New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-01
EPIT0ME OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From WASHINGTON.

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Nor long ago William A. Bucking-
ham, a Milford (Conn.) boy, picked up .
mail bag which had fallen from a train near
that place, and laboriously carried it to the
depot. Postmastcr-Gcneral Key wrote On
autograph letter of commentator to tho boy,
and directed his Third Assistant to forward
to him set of copy of Government stamps
worth $20505 as a memento Of regard
On the 25th Judge Key retired from
the office Of PostmasterGcnerala and Horace
Maynard, late Minister to Turkey, was in
stalled in his place. Before leaving, the Post
office employees presented Judge Key with an
appropriate address. Later the President
signed the retiring PostmasterGcncr s
commission as Judge of the Eastern District
of Tennessee, and General Longstreet's COM
mission as Minister to Turkey. q
PRESIDENT HAYES left Washington
on the Goth for California. Hc would be
joined on the route by Secretary Ramsey,
Generals Sherman and McCook and others.
speeches during his absence from Washing
ton.
The East.
The Democrats of the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania District have rcnominatcd John
w. Ryon for Congress-.
The Poor Directors of Berks County,
Pa, are said to have recently made horrible
discovery. The evidence before them showed
that Benjamin Zcchler, German by birth,
and about fifty-dve years Of age, had been
confined in rude log-hut for twcnty-seven
years. In all that time the unfortunate man
was neither washed, shaved nor clothed.
His brother gave him some food at
times, but his fuel was restricted to
a fire kindled in early winter, and
from which the smoke and gas escaped
through chinks in the hut. A chain was
attached to his leg, which prccluded all
possibility of escape, but it was long enough
to allow him to reach either wall, which in
his frenzy he often beat with his hands, feet
and head. The condition of the poor Great
urc when discovered was loathsome. A charge
Of inhuman treatment would bc preferred
against the brother.
THE Massachusetts Grecnbackcrs will
hold their State Convention at Worcester on
the ed of September.
cODuL SHANLEo ~ EOAOEN ustS
been nominated by the Republican State
Committee of New York as candidate for
Judge Of Appeals.
GENERAL ALBERT j. MEYER, Briga-
der General Of the United States Army, and
Chief Signal Officer of the Weather Bureau,
died at Buffalo on tho Oath, after several days
illness.
THE steamers which arrived at New
York on the 25th from Europe brought gol
to the value of 81, 100000.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
25th that Loeb & Co., exporters and import
ers of clocks, hardware and silvcr-platcd
goods at New York; had failed, with liabili-
ties of 100000.
ON the 25th Judge Jerc S. Black ar-
rived at New York from Liverpool
j. d. PHELPS was renominated for
Congress by the Democrats Of the Second
New Jersey District on the 25th.
GENERAL THOMAS D. 1OXIE has been
nominated for Governor by the New Jersey
Greenbackcrs.
A VERY great mortality has prevailed
among children in New York City during the
receQt warm weather there. 1t is said cholc-
RI infantum and other infant diseases have
visited nearly every tenement house and car
ried off some victim.
AN engine-boiler on the King farm,
near Bradford, Pa, blew up few days ago,
and Wilbur Chambers, cousin of Wesley
Chambers the oil-king Of that locality, was
fatally injured. The force of the explosion
sent him 400 feet through the air.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Pennsylvania District have nominated r. NJ.
Speer, and the Republicans of the Twenty.
ninth New York District have nominated
David p Richardson. for Congress-.