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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE CREDIT SYSTEM.

Treating of the credit system of pur-
chases as contrasted with the cash sys-
tenn, a recent writer says: The practice
of buying on credit the necessary articles
of the household, is fatal to good econ
omy. The housekeeper has always to
paw dearer when she does not pay cash.
The tradesman must have interest on his
money, for man will never, in busy
community, be willing, and is seldom
able if he is willing, to forego 1t. 10 the
ordinary cash price of the article he,
therefore, adds the interest which may
accrue during the time that credit is
allowed. This, moreover, is not all
there must be a premium exacted by
the dealer for the risk he runs in trust
ing out his goods to that class OF more
or less dangerous customers who never
pay ready money. Even the most
honestly disposed OF these are often
unsafe debtors; for they are gener-
ally such as are imprudent enough
to anticipate their incomes, and to over
run them in expenditures. The credit
system, moreover, is temptation to
purchases. There is sort
of check in the sight and touch of
the hard-earned money to the disposition
10 dispose of it lightly. On the other
hand, there is something in the facility
of credit, removing as it docs the dis
agreeable necessity of payment to avague
future. very seductive to the buyer, who
can crafty his love of possession with a
sense, at any rate, that its
qualification costs nothing. There is no
such cheap and cautious purchasers as
cash.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS

MEMPHIS.
Flour steady and unchanged. Corn quiet and UNI
changed Lard, 1514c. Bulk meats-Shoulders, 614c.;
clear rib, 13c.
Flour dull. Wheat s1.3O. Corn, 46c. Oats, Ale.
Hay SIC. Provisions steady and firm. Pork, S23.s.
Bulk meats. ss4c. Bacon, 914e. susar-cured hams,
SI.07. Bagging, &c.
Flour steady and unchanged Wheat-So. , red
wintor, s1.5 cash; S1.51 = for April delivery Corn
No. mixed. 45c cash. Oats, 3F4c: Rye I'M
changed Whisky, SIO6. Pork steady and I'M
changed Bacon quiet and unchanged. Lard in
active Catte-tood 10 choice shipping steers, $3.50.
NEW ORLEANS.
Sugar-Common. 754,..; fair, re; prime choice,
SIZE. MISUNDERSTANDING. common. Soc; fair,
SIC; strictly prime to choice, SIC. Flour-Superfne
1915; double extra, s. % triple extra. $500;
Pork, s245O, as in weight Dry salt neats-S Shout
ders &c. clear rib. 1214c.; clear sides, ISc Bacon
Clear rib 1S3sc clear sides, 14l4c. Hams-Choice
sugar-cured. 14l%c. Lard-Tierce refined, 141ac;
keg, 1899 Rice-Common 10 prime louisiana, SIC
Cotfee-ordinary to prime, 1Si@c. Whisky-Recti-
COTTON MARKETS.
MEMPHIs.-Market quiet at l3e.
LouIsvIILE.-Marketf firm at BE
NIoHILE-Marketq quiet Middlins, 13c.
GALvEsroN.-Markets steady. Middling 15c.
NEW YoRK.-Market dull Middling, 49, s9l3
9-16c.
LIvERPooL.-Market steady. Middling upland.
8 l3-16d.
New ORLEAxs-Cotton Quit Good ordinary
strict good ordinary I1ssc.; low niddlng to strict
middling, 12s4c.; middling to strict middlinS,
35sc.; good middlng to middling, 15c-; fair 1512c
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE VIRGINIA PRISCFSs.-Th

The VIRGINIA PRINCEss.--The dispo-
sition to discrcdit the story of Washing
ton and his little hatchet and that more
ancient and less likely one of Pocahon-
tas saving the life Of Captain John
smith, has never found favor in Nir-
ginia. They are held in precious re-
verence there, and for any Nirginian to
utter Il doubt is to accuse himself of
treason. The people would not bear it
a moment. In the mu,ty law books
where those absurd statutes abont the
inspection of tobacco are found, doubt
less would be discovered sorlc provision
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE ALTERED MOTTO.
By PASTOR THEODORE YtoNoD

BY PASTOR THEODORE NoNoD.
Oh, the bitter shame and sorro~
That time could ever be
When let the Ssviors pity
rlead in vain, and proudly answered;
All of self. and none OF Thee"
Yet He found me- i beheld Him
Bleeding on the accursed tree
Heard Him pray, Forgive them, EstheI >"
And nv wishful heart said family:
Z" Some of sell, and some of Thee"
Day by day His tender mercy,
Healing. helping, full and free.
sweet and strong, and ah So patient,
Brought me lower, while l whispered
{" Less Of self. AID more of Thee
Higher than the highest heavens,
DeeSer than the deepest sea,
Lord, rny love at last hath conquered;
Grant me now INV souls desire
None of sell, and all Of Thee"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

THE PULsE.-Every person should
know how to ascertain the state of the
pulse in health then, by comparing it
with what it is when he is ailing, he may
have some idea of the urgency of his
case Parents should know the healthy
pulse of each child, since now and then
person is born with peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very case in hand may
he OF such popularity. An infants pulse
Il 40; child of seven about eighty,
ana IRON twenty to sixty years it is sew
enty beats minute, declining to sixty at
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

SEA-ISLAND COTToN.-The commits
sioner of agriculture, in reply to re-
solution of the senate, gives the follow
ing information: A soil of marine
formation appears TO be necessary for
the growth of the stalk and fiber of the
sea-island or long-staple cotton, and Il
sea atmosphere with its warmth and
Edisto Island, south of
Charleston, i, the most pre-eminent
locality for the production of long staple
cotton. Saint Simons, Ukyl, and Shid-
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

iour-score. At sixty, if the pulsealways
exceeds seventy, there is disease, the
machine is working itself out, there is a
fever or inflammation somewhere, and
the body is feeding on itself. as in con-
sumption, when the pulse Is quick.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

HEADACHE.-Therea are various causes
for headache, as arrangement of the circula-
ting system, of the digestive organs, OF the
nervous system, etc. Vegetine can be said to
be for kinds of
this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES indigestion, cos
tiveness, rheumatism, neuralgia, bilousness,
etc. Try the Vegetine. You will neverr regret it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

PIMPLEs On the face, rough skin
chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous
affections cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use of Juniper Tar Soap.
That made by Caswell, Hazard & 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, 1876-04-15
He was reading to his wife about

He was reading to his wife about an
accident, and casually remarked, al
dare say there was a woman at the bot
tom of it, when something TRANSFERRED
that made him grasp his head in both
hands and rub it deliriously as if there
had been a woman on the top of it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE CHINESE DIGESTION.

The California people are profoundly
agitated over the decision of the United
Statessupreme court announced the other
day, deciding the recently enacted laws
of that state in respect to Chinese emf
grafton unconstitutional. The board of
supervisors and mayor of San Francisco
have called a mass-meeting for the ex-
preston of public sentiment, and for the
purpose or bringing the matter to the
attention of congress in the most forcible
and expeditions manner. 1t is announced
that the last steamer from China brought
over one thousand coolies, and that the
entire steerage capacity of both OF the
regular lines of steamers is engaged for
the next six months for the purpose of
bringing more. The question is one of
serious import-not to the Pacific states
alone, but to the whole country. The
American workman, artisan or laborer
can i'll afford to be brought into competi-
ton with these Asiatic barbarians; nei
ther would the commercial interests of
the country be otherwise than damaged
by their influx in unlimited numbers
To exclude them it will probably be nee
essary to amend the constitution, and
this movement once fairly on foot will
meet no substantial opposition; and while
A discri limitation against the Asiatics
alone would seem warranted, it is not
that the whole subject of
emigration will receive an exhaustive
and the expediency and
of establishing needed restraints
and wholesome checks will be duly
weighed, that we may hereafter exclude
,ertain very undesirable foreign elements.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

"A Missouri farm contains fountain
of whitcwssh, and all the owner has to
do is take his house over to the spring
and have the job Immediately done.
Thus is avoided that disastrous expert
ment Of standing in an old plug hat and
linen buster on tipsy stool on the back
stairs and trying to lay it on smoth
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

DR.. TUT authorizes his agents TO refund the
money in every case where his Hair Dye fails.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed 1t acts like agic.
easily applied and is perfectly natural. Sold by all
respectable Druggists Is Murray Street. n. \.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

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, a sample of Dob
bins Electric Soap to try. Send at once.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
:E

f you feel dull drowsy, deblitated have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly. poor appetite, and
tongue coated you suffering from torpid lver.or
.'biIousness' - and nothing will cure you speedily
and permanently : to take Simmons Liver Rcgu-
lator
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
All Diseases Of the Blood.

If VEGETINE will relieve pain. cleanse, purify
and such diseases, restoring the patient to
perfect lie alth after trying physicians, differ
remedies, suffering for yeaIs, is it not conclusive
proof, if you 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 of disease originates in the blood;
and medicine that does not act directly upon it,
purify and renovate, has any Just claim upon
publ attention.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

A NOVEL STYLE IN PARIs.-One o
the most pleasing novelties of what are
termed " female fashions" that has been
introduced for many years has lately, it
is stated, been drought into mode by
some of our dressmakers and adopted by
Partisan elegantes." 1t consists of deer
skin bodice clinging closely to the body
and made in the same way as an ordi-
nary bodice 1t is dyed the same shade
as the dress, and the sleeves are made of
faille with deer skin parements." The
most costly bodices of this description
are embroidered with silver. 1t is not
surprising that ladies, who must have
suffered intensely from cold, owing to
the deficiency of their garments, should
have taken to clothing themselves in
the skins of animals of the chase, after
the fashion of their ancestresses and if
these deer skin bOdices are made ample
enough to cover their throats the cost of
them with silver will no
doubt be saved in doctors billS-PuH
lfnU Tosettc
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

oway are also favorably known for pro-
ducts of high quality. The geographical
limits and area in which sea-island cot
ton natures a perfect growth include
the islands off the coast of South Caro-
lima, Georgia, and Florida, and the Gulf
of Mexico, and a few miles inland from
the coast. The proportion of upland to
sea-island cotton produced is about as
two hundred to one. Probably not more
than one hundred thousand acres are
now devoted to its culture, while that
occupied in upland cotton is from one
hundred to one hundred and twenty
times AS great"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

ASK the recovered dyspeptics, i"us sufferers
victims o Fever and Ague, the mereurial diseased
patient how they recovered health cheerful spirits
and a good appetite-they will tell you by taking
inlIln l. ResyLlatnr.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE CLOSET.

The softest and most plant temper may
be goaded into rude and violent out
burst. The Christ knew this when he
said: "Enter into thy closet" He
knew the necessity for intervals of soli
tude. The jar and fret of active life, and
the trifling but manifold annoyances
which come to us, are SO many hints that
we need to follow his loving counsel.
When we are wearied into irritable
moods by noise and care, few moments
or a half hour in some absolutely quiet
spot, will bring back that fresh, sweet
vein of good humor, which has no need
of patience. 1t is when We have been
for sometime compelling ourselves TO be
patient, that we should 60 into our
closets, and, as the dear Lord advised,
" shut the door,"
To shut the door on all that tends to
make us testy, sullen or even fatigued or
faded, is to open the door of the soul to
positively needed peace. There should
be such a quiet nook in every house.
The calm of it will be like benediction.
Lying alone in undisturbed stillnes, the
influence of the busy, troublesome day
will GROW faint and far. The excited
nerves will be soothed; the heated, an
cry blood will be cooled the WORKOUT
body will be rested; the mind, tOrmented
by anxieties or petty provocations, will
regain its balance. A smile will tighten
our faces, as we calmly remember how
small was the cause of our disquiet.
The recovery of our amiability by such
means is as natural as is the loss of it by
vexation. To retain our perfect equi-
poise is as necessary to the preservation
of our happiness and goodness, as it is re-
quisite to the proper movement of the
stars. We must have time in which to
grow. Sleep allows the body its time
solitude gives the soul its time. We
become pure and exalted in the
midst of hurry and confusion.
To get consciously near to the divine
in us, we must approach it with the rev.
erence of silence. Communion with our
selves, which leaves us nobler and more
pleasing in his sight, is the prayer which |
brings its own answer. The cheerful, |
bright, trustful-feeling which such retir-
ing into our closets will bring, cannot |
but put every one about us in happier |
humor This unfailing response to our
newly-gained gentleness will be another
reminder of his tenderness and wisdom
who said: "Thy Father which seeth in
secret shall reward thee openly. "-Gol-
len Rule.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
BAD BREATHE!

Nothing is unpleasant, nothing so common as
had breath, and in nearly case it comes from
the stomach and be easily corrected you will
take Simmons Liver Regulator. Do not neglect SO
sure remedy for this repulsive disorder 1t VIII also
improve your Appetite Complexion, and General
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
Pr I FS : .

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
ready the hand of almost any one who will use
Systematically the remedy that has permanently
cured thousands. No drastic, violent purge, but a
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
SICK HEADACHES!

This distressing affiiction most frequently.
The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the
imperfecty digested contents. severe pain
in the head, accompa MED with disasreeable nausea,
and this constitutes what is popularity known Sick
Headache.
J. II. ZEILIN a. Co.
Sole proprietors Simmons Liver Regulator. Phil
adj
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

SHOULD not be regarded
triing aiment-in fact nature
demands the utmost regularity
of the bowels, and any deyia-
ton from this demand paves
the way often to serious danger
1t is quite as necessary to re-
move impure accumulations
from the bowels as it is to eat or
sleep, and no health can be ex
pected where a costive habit OF
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE DEATH.BED OF ANDREW JOHNSON.

magnificent picture I4Nl9 inches in size u
tOucbingly portray- the last moments of the SIedi
statesman with family and friends grouped hroih"
him. One copy sent by mail on roller rn.t r.ln;;nm
receipt of % cents 3 for "a cents. Address 'SSns
BurrOw Il DO. Publishers, Bristol, Tenn 49,
WANTED everywhere To sell our theip re -, ,
Chromos, &c. No money required uhth Ho"'s "i'
sold. Send stamp for cataIneue aud terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-25
Political Notes,

Judge Abbott declines the democratic
domination for Congress In the fourth Massa-
chusetts district. ....Gen. w. II. r. Lee, q
SON OF Gen. Robert E. Lee, has been nomi-
mated for state senator In one OF the Vtr-
ginian senatorial districts. ...-9ov. Coke,
state. will resign the governorship on the lst
December. '.''From what we know OF
the matter we are inclined TO agree entirely
with our republican friends, and think the
Jeans" Williams was able to defeat mau
whose personal strength was so much
superior to his. plainly proves the strength
of the democrats In the west, and, At least,
shows conclusively that Indiana Is sure of
largely increased democratic majority In
Observation-Disclosures HacLd. IND. Dem 80.
The city Of New York and Long Island
should be erected into q state, and the rest
OF New York should be relieved OF the re
sponsibility OF the contamination and the
danger A good government, at least q
much better government, would then be
red.-PrOridence journal, Rep.) ....rhe
assertion that there is any large detection Of
German republicans in this slate. is utterly
without foundation Aside from the ques-
ton of loyalty, the positions of the two par
ties on the common school question bind the
Germans to the republican party. II the in
TO conscience as the Germans, the state will
roll up q handsome ma jority for Hayes and
Wheeler Milwaukee Sentinel, (Rep) I'VE
have lately observed in the Tribune two or
three communications, apparently written
by well-in formed persons, alleging that the
state committee, OF which Mr.. Cornell Is
charm an, is yemiss In the business or orga-
n1ZatiOn ard canvassing. What does 1t
mean? Are we to infer that Mr.. Cornell is so
soured by bis failure TO achieve the nominal
ton fer governor that he is willing the party
should fail in the national contest? Is he
that kind OF man? and is that the temper
Of others of the friends OF Senator mixing!
II so, the republicans OF New York will have
still greater reason than they have ever had
eefore to distrust them Boston AdUertiser,
(RpD0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-25
Inauguration Day Again.

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a, 1876.
Editor Sdr:-I noticed In yesterday even
ing's STAR an article on Presidential inau-
guration days which occur on SUNDAYS in
which II Is stated that the 4th OF March, 1893
being the day Of Washipgton's second inau-
Ruration fell on Sunday and he was inaugu-
rated on Monday, March 5tb, although
there were no records OF the facts" Now the
simple fact Is that the 4th OF March, 1793
was not Sunday, but Monday, and I suppose
be was tnaugurated on that day. suppose
the mistake must have arisen by assuming
that we had Julian and not q Gregorian
calendar. The Julian calendar has q leap
year every four years, but the Gregorian
calendar only 81 leap years out OF 400 years,
the hundreds that are not divisible by not
being leap years; thus 1900, because Is Is not
otvlsible by 4, was not leap year. and there
was none between 1896 and 1904; and as this
style or reckoning commenced in ENGLAND
and america In 1851 1t must have been In force
In 1898. 1t Is not quie true that every seventh
Pre- sic e. tial inauguration will occur on Sun
day. Occasionally IL will be the 10th. This
Will be the case only three times out of 400
years, viz: in passing those centuries which
when divided oy leave remainder Of l. 2
or 3. III there had been President to inaugu-
rate on the 4th Of March, 1881, 1t would have
been Sunday; the next three In the years
1871, 1919, and 1871; the next three will be in
the years 1917, 1915 and 1878, and for the next
century, as 20 is Invisible by 4 without q re-
mainder, and consequently 1000 being leap
year, Will be POOL, &c, &c, every % years
until the next century. F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-25

PRAYING BANDS AND TIE PRESIDENT
DISCUssED.-The regular meeting OF the
New York Methodist ministers was held in
that city Monday. The discussion on the
paper read two weeks ago by the Rev. DR..
Goodsell on the question of praying bands
was resumed. DIR. Goodsell In his paper
argued that the bands work ed injury ms tead
OF good, and created disunion in the church.
He contended that they should be organized
fierently, and be responsible to the church
governing body. The Rev. D.. Crooks favored
praying bands. 1t was In that way that
Metbodism was established. DIR. Moorehouse
lso fave red them, aud thought they worked
great good. The Rev. DIR. Dickinson spoke
against praying bands. He though. that
'hey were frequently COIL posed OF young
men who were not f1t to lead In prayer, aud
who always sought for something sensa-
ticnal and exciting. He did not believe In
such modes OF worship. He also asked that
The conduct OF President Grant in visiting
the Centennial on Sunday should be con-
demned. Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of Chicago, de-
Tended the President, and said he kne him
70 be strict observer OF the Sabbath. II he
had gone to the Exhibition on Sunday, he
was certain Ii could have been only on the
urgent solicitation of a friend. The matter
was not pushed TO vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-25
FRlG HTFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Three Men Killed and Nineteen
WOumdAd

ELIZABETH, n. J., Oct. 25.-There was an
accident on the Central railroad last night
bear Evona, two miles west OF Platnfield. A
passenger train left this city al Gas %. m,
with {. q. Williams, master mechanic, of
Communipaw, as engineer, and r j. wack-
ehammer, master Of bridges, as fireman, and
Travelled at q medium rate of speed until IL
arrived at the switch near Evona. The
engine had no head light lit The safety
light at the switch was burning, and the
engineer kept on. The switch was turned
ana the locomotive -an Off the track and
plunged into the bank.
THREE CARS WERE TELEsCoPED
and totally wrecked. Three Others were con-
siderably damaged, but the other three did
not leave the track. The locomotive was not
badly broken. William Reilly, of Phila-
lipsburg, brakeman ON the Central road,
was standing on the front platform OF the
first car. He was thrown into the tender of
the engine, and the second passenger car ran
over the FIRST one and fell into the tender,
killing him instantly. Nathaniel Derich, Q
mason at Dunellen, was also killed. Col. A.
8. Teneyck, Of Somerville; Hon. John G.
Scbenck, OF Neshanic, and John A. Cline, of
Whitehouse, lslnce dead,) were seriously
injured. Fifteen Others were slightly in
iured.
now IT OCCURRED.
1t was supposed that one OF the striking
engineers or dremen turned the switch and
set the light right, but no evidence 10 found
70 support that theory.