New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-07
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A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch OF Tho
I'd reports that the country between the
Vo1ga and Don was famine stricken. Many
persons had already persisted.
On the I'd Mr.. Jas. MacLean, the
person who claimed to have produced dia-
monds from carbon, wrote to the London
Times reiterating his claim, and asking sus-
pension of judgment upon the recent state
ment of Mr.. Maskelyne that they were only
silicious compounds.
A MADRID. dispatch of the I'd says
that several of the West Indian members of
the Cortes had become so much Disguised
with the temporizing policy of the Govern
ment on the bill for the abolition of slavery
in Cuba that they would return home in the
spring, leaving the measure to take its
chances.
Two YOUNG Americans, travelling by
stage coach in Mexicol the other day, encoun-
tered band of thirty robbers, and in a des-
perate engagement gave them such adrubbing
as the survivors will never forget. After five
of the highwaymcn had been killed and many
wounded, those able to beat retreat did so
in very precipitate manner. One of the
Yankee lads received painful injuries.
The following is statement of the
coinage executed at the United States MINIS
during December, 1879: Gold, 590,869 pieces
value S6,4S7,Oo0; silver, 1884, 200 pieces
value 81, 35S,O32; minor coinage, 3, 03, $50
pieccs-value s3l,433. Total coinage, $685.
$40 peces-value SO, SIC, 466.
The receipts from internal revenue
for the six months ending December 81, 1879,
the first six months of the current fiscal year,
were $6l, 5OO, 62l, and from customs S57,7l3,-
$50.
The Supreme Court for the District
of Columbia has ordered reargument Of
the lottery case before q full bench at the
next general term.
The public-debt statement for Deem
Der makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Gncluding interest), $2,219, 782, 4oS.
Cash in Treasury, $2O7,9S3,9O3 Debt less
amount in Treasury, s2,011, 79s, sos. Decrease
during the month, 81 PSI ,2l7 Decrease since
June 80, 1879, III ,40S, Isl.
DURING December the Treasury De-
partment paid S1.727,52O on account of ar
rears of pensions.
Miss HORTON was arraigned in the
Washington Police Court on the I'd for the
shooting of Senator Morgan's son, and, the
young man not being able to appear, the case
/ was continued, and Miss Horton was released
on 1000 bail, furnished by Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, the lawyer.
The new Interest law went into effect
in New York on the I'd, and the legal rate Of
interest in that State is now six per cent.
The New York Tribune of the I'd
states that among the forty-fve electric
lamps on exhibition at Menlo Park, several
were already burning little dull.
THE Maine Supreme Court met on
! the I'd to consider the points submitted by
Governor Garcelon. Ex-senator Morrill, is
said to regard the questions raised as eva
| sive, but believed the Supreme Court would
| decide the real issue when its opinion was
| rendered Bangor telegram Of the I'd says
| the Fusion candidate for the Legislature at
| Skowhegan, who was "counted in" by the
| returning officers, had refused to accept the
office.
A LIVELY disturbance was created
on the New York Produce Exchange on the
| I'd, when statistics of articles dealt in were
posted in ceutals. The provision men tore
down the tables of receipts, and the grain
men refused to do business.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL, the
Irish agitator, landed in New York Oh the I'd
| He was visited at quarantine and appropri
| atcly welcomed by the local committees and
| BY delegations from other cities. In answer
| to the various addresses presented to him Mr.
Parneil spoke briefly, and explained the object
| of his coming, which was to secure contribu
tions Of money to ai,l the distressed people OF
| Ireland. He announced that he should visit
| Philadelp!.a on The 10th and Ihira 20 on tho
| 20th