New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20

inches thick but very porous.
In the veins of an old tree cut near
Memphis, Tenn, recently, was found particles
OF quicksilver. Where the quicksilver came
from is an unanswerable question.
In mass meeting at Omaha, lately to
consider the branch mint location, a commit
tee OF seven was appointed to visit Washing
ton and presentthe claims of Omaha.
Sunday ends in San Francisco at 12m
The law permits all public amusements there
Sunday afternoons, and the Frisco people
call Sunday evening sermons lectures.
Cubans residing in New York and
neighborhood have resolved to send men and
means to their faithful compatriots who still
struggle to win the independence of their ma
tive island
In central Europe a railway lamp is in
use which does not smoke or poison the air
and does give light enough to read by. The
can railway managers
John Cunning was dangerously shot in
party riot in the east end Of Montreal, on
the 10th inst. Joseph and William Gardner,
George Kelly, William Chester and George
Beatty, all Protestants, have been arrested.
The Home savings bank of Boston sus-
pended on the 18th lust, temporary iniunc-
ton having been obtained. For two years the
deposits amounted to IS, 79s,243. Since then
they dwlndled to s3,117,431. Of this amount
$2,S4l ,534 are invested in real estate loans.
Both branches of the Kentucky legis-
lature adopted resolutions instructing the
congressman OF that State to support and aid
in every possible way the Texas Pacific rail-
way bill. Kentucky is strongly in favor of
the bill, and the Legislature has only carried
out the desire of the people,
A motion for new trial in the famous
five million dollar Emma suit, has been denied.
Mr.. Clinton, counsel for VIM. H. Vanderbilt,
says there is absolutely no ground for the ru
mors that the suit of Cornelius Vanderbilt has
been or is about to be settled by the payment of
one million dollars.
The storm on the 9th inst, damaged
the leyees below New Orleans to consider
able extent. Crevasses are reported at Jesu-
it's Bend, eighteen miles below the CITY. and
DR.. Williamson's, thirty-fve miles below the
city, both on the right bank. No estimate of
damage mas Deen made,
Judge McAllister, of Chicago in a
habeos corpus case, recently decided that the
city ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquors
to minors conflicts with the State law and
with the city charter, both of which make a
like prohibition, but with variation as to
detail, AND that the ordinance is therefore
void.
There is said to be in Philadelphia an
old association for novel order of insurance.
It is an association of rich business men. who.
whenever one of their number fails and re-
tires from business, pension him for life under
coveriof the fiction that some relatiye,lor per
sonal friend, has granted him al annuity
They will not, however, assist one of their
number, under such circumstancesto resume
business.
The late provision trade failures at
Philadelphia develop combination to main
tain the credit of several firms by swapping
notes and endorsements, of the same sort as
was developed by the recent morocco trade
failures of the same city. The arrangement
worked well SO long as each firm limited it.
self to safe business, but the facility afforded
Tor speculative purchases finally tempted one
firm too far and its fall pulled down the 9th
ers.
The Indians of the United States and
territories: altogether number about $4,000
souls. OF these 100, 600 are in the organized
States, and 10000 in the Indian territory. over
whom no manner of military control is neces-
sary, and the 10000 in Alaska are left to them
selves. This leaves 1876, 900 in the other Terri
tories of whom at least 90, 600 are as quiet and
orderly as the most civilized people. For the
control OF the remainder, about $4,000 men,
women and children, mostly the Sioux Of
Dakota, it is proposed to place the other 34O-
600 uader the military establishments.
As far as explored, the gold region Of
the Black Hills extends distance of eighty
miles from northwest to southeast by about
from ten to twenty miles in width from north
east to southwest. Within this mineral belt
over 300 gold quartz lodes have been record.
cd, OF which forty are furnishing ore to forty
nve OF the quartz mills now operating. With.
IN the same belt about three hundred silver
lodes have been recorded, and one silver mill
is in operation. The placer gold mines are
also still producing, and coal, iron, copper.
lead and petroleum and salt springs have also
been discovered within the same wonde rfully
rich mineral region
Rev. w. W. Case, of the Baptist church
at Hamilton Square, N. j., is the victim Of
strange kind of persecution. He once wrote
q will for an old lady, leaving her possessions
to the church, which will is contested. while
a woman an interested has undertaken to punish
him for Writingit by making faces at him.