The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19
THE WEEK PAST

The Desha county, Arkansas, Jail wa
burned a short time since.
A special from Lisbon announces that
the chamber of peers has voted the abolition
of slavery in st. Thomas, and the gulf Of
Guinea
An effort is making to form Georgia
brigade for the Centennial, to be commanded
by Gen. J. E. johnson, and composed of bat
talions from Augusta, Macon, Savannah and
Atlanta.
In Germany $50 out of every 10000
of the population are under school instruc-
ton; in Great Britain. 1,40O; in France,
1,16O; in Belgium, Lilo; in Austria and
Hungary, $40; and in Russia, 150.
The debt of Kentucky amounts to only
SlSI,S94, of which only $lO,Si0 is due for
about seventy years. The governor says that
the state is able to pay it many times over
whenever it is called for. What is more, the
United States government owes it more than
the amount of its debt.
The London Stan:ard saws that several
foreign powers are directing their attention
to the practicability OF establishing telegraph
stations in pid ocean, by which messages can
can be sent from any part of the sea along
the line of the cable to the terminal points
on shore, and vice versa.
The discount on silver of three to five
per cent. causes much Inconvenience in San
Francisco. At a meeting of merchants on
Thursday to discuss the question, commit
tee was appointed to report on Sunday. The
general conviction is that the discount will
increase unless some outlet can be found.
The Indianians recently tried and con-
victed at Indianapolis for completely in
whisky frauds, were placed in the state
prison at Jacksonville Wednesday evening.
The prisoners, previous to their present
trouble, occupied high positions, and were
numbered among the best citizens Of Evans
vile.
The annual statistical report of the
medical department of the British army for
1878 has Just been published-two years after
date. The highest sick rate in that year was
in India, where ALI men per 1000 were
constantly ineffective, and the healthiest
station was Canada, where the ratio was only
25.4s per 1000.
The commissioners of the Arkansas in
sane asylum have commenced work with the
intention OF completing the structure as
soon as possible, and will avoid all extrava-
giant plans, and build within their means.
The site of the building is on the Watkins
tract, two miles west of the city of Little
Rock, and half mile from the Iron Noun
tain railway.
Commissioner James, of Georgia, finds
the sheep of the state have diminished from
five hundred and twelve thousand six hun
dred and eighteen in 1870 to three hundred
and nineteen thousand two hundred and |
twenty-five in 1874, and attributes the de- |
crease to the circumstance that there are |
thirty-one dogs to every one hundred sheep |
in Georgia The dogs last year killed twenty |
eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five
sheep.
information has been received of i'm
portant discoveries made by Col. Shafter.
who has been exploring the Staked Plains.
He is said to have found plenty of water and
excellent land where only the most sterile
desert was supposed to exist. These discove-
ries will be of great interest and value. Col.
Skaters report will be given to the public
soon, containing full details of localities, re-
sources and physical characteristics of
large tract of country hitherto unexplored
and unknown.