The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-11
THE SUPERIOR TIMES.
9 Duluth dyke gaps Eero-ciously.
SATURDAY, HAY IL, 1872.

FIrsT boat is due some time next week.
Probably about Thursday.
ATTEMPTS at showing Thursday morn
ing, and yesterday afternoon.
Our railroad fellers are chock full of
plans but they essay nothing to nobody"
TUESDAY and Wedr esday, stiff North
easter prevailed with abundance Of rain.
livingstone is again in the Ujji bust
ness He had better come up to Lake SUI
perior and settle down.
Rev J. r. Quigley, editor of the appeal
has, we learn, discontinued services III the
M. E. church of this place.
ANOTHER and second break in the dyke
nearer the Rice's Point side
Mrs Dolby will next week receive al
handsome variety of new goods from Phil
adelphia Call and see them.
NIRs c. NJ. Syer begs to call the atten-
ton of the ladies of Superior to her assert
ment of millinery goods, for sale at cost.
ONLY few papers take stock in the ri
dculous gunpowder hoax Of the Duluth
Herald They are the victims of a huge sell.
DULUTH is soon to be flooded with hash,
mush, and small beer every morning, la
Rink. We pity the inhabitants of We Ze-
NTH
MAIL service between Australia and Eng
land is to be established via the United
States. Who will say the Pacific railways
are rot success?
MONDAY was a genuine autumn day.
Balmy, hazy, breezy, warm, with curtain
of blue smoke around the landscape, caused
by running fires in the woods
THE Ludec of Milwaukee has recently
been enlarged, and changed its name TO the
Christian Statesman. We find the States
man a sound and readable paper
FOSTER of the Winnes0tiaa (Which is for
SALE" says that the foremost men of Supe-
rior were engaged in an attempt to blow
up the dyke. Give the names.
MITCHELL repeats his pet lie about Supe-
rior originating the dyke. Mitchell knows
it is a lie, or he would take no pleasure in
repeating it. Say it some more, bub.
BAYFIELD, Press fears our temporarily
suspended railroad is fizzle. just wait
leetle. mine freu. The contract has year
to run yet How is the Bayfield, and Cheg-
wamagon sidewalk?
A wALL-eyed correspondent of the Min
neapolis Tribune talks about Superior be-
inc ''ieaous" of Ga ute. Did that quill
driver ever hear of St. Paul's jealousy Of
her Sn'anthony suburbs?
A SENSIBLE PHoJECT.-There is talk of
running a ferryboat regularly between this
place and Oneota. The plan is to connect
with the trains at OneOta, SO as to accom-
modate the travel to and from Superior.
SMALL boats have been going through a
gap in the dyke for some time. Ever since
Wednesday the steam ferry boat and the
tugs have been going through. On Thurs
day large dredge boat for Duluth was
towed through
LAKES Erie and Michigan are about q
foot and half lower than usual. 1t has
already been noticed that Lake Superior is
below the usual stage of water. The nota
BILE drought of the past twelve months has
not been without its effect even on the
great lakes.
THE waters of the ST. Louis river rush
through the Duluth canal, unimpeded by
the dyke 1t is shameful waste of time
and money, to try TO build a dyke, for it
and the canal closed when the State of
Wisconsin gets her due.
THE Chippewa Herald thinks this paper
is too constant on the Duluth encroach-
ments." Friend Ginty if an assassin were
at your throat, with savage clutch, your
only business would be to shake him off;
and until you had accomplished that little
thing, there wouldn't be much variety" in
your occupation.
A FIRE in Hudson, Wis, on Friday of
last week, destroyed about s125,0 900 worth
of property, as is estimated Their fine
hotel, the Chaplin Hall House, was con-
sumed with other buildings. We trust
that the Hudson people have had by this
time their full share of these affections, and
that vigilance and good fortune will exempt
them from further calamity of the kind,
henceforth With pluck and prOmptness