The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.


SAN SABA (Texas) boasts two aourisbing
academies and that the county supports four,
teen schools beside. Every neighborhood
has good school.
TEXAS no longer looks to St Louis for
flour. She supplies herself from Kansas,
and in a wear or two will have thousands OF
barrels to export from her own borders. The
same could be said of other southern states,
If the ." all cotton" dream was broken.
GREEsyrLLE (Miss.) Times: The beauti-
ful weather. ought to roll rills and rivers OF
ioy over the bosoms of our farmers. 1t Is the
harbinser of a triumphant escape from inc
clutches of a calamity that seemed 10 ne
reaching for the river planter bottom dollar,
for water can not long overwne,m aI tI hsasn. Of
such days as we are now having;
TIVE San Antonio (Texas) Herald says
rrmher of Mexican carts from Paras, Mex
leo. attracted attention on commerce street
nv their outlandish appearance. They are
generaIly draw by seven mules, four OF
faem abreast in the lead, and are provided
with two wheels, which are very large, how
ever. The cover is made OF cloth, drawn
over canes, and very high, giving the vehicle
tbree-sfory appearance. The wagons are
loaded With beans from the Interior OF Mex
leo.
RICE growers and others interested in the
PREDICTION of that grain recently held
meeting in Savannah, Ga. The object oil the
melting was for the purpose OF taking steps
rc.inst the "Hawaii treaty." now before
congress, under the provisions OF which rice
void be imported into the United States,
fire. of duty, from those islands, and being
rosed with the cheap labor of Chinese
coolies and emigrants, would operate serious
/, against the like production of our coun-
CHARLESTON IS. C.) News: Mr.. EFT. Welt,
Who has the contract for furnishing the gran
"a l. 4 lfrso
ment is pressing the work vigorously on and
has already finished and turned out four OF
the huge base blocks, together with the cap
and the block in which the cornerstone is to
be placed. The face which lis to contain the
nsnnes of the heroes of the battle in bas relief
turned cut to-diy.
Cons for the celebration of the centennial of
! te battle of Fort Moultrie are progressing
wy rapidly. Through the personal exer-
tins of Major w. J. Gayer, the intendant
Bultrieville, and through the kindness of
IL officers in charge of the fort, the parade
g,und at the fort has been neatly levelled
q and fenced in, and exertions are making
secure from the great p. T. BarRum tent
urge enough to cover four or five thousand
ersons. Should these efforts succeed, the
ceremonies at the fort can be conducted
nder cover, and the participants will be
,rotected from the rays of the sun. The ex-
-cutive committee is confident of raising
I money enough to pay for the monument
| which it is proposed to erect at White Point
kGarden in honor of the brave defenders Of
he Palmetto fort, and the cornerstone will
probably be laid with appropriate ceremo-
;lles during the first week in June. A COM
littee, of which George w. Williams is the
hartman, has been appointed to make ar
lngcments for the reception and entertain
lent of the military from New York, Mas
4 n. -k<
ne expected to be present, and the indlca
tins are that the 2Sth of June will witness
the grandest military display that has ever
ben seen in Charleston since the close of the
lse unpleasantness.
SHERMAN (Texas) Patriot: From reports
rem various sections of the wheat growing
part Of Texas, and from conversation with
several of our leading farmers, we learn that
tina recent spring rains have been very inju
rius to the growing wheat crop, and that
it will be much lighter than estimated a
month or six weeks ago. There has been toe
mich rain in North Texas for this crop, and
tn. weather has been too cold, cloudy and
damp for some time past to make the yield
WHIST was anticipated early in the spring
The wheat in many localities is badly affected
With the rust, and it is two weeks later than
It was this time last year, The acreage sowr
with a smaller yield per acre, will swell the
crop larger than it has ever been before; but
il is thought now the average yell will MOI
be more than from fourteen to sixteen bush
els per acre, though there will be large sur
plus crop to sell and ship.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph indulge.
in the following sensible remarks: A nut fol-
railroads to crack. An average acre o.
ground produces, say, half a bale of cotton
Forty bales makes a carload. To produc,
100000 bales requires 100000 acres, and t.
transport it employment is given to 1000
ears. This 500, 900 acres OF land II cultivated
in wheat would produce sixteen million
bushels, and to transport that would Civ,
employment to 10000 cars. Every acre o
land in Texas the railroad companies cal
get changed from cotton to wheat is an in
crease of employment to them of three dol
lars a year, and of net profit at least one dol
lar. This is also a good nut for ship owner
to work on, and for merchants to consider
and for the exchange to discuss, and TO
bank parlors to talk about. There is NOR
in it than appears upon the surface, and j
such talk leads to a largely increased acre
age in wheat the coming fall, it will be wort
more than half million OF immigrants an,
two constitutional conventions.