New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-17


work 60 closely and vitaily affecting to inter
Without urging further grounds Of my
opinion, repeat, IN conclusion. that 1t Is the
and maintain such supervision and authority
over any InterOceanic Canal across the 18th.
mus that connects North and South America
as will protect our National interests. This,
An quite sure, will be found not only com.
pati6le with, but promotive of, the widest and
most most permanent adyantage to commerce g e and
Ar Chicago on the 9th there was
something Of panic on Change. The Keene
crowd unloaded their April wheat at decline
Of from three to four cents per bushel, and
bought May options at corresponding rates
IT was reported from Washington on
the 9th that De Lesseps had expressed him
self as being delighted with the Presidents
message on the subject Of the Interoceanic
Canal, "because it would certainly be advan-
tageous to have tho protection Of the United
States during the work, and after the OPEN
.ng of the canal" He had sent message to
his son At Paris, saying the Presidents mes
sage assured the safety Of the canal. .
IT is stated that during the month of
February last nearly 14s, 900 emigrants arrived
at the port of New York, against S2,UO in the
same month last year. 5
The surplus earnings Of the Union
Pacific Railway during 1879 are officially stat, d
o have been &7,725 574. |
The Chicago Times of the 18th says
reports from the winter-wheat district show
ed that the condition of the crop was general
ly favorable and the prospects aattering. In
Illinois there were complaints Of ct weather,
.nd in Kansas and Iowa Of drouth, but it was
The opinion Of good judges that there will be
al unusually heavy yield.
The Southern Claims Commission
expired on the 10th, by the terms OF the act
creating it. In It's last report to Congress,
t Is shown that since the organization Of the
commission, in 1871, 22,29S claims, amount
ing to over $6O,0O0,0OO, have been filed, OF
which all but about one-twelfth have been
rejected.
A LOUISIANA cOlored man stated be-
ore the Voorhees, Exodus Committee on the
9th that about 8, QUO colored people had left
hat State for Kansas.
On the 10th Mayor Kaloch, Of San
Francisco, issued . proclamation declaring
that there was no danger o. trouble from the
working classes Of that city, aud that the ex-
itement caused by the recent formation of q
Citizens Protective organization and certaiD
military precautions was the work Of "design-
ing men,"
WHILE the express agent at Sidney,
Neb., was at dinner on the 10th, his Office
was entered BY gang Of robbers, who made
of with about $2O0, 900 worth of gold bullion,
just in from the Black Hills. The alarm was
iven, and . few hours later all but $13,OW
worth of the metal was recovered, the thieves
having hidden it in coal pile not far away.
DURING the season closed March l.
1880, there were 1853, 4ss less hogs packed at
Milwaukee than in the previous season.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
says the Postofice Department had concluded
a contract for the "star'' mail service TO,
our years in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
The total amount of the awards is about
tSS5,O0O Among those receiving the largest
contracts are Sawyers u Wyatt, Kentucky:
j. H. Wilson, Kentucky, and J. D. Colegrove,
Missouri.
IT was stated on the 18th that the
Trade and Labor Union of Chicago had re-
ceived q communication from St. Louis, in.
viting its members to join the workingmen
Of the latter city in big strike In April.
DENIS KEARNEY, the California agi-
18th, on two charges Of misdemeanor base,
on remarks made by him in an incendiary
speech delivered the night previous
LEHMAN & Co.'s flax mills at Frank
Tort, Ind, were destroyed on the morning
the 18th by the explosion Of the steam boilers
Ten men were killed.