New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-27


inches thick but very porous.
The standard and broad gauge rail-
roads ofthe United States have cost an aver.
age in cash of $4,000 mile. The average
cost OF the narrow gauge railways has not ex-
ceeded $4,000 amile.
The colored men of Washington inter-
ested in the colonization Of their race in the
West have taken measures to promote that
object, and denounced the Liberian scheme of
emigration in progress in the Southern
States.
Diphtheria and scarlatina are prevalent
in Brooklyn, n. Y, and the proportion of
deaths is one to four. Both defective drain
age and sewerages are supposed to cause its
prevalence, as they appear in the dwellings of
the rich as frequently as among the poor.
The treasury department. having
submitted to the Attorney general the ques-
ton of whether the coupons of the United
States bonds when detached and DESTROYED
can be paid under the terms of section 1872
revised statutes, he has decided they cannot.
The official report of the Northwest
mounted police of Canada, gives the numbers
ofhostile Sioux who crossed into the Domin-
ion in December, 1876, as about 500 men,
1000 women, and 400 children, with $500
horses. Sitting Bulls lodges numbered only
1876.
The body of Mrs. q. V. Burdick, bur-
led four years ago in the Canoga cemetery,
near Cayuga Lake, N. Y, on being recently
disinterred, to be removed to cemetery at
Pint al VIC 70 ho 1uh;
full and natural as in life, as hard as stone
and as heavy.
A United States war vessel is needed
at San Domingo for the protection of Ameri-
can residents. One is to be sent as soon as it
is made seaworthy. Meantime the Ameri-
cans at San Domingo, who were in immediate
danger at last advices (three weeks agol may
be past all help.
Both branches Of the Kentucky legis-
lature adopted resolutions nstructing 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 Charleston. S. c., dispatch, states
that the Liberian ship Azar was .consccrated
on the ed inst, in the presence of 5000 color
ed people, by Bishop Brown, of the African
Methodist Episcopal church. Several addess
es were made, all breathing the missionary
spirit. Politics were not touched upon.
Advices from China to February 18th
report the famine spreading all over The
northern provinces and the distress unparall
eled. Land taxation has been virtually re-
mitted in eight provinces, but too late for re-
lief. Government resources are exhausted,
and the utter depletion of the resources of that
portion of the empire is threatened.
6 The so-called Indictment against Mr..
Henry Clews, banker and broker, which was
obtained in Chautauqa county on ex-parte
evidence, and upon which Mr.. Clews was re-
Gently arrested, has been decided invalid by
the court of sessions Of Chatauqua county and
an order has been entered quashing the same.
Mr.. Clews has obtained orders Of arrest for the
parties connected in the conspiracy.
The business manager of the Cleveland
non-explosiye lamp company, places the to-
cal loss by the late fire at $4,000 above all
insurance, which is $4,000; loss of building
$4,000; insured $4,000. T. w. Evens & Co.,
commission merchants, who occupied por-
ton Of the building, has an insurance upon
their stock, which will probably cover the
loss. The total insurance is therefore about
$62 900, and the loss nearly $4,000.
One Of the tragedies occurring during
the late storm on the Laramie plains, is told
as follows: John Conner, tie cutter, few
days before the storm, left his wife, who was
on the eve Of confinement, without food or
bedding, in an old sheep coral on the Little
Laramie, he going away ostensibly to seek
employment. During the storm, thus alone
and destitute, she gave birth to child, which
froze to death. Both were found buried in
snow, the mother barely aliye-too far gone
for hope of recovery.
Vienna had adopted method for rails
ing funds to carry on its municipal govern
ment, which has lottery feature. Certif-
Gates, redeemable in 1924, bearing low rate
ofinterest, but Endorsed by the imperial COY
eminent, are issued, and to induce steady
sale of these certificates, four annual draw
ings are to be had, at each one of which a
premium OF $4,000 will be awarded by lottery
to some one of the certificates sold during the
year preceding. These certificates are being
sold in this country through New York
bank, and are held not to violate the New
York statutes forbidding lotteries, because
each purchaser receives quid pro quo. The
same plan might assist some of our heavily
indebted cities to reduce their interest bur
den.
CONGRESSIONAL.