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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

THAT terrible iconoclast the New
York Sun, eXclaims "abolish the
marine corps" Really we cannot.
Without the guileless "marines," to
whom would the gentle sailor spin his
yarns, and how could Washington
City exist without that ''band," Ask
any other favor of us Mr.. Dana
borrow our blue cotton umbrella or
our last chew of tobacco, but rs you
love us, spare the marines. They
are the salt of the earth so to speak
and neptune turns pale beneath their
gallant tread when upon the quarter
deck.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05
trict in Tennessee, has demonstrated
its incapacity for self government.
Houck will represent it.

We admire enterprise; we especial
ly admire enterprise among the news
paper folks. But when we meet a
typo as we did last week, so VERY en-
terprising as to add to our usually
graceful chyrography, changing
"Compte Chambord," as we wrote it.,
to "COmptroller Chambord;" and in
another instance, causing simple
U. S. commissioner" to bloom out
into a gold.laced shoulder-strapped
"Commodore,' we are disposed to-
bless him. Indeed the melancholy
absence of the proof-reader's care in
last weeks ANTI.MoNOPOLIsr is Il
clear proof, to our minds, that
Thanksgiving dinners, even in pros
pective, are dangerous.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

HoUCK-HoUCK OF Tennessee, per-
mitted by an inscrutable Providence
TO be inflicted upon the American
people as member of the next con-
gress. has been talking. And like
most men who are very wordy, Mr..
Heuck talks a great deal of nonsense.
The burden of Mr.. Houck's gable is
that men are not capable Of self-gov-
ernmant, and the need of the hour for
the United States is Grant and sfrong
government. Since We come to think
5 over, at least one congressional dis
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

OWEN MURPHY, Il late member of
the board of excise of New York
city, and who suddenly left that city
Dec. %, 1877 with some $4,000 of
stolen plumber, has been heard from.
After aimless and hopeless wandering
through Canada. England. Brazil, he
is last seen performing the SOLITARY
horseman' act across the Pampas of
the Argentine Confederation. After
all poverty may be devilish incon-
yenient, so to speak. but riches pur.
chased by Il dishonorable act will
profit one not at all.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

IT seems to be settled that the most
of the officers and crew of the
Pomerania basely betrayed their
trusts amid the perils of the sea,
when the ship went down. That so
many of the passengers were saved is
due to the accident of the sur
roundings and nearness to land. ard
not to the cool courage of those
charged with their safety.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

AND now they propose to make
Grant king or prince of Bulgaria. He
has always been a prince of bull-head
edness, and we sec no reason why he
should not take these Bulgarians by
the horns. Bulgaria will please con-
side that we vote aye Oh the PROPOSE
tion-not that we love Bulgaria less,
but because we love America more.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

1000 strong, of the Anglo-Indian army
has found himself in trap. Having
pressed rapidly forward towards
JumroOd from Fort Ali Musjid
through the mountain passes, he is
unable to move further onward and
now the passes behind him are
closed
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05
Locals, IL cents per line, each insertion.

Locals, 10 cents per line, each insertion.
Locals, editorial columns, % cents per line
each insertion.
Bills for advertising PAYABLE quarterly in
advance.
Advertisers will please take notice that
the TI-MoNoPoL1sT is the best and
cheapest advertising medium in Minnesota.
1t has larger circulation among the farm
ers than any other, while it is read in
every town and city and almost every vii
lage of the State. 1t is perused by thou
sands who take no other paper.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

Mr.. r. b. HAYES as heretofore
will deliver the message of Mr.. Til
den to the congress-the truth is the
old gentleman of Gramercy Park has
been too much troubled lately with
messages" of another sort to look
after this.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

THAT drive wells were no novelty
when the so-called Green patent was
put on the process seems to be we'll
established. Why, even readers OF
Dickens will recognize IN Mr.. Pick
wick's inimitable cab-man friend a
.sdrive-W eller." We make no charge
for this hint to own legal conferes.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

A 100000 mortgage has used up
the last of the Washington Grant
ring. Boss Sheppard has compelled
to yield to tn e inevitable and the
sheriff
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

RUSSIA now threatens to throw her
sword into the Afghan struggle, and
the Tartar handles a wicked weapon.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

The ANr1-MoNopoL1sT is published every
Thursday for circulation by newsmen and mail
Single Subscription, one year, s2.0o
Single Subscription, six months, 100
Single Subscription, three months, so
Single Subscription one month 20
In clubs of five or more to one address it will
be furnished at $3.50 per year; or S1.O0for six
months
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03
Grange Column,
Under the Supervision of the Executive
Committee of Pomona Grange.
Meeting of Pomona Grange.

Pomona Grange, P. H., will meet on
next Saturday at II o'clock at Anderson,
and all members and delegates are ear
nestly requested to be present, as busi-
ness of importance will be presented for
their consideration, and officers for the
ensuing year will be elected. As we are
just entering upon the duties of a new
year, Brethren, let us come up with new
resolutions and firm determination to
discharge our whole duty to our several
Oranges. And We shall be spared the
modification of seeing one-half of our
Subordinate Oranges published on the
delinquent roll, while others are sickly
and gasping for life. This condition of
things must arise from negligence and
inattention, which is really contradic-
tion of the natural character of the per-
sons raised on a we'll directed farm
Persons brought up on a well-directed,
systematic farm, are expected from habit
to be active, energetic, enterprising,
thoughtful and systematic. And these
qualifications, properly developed, would
steadily work out the grand objects of
the Grange, and speedily place the much
abused farmer upon the high road to
prosperity and successful respectability.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03

and the Democratic party in Sumter
County does not approve of this course.
They have lost their County once more,
and there were some uncomfortable spirits
who did as they chose, without consult
ing the recognized leaders of the party,
and hence the destruction of the ballots.
The County Of Sumter was lost, we have
no doubt, by overestimating the Demo-
cratic strength, and undertaking the Re-
publican vote in the County. The De-
mocracy having carried the Senatorial
election became somewhat overconfdent,
and failed to exert itself in the last elec-
ton, and hence tie late defeat. This
Republican success following the Beau
fort election shows that the Republican
party in the State is not dead, and that
we cannot fold our hands and wait for
political victory to come to us. We
must be up and doing in the Democratic
cause, and every County in the State
should perfect anew its organization.
Because they have been victorious once
is no assurance of q repeated success
without effort, and the fate of Sumter
should warn us that victory comes only
to the active. and that its price is eternal
vigilance.
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E. B. MURRAY, Secretary.

= - azt-. - =, s....
Hon. John Sherman, Secretary Of the
Treasury, denies that he made any bar
gain with any person in regard to the
Presidency, as alleged by Mr.. Chambers
letter, and states that he visited Ohio
during the electoral count to consult
President Hayes about matters relating
>to the Office ofsecretary offhe Treasury,
which Mr.. Hayes had offered him, and
also reminds the country that he had OPP
posed the electoral bill. Does this state
sment improve Mr.. sherman's position
before the country? He was Senator
from Ohio, and as such was one Of the
Judges of the Presidential election, which
was in dispute; and in the midst of the
trial, Mr.. Hayes, one of the parties to the
contest, offers Mr.. Sherman an Office ifhe
should win, and Mr.. Sherman, as a judge
in the case, uniformly votes in accordance
to Mr.. Hayes interests. The moral SEN
timent of nation which would not con-
denim both Mr.. Hayes and Mr.. Sherman
for this action would be blunt indeed,
and the Secretary Of the Treasury has
stated enough to justify the impeachment
of the President for attempting to inau-
ence the action ofajudge upon the count
ofthe vote for President, and of himself
for improperly securing the position he
now holds. Chandler's charges against
Hayes and Sherman are no worse than
the defense which Sherman makes.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03

In the election held in Sumter for
member Of the House of Representatives
week before last. Thos. B. Johnson, Re-
publican, defeated the Democratic NOM
inee by a considerable majority, although
two or three weeks previous Col. 7. 3.
Frazer, the Democratic nominee for State
Senator, had been elected by a handsome
majority. Several of the ballot boxes in
the election for member of the House of
Representatives were captured on their
road to the Court House and destroyed,
and the room in which the boxes were
Kept at the Court House was broken open
at night, and the ballots so mixed and
scattered that it was impossible for the
Commissioners of Election to tabulate
the returns. There is, however, very
little doubt that when the Legislature
re-assembles it will admit johnson to his
seat. because the destruction of the ballot
boxes was such high-handed defiance
OF law that it cannot be encouraged or
even countenaEced. The destruction of
ballot boxes is not the means by which
The Democratic party carries elections,
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prompt and courageous action. Silence
is crime; acquiescence and inaction are
political death. Can the Republican
party of heroic achievements be bound to
an administration which is not a free
agent, but is bound by bargain to Gen
eral Gordon, L. @. G. Lamar, Wade
Hampton and other Southern Democrats
now in high Office only through the blood
of murdered Republicans Does not
every voter in the land know that Hayes
and Packard were elected simultaneously
and held by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down
Packard he put an irremovable stain upon
his title? The Republican party has
lived long and survived many assaults
and many treasons, only because it has
been party founded upon high princi-
Piles, animated by lofty sentiment, cour-
ageously acting up to noble convictions.
If it now disgraces its record and indorses
or fails to repudiate the Hayes surrender,
its voters will leave it by thousands. Its
days numbered, it will die deserved aud
unhonored death.
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Cochran and Thompson the Principal
Opponents Of Senator Patterson.
From the Washinqto7s Post, December 81. ,


Senator Butler has recently been ad-
yised, by the most trustworthy authority,
that the principal opponents of Senator
Patterson in South Carolina are brace
of Radical politicians, named respective
ly Cochrar-and Thompson. Cochran is
known as the original seducer of the
South Carolina Legislature, during
Scott's administration, and nearly all of
the ugly schemes passed by that body
were devised and engineered through by
him. 1t is said that in 1868, before the
negro legislators knew what value to set
upon their votes, they were bought by
Cochran on one occasion with brass
watches. During 1870 and 1871, Coch-
ran was the ego between" in the Gland
Commission" swindles, and he was the
medium for selling large worthless tracts
of swamp lands to the State, ostensibly
for the benefit of the freedmen, but in
reality to put money into the dishonest
palms of men whose sole mission was to
enrich themselves at the expense OF q
war-stricken people.
The principal cause of Cochran's ami
mostly toward Patterson was the latters
refusal to endorse him for appointment
as internal revenue collector of the dis
trict of South Carolina. By some unac-
countable cause, Cochran was appointed
chairman of the investigating Legislative
committee at Columbia, and he seems
unrelenting in his opposition to Patter-
son, who not only refused to endorse
him for an Office, but also offended him
by refusing to vote for the admission Of
D. T. Corbin in the recent senatorial con-
test.
Thompson is, if anything, more sour
w fellow than Cochran. He has been
for years the principal maligner of the
decent people of South Carolina. For
years he has traduced them in a vile sheet
at Columbia called the Union-Herald !;
and he now assails them in his corre-
spondence from that city to the New
York Times. Patterson may have COM
mitted questionable acts in South Caro-
lima, but in the name of all decency let
reputable persons be put forward to in
vestigate him, and not adventures of the
Thompson Cochran stripe, who will never
get their just deserts until they are lodged
in the penitentiary.
Many fair-minded persons in this city
have openly expressed their sympathy
for Patterson since they became informed
of the style of men who are pursuing him
in South Carolina. What also greatly
adds to the sympathy for Patterson is the
fact that Corbin is doing all in his power
to encourage judicial proceedings against
him in South Carolina.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03

AYERS AMERICAN ALMANAC is now ready
for delivery by the druggists, and we are free
to say TINT we have read this welcome WIS.,
itor with satisfaction and profit: It con-
tains all astonishing amount of information
which is useful to everybody, and shows
how to treat nearly all the diseases from
which people suffer. 1t invariably recon-
mends the best remedies to be employed,
irrespective of Ayers Family Medicines. and
furnishes, indeed, the best medical advice
by which a great majority Of ailments can
be treated successfully. The anecdotes, wit
icisms and jokes are the best compilation
that comes under our notice, and the book
is e refreshing contribution to our enjoy
ments every years.. Clair Odse,ror.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03
Notice to Contractors.

DURSUANT to Section S, A. A. No. 24O,
Il approved June Z, 1877, the County
Commissioners of Anderson County will
let out the BUILDING OF THE LINE
FENCES between Abbeville and Anderson
Counties, and between the Townships adop-
ting and those rejecting the proposed change
in the Fence Law, on the upper side of the
County.
The Fences will be let out in sections of
one mile, and all sections not contracted for
by the 10Th January, will be let to the low
est bidder.
Parties living near and contiguous to the
lines can make arrangements with the Com.
missioners for erecting Fences and Gates
where necessary, and for the maintaining
of the same for period of three years.
The Commissioners reserve the right to
reject any or all bids. Written proposals
can be sent in to the Clerk Of the Board.
O. H. P. FAINT,
SAMUEL BROWNE,
JOHN G. CAN'T,
County Commissioners.
]. L. TR1DBLE, Clerk C. c.
Dec 13, 1877 % 5
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sHERIFF's SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ANDERSON COUNTY
In the Pro5cte Court. h5i
Mrs. Margaret Clinkscales and Mrs. Eliza
beth Breazeale, VS.. G. w. Cox.
PY virtue of an order to me directed from
D w. w. Humphreys, Judge of Probate.
for Anderson County, and State aforesaid, I
will expose to sale on the FIRST MONDAY
in JANUAR'a next (1S7S) the following
tract of land, to wit: :
ONE TRACT OF LAND,
situate in Honea Path Township contain
ing one hundred and forty (l4O) acres, more
or less, adjoining lands OF G. w. Cox, W. !.
c. Brown and Others. Sold as the real estate
of Mrs. Margaret Cox. ssss95
Terms Of Sale-One-third Of the purchase
money in cash, the residue on credit of
twelve months, with interest from day of
sale, the purchaser to give bond with good
security, with mortgage of the premises to
secure the purchase money. Purchaser to
pay extra for.all necessary papers. -
JAMES II. MCCONNELL,
Sheriff Anderson County.
Dec I3, 1877 % Il
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5 Judge William 81. Wallace has been
nominated for the United States Senate
to succeed Patterson in case of q vacan-
cy. Gov. Hampton, Gen. Gary, Gen.
Connor, Lieut.- Gov. Simpson, and host
of Others, have also been nominated for
the same senatorship, which is not va
cant, and does not seem likely to be
vacant before the 4th of March, 1879.
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To the Patrons Of Husbandry.

Worthy Brothers and Sisters:
desire a full attendance on next Sat
urday at our Pomona meeting. Officers
must be elected for the ensuing year, and
arrangements must be made for the meet
ing of the State Grange, which meets in
Charleston on the first Wednesday in
February next. 1t is highly important
that a full delegation be sent, as there
are several constitutional questions SUBJ
mitted by the National Grange for ratifi-
cation or rejection. Anderson being the
"banner" county, let us have one dele.
gate from each Subordinate Grange in
the County.
w. ". RUSSELL.
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the Chief OF his Bureau, not 80 much by
attention to his clerical work, as by some
personal favor or mark. of homage; he
knows, by instinct, the observation Of
Chesterfield, "that princes are more fat
tered by personal attachment than by a
political SERVICE" and the Chief of the
Bureau is his prince. The Bureaucrat is
in turn servile and cunning, for his prince
is Cabinet officer, or some powerful
political patron. And thus it is through
all the depths and shoals of political and
official life. Titled men, Generals and
Judges, of soft muscle and mediocre
ability, have their ambition soothed with
sinecures, and the silvery rythm of regu-
lar pay. With such men and such mo-
tives it will be inferred that society at the
Capital, so far as it is effected by Depart
mental official life, has not in its organ
ism the promise of power and perfection.
But Departmental, official, and clerical
society is what two other classes in
Washington would call lower strata.
True some of its individuals are cultured,
as they say in Boston, and many others
have progressed so far as to say "either"
and neither" with the long ''5' sound
on the first syllable, or, if through force
of habit, and a better education, they in
advertently give those words the sc"
sound, they repeat and correct them
selves, as Judge Davis did, on the same
words, in his first speech in the Senate.
Big men, mean big in the way of beef
and adipose, do puerile things sometimes.
But to return to the subject. The big her
strata of society is composed Of naval and
military officers and their families. The
way they elevate their aristocratic noses,
ape foreign manners and fashions, repel
an ordinary member of Congress unless
he is rich, or court and wheedle him if
he is on the naval or military committees,
is, as the proprietor Of a side show would
say, both moral and instructive. An
other class, neither military, naval nor
official, is known as the old Washingto-
nian. He is related (if he knows him
self to the CAROLS, Lees, or Randolphs,
or Adamses, or Ewes, or Methusalehs, or
some other old Virginia family. I have
not exhausted the subject but have ex-
hausted my space.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ANDERSON COUNTY.
DY virtue of various Executions to me
ID directed, I will expose to sale en- the
First Monday in January next, 1878, at
Anderson Court House, 8. c., the following
property, 70 wit:
One bale of Cotton, levied upon as the
property of VIM. N. Shaw, at the suit of
James W. Wilson.
Also, seven bales of Cotton, at Defend
ants house, on Tuesday after the first Mon
day in January, 1878. Sold as the property
of John J. Mattison and VIM. II. Mattison,
at the suit of Robert j. Mattison, Louisa
Gaines, and others.
Also, on Tuesday after the first Monday.
in January, 1873 at the residence Of James
B. Burriss, formerly J. P. Tucker, one lot of
Corn in the shuck, about one hundred aud,
fifty bushels; fifteen hundred or two thou-
sand bundles of fodder, one lot of Shucks,
one lot of Cotton Seed, four old Wagon
Wheels, two new Wagon Wheels, one lot
of old Blacksmith Tools, one lot of old
Irons, one lot of Barrels, one lot of Boxes,
one Saw Mill Saw, one Mill Crane, one
Thresher, one lot of old Mill Irons, one.
Broad Axe, one large Granary, one Brace,
one Jack Screw, and one lot of old Irons.
Sold as the property of ]. P. Tucker, at the
suit of w. b. Watson and others.
Terms Cash.
JAMES 81. MCCONNELL,
Sheriff Anderson County.
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GTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
- ANDERSON COUNTY.
By ". ". Humphreys, Esq, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS, W. A. McFall has made
suit to me to grant him letters of Admins
tration, on the Personal Estate and effects
of John Heron, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all kindred and creditors OF the said
John Heron, deceased, to be and ap-
pear before me in Court of Probate, to
be held at Anderson Court House, on Fri
day, January 18th, 1878, after publication
hereof, to shew cause if any they have,
why the said administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand, this 31st day OF
December, A. D. 1877.
w. w. HUMPHREYS,
Judge of Probate.
Jan 3, 1878 25 2
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sHERIFF's SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ~
Anderson COUNTY.
In tho Probate Court.
Ammaris Duncan, Harriet E. Hammond,
Nancy G. Brasswell, Plaintiffs, against
Judge Whitner Poore, Milton Poore and
Anna Poore. ,s 8
DY virtue of an order to me directed by
ID W. w. Humphreys, Judge of Probate
for the County of Anderson, and State fore-
said, will expose to sale on the FIRST
MONDAY in JANUARY next, (1878), at
Anderson Court House, 8. c., the folloy1Ep
tract of Land, to wit =.
ONE TRACT OF LESQ, ss
Containing eighty (sW acres, more Of less,
bounded by land of a. J. Stringer, Nancy
Poore, John ]. Mattison. Sallie v. McAlis-
ter and William Stone. Sold for partition
among the heirs of John B. Poore, deceas-'
ed. -
Terms of Sale-One-half cash !; the re-
mainder on credit Of twelve months, with
interest from day Of sale-purchaser to give
bond and security, together with q mort
gage of the premises to secure the purchase
money. Purchaser to pay extra for all me-
cessary papers.
JAMES n. MCCONNELL,
Sheriff Anderson County.
Dec 13, 1877 %