The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-06-03
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Available vein Of soft coal has been
discovered, it is said, near the south lin
its Of Chicago.
The children in Florida say they live
on sweet potatoes in summer and on
strangers in the winter.
The forest fires around Osceola had
been burning tHo weeks before they in
vaded and destroyed that village.
A St. Louis thief has been caught steal
ing bible from the Methodist church.
Il was not the means Of converting him,
but he is under conviction.
George Alfred Townsend, the 'sGath''
Of the Chicago Tribune, has taken :
prominent position on the ST. Louis
Times, and will probably soon assume its
management.
Milwaukee has more than one justice
of the peace who exercises large jnrisdic-
ton. They tell Of one who not long ago
sentenced culprit to Punishment from
the country, and the poor convict obeyed
the sentence.
A man named Potter, who rode ex-
press for the Sioux City Transportation
Company, between that city and the Cor
don party, is missing, and it is supposed
he has been captured either by the MILF
tary or by the Indians.
The Hon. D. A. Macdonald was on the
22d sworn in as Lieutenant Governor Of
Ontario. He is Scottish Catholic, q
veteran leader of the Reform party, and
brother Of Hon. John Sandield Mac
donald, Premier of Ontario.
A Chicago Times correspondent says
that 'sThe Young Man Who is Afraid Of
His Horses" the same being the one he
reditary Sioux Chief, will 60 to Wash
ington in Pullman car while his name
will follow after by the Blue Line freight.
| A fellow with red nose and bliEd in
one eye is selling the negroes down South
pill warranted to make them white, and
about fifteen minutes after they swallow
| it they lean across q sawbuck and turn
themselves inside out, but the white is
all in their eyes.
A German Catholic priest Of Cincin-
matt, Father Schuenuinger, is doing PEN
ance for choking newspaper reporter
who called him liar. His prescribed
penance is two weeks retirement and six
Ihours of each twenty-four to be spent on
his knees in prayer.
i Pupils at the deaf and dumb asylum Of
Kansas, from twelve acres Of ground one
day Of last week. captured and destroyed
twenty bushels of grasshoEpers. One
half gill Of them numbered ga and
weighed $40 grains. One bushcl was esti-
mated to number 283, SAB.
Prof Jenkins. Rev. Bartlett, and others
1t Olathe, Kan, have tested the qualities
Of grasshoppers as an article Of food, and
pronounce them, after being boiled in
water to clean them, and fried in butter,
to be quite palatable. AMI even good eat
ing, tasting like small fish.
At Dubuque. Iowa, on the 22d, . young
Russian named Warbeauter, wanting to
kill himself, shot pistol ball through his
head and then walked five blocks to OBJ
tain surgical assistance. But the bill had
! lodged in the spinal column and his
wound was pronounced fatal.
There is Justice Of the peace in Mil
waukee who assumes that he had the
power to divorce people because he could
marry them and has actually pronounced
divorces in several cases where the parties
are happily unconscious that they are
) still legally fast tied to each other.
: At Kankakee, ILL.,, one night recently
the head Of 4 household heard burglar
operating in the kitchen and went in.
] asking, SIS it you :" supposing it to be Z
). member Of tho family. ..You bet it'a
! mel loquaciously remarked the thief =
!. he dashed past the inquisitor and out o.
!. the door.
:. Mccartney, the notorious forger wht
! has three times escaped from United State!
: officers in Texas, is supposed to have
bought his freedom in each instance B,
q bribing the officer in charge. HI II ricl
d and it Is known his wife each time appear
Is ed on the scene just before his escape
- The Marshal who lost him last Is to be re
8, moved.
g The announcement that Prof. Brugse
, has discovered nine hitherto unknown
= portions Of the oldest extant portions :
the New Testament will be received b,
Of different persons with different emotions
X Perhaps the model Sunday school DO,
{, will hear Of it with profoundest disma'
: q an unwelcome addition to his studies.
~ The Gordon party Of Black Hills q
20 venturers, having been captured on ~
Or braska soil, has been released uncond
Q. tionally by the military, and will 80 int
q camp = near to Herney's Peak = i q
o. without trespaasmg on the reservation, IN
wait events. This will, Of course, rsqui1
"a that considerable body Of troops |
L. posted TO observe it, movements.
Of The New York Legislature, = j
- hate session, passed . law requisil
u that. alter January LIT, 1879, taxes nm
q b collected in gold Or it squiva1snt .
= that contracts Tor money payment, snls
% otherwise specified, shall b payable
he standard coin. The law i aid o b col
Institutional and will 80 into eject mile
- repealed before the day 1T.
10 Soils Or Coils, the captured Black Hi
,at adycntureT who refused % give his psTol
Be- has been turned over By tie sutboriti
no q Fort Randall 70 the United Stat
ic: Marshal and Attorney st Ysnktsl
: These latter en- find 10 authority (
IT holding him Or law for punishing bin