New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-08
NEW ULM
MINNESOTA

NEW ULM MINNESOTA
CURRENT TOPICS.
AS the minister Of a country church in
Georgia was abont to marry a couple. a
lady objected on the ground that the in
tended bride was nst Of age, and her pa
rents were ignorant Of the act. The clergy
man said it was not lagal objection, de-
cided to put the matter to vote. A unani-
nous aye!by the congregation was the
result, and the knot was tied.
During the thirty SIX years Of its ex-
istence the income tax has brought into
the Golfers Of Great Britain and Ireland
the sum of =ese5, o0o, 900, or 1895 100000
in gold. The highest rate-1s 4d, on the
pound-was IN 1861, the years follow
ing the Crimean war. The lowest, in
1875, was 3D., while the present tax, in
Guiding the increase from the s'six-mil-
lion" vote, IS only sd. (about two per
:ent) on incomes above el50.
CA man stepped upon woman's trail
ing dress, and apologized.' Such was
the little origin Of a terrible tragedy in
Methodist church in Jacksonville, Hi
nois, on Sunday last An alteration fol-
lowed, the man who stepped upon the
dress was shot dead, as was also another
man who interferred, and the murderer
will probably be hanged in due time.
Two lives already taken, and one more
likely to be taken, and all on account of
a careless tired upon woman's dress.
Twenty-Five years have elapsed since
Henrietta Wood, free negro woman Of
Cincinnati, was kidnapped by Fed Ward
OF Kentucky, and sold into slavery in the
far South. For fifteen years the woman
thus upjustly deprived Of bel liberty re-
NAMED the chattel of a harsh master,
until liberated at the close of the war.
She returned to Cincinnati a few years
ago, old and crippled, and afterward IN
stituted a suit of 5000 damages against
the man who had robbed her Of freedom.
A jury awarded her 50, 500.
Fortunes in Florida from orange grow
ing are made as easily, on paper, as cities
are builtb by companies on suburban farms.
A Mr.. Dewhurst thus glowingly calculates
what his income will be. He has four
hundred acre farm at Piney Point, and
has just planted it with eighty four quarts
of orange seed, which are expected to pro
duce 100000 trees. If they bear 5000
oranges each annually, he will have
2,100,o00,000 oranges, which, at the low
price of two cents each: would give an
income of $42,0 100000.
Three-fflhs of the letters received at
the Dead Letter Office furnish data which
renders it possible to return them to the
senders. Owing to the small clerical
force in the Office, nearly million letters
thus capable OF restoration, were in the
last fiscal year necessarily destroyed. If
) the amount Of money which these million
letter-writers would be willing to pay to
be relieved of their anxiety concerning
missing letters were available, it would
no doubt provide an adequate clerical
force for two or three dead letter offices
The acquittal of William Philips, ac-
cused of killing a mili,laman in the
streets Of Pittsburg during the railroad
strike of last July, is regarded as con
demnation of the orders of the Pennsyl-
vania authorities. The evidence showed
that during the retreat of Gen. Brinton's
command, Phillips fired from the rear
and the shot killed militiaman Phil
lips's acquittal was grounded upon the
judgment OF the jury that Brinton was not
justified in his musketry volleys, and that
the killing of one Of his, men under the
circumstances was not murder.
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Thousands in San Francisco, would
starve if charitable institutions did not
give them their daily bread. Last month
one single such institution gave shelter
to 416 persons, distributed 10000 rations,
and wood, coal, shoes, clothes, and medi-
cines to $50 families; yet many were left
without the necessaries of life. Real es-
tate has fallen SO per cent; Communism
is growing apace. On the spot these
woes are attributed to over speculation
and cheap Chinese labor, which cuts the