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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04
CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS.

r Many OF the newspapers Ol tne SldIe
are assailing the normal school pro-
fessors for their insolence in trying
to set at naught the law of the state
in reference to cheap school books,
and the st. Cloud Journal Press, (St.
Cloud possesses one of the normal
schools,) thus hastens to their de-
fence
The Anti-Monopolist reminds Prof.
Johns that his ''bread and butter is
drawn from the taxpayers of the
state.'' This comes from spirit of
intolerance of the meanest kind, from
a spirit of tyranny which would make
a servant a slave. If Prof. Johns
services are not full equivalent for
the s'bread and butter he receives
from the state. let him be at once
dismissed and some one else, more
competent, employed in his place.
But the fact that he is in the employ
of the state gives no one a right to
control his opinions Or abridge his
right to the free expression Of them.
Very adroitly put. But it will be
remembered that we did not attack
Prof. Johns for having his own opin-
ion upon the merits Of the law in ques-
ton, or for expressing that opinion,
but for deliberately advising that an
existing law of the state be ignored
and disobeyed, before it is repealed.
Every citizen of the state is bound to
obey the laws of the state; and if he
is an employee of the state the obliga-
tion appears to us, ought to be still
more binding upon him.
The Journal Press admits that there
is a determined purpose to disobey
the law. It says:
In almost every county in the state
the law has been entirely ignored, and
the Boards of County Commissioners
have instructed the Superintendents
of Schools to make no orders under
it.
This statement is not true. The or
ders for books are coming in to Mr.
Merrill from the district clerks, in
great numbers, day by day, and there
are only one or two counties where tht
county superintendent have Sc
themselves against the execution O.
the law, and in those counties the dis
trict clerks are paying no attention tt
the orders of the suqerintendents.
The Journal-Press complains that
the law, in its details, is not perfect
Granted. What law is! The remedy i:
to perfect the law by amending it
The law against murder in Minnesota
is SO defective that it permitted the
Younger-brothers to escape the gal.
lows. Will the Journal Press argue
therefore that the law against murder
should be ignored and the murderer:
go scot-free! Clearly not.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04
PROOF POSITIVE.

Time and again the lying hard-mon-
ey editors have declared that we had
as much currency now as we had at
the close of the war. Our currency
now is as follows:
Legal tenders 1853 ,OOO, 600
National bank notes 3l5,OOO,OOO
Fractional currency $1,000, 900
Totfl $689, 900, 900
Now we put on the witness. stand
Mr.. Hugh Mc.Culloch, Andy John
sons Secretary of the Treasurer, and
the man who invented contraction and
is the great apostle Of hard money.
He made a report as Secretary of the
Treasury Dec. 4th 1865, in which he
said:-
:.The paper circulation of the Uni
ted States on the 3lst of October last,
was substantially as follows:
United States noles and frac.
cur. oo4,Zl9,Uoo ~
Fotes of the national banks 2O5, 900 90
Treasury five per cent notes 81, ,536 500 w
Notes of state banks 65.OOO ,OOO OO
Compound interest notes 1902, 14O OO
Seven and three tenth notes $50, 900 900 90
Total S,759, ,767 ,O78 ~
That settles it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04
GOOD NEWS FROM 4 PROSPER
GUS SECTTON.-A LETTER
FROM THE FRONTIER.

DoNNELLY, MINI. Sept, %, 1877.
Editor Anti-Monopolist:
knowing that some Of your readers
are interested in the prosperity of
Stevens county, 1 write to give you the
news.
The county fair, held at Morris,
Saturday last was de ecded success.
The dxhibiaion was good and the at
tendance large.
Dr.Thomas Heenan, living four miles
from here, formerly of Philadelphia
took the first premium for stallion,
brood mare and riding mare. DR..
Heenan has introduced some valuable
stock into this section from Philadel-
phia. The .Steuens County Tribune
thus alludes to his stallion:
A fine Norman stallion three years
old the property of DR., Heenan was
shown, and attracted good deal of at
tention. He is fine colt and will
doubtless compare favorably with any
thing of his age in the northwest.
Sebastian Engel, living three miles
from here, took first premiums for
brahma fowls, berkshire sows and
| Lost nation wheat. I'll. Ellsworth liv-
| ing four miles from here took first
premiums for cOtswold buck and
lambs. SO you see the Donnelly set
tlement came out with flying colors.
w. C. Wintermute, J. r. Perkins, Il.
NJ. Richardson, M. L. Torpey and 2.
Frisby, took premiums tor fine stock
of different kinds.
But the finest stock on exhibition
was the women and children;-healthy,
rosy, and happy, they spoke volumes
| for the fertile fields and clear skies of
Stevens county.
The country around Donnelly sta
ton is settling up rapidly. J. G. Car.
penter, of Farming ton, Dakota coun-
ty, gentleman of high standing, has
secured a section Of railroad land, lev
| cry acre Of which can be put under
plow,) and some government claims
for himself and friends. Tracey, the
well known and popular blacksmith of
Hastings has secured 800 acres on the
shores of beautiful lake which will
doubtless be hereafter known as Ira
cey Lake; he will also open black
smith shop here in the town. Mr..
William Barrett, of Spring Lake. Da-
kota county. and Edward Barrett his
brother and Mr.. Cavanaugh, have Sc
cured fine claims near here and Will
open farms in the spring. Danlei
Kennedy Of Pine Bend Dakota county
and Mr.. Delaney of st Paul have pur-
chased 24O acres of land, each. MI.
Thomas Niles of Dakota county has
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04

\ friend.[ 10. II. Page. ESQ ofPleas-
ant grove Olmsted county,, writes us
1--WE (the greenbackers.) had a splendid
convention las Saturday at Rochester
and nominated a good county ticket.
The 9th District Convention will be
held at this place on the 9th proximo.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04
Anti- ';ssAouopolist.
GNATIUS DONNELLY. EDIT
MOVING.

we are glad to see that Nlcollet
county is in the field with a People S
Convention and has nominated good
ticket. Success to it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04

Rate on coal from St. Paul or MinneapOIis,
81 .S5 per ton on car loads of 20 900 pounds or
over.
These prices are certainly reas0na-
ble,-more so than the people of St.
Paul have been in the habit of paying.
But if the company should attempt to
rob the people by putting the price Of
fuel too high, we can fall back on
ssthe big woods" of Douglas county,
which are only IL or Is miles Distant
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17
HOW TIE APOSTLES DIED.

/. Peter was crucified in Rome, aad at
bis own request, head downward.
2 Andrew was cruci6ad by being bound
to cross by cords, on which he hung
Gwo days, exhorting the people unCil he
expired.
5. st. James the Great was beheaded
by order of Herod, at Jerusalem.
4. James the Less wss thrown from a
high piunacle, then stoned, anu finally
killed with fullers club. ......
3. st. Philip was bound and hanged
against pillar.
6. st. Bartholomew was flaved to death
by command of barbarous king.
z. st. Matthew was killed with a hal
bert. t.r<
8. st. Thomas, while at prayer, was shot
with shower of lances, ald afCerwald
run through The body with a laoce,
q. st. Simon was crucified.'
10. Thaddeus, or Judas, WIS cruelty
put to DEATH. I,..
II. st. Matthias-the manuet of his
death is somewhat doubuful; one says
stoned. then beheaded, another says he
was crucifed. Z
u. Judrs Iscariot fell, and bis bowels
gushcd ont.
l3. Joha died natural death. ..
13. st. Paul w beheaded by order OF
Nero. ......#-. -4z,g.., .fH
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17
GENERAL NEWS.

Secretary Sherman is the only member
OF the Cabinet now In Washington.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
the United States will meet in baltimore
to-day
The Labor Exchange in Washington,
established for the purpose of supplying
unemployed men with work, is now fully
organized.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner will visit his home ia Indiana thi.
week. Third Assistant Postmaster Gen.
Brady has returned to Washington
Levi Coffin, prominent anti slave
man, .and known Lefore the war a:
'president Of the underground railroad, {"
died at his residence near Cincinnati,
Yesterday, aged Is years.
Colonel r. Fl. Green died in Winslow
Me-. on Saturday, aged 81. He was a
son of DR.. Ezra Green, Surgeon in The
Revolutionary Army, who died in Dover
n. H., in 1o47, aG the age of 10l.
President Hayes attended services al
the Trinity Methodist Church in Cincn
natl, yesterday. Secretaries Eyarts aud
Scnulz and Postmaster General Key az
rived in Cincinnati last evening, and will
accompany the President to Lou lille
to dly.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17
CONTEST OYER A, 3AILR0AD.

A commission to take testimony ia re-
gard to the alleged fraudulent sale of the
Kent county (Md.) Railroad COMPANY
was held in philadelphia last week.
This sale was made under the foreclosure
of the first mortgage bonds issued to d.
b. Wescott, CIV. 7. Perkins and George
Vfckers, trustees, on the 3d day of Juie,
a. ID. 1863, by a of the Circuit Court of
Kent county, Maryland Presiding
Judge Hon. Jos. A. Wiokes, of Chester,
town, Md. The decree has been in for 20
over two years, but owing to the failure
of Say Could to secure the cooperation
oftbe outside bondholders, the sale was
held back until the past winter. 1t is al-
legged that Mr.. Bingham, who repre-
sented himself to be Gouli'S agent, hav-
ing visited all the bondholders, and prom
ising that the interests of each and all
should be taken care of, Secured the CON
fidence ofamajority so as to insure sale
without much competition. On the day
of sale, however, it is said be found pres
ent several of the bondholders who had
benn inquiring into his antecedents, and
not being satisfied herewith, resolvedto
become bidders and thereby protect their
own Interests by preventing the road
from being struck off at nominal figure
in the Interest ofJay Gould. In order to
defeat this new departure it became then
on the part of Gould's Representatives
necessary to hatch UP some new plan
by which to drive off the competing Did
ders, and 1t is charged that this was done
by manipulating two of the trustees, who
made ar irrary terms which could not be
complied with by any bidder present, not
excepting the parties, even, representing
Gould. EX-U nlted States Senator George
NlckerS, who broughtin a minority repoit
recommended the sale to be set aside,- -
Philadelphia Ecening Telegraph.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17


OUR EXPORT TRADE.-RersDdt Of BUST
1,ess.-It is now very generally believed
that the demand for American bread.-
stuffs abroad will this year be so unusual
ly large as to require nearly the whole OF
our surplus to meet it. III these aRticl
patiens are realized, and the supply, in
stead of being rushed to market in bulk,
is sent forward in a steady. continuous
stream 20 the shipping points during the
autumn and winter sefSon and through
the ensuing spring, prices PROMISE to be
good and to be well maintained. lt Is
only by such rapid accumulation OF
breadstuffs at the European ports as
would cause a glut there that prices
would fall at the shipping points and
speculators on the otLer side of the AT
lantic make the profits that shodld belong
to the producers. On the other hand II
the Western farmers are so unwise as
to hold back their crops now in the eX-
pectatIon of getting higher prices IN the
spring the result will be a rush TO realize
when prices have risen in consequence
of the artificial scarcity thus produced'
and the market being thus suddenly over
stocked reaction would SET In anu
prices forced down below what they
would be under an equable outflow.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17
PERSONAL.

The sudden death of MIR,
William FL. Sadlier, a well known Catho
lie publisher of New Yolk, is announc-
ed.
Judge M. Russell Thayer, the repu bli-
can candidate for district attorney If
Philadelphia, is native of Petersburg,
Va.
President Hayes has declined the invi-
tatiOn to visit Augusta, Ga HIS South
ern trip will extend only to Chattanooga
eDu.
J. K. P. Weeks veseraD journalist,
who for the last twenty years has been
news editor of the Sacramento (Cal. }
Union died recently. .
A fair Saxon has been the reignpe
belle at Newport, X. 1. this Sc ason. She
is the wife of Sir luton Sykes and sister
of Mr. Cavendish Bent;nck.
William Orr, late proprietor of the
Delaware County Democrat, announces
that that journal has been purchased by
Dr. j. L. Forwood,by whom it will here
after be conducted.
The Rev. Father Mooney, pastor Of st.
Bridget ltOlnan Cdlnollc Cnurc1, New
Yo.k, died Thursday afternoon from the
efec,s of injuries sustained in an accl-
deut While driving last Monday evening.
Miss Helen Ma2ill, daughter of ey-
Presi e 1t Magill, Cf owarshmore Col 'ege,
the ouly young lady who has ever been
educaled ia the DosCon Latin School, has
goIe abroad to continue her studies iu
philology.
There is report thai Brigham Young's
mother, now ninety-eighta years old, Is
living at Martinsviile, Indiana. Her facu-
lies are yet bright. She is in very bum
BILE CT cumsilnces aud dwells with some
bitterness upon the fact that her son,
who so greatly prospered in this worlds
gear, should have forgotten her leaving
her 10 an old age of penury aud want.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17
FORTY AUkEs OF GRAPEvINEs.

On sunny hillside one mile from
Passaic are the Mount Prospect Vineyards
Forty acres of land are covered with
vines. Twenty years were spent by
Alfred Speer III bringing the vineyard to
such perfection. On one side of tho hill
are Coucords, on the other are imported
Oporto vines from Portugal. Mr.. Speer
impoited at first five thousand vines, but
all except two hundred Of the delicate
plants died. These be .ame acclimated,
and mole than 20 00O vines grace the
hillside. The punches are of moderate
size. the grapes closely set, and very
small. They have bitter, but not un-
pleasant taste. Mr.. Speer invited several
physicians from this city TO visit him yes
lerday and examine his vintage. About
thirty were his guests. Their chief at
tention was paid to the Port grape wine.
made from the Oporlo grape. Tho ply
sicians spoke very highly of it. The
Socialitlc claret was also much commen-
ded. Mr., Speer makes about 10000 gal
Ions this year.-N. Y. Sun. Il
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17

A recent traveller asserts that the khe-
dives mania tor making Egypt manu-
featuring country in opposition to nature
which made it agricultural, is inherited
from Mehemit All, who was the first to
set the example of importing costly ma
cbinerv. aud 10 whom the influx OF for
eigners into Egypt was first due. 3s0
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17

The Paris prefecture OF police mas flied
up laboratory for the analysis of wine
which the public wine-tasters suspect to
be adulteratsd. and has appointed an an
alytical chemist, with q salary Of $1,000
year. .5 -fpu oJl.. e.,
The daily gazette., 1877-09-17

A Pittsburg woman saveu the life OF
herself aud children during lire early
wednesday morning by her remarkable
presence of mind. Awakened by the
smoke,she attempted to escape, but found
her way cut of by the fire. With pres
ence of rllnd, she threw a feather bed
out of the second story, where she was
sleeping. and ;aking her two little child
rem in her arms, jumped out on il.
The drinking fountains presented to
the city of Paris by Sir WIN. wallace, the
English philanthropist, have proved to be
of such great benefit in the poor neigh
borhood that one will be placed on every
square and avenue before the exhibi ion
opens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-16
THE CLAGH0Ry COLLECTION.

Mr.. James L. ClaghOrn is well and honora-
Philadelphia. His private gallery, accumulated during
many years. has been brought to this city for ex-
hibiOn at Kurtz MadsOn-square previous to its sale
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings Of next week. 1t
contains Isl numbers embracing quite large proper
ton of distinguished modern names, principally Eu-
rOpean although American artists are proportion
atey better represented than in most OF the private
collections which been sold here this Winter There
only few works important enough TO be cassed as
masterpieces OF their authors but there are many Wch
are characteristic and interesting. In the llst OF
109 European and % American artists represented we
find the names OF Alma-Tadema, the Achenbachs Bou-
guereau, Rosa and Auguste BOnheur, Corot, Compile
Calix Courbet. Diaz, Daubgny, Fromentn. Firmin-
Girard, Famm, Harding, Knaus, Madrazo, Merle, Rous-
seau Schreyer TrOyOn Vibe and Zamacois on the one
Clifford Hart Inness, Kensett Leutze. Rohermel, Read
and Whlttredge on the other.
Schreyer perhaps the most adequately represented
Flight OF the standardBeaTer and Arabs III AM
bush large and vigorous pictures in MS pest syie
The Frmin-li irard IL Arcadan shepherd ana Snt-
herdess" In quite a different manner from THAT OF MS
Flower-narket at the Goupl Gallery. This ana BOu,
guereaus Arcadia seem TO be early specimens. ScFeTd
Of the European artsts-such Tr0yOn, DlaZ COrO ana
ROusseal-are represented by small yet spirited ana
characteristic sketches; bat knaus Flann, and oswald
landscapes of Church, whitrredge. and Clifford will in
everybody and there Is very lovely view on the
WissahickOn by W. T. Richards. one OF the best anu-
scapes in the collection is that by Daubgny Buchanan
Reads" Spirit Of the waterfall" Is poetic eohcep-
ton, imperfecty expressed through lack OF artistic
power; and Mr. ROthermels " SOand ana Agatha.
venture 10 say. will astOnsh aud bewGer al De.
holders. The collection attracts an unusual huoeT Oh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-16
DRAMATIC NOTES.

Mr.. TOOkeT will receive farewell benefit at
Booths Theater on Thursday afternoon, Apll ~. Ne
programme OF attractions OF most inVllhS character
Antony and Cleopatra has been withdrawn,
al NblOs Garden after Fourteen performances Tonight
Piece vii! be performed there enlI,d the Man
from America"
the Brooklyn Park Thcater last week On Saturd =, tae
DIST inst, Ny. Rowe "a i, on board the OtIhahic' Ir
Liverpool where he Will begin an engagement Oh MAY T.
A representation Of Camille will be fur
iSbed ms evening in the Lyceum TLeacr re0pened Tor
ths SPECIAL purpose. Mis- Adelaide Lenn0X viii enact
Caaide. MIR. Henry Dalton armand, and Mrs. Brutone
PI7tdcHce.
Mr.. Boucicault appears this evening at the
Brooklyn Academy OF Music III The ohaughtauh. Inc
drama will be upon this stage with due attention 70
detail and with AL the ne scenery Originally ustd ia IL
pres, tatOn AT WallacAs lhealer The cast OF parts
NAV he read elsewhere, and VIII be found attractive.
Nj Bouc,eaUts remittance here Is pleasant auIufy
u pu5Gc pleasure
Mr Mccullough, at Booths Theater, begins
tonight tie third week OF hiS men hiS
which he viii act SpaJtdcus He appeared on saturday
The.mir Rieheileu Etetard H. Qtte,i2 and !Ggo He
ana King Lear 'OtLeo and NiIginlus Will be re-
peated.
Mr.. Sothern's projected venture at the Eagle
Thcater has been abandoned. This distinguished come
Taeter on sept j. in Nv T. j. Byrons fJrcical comedy
of &" A Hornets Nest" His engagement; at the ParK We
understand l. TO period Oh eighteen weeks SeF
eTa pieces VII be producet-anlong them comedy
WHEN lVT oT o V-I of cnnrs be-
welcomed OF the brightest incidents OF the next
regular dramatic season
"My Awful Dadn is the established attrac-
ton AT WaIdcks Iheater where with Mr., Na!i"ck ana
Nj Beckett in re cAef parts it affords eolloaS mei
Avenue, Inc last nights OF our Board ng House ere
announced at the PARK 1h,aiet. The OF The DAM
chefs" is reaching its end at the Union square Inc
Opera House this evening. The Now Broadway Tleatcr
is closed but it, reOIenng Is promised. The present
week will lie tie season at the opera house Of
the san Frsnci,co Ainstreis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-16
DIED.

CHURCH-At South orange, " j. on Thurs lay April ~,
pneumonia Matilda NJ, wife Of Ed"ard$ Church. age 50
RELATIVES ami friends are respectfully invited attend tho
funeral byteran Church, south OraEg on ION
day $50 D. Trains leave Blrcays az l:IO anu Z5D
p. m
daughter ~ sarah Louise frost anu tue
late Henry h. Cummings. aged - years
Funeral Monday April H. AZ ocOci, from her iata re1
deEce, 7lS De kalbaye.
DAYTON-At Elizabeth. y. j. Friday, April -, william
Chandler Dayton. in the I'D year " MS axe.
Relatives and friends invited 10 attend the funeral
from Christ Church, Elizabeth on Monday, ApFii To- al
O'Clock p. IN.
DE FORESr-On Friday 18Th inst. Of pneumonia, Mary
Abernehy wi.e Of VIM b. De Forest, NJ d., u Ne"layen
Conn.
at $3.50 this morning.
FOsTER-on board L. = : Trenton. wednesday April
H. Paw Inspector Edward Foster I. y. son VI the late
Samuel H. Foster. III the i}d year Of his age.
The remains were Inferred at GlDraltar
FoXOn SUNDAY April lj heart disease. Cynthia T., wife
OF Leander Fox, IN the 72i year Of her age.
GALLAGHER-On THURSDAY April r. AZ his residence, in
bloomfield, y. j. Rev. j. ;. Gallagher, aged 20 years
The Directors Faculty Of the Cnon theological seminary
and friends Of the family invited 10 attend his funeral,
on Monday 10th, quarter past H. at the FIRST
Church in Bloomfield. Ifdlns leave iuot OF
Christopher and Barclysts at 1915. Carriages VIII be IN
waiting the arrival VI the tram.
GRAF-On saturday April "A. at $50 Hermann Graf.
partner the firm Of l. Grai & Bro, IN NtWarK, y J.
Relatives friends respectfully invited 70 attend the
his late Residence No. 900 hgEst on tues
day April II, AT O'Clock p m
ABIRSUAW-On Friday. April 10, Mary Jane, wife OF VII
liam Habrshaw, aged 80 years
Funeral from st Thomas CAufcb on Monn3,
at IL O'Clock a. No flowers
HTGUE5-At Clifton Springs Y. Y, on Friday April 10.
Is. Hughes widow OF Edward hughes IN the o'tn
Fanarai services hell at clifton viii placed
IL the family lot at Greenwood