The following resolutions were passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi:– Resolved, by this Council, that we build a new Jail. Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the materials of the old Jail. Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished.

— Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature, 1875