New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-10

Farmers in some portions Of the state.
say they will not bind their grain at all
if the Irvine trust is as reported. They
will cut their grain and stack it loose.
We like the spirit Of independence thus
reported by our tillers of the soil but
they would be running too much risk
of having damaged grain to go this far.
They can spoil the game Of the Trust,
though, by going back to the old fash
Toned way of binding by hand which is
just as good as any, even if does re-
quire more time and labor to do it.
Edwin Booth, the greatest tragedian
of the day, was stricken with paralysis
while acting on the stage last week and
had to be carried to the hotel. Al
though his condition is improved his re-
gular physician, thinks that in few
years at the most, America will be
robbed of her great actor by paralysis.
Too much cigar smoking is what
brought his sickness about as Mr.. Booth
is in the habit Of smoking twenty strong
cigars daily besides smoking a pipe.
Spring elections come too near All
FOOLS day to be depended on. In To-
peka, Kansas, a strong Republican
town Democratic mayor was elected.
Chicago as usual did some abnormal
and elected a Democratic mayor. In
all the little side-track towns, Democrats
by hook or crook, do manage to get in
a favorite occasionally to Office but
whenit comes to something big like
capturing the president and Twenty
nine out of Thirty-eight States for in
stance well the Republicans get there
with their coats off.
The bill to organize the Third Regi-g
ment and appropriating $4,000 annu-
ally for its maintenance has passed. 1t
has been the subject of much debate at
different times and before it's final pas
sage met with much opposition. Sena.
tor Bowen was a champion of it and in
humorous speech, paid tribute to
our different military companies, claim
ing that they were source of general
good and usefulness. The military
companies of the state are good insti-
tuition; they give the members of them
pleasant and healthful discipline both
to mind and body; in their nature they
elevate the mental and moral qualities
OF the young men of the state and serve
as best teacher to that adjunct of good
government, patriotism; and above all
IN a time most unexpected they may be
called to duty in preserving peace and
order in the state. The money so APP
propriated can be used to the best of
advantage and do much good.
The meat inspection bill may tend to
keep diseased meat from the Twin cities
II indeed the people of St. Paul and
Minneapolis have been accustomed to
that style of meat diet. Rural towns
and villages are more apt to get only
the best, or healthiest, meat for the
reason they know of whom they buy,
what they buy. To place an inspector
over every COW and hog that comes to
town for slaughter, it seems is going
good ways towards interfering with
private business affairs. The inspectors
will, of necessity, have to have long
noses, and a long nose can easily get
where more modest ones know they
have no business. Perhaps the bill will
prove benefit to the people. Mime
sofa stock is always free from conta-
gious disease and if the stock Of Ne
braska and Iowa which is shipped to
our State very often in an unhealthy
condition, is branded by the inspectors
as unwholesome for food, it may give
local parties, our farmers, a better
price for their animals. 1t will be an
experiment at least. The bill has not
yet passed the House but it will go
through without any doubt.
The House is entitled to at least two
credit marks. It defeated the bill to
abolish the death penalty for murder by
vote of Al to ~ last week Tuesday af-
ter much talk and idle waste of time on