The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-20


The Cincinnati cigar shops have acced-
ed to the demands of the strikers and dis
charged their women employees.
Friday last Gen. Grant was enthusiastic
cally received at Wick, Scotland, and was
presented with the freedom of the city.
A WOMAN committed suicide in a police
cell, in Paris, by swallowing two wedding
rings.
THE new prima donna Of the Aimee
troop is said to be naughty, aristocratic
and nice.
AN elegant toilet is of white tulle and
silk, arranged with dark crimson roses
and spangled tulle.
BLACK feather bordering, studded here
and there with peacocks' eyes, will be used
on black mantles.
JUDGING from the divorce stories told
before our courts there is too much brim-
stone in the matches.
A CLOSE observer says that the married
lady don't slant her hat over her left eye
as far as the single maiden.
SLAsHED shoes will continue in vogue,
and are intended to display hose with
deliberately embroidered insteps.
MOORISH mothers fatten their daughters
by compelling them to drink large bowl
full of cancels milk every morning.
FUR trimmings are to be very extensive
ly worn this winter, silver fox, raccoon
and Russian here being the favorites.
The British rifle team, of nine members,
at Creedmoor Saturday, made a total of
1,7l3 points. Five members of the New
Orleans team made Oh points.
At Mount Holly, n j., Monday morn
ing, an earthquake shock occurred by
which houses were shaken and crockery
broken.
GA CAsT-IRoN grandmother" is not an
opprobrious epithet; it is simply the trade
name of the new machine for knitting
stockings.
THE other morning lady received a
telegram that her father was dead.
"Now," said she, John can't help buying
me some new clothes.'
ga WORD with Mothers" says the New
Orleans Budget. All right; go ahead
Well ladle out the nice talk to the daugh-
tiers, while you're at it,
THE women of Cresco, Iowa, have filed
thirteen hundred charges against the
druggists and saloon men of the town for
the unlawful sale of liquors.
LYDIA THOMPSON has purchased two
yards of mosquito netting. She has six
teen girls in her troupe. That's all De-
troit Free Press.
A LAWSUIT over COW between two
prominent residents of kerkohkson, u
ster county, N. Y, resulted in the Squire
getting the animal himself.
THE revival Of brunettes has brought
amber into fashion again. 1t is both ex-
qnisitely clear and clouded, in necklaces,
beads, crosses and combs.
A VERMONT hotel keeper has white
washed big cliff in sight of his house
that it may resemble a snow bank and
cause curious people to ask questions.
Ten thousand glass eyes are annually
sold in the United States, and now we
know why that man says so frequently,
II cannot see the point Of that joke"
and smoke has delighted Mr.. Darwin by a
still further symptom of high civilization.
The other day he swore at his keeper.
TIE Washington monument is still
sinking If twenty centuries should ever
look down from its summit, their chief
wonder will be what has become of its
base.
Great preparations are being made at
Louisville for the reception of the Presi-
dent and Cabinet, and visiting governors
of states, on the 18th and 18th of this
month.
Sentor Bayard is quoted as saying that
he thinks not only that Hayes has carried
out Democratic policy, but that he is sus-
tanned by seventy-tive per cent. of the Re-
publicans.
The Warm Springs Apaches of Colorado
have run away, going in direction OF their
old agency in New Mexico, from whence
they were recently brought. Troops are
close after them.
d. d. Spencer, the absconding president
of the Illinois State savings institution, is
believed by Quebec detectives to have
sailed from that port on the first inst by
the mail steamer.
The republican and democratic commit
tees of Ohio have arranged for joint dis
cuSsion between Stanley Matthews and
Thomas Ewing, to be held at Dayton on
Monday afternoon Sept. II.
p Should Mexico succeed in preventing
the border raids, our government will re-
cognize Mr.. Malta as the representative of
that republic, thus resuming diplomatic
relations between the two governments.
Montgomery Blair is said to be candi-
date for United States Senator from Mary
land in opposition to 4. z. Gorham, pres
ident of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal
company and head of the democratic State
ring.
The fishery commission is said to have
decided the first point raised in favor of
the Americans, by unanimously holding
that it is incompetent to award compensa-
ton for the privilege of trans-shippiug
cargoes and purchasing ice, bait and sup
plies
Frank Leslie, newspaper publisher, of
New York. has assigned to Issac w. En-
gland, publisher of the Sun. His liabili-
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