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

many consulates. Since the cessation
or hOstll twenty-nine vessels
have arriv Constantinople, most
iy from the United States, with large
cargoes of rifles and cannon. The
turkish troops are now as we'll fur
nlshed with arms as before the war.
A dispatch from Peshawur yester-
day says: Gen. Brownies communica-
tions have been temporarily cut.
Hostile highlanders estimated at 1000
In number, have collected on the hills
below Ali Musjid. They cut off strag-
glers and fired on armed parties. The
section of the pass between Jumrood
and Ali Musjid has been closed alto
gether for the present. A strongly
escorted convoy failed to force its
way to-day. The situation is serious,
and strong measures are inevitable.
The divorce statistics of Vermont
for 1877 show an average of one di-
vorce in every fifteen marriages,
against one to every twenty-One
(nearly) in 1862, the increase in di-
vorces in that period having been
pretty steady. Of the It's granted in
1877, twenty-six were for adultery,
fifty nine for desertion, seventy nine
for intolerable severity, and eleven
for refusal to support. Brutality to-
ward wives seems to be on the in.
crease. or else is more easily proved
as a ground of divorce. the number of
cases granted for this cause having
nearly quadrupled in sixteen years.
Sunday, December I.
A fire at Ottawa this morning des.
troyed Albert Marshoefel's plow
factory. Loss 1000 to $25 900;
| insurance 500.
In the suit of the United States VS..
Samuel J. Tilden. Judge Choate has
granted motion of plaintiff to open
and file ce' tain deposiuions.
Black s. Vile, and A. Strass, whole
sale clothiers Buffalo, n. Y. have
made assignments. the former in
SSO. 200, the latter in 100000.
John 3. Garrett charges ex-Presi.
dent Huntzinger, OF the Philadelphia
coal company, with appropriating
So. 900 Of the company S funds. Bail
WAS fixed at $40, 900. Huntzlnger is
in Jail.
RICHMOND. Nov. 30.--The National
Grange Of the Patrons of Industry
adjourned Today. after characterizing
the internal revenue tax upon tobacco
as unequal and unjust. and. providing
for memorial to Congress paying its
repeal.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.--The United
States district court has rendered
judgment for the government against
Geo. Atcheson, for failing to account
for between $4,000 and $4,000,
placed in his hands as an army officer
for distribution among the Indians in
Minnesota, in September, 1870.
The town of Jackson, Kentucky,
WAS Friday and Saturday the theatre
of a bloody strife. The streets were
taken possession of by rival gangs of
outlaws and IA political battle ensued
law and reason was dehed. Judge
Randall was shot and instantly killed.
Many citizens were killed and
wounded, and some of the rioters.
a.onday. December q.
Garfield Bros. & Co., jewelers. Of
Baltimore city. have suspended.
Liabilities $50. 900; assets unknown.
a dispatch from Peshawar Saturday
aight says: Gen. Appleyard, who was
sent to clear the khyber pass, has
been heavily engaged. Reinforce
ments have been sent from Jumrood.
LONDON, Dec. l.-At a meeting of
operatives in Oldham Saturday, over
300 being presnt. it was unanimous
resolved not TO submit to reduction.
\ meeting of masters Friday was
equally determined. There are now
$4,000 persons idle.
\ dispatch from Thull says: The
Afghans have got their guns up
Peirrar Pass, and have established a
battery on the summit. Afghan
troops swarm on the ridges and crags.
The TAull regiments failed TO turn
the enemy's position On Saturday.
and retired on discovering his
strength.
Traoing's rancho at Trabing City,
". T. on Crazy Woman creek, forty.
eight miles north of this point. was
entered by masked men the Goth nit. |
They gave the command Throw up
yoar hands, which was obeyed, and |
went through the pockets of the en- |
ployes and took what they wanted |
from the store.
A North Platte. Nebraska atch /
of December lst says.--Slearns, of /
Patterson & Ssearns, came in. from /
Niobrara river to-day. The Indians /
run of thirty-.Ilree of their horses on |
the 2Sth. i second raid was made on i
Major Norths, and the Indians got all 1
he had left. On Wednesday the
Indians made raid on Beatt's rancho
Oh BirGwood; the cowboys gave them
a fight. and the Indians cnly got four
horses.
Arrived in New Orleans, the
Charles Morgan. from Cincinnlti.
Her officers report that at o'clock
this morning a collision occurred at
Bringera Point. opposite Donaldson
vile. of the Red River Transportation
line. The Cotton Valley sunk and
twenty lives were lost. Boat and
cargo total loss. The Cotton Valley