The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-12-20
GDN ERAL NEWS.
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The French chamber OF deputies has |
voted the budget and France is at peace.
; Things are changing in California. A
San Francisco man shot his wife the other
day.
The President will probably nominate
Gov Mccormick commissioner general to
the Paris exposition.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of Isaac H. Moulton, collector of the
port of La Crosse.
The deficiency bin and the Paris Expo
sition bill went to the President Friday for
his signature.
The Berlin imperial government is short
$4,000, O00 The deficiency must be met
by contributions from the German States.
At Houston, Tex, a white man was
fined 81 and costs for saying to a passing
mulatto girl that he would like to kiss
her.
The latest ballot Friday in the democrat
ic Legislature caucus of California result
ed: Farley 81 Ryland %; Mcdonald Is;
aager Is.
James McCierdan, colored, was hanged
at Bastrop, Louisiana, Friday last, for
numbering c. NJ. Evans year ago. To
the last he protested he was innocent
The dairy exposition at Chicago, from
the 18th to the Goth, will have samples Of
cheese, butter, etc, from all the States
and the British Provinces.
America now supplies Europe with
beef, flour, apples, potatoes, butter and
cheese Who says she may not claim the
proud title of s;the Fodder land?"
Mr.. Cristics, Servian agent at Constan
tidople, has delivered to the Porte Servia's
formal declaration of war against Turkey,
and started for Belgrade.
It is believed the Russian minister at
Copenhagen is negotiating with Denmark
with view to proposing Prince Waldo
mar of Denmark, or Prince John of Gluck-
| borg as the ruler Of Bulgaria.
The jury in the case of sheppard, on
trial for the murder of Officer Arthur in
| Chicago, brought in verdict of man
slaughter, and fixed the sentence at Is
years in the penitentiary.
Judge J. j. Mackinnon has returned
from New York to Nashville, with prop
osition from the syndicate to settle the
State debt at SO cents on the dollar and 4
per cent. interest.
Judge Dean, of Hot Sulphur Springs
Middle Park, Colorado, is on his way tt
Denver to report to the Governor that hi
court has been broken up by mob force
The deputy sheriff elect is said to hav
, been the leader of the mob.
B. D. Rooms. an ex- member of the Penn
; sylvania Legislature, has been convicted o
, embezzling 81 200 from an Odd Fellow
lodge at Williamsburg. Rooms has applie'
for new trial.
Small bands of Lerdoists in Tamanlipes
> Mexico, have been captured by the gov
} eminent troops Americans in that Stat
r have registered to prevent adventurel
Y from claiming reclamations.
: The appointment of Gen. Nelson A
| Miles in command of the troops on tn
Mexican border next in rank under Ger
Ord is being considered in the war depart
r. ment.
: On the 18th or 18th Sulieman Pasha
! Turkish army attacked the Grand Duk
:, Vladimir's Russian army and carried SON
: of the Entertainments of Metchka, but w;
compelled to retreat upon krasua.
> The two parties stand face to face wit
= each other in Congress, in just about Il
u same fashion as when the President WI
e inaugurated The celebrated break L
7 has not yet occurred Cincinnati Time
The President has nominated Curl,
Wells of Mississippi consul at Hong kon
e d. H. Bailey, consul at Hong Kong, CO.
ri sui general at Shanghai; Pratt Stratton
IS New York, inspector of steam vesse
! second district.
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d The resolution from the House ways Al
~ means committee, providing for genel
- investigation of the conduct OF the sever
-, executive departments, was prevent
- from passing Friday BY the usual dilato
measures.
:, The Holly Springs Miss Reporter
ca the 9th says that the cotton fields, even
IS this late date, are white with the ungat
a. cred yield. Many fields have not be
l. touched on account of the unpropitic
, weather.
'io Ex-President Grant reached Geneva
Ia FRIDAY, in the [ 5. steamer Vandalia, v
in tied the town during the day, and aft
ward received the city authorities
10 board the steamer. Saturday he sailed
err Leghorn.
Sherman Broadwell, president of
ls Clairmont Savings bank, New Yo
70. against whom the grand jury found an
no dictment of fraud, was arrested at his n
= dence in Jersey City Friday night
-. locked up.
IL The culture of coffee in California is
as coming profitable. The plant grows
a., 90 vigorously as in the coffee countries
nc South America, and yields bean of str
Isl aromatic flavor Central and south
Sc California are the regions peculiarly fa'
ne able
70 The House subcommittee on fore
an' affairs, consisting of Messrs. Schleicl
Forney and Williams of Wisconsin, is
etc thorized to sit during the holiday rec
ne. in investigation of the Rio Grande boz
Iu- trouble.
Bank Examiner Best reports the cal
m of the National Trust Company of
the York impaired not less than 500 COX
ON investments in weak securities, mad