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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
FUN IN TENS.

1t had been some time since Ben
Thompson of Austin, Texas, had killed
a man and he was hungry for blood.
Thompson is one of your quiet, inoffen-
sive citizens when let alone, but able
to take care of himself upon occasion.
He had been let alone SO long that he
could not help seeking late occasion
that offered to keep his fighting hand in.
The opportunity was too tempting for
him to pass, and he seized it. A party
of men came to town from neighbor-
ing county to go on a spree. In the par
ty was a man named Hammer. They
were in drinking saloon and Hammer,
drawing his pistol and laying it tenderly
on the counter, announced that he could
whip any man in Austin who wore a
stove-pipe hat, the sight OF which made
him as mad rs bull in view of red
flag. Nobody present had on stove
pipe hat and there was no fight. The
party drank and finally went out, and
meandered to another saloon, keeping a
sharp lookout for hats. Soon after they
left Ben Thompson entered the saloon and
the bar-keeper told him of the party and
the one thing they lacked to complete
their happiness-a man topped off with
a stove-pipe hat. Thompson had just
such hat, went home, put it on and re
turned to the saloon glowing with ex-
pectancy, to wait till the country party
came around again. This occurred in n
few minutes, for there is not very long
range of saloons in Austin. There was
Thompson, baited for the battle, with a
shiny silk nat. When the party came
in Thompson set himself to talking in a
jovial sort of way about being a north
ern man on a tour for his health, but
that, sick as he was, he thought he could
whip any man. big or little, in Texas.
Here was an additional charm for Han
ner. The speaker sported the required
stove-pipe hat, and was northern man,
and an invalid. Hammer waded into the
trap. Drawing his pistol and approach
ing Thompson, he remarked: You
think you can whip any man in Texas,
do you? You're my meat" Thomp-
son was quite ready, and fired promptly.
The ball entered Hammers ear and came
out at the back of his head. He ran out
and his party scattered. Thompson
fred parting shot at Hammer and hit
him in the back. Hammer fell on the
other side of the street, "worms' meat"
And that's what's the matter with Han
ner. Thompson acted in selfdefence,
and wears his stove-pipe hat for the ac-
commodation of any other Texas coun-
tryman who doesn't like the style.
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touch at the corners of the eyes To
lengthen them blue line below them
to give depth of expression. And
now the hair. 4 blonde front we will
take with Il part down the middle-yel-
low blonde, because that heightens her
complexion and makes he eyes seem
brighter. will not give her pompa-
dOur roll, but draw the waves of hair
close over her temples, and just cover
the tips of the ears with it, for her ears
are trifie too large for her small face.
The short hair will fray out little on
this chignon of puffs and curls. See, it
rises a little higher than the crown of the
head at the back; and just here, where
the puff rises, place this comb of amc-
thysts, and Irvine these purple beads
among the puffs and through the loose
torsade of the cartagan loop. Viola! En-
ma is no longer a country girl. She is a
Murray Hill belle, just out for the first
season. She is about eighteen or nine
teen, and she will captivate millionaire
before the ball season is over"
If Adele looked handsome and radiant,
Emma was dazzling. Poor girls! How
happy they looked. What woman is
not happy when she is transformed from
plainness to prettiness?
asked Mime. c. if they made up
many actresses.
No." was the reply. The actresses
purchase great many things here, hair,
chignons, wigs. curls, Muscaro, rouge,
creme, Nelontine, Blancs de Rachel, de
Venus, de Rose, powders for the face
and for the hair; but they do not require
SO fine a make up as we give. We make
up ladies not for balls and receptions
alone, but for the street. Foreigners
who land in New York from the other
side, and strangers from the west and
south, are astonished at the beauty of
the compilations of New York women.
If they only knew it, their women at
home are just as pretty, but they do not
understand the art of making up. Come
in again, and will show you still more
wonderful arts of the toilet. Gentle
men come here as well as ladies. Come
back and | will astonish you"
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still pallid and trembling ;: ~ c.
.;"-- II las hn~- oeheiaiiy ""'oi 'o'
and believed that the fellow to your Con-
stantine Chorus medal is not to be
found in the whole world. You told me
so, half a dozen times, this morning.
Now, 1 happen to possess counterpart
of this very mcdar'-bO produced II as
he spoke, from his walstcoat PocFr,,.
"and it was nv fish to enjoy v-'' u''
,,e.aIe when | prove" 20 you tnat
your treasn-e was not unique. But
mat would have been my position if
YOUR medal had not come to light, and
mine had been found in my pocket?
Who woule have believed in my story
about the ounterpartH'
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DR.. schen u. standard Remedle..

The standard remedies for all diseases of the lungs
SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SCHENCKs SEA
WEED Tonic, ami SCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS,
and if taken before the lungs destroyed speedy
cure is effected.
To these three medicines DIR. J. II. Schenck, of
Philadelphia owes his unrvalled success i'll the
treatment of pulmonary diseases
The Pumonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter in
the lungs nature throws it of by an easy expecto-
ration for when the phlegm or matter is ripe a
slight cough will throw it of, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin to heal. .
Ta enable the Pulmonc Syrup to do this, Schenck s
Mandrake Pill, and Schenck's sea Weed Tonic must
he freely used to cleanse the stomach and liver
Scbencks Mandrake Pills act on the liver removing
all distractions relax the gall bladder, the bile
starts freely and the liver is soon relieved.
Schrnck's Sea Weed Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkali of which it is composed,
mikes with the food and prevents souring 1t as
,ists the digestion by toning up the stomach TO
healthy condition, to that the food and the Pulmon
ic Syrup will make good blood then the lungs heal
and the patient will surely get well if care is taken
to prevent fresh cold.
An who wish to consult Dr. Schenek either per-
snnaiIy or bv letter do so al his principal ofhce
corner of sixth and Arch SITS, Philadelphia, every
Monday. :,
Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country
Ell HART& co, Nos. 10 - and " Tchoupitoulas
Street New Orleans Wholesale Agents
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.' 'ho hahie 10 ~ -i'n side of George
Washington. The lady lived to DC Gen.
Washington ride through williamsburg
at the head of the victorious American
rrmy, and to hear of him seated in the
csidential chair. But all that had
Sho al ,o, with Mary Cary's heart
father of his country, tho a.=as..Ll 'i's
eise oiu. IL was neither her sat that
she could not love, nor an honor that s,,r-
refused the hand of the first American.
ohe consequently never regretted being
an Amber, ana George was satisfied
with his subsequent choice, SO let the old
bones rest VIZ
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BELKNlP'S VIHEy.

The Cincinnati Commercial saws
Caleb P. Marsh, the witness, who took
an interest in the Fort Sill business at
the suggestion of Mrs. Belknap, and
divided with the family, was, until about
ten years ago, a prominent business man
of this city, being of the firm of Tyler,
Davidson & Co. He retired from the
hardware business, and has since resided
in New York and Europe. He was ac-
quainted, when in this city, with the
Mrs. Belknap with whom he negotiated,
and with her sister, then Mrs. Bowers,
the present Mrs. Beiknap, whose first
husband, Bowers, was at the time of his
death a member of the firm of +. G..
Leonard & Co., of this city The pres
ent Mrs. Belknap is the third wife of the
ex-secretary of war, and is the younger
sister of his second wife. During the
war, Col. Belknap, a widower, met and
surrendered to the charms of Miss Tomlin-
son, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and this
lady, who died in 1871, we think, is the
one who procured for Marsh the place of
post trader, being at the time she pro-
posed the business, with her sister, then
a widow, a guest in mis- house in New
York. The second Mrs Belknap died,
leaving one child, which a few months
afterward died. Mrs. Bowers, after being
for some years brilliant figure in society
in Washington and other eastern cities,
married her brother-in-law, the ex-secre-
tary. She is the present Mrs. BeIknap,
who is very well known here, a lady of
preposscssing appearance and fascinating
address, who has been the bright partic-
ula; star of Washington life, wearing
the most splendid dresses and giving
glittering entertainments.
1T MIGHT HAVE BEEN-Thcre was
not so much honor as the papers are
trying to make it out, in young lady's
refusing the hand of George Washington
when both were young and one was poor.
Miss Mary Cary did not love George
when he went wooing her. She told him
so and that -: the end of it, She after
wards married Edward Amber How
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

There is nothing that will add so much
try home, as properly kept plat of grass.
1t makes no matter how small in size it
may be; if kept cut often enough, it be-
comes a constant source of pleasure to
the owner. In laying out new suburban
places, the grass-plat around the house
is usually made by sodding. This is not
by any means the cheapest or best way
to get stand of grass for garden decora-
ton. Sods for this purpose are, as a
rule. cut from some WORKOUT pasture,
neglected public common" or may be
the roadside-places where the finer
qualities of grasses nave, perhaps, long
since been crowded out by the rank
growth of the coarser sorts-grasses who'll
ly unfit for lawn purposes. The surest
way, although it may take longer time,
is to SOW the seed of an approved selec-
ton of grasses that are known to make
good turf, and that will, if frequently
cut, give that velvety surface for which
English lawns are noted. 1t should be
clearly understood that these finer quail
ties of grasses will only thrive on soil in
good heart. 1t will be time and money
thrown away to SOW these grasses on poor
soil. The soil should be made deep, mel
low and rich, by frequent STRINGS and
liberal applications of well-rotted yard
manure, bone-dust, or superphosphate Of
lime. These fertilizers should be thor
oughly mixed with the surface soil be-
fore the grass seed is sown. This can
readily be done while smoothing and
leveling the top of the ground. and then
may be sown thickly the following list OF
grasses: Kentucky blue grass, red TOP
grass, sweet-scented vernal, and creeping
bent grass. These should be mixed in about
equal parts, and sowed broadcast and
raked in with common wooden rakes
At the same time of sowing these, SOW
with them small quantity of red clover
seed and scatter some common oats owe.
the ground; then roll the surface and re
move any stones or other distractions
The oats will terminate in week or tel
days, and if kept cut back will keep thu
surface green the early part of the frs
summer. The red clover will take it
place in the fall, and will keep the lawI
green and fresh-looking, until the gras
seed takes root and begins to tiller.
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WISHINGTON,S COACn.

In paper on "Truro Parish" Scrib-
ner for March, occurs the following: On
this spot, where the hungry riders of
Pleasonton and Stewart looked around
in vain for GRUB" and forage, where
the last of the F. F. VS. had stood and
bewailed his deselate fields and fallen
fortunes, the Mount Vernon coach, driv-
ing four, with Hveried coachman and
footman, and with the ancient arms of
de Hertburn emblazoned on the panel,
had drawn up amidst crowd of pow
dercd beaux, who always came to church
early and were ever ready to vie with
each other for the honor of handing Mrs.
Washington from her coach. This car
riage, which Darlington, or some other
distinguished Irishman, would have
called "a specimen of gothic architec-
ture on Wheels" was built to order in
London, and for long period served as
a model after which those old colonial
swells had their equipages made. The
running gear and lower section of the
body were cream color, with gilt mold
ings the stop hamper" mahogany, with
green Venetian blinds, and the interior
finished i'll black leather; two great
q head lights" on the box served at
night to let the curious traveller know
that ga person of quality" was on the
road, and aided West Ford to keep his
bearings on the dangerous highways not
yet smoothed by the magic hand of
McAdam. Our great prototype republi-
can also had his coat-of arms on the door
panel, fully emblazoned and "tricked."
As the crest is emblazoned on ducal
coronet, we may perhaps accept the story
that these are the armorial bearings of
William de Hertburn, Norman baron,
who was lord of the manor of Washing
ton in the 18th century. On the four
side panels were pictures representing
the seasons. This coach came into the
possession of Bishop Meade of Virginia,
who, with one eye to business and the
other TO charity, had it cut up and sold
in pieces at a church fair.
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LOVES MYSTERY.
by ANSIE: RoarR1snx ,n,n,


H9y many pearls are there in III, s.s-
tPN many rose leaves on I n, shcrtf
Cou1f all the acorns GA the ;r.e.
NJ lip hath many kisses more
Think you the spider weIves in vain
Or that the moth flies always south;
I1lhk you there falls one drop Of rain
That does not save ssine weed from drouth?
Where live the swallows until spring.
Where hide the isszels of the corn;
Where doth the wild-bee rest his wing,
Until the red. sweet phlox is horn
Ar. there no stars cannot hold,
No sounds uncounted on the each;
NO tales mysterious vet untold,
No hidden gems Of thought ct speech?
Where Is the dust of summer noons-
Ans where the down upon the grape
Tae mellow glance Of vanished moonz,
rhat wrought how many a pleasing shape?
In resi- with diamonds in the mine,
They sleep in interrupted caves;
my snail again no mi ne and thine,
When all tbs years are in their gravesi
know the pearls are in the sea,
know the roses >pring and fall:
But there's heart that beats for me
desert wild castle hall
tn re will be sunlight in the skies
when clouds hav. spent their waste of tears
There still VIII he some tender eyes,
10 light my Hes declining yetrs.
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DIR. PIERCE's Pleasant Purgative Pei
lets are SO compounded from concentrated
principles, extracted from roots and herbs,
as to combine in each small granule, scarcely
larger than Il mustard seed, as much cathar-
tic power as is contained in any larger pills
for sale in drug-storcs. They are not only
pleasant to take, but their operation is easy
unattended with any grping.pain. They op..
crate without producing any constitutional
disturbance. Unlike other cathartics, they
do not render the bowels costive after opera
ton, but, on the contrary, they establish a
healthy action. Being entirely
vegetable, no particular care is required
while using them.
$500 Reward is offered by the proprietor to
any one who will detect in these Pellets any
calomel or other form of mercury, mineral
poison, or injurious drug.
They are sold by Druggists.
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Cashmere shawls are mere drug in
India. When Wales visited the Ma
harajah, the tent outside the house was
made of cashmere shawls, and the rooms
of the house were carpeted and the walls
drapcd with them, while the dais and
the canopy were shrouded with those OF
the most beautiful pattern and immense
value. 1t was better than an opening
day at a spring bonnet grab.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

MACAULAY'S MOTHER.-Lord Macau-
lay, the great essayist and historian,
wrote these words: "Children, look into
those eyes, listen to that dear voice, no.
tice the feeling of even a single touch
that is bestowed upon you by that gen
tie hand! Make much of it while yet
you have that most precious of all good
gifts-as lovingi mother. Read, the I'M
fathomable love of those eyes; the kind
anxiety of that tone and look however
slight your pain. In after life you may
have friends-fond, dear, kind friends;
but never will you have again the mex
pressible love and gentleness lavished
upon you which none but mother be-
slows. Often do I sigh in my struggle
with the hard, uncaring world for the
sweet, deep security l felt when of an
evening, nestled in her bosom, l listened
to some quiet tale, suitable to my age,
read i'm her tender and untiring voice.
Never can forget her sweet glances cast
upon me when appeared asleep never
her kiss of peace at night. Years have
passed away since we laid her beside my
father in the old churchyard, yet still
her voice whispers from the grave, and
her eyes watch over me as | visit spots
long since hallowed to the memory of my
mother"
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In marrying his wife's daughter,
Mr.. Parton becomes his own son-in-law,
in which case his wife is his mother-in-law.
1t was probably the terror of this awful
mixing up of things that was the cause
of the Massachusetts, law on the subject
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ALI, DISEASES OF THE BLoOD.-ii
Vegetine will relieve pain, cleanse, purify
and cure such diseases, restoring the patient
to perfect health after trying different pnys;i,
clans, many remedies, suffering Ior y eais, -
it not conclusive proof, if you are sufferer
Won can he cured? Why is this medicine per
forming such great cnress It works in the
binod. In the circulating fluid. 1t can truly
he called the great blood purifier. The great
source of disease originates in the Dlood
and no medicine that does not act directiy
mon II TO purify and renovate, has any Just
claim upon public attention.
PIMPLEs on the face, rough SKIN,
chapped hands, satrheum and al cu nit and
affections cured, the skin made soil anu
smooth, by the use 3f 2 2an,pft s. CO.. New
York, is the only kind that can be relied on,
as there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

DIR. TUFTS Hair Dyeis great triumph of chemis-
try. Being free from all injurious qualities its eff
feet is natural that the closest observer would not
observe it. 1t initiates Nature to perfection and is
sold all over the world.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

CLOTHES last longer when washed with
Dobbins' Electric Soap, (made by Cragin
& Co., Philadelphia because 10 rubbing
is needed. Clothes are worn out more on
the wash board than on the person. Try it.
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FRETTING.-He who frets is never the
one who mends, who heals, who repairs
evils; he discourages, enfeebles, and too
often disables those around him, who,
but for the gloom and depression of his
company, would do good work aud keep
up brave cheer. The effect upon sensi-
tive person of the mere neighborhood of
a fretter is indescribable. 1t is to the
soul what a cold icy mist is to the body
more chilling than the bitterest frost,
more dangerous than the fiercest storm.
And when the fetter is one who is be-
loved, whose nearness of relation to us
makes his fretting even ut the weather
seem almost like personal reproach to
us, then the misery of it becomes indeed
insupportable. Most men call fretting
a minor fault-a foible, and not a vice.
There is no vice except drunkenness
which can so utterly destroy the peace,
the happiness of a home.
Judas Iscariot's thirty pieces of sill
yer were worth eighteen dollars and
thirty-five cents.
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Showing decrease in number of q
174,909, or about eight per cent; which
is set off by an equal percentage of in
crease in weight.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

"A little fellow, being told by young
man to get off his knee, that he was too
heavy to hold in that way, made quite
sensation among those present by yelling
back: Too heavy, hey? Sister Sal
weighs hundred pounds more than /,
and you held her on your knee for four
hours last night"
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All diseases Of The Blood,

If vEGETINE will relieve pain, cleanse, purify
and cure such diseases restoring the patient to
perfect he alth after trying many physicians, differ
ent remedies suffering for years. is it not conclusive
proof. if you a sufferer, you can be cured? Why
is this medicine performing such great cures? 1t
works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. 1t
truly be called the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
The great source of disease originates in the blood
md no medicine that does directly upon it.
to purify and renovate, has any just claim upon
null attention.
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CINCINNATI.-Cottond dull at nc.
LoUIsvILLE.-Cotton inactive, 12c.
ST. LoUIs.-Cotton easier, but not quotably lower,
at 12c.
NEW YORK.-Cotton dull and irregular. Up
lands, 125sc.; Orleans, II 13-16c.
IIvERPooL.-Market dull and easier. Uplands,
1-16d.; Orleans, 65sd.
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS
CINCINNATI,


Flour : an Wheat 125 Germ, 44c. Oats, 4le.
Pork, % 80. Lard-steam, 1sci kettle i$4c' buik
meats, 12Izc Bacon, 1876. Whisky, loi. b1 L9
Choice western reserve, SOC; choice cehfai oio'
&c.
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat, Is ooIn'
45c. Oats, 42c. Hay 1900. Pork. 23Oo BUZZ inea.,i
pic Bacon, I3I1c; sugar-cured hams, 14lec. Lard
fierce, 49,; keg, 154c Whisky, l.oi bag
ST. LOUIS.
Flour-Superiine fall. 3.75 extra fall, 25i NJ
do, 475; xxx do, $50. Wheat-No. red winter,
1.i6l5. cash. Corn lower. No. mixed, 3314c: i1r
strictly fresh Oats-No 2, 3312c bid for strictly
fresh Pork, % 80, delivered. lard, i21Ic small
lots 1215c. Bulk meats, 122c-; shoulders and clear
ribs up country, sold at 117sc, for April. Bacon,
13l4c. Hogs-Packng, 7.S5.
NEW ORLEANS.
Sugar-Common, 614c.; fair to fully fair, I14ci
prime, TIC; choice, re. Molasses-Fermenting
common, 35c; prime to strictly prime 4Sc reloiled
prime to choice, SIC. Flour-Superfine, 422 double
extra $50 treble extra. $50; choice and family,
$50. Cornmeal, go. Corn, Sc. Oats, 46c. Bran
soc. Hay-Prime 400; choice, $500: Pork, 300
Dry salt meats, 12s4c Bacon, I$c Mams-s% gar
1s9zc.; key lac. Rce-Common to choice Louis
lana, CSC. whisky-Rectifed, LIZ. Cohee-Fair
to rtue