New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-16
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THE OLD WORLD.
A CALCUTTA dispatch Of the 9Th
says the cholera had broken out in British
Burmah, aud that Europeans were dying In
large numbers.
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, of New
York, preached to two congregations Of TO-
600 each, in London on the 9th.
A DISPATCH from Kapul, Asia, re-
ceived in London on the 9th, says the Chi
nose had retaken Kashgar, and massacred .
great number of the Inhabitants.
A YOKOHAMA dispatch of the 5th an
nounces the arrival there of General Grant
and his party.
CAPE Town (South Africa) dispatch
es, received in London on the 9TH, say that
King Cetewayo had not accepted the terms of
peace offered him, and that an advance
would Immediately be made. A Court Of In
quiry had censured Lieutenant Carey, who had
charge of the escort when the Prince Imperial
was killed. r.:
In the British House of Commons on
the night of the 9TH, motion to abolish
logging in the army and navy was voted
down after an exciting debate.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED sheep from Bos-
ton, infected with foot and mouth disease:
were slaughtered at Liverpool on the 7th. :
The walls of the fortresses ut Widin,
silistria, Rustchuk and Varna have been de-,
stroyed in accordance with the provisions of
the Berlin treaty.
The person who supplied the pistol
to Alexander solovietf, with which to kill the
Gar of Russia, has been sentenced to be
hanged.
A FIRE at Irkutsk on the 18th de-
stroyed 400 houses.
A MADRID dispatch of the 9TH says
the marriage of King Alfonso with the Arch
duchess of Austria had been definitely agreed
THE British House of Commons
voted, on the evening of the 9Th, to appoint
Minister of Agriculture. The Government
opposed the resolution, but were defeated by
majority OF twenty.
The Manchester EnglandD money
market was greatly disturbed on the Sth by
reports OF impending monetary difficulties.
There were several minor failures.
THE St. Petersburg Golos estimates
that the cost to Russia of the late war with
Turkey was s75O, 100000, and that 100000
Russians lost their lives.
The contributions of Peter-pence
for the first half of the current year were
$4,000 greater than the corresponding period
last year.
In consequence of the delay of the
Porte in appointing Commissioners for the
ratification of the Greek frontier, the Greek
Deputies have been ordered TO meet in extra
ordinary session to take aggressive action. 4
The troop-ship Orontes, having on
board the body of the Prince Imperial, was
sighted Oft Eddystone Light on the afternoon
Of the 9th, and reached Spithead at midnight.
The remains were then placed on board the
Admiralty yacht to be conveyed to the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich.
The French Chamber of Deputies
passed Jules Ferry's Educational bill on the
9th, by vote of $50 to 159. "
A PARIS telegram of tho 10th says
the French Government had refused permits
sion to General Canrobert and General Mac
Mahon to attend the funeral of the Prince
Imperial.
The Gear has issued an ukase recog-
nizing dissenters from the orthodox church,
and giving to his subjects entire liberty of
worship.
IT was stated from Paris on the 10th
that Prince Jerome Bonaparte had assumed
the position Of Chief of the 1mperialists, and
that he had become assured that his hour
would speedily come.
In Paris on the 10th, during the ses-
sion Of the Council Of State, four shots were
fired from q revolver at the members, by q
man named Verdalet No one was hurt.
PRINCE ALEXANDER took the oath of
fidelity to the Constitution of Bulgaria al
Tirnova on the 10th.
A FIRE destroying one hundred and
fifty houses occurred at Tirnova on the 10th.
A BERLIN correspondents letter to a
London newspaper, published on the 10th,
says there were marked symptoms of estrange-
ment between Russia and Germany.
A BERLIN telegram of the 18th says
Bismarck had decided to have general cleo
ton of members of Parliament in October
next, when he will appeal to the country to
sustain his measures of financial reform, and
also to sanction the purchase of all railways
BY the State.
A SECOND fire has occurred in Irkutsk,
which destroyed all the public buildings left
unconsumed by the first fire.
A TORPEDO boat at Cronstadt was
blown up the other day, while engaged In
practice. Five men were killed outright, and
fourteen wounded. ~. -.
T,EIN NEW WORTH