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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05

| Greatest * Bore - OF The Age-The MOn-
| stcf Projected Tunnel.

stcr Projected Tunnel.
From the Denver Coli Tribune June a.
For some time past the territorial
papers have contained brief references
to proposed tunnel, which was to be
carried through the Rocky Mountains
from point near Black Hawk, and
coming out in Middle Park. These
items were religiously copied by the
Eastern press, but the story sounded
Munchausenish, and people in general
were 10th to believe III the mammoth
enterprise.
Now, however, it is known that the
project has been fully inaugurated,
and that its protector is on the ground
with ample means and labor to prose
cute the work to completion.
From the Black Hawk Journal of
June l3 we obtain the following par
ticuiars regarding the proposed work ::
The tunnel will be about twelve
miles long. Its greatest depth will be
5000 feet at James peak. 1t will make
Middle Park readily accessible from
the eastern portion of the Territory.
will show what is the mineral and
geological character of this section,
and Will tolerahly extensively adver-
tlse the country as the scene of an en-
terprise twice as large and a hundred
times as important as the Mount Gents
tunnel. Col. Heaton Will use the dia-
mond pointed drills, and thus not be
Obliged to keep IN operation numerous
blacksmith shops. They will be driven
by machinery. And it is expected that
the tunnel will progress at the rate of
five feet per hour, or sixty feet per day.
| Earl y next year work will commence
| from Middle Park.
Already considerable work has
| been done The mountain has been
graded down for the face of the tunnel:
a fume 1899 feet long has been built
! from the creek, by which a fall OF
twenty-five feet is obtained for the pur-
pose Of turning an over-shot wheel, by
means Of which the tunnel is to be
| supplied with air strong levee has
| been built to prevent the water of the
creek from overlooking and embarrass-
ing operations Iii the tunnel a large
| boarding house, 60x25 feet and two
stories high, has been built, a substan-
tial bridge has also been built over the
creek, on the road leading to the Lake
Gulch country.
The objects of the tunnel are, to af-
ford a means OF working the discover
ed mines rapidly and cheaply, to dis
cover and open new veins, and to al
ford a track for a railway. 1t will strike
the Bobtail, first of known mines, and
400 feet below the present tunnel
| The effects Of the success of this en-
tcrprise can hardly be estimated. 1t
may cause to pass through our section
and under our mountains all, or nearly
all, the trans continental travel
The company, by name the Sierra
Madre Tunnel Company, of Colorado,
have ample capital, and will push the
project rapidly to completion. Though
the enterprise is Of such magnitude as
to dazzle the imagination and staggel
and bewilder the Judgment, yet if the
mining resources of the country are
what we all believe them to be, it is
not chimerical, and is sure TO be a
source Of profit 10 the company and OF
incalculable benefit to the Territory
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
The True NObleman.
BY c.. W. BUNGAY.

No airs, no rudeness, no pretenee,
No lack OF plain good common sense;
No boorlsh manners to annoy,
No vicious morals that destroy
True manliness and grace;
He wears upon his face
A gentle, honest air,
And no deceit Is there.
His true address, and not his dress,
Commend him, and his maniness
Wins the good favor of the few
Who know him well, and know him true.
He leans not on the broken reeds
OF ancestral renown, and deeds
His father did long years ago.
Blue blood IN royal veins may flow,
And be so cold and thin
That the proud heart within
Warns not in g veal or woe,
So cold It's pulse AM slow.
By all men be it understood.
The noble man trusts notin blood
He asks no privilege of birth
He would be valued at his worth.
Knowing his rights, he g dare maintain "
His principle without stain
Upon his lips he bravely pleads
For others, and he lntercedes
For the downtrodden poor,
For the beart-sick and sore
He dries the tear he finds,
The broken heart he binds.
His word is good as any bond;
He loves this life, yet looks beyond
Wealth cannot spoil him, for his trust
Is not III heaps Of yellow dust.
His face and speech inspire the soul
10 upward flights aud selt-control
1t gives the soul sense OF wings,
1t lifts ii from terrestrial things.
When he is host or gneSt,
A blessing seems To rest
On all who hear and sec
Such true mobility.
The throb which his brave heart repeats
La kindred bosoms warmly beats
A benedlctIon lights his face,
His speech is gentleness and grace.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
Jersey justice.

The Brooklyn Eagle pays this we'll
merited compliment to the speed and
certainty of Jersey justice: 4 man shot
another man in Jersey City yesterday
Now there is no company III the world
which would insure that shooters life.
He is TO all practical purposes as dead
as his victim already. Th1 constable
has got him. He viii hand him over
to the grand jury, the grand jury will
hand him over to the petit jury, the
petit jury Will hand him over to the
Oyer and Terminer Judge, the Oyer
and Ternliner Judge will hand him to
the Sheriff, and the Sheriff will hand
over what used to be him to his sur
wing relatives. And yet only the
North river flowed between that incon-
siderate targeter and acquittal on the
ground of insanity, which is New York.
1t is blunder, worse than crime, to
kill man in Jersey.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05

G. q. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore
American, writes to that paper from
Vienna
"The system of conducting funerals
IN Vienna is quite novel. There are
funeral companies, which for a fixed
price, attend to all the details and de-
post the coffin in the ground. They
take charge of the body, prepare it for
the grave, furnish the hearse and car
rIages, and act themselves as pail
bearers. The hearse- is black, with
dead-black horses, and driver clothed
in the blacklist OF black, whilse at its
four corners are immense bunch
es of black ostrich feathers. Alene-
side of the hearse the burial society
march, all clothed III black, with black
cooked hats, and swords at their sides.
The carriages that follow are only used
for funerals, and are gloomy looking
vehicles, with black horses aud solemn
looking drivers, arrayed III the same
color. The cost is graded according TO
the number of black knights in attend
ance, the number of carriages, and the
display of plumes. The system is
universal in Vienna, aud it has the adj
vantage of fixing the price and steering
clear OF all extra charges. SO, also,
people can provide during life for their
funerals by paying the amount re-
quired to one Of these associations.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
suddcn Change in the Color Of Hair.

Two sudden changes of the color of
hair from black to white are reported
in foreign medical magazine. it APP
pears that a physician OF Berlin, a
strong, healthy, and less than middle
aged man, sent his wife and one daugh-
ter to spend last summer at Watering
place. The day that he expected let
ter informing him of their arrival, there
came one saying that his daughter had
been taken sick very suddenly, and was
already dead. The shock was terrible,
and instantly his hair became entirely
gray. He had to visit some patients
that same afternoon, and they scarcely
recognized him. Theirpeculiar actions
revealed the change to him. The 9th
or ease was of man 80 years old, living
in the Netherlands. He was one day
passing the canal In Rotterdam, where
he saw child struggling in the water.
He plunged in and brought it to land,
but it was already dead by the time
he had rescued the body. Bending
over it to try to restore life, he discov-
cred that the dead child was his own
son, The blow, SO sudden and unex-
pected, and coming upon him when he
himself was so much exhausted, turned
his hair entirely gray, and left him
scarcely recognizable.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
4 BIT OF Romance.

About year ago one of the steamships
sailing from East Boston to Liverpool
took aboard a gentleman and his daugh-
ter, who intended to travel over the great
er part of Europe. A few days after
debarkation, the gentleman was found
dead in his room, at u hotel in the north
of England, having been attacked by
disease Of the heart So the young lady
was apparently friendless il a strange
land. She desired to bring home tie
remains Of her father, but this could not
be done by a ship Of the Cunard company,
their rul forbidding the shipment Of a
corpse. While YEARLY waiting at the
London hotel Tor the sailing of a South
ampton steamship under a different man
agement, the kind-hearted landlord invited
her to 20 out TO his country residence,
and remain there until sailing day. There
were other guests at this country resi-
dence, among them a young gentleman
the entertainment OF the American visitor.
At last he accompanied her 10 the steam
er, and bidding her goodbye, handed her
a bouquet, in which, after sailing, she
found Il note asking permission to write to
her. We cannot be expected to know
about the correspondence which followed,
but we DO know that day before Yesterday
there was u wedding at Concord, II. IT,,
because we read in the Monitor -
8 In this city June II, by Rev J. f. Lover
ing, Peter D. Carr, Esq, of Liverpool, Eng
land; and Helen III. Poverty, daughter of tie
late Jones Poverty"
Boston TRANSCRIPT
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
So Near, and Yet So Far.
BY E. C. STEDMAN.

Thou art mine thou hast given thy word
Close, close IN my arms thou art clnging
Alone for my ear thou art singing
A song which no stranger hath heard
But affair from me yet, like a bird,
Thy soul in some region unstlrred,
On its mystical circuit is winging.
Thou art mine, | have made thee mine own;
Hencetorth we are mingled forever
But in vair. all in vain, | endeavor-
Though round thee my garlands are thrown
And thou yieldest thy lips and thy zone,-
To master the spell that alone
My hold on thy being can sever.
Thou art mine, thou hast come unto me
But thy soul, when strive to be near it
The innocent fold of thy spirit
Is as far from my grasp, is as free,
As the stars from the mountain tops be,
As the pearl in the depths of the sea
From the portionless king that would wear it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
Silver fsolIar

Advices from Mexico by the Direc-
tors OF the Mint represent that there is
considerable commotion there at the
prospect of the American trade dollar
taking the place of the Mexican dollar
IN China and Japan, and on June Sd
the Mexican Congress passed an act
providing Tor the reissue of the old
eagle dollar. This course was taken to
Offset the circulation of our new trade
dollar IN China and Japan.
HEREAFTER Connecticut milkmen will
sell by wine measure
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05

A YOUNG man who prided himself on
his mental qualifications, once speak
ing OF the advantages of these, remark
ed: " What is better than a good edu-
catlon?' Common sense, you fool,
YOU" quickly responded one of his
hearers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05

AT recent woman's meeting in a
San Francisco public hall, the lady III
the chair requested the audience not to
make quite so much noise in their APP
plause, ''as it would scare the horses
in the stable below.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05

EARLY marriages are approved of in
Lafayette, Ind. One has just been
celebrated there at six o'clock in the
morning.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-12

Two PLANKs OF THE MASSACHUSETTS RE
PUBLICAN PLATFoRM.-Notwithstanding But
ler's withdrawal of his name at the eleventh
hour, the Worcester Convention did not adj
iourn without giving him and his adherents
n rap over the knuckleS.
Here are two planks from the platform:
"Resolred, That the Republicans of Mas:
sachusetts emphatically disapproYe OF ana
condemn the action of those members of the
last Congre$s-Republicans or Democrats
who avaied themselves of the occasion OF
all increase of the salary of the President.
and of the judges of the Supreme Court, ana
of the members of the Cabinet supposed 10
be lust and necessary for the luture--to sc,
cure to themselves a di>proportlonate ana
extravarant compensation for past rs well us
future services.
d" ResOlred That while we recognize the
full rirht of every citizen to express ana ACT
upon his convictions upon all questions OF
p;IbIic interest. no person holding pubic
office has the right to seek to influence the
action of his subordinatcs by exciting their
fear of loss of place if their opinions and
actions shall differ from his own. and we call
upon the President. further, to remove all
public officers who have improperly inter-
fered with the independence of the Republl-
CANS of Massachusetts in the management OF
their local concerns whenever the fact IS
proved TO his satisfaction"
Butler is the most outspoken defender OF
the salary-grab, and the Federal oilicc.hold-
ers in Massachusetts have VIGOROUSLY eX-
crted their influence to secure his nomination
for Governor.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-12
Cbesaoeake andChio Railroad

The development Of the coal and iron
mines on the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad is progressing with great ra-
pdity. Each day brings intelligence oil
some new company commencing to erect u
furnace or open mine for the shipment OF
orc or coal. ..-.-..-.
The Chesapcake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, making arrangements To- meet Tue III
creased demands that these new enterprises
will make upon their motive power ahd
roadway, have, within the last few days
contracted with some of the first makers in
the United States for iifty-four new freight
engines of the best class, and are just re-
cejvinc one thousand tons of steel rails, to
be followed up rapidly by other large sup
plies.
These steel rails are designed to replace
50 much iron rail as yet remains i'll the main
track. and thus release the latter, so that il
NAV be used in the construction of branches
TO some of the iron and coal mines which
are a little away from the main line.
Some of these branches are already com
pletcd and Others are in process of construc
ton. Their length varies from one to sever
miles.
The management Of the company is eN
hibiting great wisdom in the means 1t Il
adopting to developc the mineral wealth or
its line, and will speedily be rewarded by
rich harvest of business.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-12
HES'TsSS.

Died. on the 10th instant. of dlphIhcrla, JESSE
OIfISTIN, yonngezt child OF Joseph \. ana
Emma C. Blair; aged one year, nine months ana
twcnty-three duys.
fare you well. sweet Jesse! we must put you from
our sight; - , a., ,,,,,
But your form will still be with us In the darkness
And one day we'll greet you darling, In your blessed
mansion new; ~ 49, 49,, :.
For though you cannot come to us, Sill we may
go TO you.
The friends OF the family are Invited 10 att"no
,hn funeral from the residence of his parents, NO.
Iga7 west Clay street, THIS MORN NG, at ~
Washington ID. C.) Star please copy
Died. I'm New York, on September 10th, aiter +, a
brief Illness VICTORIA hill, daughter OF l.. W.
a. Hill. of Richmond; aged thirteen years.
Died. suddenly ut his residence. corner OF seven
teen,h and Ven:Dle streets, JOHN l.. AUSTIN, III
the foriy-nlnth year Of his ngc
lie leiyes an afflicted wife and one chiiu ahu Il
large circle of friends to mourn their loss. . ~.
Ills funeral will take place from the tourtn TT
byterian church THIS EVENING NJ = ocloch;;
Friends and acqtiaiutances are respectfully infited
TO attend without further notice. =
Lynchburg papers please copy.
Died, on Thursday the 18th Of September, At ten
minutes past O'Clock a. NJ, MIR. FRANh ~.
BOWLER, Of pneumonia, aged twenty-LWo !eaiis
His remains will be taken to the ianlliy Oul ing
ground In Goochland county, Tomorrow, lor ih'ci
Dearest brother thou hast left us,
We thy loss most deeply feel,
But It's God that Hath b:reft us,
He can all our sorrowS heal.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-12

press The settler comes TO Virginia ire
auently prcjudiced against the people OF the
State. believing that they are seeking 10 op-
press a weaker race. He finds that they treat
the negro kindly, that they cheerfully .accord
him every legal right, and that they have ai-
fordcd him excellent facilities for acquiring
an education chiefly at their own expense.
For ourselves, we have been in Virginia
several years, and have attended courts IN
different counties almost every month, ana
we haze nerer seen IN the State single Jhfy
COMPOSED exclusively Of rh'te men. Ere
ouenllv we have seen six great black negroes
sweating upon jury. listening to but inca,
pablc of COMMUNICATING the arguments OF
counsel or of seeing the finer points III the
evidence This is the experience oil every
English or Scotch settler we have ever con-
yersed with; and as 4 natural consequence
they regard the Radicals with suspicion, and
recorniZe the fact that they are, through
fraud and falsehood, seeking to obtain power
for anything but patriotic purposes: Only
last week the State Journal shamclcssly maze
the following assertion:
Owe all know that to-day negroes ano
northern men have no rights in virgins
which Judges and iuries are bound TO respect
Nor will they be allowed any rights SO long
as the Conservative party IS in power
party whose highest aspiration is; as its own
organs tell us, ito drive the Vandal horde o.
adventures from the State The negroes
can then be trampled on with impunity;"
As to the driving of the "vandai horde O
odvcnturcrs from the State" would to Goo
that it could be done. Even the RepuDii'
can press of the North will not stoop 10 cal
then, anything but thieves, and The civilized
world regards them as foul testers upon So
piafv
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Fillev's Assessments.

Tie assessments imposed upon his clerks
by the postmaster OF st. Louis have raised
quite hubbub, strange to say; and still
stranger, the Republican press a>saiis him
with severity. Even the Washington star
ventures to pronounce the assessments
"Eoolish FILLEY's Folly" Thcsc assess
meats have been regularly made upon Re-
publican oflice-holers and.quitc a change,
Is we have before said, must have taken
place 10 cause the unfortunate postmaster OF
s.. Louis to be ccu>urcd for following 4
wcli..cttlcd Custom. The worst part about
tie matter is that this assessment, 50 com
planned Of, was made TO pay the expenses OF
the reteption OF General GRANT on his last
visit to Il. Louis. We suppose this, how
ever. cannot, without damage to the party,
be set UP rs Il defence, and so FlLLEY is
sharply ccns,red and made the Scapc.oat for
the common sins Of the party.
The clerks in the 81. Louis office lave
written 20 the PoStmastcr-Gcucral complain
ins OF the assessment, and he being absent,
the star says:
First Assistant PostmaSter-Gcncral Mar
shall. who is acting PoStmastcr-General, has
referred the letter TO the President, and says
the Department cannot approve such acts,
and that if Alr. Fillcy's assessments have
been of the character charged in the press OF
St. Louis his own opinion is the President
will remove Filley."
This will rather embarrass the President.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tritunc, speaking of this affair, says:
If any action is taken in the case it will
be by sending special agent to look into it
and report thereon. This course was found
effective some months since in disposiDg Of
the serious irregularities in the Cincinnati
post-o1tice, where the postmaster WAS re-
ported to the President for, and afterwards
fully shown to have been guilty OF, habitu
ally using public funds for his own private
s,irp,..., dopoSi;iaS his pelsouai Lo;c Tor !
the re,urn of the money, and having these |
notes OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS carri.d Oh the :!
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The Balloon.

The Graphic balloon, near Ne" YORK,
didn't 90 up according to appointment, and
now everybody has to say word against II.
It WAS economically and inSutficiently made
The Gas with which it was to be inflated
would bot answer for voyage across the
ocean That gas was the coal-gas used for
lighting the city. Then, the cotton CT
which the balloon was made, vanished
with the most inGanmablc material, would
almost certainly take fire from the electricity
of the heavens" a we say. &c. Indeed, il
would take whole column to tell what the
wise people say in disparaScnlcnt and ridi-
culc Of the balloon invented by Mr. WISE
If there is any truth in what they say, the
balloon is the worst o.? failures, and all vic
go up in it Will come to Il speedy end.
The experiment is Il bold one, and we fee
much curiosity about il. 1t would certainly
he 4 matter of infinite satisfaction should the
cypcditjon prove i success and add some
thinr so!id to what the world knows about
air-r,rrcntS with rrfsrc!.cc to aerial naVlSa
ton. As the ba'ioon rests * present, with
slit q foo, and half long, cut by the intrepid
DoxElsox, and ,innanagclhlc before it starts
we consider t!r expedition slightly retarded
But w: hope it will get over that and gel
started before the public expectation Is
wholly desperate.
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The 2 esoiutionS.

We have vet to learn what the NlaSSachu-
sets Convention did on the subject oil feso'
lu,,ons. On Tuesday night at iatc hooF
Mr.. UoaR, in tic absence OF the chairman
of the Committee OH Resolutions, was Ia
boriously engaged in framing resolutions Tor
thr convention. It was reported ny the
lvnx.cycd correspondents that the rcSo!u'
tons were particularly severe upon the in
reference of Federal officials in local or State
elections. and went 50 far as to demand the
removal of ofiicc-holdcrs wLo so intericred
When the resolutions come We shall sec no"
they stand on this subject. Our opinion Is
that BUTLER. having surrendered bis tr'cnd,
will not be asked to iudorsc any such reso
lutions.
Mr.. HoAR's resolutions were reported &c
be also very sharp on the salary-grah.
We shall sec what they are. PollticIahS
are not men to put much faith in.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-12
STATE CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEES,
R1CuNOND, september II, ISi3.}


Amendments are made for Colonel W. II.
Avlctt, canvasscr tor the first congressional
district at the following places: King and
Queen Courthouse, Thursday, september
18th: Lancaster Courthouse, Monday, Sep
tcmi,cr 18th; Northumberland Courthouse,
Tuesday. September 10Th.
The Hon. II. NJ r. Hunter, canvaSser at
large. will address the people at the follow
ing points: Stallnton, Wednesday, October
18th: Charlottesville, Friday, October 18th
LynchEurg. Tuesday, October. 2lst.
The following appointments for senatorial
and county canyassers have been made:
Sanuforiat: Second district, General ). ).
Field, Culpepcr; Eleventh district, John /.
West, Norfolk county Twenty eighth dis
trict, James W. Shelley, Smyth; Twenty
ninth district, Julien G. Mason, King George !;
Foltie,h district, Robert Douthat, Charles
City. ~.
County: Amelia, William Old, Jr.; Din
widdie, J. s. kccicr Petersburg, Charles
f. Collier Pulaski, }. II. Larew; Matthews,
J. p. Donovan: New Kent, l.. a. Slater !;
Halifax, VI. \. Harris.
Bv order of the Executive Committee.