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CRIME IN THE CITIES

One of the saddest things in the
world is to read the police reports of
the daily papers of New York. Chi
cago or any other of our large cities.
There passes in review before us an
endless panorama Of human degrade
ton and misery. This nnder-rorld.
lies spread out before US a seething
mass of wtithing and str juggling
wretchedness, hideous and revolving
as the INTERVIEWING balls of worms
found in carriOn. While we here.
in country homes, breathe the sweet
air of heaven; watching the play of
light and shade beneath the glorious
trees. or listening to the love songs of
the birds; there in darkness and
loathsome alleys our common human
is found degraded lower than the
brutes of the field.
Here are two horrible glimpses OF
this. Subterranean life, turned up by
the police of Chicago to the light OF
day:
There was one woman in this court
Yesterday who has seen better days
Maggie Phillips. Once she was con
sidered beauty, and her wardrobe
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In 1875 mortgage of $4,000 was
taken on property at Third avenue and
Ninety-seventh street that was then
supposed to be worth $4,000. The
other day, before Judge Barrett, sew
eral affidavits of real estate dealers
were read in regard to the present
value of the property, and the highest
figure reached was $37 800. This is a
fair illustration of the depreciation of
real essate and the sufferings Of the
average taxpayer.-New York Paper.
And what is it all for!
Simply to drive out the people S
money-the greenbacks and substi'
tute bankers paper, on which we are
to pay taxes, on the bonds on which 1t
is based, to the tune of forty millions
per annum, besides paying the bank
ers interest on the paper itself.
Surely this financial policy is q
greater crime than the rebellion. The
latter originated in the defence OF
State rights and time-sanctioned in
situations; the former is nothing but
organized human selfishness. AnC
contraction, so called, has already
cost the country two dollars where
the rebellion cost it one;-and the enc
is not yet. Lee is dead but Joh1
Sherman is Secretary Of the Treasury
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credit Now if this was my individual case,
and applied for council, and | should state
my case to a lawyer, he would say that comes
under the statutes of frauds, and you are not
obliged to pay, and i'll had plenty of money
to put in, these lawyers would, put on their
whole armor, including the bright trimmings,
and fight it out on that line, If it took until
shutdown on the 18th of June, but the people
have no money to put in, and OF course they
will be swindled.
AS for me, this child looks as repulsive as
ever, and am not going to father it; tor to
except Chamberlain s proposition is direct
taxation, and the land will only pay part,
and have all the burden in the way of taxes
one of exchanging the lands for the bonds /
might say take them; but, even that looks
like paying bounty on swindling. Some Of
my neighbors put in many hard days work
grading these old roads, and have never re-
ceived penny. Why not pay them? That
would be honorable. But no: that was for
work by humble farmer; he never will
| make any noise about so small question of
honor, as the pay for work; his business is to
accumulate wealth for others to enjoy; and
when he is ordered to kneel like the camel,
and take one more load, OH his already over
| burdened back, why of course he will do it..
find some are now ready to cave in, they
cannot stand the pressure, but there are q few
old settlers, THAT are not afraid OF fire. like
Shadrack, Meshak and Abednego, that will
not fall down.
To close will quote with little change, a
few words that find III large type, on the
fapo this yellow shirt, Remember Tuesday
June 18th, election day. Payment K. X.
| Bonds. Vote early, yours,
| GEO. &. CHAMBERLAIN.
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Cottage Grore, May p. 1877.

1t is probable the falling off in the
purchase of foreign luNuries is due
mainly to spirit of economy that has
taken possession of all classes to IA
greater or less eXtent.-Indldn6 Far
nler.
We fail to see why the plain unvar-
nished poverty of the people should be
characterized as economy. II to go
hungry and naked and live in novels
or sleep on the ground. be true econ
omy. then the multitude of tramps
that infest the country. are to be COM
mended for the practice of that great
virtue. This false economic notion
carried out to its logical sequence
would resolve society into barbarism.
I-Mdidndpotis Sun.
That's it. Reduce a country rapidly
Ifrom great and universal prosperity
I to great and universal poverty. and
.lthen congratulate the starving multi
dtude on the fact that they don't eat as
ilmuch as they used to. As If the
Jhirhest attainments of civilization
,lwere an empty stomach. ragged
plback, and degraded intellect and
y Neglected spirit.
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NOT THE REAL ISSUE.

The gentlemen, whose correspondence we
have been gratitied.to publish, i'll relation to
the old railroad bonds, have devoted their time
to establishing the fact that the bonds were
conceived in fraud and brought forth in
iniquity." This is all true; we have never
doubted the folly of the original bond scheme
or the dishonest intent of some who were
engaged in it But this is not the real issue
in the case.
The bonds exist they are State bonds; to
them is appended the signature of the State
officers and the great seal of the common
wealth. No matter how clearly we may de-
monstrate the corrupt purposes OF some OF
those who orig inated them, we do not thereby
destroy them. They will still continue to
exist with undiminished vitality. In five
years the bonds mature; they will then
amount to TEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. AND
THEY WILL BE PAID. In 1871 the State Senate
came within one vote of paying them without
submitting the proposition to the people.
Last winter the joint committee OF the two
houses agreed at one time to enact the pending
proposition into law without submitting il
to the people. Nothing but the conviction
that the people would vote afiirmativey mex
Tuesday prevented them from doing so. |
the people now defeat the pending proposition
we feel confident it is the last time they viii
ever have chance to vote upon this ques
| ton.
This is OUR reason for supporting the bill
And we moreover believe that there is grea
| danger that some combination may, in tn
meantime, be formed to sweep away the 500.
600 acres of land. This was done a few year
ago and Gov. Austins veto alone prevente
the consummation of the conspiracy.
We have tried to give our readers the bes
and wisest advice in our power. If the pend
ing proposition is voted down we believe tn
tax payers will live to regret it rs the creates
possible mistake.
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OWITONNd PRONOUNCED
THE INDEPEN-
DENT CONVENTION.
Editor .inti- MonOpOlist:.

Editor Anti-Monopotist:
Many of the greenback school here
are glad to notice a call for an indie
pendent State Convention, to meet on
the Goth, of June; and / think Fari-
bault, much better place to hold 1T
than OwatOnna. The atmosphere and
intelligence are much superior. Last
year we met at OwatOnna, to nominate
Il candidate for congress; and when
our delegates arrived there, the citi-
zens soon made us understand that
Owatonna was the home of Hon. M.
III. Dunnell, and we would meet with
a cold reception. And we did, except
ing from Hon. Amos Coggswell. who
met with us, and made our meeting
happy. We then remembered that
this was the famed city where sand
had been ordered hauled to construct
a fine residence, Immediately after
the salary grab and steal had finally
been made a law at Washington.
Friend Donnelly, be sure to be at
the Independent State Convention
Our delegation want to hear you speak
Yours truly, j. G.
Rochester, MINI. May 29th. 1877.
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THE GREENBACKERS IN CALI
FORNIi.
And for what :!

Even in the land of gold where many
millions of the glittering metals are
annually dug out of the earth. where
the miners are all ''in1ationists, and
there is no limit to the amount of
currency save the yield of the mines,
the people are now turning to the
greenback currency and the Indepen-
dent party. They find that theirlgold
goes out of the State as fast as it is
mined, like their wheat and wool and
fruit. it is simply a commercial arti-
Gle of export. They are suffering
from hard times and hence we read:
"A recent communication in the
columns of the Sacramento Bee con-
tains the following: A new political
party in this State is about springing
into life. 1t is called the National
Currency party of the State of Cali
fornia. \ platform has recently been
adopted by its State Central Commit
tee at meeting in Oakland. 1t is pro-
posed to call State Convention to
perfect an organization which will
| formulate issues to become the dis
! tinctive features of the new party.
| its principles no doubt, will. in the
main. correspond to those which have
been adopted by the National party
called 1.-The Greenback Party The
| advocates of this new system are very
sanguine of success at the next gen
eral election. 1t cannot be denied
that this question has already enlisted
the favorable consideration of some
of the best thinkers of our nation
The legislation necessary to regulate
money to the needs of the people. and
protect it in the performance o.
| its legitimate functions, is subjec
that deeply interests every citizen
And all persons who think there il
lneed of reform in the finances of ou
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CARY ON SHERMAN.

General Cary thus replies to re-
cent speech of General Sherman:
General Sherman, at the Wall street
greeting of de fdcto President Hayes
on Monday, made a remark which we
cannot let pass without comment. He
says: destroy your army, and your
Government and you are a mob. >
This utterance called forth applause
from the Wall street gathering. l
pronounce this SANDER upon the
American people. Is this the educa-
ton at West Point. and is this the
sentiment promulgated by our Gen
eral. Endorsed by subordinates and
cheered in Wall street! | protest
that the American are law abiding:
they need no hristling hayonets of a
hireling soldiery to keep them in sub
| lection or save the unprotected from
mob violence. General Sherman
very properly deprecates the destitute
condition of the $4,000 soldiers who
by reason of Government neglect, are
penniless and their families houseless
Possibly the sentiment to which
have taken so much exception was ar
ebullition of passion provoked by the
criminal neglect of their wants. We
can say to the General that there are
millions of our citizens who are in a:
pitiable condition as our soldiers
Through the policy of his brother
John Sherman, and his political asso
ciates. millions are crying for bread
and the very fact that in the des pera
ton of want they have not been driver
to mob violence is proof that tn,
Generals accusation is SANDER.
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the government minis can grind;can
send you five millions tomorrow it
you send the cash for it. He will
not be in the slightest degree dis
turbed by this sort of isolated State
action.
A pretty subject for joke. The
people are taxed to pay the interest
on over twenty million dollars of gold
bonds, with which silver bullion was
bought, ard now John Sherman puts
his tongue in his cheek and is ready
to furnish five millions of dollars of
silver if you send THE CASH for it. =
What is ssthe cash - Greenbacks.
The despised :'rag-babies, 'the
lamp-black les are worth more than
silver. Why Because at the very
time John was flooding the country
with silver he assisted to have Con
gress demonetiZe it; SO that it is to-
day worth less than greenbacks. And
now he says you can have all the silver
YOU want if you send 1.-The cash" fol
it.
And this is a financial policy
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And this is a financial policy !!
CRIMINAL PERSISTENCE.

Secretary Sherman talks very freely
of his intention to bring about specie
payments on the day called for in the
act of Congress, and has no doubt
that it can be done unless antagOnls-
tic measures shall be passed by Con-
gress, owing to misapprehenslOn
among the people on the subject. He
hopes there will be no such interfer-
ence. He believes that the country
already had it's money down to a hard
money basis. or is SO near it that it
would be criminal to postpone the day
of specie resumption. With the pres
ent outlook he saw no difficulties SO
great that proper management could
not overcome them. The Secretary
intends to go on, steadily making his
preparations, and will sell bonds from
time to time. as he needs them, under
the provisions of the act.-PiOneer.
Press.
And all this in the face of the fact
that the price of gold has risen during
the last month from 104 to l07 ; and
that every day the newspapers con
tain dispatches like this:
New YORK, May 15.-To-day':
steamer takes out $3.50, 900 lin gol(
coin. \ like amount was withdraw
to await tomorrow steamers, TO
which $500.000 have already beer
packed.
How specie resumption, which
means making gold and greenbacks o
the same value, is to be reached wit
gold steadily advancing, is lone o
those things which no fellow can fin
out
Secretary Sherman cannot accom-
plish specie payments. but he can stl
further bankrupt the business men c
the country. and drive more and NOR
of the laboring class to starvation c
crime.
And for what
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THE COMING INDEPENDENT
CONVENTION.
GEN. CARY EXPECTED TO BE
PRESENT. CARD FROM
MIR. 4 YRES.

Editor Anti-Monopotist:
I wish. through your columns to say
few words to the Independents of
the State. 1t is very desirable that
our Greenback Convention of June
Goth should be Il gratifying success.
and this depends upon the activity and
zeal of the members and sympathlz-
ers with the party.
Though the voting ratio of the con-
vention is apportioned upon the vote
for Peter Cooper, yet.all ne friends OF
ourlcause that can come, are desired
to attend. General Cary assures me
by letter. that he can attend and
address the Convention, and arrange
| ments are being made to that end
| 1t is to be hoped and expected that
numerous Independents of Fairbault
and Rice county will aid. welcome ant
cheer the Convention by their pres
ence.
EBENEZER AYRES.
| Chairman Ind. State Cen. Com.
4 COTTAGE Grors. May 2l. 1877.
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Amti- M(unupolist.
-GNATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR.


I The Chicago Inter- Ocean OF W ednes-
!, day contains the delinquent tax-llst OF
! Cook county, making 1876 pages and
l four columns additional for the paper
THE complete paper making 2O4
| pages, which is sent to exchanges as
well as subscribers.
4 Think of that 1876 pages,-not
| columns, but pages,-of large daily
{ newspaper devoted to publishing the
4 delinquent tax-list OF Cook county
. each description taking up one line,
!, and there being six or eight columns
4 to page.
o 1t is simply horrible. And what of
| the future! Is it to be universal
bankruptcy
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and turnout were on par with any IN
the city in point of splendOr. She
had her parlors. which were equal to
any. and wine was her beverage. On
Sunday she got beastlv drunk and
went shouting through the streets
like an Infatuated thing. She at
tempted to whip the officer, and was
brought to the station with much
difficulty. 1t was the first time in
her whole life as a prostitute that
she was ever arrested. Her appear
ance in every way indicated that she
had passed into that secondary state
of prostitution which is the inevitable
course to speedy ruin. When her
fine was announced she took a heavy
and elegant chain from her neck and
cast it upon the clerks desk with the
defiant look Of a queen. ''Take that,
she said, and keep it until | pay that
fine. You haven't got me in there
vet. pointing to the bull-pen, and
picking up her skirts she moved out
of the court.
There was another poor, unfOrtu-
nate woman, who came in from the
streets Of her own accord. She had
fallen SO low and so far that the police
on their raids had neglected her, and
refused to pick her up. She came and
laid her head upon the railing in front
of the court. and cried as sincerely as
child in it's first grief, she said she
had been to the county agent, and he
had turned away. And she had nc
place on the face Of the earth she
could call home, or go to. Besides
she was the victim of lOathsOme
disease, for which she had received nc
attention for over month. There
was not an officer to say harsh wore
to her, and the justice spoke to the
stricken thing very tenderly. HI
could do nothing but send her to thu
bridewell, but he would do that onl.
at her own request. She said it wa
the only place she supposed tina
would receivd her, and she went ava.
as perfect picture of downright
wretchedness as man will ever Sc
in hell, provided there is hell, and i
hath such pictures as Dante said i
had. And so on, these pictures Q
misery and tatters and curious fet
lures went on and on in this cOuI
nearly all day long and when ma
came out from them into the sunshin
it seemed dim and llustreless.
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HUMBUGS.

The other day, in looking over that
able and influential journal, the Sci
entife american, we saw the following
inserted at a cost Of $3.50 per line:
Consumption Cured.--An old physi-
clan retired from active practice .hav-
ing had placed in his hands by an East
Indian missionary the formula OF
simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure for Con-
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asth-
ma, and all Throat and Lung atfec-
tiOns, also positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all nervous
complaints. after having thoroughly
tested it's wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, feels it his duty
to make it known to his suffering fel-
lows. Actuated by this motive. and
conscientious desire to relieve
human suffering, he will send, free OF
charge to all who desire it, this re-
cipe, with full directions for prepar
ing and successfully using. Sent by
return mail by addressing with stamp,
naming this paper, DR.. j. C. Stone, 80
North Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Observe how crnningly this is adj
dressed to human weakness. IAN old
physician therefore an experienced
one ''retired from active practice, :
therefore presumably wealthy IS
actuated by conscientious desire to
relieve human suffering! How beau
- fY,l J,n
lent and venerable old man, in the
evening of a well-spent life, spreading
out hands of blessing over the multi
tude! 1t is pretty as picture. And
all he wants is postage stamp, and
he will send in return a certain cure
for the most dreadful and universal
disease known to the human family
Now the question arises, why this
benevolent old gentleman, instead OF
paying s1.50 per line for this rigama
role, does not simply publish the in
valuable recipe ITSELF In fact VIII,
did not the 'sEast Indian Missionary
give it to the world long ago. A Ger
tain,and simple remedy for consump
ton would be eagerly seized on b.
the whole medical fraternity.
And yet there are thousands VIII
will send their postage stamps, an
then be whedled into paying for pack
ages of the infallible medicine. 9Th
East Indian Missionary will do tn
business for multitudes. 1t is one c
the shames of the age that wheneve
knave proposes to fire his arrows 3
his victims he hides himself in til
shadow of the church. The preciou
mantle of religion has become til
cloak of scoundrels.
The singular part of this perform
ance is that the retired physician
thinks he can find gullible fools eve
among the highly educated readers
the .'!Seientifc American; and l
douDt he does. The degree of
mans shrewdness does not DEEPER
9 upon what he knows. Among tt
worshippers of ''Katie King we
f found hundreds of lawyers, docto
/, and the graduates of universities.
g fact the educated fool is a much mo
: common article than the uneducat,
l one.
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THE Value OF SILVER.

A bill making silver of all denomi-
nations legal tender in Illinois has
passed the State Legislature. and will.
without doubt, be signed by the Gov
ernor. Secretary Sherman takes it
good naturally and told an Illinoisian
the other day that he would send
them 'sall the silver they wanted; all
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government, are respectfully invited
to participate in laying the founda-
ton for National Reform Currency
party.
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DR.. r. D. Hay.

Offers ais professional services to the citizens of
Winston and surrounding country After expe-
rience of twenty-five years at the practice he feels
confident of giving satisfaction.
T-Ofice at Residence on Main Street, opposite
SESTEsEL. Office.
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The Greensboro Dist. Conf. School

At KernersviIle N. C.. viii begin its next term of
20 weeks Jan 18th, 1877. Apply for circular of
particulars TO REV. 5 r. TRAWTUK, A. NJ,
Jan. 4.-5v. Principal.
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Prepared for Immediate '.e.
CRlSTADORO'S

II "A I r. ID x j..
6yristadoro's Hair Dye is the SAFEST and
BEST it acts instantaueously, proceeding the
most natural shades of Black Brnwn does
NOTSFAIN the tx N, and is easily appliad 1t
is standard preparation, and favorite upon every
well appointed Toilet for Lady Gentieman-
Sold by Druggists. ). CR1SIADORO,
P. o. Box, 1888. New York.
Dec. 21-1m.
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The daily production i'll the oil
region Is now about 5000 barrels
a Gay.
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Col. Thomas NJ. Holt has been
elected President OF the North
Carolina railroad.
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January IS, 1877.
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In the year 1924 there were bus
5000 aaptists in the State Of Geor-
9ia, nov there are $4,000