The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-15
SUPERIOR TIMES.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1878
RYE Flour at Geo. M. Smiths.

IT is said that Niagara river has fallen
80 feet.
DURING 1872, 700 emigrants left En-
rope for America.
DR.. Livingston, the great African explor-
er, is 60 years old.
A BILL is before Congress reducing letter
postage to two cents.
An extra session of the forty-third con-
gress is not improbable.
Ex-Governor Geary of Pennsylvania,
died on the Sth Of heart disease.
CHOLERA has broken out again with new
violence in several places in Russia and
Hungary.
Mr.. Samuel W. Smith, died at Austin,
Texas, Jan. 90, aged So years. Obituary
next week.
SEVEN murderers were arraigned for trial
in New York on the 5th. All innocent
so they claim.
THE first train over the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, arrived in Richmond one
day last week.
THE weather of the week has been gen
orally mild and pleasant. Days and nights
bright and beautiful.
THE profit of the Credit Mobiler under
road was s29, 854,e 800.
COMMODORE Matthew F. Maury, the m ost
noted scientist in the country, died at Lex
ington, Virginia, last week.
THE Greeley estate is valued at $780,
600. The Misses Greeley have given up
the contest in the Will case.
THE Mor.nons are excited over the report
that the President has ordered transfer of
troops to the vicinity of Salt Lake.
CHARLES Francis Adams has been Sc
lected as the orator at the funeral obseques
in memory Of the late Mr.. Seward
In England, during three days of intense
cold in the beginning of this month, one
hundred persons were frozen to death.
THE amount owing the government by
the Pacific raiiroads-not the =. P.-for
balance of interest unpaid, is sl4,39O, 848.
VERY Rev. William Storrs, DID,, vicar
general Of the Roman Catholic diocese of
New York, died on Thursday of last week
PHILADELPHIA has subscribed $500, 900
in aid Of the Centennial celebration, and
the State of Pennsylvania proposes to dou-
bic the amount.
THE franking privilege, recently abolish
ed by Congress, was of eighty years stand
ing, having been enacted in 1892, during
Washngton's first administration.
SCARLET fever, so prevalent among the
children for some time past, we are glad to
say has entirely disappeared, and there is
now little or no sickness in town
AMADEUS, King of Spain, has abdicated
the throne, and Republican government
has been formed, with Signor Figueras as
President. The King has left Madrid for
Italy
THE Western Union Telegraph Co. has
reduced It's rates; and messages of ten
words are not to exceed $3.50 for any dis
lance, including to and from the Pacific
coast.
WISCONSIN contains copper, iron, lead
and zinc. in abundance; and it is believed
when all the mines are developed, it will
prove the greatest mineral producing State
in the West.
THE House Committee on Commerce,
has recommended an appropriation of 81 co.
600 "for dredging the Bay of Superior from
the natural entrance, to Superior and Du-
luth." We thought it was to be $780, 900.
AT Brainerd, on Wednesday, Jesse Will
son and Pat Egan were playing cards in a
billiard saloon, when a violent quarrel arose
between them resulting in the shooting and
killing of Egan. Wilson made his escape.
Dr. Thomas Foster, late editor and pro.
.prietor of the Duluth Mianesotian, has sent
a MESSAGE to Congress, giving his views as
to the proper treatment of the Indians, and
the conduct of the Indian Bureau by the
Government.
THAT live, wide-awake paper, the Brain
.erd Tribune, came to US last week, ad-
dressed, "TnEs, Superior, The to be Ze-
NTH City" Brainerd being the western
headquarters of the n. p. railroad, the Iri-
bune no doubt knows whereof it speaks
Guess they have heard from n. Y. and