The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-08-05

from the New York Times 7

woman, leading by the hand a boy aud
GIRL aged respectively five and six
years, applied for admlttance at the
Norgue. She explained that she was
IN quest Of her husband, Dennis Nc
Mahon. He had been shot III the right
hip and abdomen, and conveyed to the
hospital. but died shortly after being
ADM ted. The officer in attendance
explained the case to the women III as
few words as possible, and kindly ask
ed what disposition she wished to
make of the body. Trembling like an
aspen leaf, she listened to the story,
her face changing from pale to ashy
white, and her lips moving as II to con
tTadict the story
While listening to the details OF the
! death OF her husband. whose last mo-
ments had been spent III receiving the
consolation OF his priest, the children,
unconscious OF the magnitude OF their
loss, Were meanwhile running around
among the piles of collins, asking for
papa The little boy pointed limo
Gently to pile of children's collins,
and SAID to his baby sister, g See where
Vlloy put 11Jrle girls; oh pretty, pref
! ty = rubbing she side OF the little
coffin with his hand In the meantime
the little girl, in her search for pa
pa, was endeavoring to lit up the lid
OF a coffin, and peering through the
space between the lid and Tia edge OF
the coffin, said, Here's papa, all ice, :
"No, God forbid, darling," said the
mother, papa Is not here -
The incident moved to tears all who
witnessed 1t, and when the woman ex-
planned that she had not enough mon
ey to pay her car fare to Cathaune Fer
ry, which she wished to cross to see
her priest, a dozen hands went into as
many pockets, and as a good little purse
was instantly made up for her.
The report of orange-growing III Cali
fornia promise rapid money-mal1ing.
The average yield per tree is set down
st LOO 1t 1000 oranges be assumed
to each tree, however, and 20 trees be
assumed to the acre, the product 20, 800
oranges results. Calculating that these
sell ut 500 per thousand, the result Of
Sl4, 900 for an orchard of ten acres is
given. Cutting off one-half, to allow
for all contingencies, 1900 still re
mains as the Offering Of a single crop.
The proceeds Of a recent crop at Los
Angeles are reported at $40, 600, while
$500 only include the entire outlay due
to pruning, taking care OF the ground,
and 50 forth
ONE of the oldest questions ever
submitted to lawyers is now puzzling
those of Hartford, Conn. 1t seems that
a man who recently died there left a
abiIIlayr l,-I -, J,,.+I--
to become a mother BY his will he
provided that ii the expected child
should prove to be boy, two-thirds OF
the property should go to him, and one
third to the widowed mother. Ii, how
ever, the child proved to be girl, only
une-third of the estate was to go TO her
and two. thirds to the mother. The re-
suit, of course, was awaited with an in
terest even greater than that usually
bestowed upon such events. The re
suit is-the widow has become the
mother of twins--a boy and a girl
THIS Is an age of presentations; but
one man IN Vernon, VI, has received
an extraordinary testimonial from his
neighbors. He turned a sick woman
out ri a house he had purchased. De
slrous OF expressing their appreciation
OF this act his townsmCn sent him a
box, and upon olrening { a remarkable
and by no means agreeable perfume
was observable This Is accounted for
by the fact that IN the box was GER
tain animal called. among country peo-
pie, an essence-pedIaT The inter
view between the mean man and the
tour-leged pedlar rendered 1T necessary
for the former to inter his clothes.
4 SOUTHERN correspondents of the At
lanta GA Sun calls upon Gen. Josep
+. Johnston to publish a complete his
tory of the part he tool. III the military
operations of the Confederates, allow
ing no false delcacy toward the distin-
gulshed President of the Confederacy
to stand IN the way Of telling the whole
truth. The same writer asserts that at
the very moment of Gen. JohnstOn's
removal from command. he had com
menced a series of field movements
against Gen. Sherman's army, which
could scarcely have failed to deliver
Georgia from the invaders.
The street railroads have met with
another check IN the House of Com
mons, and bill for laying lines over
the West End OF London has been de-