New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-02-06
Instantaneous.

Instantaneous.
Lanary's lax mill at Napierville,
Quebec, is burned. Loss heavy no insurance
The standing committee of the diocese
of northern New Jersey has consented to
the election, as Bishop, of Rev. D. P. Sey
mour.
The burning of wooden building at
Glover's Corner, Bsoton, caused a loss Of $780,
900; insured.
The Providence County Savings Bank
of Rhode Island, is erjoined from doing any
further business
Asample of Russian army bread re-
Gently analysed in Bulgaria was found to con-
tain 10 per cent. of sawdust, and Il per cent
of sand.
The executive committee of the Indus
trial League at Philadelphia have adopted a
resolution hostile to the tariff bill recently
published.
A new free board of trade was open
ed in Chicago, on the 2Sth, fer direct deals in
grain and pork, the exchange charging one
eighth OF one per cent.
There was run on the Port Jarvis, N.
Y. savings bank on the LIST inst Deposites
less than 500 were paid. On larger ones the
thirty day rule was enforced
New Orleans parties are making an eff
fort to organize a joint stock company to run
a steamsl ip line between New Orleans and
Demarara, via Aaspinwall and Barbados.
Pork and lard in storage in the Amer
can pork packing establishments New York,
was damaged $4,000 by fire on the list inst
Pork and lard is stored there preparatory to
inspection and sale.
The Crispin troubles at Marlboro con-
tinue. A. E. Townsend, one of the publishers
of the Kalboro 4dve,tiser has been shot but
not killed, for not using his influence to make
girls leave the factory.
The population of the Island of Provi-
dence, about 746 souls, appeal to the people of
the United States for assistance, all their
houses, provisions and crops having been de-
stroyed by two hurricanes.
The available troops of Great Britain
for war are estimated at 10000, besides 20O,-
600 for home protection, $4,000 colonial, and
$4,000 Sepoys in India. England also has a
wonderful method of raising or hiring auxili-
airy troops.
A Toronto dispatch says Courtney, the
Union Springs rover, will meet Hanlon in
match race in the fall, and tina. Hanlon will
challenge Morris in a day or two for the
championship of the United States and one
thousand dollars or upwards.
The body of woman in crouching
position, in full dress, and with rings in its
ears was recently found in a cargo OF soda,
brought by the ship irving from Peru to
Rotherhithe. It is in a good state of preserva-
ton, and is supposed to be that Of victim Of
an earthquake which occurred many hundred
years ago.
The order from the Adjutant Generals
office regarding recruits for field infantry has
been issued, and Gen. Miles recommends
that they be fully armed and equipped,
furnished with government trans
portation, and sent under charge of officers Of
regiments now East, via the Stanley Trial to
the Yellowstone.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and Yves
tern railroad sold SO, 600 tons of Scranton coal
lately at auction. The prices were much adj
vanced oyer last months sales; 5000 tons
steamboat sold quickly at $40; 5000 tons
CRATE at $3.1211a; 5000 tons of egg at $3.15:
$4,000 tons of stove at S3.55@3.6O; 1000 tons
chestnut at s3.12115s.
Workingmen met in the council cham
Der in Chicago, on the 26th, and adopted
platform in favor of eight hours as a days
work, declaring against contract system on
public works, and opposing prison labor ex-
cept on public Improvements. All speakers
repudiated the communistic element of party.
Two thousand half-famished children
in one district of South Wales called Merthyr,
were fed on the night of the 18th inst. Shoe
less, ragged, unwashed boys and girls, from
two to twelve years old had one bowl Of soup
each, for the first time in weeks. Nothing but
the liberal perseverance of the rich saves the
poor of South Wales from Starvation
The Postmaster General has issued in
structions regarding mail matter thought to
contain anything subject to custom duty, to-
the effect that hereafter all such matter shall
be stamped and opened by a custom house
officer in the presence OF the party to whom it
was addressed. The action of the depart
ment takes the examination of such mat
ter out of the hands of the post Office de-
tectives.
The signal service observer at Kitty
Hawk, N. G., reports to the chief signal officer
that the steamer Metropolis stranded on Cur
rituck lighthouse on the 31st. She is total
loss. Two hundred and forty eight persons