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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
A Good Circus.

The Wallace & Anderson railroad
show, which exhibited in this city
last Thursday, was, without excep-
ton, the best sand most complete
circus that has ever visited our town.
AS a feature that was noticeable, every
thing about the outfit of the show was
new. There was none of the old stvle
way of doing things and every part of
the procession and performance was ex-
ecuted with a precision that resembled
clockwork. Their menagerie is not as
large as that OF some shows that have
been here, but is we'll selected and well
cared for. The cages and horses are as
fine and as cleanly kept as they possibly
could be, and are far above the average.
AS for the circus part, it is all that could
be desired. Some of the performances,
for instance the trapeze act, the by
cycle exhibition, the posturing act with
boy and barrel, and the tight rope dane
ing-were deserving ofspecial mention,
and captivated the large crowd in that
they introduced new features, heretofore
unseen in New Ulm. In short, those,
who came, went away completely satis-
fed, and that is the best that can be
said for any show. Through the kind.
ness of Col. Seely, the press represen-
tative, who by the way is a man tnat
knows how to treat the newspapers,
we were shown the inside workings of
a modern circus. In justice to the man.
agement it can be truthfully said that
there is q remarkable exactness and re-
gularity as well as order about all their
departments that is commendable. To
correct certain statements too, that have
been made, derogatory to the manage
ment, it is no more than fair to say
that there was m entire absence during
their stay in New Ulm of all so-called
fakirs and confidence men.
Ice Cream and Coffee at Turner Hall
on the Fourth.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
A Pioneer Citizen Gone.

MI. Richard Fischer, one of New
Ulm's pioneer citizens and Oldest resi-
dents died at about eleven o'clock last
Tuesday night. His approaching death
had not been expected previous to that
day, ,andcame as a painful announcement
to our citizens and his friends on the fol-
lowing morning. The disease, to which
he succumbed, was in all probability
heart failure or a rapid ebbing away of
vitality. For several weeks he had been
suffering from kick, received from a
horse, and, although at times he was al
most recovered and able, to attend to his
duties, the accident. if not directly the
cause, no doubt FASTENED his taking off.
The deceased was born in Baden,
Germany, January goth, 1921, and was
consequently over SO years of age.
Leaving his native country in 1851 for
America, he settled in New York,
and later on in West Virginia, max
ing that state his home until six
years later, when he removed to New
Ulm. At the opening of the dread re-
bellion, he enlisted in the Union
cause, and went south as a lieutenant in
the Minnesota Battery. Sickness, how
ever, forced him to return after short
service, and he arrived in New Ulm
Just in time to witness and take part in
the defense of the town against the out
break of the Indians. Shortly after the
close Of that struggle, he was elected to
the office of register of deeds, and with
the exception of short intervals, when
he embarked in other business enter
prlses, he was connected nearly con-
tinuously with county and other offices
of public trust until the time Of his
death. Honest in all his dealings with
his fellow men, of strict and sterling
worth in the performance of the duties
allotted to him, resolute, free from van
ity and seliishness, and true, generous
and sincere, not only in the happy circle
of his home, now suddenly cast over
with gloom, but in every relation of life
as well, few citizens there are indeed,
who have lived up to a purer ideal or
nobler standard of manhood. His
conduct th1 ough long years OF citizen
ship, ever averse to sham and Ostenta-
ton, while always marked by SIM
plicity of purpose, made for him many
strong and personal friends, who es-
teemed him for his true worth, and his
death will cause general regret wher-
ever he was known. 10 the bereaved
and sorrowing family, to whom his
death can come only as an irreparable
loss, the Review and the community in
in general extends the deepest sympa-
thy.
The funera., which was held from
Turner Hall Thursday afternoon. was
largely attended. The members of the
Turnyerein and of Hecker Post, to both
of which MIR. Fischer belonged, were
present and did honor to the dead The
hall was draped in deep black, while
wreaths of flowers and leaves, entwined
about the casket and across the walls,
made the ceremonies unusually i'm
pressiye. The departing words over
the dead comrade were spoken by Mr..
Robert Nix at the hall, and by Col.
Baasen at the grave.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
Obituary Resolutions.

After attending the funeral of their
late comrade, Richard Fischer, on June
Goth, Hecker Post, No 48, e. A. r., of
New Ulm, assem- bled and passed the
following resolution:
Resolved, that in the death of our
late comrade, we lose another worthy
mem mber of our organization, whose un-
expected demise we deeply mourn, and
resolved that we express to the family
of our deceased comrade our warmest
sympathies in their great bereavement.
By order of
Louis Schilling, j. Y. Commander,
VIM. Hummel, Adj't.
Ice Cream and Coffee at Turner Hall
on the Fourth.
New Ulm Markets.
Wheat, 1916
OaIs. ...@..5. "
gOOIu ~
Potatoes 25
Butter 5
Eggs Eggs ~
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02

How it must tickle st. Paul to get
reports from Washington giving Min
#neapolis 1917. 500 people and st. Paul
only 157, 900.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02

Ice Cream and Coffee at Turner Hal
on the Fourth.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
Brown County.

In the winter OF 1883, the secretary
of the State Agricultural Society sent
out a request to the secretary OF each
society to give the statistics of his coun-
ty's fair organization and also to fur
nish information regarding the county's $
resources. The result now appears in
the secretary's annual report, and out
of the eighty counties to which this re-
quest was sent, only one was heard
from. Secretary Heidemen was secre.
tary at that time. and he alone respond
ed. We repub!ish a portion of his re-.
port for its value and conciseness:
Most of the county is a gently undu-
lating rolling prairie. The soil ada
cent to the rivers and skes is rich
alluvium. The Minnesota and Cotton
wood river bottoms are quite heavily
timbered with elm, cottonwood. oak,
etc. The climate is unusually mild for
for Minnesota, the high winds from the
northwest being broken by the tlmbered
bluffs of the Minnesota river. The wa.
ter supply is plentiful and excellent;
numerous springs Of pure cold water
are found throughout the county and
there are several flowing wells. The
following extract from the Minnesota
Geological and Natural History Survey
reports shows the advantages of Brown
County: ''The excellence of Brown
County for agriculture ,and its area of
woodland and prairie have been noticed
in treating of its soil and timber. Be.
sides the fertility of the land this region
possesses an invigorating, healthful
climate, and almost invariably good
water and springs. The material re-.
sources which remain to be mentioned
are water powers, building stone, lime,
brick, pottery and mineral paint.
Immense beds Of brick and the very
best fire brick clays crop out along the
river bottoms. Lime stones producing
a superior quality of lime is plentiful.
Immense lodges of red quartz are found
in the county and on its borders, ,produc-
ing the most durable building stone in
existence. Coal of very good quality
crops out on the Cottonwood river.
Brown County has many fine farms;
probably no county in the state has
made such progress IN fruit culture.
Six Touring mills, located at New Ulm,
Sleepy Eye Lake and Springfield, annu-
ally grind 100000 bushels of wheat
for foreign and domestic markets. The
w. & St. P. Division of the Chicago
& Northwestern r. R, traverses the
center of the county. The w. & st. P.
Land Co., have over 100000 acres of
good lands for sale; good farming lands
can be had in ali of the county at from
6 to 20 dollars per acre. The average
tax, including all state, county and
school taxes, is l5 mills. The total
valuation Of all taxable property in the
county is over $4,OOO,OOO.OO with to-
tai bonded Indebtedness of only $780,.
100000. The county has so schools and
about 30 churches. With the best of
schools, healthy climate, fertile soil,
convenient markets, low taxes and nat
ural advantages, Brown County offers
the best inducements for settlers who
seek homes in the garden of Minnesota.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02

Ice Cream and Coffee at Turner Hall
on the Fourth.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
Home from Camp.

Company A returned from camp at
Lake City Saturday evening on Especial
train. The boys look tanned and brown,
but naturally enough so. Ten days of
active life on drill ground at Lake.
view, with the bluffs On each side and
no air stirring, and especially during
such hot weather as prevailed last week,
is enough to make anyone look rather
hardened. But the boys endured it well.
While members from every other CON-
pany fell under over a hundred degrees
of oppressive heat, there was not one
from New Ulm that did not stand it
like soldier, trained in rough endur-
ance. In the daily drills too they did
excellently, and the company received
many con- mrliments from the officers up
on its soldierly bearing. And if they
suffered from heat in the daytime, they
made up for it in evening amusement.
On the last night especially did the reg
iment tear itself loose, With Capt.
Dewitt, of Duluth. as the object of their
hate, the whole force, Company A in
cluded, turned out and proceeded to
make Rome and Capt. Dewitt howl.
The efigy OF the latter was shot at,
hoisted upon the point of a stack
of guns, and carried about the
camp as an object Of general disgust.
With this little disturbance the camp
ended and most OF the boys came home,
satisfied that they had had good time.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
HOW ONE SAFE WAS RIFLED

The Treasurer was SO Positive That the
 Detective Was Bafaed.
 It is a mistake for man to be too positive. I had case put in my hands once the outcome of which left an i'm. pression on my mind.
 The treasurer of the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad reported to us that their safe had been robbed of large package of money. investigated the case myself. In reply to every ques, ton which I put to the treasurer he would come back with one remark that he put the money in the safe him self, and that he locked the safe him. self the day before the money was missed.
 The safe was in good condition when he opened it on the following morn ing, everything being just as he had left it the night before. He was cer tam that he put the money in the safe. He was certain that he locked the safe. He opened the safe himself and the money was gone. Everything about the man tended to confirm his state ments. He was an honest man; he was accurate; he was careful; he had no bad habits He was we'll to do, and there was not the slightest reason for supposing that he could have used the money. For a moment the case was at sea. In few days I learned that clerk in the office had remained at his desk after the departure from the office of the man who knew that he locked the safe. But discovered that the clerk did not have the combina- ton, and again I was at sea. A few weeks elapsed, during which time l kept my eyes on every movement of this clerk.
 I saw enough to arouse my suspi- cion. I went to the office one morn. ing and took charge of the clerk. l told him I was satisfied that he had taken the money and that he need not denyit. He broke down. He told me that the officer who was so positive that he had locked the safe on the evening in question had not done so; that he had gone away and left the safe unlocked that he, the clerk, knew it was probably the first time; that he, the clerk, took out the package of money, closed the safe and locked it. This he could do notwithstanding the fact that he couldn't open it. He handed to me nearly the entire amount.
 The officer who was so positive he had locked the safe was dumfounded. After that he was never sure of his own name.-W. A. Pinkerton in Chi. cago Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
Central New England & Vest
 ern R. R. Go. Poughkeepsie Bridge Route.

Commencing October 19th, 1890. Trains leave Canaan:
 For Hartford 2.42 8 m; (daily express for Hartford, Northampton and Boston) $40 m 300, 7.11 p m. Return GAS, 1925 a m; 3.25 p m. 9.05 p m, daily express for Slatington, L. ington.
 For Winsted (Naug. station) $40 a m; 2.42 a m (daily express). 800, I'll p m. Return 800, 1l.4O m; 4.44 p m. 10.3O p m, daily express.
 For Poughkeepsie s.43 m 12.3O p m. Il. 10 m, daily express. Return 12.50 m, daily express. 12.56, 4.40 pm.
 For Campbell Hall S43 a m; 12.3O p m. 11.1 m, daily express. Return Il 40 m; 3.15 p m. 11.50 p m, daily express.
 For Millerton $40 p m. Return 8.49 m. For Silvernails 12.30 p m. Leave silvernails 2.40 p m for Rhinebeck. Return, leave Rhine beck for Silvernails 11.20 m. Leave Silver nails 1.42 pm.
 SUNDAYS ONLY. Train leaves Canaan:
 For Hartford and intermediate stations, 4.13 m. For Campbell Hall and intermediate stations, S.47 pm.
 CONNECTIONS. At Hartford with N Y, HI & H R, Hart ford x Valley Divisions, and with the N X N B R k. At Simsbury and at Pine Meadow with N Y, NH X H R, Northampton Divis- Division. At Winsted with N Y N H & H R R, Naugatuck Division.
 At Canaan with H Housatonic R R. At Miller ton with N D & c R R and Harlem R R. At Mt Riga, with Harlem R R. At Boston Corners with N & M R R and Harlem R R. At Po' keepsie and Rhinebeck with N Y 0 X H R R. At Maybrook with Orange Go R R. At Camp bell Hall with N o & W R R, N Y, l. E & w R R, P & B R R and Waikiki Valley R. s. B. OPDYKE, JR. N. R. TURNER,
 Gen1 supt. 0en'1 Passg Art
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
Ambldexterity.

The sword exercise in which the Roman soldier was practiced trained him to use the weapon as skillfully in the left hand as in the right, so that in case of injury to either arm he could still defend himself The pains then taken to make an efficient soldier should now be taken to make of every youth an efficient workman. This can be done only by giving to the left hand equal ease and strength with the right.
 There are many kinds of work in which the laborer finds a decided ad- vantage from an occasional shifting oi hands. It rests him almost as much as 1t would to stop working This is the case where the strain comes mostly on one hand, as it does in using the hoe. It is much the same with the use of the spade, the rake and the pitch fork, the ax, the saw and the hammer
 Again, there are places where two can work together more comfortably and more effectively if one of them can use the implement lefthanded. By lefthanded use is understood the putting the left hand forward upon the handle of the ax. the hoe, the shovel, and so on.
 In felling tree two choppers can work together if they stand on the same side of the tree To stand to- gether they must chop one lefthand- ed, the other righthanded. Were they to stand on opposite sides of the tree 1t would be difficult to tell just where the tree would fall. So, too, in shoveling pile of dirt, two persons can work together until the last show elful is taken up if they use the shovel in different hands; otherwise they cannot.
 This training belongs to the home. It Is most successfully given in the early years of the chad; but as each tool and implement is first put into the hands of a boy he should be care fully practiced in the different ways ol handling it.-You.h's Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
Fat Butter Sells Best.

At the present time the butter that gets the best price is that made from ripened cream, but that ripening pro- cess is allowed to go but little way. Just as the cream shows sourness it is churned, and in the washing (and the washing, of course, at the present time is done very thoroughly whatever lit tie acid has been formed is washed out, and we have there the pure butter fat, and that is the butter demanded by our markets at the present time. You ask if that is butter that will keep. No, it will not keep, and you must get rid of the idea that you must make butter that will keep.-Prof. Cooke'a Report
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19

The train from Hartford, due at Canaan at 5. 40 p. m. was nearly three hours late last Friday evening owing to the engine giving out at New Hartford.
 A married man once said II would rather hold currycomb argu- ment with the heels of mule than to beat my wife three straight games of euchre, or say word against Brussels soap."
 The case of State vs. Michael Bion was called in the Superior court at Win sted last week. Bion's counsel, Hickox and Nickerson, asked for and were granted time to procure needed afida. davits, which will delay the hearing about month.
 Last week the Millerton Telegram published the names of 51 men, each over 70 years of age, and now living in the town of North East. Eight of them are over 80 years of age. Among the octogenarians is MT Kneeland J. Nun. son, a native of Canaan.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
Life.


 Uncle Ebenezer Johnson is colored philosopher, who has certainly never read in "Festus" that i've live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; ;'' but he reaches the same idea by a phil osophical process of his own.
 Oar was a man," he says. "dat said ter me de odder day, I wish ye many long yeahsp I tole him wuz obleeged fer de wish, but I didn't care fer no specially long. yeahs; dat de yeahs wid jis' twelve monfs inter lem was long 'nough fer me.
 But says he, T wish ye may live ter good ole age, says he.
 Now, look hyar, my frien', says I, is it your 'pinion dat de mount ob a mans life bends on de number ob yeahs inter ita'
 Wal says he, 'dat's bout it, haint it2 Least it seems SO to me.
 No, myfrien',' says I, dat haint it, nohow. Dis is jis bout what life is: it's sort ob Indian rubber band !; mebbe you kin make out fer to stretch it out ter a consid' able length, but you cain't make no more ob it wid all yer stretchin'p Youths Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
STATE WE WiS.

Minot l.. Beardsley had 115 chickens stolen in one night, at Roxbury, lately.
 The new piano stool factory at Tor rington is making stools at the rate of 2OOO month
 A mile and quarter of new water mains have been laid in Torrington during the year past.
 Seven boys have been added to the male choir of All Saints church, New Milford, now in charge of MT Donkey,
 Dr Lewis Stone, of Bantam, has gone to Sitka, Alaska, where he has an ap- pointment as assistant surgeon on the steamer Pinto.
 Torrington boasts thirty seven Ryans.
 The Cornwall Bridge Iron Go. has bought a large tract of wood of w. J. Hall, of Milton. A pumpkin party" was held at the residence of James Sturges in Weston, Thursday night. It was pie-ous affair, the receipts being for new parsonage. -Norwalk Record.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
TGUeZers' Guide.
HOuSatOnic Railroad.

HOusatOnic Railroad. MAIN LINE.
 June il, 1890. Passenger trains leave Canaan, GOING NORTH $40 a. m. for Pittsfeld, North Adams also Albany, via State Line. 1230 D. m., for Pittsf1eld, with through car for State Line. Connecting for the West. 7.22 p. m., New York limited Express, with through Drawing Room Car and Coaches for Pittsfeld, connecting via. State Line for Albany.
 1915 a. m., Sunday Mail for Pittsfeld. LEAVE CANAAN, GOING SOUTH. 7.O7 a. m., for Bridgeport. $40 a. m., for Bridgeport and New York 2.33 p. m., for Bridgeport, with through car. 3.21 p. m., Milk for Bridgeport. 5.24 p. m., New York limited Express, with through Drawing Room Car and Coaches to New York.
 6.SO p. m., for Bridgeport and New York. Sunday Milk, 3.45 p. m.. for Bridgeport and New York. Connections are made at Brookfield Junc- tion with trains to and from Danbury.
 VIM. H. STEVENSON, Vice-Pres't. and Genl Manager. A. w. PERRIN, Gen. Pass. Agt.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY MORGAN G. BULKELEY.
 Governor,

dOVernOr,
 A Proclamation.
 In grateful recognition of the mani- fold mercies which Divine Providence has bestowed upon the people of this state during the year now drawing to a close and that we may not be unmind- full of Him who has not dealt with us after our sins, but has continued unto us those unnumbered blessings which from generation to generation have made us free, happy, and prosperous people, I hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the twenty-seventh instant as day of public thanksgiving and praise, to be observed by all in suita ble religious dev otions, in acts of thankful ness and: d:praise, and in ministrations of charity and kindness to those among us who are in poverty, ,affliction or distress. -~ Given under my hand and
 the seal of the State, at the
 n D. Capitol, in Hartford, this
 fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the inde- pendence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
 MORGAN G. BU1KELEY. By his Excellency's command: R. JAY WALSH,
 Secretary of State.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
THEN AS NOW.

THEN AS NOW.
 FROM KING AsA's OPINION. VOL 8, CHAP 4.
 Editor of Neaos:
 In recent article you ask, in sub-
 stance, if the Lord has changed, or, if
 faith has changed? answer, neither!
 and will show facts to prove my state-
 ment.
 1st. Esau, son of Isaac, many cen
 turies ago, in "the land of Canaan, D
 ''sold his birthright unto Jacob" (Gen
 25, 33. )-for mess of pottage. In the 18th century in Canaan, Ct ;,
 election day, several freeborn citizens sold their votes--for lucre. Parallel cases.
 2nd. Nehemiah, son of Hachaliah, tells us how he heard of the deplorable condition of Jerusalem, and, being di- vinely led, he went to Jerusalem, and, after looking the premises over, said to the priests and rulers, "Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more reproach' and they answered "Let us rise up and build" " In Nehemiah 4-6 we read "so built we the wall-for the people had mind to work"
 The Congregational church of East Canaan has long needed drain pipe to | relieve the basement of water which had 1 caused much trouble and was injuring the building. Several of the women, 1 divinely led, said to the citizens, "Let
 us have that drain made," and the re- sponse was general, some giving money to buy tile and cement, some giving one day or more of work themselves or fur 1 nishing substitute, and others furnish ing teams, while the ladies provided a generous dinner. Last Friday the work
 began and progressed rapidly, for 'the people had a mind to work" The above illustrates two views of the subject; the first showing the depravity of the time hen as moao and the other shows the
 same spirit of love and trust existing in Nehemiah's time as shown now, and the
 same Divine aid given in answer to prayer-theaa as aaoao. 70. B. s." ITO BE CONTINUED.
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19

James s. Goodwin, Puck cartoonist, was found dead on the railroad track near his home in Mamaroneck, early Wednesday morning. His motto was "The pen is mightier than the poor house."
 The editor of the Westchester County Reporter is wicked enough to publish this "An over-back farmer sent this mixed up order to Pleasantville mer- chant: Send me sack of flour, five pounds of cofe and one pound tee My wife gave birth to big baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn starch, a screw driver and fly trap. It weighed tn pounds and 8 straw hat.'
Connecticut western news., 1890-11-19
WANTED l!

Cash paid for Bob Calves every Monday morning at Canaan from till II o'clock.
 P. G. SHAW.