New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-25

This is the first issue OF this class OF securi-
ties.
BREADsTUFFs to the value of 1851,
All, 463 were exported from this country dur
ing the seven months ended August 1, 1880;
during the same period in 1870 the amount
was S1O9, 33l,153.
The East.
ON the 18th DR.. John Buchanan,
Dean of the Eclectic Medical College of
Philadelphia, jumped from ferry-boat ply
ing between that city and Camden and dis
appeared. 1t is thought he was drowned.
He was under heavy bail to answer charges
of issuing diplomas to would-be doctors in
all parts of the world, and was to have been
tried on the 18th.
On the 18th the Republicans of the
Eighteenth Pennsylvania District renomi-
mated H. Il. Fisher for Congress, and thA
Democrats of the Twenty seventh District
nominated Alfred Short.
THE Connecticut Democrats have
nominated James E. English for Governor,
C. NJ. Pond for Lieutenant Governor and 8.
s. Blake for Secretary of State.
In Massachusetts the Greenback-
Labor party have nominated Walter Raynor
for Congress from the Sixth and L. II. Whit
ncy from the Seventh Districts.
The New Jersey Republicans met
in State Convention on the 18th, and unan-
imously nominated Fred A. Potts for Gov
ernor. Tho platform Endorses the Chicago
nominations and resolutions.
The New York Greenback- Labor
State Convention was held at Syracuse on the
18th. Thomas C. Armstrong was nominated
for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The
Chicago Grocnback- Labor platform was re-
affirmed.
THE body of a ten-year-old child
named Mary Cassidy was found in brush
heap in the woods near Barnstable, Mass, on
the 18th. The head was nearly severed from
the body, and sticking in the child's side was
q large butcher-knife, showing how she came
to her death. There were indications that a
desperate struggle had taken place, but no
clue to the murderer was found.
The Maine Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated Joshua N. Osgood for Governor.
A FEW days ago Robert Donaldson,
q young Scotchman, jumped from High
u
feet, and then swan to a craft near by, being
uninjured by his fearful leap.
On the 10Th the Democrats of the
Third Vermont District nominated John w.
Currier for Congress.
In the recent trot at Springfield,
Mass, Maud s. made her fastest mile in 2:1a
and st. Julien hers in 2:15. The Spirit Of tn
Times says the owner had offered to match
St. Julien against any trotter or PAGER in the
world, mile heats, best three in five, for from
5000 to $4,000 . race:
West and South.
On the night of the 18th Herschel
V. johnson, who ran on the Democratic
ticket with Stephen A. Douglas in 1860, died
at his residence in Jefferson County,
Georgia. He was sixty seven years old.
AT Eureka, New, at ten o'clock on
the morning of the 18th fire destroyed a
number of valuable structures, among which
were Mann's brewery, the Leader printing
office, the Odd Fellows Building, tho Inter
national Hotel, and other buildings. The
loss was estimated at over 100000 Many
families were left homeless and destitute.
AT Winchester, Va, during circus
parade on the 18th keeper was bounced
upon by feroc!ous and treacherous hycnas.
He made a desperate DEFENSE but the wounds
inflicted by the beasts were pronounced fatal.
The other night man named Nc
Gowan was expelled from Kansas City (Mo)
saloon and went to sleep in an ice-house near
q butchers shop. While there he was SO
terribly eaten by rats that it was thought he
would die.
ON the night of the 18th an explosion
occurred in the Yager Mills at st. Louis, and
the entire building became enveloped in
flames. The fire spread rapidly, destroying
warehouses, tenements, freight cars, an old
skattng-rink and much other property.
MORE than quarter of a million peo-
pie witnessed the great parade of Knights
Templar in Chicago on the 18th. The column
was seven miles long, and was composed of
about hundred bands and about 10000
knights. The heat was great, and many of
the Knights were Frustrated. The city itself
was in holiday attire, and flags bearing en-
blems of the Order futtered from every
building along the line of march. There was
a frightful jam at the Exposition Building in
the evening, 1t being estimated that nearly
one hundred thousand persons were in at
tendance. Scores of ladies tainted, and there
were instances of persons being badly hurt
by being caught between the outgoing and
incoming throngs. There was some dane
ing, nut, because of the heat and the crowd,
this feature of the reception was not salts
factory.
Six Rrn1a SiOnY Indiana ,uhr, ha6
stolen seven horses and killed a white man
near the Rosebud Agency, have been recently
surrendered to the United States officer at
Fort Randall by Spotted Tail.
The Indian agent at Poplar River,
D. T., recently abandoned his post in conse-
quence Of the threatening attitude of the In
dams In that vicinity. He reported on the
18th that Sitting Bull was within twenty miles
Of the agency, and troops were dispatched to
that point from Bismarck.
A SEVERE wind-storm in the Red
River Valley, D. T., few nights ago, unroof-
ed several houses, killed one man and seri-
ously damaged the wheat crop Of the district.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 18th as follows: Republican
Eighth Iowa District, Colonel w. P. Hep
burn; Twelfth Ohio, John Grace. Democrat
ic-seventh Missouri, john r. Phillips IRE
nominated); Ninth Kentucky, Thomas Tur.
ner (renominated); Seventh Georgia, J. w.
Robertson; Sixth Texas, Columbus Epson
(renominated). Readjusters- Eighth Vir-
ginia, General j. H. Williams; Third
Virginia, Captain John s. Wise, son of the
late Governor Wise.