New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-12-18
PERSONAL AND ruuF9'TCAL,


Secretary schurz opposes the transfer
Of the Indian bureau from the interior to athe
War department
Rev. James Challen, Of Cincinnati, a
leading Disciple clergyman, editor Of the
Christian annual, is dead.
Col. 3. Hammer has been elected
President5and DR.. Ewelti Vice President Of the
Swiss Confssation for 1879.
Gov. Pillsbury, of Minnesota, has par
doned Is convicts out Of the Minnesota peni-
tertiary, during the current year.
Intelligence has been received that the
family Of the Amer of Afghanistan, have
taken refuge in Russian Turkistar:
A private cable dispatch, states Henry
Wells, OF the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express, is
lying at the point Of death at Glasgow.
Preparation is being made by those
| implicated in the cipher dispatches to make a
defence before the Potter committee.
The Potter subcommittee will con-
tinue Investigations in Louisiana if Congress
will grant money to pay the expenses.
MI. WAitbread, liberal, has given
| notice in the English Parliament that he will
offer resolution disapproylng Of the Afghan
| war.
I It is reported that Bismarck will only
grant amnesty to those German ecclesiastics
who specially apply for it and make submis-
sion to the May laws.
At the election for Mayor in Worces-
tor, Mass, Pratt, citizens candidate, receiv-
| ed 1916 votes to 1,947 for Dickinson, nomin-
ated by the Butler club.
Postmaster General Key Will recon-
mend to Congress the discontinuance of the
| postal card service, unless larger appropria-
| tons are made to sustain it.
A cable dispatch states President
| Aleantera, chief magistrate Of Venezuela died
November Both, and that j. Gutierrez, chief
! justice of the high federal court, was acting
president.
The President has recognized Richard
Reade consul of her Britannia Majesty for
! the States of Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana,
| Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, to
reside in Philadelphia.
Secretary Sherman was before the
Ways and Means committee of the House,
Dec. 10, giving his views on financial matters
| and also in reference to the funding bill in
troduced by Mr.. Wood.
3 In the English house of commons,
Dec. 10Th the under secretary for India said
the council of India intended to increase the
native army $4,000 men. They are not send
ing fresh soldiers from England.
! Alexander II. Stephens, few days ago
while ascending the stone steps leading to
| the House, on crutches, slipped and fell caus
| ing painful wrench of his knee, which will
probably confne him to his room for some
time.
Mahomed Damed Pasha has been
summoned to the the place at Constantinople
and appointed Governor of Tripoli, in Barbary
He left for his post Immediately without re-
turning home. This is equivalent to Danish
ment
A grand ovation was given at Ottawa
to TIE new Governor General Of Canada and
| the Princess Louise, the grandest ever given
at the capital. The illumination was some.
thing wonderful. The city was perfect
blaze of light.
On the 18th inst, the President sent
to the Senate a large number of nominations,
most of them being for confirmation, and
among them the following: Albert E. Paine,
Wisconsin. commissioner Of patents; Lewis
Wallace, Indiana, Governor Of Mexico, and
Algernon s. Battinger, postmaster Of New
Orleans.
"A bill was introduced in the house by
Mr.. Finley proposing to prohibit the Union
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