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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-10
CIVIL RIGHTS.
What the Leading Celored Men Of Whining
tom Saw.

What the Leading Celored Men Of Whining
ton Say.
The card printed below confirms the opinion SO
frequently expressed in this journal, that the ne
groes did not want the law protecting them in
their civil rights for the purpose of enabling them
to appear at times, places and upon occasions
which would surely annoy those Of the white
race but that 1t was necessary to insure them
comfortable accommodations when travelling or
attending places Of amusement equal to those
enjoyed by others who paid the same rates:
CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
From the Wilmington IL. - Post.1
We, the undersigned colOred citizens Of VIII
mington, take this occasion to express through
the public press our disapprobation and condSm-
nation OF the action Of certain men who, assum-
ing to represent the colored people Of this city,
undertook to provoke difficulty, under cover OF
the civil rights bill at certain public places in
that while we rejoice in the passage OF that bill
by Congress, yet we most emphatically dissent to
its use in any way other than as Congress In
tended 1t, namely, as law for the protection OF
colored persons in the exercise OF legitimate
rights, and not as an engine Of oppression to any
class Of our felIoW-cltizens. We earnestly ooun-
sci moderation on the part Of our friends, and we
hope they will d1scountenance any attempt on the
part Of unreliable persons to create unnecessary
strife.
L. MADISON, Nathan q. Sampson, John w. Moore,
Sol. W. Nash, Edgar Miller, Samuel Reid, Allen
Evans, T. J. Sterling, James H Lane, Louis
Hollingsworth, Francis Payne, L. z. Martin,
Owen Burney, John H. Brown, J. s. W. Eagles,
Jno. H. Whfteman, Alfred Howe, Joshua Mears,
r. Russ, Henry Green, Allen Kelly, Lewis Nix
on, Fred Miller, and many others.
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CIVIL RIGHTS.

Fancy Germany paying million of dollars
to impoverished Frenchmen!
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FOR RENT

EOR RkNT.3l4aa PENNSYLVANIA AVE
nue., S25; 3I5 Maryland avenue, SIS; $50 street,
S54; 81 str ct southwest so; So % and % Myrtle
sree Isl 70 Eleventh street soSh HRa 9 I
Eouiteenth ttr6st, s2 Meridian rid S Hill IS; -
SIS; 1914 Fourth street 90; mouse and store, Eight
G. nth street and New York avenue, SIS; street.
srcs US aad ia
sI2; house and store. TN entieth and street. S5.
$40 seventh street. mas II
rhOR SIXTH STREET NORTHWEST
9OO For rent, two Parlors and one Chamber,
at 4o6 Sixth street northwest, near D street.
TOR RENT LOW-DESIRABLE HOUSES
Il and rooms on Capitol Hill, No. % ID street
southeast, has ten rooms and ten closets, m trble
water key at 80 First street Southeast Also, No.
500 Third street southeast &; good aye.Ioom frame;
two superior furnished rooms. mh3-tf
TOR RENT ELIGIBLE ROOMS, CON.
gress street, Georgetown Hsights-a PAX
6hsmbeTs ON the third floor; all cholce rooms and
suitably furnished. ocs-Tu, Th&sH
900 INDIANA AVENUE.-FOR RENT
OEO Handsomely furnished Rooms, At 10. 90
FOR SALE.
EoR sALE-ON VERY EASY TERMS,
u new three-stOry pTessed-bTlck dwelling, iron
ana stone LflmmluRsf lot DO Dy LlJ9 nicely TEL.
raced, side alley and 30feot resr alley, paved and
severed. house = feet inches front, and con-
taips eight tine rooms, besides bath and water
closets; range, hot and cold water. Property clear
VI DYER & DAVIDSON,
mha-5t 1872 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
EOR SALE-EO. $40 AND 5l2 TWENTY
II sixth street northwest, o., 400: 5H Twenty
sixth street, $500; Nos. II aud IS Myrtle street,
e, 700: No. 2lsS street northwest, So 900: No. so4
Twenty-second street northwest, s., 600; No 1854
Rhode Island avenue, 5000; No. IL between Q and
D streets southwest, %, coo: No. between and
streets southwest u, 80; No. o9 street north
west, g. SO; 1222 Union street south west, o., 600;
BIS Massachusetts avenue, 500: IId sixth street
northwt St. g. eco: 1iC3 and I40l Thirteenth street
northwest $40 OCO; Nos. SIS and 81 Fourth street
northwest, S5C0); New jersey avenue lots, &. O00
i, between Nineteenth and Twentit tn streets, 81
per foot; lot on Eighth street, between p and q,
460: street, between FL st and Second south
west, Is cents per foot: Four-and-a-half street,
between Virginia avenue and L street. 40 cents
per foot: First street, between and southeast,
90 cents per foot; Delaware avenue, between and
d streets northeast, 50 cents per foot.
THOMAS E, WAGG AMAN,
mh5-tf SO Seventh street north west.
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mo LIQUORS.

81 UP =.
ono LIQUORS.)
Rock G Candy Drips Hotel Drips, Silver Drips,
MOLASSES.
ono LIQUORS.
A choice article of genuine New Orleans always
on hand, as also other lower grades. Prices IOW.6
FLOUR.
CNO LIQUO RS.)
welch's Best Family, per sack ..............sa .
SGFnt NILS hs Family aRy lowest rates
saf Ro MEET sTs Fs Enm1y at rates
COOKS Delight, choice family, per sack. %
choicest Extra, per sack .................... rs
Choice Extrs,p 50
SOAPS.
ono UORsl
c Thirteen 5 different 6S varieties for laundry
and ne assoTtment ~ CoIs1 e E oETands,
Soaps, at low rates.
8DNDRrES.
(NO LIQUORs.)
New Turkey Prunes Isc. 81 lbs. 6ora1
seedless KalsiRs, 15c.; 7 lbs. for 81.
New ates, &c; lbs. for 81.
anatsi GGaFyaatf All IRs for a.
Genuine Princess Paper-shelled Almonds.
Pecans, large and fine.
Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, 25c. doz. for s2.TS.
GorGon & DllwoTth's Preserves, all varieties.
Imported and and American Pickles, u full line.
Canned Goods of every description.
Large cans superior Tomatoes, cans for Al
Sauces, Jellies, Sardnes and Capers.
+. {. Smith GUS CRUSHED White Wheat sua
Superlative Graham Flour, direct from their
mills in Brook lyn every week.
Sceth, Irish, Canadian and Western Oatmeal fresh.
In short, We give onrspeclal and undivided atten-
ton TO the Family Trade, and make 1t whole
study to furnish the very best of everything In
the way Of Family Supplies generally.
Our facilities for buying and frtighting are IN
surpassed, and we guarantee to sell as low any
house this side Of New York city, also to give
the article-quality and quantity-as represented.
money Refunded. mo LiquOrs.l
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LOST AND FOUND.

T OST-ON MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEB
II RUARY Is between Second and Third
streets, on street, q handsome SEAL SKIN
card case with initials Of J. u. O., allied with
visiting cards. The dnder VIII be suitably re-
Hotel, fele-tf
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BOARDING.

e%NO\NONI0OOONONONSN O"ON(NSNONNN~N<NrO
COL D NoRTHwEsT.-GooD BOARD AND
OOl ROOMS, at 6Sl street northwest, at
moderate rates. fel7-u
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
Cleaning the Cellar.

The spring brings its annual cleaning
at least to the house, but not always to the
cellar; and yet the cellar is the most i'm
pOrtant room in the house, SO far as clean
ing is concerned. There can be no health
in the household when the cellar is left
with a mass of decaying vegetables, the
remains of the winter store. Many very
careful people remove even the potatoes
from the cellar as soon as danger of freeZ-
ing is over, and, if there be good barn
cellar, or Other-place where they may be
kept cool and dry, and from contact with
the air, it is a good plan. If not, sort
them carefully over and raise them up
from contact with the ground.
All other vegetables should be taken out,
and the cellar as thoroughly cleaned and
whitewashed as any other part of the
house. If this be done, and proper ven
tilatiOn is secured there is no better place
to keep milk for butter making, unless one
have dairy house made specially for the
purpose.
One of the most perniciouS practices we
know of is to have a lot of loose boards
about the cellar, winter and summer, con-
tracing mold and fungous grOwths. When
the cellar is cleaned, everything movable
and the cellar should not contain any fixt-
ures that may not be taken dOwn-should
be carried out of doors. thoroughly washed
and scrubbed, and become well aired and
entirely dry before being taken back. If
everything have coat of zinc or chemical
paint so much the better. There is moth
ing pays better than thorough cleanliness
everywhere, but the rule will especially
apply to the cellar Farm and Galden, "
Chicago Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
I1antles.

IT seems decided that ladies will no
longer appear in the street without some
kind of an outside garment worn over the
corsage. The shapes are as numerous
and varied as those of the bonnets, but
they are all small. Dolmans, paletots,
pelerines and mantelets-their proper
tions are all reduced. There are also the
scarfs; some of white muslin trimmed
with white lace, others of crepe de Chine
and silk gauZe. These scarfs are pleated
SO as to accommodate themselves to the
shoulders, and crossed in front, falling
on each side Of the dress. The paroles
sus, suitable for spring, autumn and the
rainy days of summer, is made of a
wooden material. The color is gray or
betge natural color, so that it can be
worn with all costumes. They are some
times braided; others are ornamented
with gold or silver lace, or edged with a
short-tufted worsted fringe the same
color as the material itself These last
are suitable for travelling or the seaside
Others are made of cashmere of a pale
blue tint. Small vests without sleeves
are also worn of blue cashmere In gen.
eral tie pardessus will be of some fexi-
BILE material like cashmere or other
wooden goods. Sometimes, however,
they are male of silk gauze or crepe de
Chine They seldom cover the whole of
the waist behind, but hide the shoulders,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
Pretty, but Foolish.

| SOME of the nice people of Baltimore,
| ladies especially, moving in the very best
| society, wearing seal-skin in winter and
light silks in summer, are plunged up to
their white necks in the slough of de-
spond all because of the doings of GER
| tain Madame Lang. Some time ago Mad
anne Lang came to Baltimore, ostensibly
from New York, accompanied by swell
looking fellow whom she called her hus-
band and rented a suit of rooms. Then
Madame Lang had displayed Il neat arts
tOcratic little sign, announcing that she
was an astrologist, and could foretell the
future, making specially of bringing
together separated parties and causing
speedy marriages No plebeian, vulgar
ment of Madame Lang. Her rooms were
luxurious, her manner imposing and her
prices stupendous. She spread her nets
for the butterflies of fashion, not for the
common moths. Visitors began to call
upon her, and her manner was so entic-
ing that the visitors told their lady friends
and so more came. People of wealth and
refinement crowded to her interesting re-
ceptions, and she promised to heal any
number of wounded hearts. Finally.
after receiving from her patrons large
sums of money, Madame Lang informed
the anxious customers that, in order
to secure perfect working of the
" charm in each case, it would be nee
essary to have in her possession gold
or jewelry belonging to the person in
whose interest the ''charm'' was
working, and that gold watches were
preferable The watches were of course
to be returned in few days. For the
same purpose, also, she wanted family rel
les, presents exchanged between lovers, and
precious stones So the watches and Jew
elry were delivered over to Madame Lang,
and she retained them until the collection
in her hand was something immense.
Then, as a mist disappears upon a sum-
mer morning; AS the Arabs are tastefully
described by the poet to have silently |
stolen away; as ghosts get out of sight |
when the cock crows, the fortune-teller |
vanished. She vanished, and with this |
wicked Madame Lang all the watches, and |
he gold coin, and the pledges of mutual |
affection, and the heir looms and precious |
stones vanished also! The madame and |
her husband left their rooms ostensibly to |
line, but they haven't come back at all, |
and nobody is foolish enough to suppose |
hem still in Baltimore. The sentimental |
and credulOus among the ladies of the |
City are in a very melan
choly state of mind indeed, and the |
broken engagements Madame Lang was |
of renewing are still in a hapless |
state. Baltimore has achieved reputa- |
ion for the beauty of her women, and |
now she must bear the ridicule of their |
,redulity. 1t will be apparently an excep- |
ional wisdom in them if they do not con-
suit the next fortune-teller who appears in |
order to learn where Madame Lang has
,one.-St. Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
The Culture Of Currants.

THERE are many things to be taken into
consideration before a man should attempt
the culture of currants upon an extended
scale and for profit Success will depend
as much Upon favorable climate and soil
as upon the varieties and after culture
surprising the question of good market
for the fruit is left entirely out of the ac-
count. In the first place, the choice va
rieties do not thrive in a very hot climate
or where severe droughts occur in sum
mer, for if the cool, moist weather extends
sufficiently late to insure the ripening of
the fruit, followed by hot, dry weather,
the leaves will drop, and after period of
rest new ones will appear, and perhaps Il
second crop, in time to be cut off by the
first frosts in autumn; the final results
being a slow, lingering, but certain death
to the plantation. A cool climate and a
season just long enough to insure full ma
turity of the fruits and plants before frosts
is the best, all things considered, for the
currant. A hundred miles north of the
latitude of New York city is better eli
mate for the currant than the same dis
lance south still, by proper selection of
soil and by varying the system of culture,
this fruit is made to succeed over quite a
wide range of country.
Next in importance to n cool, moist eli
mate is a cool, deep, rich soil, and one of
rather compact or clayey nature is pref
cradle to light loan or sand, however
rich the latter may be. Light, warm soils,
not naturally well suited to the currant,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
A Diplomatic Boy.

WHEN Lacrosse street boy is playing
"hop-scotch" on the walk and his mother
comes to the door and asks him to split
some wood he replies that he will be
along in just one minute. At the end of
ten minutes she opens the door and
says:
"Wilyum, l want that woodr'
"Im coming right away" he replies,
and then goes on hopping here and there
on one leg.
Another ten minutes flies away and
she opens the door and says:
"Nilyum, if you don't get that wood
you know what your father will dor'
Just ten seconds" he calls back, and
he enters upon a new game.
The next time she calls she says:
"Young man, it's almost noon, and
can't cook dinner without that woodw
81 know tim coming now," he re-
plies, and he stands on one foot and
holds long discussion with the Johnson
boy as to whether the game of chop
scotch" is as good a game as baseball.
He has just started 10 hop when boy
whispers:
eli, Bill! there's your old dadr'
"Great snakes" whispers Bill, and he
goes over the fence like flash, grabs the
ak, and during the next two minutes he
strikes 210 blows per minutes. He gets
into the house ahead of his father, and
as he drops the wood he says:
Mother, the boys were just asayin'
that had the handsomest and best and
coolest mother on Lacrosse street, and /
want to kiss your'-Detroft Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08
A Street In COnstantlnOpIe.

A CORRESPONDENT of the London Daily
Telegraph, writing from Constantinople
says: "Spite of its dirt and squalor, the
Grand Rue is interesting. 1t Is the scene
of movement almost unexampled in
Europe. Turks and Greeks, Albanians,
Armenians, Circassians, Fubians, Arabs,
Maltese. English, French, Russians,
Germans. all the nationalities of the
world, in fact, help to make up its popu-
passes up and down careless stream of
humanity, now forced for moment to
stop that the carriage of some Grand
Pasha, with its outriders, may find a
passage; now giving way to a body of
Turkish soldiers, who march as if they
were flying in disordeIed retreat from
q field of battle; now driven pell-mell
before q dashing officer on horseback,
who never dreams of drawing rein, al
though women and children are in help
less confusion before him; and now
fighting their way between the uncouth
wheels of timber-laden vehicle, drawn
by buffaloes. whose spreading and
pointed horns threaten to transfix the
poor pedestrian if by chance he escapes
being crushed beneath the burden they
are hauling. Here comes a jolting
hack, dignified with the title of
carriage, filed with Turkish women in
blue and pink silks, their faces covered
by the muslin folds of the yashmnc II
you can get . good look at them en- pas
SAINT you will not be fascinated by their
beauty, for the half-veil, although most
seductive, is now worn SO thin as scarce
ly to conceal the thick noses, gross lips,
and flabby faces of these beauties of the
harem. They are going shopping
probably to purchase French jewelry at
double its value to adorn their persons
for the benefit of the Pasha, their master,
and their fellow-associates of the harem,
for, excepting these, no society do they
enjoy. Here, in contrast to them, are
some Turkish women on foot accompa-
MED by their servant, fat old black
woman, who is also concealing her NJ
bian loneliness beneath a yas1mac of
snowy muslin. These, perhaps, are the
wives of a tradesman, or they would not
be on foot They are wrapped in teri-
gees, or flowing mantles, of brightly dyed
cotton cloth-purple, and green, and
crimson-the effect of which with their
yellow slippers is very picturesque.
They turn their eyes away as they pass
US, for to look upon a man, and least of
all dog of Christian would be a
most unhallOwed proceeding"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08

Secretary Flint, of the Massachusetts,
State Board Of Agriculture, has repub-
hshed in pamphlet form, under the title
of "A Hundred Years Progress of Ameri-
can Agriculture" portion of his twenty
flrst annual report, giving the following
interesting facts and statistics:
During the Revolution and for some
years after farm production was in a
state of extreme depression. The first
organized effort toward improvement
was the formation of the South Carolina
Agricultural Society, in 1884, followed
by the Philadelphia Society, organized
in 1855; the New York Society, in 1891
and the Massachusetts Society, in 1892
These societies were regarded with dis
trust, and met with considerable opposi-
ton. as the farmers were strongly il,i-
bued with the spirit of conservatism and
exceedingly reluctant to embrace new
ideas 1t was not until 1910 that any
agricultural exhibition was held. In
May Of that year the Columbian Agri-
cultural Society had an exhibition at
Georgetown, ID. c., with liberal premi-
ums for the encouragement of sheep
raising, etc. In October of the same
year Elkanah Watson exhibited three
merino sheep in Pittsfeld, Mass-the
exhibition being the occasion of much ridi-
cule and contempt of the farmers of the
shire County Agricultural Society was
formed, and it's exhibitions have been
held regularly at Pittsfeld ever since
being the first county exhibitions ever
instituted in this country.
Improvements in the pillow began
toward the. close of the last
century. A patent for a cast-iron pillow
was granted in 1897, but farmers were
very slow to accept the innovation, many
OF them ciinging to their wooden plows
on the ground that cast-iron poisoned the
ground and spoiled the crops. During
the last half-century great improve
ments have been made in the manufact-
ure Of plows. There are some factories
which make from ten to twelve hundred
different patterns, adapted to every va
riety OF soil and circumstance, and there
Is one large factory at Pittsburgh which.
as early as 1886, was manufacturing as
many as 100 plows a day. The recent
application of steam to the operation of
blowing, and the success of the steam
pillow where it has been tried, point to a
development of the agricultural resources
of the West hardly dreamed of as yet
In the harrow, and in the smaller farm
tools, there have been very great i'm
provements, but the most important OF
modern agricultural inventions are the
grain-harvesters, the reapers, the mowers
the threshers and the horse-rakes. The
number of twO-hOrse reapers in operation
in 1851 performed an amount of work
equGl to about million of men; and
the result Ut the extended use of farm
machinery was that our capacity for
farm production was not materially dis
turbed by the fact that one or two mill
ion able-bodied men were withdrawn
from the Industrial pursuits
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-08

may be made to produce good results by
| the free use of some kind of mulch. In
| fact mulching currant plantations can be
practiced quite profitabv in nearly all To-
cations throughout the Middle States. As
| a cool, moist soil is preferable to one OF
| an opposite character, the cultivator should
| seek this at the start, but guard against
| making the mistake in applying these
terms and select one that is cold and wet.
| Low grounds likely to be overlooked or
| near streams will seldom answer, because
the fruit is liable to be injured by frost in
spring. High, open grounds are better
than low. protected situations for currantS,
especially in moderately warm climates !;
then to make the soil cool and moist
work deeply and add manure if necessary
The further south the deeper should be
the soil. and in the vicinity of Washing
ton, ID. c., nothing less than working it
over to the depth of eighteen inches would
satisfy me far II currant plantation. With
such a depth of good, fertile, pulverized
soil one mi Tht reasonably expect to defy Il
pretty severe drought. and especially if "a
light mulch was applied in spring.
There are many excellent varieties in
cultivation, but there is little difference in
the amount of profit to be derived per
acre between the very largest. like the
cherry cGrrant, or those of medium size,
like the common red Dutch. The first
will command the largest price per pound.
but the latter yield the greatest number
per acre. If man desires the very
largest of the red varieties he cannot do
better than to take the cherry and La
Versailles. For white sorts. white grape
and white Dutch. Black Naples is one
of the best of its class.
In planting it is well to allow room
enough between the plants to admit of
easy cultivation and gathering of the fruit.
Four feet apart each way will answer very
well, although the plants may look rather
scattering for the first year or two, but less
distance is scarcely practicable on good !
rich soils Some cultivators give more
room between the rows, say five feet and
less between the plants, but under either
we get about the same num-
Der of plants per acre. Four feet by four
allows ., 722 per acre, and five by three
?, 904. Good, strong plants, when three |
or four years old should yield on an aver
age four pounds each, and double of this |
would not be an extraordinary product
A. S. Fuller, in Men York Tribune.