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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
COLONEL ST1RBOTTLE.

| The stranger who entered was large
and somewhat inclined to a corpulency
| that was, however, restrained in expan.
sion by a blue frock coat, tightly but
toned at the waist, which had the ap
Parent effect of lifting his stomach into
the higher thoracic regions of mora
emotion-a confusion TO which its owner
lent certain intellectual assistance
The colonePs collar was very large, open
and impressive; his black silk necker-
chief loosely tied around his coat, occu.
pying considerable space over his shirt.
front, and expanding through the upper
part of a gilt-buttoned white waistcoat,
lent itself to the general suggestion that
the colonel had burst his sepals and
would flower soon. Above this unfold
ing the colonePs face, purple, aquiline-
nosed, throttled-looking as to the mouth,
uptilted above his shoulders. The colo
mel entered with that tiptoeing celebrity
of step affected by men who are con-
scious of increasing corpulency. He
carried a cane hooked over his forearm !;
in one hand large white handkerchief,
and in the other broad brimmed hat.
He thrust the former gracefully in his
breast, laid the latter on the desk where
Mr.. Dumphy was seated, and taking an
unoffered chair himself, coolly rested his
elbow on his cane in an attitude of easy
expectancy.-ScribneT.
How THEY GATHER CoCoANUTs.-Co-
coant forests of thousands of acres are
spread over the plain back of Gale, in
Ceylon. The trees run up without knot
or limb from thirty to eighty feet to the
branches that bear the fruit. A n,atured
tree is only about one foot to one foot
and half in circumference at the base,
and maintains nearly this size all the way
up. How is the fruit gathered at such
height? The coolies climb these trees
like squirrels: they place rope around
the legs near the ankles, so as to hold
them in position around the tree, and
then without spur or other artificial help
they climb up with astonishing celebrity,
gather the fruit and drop it on the
ground. A single tree produces about
dozen cocoanuts, and the coolie harvester
is allowed one for gathering the fruit of
each tree. These cocoanut forests are
beautiful, presentingsymmetr growth,
graceful proportions and charming shade.
The fruit itself with the inclosed milk
affords healthful food and cooling drink
it is source of considerable revenue
from export; the fiber of the shell is
largely utilized for the manufacture of
cloth and rope. Next to coffee, the CO.
is the most important and valu-
able product of this island.
IT is rather a serious business for
people around Pontiac, Mich, to be
" stiff in their manners"-or it was be-
fore young Harvey Z. Welton was put
in the penitentiary. Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Crofoot, of the American hotel, were
''stiff in their Manners" which was
more than Welton could stand, and so |
he went one night and burned down
their barn. That limbered them, of |
course.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01

WELL WATER IN CITIEs.-The state
geologist of New Jersey, in his recent re-
port, calls attention to the habit still in
use in some of the older cities, of people
drawing their supply of water from old
wells. In an analysis of the water COM
ing from some nine wells in Princeton,
five of them were found to contain free
ammonia, albuminous matter, and chic
rides in excess. In tracing the effects
of these waters, it was found in almost
all cases that diar.hea and typhoidal
fevcrs accompanied their~nsc. It-is al
most impossible to be sure of the good
quality of any well vsAfeh is surrounded
by h ss s,rTToaGfnS ;d soil 'a SINKS empty
wen II not OH the PROJECTORS Of large
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
NAMES OF COUNTRIES.

The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Phnni-
clans, the greatest commercial people in
the world. The names in the Pheni-
clan language signify som ,thing charac-
teristic of fhe places designated: Europe
signifies country Of white complexion,
so named because the Inhabitants were of
a lighter complexion than those of Asia
or Africa. Asia signifies between, or in
the middle, from the fact that geographers
placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signified the land of corn or ears.
1t was celebrated for its abundance of
corn and all sorts of grain. Siberia sig
mites thirsty or dry-very characteristic.
Spain, a country of rabbits or comics. 1t
was once so infested with these animals
that they sued Augustus for an army to
destroy them. Italy, country of pitch,
from its yielding great quantities of
black pitch. Calabria, also, for the same
reason. Gaul, modern France, signifies
yellow-haired, as yellow hair character
lied its Inhabitants. The English of
Caledonia is high hill. This was a
rugged, mountainous province in Scot
land. Hibernia is utmost or last habi-
tation for beyond this, westward, the
Ph9nicians never extended their voy-
ages. Britain, the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and the adj
jacent islands. Ths Greeks called it AL
bion, which signifed in the Phenician
tongue either white or high mountains,
from the whiteness of it's shores or the
high rocks on the western coast Corsica
signifies the footsteps of men, which it
resembles. Syracuse signifies bad SAVIOR,
so called from the unwholesome marsh
on which it stood. Rhodes, serpents or
dragons, which it produced in album
dance. Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction.
1Etna signifies a furnace, or dark and
smoky.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01

1t is now asserted that the sweetness
OF lieorice root is not due, as many sup
pose, to glycyrrhizin, but to the presence
OF glycyrrhizate of ammonia. But we
don't suppose the small boy cares wheth-
er there is glycyrrhizin in his'n or not,
so long as it enables him to expectorate
the same color az the tobacco juice his
father spits on the floor
The Lick baths in San Francisco,
costing $l50,00O, will be in Il building
constructed entirely of iron and glass,
$40 feet long by-ea wide. ar-la dome 1870
feet high. The tanks will be .sSp,,,ied
with salt water from the bay. xhi.r -.
be erected az Columbia sqna~
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
BIaCkHiIIs!

Book written by ore who has been there. Now
ready. All about Black Hills, Gold Mining, How
to Get There, &c. Full particulars. Sent by mail
for so CENTS. Address,
r. T. HUTCHINSON, indianapolis, Ind.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01

ATIND Reading, Psycnomancy. Fascination, soul
MI Charming, Mesmerism, and Marriage Guide,
showing how either may fsscinate gain the love
and affection of any person they choose instantly 40
pages BY mail soc. HUNT Co. 1873 8 eth ST.. Phia
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS
IEMPIIIS

MEMPHIS.
Flour steady and unchanged Corn, 55c. Oats,
soc. Lard, 14%c. Bulk meats-Shoulders, $50;
clear rib, 1254c.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
XanHppP.

1t seems that the memory of this woman,
like that of her renowned husband, is likely
to be kept alive to the end Of time. She is
said to nave possessed a very irritable tenn
per, and her name has become asynonym of
" VIXEN or "scold.n 1t is more than posi-
BILE, however, that the judgmentpassed upon
her by mankind has been too severe. A more
charitable disposition would undoubtedly
have discovered in her many good qualities,
and have attributed her failings more to
physicalinfrmities than to moral %obliquity.
The party most intimately acquainted with
her, and therefore best able to form a correct
opinion, gives her credit for many domestic
virtues. Its now well known that many OF
the diseases to which women are subject,
have a direct tendency to render them irri-
table, peevish, cross, morose, unreasonable,
so that they chafe and fret over all those lit
tie ills and ~annoyances that a person in
health would bear with composure. 1t is
fair to infer that most of the tantrums of
Xantippe were due to these causes alone /;
and could Socrates, as he. returned from he
Senate, the Gymnasium, or the Atheneum,
have stopped at Pestle & Mortar's Drug
Store and carried home q bottle of DR..
Pierce's Fayorite Prescription now and
then, no doubt he might have evaded many
a I" curtain lecture" allayed many a do
nestle broil," made it much pleasanter for
the children, and more enjoyable for himself,
and rescued his wife's name from the I'M
enyiable, worldwide, and eternal notoriety
ithas attained. Thousands of women bless
the day on which DIR. Pierce's Fayorite Pre-
scription was first made known to them. A
single bottle often gives delicate and suffer-
ing women more relief than months of
treatment from their family physician. In
all those arrangements causing backache,
d~ragging-down sensations, nervous and gen.
eral debility, it is a sovereign remedy. Its
the utmost value to ladies suffering from in
ternal fever, congestion, Inflammation, or
liberation, and its strengthening effects
tend to correct displacements of internal
parts, the result of weakness of natural sup.
ports. 1t is sold by all druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
The Price of Admission.

The Philadelphia papers strongly urge
the reduction of the price of admission
to the Exposition from fifty to twenty
five cents, en- the ground that the pres
ent charge will virtually close the doors
against hundreds of thousands of work
ingmen and their families. 1.-THE great,
and, indeed, only value of the Exhi-
bition," they say, sis as an educator of
the mas of the American people. 1t is
not in any sense a speculative or stock
jobbing affair" If the managers of the
Exhibition look at it from this liberal
point of view, there a be little doubt
that the price of admission will be low
cred, if not Immediately, very soon.
Fifty cents is a small matter in itself,
but the Exhibition, for the purposes Of
study, or even for casual examination,
will require many visits, and few me-
chanics or laboring men can afford this
expense, added 10 that of car fare, food,
etc. The Swedish and Spanish govern.
ments and the people of France propose
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
Dress in

Fashions changed a hundred years ago
as they do now, and perhaps it would be
impossible to give IN exact picture of
the costume of different classes at one
given time. But, in general, it may be
said that gentlemen wore small clothes,
knee-buckles and buckled shoes; coats
broad-skirted, ~wide-cuffed and lace
rufied, and of brown, gray, claret or
other color; long waistcoats with broad
flaps over the pockets, cooked hats, and
in many cases wigs and powered hair.
The small sword was a common article
of full dress, while scarlet cloth and gold
and silver lace, with snowy buttons, were
resorted to by patricians on important
occasions. The ladies made up their
silks and satins and brocades into sacques
and petticoats, hooped and trailed, set
off with %rufles, and v~ariously patterned
and bedecked, according to the style of
the hour. They spent much time upon
their hair, and the arrangement of the
head-dress for the great party or grand
ball was a very com licated operation.
.-Edward Ab6otfs "RevoEutiondry Times
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18

eral waiting room, 100 by 100 feet, a ladies'
waiting room eighty-one by 100 feet, a bag
gage room forty-nine by 100 feet, a ticket
office thirty by forty feet, a package room
ten by thirty feet, and a number of retiring
rooms, all handsomely finished, and pro-
yided with every convenience. The rooms
on the second floor are for the use of the
railroad officials and employees.
This depot is reached by a circle of three
tracks sweeping from the main roadway
four-ffths of a mile long, and the diameter
of the circle they describe is 600 feet. All
trains will enter this circle heading west,
and depart from the depot heading east.
Three trains can be landing or receiving
passengers in front Of the depot at the
same time, the entire tracks being loored
over, and no matter in what direction the
trains may come or go, they can be moved
without confusion, delay or danger.
Seventeen additional sidings have been
constructed, connected with this circle, of a
length of 1000 feet each, upon which wait
ing trains can be run and remain with en-
gines attached, until the time arrives for
them to enter upon the circle, receive their
passengers, and depart for destination.
This arrangement of tracks and sidings is
novel, and affords facilities for the transac-
ton, without detention or confusion, of an
almost unlimited passenger business.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18

or ten miles, and every modern appliance
for combining the highest speed with the
most perfect safety has been adopted. The
company has built 200 elegant cars, with
engines of the first class ample to move all
trains that may possibly be required.
Centennial visitors will find the Pennsyl-
vania road the only direct route from the
West, North and East to the Centennial
Exhibition, the rates as low as by any other
route, the time made by it the quickest, and
the accommodations for comfort, luxury
and safety unequaled. Careful agents, on
all trains, will arrange for the prompt and
cheap delivery of all baggage, and, for fifty
cents, sell seats in a comfortable carriage to
any point in Philadelphia.
Above all, these visitors will be landed at
the very doors of the Exposition, in the
beautiful Centennial depot of the company
represented in the above cut. 1t stands OPP
posite the p space separating the Main
exhibition building from Machinery hall,
facing the principal entrance gate and the
Judges pavilion, and in close proximity to
several immense hotels and restaurants. 1t
is $40 feet in length by 100 in width, two
stories high, and s%urmounted by six towers.
Ir design it is tasteful and ornamental,
comparing favorably with the many beauti-
full structures erected for the purposes of the
Exhibition. The first floor contains a gen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
memorable in history as it is grand, pat
riotic, and beneficent in design, is

IlOtC, anu DcuCllCcub Ill QcoiSu, 10 d
GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE
from the North and the Sonth, the East
and the West, to overflow these grand
spaces, and fill these MAGNIFICENT aisles
till the murmuring voices of this great
human food shall rise to a grand Inter
national anthem of admiration over the
work of their own hands. For this Ex-
position represents Lincoln's ideal of
the government. 1t is of the people, by
the people, and for the people, and the
people should be here in committee of
the whole to utilize, appropriate, and en-
Joy their own.
COST OF LIVING HERE.
First-class hotels charge S. a day, the
same as in any Eastern city, but good,
comfortable board and lodging can be OBJ
tanned at good hotels for $3.50 and So a
day and the price of board and lodging,
considering the increase of -four, meat,
and butter here, compares favorable with
the price in Chicago, Cincinnati, and st.
Louis, while house rent is positively
cheaper. OF course those who demand
| Injuries must pay for them, and those
who have but little time to spare for the
Exposition may find, in the saving Of
carriage and street car fare and in econ.
omy Of time, the near-by-frst-class hotels
the cheapest.
ACCESS TO THE GROUNDS
is rendered easy and speedy by a me-
work of street car lines, radiating to al
parts of the city, and by railroad line'
from all parts of the country leading in
to the city, and notably by the Pennsyl
vani Railroad, leading directly to the
Centennial grounds near the main en-
trance, where they have erected a mag
nifcent passenger depot. S. NJ. BoeTH.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18

The Pennsylvania railroad company,
whose lines penetrate every section of the
Union, and directly connect all important
points with Philadelphia, hasmade magnif-
cent preparations for conveying, with safety
and comfort, the millions of people who in
tend visiting the Centennial Exhibition di-
rectly to the Centennial grounds. The loca-
ton of the Exhibition made it impossible
for any other railway to directly reach the
Exhibition buildings and grounds, and the
management, ever since the site was des-
ignated, has employed its gigantic equip
ments and unrivaled facilities to make the
Exhibition a success, by providing the
amplest accommodations at the minimum
price, for both exhibitors and visitors. 1t
was fitting that a railway company, national
in its character and operations, should thus
second the commissioners in illustrating our
centennial history by demonstrating the
high degree of excellence attained by the
railway transportation system of America,
in making the great thoroughfares uniting
the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi
valley, the West, Northwest and Southwest
with the Centennial City, as erfect as posi-
bic in all its essentials and details.
Its routes follow the geographical chan
nels of continental INSTRUMENTATION,
uniting most Of the larger cities on the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
wmrTIER,s CENEENNIAL HYMN.

Our fathers Gtdf from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land andThee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where of old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word Of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
of rended bolt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
Be with us while the new world greeis
The old world, ~thronging all its streets,
dwelling all the triumphs won
BY art or toll beneath the sun
And unto common good ordain
This rivalship Of hand n brain.
Thou who hast here In concord furled
The war flags OF q gathered world,
Beneath our western skies fulfill
The 0rient's mission Of good will,
And, freighted with loves golden fleece
Send back the %argonauts of peace:
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of use,
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The austere virtues strong to save,
The honor proof TO place or gold,
The manhood never bought or sold
Oh, make Thou us, through centuries long,
In peace secure, and Justice strong;
Around our gift OF freedom draw
The safeguards Of Thy righteous law,
Aud, cast in some diviner mold,
Let the new cycle shame the old !
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
The Statue Of Liberty.

- ~
The French do not do things by
halves. Having undertaken to compll
ment us by erecting a statue OF Liberty
IN New York har6or, they propose to
make 1t n OF the WORLDS wonders.
While 1t would have been exceedingly
gratifying it our French friends had
concluded to finish the Washington
monument for US, their kindness in
crystallzlng their q Tor liberty IN
a bronze colossus Is appreciated, Lib
erty Llghtlng tne wore, Is n name
OF the Centennial statue, n plaster cast
OF which mas already beer hnlshed by
bartholdi. It's grandeur mas peensde-
scrlbed Dy the messenger Franco AMERICAN,
of New York, which says: The colossus
is now to be ssendn Paris, by h friends
and the assistants OF the sculptor, IN his
sludlo IN tne hue du oommanaeur near
the orleans parrler. y Is z Oh tne
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18

to send bodies of workmen to this coun-
try, at large expense, to reap the benefit
of study in this Exposition. 1t has been
provided for the education and advan-
tage of eur own people; laboring men
have largely contributed the funds to
establish it; yet by the exaction of a
high entrance fee this very class will be
shut out.
Fifty cents appears, too, an extraya-
gantly high rate for the admission of
children, who certainly will find no such
education elsewhere. As yet we have
heard of no arrangements for half price
or discount on school tickets, etc. Some
such arrangement will certainly, we pre-
sumo, be made. Large numbers of visit
ors will otherwise leave their children at
home, and schools will be debarred alto
gether from going.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
F~ORTY.FoURrH CONGRESS.

LLMaH
MAY 6.-Seidte-The consideration of i'm
parchment articles resumed. Mr.. ConkIiLg
submitted the following questions to the
managers:
First-H two persons guilty of crime in Office cease
10 be officers at the same time, one by removal, the
other subject to Impeachment afterward /? If a
state it.
Seconds q private citizen liable 10 impeaehment
under the Constitution of the United States 7? III his
having previously held an Office distinguishes him
IL thus Lsspsct rom other citizens please state the
principle in which it is found.
Mr.. Mitchell (Rep.A, of Oregon, submitted
the following question: The Constitution
provides that when the President of the
United States is tried on impeachment, the
Chief Justice shall preside. Suppose a late
President were impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors committed while Presi-
dent, and presented to the bar Of the Senate
for trial, who would preside, the Chief JUS
tice or the President Of the Senate? Owing
to the continued indisposition of the man
ayers, Mr.. Knott was granted leave to con-
clude his argument Monday. Manager
jerks then read a long argument in favor
of the jurisdiction Of the Senate, when a re-
cess was taken. Upon reassembling, Man
ager Hoar began his argument, maintaining
the jurisdiction Of the Senate. Mr.. Hoar
concluded his argument by a peroration
which ELECTED storms Of applause from the
galleries. On motion Of Mr.. Sherman,
the Senate soon afterBard a~djourned....
Howse-Mr. Hewitt introduced a bill in rela-
ton to savings banks. 1t provides for
amending the revised statutes so that no
stamp shall be required on receipts to saw
ings banks or institutions for savings having
no capital stock, and doing no other bust
ness than receiving deposits to be loaned or
invested for the sole benefit of the parties
making such deposits, without profit or
compensation to the association or company.
Referred. The oath of office was admins.
tered to J. Y. Lemoyne, as Representative
from the Third Congressional District OF
Illinois. The House then went into Com.
mittee Of the Whole ON the Post-ofice Ap.
preparation bill. Mr.. Springer was in the
chair, and the House was addressed by Mr..
Holman on his motion on the item fol-
compensation to Postmasters, which
was increased from $500, 900 to $500, 600
Mr.. Mutchier made a point of order on the
paragraph appropriating $1,650,000 for let,
ter carriers, which contains a provision
abolishing the letter-carrier system in all
cities of less than forty thousand inhabi
fants. He argued that the question OF
economy as presented in the provision, wal
one Of argument and inference. After &
long discussion Mr.. Springer (Chairman) de
cided the point of order. He said tina
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
The Fourth of july.

In reference to preparations for the
fourth of July celebration, General
Hawley, president of the Centennial COM
mission, said that the professions could
not be fused, that they would each be SO
massive that the streets would be obstruc-
ted and too much time occupied in pass
ing. 1t had therefore been proposed that
the civic, military and society displays
should be allotted different sections oil
the city, which, would, no doubt, be car
ried out. The ceremonies upon the
ground have been previously published
so far as it could be arranged at present.