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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
The Prayer.
BX CHARLOTTE CoRDNEl


A pair of dimpled knees bent on the floor,
Two = lie dove-'ile eyes half shut in sleep
A little gold-ringed head-ths through the door
hear-asf-ng Sae A.old - crystal soul TO keep.
The CT imson checks seem by GIwn's 1gers stained
The dinspled hands, caeped by tee angels, seem
As sunset amber, yer her head is rained,
Kindling her curls with many tspering dream
Wrea! ned are her tiny feet with stories old,
L i roa lea amOspheres, methinks see,
EnwIap them IN the.- soft, ethereal fold,
Win loves pot elton, to the dimpi"d knee;
For stiT tie psoy songs and tales viii please,
AS when al Ike bits rom silEc2 skein,
She tired 70 .rot shem, ling my -nees,
In baby aclsrt= into thread again.
The little ys,y. 3, just parted are,
Throu II " 1ea re wEite-winged thoughts trool
fCftn to r-re,
AS, throgs . opening b1G, perfumes afar
Invisbly wcfte6 II re skies.
Now to hcc 6ovry gu 4 m darling's cscpt,
Where Z, o -ca- cur Ike lonquils = Inc snow
Clean oGt, 9s u ne sunOt ans there hid swept
A T.. IL cor such sweet flowers TO grow.
-4pTtetOns JoUrRci.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
Preparing Postage to Foreign COua.
fries.

The following extract from q letter
written by Mr.. Joseph Blackfan, Su-
perintendent Of Foreign Mails, viii b.
of interest to many Of our readers:
lnasmuch as correspondents IL the
United States are subjected to incon-
venience because of the inability, since
the abrOgation Of the postal convention
wit France, to fully prepay the post
age on letters to France and Algeria.
the Postmaster General has decided to
so modify the existing regulations gov
erning the collection of postage there
on as to permit the prepayment in full
to destination Of the postage ON such
letters for France and Algeria as may
hereafter be forwarded through the
British mail. Notice is therefore
given that the following prepaid
rates of postage are IL full of all charges
to destination on letters to France and
Algeria, forwarded Uia England: For
letters not exceeding one-thiTd ounce
in weight, 10 cents exceeding one
third, but not one half ounce, 16cents;
exceeding one-half, but not over two
thirds ounce, 20 cents exceeding two
thirds, but not over one ounce, IS
cents and so on, adding cents for
each half ounce for United States ana
ocean postage, and 6 cents for each
one-third ounce for British and French
postage. This modification of all ex-
Ting regulations does not int ce
with the mailing OF letters for Frunce
and Algeria, either wholly unpaid or
partially prepaid, the United States in
land and sea postage, of 4 cents p
single rate Of half an ounce"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
Arrival Of shinwrecked Mariners.

Captain Barker, of the steamship
Japan, wrecked on the east cape Of ST
IBERIA, in October Of last year, when
eight men were drowned, after winter
ing with the EsquimauX and suffering
great hardship, joined Captain Hays
and the crew of the . * OsIole, sunk
IN June last, after Sc ng from various
places in Alesl1a on little schooner to
Bourne, which finally became unsea-
worthy and vas abandoned. All have
al rived in San Francisco from Victorian.
They were given up for lost, not having
been heard from for months.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
Sonnet

Check every outfash, every rader sally
OF thought and speech; speak low and give Up
wholly
Thy spirit to mild-minded melancholy:
This is the place. Through yonder poplar valley
Below the blUe-grCen river windeih slowly
But in the middle CT the sombre valley
The crjsped waters H7jsper lnusicay,
And ali the hauntel place is dark and holy.
The nightengale. with long and lew preamble,
Warbled from yor Ter Knoll Of solemn larcHe-.
And in I'd out trs MOO. nc h1Ecrv arches
The summer rfi1ree rzgTa 1eir waIt5u a-nbci,
And all the white mos. rinewoo3 slept above
When in this v E-st i {. il my love.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02

A New USE OF LEAvEs.-A Vermont
er has recently tanned sevor,I sides Of
leather with I've, leachoG from forest
leaves. He has been experimenting
with leaves for two mon rs, with salts
factory results. one ton of leaves, it is
q arted, will tan as much leather as
I'VE cords of bark, and viii complete
sa process in one half the time. When
leaves and bark are mixed in e ual pr o.
po1 iode, che fourth of the time is saw
"a. The leather tanned By this pro
:. it is c','nol, is more flexible and
smoother th.n TIT t, nned by b-.Ik
wni7 e the stre1s h of the raw hide
re .noi in greater degree.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
L French Romance.

Count Benedict. who figured so
prominently ID the diplomacy which
Immediately preceded the Franco Ger
MN war, Is concerned in a curious az
fair, which is likely to come shortly
before the law courts. That gentle
man, who is himself Of Greek descent,
when consul in Egypt, married young
Greek LADY, who passed as the daugh
ter Of NJ. Anastasis, wealthy mer-
chant settled at Alexandria. It was,
however, generally known that Madame
Benedict was q Greek slave Of great
beauty, who had been taken very Young
into Egypt, after The war IN the Morea
NJ. Anastasis, who lad no family, had
purchased her, adopted and brought
her up, and on his death he left her
the whole OF his fortune, which AMOUNT
ed to several millions of francs. The
relations Of the deceased protested
against the viii, but did not venture to
dispute it under the Empire, the hus-
band OF Madame Ben-datti possessing
great influence. At present, however
Q nephew Of II. Anastasis has taken up
the subject, and placed it in the hands
OF two advocates Of Paris.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
WHAT WAS II!
How the Body Of II Drowned Man Was
Recovered.


Recovered.
From the Detroit Free Press.
friday night, about midnight, as
the steamer Milton ID. Ward was taking
on cargo at the foot of Wayne street,
the crew worked in lively way, the
alarm was raised that one OF the
roustabouts named Patrick Smith a
negro, had fallen into the river Two
or three men Immediately rushed for
the lie preselver hanging under the
shed, but they were so confused and
spent SO much time IN getting it ready
for throw, that Smith had sunk be-
fore the preserver reached the water.
AS he did not reappear, no further ef
forts were made in the case. and the
loading went ON and the steamer de-
parted.
Yesterday morning two sailors set
about searching for the body. Pro
curing a small boat and drag, they
spent several hours in rowing around
without finding the body, which was
at length supposed to have drifted I'M
der the wharf. About half-past ten
o'clock, huyer OF junk stuff named
DAVID Beplto, an Italian, who hap
pened to pass up the docks, watched
them for awhile, and then asserted that
be knew of something which would
lead to the speedy graphing up of the
body. lie proposed to get loaf of
bakers bread, ppt some quicksilver
into one end, and seriously asserted
that, on being thrown into the water.
it would feat to a point directly
over the body and then stand still.
He was hooled and told to go about
his Junk buying, not man believing
in the old wOmap's whim. as they
termed it, Pepito went away, but re-
turned in little while, threw loaf OF
Z brdhA into sfle water near where the
man went off the doch, and in a mo-
ment called the attention Of two men
standing below to the fact that the
loaf was spinning around like top.
1t went partly under the wharf, turned
ont into the stream, stood still fot a
moment, and then went half block
down stream, turning right and left,
and, as youched for by five different
men, stood still nearly two minutes
against the CT rent, which was floating
drift wood right by it. Very much
excited, the Italian shouted to the
searchers to drag over the SCOT They
were further down, and it was half an
hour before their drag passed over the
spot, but when ii did, it hooked into
the clothing OF the drowned sailor, an6
he was hauled to the dock and Coronel
Cahill sent for. The reader may sneel
at the matter as much as he pleases
but at least i've persons are ready tc
make oath to the statement made
above. It may be some old wolnan'S
whim; it may be matter OF science OF
nature, and perhaps some will call il
superstition: but no ore can go back
on the fact that the loaf Of bread indi
Gated the exact spot where the body
was found.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02

A sEGEANT or a corporal a~leep e.
pot might claim exemption from pun
lShme1t on the ground hat he W a
retired officer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02


H.
VISIONARY lrnlt-Ihe apple OF the
eye.
UNDERTAKES Jokes are apt to be
grave.
THE net to catch wife " IA cor
onet.
srro,.r. oop1-a-anoo- Tho ,,rfsonar,s
80, . -'-->'-Al- WV Gnu Nv
6 rr-r,,- i t7,o celestial :. Ross of+be
w. ,l,'l ~
lAn5 --,.-.
10 mend BAD sAeITJ lily e d 9H'l+s
cooblef'
HE rhyme Of the seWln8-Ih&ch1na---
Dlsstltch.
4 STAMP Won can't bav-Ihe starl,
OF a gentleman.
GREAT guns among election repeaters
Poll Parrots.
TopFr-GeApHTcAT, IegislatroD-The
nrobibitorv Ii0u0r law,
-. II, ,.,,-,-o7.+ ,7--,, .l.,
oa hh 1. 80 55of,,seI 80 to ro,7iId i
iiotl'e LOO -o-'''0N' - 1...-...
DOES Il co" become li ~ g p l7LoI''-.5
when she Is turned INTO O4e Het".
ARE acrobats unprinciPled men be-
cause they polse upon each other!
NEW voH- claims pODu.gtiau Of
400 0n- at noon Of any week Cg--.
~ A.. 7
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02

AUTUMN hues-cutting wood for win,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02
THE GYPSY'S GLASS.

Cissy Tborne was sitting by her toilet
table skipping a novel while her maid
Emma brushed her long, thick, silky
hair. Some people said it was false,
because there was so much of it: other
Chrietians we've certain it must have
been dyed, seeing that it had the pc
culiar bright, golden tint which is SO
often due 20 art; but Emma knew bet
,ec That exemplary girl took the
: me sort Of pride in her mistress hair
that good groom does IN the coats of
bis masters horses, ard was never tired
of brushing it. Fortunately the young
lady took an equal pleasure III her pass
i've pat of the performance, and so
both were satisfied. When the spoiled
beauty did not know what else 10 do.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-02

cAarERoNs block, in Goderich, Ont. Wa
burned on Wednesday. Loss 81. 900.
HING AMADEUS has created a special eros
for the decoration Of Spanish volunteers il
Cuba.
\ HEAVY earthquake occurred at Oqu u
aud the interior of Peru on 9Th Of to
be-. There was considerable "a = to I'D
ings in Oquique, and gre. panir no sh
people. Inc effects We're : o - il
the interior, where the tow F. IN,
Matilda we're t~oved. scarcel- hen.
left standing. Fire succeeded tn uak,
in RIGA. At S,-nfeca the tn,
Pantheon end eighteen h de
rcyed. TIE towns of Us ANA
and 2, ahica also sr1e ed sey yel . fa.
Ives were los ne :. same. p maze t.
ear,' lUaL =. Arequip-- s.
tie 4th ard but no ~ Q dam
aged
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The FINANCIAL RESULT OF PREsI-
DENT GRANTS ADMINISTRATION SUM
MED UP.-The result of Gen. Grants
administration, financially, is this: That
the public credit has been SO improved
that per cent. bonds, which sold for 80
cents in coin, are worth to-day about 100 !;
and that . per cent. bonds, which in Ju-
ly, 1868, sold for le:s than rs per cent.
were worth about par in the markets of
the world. More than s250,000,000 of
the public debt has been paid. The tax
es have been reduced at the rate of $780,
10000 year, and our financial condi-
ton at this moment is such as to Justify
the expectation that at the next session
OF Congress they may be reduced at least
s30,O00,000. Further, s200,000,0 900 Of
bonds, bearing interest at the rate of 6
per cent. are being called in, and in their
place an equal amount of bonds, bearing
interest at the rate of per cent. are
to be issued, making saving for the ten
years of more than s24,000,OOO. The
interest account has been reduced about
s15,ooo,ooo year. The net expenses,
excluding the interest on the public debt,
pensions, bounties, the cost of the inter
nal revenue bureau, ana all the expenses
resulting from the war, have been reduc-
ed from sl73,520,37l for the year ending
June 30, 1868. to s95,64S, 592 for the
year ending June 80, 1871, thus showing
the actual cost of the peace establish
ment to be less than one hundred mil
lions year.-SecretaTy Boutwell, at Gin
cinnati.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

- In the Swiss war accounts. is an
item for an allowance of two cents daily
for three cats, who act as guardians of
the corn stores of the confederation
against foraging rats.
j. j. Smith of Rochester, N. H.
nearly died from suffocation by coal gas
recently. He retired for the night with
coal fire in the stove, leaving the stove
door open, and the damper turned, fill
ing the room with gas. IF the fire had
not gone out he would have died. As il
was he was unable to speak when called
to breakfast.
- The people in the Pennsylvania oil
districts seem to grow up with natural
tendency to introduce an explosive ele-
ment into everything, otherwise it is
worthless. Their latest invention is fiy-
paper, covered with nitro.glycerine, glue
and molasses. The flies attracted by the
molasses, alight and are stuck fast by
the glue. Should any get away, they
proceed to rub their legs together in ecs-
tasy, when the friction of theirown shins
causes the nitro glycerine adhering to
their feet and limbs to explode, blowing
them to atoms.
Mr.. Pendleton having said, in one
of his sophomore speeches, that it was
an appalling fact that there wasn't mon
ey enough in the country, by $3.50, OO0.-
600, to pay the taxes of the nation and
States, if the people were required to
pay them all in one day, Senator Nor
ton replies as follows in his Cincinnati
speech: "Well, now, that is a tremeu-
dous thought; and it is also an appalling
fact that if the people were required to
eat in one day all they now eat in the
course of year, they would inevitably
burst"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06
The New York City Frauds.

AS great as have been the frauds Of tn,
Tammauy thieves in New York city
more are constantly being found. A
new list of frauds has just been publish
ed by the New York Evening Mail
The accounts published by the Times
some weeks ago were those of the county
of New York. The figures of the Mail
are new revelation. Ingersoll, Carney,
Keyser and their mysterious companies
all re-appear as chief partisans in the
wholesale plumber that has been going on
under both the country and city admin
istration, while new comrades Of the now
notorious gang are brought to light.
For instance. Keyser Il Co. appear to
have received from the city 81, 1854,
in addition to their Sl,23l ,S19 levied
from the county. This example of i'm
Partially with which the county and
city have been plundered may answer
for the rest of their equally celebrated
contemporaries in the same business.
The New York Printing Company receiv-
ed S260,000, and the Transcript associa-
ton, which is part of the New York
Printing Company, received 100000.
One contractor for clearing streets receiv-
ed 81 100000, and another contractor
S36O,000. Gas lamps and street-signs
in one year cost $4,000, and brooms
and brushes for street-sweeping cost $780,
600. Lamp-posts in one yea cost $780,
600 to one contractor and $4,000 to an
other Things are getting interesting,
and the Mail promises more revelations.
Another installment of Tammany &C
counts, brought out by the committee of
seventy, is also published, extracts from
the city accounts from 1869, 1870 and
1871, as kept in the Controllers depart
ment. The books from which these ac-
counts are taken are marvels of compii. !
cation. No better system of fraud could !
well be devised, and without the lost and
stolen vouchers, or duplicates, the full
extent of the frauds can never be reveal
ed. No personal accounts with contrac-
tors appear to have been kept, and the
payments to individuals, as published,
are picked out of multitude of accounts,
in each of which debts to scores of con-
tractors are entered.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The BosToN Wool MARKET. There
are no new features in the wool market,
save little more inquiry from manufac-
turers, whose supplies are running low err
We may, however, still be permitted to
report quiet market. Holders feel that
the manufacturers will soon run short of
stock and be compelled to resort to them,
when they anticipate more liberal figures.
There is nothing now to prevent an i'm
mediate resumption of liberal trade, but
for the difference of views in buyers and
sellers. This difference amicablv settled
and large trade may reasonably be ex-
pected. So say those who would be
thought wise. There are no signs of con-
ession yet. Holders think fine domestic,
is low enough now in comparison with
corresponding grades of foreign. Besides
they paid high for it last summer, which
they think is a valid reason for asking
good prices now. Buyers are paying
trltie higher Tor what they must have for
immediate use. There is little doing in
the eoarser grades. Good lots of common
and medium command extreme prices.
Pulled is scarce and high. Sales of do
nestle the past week have been larger
than for several weeks previous reach
ing 100000 lbs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

A Brattleboro republican gave US his
view of the political situation, the other
day, in some respects so novel that we
tried to remember its substance. Said
he; Gen. Grant is going to be nominal
ed for reelection. Horace Greeley is 90
ing Cor preparing to be the democratic
candidate. Didn't Mr.. Greeley make
his tour to Texas? Didn't he sign Jeff
Davis bail bond Hasn't he always ia
vored amnesty? Didn't Salmon P. Chase
want the republican nomination at the
last presidential election, and because
they would not give it to him was he not
ready to accept it from the democrats
And will not Horace Greeley be as
ready to accept nomination from the
democrats in 1872, as Chase was in 1868 {?
i" Barkis is willin'.'
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The democratic hope in New York
this fall, is based almost entirely on the
quarrels of their opponents, since the
July riot and the exposure of the Tam
many frauds, and if there is not virtue
enough left in the republican party of
that State, to secure their present oppor
tunity, then surely they do not deserve
success. We are not yet without hope
that the republican freemen will unite
at the polls in November, and thus place
the Empire State in the ranks Of the re-
publican line where she honestly be-
longs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

During the past two years 59,000,-
600 sheets Of official paper for the gov
eminent printing department at Wash
ington, have been manufactured. So
careful record has been kept that pieces
as small as the half of ten cent note
have been made spec;alities of account.
Those clerks would be good ones to look
over New York accounts.
A Chicago physician of wealth,
skill and position, but addicted to drink,
recently gave himself up to debauch
with his father, who was affected with
similar weakness, and for week they
gave way to reckless indulgence. At
the end of that time the father died of
delirium tremens, and few days after
the son followed him, and was buried at
his side.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The Butler campaign having subsidized
in the old Bay State, comparative polit-
zeal quiet prevails there, and probably
will continue so till the State election in
November excepting perhaps in few
localities where there will be contests for
members of thelegislature. Gen. But
Ter gave in his adhesion to the result of
the republican State convention in brief
and creditable speech. The hopes of the
democracy in Massachusetts have there
force ito nought, and it would be high
ly gratifying if as much could be said Of
New York.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The dem ocracy of New Hampshire
are uneasy. The elections thus far this
fall do not please them. They tear the
temporary power they obtained last
spring may slip away, and want some
legislation to make their ascendancy
more secure, and for which purpose they
would like an extra session of the legis-
lature, and It is reported that secret
circular has been sent out from Concord,
asking the opinion of the leaders of the
faithful on such a project. 1t would be
an interesting item TO the tax payers of
the Granite State to pay five or ten
thousand dollars for the luxury of an ex-
ira session-a matter which the people
would be very likely to settle in an en-
phatic manner next spring.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

ARREST OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. Brig
ham Young was arrested at Salt Lake
City on Monday, on charge of bigamy.
1t would appear that the L. S. authori-
ties propose to test his right to a plural-
ty Of wives in defiance of the laws. The
arrest was made by the United States
marshal. Owing to the sickness of the
prisoner, he was allowed to remain at
his house during the night, in charge of
the deputy marshal. He will be taken
before Judge Mexican. The penalty
upon conviction is Imprisonment for not
over ten years nor less than six months :;
and fine of not over $1,000 nor less than
500. The rumors of trouble and an
outbreak of the Mormons are not to be
credited. The Mormon leaders give as.
surances that all processes of the court
will be obeyed. The governor has made
evry preparation for an emergency, and
he will maintain the laws at any cost.
Another company of United States troops
arrived on Monday, in addition to three
companies which arrived ON Sunday
night.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

The town elections in Connecticut on
Monday, show unexpected republican
success, especially in the cities of Hart
ford and New Haven, both of which
went republican. They have usually
been democratic, and sometimes have
been supplied with voters from New York
city in close State election, and the
result on Monday, shows the fatal eff
feet of the Tammany dead weight.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

gsS@ 1t is broad claim in an article
OF daily and universal use, that it is bet
ter and cheaper than any other; but the
public has endorsed this claim for boots
and shoes made with Cable Screw Wire.
The immense demand Of the past is
steadily augmenting. In our paper may
be found card in relation to these ex-
cellent goods.