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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

CHEAP WASH FOR BUILDINGS
Scientific American says:
Take clean. water-light cask and
put into it a half bushel Of lime. Slack
i, fly pouring water over it boiling hot,
and in sufficient quantity to cover it five
inches deep. and stir it briskly till
thoroughly slackened. When the lime
has been sackened. dissolve it in water,
and add two pound of sulphae of zine
and one Of common salt. These will
cause the wash to harden and prevent its
cracking. which gives an unseemly ap-
pearance to the work. A beautiful cream
color may be given 10 the wash by add
ing three pounds of yellow ochre ! or a
COON pearl or lead color. by the add
lion Of lump OF iron black.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

RECIPE FOR ScRATcHEs.-Take CON-
mCn bar lead and melt it as you would
to mould bullets then take -four Of sui
phur and sprinkle on it until the lead is
entirely burnt to powder. 1t must then
be pounded into fine white powder. and
a sufficiency Of hogs lard added to il TO
make a good ointment Of proper consists
ence. Now trim The hair well from the
diseased part. and wash clean with soap
and warm water each day. and then rub
this ointment on well With a eorncob.
This will cure the worst cases OF scratches
in q feE days.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
Horticulture as a Science.

The Rev. Charles Peabody. Presiden
of fhe Missouri State Horticultural
Society, in his annual address, makes
some timely remarks upon scientific hor-
ticulture, which we copy:
Horticulture a Beautiful Science
And yet. gentlemen. while horticulture
is far from being, like other sciences
named, an exact science, it is neverthes
,,sss a beautiful science. The mastering
of all its facts. and the reduction of its
processes to a good degree of accuracy,
are, l believe, within the grasp of the
human intellect. Horticulture is as old
as the human race, but, considered as a
science, it is new. Botany and vegetable
physiology, which may be considered as
collateral to it, are well advanced. But
the relations between the various plants
and the elements Of the soil for instance.
are yet but dimly compfeheuded. A
vast amount has been Written and pub.
lished on tSisbranch Of the subject with
In th~iAst thirty years, bat much of it
has only tended to confuse aud disgust
the enquirer. The fact is, the influence
of the great Liebig has tended to es-
tablish certain routine for the, exami-
nation Of the soil and its capabilities,
from which enquirsrs have not felt at
liberty to deviate. Liebig was pro
found chemist and pharmaceutist. But
when be turned bis attention 10 that
branch Of chemistry which bad to do
with vegetable organisms, he committed
the fatal mistake of applying to it the
same rigid formulas which he had found
70 be infallible with oxides and acids and
salts and metals. He takes q grape
vine for instance and submitting to bis
severe analysis the wood. the bark. the
buds and leaves. the fruit, the seeds, he
gathers all these constituent elements
together, such and such per cent, Of
carbon. and Of nitrogen, and Of oxygen.
sud Of potash and iron, and fof lime,
and says: Take these elements in just
this proportion. restore them to the soil.
end you have the normal manure of the
grape vine. This - the beautiful snaly-
ticalmsthOd Of the philosopher. and it is
infallibls."
The Analytic Method a Failure
But. gentlemen, think you will sgree
with me 10 saying that the experience Of
horticulturists for the last twenty-five
years has failed 10 demonstrate the in.
fAllibiIity Of the analytic method. A
tree or plant has life Of certain kind.
as truly IS an animal, or 10 fact il is an
existence more incouprehensible to us
than that Of the animal. II feels after
and sucks up its nuirimeut from the air
- well 81 from the earth. II opens its
&lAousaud mouths and throws out its mil
,sniseula to catch from the passing
eleuenis Of nurture too minute
lTanesesn. to be eaugh: BY the |
p Of the chemis'. It lays
On The sunbeam 90 il ]
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
GOODMAN, MISS


The undersigned respectfully informs purchasers
that he is prepared to fill orders at short notice and
at manufacturers prices, Transportation added)
for all descriptions Of Steam Engines and Wood
and Iron Working Machinery; Cation and Wool
Carding Machinery; turbine Water Wheels /;
Cotton Seed Hullers and Oil Mills Rice and Sugar
Cane Mills FIGURING and Corn Mills AtwOods,
Carvers, Gullett's and Emery Gins, the latter with
condenser to gin in open field; Brick. Single,
Washing Dltchng aud Milking Machines Patent
Churns and Looms; Gin Castings Fire Engines
and Fire Buckets Stump Extractors; all the pat
ent Cotton Presses, including Brooks Wrought
Iron Revolving Portable Press, of which am sole
agent for Madison county Also, all the popular
plows. including Brinley's Universal.
Having been engaged in the business for three
years, and being in correspondence with maDufact
urers Of all the favorite labnr-saving machines in
vogue, be fatters himself with being able to furnish
sny machinery desired. Apply to. or address with
stamp, @. ID. BUSTAMENTE. Agent,
Sept. s, AMI Goodman, Miss.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
The MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION
Mercantile Reference Register.

THE Merchants Protective Union. organized to
promote and protect trade. by enabling its sub.
scribers tn attain facility and safety Of credits and
the recovery Of claims at all points. have N an.
nonnce that they will in September, 1868, publish
in one large quarto volume
The Merchants Protective Union Mo-
camille Reference Register,
containing among other ,hings. the Names, Nature
Of Business. Amount of Capital, Financial Stand.
ing, and Rating to credit. VI over 400 900 of the
principal merchants, Traders bankers, manufactur.
ers, and public companies. In more than 80 900 Of
the cities, towns villages and settlements through.
out the United States. their territories, and the
British Provinces Of North America; and embracing
the most important Information attainaple and nee
essary to enable the merchant to ascertain at Q
glance the Capital Character and Degree Of Credit
OF such Of his customers are deemed worthy Of
any graduation OF credit, comprising. also, News
paper Directory, containing the title, character,
price, and place OF publication with full particu-
lars relative TO each journal. being o complete
guide to the press Of every county in the o. States.
| The reports snd Information; will lie confined To
those deemed worthy Of some line Of credit and ~
the same will lie ba-ed. 20 far pra sticable upon
the written statemests Of the Partie. themselves.
whose character will prove guarantee Of the cor.
rectness of the information furnished BY them. is
believed that the reports will prove more truthful
and complete. and therefore. superior 70. and Of
much R gse at ,h saa. than az
siness men will be enabled 10 ascertain 81 glance
the capital and grsdation Of credit, a. compared
with financial worth, Of nearly every merchant,
manufacturer, trader and banker within ths aeSre-
named territorial limits. 80
On or about the first Of each ms.m' sao.eriner
viii Also receive The Mentally onssslse eontaining
among other thines recs.s :. saen lmPonAnt
ont he eSuntry. - nay eccnr Subsequent 10 the
robestiou q sscb half yearly volume q The Mer-
ssstiis Ref,I.ss. @gis,rf
~ INV dnIIara faen \ fnrw Il
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

CuRE ToR HEART DIsEAsE.-A well
kuown citizen OF Carondslet. who has
been afflicted for some years with palpi-
tation of The heart. has been cured by
drinking tea made from the common
field weed, Dsndelinn that with q
rough leaf snd a yellow blossom f; and
desires that We should make public the
simple remcdv.-St. Louis Dispatch.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

CHARCOAL FOR SwINE.-ln every hog
pen there should be trough. in which
there should be deposited weekly a
quantity Of charcoal. The hog eagerly
devours this substance, and is greatly
benefited and strengthened by its con-
slant use. 1t prevents many diseases
and contributes largely to the fatty secre-
lions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
Dwarf Apple Trees.
Mary Stewart Strawberry.

Mdl y oIO w Oh 0Ll d w U011y
THERE is no other Strawberry in cultiva-
L ton that has given such universal salts
faction to the Southern cultivator as the
queen of strawberries the Mary Stewart.
Having origin ated in the sandy piny- woods
liso near Mobile, Alabama, where for several
years it has maintained its superiority over
all competitors, both for family use or for
market, it is peculiarly adapted to our thin
soil and hot, dry climate. No other variety
stands our summer suns so unscorchingly
nor bears such immense crops Of large, beau
tiful and delicious fruits with such little labo
aud attention as this superb Southern seed
ling Being fertillater, it requires aproper
fertilizer which will he supplied in all orders
free of charge. Fine, plants nicely trimmed
5 cents per doz 50 per 100 $40 per 1000.
Bellevue Nursery and Fruit Farm
H. A. SWASEY d co.
Oct. "a, '6e-3m. Canton, Miss.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
CANTON STEAM MILL.

WE are now fully prepared t. grind whe It. and
w have the latest improved and best mschin
cry that is in use, for cleaning the same, ani
with good quality Of wheat we guarantee to turn
out good quality of -four as can be brought from
the West.
We also grind corn, and dress lumber in supe
rior manner, and at as reasonable rates as can be-
done elsewhere.
s[Grinding days-Mondays Wednesdays, Fri.
days and Saturdays.
Highest naTkst prize paid for What.
We shall commence ginning cotton, on the 18th,
for 18TH a l4th or u 10th. according to the num-
Der of bales.
By strict attention 10 onr husiness which Is IN.
der our personal supervision, We hope to receive a
liberal share Of patronage.
Aug 29ly1 JONES 4 STUART.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

A Western editor relates a story
of man who bought lot of hogs in
Illinois and drove them slowly to
Chicago. He was compelled to sell
at a loss of 800. Returning home
he was asked by his neighbOrs what
were the profits Of the operation.
(" Well, /" said be, /" reckon l 6idn't
make much money out of tie trip,
but had the company of be hogs
down"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30


One extra copy sent tn any one who send. Us
club of five or more Specimen copies sent free.
The WRELLY AVALANCHE il not inferior In size.
appearance or variety Of news and editorial matter
~ any Weekly in the Sosth. The exciting events
u the Presidential esnvasa, she villany of Radical
tyrants, and the acts Of scalawags will lie car efully
recorded. Each number will contain q complete
history Of the preceding week. We have special
correspondents In all directions and our facilities
for making first class newspaper unsurpassed.
Having reduced the rate OF subscripi on from
Four to Two Dollars. it will enable every one TO
read the Weekly Avalanche.
We nsk the people Of the South to give such
encouragement as their circumstance will permit,
and we will continue TO put forth our hest efforts
to stay the foods Of political corruption to hold
up To seorn and contempt carpet bagRers scala.
wag adventnreTs and the usurpations and vllAiny
Of RadcAlism.
NC. GALLAwAY L CO.,
Avalanche Building.
Memphis, Tennessee.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

The owyhe Avalanche says: Talk
about witty superserip,ions on letters, but
The following. received here last week
by person. from q friend in Iowa, is a
little ahead Of anything 10 that lina that
has ever come under our observation:
Augustus Jones, webfoOi scrub.
To whom thi- letter wants 70 go.
Is ehOppiBg cJrdWOOd for bis grub,
In silver City. Idaho.
The best Of The joke is. Wat the ad-
dress is true in every particular, except,
perhaps, the scrub portion Of il.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

THE BOOKS of the company are now
l. open at the company's office to those who
are DESTROYS of taking stock ia the same.
G.. A. HOGSETT, sec'y1
April II.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

RIA writer in the Leisure Hea
calculates that copy Of tho
with its full suppleW
about 10000 lines
and is equal to a.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

TFrOm statistics pu ished in
the New York papers. it a pears that
there are nearly $4,000 opi4 IN eaters
in that metropolis. many whom
are ladies residing in ..tIpPerten-
dom"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
The Memphis Avalanche.

MTE are the political and personal foe OF tho
w party or the man who advocates tho doc.
trine Of negro supremacy or negro equality. The
carpet-bag udventurers who by controlling the nc.
gro vote, hope To get into office. and BY usnrpaton,
by partial leg islation and by force intend TO per.
petunt. their power. We will. az herctofore, de-
nonce enemies to the white race, to be despisea
and excluded from all political and social inter.
course. ten. Grant is the candidate Of the Radical
party. pledged to the support of negro equality in
the North and negro supremacy In the South. and
pledged to the doctrine Of high protective tariffs,
and redemption OF the bonds Of the United States
rall
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
N OF 10 E!
CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY


and hatter themselves that they can do ALL
KINDS of WORK, either WOODEN or IRON, at
prices that must serure liberal patronage from
the public. Grind corn for the public. Wednes
day and Saturday. &. A. HOGSETT, Sec h
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BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS
TERMS, Payable IN Advance.

For the DAILY. 80 per snnum.
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30

ADDRESS SNOW, COYLE & CO.,
Frs of INTELLIiENCER."
WASHlSGTUN, y. G.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-30
Miss. Machinery Agency,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. ETC,

April 8
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
My Way Of Planting Potatoes.

A WRITER in the TKostorn RurM says
"Three years ago tried new plan of
planting potatoes, by which l saved the
time and work of marking the ground and
covering the potatoes l first laid out the
lands with some care. then started the
breaking pillow, with two men, one start
ing at the end and the other at the middle
of the ftlrrow, to drop the potatoes, plsc-
ing them, not in the bottom of the fur
row, but in the side, where they can be
put in at any depth and distance desired
The next furrow turned by the pillow COW
ers them. The potatoes are dropped in
every third furrow, so that each dropper
has only to drop one half row, while the
pillow turns three. When each has finish
ed, thus finishing one row, they step across
to the other side of the land and repeat
the process. Two men will readily drop
the potatoes as fast as the land is plowed,
and by care in laying out the land and
starting it, the rows are straighter, and the
potatoes more evenly covered than in other
ways of planting.
"Last spring l tried the same plan on
sod ground, except that here laid flat
furrow with the sod plow, dropping the
potatoes on the furrow thus turned and
then running another plow in the same
furrow, covering the potatoes with the
furrow turned by this.
'In both cases the plan worked very well
indeed, and think it the most labor-sav-
ing plan of which / know"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
Senate Committees,

The following are the standing commit
tees Ofthe Senate, as announced on the 9Th:
On Foreign Relatons-Sumner, chairman; Fes-
sender, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson and
On Commerce Chandler, chairman; Corbett,
Kellogg, Spencer, Conkling, Buckingham and
On Finance-Sherman, chairman; Williams,
Cattel, Morrill,, Warner, Fenton and Bayard.
On NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., chairman; Yates,
Robertson, Boreman and McDon
On Agriculture Cameron. chairman; Robert
son, Upton, Gilbert and McCreery.
On Appropriations - Fessenden, chairman {;
Grimes, Wilson, Cole, Sprague, Sawyer and
On Military Afairs-Wison, chairman; Howe,
Cameron, Morton, Thayer, Abbott and Schurz.
On Naval Affairs Grimes chairman: ANTHONY
Cragin, Nye, Drake, Scott and Stockton.
On Judiciary-Trumbull, chairman; Stewart,
Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Carpenter and Thur
On Postoffices and Post-Roads-Ramsey, chair
man; Pomeroy, onald, Harlan, Cole, Gilbert,
and Thurman.
On Public Lands-Pomeroy, chairman; Will
liams, Upton, Osborne, Warner, Sprague and
Casserly.
On Private Land Claims-Williams, chairman !;
Ferry, Sawyer, Kellogg and Bayard.
On Indian Affairs-Harlan, chairman; Ross,
Corbett, Thayer, Buckingham, Poole and Davis.
On Pensions-Edmunds, chairman; Upton,
Spencer, Pratt, Brownlow, Schurz and Nc
On Revolutionary Clams-Yates, chairman;
Poole, Fowler, Brownlow and Salisbury.
Sprague, Robertson, Pratt and Davis
On District of COlumbia-Hamlin, chairman ;
Patterson, Sumner, Rice, Harris, Pratt and Wick
ers.
On Patents-Willey, chairman; Ferry, Carpen-
ter, Osborne and Norton.
On Public Buildings and Grounds-M DRILL,
chairman Trumbul, Ferry, Cole and Stockton.
On Territories-Nye, chairman, Cragin, Nc
Donald, Schurz, Howard, Boreman and Nc
Creepy.
On Pacific Railroad-H oward, chairman; Sher-
man, Ramsey, Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, Drake,
Rice, Abbott, Fenton and Scott.
On Mines and Mining Stewart, chairman !;
Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Ross, Salisbury and
Fowler.
On Revision of Laws of the United States
Conkling, chairman; Sumner, Carpenter, Poole
and Bayard.
To Audit and Control Contingent Expenses
OF Senate-Cragin, chairman; Edmunds and
Davis.
On Printing Anthony, chairman; Harris and
Casserly.
On Lfbrary-Cattell, chairman; Howe and Fes-
sender.
On Enrolled Bills-Thayer, chairman; Patter-
son and Abbott.
On Engrossed Bills-Ross, chairman; Bucking-
ham and Norton.
On Education-Drake, chairman; Morrill,,
Pomerey, Sawyer and Corbett.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
Great Mixers for Butter Diaries.

1T is fast coming to be understood that
for the manufacture Of butter simply,
great mixers are not always the best
COWS. To say nothing of the superior
butter making qualities of Jersey cattle,
the difference in butter making capacity
between different COWS of any breed de-
ponds very slightly on the quantity of
milk that they give and almost entirely on
its quality. A cow giving ten quarts of
milk per day will often make more butter
than another of the same breed giving
sixteen quarts; and where this is the
case, if the business is exclusively, or
chiefly the manufacture of butter, the
smaller mixer is much the more profta-
BILE, for the reason that the skinned milk
is usually Of little value, except for the
manufacture of pork, and this will not
compensate for the greater amount of
food that the large mixer consumes.
For butter diaries, then, 1t should be our
aim, setting aside all other considerations,
to select such animals as ample experience
has shown will make the largest quantity
of butter from a given amount OF food.
Whether the food be fed to one animal or
to two is matter of little consequence.
What we want is to get the most money
as the result of its consumption; and this
is often attained by feeding it to large
number of smaller mixers In the case Of
thoroughbred animals, the advantage of
the larger number of cows is still greater,
for the reason that they give US more val
ushle eslYes.~-Apseriear -4grselAsG:Sstr
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
A MaIarfOus Month.

March, that gives us new President, is also the
inaugural month of many harrassing disorders.
Entangled in its fogs are the seeds Of coughs,
colds, and of that alienation of frig1dity and
fire, more widely known than admired, called
fever and ague. The only way to avoid these
" little unpleasantnesses," is to render the sys-
tenn strong enough to fight off the atmospheric
poison that produces them, and the best way to
endow it with this repellent power is to tone it
with HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS.
If wayfarer were credibly informed that ruff
fan was waiting at the next corner, he would
doubtless turn in his tracks and take safer route
to his destination. With just about the same
amount of trouble, the attacks OF diseases preva-
lent at this season may be evaded. Nay, the trou-
bic will be less, for drug stores lie in every one
route and every respectable druggist in the Union
keeps on hand HOSTETTER'S BITTERS. The
article is staple of trade and it would be as easy
to find grocery without sugar, as the store OF an
apothecary without this popular tonic remedy.
In view of the experience OF the nation with re-
gard to the article, during the space of twenty
years it seems almost unnecessary to recapitu-
late its merits to Americans But as our popula-
ton is increasing at the rate of couple of mil
lions year, in the natural way and by immigra-
ton 1t may be as we'll to hint to the rising gene
ration and new arrivals, (the old settlers know all
about 1t y that HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BIT
TIERS is the most wholesome and potent vegeta-
BILE tonic ever manufactured; that it is a specific
for debility. dyspepsia, biliousness, and miasma-
tic fevers that it prevents, well as cures these
complaints and their complications; that it is not
. bad to take and is absolutely harmless.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
CrOSS-Cat Saw.

A WRITER in the Southern Cuztiv1tor
alludes to the disadvantages under which
he has labored for ten years with this vex-
atous instrument, and says:
"My wish is for sll to know the great
advantage of a plan which pursue. Take
new saw that has never been set, place
it between two boards, cut to fit the
saw, clamp it tight on a bench or in wise;
take an iron wedge, file one corner to suit
the set of the tooth when finished, then
take small hammer, hold the wedge with
the left hand, strike the tooth lightly with
the hammer until at the right place then
turn the wedge on the opposite side, and
on the next tooth, and set it in the same
way now then you reach the third and
most important tooth in the saw-leave
it perfectly straight; pass on to the fourth
tooth, set it as you did the first, turn the
wedge, set fifth the other way, leave the
sixth tooth straight, and so on until you
finish.
"Now take your file, dress the two teeth
as you do the common saw the third file
perfectly straight and square-leaving it
about one-twentieth part of an inch shorter
than the others. Continue it in that way
until you finish, and you will find it will
cut twice as fast as the old way practiced
by most farmers"