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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

IRISH Moss JELLY.-Insert ! ounce
of Irish moss into pint and a half of
fresh milk; boil down to a pint; then
strain and add sufficient sugar and juice
of lemon to give it an agreeable
flavor.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.-1 cupful
sweet milk, 2 of sugar, l cupful mo-
lasses, cupful Bakers chocolate,
grated; flavor with vanilla to suit the
taste; boil for one and quarter hours !;
cool on buttered tins.
SPICE-CAKE.-t cup of sugar, cup
butter, cup molasses, cup milk, l
teaspoon soda, teaspoonful of CHINA
mon, of cloves, l of allspice, 2 eggs, 1
cup of raisins, enough flour to make it
as stiff as soft gingerbread.
CURE FOR HOARsENEss. Spilkenard
root, sliced and bruised, and then steep
ed in tea pot containing equal parts OF
water and spirits, and the vapOr inhaled,
when sufficiently cooled, will relieve the
soreness and hoarseness of the throat
or lungs, when arising from a cough or
cold.
PLAIN ICING.-Break the whites of 4
eggs into fiat dish with 1 handful of
white powdered sugar; whip it well and
evenly for minutes or so; then add
more sugar, until pound is used up /;
keep whipping until the icing is fine and
firm; if lemon-juice is used to flavor,
add extra sugar for the juice; allow at
least ! pound of sugar for every egg
pour it by spoonfuls on the center of
cake, and if it will not spread itself
smoothly over the cake, use a broad
bladed table-knife dipped in cold water.
If it has sufficient sugar, it should be
dry in two hours; if in a hurry, set the
cake in a moderate oven for 2 or min
utes, leaving the door open.
| CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.-1 cup
of suet, chopped fine, 1 cup of Orleans
molasses, cup of stoned and chopped
raisins, l cup of currants, l teaspoonful
of cinnamon, teaspoonful of vinegar,
a little pinch of salt, cup of milk, 3!
cupfuls of flour, or enough to make {
batter thick as cake, teaspoonful O
| SOuSt9 OISoO1fOu sbHO PONtAON bAllOuSh
strainer. Steam it for 5 or hours
Put it into a buttered cake-pan (on'
having hole through the center), cove
it with big tin lid, and place it in you
steamer. A little brandy poured owe
it, and set on fire just as it goes to thu
table, gives it the fine appearance of TIN
true old feudal style. Wine Sauce to
Patddtng.-2 cupfuls of brown sugar,
cupful of butter, cupful of sherry wine
2 eggs. Beat all together very light be
fore you add the wine. Let it steam
not boil (put it into tin bucket, ant
put that into kettle of boiling water)
stirring all the time until it scalds AM
thickens. Into your sauce-bowl put
teaspoonful of vanilla, and pour tn
sauce in.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
Santa CIaus's Wife.

jolly old lady is Santa CIaus's spouse,
As every good soul that has seen her allows.
She has silvery hair, but her eye of bright
blue
Is still clear and undimmed spite the years
she's passed through.
Her face is so fresh, and so plump is her form,
Her voice is SO sweet, and her heart is so
warm,
That it's hard to believe when one sometimes
is told
Mrs. S. viii be shortly two thousand years old.
She is homelike and quiet and spends all her
time
From the sunset of Christmas till Christmas
Ewes chime,
In cutting and stitching from morning to
On presents to make the next Christmas tide
bright
She knits and embroiders and crochets to
send ms
Each gift, sometimes simple and sometimes
stupendous;
But they all bear the stamp of her dear good
old heart,
Which makes them more precious than great
works of art. .
noble old lady is dear Mrs. S.,
And that have loved her freely confess;
For who could resist her kind sweetness of
soul,
Or the mirth in her eyes when they laughing
ly roll,
Or her soft words of comfort when you're
melancholy,
Or her flashes of wit when you feel gay and
jolly?
Santa Claus, you are a lucky old boy,
For you have in your good wife a fountain of
joyl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
How Cigars Are Made.

Men grow hobbyish about cigars as
they do about watches, and pictures
and engravings, and other things about
which the imagination associates more
excellences and PROJECTIONS than they
really possess, and find in them fiavors
and meanings and sentiments which or
binary people are not able to discover.
But there is another side to the picture.
If they understood how cigars are made
in New York and other American cities !;
if they knew that nine-tenths of their
Havanas are given color and flavor by
the art of the chemist, and that the fill
ings are often nothing but the refuse of
Cuban tobacco; if they could look into
the tenement houses where the manu-
facture is carried on, amid squalor and
disease, into rooms where families are
crowded, and cooking, washing, iron
ing, and the cleaning of children are car
ried on-the tobacco shaken out and
hung up to dry side by side with the
linen from the wash, and saturated, so
to speak, with the vapor and foul air OF
unventilated rooms-all this would be
well calculated to disturb his philosophy
and give to his meditations a CHASTITY
suggestion of smallpox, measles, diph-
liberia, fever, and other infectious
end contagious diseases. Yet the
picture, unpleasant and disagreeable
as it is, does not exaggerate the facts
Since the strike among the cigar-makers
in New York there have been strange
disclosures made by the makers through
the public prints of the way the business
is managed. 1t is more profitable to
the manufacturers to have the work
done by their employees living in over
crowded tenement-houses than to rent
or build factories, and have to pay the
many incidental expenses of keeping up
large establishments. The chemist, too
is largely instrumental in producing CT
gars of the best quality. At trifing cost
he can color the tobacco any shade re-
quired by the market, from the most
delicate seal skin brown to the darker
shades of perrique, and for aroma he
can deceive the elect with odors like
those of the best Havana. He defies the
skill of the expert, and the keen analysis
of the connoisseur. This "Havana
favor,'' we are told, is secured by put
ting into the filing one-eighth part of
refuse Cuba, the other seven-eighths be-
ing our native product, and leaving the
rest of the work to the chemist.-Cis
cl1l7logtE Commercial.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
THE MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS, December II. 1877.
BEEvEs-Cho1ce to Fancy, $40 5;o0; 5000 eo
to Prime. A.4O0465; Native cows $z'ooH W
Texan Steers, S2.25G3.75.
HOUSEKEEPING S3.S504.15.
SHEEP-NatiVe, $l.75G4.35. 49,. q,
FLoUR-Choice, $6.lO9695; Xxx, $500 20 %
WHEAT-Red Winter. No. 2. Sl.2o51 "a Lz7' NO
. CoR RI. ! Mixed, 45He5He.
OATs-No. 2, 26s<seZ
RYE-No. 2, 55H assoc.
TIMOTHY SEED-Pr1me, s. biol Is ,,,,,,,,..
ToBACCo-Dark Lugs, Sl9OG2.5O; Medium
Dark Leaf, $5.C006.0O.
HAY-Choice Timothy $40 OO6 II 70.
BUTTER-Creamery, 30G35c.
EGGs-Fresh, 19620c.
PoRK-standard Mess, 81; ooSl2 49,. I'm
WOOL-Tub- washed, Choice 4OU4Ici Oh
washed Combing, 2GD3l1Ec.
CoTToN-Afiddling, lOI4c.
NEW YORK.
BEEvEs-Nattve Steers, 3s.osS Il'ooi 1eA0n
and Cherokee, None.
SHEEP-$A.00@625.
HoGs-Live, $4.5064.6O.
FLoUR-Good to Choice, S5;5os6.0o:
WHEAT-No. ,, Chicago xl.2911 Ul.5o'
CoRN-Western Mixed, 551< a Soc.
OATs-WesteIn Mixed, 35&4lc.
PoRK-Mess, $l2.90G 10 90.
DEMONSTRATING, IKE.
CHICAGO.
BEEvEs-Common to Choice, 81. so Go.
HoGs-Common to Choice. S35 4,20.
F4oGR-oRoiee Winter " ss.75S7s5; Choice
Spring So 5006.OO.
WHEiT@spring. No. sl.O5sLO5%; Spring
NO. 3, Sl.UZS4 81 -u3-
CoRN-No. 2, 42K G43c.
OATs-No. 2, 24u241sc.
RYE-No. 2, 55z< d56c.
PoRK-New Mess. $ll.753ll.eO.
KANSAS CITY.
BEEYEs-Native steers, $2.5044.25i Native
Cows, 81. 25d2 81.
HOGs-$3.6563. $40.
FLoUR-XX to Patent, per sack, $2.OO04 co.
CORN MEAL-Per cNgt., 70d75c.
WHEAT-No. Winter, .0lk0l.OSX.
CoRN-No. Mixed, 32x 033Ac.
MEMPHIS.
FLoUR1Choice, 81. 2507.60.
CORN-Mixed, 65dG66c.
OATs-White, 36640c.
OoTToN-Middling. l0Zc.
NEW ORLEANS.
FLoUR-Chofce Family. 6.0007.00
CORS-Wh ite, 55G66c-
OArs-St. Louis, 1880.
HAY-Choice, $500 q $500.
PoRK-New Mess, Sl2 30 1900
BAOON-6%a 90.
CoTToN-Niddling, lOXc.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

LEoNORA," he said, and his low,
pleading tones were brimmed with boil
ing passion, ''can you love meP Will
you be mine? May hope? Shall 1 tear
the loved image from my bosom? Must
surrender thee? Might look for
ward to joyous day when and
he paused, satisfied with the mess of
verbs he had spilled all over the carpet.
The young girl gazed at him sadly and
tenderly; then flushed to her swimming
eyes, and, opening her peach-bloom
mouth, she said, hesitatingly, Alfred,
what sized pocket-book do you wear?'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
A Texas School Ma'am's Feat.

Until q few days ago we have had II
accumulated rainfall has filled our thor
oughfares and lowly places to overflow
ing. How to get over the
cutters has been problem of
our daily life; and how differently do
people manage in such damp strait!
One man will clear as wide space as
six feet with an easy bound; another
will hesitate upon the brink, nervously
put out step, miss the other shore, and
moisten both shoes in the dirty surface
water. But the ladies-how are they,
dear creatures, to essay the passage of
the horrible crossings with safety alike
to skirts and modesty? All, that
is question 'twere hard to
answer. III tell you, though, how
one young lady managed, in a very dis
agreeable event of a whole street under
water, to my personal knowledge, by
eyesight. She was a pretty school
ma'am in an East End institution of
learning, and at the close of her days
labors was returning home, in company
with a number of her merry school
children. 1t had rained very hard that
day, and Broadway, at the intersection
of Tenth Street, was sea to the depth
of the knee for the pupils, who plunged
in to their evident enjoyment of the sit
uation. The young, but sensible, teach
er thought moment, then DOTTED shoes
and stockings, and with her skirts held
up, bravely waded across, to the great adj
miration of her scholars, in whose glee-
some shout a grave young man passing
at the time felt sorely inclined to join
| Galveston Letter.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Miss GRACE VERNON RUSSELL is a
young English lady, only 16 years old
indeed, whose name ought to be known
and honored wherever the word courage
is understood. Hearing of boat being
capsized, Miss Russell rode on horse
back down steep cliff at full speed to
the scene of the disaster. She rode her
horse into the sea, and succeeded in
reaching the boat, accompanied by her
servant, and, with as many women and
children clinging to her and her horse
as possible, she made for the shore and
placed them in safety. The Royal HUI
name Society has awarded the brave girl
a silver medallion, with bronze medal
lion to her servant, who saved man.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
A Christmas Suggestion.

Ye merry hearts that meet to laugh and dance
the hours away,
Ye gentle hearts that better love in sheltered
homes to pray,
Think the homes whose Christmas guests
are only want and care,
Think on the hearts too sad for mirth, too sad
pcrchance for prayer.
OH sad and short the wintry days; oh. sad
and long the night,
When In the heart there is no hope, and in
the house no light;
No fire, no foodi Yet goodIy gifts, yet words
of Christian cheer
Can make the grave seem further of-can
make the heavens more near.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

grew out of a disputed title to an old
well between their premises. The feud
became bitter one, and for years mem
bers of the two families had not spoken
to those of the other
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
For sale by ali Druggists. St. L

ONE of the new styles of Organs introduced
by the Mason u Hamlin Organ Co., this sea-
son NO 245), is in a peculiarly rich and at
tractive case, of new style. 1t is of solid black
walnut, having sunl1en panels and raised sur
faces of jet black, not to be distinguished from
borders and graceful designs in gold bronze; it
is also studded with black and gold-bronze or
naments. 1t has nine stops, including the
voIX CELESTE, sERAPHoNE, vIoLA-DoLCE, etc.
The price is extraordinarily low for SO superb
an instr1mant
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
Rheumnt1srn QufckIY Cnred.

''Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great In
te1nal 4HedieiHe, will positively cure any case of
rheumatism the face of the earth. Price 81 Il
bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Send for circular
TO Helphenstine & Bentley, Washington, d. O.
THE elegant Royal Casket sent out by the
Franklin Jewelry Company, of 703 Bennett
Street, Philadelphia, is fully up TO the repro
sentation in their advertisements, and as this
Company is perfectly responsible, no one need
hesitate to send them money.-HerGld.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsLow's SoorH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething IN chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from PAM cures wind
collie regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child. gives rest to the mother
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
Mothers who have Delicate Children
who are Subject to Croup. Read This.

ALIENS LUNG BALsAM should always be
kept in your house, and be given Immediately
when the first symptoms appear, which will
remove the mucous collected in the throat and
save the life of YOUR dear child.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

SToDDARD's POULTRY WORLD" Hartford,
Conn, should be had by all fowl breeders. Costs
but 81. 25yearly, or only 81. co. INCLUDING II su-
perior CHRoMos to subscribers. 1t is practical,
original, and always fresh. Zoe. single number.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
A New Sense.

A grain dealer of Chicago found, a
few years ago, that his mind was being
transformed into sense of wheat. AS
the eye is sense of sight, and the ear of
sound, and the tongue of taste, SO he
had displaced all these by new sense
a sense of wheat. He rose early to learn
the latest quotations East, he sat up late
to figure at the margin of the last or
next million bushels, and of wheat he
dreamed, amid it he ate and attempted
to think or talk. All else began to dis
appear from the world; literature, re-
ligion, friendship, amusement, were all
flying out of the window while wheat
was coming in at the door. He was one
of those minds which by nature concen-
trate upon one point. There are minds
which, like sun-glass, pour all rays
upon one spot. This man was rescued
from insanity, and perhaps from suicide,
by his having caught one glimpse of the
coming ruin. With a powerful will he
limited his thoughts of trade to about
four hours day, and, outside of those
hours, came to him home and play and
books and friends, and his world widen
ed out into something beautiful.-Prof.
SWG1lg.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Clifford's Unfdiling, in
fdllibLe cure for all diseases originating in
hillary arrangements, caused by the malaria
of miasmatic countries. No preparation
known possesses an graduating power over
CIifford's Febrifuge. It is the ne plus ultra
of Aque remedies. Sure and safe in its ac-
ton, its great power in neutralizing malari-
Gus influences is only equaled by its harm
less action on the body. No disagreeable
after effects from this remedy.
j. G.. RICHARDSON, PrOp'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
90 pYrpep1Ics and InvnItds.

Biscuits, rolls, bread, cake or pastry, made
with DoOLEY's YEAST POWDER, can be eaten
with impunity aud relished by the most sensi-
tive dyspcptics Us healthy aud nutritious.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

In the matter of production the Cali
fornian is peculiar. He will plant from
a hundred to five hundred acres in grain,
and purchase his table vegetables from
neighbor. He will pasture herd OF
cattle, and rely upon the peddler for the
milk that supplies his family. He will
go abroad for goods that he could as
well manufacture at home. And thus
it goes, through numerous of the
branches of trade. One of the anoma-
lies in this respect is noticed by the San
Diego Union. The climate and soil of
San Diego are admirably adapted to the
cultivation of the lemon, and many of the
gardens of the city contain an abundance
of the fruit, but it is not put upon the
market, in which lemons are worth 81
per dozen, and which is supplied by the
imported article. This leads the Ci5ion
to inquire: g Why should California i'm
port lemons 1880 miles, and pay a
duty on the same, when enough can be
raised in California to supply the whole
United States?''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

THE lady who gets a new bonnet is
off with the old love and on with the
new.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

FOR TEN TIMES ITS COST.
The great benefit received from tho Of VEG
ETINE induces give testimony in its favor.
believe to only of great value for restoring the
health but preventive of diseases peculiar to the spring
and summer seasons.
would not be without it for ten times its cost
EDWIN TILDEN,
Attorney and General Agent for Massachusetts, OF the
Craftsmen's Life Assurance Company, No. AZ sears
Building, Boston, Mass.
Yeeetine II sold by All DrusgIsts.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Behold! Christmas morning, another
proclamation
Santa Claus, otherwise kn0arn KriSS Kringle
and st. Nicholas, to his thrice belored children
greeting:
Thanks for the many useful and beautiful
things you have brought me, and now, I beg
you, grant me one more wish, and then fare
well for another year. Go all you happy lit
tie ones who have never known want and sor-
row, into the poor streets and alleys, and,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

IN LARGE MIXED CARDS, with name. 13c.
NIL 20 in case &c. 25 STYLES Acquaintance Cards l0c
w AGENTS outfit Toe. DOWD CO, Bristol, Conn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-14

The Toronto GiOte, the editor Of which,
Hon. George Brown, was the commissioner
who represented Canada in the ahortivc
treaty negotiations three or four years ago,
takes Mr.. Gladstone to task for supporting
las he did in letter recently publiShed)
for an instant that rnder any circumstances
Canada would be allowed 20 accord more
favorable terms to American than to English
trade For any one claiming to be an
English statesman says the GiOte, " tn
say that the question whether it would be
permissible for an English colony to com.
binc with foreign country in order to fight
the Empire Of which it forms u part, with
hostile, or it may be prohibitory, customs
dues. is one which depends for it, answer
simply on the character of the Colonial Min
istcr for the time being, or the leauing4
of the cabinet IN power, is 80 monstrouS
that, unless the letter containing it had
been authenticated beyond doubt, it would
be impossible to believe that Mr. Glad
stone, or any one nearly approaching
him in position, could have thought of
ANYTHING 81 outrageous" After referring
to the Indignation created in England by
the conduct Of Canada and Australia in
raising their revenue by the taxation of
British goods, which has been used aS an
argument against colonies, the Gioie pro
ccoiS To say that mot in one ease has it ever
been dreamed Of to take the course indicated
by Mr.. Thompson letter the letter which
called out Mr.. Gladstonc's rcpiyl. which
virtually contemplate Britain being degraded
10y her own colonies from her Position among
the most highly favored nations to one
considerably less 50. There Is not II country
oiany scll-rcspect that would not spurn such
a proposition from Il foreign government. with
Indignation and contempt The Gh,5>
iurtncr maintuns at length that the idea ol
"A Reciprocity Treaty, whirh shall admit
American goods to Canada while the tariff Is
retained on British imports, is utterly im
practicable. The fact that the Glob' ~ the
Western organ of the Dominion government.
gives Importance to it, position.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-14
Personal. AND POLITICAL.

Senator Sharon sends word to Washing
ton that he expects to be in Washington
about the lst of January.
The Senators who have in charge the i'm
pnrtant duty of reconstructiDg the Senate
committees are Messrs. Morrill,, Window,
Allison, Oglesby, Dorsey, Howe and Booth.
ConOyer says that he likes President
Hayes, who has treated him better than Gen.
Grant did and that he voted for the ad-
mission of Butler because he is ardently in
favor of the Presidents policy.
At the time of General Hamburg" But
ler's pretended election to the Senate, many
understood it to be a mere compliment and
few believed it to be valid election. The
New York World took the former view of it
at that time, and said that claim to a scat
in the Senate based upon that performance
would not deserve much respect.
The report of the South Carolina investi-
eating committee on the election of Patter-
son to the United States Senate contains the
sworn statements Of sixty members of the
legislature of 1872, that they were offered
money for their votes, OF heard of money
being offered to others, and the voluntary
confession of a large number of members
who took the money. The prices ranged
from an overcoat to Slj, 600 A good many
of the members failed to get their money.
When Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown, in
1870, united with the Democrats to make
Graft Brown governor of Missouri, among
those who denounced the treachery was Mr..
Filley, postmaster of St. Louis, who is and
has heen an earnest, active, and influential
Republican Mr.. Schurz resolved that Mr..
Filley should not be reappointed postmaster.
Civil service reform requires that men so
competent and so satisfactory should not be
removed from office but Mr. Schurz had a
friend to whom he intended To give the
St Louis postotlcc There was grand
struggle, for the people of St. Louis gener-
allv desired the re-app1intment OF Mr.. fllley
At length, President HAYES took the matter
in hand, and Mr.. FIlley was rc-appointed.
The man who would raise his hand against
Gail Hamilton, except in the way OF kind
ness, would-h'm he would te very sorry
for it t-ROchesfer Democrat
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-14
FLAs1rr.-BY HENRY NJ. sErLY


Plaster has great value as fertilizer. Its
value however, varies greatly. The results
vary with l7i, the soil "a the crop Sd, the
season.
LIST Sal According 10 Sirchhardt, the re-
nowu,d Saxon eNpcriinenter, plaster mas
been found most srrylcrable upon soil
which Is
t1D crumhly. loose, deep and dry
tt) III a MANFRED condition and
tol not already provided naturally Win
enough gypsum.
Both IN England and Hernany mannring
with plaster has proved best and surest on
soils hight, sandy, loamy, or chalky IN dry
situation. and with a porus suhsoil. On the
contrary but little or no elect has been seen
on heavy, loamy, OF clayty hoils' OF those
with wet bottoms, OF ON poor ana exhausted
fields. From inquiries male uhder the III
rection Of the French government the re-
plies establish essentially the same points.
ID crap. The result OF experiments IN