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

Panama, where he had been engaged in the
preliminary surveys of a ship canal across the
Isthmus, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. The canal will cost, according to
his estimates, about $15O,0OO,00O, and the
time required for its completion will be eight
years. M. de Lesseps will remain In the
United States about two months, visiting
Chicago and San Francisco before taking his
leave. j., 40 eEs. ~
The late Superintendent of the Shep-
herds Fold in New York City, who was SEN
fenced to imprisonment for maltreating and
starving the children in his charge, sought his
release by writ of habeas corpus on the Path,
but Judge Donahue dismissed the proceed
ings on hearing, and remanded Mr.. Cowley to
the custody of the Sheriff.
A LARGE part of the business portion
! of the village of Brewsters', N. Y. was
burned on the night of the 23d. Loss, $780,
| 600.
The United States Assistant Treas
urer at New York opened proposals on the
! rs h for the sale to the Government of 81, OOO,
GOO Of 1SS0-Sl bonds. The offerings aggre-
| gated Sc, ss5 49, and the Secretary accepted
| S2,000,000, all six per cents.
| In State Convention at Montpelier on
the 25th the Vermont Republicans elected
John Gregory Smith, Frederick Billings, j.
! w. Stewart and George w. Hooker as dele
| gates-at-large to the Republican National
| Convention, and adopted platform. A res
olutton was also adopted presenting George
F. Edmunds as a suitable person to be made
the candidate of the Republican party for
noxt President
On the 25th, Rev. A. w. Paige, Of
New Haven, Conn.,, pleaded guilty to the
charge of sending obscene letters through the
mail and was fined 500 and costs.
The New York State Republican
| Convention convened at Utica on the 25th
and organized by the choice of Hon. Charles
T. Smith as Chairman. There was quarrel
over the admission of delegates from Oneida
| County, but it was settled by admitting the
delegation headed by Senator Conkling
| Resolutions pledging the Electoral vote O.
the State to ex-President Grant; declaring
| that the New York Republicans reposed alb
| solute trust in his honesty, his fidelity, his
! serene judgment and solid intelligence; in
sisting that the objection to third President
| ial term applied only to third consecutive
| term, and instructing the delegates to the Ma,
! tional Convention to use their most earnest
! and united efforts to secure the nomination
| Of Ex-President U. s. Grant, were adopted
amid considerable confusion. A motion to
| strike out the name of General Grant and
| substitute that of James G.. Blaine was de-
feated, by a vote Of yeas, 1870; nays, 217. A
motion instructing the delegates to vote for
Blaine if General Grant were not nominated
! was tabled on motion of Senator Conkling.
| The delegates-at-largew were elected as follows:
| Roscoe Conkling, A. B. Cornell, c. A. Arthur
and James D. Warren. Presidential Electors
and State Central Committee were also ap-
ONE thousand employees of the Har-
mony mills at Cohocs, N. Y, struck for an
advance of ten per cent. in their wages and
one hour instead OF thirty minutes for dinner,
on the Goth.
The Rhode Island Republican State
| Convention for the nomination Of State Off
GERS and the appointment of delegates to tie
| Chicago Convention has been called to meet
! 1T Providence ON the 18th of March.
The Woman's Suffrage Association
of New York recently held a conyra ulatory
meeting over the enactment of the law a.
lowing women to vote for school officers.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A GALEsBURG Clll.) dispatch of the
23d states that colored man named Brow
and his wife had been arrested on suspicion
Of having been engaged in the robbery of the
Knoxville Bank, and that their son had been
taken BY a crowd Of excited citizens ant
threatened with hanging unless he would tel
what he knew concerning the robbery. Hc
thereupon stated that the robbery was com
United by Bill Stamps, of Knoxville, Lev
Ellsworth, barber, and white man named
Ed AdIe, both of Maquon He said Able
Ellsworth and Stamps went inside the bank,
and he stood on the outside to watch. He
was given a box of nickels for his share,
about $780, Most of the implicated parties
mad been arrested and locked up.
AN enthusiastic gathering, said to
have been one of the largest crowds ever as
sembled in Chicago greeted Mr.. Parnell, TIT
Irish land agitator, at the Exposition build
ing on the evening of the 23d. 1t was esti-
mated that not less than thirty thousand peo-
pie were present. A series of resolutions wa
adopted, and speeches were made by Mr.. Par
nell, Governor Cullom, of Illinois, Hon.
Thomas Hoyne, and Others.
A PETERSBURG (Va.) dispatch of the
evening of the Oath announces the arrival o,
large number Of colored people, mostl..
women and children, e.. route foe Indiana.
they reported that hundreds of others woulu
follow.
JESSE JAMES, tho outlaw whom a
detective named Shepherd claimed to have
killed near Kansas City some months ago
was in St. Louis on the Oath.
Four cattle-t thieves were recently
hung in the vicinity of Deadwood by the Wig
ilantes.
The Michigan Greenback State Con-
vention, to choose delegates to the Nationa
Convention in Chicago, will meet at jackson,
ON the 18th of March.
The Illinois Republican State Con-
vention will moot ~ Springfield on the 10Th
Of May.
lHE following we're elected as mem
bers of the Indiana Republican State Central
Committee by twelve of the District Conven-
tions held on the 25th: First District, Fl. s.
Bennett, Vanderburg; Second, Robert Evans,
hnox; Third, w. NJ. Hurley, Floyd; Fifth
J. S. Jordan, Morgan; Sixth, Isaac Jcnkin-
son, Wayne; Seventh, John g. New, Marion;
Eighth, H. H. Boudinot, Vigo; Ninth, A. L
kumler, Tippecanoe; Tenth, NJ. w. Tomlin
son, Cass; Eleventh, Alexander w. De Long,
Huntington; Twelfth, Robert Stratton, AL
len; Thirteenth, W. G. Graves, Kosciusko.
John G. New was elected Chairman.
THE Iowa Democratic State Conven-
ton to select delegates to the Democratic
National Convention has been called to meet
at Burlington on the 9TH of April.
On the 25th district delegates to the
Republican National Convention were chosen
i'll Indiana. Four districts favored Blaine and
one Sherman; in the others no instructions
were given. ~.
ACCORDING TO San Francisco tele-
grams of the Goth the workingmen of that
city had resolved to discontinue their calls
upon employers of Chinese and, for the pres
mt, to abandon the meetings on the sand