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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10
Connecticut CbaufjnIparS


The most interesting birds in the late
poultry show at Hartford were the roos-
ters. Queer specimens many of them
were. Some of the largest breeds were
bouncers. 1t must take an extensive COM
missary department, says the Co1rant, to
furnish supplies for even a small number
Of the best developed of the lot. As a
choice between taking six Of the healthi-
est kind as permanent boarders IN a small
family, or having tea men to feed,
ordinary housekeepers would prefer the
latter. Ii would be almost safe 10
give odds In bet that four
roosters could be selected out Of
this show that would destroy more Cruel
in half day than any five neu III the
same time. even If it were a good day for
Cruel. Some OF these ROSTERS, properly
trained, might be successfully used 10 run
phaetons fer shopping purposes, and
hitcbod TO baby carriages they would be
very useful If you should kill one Of
them 20 eat, nothing short OF barbecue
conld dispose Of him The prize, of
old iron would double in q elk we're It
known that q kettle big enough to cook one
IN was being manufactured. One leg would
make a roast for a country hotel, and
rooster steaks would be a drug III the mar.
ker
But aside from the enormous size and
l0stiness OF some of the male birds in
The show, the spectator has been particu-
larly attracted by their ben talk. 1t has
been a most interesting study to watch
the paternal fowls when responding to
each other. In one coop, was a mon
strous rooster, whose growing Ia q clear
day might be heard mile of, and no aD-
peared to enjoy himself great deal bet.
ter as an exhibition bird than he possibly
could IN the quiet Of his own yard After
throwing his heft into g frightfdl crow. ex-
tending, fguratlvely speaking, from his
throat down into hts boots, he wOuld wait
patiently till he caught the note Ct some
inspired brother, and then gather his
whole nervous syetem. DO to speak. into
the smallest pOSslbl5 space and fire il
OFT to the full extent OF his open law.
He was none of your secondhand growers.
A SAD AFFAIR.-Lyons, Iowa, is deeply
excited over the death of little Lee Can
ningham, pupil in the city school. Lee
was o regular pupil in Miss Hudson's
room, but spent portion of his time IL
Prof Groison's room, studying German.
One day about month AGO, he obtained
| Miss Hudson's leave to go home, when, il
seems. Nj. Greison expected him back.
Next day the latter accused the boy OF
playing truant, which the boy denied,
whereup0n Greison struck him heavy
blow upon the side OF his head and face.
/ Tie boy asked why he was struck, and
was told to shut up or he would be struck
again. The boy went home with a severe
/ headache, followed by fever. Daring the
three weeks that he lived afterwards, the
/ side CO the bead upon which the blow was
given was constantly in pain, and not and
/ infamed even when the other side was
cold. TIE opinion of tbs parents and al
! tending physician is that the yoy's death
was caused by the blow. He died on the
/ 9Th inst. We condense from the Lyons
Mirror.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10
The GUroN LINE has eight large and pov

The GUIoN LINE has eight large and pow
erfuI steamers, which are very fast, the
line carrying the United States Mail, and
such has the management been that there
never has been life lost ou any Of their
steamers. 1t offers the best advantages to
/ passengers going to or returning from
Europe, the fare being rs low as that of
any frs. class laa, L. ii. Mcclure e Co.,
( Bankers, Milwaukee, are its General
| Agents Tor the Northwest, and viii be hap
Ply to answer all communications.
MARK TWAIN produces one Of TIE most
striking cases of nleanness on record. He
says be knows society which hired a man
to blast rocks, and as he was pounding the
powder with crowbar an explosion took
place, sending the man and eros bar ont Of
sight Both came down al right, ans. the
man went 10 work again promptly. But
though he .sas gone only fifteen minutes
the company -'doched him for lost time. I"
TENNYsoN's admirers will be glad to hear
that be will shortly appear again before
the public IN Q series Of twelve brief poems
connected by love story, and illustrated
both BY the pencll and b; music Mr..
Arthur Hughes will give the artistic Illus
tratIons Of the new work. aud Mr Arthur
Sullivan will set to music these latest ut
terances Of the post laureate.
A wealthy merchant OF New York. SAYS
/ The Boston Traveller. aud large holder Of
bonds and stock in Boston, Hartford i
| Erie, remarked to his counsel the other
! day: 81 shall hold on 20 beth. bee 3use
Judge Barnard, in New York, viii ruls shat
the stock own the road, while the Courts
/ here will rule that the bonds oSa il. q"
| BALTIMORE insures the life Of every men,
Der of its Fire Department.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

LIFE insurance policy IL the Washing
ton costs something because it is worth q
good deal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

Ar. of us relish bit OF really fac Wi
ting nov and then, and this from g Santa
Fe paper, is peculiarly good: death,
with feshless knuokles, raped at the
door OF Mrs. J. \. b. 8 soul, and, obedient
to the inezorabIe cali. tae spirit Of that
loved woman f0ated up to its Creator,
leaving her husband, children and friends
10 mourn over the mortal caskeE" Such
an obituary as that robs death Of its ter
T0rg
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

= BEGGAE. 81 years old, we'll known for
years 10 ST. Louis, X said to have fallen
heir to an nstata ia Pag.l2ad. Oregon, vai.
ued at $500, 900.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

THE body OF District Attorney Long,
whose mysterious death az New Orleans,
has been recorded, was exhumed on We'd
nesday, when thorough examination
showed the brain to be congested and
bearing weight Of four ounces OF extIac-
eous matter. The evidence all point to
suicide. The razor win which the deed
was committed has been identified as be-
longing to the deceased.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

* tie height OF prosperity expect adj
veIsi5y. and fortify yourself against It's evils
by 3 policy on your life in the Washington.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-10

BALTIMORE insures the life Of every mem
Der OF its Fire Department
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03

dispatch yesterday gave the informa-
ton that Daniel Maclise, who for
many years had enjoyed the reputa-
ton of being the principal English
historical painter, Is dead. Mr.. Ma
elise was a little over hfty-nine years
of age, having been born January ..
1911, in Cork, Ireland. MI. Maelse
has been a steady and patient work r
in art since the age of sixteen. A
born artist and a phenomenon of boy
ish draughtsmanship, commenced life
with a sort of a bull, by going into a
banking establishment. FOrsaking
this mistaken post, he began to draw
at the Royal Academy, London, in
1923, and in 1890 studied for some
months at Paris. In 1881 he easily
took the gold medal of the Royal
Academy for a " Choice of Her
cules." Since that time he has
been a steady contributor to
the annual exhibition in London. So
early as 1885, at the age of twenty
four, the Royal Academy elected him
associate, after he had borne OFF ali
the medals for which he chose to COM
pete. In 1855, to prepare himself for
III ktCdG. lh1A III AAAAdA PGAALNAhSN ANC
was absent in Italy for nearly twelve
months; he also served as juror in the
Paris Exposition. Oflate he has been
employed on cartoons connected with
the chronological history of England,
to be..painted in fresoo in the Houses of
Parliament. In 1866, the Presidency
of the Royal Academy being vacant,
and Landseer refusing, it was offered
to Maclise, who declined in favor Of
sir Francis Grant.
LOUIS CREPoN.-A young arfisepOf
the greatest promise, one of the most
brilliant students of the Pennsylvania
Academy, has just died at sea. Louis
CFepon, of French ~parentage, removed
from Philadelphia to Paris some ten
years ago, where he married and be-
gan to pursue his art with success.
Contemplating portrait painting in
America, he embarked a short time
since on a French steamer, with his
wife and child. He died when three
days out, and was buried at sea.
The Sir William Williams, whose
death was lately reported, was not the
hero of Kars, but a well known Welsh
mining bar0net,
Theodore LAbarre, an eminent
French harpist, and foster brother OF
Louis Napoleon, is dead.
NJ. Soleil, chief cashier of the Bank
Of France, and who in that capacity
signed all its notes, is dead. He was
the Spinner of France, and used to
boast that his autograph was the most
valuable in France.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03
HORACE eREELEYs TARIEF soPHIsns.

Editors appeal. l see in your col
umns to-day that you take Horace
Greeley, of the New York Tribune, to
task for some of his specious sOphisms
in regard TO the protective tariff. He,
like all prOteetiOnists just now, pro-
poses TO show us that a high tariff on
imported goods will aid manufac-
turers in the South as well as in New
England. Suppose it does, will it not
be at the expense of everybody but
the manufacturers? Suppose six of
our citizens should build and set in
operation six large cotton factories,
and suppose the Government should
charge a tariff of 60 per cent. on all
cotton goods imported from other
countries, thus enabling our manufac-
turers TO charge 60 per cent. more than
they would get if foreign goods could
come into free competition with
theirs, how many of u people would
be benefited? Why just these six
manufacturers! And they would grow
inOrdinately wealthy at the expense
OF everybody else.
And Mr.. Greeley has the cheek to
argue that as New England manufac-
turers have thus fattened of all the
rest of the people of the United States
for the last forty or fifty years. we
can have this enormous dead beat''
privilege conferred upon a few
Of our citizens at the expense
of everybody else, If we will
only give u votes and send men TO
Congress who will uphold this pet
scheme. How would the South be
benefited by having her millions of
people thus pay tribute to the few?
And suppose these few should come
from New England, would it not
look very much like a "piece of the
same dog?" Protection to home
industry" and "the American sys-
tenn and other equally euphoneous
and sugaF-coated names have been
given to this plan OF voting every
bOdy's money into the manufacturers
pocket.
No man more ardently desires the
building of manufacturing establish
ments in the Sonth than i, and l
know that the day is not far distant
when this will be a manufacturing as
well as an agricultural district, But
protective tariff" Is the grossest
traud ever perpetrated on a free peO-
pie. If the prices of American fabrics
ire to be thus doubled by Federal leg
then extend the same "prO-
to every body; provide by
aW that the planter shall receive
as much for his cotton as the
Of India and other countries
10; that the Illinois farmer shall re-
GIVE two prices for his corn and
wheat, and beef and pork; and that
he wages Of all workingmen shall be
doubled. Come, gentlemen, "tote /
JOHN II. CHERRY,
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cured. Even as at the pool of Sloan
and the river Jordan, so here can the
afflicted battle and be eleansed. Here
in our own mountains do we find a
remedy for nearly all the ills to which
the human flesh Is heir. Here, bub-
bling from the mountains side, are
streams that flow from the deep bow
els of the earth, mixed in natures
laboratory, in darkness and ineandes-
cent heat, to drink Ofwhich gives poor
suffering humanity ease. But their
efficacy is becoming more generally
known every day, and while the num-
Der OF visitors here are only from $50
to 300, the day is not far distant when
the number viii swell to two or three
thousand.
1t IS expected that during the sum-
mer there will be no less than five
thousand visitors here.
The season has not fairly opened,
but we are looking for an arrival from
Memphis this week of three or four.
The amusements of many characters
my principal one is indulging a
good appetite, sleeping and watching
a beautiful young ladyplaying croquet
Immediately under my window. I'm
fortunately, 1 don't know her, but /
hope to have the pleasure before long.
A number of gentleman arrived from
Louisville last evening, also the same
number from New Orleans. More
anon, CHICKASAW.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03

our Memphis artist-Carl Gutherz.
Mr.. G. says:
sl,he interesting time for artists
here in Paris is now, theannual exhi-
bition commencing the first of May.
Seven thousand paintings have been
sent-three thousand have been re-
ceived. Foremost in the ranks of the
new creation that will be for the first
time exhibited is the allegory of the
United States of America, painted by
Mr.. WON, whose fame ranks him one
of the greatest Of modern French ar
fists, and now, through the medium
of A. II. Stewart, of New York, by
whose order it has been painted,
America will be able to boast of a pic
ture that challenges rivalry in the Old
World for magnitude, power and con-
ception. 1t has been on the easel
three. years, for which the artist is to
receive a hundred thousand francs.
This painting l had the pleasure Of
seeing before the curtain will be drawn
aside for the public. 1t is on a cam
vas twenty by thirty feet, with such
q play of cOlers that for an instant the
eye becomes entranced with melody
as though a thousand sounds, all diff
fering, yet all making one grand har-
mony, were let loose at once. In the
center of the picture are two SYM
bolical figures of the American
GdRernment-Republic and Wis.
dOm-standing :hand in hand
upon a chariot drawn by lions.
Around them are grouped the thirty
four States. In the left back ground
a portion of the sea is visible, the
rising sur reflects itself in the waves,
and against the horizon are outlined
the sails of many ships; from neare
vessels, emigrants are disembarking
with their families and implements of
labor, their faces expressing joy at
reaching the shores of America. In
the left foreground n of the large
rivers is seen in its waters the torch of
wal has been eXtinguished. In the
middle foreground the illustrious dead
lift their tOmbstOnes and salute the
triumph of the cause to which they
had devoted their lives. On the right
a dark background, furroWed with
bloody traces, represents the. past;
archangels are precipitating the bad
passions into the abyss of the dark
ages, where the gloomy shadows of
gibbets are vaguely seen; from these
shadows emerge the Indian and ne
gro into daylight and Christianity. In
the middle foreground children rep
resenting Peace and Labor, are play
ing on a rich carpet strewn with flow
ers and fruits, fallen from an over
ladened vase of sculptured marble.
Finally, over all, above the statue Of
Washington, four female figures, rep
resenting Fame, proclaim, with trum-
pets, to the four corners of the earth,
the glory of the United States of
America. Notwithstandingthe many
beauties and wonderful drawing, this
painting will evidently undergo a
long and severe criticism at the COM
ing exhibition"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03

A WESTERN paper, beginning to
look round and count the cost of vic
tory, asks, What did we fight for?"
First for "the Union" But the
Union is lost and the " nation" sub
stituted. Was it for emancipation?
That was denied, and blundered on at
last. Was it for the Constitution?
That is no more a power under the
higher law. Was it for unity and
fraternity? Bitterness between the
sections has not been diminished by
magnsnimity-hate has been intensi-
fed by injustice toward even the
widow and the orphan and the friends
of the Government. Was ii for liber-
ty and human rights the country
fought? 1t has Radicalism, cOrrup-
ton and crime. No matter what we
fought for-that is certainly what we
have. So thinks our Western cOtem-
pOrary.
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MANY dignitaries of the Methodist
Episcopal Church reached the city
yesterday on the different railway
lines and steamers. Committees met
and conducted them to private resi-
dences, where they will be entertained
during the session of the extraordi-
nary Convention. In this body will
be found some Of the greatest men of
the country, and we do not doubt
that the proceedings of these learned
churehmen will be distinguished by
that courtesy, moderation and wis
dom which may furnish invaluable
to secular and other legislative
bodies of modern times.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03

DURING the war the military seized
whatever pleased their fancy whether
it was mules and horses, corn and
fodder, meat and bread, spoons, jew
els, watches, pianos, pictures or lots
in Fort Pickering. Ia man was an
honest rebel they took what he had
for being so. If he pretended a love
for the Union, they assured him OF
the great necessity that friends of the
Union should support the Union. So
the mules, jewels, spoons and pic
lures 0 departed in either
case. The loyal and dislOyal
Jared alike. Whole stocks OF goods
went by mistake. We know a case
in this city where, for a supposed Of
tense, one merchant was fined, and a
stock OF goods which happened to be
in his possession taken from him.
The stock belonged to another man.
But what Ofthat-it was not returned.
The government has not time to look
into such matters. Thousands were
promised in the name of the
government to men who proved
their loyalty, but not n
cent has gone TO redeem a single
promise. There is no getting any
thing from the officials, because there
is always a lion in the way. Nothing
can be done with the government at
the front dOor-business is not done
over the counter; and the only way
is through the back door with a hand
some bride extended. How would it
do for the government to pay such
debts; and what, if it should, would
be left for the spOilsmen? The Gin
cinnati Commercial relates the follow
ing incident: During the war Gene
raj Dodge and Others in the military
service seized a number of horses,
amounting in value to about three
thousand dollars, under orders of the
War Department. These horses were
seized in Kansas, under the be-
lief that they had been stolen from an
Indian reservation, and turned over
TO the Superintendent of Indian At
fairs for that District. The owner of
the horses has now sued Gen. Dodge,
he being the only person of the party
p~ecuniarily responsible, and obtained
judgment in the County Court. Being
about to levy upon the property Of
Gen. Dodge, the Secretary Of War
has addressed a letter to Congress,
an appropriation sufficient to
discharge the obligation. The action
which Congress will take is in grave
owing to the importance of the
case as a precedent. There are mil
lions Of dollars involved in just such
cases, and it is thought that if Con-
gress pays in one case it will have to
pay in all. The usual practice has
been for claimants to apply to the
Of Claims, or to Congress di-
rect; but no such cases have thus far
been allowed -
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03


AFRICANS are now voters in Ten
nessee. We have opposed their being
allowed to vote, not because we would
do the black man an injury, but be-
cause we believed it was for the inter-
est of ali races alike to have the best
officers, and because such officers were
more likely to be selected by white
men who knew how, than by the
votes of the blacks, who did not know
how to choose. But as they are now
voters, and as good officers are impor-
tant to blacks and whites alike, we
would advise them to inquire not who
pretend to be their friends, but who
are the best men, and most likely to
prove friends worth having for eight
years to come.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03

IN relation to the clause of the In
ternaI Revenue law passed in 1867,
which declares that "nO suit for the
purpose of restraining the assessment
or collection of taxes shall be enter
tanned by any court" a law-writer OF
some distinction says: "There can be
no reasonable doubt concerning the
invalidity of such a prohibition. 1t
is in direct conflict with one Of the
provisions of the fifth amendment Of
the Constitution of the United States,
which says Nc person shall be de-
prived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law This
Internal Revenue law, in case Of an
unjust or illegal assessment or collec-
lection of taxes steps in and declares
that the citizen may be robbed of his
property, and abrogates the constitu-
tional protection of due process of
IoU
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Obituary.

HUGH r. PLEAsANTs.-The Rich
mOnd (Va.) Wing, of the 2Sth. an
nounces the death of this gentleman
the day before. The deceased was a
younger brother of the late John
hampden, and the second son of the
Ate Governor James Peasants. of
Contention, GOochland county. He
was educated at Hampden Sidney and
the University of Virginia, and was
eminent among his eotemporaries
for his facility in acquiring, and for
the extent and variety of his ac0uisi-
tiOns. He early became associated
with his distinguished brother in the
editorial department of the Richmond
Mig. He continued afterward for
several years to hold the same rela-
tons with the present senior editor of
the paper. lie was a very elegant
and vigorous writer. He wrote with
great ease, and his style was remarka-
Die Tor Its simplicity, purity and yigor
lie was, we believe, the first editor of
the Richmond DISPATCH newsnaner
and conducted it for ,everaI yeor5
with characteristic ability az Ista
years he devoted himself to his favor.
~ eAN AN6NAuk- ulCn ne 0nfV
varied by an occasional article for .
Review.
ALEXANDRA THOMAS MARIE
The death of this prominent French
statesman and lawyer, once Minister
OF Public Works and President of tha
Assembly under the provisional gov
eminent OF 1913, occurred in Paris on
Tuesday last. M. Marie was horn
at Auxerre, Yonne, February 10.
1877; was educated at the college in
that city, studied law ia Paris. and
became a member of the bar of the
Cour Royale in 1919. He rose rapidly
his profession, and in a few wears
took rank among the first advocatess
in France. In 1880 he was elected al
member of the council of his order,
and was reelected annually for thirty
consecutive years. In 1868 he was
returned TO the Corps Legislatif as an
opposition candidate from BOuehes-
du-Rhone, by a large majority of
votes. M. Marie, who published some
works, was also a frequent contrib1-
Tor to the leading French reviews.
DANIEL. MAcLIsE, r, A,-A cable
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Mr.. JAMES NJ. ToMENY called on
us yesterday to say that coupling his
name with Hough, Smith and others
as one Of the ring for the purchase OF
property at Commissioners United
States tax sale, in 1864, was an error.
He states that he purchased at that
sale but one piece of property, and
that for a friend, to protect his prop
erty. Certain circumstances had led
us to suppose he was connected with
that ring, and we therefore innocently
introduced his name, though it may
have been enormously. We are not
disposed to Withhold from him the
benefit of this denial, which we sup
pose to be proper and true. We
think no man should be held to
answer for any more sins than he
commits, and as Mr.. Tomeny has
enough to answer for without this,
we take pleasure in Withdrawing the
charge.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03
YvOE's UNlTEO STATES Of AMERICA.

Editors Appeal: i noticed in Ap-
pLetOn's Journal a rather indefinite
and not very comprehensive descrip-
ton of a painting in Paris ordered by
A. T. Stewart, Of New York. Asst
seems quite probable paww Charmed,
picture will soon Seeenfe
on both sides Of the Atlantic, / take
the liberty Of extracting a more de-
tailed description from a letter from