New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-06-29

near Kilkenny, who was sold out recent.
ly by the sheriff as a defaulting tenant,
was sold to the ncighboring tenant for
e4O0. The poor law valuation is EGG;
the rent up to 1875 was E25, and it was
then raised to f37, and lease for thir-
ty-one years given.
:: :: Jack Croker went sailing on tho
lakes, leaving his wife at Detroit, and
she was soon told that he had Been
drowned. Frank Bradford gave her
money to live on, searched in vain for
her missing husband, and at length
married her. The ceremony had not
long been over when there came a loud
rap at the door. ''Are you Frank Brad
ford?" asked the man who had raped.
eyes, sir.''s Well, your wife is my
wife, and you'd better just up and git. .
Mrs. Grocker went obediently with her
first..husband.
Says the New Orleans Times: 1--WE
may as well make up our minds to it.
New Orleans, unless content to see her.
self outstripped by cities of yesterday,
must become a Yankee city, just as
New York, Blooklyn,s Philadelphia and
Chicago are Yankee, cities The Yam
-kee citfes are the rich and prosperous
cities. Til have found out how to
grow and how to win. There can be no
great city. on the continent of North
America hereafter that is not a Yankee
CITY, Thatsis very certain. The Yam
kee cities somehow have the capital,
the enterprise, the organizing power,
the skill that gets on.'
tsTEo- ron, n. lIoI ,10 ~ Ho>~o.o
Wheeler, of San Francisco, who strang-
led his sister-in-law to death as she sat
in his lap, was coolly and graphically
described by its perpetrator. He exhib-
tied no trace of lunacy, and voluntarily
explained his reason for the deed, which
was that he could neither marry the girl
himself nor bear to see her the wife of
another. Having been convicted of
murder in the first degree, he now talks
IN this strain: 'tDo you suppose that I
would have taken that poor girls life II
II had been in my right senses? Can you
imagine q sane man taking the life of
that poor, innocent, beautiful girl? I
tell you that was no more conscious
of what | was doing than the chair we
were sitting on.
A sturdy looking boy applied for work
last November at Wittenberg's farm
near Forestville, Michigan, offering to
give his services in return for his keep.
The offer was accepted, and for some
time the youth labored well and faithful
ly chopping wood, and doing all the hard
est kinds of work like man. Then he
accepted an offer of board and Sc q
month at another farmers, and for
time worked equally we'll there; but one
morning he was missing, and no explain
alton for his disappearance could be
imagined until, the other day, an old
woman came along that way to look for
her runaway daughter. Then it was dis
covered that the supposed BOY was .
young woman. She had worked, loafed.
anil drunk among the male population
of Forestville and its neighbors, but no.
body had suspected her true sex.
Mr.. Henry Bergh is wanted at Cape
Colony to stop the farming ostriches for
their plucking. It is only twelve years
since the business was started in Cape
Colony. and the industry is most profit
able. Last year ostrich feathers to the
value of $4,000, 900 were exported from
on0 St'po' ~ Suaiauteeu SOOu p1lr Oh
birds, aged about four years, can be
purchased for 81 1000, and these bring
in the first year 500 for feathers. II
the breeder has ordinary luck they
ought to hatch twenty chicks, which,
when six months old, are worth from
$40 to $50 each. Thus, in the first year,
the farmer is often repaid for the whole
of his outlay. The first plucking takes
place when the birds are about twelve
months old, the feathers being then
worth about $3.50. The next plucking
realizes about $3.50, and so on. increas-
ing in value as the bird ages. Ostriches
require very little room, the breeding
birds being kept in small paddocks Of
about four or five acres in extent, and
they feed upon Indian corn, or almost
any kind of grain.