New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-02

NEW uEa1, 71117H-
Wednesday, April I'd, 1879.
]. LATEST NzW0
THE OLD WORLD.
APAR1s dispatch Of the 22d says tho
sxrenses Of the International Exposition
were 100000 francs, and its receipts 3d..
10000 francs.
A CAPE Town (South Africa) dis.
patch, received on the 22d, says the Chief q
Hoirosa was in open rebellion.
A LATE arrival from Yokohama
brings news Of the continued decline Of tho
paper currency Of the empire. Japan was
threatening to make the Loo Choo Islands .
dependency Of the Empire.
A MADRID dispatch Of the Esd says
eenor CASTELAR, and 10S former Deputies Of the
Cortes had issued manifesto to the Demo.
cratic party In Spain, announcing as their
programme sincere return to the Constitu-
ton Of 1859; universal suffrage; the inviols-
bility Of Spanish territory; the payment Of in.
terest on the public debt; religious and edu-
cational liberty; the freedom Of the press,
etc.. etc.
4 CALCUTTA dispatch Of the 2Sd
Gays complete anarchy prevailed in Mandalay.
A BERLIN dispatch Of the 24th says
Russia was strenuously endeavoring to secure
modification of the Berlin Treaty in respect
to Eastern Roumelis. She had proposed ito
occupation by mixed contingent, but to this
the Powers were not inclined to agree.
A LONDON dispatch Of the Path ~
ports severe earthquake shocks in Persia.
Several villages were destroyed. and over 1000
people persisted.
A LONDON telegram Of the 25th says
It has been decided to lay submarine cable
to South Africa, connecting with the whole
system Of Eastern telegraphy.
QUEEN VICTORIA started on Cont.
mental visit on the 25th.
In the House of Lords, on the night
of the 25th, resolution censuring the Gov
eminent for its conduct of the Zulu war was
rejected-l56 to 81. In the course OF the de-
bate. It was stated that Sir Bartle Frere, the
Governor, would be recalled, and Lord
Chelmsford, the Commander Of the British
forces, court-martialed.
A CONsTANT1NOPLE telegram of the
18th says the Porte has sent several men-of-
war to Grecian waters, and was fortifying
Epirus and Thessaly, and making other war
like preparations.
The French Assembly is discussing
the return Of that body from Versailles to
Paris.
THERE was another attempted assas->
sination Of Gen. Won Drenseien, the St. Pc
tersburg Chief Ct Police, on the afternoon OF
the. 25tn. The would-be assassin escaped.
The General was not badly hurt. Upward Of
100 arrests have been made at Moscow in con-
sequence of the assassination of Government
Spy.
A VIENNA newspaper of the 26th
stated that negotiations were making most
satisfactory progress between Russia and En-
gland relative to the measures to be adopted
in Roumelia after the departure Of the Rus
SLAMS, but the project of military occupation
by neutral Powers had been abandoned.
ADv1CEs of the Goth state that the
famine in Upper Egypt was causing terrible
suffering. In some villages, the people, naked
like wild beasts, dug for roots. In one town
women aud children fought over scraps Of
bread. The inland villagers were said to be
starving like dogs.
ACCORDING to reports from the New
York Herald correspondent at Tashkend, on
the 26th, Afghanistan had been totally aban.
doned to the English, who were left, free by
Russia, not only to take the passes, but even
Herat, II they so pleased. Gen. Kaufman was
convinced that the Afghans were quite harm
less, and that the ultimate success Of the
English was only . question of time and
money.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE dispatch of the
18th says the Turkish Government was out Of
money, and put to the most desperate straits
to meet daily liabilities The Sultan had sent
portion Of his plate and jewelry to be melted
Tor the use Of the Treasury.
The Commanlant of Alessio and
sixty leading Albanians have been arrested
for intriguing against the Porte.
PRINCE WALDEMAR, third son of tho
Crown Prince Of Germany, died on the morn
Ing Of the 9th, Of heart disease. He was
eleven years old.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of the 9th
says that all hope Of . peaceful negotiation
with Yakoob Khan had failed, and that an
Immediate advance on Cabul had been ordered.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 28th says
Turkey had intimated that she was unalter-
ably opposed to the scheme for the mixed &C.
cupation of Roumelia. !.
The Roumelia European Commits
sion have formally declared that 1t Is impos-
sible to execute Art. 10 Of the Treaty of Ber-
lin, owing to the difficulties created by
certain Russian authorities and the excitement
among the Bulgarians.
The King of Siam has sent Gen.
Grant an autograph letter, inviting him to
visit His Majesty at Bangkok. .&-s
The plague has subsidized on the
Lower Volga, but Inflammation Of the lungs
and smallpox prevail, and the rate Of mortal
ity 10 very high.
THE NEW WORLD.
A LETTER received by the War De.
partment in Washington, on the 22l, from
Col. Walsh, who isin command Of the mount
cd police on the Dakota frontier, reports that
Sitting Bull and his warriors were showing
very ugly and insubordinate disposition. They
had a. vet made no movement toward the