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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12

INGENIOUS ELECTRICAL DEVICE. of
the most useful additions which have been
made recently to the machinery employed in
weaving, has been the system of electrical de-
tectors designed to give instant notice when
ever thread breaks, either in the warp or
the wool, whenever serious defect occurs in
the fabric, or when any part Of the machinery
itsd from whatever cause-becomes de-
ranged.
A very Interesting example of this kind is
an attachment employed to detect any failure
or rupture of the yarn in the shuttle. This
continuance consists of delicate lever at the
side of the loom, between the web and the
apparatus for throwing the shuttle, which
descends the moment the shuttle reaches the
end of its course with motion like that of a
finger feeling for some object of interest
If the yarn is unbroken, it bridges, of
course, the space between the web and the
shuttle and arrests the finger, which there
upon. with perfect anatomical precision, re-
tires; but if there is no yarn, or if the yarn,
being broken, is slack, the finger descends
further. apd the consequence is an electric
contact which causes an instantaneous discon-
Meeting of the motor and q violent ringing of
the bell while the loom is stopped before time
enough has passed to allow the shuttle to be
thrown again. The movement of this little
sensitive finger is described as truly marvel i
o. .sSI - inxs - g
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12

A countryman with his bride stopped at
Troy hotel the other day At dinner, when
the waiter presented bill of fare, the young
man inquired, What's that ?" That's a
bil OF fare, said the waiter. The country
man took it in his hand, looked inouiringly at
his wife and then at the waiter, and finally
Owed down in his pocket and insinuatingiy
inquired, How nush is it,"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12

a-T Upton S1asher speaks thus
of Mrs. Sartoris Nellie Grant had
only twenty-five trunks full of clothes
when she started across the ocean. Fonr
teen years ago, when shs drove the
old blind horse in bark mill, she
kept her buds in a soap box. The whirli-
gig of time, along with few raids through the
South and some contracts works won
ders" The full grown white man who
would write thus about an unoffendinc
little female woman merely because her
father happens to be political fraud, de-
serves to have the grave of his mother-in- Law
run over by drove Of Wild jackasses.-Loxi,-
vile Courier-sJourna'.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12

A French paper thus pictures London
Sunday ''All is closed The bakers don't
bake, and the eating houses are sealed. 1t is
difficult for foreigner to avoid dyingot hunger
A glass Of wine would cost the Republican
three guineas for piety is stuffed with a fine,
and God is protected by the police. The in
habitants themselves do not fare much better
You would look Ill vain for smoke from the
ehimneys The cook does not dare light he r
fire. The family dinners are composed of the
remains Of the preceding day. and stale hard
bread. They leave home merely to go to
and lugubrious in their Sunday
clothes without turning their heads or speak
ing to one another. They return and sing
hymns the rest of the day. The streets are
then empty. and the town is like cemetery
dead and mournful"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12

We have received in exchange two numbers
OF the New Orleans BULLETIN, the paper that
mas sprung into such a popularity in New Or
Leans and Texas. Its daily is q neat folio
awe Nv ana newsy Success attend it.-Woco
t1sSas) Adcoscs s..1,ua - - =
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
MORE EVIDENCES OF REPVBLI-
CAN PROSPERITY.

The financial correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger, under date of
October 10, writing from New York,
says:
Real estate in Brooklyn, as heretofore
stated, is hard to sell at any price Just now.
Example: An auction sale OF lots on Ninth
avenue, opposite Prospect Park, was held
yesterday. The prices bid were so low that
the owners generally withdrew the property,
and poeketed their losses for auctioneers'
fees. One. party, however, was obliged TO
sell two lots, for which four years ago he
paid IS, 900 each. Since that time he has
also paid for taxes, assessments, &C., "a, 900
more, making their cost just Si2,O 600 each.
The best bid he could get for them on this
occasion was $1,000 each, and this he &C
cepted--a depreciation of just one-half
And yet the Tariff is not changed ;
and American industry, lin the East, J
IS protected by impoverishing the Mis-
ssisspsi Valley; and the Republican
party is still in the ascendant.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
AN OLD FRIEND.

Our old-time friend and fello w-labor-
er in the days when the Republican
party was pure and great and enthusi-
astic, Chris. 4ckerman, of Young Amer
lea, Carver county. is nominated for
the House. Chris. is one of the finest
types of the great German race. kindly,
jovial, intelligent and reliable; enjoy.
ing all the pleasures of life, and yet
keenly alive to all its duties. If the
people of his District do not give him
an almost unanimous support on the
Sd of November next, we will introduce
a bill next winter to have Carver coan-
ty removed out of Minnesota and at
tached to New Jersey.
Really,the Anti Monopolists are put.
ting their best foot foremost all over
the State.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
WHATS THE NATTER /,

What is the matter with the Vest
ern Times The devil seems to have
taken possession Of that devout estab-
lishment.
An Irish paper supporting Republican
candidates.! A religious organ advo-
eating Bill King!!
And worst of all it denounces our
choice and beautiful editorials as sob.
noxious clap trap"
Surely this world cannot endure long
at that rate. To think Of our OH
friend MsCarthy-but we don t believe
Mccarthy wrote it. The Times is pub
lished in the Press building, and that
villain, 10. Wheelock, has been tamper
with the forms. ''Sure an enemy has
done this thing" Lock your doors a
night, Mac.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
OUR CHARMING RAILROADLAw

The Winona Republican says: 1t is ru-
mored that the elevators on the Southern
Minnesota railroad, which have been sold,
ostensibly, to gentleman of St. Charles, are
really owned by a firm of grain operators,
who have organized ring for the purpose
of fleeing outside buyers. 1t is asserted that
such buyers will not be allowed to make
shipments over the road unless the grain has
first passed through the leased warehouse
and paid from one to two cents per bushel
for the privilege. Until this tax has been
paid, it is said, cars are not allowed to be
placed on the side tracks for the accommo-
dation Of these outside dealers. That is dis
elimination with vengeance, as the sring"
will discover to its cost after an interview
with the Railroad Commissioners.
Pshaw! What can the Railroad
Commissioners do! The Ring will ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of the State,
and from there to tho .. S. Supreme
Court at Washington; and keep il
dangling there by the eyelids for years;
in the meantime stealing ten dollars for
every dollar they spend in litigation.
We proposed last winter that the
Railroads obey the law until it is de-
clared unconstitutional not, as now
refuse TO obey it until it is declared
constitutional. That's the way they
fixed it in Wisconsin; and Capt. Scott
coon came down at once. But we were
Knocked and ridiculed last winter, BY
the Republicans, as if we had proposed
to turn the world upside down.
Give US an Anti-Monopoly majority
next winter and we will stop the kline
Of rascallity referred to above.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
UNREQUIETED LOVE.

The Pioneer reporter thus gives the
eloquent speech Of an old friend of ours
at the Republican County Convention
the other day, in this city.
Mr.. Louis Krieger obtained the floor and
said we met here as men of brains, and we
should set an example tor the rest Of the
State. He wanted good men for all the Off
ces. He had voted for Ramsey for % 4
years and had never got pinch OF snuff for
1t. He had never asked him for an office
and did not want any, and he did not believe
it was Judge Crowelf. Laughter.)
Think of man voting for Ramsey
% IL yeays and getting nothing for
i'll! And does he expect to vote for
him % IL years more! Dreadful
thought! And does the venerable Sen.
ator really expect our grandchildren to
vote for yhim ! Wien is this thing to
stop, as the fellow said when his wife
had four children at birth.
And mark the delicate sarcasm OF
our friend Krieger: ''He did not believe
there was any one present in that con.
vention that wanted an Office No
wonder they laughed. You couldn't
have thrown brick-ba into that room
without hitting an office-holder or an
aspirant for an Office. All, facetious
krieger.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

Falstaff says, ''your instinct is great
matter. The lion will not touch the
true prince on instinct" Like Falstaff.
we believe in instinct. Men range
themselves politically by instinct.
Where you find narrow-headed, mar
row hearted, cold bloodcd man he in
stinctively takes the side of capital
against the people. All broad-minded.
warm-hcarted men array themselyes,by
instinct, on the side of the poor and the
oppressed.
Some years ago-nearly sixteen
years ago-a great financial crisis fell
on our people. Nearly every one was
in debt-a large number hopelessly so.
The value of property Of all kinds
shrunk to almost nothing, while debts
remained undiminished and money be-
came ssas scarce as hens teeth The
debts Of the people bore generally three
per cent. per month till maturity and
five to eight per cent. per month after
maturity until,paid: that. is to say from
sixty to eighty per cent. per annum.
The money lenders insisted on this
enormous interest; the lawyers said it
was legal; the people were in despair.
But in this dilemma the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the State,
Hon. Lafayette Emmett, came to tbs
| relief of the people. Resorting to the
great armory Of the law. from which
| patriots and tyrantA alike draw thei1
weapons he broug int forth a subtle
distinction which saved the suferin.
people of the State. He held that in
terest after the maturity of the not
was not interest agreed upon for the rs
of the money to certain date, but
penalty for the non-payment of tn
money at that date; and that the per
atty could only be the real damage sus
tanned by the creditor by the non-pay
ment Of his money; and the degree I
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
A DEFINITION.

Prince Napoleon, who is undoubtedly a
mischief maker, and who aspires to domin-
ion in France, is described by Paris letter
writer as "a sincere liberal democratic I'm
perialist." Now if somebody will come along
and accurately and authoritatively define
this description, we shall feel greatly obliged.
Perhaps the Liberal Republicans could do
something in this exigency.-St. Paul Press.
Yes, Joseph; "a sincere liberal demo
cratic Impcrialist'' is Republican who
voted for Lincoln and is now ready to
vote for Grant for third term.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
@efalfitratio11s.
HOW 1T OCCURRED.

ST. PAUL CHARADEs: Time, this morn
ing: AsT1-MoNoPoL1sr Office; enter lgna-
tins Donnelly, one eye in sling, and wet
towel around his head; loqustur:
"King hath an awful fist There's some
thing in it.
Nv head meier wabbled as she does this
minute.''
Minneapolis Mail.
Now, Crofut, you know that Ism {
the way it occurred. 1t was after Will
son backed Bill off the track by ac-
cepting his challenge. You know you
met in the Tribune room, a sorry
looking crowd; King, Fletcher, Camp,
ct al. And you opened the proceed
ings by singing in an X sharp key:
Things never looked so bad as at this
minute,
My head don't wabble-for there's nothing
in it."
And then Fletcher expanded his
noble chest and with a slight nasal
twang joined in the refrain, and in
toned,
'Bill King is played ;-Eugene is sure to
win it,
Bills fist is big-but now there's nothing
in it,"
And then Major Camp, the tears
rolling down his manly face and the
signs distending his elephantine frame
sang, dasso profuado,
''The grand old party never more viii
| win it,
For Dunnell, Mcnrath and King art
in it,"
"Boys.'' said King, ''things are al
wrong. But you can't sing worth
cuss and you won't pray let u
fall back on the last great resource o
the Republican party let's take up
collection"
An then, Croffur, you circulated you
hat among that dismal crowd; and y"'
turned it upside down, and gentl.
shock it out, and then in voice Xix
the whisper Of a fainting zepher, yo
sang,
"My hat is not improved 1T is this min
ute
Just as it always is;-there's nothin
in it,
Exeunt omnes to slow music.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
Auti- S}unupolist.


We devote good deal of space in
this issue to an admirable speech upon
the great topics of the day delivered by
Hon. II. M. BurcLard OF Winona, a
candidate for the House of Representa-
tives on the Anti-Monopoly ticket, in
Winona county.
It is one of the clearest and ablest
presentations Of the questions at issue
that we have seen in a long time. 1t
proves Mr.. Burchard to be student,
an original thinker and statesman.
Who shall say that the honest i'm
pulses of the people shall fail for want
of leaders, whnn such men as MIR. Bur-
chard come to the surface!
We ask all our subscribers to read
this address carefully.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
THE PART OF THE GRANGE H
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

The Republic, the new Republican,
Grant paper, Just established in New
York, sent correspondent to travel
through Indiana just before the last
election. He of course prophecied an
immense majority for the Republican
ticket, but he was forced to admit that
there were some disturbing elements at
work in that State, chief among which
was "The Grange And upon this
point he says:
The Grange movement has had the effect
though the Republican party is by all odds
in the best shape to meet the principal issue
raised by the Granges-cheaper transporta-
tion-by reason OF the AcCrary bill, and the
earnest efforts made in Congress by Repub-
lican representatives for improving and en-
larging the main routes Of transportation
from the Mississippi Valley to the seaboard:
For a time the Grange movement promised
real good. It was rousing the farming classes
to thought and action, stimulating their in
telligence, and had it continued on the line
worked out by the National Grange at its st.
Louis meeting, it would have commanded
| universal sympathy ana respect, anu nave
accomplished the object it had in view in
overturning local corrupt rings, and in les :
sening the Overwhelming burdens of local
taxation. But it fell prey to demagogues
and dead beats, at least in this State, and it
is now only looked upon as political nui-
sance. The question to be determined next
week is, Does it possess vitality to make an
impression at the polls, led, as it confessedly
is, by designing men, who have no other
ambition or principle than covetousness for
office?
The election answered this question
very emphatically. 1t proved that the
Grange did possess vitality-enormous
vitality. "The political nuisance will
trouble the Radicals in this State on
the Sd of November next,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

The hardest blow we have ever re.
ceived was Bill Kings insinuation that
we had been his intimate bosom friend
for twelve years past. We saw our
friends falling away from US. We
staggered under the blow.
In self-defence we are compelled to
deny Bill Kings terrible arraignment.
Our Minneapolis friends will remem
Der that for many years,--from 1860 to
the year 1867, Bills newspaper, the
Minneapolis Atlas, denounced us as
persistcntly and as bitterly as the St.
Paul Press has since done; and our
relations were anything but friendly.
At that time, 1867, Bill was as poor as
Jobs turkey,--and that, tradition tells
us, had but one feather;-and when the
4Oth Congress assembled we were per-
suaded by Mr.. WINDOWS entreatics,
and Bills tears to vote for Bill for
postmaster. By strange freak Of
fortune our vote nominated Bill in the
caucus, the vote standing 60 for an
Iowa candidate and 81 for Bill. Bill
threw his arms around our neck, and
told us that we had treated him gener.
ously and magnanimously; had saved
him from ruin; that he did not deserve
such treatment at our hands; and that
his whole life should be devoted to
proving his gratitude to US. Two years
afterward, like Mark Twain's frog
Bill Event back on u.s. in the Sena
torial contest, in "a way we despised.'
1t is q shocking chapter in human his
tory, and VIC do not care to go into il
at this time. Suffice it to say that thu
only time when we held anything ap
preaching friendly relations with Bill
was during those two years.
J fit were true that we had been
flike Window. Kings bosom friend fo
twelve years, we should feel that "
deserved all the dark insinuation
which King breathes against US.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
WHEAT CONSUMPTION AND
WHEAT SUPPLY.

The Sacramento (Cal.) Record says:
In Europe the wheat consuming popula-
lation may be estimated at 20,OUO, 700, in
the United States AZ, OOO,O 900, and in all the
rest OF the world at l2,OOO,UOO, making
grand total of 1900, OOO, consuming about
I,4OO, Oo0,e 900 bushels per annum.
THIS population increases naturally at the
rate OF 5000, 900 per annum The increase
caused by those who adopta wheaton diet
in preference to that which they had been
accustomed, is equal to 3,00O,OO0 per year
more The majority OF the people of Eu-
rope do not now use wheaton diet, but the
number of wheat eaters is increasing senSi-
bly, from the tendency of population to
gravitate to great cities where wheaton
dict is invariably used, and from the change
in the diet of the well-to-do peasantry. This
gives 5000, 900 more mouths to be fed every
year than were the year preceding. And the
consumption of these, at the generally esti-
mated rate per head, is AZ, 1000, 900 bushels
year. There are then 4S, 600 900 bushels
more required this year than last, and 49,,
600 900 bushels more will be required in
1875 than are now.
What follows from these figures!
|. The crime of the men who have,
by a high tariff, attempted to build a
Chinese wall Of non-intercourse be-
tween population of 100000 wheat
raiscrs and population of l2O,00O,0OO
wheat eaters; between country Of
sparse population and large crops, and
world Of dense population and small
crops; between the land of food and
,thesland Of people.
III. The folly of telling US to look for
our market, not to the l20,00O,0O0
wheat eaters of Europe, but to the
100000 wheat raisers of America.
That we must not encourage commerce
with mankind, tut try to stuff our
surplus wheat down the threats Of a
few protected manufacturers of New
England, at the cost of paying two
prices for all we buy.
The Sacramento paper says:
But we must not confne ourselves to sell
ing only to one people. There is not a
country in Europe, outside OF Russia, to
which we could not send few cargoes of
wheat There is not a port OF South or Cen
tral America of any importance, to which we
could not do the same. In short, il we mean
to continue the production of wheat on i
large scale, and to increase year by year the
breadth of land under it, we must initiate
the example of the merchants of Great
Britain, and seek for markets instead OF
waiting for foreign communities 70 invite US
Let the battle cry be: Free Trade
and Farmers Rights.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
GOOD.

Hon. John L. Mcdonald Of Shakopee
is nominated for the Senate. Good.
We need that Scotch bloodhound, un-
til the last dollar of AcIlrath's rob.
berries is ferreted out.
Judge Mcdonald is a man of much
more than ordinary intellect; he has il
him the material, out of which to con
struct . statesman.
Send him back, good people Of Scott
He is needed here.
The nomination Of w. Sencerbox i
also ! wise one. He left behind hin
here = good record, IS , faithful and
capable legislator.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

that damage was the rate fixed by law
for the use of money, to wit: seven per
cent. Judges Atwaters and Flandrau
acauiesced in this view as it became
the law of the State. It saved thous-
ands of poor and struggling men from
ruin.
Judge Emmett is now candidate for
the Legislature in Rice county. The
man who made that decision is the
friend of the people. Let the people
stand by him.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
A Serious Charge Against Dunnell-.
He Works and, Votes Against the
Farmers Getting Cheap Lands--A
Tool of the Railroads.
MASON, MIMI, Oct. 10.

kAssoN, Mimi, Oct. 10.
Hon I. Donnelly, St. Paul:
DEAR SrR-I have not seen in your
valuable paper any notice of Dunnell's
vote at the time Of the passage of the
bill extending the time for the Winona
& St. Peter railroad to construct the
west end of their road. As to their lands
an amendment was offered to Dunnell's
bill by member from Indiana, (proba-
bly, Holman,l that all lands SO granted
should be open to settlers at $3.50 per
acre. 1t was opposed BY Dunnel, and
By ais efforts tcas defeated. Conse.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

Joseph Wheelock and Bill King are
getting mad-foaming at the mouth.
This is good sign. 1t shows they
are hearing from the people. They see
the plumber and the fat places dissp.
pearing in the dim distance
For the abuse of us we are thankful.
1t is . recognition of our work. They
will die hard but their hour has come
We say to our friends, stand firm
Bring out the voters to the polls. From
all quarters the reports that reach y.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

are glorious. The people propose to
give the knaves lasting and crushing
rebuke. All questions Of party are
being forgotten. The people are NOV
ing on the enemy.
To candidates, we repeat, canvass the
people, talk in the school houses, and
arrange to have full vote in every
township. Leave nothing to chance.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
CAMPAIGN LIES.

Look out for campaign lies.
You will hear that Waite was caught
stealing chickens that Cox walked a
tight rope across the Minnesota river
with brick in his hat; and that Judge
Wilkin elepcd with his grandmother.
The nearer you get to the election
the bigger the lies will be.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
SANITARY.

J. c. Aver, the great pill man, was yester-
day nominated tor Congress by the Seventh
District Republicans of Massachusetts,, on the
first ballot.
That's right. If ever there was a
party in the world that needed medicine
it is the Republican party. Give them
Mills. DR.. Aver.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
OUR JIM FISK.

James Fisk, ST., father of the celebrated
Jas. Fisk, Jr., of New York, is st the Metro
politan.-St. Paul Press.
He has been stopping at Minneapolis.
They say he wants to adopt Bill King
and have him take that place in his at:
fections once filled by the lamented
Jim. He says Bill reminds him so much
of his dear boy.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22

gently the road now has the privilege
to charge for said lands any price they
see fit. See the Congressional Globe.
We are very hopeful of carrying this
District. Your friend,
Fl. P. W.