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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-28
st. Paul Markets.
ST, PAUL, June ~, 1877

ST., PAUL, June ~, 1877.
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS.
The demand for produce has been but mod
crate during the past week, in comparison
with the active business of the previous weeks
A considerable inquiry has come in from the
Northwest, and fair demand from the Lake
Superior country; but the local trade has been
dull. as has also the numbering trade, and on
the whole the aggregate IS not hatterlng: The
trade with Manitoba is reduced tins year large
Nv from that of last year from the tact that
outside grain and flour are not now needed in
that province to so large an extent as former
ly. the settlers having at last succeeded IN
producing most of the supplies needed for
home consumption The government has
been considerable buyer OF commodities for
the supply of the frontier forts, and Will con-
tinue to be a large purchaser in case the money
to pay can be arranged for satisfactorily, and
Transportation can be provided on the upper
rivers at late period Of the season. At pres
ent it looks as if transportation cannot be
provided.
FLOUR-Trade has been dull so farAs Eas-
tern orders are concerned, from the fact that
buyers have demanded large concession In
prices than manufacturers were disposed to
concede good many shipments OF car load
lots have nevertheless been made, the price o
mutual satisfaction. Buyers from the North
west have taken about all the stocks in store
at reduction of Soc u bib for ordinary to
good xxx, the quotations being " on IOr
large lots, and $7.75 for small, the small sales
including the daily transactions with city and
local dealers Some brands Of XXXX flour
are firmly held and are selling at $500, and
in small lots at s.. 25. Inferior qualities are
| nominal; with some sales Of XXX at IS 5Oa6.-
| rs. Indian flour is not now in demand Bolt
ed corn meal is quoted at 81 .400l'5O lOOlbs:
Rye -four is scarce and quotable at s2.75a3. Oo
| If sack.
| WHEAT-No considerable amounts OF
wheat are Offering, the fact being, as has been
before stated, that all the stocks previously
remaining in farmers hands, which they de-
sired to sell, have been bought up at interior
stations, by the st. Paul or Minneapolis buy
ers. and the record of arrivals is only RECORD
oftransit to some other point. As to fntur
prospects it is not proper now to volunteer
suggestion. Two many elements are combin
ed in the proposition concerning the futur
probable value of wheat to make prediction
reasonable The nominal quotations in thi
market are 81 AS for No. 1; 81 40 for Noa
81 80 for No. 3.
The following are the quotations OF No.
: wheat In the great markets yesterday and yes
terday week:
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-28
MARKET REPORTS
milwaukee Produce Market:
MIIWAnKRn lime

FLOUR-Quiet and unchanged.
GRAIN-Wheat opened firm and ! sc
higher; closed dull; No 2,4l.5Ox; seller July
81 so x; seller August 81 .32X; No. el.35.
RECEIPTS-Fl Flour, 8, 7so; bbls;'wheat 70 $50
bushels
SHIPMENTS Flour, 1925 bbls; wheat s.
500 bushels.
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE WEEK.
Following are the closing prices of wheat.
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Corn-There is considerable diHerence III
valnes at different times, for oeasons that are
hard to explain Corn arriving by boat Is In
sacks. and saleable, when the market IS active,
at 50a52c, sacks included BULK io.s or tra als
are quotable at 45a47c buying, ana ooc ife0 oii
board. .,
OATS-A few lots of No. Iowa oats sold to
dealers at 36aa6c. in bulk on track, and to
outside buyers at 39a4Oc, free ON board out
Mil STUFF Ground feed is declining.
No. Iowa is held at "a with moderate ae
mand, and No. 2 at $l9 Brand IS quotaDie
1t g. 60AelO for ear loads.
Butter-A few parcels Of good, straluns
color, yellow June butter, we'll packed in mr.
kinr, sold yesterday to dealers 4 1Oc, wmle
other lots, store packed, and consequently
streaked or Oh color, brought only 1Aa0c
Fine grades in tubs and jars ere quoeaoie =
IaAl6c, if SWEET and fresh, and choice TO extra
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re- Read the advertisement in another col
unm headed CONFIDENTIAL.

Genuine Wheeler and Wilson Needles ana
Attachments, at Co.'S. Office - west III 0''
ST. Paul.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
THE CENTRAL Am kRICAN RAIL
WAY SCHEME, AND A BETTER
ONE FOR THE UNITED STATES.

A map of system of railways for
Central American cities and States has
been projected by Leon Luis, of Gin =
dad Yucatan, and distributed among
States. This city of Yucatan is on the
extreme northern point of the State
thus designated, and almost due south
from New Orleans about five hundred
and fifty miles. Havana is within one
hundred and fifty miles, and Acapulco,
on the Pacific coast, probably five hun
dred miles. A railway is to connect
Acapulco with Yucatan City, and with
the Gulf of Dulci above Panama. The
scheme is admirable on paper, but its
execution Will cost countless millions.
That we must have cheaper and shorter
lines across the continent than the
Northern or Central, or Huntington
Scott Pacific is palpable enough. In
fact, the diversion Of the Texas and
Pacific from Memphis, Vicksburg and
New Orleans to st. Louis on this side,
and from Guaymas or San Diego along
the coast 70 San Francisco, makes this
so-called Southern Pacific so intermi-
nable that q shorter route will be In
stantly demanded, when it is COM
! pleted, by the necessities Of inter
oceanic commerce. 1t were wiser If
the resources of Texas were de-
voted to the construction of this short
er highway, whether terminating at
the northern or below the southern
end of the Gulf of California. But
the construction of another railway is
. great gain, and its greatest good will
be achieved for us when it has demon
strated the unavoidable necessity for
the airline road from New York City
to Austin, and 70 the City of Mexico
and San Bias or Mazatlan, on the Pa.
cifc. Not only is the commerce Of
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NO. 81

mel's estate, but George Washington
Bowen appealed, claiming nights rs
the iliesitimate son of Madame Jumel.
Charles O'Conor appeared for Chase,
having been retained, it is said, with a
check for $50, 900. Among Bowon's
lawyers were eX-Surrogate Tucker and
George F. Hoar. The trisl in the cir
cult court was remarkable for the pres
ence of very many old witnesses, who
,ried to bring up memories of Betsy
Bowen's providential escapades. One
witness was Kate Williams, an author,
now dead. The jury decided against
Chase, and the case was carried up on
appeal. Chase then Instituted a suit
in equity, having Tor its principal OBJ
jects the establishment Of title to the
Jumel property, and TO enjoin Bowen
from prosecuting certain actions of
eJectment. The circuit court granted
the injunction, and Bowen appealed.
The Supreme Court lately con-
tirmed the perpetual injunction, pro-
hibiting Bowen from prosecuting any
action or suit to recover the particular
estate embraced in the appointment
made in favor of Mrs. Chase by the
deed of 1928. This may be regarded
as settling Mr.. Bowen's claims. But
even had the court ordered q new trial,
MIR. Bowen would have gained but lit
tie thereby, for his principal witnesses
have died since the first trial.
The grounds surrounding tho Jumal
mansion have been allowed to go to de-
cay, the gate houses through which
Mime. Jumel's gorgeous equipage so Of
ten rolled are dilapidated, and here
and there the once trim fences are open
to the invasion of vagrant swine. The
house is an unpretending white struc-
ture of wood, and in fair preservation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19

THE religious papers of this and
other States have taken all the "Hard
Bricks" and bricks in peoples hats
that the STATESMAN used to exhibit,
and have built with them temples of
soberness and truth and decency in
every prayerful household in all this
broad land. To drop metaphor, we
mean to say that "Hard Bricks" COM
munications have been widely copied
and read, and he and the STATESMAN
are good and great public benefactors.
A delegation of Germans recen tly
called to pay their respects to the head
of the White House, and presented a
series of congratulatory resolutions In
general and thanks in particular for
his choice of Carl Schurz as one of his
constitutional advisers. This called
forth reply, the glst of which was as
follows: "During twenty four years
in Cincinnati, where the Germans are
very numerous, as you we'll know,
was constantly associated with them,
and in the capital of the State also the
German people are we'll represented.
and am glad to know, through you,
that my course Is satisfactory to them"
This is a forcible reminder of a cam
palgn speech made to the Germans of
Western Pennsylvania by a candidate
for their suffrages. He was full of eulo-
ffniEsTfgghtS tSN AID EghtefPhgse Of ofPna antse
who had left the home of their love to
participate IN the privileges and share
the blessings of the Republic. They
had his warmest sympathies and ten
der regard, for although he could not
truthfully claim relationship with sny
of his German friends, one thing he
could say, he was extravagantly fond
of Bologna sausages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19

THE Dallas Commercial says that the
city council of Mobile recently ordained
that the property and capital of cotton
factories, established within two years
from the date of the ordinance, should
be exempt from taxation for q period
of ten years from the commencement of
operations. The wise policy thus in
augurated for the encouragement of
such institutions might very well be
initiated by the city legislature of Aus
tin. Under ordinary circumstances the
profits of cotton manufacturing in a
place surrounded BY cotton producers
are large and certain-far more certain,
indeed, and much larger than of many
other kinds of legitimate business. The
Augusta Cotton Manufacturing Com
pany, during the eight years which fol-
lowed the war, consumed 5000 bales of
cotton annually. II gave employment
to 600 operatives, who spent their
wages at the stores n the city. 1t de-
clared annual dividends of twenty per
cent, and besides paying for itself In
creased Its value rom $40, 900 to
$500, 900. What has been done, may
be done. OF course at present, wages
and dividends viii le less than in 1870,
but allowing the mot liberal estimate
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cities on the Gulf coast, Houston
and Galveston and New Orleans,
involved, but the regeneration and
peace and prosperity of Mexico
can be perfected by no other
agency. The scheme defined By the
people of Yucatan, and promulgated
through a Northern newspaper, with
drawings and maps beautifully coIored,
is very like that considered not long
ago by Congress by which it was pro-
posed to Cut a ship chsnnel across Flor
ida and continue it inside the reefs to
Mobile. Then we have the PROPOSE
ton to reopen the old canal carved
out, 1t is alleged, acrpss Tehuantepec
by an unknown race in an unknown
age, and then the Federal government
proposes to open ship channel across
the narrow isthmus further south, and
at last Yucatan proposes TO rear a
splendid city on the extreme northern
point of the peninsuis at which the
commerce of the Atlantic and Gulf
may converge to be distributed over
two oceans and two wprlds. 1t is a
good scheme for Yucattn, but may be
effected as readily fora city on the
northern as southern side of the Gulf,
for New Orleans and Galveston as for
this Ciudad Yucatan. We need only
extend the International, already fin
ished on an air line from New York
to Austin, and from this latter capital
to Mexico and San Bias on the Pacific,
and that Chicago and st. Louis may
be five hundred miles nearer the Paci-
fc than when Huntington and Scott
have finished their task, it is only nee
essary to extend the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road, through the richest
district of Texas, to Austin, the capi-
tai of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
C'entaur
liniinnsnts'
[L<a.r from a Postmastsr.l

Antioch, Ill, December !, 1874.
Messrs. J. b. Ro-e q Co.:
Ny wife has for a long time been terrible
sufferer from rheumatism. hhe has tried many
physicians and many remedies. The only thing
which has given her reliefis Centaur Liniment.
/ am rejoiced 10 say this has cured her. am
doing what can to extend Its sale r,>,c
This isa sample OF many Thousand testimoni.
als rec iycd OF wonderful cures effected by the
Ccntaur Liniment. The ingredients OF this afti-
Gle are published around each bottle. IL contains
Witch Hazel. MenthH, Arnica, ROCK on, Car
bOlic, ana Ingredients hitherto little known. IL
IL an indisputable fact that the Ceptaur Lini-
ment is performing more cures OF Swelhnga,
Stin JOintr, EruptiORs, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
SC allca Cakcd Breasts, LOCklaW, etc, than any
other liniments, embrocatious extracts, salyes,
Ointments and plazter- now in use.
For TOothhchc Earache, Weak Back, Itch and
CutaueouS Eruptions, II IL admirable, IL cures
burns and scnlds without scar, extracts poison
from bites and stingr, and heals frost-bite- and
chilblain in a short time. No family can afford
10 be without the Centaur Liniment, white wrap
per.
'Ehe Centaur LInIment, Yellow
Wrapper, il adapted to the tough skin, mus
cles and he-h Of he animal creation. Its effects
upon severe cases Of Spawn, Sweeny, Wind
Gall Big Head and Poll Evil, are little less than
marvellous.
Mc-rrs J. Mcclure q Co.. Druggists, corner
OF Elm and Front streets, Cincinnati. Ohio, says:
"In our ncighborhOod n number OF Teamsters
are using the Centaur Liniment. They pronounce
It superior 10 anything they have ever used. We
sell high as four to i've dozen bottles per
month to these tcamsters."
We have Thousands OF similar Testimonials.
For Wounds, Calls, Scratches, hingbone, etc,
and for Screw Worm In sheep IL has no rival.
this Liuiment a remedy which Is worth hun
dred times Its cost.
Laboratory of ]. B. ROSE & co.
46 Dcy st. New York.
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IHE New Ork IlnltS and OlnClnnat
Commercial and Tribune and New York
Herald and Boston Herald, and all the
free thinking papers of the South, like
the Araldnche and Neics and Courier
Journal assert approval of the conduct
of President Hayes and deem the re
preston of sectional violent parti-
ssnship the greatest boon that could
be vouchsafed the South.
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Pitchers
CastOria.

Mothers may have rest and their babies may
have health II they viii use Castoria for Wind
Collie, Worms everishness, Sore Mouth, Group
or Stomach Complaints. II is entirely u vegeta-
Bile preparation, and contains neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol. 1t 10 rs pleasant to take
Nv honey and neither gags nor gripes
DIR T. DmOch, Of Dupont, Ohio says:
81 am using Castoria In my practice with the
most signal benefits and happy results"
This is what everyone says. Most nurses In
New York City use the CAstoria IL Is prepared
by Messrs. j. b. RosE & Co, 46 Dey Street, New
YORK, successor 10 Samuel Pitcher, M. ID.
d&w lystaw tilje22
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A WASHINGTON letter-writer tells US
that at the late Cabinet meeting the
President said he did not want to make
any more appointments at this time
than were absolutely necessary. He
wanted to postpone action on as many
as he could until it is definitely known
whether his Southern policy is to be
success or not. Secretary Evarts briefly
stated the condition of the diplomatic
service, and what changes, in his judg
ment, should be made. The mission
to Switzerland is now vacant, and
should be filled, and he submitted the
various applicants for this appoint
ment. A general discussion then en-
sued as to the qualifications of the
several applicants, but no appointment
was decided upon. 1t is also under
stood that Secretary Schurz submitted
the names of several persons to fill the
vacant assistant secretaryship in the in
terror department, but no decision was
reached. The Southern question was
not discussed at all, the meeting being
devoted exclusively to a consideration
of appointments. The statement in a
New York paper that the President has
adopted the general rule that when an
officer has served for eight consecutive
years this period of service will operate
against his reappointment, is pro-
nounced by members of the Cabinet to
be devoid even of the sempIance or
truth. The President has adopted no
such rule, nor does he intend to pursue
such policy as this statement would
seem to indicate. On the contrary,
where an officer has served eight years,
and shown himself to be both capable
and efficient, this will work in his
favor, and lead to his continuance in
the civil service, unless there be other
serious reasons which would necessitate
change. 1t is asserted very positively
by members of the Cabinet that the
President does not intend to turn a man
out who has held Office eight years un.
less the interests of the service demand
a change.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19

THE article widely copied from the
New York World, giving the Mexican
version of the story of the Alamo, is
the substance of an excellent historical
lecture delivered by Col. Ford (Old
Rip), late of the Constitutional Con-
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the administration. Butler, Garfield,
Blaine and Morton, with waning parti-
san strength IN both branches of Con-
gress, will not dare to re-enact the po-
litical tragedy in which Andrew John
son and Thad Stevens were the fore
most figures. Then the peace and
prosperity of an empire were sacrificed
by popular madness on the altar of
partisanship.
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.HE STATE OF TEXAS.

T9 AL FassieSd IN iAs gq%sEajsnship % of
John T, Smi b, guardian OF the above named
minors, has fled his application in the county
court OF Travis county, praying for sale OF Ger
tain real estate belonging TO sald minors to pay
Indebtedness ard TO maintain them in the fu-
turr which will he heard at the next term OF
said court TO be held al the court house thereof
In Aus,in. on the third Monday In March, 1877,
when and whore all persons interested may APP
pear and show cause why such sale should not
be made.
Witness. Frank Brown, Ciork OF said
H. 81 court and the seal thereof attached, Febr-
nary ~, 1871. FRANK BROWN,
fcssw4. G. c. Z. It. c.
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A strong story is evoked in testi-
mony in great land suit in New York
City-the Jumel will case-from which
it seems that the father of his country
was also the father of his son. George
w. Bowen is almost an octogenarian,
but still hale and hearty and has a
young wife. He lives in back street
in Providence, R.. l., and was worth
about thirty thousand dollars when he
began the suit against Chase. Bowen
processes to be the illePitimate son of
Madame Eliza Jumel, noted about tie
beginning of the century as a street.
walker in Providence, and was known
as Betsy Bowen. The old house in
which Betsy was said to have borne
George Washingto Bowen was torn
down few years ago.
George Washington visited Provi-
dence a few months before G. W.
Bowen's birth, and it has been asserted
that Washington was the father of G.
Washington Bowen, as well as of his
country. Washington's stay in Prov
idence was, however, very brief and
he was all the time in the glare of pnb-
lie ovation and surrounded by the elite
of the city. 1t is, therefore, hardly
possible that this scandal could have
any reasonable pasis. Certain it is,
however, that old George Washington
E6 gg bbSSTr9sr 81 ME Rif3t hist President, hi1
although George +. Hoar thinks that
his ear flap resembles that of Madame
Jumel, and Charles O'Conor thinks
that the plaintiffs ear flap Is not like
Madame Jumel's ear flap. While George
Bowen's paternity is under cloud,
several of the older inhabitants testified
that he was the son Of Madame Jumel.
Nearly all, if not all, of those witnesses
are dead
Betsy Bowen, after her arrival In
New York, became the mistress of a
Frenchman named Jumel, who owned
considerable real estate, including
houses in Liberty and other downtown
streets, and an extensive tract in the
northern part of Manhattan Island,
near Csrmansville. The property is
now valued at about So, coo, 900. Jumel
married Betsy, and when he died he
left all his property to her. She at
once launched out into extravagant
display, and her gaudy attire and
equipsge became one of the sights of
New York. The facts of her early
career partially leaked out, and she
could get no standing in respectable
society. Aaron Barr, after he had
been Vice President of the United
States, was led izto a marriage with
her, when he was seventy-eight years
old, but he was soon afterwards di-
vorced. She never failed, after his
death, to publish herself as 'sthe wId-
ow Of Aaron Burr, formerly Vice Pres
ident Of the United States" and this
is the legend on the best, il not the
only, portrait of her extant.
Madame Jumel has an adopted
daughter, and this daughter was mar
rie1 to Nelson Chase, An attorney, who
was on very intimate terms with Chas.
O'Conor. Madame Jumel made will
which was overthrow. Nelson Chase
bought up the rights of the collateral
heir, and was about to enter into un-
disturbed enjoyment Of Madame Ju-
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and interior walls began to fall. The
roof fell in. There is now nothing
left of one of the finest hotels in the
country but the Walnut street front
and part of Fourth and Fifth street
faces. Loss on building and contents
$3.50, 900 to 81 900, 600; insurance un
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AND now comes Jonathan Randolph
Tucker, the hair-sphtting professor Of
logic in some Virginia college and in
Congress, and tells rs that ''the Demo
Gratis in his State do not give any spe-
cial thanks to Hayes for his Southern
policy, for he is doing what the Demo
cratic party forced him to do" We
are glad that the President is 50 in
fernally scary.
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Over twenty-three million pounds Of
fresh beef were experted from the
United States TO Great Britain during
the eight months ending February ss,
1s77, the value Of which is estimated
At s., ,oe7, 600.
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BAD BREATH.

Nothing is 80 unpleasant, nothing so common
as bad breath and in nearly every case II mes
from the stomach, and can be so easily corrected
II you will take Simmons's Liver Regulator. Do
not neglect so sure n remedy for this repulsive
disorder. It will also improve your appetite,
complexion and general health.
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PILE s..

How many suffer torture day after day, max
ing life burden and robbing existence of all
pleasure owing to the secret suffering from
Piles. Yet relief is ready to the hand OF almost
any one who will use systematically the remedy
that has permanently cured thousands. No
drastic, violent purge, but gentle assistant Of
nature.
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T OST.

1. Copy OF headrigst No. :, issued by the
Commissioner OF the General Land once De-
ccmbcr ~ 1910. 20 the heirs Of Jesse Thompson,
deceased, for one league and labor OF land.
=. +. and NJ. Colony headlight No. 1856, issued
by w, +. EvAns, commissioner OF Fisher and
Millsr's colony, April Il, 1919, to the heirs OF
EltEaAc1h Schuier. ceceased, for go acres.
3. Premium esrtncAto No. IFS, issued by q.
II. Sherwood, commissioner OF Fisher and Mil
ler's cclony, August sS. 1881. to II. Fisher and
NJ Miller. for 80 acres. II not fonRd within
ninety days application will be made for siu-
pleatsS. lmr3-sWl JACOB kuECHLER.