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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
The Fatal State Department.

The State Department, which, at
the beginning of our Government,
was looked upon as the stepping
stone to the Presidency, became later
on singularly fatal to the ambitions
of almost every man who took charge
of it, and it's possession in many cases
has been the forerunner Of disaster,
disease and death. Upshur, one of
Tyler's Secretaries of State, was
blown up on the Princeton while
he was in Office, and Hugh
S. Legare, the Secretary of State
who preceded Upshur, died at
Boston at the celebration of the Bun
ker Hill Monument, which he was
attending with the President in his
capacity as Secretary Daniel Web.
sier, while acting as Fillmore's Sec
retarY of State, was, in 1852, thrown
from his carriage and there received
the injuries which caused his death
the following October. Secretary
William H. Seward never recovered
fully from the blow of the assassin
Payne, which he received on the
night Lincoln was killed, and his po-
litical future was injured by his con-
nection with johnson in the State
Department in the following Admins
tration. James G. Blaine narrowly es-
capped receiving Guiteau's bullet when
he walked down to the depot arm
in-arm with President Garfield to see
HIM off to Long Branch, and the dis
satisfaction with Blaine's aggressive
policy as Secretary of State probably
lost him enough votes during the last
election to put Cleveland into the
White House. Had Henry Clay not
accepted the State portfolio from John
Quincy Adams the ..bargain' and
corruption" cry would never have
been raised and Clay would
probably not have died disappointed
in his ambition to be President. John
C. Calhoun's future was largely af.
fected by the fights he had while he
was Secretary of State, by which he
became estranged from jackson and
his party, and Marcy and Cass
dropped out of the State Department
IN existing nonentityness. Cleveland
Leader.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

June 30 was the amniversaryeo the
accession of Queen Victoria to the
throne OF England She has reigned
48 years-a period THAT has been ex-
ceeded only by three of England's
kings, viz, Henry Ill, who reigned Sc
years; Edward Ill, who reigned 80
years land George Ill, whose reign
lasteddor nearly 60years. The queen
is also the oldest reigning European
monarch with three exoeptions-The
Emperor of Germany, who is ss years
OF age; the King OF the Netherlands,
'68 years, and the King OF Denmark,
s67 years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

Statistics show that before the in.
PRODUCTION of vaccinations deaths from
smallpox annually numbered nearly
5000 for every million inhabitants.
Since the practice has become general
the percentage of deaths has fallen to
about one-tenth of the formernumb
In the vast armies of,Germany, small
pox is almost unknown. owing to the
rigid enforcement of the rules for wac.
cination.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
Reported Damage to Corn.

The advance sheets Of report upon the
corn crop OF Illinois, soon to be issued by
the department OF agriculture, shows that
the area planted in corn is much larger
than last year, especially in wheat sections.
Insects have damaged the growing corn ser
iously in many portions OF the state, and
the cold, dry season has been unfavorable
for planting and growth.
Aspecial from Parsons, Kans., says: There
is now making its appearance in this vicin-
ity scourge equal to the grasshopper.
Large fields OF corn standing on an average
OF eight inches high, looking fresh and green
in the morning, before night became wither-
ed and dead. Examination discloses on
each hill myriads of worms, ranging from
an inch and 81 quarter down to one-eighth
OF an inch in length.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

telegram from Rear Admiral Jouett at
Colon: Ny attempt at mediation, support
ed by Commissioners Justo,. Aresemina and
Daniel Hernandez, resulted in treaty of
peace, which was signed by thecommission-
ers of both parties. This was not approx
ed by revolutionary orders. Matters re-
main as previously reported. Government
forces are now marching on Barranqu1lla.
The health OF those on board the Tennes-
see and Yantic is good.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

"Friends," or quakers, from whom
Penn sprung, are decreasing both in En-
gland and the United States. The
report made at their May meetings in
London shows that the total number
of the society in Great Britain NOW is
only 1881, and this is probably
twice as many as there are in the United
States.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

Springfield, Mass, will be $50 years
old on the 25th ofMay 1886, and prep
arations are already being madefor a
grand celebration. Two hundred and
fifty years, in the life, Of a city, seems a
long time and it lis, when, compared
with the young life Of western towns.
We know what has been done, but the
widest flight of imagination cannot
reach the results that may be attained
IN centuries Of pnogress.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

Last year the wheat crop Of Ken.
lucky was estimated at 13,5OO,OOO
bushels. This year, the Kentucky
commissioner writes: ':The wheat crop
is in a deplorable condition. The
state will scarcely produce 100000
bushels, and may fall below that. The
fact is, our wheat crop does not de-
serve to be digni6ed by being called a
CROP"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

Brazil has decided upon "a pro
gramme for the abolition OF slavery.
Slave owners to be Unidentified by 5
per cent. policies to the amount of one.
half the value of each slave, and SER
vice of five years in paymentof the re-
mainder. The present emancipation
fund will be continued, and atnewtone
raised by a tax of 5 per cent. @on all
public revenues.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
Edison, the great electrician, has an
income of 100000 per annum from
his inventions, and spends the largest
portion in experiments.

There is no doubt that the pesti-
lence in Spain is the Asiatic cholera.
The monster travels fast and there is
renewed alarm in our Atlantic ports
and pressing calls for quarantine and
sanitary work.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

The summer resorts are not throng-
ed at the present time, and the pros
pect is not the best. Cold weather has
had a great deal to do with this con-
dition so far in the season, and there
is an indisposition to spend money
away from home.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

The clerk who is putting his whole heart
into the service OF an ungratefu employees
never knows what eyesfare upon him, nor who
is taking note OF his capacity ana faithfuluess
The Christian UNION.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
Record of Casualties.

Additional details continue to come in
regarding the recent Iowa cyclone, piling up
the aggregate OF losses to an unexpectedly
large total. A LIE Mars special states that
it is estimated that at least 4, 900 acres OF
wheat have been destroyed, beside vast
acreage of corn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
PENCILLINGS FROM LIFE.

PENCILLINGS FROM LIFE.
..How do you explain his success?
He's not man Of ability, is hep
NO; not by long shot, but =
.:But what?:'
Il tell you he can just more than |
smirk and look nobby.''
.sDid you hear the Thursday evening
discourse, Miss Johnson?''
eyes, sir.''
''The theme-was 1t before or after
the fall?'
''Oh, it was before the fall, profess
sor, for hadn't been to the rink at all
then"
''Spell 'furze,''' said the stripping
school teacher to the barefooted boy
with whole in the knee OF his pants.
"F-u-r-z-e, furze," said the bow, rup-
bing the flies from one leg with the
other foot.
''What does it mean?''
''Please, sir, it's what grows on your
face"
''Misler says he was sighted at your
house the other night, Brigsley.
''Sllghted?"
Eyes. He says the company didn't
show him any attention, and he feels
bad about it.
HE does, Ell? Well, he's too much
of fool to know when he is used
right. He got blamed nigh as much
attention as the dog does in Goozeler's
family, and they haln't got child to
their name. What more could the
teller askp"
Sometimes a whole volume can be
squeezed into sentence. Aman with
fine poultry yard, near the roadside,
was accosted, as he stood admiring his
favorites, by a solemn figure on horse
back, who pulled rein at the fence, and
remarked.
''Nice birds, my friend; nice birds;
and you've got fine lot of them, too.''
eyes, rather" returned the poultry
man. care you fond of chickens,
sir?"
''pye preached the gospel forty
years, my dear sir-forty years in
May"
"You say that you was forcibly
ejected?'.
"No, sir; 7 don't say nothing of the
kind.
Didn't understand you to say
that he removed you with violence?''
81 don't know what you under.
stood, but didn't say that
81 inferred from what you told me
that he used force to compel youl
exit.
II don't see how you got that into
your head, for [ didn't say nothing OF
the kind.
'sYou didn't go out of your own &C.
eord?''
.'Not by a tarnal sight,
''Then how did you get out?''
"Why, gosh it all, he kicked me
out.'
''Well, 1 want to know if he didn't
use violence"
"No, I'll be shrunk it he did. He
used his FOOT
4'How's this, Dooseley?" said a man
to a photographer who had lodgings in
his gallery. You're looking as though
you hadn't a friend on earth. What's
the matter? No bad luck, I hope.''
"Ihat's just what 1t is. [ don't be-
lieve any man ever had such bad luck
as do. Nothing goes right
'.Explaln yourself
"Well, to begin with. I married
woman who could discount the old
| Nick himself in keeping things red
hot, but last summer she began to get
feeble IN her breathing works, and
nicked I'M 2 LITTLE hone Tho doctor
said she had consumption and couldn't
live six months in that gallery. She
must have a change of climate and
fresh air, or I'd find Grape on my hat
before knew it. Well, sir, from that
minute / began sleeping her next to
the chemicals, and I'll be logged if she
didn't get fat On it. There's no use in
man trying to brighten up when
things 20 against HIM that way
Chicago Ledger.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24

''He does, Ell? Well, he's too much
of fool to know when he is used
right. He got blamed nigh as much
attention as the dog does in Goozeler's
family, and they haln't got a child to
their name. What more could the
teller ask?'
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-24
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

The Christian Union, the great religious
weekly, concludes lengthy article upon the
Christian mans duty as citizen toward the
temperance question thus:
81. Obedience to the law Of the land,
whatever that law is. 2. A higher tax or a
higher license, discriminating against distilled
liquors, and in so far in favor Of malt and fer
mented liquors. g. The strict and impartial
enforcement of the present prohibitory clauses
in our liquor laws against selling on Sunday,
to minors and the like 4. Local option;
that is, the recognition of the right Of each
local community, town or county to prohibit
the liquor traffic within its bounds altogether"
On that platform every honest, sincere,
practical friend of temperance of public NOR
ais and private rights could stand The only
men for whom it is too narrow are the free
whiskyites on the one hand, and on the other
those extremists whose self consciousness
must be ministered to by making them '1ead-
ers' in an independent political party. The
explanation Of the position of these men is
that they care much more for personal noto-
riety than they do for real reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

THE Journal wishes to be understood as in
sisting that but for the GUNNER" wards of
the cities Of New York and Brooklyn, Mr..
Blaine would have been elected President of
the United States. It is useless for the New
York Times to point to the isolated fact that
the Republican candidate lost votes in many
Of the "brown- stone" wards and gained in
some Of the tough wards. If certain of the
residents of brown stone houses went to the
aid of the vicious wards theirs is the shame
not Mr.. Blaine's The Times cites the First
Assembly district as GUNNER" ward, and
shows that Blaine gained 800 votes, while
Cleveland lost 778, comparison being made
to the figures of that district we find that the
Times is right. But we find more, and find
exactly what we have insisted upon. Despite
Mr.. Blaine's gains in that district, coupled
with the loss suffered by Mr.. Cleveland, it
returned Democratic plurality of just 2, 1873.
This is enough, by more than 1000, to have
defeated the Democratic nominee, had it been
lost to him. This one GUNNER district,
chosen for illustration by the Times, proves
all the Journal has insisted upon. 1t has not
been much more than year since the Times
insisted upon the same point-that the lawless
and vicious have been and are on the side of
the Democracy. Mr.. Blaine came out of the
"clean" districts of New York with plurality
of 81, TAG, and it was only when the "bum-
mer' wards of New York and Brooklyn rolled
up their rotten and vicious pluralities that
he was defeated. The action of few holier-
than thou cranks does not vitiate fact that
has been patent to everybody for a generation.
And the fact that the Democratic party con-
tains such large per cent of the disreputa-
BILE element of citizens explains why it is that
so many criminals have been pushed forward
for office The selection Of such characters is
only the symptom of a constitutional dis
ease from which the Democratic party has
suffered for many years. There is little won
ucI IAttC lAe L1HicS WluCeS DIT luo Dare Heu
ton of this fact. The mugwumps have got
into disreputable company, and they know it.
No amount of ''see how we voted" and
"know that we are the elect" will save them
from the shame of having allied themselves
with that party which has already produced
men like Kelley, Meiere, Judd, Dunton, Dow
ling. ct al. The beginning has but been fairly
made The rottenness of Democracy has
hardly been touched on yet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
GINLRAL water comes in quartz.

MINERAL. water comes in quartz
THE Salvation Army is threatened with prosecution
in Boston for profanity because gives three cheers
for Jesus"
WARREN Tribune: ''Say ma, at death do all Pres
idents lie in state?" "Ait except Washington. nv
boy. He never lied at ALL"
Mrs. CUsTER'S attractive memorial of General Gus
ter entitled Boots and Saddles has reached sale
OF II 900 within six months.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, who is having & pleasant
time the Pacific coast has bought two lots in the
orange grove of William Lacy in East Los Angeles,
and is having two cottages built upon them
A GENTLEMAN said to minister: when do YOU
expect to see deacon s. again?" Never said the
reverend gentleman, solemnly. Tho deacon is in
heaven"
Dove flew in at an open window of church in
Daubury, Conn, Sunday morning and, perching
upon gas jet just the preachers head remained
there until the doxclogy sung.
THE epitaph that follows is to be found under the
moss of gravestone i'll Vermont:
Here lies the body of Samuel Woodhen
The best of husbands ana the purest of men.
N Bills name was Woodcock, but it wouldn't
rhyme.
THE Rev. E. E. Hale is to be the editor of new
magazine published in Boston, which is to be the
monthly organ of persons interested in philanhropc
work 1t will tie devoted to the discus of plans
of charity and social reform. Ev nv month special
departments Of its pages be given to the work
of the Associated Charities the Temperance League
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

Hon. SMITH NJ. WEED denies his part iii
the reported Stumbling" of President Cleve-
land and Secretary Manning by the sage of
Greystone. Mr.. Lockwood also says his rela-
tons with Mr. Cleveland are not yet strained.
Let us concede, for the time, that Mr.. Cleve-
land has not been kicked by any Democrat;
he has still a large number of places at his dis
posal. The music will begin when he either
can't or won't distribute Offices to the hungry
and thirsty. 1t is nonsense to expect dem
onstration thus early on the part of the
tramps in the White House yard, who are
begging for meal Of cold victuals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

THE ''persecution" that minister" Kelley
suffers at the hands of his fellow citizens is
just the kind that must ever be melted out by
patriotic men to such as are mean enough or
disloyal enough to decry the liberal govern
ment under which he lives and then presume
to ask favors Of it. Mr.. Keiley's offense was
in denouncing the United States government
as "a gross and brutal violation of public
rights" because it put down the rebellion in
order to perpetuate the Union. For this he
is justly in contempt, and must there remain
until by some means he purges himself of his
reasonable instincts He was not fit to 90 to
Italy because he had insulted the Italian gov
ernment. He is not fit TO represent this
country because the same mean elements Of
his character impelled him to dishonor him
self in traducing his own government He is
morally unfit for any position of honor and
dignity, and universal condemnation should
drive him from public sight He is pariah
among men, i'll at ease in the enjoyment of
citizenship in the grandest republic ever
founded and afterward delivered at awful
cost from the onslaughts of such men as
Kei1cy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24
to those who deal only in the common neces-

to those who deal only in the common neces-
saries of life, there is uniform expression of
confidence in better trade for the future.
Confidence is very contagious sentiment,
and when men talk confidently and lay in
stocks of goods as though they were confident,
the business boom is already begun. Like
Horace Greeley's famous specific for resump-
ton Of specie payments, the surest way to re-
store business confidence is for everybody to
be confident" We commend to the business
men of indianapolis the golden sentence that
confidence is very contagious sentiment.
Let the contagion spread here and hereabouts.
That is an epidemic greatly to be desired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24
DIR. LEONARD AGAIN,
The Ale and Toast Admitted, but the Lo. and
Bush Are Not Remembered.

Inc Ale ana roast Admitted, but the Log and
Bush Are Not Remembered
Springfield 20 Globe Republic.
Last night it was rumored that Dr. Leonard
had admitted at least the partial truth of Glad
den's ale-drinking story, which he had stamped
as an infamous lie" in telegram TO the Cincin
natl papers 1t was said that this admission had
been made in private conversation with Charles
II. Schaeffer, who is steward and treasurer of
the Sunday school. A Globe Republic reporter
called on Mr.. Schaeffer this morning at his
grocery, on Main street, to ask about the truth
OF the rumor. but he refused absolutely to say
word further on the subject, explaining that if
he had said anything about his conversation
with DR. Leonard, it had been to friend, in the
belief that it would go no further number
of leading questions were put By the reporter
all in vain, until finally one elected the opinion
that if there anything in the story defam-
atory to the character Of DR.. Leonard, it would
probably be handled by the conference which is
the proper authority to take cognzance of the
matter.
About the private conversation he still re-
fused to have anything to say. He was finally
induced to say that he was willing to stand by
what he had said to other parties about the mat
ter. If any questions were asked about it by DR..
Leonard The reporter then explained that the
rumor was spreading rapidly that Dr. Leonard
had admitted to Mr., Schaeffer the truth Of Mr..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

Mr.. O. J. HoLLIsTER, who married a sister
of the latSSchuyler Colfax, and who is en-
gagged in preparing his biography, delivered
an address at Salt Lake on Grant, the Hero, -
in which he read from several letters written
by Grant, while President, to Mr.. Colfax
while Vice president In one Of these letters
dated i'll 1871, at a time when the discomfort
that manifested itself in the Cincinnati con-
vention was first manifesting itself, Grant
said: Everything seems to be working
favorably for loyal administration of the
government for four years after the 4th of
March, 1873. 1t is important that we should
have such an administration, though it is
not important who the head may be- Mr..
Hollister we'll said ''That sentence reminds
one Of his Let us have peace Let no guilty
man escape Whoever has the place, he
goes on, will have slaves life. My only
anxiety in the matter is that there shall be
entire harmony and unanimity in favor of the
choice of the convention which dominates
him." Mr.. Hoilister added, what may not
be generally known that these expressions
were in letter to Colfax asking him to resign
the vice presidency and be his Secretary of
State, in place of Fish, whom, he said, he
hadn't the face to press to stay with him be-
yond the meeting of Congress.