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

Mark Twain s mouth IL Is simply re-
markable.
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 its 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
5 to /.
Glass Bros, linen importers, IL Lispen-
ard street, New York, are bankrupt. Lii
abilities nearly $1,000 nominal assets
1888, 900.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
in for redemption, interest ceasing July
LIST, $40, OOO, 900 of the 5-20's of July l,
1865.
1t has transpired that Luzerne county,
Pa, has lost 81 900 900 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 large increase in
foreign travel.
Nothing has yet been heard from Willie
Dean, the lost child of Chicago, and it il
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, 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-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 total loss
The passengers and crew were all saved.
D. w. C.iPearson of Washington City
brakeman on the Louisville & Nashville
road, dropped between two cars yesterda,
) at Nashville and was instantly killed.
Senator BENZ. H. Hill is by no means
poor marksman. He was recently tn
: guest of the Savannah Rifle Association
and made a score of 13 out of a posi-
BILE Is.
The Emperor Frances Joseph of Austri
has determined to proceed to Ploeiesti, OF
: the Danube, on visit to the Gar. who ha
made that place his headquarters for tn,
present.
l C,>1c
for a monument to Cornelia Chisolm, tn
defending her father from the attack o
= assassius.
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
) 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 SIC, 900.
The horse Jongleur won in the Frencl
Derby races at Chantilly on Sunday; Yer
neril was second, Strachino third. Tn
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 mel
are idle in consequence of the strikes o
the past few days.
; The potato bug, which has destroyed thu
major portion of the potato crop in Mich
gan for number of years, has again made
its appearance there, contrary to the pre-
dictiOnS of the farmers generally.
Z, The American consul at Berlin write.
that American leather is fast finding a sale
ia Germany, and that it will be a benefi
to the trade in the United States TO be
represented at the Leather Exhibition Of
September.
The 21st of June will be remarkable
day in the criminal annals of Pennsyl-
vania, for not less than ten murderers will
then be put to death-nine of them being
"Molly Maguires.' Three Others OF the
same class viii be hanged on the 9th OF
August.
The War ney,artmout IN rrpnArin0 tn