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YOLUME I.
PFEFFERLK,
Dealer Is
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS.
Canned, Dried and Green Frui t,
VM AND FEED.
8TOK, WOOTMH A!TD WlIAOW Ty AUK.
MINN. ST., NEW ULM, MtNN.
pH. QUINCY,
MANUFACTURER ASD DBALBR nr
Harness. Collars, Saddles,
Saddlery, Blankets, Whips,
etc., etc., etc.
Upholstery and all cuRtom work pertaining
to my business promptly attended to.
Minn. St., opposite Union House,
NEW ULM, MI2CK.
M.
JUENEMANN,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER ISJ
Harnesses, Collars,
Saddles, Whips,
CASH PAID FOR HIDES.
MINN. ST., NEW ULM, MINN.
NEW ULM
Saddlery, Blankets,
etc., etc., etc.
Upholstery, and all custom work pertaining
to my business piomptly attended to.
Minn. St., Next Door to Ziher'9 Saloon,
NEW ULM.
Tit EAT MARKET,
C. STUEBE, Prop'r.
A large supply of fresh meats, snusafi^, haras
lard, etc etc constantly on hand All orders
from the country promptly attended to
H. CHADBOURN,* C. Rosa,
President. Cashier
BROWN CO BANK,
Cor. Minn. And Centre Stteets.
SEW ULM, MINNESOTA.
Collections and all business pertaining
to banking
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILTIY
#500,000,
Hsxshab, OHAS. Roos.
H. An SUBILIA, Joax Bsur
NewUlm CityMill,
Centre Street, New Ulm, Minn
We are runningday and night, and can supply
any quantity ofbest brands of Flour at
regular rates on short notice.
I fe have improved machinery for the grinding
f 6horts and fodder, having added
a etoue reserved for such
a purpose.
ffour exchanged for wheat en very liberal
terms.
NEW ULM CITY MILL CO
F. WEBBER,
A.ttorney & Counselor
AT LAW.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Office over Citizen's National Bank.
ITBtfULM, MINNESOTA
jTDAKOTA HOU8S,
PT. POOT OmcBNEW ULM, Mruw,
ADOLPH 8EITER, PBOP' B,
Phk house is the most centrally located
house in the city and affords good
Sample Rooms.
ITY
Meat Market,,
If. EPPLE, PBOP'R 1 ^*df*i
'A large supply of fresh meats, sausage,
hams,, lardJ, etc.t, etc.,, constantly on
iBiuo IBIU etc. ovc vuunuiuuy oil
hand. All orders from the coun-
GASH PAID FOR HIDES.
iONN, STREET. .^NEWULM. MINN
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The Pans Exposition was formal
ly closed last Sunday afternoon.
Our neighboring county of Blue
Earth has elected the Democratic
county ticket and State Senator,
while four of the five representatives
are Republicans.
The County seat of Watonwan
county has been removed from Ma
delia to St. James by 224 majority.
This is the third time that the voters
of the western part of that county
have tried to get the county seat to
St. James.
A. T. Stewart's body has been
stolen from the vaults in St. Mark's
graveyard. Diligent search is being
made for the body and the thieves,
but so far has resulted in naught.
Owing to the towns of Milford,
Burnstown and Stark, which gave
Pcehler a net majority of 35, failing
to make any returns on the vote of
Congressman,Pcehler's official major
ity in Brown county is only 153.
The mixed accounts of Rev. Mr.
Kerr, Ihe Treasurer of the Insane
Asylum at St. Peter, have been ex
amined by Public Examiner Knox
and his assistants, who have found
that the Treasurer is short to the
amount of $3,541, and unless some
explanation can be made in regard
to three other items the deficiency
will reach about $4,500.
Mr. Kerr has been treasurer of
the institution during the last eleven
years,and during that time has hand
led a large amount of money, and it
is not surprising that a few errors
might creep in, but it is a little sin
gular that the mistakes are all a
gainst the State, with the exception
of one solitary item of $100, where
the State State is a gainer.
Minnesota rolls up her usual Re
publican majority on the State tick
et. Dunnell has about 7,000 major
ity in the First district, and Wash
burn something over 3,000 in the
Third, while in the Second, Poehler,
with the aid of such Scandinavian
Republican lights as A. A. Brown,
A. E. Rice and H. Mattson, has suc
ceeded in defeating Major Strait by
about 800 majority. Both branch
es of the Legislature are, of course,
Republican, but by a somewhat re
duced majority.* The proposition for
the recovery and destruction of the
old Railroad Bonds is probably de
feated.
The non Mormon women of Utah
have inaugurated a crusade against
the disgrace and degradation of Mor
monism, appealing to the women of
other parts of the U. S. to assist
them in urging congress to abolish
polygamy. I being over thirty
years since polygamy was planted in
Utah, and during that time congress
has utterly failed to enact efficient
or enforce existing laws for the abo
lition of the crime. They further
state that there seems to have been
more of those unhallowed marriages
during the past year than ever be
fore in the history of the mormon
church. The apostle polygamyst
who sits in congress, has four ac
knowledged wives. The legislature
is composed almost entirely of poly
gamists and members of the'Mormon
priesthood, and they have thrown
every possible safeguard in their
power around polygamy and the
right of dower has been abolished to
break down the distinction between
lawful wife and concubine. The
mormons are rapidly extending their
settlements into Arizona, New Mex
ico, Idaho and W3 oming they have
already the balance of power in two
territories and are without doubt
plotting for it in others.
The St. Paul Weekly Pioneer PresT,
as will be seen by the prospectus print
ed elsewhere, is now offered at the
very low price of SI. 15 per year. For
ability and amount of reading matter
it is noted as one of the best papers in
the Northwest, and the price brings it
within the reach of all. We will fur
nish the weekly Pioneer Press and the
REVI EW for the Jow prize of $2 00 per
annum.
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KE"W ULM, WEDNESDAY, HOY. 13th, 1878.
THE ELECTIONS.
The Republicans were generally
successful in theNovember elections,
and made a clean sweep of all the
States north of Mason & Dixon's
line, except of course, Missouri,
where elections were held- New
York, for the first time in 6 years,
has gone Republican, and nine Con
grassmen were gained. Tammany
was completely routed. The Legis
lature is also Republican which in
sures the return of Conkling. But
ler and Kearneyism in Massachusetts
is hurried under 30,000 Rep. major
ity. Pennsylvania rolls up about
30,000 Rep. majority.. New Jersey
has been redeemed, while Connecti
cut, New Hampshire, Wisconsin,
Nevada, and Illinois all come in with
Republican majorities. W have
made large gains of Congressmen in
the Northern States, while even in
Kentucky and North Carolina we
have made gains, and but for the
serious losses at theOctober elections,
in Ohio and other States, the next
House of Representatives would have
been nearly or quite Republican. In
the present House there are 137 Re
publicans and 156 Democrats-giving
a Democratic majority of 19. The
Republicans lost ten in the October
elections and the Democracy of the
country clapped its hands for joy at
the prospect of immense gains in the
November elections. But they sing
another song now. The November
elections show a Democratic loss of
sixteen members making a net Re
publican gain of ten, and exactly off
setting the Democratic gams in the
October elections and leaving the po
litical status of the next House, as
far as can now be ascertained, the
same as the present one as far as the
Republican vote is concerned.
But the Democrats have not gain
ed all that the Republicans have lost.
The "Nationals," or greenbackers
turn up with five votes, one each
from the States of Vermont, Pennsyl
vania, Georgia, Indiana and Illinois.
These men are Republicans on past
party issues, and the greenback ques
tion will be all settled and done with
before they take their seats. Hence,
it is fair to presume that they will
affiliate with the Republicans when
party lines are drawn.
Linden Correspondence.
Editor Review:
P. stands for "Pole," and C. stands for "Cat"
Polecat These, Mr Editor, aie the initials of that
bright and biilhant hteiary star who] was lately
acting as the Linden correspondent of the Review
Ag we hive not see anything the Review from
his mighty pen for some time, we supposed he had
outliAed his usefulness, and given up the ghoast
bat I can as sure your leaders that it
is all a mistake No, Sir' "Pole" is not dead, nor
sleeping Cats have seven lives, you know,
and our "Pole" is no exception, for on election day
he was as lively as a kitten, trying to show off his
political ability by working for Poshler, Birum and
Bertrand, for you must know, Mr Editor, that our
"Pole" is a Politician o' the first water. He is now
a reformer, but hitherto he has always been a Re
publican and why he should now turn his back on
his political friends, and become the dirty tool and
hireling of the Democrats, 1 am at a loss to know,
unless he had inducements of a substamal kind
offered him. It is, however, sufficient to know th.it
"Pole" has gone back on us, and that the Republi
cans of Linden are deeply grieved at the loss, for
"Pole" was the main prop and pillar of the Repub
licans of Linden, and the wonder now is "how has
the mighty fallen?" Probably he foresaw, through
his superior political intellect, the sign of the time
better than we common people, and so went over
to the strongest party in time or perhaps he could
see in the jovial lace of Henry Poehler the appoint
ment of Post Master, Receiver or Register of the
New Ulm Land Office if so, I would advise the
present occupants, to be prepared to take up their
beds and walk "Pole" is a man of much import
ance, (m his own estimation,) so much so, that the
Republicans of Linden elected him one of the dele
gates, to attend the last Republican county con
vention at New Ulm. In the convention he was as
dumb as an oyster, never once opening his mouth
in opposition to any of the candidates, and it was
reasonable to suppose that,if he possessed a shadow
of principle, he would, like an honorable man, sup
port those candidates at election but in place of
doing so. he turned around like a treacherous knave
and done his best to defeat Stiait, Brandt, Helling
and Casper Christensen, without any reason except
in the case of Brandt, whom he opposed on the
ground that he (Brandt) was in favor of paying the
R. Bonds. "Pole" certainly has some queer
ideas of political honesty, and although we cannot
agree with him, we are willing to forgive him, be
cause the feeble intellect of the boy cannot concieve
the difference between good and honest action, and
knavery "Pole" is an ambitious boy, and now
that some of his Democratic friends are elected he
of course expects to have his great services appre
ciated accordingly, if he cannot have the Post Of
fice or the Land Office, at New Ulm, he is willing
to take the deputy Sheriff's Office of Brown county.
Our Democratic friends certainly ought to do some
thing hai'dsome for "Pole," in the shape of some
officialjposition,so that he may have an opportunity
of exercising his superior political wisdom. I would
suggest that he he appointed a member of the civil
'Service Reform Commision" By all means,
gentlemen, do not let the country loose the valu
able services of this magniflcient nuisance.
IH# (Observer)
The prospectus of the St. Paul Globe
appears on the 7th page of this issue.
Although we do not exactly agree with
the Globe in political matters, as a
newspaper it is among the best. The
Weekly is the same size as the Pioneer
Press and is furnished for $1 per an
num. Those wishing to club with the
Review can have both at $1.90 per
annum.
ATTRIBUTES O MONEY.
Written for the Review by O P. CHAMPLIK.
Although anything is money which
the people universally give and take in
exchange for their mmchandise, yet,
but few articles are worth using for
that purpose as all history has demon
strated. The experience of mankind
has taught us that the best article to
use for money is that which has among
other things the following attributes:
1. Universal purchasing power. The
purchasing power, or value of an ar
ticle is that for which it may be ex
changed. When an article can be
bought or sold it has value or purchas
ing power. Now such is the relation
existing between the nations of the
earth, such is the international char
acter of all business, such is the inter
mingling of the races in every clime
that the article that has a universal
purchasing power is the best to be a
dopted as the money of any people.
The article most desired by all nations,
in all lands, and by all men rich or
poor, ignorent or learned, and under all
circumstances is the best for money.
Suppose we adopt as our money the Zu
lu's cow. No doubt she has a purchas
ing power but if a rich man wished to
leave the country, and to take all his
property with him he might experience
great difficulty in converting it into
the cow money and in carrying it with
him. Moreover, the money might be
come sea-sick and die, or he might take
it to a country where iron was the
money of the people, and the value of
a cow was no gieater than that of a
sheep among us. He would have a sad
lesson of the unwisdom of using an ar
ticle for money that had not a univers
al purchasing power. But history gives
us a better illustration. When Wm.
Kiett was governor of New Amster
dam the money in use was the Indian
"wampum." This money had an in.
trinsic value among the Indians and
the Governor proposed to make it the
current com of the province.. He pro
posed to mciease the wealth of New
Amsterdam Accordingly he caused
the shores of Long Island to be search
ed for shells and loads of them were
gathered and taken to New Amster
dam and were there manufactured in
to Indian money. This money he ob
liged all the servants of the company
to take and paid the debts of the
Government with it. Of course money
was plenty and the public prospered.
But now an unforseen difficulty arose.
The Connecticut Yankees found they
could make this money with but little
labor and cost and at once began to
supply the wants of trade in New Am
sterdam. The Yankees bought every
thing that was offeied by the Dutch
men and paid them in their own coin.
The Yankees, however, would not take
the Indian money adopted by the
Dutch Government hence, whatever
they pui chased of them had to be paid
in a sound metallic currency. The re
sult was the Dutchmen and the Indi
ans got all the wampum and the Yan
kees all the desuable articles of com
merce, and the gold and silver of the
province. New Amsterdam suffered
a fearful depression in trade. Men
lost confidence each other and there
was a financial crisis. The article best
adopted for money should have a uni
versal purchasing power. It should
be such as any people would be glad to
take for any exchanges.
2. The article best adopted for money
is that which most permanently repre
sents a given amount of any grade or
kind of labor performed by men.
Such an article should not be pro
duced without some labor and cost. It
should not be as common as leaves and
as easily gathered. The production
of such an article should fairly meas
ure the labor and costs of the necessa
ries of life otherwise it will not be,
what it should be, the standard of val
ue by which the comparative value of
other commodities may be ascertained.
This is very necessary. The article
used for money should have some in
trinsic value. i
3. Again, the article best adapted
for money is that whose value inheres
in itself constant and continuous under
circumstances which would destroy the
value of most commodoties. Cow
money would depreciate with age, it
might run away in the night, or die if
not daily fed. Grain money might be
destroyed by the weather or by ver
min. Bead money would loss its value
when the fashion changed. Paper
money would become used up in the
handling. None of these are the best
articles tor money.
4. The article best adapted for money
is that which is the most conveniently
handled consisted with the other attri
butes named. Pig-iron, or wheat,
or wampum, would not be ^tire
most convenient money for us or any
other people. Pig-ircn is too heavy
and wheat is top bulky. So, also, would
be cattle and sheep* One sheep niigh
buy a cord of wood but if you could
not get but half a cord, and was oblig
ed to pay for it, it might be inconven
ient to kill the sheep. You would have
to eat your money or make another
purchase.
NUMBER 46.c
Golden Gate Items.
(By one of the Boys.)
A pair of rings were stolen from a
harness not many weeks ago, and it is
now reported that detectives have
shadowed the thieves.
At a husking bee last Thursday eve.,
all the town turned out, and a jolly
good time was experienced. Cigars
were sold on the sly.
Look here! If you want your photo
graph taken, just call on E. N Hen
derson of this place.
Our school, under the supervision of
Mr. John Cutting, is doing well. He
reports a fair attendance and excellent
conduct on the part of the scholars.As
a teacher John is universally praised.
The election passed off quietly in our
town. There was a general turnout of
Democrats and Greenbackers while a,
goodly number of our Republicans
staid at home and now swear because
Strait did not get a majority in our
town.
The Presbyterian society of Lone
Tree Lake is talking of getting up a
thanksgiving festival. The object is
for church purposes and a pleasant
time is anticipated. It will be held at
the house of Isaac Johnson, which is
a guarantee of the success of the enter
prise.
Our friend Mr. Eldrid, it is said, is to
supply the Methodist pulpit at Lone
Tree Lake, for the coming year, and is
also engaged to teach the school at the
white school house the coming winter.
Mr. Eldrid is a deserving man and we
hope his constituency will stand by
him. In union there is strength.
Who was it that drank up the com
munion wine in a neighboring church?
It is bad enough to drink wine, but, for
mercy sake don't steal our communion
wine! We have no suspicion who ife
could be, and it would be a piece of
highly piized information to know
who the heretic is.
Our otherwise peaceable community
and an adjoining town was disturbed
one Sabbath by a horse race. We would
like to give the circumstances of those
extraordinary races, but cannot now,
but will dismiss the subject by asking,
first, is it right for christians to run
horses on Sunday? We are sorry to re
cord this fact, but being a matter of
public talk on the streets and high
ways, we give it publicity.
At a church sociable, not a 100 miles
from here, they retailed cigars to the
boys. A box was bought, and sold at
10 cents a piece. Only think of it, ci
gars at a church sociable! the object of
the sociable is to raise means to build
a church, and it would seem that the
old fashioned way of raising money
had gone out of use, and the quicker
and more expeditious way, to help the
thing along, was to erect a cigar stand.
As this first box has nearly gone we
make a motion that another, of a finer
and more fragrant quality, be procur
ed, and put up at 15 cents.
We have waited with patience to
hear from "Justice." Is he dead? We*
hear that he has got sick of life and is
floating somewhere along the neigh
borhood of the Minnesota. Can it be
tiue? His silence would seem to give
some shade of truth to this gossip as to
his whereabouts. My own private
opinion is that the reaction of his last
discharge was so great that it has so
disabled him that fears are entertained
that he will never recover the use of
his arm again. They say that there is
nothing new under the sun.
Burnstown Items.
All quiet after election.
Delightful weatherwe are in thft
midst of Indian summer.
Geo. Barncard is building a new
store, and Messrs. Sist & Altermatt are
finishing up theirs. Chas. Krowser,
who intends to become a resident a
mongus, is also building a dwelling
house.
J. Ray of our town has been ap
pointed agent of the St. Paul Fire &
Marine Ins. Co., and is prepared to
transact all kinds of fire insurance busi
ness. Give him a call.b
Mr. OscarHanft, of NewUlm, spe
cial hail insurance agent, was in town
last week on a collecting tour, and re
ports satisfactory results.
A. G. Anderson intends moving his
new house, in a few days.
The farmers are devoting most of
their time to plowing and preparing
for winter. They complain of the ex
treme dryness of the season and say it
makes plowing difficult. T^f*
The market keeps livelyf^A/G. An
derson and A. E. Ammass, our wheat
buyers, are buying a Jarge quantity of
whet, while Arribros Parsons and, M.
H.-Gim.bl we agam buying cattle pre
par^ryto making another shipment
to Chicago: Henry Dressier Is buz
zing through the country making the
purchases for the latter, Remember
everything marketable always com
mands the. highest price at Burna SU
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