The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-31

GENERAL NEWS.
Spain will send 900 soldiers to Cuba
in the fall.
Twenty-six French communists have
been pardoned.
Don Ramon Cabrera, once a famous
Carlist chieftain of Spain, died on Thurs
day.
The bill proposing an issue OF paper
money has failed in the Roumanian Par
lament
Five thousand Fife and Clackmannan
(Scotland) Golfers were locked out on Sat-
urday
1t is denied that the Emperor of Aus
tria has arranged for a conference with
the Gar on his way to the army
Roumania votes to the army the amount
of annual tribute usually paid to Turkey,
about 900, 900 francs
The Permit Bureau of New York city
had issued last Thursday 6,446 licenses to
keep dogs.
The Roumanian Senate sustains the OBJ
lection of one of it's members to the title
of King as applied to Prince Charles.
The Hampton Normal Institute, Fort
Monroe, graduated last week fifty young
colOred men and women.
Gov Wade Hampton, it is reported, is
about to marry Mrs. Pickens, the beauti-
full widow of the late Gov. Pickens.
Rob Roy is now the favorite for the
English Derby, the latest odds against
him being 7 to 2, while Claimant rules
to l.
Glass Bros, linen importers, II Lispen-
ard street, New York, are bankrupt. Lii
abilities nearly $500, 900; nominal assets
1898 900.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
in for redemption, interest ceasing July
LIST, $40, OOO,000 of the 52O's of July 1,
1865
1t has transpired that Luzerne county,
Pa, has lost 81 100000 in the past seven
years by dishonest officials, some of whom
are already convicted and in prison.
The State department has issued to date
four thousand more passports than last
year, which shows a large increase in
foreign travel.
Nothing has yet been heard from Willie
Dean, the lost child of Chicago, and it is
thought he may have wandered to the lake
and been drowned.
1t is hardly probable that neutrality
proclamation will be issued from Wash
ington. The United States issued none
during the Crimean war.
Monsieur de COurcelles, a great great
grandson of Lafayette, has just been Wis
ting the home of his great great grand
fathers friend, Gen. Washington.
A Berlin correspondent says the Ger
man squadron in the Egean Sea will soor
be increased to dozen vessels, including
four or five first-c class iron clads.
Twenty places of business and nearly as
many dwellings,, in Warrington, Bruce
county, Ontario, were burned Monday
Loss $3.50, 900
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Sar
Francisco, struck an unknown rock MAY
10th and sunk and became a total loss
The passengers and crew were all saved
d. w. CiPearson of Washington City
brakeman on the Louisville & Nashville
road, dropped between two cars yesterda,
; at Nashville and was instantly killed.
Senator Benz. II. Hill is BY no means
poor marksman. He was recently tn
guest of the Savannah Rifle Association
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BILE Is.
The Emperor Frances Joseph of Austri
has determined to proceed to Ploeiesti, OIL
: the Danube, on a visit to the Gar, who ha
made that place his headquarters for tn
present
Subscriptions have already been starte,
for a monument to Cornelia Chisolm, tn
young Mississippian who lost her life il
r defending her father from the attack o
2 assassins.
Army officers on duty at the White HOus
! are to be relieved and assigned to othe
service Col Corbin, Twenty sixth infan
try. one of President Hayes secretaries
E will be assigned to the War Department.
The moulding and looking glass factor
of j. & A j. Nurres, on Broadway. Gin
cinnati, was burned Sunday morning. Es
timated loss $50, 900; insurance reported a
only $40 900
The horse Jongleur won IN the Frencl
, Derby races at Chantilly on Sunday; Yer
neril was second. Strachino third TIL
winning horse was the favorite in the bet
ting by odds of three to one.
The Northumberland, England, collier
finally struck yesterday and removed thei
tools from the pit; Twelve thousand me-
are idle in consequence of the strikes o
the past few days.
The potato bug, which has destroyed til
major portion of the potato crop in Michi
gan for number of years, has again mad
its appearance there. contrary to the pre-
dictions of the farmers generally.
: The American consul at Berlin write
shat American leather is fast finding sal
il Germany, and that it will be beneti
to the trade in the United States TO b.
represented at the Leather Exhibition o
) September.
The 21st of June will be a remarkable
, day in the criminal annals Of Pennsyl
vania, for not less than ten murderers vii
then be put to death-nire of them being
"Molly Maguires.' Three others OF thu
same class will be hanged on the 9th o.
August.
The War Department is preparing te
clese the national armsries and workshops