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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24
publican in reference 10 interest on mon
ey. We make some extracts:

Experienced capitalists and business men
give it as their mature opinion that there is DC
kind of property as profitable as money loaned
at ten per cent which is tantamount to saying
that the average yield of industries, enterprises
and speculation is less than ten per cent. on
the amount invested, or in other words, that
money is not really worth ten per cent. There
are several considerations that strengthen this
conclusion. Money loaned at 10 per cent.
Will double itself in seven and half years; ten
thousand dollars will grow into twenty thous-
and in that time, and twenty thousand will
grow into forty thousand That the average
investments in business ventures and indus
tries will not do this is too well known to need
a demonstration. While hundred men who
loan money at 10 per cent compounded,
will with prudent management, double their
fortunes III seven and half years, one hum
dred men who borrw money at that rate will
fail, i'll spite Of all the prudence and foresight
they may exercise, to doubl6 theirs. So far
from it, fifty Of them. if not more, will break
There Is nothing more clearly established by
the experience of business than the fact that a
capital-whose only resources are the products
IT bills drawn on his shipments, will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankruptcy.
If this is true of money borrowed at
ten per cent. how much stronger must
be the argument in the case Of money
borrowed at twelve, eighteen, twenty
four and thirty six per cent?
We have been trying to get bill
through the senate to prevent usury, by
declaring the contract null and.void and
the principal sum and interest forfeited
to the school fund. But up to this writ
ing we have failed. The senate seems
willing to adopt MIR. Williston's amend
ment. to forfeit the interest to the school
fund. This may be slight imgrove-
ment on the present law. but we need
heroic remedies to correct this gigantic
evil Of usury.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24
Anti~@ouopolist.
iCNATlUS DONNElLY, Editor.
THAT ACCOUNTS FOR 1T.

There having been large demand for pos
tage stamps during January, it is suggested
from Washington that the fact indicates a rap
id revival of business throughout the country.
Just an unusual amount of duns by mail,
that's ell-St. Paul Dispatch
Very true. There will be no revival
Of business until it becomes evident
that the process of contraction is to
stop.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24
Y0un respectfully,

We think the title given by the com.
pany is perfectly good.
The United States owned the land.
They conveyed it to the state. The
state conveyed to the Il. X. company.
The company vested the lands in certain
trustees to hold for the benefit of the
bond-holders. with d provision tnat the
bonds could be used in payment of the
land. When you buy the bonds you
bring them to the trustees they cancel
the bonds and give you q deed ior the
lands you have selected; and the officers
Of the company join in the deed; 90 that
you have two titles, both the cOmpany's
title and the title Of the trustees of the
bond holders. 1t is difficult to conceive
y stronger deed than this.
In this connection we would call atten.
ton to the letter Of VIM. II. Perry, fan
intelligent compositor made it Berry.
Il farmer Of Morris. published in another
column. which shows that even now, in
mid winter, the rush OF settlement 70
Stevens county is very great.
We regret that Mr.. Becker. the presi-
dent of the st. p. &P. Co. has resigned.
He conducted the road fairly and honest
ly. and we trust his successor will give as
full satisfaction to the people along the
llne
Since the possession OF the road has
passed into the hands of the Holland
bond-holders the bonds have apprecis-
ted fifty per cent. aud are likely to rise
still higher. But even ut An advance of
100 per cent. the lands are still great
bargain.
To those who contemplate purchasing
lands in that section. whether from the
railroad company or the general govern
ment. VIC would say. delays are dan
gerous."
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24
CHEAP RIILROADS FOR THE MI.
LION

There are many of our readers who
live in regions fifteen or twenty miles
distant, from a railroad, and consequent.
II suffer great delay and expense in the
transmission OF their crops to market.
The people OF a certain locality in Wis
consin. seem to have solved this prob
lem for all such unfortunates, in au ad-
mirable manner. In view OF their ex-
ample there would appear to be no
longer any reason why any neighbor-
hood should suffer for want OF railroad
facilities. We give the following
from the Minneapolis Mail. and we ask
our readers to peruse it carefully.
Down in Richland county, Wisconsin, the
people have struck new lead They wanted a
railroad from Richland Centre, their county
seat, out to the Milwaukee Il st. Paul road,
l6X miles distant. They wanted something to
move their farm products at a cost OF Sd cents 4
ton instead OF % ton as now. An iron broad
gauge would Gus. $l2 900 per mile. An iron
narrow gauge 81, ,OO0. They could not raise
the money for either, and besides the business
wouldn't pay the interest OH either. So they
did the sensible thing and went to work build
ing narrow -guage wooden road, which will
cost, with equipment, but little more than
SO 3OV0 per mile. The money is all raised at
home, and N. l.. James, dealer in hardware
at Richland Centre, is building the road. In .
letter to q gentleman OF this city he gives the
following particulars OF the construction and
cost OF the road:
The wooden rail is hard maple scantling,
partly seasoned, 3 x x5 inches square, aud IN
length IA, is or 1, feet long, requiring about
l6, ,0vO feet board measure, per mile, aud costs
SIS PR 1000 feet board measure, delivered on
the track. He uses about y mile of partly
worn iron rail Of Sd pounds weight, for the
curves ON the road. 1t cost ~ psr gross ton
at Pittsburg. The wooden rails are keyed To
every alternate tie, which is gained 2 inches
deep to receive the rail. The gain ties are 6x6,
aud the remaining ties 4xo inches, and all are
feet long. They cost Is cents each, delivered
OH the track.
The locomotive has ten tons weight on the
driving wheels and cost 5000, at Pittsburg,
and the equipment consists Of IL IN: cars,
costing S2O0 each in Chicago. Mr. James pro-
poses boxing in . part Of them himself ALI
cattle guards, road crossings, culverts, bridges
and cattle ways cost s26 pr ,uVO feet, board
measure, finished. Pilin3 36c. per insal foot
Of piles. Track laying $40 pr mile. The
work commenced Oct /, 1875, and is already
far advanced. 1t is proposed to open the line
for business July /, 1876. Mr. James estimates
that his wooden rail will last To years The
following is > summary OF the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24

Tn does not include stations or other build-
inss. This example proves that "soms things
can oe done ~ we'll Is oshers, i" and that farm
ing community need not go withoa: . railroad
because unable 10 build AN iron one. The
substantial benefits Of steam transport o yer .
smooth and nearly level track, may be secured
by any community that can raise from s3,yOc
70 - ,OO per mile. Railroads will t,e built for
cash, will b. free of debt, and will b. operated
by the real owners of them in the good time
coming, and any plan BY which railroads can
b. built very cheaply II the outset and increas-
ed N capacity ~ increase Of buslhass warrants.
= . pubic blessing.
Ths wooden rad Is worth giving fair trial,
foE its first cast IS only the yearly interest on
the lighfest iron rail and even il years trial
should prove unsatisfactory, nothing will be
lost in then substituting iron rail for the wood
en- one.
Il D noticeable that NJ James estimate Of the
durability Of wooden nil tailio very closely
with actual experience ON TIN Iowa eastern,
rsilroad, and that Ar. jams, information on
the subject Is derived wholly from Other
sources
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STEVENS COUNTY LAND.

We have received from an esteemed
friend and prominent farmer OF Dakota
county the following letter:
HASTINGS. MINI. Feb. l4th, 1876.
Editor Anti- MonopvIist.
DEAR Sin: Please inform ME through the
columns OF your paper if the ST. Paul and Pa
cific Railroad Company gives clear warrantee
deed for their lands in Stevens county, Mmn !:
and oblige,
, 1876-02-02
A RIFLE SHOT.

Every school-boy is familiar with the story Of
William Tell, who shot the apple from off his sons
head, at the command of a tyrant; but we see by
our foreign files that q similar feat has been
voluntarily performed by q reckless father at
Speyer, a town situated uponthe Rhine, in Bavaria.
It seems that a weaver, who is known as the best
shot in the district, where rifle practice is very
popular and Workmanship very highly esteemed,
bethought himself of a browning proof Of his
unerring aim. He thereupon led his son, a lad Of
eleven years, to a certain spot, and paced off
seventy yards. Upon the boys head thus posted he
placed an apple, and retiring with his rifle to the
distance of two hundred and ten feet, he called
upon his friends who had assembled 10 witness tho
dangerous and heartless act to observe that he
should cut the apple in two without harming his
child. He deliberately raised his weapon, fred
and cut the apple in the middle. leaving the child
neither scathed nor frightened, so confident was
the latter in his fathers skill. The h~eartless man
was then about to repeat the experiment, when the
police, secretly informed, it was said by the boys
mother, came upon the ground and in~terfered to
prevent the continuance Of such a dangerous
experiment, and arrested the father, imprisoning
him for a number of days in punishment for his
foolhardiness.
, 1876-02-02
S G r A P S.

WEST INDIA ToBAcco.-The Planters
Gazette judiciousIy observes, "When we
consider that the value of the tobacco
annually yielded by the : Queen of the
Antilles is uppards Of eight millions sterling
to say nothing Of what America, our
other principal c~ontributory, produces
the advantage Of endeavouring to reap a
part of this magnificent harvest with our
OWL sickles becomes apparent; whilst
there would remain the supplementary
qualification of feeling that every time we
knocked the ashes out of our Jamaica-fed
pipe, the blow would have o persuasive
effect on the letters of the Cuban slave. "
The solid footing acquired by the Tea
industry in India is shewn to us by the
great and annually-increasing exports,
while the great scale of operations may
be judged by the largeness of the capt.
tai exhibited, and its proftableness by
the continual new investments in the
pursuit, as observable, among other ways,
in the creation or amalgamation and ex-
tension OF large concerns iamsthe various
hill districts, and its introducBIon into Cey-
lon, Companies, with q capital each of
&l60,000i or 100000, are common in the
tavorite quarters. How the Western
Sugar interest stagnates, in the COMPARE
son Yet, it is pleasant to fiatter our
H-hN tEtD a*tt G*&' E* EE
, 1876-02-02
Translation.

TT is hereby made known that pur-
suant to Ordinance of 10Th August
1874 P. G. Birch Esq. has made the
following announcement at the un-
dersigned Office, viz
That several shareholders of the
former est. Croix Sanitary and Fer
tilizing Company" have formed a
Company named !" Frederiksted's
Sanitary & Fertilizing Company"
with domiciIe in Frederiksted, the
business of the company being manu-
facture and sale of %poudrette, T.
G. Birch to be administering Dlrec-
tor of the company without power
to contract debts in behalf of the
company or the shareholders person
ally.
Frederiksted's Police Office, 25th
of January 1876.
EGGE.
, 1876-02-02

this sagacious proceeding, he could manage to
run about twice as fast as an ordinary dog.
We have noticed that whenever a person
tells one lie, he has to tell a dozen more to
help him out of the first one. And if ever
you have tried to conceal anything, you know
that the powers of earth, and air, and Heaven,
seem to conspire to bring it to light.
Somebody says that it is utterly impossible to
get along in this world without deception ;
and, as things are we admit that it would be
difficult. If everybody knew what everybody
else said and thought about them, there would
scarcely be such a thing as friendship on the
face of the earth
But white lying might be avoided. When
you are pushed into a corner by some old bore
of a gossip, and importuned to tell what you
do not want to, it is better to say firing: 81
prefer to keep my own counsel, " than it is
to conciliate by some such white lie as
Really, | don't know. | suppose she may
not be just what she ought to be. or How can
you imagine that l do not like Mrs. Jones 2
Why she is the ~loveliest woman | know of! +"
There is more white lying in giving invita-
lions than anything else. Everybody asks
everybody else to visit them, and to come " any
time," when they are very well aware that if
the invitation were accepted literally, and the
invited party should drop in upon them some
day just as they were sitting down to a "pick-
ed-up'' diuner of oold-baked beans, and steam
ed-over Indian bread, it would be anything but
q welcome g drop H."
We tell Mrs. A. to her face how we'll and
young she is looking and when her back is
turned, we do not hesitate to tell Mrs. b.,
who dislikes her, that Mrs. A. looks old enough
to be a grandmother
Children are brought up to tell white lies
servants are encouraged to tell white lies when
we send them to the door 10 inform unwelcome
visitors that we are not at home.
The world is full of lying, aud society knows
il, and sanctions it, and expects it. What shall
be done Who can suggest q remedy Echo
answers I" Who :"
, 1876-02-02
NOTICE.

PROM this date the undersigned
have determined to adopt a sYs-
tenn, the only one on which they
will transact business for the future
with either Proprietors or Agents
all supplies delivered to Estates
from the Ist of March next, shall
be for Cash or negotiable Notes
not to exceed 80 days-the drawer
paying the discount-We therefore
request that all who will not or can
not comply with those conditions,
will make other arrangements for
the ensuing year.
West End, January 9Th 1876.
ROCHE BROTHERS s. co.
, 1876-02-02

og at P. C. Birch er Selskabcts ad-
ministerende Directeur, dog at han
like kan stifte Gjald for Selskabet
eller Actie-Eierne.
Frederiksteds Politikammer den
25de Januar 1876.
EGGE.
, 1876-02-02

Total S462, O15. go
Balance OF deposits S48,548. O6.
new deposit account
Minor.
30 Withdrawals amounting to $22I.53
Receivers Jor SATURDAY 5M February 1876.
In CHRISTIANsTED
R. Petersen, Esq, Trustee.
Rov. G.. Willemoej Member.
In FREDERIKsTED
Counsellor L. Faber, Trustee.
p. Stevenson Esq, Member.
JOH. T. GOLDBERG.
President.
St. Croix, LIST February 1876.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-01
FROM HARRISON COUNTY.
Some suggestions for Farmers.
ROCKFORD, HARRISON Co, W. Ma.
E.hrmnrY ~. 1876.

y
ROCKFORD, HARRISON Co, W. Ma. /
February -, 1876. ]
Editors of the Register:
lind in the REGISTER of the 18th
inst. y nat locked tor in the first num-
Der | received. some suggestions on farm
ing. There are twenty-five or thirty
. subscribers for the REGISTER at this OIL
flee. nearly all Of whom are farmers. 1t
would please us very much to have n
small space IN the REGISTER devoted t.
agriculture. the different breeds of stock
aud the rearing al them. y little farm
ing. mixed with politics, would DE very
good and than ktuily received.
10 the questions asked in the REGISTER
of the lStn inst: The best time To Kill
grubs by hacking and 10 deaden timber,
Is in August; best stocia of sheep South
Down crossed with Colswall or Lincoln
| shire. The cross gives the South Down
weight and wool. Fat TT any age.
Yearungs weigh from 10 to 100
pounds. Lamb. sold here last summer
/ for $t.50 per head TO go to market. 10
get the best Yield OF corn. p0ow the
groaud well, break 1t MI up; harrow
wei; get the ground in order before
planting; lay oii the ground from three
10 Tour feet; plant the corn two Ieet
apart in the row.
Leave two stalks in a hill. cultivate
we'll with cultjystor or douh.c-ShoveI
rlow. Ii - good season, l will insure
YOU a good crop. II the corn can be
cut in September, SOW your ground in
wheat and timothy; SOW your timothy
or the fresh plow"d ground before 1t
rains; harrow or brush the timothy in
If thu timothy - not sown the last @.
. September. sow in February. |. ;.
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FROM PETER TWIST.
4 EEnut--GOssip-- Nc,th"r--'"hui-
dates.

"'S>'
urBu,' LAHDING, MARSHALL Go,
W. VA, February %
,lt-,rs Of the Register:
q,ho ,orson Of whom | wrote, in my
lo.t c,m,onnicstion. succeeded IN part
"a; a., man and his wife who had lived
.aS ,.'b ,,. over iorty pears. Pretty minis.
~, ~ - ,ha C;osnsl
..T;n,,,hv babb,e' SAWS that tie two
Wii,s Levi and Joseph, AID lot of
t,1l,w. ,hout the middle of the
III, r',r, nf Imusachment." SAW
. ' M, Ernch Of snow. and they though;
.,,., '. ,aI.n,in 50 they concluded they
, "'.So ,.,r,v-hrn.irr 1bcv thought that
w., , 49, ,y ~ tSo bnm,t,s ears and the
,,...,,ria- ,ssy ~ tbair tniIs together with
'.n,r .,iant;f., yaIIjnr they would be
sure +, catch a few .. the reynards.
Wan ,hcv y'l .iar,rd IN Kin@'s Ride. and
,h.n =, H,bh,, L4oJinr. Fish creek and
Pc p,'.,nr thew went. ,nGT,ins and yelling
,b. ;.n nf ,b.i- voice.. Catch him
,.I s;o,, hin. sing: wander i; ,,ues; We
u.,i bav, him Levi: amt thu run bows:
r.,rn,h t,r,he longest cared hound; nv
h|rnI bss tine Longest tai. About 4
Ill p " there was some hing run in
nhlta Then to digging they went
n.,% - bao-,v rood viii. About 5.o'c'ock
.sa,. c.~.bt The gentleman. NV hat is it,
~ ~" ,Jt looks like rabbit 20.
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ROMANCE ENDING IN SCANDAL.
~. -
An Unfa1 hfuI Lover Assaulted by
His Enragedi InamOi ata-Both Per.
sons Wealthy and Con-


From the New York Times, q.
On Thursday afternoon, Just before the
close of business, Miss Emma lehman, Il
handsome young belress of Hoboken, en-
tered the First National Bank, corner OF
Newark and Hudson Streets in a state OF
unusual excitement, and walking behind
the counter, seized Robert 1dell, one OF
the book.keepers, by the collar and
undertook to throw handful of red pop
per in bis eyes. a fellow-clerk struck her
arm 10 one side while she was in the act,
and the pepper was spilled over his cloth
ing. Miss Lehman then seized one Of
the heavy books lying on the desk and
struck Idell heavily on the head with 1t.
A scene that beggars description ensued.
Idell struggled to release himself from
the woman's grip, but the more he strug-
gled, the tighter she held him, and the
more violently did she shake him. a
crowd gathered around the doors of the
bank aud pressed their way in. ldell
was finally released from her grasp, and
Miss LehmanR was carried in state OF
nervous exhaustion, the result of the re-
action, to her home. The affair created
intense excitement in Hoboken, and was
the main topic of conversation yesterday.
Persons cosnilant of the facts are ex-
tremely reticent about tho matter; but
the statement as to Miss Lehman 5
provocstion, which is most generally
credited, is this: Eighteen months ago.
lde.l, who is the son OF II wealthy livery
stable keeper, and Miss Lehman be-
came engaged to be married, and tie
wedding was to have taken place in the
approaching May. Miss Lehmsnn's
parents made the strongest possible OPP
position 10 the match, but the young PEG
pie were not to be deferred, and last
summer they visited the White Noun
tains and other places OF summer
resort together. Two weeks ago
the opposition of the parents became
% pronounced that Miss Leh-
MAJ n, convinced that she could not live
comfortably in her own home, left, and
sought the house in which ldell lives
with his parents 1t IS said that while
she was still at his house, Idell visited
Mr.. Lehman and asked him whether he
intended, in the case of his daughters
marriage, TO settle any part OF his estate
upon her. Upon beng assured, uncere-
moniously, that he did not, ldell returned
at once to his home, and, under pretense
of having the jewel more firmly set, IN
duced Miss lehman to surrender to
him the engagement ring he had
given her. Having secured it,
he told her that he did
not intend to marry her, ana his IA
Their sfterward advised her, in Il manner
thst commanded compliance, to fad a
home somcw here else. Miss Lehman
returned TO her parents house, where
she has sioce remained. And 1t is
said that Ideil had gwen her further
provocation for her assault OF Thursday
by circulating stories rejecting upon her
good name. The lady has always been
held in nigh esteem among her neigh
bors, and 40 one hss believed the asper-
sions upon her character circulated 10y
her ex-,over. The President ri the bani;
in winch Idell worked is sHid to have
demanded his resignation.
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monty known as softening Of the brain.
The scientific editor sshouldt have said
moliities eerebri, softening of the brain.
Hoblyn. ~ - *
The general occupation Of the people
in Moundsville is running for sheriff and
slate. making. There are now over two
dozen prospective Governors in West
Virginia.
1t is said Mr.. Fearveller, of our dis
trict, has gun over 100 years old.
"a "a PETER TWIST.
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coal Proposals

PROPOSALS FOR FURNISHING The
County Jail ana Iunrn7ry with coal
Tor The ensuing year, commencing ApFll
tna y ard OF COmml>>l nnsrN, until March
iSt ~ " o'clpch,M. Bids received sepa-
r,rsiy for Jail or lntirmary. bidder TO
snsciiy price tor clean, mixed and nut
Coal. properly screened aud weighed.
- =, nrrd.sr oitile Board Of Commits! on"rs
CHAS. II. DEIIEHS, CLERK.
f,h1,reG t-fOmaChl
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Z Toast.

Two important Discoveries: The dis
coyerv Of America 10y Columbus, and
Dr. pIerce's Golden Medical Discovery,
the one opening up to mankind new
continent. the other .ountsin of health,
which l. indispensable to the !uii enjoy
m.pt OF lie and its blessings. In re
su,nse 10 the above sentiment come the
unsolicited atteStatioa> 0! tens Of thou
sands of grateful patients. who have been
relieved OF chronic ailments through Is
instrumental,;y. These voices are Inn
tied to no one LEGALITY, but from every
city. village, and hamlet, /" cur broad
domain. as well as from other chimes, and
in the strange. uttrEsnc"s al foreign
tongues, Ike the confused murmur "t
many waters, come un!cigned and hearty
c,rumendatious. |; l.. il combination
with The Pleasant Purcativc Pellets, the
great depurator OF the asH. ndeT Ii
benign action eruptions disappear, ex
ccssive waste is checked, the nerves are
strengthened, and health, .cng banIshed
from the system. resumes her reign and
ro-e,tsbhshes her rOseate throne upon
the cheek. All who have thoroughly
tested lis virtues in the diseases for which
it Is recommended. unite IN pronouncinS
it the srce, Medical Discovery Of the
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NOTICE.
1rEK,s orr1cE BoANn on CoA'Es,

wheeling, Feb. :, 1870.
To oil whom, Il NAV concern: This i Ia
c,;te not;re thatJ. {. crisp and Others by
5atition ID the Board OF IommiSsloneis
Ask Tor an additional place of Voting IN
Liberty District, said voting preclinc.. ~, 70
he nj the village of Potomac, on Castle.
mans Run, and TO be known as Frecinc'
No 81 liberty pistri I. Final action VII! pe
had al the meeting of the Board in March
Bv order OF the Board Of Com miss,oners
CHAS. II. DEiTERS, Clerk.
fsb9yedIsat-tO mchi