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


The farmer who is Indifferent as to the
kind and condition of stock he has about
him, will generally show his Indifference
about his entire farm and household
affairs. If he keep such stock as will
barely fill the place of stock in numbers,
he leeds them without any profit, works
or rides them with no comfort, and
realizes that he is rather annoyed than
benfited by owning them. His cows
are the scrub stock, made poorer by the
lack OF attention, and feed, and when
one dies he feels that the hide is worth
more to him than the COW was when liv-
ing; that he would make money by kill
ing off the balance and selling their
hides. His hogs are the regular razor
backs, with heads weighing 16 pounds,
and their bodies II, turned out to prac-
tice ''root hog or die" His sheep, if he
has any, are left out, never cared for, ex
cept at shearing time, and then he gets
less than pound of fleece from his four
poor, degenerated descendants of the
pioneer scrub sheep of this continent.
His horses are of no particular breed,
and are equally suited to any purpose,
and especially adapted to none; numbers
of them are hip-shot, going in and out of
his bad gates and stable doors, while
many an eye has been knocked out by
his boys throwing rocks and sticks, try
ing to drive them into those old stables
to beat them for throwing down the
fences to get something to eat. The bal
ance of his live stock, poultry, bees, and
fencing, yard, garden, houses,
inside and oft, are on par with his
stos k above northumberland San.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

A PROPHECY FULFILLED.-In 1879,
the special correspondent of the London
Times, W. III. Russell, wrote: " As a
mite would in all probability never have
been seen but for the invention of cheese,
so it may be that there is some undevel-
oped creation waiting perdu for the first
piece of gutta percha which comes down
to the sea bottom to arouse his faculty
and fulfil his functions of life-a gutta
percha boring and eating teredo, which
has been waiting for its meal since the
beginning of the world This enemy
of submarine cables has already made
his appearance. 1t is crustacean, less
than quarter of an inch in length, and
known as limnoria terebrans. Gone
breakfast which he may take,' says DR..
J. IL. Gladstone, 1" may cost more than
the breakfast of any luxurious Roman
epicure of ancient times, because he may
destroy whole cable, and it may take a
year to repair the damage which he may
do in minute"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
THE FISHER MAIDEN,

81 All Tor love, and the world well lost"
My lover said softly TO me,
A. the hair from INV flushing cheek was
By the breath OF the salt, salt sea
turned my face To the beetling cliff.
Where the cot hung lone and high,
And fcit there was nothing to hold me la
Under ths storm black sky
saw face. aud an old gray beard
All wet with the salt, salt ga,
III : old blue eyes, Il if they feared
For hay future looked down on r.e
] looss-l the clasp oil the vigorous hand
That ,urcd To sin aud shame;
turned from the ne, To- the dreary land.
And UP the Path that came;
Without farewell. with never a word.
iIs-i t. the gray boards knee
And clung To- his breast as n storm-tosseI .
Clinss ciose TO the cliT by the s4z,,
NJ tenderness ia the gray boards heart,
But safer by far for me.
To cling to the hard aud stony cliff.
Than trust to the treacherous sea
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
COTTON MARKETS.

MoBILE-Market quiet. Middling 121ac.
LoU1svILLE-Market quiet and unchanged.
CIScISNATI-Cottoni is quiet Middlng, i2lIc.
MEMpHIs-Market easier but not quotahly lower
at 121ac
Observation-Disclosures dull. MiddlinS upland, 6 =
Cd midding Orleans, sgd
ST. LouIs-Cotton dull and lower for low grades
Middling, PIE; low middling, 1le good ordinary.
P4c.
NEW YoRK-Cotton weak and irregular. Mid
ding II I5-IGc.; mddIing Orleans, ~ q. Futures
closed quiet lut steady.
NEW OsLEAHs.-Demand good. Prices are .un-
steady and easier. Good ordinary to strict good or
dinary 9LJal0l4c: low midtiing, to strict low mid
ding Iu5 MIi3Zc; mildling to strict mddling, re
good midding to middling fair, 13is@lil &C.; fair,
15Mi6c
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PLANTATION TOPICS.
T,refre R"tcs for SUCCESSFUL Farming.


l. Drain thoroughly. .. Plow deep
and loosen the subsoil 3. Provide good
storage for solid manure, and cisterns for
the liquid manure. 4. Choose CONNER
cial fertilizers intclligently, and do not
use one in excess of another simply be-
cause Others have used it. 3. Manure
every crop which benefits by it, and ma
nure high. 6. Cultivate all safe, paying
crops, and select the best seed for these.
Z. Cultivate every crop upon your fields,
and in proper rotation. =. Cultivate
more and better hay. O. Feed plenti-
fully and of the best hay 10. Breed
stock, and let not mere accident control
the increase. IL. support breeding and
feeding by proper care. II. Keep ac-
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

otherwise. God be thanked; but chill
dren must at least have love inside the
house, and fresh air, and good play, and
some good companionship, outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
risk in the world of whitening or growing
stunted, or sour and wrong, or at least
prematurely old and turned inward.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

METzLER & Co., the most extensive
dealers in reed instruments in London,
pronounce the Mason & Hamlin "the
finest reed instrument in the world"
Augustus L. Tamplin and Chevalier
Lemmens. the famous harmonium play
ers, are using these organs at their Lon
don concerts.
These are fine compliments for our ia
thoroughly deserved.-Ne,o York Phil
harmonic Journal
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

in the dry room. | use no grease in the
curing process, nothing but a small piece
of bandage cloth. A good rich cheese
will grease itself enough. l keep my
drying room at a temperature of about
so dapreeS"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

Chapped hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, saltrheum, and other utaneous aliec-
tons cured and rough skin made soft and
smoth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. BE care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
& Co., New York, as there are many imita-
tons made with common tar, all of which
are worthless.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

In single day 1000 pounds of DIR. TUTT's Liver
Pills were shipped from the port OF New York. As
an illustration of the OF country, this
worthy of record in the Centennial year.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

How TO FIND OUT WHAT THE WORLD
Is MADE oF.-Sell your carriage and
horses, says the St. Louis Republican,
move into a two-story rented house, dis
miss your retinue of servants, dress
economically, attend an questionable
church and then see. What? The
stuff the world is made of; the Mumbo
Jumbo at whose gilded altar you have
been offering pearls, frankincense and
myrrh the fiimsy, foolish bubble into
which you have been blowing such pre-
cious breath; the ineffable nonsense
which you have reared into temple,
and which, at the first blast of that bit
ter, biting wind which comes from an
empty pocket, has dissolved into the
thinnest of thin air.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

The Berlin correspondent of Land and
Water publishes a piece of information
that will be welcome to many farmer.
"Who ever knew" says he, "of two
plants being SO inimical to one another
as to kill the other by a mere touch.
This, however, seems to be the case when
rape grows near the thistle. If field is
infested by thistles, give it a turn of rape
seed, and this plant VIII altogether starve,
suffocate, and chill the thistles out of
existence. A trial was made with differ
ent varieties of rape seeds in square plots,
when it was found that the whole ground
was full of thistles, and nobody believed
the rape was having fair run. But it
had, and as it grew the thistle vanished,
faded, turned gray, and dried up rs soon
as the rape leaves began to touch it.
Other trials were then made in flower
pots and garden-beds, and the thistle
always had to give in, and was altogether
annihilated, whether old and fully de-
veloped, or young and TENDER
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

HANDS OFF.-Lately in the salerooms
of Messrs. Christie, Manson, q Woods,
King street, London, a sale of very val
liable porcelain, and articles OF bronze,
marble and carved furniture, was about
to take place. A gentleman lifted very
recherche piece of Sevres porcelain, and
was examining it, when the top of the
vase fell off, but he fortunately caught it
before it reached the ground. Mr.. Man
son came up and said to the gentleman,
20 Sir, you are most fortunate, for, had
that broken, | should have been obliged
to debit your account with e3,5OO, the
lowest limit put upon these vases" At
the sale / believe they realized $4,000.
The gentleman drew a long breath. bowed,
and thanked Mr. Manson for the inform
alton regarding the value of the vases.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

FEMALE WEAKNESS -Vegetine acts
directly upon the causes of these complaints
1t invigorates and streng hens the whole sys-
tenn, acts upon the secretive organs, allays in
fammation, cleanses and cures liberation,
he dache and pain in the back cease; in fart
there is no disease complaint where the
Vegetine gives quick relief, and is so e.
fective in its cure. as in what is termed fe-
instance
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Total


OF these the Huron and Alert are in
commission, the Alliance is ready for
officers, the Trenton is receiving machin-
cry, the Enterprise and Ranger only re-
quire outfit, and the Adams and Essex
are nearly completed. The statement of
the cost of the vessels does not include
timber and materials on hand at the date
of the appropriation.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

impending innovation of railways into
that happy kingdom will impair the
morals of the people and lower the bus
mess standard remains to be seen.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

WE trust the time will come when ev-
cry one will use Dobbins' Electric Soap,
(made by Cragin q Co., Philadelphia
Its sale is daily increasing. as is always
the case with articles of merit. Try it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

"A man must not keep his hat on at
a place of amusement, because it will in
convenience those behind him but a
lady can pile the tower of Babylon on her
head, if she chooses, and no one dares to
object
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
The Wonders of Modern Chemistry.
SarSaparilllan and Its Associates.
Changes as Seen and Felt as They Daily
Occur after Using n Few Doses OF
DIR. RAILWAYS
SarsapariIlian
ResoIvent,
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.

L. Good spirits. disappearance of weakness, languor
melancholy increase and hardness of flesh and mus
strength inereases appetite improves relish . for
gstion calm and undstorbed sleep. awaken fresh and
looks sisap sna healthy s eaRged from is
c e1a a %s epIay % from tie basf Is
urethra without pain seading little or no sediment
dn%oG oi Sasn End e
w sry d Of yn anS sf Ea
Eiony restored to the several organs.
B. Yellow tinge on the white Of the eyes and the swsr
ivy and hessy Goe Oh '' SKIN changed
tedes @ Tez IRON Great sens IN eSPeeSrtin9
dsy the t3dgh ps% or or sad hd n
Of the frequency of cough general increase OF strength
pains feeling of weakness around the ankles legs
lying down arising n the morning. All hese distress
<. 8S inter- aas sns
6isod impresss IN strrngth and purity dssss win
nish and all foreign and impure deResdts n9ass
Ssas spps ssPh-i' Sores chrome SKIN o'S''e'
ns s.; f SGrF5lgs spe
ed and become depoTsd in The bo1Ts joints sts
ysts Tsngs vnreGse veins t es t d
posits and eztefminae the OF the disease from tbs
system
o If those taking these medicines for thecure
OF Chronic, Scrofuous Syphtic diseases, however
slow be the feel better, and hnd thor gen
health improving their flesh and weight increasing
keeping its 1t sign that the cure Is
progressing In these diseases the patient either gets
better worsehe virus of the disease Is not inactVe
if arrested and driven from the blood IL viii spread
a and the g Makes the pssns
feel better every you will grow better and in
in health. strength and flesh.
The great power of this remedy s in diseases that
death-as in Consumption OF the Lungs and
Tuberculous Phthisis ScrOfCla, Syphioid Diseases
Wasting Degeneration and liberation OF the Kidneys,
Diabetes Stoppage of Water instantaneous relief al
forded where have be used thus Going away
dissolying the bladder, and in all of In
Illumination of the Bladder and Kidneys, IN chronic
cases OF Leucorrhea and Uterine diseases
In nodes hard Jumps and eyphioid ulcers: in
ropsy and venereal throat ulcers and in tubercs
the lungs in govt, dyspepsia, rheumatism, ricketts,
mercuriH deposits-it in these terrible forms OF
dsease where the human body hns become complete
wreck and where hour OF existence Is TORTURE
wherein this remedy challenges the astonishent
of the sick 1t is in such where
all pleasures of existence Eppea cut OF from the
fortunate, and by its wonderful almost supernatural
agency, the hopeless TO life and new
where this great remedy stands alone in It's
might and power.
In the ordinary skin diseases every Is
troubled with. few doses Will in most and
few bottles in the aggravated forms, work psf
Those afflicted with chronic diseases should purchase
package containing dczen bottles Price $40
Dozen s. half dozen bottles 81 per bot
tie. Sold by druggists.
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NEW ORLEANS.

Sugar-Inferior common, 5i4c.; fair to fully fair
mentng, fair s593sc.; prime to strictly prime, 4og
41e.; fair reboiied l7c; prime to choice reboilcd,
fine, S3.75; XN, SI.25i xxx, S4.7596.O0; choice
and family, $50; Corn-Choice white soc Oats
dull at I7@5o. Pork is easier at S21.1j. Dry salt
meats Shoulders, Sls191ac.; clear rib NC. Bacon
Shoulders. 1oc clear rib, 19c.; clear Sides 1876.
Lard-Tierces, packers, 11igc.; refined, 13c; key,
1870. Hams-Choice sugar-cured. lie. Rice-Louis-
lana common TO choice, 419963Ic. Cotfee-Orinary
to prime, I7@l6c Whisky dull at Sl.10@1lS for
Htl
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A negro in South Carolina, who ,

A negro in South Carolina, who was
complaining of the hard times, declared
they were the hardest ever known
why" said he, 1" 1 works all day and
steals all night, and yet Pm blest if kin
makean honest living. ''-Brookiyn 1rgus.
-" Colonel Pompey, how is you dis
morning." "Look'ee here, nigga, don't
you call me colonel no more, since the
white folks done run dis thing in the
ground. Use 4 major, or nothing, artcr
this"
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ST. LOUIS.

Flour steady and unchanged. Wheat-No. red
winter ST % "a .;S. Corn-NO. mixed, 40c. cash.
Oats frmer at 35d35I2c Barley dull and unchanged.
Pork higher S21. g21 .25. Lard firmer and higher
PFC asked. Bulk meats-Shoulders, 7I4@756c.;
clear rib 1I@111e.; clear sides, 1I3s9111ac. Bacon
ShouderS &C.; clear rib, lie; clear sides, 124@
12ho. Whisky steady and unchanged at SI.06.
Cattle-Fair to prime native steers, S45O@L75.
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old EOgy Farmers.

Is not Il farmer an old fogy who will
continue to breed the common scrub hogs,
of the country, when there is undoubted
testimony from everyone who has tried
the improved breeds, such as the Berk-
shire, Poland China, etc, that there is a
saving of at least % to 80 per cent. in
feed, i'll producing a certain number of
pounds of pork, by keeping the improved
breeds? Is it not everywhere admit
ted that some animals will fatten more
readily than others, that some breeds will
fatten more easily than others, on less
food ? That some breeds of cattle are en-
inent for their butter producing quail
ties, and others for their beef producing
properties? That some breeds of sheep
are noted for wool, and others for the
quantity and high quality of mutton
they produce? That some horses are noted
for their speed as trotters, and others for
their speed as runners? l. it strange,
then, that hogs should be subject to the
same law of improvement? That skill
and care and painstaking selection ofpar
ticular animals, should finally give us
breeds that keep easily, fatten easily, ma
ture early, and have all the desirable
points required in swine And yet there
are farmers who think the haze[splitting,
razorbacked, alligator hog just as good
as any. They must believe the world
stands still: that there is no change, 10
improvement in anything. Such farmers
we class old fogies.-Colnldn's Rural
World
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

THE following statement shows the
capacity and cost of each of the eight
sloops-of-war recently completed by the
navy department:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
CINCINNATI.

Flour is dull. Wheat dun at S1.35. Corn dull at
Acc. Oats firm at I5c. Rye steady and unchanged
Soc Pork fair and advanced; s2l 10 bid: Lard
active and higher. Steam, II 3-l0c cash Bulk meats
Shoulders, SC. cash; clear rib, 1lAc. Bacon
Shoulders, 9i4c.; clear rib, 11i4c. Whisky steady
with n fair dennnd at 81 1li.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

- In the East Indies the Ladies of the
country are subjected to the labor of
building railroads and keeping them in
order,
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NEW YORK.

Flour steady with fair demand Superfine state
and WESTERN S4.35@4.70; extra Ohio, S5.O5@7 25.
Wheat-No. ?. Chicago, spring, nominally S125@
firm at s21sa85c. Corn-Western mixed, new 63a
65c Oats dull and dropping at 49c Cotfee-R quiet
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

Flour quiet and unchanged Wheat, s1.10@t rs.
Corn i6c Oats. &c. Rye, Soc Provisions strong
with upward tendency. Pork, s22 90. Bulk meats
Shoulders, Ts4c.; clear rib, 1I14@1l19c. Bacon
Shoulders g3sc.; clear lib, 123s9125sc. Lard, 15c
Whisky quiet and firm at 81 &c.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26

EARLY INFLUESCEs.-There can be
no greater blessing than to be born in
the light and air Of cheerful, loving
home. 1t not only insures happy child
hood-if there is health and good con-
stitution-but it almost makes sure viz
tuous and happy manhood, and fresh
young heart in old age. We think it the
duty OF every parent to try to make their
chlidren's childhood full of love and of
chiidhood's proper joyousness and we
never see children destitute of them
through the poverty, faulty tempers, or
wrong notions of their parents, without
heart-ache. Not that all the appliances
which wealth can buy are necessary to
the free and happy unfolding of child
hood in body, mind, and heart-quite
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
Some people are rude enough to say

.Some people are rude enough TO say
to an editor whose writing is not very
plain: always telegraph; never write;
we like your telegraph hand 50 much
better than your writing hand.''
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS,
LOUISVILLE.

Flour An advance asked but not established.
Corn quiet and unchanged. Oats quiet and I'M
changed. Lard firmer and higher at 1391I1zc. Etlk
neats finn and unchanged.
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Send one letterstamp to TADyVAY g. CO., No.
81 Warren Street, New York. Information
worth thousands will he sent you
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-09

"SUPPosE, Belle" said II poor bat hon
est Chicago youth TO Prairie avenue
girl, one day recently, "suppose that a
young man loved you dearly, very dear
ly, but was afraid to ask you TO marry
him, maybe because he was very tmid
or felt too poor, or something, what
would you think Of such u case Y'--
"Think !" answered the girl immediate
ly. "Wby, il he was poor, should
think that he was doing just right in
keeping still about it," The question
was dropped right there.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-09

Loss oF A CoNTINENT.-Plato sends
down to posterity Il tradition OF his day
that great continent by tho Atlantic
Ocean suddenly sank out Of sight. He
further says it was an island called At
lantis. On it were Kingdoms and organ
lied governments, wealth, arts and civil
ization, instantly lost to human sight, 1t
is now the opinion OF tho leading geolo-
gsts-those most advanced in science
that the American continent appeared
when the Atlantic waters rushed into the
cavity or depression on the earth's sur
face now filed by salt water. The Rocky
Mountains were then the rough bed of an
ocean, which rose with marine plants,
shells and other products OF an aquatic
origin, that are found abundanty strewn
there, and, in fact, all over North and
South America. Remnants Of Atlantis,
the submerged continent, are believed by
some scientists to be recognized in tho
Adirondacks, tho White Mountains in
Maine, aud few other outCrOpplngs be-
longing to that deluged and forever lost
country. There is no knowing what AS
founding discoveries may yet be made in
coming ages corroborative Of Plato's mar
ration.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-09

THE CENrENNIAL.-The rumor Of n
possible extension OF the time for closing
the Exhibition is pronounced by promI-
neut mombers Of the Board Of Finance
and Centennial Commissioners as utter
ly uufounded, and those bos. able judge
state that il any proposition to this effect
were to be seriously considered, it would
at once be found impIacticable. Many
OF the finest exhibits have already been
sold on agreements for their delivery af-
ter the 10Th Of November, and tho re-
mova OF these good, alone would cause
such confusion that it would be found i'm
possible TO continue the Exhibition.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-09

A WAR RELIc.-We have in this office
little relic Of war times, and in the shape
Of call fora Democratic mass meeting
in 1864, in the words and figures follow
ing:
"The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks will
address the people Of jackson and adjoin
ing counties al Seymour, Indiana, Wed
nesday, September II, 1864, at ten % o'clock.
Let all who are in favor Of peace, all who
desire to be free from the death grip Of
this iniamously wicked, imbecie and ty-
ranncal Administration, its arbitrary
and illegal arrests, and its drafts and con-
scription laws, by which peacabe citi-
zens are dragged from their homes and
all the endearments of domestic life 10
butcher and to be butchered, come out
and hear thi, eloquent advocate OF pence
and reunion, ,"-IudianapOhs JoU,Hat