New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-11
EPlTOME OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From Washington.

from washington.
The public-debt statement for July
makes the following exhibit: Total debt lin
Guiding interest), s2,195, 4s6,646. Cash In
Treasury, $19S, S9o, 405 Debt, less amount
in Treasury, 1896, 500, PAL. Decrease during
the month, $5,576,053.
The United States minis coined dur
ing July the sum of 49, 500. .--
IT has been recently decided by the
First Comptroller of the United States
Treasury that Government employees are en-
titled to pay for public holidays.
The following United States cur
rency was outstanding on the LIST: Old de.
mand notes. 6),9l5; Legal-tender notes, al
issues. $346, 691 ,0l6; One-year notes of 1853
SAG, 765; Two-year notes of 1863, $12, 700;
Two-year coupon notes of 1868, 1928, $50
Compound-intcrest notes, $243,31O; Frac
tional currency, all issues, Sis, GAS. Total
$780,, 649, 704.
"A UNITED STATES man-of-war has
been recently ordered to proceed to Cubar
waters and patrol the coast.
H. j. CROUCH, of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed Consul at St. Helena, and G.
w. Roosevelt, of the same State, Consul at Ma,
tanzas, Cuba.
ON the 5th a letter was received at
the Dcad-Lettcr Office in Washington, from
Pittsburgh, Pa, which contained the heads
of several parlor-matchcs and an ounce OF
powder.
The East.
On the Sd John Buerger was ar.
rested by the revenue officers for running an
illicit distillery in jackson Township, Pa
He had been eighteen years in the business,
it is said.
A FEW evenings ago, while Phila-
delphia mattress factory was burning, Eliza
beth Oglesby and Emma Barnes leaped from
a third-story window, the former being
fatally, and the latter only slightly, injured.
Iris stated that diploma was granted
by the American University of Philadelphia,
for $500, to Spanish citizen, who has since
made oath that he never attended the univer-
sity and never resided in the United States.
The papers have been laid before the Attor.
ney-Gencral of Pennsylvania.
DURING last month over %, 900 Euro
pean cmigrants landed at New York, being,
it is said, the largest number ever landed in
one month.
A TEN-YEAR-OLD son of James Muir,
of Andes, N. Y, recently undertook to kin
die a fire with kerosene oil, when the can cx-
plodcd. burning the boy SO badly that he died
in ten hours.
AT Pocasset, Mass, the other day
two or three boys undertook to teach their
little brother, six years of age, to swim by
taking him to the middle of swift-running
river and dropping him In. He got out all
right once or twice, but was finally drowned.
On the 18th Messrs. jerome, Patched
and McGibbin were held to the Grand Jury
OF New York in bonds of 81, 600 each for lar
ceny of the railroad securities found in their
possession and which had been lost by mes
scnger of Brayton, Ives u Co.
GEORGE w. LADD has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats and
Greenbackers of the Fourth Maine District.
THE Democrats of the Second YER
mont District have nominated Dr. Daniel
Campbell for Congress.
A PROMINENT pork-packer of Pitts
burgh named Reese Owens failed on the 5th
His liabilities were placed at 100000 The
available assets were believed to be quite
small. The catastrophe is said to have been
precipitatcd by the Chicago corner.