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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-30
MHaceIlaneOus.

The grass is still green in the Yellow
stone valley and Big Horn region.
London finances are in furry over the
to America.
The Geographical Society of a hon
ored our hero Stanley with magnificent ban
quet on the 10th.
A fire at Collinwood, suburban vii
lage of Cleveland, last night destroyed $4,000
worth OF property.
American eagles to the amount of $780,
600 were withdrawn from the Bank of Eng
land for New York on the 23d.
Twelve thousand sewing machine
needles are made daily at Middleboro, Mass.
Fifteen thousand per month are sent to Aus
tralia.
The standing committee of the diocese
of northern New Jersey has consented to
the election, as Bishop, of Rev. D. P. sey
mour.
The arbitration on the wagon ques-
ton in the South Stafordshire, Eng, iron
trade has decided that wagons be reduced ~
per cept.
The New York Post says there appears
to be an effort to erect panic in bank stocks
by getting hold of small lots and using them
o hammer down prices.
The Spanish steamship Ponce went
down with two of her crew on the 23rd, after a
collision in the Mersey with the ship Bar
ing Brothers, from Norfolk to Liverpool
The Sun River settlers in Montana as
sert that either Sitting Bulls bucks or the
remnant Nez Perces are constantly lurking
about their herds and running off their
stock
Hundreds of men, women and little
children have persisted from cold and hunger
| on their precipitate fight from Adrianople
| and other points being captured by the Rus
SLAMS.
The Mexican authorities at Peidras
Negras have. delivered the murderer Condona
to American officers on this side of the Rio
Grande, much to the disgust of the Mexicans,
who threaten rescue.
The wonderful success of the French
Government in placing its entire war loans
with its own people is the basis for the belief
that similar plan for funding our own vast
| will debt as fully succeed in this country.
A Toronto dispatch says Courtney, the
| Union Springs rover, will meet Hanlon in a
match race in the fall, and tina. Hanlon will
challenge Morris in day or two for the
championship of the United States and one
| thousand dollars or upwards
The uncertain state of affairs in Eng
land checks all business. Discount houses
| are said to hold very large amount of money
! which they are unable to employ on any
terms. lis believed that the Bank Of Eng
land rate of three per cent will be reduced.
The residence of John Evans, Of lie
Sueur Co., Mimi, was burned between 10 9,
| m. and 1 o'clock a. m. on the 3d. Nothing
was saved. His little girl, between the age of
five and six years, was burned Her charred
remains were found the next morning and
placed in a basket, and the basket took fire
from the remains. The head and arms
were entirely consumed before the re-
mains were taken from the ruins of the
house.
The railroad meeting held in Winona,
Minnesota, on the 2Sd, in the interest of the
proposed narrow gauge road to Chataeld
Fillmore county, was largely attended. Ac.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-30
THE WORLDS DOINGS.

Grimes. Criminals and Casualties.
The African Garks have risen in revolt
and been worsted as usual in senere engage
ment with the British troops
During the fire in Astoria, n. Y, on
the 24th, chimney FELL killing Chas. Bennett,
fireman, and injuring several others, some
seriously.
Caldwell, freight conductor on the
Mariatta railroad fell from the train while in
motion near Hamden, Ohio, on the Oath and
was instantly killed.
Mccormick has since died, while his
murderers have been captured and identif-
ed by the neice of deceased, who was with him
at the time of the assault
A special reports at New Orleans the
killing of T. B. Raoul, telegraph operator and
railroad agent at Vaughn's Station, Miss, by
Postmaster Tucker Of that place.
John w. Garter, highly respectable
and influential citizen of Mound City, ILL.,, was
found dead in his bed on the Oath. He is said
to have committed suicide by shooting himself
in the mouth with a revolver. No cause is
known for the act
Fifty deserters from American whaling
ships were brought to Boston few days ago.
The captain who gave them passage from
Fayal, declares them gang of lazy, worth
less lubbers, and says he would have given a
thousand dollars to haye been free Of their
company.
Jacob and John Hutzeger, president
and cashier of the miners trust company,
Pottsville, Pa, have been sentenced each to
two years solitary confinement, to pay fine
of five hundred dollars, and to refund Thomas
Kerns, prosecutor, twenty -four thousand dol
lars with costs.
A few nights since Thomas McEvelly,
William Hubbs, and Patrick Murphy, shanty-
men, entered the house of woman in the
township of Anstruther, during her
husbands absence, and ravshed her and her
daughter girl Of II. McEvelly was arrested,
and threats OF lynching him are made.
Charles Palmer, of Muskegon, who had
previously shown symptoms of insanity, dur
ing the absence of his father few days ago,
killednine COWS, piled his fathers furniture
On and around the stove, fired it, and fled to
the woods. The furniture was mostly de:-
troyed, although the fire was extinguished
with small damage to the house. The young
man has not yet been found.
An Ohio Band oil grave robbers has
been operating on cemeteries at Toledo, Co.
lumbus and other places, from which they
supplied subjects for the demonstration of an
atomy at Michigan University and for medi-
cal schools elsewhere. The University had
ordered sixty bodies atthe rate Of ten week,
just before the "snatchers were discovered
and their business man arrested, which oc-
6otT lodi 70 1or
A gang Of four burglars were disturbed
while at work at a house on Dayton Street,
Cincinnati, at 5 o'clock on the morning of the
Gath, by a resident who was going to market.
He called for the police, was Joined by pri-
vate Waterman, and the latter by officer
Kunkel Of the regular patrol. The burglars,
armed with navy revolvers opened fire as they
reiterated up Dayton street and shot Kunkel,
killing him almost instantly. The murderers
escaped.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

mo sum or numeral exceeds twelve. Atten-
ton Is also given to writing and drawing,
and in this the modes of sitting and holding
the pencil are enforced. The practice con-
'sists in making straight lines, right curves
and left curves. In drawing, horizontal,
vertical and oblique lines are made. The
'rudiments of music are taught by means of
correct intonations in ordinary conversation
and speech, the proper position of the body
and right management of the breath and
vocal organs. Then follows single pure
tones, by echo or imitation; intonation of
the first five sounds of the scale, ascend
ing and descending, and three or four sim
pile note songs within easy compass. A
lesson is given each Gay on one of the sub
.jects here mentioned. Colored cards and
other objects are shown as red, yellow, blue
The principal parts of the human body, as
the head, neck, trunk, arms, legs right and
left hands, are explained and exhibited"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

THE Journal yesterday tried to break the
force of the libel suit against it by publish
ing deposition of Mr.. Gelwich sworn to be-
fore notary public.
The professional reader OF the Journal
will at once see that when the elder Mar
tindale retired from the practice of the law
there was no Choate or Webster missing
from the ranks of his brethren. The failure
of the great firm of Morton & Martindae to
get practice in the courts is now apparent.
1t speedily dissolved. and the latest legal eff
fort of the judge is in the publication of an
ex parte deposition of no legal wo-ih, aud
which can not be read in evidence. 1t is to
be presumed. however, that the Judge did
not know. In his innocence of the law he
doubtless imagined 1t could be used without
notice to the attorneys of Mr.. AL
Wis, and he could slip in an ex
parte statement without an opportunity
to cross-examine. However lamentably ig
norant the judge shows himself TO be. the
fact remains chat the Journal has Hbeled an
honest man, and when after due notice Mr.
Gelwich is confronted by cross-exsmina-
ton, his answers may not be SO satisfactory
to the Judge, and then it will dawn on his
innocent mind that he has made another
blunder, and aggravated the damages, which
will be assessed against the present proprie
tors of the Journal. The managing editor
need not fatter himself that the case will be
dismissed after the election. The suit was
not brought for elechoneering bumcombe
but for vindication, and the Journal manag-
er will soon find it out. Through the stu
pidity OF somsbody the Journal has pub
lished a gross libel, and although ignorant of
the fact, every publication similar to the one
in yesterdays paper aggravates damages
No sort of bluff or buster will avail in this
instance
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

AN English magistrate, believing that
breaking stone was not the simple task many
Judges believed it when sentencing men 10
the work, made some practical experiments.
He then gave his experience on the rock
pile, as follows: II found fully three-fourths
'of the stones such as any unskilled man in
moderate health could manage; but the re-
'mainder were beyond the power Of an I'M
spracticed hand. The fact was that did not
understand the grain of particular stones,
which practised hand would have split
easily; and have no doubt that, through
ign rance Of the Work, exercised sufficient
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25
In the year 1852 Cotton Mather wrote as

In the year 1852 Cotton Mather wrote as
follows:
Ye aged and beloved John Hlgginson: There
be now at sea shippe (for our friend Esias
Holdcraft, of London, did advise by the last
packet, that IL would sail some time In Anguish
called We Welcome, X. GTeenwas, master,
which has aboard a hundred more of We
heretics and malignants called Qualxers, with
w. Penn, who is We scamp at ye head OF them.
Y e general court has accordingly given secret
orders to Master Malachi Huxett, of We brigg
Purpose, 10 waylaye ye said Welcome, as near
as We coast of C0dd rs may be, and make cap
tives of We said Penn and his ungodlie crew, so
that We Lord may be glorified and not Knocked
We soil OF this new country with ye heathen
worshipps of these people. Much spoil can be
made by selling We whole lot TO Barbados,
where slaves fetch goOI prices in rumme and
sugar; and we shall not only do ye Lord great
service by Furnishing ye wicked, but shall
make gayne for His ministers and people.
THE action Of the Jacksonville conference
of Methodist preachers toward DR.. De La
Matyr shows that the Cotton Mather spirit is
still alive.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25
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1T is said by the most careful observers
that at no time in the past ten years have
the cities Of the United states been so clean
as they are now. The fear OF the yellow
fever has done more to accomplish this than
all the treatises on cleanliness ever written.
Especially is this so with regard to New
York. The citizens have been far more care
full inspectors of their neighbors' premises
than ever before, and have not been slow in
reporting nuisances, and when matters be-
came too unhealthy have called the atten-
ton of the police to the premises. This
promptness has had much to do with the
absence Of the fever, aud may teach les
son valuable in coming summers. So much
has been said and written concerning ven
tllation and cleanliness that any future
neglect of these essentials to health will have
no excuse
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

In the Philadelphia schools this season
departure has been made from the old man
ner of teaching and the usual course of
study in the primary departments. Gram
ming" is no.longer to be the ruin of the
child, and the favorite method of Indifferent
teachers, but the children are to be taught
to exercise their powers of reason more and
that of memory less. That is the idea OF the
lesson. The principal fact is to be fastened in
the youthful mind, but the mere wording of
the answer to the paragraph is not to be
considered, as heretofore, the prime object
The pupils will be led to express the ideas
of their lesson, so far as possible in
their own language, and to illustrate it
with illustrations drawn from every day life.
Something of the object teaching so favora-
bly, considered by the Philadelphia educators
is in use all over the country, but in many
schools the good of the course Is marred by
the ignorance of the teacher He does not
understand the matter beyond the few pic
lures painted on the chart, aud is so lacking
in originality and versatility that he can not
introduce something new at every lesson
The quick, gifted teacher will never lack for
subjects, for children are never weary of
stories and pictures, and it is not neces-
sary to be either a great author or ar
list to interest a primary class in
the schools. Then questions will prevent
monotony, and will suggest dozen trains
of other, any one of which followed out will
occupy the time allotted for recitation and
study. The kindergartens are doing this
work well. They are the very schools for
the little children, and when pupils are sent
to other schools parents should insist upon
at least some of the kind srgarten exercises
being allowed them. The difficulty has
been that too many grades have been too
forcing" and the children have become in
them either. prematurely educated or pre-
maturely brain exhausted. They were lit
tie better than indexes. full of names and
words they did not understand, but
simply remembered. The course in the
Philadelphia schools is to be as follows: SIN
the first grade the scholar is taught reading
by means of charts and the blackboard. To
suggest ideas, objects and pictures are pre-
scented and explained. Easy words of one
syllable, used as names of objects, actions
and qualities, are taught. In teaching
arithmetic, the limit in counting OF objects
lis from twenty and back. Then there are
oral exercises in addition and subtraction,
with numbers one and two, and in no case
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

body knows that its inmates would abandon
every employment and amusement until
the reptile was killed. The music of organ
and piano would be hushed instanter; the
sewing machine would stand still, books
thrown aside and every one able to WELD a
weapon would be ready for the work
of determination and death. It would
be the first thing to be done, and, if neces-
sary, people from the streets, black and
white, preachers and lsymen, would come
to the rescue of the family. The radical
party In power is worse than ten thousand
rattle snakes in house, with dozen or so
OF cobras anacondas asps, and horned toads
thrown in. 1t has robbed The people for the
unholy purpose of enriching few Shylocks
Ii has stolen the revenues and increased the
burdens of taxation. 1t has employed and
promoted thieves when honest men needed
employment, and 1t has rewarded with fed.
eral offices a set of perjury cursed scoundrels
who now not in Office at the expense of the
people. No wonder that the people demand
the first thing to be done is to get the
radical snake out of power, out of office, and
out of the white house. Nor is it surprising
that when il is necessary democrats
accept the aid of the nationals In the
accomplishment of the important work.
But all of this does not absorb the demo.
cratic party any more than the tributaries
of the Mississippi absorb that mighty stream.
All the aid that the nationals extend to the
democratic party In its patriotic work of de.
rad loo n IL %
that party, and in all justice for such SER
vices the nationals are entitled, not only to
honorable mention, but to more. substantial
rewards. After the radical party is kicked
out of power there will be no difficulty in
assigning the nationals their true position.
and We satisfied that the democratic
party will prove to be as liberal as it is patri-
nffn
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25
THE FIRST THING TO BE DONE

There is not an honest man in the cOun-
try capable of understanding the political
situation who is not impressed with the
fact that the first great duty of the people is
to drive the radical party from power, and
by so doing brand the fraud committing and
perjury cursed organization with inefface-
able condemnation. This patriotic duty must
be performed by majority of the people, and
when it is done the people must see to it that
the Florida and Louisiana game is not again
successfully played. To annihilate the radi-
cal organization in its stroDgholds, as we
bave intimated, requires majority. To ac-
complIsh the work, as in Maine, the demo
Gratis find it eminently patriotic TO combine
with the nationals, and the two organiza-
tions whatever may be their opinions upon
other questions, sgree that the firstand most
important duty is to smash the radical fraud,
forgery and perjury producing machine.
The radical party in power in this country
is very much like the story of the bull in
the china shop-bellowing, paving and
using horns and hoofs in destroying the
crockery. Evidently the proprietor would
IL
plenishing his stock, and 1t is
equally prudent to assert that until
the masculine bovine was expelled
or killed, the dealer in china would aban-
don all other enterprises, and If necessary
combine with his neighbors, no matter what
might be their profession. to aid in the i'm
pOrtant work. But the bull in the china
shop is after all but ILLUSTRATION OF the
radical party in power since at the worst
the bull, while breaking the china, could
only break the one owner, while the
radical party has wrecked thousands
and filled the land with pauperism and
crime. And again, If ii become necessary to
kill the bull TO save the china, he would be
worth something dead. His hide and tallow,
hoofs and horns and bones could be sold and
some compensation realized for the damage
he had done; but the radical party living is
a scourge and dead is nuisance. 1t is not
surprising, therefore. that good people COM
bIne to drive it from power, and the
voclferous applause that greeted the vic
tory In Maine, from the center TO the
circumference of the country, attests the
deep seated hostility of the people to the
thieving, lying and perjury rewarding party.
We are aware that there are number OF I'M
portant issues being discussed in every state,
and both democrats and nationals, by their
arguments and figures, prove beyond contro-
versy that there can be no business prosper
ity, NO confidence, no revival of the indus
tries of the country, no work and wages
for working people until the radical party is
completely routed, in every state and in
every congressional district. As well talk OF
] quiet In family where it is known that
J there Is rattle snake in the house. Every
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

PLors against the lives of the Emperor
William and the crown prince are discovered
almost every day. and the number of them
is beginning to dishearten the royal family,
and the prolonged absence of any member
causes great anxiety. When the prince
leaves his wife for but an hour the adieus
are said as if for a final separation, and she
watches uneasily until his return is an
bounced. A few days since letter fell into
he hands of the Berlin police describing
infinitely plot by which certain persons
were to assassinate the emperor while he was
asleep. As the cOnspirators were indicated
solely by numbers there is no clue to them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

WHILE the yellow fever is seourging the
south, perfect epidemic of crime is reported
in the cities Of the north and east. Outrages
most loathsome and foul are frequent, and
are multiplying. Murders, thefts, arsons,
forgeries, are of daily occurrence, until ia
miliarity with crime is bunting the public
horror at such deeds. There is no kind nor
grade of sin and infamy that in the past
fortnight has not been telegraphed from
some section all over the land, and yet so
common has this become it awakens no COM
ment
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

ISABELLA, ex queen of Spain, has signified
her intention of giving to Alfonso 100000
to aid in building a tomb for the remains of
Queen Mercedes. This might be thought
generous, but as she obtained it by the sale
of jewels belonging TO the crown of Spain
and which she stole, it loses all semblance of
honorable generosity. In fact, the entire
$4,000 was more than the jewellers APP
praised the jewels as being worth, but it was
obtained by skillful auctioneering.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

DIR. RAMSEY, one of the returned Wash
ington physicians who went to the south to
aid in caring for the yellow fever sufferers,
in an interview published some days since
in the Washington Post, made some very
strange assertions. He declared that he had
been reliably informed that white women of
Memphis had to employ oolored men as
nurses or perish without assistance, and that
these brutes in human shape took advantage
81 their helpless white victims" This raised
a perfect storm of indignation wherever it
was heard, and threats of vengeance, should
it prove true, were made. The statement
was shown to Mr. Heating, editor OF the
Memphis Appeal, and he at once and un-
qusliiedly prOnounces. it a lie, and then
adds his tribute to the honor and bravery of
the colored people of Memphis:
No man, white or black, would be allowed to
breathe second breath after such crime
became known. No such crime has been
reduced to the necessity of taking negro men
for nurses. The statement is a libel upon the
negroes of Memphis. All honor TO them
by us nob;y, as policemen and as soldiers,
well as nurses. They have responded to every
call made upon them, in proportion to their
few of them threatened trouble at one time
about food, but they were at the moment sup
pressed by company of soldiers of their own
color. The colored people of Memphis, as a
body, deserve well of their white fellow
citizens. We appreciate and are proud OF
them.
DIR. Ramsey may have heard the story that
he repeated, but he should have been care
full as to its truth before sending it over the
country to wound not only those who had
relatives in the doomed city, but every col
ored man and woman. Some OF the tender
est nurses that ever watched by a sick bed
have been those whose skins were black but
whose hearts were true aud kind. Many a
life has been saved by the answering fidel-
ity and unceaHng care of negro; and at
such a moment as this it is not well to re-
turn kndnessswith calumny. 1t would be
better to erase all lines of caste or color and
recognize only the spirit that prompted the
men and women, both black and white, to
endanger their own lives to help the suffer
ing and dying. The hands that are busy
with deeds of kindness may not be white,
but they are blessed when they come to the
needy filed with the fullness of charity and
devotion. And little reck the sick and dying
whether they be white or not II they soothe
tenderly the aching brow and hold to the
parching lips the coveted CUP of water.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

THE fact is pretty generally conceded that
the government stamps the value of the
varied currency which is now in use, fact
that upsets. to some extent, the intrinsic
ito please those who fix the gold dollar as
the proper basis, we will place that first,
and give the value in gold of each of the
other dollars, which can buy just as much
labor, food, or anything else that the gold
dollar purchases:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

strength to haye broken four times the
quantity l did. 1 can understand why
weakly man, ignorant of stone breaking, pre-
fers to go to jail" He then recommends
that copy of instructions be gwen to every
vsgrsnt who is to be punished by being
made to break stone. These instructions
will tell plainly the quickest and easiest way
of doing the work