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COAL! COAL!

WILL SELL COAL AT THE BANK FROM
NOW UNTIL july lST FOR
81 CENTS PER BUSHEL CASH, BY
THE LOAD, OR THREE AND A
QUARTER CENTS BY THE HUN
DRIED BUSHELS. O. J. ACl\ER.
April 10Th, low.
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F. A. Dittoe has just received fresf
Pickerel.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-03

Occasionally we zee a peach tree in
bloom.
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Morris Ream is visiting friend in thii
place.
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RUSSELL HOUSE.

ID EBUILT on the old site, opposite Dennison's
HI store. Newly furnished throughout. Good ac-
commodations and charges reasonable Barn at
tached. w. RUSSELL, Proprietor.
March %, 1877,
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If you want to buy good carpet 60 tc
Tom Johnson's.
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Dittoe cells Arbuckles coffee at 80 cents
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19
Anti- ss>lonupolist.
ID C.
BOTNTJE.S FOR CHOPPERS.

As remedies Professor Riley speak
very highly Of rolling the ground
early in the spring, blowing ana mar
rowing late in the fall to expose the
eggs TO the full effects OF winter S
cold and frost. He finds that heavy
rains have little or no effect IN pre-
venting their Matching. Missouri
offers five dollars per bushel for the
eggs, and one dollar per buShel Tor the
locusts in March, fifty cents III April
and twenty cents in May
Minnesota should pass similar laws
and keep them on the state books
whether there are grasshopperS IN
the state or not. Greece, RUSSIA
Hungary, China, and other countries
have standing offers of bountles.
Minnesota is as much exposed 10 the
rayapes of that destructive insect as
any other region of the world, surely
it will pay to spend few hundred
thousand dollars to prevent the Spreao
of pest capable of destroying nun
areds of millions Of property.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19

There is so much of more impor-
lance in the world to attend to that
we hesitate to reply to the numberless
attacks made upon us. Some fellow
who signs himself Jack, -(he mod
estly omits his last name, which COM
mences with an a and ends with two
S 81 writes 10 the PioneerPress, land
makes what his obtuse intellect
regards as some points against us,
but the points are duller than his wit
and not near as solid as his skull.
He says:
| notice that one of Donnelly's
resolutions contains this clause: That
we regard the characterization OF
American coin as the result of con-
spiracy. and crime against the pros
peritv and industry of the American
pepole' etc. Now, ii | remember
right silver was demonetlzed in 1872,
and who ever heard Donnelly say Il
word about this "consplracy and
"crime" until late in 1875! Is it pos.
sible that he saw this thing going on,
and never said Il word about 1t Tor
nearly two years!
Now if Jack" would take his ears
out Of his eyes and read up, he would
learn that the fruits of that consplr
acy were kept as a secret for years
President Grant six months after he
signed the bill demonetiZing silver
wrote public letter congratulatine
the country on the development o
our silver mines, because he said VIZ
were producing the means IN our Owl
country, from those mines. to pay OF
the national debt. and yet at that yer,
time. not Il dollar of that debt coult
be paid in silver And Grant did no
know it
We would recommend Jack, TIL
next time he writes Il letter for tn
press. to dip the end of his tail IN
barrel of ink and smear out What h
has written. BY reversing ends i
that way he will add largely to TIL
information and happiness of tn
: human family
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and prices, and the necessity that
exists for the carrying of COMPARE
lively large sums OF money upon the
person-would obviously seem to
preclude the possibility of its use for
the bulk of even the retail business of
the country. And if by law silver
should now be made the exclusive
standard for money values in the
United States. 30 law could enforce
its use for general circulation. Sub
stitutes of paper money would be
resorted to and speedily replace it.
With even the limited quantity of
silver at present in circulation. much
difficulty is experienced by the Post
office Department from the tendency
of silver coin to flow into local post
offices and stay there; and on the
Pacific Coast the use of coined silver is
beginning to be regarded as an in
tolerable nuisance, government con-
tractors refusing to take it. while the
banks in that section threaten to send
the drafts of the government to pro-
test unless the pOstmasters honor
them in some other than silver money.
And SO we are to pay, during the
next twenty years. 1852 ,000,0 900 fol-
the luxury of using that which Is
already a nuisance.
That is statesmenship with Il ven
geance
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19

Having spent some time recently in
Stevens county during raid of that
most horrible insect, the grasshopper,
we have reached several conclusions
herewith embody:
I. 4 grasshopper visitation is a
good deal like war. 4 terror seizes
upon the people and they become the
victims of all manner of exaggera-
tons: and the farther you go from the
scene of action the more extravagant
are the reports that reach you.
II. We have further learned that
grasshoppers are only destructive
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19
SUBSTITUTING SILVER

In the seemingly inconsequential
measure of substituting silver coin
for paper fractional currency, there
is greater fraud than all the rob-
berries by whisky rings since the
beginning of the excise tax The
silver small change willcoSt in twenty
years one hundred and fifty two mil
lion dollars more than the paper
fractional currency. This is sum
equal to the assessments of all the
property in the state of Texas. The
Whisky rings are had lot of thieves
and swindlers, but the Wall street
rings are worse. And specie resump-
ton for fractional currency is small
specimen of robbing compared with
gold resumption for large notes
Terra Hnute Express.
And all for what!
DAME. A. Wells, the great apostle
of hard money and contraction and
resumption, said the ether day:
While silver therefore. is not al
inconvenient coin in countries of low
prices and limited internal exchanges
and however IL Fm&r once have favor
ably answered u conditions in tn,
United df3te6, our present condition
of S&lnir - high nominal wages
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colony from the Sioux City CONNER
cidi Gdzett:

colony from the Sioux CITY CONNER
cidi Gazeu:
ssSuccess has at last crowned the efforts OF
the worthy man W hose name heads this artl-
Gle Holt county, in which his chiet colony
is located now contains no less than SUO
inhabitants, and this number increases daily.
Few people know the hard and unremlttlng
labor required on the part OF Gen. O'Neill to
accomplish all that he has done in this direc-
ton; and still fewer, fear, justly appreciate
his efforts and his motives. But we know
something of his efforts, his hopes, and his
prospects; and it is pleasant to know that all
and more than all has expectations have been
realized He has cleared the passage to his
field Of immigration, and has cut away the
rubbish and brushwood OF opposition to his
grand scheme: and he can now sit down by
the way-sideand see hundreds of his country
men passing over the road and into the land
W hich he has prepared tor them. Ii he ever
expected his reward in dollars and cents he
would be sadly disappointed; but he did not.
He has reaped the only reward he ever
sought or received-the consciousness OF
best thing for lrishmen next to freedom at
home is to lead them to homes other own II
free America"
Holt county is one of the northern
counties of y ebraska-aboutl 100 miles
west of Sioux City, Iowa. A little
generous aid from their prosperous
countrymen. in our large Western
cities, would settle 1000 families in
this country where all the lndustrl-
Gus and frugal-within ten years
would own their farms, be free from
debt and be able to aid their old
country friends to settle near them.
We hope to learn more OF the
details of this O'Neill-Kolt county
colony.
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geallce.

The Chicago Times pays the follow
ing handsome tribute to our old friend
w. X. Rogers. now private secretary
to the president:
Miss BOYLE. an amature actress,
gave an entertainment in " ashlngton
in which she perSonated the gentle
Juliet Rogers attended and was
delighted. This was another of the
things upon which Private Secretary
might speak in his own name. SO he
repaired to his boudoir in the White
House and with dainty pen upon
perfumed official paper indicted this
tribute to female genius:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHlSGToN,
Thursday Morning, May II, 1877.
Will Miss BOYLE accept this basket of
flowers from q friend to whom she gave q
Iong-to- be- remembered pleasure last evening!
You will say they are beautiful. Allow me
to say trust t hey will be regarded as III some
degree fitting tribute then to the beautiful
coincidence OF childhood and OF genius which
brought before US by its spell the child-sweet
heart of Shakespeare dream, Juliet-such
is the mystery OF genius-nore real than she
who lived and loved beneath Italian skies III
the home OF that ancient Capuet-the Juliet
OF the human heart.
Very truly your friend, w. X. Rogers
Beautiful flowers, Beautiful coin
cidence Beautiful Boyle !! Beautiful
Rogers. We enter fully into the
spirit of the occasion. Who Will say
that the thorny pathway of official life
has not its verdant spots when a Pri-
vate Secretary, upon who the cares OF
a nation and a reading room rest. can
| find time to daily thus with Melpomene
and Aphroditei Far be it from us to
discourage such pastlmes; cultivated
tastes must be INDUCED, and better
Rogers taste for newspapers and the
drama thar Babcock' taste for whisky
and paving stones. Rather would we
foster these aspirations toward the
true, the beautiful and the good
But as friend of Rogers and Of the
President we feel called upon to war;
the nimble scribe that there are sacri
ifices that a Private Secretary mus
make. One of these is the pleasure
Iof writing letters on his own account
leyen To able editors or fascinatin:
ACTRESSES. The country now know
that Rogers can write; let him there
fore rest on these epistolary laurels
/ An innocent letter has often brough
Ia public man to grief and involye'
Iothers in disaster and distress. LIE
the Private Secretary forswear tn
Ipen, save in the service of his chief
lOtherwise an evil-minded and pervers
I degeneration may take the matter i
hand. and the Mrs. Ruthford B. Haye
Temperance Association may be SUI
, ceeded by u Society for the Suppre:
, sion Of Rogers. Beware the fate c
1.-the bigger man than old Grant
We are looking anxiously now for
, letter or two from General LeDuc.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19

The remarkable editorial from the
Ncp York. Times. which we published
the other day, is attracting very
general attention. 1t is regarded as Il
bold uncovering of the hitherto
masked batteries of the capitalists;-lt
lets flood of light fall upon the near
future;-a future dark indeed for the
American people if they fail to defend
their rights at the ballot box.
The People, The organ of the In
dependants of Iowa. says:
ION the first page of this paper will
be found one OF the most remarkable
articles that has ever been published
in America. 1t is copied from the
New York Times of April %, 1871
the leading republican newspaper OF
the country and us the indianapolis
sun Justly says. it advocates policy
which is utterly subverslve to tree
institutions. Its consummatlonW would
reduce the only class capable OF
Offering any successful resistance &c
combined capital, to u condition OF
absolute dependence upon the capl
talist. 1t would create land arls
tocracv in America. with all the vice
of the feudal lords of England. ant
with none of that grand pride OF race
and position which IS generally
sufficient to preserve an English
nobleman from rapacity. Our mas
tiers would be simply capitalists. will
all the traditions of cent per cent t
prompt them to screw their unfortu
nate tenants to the lowest depth o
poverty and degradation.
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Of course ii is. Here is the way It
has developed the American navy:
our navy costs twice as much per
man as the British navy; and Admlral
Porter has given it rs his profession
Al opinion that one British man-of-
war could .schaw up" good share OF
our fleet in twelve hours. The Unlteu
States has only seyenty-tiVe ships,
including tugs and everything. 10
command these seventy-five ships,
including tugs, we have | ,552 officers,
and ONLY 5,04S men; that is to say, one
officer to every 3 3-4 men. we have
an admiral for every five ships, com
modore for every three, commander
for every vessel and fifteen to spare.
There are lieutenant commanders to
90 round and eighteen over. Inc
masters are in the same excess, ana
every ship could have four heuten-
ants. There are two surgeons 10
every vessel, and twenty-one vessels
could have three. There are almost
enough paymasters to give one TO
every vessel. and there are more than
three engineers TO every engine.
The sum of @6.600,O00 was appro-
priated last year for navy pay-rolls.
The 5,Q4S Seamen eat up @l,oo3''' 90 Oh
this. leaving to the officers about tour
times rs much.
This reminds one of ArtemuS
Wards proposal, during the war' &c
raise a regiment made up altogether
of hrigadier generals
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19
THE TRUE REMEDY.

General O'Neill, the ex-Fenion
leader, is doing a good work by
inducing his countrymen to leave the
densely packed, sin-affiicted cities OF
the east and make themselves homes
on the broad prairies of the great
west. We quote the following
interesting account of his Nebraska
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-12-06
"A sanctihed Woman. .

In a camp meeting in New York State
a woman related her experience In CIV.
ing up certain articles Of ornament and
gay attire that she loved She said al
hrst she resolved TO wear no more artt.
hcial flowers gay colorcd ribbons. hand.
some silks, ear ornaments or brooches
but one idol remained. At last she re-
solved TO throw this away too, and when
she did il the blessing Of sanctifcation
came. The Methodist says: "As she
stood in the audience relating the great
change that had come over her. she dis
played an immense mass Of false hair
wound upon the back Of her head upon
which was mounted a top knot Of a hat
neither protection from sun or cold. nor
ornamental to behold. She disclosed be.
meath a half cast of shawl. a corset waist
which was reduced 10 such diminutive
proportions as 10 appear painfully ab
normal She supported paddings, puff
hngs, pannier and pinbaek. and n dress
skirt sadly bedrabblcd 10 a depth Of sev.
eral inches which dragged upon the
ground. As she sat down after her tes.
timony and an exhortation to her errinF
sisters TO Tenounce all pomp and glory
the world. she piled her fan and painted
very much Ikea ball room belle who had
walized too long and was too tightly
dressed to breathe with ease When at
the close Of the meeting tho woman
walked away. she had n parasol. and fan
and hymn book TO hold in one hand. and
the other was employed in gathering and
holding the front breadth Of her skirts
high enough 10 enable her 10 step. while
the limit Of her mincing gait was dcterm.
ined by her contracted pinbaek and
stilted boot heels And away she went.
q sanctificd Woman"
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Suggestive to Fault Finders.

Now. deacon. I've got Just one word
to say. ! can't bear Your preaching
get no good. There's so much in il that
don't want that / grow lean on a.
lose my time and pains"
Mr.. Bunnell. come in here. There's
my COW Thankful-she can teach you
theology |"
"A COW teach theology What do you
mean 2
Nov seel have just thrown her n
forkfull Of hay. Just watch her. There
now she has found a stick-you know
sticks will get into the hay-and see how
she tosscs il to one side. and leaves II aud
goes on to eat what is good There
again she has found a burdock, and she
throws il to one side and goes on eating
And there she does not relish that bunch
OF daisies, and she .leaves them. and
goes on eating
Before morning she will clear the man.
ger Of all, save a few sticks and weeds.
and she will give milk There's milk in
that hay. and she knows how 10 get Il
out. albeit there may be now and then a
stick or a weed which she leaves. But IL
she refused to eat, and spent the time in
scolding about the fodder she. too. would
grow lean, and my milk would be dried
up. just so with our preaching. Let
the old COW teach you. Get all the good
you can out Of il. and leave the rest
You will find great deal Of nourishment
in IT,"
Mr.. Bunnell stood silent moment,
and then turned away. saying Neigh.
Dor, that old COW is no fool, at any rate. "
TDr Dodd
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VOL. 33-----NO. 4S.
DIRECTORY.
JACKSON COUNTY OFFICIAL DIREC'
TORY.
L - ~.

Judge, Court of Common Pleas-Porter D'
Stale Senator-Irvine DUNCAN.
Representative-ArthurB b. MonHhan.
Probate Jndge-John ]. 9. Evans.
Auditor-Thomas w. Patterson.
TreasuIer-James II. Hunter.
Clerk-William II. Horton.
Sherih-John NJ. Ewing.
Prosecuting Attorney-C. A. Atkinson.
Surveyor-John ID. Brown.
Recorder-Enoch II. Lewis.
Commissioners-Jo ohm s. McGhee, Geo. w
Brown and Van Buren, Johnson.
Inhrmary Directors-A. f. MeCarley, Peter
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Lick Township-James A. Aleshire, David
scioto township - James Davis, Robert
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Canter, George Gilliland.
Jefferson-J. Edward jones' 'ohh Asaac
Madison Jonathan Davis, Edward Hunt,
Observation-Disclosures scurlock, VIM. L.
Milton-George w. Whitman, Samuel Demp-
&ashington-J. II. Wilson, John 9. Ray.
JackSon-Joseph Rowland, l. n: McCornlck'
Franklin = Armpstead Scurlock, Joseph j.
Li6erty-Alfred Lewis, John Mccartney.
PosroFFIcEs AND PosrNAsrERs.
Jackson-s. p. Baldridge.
Berlin X Roads-MrS. Electa EVIL
Dawkins MiIis1Mrs. KirkendaIl.
Leo-C. @. McKinniss.
Meadow Branch-John Motz.
Webers-J. Calm.
Mabees-Samuel Jackson.
GrahamSyllleoJacS%9 Graham fleTse; Ks ssioan.
oak HiIl-W. w. Morgan.
Samsonville- Geo. Reniger.
Jimes-C II. ShIers.
Byers-W. w. Kennedy.
Ciay-T. G..Rlchards.
Rays-I. H. Mccormick.
Keystone-B. II. Moore.
Camba-B. B. Evans.
Standardization Winfough.
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Little Feet.
Two little feet, so small that both may nestle
In one caressing hand
Two tender feet upon the untTied border
flies mysterious land.

Two little feet, so small that both may nestle
In one caressing hand
Two tender feet upon the untTied border
OF llfes mysterious land.
Dimpled and soft, and pink as peach-tree bios
In ApTil's fragrant days:
How can they walk among the fioweTy tangles
Edging the worlds rough ways?
These white rose feet, along the undoubtful fu-
Must bear woMAN's load
Alas! since woman has the heaviest burden
And walks the hardest road.
Love, for while, will make the path before
them
All dainty, smooth and Air
VIII Gull away the branches, letting only
The roses blossom there.
But when the mothers watchful eyes are
shrouded
Away from sight of men,
And these dear feet areleft without her guiding,
Who shall direct them then?
How will they be allured, betrayed, deluded-
Poor little untaught feet
Into what dreary mazes will they wander
What dangers will they meet!
VIII they go stumbling blindly i'm the darkness
OF soTIow's fearful shades,
Or find the upland slopes Of peace and beauty,
Whose sunlight never fades?
VIII they go toiIing up Ambitions summit,
The common world above,
Or i'm some nameless vale, securely sheltered,
Walk side by side with Love?
Some feet there be which walk life's path un-
wounded,
Which find but pleasant ways
Some hearts there be to which this life Is only
round of happy days.
But there are few; FAR more there are who wan
der
Without hope or friend;
Who find their journey full of pain or losses,
And try TO reach the end.
How shall ii be with her the tender stranger,
Fair-faced and gentle-eyed,
Before whose unstained feet the worlds rude
highway
Stretches so strange and wide?
And who may read the future? For our darling
We crave ALL blessings sweet.
And pray that He who tends the crying ravens
guide the baby's feet.
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Live Within Your Means.

Live within your means. This Is a
good rule Tor olficeholders and business
men generally When the man with
moderate income endeayors to live as ex.
pensively as a man Of wealth, his future
can be easily written a little enjoyment.
periods Of anxiety. burdensome debts, q
desperate effort to keep up Appearances,
ultimate bankruptcy. and red flag 10
notify the ncighbors that the sheriff l.
master Of the situation One half the
dishonesty Of the present age springs
from this foolish practice OF initiating the
style OF others. The man Of a thousand
q yearwants to live equal 10 the one who
receives five; he. IN turn. aspires 10 make
ns big a show as the one who receives ten,
and the receiver Of ten labors 20 keep
pace with the one who counts his income
among tho fifty thousands. Is IL any
wonder that so many fail in business. or
forfeit, by their misconduct, the conf.
dencc Of friends7 We must come back
to our old.fashioned way Of living. and
this can be done only by obeyinr that in.
junction. Live within your means. -
Life l. altogether too short 10 destroy lie
enjoyments by taxing soul and body 10
keep up false appearances. Contentment
comes with moderation; mental suffering
and keen anguish with extravaganza.
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ONLY IN FUN.
The Sad Fate of Young Man Who
Pointed Pistols at People

Look outr exclaimed the young man,
scarcely able to control his laughter.
Il m going to shoot"
He pulled the trigger and the harmless
pistol went off The girl fell, and there
was a good deal of blood in her vicinity.
lie rushed to her side his eyes wild with
apprehension. Il didn't mean to |" he
said apologetically. Upon my soul,
didn't know it was loaded e.
IL cannot believe it she gasped.
Its heavens own truth = he said, with
great earnestness.
Il cannot help ~ she said feebly, ad-
ding with unmistakable truth, NO mat
ter, | shall die just the same.
The jury in the case was one of the
stupid ones known all over our beloved
country. The pistol was harmless one.
1t could not possibly have loaded itself.
The young said he didn't load it. No
body could tell who loaded it, 1t was
known that several persons had killed
their alleged sweethearts under precisely
the same circumstances, with the i'm
portant exception that the loading OF the
weapon and all the attendant circum-
stances were not known to the Jury. 1t
was shown beyond question, however,
that the pistol had been loaded and that
the facetious young man had fired it off.
previously expressing a determination to
do so 1t was enough for the stupid
jury, and likewise for the Judge The
latter, however, seemed to enjoy the pro
ceedugs.
1--WE shall infict on you a slight pleas
antry,' he said with a broad grin. The
sentence Of the court is that yoa arc 70
be hanged by the neck until you are
dead But don't be alarmed. IL is only
a joke.
The Sheriff was equally happy. II,
read the necessary documents to tn,
youth as the latter stood with his necl
decorated in the usual fashion, pausinl