New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-12
LATEST NEWS

LATEST NEWS.
11B 0I.D wO11D.
On the 30th ult.. the announcement
WAS officially made that Marshal MacM ahon,
President Of the French Republic, had ten
dered his resignation. Both houses Of the
French Assembly met at once and elected N.
0revy Is his successor. There was no dis
turbance anywhere throughout France. Dur
ing the evening ex- President MacM ahon called
upon President Grevy and rendered his con-
CALCULATIONS The Ministry also called and
rendered their designations. The French Am
bassad0r at London, the Marquis de Harcourt,
resigned by telegraph. Following Is Pfesi-
dent MacMahon's letter:
AT the opening Of tits session Of the Cham
which, while affordine satisfaction 70 public
1ieht be voted without danger to the security OF
aside all personal views, bad given the pro-
eramme my appreciation. for was sacrificing no
. Msh sse chime
ing to respond to the opinion of the majority
il the two Chambers, proposes to me in regard to
which coa.ider contrary to the Interests II tho
ieannot subscribe to them. Any other Ministry
%esss
dats which the National Assembly confded to
me. and I therefore tender my resignation.
In quitting power, | have the consolation IT
thinking that during the 6fty-three years have
devoted to the service Of my country a soldier
msnts other than By absolute devotion to my
country. request you to communicate my de-
so' = ~ sMAcSiAaos, Duke Of Magenta"
THERE were several heavy failures
In different parts OF Great Britain, on the
30th ult., with liabilities aggregating 81
$4,000.
A LONDON special of the 31st ult.
say a Russian army Of 1900 men would leave
sebastopol about the end Of February for the
Caucasus, whence, Joined by the Army Of the
Caucasus. they would march to IIerat.
GAMBETrA has been elected President
Of the French Chamber Of Deputies, by vote
of 3l4 ayes to 81 noes.
THE French Ambassadors at St.
Petersburg and Vienna have rendered their
designations.
The London Times of the I'd states
that 10000 dock laborers were on = strike at
Liverpool.
DUFAURE, the French Premier, in
sists upon retiring from Office, and M. Wad-
dington has been named as his successor.
The City of Glasgow Bank Directors
have been sentenced to terms Of imprison-
ment ranging from eight to eighteen months.
The German Ambassador at st.
Petersburg advised his Government, on the
Sd, that the plague was spreading rapidly
throughout Russia, and urged the Imperial
Council to take immediate and energetic
measures to prevent its introduction into Ger
many.
A KHELAm-GH1Lz1 dispatch, pub
lished on the Sd, says the British troops we're
| suffering from the lack OF food.
ALBERT GRANT, the British banker
and railway promoter, failed, on the Sd. Liza
bilities, s., SOC, O0O.
ACCORDING to the investigation made
by the German Board of Health. the plague
has existed in Astrakhan since May, 1877.
Even paper money In tho district has been
of the plague at Odessa caused violent dem
constructions at Palermo, Italy, on the 4th, but
quiet was restored by the announcement that
the Government had ordered quarantine Of
one week on all arrivals from the Black Sea.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the 4th says q
military Gordon 1000 miles long had been es.
tablished a:cund the districts infected by she
plague.
TROUBLE has arisen between Russia
and Roumania over the possession of Arab
tabia, a small frontier post Of the Dobrud.
| scha. Both Governments claim It, and tho
Roumanian General has been ordered to hold
1t by force it necessary. 1t was rumored, on
| the 4th, that Russia was moving up her forces,
and would fight for It's possession.
STEELE & CRAIG, grain merchants,
at Glasgow, have failed for $40, o0o.t
DRURY LANE THEArER, in London,
| was closed, on the 5th, In consequence of the
| actors refusing to submit to a reduction in
| salary. a-----.
ENGLAND and Portugal have agreed
to joint operations against the slave trade be-
tween Mozambique and Madagascar.
T ABOUT $4,000 persons are supported
by charity in Glasgow.
THE authorities of Malta have de-
cided to impose twenty-one days quarantine
ON vessels coming from Russian ports In the
Black Sea and Sea Of Azof.
LATE reports from Afghanistan are
to the effect that the Inhabitants Of Cabul
were fighting among themselves, and that
utter anarchy prevailed
TEE NEW WORLD.
TEE Louisiana State Senate, on the
80th ult., passed-l9 to 1.-THE House bill re-
pealing the charter OF the Louisiana Lottery
Company. with an amendment that It shall 20
into effect only after March 81. 1879 The
Lottery Company, should the bill become
Law, will appeal to the courts, on the plea
that the repeal violates their contract with the
State.
The Town Of luka, Miss, was Wis
tied by q severe wind-storm, on the afternoon
Of the 30th ult. Four houses and one church
were blown down, and one colored woman
and five children were killed outright, two Of
the latter being found quarter of mile from
their homes.
The Board Of Experts for investigat-
ing the yellow-fever epidemic Of 1878 have
submitted . long report to the Joint Congres-
hional Committee, In which they recommend
that the necessary steps be taken by Congress
to secure the cooperation Of the Spanish and
other foreign Governments in an earnest et-
fort to ascertain the cause Of the disease in the