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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29
Tbs Scarlet Fever,

1t is as unnecessary; safs Gru1 Health
for a child to die of scarlet fevef ds h
is that Is sh6tld be blind With catar.
act Let us see: At atty time be:
fore the body has finished its infectual
struggle We are able to help it, not by
wonderful medicines, but by the knowl-
edge of anatomy, and the application
Of Common sense: we consult the
sympathetic nerve, and do what it
commands us to dt. We mtfst give
this child salt when, it wants It, we
must give 1t acid when it has fever
and anxiousiy Graves i-not vinegar,
but lemon juice, because the first Goa
gulates albumen, the latter does not,
on account of the surplus Of oxygen
which 1t contains: To initiate the
soothing mucus In the intesttnes, which
is now wanting, and to give some re-
spiratory food at the same time, we
add some gum-arabic. To restore and
relieve the injured nerve, We apply
moist warmth.
In practice &e Ear fsl6ll all this
with the following simple mdfiiftflA-
tons: Undress the child and bring it
t. led at the very first sign of sickness.
Give it, if it has a1reaat fsver; sodrish
warm lemonade, with some gum-aaifabis
in it. Then cover its abdomen with
sStne dry flannel: Take well-folded
bed-sheet, ana r-t u IN, boiling hot
water wiring it out dry by h.esns Of
dry towels, and put this over the fam
mel on the chi1ds abdomen. Then
cover the whole, and wait. The hot
EYE I'll. perhaps require repeated
heat. According to Tie s4sstt. Of
the case, and its stage of progress, per-
SEPARATION will commence in the child
"a ffSst ten minutes to two hours.
The child then is saSea i shows
slight symptoms of returning inclina-
ton for food help its bowels, If neces-
sary; WITH .h;,estscss Sf oil: soap and
water, and its recovery viii " 4.
steady as the growth of greenhouse
plant, if well treated. Of course. if
the child was already dying nothing
could save it, or if it has already eff
filsions in tho lining Of the heart or
brain, it. is much better that it shouts
de- Bit If the above is applied in
due time, under the eyes and firec-
ton Of competent physician, ( @M
that not one in a hundred |
sk.fateA VII ever die Of scarlet fever.
know this will Starts ss1'a Of par
readers, especially those who have 1851
children already, but l shall go still
further. maintain that child will
never get scarlet fever if properly
treated: If a child has correctly |
tfiised blood; it will not. catch the dis
order if put In bed With Il sick child. |
This is still more startling, but nothing |
S easier Of proof:
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disfiguring hump as Minnie whispered:
my dear husband, has not God made
a perfect soul even in this poor body?
An, my darling, believe me, no
beau could be, to me, so lovely as the
holy life have seen led by one tried
in the furnace of affection as you have
BEEN"
And SO the sorry jest passed by, ahd
the minister's wife followed humbly in
the paths her husband trod in his Mas
ters service.
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More Meteorological Phenomena.

Sunday night, about $50 o'clock, a
singular phenomenon occurred in
Whites Addition, at the residence of
Captain Ambrose Gaines. He was in
front of the fire, reading, with his
wife and children sitting by, when
they were startled by loud clap of
thunder, which sounded like the dis
charge of heavy artillery, alarming
the children greatly, and what followed
was not calculated to assure their tran.
guilty. Immediately after the re-
port a shower of fire was discovered
falling around the house, like meteoric
rain, presenting an appearance as
beautiful as it was grand and appall
ing. The porch in the rear of the
house is ornamented with lattice-work,
which supports bower of honey
suckle and running vines, which, be-
ing wet by the falling rain, were lit up
by the celestial pyrotechnics, affording
a spectacle of seconds duration as
gorgeous as fairy dream. Several
gentlemen who were on the street at
the time hurried to the house, think
ing it was set on fire by the lightning,
aerolite, or whatever it might have
been; but, though there was a strong
smell of sulphur in the atmosphere, no
DANCE was done. Capt. Gaines sat up
until after midnight, fearing that the
flames might break out at any moment;
but, fortunately, such was not the
case, and an investigation yesterday
showed no signs of the phenomenon.
-KnorriNe { Tenn. Press and Herald.
DoN'T take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors, Six per
cent will do.
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Happy Lives.

The reader is probably acduainted
with some persons who do not hnd
life painful. or dull-as very many do
but interesting and JOYOUS. Whenever
l have met one Of these fortunate PEG
pie, whether in books or fdes u fhts;
l have asked myself, Why is life a
satisfying portion to this pserson? Let
us compare notes. need not say that
wealth, luxury and "social position,
have nothing to do with it. No one
who has had opportunities of sbsert-
ing life In variotis grades of the social
scale can have failed to DISCOVER that
Happiness is nit inefeased hy. the
splendor Of our abddes, nor diminished
by the homeliest surroundings, provid-
ed they suffice for comfort and decency.
The late Mr.. Aston was a tolersblt
happy man, but it was not because he
could have lived IN a palace; and
might have hung d ft:;llfSn dollar
diamond to his shirt. He was in
debted for such happiness as he had
chiefly to the fact that his ruling pas
sion was abundantly gratifed. He
loved to accumulate, and he accumu-
lated. That seems to be the reason
whs s5me people are happy;. Their
ruling passion is gratiied YOU Will
saw. that it ia a pitiful thing to be
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DUSK.

The misty moth-time il begun;
Trees seand like shadows in the lanes,
Birds uing their farewells to the sun,
And eandles shine through coehge-panes;
And now de west glow soffiy vnaes
And cxickets about houses run,
The sky il losing all its stains
The night cones on, and day il done.
Repese win ease the uofkmanss psins. ~
And speak to him Of sleep weH woa:
He walks in peace along the lsnes,
Ihnt bnvc new scent new rain Is done
Stars come to full EgAs one by one,
Between wet leaves along the lanes;
He sees them % he walks, tut none
Cheer him like light through cottaee-panes.
-CaneEs 11gu-sne. ,et771l-
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Results of a Little NEGLECT,

was once, in the country, witness
of the numberless minute losses that
negligence in household regulation
entails. For want of a trumpery
latch, the gate Of the poultry yard
was for ever open; there being no
means of closing it externally, twas
on the swing every time person went
out, and many of the poultry were
lost in consequence. One day a fine
young porker made his escape into the
wood, and the whole family, gardener,
cook, milkmaid, &c, presently turned
out in quest of the fugitive. The
gardener was the first to discover the
object of pursuit, and in leaping ditch
to cut off his further escape, got a
sprain that confined him to his bed for
the next fortnight; the cook found the
linen burnt that she had left hung up
before the fire to dry; and the milk
maid having forgotten in her haste to
tie up the cattle properly in the cow
house, one of the loose cows had broken
the leg of colt that happened to be
kept in the same shed. The linen burnt
and the gardeners work lost were worth
fully twenty crowns, and the colt about
as much more; SO that here was a loss
in few minutes offorty crowns, purely
for want of q latch that might have cost
a few halfpence at the utmost; and
this in household where the strictest
economy was necessary; to say nothing
of the poor man, or the anxiety and
other troublesome incidents. The mis-
fortune was, to be sure, not very seri-
Gus, nor the loss very heavy; yet when
it is considered that similar neglect was
the occasion of repeated disasters of the
same kind, and ultimately the ruin of
worthy family, twas deserving of
some little attention.-Frcm the French.
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THE HU1Gp-BACK;s
Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty and the Beasti Minnie
Stokes for Beauty-whoH be the
Beast?' and Mrs. Lovejoy looked at
the group of eager children before her
for IN answer.
Minnie had already stepped from
the ranks; and now there sprang to
her side . boy some three years her
senior, who said: F" | will, Mrs. Love
Joy!"
you'll do" was the laughing re-
Spouse. .'Stand over there, both of
you and the young couple joined the
ranks of performers, whose position
was assigned them.
What are you doinr?' cried a
merry voice At the door and in a mo-
ment the new conner was the center of
a group composed of all the children
in the room.
Now, Lou, see how you've bothered
me. l shall never get these children
sorted again In the world
"But what was ita1
"Mv Cara Is ppinp tn bav. . tar
leau PARTY. and We are taxing the fs;rv
tales to -;Ijuxn.fe. Pre foSnd ,,.- -s
for some of the children and se.t
them off to that end of the room
"Weu .nrt then, o,,f ,r.;,, co,,a
I'll helm Won y and c.tr3ey,. - ss ~
book. the merry c;ri cslIrJ name sf 49,
name from those written.
Beauty and the Renst. Raautv
Mamie Stpkes. Raast Henry Woo5
Oh. Fan ~ sbe.wb;srcred sshoov ,.s,,,id
you?"
"Chose it himself NV dear w.. The
answer IA cnod ;oIs r an ~ ~
and Mrs. I,ove;ovtooE ~. M IL .n
But Ions p;tif;,I ewes re s -. e ~.
children, did not mirror any az her
cousins mirth. Minnie and Henry
were sksndino in one of The s,-;, No..
inches, taking earnestly. pnocnsc;o,s
of the soft bise ewes bent = iov;naIx
upon them. 10y
Minnie was a beautiful child Of
twelve wears. with brown carls and
dark eyes, perfect in form and feat,,rs
Henry had the face of nm anceI viii
the figure of CaIican. He Rad been
a tall, well-deyeloped how for f;v,. vears
of his life, when n terrible fall HAD
ruined his form. His SHINE was IN
iured. curyipo till he ,v.s .ln,ost
humpbacked: his hin was crooLed i
causing him to limp: and the whole
figure WINS twisted out of shane and
almost the semblance of buman;tv
The face WINS lovely. blonde WAVING
hair, large blue ewes. delicate features
and an expression of perfect good hu.
NOR were its leading points of beautv
Minnie, the pet Of the whole town |
of Fairwater, was the warmest cham |
pion and friend of the cr;nr,I.1 .k:Ly /
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TIE Blood Bath.

About a year ay5 q curious thing
happened here Yesterday, remarked q
robust and rosy-cheeked butcher whom
we had been eomplimenting ON his
fresh and healthy appearances. az
know, continued our butcher acouiant-
ance, /" that, as rule, men engaged
in my business enjoy good health and
have fresh, rosy look but whether
dabbling In blood and breathing and
absorbing the fumes and vapose arising
from fresh meats has any thing to do
with this, as you appear to believe, 1
cannot say neither have ever seen
any blood-drinking, neither by butch
ers or others, Bat, as have said, a
very curious circumstance occurred here
about a year ago. / generally work in
the market-so must get INV red
cheeks through what / absorb from the
meats I handie-but about a wear auu
one of our butchers took sick and /
filed his place In the slauehtef-hoiise
for about six weeks. I had NIT been
in the slaughter-hoisse long until one
aftef1fcosh about two o'clock-our time
to begin killings carriage drove up.
Two ladies alighted; one known to me
as the wife Of the SUPERINTENDENT of
one of our leading Comstock m;ue..
and the other a Young lasiS ftSn San
Francisco, as I sftefward learned. I
saw, almost as soon as the ladies ar
rived. that the Younger one had no usf.
of her right arm. 1t was so COM
pletely paraly7ed that she was obliged
to move it about with her left hand. 1
observed that when she wanted to nit
her deal band in her fnuff she was
Obliged to reach through With her left,
get hold Of the hand and then draw it
where she wanted it. lust as though it
had been a skein of warn. We'll #
appears there had been some under
standing about the Young ladys COM
Jug there, but what she did not little
surprised some of us the Srst rlar she !
came. The ladies stood looking ON
while we hauled up bullock and
knocked HIM on the head. No sooner
had the knife heen withdrawn from
the animals throat than the younr lady |
threw off the large mantle |
that she wore, and rushing forward sat |
down upon the Aoor Just at the bull
locks neck, where a torrent of blood |
was gushing. She then barred her right
arm and thrust it to the shoulder into
the gaping and bloodspoutinp throat of
the animal, holding it there until the
blood had ceased to flow. We were
then killing about thirty animals every
afternoon, and eyery day regularly the
girl came and thrust her dead arm in
one or more of them. That girl had
great courage and was not une Of your
3vernice KIND, t can tell YOU. She
had a ssafse dress of some heavy wool
IN stuff that she wore for the purpose.
md when the bullock fell and the knife
,ad done its work she at once ran nm
md seated herself on the fIoor as re-
yardless Of the blood as if it had been
70 much water. There she would hang
lcross the neck of the beast until It
,eased to bleed. She was SO brave
hat we were all glad when she got
veil. | remember how happy She
vas when she came one dav and
bowed us that she could begin to omen
md close her fingers. From that time |
|
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

NEARLY everybody remembers the
poor. But unfortunately verybody is
TOO apt to suppose that the poor can
make themselves comfortable on his
recollection of them.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

LIFE is the perception of the ex-
ternal and the feeling of the internal ;
to the common man death is the per-
ception Of the eternal with the feeling
Of the internal.
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where the botlaers Come From.

All have seen the immense bojilders
called lost rock" i'll some sections,
scattered over the nof.hern part of the
United SIXTIES; which have 1lttle or no
resembiahes 10 any mass of rock any
where in the vicinity, and have per-
haps asked the question: Where did
they cHme from? Also the heaps of
sand, gravel, aha eobble-stones of
various sizes, which form liah.t Of our
ridges knobs, and hills, and which Are
totally unlike any fixed rock near
them. All these phenomena, says the
Scientific American, are attributed to
single catist, and that is the great
sheet of ice which nature stored up
ages ago without the necessity of pro-
tecting it in an ice house. According to
Agassiz, the sheet Of ice extended i'll
this country far south As South
Carolina or Alabama, and was thick
enough to cover all the mountains OF
the eastern part of North America,
with the exception of Mount Wash
ington. This peak projected, lone
sentinel on that vast waste of ice, two
or three hundred feet. In the lati-
tude OF northern Massachusetts,, he
conceives the ice to have been two or
three miles thick. The boulders were
all torn off by the advancing ice sheet,
from the projecting rocks over which it
moved, and carried or pushed as "bot-
tom drift" scratching and ploughing
the surface over which it passed, and
being scratched and polished them
selves in return, till they were finally
brought to rest by the melting of the
ice. They were not carried as far
south as the ice sheet extended, sell
dom beyond the parallel of forty
degrees north. The native copper of
Lake Superior was dritted four or
five hundred miles south; and the
pudding stones of South Roxbury,
Mass, were carried a. far south IT'S the
island of Penikeso.
SCENE at Brooklyn wedding
breakfast. Company all seated about
the table. A pause in the general
conversation. Happy husband, to his
wife's seven-year-old sister at the other
end of the room-"Wcll, Julie, you
have a new brother now. Julie
eyes, but mother said to papa the
other day that she was afraid you would
never amount to much, but that it
seemed to be Sarah's last chance" H.
tense silence for a moment, followed
by rapid play of knives and forks.
LIFE is the perception of the ex-
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Need of tho HoIy Spirit.

Suppose we saw All army sitting
down before a granite fort, and they
told us they intended to batter i
down, we might ask them: How
They point to cannon-ball. "Well,
but there is no power in that, 1t Is
heavy, but no more than hundred
weight. If all the men in the army
hurled it against the fort they would
make no impression" They say;
"No! but look at the cannon. well.
but there is no power in that; child
may ride upon il bird may perch IN
its mouth; it is machine and nothing
more" "But look at the powder.
"Well, there il no power in that; child
may spill it, sparrow may peck 1t.
Yet this powerless powder and power
less ball are put in the powelless can.
non; one spark of fire enters 1t; md
then, in the twnikling of au eye, that
cannon-ball r. thmderbolt which
smites as if it had been sent from
heaven. SO il is with.our church mn
chinery of this day; we have all the ia
strumcnts for pulling down strong
holds, and oh FOR the baptism of fire.
Arthur.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

ONYX MINEs IN Within
few days an extraordinarily rich AMI
unique. collection of specimens OF onyx,
from mines recently discovered in
Mexico, has arrived in this city and
are new on exhibition ut an up town
Broadway store. The specimens are of
the finest kind, embracing every variety
of the mineral. The mines have
been known to the In,liaps for centu-
ries, but were only recently d'scov-
cred by the whites. Hitherto onyx
has been found in such quantities as to
be only serviceable for small orna-
ments, but it is claimed that the pres
ent mines Weld SO great quantities as
to furnish materials for elegant archi-
tectural purposes.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

DoN'T take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors, Six per
cent. will do.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

Well, said Mrs. Lovejoy, as she
took off her bonnet, az never expected
tosee Henry Wood look as he did this
morning when he stood at the altar
with Minnie. He is a new man; and
she looked lovely!" He is horribly
deformed, though; SO, after all, as It
was years ago, she is still Beauty to
his -
Hush, cousin" and Louis soft hand
stopped the word ON Mrs. Lovejoy's
lips. "She has chosen we'll"
But the merry laugh, long stilled,
rang out at the parsonage as Henry
said. caressing his wife's curls: "You
know, Beauty, the Beast was dying
when the fair lady promised to marry
him. Unfortunately the promise has
wrought no transformation to-day"
Tenderly the little hand fell on the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29

day, the first time as soon after day
break as may be possible or convent
ent, and then at intervals of four
hours. Each meal should be as much
as they can eat up clean, and no more
when they have done feeding, the
board should be wiped up and some
gravel spread. 1t causes them to feed
and thrive.
After fortnight of this treatment
you will have good, fat fowls. If,
however, there are but five or six
fowls to be fatted, they must not have
as much room as though there were a
dozen. Nothing is easier than to
allow them the proper space, as it is
only necessary to have two or three
pieces of wood to pass between the
bars and form partition. This may
also serve when fowls at up at differ
ent degrees of f;itness. This requires
attention, or fowls will not keep fat
and healthy. As soon as the fowl is
sufficiently fatted, it must be killed,
otherwise it will not get fatter, but
will lose flesh. If fowls are intended
for the market, of course they are or
may be, fatted at once; but if for
home consumption, it is better to put
them up at such intervals as will suit
the time when they will be required for
the table.
When the time arrives for killing,
whether they are meant for market or
otherwise, they should be tasted with
out food or water for twelve or fifteen
hours. This enables them to keep for
some time after being killed, even in
hot weather.-Jou7,al Of Chemistry.
MORE STOCK WANTED.
The cry comes up from every quater
for more stock, especially for more
New-York tribune., 1876-12-23

6orses. Carriages, harness, &r.
cLEIGHS, SLEIGHS, BELLS.
- SLEIgHs, RODl.S
Portland Seighs 40 Albany Cuttos PoDles and
six seat Sleighs very WM H. GRAY 20. % WOOscrsL
New-York tribune., 1876-12-23
IHE STATE OF TRADE.
ErRnPEAN AIARKETN.

LrvARrooI Dec 22l2:so m1otton is active ea9 and
saG. 4oooo s%i bales. RRc@ds 900 and
s4R0T sTar. dessa PeSs Nth S GO Sa asking %
are weaker; Upana Low MiddIing clause DeeshGr % ara ara
low Addng clause JspuSy and Fesrd,Ty ~ rye dsTs
G4d UPands. Low Middiug clause. February aud March
tbs ssh. St ID Upian Middns cianse, March and
April deyery GS also sales Of The same uga1Gs mas
sales oi the same az 6s; Uplands Low hidang clause
sSPia Sas SSsSsSV Saas SHIPPED pa DeseSor and jasasry %
s9 s Low pSn Ms Ss ns s aHi
Ag s sale S hs Week @ SSc SOS Soss Ss' a sfSfs Sid
.99o bales AeTean SsoS0o bales tCt% not TsesBts6 Se6
So GSs SsaBs S Cotton SSGSS Sa %Sercan
GoGo6o oSc "I slss; orxare % from
as receipts Wheat for the past three days were 5000
GqaS "nSS pac ~ p mUpands Cotton Low Mid
d1e eiaSss February AMI Mssc9 delivery ssi BTEaa q
Western Feas, s7S Pquarer for Canadian Wheat llts
tinb To- aud 1S di6s for Red western PTines ar 52
= owt fr American Bacon 42B v 0"t for Long Clear 'iu
yEer9o nec ot .3e sales q GGSn tIsnsy tGsy,
January and February dovsrg 6isd upan6S S5 aGS S MD
Ding clause shipped November ana PeSeS GSoa san Low Mid
aag clause March spe Al delivery TpsD$s Low Low
Mddne clause shipped December and Jalu sail Gsssd
roIs at at Manchester and fondng upward Cotton Fa
IfyEir0GI Dee 22-5SO p Refined Petroleum, 24d p
i867s 3SDipS III PGf New eTs F7s fGs e. Erie Railway
InSpox Dec 22-2 d m-Paris adviees quoto per cent
Rentes at 1O5f 2i9e. Tor the account. ~, - ,
LONDON Dec 223 m Conso.s ~ Ior Dol mCng %m am %m
The OF discount fur three months nh M
lie open market Is per which is L cent below tne
Bank Of England rate Refined Petroleum, 230232l'
LONDON Dec 22-5 m.-SilyeI s quoted to-day at 0e'9d
per -, -. r - o.r.
LONDON Bee 22-5 p m-FGris advices qHote per cent
rcptes at ly6f. Tic. Tor the account - -. ~
ISSpoy Dec o2-b:3O D. United States bonds, Ten
Fortirs, lO9 Spirits Turpentine, S5Ga36 &, cwi: .
PANS Dec. 2] Exchange on London 25i l'c Tor Sh"r'
sight - 49,. ,,,. ,,o,r ev.s 1O1a,
STgERP pee 22-Peruleutn G5L for F1no Pale Amer1ean
New-York tribune., 1876-12-23
Mllinerp.

MARIE TILMANN Of Paris invites special
l2H niention her nne assortment ~ Paris dress
BoSNETs, uniquely elegant. Az 0thaye, near 20thst