The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-21
Auti- lunopnlist.
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

wheat.
Rush CRY shipped $4,000 pounds Of
venison during 1874; also 1900 car
loads Of wood.
OK the lst day Of January the rates
of toll for the St. Cloud wagon bridge
were reduced 50 per cent.
The Grange and citizens OF st.
Charles sent about $500 to the grass
hopper sufferers.
IuE ferry boat, Iowa City, is making
regular trips across the Mississippi at
Reeds Landing.
A TOTAL Of 277,31l,0l0 bushels OF
wheat were shipped from Dodge Centre
during the year.
The amounts expended in Albert Lea
in 1874. aggregates S76,l an amount
in excess Of any previous year by near
iy 100000.
THE plainview and Minnesota tele-
graph company has declared dividend
of is per cent, after being IN operation
only SIX months.
TEE dwelling house Of S. Rainier, near
Lewiston, Winona county, was destroy
ed by fire Monday. Most Of the con-
tents were saved.
HEREAFTER German is to be taught
in the public schools of Faribault, Prof
G. Haceman having been engaged as
teacher.
TIE improvements the past year al
Mortified amounted to S:i07, eco. The
population If the place Is estimated a
$500.
THE citizens of Wadena, the county
seat Of Wadena county, are LIBERAL
subscribing to the stock for paper a
that place.
DAVID HARRIS Of St. Charles will tr.
the experiment Of raising fence Q
Usage Orange, he having proc, red
quantity Of seed from Illinois.
TIE Grange warehouse at Delavan Il
the two and half months 1t has bee
dong business, while giving farmer
more reasonable rates than those ru
inr in other warehouses, has made
profit Of 52G4.5O.
TIE landlord OF the Cook House, RI
chester, is monied man. lie had a
the editors Of the place to New Year
dinner, and still manages to keep OF
of the bankruptcy court.
The engine house of the Souther
Minnesota railroad at Ramsey, togetht
with a large number of tools used
the repair Of engines, cars, etc. WI
burned Monday, the 4th. Loss abo'
$500.
TIE city of Rochester has been sue
for @2.l4l.66, By Mr.. Warren W. Dot.
$2,l26.Sl is for services of engineer
the steam fire engine at Sb2.oO p
month, and the balance for wood a.
vanced the city.
The one thousand shares otier'
for sale in the Taylor's Falls copp
mining company have been take
mostly by citizens of Taylor's Fail
The shaft is now down about forty II
feet, and from the commencement t
indications Of copper have been gro
ing better and better.
NORRIS RUSSELL. Of the phoenix
Brainerd Tribune wants the Legis
ture to appropriate ten, fifteen
twenty thousand dollars for the p'
pose Of having Minnesota decently r.
resented at the Philadelphia cent
NAL celebration. the Governor to
the custodian and dispenser OF the
preparation.
CKoy Wing county is busted, tin;
cially. and the best and speed!est "
to ccS back to solid ground once me
is what is troubling her citizens.
most sensible proposition Is TO una
present debt. levy q sufficient tax
paw the annual interest and SIN
part of the principal. practice econo'
and keep out of debt in the future.
THE last issue Of the Albert
Standard, the first number of volt
fifteen. is valuable statistical dc
ment, containing as il docs RECORD
the legal business of the county tor
wear 1874. the building statistics,
railroad business. ETC., etc. In
combinations of these important
interesting items. the STANDARD !:
advance Of all other papers in
State.
Duane the year 1864 total Of
25q.o acres Of land were entered
the Litchfeld land office as folio
Under the homestead act. 80
with cash. Sll.367 and under
timber culture act, 15,o2t.s4 &C
The entries under the homestead
during the last six months Of the
were 100 per cent. less than the
SIX months and $50 per cent. less
any corresponding month during
asst SIX years.
The Roe Brothers. firm IN tni
in the Granger" line, who have
doing missionary" business IN
State. selling farmers groceries they
not want at rates no better than
could have bought at home. have
seconded, after putting all their av
Bile assets into cash. jewelry. I. s. ot
etc. The amount thus carried aw
estimated at about 100000. The
ne of property lief, behind invent
alb out 5000. while their indebte
aggregates 100000.