New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-09
Ex-Gov. Shepherd and John q. Mitch

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ell have left Washington for St. Louis, and
taken with them SO packages Of various goods
and 81 800 in cash, with which to begin a car
go OF supplies for the suffering people along
the line of the Mississippi river who are cut. cut
off from railroad communication and in great
need Of assistance
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the Army ofthe Tennessee, at Indianapolis,
October Both and 31st. Generals Sherman,
Sheridan, Hancock, Pope, Burnside, logan,
B ~ a9eyJef: G. Davis wlllIcertainly attend
aaad othM distinguished of1ice rs are expected
tdb be pFesent. The indications promise a
large, attendance from other States, and prep
a.fations are being made aecordin
Revs. John Hall and j. II. Vincent, of
New York; Richard Newton, of Philadelphia;
John A. Broodns, of Louisville; Benjamin
Jacobs, Of Chicago, and others, of the Inter
national Sunday school, met at the Gibson
house, Cincinnati, on the 25th of September,
for the purpose 81 prYeyiding the International
Sunday school lessons for sever Years, sbegin
ing with 1880.
The standing scommittee IL the Ohio
NJ p. conference in session at Columbus.
Ohio after considering the case of Rev. f. "A.
Spencer, one Of their mum Der and E. T. mis-
sionary to India and Italy, :who..sis charged
with immoral conduct while at farmers
house in Athens county, some time ago,
decidedlto expe] Spencer from the. church and
deprive l him qf his ministerial office.
Dispatches to the, Towards announcing
the death satsNicksbhrg iol Wn.s lockwood,
president of the Towards, says: ''He died on
the field Of honor and duty. .. He bravely met
the king of ;terrors and died a martyr in
holy cause. He died in the fill possession of
his faculties, and with many anxious words
about the association Of which he was the
honored president, and With Blessings on
the suffering people. e9li5I 3aEi
Gen. James A. Garfield, insresponse to
telegram from some gentlemen in Wash
ington city, interested in the matter, sent the
following as his construction of the home
stead law: "Persons entering homestead
after they have ceased to be soldiers get a pa
tent after one YEARS., residence. Persons &C
tual soldiers at date of entry, or who become
so afterwards if they served Ave years require
no residence. The commissioners decision
is right. Ibid not frame the law but concur
with Judge Lawrence,l who did"
A correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs
as follows: "Thes government will make Ia
hore their headquarters for the winter, and
will not return to Calcutta The foreign
Office has received orders from theicamp at
lahore. This! looks as if the viceroy enter
tanned no hopes of peace. The government
is anxious to avoid acting harshly. The
Ameer had still the choice of submission
open to him. In anyjevent doubt whether
an attempt to invade Afghanistan on large
scale will be made, till Spring. Accurate in
formation regarding the Ameer's strength is
wanting, but it is known he has well equip
ped standing army after the Europefn mod
els, besides irregular levies. The most diff
cult question to be encountered is the posi-
bic attitude Of the border tribes. The faint
est mistake in tact or error in Judgment
might excite a blazeuofy warfare along the
whole, frontier of 800 miles,, It is estimated
these tribes can easily turn out 100000 6ght-
ing men,. H''''' fs''s i'''$'E: .3tti @'.3fi5t'f
The United States steamer Enterprise,
Commander selfridge has, arrived off the
Brooklyn N. 7. navy yard after a voyage Of
five months, exploring the An,azon and its
tributaries, more particular Ithe Madeira
Most of the officers and men suffered from a
modified type, of malarial fever, aid some of
them are( not quite; recovered Capt. Self
ridge says the exploration was a perfect sue
cess. The Madeira was found navigable 500
miles The Captain says: "We found the
volume Of the'Amazon to be 1000, 900 cubic
feet asecond, and if the, Mississippi were
flowing into into it. it wouldn't raise it's surf
ace perceptibly." The Enterprise brings as
passenger Alice Stroope, aged years. Her
father was formerly a doctor in Texas, and
with his wife and others iemigrated to
Brazil after the war, The doctor and his
wife died, and the. child was thrown alone on
the world. She will be sent to friends in
Texas. y, - rt'tt re-
Safuet Pasha, grand vicar and minister
of,foreign affairs, has sent a circular to the
powers calling attention to the fact that the
Greek government, on the authority Of reports
from it's counsuls in Thessaly, in SEpirus,
charges the Porte with stirring up the fanat-
icism of the Albanians3 against Greece, and
providing them with arms, Safuet Pasha
declares these assertions. calumnious, and
communicated to the cabinets by Greece for
the purpose Of justifying her military prepar7
atoms, which are really a direct threat Of ag!
gression against the Ottoman Empire He
proceeds to make counter charges and says
the Porte is daily oppressed by the machina.
tons Of Greece against Thessaiy and Epirus
tolarouse the ,peceable population. Moreover
he states Greece is preparing to place in the
field within month an army Of &c, 900 imen
with reserve of 35, 900. This fact, conjointly
with the large orders for supplies and the