New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-24

I"eUe guilty. safagcS as SOO0 40 accOm.
pltshed, although as yet only one had been
brought in.
The Captain of the schooner Laura
Bruce, which arrived at Halifax on the 10th,
reports that, when In West Indian waters, .
ptratical craft was sighted, and chased him
for fifty miles. TAschoonel made IFS escape
BY her superior sailing qualities.
The printers in Denver, COL, re-
comfy struck for an advance Of five cents per
81 o01Mand the demand was granted. The
sceHnow paid is forty-five cents.
LHE fee bill reducing the fees and
salaries Of all Wyoming officers, passed at the
late session OF the Legislature, has been
stolen, as is alleged, since adjournment, b,
some OF the parties interested. - #.e
DURING the last sixty days 800 per-
sons have been killed by Indians in the State
OF Chihuahua, Mexico. The Governor has
offered a reward of 800 for every Indians
scalp brought to him. " '..5 -:
The detailed report of the condition
OF the Washington Monument, submitted to
the Fouse on the 10th, shows an expenditure
OF SIS, $50 since the work was undertaken by
the present Commissioners, leaving unex-
pended and available for the further prosecu-
ton Of the undertaking 500, 739. To con-
tinue the work until October 81, 1881, would
require aSOC,OOO additional, and to complete
the shaft to. the proposed height Of 800 feet
would require s677,32l. .
THE session of the international
Dairy Fair in New York on the 10th was dis
tinguishcd by the award of the prizes. The
first premiums for creamery butter were
given to citizens of Iowa and Wisconsin, and
for dairy butter, to citizens Of Eastern States.
Canada took the first premium for best cheese.
AT the meeting of the National Re-
publican Committee in Washington on the
18th IL was decided that the Convention in
1880 should be held in Chicago on the Sd
day OF June, the vote standing: Chicago, "a:
Saratoga, IA, and Cincinnati and indianapolis
each 2. Senator J. Donald Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, was elected Chairman over Mr..
Avcrill, Of Minnesota, the vote being: Cam
eron, %; Avclll, 10; Plat, 1-Messrs. Cam
cron, Averill and Root declining to vote.
Eulogics were pronounced upon the late Sem
ator Chandler, and resolutions OF respect
resolutions of respect were adopted. The
changes in the Committee were the resigna-
tions OF Messrs. Kcmblc, Of Pennsylvania,
Noycs of Ohio, and Cornell, OF New York,
and the substitution therefor Of J. D. CAM
cron, of Pennsylvania, W. &. Cooper, q
Ohio, and Thomas {. Platt, OF New York, re
spcctively. William J.. heath, Of Michigan
was accepted to fill the vacancy c.,i:ci u; nae
death o! Zachariah Chandler.
CT the Indiana Supreme Court, died on thu
night of the 18th at his residence in Indian
apolis. Judge Perkins was sixty eight years
old.
ON the 10th Josephine Taylor,
daughter of the President of the Mormon
Church, escaped the vigilance of her father,
and, reaching Ogden penniless, boarded a
passenger-train for the East. When the con-
ductor made his usual tickettaking tour he
found her without the necessary ticket, and,
on arriving at the next station, put her of
without ceremony. Here she entreatcd the
agent to secrete her for a time, but he proved
obduratc, and she was soon in custody and
taken back to Salt Lake City by her fathers
friends.
GENERAL GRANT has announced his
intention to visit Washington in January, as
the guest Of General Beale.
AT the meeting of the Presbyterian
Synod of Long Island on the 18th the appeal
Of the opponents of Mr.. Talmage from the
decision Of the Presbytcry was dismissed by a
two-thirds vote.
AT a meeting of the grain dealers of
New York on the 18th the vote OF the Prod
uce Exchange to conform to the GENITAL sys-
tern was loudly denounced, and resolution
to adopt the system was defeated by an over
whelming vote.
In the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. the
thermometer ranged from fifteen to thirty
four degrees below zero OH the night of the
18th.