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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08

From the Manchester Guardian
The French Bar has just lost In M.
Chalk a Est Ange one of its greatest
masters. His greatest triumph, pei
haps. ana one Of the greatest triumps
ever obtained at any bar, was achieved
in the case Of man called Benolt,
whom he was prosecuting for parri.
eide. Benoit had all along persisted
in declaring he was innocent, and
there was nothing but clrcumstantlai
evidence against him. M. Chaixd Est
Ange resolved to employ one OF the
| most startling and dramatic figures OIL
rhetoric ever used IN court OF law.
Turning to the prisoner, he placed tne
scene Of the murder in vivid and strIk-
ing language before him. "There, ne
cried, sssat your father, quietly read
ing the newspaper, near the WINDOW
He could not see who came INTO the
room. You stole in on tip-toe ana
crept close behind him. You pausec
one moment and then raised Inc
harchet 49, eyes, yes j. crled Be.
mott, THAT it that's how ola lt
What the repeated interrogatorles O
the examining magistrates had lalieo
to elicit from the murderer was forceo
from him by the eloquence OF the nai
rister.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08
A Miraculous Pomade.

A lady of 80, a plump and jolly bru-
nette, sees with some anxiety dark
downy line penciling itself on her SUI
perior lip. She does not care TO com
pete with the bearded woman, and
consults the advertisements. She finds
lust what she Wants-a depilatory POM
ade.-warranted to remove the most
obnoxious moustachewOmane ever had,
in five applications. She obtains box
at a price of 10 francs, and follows the
directions on the label with care. The
moustache thrives on the depilatory,
and after a while Madame yields to
the inevitable. and consoles herself by
rejecting that it might have been
worse.
Three or four years roll by and she
sees with alarm that her hair is begin
ing to thin. A trifie of mustache can
be borne, but a bald head never, and
again she has recourse to the adver-
tisements. She finds the article she
needs,-a miraculous pOmade-to in
crease the thickness and beauty Of the
hair. On visiting the shop she was
Supplied. 1t is the same shop, the
same attendant, the same bottle at the
lme price, the same pomade SO far as
she can Judge from appearances. Only
the label has been changed.
The merchant, on being. severely eX-
amined, admits that it is the same
pomade. 1t failed so utterly to re-
move hair that he turned it into a
hair invigorator. With great joy the
customer buys a pot and applies it,,
q id her hair goes on falling out faster
than ever!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08
A Boys Experience.
From the Saaa.ia No. Bazoo.

From the Saaa.ia MO- Bazoo.
We heard a good joke on a Lexing-
ton boy last night. Mr. Sam Ingram,
express agent and North Missouri
ticket agent at that town, has two
promising sons, aged about 5 and !.
wears. 4 day or two since he found
them putting nails in their mouths.
He cautioned them against it. and told
them story Of boy who stuck his
tongue on an iron lamp-post on coio
morning. The boys remem oeTed that
story, and Yesterday one Of them re,
solved to.test it to see whether the'.oid
man lied or not. The morning was
intensely cold, and the boy went up 70
. lamn.nosr IN front Of Col. Reid . res
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08
;dence and stuck his tongue to it. lie

;dence and stuck his tongue to it. lie
found j was just as the 'sold man
said. Finally he gave jerk and lett q
hip niece OF his tongue adherlng 20
the post. He went down to his fath-
or with his mouth full Of blood, when
tba cold man" asked him what was
the matter. Splitting out a mouInlu u
Of blood, be answered: 80, nothine
much-I've been trying yer derned oic
lamp-post gag: it's deadner, sure.
left half my tongue on 1t.
And sure enough, he did leave
liberal share there, where it was seer
bv a great many during the day.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08

A few evenings since q gentleman
was passing through Pleasant stree,
Newburypolt, Mass, and, observing ,
one boy pounding another, lnteTiereo
and inquired what it was Tor. nc We -
informed by the larger boy tAaI IL
was licking his companion for swear.
ing. "But don't you sWears' inquire
the gentleman. ssNo, sir. am
Christian, and am teaching him mo-
to swear.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08

Among the replies to recent 40
vertisernent Of Boston music com
mittee for "a candidate as organlst'
music teacher ETC.. was the follow
ing: .sGentlemen--l noticed LII YOU
advertisement for an organlst or mu-
sic teacher, either lady or gentleman,
Having been both for several years.
offer You my services.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08

x. lights cigar, then to his valet
with a horrible grimace ca
Baptiste, where in thunder did W
get that cigar = In the blue polcG
lain box, SIR ssYou i'limitaDle ldlo1
How often have ! told you that III
cigars in the blue box are 1or u
friends r.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-08

Wright county is indnlging IN ne
court house ct Buffalo. The material - ceiD
prepared It Minneapolis and shipped 70 y
site.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
PROTECTING DEPOSiTORs.

Missouri is about to enforce its new
banking law. Its requirements are
that bank shall have certain mini
mum of actually paid-up capital; that
it shall make truthful exhibits of its
condition; that if its capital becomes
impaired to certain degree it shall be
made good or the bank be wound up;
that it's assets shall be returned at
their actual cash value, and that
it shall not declare dividends ex-
cept out of actual earnings. Eg-
cry fiduciary business should be
governed by just such regulations, and
yet the st. Louis press tells it, that the
totterng banks of that city are pre-
pairing to place themselves 10 opposi-
ton to this law. Such opposition to
reasonable requirements should be &C.
cepted as evidence of weakness, and
no doubt will be, but it should be en-
forced and similar one in all other
States should be adopted. The his
tory of bank failures has been a
bitter Que, not only in Missouri but IN
Texas. What has passed for banking
too often resolves itself into schemes
for drawing salaries and paying aivi-
dends out of depositors' money, and to
protect unsuspecting and conidirg
people laws of the sternest sort should
be enacted and enforced. The ordeal
through which the country is now
passing, while terrible one, will have
.r--~U in Utsv ~ s....
new and safer methods of business, chief
among which is banking. Reforms
are necessary everywhere, and Texas,
at the earliest moment possible, should
enact laws applying to more than one
department of business. Will any
deny that there has been sufficient
reason for such action?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
PARTIES IN FRANCE.

The probability is that the scheme
for defeating the Republicans in France
may fail. To succeed three elements
must be barmOnized-the Bonspartlsts,
Lesitimists, and Orleapists-and the
probabilities are that harmony between
these is impossible. Deep and strong
distrust Is growing up between the
Hgitimists and Orleanists on one side
and the Bouspartists on the other, on
account OF the arrogance of the latter,
who make Frenchmen believe that i'm
perialism is the only alternative to re-
publicanIsm.
The Monitor complains that the Bona.
partists exhibit themselves in easy and
familiar attitudes in the public Offices,
assume confidential air and tone, and
pass themselves off as intimate advis.
ers, and it declares that "nothinp
would tend more to break up the con-
servative union so hborIously formed.
and so necessary to the welfare of the
country, than the influence of the
Bonapartists in the policy of the gov
ernment." Prominent Legitimists are
beginning to assert that they prefer
Gambetta to the Bonapartists, and to
grow perceptibly cool in their relations
with the latter. The elections are
still several weeks eff, and it is proba-
BILE that by the time they arrive the
distrust now actively at work will have
estranged the three parties relied on to
defeat the Republicans. In that case
the Republicans would carry the new
assembly and have the government at
their mercy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

THE Ohio Democracy, who have just
held their convention at Columbus, de-
clare an opposition to subsidies, and
announce themselves in favor of an i'm
mediate repeal of the resumption act,
and he reconciliation of silver. They
announce that greenbacks are the bes,
currency ever known In this country,
and are opposed to Sherman contrac.
ton. Like reasonable people these
Ohio Democrats congratulate the
country upon the Presidents pacific
policy and his adoption of constitu
tional government.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

now high in the Federal government,
among whom is the present Secretary
of the Treasury, acting ia his legisla
tive capacity as the bribed agent Of the
foreign bondholders, by altering the
contract to pay the fve-twenty bonds
10 the extent Of 81 200, 900, 900, which
stood upon the record and in the stat
ute book as payable in lawful Ameri-
can money (greenbacks) at our own
Treasury, and making q new contract
for payment to be made in Europe and
in European moDey-thus transferring
our money power, our homeodebt and
money power to foreign countries,
where it is controlled by Jews and
London money brokers. And added
TO this as a part Of the same corrupt
combination, dropping the silver dol
lar out of the coinage act passed, at
the instance of the same Secretary of
the Treasury, and at the instigation of
Ernest Leyd, of London, the paid
agent of the foreign bondholders, who
came to Washington with q fund OF
$500, 900 to accomplish that object in
which, says the Congressional Record,
he was successful.
4. In proposition to resume specie
payments in 1879 and contract the cur
rency by rtc Illing all the legal tender
greenbacks by issuing in their stead
the same amount of four per cent.
bonds, to be made the basis for issuing
national bank notes that will pass as q
legal tender, to the extent Of 5000, 000,-
900, the annual interest will be $38,-
All, 200 per annum, and Sc, 251, 300,-
900 in thirty years, sum $3.50, 600, 900
greater than the principal of the debt
as it now stands. Labor will be obliged
to pay the tax, whether it be assessed
upon labor or capital.
8. BY the failure of the government
to issue its own token of sovereignty
stamped on paper In sn amount suffi-
nation, and thereby reduce the tax on
productive industry, and thereby afford
employment for labor IN progressing
from year to year in the general devel-
opment.
6. In consequence of these mis-
takes, not to say frauds, by the agents
of the people acting as the feed agents
of foreign bondholders and money
rings, labor has been degraded aud
moneyed arlstocracy is being built up
In our republic. and a power created
that has produc ID the present conflict
and antagonism between labo. and
capital.
The workingmcn must strike the
evil at its 81 ur:e BY hurting from power
the treacherous and unfaithful agents
they have unsuspectingly appointed.
To destroy life and property is not the
proper remedy.
AS this money power has by trickery
and fraud succeeded in securing con-
troll to great extent of the press and
the les lslatur the nation, it is just
and proper that all citizens now under
the control of those powers aud suffer
ing as they now do, should combine
and strike at the sourcr from which
the evil has emanated; rnii, IT. ~
language of King Dozsr.is, tie ia
armed fee expires, for themsrlvt,,
their native land, for God and libefry
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

The folly of continued grumbling
on the part of Tilden's friends, over
ends that they had not the courage
and ability to prevent, is disgusting.
A Southern exchange says, "theIe is
10 doubt about his election. But be
permitted shameful rascality TO trick
him out of hls rights, and remand him
to the ranks of the humble citizen.
At the time the electoral commission
was playing its high pranks, Tilden
was as silent as the tombs. He showed
no disposition whatever TO demand his
rights. If Mr.. Tilden had had the
nerve and determination of Gen. Wade
Hampton, he would have been the
president. Wade Hampton knew he
had been elected governor of South
Carolina. He said that he would be
the Governor of South Carolina even
under military subjugation. His brave
words electrified the people. They
saw In him y leader who would 90 for.
ward and do as his people had selected
him to do" and, like Tilden could
have become president, he became
Governor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

THE State canvass in Virginia wakes
warm. Gems. Fitzhugh Lee, Stewart,
Malone and many other gentlemen are
prominently spoken of for executive
honors. The nomination turns largely
upon " hat to do With the State debt,
which amounts to over $40, 000, 900.
This debt is growing every year from
the accretions of Its unpaid interest.
the Legislatures Of Virginia having
taken the ground that the people
are too poor to pay an in
terest tax. The Republican party
having wound up its existence in the
State, the contest is between Demo.
Gratis nlone, with probabilities in favor
of Gen. Mahone's success he is q
prominent ex-C Confederate and railroad
man, and the most energetic of all the
asp,rants. He Is in favor Of compro-
missing the debt upon plans to be pro
posed by the Legislature, which are
satisfactory to the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

THE discovery of gold in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire is caus
ing much excitement. The discovery
sas made at the town of Milan, one
hundred miles distant from Portland,
Maine, and only twelve miles from the
famous summer resort of Gorham, and
vas accidentally made by a farmer,
who ut once sold his place to Boston
capitalist at fabulous figures. The
vein which has been discovered is over
eighteen feet in width, with we'll de-
fined walls, extending fo- over mile.
The lode contains copper and lead,
carrying gold aud silver very rich, the
ore being clean and solid from wall to
wall A blast put in few days ago
and throwing ten tons assayed as high
as $3.50 and $3.50 per ton, fifty per cent.
of the mineral product being copper,
twenty per cent. each of gold and lead
and ten per cent. Of silver. Pending
the excitement Mr.. Flagler, the owner,
Is undecided whether he viii work the
whole mine himself or dispose OF por-
tons of il. In any event the new 81
Dorado promises to bring this hereto
fore secluded section prominently be-
fore the country, and the rural resi-
dents arc getting ready for the antiei.
pAtsd reproduction Of the scenes Of
early life mining in Caiifornis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
TIE REBELLION To BE SUP
PRESSED.

| uo Ct. LOUIS papers report tHhl OOls
Tom Scott, of the Pennsylvaula 4Rail-
road, is using his influence with Pres
ident Hayes to induce lin TO call out
Is, 900 volunteers to suppress the great
ineurrection. II Col. Scott could coz
template the situation in the light of
reason he would recognize That the be
ginning of the so-called Insurrection
originated in such men as himself vio-
lating the laws of human necessity,
and he would then know taat there is
quite as much reason in the govern
ment taking tyrannical railroad off
cials in hand and requiring them to obey
these laws, as that it should inaugurate
a war against the strikers. Col. Scott
would not make concessions to the de-
mands Of employees on his lines of
road, but he would have the President
call out IS, 600 men to be led against
them, that the screws may be turned
down instead of loosened, and that the
great corporations which he directs
may be released from troIbles created
by official imperiousness. His de-
mand reminds rs of the call for "a, 900
men, made sixteen years ago, as a pre-
lininary to reducing the South in
ninety days. The demonstration only
exasperated it's people, when means of
pacification and treaty might have pre-
vented the shedding OF rivers of blood
and the loss of millions of wealth.
And so it might gan. An adjust
ment of differences on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad would probably increase
the pay roll of the company some
thousands l.er month, which would be
balanced by an Increase in tariffs, but
this practiced imperiousness would
usurp the powers of government and
the supplemental bill dreamed of in
yesterdays STATESMAN is anticipated.
Time is precious; immediate service is
necessary, and the President would be
led into calling out volunteer army
to satisfy craving thirst for plunder.
Congress must not only meet demands
for building aroad across the continent,
but it must supply money and men with
Which to dictate terms to employees
Pennsylvania has been bled, and that
it may recuperate so as to supply more
blood, it is right and proper for the
Federal government to take this mat
;eI in hand that another people may
he enslaved. These railroad dignita-
res are less generous than they were
,..;teen years ago. Then they would
ave slaves made free and shackles
laced upon the masters, now they
would have slaves bound hand and
foot and masters protected in their
power. They would have government,
to which the people are looking with
hope, become the ally of capital for
the degradation of labor, creating an
sristocracy IN place OF a democracy,
and maintaining the former against
the latter. This is not war against
the government of the United States,
but against men who would place this
0avernmnnt in snbiection to them
selves. The Union Is by 40 means en-
dangered, and until it is we are salts
fed Mr.. Hayes will permit Pcnnsylva-
MIA and Tom Scott to get along the
best they can. Hartranft must obey
Scott. Let him call out the military
power of the State and serve the great
Railroad king more effectually than he
damaged at Pittsburgh.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
PART III.

In which Lsyman, having, in q publ,
proclamation, uncovered the strateg,
Of Unconvinced and shown HI,
charge of false quotation to b,
groundless, Senex, venerable frienG
OF Unconvinced, comes to his aid
and boldly adopts his tactics.
Enter !Senez. alOns, soliiogWiziKg.l
Senex-I love Unconvinced as my
very self, insomuch tha. in him
seem to myself to contemplate myself.
Lsyman has done him great hurt, and
I'll to the rescue, aud divert attention
while he makes sure retreat.
Eater Mr.. l'aJlie reading Ldymda's
proclamation
Senex-Hol Friend Public! see
you've read that proclamation of Lay
PERSONAL anlmosIry" 10 dly inena Gu,
convinced, and does him marked in
Justice"
Mr.. Public-I do not view it so. To
me he seems mau of mild manner,
concerned, however, for the fair fame
of his friends, Chaplin, the immerser,
and those scholars who practice sprink-
ling, against one or both of whom I'm
convinced made harsh imputatIons.
S,nex-Nay, nay! Friend Public,
you surely did not read my friend at
tentiyely. Aside-He did, with much
tact, draw attention from that hurtful
sermon by charging false quotation
by the preacher. But I'll deny that.
A good purpose and g,oi end
achieved justify what otherwise might
,em little straiuing of the truth. 1
will be bold about it, rs Unconvinced
has been. ! beg you 10 note, Mr..
Public, that Layman has thrice said
that my friend charged II e preacher
with quoting falsely certain passage
il Collossisns. ''Now l ask in all
cando-, was the like of this ever heard
before?" "when everybody who has
read attentively knows that
he at no time makes any such charge. "
Aside Ia that passage ''the very
words quoted are used" and Uncou-
vInced branded them as false quota
ton. But confident denial will
challenge Mr.. Public's recollection
OF this and bear me through. / ask
agun, Mr. Public, "Has such unfair.
ress ever been mstcbed?" Just re-
member the facts, my dear sir, as they
transpired, and then look at Lay
mans assertion: "That Unconvinced
charged on DR.. c. false quotations. y
Is it not wondrous strangeg ana will
YOU not agree that ''it is high time for
Urconvinced to quit2"
Mr.. Public-Yes; we are agreed on
that. BV all means let him quit.
Z a. M. Public.
Senex Il am not sure but little
irony tinged that last remark. But IL
matter; my purpose, as that Of Uncon
vinced, was good, and the end, We
we hope accomplished, justifes the
means.
Erit Sener.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

CfURcH festivals and similar enter
tainments are justly meeting with much
disfavor. The fact is, that instead OF
being an advantage to the cause Of
Christianity, they often place it at
discount. Too often the many fash
ionable entertainments, permitted aad
even encouraged by churches, become
the embodiment of fraud and give rise
to innumerable scandals that make a
mockery of Christianity. The Catho-
lie bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, address
ing clergy and laity, has the following
to say of them:
To prevent and guard against abuses
that Gre rapidly growing up in the
Diocese, in connection with church and
society plcnics, excursions, festivals,
etc., the following regulations are pre-
scribed:
1. Societies that are organized for
beneficial purposes, and whose benefits
are confined to th ir members, or Sol ie-
ties that are organized for private er ds
and interests, cannot be permitted to
appeal to the public by picnics, excur-
sloRs, festivals, suppers, lectures, etc.,
to raise funds for their own private use
and benefit. Public appeals must be
for the public charities, and societies
cannot be permitted TO appeal to the
public. except where the money 30
raised is to be used for and in the IN
terest of some public charity.
2. All kinds of round dancing. night
dancing, dancing in halls or bathrooms
for the purpose of raising money for
church purposes or public charities, are
strictly and unqualiiedly forbidden.
8. The sale of wine, beer, or any
kind of intoxicating liquors at church
picnics, excursions, festivals, suppers,
ETC., is strictly forbidden, and will moi
be permitted under any pretense what
soever.
4. Moonlight excursions, picnics con
tipued till after nightfall, meetings oi
the people where morsls or good be
havior are endangered, are also forbid
| den.
s. Before any picnics or excursions
whether for church or society pur
poses. can be held, the permission o.
the ordinary must be first obtained.