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

AT our request, Cragin & Co., of Phil
adelphia, Pa, have promised to send any
of our readers gratis ION receipt of 10
cents to pay postage), sample of Dob
bins Electric Soap to try. Send at once.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

VEGETINE is acknowledged by all class.
es of people to be the best and most reliable
blood purifier in the world.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
SICK HEADACHES!

This distressing affection most frequently.
The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the
imperfectly digested contents, causes severe pain
in the head accompa MED with dissEreeable nausea,
and this constitutes what is popularity known Sick
Headache.
,. II. ZEILIN d. CO.,
Sole proprietors simmons Liver Regulator, Phil
adeIphia
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
STEWARDS WEALTH.

The New York Times says: Mr.. Stew
art paid sSs, 200 taxes on his personal
property, and $3.50, 1892 on real estate last
year. His personal property was assessed
at valuation of So ,OOO, 900, and his real
estate at little over $4,000 600; but
the valuation for purposes of taxation is
only sixty per cent. on the real value, SO
that the actual value Of the personal
property was about $1,000, 900, and the
real estate about $4,000, 900, making a
total of 100000. This, however, re-
presents only portion of Mr.. Stewards
immense wealth, as he owns bonds and
stocks not liable to taxation mill prop
erty worth millions of dollars at Glen
ham, near Fishkill, in this state; the
newly laid-out Garden City of Long
Island, and the railroad connecting it
with Hunters Point; the Grand Union
hotel at Saratoga, stores and agencies in
London, Paris and other foreign cities,
and manufactures and mills in the
United States and abroad. The most
interesting and valuable portion of his
personal property is his art gallery, in
his residence on Fifth avenue, one of the
paintings in which, Meissonnier's
" Charge DIES Cuirassiers," cost him $780,
600. Following is the assessed valuation
of the most valuable pieces of his city
property, the assessed valuation, as al
ready stated. being only sixty per cent.
of the real value; "Up-town (retaiD
store, occupying the block bounded by
Broadway, Fourth avenue, Ninth and
Tenth streets, 81 100000; Metropolitan
hotel, 100000; "down-town" (whole-
sale) store, in Broadway, Chambers and
Reade streets, $S50,000; residence in
Fifth avenue, at Thirty-fourth street,
$500, 900; Working Woman's hotel, in
Forth avenue, Thirty-second and Thirty
streets, 1876, 900; Globe Theater prop
erty, in Broadway, near Eighth street,
$215 900; and four lots and buildings on
the north side of Reade street, $95, 900.
The total assessed valuation of these
pieces of property amounts to S3,9S6, 900,
and the real value is 81 100000
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
The Tired Body Sues for Sleep.

BOSTON, March 10, 1874.
II. R. STEVENS. ESQ:
Sir-It is much from a sense Of duty as OF
gratitude that 1 write to say that your NEGETINE
even If it is a patent medicne-has been of great
he q to when nothing else seemed to avail which
l could safely Either excessive mental work or
unusual care brings upon ME nervous exhaustion
that needs sleep but desperately detes
it. Night after night the poor tired body sues for
begin our work tired out with an almost fruitless
chase after rest. Now / have found that little
VEGETINE taken Just before retire gives me sweet
and immediate sleep. and without any of he evil ef
fects of the usual narcotics think two things Would
work. 2d. A little more EGETINE. This pre-
scrptIon has helped me-
Now. have a particular horror for patent medi-
cines'' but have greater horror for being afraid
TO tell the truth The VEGETINE has helped me.
and own it up. Yours. etc ,,,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
PLASTER IS A FERTILIZER,

For more than hundred years gyp-
sum or plaster has been used as fertili-
zer. Benjamin Franklin, it is said, in
troduced its use in this country. He
sOwed plaster on grass on a hillside in the
form of large letters, B. Franklin"
After few weeks time the grass upon
which it was sown had SO outgrown the
rest that the letters could be read long
distance off. The results from using
plaster in potato growing are astonishing.
In one case, upon a field all of the same
soil, all prepared alike and all planted
with the same variety at the same time,
on the half which had no plaster the
yield was but sixty bushels per acre, and
many rotten; the other part, to which
plaster was applied, yielded three hum
dred and sixty bushels per acre, and not
an unsound one among them. To obtain
the best results, the vines of potatoes
should be busted with plaster as soon as
they are fairly through the soil. again
Immediately after the last blowing and
hoeing and at intervals throughout the
whole growing season. The first appli-
cation should be light, the second heavier,
and then after that it should be bounti.
fully applied-say two hundred pounds
per acre at one sowing. A prominent
firm of practical farmers and millers at
Owosso, Michigan, which cultivates a
large farm, says that wheat should not
be raised without top-dressing with
plaster. These gentlemen say that they
know by many years experience that
with it they can raise larger crops and
better wheat than without it. They
even claim that they can tell by the
grain whether plaster was used in the
raising or not, and that they pay higher
price for that raised with plaster because
it is better. 1t has been abundantly
proven that plaster is also valuable as a
stimulant to all kinds of grasses, clover,
etc. Plaster acts as a condenser of am
monia, which is found everywhere in the
atmosphere and in all soils to limited
extent. 1t holds this powerful manure
in its grasp, fixes it and gives it out to
the growth of plants as they require it,
instead of allowing it to pass away I'M
fixed and unadapted tn plant growth.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

IF you feel dull, drowsy debilitated have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite, and
tongue coated, you suffering from torpid liverOr
.'bilousness,' and nothing will cure you speedily
and permanently TO take Simmons Liver Regus
later.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
!

SHOULD not he regarded asa
trifing ailment-in fact naturs
demands the utmost regularity
of the bowels, and any devia-
tiun from tins demand paves
the way often to serious danger.
1t is quite as necessary TO re-
move impure accommodations
from the bowels ms it is to eat or
sleep. and no health can he eN-
pected where a costive habit Of
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
PILES !!

How many suffer torture day after day, making
life burden, and robbing existence Of all pleasure
owing to the secret suffering from Piles. Yet relic
is ready the hand of almost any one who will use
Systematically the remedy that has permanently
cured thousands No drastic. violent purge, but
al,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29

ASK the recovered dyspeptcs Bilious sufferers;
victims Of Fever and Ague, the mersurial diseesed
patient, how they recovered health, cheerful spirits
and good appetite-they will tell you by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-29
BAD BREATH!

Nothing is SO unpleasant, nothing common
lad breath, and in nearly every il comes from
the stomach and lie easily corrected il will
take Simmons Liver Regulator. DO not neglect
sure a remedy for this repusiye disorder. 1t will also
improve your Appetite Complexion and General
Health
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

From the Aberdeen Examiner.

From the Aberdeen Examiner
We understand that the insurance laws
will soon engage the attention of the
Legislature, and in that connection we
appeal to the General Assembly to blot
out all legislation had on the subject since
reconstruction, aad give US the same old
statutes that once invited enterprise and
competition in this important line.
The law that exaets deposit from for
eign companies is impolitic and wrong,
and the clause releasing companies doing
business in the State, from making an
annual publication in every county in
which they establish an agency, with
draws that surveillance which the insured
have right to exercise over those who.
for an annual premium, guarantee them
against loss.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
Cases Decided Monday, March q
PREPARED FOR THE CLARION BY FRANZ
JOHNSTON, ESQ.

Opinion of the Court by PEYToN, j.

Opinion of the Court BY PEYToN, j.
Appellants filed their bill in equity
against the appellees, to enjoin sale OF
land for the payment of note of S6OO, due
January 1st, 1861. The note for 5000 was
secured by lien OF real estate, and SUI
was brought on it, March 23d. 1874. There
was another note Tor $Sl5 made on March
DIST 1861, for which no security was given.
General payments had been made TO the
creditor, no particular application having
been directed, more than sufficient Tor the
PAYMENT of the 5000 note. The bill pro-
ceeded on two grounds. viz that the S6oo
note had been paid, and that it was barred
bv limitation. The Chaneery Court dis
solved the Injunction. Held:
L. The common law appropriates pay
ments most beneficially to the CREDITOR but
by the civil law the payments are appro,,
priated for the benefit OF the debtor, ana
the latter rule has been adopted as the law
i'm this State AS Miss. D. POS; % Miss. p
99) Applying the credits by this rule the
note has been paid.
IL. The note was due January lst, 1861
and suit was brought March 23d, 1874; de
Quoting the period during which the statute
of limitation was suspended, more than six
wears had elapsed alter the maturity OF the
note before suit was brought. Reversed dnC
! decree here making the Injunction perpetual
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

Major VIM. D. Hardeman, who was
killed by his partner, Mr.. Prestidge, in
New Orleans short time ago, was the
Ajdutant-General of Gen. Louis Hebert,
during the war. He was with the Gen,
eral when he commanded the Brigade
composed of the 9th, 3Sth, 43rd Missis-
sippi, the 7th Miss. Battalion, and 3rd
Louisiana Regiment, and was an excel
lent staff officer. -Lexington Advertiser.
Mr.. Pre- ,tidge, we learn, was also a
Confederate soldier, and is native of
Covington county Mississippi.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

The New York Republicans did not
nominate Grant for third term, but
they did the next thing to it, They
nominated Senator Conkling, who has
stood by his Administration under all
circumstances, and in all ito measures,
through good and through evil report.
New York, with her thirty-fve electoral
votes, will exercise controlling influence
in the Presidential election. With no
Western State certain for the Democratic
candidate, unless it be Indiana, the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket may be
considered an impossibility, without the
vote of New York. With it, victory
Will be assured. As New York goes, so
VIII go Connecticut and New Jersey, and
they, with the Southern States, (inclu-
. ding little Delaware), and the Pacific
States, will constitute enough strength to
elect the Democratic ticket. The Pacific
states are welded to hard money, and
went Democratic at the last elections.
In the reactionary movement of last
year, it will be remembered that the En-.
pre- State stood firm to her Democratic
moorings, Notwithstanding the divisions
IN New York city, which will not continue
ID a Presidential contest, provided an
acceptable candidate is nominated on an
acceptable platform.
l. requires no extraordinary sagacity
10 see that New York is the kew to the
democratic situation, and that it mus,
be held, whatever else is lost.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

In his testimony before the House
committee to investigate the whisky trials,
Attorney-GeneraI Pierrepont stated that
Secretary Bristow and himself told the
President last December that they be-
lieved Babcock was interested in these
frauds. Nevertheless the President didn't
see it; and when the trial came on he
did all in his power to prevent the con.
viction Of the accused. He discouraged
witnesses for the prosecution and him.
self became willing testifer in behalf
of Babcock. With such examples by
the head of the Government before
them, what else but crime could have
been expected Of his henchmen
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

. THE Pennsylvania Democrats struck
the key note on the currency question
in their late convention, viz: that gold
"and silver are the only true basis for
" the currency of the Republic, and
Congress should take such steps for
"the resumption of specie payments as
"will most surely and speedily reach
"that result, without destroying the bust,
"ness interests of the people" This
has the true ring.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

Gov. AMEs' case will not suffer for the
want of able counsel. 1t consists of
Thos. j. Durant, Esq, who was prom
inent member of the New Orleans bar
before the war, and has resided in
Washington city since that time; and
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, formerly of Vir
ginia, whose early laurels were won as g
journalist. Since the war he has prac
tced law in New York, and has acquired
celebrity as pleader. His forte is in
defending criminals. His oratorical re-
sources will be taxed to the uttermost il
that line in the desperate case in which
he is now engaged. d
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28
Serious Charge Against u. 9. Dis
trict Attorney Whitfield.
Colum bus Press.

Columbus Press
One or more negroes took out a war
rant in the first part of the week, before
Justice Hume Sappington, charging U.
;. District Attorney Henry B. Whitfield
with forgery in collecting some warrants
due by the State to the aforesaid negro
or negroes. Maj. Whitfield claims to
have had authority 20 collect the war
rants and, also, to disburse the money, a
part of which he paid to one of the ne
groes and the rest to one of their attor-
neys. The investigation is set for next
Saturday. HUMPHREYS q Arnold for the
prosecution Messrs. James I. Harrison,
father and son, and Col. Beverly Mat
thews for the defence.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

A good law has been passed by the
Legislature, making it penitentiary of
Tense to steal hog, pig, chicken or any
thing else. This is right. A person
that would steal chicken would steal a
horse, and should, of course, be punished
by confinement and by being made to
work for the State, rather than being
confined in the county Jail at the county
expense. -Corinth News (Republican).
Our contemporary will no doubt be dis
gusted when he learns that Ames killed
the bill with his little veto.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28
Important Railroad Decision.

MEMPHIS, March 25-In the case of
the Illinois Central Railroad Company
VS.. the New Orleans, St. Louis and Chi
cago Railroad Company, before the U.
S. Circuit Court for Western Tennessee,
Judge Emmons has granted the prayer
of petitioners, and appointed j. B. AL
exander receiver upon his giving bond
before the Clerk Of this court, and to
take charge of all the property, real and
personal, of the defendant within the
State of Tennessee, with like powers
conferred upon the receiver in order
granted by the United States Circuit
Court for the district of Louisiana.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28

CHARLES NoRDHoFF writes from
Washington to the New York Herald
that no House of Representatives since
the war has worked so laboriously as the
one now in session. The committee work
is extremely hard, and the discussions
in the House have been also of charac-
ter to weary and exhaust many members.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-28
THE TRIAL BEGINS.

The trial of Gov. Ames, for the vari-
ous high crimes and misdemeenors OF
which be has been impeached by the
House of Representatives acting as the
grand inquest of the people, Will com
mepce tomorrow (29th. The impartial
public who have kept themselves advised
of the acts of this official, and especially
who have noted the charges embraced in
the formal accusation of the House OF
Representatives, can reach no other
conclusion than that his arraignment for
trial in order that he might receive the
punishment prescribed by the Constitu-
ton for the crimes of which he has been
guilty was just. In using the term g't'tty,
we do not PREJUDICE his case. The reply
of his counsel to the charges against him
amount to a plea of guilty. His ex-
cuse is that his offenses have not been such
as to warrant the infection of the consti-
Itutional remedy of removal and disquali-
| fcation. If this be a sufficient plea,
then we would ask what may not the Tx
ecutive do with impunity? What clause
of the Constitution may he not trample
| under foot? If the Executive had been
a military dictator could his acts have
| been freer from constitutional, or any
other restraint, except his own unbridled
will =? He has appointed and removed
Judges at his own caprice, without regard
to the prerogatives Of the Senate, as
signing as reasons that they were I'm
competent" that they treated attorneys
on one side or the other with indignity,
that he did not like their "rulings," thai
their action on application of his partisan
favorites for bail was &c arbitrary anc
illegal" He has converted the EXecu
J tive office into wholesale pardon bro
| kerage establishment, and persons, before
conviction, have been permitted to g
free without trial, or have been set trec
after conviction of hideous crimes, eithe
by his neglect of duty or his direct per
sonal agency; and it is notorious tina
these pardons have been purchased witt
money paid, if not to him, to his under
lings and adherents. He has abandone,
> his official duties when it suited him
= and treated the Office of Governo
. as a personal convenience, to be pu
> on or off as a garment, accord
ing to his whim or private inter
ests. By the official declarations of tn
Administration at Washington, he ha
u applied for United States troops withou
Unsuitable cause, to control elections, c
Il to crafty malice, in manner who'll
Il unwarranted by the Constitution. II
u has melted riot and murder. He hi
organized corruption and dishonesty
the administration of the State govern
Z ment to the extent of his capacity
u WELD unlawful powers. In word, whi
Il crime-what high misdemeanor-has |
> not perpetrated
u The House of Representatives has pc
- formed its solemn duty and it is fort
nate for the imperiled liberties of tt
. people that their cause has been confdt
to a tribunal so competent, and with
at so fear ess to do the right, as the Senat