The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
GDNERiL NEUS.

american SlIKSW were SOlU 1t auction
in New York recently twenty-five per
cent lower than the manufacturers
prices.
A brass band caused :. sensation in
Concord. N. c., the other day. It
was the first music the town had had
in eleven years.
The Ciyarmakers of Boston are
helping to support the strikers in
New York. and are sentiny them all
the money they can.
1t is remarked that of late the
majority of suicides in this country
have been men a.ld women pretty well
advanced in years.
The total valuation Of property in
New Orleans this year is lII.llj. 1873.
a fawling off Of nearly Il million from
last years assessment.
An eminent Dublin surgeon has
given 5000 to establish !. lifehoat on
the wild coast OF Kerry, i'll memory Of
his deceased brothers. &
An ecclesiastical authority esti-
mates that in round numbers there
are in England and Wales 1880
Church beneiices. and that their AN
nual net value is SIS 900. OJ0.
The Italian parliament is divided
on the question Of capital punishment
the lower house being in favor of it's
abolition, while the senate desires to
keep on hanging or guilotininy.
In Breslau. Prussia. successful at
tempt, has been made to erect paper
chimney fifty feet high. BY Il chemi-
cal preparation the paper is rendered
water.
The superintendent OF a factory in
Canada which manufactures paper
from wood says that the process is
now SO much improved that the paper
can he made ready for use i'll six hours
from the cutting of the tree.
4 frequent intercourse and intimate
connection between two persons make
them SO like, that not only their dis
positions are nodded like each other,
but their very faces and toues Of voice
contract Il certain analogy.
\ New Orleans jourMil having
Dragged abouta "heautiful girl in
that city who weighs 42l. the Blrling-
ton Hawk-Eye eNclailnS: Fraud
fraud Lets appoint u committee Of
Northern men of national reputation
to godOwn ald see fair weight.
A tive-year old tot. who had always
closed her prayers with-"ani God
Itni Ia n Il
here 1T that point. the other night,
and said very decidedly. II amt
going to SAY the rest, for don't want
to be Il good girl; want to eat green
apples and swallow EN-
\ veteran, agee seventy-siX. has
been fined $40 and sent to Jail for Il
month. for asserting that Marshal
Mae Mahon is addicted to abSinthe.
and WAS under its baneful influence
when hs resolved u make Il coup 'etat
Some six hundred New York liquor
sellers were arrested on December 6
and for failing to do as the excis.
law provided. The days named were
the most orderly week days known in
the metropolis for some time.
The Raleigh IN. c. News asserts
that dashing young hawk swooped
down on the gil. vane OF. the spire of
Christ church. in that city, mistaking
it for genuine rooster. and grasping
it in his tIlOns, essayed to carry off his
prize
British Columbia is excited over gold
quartz discoveries. La the Cariboo
district ledge has heen traced FIVE
miles with \ width of from eighteen
tn thirty-six feet. Assays from fifty
feet below the surface give $40 to 500
To the ton.
The two hnndredth anniversary Of
the settlement OF Burlington y. J.
was celebrated recently with militia
ry parade and commemorative SER
vices at the Opera House. 4 general
illumination in the evening closed the
festivities. The parade was reviewed
by eygovernors Parker and Newell.
At Norwich. Conn. according to
the Bulletin. the following sad event
occurred: The boys were cnasting on
the hills last evening. and their hap
pv young voices made the night merry.
4 weary man worn with this empty
life-strnggle. stopped and listened.
and perhaps = tear gathered as he
wished he. too, were lad again.
Then u boy threw y SNOWFALL at him.
and he chased him four blocks and
licked him till he couldn't stand I'D
without leaning against wall
The Western people don't scare
worth cent. The Cincinnati
Enquirer thus retorts to the threats
of the monopoly journals against the
West rs \ punishment for her attitude
ON the financial question: The East
says she will no longer lend her money
to the West if the West insists upon
her rights. What will the wolves of
Wall street do with their i'll gotten
gainss Eat them. we suppose. No
thanks tn the East for sending her
capital West She gets paid for it.
and double what it is worth. With
draw your filthy lucre, and we will let
you starve to death or feed on fish and
sea gulls."
Within the year No less than H.
600 600 acres Of forest have been cut
or bsxned over In the United States.