New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-15
objection, although it was the first time in the
history of the State of Kentucky that negro

objection, although it was the first time in the
history Of the State Of Kentucky that negro
served on jury.
DIR. JOHN A. BAURER has been placed
on the California Republican Electoral ticket,
in place of Claus Spreckles, withdrawn be-
cause he had received q decoration from the
King Of the Sandwich Islands.
The Congressional nominations on
the 9TH were as follows: Sixth Wisconsin
District, Congressman Gabe Bouck, Demo
crat; Third Minnesota, General Sibley, Dem
| ocrat; Third Iowa, NJ. Fl. Moore Greenback.
! The following Western and Southern
Congressional nominations we're announced
| on the Sth: Second Virginia District, John
| F. Dizendorf, Republican,; Second Maryland,
| F. T. Shaw, Democrat; Fifth North Carolina,
T. B. Keogh, Republican; Fourth Louisiana,
| N. G. Blanchard, Democrat; Second WiscOn-
| sin, Congressman L. B. Caswel, Republican;
Eighth Wisconsin, Congressman T. c. Pound,
| Republican; Ninth Michigan, George Parma
| lee, Greenback; Third Iowa, William G.
! Stewart, Democrat.
The Greenbackers of the Second
Missouri District have nominated r. P. Maine
for Congress. C. P. Ramsdell is the Repub-
| O. Smith in the Fourth Alabama, Districts.
president HAYES and suite reached
San Francisco on the evening of the 9th, and
were cordially and enthusiastically received
| by the people Of that city.
RECENT heavy rains have done much
damage to the tobacco crop in many counties
| of Virginia, particularly along the river
bottoms. The tobacco-worm has also been
at work, and the crop will, it is said, be
the smallest raised in Virginia for many
years.
AN east-bound express train on tho
indianapolis & st. Louis Railway was thrown
from the track on bridge thirty feet high,
! near Terre Haute, Ind, on the night of the
9Th. George Morris, conductor, was killed
| and several passengers were injured. One
of the rails on the bridge had been loosened
! and drawn to one side by some miscreant, in
the hope that the cars would be thrown into
| the chasm.
Foreign Intelligence.
ATTEMPTS have recently been made
! to circulate in Great Britain forged American
bank notes of the denomination of $50 on the
Broadway and Trademarks National Banks
of New York.
The steamer Nevada, from Liver
pool on the 9Th, has among her passengers
346 Mormon emigrants, mostly English, Scotch
| and Welsh.
DURING the recent journey of the
Gar from St. Petersburg to Livadia the rail-
road line was guarded by 1900 peasants and
10000 troops.
The Mark Lane Erpress of recent
date contains reports which indicate that the
worst fears of the English farmers as to quail
ity and yield of grain had been realized. The
result of the thrashings so far had been ex-
| ceedingly disappointing, the bad season and
the prevalence of mildew having greatly re-
duced the marketable value Of wheat. Bar
| ley was reported to be discolored and imper-
fectly ripened The oat cropis said to be the
only fair grain crop this year:
A PARIS telegram of the 9TH says
that treaty annexng the island of Tahiti
to France was signed last June
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of
the 9TH the Imperial Bank of Germany had
ordered its Bremen and Hamburg branches
| to suspend payments.
The British Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 9TH until November 20 by
speech from the throne read by Royal Com
| missioner.
On the 9TH about 10000 nail makers
in East Worcestershire and Staffordshire,
England, struck against q proposed reduction
| of wages.
A FEW nights ago the township of
S~>@ of %ho of fh0
Province of Quebec, was overrun by fire. The
flames started from burning stubble, and
presently became unmanageable. Only one
house in the center of a district several miles
square escaped destruction. A loss of $780,
| 600 was inflicted and 1,5OO people were
rendered hOuseless.
AN explosion occurred in Seaham
colliery, near Durham, Eng, at half past two
on the morning of the 9Th. There were
| nearly 800 hundred men in the pitt and, up to
the morning of the 9th, only sixty of the
men had been rescued.
INTELLIGENCE was received in Lon
don on the Sth that the city of sofa in Bull
garia, was on fire, with a prospect of total
destruction.
Two HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
head of cattle were lost from the steamer
Thanemore during its recent passage from
Baltimore to Liverpool.
A wATER-sPoUT recently destroyed
| number of houses and killed several persons
at 1vry, France.
IT is said the entire length of the St.
Gothard Tunnel will be in operation April l,
| 1881.
The disturbances throughout Arme-
mia have been recently assuming the proper
| lions of an Instruction.
IT is said that Bull garia will, in o.
tober, declare her entire independence Of
| Turkey.