New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-19

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the Government officials from the field, badly
wounding two Of them.
a WARRINGTON dispatch Of the 7th
ssys the Agricultural Report, j1st issued,
gives the average price Of the cotton crop for
the whole country at 81 cents q pound; the
value Of the crop for 1873 was sl947Oo,OO0
The average price Of tobacco was $40 cents;
total crop Of 1878 estimated at 800, 0Oc, OCo
pounds, worth s23, 0o0, 900. Horses increased
3 per cent, but the price vcry materially de-
creased. Cows show an increase in nearly all
the States. and sheep increased nearly per
cent. The prices for hogs have been ruinous.
ly low. while the increase is about per cent.
Mules increased about 2 per cent.
A BILLIARD TOURNAMENT, in New
York City. closed ON the 7th, With Jacob
schae!cr as champion player. Of the United
States, and winner OF the $1,000 prize On
the last same between him and George Slos-
son, the latter made . run OF 4jl, hut the
former won the game, the avera; es being IS 50
and 81 ~.
+ The Congressional Subj Committee
investigating the charges made against Judge
Biodgett, Of the United States District Court
for the Northern District OF Illinois, closed
their labors In Chicago. on the 7th, after :
session Of nearly two weeks. report Of the
evidence would be submitted 10 the full
judiciary Committee of the National House
Of Representatives, Who will consider the
came and report to the House such action In
the matter 80 may be deemed desirable.
WILLIAM H. HEATH, Auditor of st.
Louis County. Mo-, from 1865 to 1876, has been
found guilty OF eMbezzlins abou' Gas, 600 of
the public funds aud sentenced to ten yezrs'
imprisonment: In tee State Pcntentiary.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9Th
says the President had directed his Cabinet
officers 10 submit to him the names Of all the
important offices under their respective de.
partments which expire within the ensuing
thirty days, the obj:ct being to send in either
new names cr reappoint the old ones before
the Senate adjourns and passes into Demo
cratic control.
Surf has recently been brought
against the proprietors Q, a skating rink at
Worcester, Mass., for not allowing colored
men to skate Oh their ice.
THE Cheyenne Indian prisoners from
Fort Robinson, Neb., arrived at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, on the 9Th, under strong cav.
airy guard. They will he turned over to the
State authorities for trial for raiding, depre-
dating and numbering citizens In Western
Kansas, last fall.
ON the 10th, Hon. Isaac p. Chris
tiancy placed his resignation as United States
Senator in the hands OF Gov. Croswell, OF
Michigan. s.. .-,..
HON. JOSEPH CASEY, Chief-Justice
OF the Court IT Claims, died at Washington,
on the morning Of the 10th. He was first ap-
pointed by President Lincoln.
AT Troy. N. Y, on the 10th, G. T.
Simmons, crazel BY the elopement Of his
wife, poisoned his three children and then cut
his own throat. .e %t,s
THE inquiry into the conduct of Maj.
Reno ut the Battle OF Little Big Horn River,
in the summer OF 1876 which had been IN prog
ress at Chicago, for the preceding four weeks,
was concluded, on the morning of the 18th.
The decision will not be made public until
reversed or approved by the authorities at
Washington. 1A
TIE Republican Senators held eau
Gus at Washington, on the evening Of the
l1tb, and agreed to resist to the fullest limit
the determination OF the House to incorpo.
rate in the appropriation bills anything like
! political legislation. ~s, =.
A REPORT that trains were detained
ut Flora, ILL.,, on recent Sunday, on account
of the enforcement OF the State Sunday laws,
ts denied by the Ohio g. Mississippi Railroad
officials. The dispatch to that effect originated
with some person who had been misinformed
or was eviily disposed. . tt-F@
Arkansas City (Mo. J telegram Of the
18th says q terrible accident had occurred In q
cut being made there for the Chicago & Alton
Railroad. The almost perpendicular walls of
the cut, ninety feet in height, caved In, and
four teams and about forty men we're buried
under 1000 yards of falling earth. Six per-
sons were killed outright, and several others
wore wounded. f., --sas. So. ..e..i l. E.r
IT has been recently reported that the
yellow fever had again made its appearance In
some sections Of the South. A correspondent
Of the Louisville Courier, Journal who was
sent to Memphis to investigate the reports as
10 the fever In that city, autographed, on the
18th, an emphatic denial of such reports.
P.B. S. PIkcHBACK (colored) has
accepted the position of Revenue Agent In
the Louisiana District. -
| w. B. FLEMING has been elected to
Congress from the FIRST Georgia District, to
Ill the vacancy caused by tho death OF tho
late Julian Hartridge.
THE Michigan Republican State Cen
trail Committee have called : State Conven-
ton to meet at Lansing on the 9th OF March.
The Democratic State Convention and the
Grcenback State Convention meet at the same
place on the 28th of February.
THE Missouri Court of Appeals have
decided. in the case of an application for an
Injunction to restrain the st. Louis School
Board from teaching foreign languages and
ornamental branches In the schools OF that
| city, that the whole matter is In the hands Of
the Legislature and that courts have no pow
! er In the premises.
| A NATIONAL CONFERENCE of colored
citizens Is to be held at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 9Th Of May, "to consider the situation OF
the colored people in the South, relative to
the enjoyment OF life, liberty and property;
also their educational, moral, social and po-
littcal condition and the question Of emigra-
ton"
On the 10Th, Scc'y Sherman issued
another call for the redemption OF $40 bonds
The sum called in ia 0,ooo, o0o, interest and
principal payable May IL.
C0NGREssI0HAL.
SENATE. On the 9th, the bill to pro-
vide for taking the Tenth and subsequent Cen
suaes was passed-l6 to 4....A resolution was
agreed to instructing the Oommittce on Agri-
culture 20 inquire in regard 70 the reports con-
corning infectious diseases among horned Leaf
tie. message was received from the Presi-
State I'M regard to tho proceedings Of Tho InteE
national Monetary Conferences held in Paris Au-
gust, 1873
HoUsE.A bill was passed making
appropriations Tor the payment Of claims re-
ported allowed By tho Commissioner of
Claims. IA resolution WA adopted calling on
the oommisioner Of Pensions fer statements in
pensions. Tho Army Appropriation bill was
cousidersd In Committee Of the Whole.