VOLUME XII. NO. 17 NEW ULM, O W N COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, April 24. 18b9. W O E NUMBER,589 tion in the East you have to pay full help to keep up the traditions according From Rev. A. Bcghold. price to Eamascus even if you want to to the history of the ancient christian THE SPRING MEDICINE YOU WANT Bierut. Syria, March 19th 1889. stop at Stora and to go from their to church. A little Turk showed me -*1 PUBLISHE EVER WEDNESDA EDITORS REVEIW: Balbek and back for 40 francs besides the very old looking house of the tanner Paine Celery Compound It has been exactly 25 years and one about 20 francs for meals lodging and in Jaffa in whose house St. Paul day to- day since I left" my father's BRANDT & WEDDENDORF. for entranca fee to the carefully enclosed lived. Damascus is the type ot Oriental house in Styira, Austria for' America. colossal ruins so famous at Balbek, life and has in its bazaars many peculiar As I take my rest to-day, something curiosities. The most of these unusual for me, many thoughts of the OFFICE OVER CITY DRUG STORE. Purifies the Blood, It is not known for a certainty when bazaars are from ten to fourteen feet quarter century of my emigration into the colossal temple of Baal was built wide and are covered with thin boards strange countries pass through my Strengthens the Nerves, E S $1.50 per year in advance. rushes, reeds or palm leaves to a height or who built it but in regard to dimensions mind hovering from the borders of Asia of twenty to thirty feet above the streets and art, the temple of Balbek is Stimulates the Liver, Minor, the cradle of mankind, through ahead of^the pyramids of Egypt. Pillars which have no pavements at all. The North Africa over Europe to North Regulates the Kidneys and Bowels, house in which according to holy writ, 100 feet high in three sections of America. The loud roaring waves of MESIDENT DENTIST. Naaman the leper lived, is the hospital seven feet diameter with a wonderful Gives Life and Vigor to every organ. the Mediterranean sea. nay telephone, ceiling whose bass-reliefs are carried for thelepeisu to tne present day. Office Coiner Minnesota and 1st N. Street. brings me conscious news of the pasttimes out in an enchanting manner, are the It is highly satisfactory and interesting ^TEW ULM, MINN. from the Atlantic and Pacific There's nothing like it Use It Now! to travel here here the cradle of mankind attractions of this structure. One solid Oceans and from the lands between Teeth extruded without pain by the use of has probably been and although I nicely hewed square piece of the rock |t spring, being very muca run down and them. Among the netvs is that I once "Having used your Paine's Celery Compound vitalized air or nitious oxide gas. debffltiitea, I lies finished at an angle of about 20 degress was amazed with the beautiful rich, I procured some or Paine's Celery this spring, I can safely recommend It as the promised you to drop a few lines tor Compound. neweman. Th use ot Astwogenerals bottle tonice"and mad me most powerful and at the same time most length ways in the stone about plains'of the Nile, that bears an abundance'of feel ike a a D' BERRY, your paper. Very well, I will do so gentle regulator. It Is a splendid nerve tonic, spring medicine, I do not know Its equal." food for man and beast, my half an hour's easy walk from the temple: and since taking it I have felt like anew man but you must excuse my sin-) against PHYSICIAN: AND SURGEON, mind was better satisfied by travelling W. L. GREENLEAF, it measures in length sixty feet in R. E. KNOKB, Watertown, Dakota. the English Grammar as 1 never enjojed Brigadier General V. N. G., Burlington, Vt Office Meridian Block, over Olsen's width 16 feet and in thickness 12 feetHow in the Holy Land and in Syria because English schooling and can only $1.00. Six for $5.00. At Druggists. WELLS, RICHABDSON & Co. Props. Burlington vt. Dvuor Store, New Ultn, Minn. we know more about them in history to transport such a solid piece of give what I have gobbled up from hearsay. DIAMOND YFS ro1or faUhen and Ribbons, Office hours "from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. than we do about mythical Egypt. toell rock is a puzzle to our modern engineers. LJiOlHIEU rUUU „tffAte_ jraij Laugh I would have written long ago mg There are many pieces of stone in Good bye now, 1 will soon leave tor but it was ver\ hard for me to find time STRICKLER, the foundation of the Temple, 16 feet Cyprus and Constantinople. for an extra correspondence because long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high. The could write only during the night and A E A N E E I I O most temples and houses of Christian then m) time was taken up by official andplfa^aqt.^AVSj worship compared to^ these gigantic correspondence to otner papers and by From Loius Scherer of West Point. works of Idolatry are^no more than a my own personal correspondence. I child's toy to the faster-pieces of great Klossner's new brick block. have travelled over a vast territory since On Thursday a terrible accident occurred men of our age. The valley leading to MINN. I left New Ulm, August 27th 1888: at the siege and mortar battery. Balbek about $6 miles long and on an through some of the middle and southern Telephone Connections. The battery consists of 6 Parrots 40 lbs. 5l?oul4 LaJaor, average of 15/miles wide is a most picturesque states in America, through a circuit Rifled Siege guns and 3-10 in mortars. one/being bounded by high fin)?. in Europe including North Germany For drilling at these two batteries 40 Dr. L. A. Fritsche, mountains on both sides running from Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy use'rtj members of the 3rd class are dailv detailed. Northeasjt and to Southwest. The land Bavaria, Austria and in Egj'pt, Palestine PHYSICIAN AHDSURGEON, During the last few days of is fairly well cultivated with cereals of and Syria. Up all the time in day drilling: we usually have target practice. all kinds and even with cotton. The time, I am as weak as the Turkish government Usually the" cannoneers are allowed villages area little better than those of is* frail your to go away from the guns and the^Arabs in Egypt and Palestine. Klossner's Hardware Store. Offics over J. stand on the embankment behind the We poor fragile human beings do oftentimes There are no houses in this section of grocer Minn. New Uim. intrenchment to watch the effect ot the make fair promises but as often 'the country tor if, was there moving shot. On Thursday for some reason we have not onlj- good excuses hatr bands of Arabs and Bedouins would rob for Ijold t^es JOS. A. ECKSTEIN. this was not done and the men had to also good reasons for not fulfilling and destroy them. The Ottoman governmant KANTA keep their posts. The posts of the men them The spirit is willing but the has little or no control of the iH?a$no s&ttofriey & Coni\^eloix are on each side of the piece and only a flesh is weak, was an acknowledged axiom vicious Arabian tribes. A man who yard ontside the wheels. All went well ot two thousand years ago—now to lives here told me that if agriculture pguai .A.t I-iSfw. until each piece had been fired twice. '50AP the letter for you. I am sitting in andhorticulture were carried on in proper At the third round the first gun on the Bierut on the veranda of the hotel on shape, what the Arabs would not Titles a in and perfected. right of the battery exploded sending ard whose foundation the wav^s of the Mediterranean steal, the Turkish government would it is Pai Ocular attention given to collections. pieces of the gun aud the gun carriage sea to-day are making such take so not much is to be done to raise INSIST flying in all directions. The breech of a noise that my head is really aching, anj'thing here worth speaking of. The HANDJOME ANDY the gun was knocked straight backwards ot) t?stil)g it I am sure that a furious storm has been mountains with beautiful fertile hills at jjgs^Office over Brown Co. Bank.^^ff about 20 feet and bored itself into raging on her waters last night because their feet, have no roads or timber of NE\T ULM, MINN. foryoursslf. the side of the hill. The left wheel and sells for the waves are unusually high. Gigantic any kind. The people of the Orient weighing about 300ft»s. flew up into white headed waves are plowing have so little fuel that not even chimneys jm** s^i^ the air and at a distance of 60 rods FIVE QSNTJ A CAKE. 7 JOHN LISD. C. A. HAGBEKO. through the salty waters and tossing to are needed in the towns. Camel by LIND & HAGBERG, struck the platform of one of the mortars, and fro so that the snow tinted foam is dirt of which I saw immense quantities then bouncing off, jumped into the bounding over the rocks and stonewalls before the walls of Damascus to be Attorneys and Counselors at Law, N.IC.FAIRBANKZ? (p.,CHICAGO. air and came down again about 25 feet more than twenty and sometimes thirty dried by the sun, is used for fuel. I IGHTNING away, very nearly striking the lieu, feet. The wall of heavy square hewed saw girls from 10 to 15 years of age in Attend to Suits in all the State and tenant in charge of the drill at the (Registered rocks that to shelter about fitty large Cairo, Egypt as eagerly picking up Trade U. S. Courts. Mortar Battery. Within foot of boats in a little harbor is sending over with their fine shaped hands what donkeys Market where it fell a cadet was standing with HAY KNIFE Special Attention Paid to Collections. more than a pleasant spray of a dust and camels had thrown away without his handspike held obliquely across his The beaten nature and high flying squalls blushing as the bees gather the E I N AND SCANDINAVIAN A N selection of body. The piece of iron struck the are filling the boats half a "dozen times sweet honey from the flowers. It was THE GUAGES S O E N handspike and broke it into shivers a day and a number of halt naked Arabs interesting to watch these girls gracefully while not even a hair of the man holding NEW ULM, MINN. WE LEAD! and Turks are orking hard hazarding throw the precious excrements Would-be imitators TR BEST it was touched. He escaped with a TO FOLLOW. their lives by throwing out the right straight into their baskets which Shan all imitations, or so-called "Lightning MATERIALS bad frignt. Over at the Siege Battery salty brine where it belongs, in the sea the\- kept on their heads without putting pattern" Knives and accept the genuine article onlyu which bears our registered label, and has ourfirmname ^^^^^__ the men did not get away so easy. Nobody Hundreds of dark-skinned and gaily them on the ground. They carefully stamped in the blade The manufacturers of this won-^^^^^Br and details of Workmanship are was seriously hurt and it is still a derful tool have faithfully adhered to this, the maet^^^^^^^^y matters of constant attention, and dressed Orientals are watching the wild look at every standing and moving animal —AND— scientific and successful pattern of Knife everde-_^^H^^»'' our New Shops are supplied with the miracle to all who look at the ruins of sport of Mother Ocean and her lively to see what they may give for filling vised for CUTTINC HAY or S A O S IMPROVED MACHINERY Ladies Furnishing Goods. the gun any body got away without being Mow, *»tack or Bate, and it a "od constitute the only plant in the world children.^ while surroundieg Mount Lebanon up their little willow baskets. Arabian GREAT POPULARITY_^adMi^P^^ employed exclusively In the production killed. Those of the cannoneers at ldfoks calmly down trom ber high bread is highly sought for because has never waned. of HAY KNIVES. This Knife is easily sharpened the piece which exploded had their ear Sole y^'^^^^j^^^^'^ ky grinding on the corner of an ordinary Grindstone Mrs 6. Folki-faqr, & Co. throne hs it it was wondering at the baked exclusively with camel Manufact'rs £*n*»s'*^^ FOP sale by the Hardware trade generally. drums bursted and were all knocked Mediterranean strange doings. dung for fuel. Fuel is a rare article in THE HIRAM HOLT COMPANY, East Wilton, Me« down by the shock. By some accident the Orient as all standing tiees and opposite the The Austrian Lloyd steamer that was gun No. 2. was fired off and it is a wonder bushes are being destroyed and none Union Hotel, New Ultn, nobody got under the wheels. A due he^e last night has not come \et HUMPHREYS' are being planted to take their place* DAKOTA HOUSf. theieis a rumor that she suffered conside siege gun usually has a recoil of about I saw many women and girls trom the Uu on hand a sood -Toek of Millu ery Goods ably and is now at Haiffa. Even 15-20 It. The falling pieces of iron surroundings of Jerusalem and particularly ron*ir. ingin piit of Hats,Bonnets, VoUets, Silks YETERMRY SPECIFICS made it quite dangerous for the rest of hh )ii^ Fe ilneis Flowers, &c. it she would come now. uo one could trom Aboutosch, carrying heavy O POST O I E N E W I N N A No Pitteinsfoi stamping monograms Stampin. a a ashore II has been 18 the men at the battery. The shell of loads of brambles and miserable brushes, Tor Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs, ill kind~. Embioideiy Work and Fashionin'n A.G. SEITERProp. hours since the sea has been so ild the exp'oded gun very near reached e-ismakmg donetooidei. a distance of lour to five hours walk anyl no prospect of a change either. the target a mile off. AND POULTRY. hurrying to tho Holy City where they hk ILLINER This house is the most centrally located It struck the water about 100 feet from 5 0 0 Pase Book on Treatment of Animals Tbo^e who are on laud may thank God get from 10 to 15 cents each for the and Chart Sent Free. for this fa\ or. I had a fearful night the target and then rolled up on the heavy burdens. Women in Christianized hotel in the city aud affords CTOES(Foei-s, Cons •qtiont, Inffau'inntion, from the 18th to the 19th of March: shote right under the incline on which A.A. Spinal Meningitis, 3lilk £evei. countries should look at the most Mrs. Anton Qlding, a good Sample Room*. ""5? lameness, Rheumatism. c6ming from the world renowned ruins the target is standing. miserable condition of their sex in pagan C.C.— Distemper* a»al Discharge-*. df Balbek. I left Stora 40 miles from Meat Market, lands and they will appreciate Curistianity D.D.—Botsor t^mbs, Worms. officei-s here in company of two french E.E.—Coughs, Heaves, Pneumonia. The exploded gun was a 30fts. Parrot much better as many of them do. next door to F.F.—Colic or Gripe.,, Bellyache. on a private coach a half past nine P. "Rifled Siege Gun" These guns G.G.--Miiparriajye, Hemorrhages. SUMMER'S STORE, N E W ULM, M. Crossing the anti-Lebanon at a warranted or rather made for one thousand H.H.~UriMary and Kidney Diseases. Has on hand a good stock of Millinery GHAS. STUEBE, Prop'r. I.I.—Eruptive Diseases, Mange. height of 4000 or 5000 feet, we experienced discharges and this special gun The female sex of the Indians of the J.K.—Diseases of Digestion. Goorls coTTsistino" in part of Hats, Bonnet?. such a storm of rain, hau and had been in use only 8 years so it had West and of the Oriental region? have Stable Case, with Specifics, Manual, W Silk«. Ribbons, Feathers, snow that after a drive of about three not reached the firing limit a yet. It Witch Hazel Oil and Medicator, 87.00 about the same lot of misery and slavery. A large supply of fresh meats, sausages, Price, Single Bottle (over 50 doses), .6 0 hours, our driver a full-blooded Arabian, will be left unexplained how it burst Hum in Hiir. Flowers. &c. And it is only a very little better hams, lards, etc., constantly on Sold by Druggists or Sent Prepaid anywhere gave out, lost his courage and Alo Patterns for stamping monograms. since the charge was put in properly in China, Japan and India and even in hand. All orders from the country and in any quantity on Receipt of Price. begged to be allowed to drive back to and all the guns had been tested shortly Stamping of all kinds. Embroulerv some parts of Africa, and after all, in promptly attended to. Humphreys' Med. Co., 109 Fulton St., N. Y. Stora We had great trouble to encourage before and fcuud iu good order. Work. German Knitting an« the whole world there is nothing like a STT1EPS&SYS' CASH PAID FOR HIDES. him to continue the journey to Bergman's Zephyr Yarns a specialty. Only two guns burst here before this. genuine American lady! Th climate Bierut. The higher we went up the A one a cadet was killed, at auother explosion of Syria is strange and changing. HOMEOPATHIC NEW ULM MINN mountain, the worse blew the wind a cadet had his aim knocked Whitest orange and peach trees are SPECIFIC Ho. Louis Buenger, howling through the treeless Alpine off. Tnis time we ceitaiuly came out blooming here in Beirut, figs are half cliffs and more than once we were in very lucky. grown on some trees and finest barley Meat Market, In use 30 years. The only successful remedy for danger of being whirled and hurled is already heading. Well developed Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness, down to the bottomless abyss below. large roses are nodding along the veranda The torturing painful disease, neuralgia Cor. Minn, and 3fl North Sts., Hart one of the horses given way to fatigue, Had Prostration, from over-work or other causes. of the court vard in my hotel. is instantly "relieved and rapidly W perviaLorS vials and large vial powder, for §6. JOS. SCflNOBBICH, Prop'r., we might all have lost our lives. Everything here is even ahead of the SOLDBT DBUGOISTS, orsent postpaid on receipt of NEW ULM, MINN. cured by Salvation Oil. At all druggists. Tin and Co.<p></p>Hardware I was glad indeed when we reached the price.—Hampaieja' Hod/eta* 109 Yaltoa BU, X.V. flora" around and in Damascus. The Price twenty five cents. plans ot Beirut. The officer of customs Corner Minn. & Centre Str., New Ulnji. avenue from Bierut to Damascus running being asleep, our driver tried to get him over high mountains and winding out ot the watch house when the horses through fertile valleys as well as A large supply of fresh meats, sausage, started off into the city and 1 had trouble hams, lard, etc., constantly on and Dealer in all Kinds of through sterile ravines and rocks, i3 in enough b\ jumping out or the carriage hand. Highest market price paid for a splendid condition. The very large OF tfl/fJjsflWf®.' to catch and to stop the horses. and heavy dav stacje is drawn bv six Cattle, Hogs, Hides, i\ ool, etc. Al Edward W. Baer, By the horses luntiing us they did we orders from the country promptly at-g horses, three horses abreast. The capacity were saved the examination ot our tended to. of a day stage is 16 persons and baggage because the great Turkish most'of the seats are occupied. The H. Laudenschlager, Corner ot Minnesota and Centre Streets. officer of customs when he awoke night stage is calculated for seven persons NOTICE TO CREDITORS./^ could not follow us up. A large assortment of beating and cook stoies and drawn by three horses onH and all kiads of tinware always on hand. State of Minnesota,County of Brow*. SSB la aud all three go abreast. They always Travelling in Utoman dominions is Probate C-nrt. Dealer in All orders entreated to me will receive promptattention. drive the horse- at lull speed and lu '.he matter of the estate of Hedwig Moetfer STOVES, very bothersome because you have to Special attention given to the uianu deceased. change them alter two hours drive. hjisj get an extra pass port in the official Notice is hereby given to all persons hai inzcMmi facture of tin and iron roofs. Turks and Arabs have no compassion on and demands against the tstate of Hedwi? Moeller language ot t.ie country a well as to Repairing done neatly and prompt I %. mules, camels or horses they use them lute of the County of Brown deceased. have our baggage showu and examined 4hat NEW ULM, MINN the Judge of the Piobate Court of said sometimes a whole day without feeding A Tip II A It /•:. TIN if A HE and 4 both in comiug and go.ng unless county will bear, examine, and adjust claims and ^j or watering them. Big. heavy men, demand* against said estate, at his office in theCity "gas \ou spend a tew lrancs in the ever open NQMTH-WESTEHKHOTEL LIGHTS! SO JiODSt ofteu two of them are ridiug little donk'-ys of New Ulm in said county, on the first Monday *ii Hands of the respective officers as I uid of each month for six successive month*, com- sg§J hardlv three feet high mules carry Tiie Celebrated Wliito, 4 *s mencins with the •irst Monday May 1889. u-i at Jaffa in the Holy Land. 1 had "from 400 to 500 pounds anil camels FR. GOLLXAST, PROP'R. and that six month* from the 21st day of March New American & inger bou.: ut ten cigms and put them in my 1889, have been limited and allowed by said Probate frequently 1200 pounds each. Damascus qt /JJf j«n?*Ll3',lc"e^ Court for creditors to pre^ent their claims SEW I Mr T\r MACHlMl.b PHTYI^SS ^Y|tor optima^tides, when I left Beirut represents a very nice view to the t, Opposite thsEailroadDepot* A.H. Srhlender ||g DamWJU Examiniug offlcers traveller from Beirut, much more attractive Aministrator of the estate of Hedwig Mi»eller .jjgl XxBW ULMs MIXN. New Ulm. MIL/ found them therein and it took the interference Cor Minn. & l«t S Str. deceased. 17 rl than it reallv is. of a higher official to save POWDER \^As everything is changing very slowly gdhell, NOTICE TO CREDITORS.- ^u^. me from the greatest in convenience, First class accomodations in the Orient, Damascus of to-day loss of time au«l from great expense. is Damascus of 2000 years ago. The reasonable rates. Good State of Minnesota, Connty of Brown. -ss In The moral of this is: Do not smoke in Probate Court. streets are just as narrow as they were stabling on the lurke or at least do not carry any tobacco In the matter ofthe estate of Hubert Znndcr in the time of St. Paul the gate and premises. Brewer and Bottli or cigara with you—leave the old wall over which he was let down in a Notice is hereby given to all persons havlnjj |1 Absolutely Pure, pipe at home! A passport had to be issued claims and demands against tle estate of Hubert basket are ostensibly in the same condition HE W UL MM1BU WORKS, Kr}\V \j'U\U .MijVjV. at every place here you stop or Zander, late of the County of Brown, dec-eased, lh«JThis powder never varies. A marvle yet. I is'strange that the Arabs that the Judge of the Probate Conrt of said County go to unless you have money and patience of purity, strength and wholesomeness. Tin" '-•lenerj i*one ot thelarre«t ebtabli««lMbent« and Turks hold the same tradition will bear, examine and adjust claims and demand-, lg. Sehwendinger, Ifrop'r. enough to travel without any against said estate at his office in the City of New of tii* k-nrt iifthe Miiiii*it Valltj «nd t« fitted about St. Paul's conversion and bis More economical than the ordinary trim said County, on the first Monday of each up with all the modern impn\ement*. Kpgand passport at all. No one coming here kinds, and cannot be sold in competition escape as the Bible holds to be true in month, for six successive month*, commencing hottl« beet furnished toany part o! the city on should fail to visit Balbek which is 80 with the first Monday in June 1839, and that *.x with the multitude of low test, Monuments, Tombstones and all s)orr nntiu-. M\ bottle beer i* especially ad.ipted the Acts of the Aposties che place is yet months from the 19th day of Apr:'W89, have been miles west of half ways of the distance for famih use shown where he hadthe celestial vision. short weight, alum or phosphate powders. other work in my line made to order limited and allowed by said Probate Court fui foui'tn bre.iir* aid other, ihat buy^malt/ will to Damascus. You cannot get a ticket Sold only in cans. ROYAL A KING promptly and in a workmanlike manner creditors to present their claims. Not only here but everywhere in the find it t» the .ntero-t to pi ire tlmr .'. Sviitli to Stora which is half ways to Damascus. DOROTHEA ZANDER O W E CO., 106 Wall street New at reasonable rates. „. Holv Land, the followers of Mahommed .tUnml.ordersoIr m». Al mail will receive U.. japmpt ._ Administratrix of the Estate of Hubert Zsmfieir There is not the least accomoda- York N E W ULM. I MINN. E an a Deceased -1 I