New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-29
NEW LIN REVIEWS EDNEsDAY, oCTOBER'29, 1879.

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United States Government are required TO Get
apart certain portion Of their earnings each
year for the extinguishment Of such debts.
Judges Field, Bradley and Strong fled dis
senting opinions.
THE receipts Of the PaymasterG Gem
erals Bureau for the last fiscal year, accord
ing to the forthcoming annual report, were
$15,958, $50; disbursements, $12,7O0, 900; ball
ance on hand, e2,65s 600.
In his annual report to the Secretary
Of War for the last fiscal year the Surgeon.
General Of the Army states that among the
white troops the total number Of cases Of
sickness Of all kinds was 1880, Of which
SIPS were from wounds, accidents and in
juries Of all kinds; the total number Of deaths
from all causes was 266, of which 1n5 were
from wounds and injuries. Among the col
ored troops the total number Of cases Of sick
ness was 1889, of which AZ were from
wounds; the total number of deaths of colored
troops was %. A very large increase in the
number of cases has been made since July
l, 1879. As regards surgical statistics, he
says that up to January l, 1879, 26S, 966 cases
dad been entered on the records Of that
division.
SECRETARY SCHURz, of the Interior
Department, stated to reporter on the 10th
that he did not consider that the dispatch of
General Sheridan to General Sherman, rel
alive to the withdrawal of the troops from
the pursuit of the White River Utes, re-
hected upon his Department. He said he had
already sent special Commissioner to the
headquarters of Chief Ouray to insist upon
the surrender of the hostiles.
PRESIDENT HAYES and family re-
turned to Washington on the 2lst, after an
absence of several weeks.
The Louisiana Republican State Con-
vention met ON the 10th and continued in ses-
sion until the 21st. The nominees fol-, Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-G Governor were Taylor
Beattie and James M. Gillespie, respectively.
A stalwart platform was adopted, and resolu-
tons favoring protective tariff; the i'm
provement of rivers and harbors; National
aid for Southern Pacific Railroad; the full
payment of the State debt; the nomination
of General Grant for the Presidency; ETC., etc.
A DISPATCH from General Merritt 8
camp on White River, dated on the 21st, says
that on that day Lieutenant Weir, while out
hunting, was drawn into an ambuscade and
killed, and his body subjected to the foulest
indignities. Seven of his soldiers were at
tackled by thrice that number of utes, bu'
they effected their escape after killing two OF
thesavagcs.
The steamship Wieland, which ar
rived at New York on the I'D from Europe,
brought $1,413,OO0 in French gold. This
made total of s., 81 900 in gold that had ar
rived from Europe since the morning of the
18th, and nearly SIS, DOC, 900 since January
last. ,.s..
The Commission on Reforms in Cuba
have agreed to recommend that slaves shall
be entirely emancipated in seven years from
date of the passage Of an EMANCIPATION bill.
The American Woman's Suffrage A.
ISOLATION will hold its annual meeting at Gin
cinnati, beginning Tuesday evening, Noven-
Der 4.
In the case of Blair, New York
bank teller, tried for killing his coachman, q
man named Armstrong, the jury on the ed,
after four days elaboration, returned a yer.
dict of not guilty.
The Superintendent of the Money
Order Service has informed the Postmaster
General that he has agreed with the Director
General at Paris upon the general terms of a
convention for the exchange of money orders
between the United States and France.
DURING the month of September
$685., $50 worth of provisions were shipped
to foreign ports from customs districts north
Of and including Baltimore.
AT the election in Baltimore on the
I'D Mayor Latrobe Democrat) was e-elected
for third term, by majority Of 6,000.
The Montauk Cotton Mills at Sag
Harbor, N. Y, burned few mornings ago.
Loss 100000.
On the evening of the 21st DR.. Kali
'och, Mayor-elect of San Francisco, made his
.rst appearance before the public since his
"ecent attempted assassination. Metropoli-
tan Temple was densely packed, notwith,
standing the admission tickets cost one dol.
lar each, and Mr.. Kalloch delivered an ad'
dress, in which he spoke Of the De Youngs
very much as in his speech which led to the
shooting. -n
The total vote for Governor at the
recent election in Ohio was 66S, 667, divided
as follows: Foster (Rep.), 396,961; Ewing
tDem.), 310, 1872; Stewart (Prohibition), 4,145;
Piatt (Greenback), 9,129. Fosters majority
over Ewing, 1929; over all, 1856.
BETHANY COLLEGE, Bethany, w. Va,
was nearly destroyed by fire on the 23d. A
man named Bradies Cheek was arrested on
suspicion Of incendiarism, and confessed to
having set the building on fire, and to having
also burned several barns in the neighbor.
hood. -r<
AN Ogden Utah) dispatch of the
Ath reports that intelligence had just been
received that the Uintah Utes and Snakes
were on the war path with about 800 warriors
They had killed some settlers on the Ashley
Fork and were coming toward Brow's Hole
on Green River.
GOVERNOR PITK1N, of Colorado, sent
dispatch to Secretary schurz on the ed
demanding that the Government recognize
the fact that it was dealing with barbarians
md act accordingly. Secretary schurz re-
)lied, defending the action of the authorities
md stating that arrangements had been made
for the release of the women and children
captured by the White-River Utes.
A CONVENTION of the Bee-Keepers o.
the United States was recently held II
Chicago, the session lasting three days.
large number Of delegates were present, ani
the discussions were very interesting ani
profitable. Cincinnati was selected as thu
lace for holding the next Convention. Al
Executive Committee was chosen, composed
as follows: T. G. Newman, Chicago, Chair
man; G. F. Muth, Cincinnati; E. J. Oatman
illinois; F. +. Collins, Dallas, Tex; A.
King, New York; D. A. Jones, Beeton, Ont.
William Pierce, Dayton, Ohio.
The other night two hundred armed
men rode into Martinsburg, KY, surrounded
the jail, secured the keys from the jailer
took from their cells William Mcmillan
and prisoner named Kendall, and, after.
orief trial, presided over by one Of their mum
Der, hung them to tree not over one hun