New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-07
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From Washington.

Interesting News Compilation
From Washington.
The official documents connected
with the concession granted to an American
Company by the Nicaraguan Government,
giving it the exclusive privilege of construct,
Ing ship canal across that country, have been
received at Washington.
In answer to questions proposed by
the Treasury Department Attorney General
Devcns has recently given it as his opinion
that compensation due for transportation
services rendered to the Quartermastcr's Dc
partment over the Uaion Pacific, Kansas Pa.
cifc and other Pac &c Railroad Companies in
deb:cd to the United States for the money
used in the construction of any part of these
roads can be retained by the Treasury De-
partmcnt as part payment of tho indebted
ness Of such roads.
The National Board of Health has
recently expressed the opinion that there ap-
peared to be no reason to fear the recurrence
OF the yellow-fever epidemic in Southern cities
this year,
DURING the fiscal year ending June
30, 1880, sixty-one National Banks were or
ganized and twenty went into voluntary
liquidation.
The receipts from customs during
the fiscal year ended June 80, aggregated, &C.
cocding to Washington dispatch of that
date, 1856, los, Gil, an increase Of 1855, 500
over the receipts for 1870.
TIE Postmaster-G General has arranged
for the re establishment of the fast mail be-
tween Chicago and New York. The route
selected is the Lake Shore g. Michigan South
ern and New York Central g. Hudson River
Railroads.
The public-dcbt statement issued on
the LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Cncluding interest of $22, $780, $40, So,
l43,2Go,9l7. Cash in Treasury, $2O1, OSs 622
Debt, less amount in Treasury, s1,942,1 72,
295 Decrease during June, $10,214, 424. De-
crease since June 80, 1879. 1904, 961.
The mint coinage, during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1880, aggregated $S4,
$40, 144, OF which S27,933, $50 were standard
silver. This exceeds the coinage. of any pre-
vious year.
The East.
A FEW days ago two freight trains
came into collision on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, near Altoona A short time after a
third train ran into the wreck, and the fire
man and engineer were instantly killed.
The population of Syracuse, N. Y,
is 1919, an increase of 1862 since 1875.
ON the 30th ult. the Democrats of the
Twenty-first Pennsylvania District re-nomi
mated Morgan R. Wise for Congress, and the
Republicans of the First Vermont District
Charles II. Joyce.
A FEW days ago Pittsburgh Pa.)
laborcr wos arrested and fined for drunken
ness. After his fine had been paid he was so
chagrined at his shortcomings that he pro-
cured a revolver and shot himself dead.
GENERAL w. w. GRANT has been
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Third Vermont District.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that Mayor Cooper, of New York, had
no authority to remove General "Baldy"
Smith from the Office of Police Commissioner,
and ordered his (Smith's) restoration.
A FEW days ago at Pittsburgh, Pa, a
boy named Oskins saved man named Fin
nan from drowning. AS soon as the latter re-
covered from the effects of his watcry adj
venture he decided to the lad half interest
in two houses and lots at McKcesport.
The honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws has lately been conferred on President
Hayes by Yale College.
On the 1st the fifth boat race between
the Harvard and Yale crews was rowed at
New London, Conn.,, resulting in an easy VIC
tory for the latter by ten lengths.
DURING the six days ending on the
LIST, there were two hundred deaths from sun
stroke in New York. The heat was intense.
On the Esd ult. Congressman Dc La
Matyr was married to widow at Friendship,
N. Y. They were engaged in youth, but quar-
relied anu separated.
AT the Yale Harvard boat race on the
1st F. W. Lincoln, President of the Boston s.
Albany Railroad and Mrs. DR.. William Apple
ton, of Boston, who were viewing the contest
from railroad car, were accidentally thrown
from the platform and almost instantly
killed.
ROBERT BRECKENRIDGE, reporter
of the Philadelphia Chronicle Herald, was re-
Gently arrested at Gunnison, COL, for the
murder of two miners. Breckenridge de-
clarcs that he is inooccnt, and his friends in
West Philadelphia have Endorsed his charac-
ter and taken steps to relieve him in his ex-
tremity.