The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-08
RAKINGS AND SCRAPINGS.

hAA1NUD AMI DCkAPlN(ISe R
Commodore Worden, with the flagship
Franklin, Of the European squadron, ana
the Congress and Juniata, is at Vill6
Franche, while the Alaska is at Spexxia,
where her boilers are being repaired.
A correspondent, writing from Calf, ii
Canada, March 5th, said the snow II
many villages of that section was so deem
and so packed that he could step from his
sleigh on the verandas of many of tho
houses, and ride on level with the roofs.
The Salt Lake people were surprised
but not saddened by the removal of Chiof
Justice Mclean of that territory. The
Whitney contempt case and the Ann
Eliza Young divorce suit are said to Be-
the rocks on which the Judges fortune
were wrecked.
President Grant and Attorney General
Williams are troubled to know what they
shall do with an Indian who kills another.
as the Indians are not subject to our law
An exchange expresses the opinion that
when they catch an Indian who has un-
doubtediy killed another Indian, the true
course is to give him new gun and $5.
A colored South Carolina legislator
named Jones concluded a. speech the
other day against Gov. Chamberlain BY
saying: ''Sah, is done wild desc New.
English men. Dcy hab one hand in our
pockets, and when they are stealing all
We hab, dey say, PITY you poor nigger.
We foot for your rights, etc. I isdone
wild dem, sah."
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Akron, O., for the spelling school mania
which has the past season spread over
most of the Middle States. We don't
care what they call it so it does not rage
in Minnesota. If it does rage here we
shall name it nuisance and describe il
as equal in degree to base ball
A man named Merritt, from Troy, N.
Y, has discovered in Dominica in the
West Indies bottomless lake Of red-hot
water, boiling savagely, half mile wide-
and two miles in circumfe ence. In the
centre the seething mass shoots far into
the air, and the arid, desolate shore i
laved by steam. The water is heavily
charged with sulphur.
1t is said that the nomination of Par.
dee to be District Judge of Louisiana was
tabled in the Senate at the request of the
President, to give the nominee until next
December to disprove the charge against
him. The Democrats voted solidly
against tabling the nomination, while ~
the Republicans but one voted for the md.
ton.
Edward Starr Smith, who recently
died of consumption in Washington, ..
c., was widely known in connection with
the Adams Express Company, he having
been in the employment Of that and the
Harnden company for the past twenty.
five years, nearly twenty years Of that
time being the agent for the companies ii
Washington.
Eulogizing the late John Mitchell, !
Chicago Irishman said: Several hum
dred years ago an Irish king was so IN.
fortunate as to invite the English to -
over to Ireland and give him assistance.
The English went, but although they had
been invited to leave q thousand times
since, they had not the good taste to 20.
John Mitchell spent portion Of his life
in trying to get them to leave"
a small lot of Northern Pacific securi
ties was sold at auction in New York on
the oath Of March. The bidding wa
dull and slow. Two first mortgage bonds
Of 81 900 each, with the January coupons
attached. were started at 10 and sold q
II - One bond of the same mortgsge
for 5000 was sold at Is 3-8, and anothe1
like it brought l6 IA. Two hundred del.
lars at par Of the per cent land warrant
bonds sold for 20 l.2.
The United States Court Of Claims dc,
cidcd, March Goth, the celebrated CASES
Of the Hot Springs Of Arkansas, in favor
Of the governmentas against all the claim
ants. Judge Mott read an elaborate opin.
ion. This property is now producing ~
income to lessecs OF $4,000 per year, and
is said to be worth sl,15O.0OO. II haa
been the subject Of litigation for ma
than thirty years. Judge lowering dii
sented, and said that Rector had 4 go(
title. An appeal to the Supreme Cours
will be taken on behalf Of Rector,
A surgeon has lately published the re-
suits Of experiments tried by him whic
have pre- we'd to his satisfaction that th
application Of white.hot iron to tn
body is absolutely painless, while wheo
only red.hot 1t is an extremely painful o.
GRAFTON. When operating with red-hol
iron on men their screaming was fearful
whereas when the iron was white-hot, NJ
q murmur was heard. When he opsratdf
on horse with white-hot iron, the auinkh
seemed scarcely to be aware Of what II
was doing.
LeProsy in the Sandwich Is1ao1n