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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

An Ohio farmer writes as follows:
have town lot planted in early pota-
toes, which for the last two years has
been allowed to grow up thick with mus
tard after the potatoes were worked out
the last time. As result mustard
came up very thick this spring before
the potatoes appeared, and when the
plants were up the ground was so dry
and hard | could not have them worked.
This mustard is very thick among them,
but it does not seem to interfere IN the
least with their growth. | have just
been all over the lot, and hasten to re-
peat mary bug l was among the
vines last week often and | only captur-
ed two. My neighbors, whose potatoes
are not as smart as mine flor want of
mustard) are undergoing fearful strug-
gle for life. The present prospects seem
strongly to indicate their ultimate fail
nrc. As for mustard being a remedy for
bugs, will only state the above facts.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
The LOcustS i'm Rock County.
Herald of LII Verne. oath.

The damage done by native born
choppers was not serious except in a
few instances, and up to the Sth day Of
July the crops Of all kinds in Rock
county were looking rich and prom.
Using. No people on the frontier had
greater apparent prosperity before
them. Wednesday, July 9Th, after
watching myriads of grasshoppers sail
ing over us daily for weeks, and learn
ing of widespread devastation in coun-
ties east and north of us, after long
hoping and scarcely daring to hope.
that we might escape, we saw countless
swarms of them settling down, falling
thick as snow-fakes upon the different
kinds of crops. They came with the
south wind just after noon. But about
four o'clock Northwest wind sprung
up and large numbers left that night
and, the wind continuing in the same
direction, by the next noon nearly all
were gone again and people breathed
freely once more. Some farmers esti-
mated their loss at this time at one
fourth their crop, others that had lost
their seed, while in some parts Of the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
From the Lakes to Europe.

The schooner Benson, which was re-
Gently loaded with grain at Toledo and
sailed for Europe by way of the St.
Lawrence river, has arrived at Cork,
Ireland, to the qualification of the own
ers and the surprise of sailing masters.
The vessel, in order that it might pass
out to ocean, was necessarily built in
such manner that it was deemed I'M
seaworthy by underwriters, and the
owners were liable to effect an insur-
ance on either vessel or cargo. Under
the circumstances it is a matter of sur
prise that she has at length reached
Ireland in safety. The success Of the
first trip, if it should pay, may tempt
owners to risk few more; but with
the unanimous opinion of underwriters
against the safety Of the voyage in YES
sells capable of passing down the st.
Lawrence, it will take good many sue
cessful trips to establish regular line
of vessels sailing direct from the lake
cities to Europe.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
Chickens.

The principal points by which to dis
Germ the quality of the flesh in a fowl
are, says the Cottage Gardener, the
color of the feet and the kind of skin.
The yellow foot generally indicates a
fowl with tough flesh, heavy bones, and
yellow fat. 1t is very rare that this
color does not show itself in the skin.
However, it does not exclude certain
qualities of the flesh in the pure de-
scendants of the two exotic races,
Cochin China and Drama Pootra. With
the exception of yellow and greenwich
can never be recommended, all other
colors from black to white are equally
indications of an excellent flesh. When
the skin, and above all that of the sides
and breast, is of fine tissue, delicate.
and easily extended. also having rose
pearled color, one may be certain that
the flesh is good and Will fatten rap
idlv.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

Ouc Jay uSwS CoAAS w
Cochise, at the head of a small war par
ty was in camp thirty miles to tn
southeast. A federal captain took thir-
ty men, an Indian agent and Englehart
as Interpreter, and went out to have a
talk with the Apaches. 1t is supposed
that the captain was ignorant Of the feud
existing, for uponEngleha, making some
objection to the proposed expedition, the
officer insisted and finally prevailed
upon him to go. The meeting was most
friendly, and lasted several hours.
Neither Cochise nor Englehart referred
to the subject Of the quarrel between
them, and sat upon their horses in
friendly converse, while the soldiers OF
the escort and the Indians OF the war
party we're getting ready to march and
to separate. Of sudden, and with a
wild yell that had hatred and vengeance
in it, Cochise leaned from his saddle,
seized Englehart by the collar, drew
him up clear from his stirrups and over
upon his left leg and thigh, and then
dashed off at furious rate, partially
dragging and partially carrying his
struggling victim. So instantaneous
was the attack, and SO unprepared was
the escort for any immediate rescue,
that some distance had been gained by
Cochise, followed by his entire
band, before the captains presence
of mind returned to him, and charge
was ordered. 1t was too late, however,
to save the poor Scotchman. Taken at
the terrible disadvantage he was, he
yet strove desperately and tried to
draw his revolver and make the best
fight he could for his life. Once he
nearly succeeded, but,with the strength
of giant, and rapidity that almost
defied calculation, Cochise stabbed his
victim seven times in the neck and
breast, and even while holding him up
upon his horse, and that horse rushing
along over broken ground at the top OF
his speed, managed to tear the reeking
scalp from the still breathing yet dread
fully mutilated interpreter. Waving
this three times in the face Of his pur-
suers, and dropping the CORY corpse
like log in the road, he easily baff1ed
the detachment of soldiers, and made
his escape without the loss of single
follower.
For this deed the price of $4,000 was
put upon Cochise's head, and many was
the borderer and the plainsman who
entered into his domain to look for
him, and to lie in wait upon the road
that he sometimes travelled. They did
not find him-certainly none ever re-
turned to claim the blood money, and
many there were who returned not at
all.
In report made to the War De-
partment some three or four years ago,
the actual statistics we're given of Co
chise's own killing, and from the
figures there presented the almost in
credible total was figured up of twenty
seven Americans, four Apache Indians.
three Germans, two Englishmen, one
Frenchman and forty-nine Mexicans
and half breeds who had come to their
death at the hands Of this monster
alone.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY.
President of and the Richest Man
in Liberia.
from the Terre Haute Express.

Many of our old residents, say OF
twenty years ago, will remember an en-
terprising and very industrious barber,
whose name was Edward j. Roye. How
long he lived in Terre Haute the writer
does not know. With his career in At
RIGA and elsewhere am familiar. In
making his first trip to Africa, he took
his goods out on freight, he himself be-
ing passenger. The entire value of
his invoice was not more than $1,000.
His keen foresight soon proved to him
that the merchants of Western Africa
seldom if ever exhibit any Of the arti-
Gle called politeness. Fortunately for
him he was always well supplied with it !;
and to this day people. tell of spending
money with him for things they had lit
tie or no use for. Although he was
taken down with the acclimating fever
which every foreign constitution must
pass through he had but little trouble
from that source. He often told me he
had no time to bother with fevers. In
less than ten months from the time he
sailed from New York, he was back
with $4,000 worth of oil, dye-wood,
ivory and gold dust. Spending but lit
tie time in shaking hands and telling
stories, he chartered half brig in COM
pany with white man, and about the
time his friends in Africa looked for a
letter from him, he anchored the brig
in the bay of Monrovia, laden with a
good cargo, which was at this moment
salable at his own rates. This was the
beginning of the career in Africa Of the
most remarkable man in many respects
the little black republic had ever with
in her border. Following the tidal
wave of his good luck. he put off to
England in q monthly steamer, where
he purchased English goods, which in
many instances are manufactured ex-
pressly to suit the African market
goods of peculiar makeup and
color, known only to merchants
dealing with Africa. The point Roye
made in that movement was this: He
could 90 anywhere where the English
held the trade and furnish both kind Of
goods-English and American--some-
thing no other American ever did.
Crossing from England to America, he
made the acquaintance of the great
house of Phelps, Dodge & Co.. New
York City, with whom he deposited =
sum of money. and by whom he was in
troduced among first class merchants,
which resulted in his purchasing a YES
sci and loading her for Liberia, leaving
behind him reputation and money
enough to load vessel in his absence.
The isolated colonists of Liberia had
not been accustomed to see c0lored
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
THE BOY WHO TOOK A BoARDER.

Once upon time, long before any Of
you children were born, about two
hundred and fifty years ago, in fact, a
little boy stood, one morning, at the
door of palace in Florence, and looked
about him.
Why he was standing there do not
know. Perhaps he was watching for
the butcher or the milkman, for he was
kitchen-boy in the household of a
rich and mighty cardinal, He was
twelve years old, and his name was
Thomas.
Suddenly he felt tap on his should
er, which made him turn around, and
he said, with great establishment
"What! Is that you, Peter? What
has brought you to Florence! and how
are all the people in Crotona?"
''They are all WE'LL answered Peter,
who likewise was a boy of twelve
ssBut We left them for good. I'm
tired Of taking care of sheep--stupid
things! l want to be painter. I've
come to Florence to learn how. They
say there's school here where they
teach people, .
''But have you got any money :"
asked Thomas. ''Not penny
ssThen you can't be painter. You
had much better take service in the
kitchen with me, here in the palace.
You will be sure of not starving to
death at least said the sage Thomas.
''Do you get enough to eat = asked
the other boy, rehectively.
Plenty. More than enough.
Il don't want to take service, be-
cause l want to be painter" said Re-
ter. "But I'll tell you what well DO.
As you have more than you need to eat
you shall take me to board-on trust at
first, and when I'm grown up painter,
I'll settle the BILL
agreed" said Thomas, after mo-
ment thought. Il can manage 1t:
Come up stairs to the garnet where l
sleep, and I'll bring you some dinner
by and by =.
So the two boys went up to the attic
room among the chimney pots where
Thomas slept. TWAS very, very small,
and all the furniture in it was an old
straw bed and two rickety chairs. But
the walls we're beautifully whitewashed.
The food was good and plentiful. for
when Thomas went down into the kltch-
en- and foraged among the broken meats
he found half of fine mutton pie
which the cook had carelessly thrown
out. The cardinals household was
conducted upon very extravagant prin-
ciples.
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nEW TO THE Line.
BY HELEN DENT.

1.-THE following lines were written for a
Grange paper, called The Broadax.]
Keen be thy blade, o "Broadax' bold,
And true the hands that bear thee;
Let never fear nor greed OF gold
In servile tolls ensnare thee.
Nor to the right, nor to the left,
Let friend or foe e'er guide thee;
Straight onward keep thee to the
line,
Whatever may betide thee.
With wrongs depressed, are rising up
The Toilers of the nation,
The sturdy blade may help, perhaps,
To hew out their salvation.
Bound hand and loot, sore grows the
yoke,
Their necks are bending under;
Their cries goes up to speed the blow
That rends their bands asunder.
Be that thy mission. clothed with power
And earnest, true endeavor,
Strike off the shackles from their limbs,
And set them free forever
Monopoly with giant form
And murderous look, bends o'el
them;
Hew down the tyrant where he stands
Lay clear the path before them.
Spare not the men who, seeking votes,
Attempts to ape the farmer;
Not all deserve the laborer's trust,
Who wear the homespun armor.
Swerve not a hairs breadth from the
line
For party, clique or faction,
Whoever stands, whoever falls,
No quarter to exastion.
From out the timbers broad and fair,
Thy shining steel shall sever,
May grow temple that shall stand
To grace our cause forever.
And when that glorious day shall come
When Right that Might is deeper,
When he who plants shall pluck the
fruit
The sower be the reaper.
Then in thy praise, 0 ''Broadax" true,
Well chant grateful choral;
Well lift thee up with loving hands,
And wreathe thy blade with laurel.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
Potato Bug Poison.

A Meeker county man by the name
of Olson picked potato bugs off from
his vines and used wash dish to put
them in. After finishing his work, he
washed his hands in the same basin. On
one of his fingers there was Slight
abrasion Of the skin, the poison cap
tured that spot and went to work. The
flesh sloughed off from that place, the
whole arm swelled up to fearful size,
and is covered with little knots about
the size of pea. DR.. Bissell has
charge of the case.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
In Saltwater last Monday night, w

In Saltwater last Monday night. VIM
Drew and Jimmie Fitz, steamboat
hands, after drinking together all day,
quarreled for an hour or so and then
had a bloody fight, the upshot ofwhich
was that Fitz drew his jack knife and
cut. carved and stabbed Drew so that
the latter lies in . critical condition
while Fitz lies in jail.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

A Cambridge, Mass, man claims to
have ascertained by scientific research
that. during the early part Of the month
of August, there will be series Of
storms, hurricanes, cyclorce, earth
quakes, volcanic eruptions and other
earthly disturbances, and about the Sd
of the month unusually high tides will
prevail, while on or about the 18th
there will be heavy thunder storms.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

TIE New York Herald, speaking Of

TIE New York Herald, speaking Of
the Grasshoppers, says:
SIT is strange that, with all our boast OF
the progress Of agricultural science and ento-
mology, the rural public is all in the dark
and Knows not how to contend with the in
sect foe. The evil of this locust invasion is
so great and SO alarming that every effort
should be made to devise remedy. What
can our Agricultural Department suggest %
Why does not the Agricultural De-
partment of our State University take
Up the subject, and investigate it!
Stimulating the termination of
Seeds.
A Berlin professor has revived an old
experiment eff stimulating the germina-
tien of seeds by the use of camphor
water. He took seeds of all ages, some
of them being three or four years old
and supposed to have little vitality,
and, having divided them into sets, ex-
posed them to precisely similar condl-
lions, with the exception that one set
of each was put between sheets OF blot
ting paper simply wetted, and the other
of each was put between sheets soaked
in eamphor water. In many cases the
seeds soaked did not swell at all under
the influence of simple moisture, but in
every case terminated where they were
subjected to camphor water. The
young plants from the seeds terminated
by camphor also exhibited greater vi
tally than plants grown from the other
seeds. Powdered camphor, mixed with
the soil, appeared to have bad effect
on the seeds. No explanation has been
given of the chemical action which has
produced these results, but the expert
ments may be easily tried and the effects
upon the life of plants more particular
~ noted.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

"A direct lineal descendant Of
Charlemagne recently died in France
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

The End NOT YET.-ln a fit of disap-
pointment and passion, not wholly without
cause, the people have signifed their dis
satisfaction not with the Republican party,
but with some phases of its predominant
management, In doing this, however, they
have stimulated the democracy and quick
ened into new life the evils which follow in
its train. Their sullen work is not as harm
less as they meant it should be- We trust
and believe they have succeeded in checking
those tendencies in the Republican party at
which they aimed if this were all Of it, we
should feel a fair degree of complacency.
But they cannot limit the result Of their &C
ton to that They cannot now altogether
set bounds to the eonhagration they have
started Out Of this revival of the demoo-
racy which they have permitted as an admo-
milton to Republieanism, will spring turmoils
and conflicts and calamities which they will
soon enough come to lament. The questions
which thecountIy had hoped were settled will
come back again in fresh agitation, and we
shall plunge into new career OF action and
reaction.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

The Carlists will soon lay down their arms,
If Spanish dispatches of the last few days
are correct, leaving the Republicans in I'M
disturbed possession of the government
The numerous defeats which they have re-
Gently suffered, it is affirmed have caused
them TO lose all the courage and hope Of
eventual success which has hitherto ami
mated them, and they are making their np-
pearance in the different camps of the gov
eminent and requesting amnesty, while sew
eral of the leaders of certain battalions of
for their surrender, for certain fixed sums Of
money, alleged to amount in all to $1,000
600. As the telegraph and other means OF
communication are in possession of the gov
eminent, this important news must be re-
ceived with due caution and some doubt /;
nevertheless, il has an air of probability,
suffered since last January are taken into CON
sideration, and the difficulties under which
they labor in getting their supplies aud mu-
nitions of war are considered as all the lead
ing ports are in possession OF the govern
ment. Hence the superstition is that the
Carlists cannot much longer maintain them
selves and their cause, either in an offensive
or defensive position, and that the time for
their surrender and dispersement must soon
arriye
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

THE Mennonites, who have for the past
year been inspecting various portions Of the
West, finally made a purchase Of one hun
bred thousand acres of land in Kansas, few
days since. This peculiar people, with their
peculiar religious notions, left Russia for
this country from love of liberty, and for
conscience sake. Some months since col
ony of them settled in Manitoba, but they
have not been pleased with that locality
and they are changing their abode to Da-
kota along the line os the Red river
The Dakota and Kansas people are well
pleased with these new accessions to their
population 1t is said no better class of
immigrants has landed on our shores for
many years. They are sober, strong advo-
Gates Of peace, being opposed to war, oaths
and capital punishment, and noted for their
industrious habits. They leave the father
land because they are not willing to do mil
itary duty. BY special favor from En-
peror Paul, they were exempted from that
duty but this favor having been annuled,
they looked to America for the greater
freedom they desire. The ruling Emperor,
however, being unwilling to see his subjects
turning their backs upon their native land,
hoped to check the emigration by re-estab-
fishing the decree releasing them from mill
tary service, And while this action may
tend to pacify some of those who have not
yet made arrangements to Join their Ameri-
can colonies, it is likely the new and fertile
lands of the West will be so full of attrac-
tions as to largely add to these settlements.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

TRug RECoNsrHUcrION.-A new organ Of
the Changers has been started in Alontgom-
cry, Ala. II is called the Southern Pianta-
ton, The salutatory contains the following
sour aim and object shall Ice to dignity la
Dor and to benefit the toiling thousands of
our beloved Sunny South, and encourage
them in the great battle of life, We shall
endeavor to show that the hard-hRnded plow-
man and other sons of toll who are bearing
the heat and burden of the day are not
less gentlemen because they earn their bread
10y the sweat OF their brow, but are in fact
those upon whom the future welfare Of the
country depends. In word that all honest
labor is honorable and commendable aud
should be 50 esteemed, and none more so
than that which provides food for man and
beast"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

Tnr Boston Globe, in lamenting over the
defeat of Mr.. Gooch for Congress, says at
was, no doubt, due to the peculiar personal
popularity OF General Banks, and the fact
that be is not pronounced democrat His
popularity il is hard 10 account for No
man has done less for his constituents while
in Congress, not from lack of inclination
80 much as from an indisposition to exert
himself particularly in behalf of anybody
except n, =. Banks"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

Tur cable of the Direct United States
Company, which parted and was lost while
being laid by the Faraday, has been picked
up by that vessel in latitude fifty degrees
and thirty-one minutes, longitude twenty
four degrees and nineteen minutes at depth
of one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one fathoms The cable is in perfect con
dition. 1t was spliced to the portion re-
naming ON the Faraday ON Monday, and the
work OF paying out again commenced.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-11

TnH REAsoN.-We know Of no otherrea-
son for the result Of the late elections than
that it is one Of those in'xplicahle political
epidemics which occasionally sweep the
country like pestileucr, without any good
cause and without any valid reason. But
ike other epidermal calamities. these politi-
cal epidemics are usually short lived. When
the political qnacks, upon whose boastiul
pretensions the public relied, demonstrate
their charlatanism by their i'll success, they
will be as promptly dismissed as they We're
credulously trusted, Specie payments. plenty
Of money superabundance cf work, high
wages and cheap food, are coveted blessings
which do not grow on every bush, and will
not, any more than spirits from the Vastly
deep" come at any party's bidding. If they
could have been obtained thus early, the
Republicans would have had them long ago,