New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4ner0 are sixteen women IN the Al
kansas Penitentiary, most of whom are
negroes, and all but three of then were
convicted of murder.
Mr.. George Kent, brother of the late
ex-Gov. Kent, OF Maine, now 85'years
of age, is still holding a position in
the Treasury Department at Washing.
ton.
The Canadian newspapers, the St.
Catherine Neavs, Quebec Mercivy, and
St. Johns Globe, have come out in ia
vor of annexation or independence. I"
The net cost of 1000 cubic feet of gal
OF sixteen candle power, the price Of
coal being $3.50 per 1000 pounds, is
not over 81 cents, according to the beat
,obtainable statistics.
Mrs. Davidson, who was teacher 1t
Hiram College when Gen. Garfield was
tutor there, is now pauper at Cincin-
nati-a happy and cheerful old lady.
and great admirer of the President.
Pere Hyacinche sails for the United
States in September, having been in
vited by members of different churches
to give series of conferences in tho
larger cities of America Nine. Loy-
son accompanies him.
Gath makes the statement that rs, 600
women in New York City support them
selves in various light artisan pursuits.
They take the lead in many of the pro-
LESSONS and tho problem about what
women should do for living is solved
in a practical manner.
Abraham Lincoln's mother is buried
at Lincoln City, Indiana, where the
grave was visited by large party of
citizens from Evansville. Several
speeches were made beside the grave,
many of Mr.. Lincoln's old friends and
neighbors giving personal reminiscent:
ces OF the good man whom they called
ABE"
The Right Hon. w. P. Adam. Cover
nor of Madras whose death was recent
ly announced, another victim to the
climate, has been but recently appoint
ed. He has received and deserves,
doubtless, the credit of having organ
lied tho great triumph of the Liberal
party, of which he was for many years
whip in the House of Commons, at the
last general election. He has served
as Lord of the Treasury and First
Commissioner of Works, and was in
Parliament from 1859 to 1880.
The widow of an Ambassador at Ber-
lin took an immense fancy to the good
looks and attractive manners Of q
young medical man, and, there being
nothing the matter with her demanded
his constant attendance, besides intro
ducing him to many of her friends. On
visiting her lately, however, he was
stopped in the hall, and presently her
ladyship's own maid came to say that,
unfortunately, my lady could not see
him. ''Going out2" mo, doctor;
she's really unwell, and has had to send
for physician
resentative in Congress from Kansas, is
now on inmate Of an insane asylum
near Washington, and his malady is
pronounced incurable. It is singular
fact that Marcus j. Parrot, who was
Mr.. Conway's principle associate in
leading the FREQ soil party in Kansas,
died some time ago in lunatic asylum.
Old John Hanks, who still lives near
Decatur, ILL.,, mauled rails with Abra.
ham Lincoln, and cherished the great
est reverence for his dead friends men,
DRY. He recently showed the following
quaint and characteristic note to re-
porter. 1t was sent aboue q week be-
fore Mr.. Lincoln's marriage:
dear HANKS: i, am to be married next
you will be on deck ut carly candle light
A. LINCOLN"
The Hartford C0uyant relates that in
a certain ministers family the CONVEX.
sation turned upon the character of the
baby. Why was the baby 80 naughty ?
The brother who had reached the age
of IL, and was studying the steam-en-
CINE in intervals Of q catechism, gave
vent to his orthodoxy in the following
suggestive inquiry: Papa, as we al
inherit the sin of Adam, and the baby
is such little fellow, is there not :
greater pressure of sin to the square
inch of the baby than the rest Of usp
= The Office of Constable Of the Tower,
which has just been filed by the ap.
pointment of Sir Fenwick Williams,
dates from the Norman conquest, the
first Constable, Godfrey de Mandeville.
having been appointed by William
the Conqueror. Many earls and one
duke have been Constables Of the Tow.
er. The six last were tho Marquis Of
Hastings, the Duke Of Wellington, Wis
count Combermere, Sir John Burgoyne,
Sir George Pollock, and Sir William
Comm. The post 10 an honorary ono
as far 40 pay Is concerned, but It car.
ries with It the duty OF Lieutenant Of