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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28
Browns Valley Reporter: Last

Browns Valley Reporter: Last
Sunday night was night of terror
to the human race in the Valley.
The heat was terrible--not breath
of air stirred, and the mosquitoes,
holy mackerel! They were as large
as breaking pillow, and had stab.
bers like knitting needles, and there
were millions of them. They went
through mosquito netting like water
through a sieve.
Rushford Star: For the third time
the wheat crop in Root River valley
has been almost q failure. The
chinch bug has ruined large tracts,
and that left is barely worth cutting.
Wheat is now failure, not because
of climate, but exhaustion of the
soil. Rust is equally as bad as mold.
IT. 'developes because something is
Lacking in the soil to properly devel-
op the wheat plant, and this lack
furnishes exactly the right condition
for rust.
A turtle weighing thirty EIGHT
pounds was captured at Mortified
The other day, and presented to Prof.
Sperry, Of Carleton College, to be
placed in his department. Of natural
history.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

The authorities in Washington
are in receipt Of official advices from
Texas of an attempt on the life of
Customs Inspector Bisse]l for max.
ing Republican speech. Itappears
that Mr.. Bissell, by request, address
ed a Republican meeting in the
town of Brazoria, Texas, and the
next day while on his way home he
was met by DR.. Aschorn and a
party of ten Democrats who threat.
ened to kill HIM if he ever again
attempted to make another speech
in that town. One of his assailants
said he ''would wade through
blood up to his knees to kill yam.
kee.'' Mr.. Bissell was again threat.
ened, and finally learned of plan
to kill him which he learned IN
time and abandoned his property
and fled to Galveston. It appears
that the unreconstructed rebels pro
pose to carry everything this yea,
with a high hand. Free speech is
q mockery south Of Mason and Dix
on's line, and fla Republican speaks
his sentiments he does 50 at the per
il Of his life. Are the people of the
north prepared to hand the reigns
OF the government over to these
southern fire. eaters?
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

The address to the Irish voters
adopted by the Irish National Re-
publican Convention which met in
indianapolis on the 18th inst. closes
as follows: "We appeal to you, fell
!ow-countrymen, whose history is a
long record of desperate struggles for
freedom, if your proper affiliations
are with party which sustained for
many years human slavery in its
most degrading form, and only re.
linquished that relic Of barbarism
when the Republican party, by the
hands Of our martyred President
struck the shakes from the limbs of
the slave, wiped out the only plot on
otherwise stainless escutcheon of
America and established the glorious
principle of free lands for free men
over every acre of our great republic
We ask you also whether you are
prepared to turn over this govern.
ment, with all it's bright anticipa.
lions tor the future, to the tender
mercies of the very men who exerted
their best ability for many years to
effect their destruction? The acces.
sion Of the Democracy to full power
in all departments of the govern.
ment, in the light of it's past record
of treason and rebellion, cannot but
be regarded as a calamity, the mag.
nitude Of which can scarcely be
imagined"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

Hon. w. Il. Ward, one Of the
Republican candidates to Congress
in the First District, has made Hon.
M. II. Dunnell, the other candidate,
proposition that both should with
draw from the. contest, and that a
new convention should be called be-
fore which neither should be can.
didate. Mr.. Dunnell, while nei-
Their accepting or refusing the olive
branch, has referred Wards letter
to the congressional central com.
mittee and promises to abide by
their decision. As this committee
is wholly made up Of Dunnell's
friends, who claim that Dunnell is
the only regular Republican noml.
nee, it is not thought probable that
they will advise Dunnell to accept
the proposition, but for the sake OF
harmony they will no doubt make a
counter proposition to ward. Strong
outside pressure is being brought tt
bring about a compromise whereby
the party could be united upon one
man, and we hope the effort may be
successful.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28
EPlToME OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation
From Washington,

ACCORDING to the report of the Chief
OF the Bureau of Statistics the total value OF
the exports of domestic breadstu1fs from the
United States during june 1880, was $685.
O49, 859, and for June, 1879, $17,21O, 10; dur
ing the year ended June 30, 1880, S277, 226,
762, and during the same period in 1879, $2O1,
&c, 400.
ANEW BUREAU is about to be organ
lied in the State Department at Washington,
to be devoted to the preparation of circulars
cmbodying the commercial reports of our
Consuls, to be transmitted upon payment OF
fees to merchants and Boards Of Trade
throughout the country. Congress-, at its
last session, appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
pose.
On the 21st the State Department at
Washington received information to the ef-
feet that the vessel which recently fired
upon the two American schooners in Cuban
waters was the Canto, small screw steamer
belonging to the Spanish Navy. Notwith-
standing the Spanish authorities had denied
that firing was done by any vessel of the
Spanish Navy, Assistant Secretary Hay be-
Neved that such denial was based upon the
fact that neither of the previous reports OF
the affair correctly stated the name of the Of
Tending vessel.
PRESIDENT HAYES has appointed
General Henry s. Huidekoper, of German.
town, Pa, who commanded the "Bucktail
Regiment" at the battle of Gettysburg,
Postmaster of Philadelphia.
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Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. G. July 18th, 1880

w danulSUOl, -. ~. July l1III, 1oOU
Campaign enthusiasm seems to be
on the increase with the Republic
an workers in Washington, and they
are applying themselves to the work
so well to do with an energy and
zeal that indicates, to say the least,
much confidence in the issue. Mr..
Garfield's calm and able letter of ac-
ceptance meets with hearty APP
prevail, and the prelilninaries hav-
ing been arranged, the work Of Or
ganizing campaign clubs Of the var
ious states by their representatives
in the Department offices here are
nearly complete.
I heard a gentleman who is we'll
informed on all matters relative to
the strength and working. capacity
Of the party say that it had not be.
fore entered Oh campaign so COM
pletely equipped, organized, and
supplied with money as at present.
On the other hand I think it may
be truly said that tho Democrats are
not as we'll pleased with their can
didate as they were during the few
days succeeding his nomination.
Some Of them realize the absurcity
Of the political attitude which com.
pels them to recant for Hancock all
the arguments they have used against
Grant. They have begun to real.
ize that the obscurity Of General Han
cocks title to civic honors and res
possibilities will cause the fitness Of
the Democratic party to be entrusted
with power to become a much more
prominent topic than it would have
been if Tilden, Bayard, Thurman,
Hendricks, or anybody else vcrsed
in government affairs had been nom-
mated. If the Democrats wished to
attract criticism to themselves as a
party, they have done we'll to nom.
mate candidate who has no civil
record of his own. If they desired to
withdraw attention from themselves
and fix it on the guns that held the
cemetry at Gettysburg, they will
not succeed III their endeavor. The
public are inclined to look at the acts
of the candidate rather than of the
party if there are any acts to exam.
inc. In the case ofGeneral Hancock
there are none which can be called
pertinent in the issue. Therefore
the acts Of the party, its composition,
it's general drift and tendency must
be considered perforce. Here the
Republicans are conscious of their adj
vantage and cha]lange comparison
and debate.
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Minnesota News.

Olof Anderson, of Lake Valley,
Travers county, during rain storm
took shelter under his wagon. A
bolt of lightning killed him dead.
The Superintendent of the Money
Order Bureau at Washington has
prepared a list Of additional moneyor
der offices in Minnesota, which goes
into effect August list. The list is as
follows Appleton, Breckenridge,
Candy, DeGraff, Texan, Fergus
Falls, Fort Smelling, Fountain, Hur-
on, LIE Sueur, Miner, Morristown,
Murdoch, Ortonville, Pipestone,
Terah, Missouri, Browning, Burl-
ington Junction, Corning, Dexter
City, Hartville, Higbee, King City,
New Florence, Petersburg, Slater.
During recent storm six valu-
able horses were killed by lightning
in M. L. Howe's pasture in the town
of Alden, Freedom county. Two
of the horses belonged to Mr.. Howe,
while the others were being pastur-
ed by him. During the thunder
storm they were standing in a fence
corner-close to the wire fencc-and
it is supposed that the fluid passed
from the wire to the horses. Five
other horses were killed by lightning
the same night, in that vicinity.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28
West and SOuth.

THE apartment of General Grant at q
Manitou (Col.) hotel was entered by burglars
before daylight on the morning of the 10Th,
money.
GENERAL TREv1No, of the Mexican
army, and the eldest daughter of General Ord
were recently married at San Antonio, Tex.
G. E. HOOKER has been renominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the Fifth
Mississippi District. The Republicans of the
Twelfth Illinois District have nominated
Isaac L. Morrison, and those of the Third
North Carolina District have nominated
William P Canaday.
UTAH has q population, in round
numbers, of Ia, 0O0-an increase of sixty-fve
per cent. in ten years. OF this number liz,
600 arc said to be Mormons.
A BOY named Wellington was recent
ly arrested at St. Louis having in his posses
zion rifle, three or four revolvcrs, long
knife six boxes of cartridges and S243. He
claimed to hail from Chicago, and said he was
going West to exterminate the Indians.s
ACCORDING to Portland (Oregon)
dispatch of tho 2lst trouble was imminent be-
tween the whites and Indians in Eastern Ore
gon and Washington, owing to the encroach'
mcnts of the settlers on Camas Valley, from
| which the Indians have been accustomed
procure their annual supply of camas root
! The Indians threatened to take forcible pos
| session unless the whites should leave.
On the 21st Colonel Stickney, Secre-
tary of the Ute Commission, died at the Los
Pinos Agency, of typhoid fever. He was IL
| only short time.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune
| of tho 21st General Grant would soon take vi
his residence in New York. He had beer
offered and had accepted a position whic]
would necessitate his residence in that city
His trip to Colorado and New Mexico is sait
to be in connection with the affair. Th'
| Tribune says he was offered the Presidency
Of the De Lesseps Canal Company at salar!
Of $4,000, but declined.
The following Congressional nomins
lions were made on the 21st: Third Ohio Dis
trict, E. Schultz, Republicans; Ninth Indian
| District, w. r. Meyers, Democrat; Seventh
Indiana District, e. Byfeld, Democrat; sixt
illinois District, p. L. Mckinney, Greenback;
Third California District, c. p. Berry, Work
ingman.
On the 21st the Missouri Democratic
State Convention met at Jefferson City and
nominated Thomas T. Crittenden for Governor
on the first ballot.
The California Greenbackers met In
State Convention on the .22d and nominated
W. A. Howe for Congressman from the Thigd
District, and ]. D. Godfrey from the Eodrth
District.
ON the afternoon of tho 22d%a re-
spectably-dressed man entered the Detroit
bank Of Fisher, Preston q Co., on pretens,
OF wanting to buy Government bonds tn
Cashier, who was the only person present !,
the bank at the time, was about ito reply
when the stranger struck him With slung
shot, which rendered him insensible, an,
when he recovered he found that $1,000 ii
! bills had been taken from tho money drawe.
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The East.

On the 10th Mrs. Nesmith wife of a
were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City,
NJ.
The late census shows the population
of Providence, R. l., to be 1O4, 760-an increase
of 81, $50 in ten years.
The steamer Dessouk, having on
board the Egyptian obellsk presented to the
United States by the cx-Khedive of Egypt,
reached New York on the 10Th.
ON the evening of the 18th Solomon
Easterly, wealthy farmer living near Lyon,
N. Y, killed his mother-in-law and wife with
an ak and then committed suicide He had
had trouble with his wife because Of the pres
encc at his home of her mother, and ut one
time suit for divorce was brought, but on
the old lady agreeing to keep away he with
drew the suit, and thereafter is said to have
lived pcaceably with his wife. On the day in
question the mother-in-law appeared at bis
home. He ordered her away, but she refused
to leave, and he fired at her three times. The
bullets failing to take effect, he Drained her
and his wife with an OK, and soon after
drowned himself
ACCORDING to tho census returns
New Jersey has q population of 100000,
being an increase in ten years of 1913, OOO
Pennsylvania contains about q, ZIG, 900 people,
Oh increase Of about 700, 600 in ten years.
IN his letter accepting the nomina-
ton for tho Presidency by the National Pro
hibitory party Neal Dow, after commenting
at some length on the evils of the liquor
traffic and the responsibility Of the prohibit
DRY movement, says: ~ consider the object
of the Prohibitionists of this country to be
of supreme Importance to the interests Of
tho Nation and people. Aside from its bear.
ing upon the moral and religious welfare o.
the people, consider the suppression of the
liquor traffic to be an object of far greater
political Importance than any other nov
claiming the attention of the country"
EARTHQUAKES were felt in several
portions of New Hampshire on the Goth. Tit
! vibrations were sufficient at several points tt
shake down pictures and dishes. The motor
had a south and east tendency, and the sount
was very perceptible.
The shore end of the tunnel now be-
! ing dug under the Hudson River from jersey
| City to New York, caved in on the morning
| of the 21st, and twenty-five men were bur1e(
alive eight others making an almost miracul
Gus escape.
| BY the late census returns it appear!
that Rochester, N. Y, has a population o
S9,49S, an increase of q, 70 since 1870.
IMMIGRANTS to tho number of 2,3O(
arrived at New York on the 22d. Among
them were 75S Mormons, nearly 600 of whom
wore swedes and Norwegians. There wer
also few Danes and five English fam1lie
among the Mormons.
The Vermont Democrats have nomi
mated Edward J. Phelps for Governor, Georg
w. Gates for Lieutenant Governor, an
James X Williams for Treasurer.
BOSTON has population Of 1868, 565-
an increase of u, O66 in ten years.
| AFTER investigating the causes whic]
led to the Hudson River Tunnel accident, e1
perts have concluded that the engineers Ell
gagged in the work were derelict in the1
duty and guilty Of gross carelessness an
| laundering.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

Pioneer Press: It is customary to
regard the Pacific States as a mys-
terious if not doubtful element IN
the presidential canvass but Re
publicans from that locality take a
certain and hopeful view of the pros
pect. Two or three recent arrivals
from the Pacific coast, in Washing
ton, declare that all the States are
SO sure for Garfield that they don't
care for any Republican speakers,
unless Blaine can be ssnt to Califor-
mia to swell the Republican major.
|ity.
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Berlin Letter.
Berlin. july 5

Berlin, July 9Th, 1880.
Frederic William ], of Prussia, un-
like his father, Carlyle's ''magniG-
cent Her, was an extremely thrift.
y Monarch, whose household expen.
SEES, as well as his State Budg gets,
were regulated by his own hand up
on principles Of the strictest econo-
my. Magdeburg sent him annu-
ally the first salmon taken from its
river, and other cities regularly sup
piled him with the "6rst fr,its'' of
their respective specialities in the
eating and drinking line. Private
persons, too, we'll aware of his par
tiality to the good things Of life, as
| we'll as his vehement objection to pay
| for them, sent their offerings of de-
! licacies by the score, accompanying
| their gifts by explanatory letters
| couched in highaown phraseology
that then characterized all communi-
| nications addressed bya subject to
| his Sovereign in Germany. The
King invariably made his notes on
| the back of every such letter, for the
guidance of the Cabinet secretary en-
trusted with the duty Of acknowledge
ing the presents in his name; and it
would be hard to say which are the
quainter--the original letters in ques-
ton Or the Royal autographs COM
ments with which they are endorsed
| A few examples of this singular cor
respondence will enable the public to
judge Of it's general character.
| Mr.. Destinon, Of Hamburg, under
date 22nd March, 1870, wrote to his
Majesty, "All.Most Serenest! AS it
is not unknown to me that your Roy
al Majesty now and then entertains
all all.graciousest pleasure in eating
craw.fsh, and as the season for the
same has just begun, I have, with
all imaginable humility and submis-
sion, deemed it my duty to send you
six Of these objects, besides cod.
fish, as fresh as may be, for he was
only caught yesterday; and I am he
who, fainting with all.deepest devo
ton, is your Royal Majesty's all
most-deeply.subjected and truest,
fullest Destinon.' The Kings terse
endorsement on this Aowery epistle
runs as follows: E'Good. He mus
also send good chunk of roast veal
the meat Of which must be right
white, and roasted, in order that tho
flavor Of the dripping may not get in
to the meat Another letter from
Count =: Dpnhoif, accompanying :
gift of Ripper, says 'All Most Seren
est and Greatest of Kings! l wa!
the evening before last with large
party at the Swedish ENJOYS, VIII,
treated me amongst other delicacie s
with smoked herrings which the En-
voy has just received from Sweden
AS now know that your Royal Maj
esty gladly eats this sort off fish,
take the liberty Of sending some t.
An-Highest. The-Same, whereby
must most humbly dare to remin(
them that the behring's must not b
too severely broiled, but often stoket
| with butter, else they will becorn
very dry. Further, I linger in deep
} est submission your Royal Majesty
:. utterly. subjected bondsman, u. G
} Won Denhoff. This document
bears the following cynica
+ endorsement from the Kings
own hand: "a compliment. VIVA
, is to be done with this is to return
!, thanks for it in writing, espresso
, in the conventional phrases usual,
employed upon such occasions.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

The important fact has been over
looked that the people of Minnesota
will be called upon at the coming
election to vote upon the State text
book law, and decide whether they
will continue to enjoy cheap school
books, or take their chances for a
combination like that which former
ly made textbooks cost twice as
much as they do now. The ballots
must read: ''In favor of the text
book acts, "'' Against the textbook
acts. Pioneer Press.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

ANeccentrlc gentleman recently made
wager Of 500 that he could remain
on the top Of the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris for four hours with nothing on but
suit of thin canvas. The cold wealth
.er came on, and the bet was won on a
day when the thermometer was 10 de-
grees above zero. It is quite unneces-
rsary to add that the man was an En-.
glishman.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

New York Tribune: Here are two
facts which anybody who thinks the
country would be bettered by change
of parties would do we'll to consider
In 1860, after twenty years of Dem.
ocratic rule, the government found
it hard to realize 80 cents on the
dollar for its 6 per cent. bonds. In
1880, after twenty years of Republi.
can rule, the government 4 per cent.
bonds sell readily at S1,0S. Com
ment is unnecessary.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-28

New York Herald: democratic
editors who are clustering about
what the army would do in case of
a disagreement between Gen. Han
cock and the powers at Washington
arc making fools of themselves and
helping the Republicans amazing
l.,
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Alexandria Post: Some dozen {

Alexandria Post: Some dozen or.
more gentlemen Of Alexandria are
engaged IN The antiquarian research
Of opening the Indian mounds be.
tween Lakes Carlos and L'Home-
dieu. On the top Of the larger
mound trees are growing that are
fully 100 years old. On one Of the
Eelms that was cut down, A r.. junk
en- counted 100 rings Of annular
growth
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LATED .


AT noon on the 23d DR.. Tanner COM
plctcd the twcnty-tifth day of his fast in New
York City. His weight was 1917 pounds, the
same as the day before. His pulse was G7
and respiration II. At the commencement
of the experiment the Doctor weighed 1914
pounds.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Leadville
on the 23d, and was welcomed by salvo OF
artillery, a military escort and grand process
sion, in which some $4,000 persons partici-
pated.
SPECIAL AGENT SAWYER, who was
sent to st. Louis by Superintendent Walker
to inquire into the alleged imperfcctions in
the taking of the census of that city, reported
on the 23d that he had investigated all COM
plants carefully, and that the alleged impcr-
fcctions did not exist-that the census had
been faithfully taken by the enumcrators-
and that he saw no good reason why the re-
quest to have the census taken over again
should be compiled with.
On the night of the I'D pleasure
yacht, having on board Father Bleyenbergh,
pastor of Trinity Catholic Church. Detroit,
and number of altar boys aud church Off
Gals, was run into by the steamer Garland,
on her way down the Detroit River, and six
teen persons, ten boys and six adults, were
drowned.
THE New York Tammany State Com
mittec met at Saratoga Oh the 23d and re-
ceived and accepted the designations of the
candidates for Presidential Electors nomi.
mated at the Syracuse Convention in April
last. Resolutions were adopted in favor of har.
mony in the party and indorsing the nomina-
tions of Hancock and English.
TIE official census returns give Rhode
Island & population of 276, 10, gain of So,
307 in ten years.
JOHN r. FRENCH, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms of the United States Senate, has beer
appointed Secretary and Disbursing Officer Of
the Ute Commission, vice Colonel Stickney
deceased.
DISPATCHES were received at Wash.
ington on the 23d from Admiral Wyman, wht
went on the United States steamer Tonnes
| see to Cuba, toinvcstigatc the alleged indig
mites offered the American flag by the Span
ish mar-of-war Canto. Admiral Wyma1
| states that at Santiago dc Cuba he was as
sured by the Spanish Governor that hi
| Government unequlvocally disayowed an,
intentional insult or indignty, or TIN
commission of any act at variance
with the usages of all civilized pow
ers. The Spanish authorities claime
that the vessels fired upon were not onl
within six miles of the shore, but actual,
within three miles, the limit of jurisdiction
claimed by the Governments of all martin
nations. Admiral Wyman further state'
| that tho SDoniSh AutbOritinc Otfnro1 ahun
dant evidence in support of this assertion
and that, in his opinion, there was nothing i
the case to warrant any further inquiry o
| the part of our Government. -.