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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06

The financial statement Of the Treasurer
shows this city out of debt
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06

Sugar season has commenced ana the pros
poet Is good for large yield
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
DEpART'T+
FRANK A. DAVIS. Editor.
lat LowELLS OFFICE.)

1898 dressed hogs were marketed here dur
ing the past winter.
The spring term of Carleton college. North
field, opens April 9TH.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
Tree Pianting.-A Few Questions Answered
Relating to the Construction Of the Pre-
MUM Award.
LITCHTIELD, MIMI, !
March 81. 1876. {

FRIEND HODGES The package of
hand bills was received yesterday; will
post them in the most public places.
Was down in the south part of this coun-
ty last week. to talk Practical Horticul-
ture" to the grangers.
There are one or two points Gin the
rules and regulations of the association)
on which am in doubt. Is it required
that set out trees and cuttings with nv
own hand or by one substituted Or does
it apply to all I hire set in on my own
place, for permanent forest, on Arbor
Day?
l think no one man, unaided. can set
in. well. 1000 cuttings or $500 trees
Will you publish q pamphlet or circular
giving the best method Of putting in cut.
tings and trees? The information is
greatly needed, and but lew take the
newspapers giving such information.
Ny boy Was fourteen last Saturday.
He wants to know if that cuts him of
from the boy premiums.
Respectfully.
G. W. FUI1xR.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
MARKET REPORT.
Corrected Weskiy b. uoyd & Grant.
fwsoIgsAxR.1

40 day It home Agents wanted. Outfit
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
THE INDEPENDENT PARTY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE OWATONNA
CONVENTION.
Delegates Elected to Indianapolis.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS APPOINTED.
A Platform of Principles Adopted.

IDENT,AL ELECTORS APPOINTED.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06

The Richmond (Va. correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Commercial writes: The
search for Washington's little Ratchet
has proved entirely unsuccessful. A
few body servants and some half dozen
carriages that George rode in at sundry
times were, however, discovered, and
taken to the Centennial.
Washington's will is on file at Fair
fax Court House, where it is seen and
handled by the curious travellers who
by chance, come that way. An apphcar
ton has been made to the Legislature to
deliver the will into the hands of Col.
M. ID. Ball, editor of the Alexandria
Sentinel, to be taken to the Centennial,
and to be Autographed. He offers to
give bond $40, 900 for its safe return.
Independent of the irdisposition to aid
the Centennial, there have been serious
objections made to allowing the docu-
ment to go out of the State. 1t is pro-
posed by some to have the will brought
to the State Library at Richmond, there
to be deposited, and to be Autographed
by proper parties.
In the Land Office, at the capitol, there
are plenty of surveys made by Washing
ton. He wrote nice, clear hand, and
drew his plats with great nicely and skill.
So itaappears from them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
The Difference.

A resident of Charlotte avenue wanted
ceiling frescoed, and the other day he
encountered colored man who said he
would take the job and do it in fine style
for So. The citizen was surprised at
the low price, but told the man to 90
ahead. He went home the other noon
and found the colored man just brushing
on the last of second coat of whitewash.
and there was row.
s. You great big two-fsted dolt, didn't
| bargain with you to fresco this ceiling?"
shouted the citizen.
Yes, sab, was the prompt reply.
''And you call that fresco work, do
you3"
Eyes, sah."
Why, yoa COMPOUNDED idiot, fresco
work is done with paint.
"Some fresco work is, and some fresco
work is done wild whitewash- de
difference, you see. Long as you didn't
say muffin bout paint, [ concluded to
follow in de track of de old masters and
put on dis mighty fine lime, which cost
heap of money, considering de times. .
The Whitewater will take fifty cents
on the dollar for his claim against that
citizen. Detroit Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
Some Rich People.

Two remarkable bills of exchange ap-
peared in the New York money market a
few days since. They we're for 100000
francs each, drawn by the Aster estate
on Hottinguer, of Paris, and Endorsed by
John Jacob Aston and the National Bank
of Commerce. These bills were bought
by August Belmont & Co., and In the
course of transmission will probably go
to the Rothschilds, of Paris, and receive
their Endorsement, and finally be accept
ed by Hottinguer. The combined wealth
represented by the names that viii be
written upon these bills is something,
we believe, without precedent. The
aggregate wealth of the Rothschilds is
set down by eminent French authority
put down for $3.50, OOO, 900; the Bank of
Commerce has a capital eff $4,000, 600
August Belmont is estimated to be worth
$4,000, 900, and Hottinguer $25, 0O0,-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
A Sad Scene.

That must have been sad procession
Of editors, says the Chicago Tribune,
which fled out of the dining-room In
Port Royal the other day. They were
on I'm excursion, and had been received
ct the Port Royal station with beating
drums, gay banners, and crowd of tu-
multuous and enthusiastic citizens. The
Chairman of the Reception Committee,
mounted on barrel, made them a
speech of welcome, and they were then
taken for supper to building over which
the word g Welcome was displayed in
gigantic letters. Supper being over, the
excursionists prepared for stroll about
town. At the door they encountered an
ELUSIVE citizen, who calmly extended his
hand. They shook it and called him
brother" but he calmly and sternly
said to every man, "Seventy-five cents,
if you please" And every man paid.
It was sad scene.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
A Recommend.

When Justice Potter reached his Office
yesterday morning man about forty
years old and decidedly old-fashioned in
looks was there waiting for him. He
talked about the weather for 8 while, and
then remarked
A man down here on Larned street
sent me to you, ssying that you could
recommend me to some nice-looking
widow"
The court has become used to such
applications, and without betraying any
surprise he gave the stranger written
directions to find q widow who lives in
the northern part of the city. The man
went away, but returned In the course of
two hours, one of his eyes growing black
and blue, scratch on his nose, torn
coat collar, and generally unsettled
look. He sat down, pulled up his pant
leg to exhibit the marks Of a dogbite,
pointed to his eye and grimly observed :
st believe you recommended me to q
widow"
eyes"
"But she didn't want to marry-didn' t
seem to care anything about the holy
bonds of wedlock ~
CT didn't think she would - sighed
his honor, as he turned to his law books
again.
The stranger looked at him for five or
six minutes, and then out without an
other word. Detroit Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
How MI. Grant Got Out Of the Diff


Mr.. Grant (colored)E Mornin', Judge.
/ come on circumstance want you to
delucidate.
Judge Well, out with it.
Grant-Well, de whole circumstance
oh de DISMISS am dis: You see, Judge,
in slabery time I had tree wife on tree
plantation. Dey got long berry well to-
gedder, when they was apart, and / was
we'll satisfacti n, but since rebel times
desc s'devised statues fetch up all desc
dern nonsense laws bout man and wife,
and ]. find amt got no wife tall. Use
no lection to dat, but jis here's whar de
shoe pinch; jis here I wants your legal
precision. De fac is, Judge, wants to
iine de church. De boss leader say I
can't come it onless git legally marrid.
Now, kin I, cordin' to law, marrid all
three, or mus I marrid but oneg Eff
you say but one, and / tempt it, my
spectacle Judge, you better b'leve dar
will be de berry debbil ris on that Ca
sion In dat church.
Judge-Mr. Grant, under de circum-
stances, I seriously advise you to rub out
all old scores and begin afresh. Marry
a new wife.
Grant OATS my ham,! I goes in for
you, Judge, all de timeS tell you white
folks is smart. Whar dey can't crawfsh
out, cullud folks no use try Charles
tom NeaUS and Courier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
A Family Living on Dog Meat.

Mr.. Frank Scheur lives at "a Berlin
street, Newark. He is laborer In
Blanchard's tannery. His fellow la
borers for time looked with envy
upon the juicy fresh meat that
Scheur had for his dinner every day,
unable to understand how he made his
small wages go far enough to support
family and furnish himself daily with
fresh meat. One day, in answer to an
inquiry, he said: That's not mutton;
that is dogs meat It is good. Will
you try it? They did hot try it, al
though they could hardly persuade
themselves that he spoke the truth.
Scheur smiled at their scruples. He
even asked some of his fellow laborers
to visit him, and when they did so he
pointed to the kennels, in which
were several dogs fattening for the
knife.
When the facts were noised abroad
they created no little scandal. The
neighbors wondered how Scheur had
been able to keep SO many kogs, and
why he changed them so often, but none
had suspected the truth. They had very
little to do with Mrs Scheur, and no
feeling OF friendship prevented them
making as much talk as they pleased. As
Schuer and his wife could not under
stand the language and the scandalous
reports, they went on fattening, killing
and eating dogs.
Complaint of Scheur's doings was
made to Newark's Health Inspector, who
found that all that had been alleged
against Scheur was tue, but there
was no law forbidding the use of
| dogs meat for food. Scheur told
him candidly that he ate dog meat not
because he was poor, but because he
Liked it.
/ Frank Scheur was found handling
wet hides in Blanchard's tanDery. He
is about five feet high and of very
slim build. He answered questions
without embarrassment OF show OF
shame.
EDO you eat dog meat because you
like it?"
eyes it is the best meat"
CHOW long is it since you ate il
first?"
"Oh, four OF five years before I came
from Germany. A doctor told me SC
eat dog, and it would cure my con.
sumption. I did SO, and liked it SC
well that I have been eating it ever
since"
s'What meat is it most like?"
Mutton or veal. That is, when the
dog is young. If it is old it gets strong,
and I have to season it high with pepper
and vinegar"
Where do you get your dogs?"
"Whenever I see stray dog thai
looks hungry, take it home and feed il
until it gets fat. Then, whenever per
son gets tired of his dog, and wants tc
get rid of him, I take him."
"Your neighbors don't seem to like
living alongside of a man who eats
dogs2"
ooh, if they don't like it, let them &c
away. They don't have to eat it. Dog
meat is better than pork, any day. I
don't quarrel with them because they
eat pork. "--NeaU York Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
rHE OLD SCISSORS, soLmooUr.
BIZ pARMENAs MIX.

am lying at rest in the sanctum tonight
The place is deserted and still
TO my right lie exchanges and manuscripts White,
TO my left are the ink and the quill
Yes, the quill, for my masters old-fasnloneo anu
quaint
And refuses to write with pen,
He insists that old Franklin, the editor saint,
Used quill, and he'll initiate Ben.
1 love the old feHow-together for years
We have managed the - farmers Gazette,
And aIthouoh am DID, I'm his favorite shears
And oan crowd the cOmpositors yet.
But my duties are rather too heavy, think,
And oftentimes envy the gun
Aa lit laziIy leans with Its nib In the Ink
Wilde I'm slashing away with WILL
But when was newt remember it well,
Though a score of long years have gone BY
The heaviest share of the editing fell
On the quill, and I think with sigh
Of fine days when I'd scissor extract or two
From neiehboring editors leader,
Then laugh in my sleeve at the quill as it flew
In behalf Of the general reader.
I am being paid off for my merrment then,
For my master is wrinkIed and gray,
And seldom lays hold on bis primitive pen
Except when he wishes to say:
So We are needing some money to run this macmnei
And subscribers will please to remit;"
Or, That last load Of wood that Jones brought uf
And SO knotty it couldn't be split"
He is nervous and deaf and is getting qnite blind
(Though he hates to acknowledge the latter1,
And I'm sorry to say it's puzzle to find
Head or tail to the most of his matter
The compositors plague him whenever they see
The result of luckless endeavor,
But the darling old rascal just lays it to me,
And make no remOnstrance whatever.
Yes. shoulder the bame--very little care
For the jolly compositors jest,
For think of head with the siIvery hair
That will soon, very soon be at rest.
He has Iabored full long for the true and the good
Mid the manifold troubles that irk us
His only enolument raiment and food,
And-a pass, now and then, to the circus.
HeighOt from the past comes a memory bright
Of lass with the freshness of clover
Who used me to clip from her tresses one night
memorial lock for her lover.
That dear little lock is still glossy and brown,
But the lass is much older and fatter,
And the youth-he's an editor here in the town
I'm employed on the staff of the latter.
am lying at rest in the sanctum tonight
The place is deserted and still
The stars are abroad and the moon is in sight
Through the trees ON the brow of the hill.
Clouds hurry along in undignifed haste
And the wind rushes by with vail
HelIol there's whopping big rat in the paste
How I'd like to shut down on his tail
.-Scri6Aer for April.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
Family Discussions.

Yesterday noon bold, bad boy who
lives on Columbia street went home from
school and said !: ''Dear mother, mayn't
I go In my bare feet this afternoon
None of the boys wear shoes in the
spring." But his mother said emo,
my darling boy, cannot let you go
bare-footed, and if you tease me about
it, will waffle your tender cuticle with
the unkind end of cheerful skate
strap" So the bold, bad boy closed t le
debate with sigh, and when the yeas
and nays were called his motion did not
prevail, and the house soon after adj
jourped. But the boy went out of the
yard by the alley-way and took off his
shoes and stockings, and hid them be-
hind the wood-pile, and scudded merrily
off to school, and everybody admired his
fiat, muddy bare feet. But when he got
out of school the ground was covered
with snow, and he had a very solemn
time hippity hopping back home, and
when he got there he couldn't tell the
woodpile from a haystack, and his shoes
and stockings might as well have been
in the middle of the ocean for all the
good they did him. So he went into the
house, and, after great deal of filibus-
tering, he made his report, which was
tabled, and the house went into commit
tee of the whole on the state of the boy.
His mother took the floor, and after an
exciting and highly interesting session
the committee rose and the house adj
journed, while the boy rubbed such por-
tions of his anatomy as he could reach,
and framed bill for the more perfect
prevention of chilblains. Burlington
-H1aOk-Elye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
A French Railway Horror.

A London letter, speaking of the ter
rible railroad calamity at Ill, France,
caused by the breaking of bridge,
owing to the heavy transforms, says
The carriages fell on top of each other,
and Immediately disappeared in the river,
where they were broken up by the
strength of the stream. Those Of the
travellers who were not killed by the fall,
were unable to escape from the wagons
in which they were Imprisoned, and they
were carried down the river until they
were dashed to pieces against rocks, or
slowly drowned. Over thirty bodies
have already been recovered, but this,
unfortunately, does not represent all the
victims of the accident"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
Unclaimed Millions.

The New York Sun says The voca-
ton of claimant hunting is of far greater
importance than some will imagine. The
number OF missing heirs and other per-
sons who might hear of something to
their advantage, the number of heirless
intestates and unclaimed properties in
the British Isles, Australia, India, and
other British colonies, and In the United
States, the number of persons who are
entitled to fortunes of which they know
not, is astonishing. In the savings
banks of New York and Brooklyn
alone is nearly million dollars of un-
claimed deposits, for which no demand
has been made Id years. The following
figures show some OF the amounts:
Bowery Savings Bank Observation-Disclosures 800, 372
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. 1887
Greenwich Savings Bank Observation-Disclosures. &c, 164
Bank for Savings in city of New York 1915, 785
Seaman's Bank for Savings. ........... 18O, 4O5
Brooklyn Savings Bank. 1857
These deposits represent thousands of
persons, many of whom are doubtless
dead. Where are their heirs and repre-
sentatives? No doubt, many are in
this very city, perhaps in extreme desti-
tuition.
But it is In communities long settled
that unclaimed estates assume enormous
proportions, like the fortune In the
Wandering jew" under the magic in
! huence of lapse of time and compound
interest. In the English Court of Chan
Gerry, in the possession of the Account
ant-general, e5,000,00O sterling ($25,
000.000) awaits the coming of rightful
owners. In the Bank of England near
~ 93, 500, 900 is invested, to which in
terest and dividends are added yearly,
but to which no one has shown title.
Nearly FL, 800, 900, known as 's army and
navy prize money!" awaits in England
the widows and orphans or legal repre-
sentatives OF soldiers engaged IN the cap
ture of Java in 1911. Millions of prop
erty have escheated to the Crown, and
estates have been in its possession over q
hundred years, which the rightful own
ers could doubtless recover even at this
day upon producing proof OF their title.
Millions are in the possession OF the
East India House, and millions more in
the hands of trustees. Thousands OF
emigrants have come to the United
States and have for long periods drop
ped all communication with their kin al
home. Whole families have died out
there, leaving large amounts by will and
in trust for their relatives In America
but their relatives in America have lef
no vestiges by which they may be
traced. They are searched for, but are
never found. Large sums are expended
in advertising for them, but the adver
tisements never meet their eye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06

The Visitors and Citizens Benevolent
society of Hot Springs, is charitable
association which is doing much good
among the destitute patients of that
place. A very successful entertainment
for it's benefit was recently given by
the proprietor of the Arlington hotel
there.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06

600. This makes a combined wealth of
three thousand four hundred and ninety
five millions Of dollars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06

MARBLE has been discovered In Cen
ter county, Penn, said to be equal to
the finest italian. This is especially
gratifying in view of the fact that sixty
five young doctors were recently turned
loose upon that State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
TWO RONDEA.Us.

Violet delicate, sweet,
Down in the deep of the wood,
Hid in thy ill retreat,
Far from tn, sound of the street,
Man and his merciless mood
Safe from t. storm and the heat,
Breathing Of beauty and good
Fragrautly, under thy hood
Violet.
Beautiful maid, discreet,
Where is the mate that is meet,
Meet for thee-strive as he could
Yet will kneel at thy feet,
Fearing another one should.
Violet
". C. Monkhottse.
Rose in the hedge-row grown.
Where the scent of the fresh sweet hay
Comes up from the fields new-mown,
You know i6--you know it-alone
so gather you here to-dayI
For here-was it not here, say?-
mat she came by the woodland way,
And my heart with a hope unknown
RoseS
All, yes with her bright hair blown,
And her eyes ike the skies of May,
And her steps like the rose-leayes strown
When the winds in the rose trees play
1t was here-O my love, my own
Rosel
n ustin Do5soql.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-18

THE ELECTORAL VoTE.-The Fec
tors are required to meet at their sew
eral State Capitals on the fourth day of
December and declare their choice for
President and Vice President. The
vote then goes to Washington where,
on the l4th day of February next, it
must be canvassed by the Senate and
House of Representative in joint con-
vention assembled. The rule has been
to appoint three t~ellers, two from the
House and one from the Senate, to AN
vass and proclaim the final official re-
suit. If this rule be adhered to the
President of the Senate has no such
extraordinary power over the subject
as has been claimed for him by some
of N Republican contemporaries. 1t
is simply his province to preside while
the two houses conformity transact the
business.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-18
SOUTH CAROLINA.

commenting on the possibilities and
probabilities of the result of the presi-
dental vote in the doubtful States, the
New York Herald of the 9th instant
says: ''It is very we'll understood here
that the South Carolina election ma
chinery has been constituted in a sus-
piciously unfair and partisan manner
Judge Maekay, of the Supreme Court
Of the State, himself a Hayes Repub-
loan. but opposed TO corruption, has
exposed the manner in which Gov
erpor Chamberlain arranged for a
count of the vote. There is q Board OF
State Canvassers the majority of
whose members are candidates for
election. on the same ticket with
Chamberlain, and are thus, by g.
moustrons perversion Of fair dealing,
allowed to anvas and decide upon
the votes of the State and declare
whether they themselves are elected;
and not only this, but of the ninety-six
Commissioners of Election in the coun-
ties seventy are Chamberlain's declared
partisans, and forty are office holders
who hold their places by his appoint
ment.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-18
ELECTORAL COLLEGE PROB.
LENS.

Under this head the San Francisco
Bulletin considers a variety of new
questions raised by the unprecedented
close vote in the late presidential cleo
ton. Among other things it submits
the following: dis
If an elector should from any cause
u behind his colleagues on the pop
ular vote, so much as to be below the
person receiving the highest vote on
the opposition ticket, to whom would
the seat fail? IT, for instance, one of
the six electors on the Republican
ticket in this State should have re-
ceived a vote less than that of the cleo
tor on the Democratic ticket receiving
the highest vote, how would the Elec-
toral College of California stand? BY
the usage In all similar election cases
its complexion would be five votes for
Hayes and one for Tilden, and when
it met at Sacramento the vote would
be so recorded. But nc case of the
kind has, WI believe, ever occurred.
Our contemporary is mistaken when
1t says a mixed electoral vote has never
been returned by any State. Fusion
tickets were the order of the day all
: through the Southwestern States in the
campaign Of 1860. Douglas and Bell
fused in Missouri and other States. In
some instances the electoral candidates
were divided equally between the pres
idential a~spirants, and in others &C
cording to the supposed strength OF
the respective parties.