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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Annual School AIeeting.


Independent School District of New
Ulm was held at Turner Hall last Sat-
urday evening, Mr.. F. Burg, the Presi-
dent of the Board, acting as chairman
and Henry Keller, clerk. The attend
ance was rather small, there being on.
ly about fifty persons present. Mr..
Burg made short report in regard to
the condition of the schools, and he al.
50 stated that the Board had taken steps
to organize high school. in accord
ance with an act of the Legislature of
last winter for the encouragement Of
higher education, and that the branch.
es for the first year of the course, as
laid down by the State High School
Board, will be pursued by one division
of the First class during the present
school year. At the conclusion of Mr..
Burg's report the clerk read the fol-
lowing report Of the treasurer, and!the
same was adopted by the meeting:
TREAsURER's REPORT.
The following statement shows the
receipts and disbursements Of the indie.
pendent School District Of the City Of
New Ulm, Brown county, Mimi, for
the fiscal year ending Sept. LIST, 1881:
RECEIPTS.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07

Elsewhere in this issue we publish
the call for Republican county con.
yention to be held at Harmony Hall,
Sleepy Eye, Wednesday,, September
21st, at O'Clock p. M, for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidates for the
several county offices and also to chose
four delegates to represent the county
in the Republican State convention to
be held at St. Paul, September 29th.
The county committee has acted
wisely in assigning to one convention
the business of nominating candidates
for the county Offices and the choosing
delegates to the State convention. The
whole business can just as we'll be
done at one convention as at two, es.
pecially as there are but two impor.
tant county Offices to be filled this fall
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way Company will sell round.trip ex-
cursion tickets for the Interstate In.
dustr1al Exposition, Chicago, from all
stations on its lines, at the regular ex.
cursion rates. The days of sale are as
follows: kSeptember 5. and :, tickets
good until September Is, inclusive;
September II, l3 and IA, good until
September 10; September 20 and 2l,
good until September q; September q
and %, good until October 4; October
and 5, good until October 10; October
II and IL, good until October 10; Octo-
Der Is and 10, good until Oct.225. Owing
toithe low rates at which these tickets
| are sold, there will not be any ex.
tension in time granted theron for any
cause. The fare from New Ulm to
Chicago and return, including admis
sion ticket to the exposition, is $18.l5.
|
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

room for them i; in the wide avenues by the synagogues and at the corner of the streets along the river-banks and in the cemeteries-oh, certainly in the cemeteries remember that trees grow; and if the old West Springfield elm had seven sisters of the same age standing within 50 feet of it, none of them could ever have been anything but deformed apologies dwarfed, narrow, one-sided old spinsters. For the sake of the trees themselves, if not for hu- manity's sake, give them room to grow. :"
 John appeared to understand this. It had familiar sound. He had heard that trees would not grow as large or comedy if set too near together, but it never occurred to him, wise fellow as he is, that it is possible to cut down 8 tree once planted. Evidently had given him all he could carry at once, and he observed mournfully that my advice seemed very destructive. You want I should begin by undoing the work of my venerated ancestors"
 "No, don't. I wish you to carry on the work of your venerated ances- tors, not by living in the shade of trees that were mere bean-poles when they planted them, and which ought to have been cut down years ago, by using your common sense, by seeking gand following the best light of the present time, which in this connection is sunlight"
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
The Demand for Cows.

That there is scarcity of cows in this country IS plain, says Food and
 Health. Prices have been going higher for some time and the demand is sharp. There is no immediate prospect that lower prices will rule very soon. The increasing consumption of dairy pro- ducts at home and abroad is one thing that keeps prices high. Besides there is a stronger demand in towns and cities for good milch COWS than there has been known heretofore. A large number of persons, whose means admit of kez ping COW for their own use, pre- fer doing so than to pay for milk large ly diluted with water. An exchange published west of us, says that butchers have nearly as much trouble to get stock as the dealers, and have to pay steadily stifening prices. The ship ments to Europe and the immensely in- creased demand for meat in our country will shortly divert the attention of farm CTS in the Mississippi Valley more ex- clusively to the production of beef and mutton and less to wheat. Our dairy men will have to manage their COWS better, and get more milk from a smaller number; until they can raise some of their own, thing they will be obliged to do for economic reasons. Farmers will have to study mp and ap- ply the methods of business mon in their business. #
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
Testing His Affections.

A mean trick was played on an Austin colored man, MT. James Grow, not long since. He had been paying attention to one of Uncle Nace's daugh- ters, it being generally understood that she was to get, on her marriage, 8 house and lot, which Uncle Mace has reserved. Uncle Mace is 8 shy old coon, and determined to test the genu- ineness of his future son-in-law's affec- tions, so the other night as they were smoking their pipes, he said:
 "Mr. Crow, I has been cogitatin' ober matters and things, and has come to de 'clusion not to donate Matildy dat ar house an lot on Austin avenue, for de reason-"
 MT. Grow sprang to his feet in fine rage. He pulled down his vest, and singing his stove-pipe hat on the side of his head, said
 ''In dat case, sah, our future rela- tions done ceases to exist, from dis mo- ment, sah."
 "But, femme talk, MT. Crow. was going ter say"
 "Oh, go hire hall, and invite yer friends ter attend" exclaimed Grow, in solently.
 "All right, Mister Grow. Our future relations has done cease ter exist; but I only wanted ter let yer know dat de reason objects ter Matildy habln' dat house on her weddin' day is because it am too small, so am gwine ter gib her dat two-story cottage on Pecan street, which am wuff twice as much."
 Jim tried to explain his position, on the University question, so to speak, but Uncle Mace solemnly lifted up a boot and pointed to the gate, so James took the hint, and refused to finger. - Teras Siftings.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
A Railway in the Tree Tops.

It may not be known outside of the neighborhood where it is situated, but it is nevertheless 8 fact, that in Sonoma County, Cal., we have an original and successful piece of railroad engineering and building that is not to be found m the books. In the upper part of this county, near the coast, may be seen an actual road-bed in the tree tops. Be- tween the Clipper mills and Stuart's Point, where the road crosses a deep ravine, the trees are sawed off on level and the timber and ties lad on the stumps. In the center of the ravine mentioned, two huge redwood trees, standing side by side, form substan- tial support, and they are cut off seven ty-five feet above the ground, and cars loaded with heavy saw logs pass over them with as much security as If it were framed in the most scientific man. ner. "All roads lead to Rome" except this one. The builders never contem- plated terminus at San Francisco, Petaluma or Chicago, but merely to convey heavy timber from the woods to their mill. There are many places in our redwood forests where this example might be followed proitably, as it would be cheaper to grade through with cross-cut saw and lay the ties on the stumps than to remove the trees. We can boast of a broad gauge, 8 narrow gauge and road in the tree tops-yet we are not all happy. .-Petalunao (Cal. Aa.naLc
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
The Cause of Earthquakes.

Dr. K. von Fritsch, of Halle, discusses the subject of earthquakes in the last issue of the Verhandl,tnge'a of the Ber- lin Geographical Society. He maintains that the cause of earthquakes must be sought for at a rather small depth, the greatest depth ascertained not exceeding ten or fourteen miles, and usually far less, while rather feeble forces produce earthquakes which are felt at great dis tances. It is known that Krupp's ham, mer, which weighs 1000 centners, and falls from helght of three metres, pro duces sensible concussions on surface of eight kilometres diameter while the recent explosion of the Leimbach dyna- mite manufactory was felt at Halle and Merseburg, forty-one and forty-five kilo- metres distant. While showing how easily concussions are produced by causes comparatively feeble, Dr. Fritsch points out how earthquakes might be and must be produced by the increase and decrease of volume of rocks under the influence of physical and chemical forces and by concussions, by the open ing of crevices in rocks, and by the sub- sidence of masses of rocks due to these agencies. Many schists are subjected, as is known, to extension, and when crevices arise the schists must enter into oscillations which must produce very varied phenomena, according to the d. rection and the force of the oscillations, much like to what is seen in the oscilla- tions of tuning plates.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
Evils of the Spells System.
SOFIA LEGISLATURE FOR AMENDING THE
 FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.

A resolution introduced in the Senate of Minnesota by Gen. John B. Sanborn recites that it is provided by the Con- stitution of the United States that on the application of the Legislatures of two.thirds of the several States, the Congress shall call a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitu- tion for the ratification of the several States, and that the appointing power of the Chief Executive having for the last fifty years, to greater or less ex- tent, been used to promote private, personal and political ends, in d1sre- gard and to the detriment of the public interest and welfare, whereby the elec- tions by the people for the high execu- tive officer of the United States have been degraded from an honorable, in- telligent contest to an ignominious and disgraceful struggle for the control of the appointing power. that this existing and growing evil has already reached such proportions as seriously to threaten the prosperity of our institu- tions and the life of the Republic, hay ing but recently prostrated one of its Presidents in death with single stroke, and now seems about to place another where one shot from the thoughtless and depraved criminal may thwart the will of the whole people and change for the time being the whole policy of the Gov ernment, thereby causing feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty among all classes and, therefore, the resolution declares, first, that the Legislature of Minnesota does hereby make applica- ton to the Congress of the United States, under the provisions of Article V. of the Constitution thereof, to call a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and especially to section 2 of Article IT. of said Constitution, whereby the term and terms of every officer provided for therein, or by laws passed by Congress in pursuance thereof, shall be limited and fixed by the Constitution, and that the officers appointed to fill these posi- tions be no longer subjected to annoy ance or removal at the whims and caprice of men welding the appointing power for personal or political ends, but each be vested with a constitutions right to hold any office to which ap pointed, during good behavior or for { time prescribed by the Constitution
 second, that the Governor of this State be, and hereby is, directed to forward { copy of these resolutions to the Score tary of State of the United States, ant to the Governor of each of the States with 8 request that it shall be laid be fore the Legislature to the end that two thirds of the States may in due tim' make like application, and the said ap plication be laid before Congress for it. action under the provisions of the Con
 stitution.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
Lord Lorne's Costly Magazine.

"Wouldy you like to buy that Har- per's Magosine ?" asked the soft-voiced and timid peanutter on the east-bound Union Pacific train the other day to a middle.aged passenger who was looking over the October Harper and reading Judge Goodwin's article on the Mormon situation.
 "No," said the middle-aged party. !" It's my own magazine and therefore I do not care to buy it.
 "Excuse me-" said the poor little frightened peanutter, while the tears came into his eyes. "l fear you want to cheat poor orphan boy out of his books. Please pay me, sir, or let me have the magazine back again. An, sir, you would not rob me of my goods. ?
 "No," said the stern stranger, "I do not wish to rob you of your book, my boy, but I bought this on the Utah Northern road and paid for it. When I went into the eating house for break fast the train butcher took it out of my seat and sold it to me again in the after noon.
 "I was in the middle of an article when we got to the dinner station, so I turned down the leaf and left it again in my seat. had to buy it once more. Now the magazine has cost me $2, and you want me to give it to you so that you can sell it through Nebraska, no doubt. No, my poor little orphan lad, you may go and soak your head for an hour or two and bathe your tear-be- dimmed eyes, but I cannot give up my g. magazine. -....-
 "Peddle out your bead moccasins, made by the hostile Indians of Chicago. Sell out you little stock of niseating apples at $27 per barrel, with two prize worms in each and every apple, but do not disturb me while I read my expen- sive periodicals.
 "I will not bother you while you sell your fancy mixed candies that have been running back and forth over the road since '69. will not interfere with you while you sell your Indian curiosi- ties made in Connecticut. Go ahead and make all the money you can, but give me chance to peruse this article without the regular assessment"
 The hurt and grieved orphan boy went to the sleeping-car conductor and asked who that sarcastic old cuss over yonder might be, and the conductor said it was the Marquis of Lorne.
 And it was, too.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
How Shoe Pegs are Made.

A newspaper correspondent who has been visiting a shoe peg factory in Ar ington, Vt., says the timber used in making the pegs is black and yellow birch, which is cut into pieces four feet in length, varying in diameter from eight to fourteen inches. These logs are placed in building in winter and the frost extracted by steam. They are then run in on tram rsilway to the cir cular saw department, and cut into slices or blanks of the thickness desired for the length of the pegs. These are sorted and the knots cut out, and are then passed on to a. long bench which contains SIX machines composed of fiut- ed rollers. The blanks are then run be- tween these rollers, which creases both sides. They are then run through again to cross crease, or mark out the exact sizes of the pegs. They then go to the splitting machines, which are set with double knives, and cut the blanks into pegs. As they pass the last machine they are sorted, and all knots and dis colored ones removed as they are brushed off into large baskets. These machines are under the care of young women. The next process is bleaching, which is accomplished by the fumes of birthstone, which is unhealthy (those who labor here shorten their lives). They are then placed in large cylinders, which hold eleven barrels, and have six hundred steam pipes running through them, and revolve one and one half times to the minute, drying two charges per day to each cylinder. They are then passed in large wooden casks, or cylinders, which, revolving rapidly, polish them by the friction, the refuse falling through wire sieves on screen openings, after which they are again passed into sitter, which separates all the single pegs and drops them into tubs or boxes, leaving those which have not been separated in the machine. They are then put in barrels ready for market. The factory running on full time turns out one hundred and fifty bushels, or fifty barrels per day. The sizes go from eight up to sixteen to an inch. The lengths go by eighths, two and one half to twelve. Twenty six hands are employed, half of them being women. The products of this mill are mostly shipped to Germany and France, and enter largely into the man. ufacture of toys and fancy goods as we'll as into the shoe manufactory.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
A New Use.

There is 8 good deal of difficulty found in familiarizing the Indian labor CTS employed on Mexican railways with the use of the wheelbarrow. The same trouble was experienced by the first railway contractors in Hindostan. The laborers there had been in the habit of carrying off the clay from the excava- tions in baskets on their heads. This method proved picturesque. but slow. Finally, large supply of wheelbarrows was obtained. The contractors emo- tions may be imagined when, on the first morning of their use. he beheld his laborers filing off in long line, each with his wheelbarrow poised upon his head.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

FRIGHTENED. A sad story comes from Robeson County, NO. James Phillips, twelve-year-old boy, and his mother were the only occupants of their house, [ and as the boy was known to be ''scary," some mischievous acquaintances of his went to the house late last Saturday night, and made pretenses at trying to open the doors, etc. The poor little fellow, who had been in perfect health the day before, was so badly frightened that he went into convulsions and died
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
VOL. XI.
OF. COURSE THEY MET.

heard two robins singing in the wood
 One April day, And what they said my heart well understood,
 That April day; "Oh, love is sweet through the busy daytime ; Oh, love is true in winter and in Maytime P But then, you know, the hour was Folly's play time And I, to keep in tune the merry birds
 That April day, Sang with them, thoughtlessly, some foolish Twas April day: P " My love is fair, could not help but choose him; .. .a.s My love is good, could not bear to lose him; My love is wise; oh, how could refuse him
 This April day? e Yet should he hear ma sing, let him beware
 This April day; '7 And if l say T love him, have no care ". This April day. The token that he sends-oh, yes, kiss it And if he sends it not, sorely miss it; But promise, song or kiss, now pray, what is it
 This April day? Singing and laughing, through the woods
 That April day. Until clear, strong voice sang back again: "Oh, April day This girl of smile and tears, thls little rover, With pleasant testing does her heart discover Thy mirth is wisdom, I, her happy lover, ".
 Thou, April-May." He clasped my hand and through the woods we went
 That April day, Singing like robins in our glad content
 That April day. Oh, golden sunshine, and oh, silver raining! Oh, earnest testing, and oh, sweet complaining Two happy hearts stood watching dayiight's waning
 That April day.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19
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 RHEUMATISM.
 Sciatica, LumbagO, Scalds, Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swell ings, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt Rheunl. Itch, Sprains, Calls, and Lanreness from any cause. 'Suf. ferers froml s
 ..,, PAIN IN THE BACK. Fever Sores, EruptiOns, Broken Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu- ralgia, Palsy or dislOcated 1imbs3 and owners of horses, planters, me- chanics, merchants and professional men everywhere, unite in saying, that
 CENTAUR LINIMENT brings relief when all other Lini- ments,. Oils, Extracts and ~Embroca. tons shave failed. ~F@.s t5ss '
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

IN MOURNING. The Queens ''oom- mand" in the London Court Journal that the Court should go into mourning for the President of the United States is stated by the London papers to have been absolutely without precedent. Commands for court mourning had heretofore been confined to deaths in the Royal family or in European courts in alliance herewith.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

KILLED H1M.-A man was paralyzed by stroke of lightning at Highwater, Minn." Some of his friends reasoned that if earth would receive electricity from the buried end of lightning rod 1t would in the same manner draw out the charge with which they supposed him to be filled. Therefore they dug a hole and covered him up to the chin. He died in that position.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

Have Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry always at hand. It cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Group, Influenza, Consumption, and all Throat and Lung Complaints. 30 cents and $a a bottle,
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

The Peruvian Syrup has cured thou. sands who were suffering from Dyspep- do, Debility, Liver Complaint, Bolls, Kunors, Female Complaints, etc. Pamphlets free to any address. Sstb W, Fowle < Sons, Boston.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-23
Another Currency Schemc.

Some Of the Northern papers have cs.
poused new project for provididg ma
tional paper currency, which they are
advocating with energy. The following
is an outline of the plan:
|. 1t would abolish the existing
grcenhack and bank-note circulatons,
issuing pari passu an equal amount of
Treasury Notes, not legal tender.
2. OF the 800, 000, OU0 of notes TO he
thus issued, it would have $500, 900, 600
backed by reserve Of 4 per cent. Gov
eminent bonds, and $500, coo. OO0 of
coin reserve.
3. The bonds so held in reserve by
the Government should be available for
sale in the event of demand for the
redemption Of the notes, and should
bear interest when so issued, but when
they are held by the Government.
4. The Government should be free to
its ISSUES Of notes beyond thi. |
INIT, provided an equal sum in gold |
DIN or bullion were deposited against
uch issues.
8. Paper currency in any other form
o be prohibited.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-23
MCCLURE'S
Temple Of Music,
60 Union Street,
Nashville, : Tennessee.

The proprietor Of hi-, the oldest MJ'sI(
liOt 81. in the South, respectfully ANNOUNCES
10 MS friends and the general public that.
having on hand the accumulation of SHEET
MUSIC Tor thirty years, embracing everything
from Virginia reel or comic song to the
works OF the old and great masters, proposcs
10 GIVE an equal amount of this stock to ey.
cry one ordering or selecting one dollar and
upwards worth from his general stock which
includes al the latest publications. This offer
is made with view to distributing this i'm.
mcnse stock among his patrons FREE of
charge to Them
iIANOS, as usual, from the best makers in
Guiding the renowned KNABE, the reliable
DuNIlAM, and the famous FISCHER and
WHEELOCK. '' '"1
oRGANS in great variety of styles, from
the "Matchless" Bur,lett and other noted
All of which will be cold far
below usual prices for CASH or negotiable
paper
a Wholesale Department has been added
Tor the sale Of Strings, Harps, Violins, Accor-
Icons, etc, to which the merchants attention
+ especially invited. Will duplicate New
ork prices, with freight only added. Call or
'end Tor catalogues and prices. Don't forget
he Sheet Music proposition.
JAS. A. MCCLURE. |