New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-04-17
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Chicago is moving for a branch mint.
The grand national hunt. steeple chase
| at Hereford, Eng. was won by Filbert
The engineers and tiremen on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad are on
a strike.
"A thirty-fve hundred ounce retort,
valued at $50, O00 was received at Helena, M.
T., from the Penobscot mine on the 4th inst
The Dominion House of Commons re :
jected the resolution to impose duty. upon
Hour and wheat imported into Canada The
vote was Is yeas and 35S nays.
A Toronto dispatch says: THE Mani
oba sections of the Canada Pacific railway are
being rapidly constructed. Several thousand
/ Work-men are engaged at 50 day and more
needed.
1t is announced that the great trotting
stallion Smuggler, who has a record of 2:l5A
Will not run during the summer, but will
make the season at Wilson'S Abdallah Park,
Cythana, KY.
A Vicksburg special announces the
allure Of Moss & Martin, cotton buyers. Liza
bilities 100000. No assets. The failure was
caused by the suspension of their St. Louis
branch house.
The Chicago Academy of Homeopathic
Physicians and Surgeons have had before it "a
resolution affirming the doctrine of sin.iza
sia1ailibus cusuntas7, but it met with unexpected
opposition, and was finally referred to COM
mittee for report.
The Official Gazette, of Havana. has
published decree by the captain general, di-
recting, that in conformity with the proclaim
alton of the 2Sth of March, the restoration to
| its owners of all property embargoed for pol
itical ottenses shall begin Immediately
Wild chickens, numbered by tbous-
ands, are hunted as wild game in Comanche
county, Texas. A few years ago large num-
Der of domestic chickens We're deserted for
some reason by their owner, when they took
to the brush, and the woods are now full of
wild chickens.
II is estimated that the Texas cattle
drive for 1877 to Nebraska and points on the
Union Pacific, will reach 100000 to 100000
head. Besides this, there are enroute from
Oregon $4,000 head. The Montana and Idaho
drive will number at least %, OOC head making
a total of from $4,000 to 10000 head
Cotton seed oil manufacture is becom
ing marked industry in the South There
are now seven large mills in New Orleans,
and others at Baton Rouge, Shreveport
Natchez, Vicksburg, Dallas, Memphis, Nash
vile and even st. Louis and Chicago. A ton
OF seed produces twenty gallons of OIL worth
$50, while the refuse cake, worth $40 per ton
is yalusble as feed for domestic animals and
for fertilizing land.
A Portland dispatch says it is asserted
on good authority, that an arrangement has
been perfected by which the English and
german bond-holders who have for some time
partly owned the Oregon and California rail
road, the Oregon Central railroad, and the
Oregon Steamship line, are to divide the
property. The English bond-holders will
take the Oregon Central railroad which they
have controlled for some time, and the Oregon
Steamship company, and the German capital
| lists VIII take the Oregon and California rail
road
The New England Methodist confer
ence at Westticld adopted resolutions declar-
ing it the duty of citizens, and especially
Christians, to prevent the elevation OF bad
men to civil offices; deploring the corrup-
ton in society and prevalence of communist
infidel sentiment, and declaring the course OF
the government toward Africans, Indians and
Chinese to be full of injustice, bad faith and
cruelty. The conference also adopted reso
luton approving fraternal relations with the
Methodist church South, but maintaining the
claim Of its own denomination to be the origi
nal Wesleyan Church.
Accounts from the Texas border show
that recently there has been but few if any in
cursions from the Mexican side. Members O
Congress who have the subject of our rela
tons with Mexico under consideration, sa,
the delay Of our government in recognizin!
that Of Mexico, has produced an improved
condition of affairs on the border, but tina
government has not yet done what is require,
by our own as q prerequisite to recognition
one OF The most serious causes of complaint
that our citizens are not protected from tn
j, forced loan, while British and French subject
residing in Mexico are, it is said, not subjecte
: to such illegal transactions.
{ The Rochester oven for baking japan
ned tin cases in the thermometer factor,
fourth story, over Graves & Co.'s candy man
ufactory, Rochester, N. Y, exploded on the st
j inst. The roof was entirely blown off and
G workman named John Prescott, shaking the fir
e in the oven at the time, was carried to the foo
t below by the debris and slowly burned t
death before those endeayoring to rescue him
) Frank Mcdonald, while carrying out goods o
/ the floor below was carried by the falling d.
IS bris to the cellar, where he remained tire
) hours covered with tlmbers. He was final