New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-12-01
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News. Compilation.

Ept1 ONE OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From Washington.
DURING the last fiscal year ffty-cight Ma
tional Banks were organized; five failed, and
twenty-one went into voluntary liquidation.
The taxes paid the Government by the Banks
during the year amounted to 81, 591,770
TIE exports Of petroleum from the United
States for the first nine months Of the current
year amounted in value to 81, $50, 343.
ACCORDING to the report Of the Treasurer
of the United States the receipts from Gus
toms, internal revenue and the sale Of public
lands during the fiscal year ended June 80
last increased nearly 10000, coo over those
of the preceding year. The total receipts OF
the Treasury were $494, SIS, al.
A PASSENGER sued the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for damages sustained by the
breaking down of berth in 4 sleeping car.
The case was fully ltigated, and the United
States Supreme Court has Just rendered
decision holding the company liable for any
injury to passengers In sleeping coaches aris-
ing from a neglect to inspect them.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MAYNARD recon-
mends in his annual report the exclusion
from the mails OF newspapers containing lot
terry advertisements. He also advises the
establishment of Postal savings-Bank sys-
TEN, something like that In operation in
Great Britain.
The Pres!dent-elect arrived at Washington
on the evening of the 23d. At his request
there was no public reception. He was met
at the depot by few friends, and driven at
once to his residence.
ACCORDING to the report OF the Comp
trol!er Of the Currency it appears that, in
accordance with the provisions Of the Re-
sumption law, no notes Of less denomination
than five dollars have been issued to National
Banks since gold redemption began. While
this has caused a decrease Of nearly four and
q quarter millions in small bank notes, the
pressure for legal tenders Of less than five
dollars has brought about an increase OF
nearly three and one-half millions. Seven
per cent. Of the greenback and Mathematician
notes outstanding consists Of one and two
dollar bills; more than 81 per cent. of ones,
twos and fives; over So per cent. Of less de-
minations than $40; and so per cent. of
less denominations than $50. In 1878 the
total amount of currency outstanding was
$685. 1913, 1877; in 1879, 1851, s15. $40; in 1880,
S68S, ~, 467-an increase of over $22, 000, 900
in the past two years.
IT is stated that the appropriations required
for the next fiscal year, ending June 80, 1882,
according to the Departmental estimates just
completed, are $29S, 202, 722, exclusive of in
terest on the public debt. These are about
$50 900 more than those made for the current
fiscal year.
The East.
TEE official canvass of the vote Of New York
State at the recent election shows total Of
], 104 ,020, an increase Of 81, 1853 over that of
1876. Tho Garfield Electors received SIS, 544;
the Hancock Electors, 534, Sill; the Weaver
Electors, II, 1913; the Prohibitionist Electors,
1,517, and the Anti Masonic Electors, Is.
Garfeld's plurality, 1893; majority over all,
ZOOS.
THE Northern Pacific Railroad has secured
from syndicate OF American and European
bankers the sum of $40, 10000 sufficient to
finish the road.
On the 22d Mrs. Levi Hulseapple, Of Mid
dletown, N. Y, placed cartridge OF giant
powder in the oven to warm It. An explosion
followed, destroying the stove and entirely
demolishing portion of the house. Mrs.
Hulseapple was seriously, and perhaps fatal
ly, injured by the flying pieces of the stove.
The gold receipts at New York from En-
rope for the week ended November 20 were:
Foreign coin and bars, $97s, 900; American
gold coin, $4S3, 000-a total of 81, 461, 900.
The total received from August 2, 1880, was,
Foreign coin and bars, al, $685. 900. Ameri-
can gold coin, So, 69S, OO0-a total Of e45, 00,-
OOO, against $50, 1893 $50 in 1879.
II was reported on the 23d that Z, 80
bushels Of grain were afoat on the Erie
Canal.
On the ed statue OF Alexander Hanil-
ton the first Secretary of the Treasury, was
unveiled in Central Park, New York. It was
donated by a son of the famous financier,
who is nearly ninety years old.
A FEW days ago . collision occurred on the
New York & New England Railroad, near
Andover, Mass, which caused the death of a
cars. The engineer who made the disaster
possible has fed.
The vote Of New Jersey at the late cleo
ton is officially declared as follows: For
Hancock, 122, SOS; Garfield, 120,555; Weaver,
2,617; Dow, 1885, Total vote, 245,932 Han
cocks plurality, 2,01O
THE Directors of the Old Colony Railroad,
Of Massachusetts,, have placed the road upon
strictly temperance basis.
On the oath DR.. Buchanan, of bogus medi-
caldiploma fame, and Martin v. Chapman,
one Of his bondsmen, were convicted at Phila-
delphia of conspiring to defraud the Govern
ment Of 5000, that being the amount Of
Buchanan's bond which Chapman tried to
avoid paying by concocting bogus story that
Buchanan had committed suicide
JAMES O'BR1EN, alias Lindsey, one Of the
witnesses in the trial of Philip for libel in con-
nection with the forged Morey Chinese letter,
has pleaded guilty to the Indictment for per.
jury.
The east wing Of the Penitentlary ct Ale
gheny City, Pa, was nearly destroyed by fire
on Thanksgiving Day. Sixty-eight cells were
burned.
The body of Mrs. Noyes, who recently died
at Warren, Pa, was cremated in the LeMoyne
furnace at Washington, Pa, on the 25th
This is the eighth corpse which has been
burned there.
On the 24th the Erie Canal between Buff
falo and Lockport was obstructed BY ice I've
inches thick.
West and South.
ISAAC P. GRAY, late Lieutenant Governor,
has taken the oath of Office as Governor OF the
State of Indiana.
On the 22d Augustus Werner, Of Canton,
O., died of lockjaw, causing by spraintng his
ankle in jumping out of bed.
An Indianapolis dispatch Of the 28d says
that Indiana has chosen one Hancock Elect
or, D. w. Chambers defeating B. 8. Parker,