New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-10
The United States Senate on the

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CEandler's death, on the Committee on Com
merce.
The Kellogg-Spoford Investigating
Committee closed its labors In New Orleans
on the Sd, and adjourned to meet in Wash
ington to prepare their report.
New ORLEANS dispatches of the Sd
claim the election of Wilt (Democrat) for
Governor by 10000 majority. The new Con
stitution was believed to have been adopted
by majority fully as large. IL
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived in Chi
cago on the evening of the Sd. He will re-
main there for q week, and then start for the
South and East.
The Canadian Government has de-
cided to appoint Minister Resident in Lon
don, and who will also be member of the
Cabinet, and it was stated on the I'd that Sir
A. T. Gait had been appointed.
The Catholic Bishop of Boston, in a
communication published on the I'd, urges
the faithful to send their children to paro-
chial institutions when possible, and II such
schools do not exist, to establish them, but
he does not recommend accommodation or
other severe measures in the cases of those
who disregard his advice.
The Trustees of Rev. Mr.. Talmage's
church in New York have voted to withdraw
from the Presbytery because of the alleged
"persecutions to which their pastor has been
subjected"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES seven
tieth birthday anniversary was celebrated at
Boston on the Sd by breakfast, at which
Emerson, Longfellow and a number of other
men of letters of note gathered to do honor
to the man and the occasion.
A GREAT Temperance excitement is
prevailing in Georgia. At Atlanta three
thousand people have taken the pledge, and
one county has voted for prohibition.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has recently
issued circular inviting proposals for the
sale to the Government of 81, 600, COO of the
six per cent. interest-bearing bonds Of the
United States, known as ''sixes of 1881" The
bonds thus to be purchased will be applied to
the sinking fund.-
ANDREW TRACY was hung at Smith
port, Pa, on the 18th, for killing Mary Reilly,
whom the rules of the Catholic Church for
babe him to marry because they were first
cousins The first attempt at the hanging
was failure, Tracy's fall causing the knot to
unite, thus allowing him to fall to the ground
uninjured. The knot was readjusted, and
this time he was satisfactorily executed.
CHIEF JACK arrived at the White
River Agency on the 30, and at the date of
the dispatch received next day was testifying
freely. The Commission was confident Of
arriving at the truth. Agent Stanley had
been ordered to report at Washington.
A NAN named Upton, of Ansonia,
Conn.,, returned home drunk, few nights
ago, and threw at his wife lighted lamp,
which fell into the cradle, and child was
burned to death. The wife, in endeavoring
to save the child, was also fatally burned.
APPLICATION was made on the 4th to
the Maine Supreme Court, upon the petition
Of Andrew r. G. Smith, Senator-elect from
elect from Hancock County, asking the court
to issue rule of court to the Secretary of
State, commanding him to appear before said
court December 9, and show cause why he
should not give said Senators access to the
returns Of the Senatorial votes of their re-
spective districts, and an opportunity to ex-
anime the same, and for writ of mandamus
to issue against said Secretary. The Judge
issued the order.
THERE being great demand for one
cent bronze pieces the Philadelphia Mint
turned out over 100000 pieces of that de-
nomination during November, and the de-
mand still continues.
The flooring of grain and flour
mill at Brookton, Mass, gave way on the
night of the 5th, precipitating three men and
Oh n11fE h11ch o1c IF into IN
beneath. The men were buried up in the
grain and suffocated. Their bodies were re-
covered in the course Of the night
In his testimony before the Commits
sion on the 5th Jack claimed that the removal
OF the agency was the commencement of the
recent troubles; that, at an elevation of 8, 700
feet, with frost every month in the year, farm
ing was impossible; that he and his band re-
ceived no rations for year, which he claimed
was violation of the treaty of 1858; that his
engagement with the troops was fair fight.
He called Douglas squaw-man for having
attacked the agency, and insisted that white
man would, under the same circumstances,
have fought Thornburgh.
The Board of Managers of the
New York Produce Exchange have recently
issued an order that the GENITAL system, so
far as it relates to grain, shall 60 into effect
on the 31st inst.
A COMMITTEE of Republican Senators
appointed to decide upon financial policy
for the party during the present session of
Congress came to an almost unanimous de-
cision on the 5th to recommend that no action
whatever be taken affecting paper money.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
Gently decided that the benefits of the Tim
ber-culture law may be secured by planting
cottonwood trees. This decision reverses
the former rulings of the Department..