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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

The Gro,ring Crop n Reduction of Three
Per Cent. Compared ,cith that of
1856.
The June returns of the department
of agriculture indicate slight reduction
in the area in cottOn-a comparative
light planting. Good stands, except in
case of too early planting or inundation;
growth not up to the average, or season; ;
plants in healthy and improving condi-
ton and clean in culture, with excep-
tions caused by heavy rains that stimu-
late growth and prevent work, and in
Louisiana caused by overflow with bad
results.
The next largest falling off is in Ten
nessee, where the season has been cold
and wet. In Texas there has been an
effort to substitute corn for cotton, but
in one-fourth of the counties there has
been positive increase of nearly half
In the remainder no decrease, while en-
largement is increasing.
The figures for acreage are: North
Carolina eighty, South Carolina ninety
nine, Georgia ninety mine, Florida ninety
nine, Alabama one hundred, Mississippi
ninety eight, Louisiana eighty nine,
Texas one hundred, Arkansas one hum
dred, Tennessee ninety-fve. Thereduc
ton is equivalent to about three per cent.
In Virginia and North Carolina there
is some complaint of bad stands and
small growths from cold nights, though
the plants are healthy. Late planting
promises we'll in South Carolina. EARLY
planting has been productive of poor
stands.
The condition averages very high in
Georgia. Seasonable rains, fine weather
for work and abundant labor have been
very favorable.
Drouth in time of planting affected
cultivation in Florida; stands good. In
Mississippi and Alabama the plant is
healthy, though small. In Louisiana
overfows seriously injured the crop in
exposed localities. Drouth in some parts
of Texas has been injurious. The plant
is looking we'll in Arkansas and Tennes-
see, except in some places The figures
for the condition of the several states is
as follows: North Carolina one hundred
and one, South Carolina ninety-eight,
Georgia, one hundred and three, Florida
eighty-two, Alabama ninety-four, Mis-
sissippi ninety-two, Louisiana eighty
nine, Texas ninety, Arkansas ninety-fve,
and Tennessee ninety-three.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
MIXED FAMILY.

The following is told by the Los An
gelos (Cal.) Republican: "There is a
family in this town with nine varieties
of children. The husband and wife have
each been married twice before, and had
one child at each former marriage, which
makes four children, each one having
different parents. The present W.
former husbands had each been ma re
before, leaving child by their former
wives, which makes six children of differ
ent parents. The present husbands two
former wives had been previously mar
ried, leaving each one child, making
eight of different parents. The present
husband and wife by this marriage have
one child, making nine, all living and
no two having the same parents"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
NEW YORK TRIBUNE,S VIEW OF THE
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK.

In the coming presidential election
the two great parties will be more even
ly matched than they have been in any
national contest since the close of the
war. With the exception of South Car
Dina, the vote of the entire south is con-
6dentially counted on by the democratic
party for its candidates. This vote,
with that of tolerably sure democratic
states, and of New York, lacks only one
of being enough TO elect president.
The contest will be decided by the votes
of the doubtful states-Colorado, Indiana,
New Jersey and New York. The follow
ing table is based on the votes in each
state at the fall elections of 1874, cor
rected in some instances by the returns
of later contests. Illinois in 1874 gave a
united opposition of over $4,000, but
this included large German vote,
which is always uncertain:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

day of commemoration and rejoicing, it
should be our industrial forces, and if
there is to be one thing more than
another that is to receive our sympathies,
both moral and material, it is the artisan
of America. that being of whom it has
been said by loving heart, that beat
warmly for the workingmen of the
United States:
"I1ove the blacksmith at his anvil
The weaver at his loom,
The tailor at his table,
The miner in the gloom;
The man who strides the dewy field, where
sweet wild flowers bloom,
And steps among the golden grain to the
reaper's droning tone:
Gathers the red-cheeked apples, or breaks
the fruitful sod.
The lofty will not see him, as he walks with
Christ earth's road,
Vet the the workingman is of the aristocracy
of God"
And so he is, the great producer, this
muscular aid of our county, with his &C
tive brain to direct all united tending to
the development of America. 1t is true
that in a certain sense we are all work
ingmen, all dependent, but there are Ger
tain classes. toilers, hewers of wood and
drawers of water, men and women who
fill our workshops, whose each and every
hour brings forth a result, for purposes OF
utility or ornament, and in a thousand
ways are useful, yes, necessary, to the
healthfulness of the body economic. The
great body of the army of workingmen
and women of the union are in holiday
attire to-day. They are peaceable, they
are intelligent, and they should receive
that full need of active legislation in
their behalf, that social support, and that
material aid that is one of the most wise
actions of the body polite. Care for the
farmers of the material constructions of
the country, let laws look directly to
their necessities, for they are money.
Legislate Immediately for their improve
ment, educationally and otherwise.
And the day will come, when to be an
American artisan, will be synonym of
nobility in any man throughout the
world, as it is patent of gentility in
our own country to say man is an in
dustrious artisan, he is an honest work
ingman.
To-day the nation is at peace let us
confirm this tranquility by the suppress
sion of agitation, let all the resolutions
of disturbance, of discord, and of antago-
nism have their errors absorbed into the
mercies of peace, whose white wings shall
envelop them in calm and protection.
Let repose be the wish and hope of our
people, and while we claim that in the
mighty hosts that are marshalled to-day
in patriotic rehearsal of the most notable
of all events in the history of the world,
we can command peace from the world,
let us first emulate that thought of in
spiration he who controlling himself is
greater than he who commands victo,i-
GUS armies. Peace and unity is what
the national occasion and the day de-
mands. With peace, the future of Amer
lea is one of unquestioned stability and
progress. This peace can be established
by the cultivation of all past amnesties,
mutual concessions, the shading the
sword with the olive branch, the calumet
of peace invoked in the councils of the
nation. Yes! let the dead past bury its
dead, true nobility looks to the future,
let that future become peace.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
BOUNTY BILL.

The new bounty bill, as passed by the
house on the Goth, provides that the sum
of eight and one third dollars shall be paid
to every non-commiisioned officer, musi-
clan, private soldier, sailor .or marine,
including those upon the rolls as Indians.
for each month of service between April
-, 1861, and May 9, 1865, and applies
alike to regulars and volunteers In
case of the death of the soldier, ETC., the
bounty is to go to the widow or heir.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
THE ELECTOR4L TOTE SINCE 1886

The following table, collated by the
Binghampton Republican, will afford OPP
portunity for study to those interested
in the relations of the popular vote to
the electoral vote for president in past
years under the present system. 1t
throws no new light upon the subject,
but the figures may evoke thought and
explain some curious results:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
THE WEEK PAST.

The remnant of the wreck of the Mer-
rimac has been raised and placed in the
dry deck at the Norfolk navy-yard. The
timber, what there is left of it, will be
utilized as the pewsof the Old Sout Church
are being, in supporting the tottering
steps of those who are wealthy enough to
purchase a walking stick for a relic.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

if you have had sufficient satisfaction,
| let us be friends" Until the day of his
death, Colonel Payne retained for
Washington devoted and unbroken re-
gard.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

The Quarterly Review says the south
may have produced two or three men
who could be compared with Alexander
Hamilton, but that the north, since his
time, has produced none.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

The Germans have no idea of losing
Metz. A garrison of twelve thousand
men is maintained there. and the maya
zines of ammunition and stores are suffi-
cient to maintain forty thousand men
for three years. To the seven forts al
ready in existence that have been en-
larged, four new ones have been added.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

THE New York Commercial Advertiser
reports that the intrinsic value of the
chicken feathers thrown away every
year in the United States is equal to the
money we pay for cotton. The plume OF
the feathers, if separated from the stems,
forms down which, it is stated, sells in
Paris for nearly two dollars a pound.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

THE Chinese experiment at North
Adams, Massachusetts,, is to be aban-
doned. The parties who have hitherto
given the Chinese employment have de-
cided to discharge them and engage help
from the native residents of the town
who are suffering severely from the stop
page of several mills and workshops.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

The New York Times is disposed to
sneer somewhat at the proposal to cele
brate the centennial fourth of July by
planting trees and suggests as a substitute
that every American resolve that on the
coming anniversary Of our national indie
pendence he will begin the day bv plant
ing a cat in his back yard. The sugges
ton is an admirable one; but it should
be so modified as to permit every citizen
who has no back yard to use his neigh
boris and to allow the substitution of a
dog for a cat wherever the latter cannot
readily be found.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

The Chinaman has entered the lecture
field in Paris and met with better sue
cess than Anna Dickinson did on the
stage. The subject of his lecture was
"Wemen in China" and, as he was dressed
in the full ceremonial costume of his
nation, he attracted a great deal of atten-
ton.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

SPAIN proposes to put thirty thousand
reiniorcements into Cuba within couple
of months. Some fifty thousand have
gone that way within seven years, but
have never returned. It is habit they
have of not materializing at all very
long after reaching Cuba. There is too
much thermometer and other things
there for the Spanish constitution. Ex-
cellent place to plant soldiers affected
with Carlism and other disorders. They
never come up, you know.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

AT this hour there are very favorable
prospects for the wheat, corn, and cotton
crop of the country. Untimely crevasses
have nipped some of the cotton in the
bud along the lower Mississippi, the grass,
hoppers are reappearing in uncertain
numbers in the upper valley, and the pc
tato-bug is visible hereabouts, but the
amount of damage to date is slight. The
wheat crop of Iowa and Minnesota exists
at the mercy of the grasshopper, and
whether that scourge will seriously in
jure 1t cannot now be foreseen. If it is
spared, the wheat crop OF the year prom
ises to outmeasure any recent harvest.
1t is announced that large sales of oats
on foreign account have recently been
made, which hints at increased military
activity. In the horrible contingency of
a foreign war-horrible because waged
with the most destructive weapons and
fed with religious fury-this country
will play the part of cemmissionary with
exceeding profit.
The Archbishop of Belgrade sent the
following letter to the secretary c the
English League in aid of the Christians
in Turkey: "I have great pleasure in
informing you that have received the
chesk for s10O sent to me in your letter
of the 9th inst. I, as the president of
the board for the relief of the suffering
Christians, wish could convey to you
the great importance which is here given
to the movement in England on behalf
of the suffering rayahs. 1t is hailed as a
sign of great promise. Christians in
Turkey know well that when once the
attention of English people is drawn to
the misrule of the Turks in the Balkan
peninsula the generous heart of that
great nation will prompt it to be among
the most active friends of the suffering
Christians who aie fighting for life and
freedom. Praying God that he may bless
abundantly your efforts and those of
your compatriots in the charitable and
righteous cause, and thanking you and
your friends for what has been already
achieved, l remain, dear sir, yours faith
fully"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
COTTON.

The Gro,ri,ig Crop Reduction of Three
Per Cent. as Compared ,citIs that of
1856,
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
RubORStoln'S Trial.
, American Press Association.

BY American Press Association.
BRooKLYN, Feb. SIN the Rubenstein
trial to-day. number Of witnesses testified
for the defence. Their evidence going to
show that Rubenstein was in New York at
the time, the witnesses for prosecution
swors they saw him near the scene Of the
murder. This raised question of veracity
between the witnesses for the prosecution
and defence, If the latter are telling the
truth and can support their statements by
substantial evidence. An ali6i is already as
good as proved. The witnesses on the
stand to-day were, Sam'l Levy, Annie and
Sybil Silverman, Flora Rubenstein, fourth
cousin of the prisoner, Eza Rubenstein, also
cousin Of the prisoner, Joel Sammitt
and Arnold Cohen. Eza Rubenstein
testified regarding the prisoners remarka-
Bile dream about seeing Sara murdered;
defence explained that prisoner was very
sickly and was decidedly superstitious
man. Defence therefore showed the mental
habits of accused in order to prevent false
impression on the minds of the Jury, who
might otherwise be inclined to regard the
dream in question as evidence Of the prison.
ers guilt, and evidence was adduced with
this view.
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
CRIMK AM, DISASTER

DETROIT, Feb. s.-Dr. Orlando ". cusn'
of Holly. was killed by the cars at tha'
place yesterday.
DETROIT, Feb. s.-Leslie and lngrahAm's 8
basket factory, at Benton Harbor' was
burned to-day; loss SIG, 900; partly insured
WAREHOUSE, POINT, Conn.,, Feb o.
Ernest Gowdy, the missing boy VINO was
sunnosed to have been kidnapped and mur-
dered. has been found and is now IN tne
custodv of the Chief of Police, h w. hea-
bricks. of Charleston, 8. G. A telegra"
was received here to-day, from henoflck''
to that effect.
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
House
"ouSe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1875.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1875.
Lynde, of Wisconsin, reported bill
0r'z'ng suits in bankruptcy, pending in
eme Courts of the several Territories
July 1, 1874, to be transferred to the
ut Courts of said Territories. Passed !;
"o'n same Committee, bill to repeal tho
'up' act of 1867, and several acts
,ua.ory ,us thereto, to take effect January
','' but providing that all suits and
,e'.ngs now pending in the Courts Of
"''ed States to adjudicate suits in
'upey shall be proceeded with, and
"eo. by provisions of existing laws,
~ " are continued in force for the purpose
a;o H'ns up suits and proceedings now
"s' Passed, 17s to "a. Those voting
4" p, negative were Ballow, Blaine, Banks,
r' D'0unt, Cook, Dunnell, Eannis, Eel
b., freeman, Frye, Garfield, Cause,
rri" rner, : Hamilton, New Jersey,
n, u, oa'' Aathorne, Hewitt, N. r, Hub.
kehuna u'ef, hurd, Hurlbut, Kassan, Kelly,
'Sn' King, Lamar, Le.venworth,
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
The Reddingten stabbing A4Air.

Thomas Reddington, the man who was
stabbed on Sunday evening by Connell, not
Conner, as the other papers persist in call
ing him, is ROW doing well, and there is NO
danger to be apprehended from his wounds.
VIM. Rcddington claims that his brother
the attack was first made by Connell. He
says that the pipe, which was the cause of
the trouble, aud which Connell claimed did
not belong to him.
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
4 BURGLAR CAPTURED.

NEW JERSEY ROBBER CAUGHT AT COL
LINs BEACH-THE SAME MAN IN WHOSE
ATTEMPTED CAPTURE OFFICER JONES
WAS FROZEN.
Detective John Hartman, from MillviIle,
N. j., went down to Townsend on Monday
evening and made arrangements with Con-
stable James c. Townsend, who keeps the
hotel at that place, to capture the notorious
burglar Hand, of N. j., and the two tffi-
GERS started in search Of the burglar, who
is charged with robbery in Cumberland
county, N. j., in December last. Consta-
BILE Townsend worked the case up well and
soon discovered clue to the man. He
came up with him on the Liston
farm near Collins Beech.
Hand at the time Of the arrest was just
bidding his friends good bye and was about
to leave Delaware and had started with q
comrade for New Jersey, and the capture
was made as the two were approaching the
bay with boat sail on their shoulder. When
arrested they stated that they were going
to get oysters, but it is pretty certain that
he was on another burglarous expedition
to Jersey.
Capt Townsend brought the prisoner to
this city yesterday afternoon, and he re-
mained in the cells until might when he
was taken to Millville. Hand Is a desperate
character, and his burglaries in New Jersey
are numerous. He is the same man who
officer Jones was after, and in the attempt
to capture, whenh he was SO seriously frozen
Hand has been living in the forest about
Townsend, and has been working ia the
Cedar Swamp saw mills, and he has made
several excursions to Jersey from the Della
ware shore and committed numerous bur-
glaries there.
The capture was made through tho agency
of his picture, which Officer Townsend rec
ognized as the photograph of a we'll known
character. Hand not knowing that any one
was in search of him.
A large quantity of keys were found in
his possession, and it is supposed that he
has been using them in his business.
There was no difficulty in the arrest, al
though the officer had no State requisition,
Hand being willing to 60 along without it..
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
MINOR LOCALS.

The Water Witch steamer is out of ser
vice undergoining repairs.
The regular weekly meeting Of the Fire.
mems Centennial Association will be held
this evening. ..,
Diamond State Loan Association will
hold its regular monthly meeting this even
ing, in the office 3O2 Market street.
The annual meeting of the Germania
Loan Association will be held tonight in
the 2nd story of the Telegraph building, 3rd
and Market street. During the meeting
the annual election for officers will take
place,
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
AMERICA W. EUROPE.
rhe International walking Match


By Ameri can Press Association.
LONDON, Feb. s.-The international
Walking Match, between Perkins, the Eng
ligh champion pedestrian land E. P. Weston
the American long distance champion, began
this eveing in presence of large audi.
ence comprising many sporting men. The
contestants started at 9.25 p. n., both men
were in excellent physical condition.
Perkins walked on boards which have
been laid on the floor of the Hall for that
purpose: he takes the outer track. Weston
is walking on ordinary soil. Perkins wears
white guernsey with black drawers. The
American wears broad-brimmed white
hat and black guernsey with blue sash
Perkins goes straight around the track, while
Weston varies his course, sometimes revsrs-
ing his order of going. Perkins made his
first mile in II minutes "a seconds. The
following is the time of his first 8 miles: 1st
mile, II min. "a sec.; 2nd mile, 10 min.
40 sec.; srd mile, 10 min. 50 sec.; 4th mile,
10 min. Is sec.; 5th mile, 10 min. sec.;
9Th mile, 10 mtn. % sec 7th mile, 10 min
2 sec.; 9Th mile, 10 min. 10 sec. The fol-
lowing is Weston's time in the Grst miles:
lat mile, 10 min. 10 sec.; 2nd mile, II min
% sec,; 3rd mile, II min. II sec.; 4th mile,
II min. 1 sec.; 5th mile, II min. sec.; eth
mile. II min. sec.; 7th mile, 10 min. o.
sec.: 9Th mile, 10 min. 81 sec. At Il p. m.
Perkins had gone little over 9 miles ana
was laps ahead. The American, however,
is greatly the favorite and the oet''ns Is
| IN X in his favor.
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09

It cannot be that this mandate has no bind
ing effect on those to whom It is directed.
II the two provisions were In all respects
opposed. we would still be bound by the rule
that the latest expression of the Legislature
will repeal all previous inconsistent legisla-
tion. But we are not compelled to 40 consi-
der them, but merely to consider that Sec
tion 6 is so qualified as not to interfere with
the duty imposed upon the Levy Court by
the later Act.
If we are bound by the universally Of
the terms used In Section 6, then all the
provisions of Section of the later Act
wsuld be defeated-for the Levy could
not then drop from the assessment the
name of any delinquent returned by
collector-and we would have the anomaly
of an Act OF the Legislature repealed by .
prior act. If, however, the Levy Court
may, as no one doubts it may, drop the
names of delinquents returned by collectors
under the provisions of the Act of April 10.
notwithstanding Section of the Act ef
April 9, may it not drop, and is It not
equally it's duty to drop such names when-
ever and however they appear on the assess
ment list within the period In which the
law says they shall not be placed thereon.
am clearly of opinion that such is its duty.
do not think the Levy Court has any dis
cretion in the matter as any placing of such
names upon the assessment list is positively
forbidden, and the command to drop them
from the list must apply to any assessment
list on which they appear. 1t is not neces-
sary to inquire, but we may well doubt
whether an assessment positively forbidden
by law to be made is an assessment at all,
whether 1t is not void and of no effect, 90
that the prohibition in that case would exc
cute itself.
have not adverted to the fact that the
terms Of the question contemplate fraudu-
lent evasion of the law, and Of the sworn
duty of the Assessors, although the views
have presented, are strengthened by the re-
Election that Courts will always favor that
construction of law which will most con-
duce to the accomplishment of its ends,
and will frown upon that which opens wide
the door to an invasion of the duties 1t i'm
poses.
1t only remains for me to say that the
Levy Court in dropping the names of delin-
luents appearing on the Assessment within
twelve months Of the time of their allow
ance, are acting under the responsibilities
which these laws impose upon them, and
must be satisfied as to all the facts upon
which their action is based.
GEO. GRAY, Atty. of Levy Court.
The Morning herald., 1876-02-09

ernnent, acknowledged that they did not
claim that Babcock had connection with or
cognizance Of the original conspiracy of
Magrew. The Court thereupon suggested
that the government had better coniine
their testimony to the conspiracy with
which they claim the defendant to have had
connection. The Court then adjourned un-
til Tomorrow.