The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

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grave; consequently the headstone that
the Virginia legislature contemplated
erecting will be set up over the tomb OF
Gen. Edward johnson. Elk President
Tyler, whose grave at Hollywood is un-
marked, will also be paid the tardy
honoIS of monument.
In Russia ladies seem to have peculiar
facilities for entering the profession of
medicine. At the st. Petersburg medical
college there were last year III female
students, l02 of whom belonged to the
families of the nobility, the remainder
being the daughters of merchants, clergy
men, etc large number of lady ply
sicians are engaged in the practice of
their profession in Russia.
PRoF. Tee forecasts the weather until
the 18th of this month, as follows:
''From 18th to 14th-falling barometer,
warmer, cloudy and threatening weather,
with heavy rains and severe snow storms
in places. From 18th to 1sth-clear OF
clearing weather, rising to high baro-
meter, and very cold, if the high baro-
meter is an Arctic enc; otherwise the
weather will be moderate"
The Indiana school system employs
1000 officers in lis management. 1t ed
ucates more than half a million children
and costs 100000 annually. The
superintendent argues in his report, that
in 4 great degree. the future welfare
the state depends upon the Normal
school. The greatest defect in the sys-
tenn comes as the result of the employ
mcnt of novices as instructorsof children.
The greatest need of the schools is thor
oughly trained teachers.
AMONG the many beautiful objects to
be exhibited by Spain at the centennial |
will be building illustrating Moorish |
architecture, and in it will be quartered |
n detachment of soldiers from the royal |
engineers, composed of a lieutenant, a |
sergeant. a corporal, and twenty privates. |
The soldiers will come armed and uni
formed. They will act as guards in the
Spanish department, and will take part |
in parades and other occasions of cere-
mOny.
THE recent marriage of Miss Belle
Linthicum, clerk in the treasury de-
partment, to Senator Christiancy, of
Michigan, suggests that the treasury girls
have chances, after all. Miss Linthicum
is nineteen, and pretty. Senator Chris
tiancy is sixty-four years of age, and a
widower of ten months standing. 1t
makes no difference. He is senator,
and Miss Belle will take kindly to the
sixty-four years for the honor of being
asenatOr's wife.
THERE was quite sensation in New
buryport, Massachusetts, last week, over
the marriage of James Parton, author,
to his step-daughter, the same being for
hidden by the statutes of that state.
The bridegroom learned his status on
the morning after, the wedding, and
to prevent further scandal, lett his home
in charge of his wife and took rooms for
himself at boarding house. He will
apply to the legislature for a special act
sanctioning his marriage.
THE entire area of public lands in ,
Arkansas is 81, 406, 720 acres, of which {
there is still undisposed of s,s0O,7O !
acres; in Louisiana the entire area is
%, 461 40 acres, of which 1884,, $50 re- 4,
main undisposed of; in Mississippi the &
entire area is 30,1sO, $40 acres, of which i
i, 263, $50 are undisposcd of; in Alabama {
the area is 80, 462, 0S0 acres, of which A. s
GIG, 80S remain undisposed of; and in I
Florida the entire area is 1881 500 1
acres. of which 16, 946, 226 remain undis- {
posed Of ,
THE carnival to be held in Memphis,
February Goth, will be the growing effort /
of the managers of the grand spectacle.
The Memphi, the Ulks, and the Motley
Crew will exhibit additional attractions
to the spiendors of the last annual pa
geant. The Mardi Gras of Memphis
stands unrivalled. 1t is said that Lou
Leubrie, "Count DeNoses.'' is the pro-
genitor of all these grand novelties.
Memphis should exhibit her gratitude,
and wreath the brow of Lou Leubrie l
with her gayest chaplets.
THE London Times, in an article on i
American grain expectation, shows that, c
whereas nine years ago forty-four per h
cent. of the grain exported to England \
came from Russia, and only fourteen per q
cent. from America, now forty-four per
cent comes from America and but twen-
fv-o0a nor cont FROM, Duoz,o IT.
s.ate of things is partly attributed the
great monetary crisis at Moscow, the con-
tinuous depreciation of the paper cur !,
rency, and the Excessive distress in south
ern Russia.
The great falling off in foreign immi-
grafton last year is shown in the report :
of the New York Emigration commits :
sioners of the number of arrivals at that I
port. There were landed at Castle Gar ,
den during 1875 but "a, $50 Immigrants ,
compared with 140,041 for the previous
year. In 1872 the immigration via New .
York reached the large aggregate of I
ao4 ,5Sl. 50 that last years arrivals were ,
not much more than one-fourth of those of {
1877. The decline Is almost equally dit
fused among the different nationalities. G
Germany last year contributed 25,559, 9
ireland 49, 24 and England 10, 1913. The !
destinations annouced by the emigrants i
were chiefly the middle and western h
states.
The peanut is said to be native of 9
Africa, and was first introduced in North {
Carolina as an article for production. f
about thirty-five years ago. At that s
time small lot Of the peas was sent to :
Wilmington from St. Thomas in the I
West Indies, by parties who purchased 7
them from the effects of a Spanisb =