American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-31

spread in dry place until freezing
weather is coming. Then they should be
put in bags and hung in cool, dry part
of the cellar. We have already com
menced gathering, and have laid up about
forty bushels, some of the ground yield
ing at the rate of seven hundred bushels
to the acre. A neighbor of mine this
year raised at the rate of eight hundred
bushels to the acre, and many a one of
them measured more than foot in cir
conference. His rows on the bed were
onef foot apart. He might just as well
have added one row to every two without
any injury to their growth.
1t should be borne in mind by those
who would raise this vegetable, that the
two reasons for raising the top onions are,
first, that they almost always escape mag.
gots, and they should be set out early
Then the onion gets a start of all the
weeds and of the maggot fly, and are a
sure crop. / have raised them over TWEEN
ty years, and have never failed-C0r
Ohio Farmer.
Some novel mechanical arrangements
for the transmission of messages from
one floor to another, and from one to an
other part of the same floor at the great
central telegraph office in London are
described in the London Times These
consist in connecting the check tables and
the different floors by endless bands, kept
in motion by the steam engine that is used
to exhaust the pneumatic carrying tubes.
The bands are of tape or thin webbing
running over small wheels at each ex-
trerlity of their course, as well as at
every angle that they turn; and four
bands are used Tor each track of what may
be called the message tramway. Be-
tween tables in the same room the course
of the messages may be traced. The
tapes at first rise vertically to sufficient
height to be clear of the traffic below,
then cross the room horizontally, and de-
scend on arriving at their destination.
A message slipped between the wheels at
one side is instantly carried away and
rapidly delivered at the other. From
floor to floor the bands pass down shafts,
or through covered ways: and at every
terminus there is a lever by which any sci
can be stopped without disturbing the
rest.
MEDICAL GUEsSwORK.-The profess
siOnal treatment of disease is in great
measure experimental If one medicine
fails another is tried, and sometimes this
hit-or-miss practice is pursued until the
resources of the faculty is exhausted.
This, in the truest sense of the word, is
enaptrtctsm. But when the physician has
made a valuable discovery, he is called
by his professional brethren are Empiric,
because he advertises the result of his
labor and research. When DR.. Walker
of California introduced his celebrated
VINEGAR BTrTERs as remedy for all
blood diseases, he struck a tremendous
blow at the empirical system, as applied in
our hospitals, and in private practice.
1t was soon apparent that his
medicine was not a mere palliative or
alternative that only modified the symp-
toms of disorder; but that it reached tie
very source of tie malady in the blood and
the secretions, and literally rooted 1t ont.
The process of renovation and disinfec-
ton went on together, vigor was impaired
to the organs from which the virus of
disease had been expelled. That such is
the effect OF this popular vegetable
remedy, no one who has had opportuni-
ties of observing its operation in cases of
liver complaint, indigestion, affections of
the bowels, govt, rheumatism, and
pulmonary disorders, can possibly doubt.
THE PAIN Kill LER.-special attention is
invited to the testimony, voluntarily given
by Rev. p. NJ. Baker, of Elmwood, in Sc
we're case of Asiatic cholera. We would also
say that we have frequently tested the mer-
its of the Pain Killer, and we advise no per-
son to be without it.-IroUide1ace (R ~ Id
UeTfise1.
State, who was about having his leg ampu-
tated on account of its being bent at right
angles and stiff at the knee, heard of John
sons AnOdyne Liniment. After using it a
short time the leg became straight, and is
now as serviceable as the other.
a GREAT many people have asked us of
late, How do you keep your horse looking
so sleek and glossy?'' We tell them it's the
easiest thing in the world; give Ncrida,,'s
Cdgal1y Condition I6,r,}ers two or three times
a week.
II beats all how closely the Elmwood col
lar initiates linen. Elmwood collars are all
the rage in society. An Elmwood collar
makes the homeliest man look stylish. Ask
your Furnisher for it.
THERE is no excuse for poor Biscuits, Rolls,
Bread, Griddle Cakes, Mullins, Watfles, etc,
when Dooley's Yeast Powder is used. Gro
GERS sell it.
FERRY HALL AND FERRY HoME.-See no.
tce of these admirable schools for young
ladies, elsewhere in this paper.
THE Best and Cheapest Hair Dressing is
Burnett's Coo oaine.
CAN a man give that which he may moi
have? Yes, indeed: Credit.