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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-27
RAILROADS.

RAILROADS.
Chicago, Milwaukee, PAUL.
Hallway
The Great Through Line Bctwee..
NEW YORK,
NEW ENGLAND, |
THE CANADAS,
A., raz+e,, and Southern Points.
AND THE GREAT NORTHWEST
Connecting in Chicago with all Eastern and
Southern Lines
Chicago Depot-Corner Canal and West Mad
ison streets. Horse Cars and Stage Lines for
all parts Of the ity constantly passing,
Chicago City Lfi ,es- 81 and 63 Clark-st.
The Only Through Line Between
Chicago, Milwaukee, s, Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
It traverses finer country, with grander
scenery, and passes through more business cen
tres and pleasure resorts than any other North
western line. And the only Railway line trav-
ersing the valley Of
THE UPPER 1u6a188IPP1 RIVER,
And along the shores of Lake Pepin. Also via
Madison, Prairie Du Chen, McGregor, Austin
and Owatonna-
Thus forming through lines between st. Paul
and Chicago.
Through Palace Coaches and Sleeping Cars
Of the Best and Track Perfect.
L. Connecting at St. Paul and Minneapolis
with the several lines centering at those points
St. Paul Depot-Cor Of jackson and Levee.
| City Ofice-118 East jackson street, corner
of Third street.
A. v. II. CARPENTER,
Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agent, Milwaukee.
.A7viunl and Departure
of Trains.
Explanation OF reference marks tSaturdays
excepted Sundays excepted. Mondays
excepted.
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul R. R,
Passenger Depot, foot Of Jackson street
Ticket and Freight Office, southwest corner o.
Third and Jackson streets ]. A. Chandler
Agent, St. Paul.
TRAINS LEAVE ARRIvE
| WinOna & La Crosse
Accommodation, 900 . m, 1850 p n
Through Eastern and
Southern Express, N7:lO p mIt6:lO . n
Prairi. du Chen, Mil.
waukee & Chicago
Express, e7:OO m'sll:30 p n
St. Paul, Austin 4 St.
Louis Express, 200 m, $1,000 p n
Austin Accommoda-
ton, ~y:55 nj 1880 n
St. Paul & Minneapo-
lis Trains, 1880 nj $3.50 n
st Paul & Minnneapo-
lis Trains, sll.Oep mlt7:OO p n
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-27
Clic9g \ NorlhVeStelnR R. R,

PASSENGER for Chicago, Detroit, Toledo,
Cievel md, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Rochester, Albany, Toronto, Mon
treal, Quebec, Portland, Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Saint
Louis. Cairo, San Francisco, Sac aniento, Og-
den, Salt Lake City, Denver, Council Bluffs,
Marquette, Escrnala, Menasha, Madison, Chey /.
enne, Omaha, Yankton, Green Bay, MiIwau-
kee and all points West, South and Eastshould
buy their tickets via CnIcAG and the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
Close connections are made at Chicago with
the Lake Shor. and Michigan Southern, Mich
igan Central, Baltimore and Ohio, Pitisburg,
Fort Wayne aud Chicago, Kankakee Line and
Pan Handle Routes, for all points East and
Southeast, and with the Chicago and AltoI
and Illinois Central for all points South.
Close connections are also made with thu
Union Pacific r. 4. at Omaha for all far Yves
points.
Close connections are made at junction point
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-27

The Committe on Expenditures in the
Treasury Department. in examining the
accounts Of the Bureau Of Captured and
Abandoned Property, has discovered that
property of immense value is unaccounted
for. The responsibility for mach Of this
u directly traceable to Simeon Draper. oil
New York, former Government agent,
nou dead.
A member Of the House committee on
1prsign affairs says the committee have
evidence before il going to show while
0ehenck waa Chairman Of the ways and
ueans committee - received $500 and
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-07
EAST.

New Jersey puts up 81, 900 to exhibit
her schools at the centennial.
The domestic export trade of Philadel-
phia for the month bf February aggregated
So, ,3S9, ,797.
B. p. Rogers, rdceiving teller of the
Fulton bank, BrooklFn has absconded, being
a defaultcr to the exl ent of twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
The reduction OF twelve and half per
cent. in wages at Grfat Falls mills went into
effect Tuesday. Thd weavers left in body,
refusing to work.
Thomas w. Pipdr, formerly sexton of
the Warren street church, Boston, and con-
victcd of the murder of Mabel Young, in
that building on I'll Ee 2Sd of May last, has
been sentenced to bt hanged.
Rvsdeck's famOu stallion, HamDle-
tonian, died al Ches Ter, n. J., Sunday night,
aged about % vearb. He was sire of the
most noted and valu hble trotting stock in the
country.
COnray, one of the Utica, New York,
masked burglars, Tho had turned states
evidence, was shot Head last week, during n
parley between thd officer who had him IN
charge and party bf men who claimed him,
asserting that they were officers, but who are
supposed TO have belonged to a gang Of bur
glars
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George Washington.

George Washington was q conspicuous
and beautiful instance of a man who
minded his own business. Suppose that
an intelligent person living in one of the
European centres of civilization had
been asked, about the year 177O, what
man then over thirty-seven years of age
was most likely to be the typical great
and-gOod man of the modern world |!
Would he have singled out the Virginia
militia officer, at that time busying him
self with the care of his plantation on the
Potomac, and whatever social duties and
delights, or whatever polite politics were
convenient and appropriate? The strong
point about Washington was, that the
duty or the pleasure, the ceremony or
the selfsacrifice that lay in his way, he
enjoyed or performed without shirking,
and to the very best of his ability. He
did not, as a youth, lie a wake o. nights
wondering "what he would be when he
grew up to be a man." When~he be-
came a man he showed neither imagina-
tion nor genius, but he had one of the
traits of genius, namely, concentration.
He put his mind upon his present Occu-
patton, without looking back or looking
ahead. He engineered, fought the In
dians, rode horseback, wrote letters, went
fox hunting. attended church, proposed
to young women, conducted campaigns,
and governed the United States each at
the proper time, and each with sincerity
of purpose and assiduity. We do not
hear of his swearing often; but when he
did, it was thoroughly and effectively
done. If he seems not to have been as
successful in the matter of matrimonial
proposals as in other occupations, we
must remember that the centennially re-
vived old wives tales of early and dis
Greet refusals of Washington by the old
wives themselves, must be taken with a
few gains of deferential allowance
,S.y-iL1,er
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with 100000, to put the city in a state of de-
fense against the revolutionists, who are ap-
preaching it, ten thousand strong One
merchant was thrown into prison for non
compliance. American merchants there
have been so enormously taxed that they
have been compelled to resort to an appeal
to the United States consul for protection.
The siuation in Mexico is becoming seriously
interesting. -
The French government has published
an official report on the Paris commune of
1871, ami the fate of The captured comniun-
lists. The report shows that over 200, 900 men
served in the ranks of the communists, with
1900 officers. 1t shows also that the total
number of prisoners was So 600, including
5000 soldiers, $50 women and $50 young per-
sons Of sixteen years of age or under. About
1000 were released very sOon-aiter their
arrest Soon after 10000 more were set at
liberty about 5000 of them discharged as
havin been imprisoned wrongfully, the rest
freed for want of evidence; six months later
5000 more were discharged. Out of the
women only 200 were semitic trial; of the
children only eighty. The courts ,first>deaIt
with about 5000 principal offenders, but
afterwards disposed regularly of about 1000
ordinary eases month; of these they con-
demned about S,5Oo, acgai;ted about 1000,
and released about 1,0OO; about one per.
cent. o. their sentences were annulled on
appeal; twenty three men and eight women
were executed, but always for some signal
crime. Out of the 10000 convicted, two
thirds were sentenced to simple transporta-
ton or to imprisonment without hard labor
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-07
In the house. on the 9th. Mr.. Holman

In the house, on the 24th, Mr.. Holman
presented the memorial of the Woman's tenn
perance league of Indiana, asking for leg
islation to promote temperance in the United
States. Referred. Mr.. Blount, from the COM
mittee on appropriations, reported bill to
supply a deficiency of SEQ, 900 for the manu-
facttire of postal-eards for the year ending
lime so. iS76. Passed. The house went into
committee of the whole on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill.
The committee proceeded 70 consider the
bill in detail The item for compensation of
senators. whiehis in the first item in the bill,
having been read, which fixes the salary at
81 500, Mr. Baker, of Indiana, moved TO re-
duce TO $3, 900. Rejected. Mr.. Foster moved
to reduce it to S2,700. Rejected. Mr.. Hill
moved to make the reduction OF salaries
commence on the 4th of March, 1877. Re
iected. Mr.. Kelley moved to strike out s., 500
and insert So, 1000, and spoke in favor of that
motion. Mr Douglass moved to fix the sal
aries at So, 500. Adjourned till Monday.
In the house, on the 9th, Mr. Payne
moved to supend the rules and pass his bill
to provide for the gradual resumption of
specie payment. The first section of the
bill directs the secretary of the treasury to
set aside and retain in coin each year, until
par with gold, an anluiint equal 10 ) per
cent. Of of1istdhdihg legal lenders Or legal
tender notes, to be held as resumption
fund for the redemption of such legal tender
notes, provided that such coin set aside and
retained shall be counted as part of the sink
ing fund. The second section requires ma
tional banks to set aside and retain from
coin received by them as interest on bonds
deposited as security for their circulation, an
amount equal to 8 per cent. ef their circula-
ton, such coin to be counted as part of their
legal money reserve. The third section re-
peals so much of the resumption act of Jan-
uary IA, 1873, as provides for the redemption
of legal tender notes to the am6aht OF 6Oper
cent. of national bank notes in circulation,
and as much as provides for the redemption
of legal tender notes in coin after January,
1879. The motion was defeated-S1 to 136;
The house then went into committee of tbs
whole on the bill providing for the deficiency
in the engraving and printing bureau OF the
treasury, and for the issuance of subsidiary
silver coin. Varions amendments were
offered. The committee rose and reported
the bill and amendments, with the under
standing that a five minutes debate will be
allowed in the house and a vote taken on
each amendment. House then adjourned.
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4 Tnnfhnche Remedy.

DIR. Duckworth, of st. Bartholomew
hospital, London, has recently success
fully used bicarbonate Of soda as RENE
DIV for severe tOOthache, when appllca-
tions of chloroform, either externally 70
the cheek or to the ear, or placed on cot
ton iu the decayed tooth, failed and
when ca,bolic acid. applied as last men
toned, also proved imperative. Iledgets
of cotton. soaked in Il solution oi thirty
grains of bicarbonate Of soda in one fuid
ounce of water, gave almost instant re-
lief DIR. Duckworth considers that very
frequently the pain is due to the con
tact of acid saliva with the decay d
tooth: and therefore it is important, IN
cases of odontalgia, first 10 determine
whether the saliva had an acid reac-
tion. If this be the case, then sim
ple alkaline application, as above stated,
IL the most efIicaciOus means OF cure.
Cases of toothache are such common
accompaniments to disordered stomach
that there seems every reason for th =
truth of the above authors conjecture.
Doubtless on the same ground IS due
the efficacy of ammonia, so frequently
recommended. but which, If applied
carelessly, is liable TO produce more
pain by burning the gum than already
exists i'm the tooth. Bicarbonate OF
soda is found in every kitchen, and
hence no more handy remedy could be
devised, while it il destitute of any
painful effects and the rationale Of its
operations and it's simplicity make us
wonder why il has not been thought
of before.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-07

Wages are considerably higher at the
west than at the east, judging from the
accounts in the New York and Cincin-
natl papers. In New York carpenters
wages are down to 81, bricklayers' to
81. so and So, and laborers' to 81, while
in Cincinnati carpenters get from $2.75
to SO, bricklayers So, and laborers S1.75.
Eastern and western wages compare sim
ilarly through the whole range of build
ing trades. Wages in Cincinnati show
curiously the effect OF the large German
population. In the breweries, bakeries,
and barber-shops-sll trades in which
the Germans are expert-wages arc very
low. Young men can be had for 81 a
week in the bakeries, which ought TO re-
suit in cheap bread. 1t would be great
relief to American housewives if the
universal cheap bakery of the Germans
could be induced TO squat in every neigh
borhood. Cigar-makers at Cincinnati
only get Sl2 a week, machinists 81 a
day: shoemakers, on the other hand, en-
iov the exceptional favor of the building
trade, and get from $12 TO $22 week
their wages being higher than they were
three years ago. The activity of some
of these manufactures at the west is
one good reason why they are dull at the
east, and shows the necessity of the Sc
verest retrenchment in taxation, rents,
profits, interest, ambitions, and all tho
conditions of industry if we are to re-
tain our hold on industries which we
have been wont to consider our own.--
Springfield Republican.
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Electricity Instead of the GaIlows

The Scientific American discusses
hanging as mode Of capital punish
ment, and proposes a Substitution Of
electricity for the gallows. The light
ming stroke causes the most certain and
painless death know to science. A pow
erful discharge of electricity into the
body of the condemned from a battery
and Rumhkorff coil would amount 10
the same thing in extinguishing life.
This is the way in which the Scientific
American would have executions con-
Quoted . 90 The battery. and coil should
be of siificieft strength to deliver the
hightheh-itth stark. In cass Of theif
being more than one person to execute,
all Of the condemned would be conducted
with all due ceremony to the place of ex-
cution, the left hand of one man hand
cuffed to the right hand of his neighbor.
and the conducting wire fastened 10
bracelets on the disengaged wrists of
both criminals. il only two are to be ex-
ecuted, or to the wrists of the outer men,
if only that number are to suffer. The
culprits being seated so as to be seen by
the legal witnesses, the sheriff presses a
button. The current is instantly cstab-
lished from the coil, passes through the
bodies of the men, and all is over. The
same ignominy which attaches to the
gallOws would be transferred to this mode
of destruction, which, among the ignO-
rant of all nations and ages, has been
the subject of profound superstition, and
would without doubt. through its very
incomprehensibility and mystery, imbue
the uneducated masses with a deeper
horror
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1r4RE1GN.

An official retu rn states the gross num-
ber of slaves in the Brazilian empire at ,409,-
AIS.
Eight out of G Fery ten Of the leading
Journals in Englanh and Scotland will send
correspondents to he centennial.
Paul Dahlgrer |, consul-general of the
United States to tally, and son of the late
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, died at Rome last
week.
4 dispatch frc m Vera Cruz says the
rcvolutiOnIsts havd captured Jalapa, and that
the state of Vera 4ruz is declared in state
of siege.
A Madrid disph htch reports that recruit
ing for Cuba is acti ively progressing, and even
soldiers who serv ed under Don Carlos are
allowed TO enlist.
A great eruption of Mount Vesuvius
is in progress The scene as observed from
a distance is grs nd in the extreme. The
eruption threatens to be one of the most
violent for many years.
An epidemic off typhoidal character has
just broken out II a Lancashire (England)
village of about POO inhabitants, where $50
people were take n ill. 1t was shown con-
clusively that the poison came from the milk
of sick COW.
A Paris dispatch says an arch of the
railroad bridge OF the river Ill, near Latter
bach, gave way under the pressure of the
floods. 4 passenger train from Mulhouse,
for Strasburg, which was crossing at the time,
was prccipitated into the river. The car
riages fell on top OF one another and were
dashed to piecesI Owing to the violence OF
the stream, none of the passengers could be
saved. All werd either crushed to death OF
drowned. Thirty corpses have already been
/ recovered.
Telegraphic hdvices from Mexico indi'
/ cate a crisis at Matamoras. The Mexican
/ general summo he'd the merchants of thai
city to his Office hndgave them to understand
that they would be forced to come down
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CONTENT.

NV heart and but lately were at strife,
She fell a-longing for q certain thing,
The which could not give her, and my life
Grew sick and weary with her clsmoring
God knows I would have given my youths wi
scope,
To buy my heart but one brief, blessed day
of the blind bliss she coveted; but hope,
When appt aled TO IL, turn dumb away,
Until hope Jailed, I did not efids my liesrt,
But was full tender to her misery,
/ knew how hard and bitter was her part; r.
But when saw that good was not for me,
l felt that time and tears were vainly spent;
/" Heart, " said hope is silent; be content.Y
Poor hearti She listened earnest, humble-wise,
While my good angel gave her counsel strong,
Then from tie dust fnd ashes diq arise,
And through her trembling lips brnRe forth
song;
soothing song that grew into a strain
OF praise for bliss denied as well as given.
She sang it then to charm a lingering pain,
She sings it now for gladness, morn and even,l
She sings it, seeing on life's garden wall
Loves deep red roses in the sunshine stir,
And singing, pa s. $, cnvyin@ not at ALL
Content to feel that love is not for her,
TIE roses are anotheT's, bloom and scent.
My heart and have heartsease-and content
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THE LEAF ToBACCo RESTRICTIONS
A Washington correspondent of the
New York Bulletin writes: So many
bills have been presented by members
from the south and southwest to permit
the sale of a hundred pounds of leaf to-
bacco at retail, and in the direction of re-
moving the restrictions now laid by law
upon the sale of leaf tobacco, that the
commissioner of internal revenue has
prepared bill, which is in the hands of
the committee of ways and means. The
commissioner is utterly opposed to re
moving any of the restrictions from leaf,
but it seems that the house is bound to
do it, and he wants, if law is passed at
this session, to have it so guarded that
the removal of restrictions from leaf will
not be apt to affect the honest collection
of the revenue on tobacco. The COM
mittee of ways and means will, no doubt,
report this bill favorably and probably
without amendment, and it is morally
certain that the house will pass it. The
tug will come in the senate, where it will
be defeated without doubt; but there is
no telling what compromise in con-
ference committee may result in. The
tobacco trade of the north and west is
almost unanimously opposed to any re-
moval OF the present restrictions in the
sale of leaf
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-07

REVOLUTIONARY FURNITURE.-Tot the
eve of one whose liking for our revolu-
tionary furniture is not a new thing. the
charm OF il consists, apart from its use
fulness, which is evident TO everybody,
in the color given TO il by age, and IN the
simplicity with which all its ornament
is obtained. Its holdings are always
good and quiet just what is needed, and
no more. 70 round an angle with elegance,
and TO catch the light agreeably' and
whenever any carving is attempted, or
paneliug, there is a certain moderation in
il that is very refreshing in these loud
times. Yet they are not TOO tame either;
but their spirit is the spirit Of high-bred
people. and not OF folks who like to be
conspicuous. Even the architectural de-
tails in bureaus and clothes-presses that
these old people were 80 fond OF n little
too fond. perhaps.-were often very deli
cately and adroitly managed, and we
find ourselves easily forgiving them, see
ing how well in keeping they are with
the effect Of any piece as whole
ScTibRcr.
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A Singular Sermon,

Four gentlemen and an old minister
were assailed on the highway by three
robbers, who demanded and took posses
sion of all their funds. The old minister
pleaded very hard to be allowed a little
money, as he was on his way to pay bill
in London. The highwaymen, being
generous fellows, gave him all his money
back again on condition of his preaching
them a sermon. Accordingly, they re-
tired little distance from the highway,
and the minister addressed them as fol-
lows Gentlemen, you are the most
like the old apostles of any men i'll the
world-for they were wanderers upon the
earth, and so are you. They had neither
lands nor tenements that they could call
their,own neither, presume, have you.
They were despised of all but those OF
their profession and so, believe, are
you. They were unalterably fixed in
the principles they professed; and l dare
swear so are you. They were often hur-
ried into jaiIs and prisons all of which
sufferings, / presume, have been under
gone by you Their profession brought
them all to untimely deaths and, ifyou
continue in your course, such will be
your end. But on this point you differ
nightly; for the apostles assembled from
a tree into heaven, where, / am afraid.
you will never go; but as their deaths
were compensated with eternal glory,
YOURS will be rewarded with eternal
shame and misery unless you mend your
mannprgo
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Ancient and Modern Prisons.

Most Americans who have travelled in
Europe have seen the dark cells built in
the foundations of the dOge's palace at
Venice, or those peculiar boxlike struc-
lures in the town halls of Ratisbon, Nu-
remberg, and other places, where pris-
oners we're formerly penned in smaller
quarters than the dehs of animals. They
are entirely dark, with but one small
opening, d ceiling only six or at most
seven feet high. No bed was supplied
tne VvIr..soner, and no one ehtcted his cell
for any purpose Whatever. What con-
fnement in such a pen must have been
can only be imagined from a report
made by the surgeon-general upon the
hygiene of the United States army. The
cells in the guardhoiise st Madison bar
rack, Sackett's Harbor, n. Y, are nihs
feet six inches high, and eight feet eleven
scribes them as follows: The cells
have no ventilation whatever, and there
is no light, except a narrow spot that
appears at an aperture near the ceiling,
twelve inches By three inches in size.
They are dark, cold, damp, and gloomy,
and in them prisoner is smothered and
punished in chilly stony den in a style
worthy of the dark ages. The exhala-
tions of man in a single night accumu-
late in sufficient quantity to nearly ex-
tinguish lighted candle set on the floor.
In them man is not only deprived of
his liberty, light and his life's breath,
but his own effluvia turn upon him as
poison. Happily they are seldom occtt-
pied"