New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-22

3ceuG. per duuuM. S6Vefal mullOn dollars are
involved. a report against the bill will be
presented on behalf of a minority of the com
mittee.
1fISGELLANEOUs.
Almost all of the horses which will run
at Lexington, KY. during the races have ar
rived at the course.
1t is rumored that the Evans Rife
company, of Mechanics Falls,is filing large
orders for the Russians, on the steamer
Cambria.
NJ. Halpenny & Co.'s woolen mill at
aLewisburg, Conn, was totally destroyed by fire
on the 18th inst. Loss, about $4,000; insur-
ance, about $4,000.
The supreme court of Rhode Island has
cnjoined the Union Savings bank of Provi-
dence from further business transactions until
otherwise ordered by this court.
The coal miners of st. Clair and AIadi-
son counties, ILL.,, opposite st. Louis, Mo-,
have published an appeal asking for provi
sions to keep their families from starving
They say they have been working for from one
cent to ~ cents per bushel at which they
cannot make more than 81 to SIS a week, a
GUM lOVnly Auou1lClCub W support LueIu.
There is some basis for the reported
Fenian movement. AtSyracuse, n. Y, prob
ably $50 men are engaged in it, claiming con-
nectiQn with general movement along the
frontier. Some money has been raised and
men armed with pistols. They say they
await orders from O'Nell. The better class
of Irish citizens, however, give no sympathy
to the movement.
The Philadelphia Permanent Exhibi-
ton, which has been closed for some time to
allow of thorough renovation was reopened
to the public on tbs 10th inst. Senators Blaine
Bayard, and Wallace were present and were
met and escorted to the platform by the recep.
ton committee. Colonel A. K. Mcclure made
a short address, concluding by introducing
Senator Blaine as the orator of the day, and
the latter made an eloquent address.
A correspondent Of the evening Post.
writing from Toxic under date of April 5th,
sends the following: The famine in the north
OF China RACES with increasing severity and
most dreadful reports come from the afflicted
regions. In one town a man opened a shop
for the sale of humna flesh and did good
business in connibalistic joints and roasts
until the local mandarin caused the shop
keeper to be arrested and beheaded
Contracts have been let for grading,
bridging and ironing the Central branch of
the Union Pacific railroad, from Concordia to
Beloit, distance of2S miles from the present
terminus. This extension will take the road
and further progress will be made during the
year. A. M. Pomeroy president Of the road,
and Major Down, superintendent, have gone
west to inaugurate work. The grading is to
be finished in 60 days.
The Toronto Leader says that private
Information from Buffalo amply confirms the
truth of reports as to the Fenian organizations
in that city, although the extent ofthese prep
arations has been greatly exaggerated as well
as the number of men engaged in the bust
ness, and calls upon the government to
strengthen the defence of the frontier. 1t
says that under the pretense Of economy the
militia have been starved, the defences Of the
coast and of the lakes utterly neglected, and
| there not only exists min; mum of protection
but an actual temptation to raiders to try
| their luck.
The crop and statistical report of the
Tennessee bureau Of agriculture is just out
It states that the rayages OF Arust threatened
to be very disastrous to wheat, but in the past
ten days the prospect. has improved to some
extent and although considerable part OF
the crop has been cut off yet large increas-
ed average will make the yield probrbly about
three-fourths Of an avera &c crop. The fruit
! crop is more abundant than for several years
and corn, tobacco and other crops are doing
we'll. A fifth of the tobacco crop has already
Deen set out. While tobacco planting is
early, efforts will be directed toward making
a good crop rather than large one. The ay.
erage of cotton is much smaller than that Of
last year. ~
The bill introduced in the House by
Mr.. Schleicher, authorizes the secretary Of
| he treasury to issue in sums, not exceeding
an aggregate Of $4,000, 900, coupons or regis
tered perpetual bonds, redcemable only by
purchase in open market, interest payable
semi annually in coin Of the present stanard
value, at the rate Of 4 per cent. per ahnum
their proceeds to be applied to the purpose Of
erecting public buildings for use of the gov
eminent. The bill appropriates for public
buildings at Atlanta, Ca, 100000; Chicago
$4,000; Cincinnati, $3,25O,O00; Evansville
$4,000; Grand Rapids, Mich, $4,000; Little
Rock $4,000; Memphis, 100000; Nashville
$250,0OO; st. Louis, 81 GOO, 900; state, war and
navy departments building, Washington, IS,
i 100000 The bill also makes provisions fO,