New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-05-14

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an absolute legal equality with the whites, and
shall be accorded the practical enjoyment Of
their civil and political rights; that it is the
Constitutional right Of the co!orcd people tt
emigrate when and to what State they please
but that the Convention urges them to pro
coed in their movement toward emigration al
reasonable human beings, provided in advance
with the necessary means for the successful
carrying out OF their efforts to secure homes
elsewhere, etc, etc. Only the white members
| of the Convention voted on the adoption Of
the resolution, the N. roes, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
from their leaders, refraining from giving ar
expression either pro or con.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of the 9Th says
about 14O Southern refugees-men, women
and children-arrived there that day and lef'
rem County, Miss They gave an unfavorable
accountof their reception and treatment in
Kansas, and expressed much pleasure in being
able to return to the South. They were
abundantly supplied, by parties in St. Louis,
with all necessaries for their trip down the
river.
WHrTEMoRE, PEE1, Posi- & Co.,
wooden and dry-goods commission merchants,
Of New York, one of the largest in the line,
failed on the 7th. Liabilities variously es.
timated at from $500. to $75O,OCO.
On the 9TH, the Secretary of War
instructed Gen. Sherman to remove the tres
passers in the Indian Territory, by force If
necessary. The proper instructions were
forwarded to Gen. Sheridan.
AN explosion of gas in the Stanton
Shaft of coal mine at Wilkosbarre, Pa, on
to eight of the miners.
The National Woman's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION met in st. Louis, on the 7th, and or
| gained by the election of the following Of
ticers: President, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton; Secretary, Mrs. s. A. Spencer; Treas
urer, Mrs. j. &C. spofford.
In the Cox-Alston murder case at
Atlanta, Ca, on the 9TH. Cox, the prisoner,
| was found guilty, and sentenced to i'm prison.
| ment for life.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention is to he held on the 10Th of July
The American Tract Society held its
annual meeting in New York, on the 9TH. The
available resources during 1878 were &410, 900,
and the expenditures during the same time,
$407, 0OO On the same day, in tho same city,
the American Home Missionary Society held
its annual meeting. The Treasurer's report
shows the receipts to have been S273, 691 and
the expenditures $26O. $780, with $6,766 still
due to missionaries.
A s1xTEEN-YEAR-0LD boy, named
Alfred H. Alberger, who was bitten by saw
age dog, few weeks ago, died in DesMoines,
Iowa, on the morning of the 9Th, in great
agony, and with every symptom Of hydro
phobia.
The Pennsylvania Senate, on the
9Th. by party vote, adopted the House reso-
luton to appoint a committee to receive ex-
President Grant ct San Francisco, upon Ms
return home.
In the National Colored Convention,
at Nashville, on the Sth. resolution was
adopted declaring that the migration of COL
ored people to those States and Territories
where they can all enjoy all the rights which
are guaranteed by the Constitution OF the
United States should be encouraged, and
asking Congress for an appropriation Of
$500, 900 to aid in the rem oval of colored peo-
pie from the South.
In the Brooklyn Presbytery, on the
Sth, final vote was taken on the charges
against DR.. Talmage, and he was acquitted
The Secretary announced that forty-five votes
had been cast, twenty-five of which were
against the charges and specifications, and
sixteen In favor Of sustaining them as they
stood, and four for sustaining them in part.
The lay elders voted nine to four for convic-
ton. After tho announcement of the result,
Mr.. Talmage made some characteristic re-
marks, rejecting severely upon the action of
his prosecutors. DR.. Van Dyke presented a
motion OF appeal to the Synod Of Long Island,
signed by eight members OF the minority.
ADv1CEs received at the Indian
Bureau, in Washington, on the 9Th, indicated
that the threatened raid into the Indian Ter
ritory had come nearly to an end
The number of immigrants arriving
at the port of New York during the month of
April of this year, was 1901; during the
same month last year the number was $3.50
During the year ending on the Seth ut. there
were Ct, 1905 immigrants landed at said port;
during the previous year the number was
6s,994.
RETURNS, receivedup to the morning
of the 9th, indicated the adoption of the new
Constitution in California by from 5000 to
10000 majority.
The Pope has named Very Rev.
Lawrence s. Mcmahon, V. G. of Prov ,dence,
r. l., to be Bishop of Hartford, Conn.,, and
Rev. John Vertin, of Neeaunee, Mich, to be
Bishop Of Marquette.
The ffty-tifth anniversary of the
American Sun'lay-School EUnion was cele-
brated in New York City, few evenings ago.
The annual report shows that there had been
organized IN 1873 1867 new schools, with H.
Pts teachers and 81, 769 scholars, and there
had been S,SO5 Bibles and Testaments distrib-
utcd, and IA, 40 families visited.
AT Angola, N. Y, on the 9th, the
house Of DIR. Delos W. Southworth was con-
sumed BY fire. The doctor persisted in the
flames, and his wife was fatally burned.
TnE sixty-third anniversary of the
American Bible Society was held in New
York City, on the night of the oth. The an-
nual report shows that the society's receipts
last year were $462, 274--an excess of SIS, 1929
cVVi oOS0 VI eAC pIcVlOuS year. OuElQg the
year there were 1,266, 958 Bibles made, of
which 949, 814 were issued at home, and 2ss ,04o
abroad.
A PRIzE-FIGHT was fought on Long
Point, portion of the Canadian Dominion,
opposite Erie, Pa, on the Sth, between Dryer
and Elliott. The fight lasted about fourteen
minutes, and resulted in victory for Dryer.
AT the session in St. Louis, on the
9TH, of the National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation q platform was adopted, which de-
clares, among other things, that it is the duty
Of Congress to adopt the Sixteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution, giving women the
right to vote, and that all State Legislatures
should request Congress to submit such an
amendment to them; that the lower House of
Congress should pass resolution authorizing
the appointment of Committee on the
Rights of Women Citizens; that It Is the duty