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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-06
Notice If Loss Of Land Office Receipt.


the undersigned hereby gives notice that he will
appl, u the Hon. Commissioner Of the General Land
Office for repaymt ut IF the purchase money, by him
paid enr-y of the northeast quarter q section
Fourteen. Township torty>eight Range Fifteen West
per Receivers Excess Receipt No 1887 issued at
Bay Wisconsin, bearing date the third day of
March 1868. the same having been adiuaked invalid
and cancelled. Aud the undersigned further gives
notice that he has lost said receipt aud that he has
rct sold, assigned nor Ia ANY way encountered the
tiSle the tract OF land sfaresG suy part there's
of AID Is the sole aud ulvsowuer of sd receipt and
the only person entitled 10 the repayment afore-
said. y. GEO. NOR fIS0N.
Superior, Wis August 18th, 1878. 8ug23 -ci
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20
What Buried HercuIaneum T!

| What was the fate of Herculaneum
during the eruption of A. ID. 79f What
special phenomena were displayed on
that side of Vesuviuss What cause
buried fiourishing city 1T an instant
out of sight of the inhabited worldG
1t has been proved that Pompei suffer
ed an interment so incomplete that
after few days its inhabitants could
recognize their dwellings,, could encamp
about and clear them out. Hercula-
neum, on the contrary, was bu-
ried so deep that the next day
it was impossible to trace a YES
tige of it. The ready answer to
all these questions usually is:
"Lava worked all the ruin. Harcu-
laneum was swallowed up under 50 feet
of lava. Ii works of art, bronzes and
pictures have been miraculOusly pre-
served, it was due to the lmpenetrable
shield of lava, yielding only to a cut
ting tool, that protected them from the
rayages of time The explanation is
tempting Fancy pictures of waves of
fire rolling upon the city, rising like
the tidal swell, surging i'll through
doors and windows, sweeping around
and moulding everything, then slowly
cooling and preserving for poster
ity treasures that labor must
unveil, repaid by their recov-
cry in unframed beauty. This
is really the opinion that all Europe
holds at Naples almost all visitors of
Herculanemm declare that they have
touched the lava with their own hands
and in books written on the Fesuyian
cities, more than one traveller aiiirms as
positively that the difficulty Of cutting
the lava presents the chief obstacle to
the disinterment of Herculaneum. How
can one venture to meet such conylc-
tons by asserting that water, not fire.
overwhelmed Herculaneum that it
was not torrent OF glowing lava, but
food OF mud and wet ashes that
filed the city How uproot pre-
possession Sc deep that works of
biologists and sdrdnts have failed to
shake it? Defrenoy proved that water
alone swept over HerculaneWm heaps
of scoria and pumice crumb.cG from
La Somma; Dyer, Overlook, Ernst,
Breton, and others, have affirmed in
various languages, to no purpose, that
nothing but ashes wet to paste and
hardened by pressure, covered over
Herculaneum no one needed them,
and the blame continues to be thrown
on the lava. Which makes excavation
so costly and laborious. III. BueIe ia
Popular Science Monthly for Dccens-
her,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20
A New Outlet TO the Baltic.

The statement that Germany has de-
cided to appropriate part OF the
French indemnity to the construction
Of ship canal across the peninsula of
Jutland is of considerable Importance.
This canal has long been contemplated,
but it is only lately that it has taken
the form of definite project, and in it
is found an explanation OF the sudden
anxiety OF Germany to acquire from
England theisiand of Heligoland, which
commands the mouth of the Eyser.
The commercial importance Of this
canal will be very great. During
the long winter season the narrow
strait between Denmark ana the Sean
dinavian peninsula is SO closed with
ice as to render navigation impossible,
and the trade OF the Baltic has no out
let by water until the channel reopeus
III the spring. This is a very serious
matter, considering the magnitude of
the trade in grain, ore, tlmber, hides,
tallow and hemp thus held locked in
during four or five months of each
year, or forced to seek an outlet over
land, with heavy attendent expenses of
increased freights and costly ship
ments. With the opening of the pro
posed canal, the trade of the Baltic
will not only fad shorter,
safer, and cheaper outlet to the
ocean than is now afforded, but as it is
intended to keep the channel open by
artificial means the year round. con
tinuous trade with England, France.
Holland and Spain can be maintained.
giving co.. slant and profitable employ
ment to shipping, which must now be
idle during Il great part of the year.
Inc canal also possesses Il considerable
Importance to Germany, in aifording
means Of moving its navy to and from
the Baltic in winter, and atfording its
merchant marine a chance to escape to
safe anchorage in case f war with any
neighboring power.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20

the Indian appropriation bib was concurred
in. The President pro tenn appointed Messrs.
Morrill,, Scott, Wright and Stevenson special
committee to consider the testimony OF the
Credit Mobilier Committee transmitted from
the House, affecting certain Senator'S. The
consideration OF the finance bill was resumed,
but on motion of Mr.. Salisbury the bill was
tabled, yeas %, nays q. The diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill next received at
tention.
HOUSE. The Committee 81 Ways and
Means reported several amendments to the
internal revenue law. A large number Of
pension bills were passed. A bill was reported
Authorizing the construction Of railroad
bridge across the Missis Jpn river near Mem
phis. The remainder Of the session WAS oe-
cupied with the consideration OF the post Office
appropriation bill.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20
A REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED.
The Placing of The Loan.

Since the award of 100000. geo of
five per cents to the new syndicate, an
offer has been made to the Treasury
Department, 10y combination of Eng
lish and German bankers, to take
bonds on different, and they claimed,
more advantageous terms to the Gov
erment. General Butler urged the
claim, of the new association, styling
itself a consortium, upon Secretary
Boutwell, and the Treasury authorities;
but, after consideration and discussion
ut the Cabinet meeting, it was
decided TO adhere to the plan
already adopted and place the loan
with Cooke, Morton and their asso-
ciates. One feature fthe latter propo-
Sitiou was the oGor to put up $4,000,
600 of coin MS a deposit ON the first
subscription instead OF the much
smaller amount proposed by the syndi-
cate Several Democratic tnanciels Of
the House. to whom knowledge Of the
offer had come, were meditating to-
day q resolution Of inquiry Of Mr..
Bautwed Tor the details of the prop0-
sttIou and his reason for declining it..
but nothing Of the kind made its APP
pesrauee.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20

TIM corpse Of Auber, the composer.
was accidentally thrown into tDe Fosse
Commune at the Pere II Chase. and his
relatives had considerable difficulty in
recovering il. The remains were finally
buried i the Mount p arnasse cemetery.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-20

THE national gallery OF London con
taias l9,0o9 pictures by Turner.
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
The Pivotal Point.

The Advertiser of last evening mounts the
s'pivotal point on the Gubernatorial ques-
ton, and vibrates spasmodically with an evi-
. dent disposition to point duo northeast, to
which it would yield were it not for the fact
that it would thereby agree with somebody
else, and would violate its organic law by
ceasing for the moment to be on the off side
of things. So it still presents the spectacle of
sblack and white magnetic needle" vaguely
vibrating with no present prospect of repose.
1t talks good deal of rot about "our rulers"
and closes with the following bit of fine writ
ing, which we solemnly assure our readers is
an extract from the Advertiser and not
from the State, in spite of its intrinsic evil
dences: -s1..-,- ..sr..
Success however, converts rebellion into
revolution, and there is no doubt whatever
that just now a revolutionary spirit is abroad,
which would consign really unsuitable can
didate to the tomb of the Capulets with medi-
eval calmness and satisfaction. There were
people standing on the street corners this
bright morning, irresponsible people, whose
opinions nobody is bound to respect, and
whom no well informed newspaper would for
moment think of citing az authority on a
political question; and these people were say
ing, one to another, that we are indebted for
the concession which is to give us so unexcep-
tionable a Governor as Judge Kent, solely to
the mutinous attitude of the lower classes,
who only vote and have nothing to do with
the nominations. But people will talk, in
fact, that is about the only privilege they
have left, besides paying the taxes.
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

The chamber of Life Insurance which has
recently been organized in New York, defines
Its objects to be cooperation and mutual
protection. In order to accomplish these pur-
poses, the Chamber av0ws its intention to
promote just and equitable legislation" in
any of the States of the Union, and to "op-
pose such proposed legislation as may be un-
just and prejudiciap' to Insurance interests:
also, to ''obtain by all proper means the re-
peal of "obnoxious legislation" and "particu-
larly all statutes for unfair taxa
ton OF Lite Insurance Companies"
Or in palmer English the companies compris-
Ing the chamber are TO expend the greater
part Of their force in the Hobbies of the diff
erent State legislatures to secure such legis-
lation as will be to their advantage and pos
sibly to the disadvantage of the general public
outside. twill be well to bear this matter
inmind against next winter. Two of the
strongest companies in New York and many
ofthe younger and weaker ones have not
Joined in the movement.
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
News and Other Items.

A Washington special names Secretary
Delano and Minister Schenck as probable candi
dates for Senator from Ohio next year.
Josh Billings wife keeps a boarding house,
so as to be able to supply him with ever fresh
material for his hashy jokes
Ex-Senators Nye and Cole are put down on
the latest slate for the st. Petersburg and Yed-
do missions, respectively. erti FL %,
Congressman Farwell of Chicago, is said to
contemplate retiring at the close of his present
term.
The Chicago Times is still loyal to Charles
o. Conor, and wants to be President long
enough to make him Chief Justice.
The Chicago Tribune thinks that if anybody
can be said to have earned the position of Chief
Justice, Senator Howe of Wisconsin, is the
man.
p Chicago stone cutters have voluntarily reduc-
times" from $3.50, for the working day of
eight hours, to 81. 'r-s. tl5r.r-77. q.
The French wine crop is reported to be en-
tlrely destroyed by frost. The estimated loss
in the Chrome is 100000 francs. Other de-
partments suffered heavily.
The Good Templars of Liverpool recently
celebrated their second anniversary. During
those two years they have received 1000 MEM
bers In southwest Lancashire the order num-
bers II 1000.
The empress of Russia is now on visit to
Italy. While strolling through the streets of
Sorrento recently, peasant woman presented
the empress with some oranges, and was as
tonished to receive in return $40 gold piece.
The Baltimore spiritualsts are having some
fun, At recent seance they brought John
Knox and Queen Mary together, and amused
themselves in hearing the stern old Puritan
spurning the sentimental overtures of the
charming little papist. ~ .--.t<
Joseph J. Marvin pays 5000 for the amuse-
ment involved in striking Jay Gould with the
back of his hand. Had he inflicted legti-
mate blow he would have been fined no more;
and the next time he amuses himself, it is ear
nestly hoped, he will manage to get the worth
of his money.
A correspondent of the Manchester (Eng.)
Examiner says he "never knew days health
until he took to smoking" But that proves
nothing. We hear of lady who never had
peace or comfort until her husband, who was q
grossly incorporate man, died.
Mr.. George G. Harding, editor of the Indian
apolis Herald, is very unfortunate journalist
On last Monday, notorious courtesan chased
him around the streets with dire threats, and
the neat day H. S. Vance, an actor, caned him,
shot at him and offered him other indignities,
on account of the Objectionable manner in
which MIR. Harding had editorially referred to
him. -II.-.s. n = =
Mrs. Brinkerhoff, travelling lecturer of the
woodruff type, after staying short time in
the family of Mr.. Squiers, an intellectual shoe
maker of Battle Creek, Mich, was SO pleased
with her host that she carried him off bodily
from poor Mrs. Squiers, giving as her reason p
tor SO doing that Squiers was the only man she
enough for her
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
Commercial Conventions,

Parson Brownlow in his yet vigorous style
informs The gentlemen Of the South and
Southwest who are busy in getting up com.
merciai conventions that in the DAYS before
the rebellion, they We're the nurseries of Sc
cesslon and sectional feeling, and bluntlv in
forms them that the results of the nresent
meeting at St. Louis will not be for the gener-
algood. ..,.-.-+...'. ''-N seN~'-
mere can be no objection to capitalists and
producers holding meetings to devise plans
anu take measures to secure the healthy de-
.eiopnent OF the country, or to discuss the
improvement and increase of the channels of
CONNIE zee between different sections of the
country.
i1c Only suspicious indication respect
ing the st. Louis meeting, is that its
projectors have made unusual exertions to
secure the attendance of a large number of
congressman, who are assured that they are
to be taken over the country simply because
the enterprising South-westerner has sudden
ly coma to appreciate the man who cannot
write IN. c." with any effect on his letter
envelopes after the first of July next.
There can be no one so ignorant of the ways
of the world as to suppose that this effort to
secure the attendance of hundred and fifty
congressman is a mere ebulltion of good feel
ing, or that they desire to show them the
glory and opulence of the Southwest be-
cause they appreciate a congressman of him
self. The fact is, these intelligent st. Louis
men have a design upon the treasury of the
general government, and they are confident
that they can best influence the gentlemen
who vote away that money by having them
at their banquets for whole week. The pro-
jectors have magnificent plan for vast inter
nal improvements and as the ordinary lobby
is under cloud from the revelations Of last
winter, they have shrewdly hit upon this
plan. = ia..s'
Not so wise in their method, the Southern
governors are soon to meet and petition the
Federal government TO invest in an enter
prise to connect the Tennessee and the At
lantic at Savannah by a canal. There are
many other schemes for the construction of
communications, vast and important in their
conception, but all looking to the general
government for the money wherewith to
build them. All these works are very desir-
able but the country is not at present in a
condition to take any part in the construc.
ton of these great improvements. Indeed, it
is very possible that large majority of the
people, from the experience of the past, are
opposed to government aid or participation in
railroads and canals, at any time Or under any
circumstances
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, IS:
AT THE COURT OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS begun
and held at PORTLAND, within and for the County
OF Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of January. A.
ID. 1873, to wit: at adjournment thereof held at
said Portland on the sixth day of May, A. D. 1873.
On the foregoing Petition of the Boston g. Maine
Railroad by their Attorney, w. L. Putnam praying
said County Commissioners to estimate the damages
sustained by John Lindsey and others as represented
in the foregoing petition in consequence Of the Oca
ton of SAID Railroad over their land,
1T tcds Ordered, That the said Commissioners will
meet at their office in Portland the eleventh day
OF June A. D. 1873 at ten o'clock A. NJ. and that the
petitioners give notice thereof to parties interested
by publication of said petition and order of notice
therein, in the Portland Daily Press newspaper
printed in Portland, in said County OF Cumberland
two weeks successfully, the last publication to be
fourteen days before said hearing at which time and
place. afer 1t has been satisfactorily shown that the
above notice has been dulygyen,) the Commissioners
will proceed to view the premises; and after such
view they will give hearing to the parties interest
ed, and their witnesses at some convenient place in
the vicinity and then proceed to estimate the dam
ages sustained aforesaid in consequence of the To-
cation of said Railroad over said land.
Attest:-D. w. FESSENDEN, Clerk.
A true copy Of Petition and Order thereon.
Attest:-D. w. FESSENDEN, Clerk.
mY14 12t
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
FOREIGN PORTS.


At Singapore March 81. ships Majestic Gibbons for
Liverpool; Calcutta, Davis, for Boston Is days.
At Calcutta 4th ult. ship Geo Skolfeld, Merriman,
for Boston; barque Lizzie H, Spring, unc.
Sid FIN Gibraltar Sd ult, ship Rochester, Clough,
(from Messina) for New Orleans; barques Harvest
Moon, Perry, (from do) for New York; J g Norwood,
CURE, from do) for do.
=, Sid I'm Curacao 10th ult, barque Henry Knight,
Gllkey, Hamburg. ''t
:. Sid FIN Cienfuegos Sd inst brig NJ Roberts. Jen-
Pbs,d hSTfhand 5th barque Sam Sheppard Evans,
Ar at Caibarien 18th ult. brigs Ernest Thomson.
philadelphia; 10th, Thomas owen. Gnptill. do: 97h
Lomond; Gilchrist. do Lizabei, Maboney1 do do sch
Vort e Mn smith, do Goth, brig Matte RUSSELL
Sid FIN Havana I'd inst, barque g W Roosevelt, Her.
ze Zittesen Daw for New YORK Via LIZ
Ralph Carlton, Patten, Sagua; Louisa Bliss Strong
M1atsn7 s,s 9Th brig Geo Chase
Cid 9th, sch Nellie Chase, Dalling, Sagua.
Ar at Matanzas 9Th, brig Antilles. Thestrup Port
land sch Louisa Bliss, Strong. Havana 9th, barque
Sandy Hook, Rarstow, New York; Lizzie jackson,
Warwick, st Thomas.
Sid Sd, barque Walter, for North of Hatteras brig
temore, Cardenas; Alzena, Boynton for Sagua; 9Th
barque Martin W Brett, Davis, New York; brig Kos
sack Elliott. do.
Ar at Cardenas ID inst. brig Abbie Titcomb. Hall
New York; sch e Sawyer, Kelley, st John. NIB
Sd, barque AbGe N Franklin Holbrook. Matanzas
tiers, Hooper, st John, NIB; Ella Hodgdon, Nicker.
son. and Mary W Hopper, Hodgdon, Havana 9Th
bar9ue Geo " Roosevelt, Herman. FIN Havana; BRIG
Robin. Woodman, New York; Jas Miller, Thombs
do; Geo Berry, Bradley, st Thomas. ~
Sid Sd, sch Fannie A Bailey, Coonlbs, North Of Hat
teras; Sd, barque Hancock. Collins, do; briggs f Fl
Kennedy, Hallett, Sagua; Goodwin, Craig, North Of
Hatteras. - r-.s
Arat Sagua Cd. sch speedwell. Drisko St Thomas.
Sid "a, barque Mary Z Libby Libby, New York
Ar at North Sydney CB, 2Sth uft, ship Coronet
O'Brien, Bremerhaven.s -
Cid at Cow Bay CB 9Th inst, schs Geo Hughes, and
Mary White, for Portland. tr.-.
SPOKEN.
March 10, lat As S. Ion 2S 05 w, ship Sooloo from
Boston for Anjier. trm ur- -t.ra
April 5, lat so, Ion &c 49, ship Sylvanus Blanchard
from Cardiff for Callao % days out.
April %, lat 80, lon 49, barque Clara Eaton, from
Galveston for Liverpool -
May 9, lat SO, lon Y, barque Eliza Cochrane,
bound South. -
No date lat IL 4s s. lon 80 % W, ship Resolute, FIN
Callao for Falmouth, L. se .. ~
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
Purgation and pros.ra,iou.

Let us rejoice that the absurd and paradoxical idea
that sick people could be restored to health and
strength by violent cathartic treatment has been
pretty generally exploded If there are still to be
found any medical dogmatists who believe such
practice, the sooner their sands of life run out
the better it will be for their patients more ra-
tonal mode of dealing with human ailments was
inaugurnted some twenty years ago when Hostetters
Stomach Btters were introduced and that powerful
vegetable invgorant began it's triumphant progress
to universal popularity. The world now under
stands the Importance of strengthening, refreshing
and regulating, as well as purging the disordered
together under the fourold operation the standard
restorative of the age. Prepare the system for debi
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

IT is matter for general congratulation
that ex-senator Pomeroy of Kansas announ-
ces that he will have nothing further to do
with politics. The joy that the announce
ment gives, however, is crushed at its portal
with the fear that sold Subsidy" viii change
his opinion on this subject
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

"OccAs1oNAL' the Augusta correspon-
dent OF the argus has an exuberant but way
ward imagination, as will be seen by letter
published Tuesday morning respecting the
Republican nomination for Governor. His
prophetic eye beholds the slaughter of other
candidates in turn by Mr.. FarwelI of Rock
land, who is par excellence the ling man. It
shows how little the Augusta prophet knows
about the situation when he fails to mention
the name of Judge Kent who is to-day the
strongest candidate in the field, and names as
the most formidable gentleman who has
already retired. occasional and his party
associates have invested largely in the pro-
phecy business, but never in the history of
the world, has the future tense been used so
little to the purpose. .e ....
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
TIL E PR e SIS,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY IA, 1873.

EVERY re ,ular attache OF the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
PulIsn, Editor. All railway, steamboat ami hote
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials every person claiming to represent our
iouraai, as we have information that several pun
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name u ns0
pHEss. and we have no disposition 70 be, even pas
sveiy, a party to such fraud
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

WI. ,fo+ ma, road ANONYMOUS letters and communi-
.,tin. The name and address the writer are in
all e. not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty ofgood faith.
W, cannot undertake to return Or reserve COM
mupicatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

THE Blair family is still. alive and the Hon.
Montgomery is so cOgnizant with the events
of the day that, in connection of the con-
test between the Postmaster General and the
railroad companies about the compensation
for postal transportation, he has taken the
pains to publicly say that he 'tmaintains that
under the constitution congress has full power
'oreguate commercewith foreign nations and
among tne several states, and therefore is at
hoerty TO regulate the rates for carrying
mans anu such other transportation as it may
DC iound necessary to regulate" This is GER
talnly putting livery strong for a states rights
man in time of peace. = :,
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

rur u.r+sord Courant says that chose
who are familiar with the facts VIII DC 1 gaa 70
know that Charles Summers married M l,ie mas
o nnI@ III His marriage was an ill-advised one,
o - .he contracting parties were so totally dis
Sin,ilar in their tastes and modes of living and
60 confirmed in their separate individualities
that union was impossible. Their divorce,
which is the legal sanction of separation
which has continued for several years, leaves
them free without stain upon the personal
character of either.
The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14

THAT Modoc, scar-faced Charley, whose
scalp has so many times been exhibited, evil
IDENTIFY has as many lives as the traditional
rebel general who was killed in every battle
but turned up more powerful than ever, in
the next. Atlast accounts he was doing du-
ty with fnll head of hair and adorned with
a goodly number of scalps.