The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

my first year; then, Of course, every.
thing will improve, and can raise
wheat and have my W flour. ETC.,
etc. The expense and hardships are
to be encountered the first year.
Lam eve so much obliged to you
for the gun. Ducks, gees, prairie
chickens and hares are very plenty,
and millions of fish.
I can take up a homestead nearer
than five or six miles. If you will
send Col. J. R. King 500, he will locate
you a tree claim, which will give you
a years time before you need 90 on
to il. If you will send him $50 more
making $50 in all-he will have ten
acres broken on your claim, and this
will hold your claim for three years.
The law dose not require a person
taking a tree claim to live on it. If
you have ten acres broken the first
year. the law protects your claim
until the third year, when you are re-
CURED to plant Your ten acres in trees
seed of any kind or any kind of
young slips. This the very best and
only chance now for a man to secure
100 acres who is not able or ready to
start out now. You can depend upon
Col. J. r. King. He is Bishop Ire
landsagent. has done me many favOrs
alrerdy, and is a good reliable man.
Ii any of your friends desire a claim,
do what l have told you; tbs the best
and only chance now. We have built
a new church in our little town; will
shingle it next week.-Cathoiic Stand
ard philadelphia.
Subscriptions 10 four per cent. loan Sat
urday S49o, 800.
Internal revenue receipts last week,
S405 ,697; customs. $32O,553.
DR.. Each, Prussian minister of public
worship, has rendered his resignation.
j. II. Wilton. a United States deputy
marshal, has disappeared from Portland,
Me, a defaulter.
Complaints of the inteLse heat under the
glass roofs of the Exposition buildings at
/ arts are already heard.
The Senate confirmed the nomination
of James NJ. Bracket for postmaster of
Eau Claire, Wis.
Navigation of the Welland canal has
been temporarily suspended on account of
a break in centre lock %.
James Brown, banker of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, has closed his office doors and as
signed for benefit of his creditors, mostly
poor men.
The Russian military authorities have
forbidden Bessarbian deputies in the Rou-
manian parliment to attend any more Sit
tings of that assembly.
The third annual convention of the
Sunday School Workers of the St. Croix
Valley closed a two days session at New
Richmond Thursday evening.
Oxford University has elected Tahiti
C nservative, who sustains the ministry,
over Prof. Smith, liberal, by 2,6S7 votes 10
9S9. The clergy are for war.
The body Of Gen. John NJ. B~rinckley of
Milwaukee. who committed suicide the
4th inst, was found floating in Lake Mich
igan.
The personal estate of the late VIM.
Orion does not exceed $50 600. The heirs
are the widow and six children, three of
the latter being minors.
1t is believed the Pope, yielding to the
advice of his physicians, will spend the
summer at Monte Cassilo, the celebrated
Benedictine abbey of Naples.
A paper, looking to a grand Methodist
centenary, to be held in Boston, in 1884,
has been introduced in the General NJ. f.
conference in session at Atlanta.
A very severe storm-wind sixty miles
an hour with heavy rain-passed over the
northwest part of st. Louis, Saturday al
%ternoon, doing great damage and more or
less Injuring eight persons.
The Delaware built steamer State of Cal
i~fornia, bought by the Russian govern
ment for $500 900, is being altered for
arming with six guns, two on each side,
one at the bow and one stern pivot gun of
heavy calIbre.
A petty scandal, arising from two
couples OF students being out till a late
hour, boating, agitates University circles
at Madison. The two young women have
been sent home and the young men arc TO
wait the action of the faculty.
In the general conference of the Meth
dist Episcopal church South Saturday reg
olutions favoring a Methodist ecumenical
conference, and grand cente 1ary Of Amer
lean Methodisfs in Boston, December Is.
1854, were unanimously passed.
The House cammittee on railroads and
canals has approved a bill appropriating
s35 900 for the purpose of making a u
vey 10 ascertain the practicabilify and cost
of constructing a water route between Lake
Michigan and Lake Erie.
4 New Troy, Vermont, special SAYS the
party referred 10 in a press dispatch as
being encamped there, consisted of a
bakers dozen Of ordinary tramps, who
will leave there to-day. The report dds
that there Is NJ sign or talk Of Fenian;sm
there or anywhere on the Vermont bor-
der.
The Senate subcommittee has adopted
a suggestion from the Post Master Cen
eral. and will amend the post-ofiice appro-
bill accordingly to leave the de-
partment clerks graded As at present.
The bill as it came from the House re.
duced the grades and pay.
The House judiciary committee has re-
jected a bill which proposed TO pay Judges
of the United States district courts in the
States of New York a salary equal TO those
paid the judges Of the highest court Of the
state, and TO circuit judges a salary equal
to that paid the chief judge Of the State
supreme court.