New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-29

NESDAY, JAN. %, 1879.
dict Was mistaken one, and believed that its
injustice would soon be made manifest.
a WASHINGTON dispatch Of the 18th
says the yellow-fever experts were In session in
that city preparing their report. The medical
members were unanimous in the opinion that
the fever was imported into New Orleans
from Cuba through the very lax quarantine
of that city, and the members favor National
Quarantine act. There was at the present
time, soy the experts. notwithstanding the
unprecedented severity Of the season, very
severe case Of yellow fever 1T New Orleans,
which directly controverted the accepted the
ory that the disease is destroyed by q temper
ature OF 80 deg. Fab.
Tue lower house of the Louisiana
Legislature has repealed the charter of the
Louisiana Lottery Company, By vote of 6 to
20
UNITED STATES DIST. AIRY MAYER
and United States Marshal Turner, OF Ala
bana, were arrested on State warrant, on
the 18th, and lodged in Jail for failure to ap-
pear before Selma Court and bring with
them the ballotboxcs used and the ballots
cast at the November election. These were
being used at Montgomery IN . case pending
there for violating the Election laws, and, by
advice OF the Department of Justice, the sub
pena was UNDECIDED. The Federal officers
were .thereuIoD arrested and committed for
contempt, as stated. Subsequently Mayer was
released on a writ Of hdbeas corpus issued out
OF the United States Court. Meanwhile TUT
ner remains In custody, and the ballot-box
and ballots remain in possession Of the United
States Court, and the case in which they are
to be used Is evidence has been adjourned till
April.
EEEN F. STONE has been elected
Chairman Of the Massachusetts Republican
State Central Committee.
LIEUT.. Gov. HULL, of Florida, late
Democratic candidate for Congress from the
Second District, has been indicted by q
United States Grand jury upon q charge of
conspiracy, with others, in obtaining false re-
turns Of elections In Brcvard County.
AT Baltimore, on the 18th, in the
United States Circuit Court, William A. Fore
wood and Thomas CO. *, Judges OF the late
election III that city, were sentenced to pay q
fine and costs for refusing to admit Deputy
Marshal in the room where the polls were held
when he had been called in by the United
States Supervisor to keep the tally OF vote.
The regular yearly meeting of the
Board Of Indian Commissioners has lately
been held in Washington. The report pre-
pared 10 be submitted to the President gives
statement showing the condition Of the
Indians in 1863 and 1873. From this 1t ap-
pears that the condition of the wards of the
Government has largely improved, and "pre-
sents strong argument against any radical
change Of policy" The board rcnews its ap-
proval OF the plan to concentrate the smaller
tribes on large reservations, thus continuing
to sanction the reservation system and the
isolation of the Indians.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN was, on the
2lst, elected United States Senator from ILL.,
nois by the following vote: Senate-Logan,
26; Black, "a; McAuliffe, l. House-Logan,
80; Black, g.; Campbell, 10; McAuliffe, 3.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
announced that henceforth Government in
terest will be paid at all sub-Treasuries, in
coin or currency, at the option of the payee,
and that the policy Of paying gold only at
New York will be abandoned.
Hon. DAN w. VOORHEES, was elected
United States Senator for the long and short
terms, by the Legislature of Indiana, on the
21st. The vote was as follows: Short Term
Senate: Voorhees,, 26; Orth, p; Buchanan, l.
Housc-Voorhees, 81; Orth, 81; Buchanan, 2;
Shackelford, 1. Long Tern,-Senate: Yoor-
hees, 26; Harrison, %; Buchanan, l. House
VOORHEES,, 81; Harrison, IS; Buchanan,2 2.
BOTH houses of the North Carolina
Legislature elected Gov. Z. B. Vance United
States Senator, on the 2lst.
On the 21st, the Florida Legislature
elected Hon. Wilkinson Call United States
Senator to succeed Conovcr.
THE Legislature of Missouri, on the
2lst, elected Col. George G. Vest United
States Senator for the long term and Gen.
James Shields for the short term.
SEC'Y SCHURz stated, in Cabinet
meeting, in Washington, on the 2lst, that
he had received . report from the Indian
Agent at the Cheyenne Agency, that Sitting
Bull and his people had recrossed the Cana
dian line into the United States, and that they
we're exceedingly anxious to return TO this
country, and come under the supervision Of
the Indian Bureau and be distributed in tho
Indian country, as are other tribes. It was
reported that some 5000 lodges, or nearly H..
600 people, were with Sitting Bull.
SEC'Y SHERMAN issued another call,
on the 2lst, for the redemption of S2O, 000, 900
$40 bonds (t10. 0OO, 900 coupon and el0,00o,-
eco registered). principal and interest to be
paid on and after April 81 next.
The New York Legislature, on the
3lst, reelected Roscoe Conk]ing to the
United States Senate; the Pennsylvania
Legislature reelected j. Donald Cameron,
and the Connecticut Legislature elected Or
vile II Platt
THE following Is the text of the bill
to facilitate the refunding of the National
debt, which was passed by the United States
Senate, ON the ed (having previously passed
the House,:
That the Secretary Of the Treasury + hereby
snd sSa Ps in tSas s, Ss
presented for such exchange: certificates Of de-
p>sit Of the denomination of ten dollars, bear
ing interest at the rate Of per cent. per annum,
est, into the 4-per-ccnt. bonds describcd in tho
Refunding act; and the money 70 received shall
be applied only to the payment of 20 bonds In
the mode prescribed by said act; and he il au-
thorized to prescribe suitable rules and regula-
tions in conformity with This act.
Hon. MATTHEW H. CARPENTER was
elected United States Senator from Wiscon-
sin by the Legislature, on the 22d.
TIE Federal troops came up with
the Cheyennes who escaped from Fort Rob-
tnson some days before. on the ga, and at
once vigorously attacked them. Twenty
three were killed, niue were CAPTURED and
seventeen escaped.
MRs. DAVIS and her one-year-old
child, OF Scranton, Pa, were burned to death,
few days ago, by the explosion Of a kerosene
lamp.
The Judson Bank, at Ogdensburg,
n. r., closed its doors, on the 22d. With
moderation on the mart NJ The rre1ifopa the