New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-08
THE NEW WOt:LD.

A YOUNG man named Wentworth
Rawlins left New York in July last, on
pleasure trip to the West On bicycle He
arrived at Chicago on the 9th of September,
having made the entire distance on the two.
wheeled velocpede. He was received and
banqueted by the Chicago Bicycle Club,
ALARGE bowlder Of white quartz rock,
from near the Wilderness, in Virginia, has
been placed to mark the spot where Stonewall
Jackson received his death wound. A simple
inscription will be put on the stone.
The grain-dealers in New York have
adopted resolution changing the time of
buying and selling grain by the GENITAL from
October to January1.
The international pedestrian contest
for the Ashley belt ended on the night of the
9th. The official score of the nine contest
ants who remained on the track to the close
OF the walk is as follows: Rowell, $50 miles;
Merritt, SIS; Hazael, 5OO1S;~- Hart, 1921;
Guyon, Al; Weston, ass; Ennis, 45OL;
Krohne, 1905; Taylor, 25O1s.
The Providence (R. IL Club, having
won ffty-three games up to the 9th, have Sc
cured the baseball championship for the en-
suing year. Boston was second; Chicago,
third; Buffalo, fourth; Cincinnati, fifth;
Cleveland, sixth; Troy, seventh; Syracuse,
eighth.
HUGO PREFER, as Chairman of the
Union Greenback Labor party of the United
States, has issued a call for Union National
Convention, to be held at St. Louis on the Sth
of next January, for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States, and to trans
act such other business as may come before
the Convention. The chartered Greenback
Clubs in each county or parish are called upon
to hold County Convention on the 25th of
December to elect one delegate to the Ma
tional Convention. The Chairman says, in
the call, "there will be no fusion with either
of the old parties at any time or under any
circumstances"
GENERAL GRANT gave a. reception to
the public school children of San Francisco
at the Woodward Gardens on the Goth ult
1t was estimated that not less than thirty
thousand children participated in the demon
stration.
MRS. SPRAGUE'S trustee was refused
admission to the residence at Canonchet on
the 10Th ult., by Ex-Governor Sprague, al
though he was accompanied by Mr.. Chaffec,
the trustee of the Sprague estate. The OBJ
ject of the visit was to make an inventory Of
the property in the house, that Mrs. Sprague
might indicate what she claimed as her per-
sonal property. ---
ORDERS were issued on the 29th ult.
to the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers of
the United States to pay out both gold and
silver upon all Government obligations.
On the afternoon of the 28th ult.
Professor Wise, the noted aeronaut and
George Burr, Teller of the First National
Bank Of st. Louis, made balloon ascension
from the city named, intending to remain up
all night for scientific observations. Up to
noon on the 3Oth ult. nothing had been heard
from the balloon or its occupants. They
were thought to have taken northeasterly
course, and may have landed in some place
in Michigan or Canada remote from civiliza-
tion. Great anxiety was felt in St. Louis
concerning their fate.
The following statistics regarding the
condition Of the public schools in the pfomi-
nent cities OF the country are complied from