The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
ONLY forty-eight days before the
resumption of specie payments by tho
government.-Pioneer- Press, IA.
I And how many bankers in the wayl
TIE Ameer of Afghanistan has the
hest of the controversy with England
so far. 1t is evident Shere Ali is not
mere sham. whatever be his title.
Mr.. HAYES might we'll apply tho
he pnrsues the intricate mazes of al
legged frauds in Louisiana at the last
election. Hayes an his cabinet con.
demning fraud is like Satan rebuking
sin.
BEN BUTLER, in q post election in
lerview said that those Republican
papers which are reporting him as
politically dead will find "the livliest
corpse at a funeral that they have.
ever heard Of When they bury
Ben it must he head first and very
deep.
GREAT BRITAIN is concentrating
near Guettah large number Of
camels preparatory to an advance upon
Clbul. With Highland regiment
or two in addition, when the march
is begun the plucky Ameor OF At
ghanistan will have reason to sing
1.-The Campbells are coming"
AT Elizabeth, n. j., Mr.. VIM.
Keller WAS elected Justice of the
Peace in the second ward. This is
all right enough rs Keller's majority
| was 500, but the city clerk is
bothered to know what direction to
give his certificate of election, as
William died over six months ago.
PIT this and that together: A Lon
don dispatch says the Afghans are
rapidly massing upon the hills COM
handing the roads to Ghuznee and
Cabul, while Berlin telegram tells
us that measures have been taken to
increase the Russian army to q war
basis of 632 battalions.
DONNELIY received two votes in
the town Of Leaf River for Coroner.
-Ir"dena Tribune.
These were honest fallOws who
thought the Republican party in the
district was IL tit subject for an in
Gnest; and from all til doors in tho
air they were about right.
IT is wonderful how benevolent
some people are when proposing to
dispose OF other folks money. For
instance one Of these individuals
writes the New York Herald,
Offering to point ont the whereabouts
of A. r. Stewards stolen bones if the
dead man 8 relatives will appropriate
half million dollars tv some public
charity.
TIE U. s. practice slip Dale wa
out in the Chesapeake the other day
with II crew o: the Naval Academy
boys, for nautical drill. Among other
things the young idea was taught how
to shoot, bnt it WAS precious poor
shooting for every shot WAS 4 miss.
However, not one Of those future
officers Of the Navy "missed his
step ut the ball that night.
WE are informed that Edison has
not yet received his expected patent
on the new electric light. So they
have not patented light yet! Well,
there Il monopoly on almost every
thing else, including the boring Of
holes in the ground for water. II
Moses had been live Yankee he
would never have struck the rock in
the desert. except he was duly pro.
tected" by law.
HARrERs WEEKLY illustrates"
Ben Butler. after Nas.'s peculiar
Ut al ID IN h.ae
yainly endeavoring to sustain himself
Ivy Il monster wind.bag. 1t may be
very easy and very amusing To dispose
Of the little Benjamin after that
fashion. but the question still remains
what Of the Ito O0) Massachusetts
freeinen who voted for him
THE defeat Of the Tammany ring in
New York WAS the righteous protest
of free people against q shameless
oligarchy which has long uslrped tho
functions of the Democratic purity. 1t
is hard To reconcile the personal ho:.
esty Of John Kelly, the Tammany
chief. with the crookedness Of the
ring he governs. And there be little
Ta,ninanys in all parties hat deserve
a like fate tn that Of the big one in
new i yin C-kys
THE Jersey City pnblic school-board
having exhausted its annual appropri-
alton has been enable to purchase coal
for the ,ise Of its several schools. It
Is !. criminal O5tenSe. punishable with
ten years in Htate prison. for any
member Of a municipal bard to vote
for expenditures in excess Of the ap-
preparations for the current year.
Several school. have been clused. and
the rest will he, unless the navel plan
of whipping the devil round tho
stump succeeds. Messrs. Wakeman
i ca. contractors for coal supplies,
have applied for AMI obtained leave
10 sf0re toal in the school honse Gel.
lars; and If the janitors are CAUTIONS
and nimble tiny may borrow ~
enough fuel tn keep their furnaces
going without the knowledge 0f the
scho0l-l,0ard or Of Mexsrs. Waterman
4 Co. We are III ingenious people
after al.