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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-31
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized and requested to nn-
nounce
>. II. RYAN
for the oliicc of city engineer at the ensuing
election,
For Mayor.
We are authorized and requested 10 an-
nOunce
as a candidate for the office of Mayor OF the
city of Dallas,
For Treasurer.
We are authorized and requested 10 an
HENRY BOLL
IN q candidate for Treasurer OF the city OF
Dallas, NJ the election In April next,
Assessor ana Collector.
We are authorized aud requested to an
ounce
7. ). KEETON.
as u candidate for Assessor aud Collector of
ne city OF Dallas, NJ the election, April I'm
next.
We are authorized and requested to an
nounce
VI. TIuEyENET.
us n candidate for Assessor ana Collector OF
the city of Dallas, ut the ensuing corporation
election In April next.
Having TO some extent improved tho
streets OF our great city of Dallas, would
now Ike 10 walk upon them clothed with
the hon0rS of an Alderman. / hereby de-
Glare myself an independent candidate for
the Office of Alderman OF the First ward,
and solicit the Suil'ragcs of all my friends
PAT O'DONNELL.
For Marshal.
We are authorized and requested TO an-
nounce
J. T. IGLEIIART
rs an independent candidate for the office of
City Marshal NJ the election In April next.
We ARE authorized and requested to an
nOunce
HIRAM II. ALES,
AS o candidate for Marshal OF the city OF
Dallas ut the city election in April next.
TO the voters of Dallas clty--Having here
toiore been hOnored with your suffrages, |
again announce myself as an independent
candidate for marshal of the city of Dallas.
2 - THOMAS FLYNN.
To the voters of the city of Dallas eliev-
ing that all offices which are not OF u parti-
zan character should be filled by the untram-
mailed voice OF the people, and that conven-
ti0ns are not fairly expressive of the peoples
choice, but the plaything of unscrupulous
tricksters, who by bargain and intrigue con-
troll them against the viii of the majority,
ant candidate for the Office OF city marshal
at the ensuing election.
f.a GEORGE B. HOLLAND. JR.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-31
She9ailgAtrala

DEMOGRATlCCITy TACK nj.
Election Tuesday, April 7, is7i'
For Mayors
GENERAL W. D., CABELI"
For Marshal
JuNIus PEAh,
For Assessor ana Collector
EDWARD .. CARRINaToN.
For Treasnror
ROBERT N, WEST
For CITY Attorney
WILLIAM M, EDWARDS,
For city Engineer
CAPTAIN WILLIAM NJ, JOHNSON
For Aldorncni
First Wnrd-uENRy ERvAS,
JOR. A. LEONARD,
u. u, HuRKs,
second Ward II. u. COUGBANOUR,
JOHN NJ. HOWELL.
Third ward-JOIIS OWENS,
J0sI,PIi q. MCCONNELL,
a. ALEX, q. IIENsLEY.
Fourth ward WILLIAM q. YOUNG.
HENRY -. MCCONNELL
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-31

DR., Frank Rainey, Of. Crockett, hay
Ing been appointed by Governor Coke
superintendent Of the blind asylum
has resigned his seat in the house o
representatives, TO take effect Aprl
10Th, The appointment Is IN cxcellen
one. DR., Ralney Is well qualified, ant
h passlonately fond Of childre n.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

panies Of the sea. " These, it is
said, have taken advantage of the
uneasiness and homesickness which.
ordinarily take possession of the
newly arrived emigrants, and which
the hard times and general stagna-
ton IN business, have tended to
aggravate, by sending out thousands
Of circulars and flaming posters, in
vlting e.clgrants to return to the old
country for twenty dollars in gold.
This they do forthe purpose of filing
their vessels with steerage passen-
gers They announce that these
excellent opportunities will only be
given for brief time. knowing that
most of those who 90 now will soon
return again paying full fare. 1t is
said that the sea-traffic in this time
of financial embarrassment is thus
made comparatively profitable
Madison Democrat.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
THE GOOD TIME C0NING.

The New York Daily Bulletin, one
of the most intelligenlly and carefully
edited of commercial journals, pub
fishes review of the money markets
ofEurope and the United States, and
contrasts the ruling low rates of
interest in all parts of the continent
and Great Britain at the present time
with the high rates ruling last year.
The conclusion arrived at by the
Bulletin is that the prevailing ease
in all the money markets of the
world must lead to revival of buSi-
ness this fall Of a healthy and sub
stantlal character, not perhaps of
extraordinary activity, as that may
be reserved for 1875, but a vast i'm
provement on the trade of last
spring. This calculation comedies
with the opinion OF most Of our
bankers and merchants. The revi-
val Of business in the fall is not a
question of any reasonable doubt,
as the associated banks of New
York have now a loaning capacity
Of Se5, 100000 III excess Of last
years ability, and this in itself
would be a sufficient reason for pre-
dieting an extraordinary speculative
movement In 1875.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

frontier of solar domination was
pushed out to distance of 1,9OO,-
100000 miles from the center of the
system, that is to say, beyond the
space which was vaguely supposed
to be occupied by the stars. The
discovery of Neptune, in 1916, again
removed these limits to a distance
that would have appalled, our faith
ers, the orbit described by this plan
ct being 1852, 100000 miles from
the sun.
But the attractive force of the
sun extends further still. Beyond
the orbit Of Uranus, beyond the dark
route slowly traversed by Neptune,
the trigld wastes of space are travel
ed over by the comets in their errat-
ic courses. OF these some, being
controlled by the sun, do not leap
from system TO system, but move in
closed curves, though at a distance
far greater than those Of Uranus and
Neptune Thus HaIley's comet re-
cedes to distance of over S3,2OJ,-
100000 miles from the sun; the
comet Of III, SO, 100000, and
that of 1850, 5000, 100000. The
period of the last named comet is
$500 years.-E'rOna "DiStances Of
tie Stars," 5@ P4pular Science
Monthly for AugtSt.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
y In Circuit Cour.
William H. Smith administrator of the estate
of Bella Brooks deceased ntestate, against
Hezekiah w. Shaw and Eliza A. Shaw, his
wife.
BY virtue and in pursuance Of a Judgment
of foreclosure and sale rendered in the above
entitled cause on the 18th day of June A. ID.
1874 by which it was decreed that the mort
gagged premises hereinafter described, or so
much thereof as may be sufficient to raise the
amount Of,Sll597 76 due to the plaintiff for
principal interest and costs in said cause be
sold at public auction by OIL under the direc-
ton of the Sheriff of said county, | shall on
the lth day of August 1874 at ten o'clock in
the forenoon at the front door of the Court
house in the town of Superior in said County
offer for sale and sell at public auction to the
highest bidder the following described mort
gagged premises situate in the town of Supe
rior, county of Douglas and State of Wiscon
sin namely: The southeast quarter of the
southeast quarter OF section two (2) In town
ship forty-eight (4S) north of range fourteen
Q44 west containing 40 acres more or less
Dated Sherif's Office, Superior Wisconsin,
June 26th, 1874 JAMES NEWTON,
Sheriff of Douglas Co, Wis.
II. HAYES, Plaintiffs Attorney. jun27augS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

A correspondent Of a Georgia
paper has discovered the following
coincidence. The cen
sus of 1870 says that the population
of Georgia is l ,l85 900 that of Iowa
|, ,l82, 933. The insane in Georgia
were l,l85; Of Iowa, 1888. Geor-
gia had 100 idiots; Iowa, 789. Geor-
gia's deaf mutes numbered 677;
Iowa's 676. Georgia's blind, 474;
Iowa's, Alb. Total tor Georgia, s.
1876; for Iowa, 3,I2l. The differ
ence in the population of the two
states is 2,067; in their insane, just
two; in their idiots, just one; in
their deaf mutes, just one; IN their
blind, only one.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

the right, but the duty, of the State
to control and supervise the rail
roads in their public functions, es-
pecially as highways and common
carriers. Without such a control.
the railroads will monopolize the
whole traffic of the country exclu-
sively TO their own interests, and
bring in subsection to it the interests
of the public. A moderate and rea-
Sonable f feight rate will facilitate
traffic, and every facilitation OF traf-
fic will increase the same. Not on
" the farmer, or, say we, the inhab-
itants of the state, will profit by a
moderate rate, but the railroads
also, as under an increase of traffic
the earnings of railroads also in
crease.
:" 1t is true the cost of railroads
in this country demands a higher
toll for the use Of the roads. But
it IS true, too, that at least twenty
five per cent. of the capital repre-
senting the debt with which the
railroads in this country are burden
ed, has not been applied to rail
roads.
at is a wrong done by the com
panies to the people, who use the
railroads, to tax the people with a
high toll in order that the compa-
niesmaY provide resources for meet
ing the consequences of a mls-appll-
cation of railroad capital. The
measure Of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture seems to me to be proper pre-
yention against this wrong. Another
way open to the companies to neu-
traIlze the consequences of their alb
normal debts, is to introduce econo-
my in the management of their
roads, beginning Herewith by a
reduction Of the salaries of their
higher officials about twenty-five
per cent.
| am convinced that to put the
railroad corporations under a strong
control and supervision by the State,
ooiU not impair, but protect, the IN
terests Of capjtqlists IN rajtroud en-
terpraSes J, and ftvthern1ore, aoproge
tie credit Of rujLr0ads n0oo so deeply
depressed abroad, especially if such
control over the companies should
be extended to their power to con
tract debts and execute mortgages,
SO rs to prevent any further misap-
phcation of the funds Of railroad
com pauies by their directors OF
leading officers.
In Germany the question Of rail
road traffic is also in a floating state.
Some days ago | received inteIIi-
gence, by newspaper, Of a report
made by Mr. Schele, the director OF
the Observation-Disclosures in Berlin
to the Reichskanzler, Prince Bis
marck, in which the subject is treat
ed at length"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
"A good deal has been said oflat'

A good deal has been said oflate
in regard to the backward flow IN
the tide of emigration, which has
set in from the United States to
Europe. Various reasons have
been assigned for 1.-THE hard times
in this country-the growing better
condition of things in Europe, espec-
tally in Germany, etc. But the lat
est explanation we have seen. and
it has some plausibility, is the
cunning of the transportation COM
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
SELL WHEAT EARLY.

All signs seem to favor the idea
that those farmers who sell their
new wheat earliest will be the gain
ers--that this year it will be the
early bird that catches the worm.
Not only are prices likely to de-
cline steadily during the fall and
winter, but it is certain that freights
which have long been extremely
cheap, will advance largely on the
close of navigation. Wheat is now
carried from Chicago to New York,
by lake and rail, for fraction over
eleven cents per bushel, as follows
Steam from Chicago to Buffalo 28c
Elevating at Buffalo o-------- &c
Rail from Buffalo to New York Sic
Total 5c
From New York to Liverpool
rates are proportionately low, in
consequence Of the great amount of
freight room and the brisk compe-
tition. Including three cents per
buShel for handling III New York city,
the total cost Of carrying across the
ocean Is II cents, or % Is cents
from Chicago to LIVERPOOL These
rates are ruinous to the water carriers,
both On the lakes and the ocean,
and will not probably prevail
after this season for many years to
come. In any event as soon as
lake and canal navigation closes,
railroad frcights will be advanced
under the recent agreement Of the
trunk lines, when it will doubtless
cost fully % per cent. more to send
grain from Chicago to New York
than is now paid from Chicago to
Liverpool. A similar advance will
he made on railroad rates west OF
Chicago, after the competition OF
the water routes is withdrawn, 50
that, by the first Of December, it will
cost more than twice the present
IA. e to ship bushel Of wheat from
St. Paul to New York or to Liver
pool.
The difference in the cost of car
mage alone, to say nothing of the
state Of the markets, will amount to
not less than 81 100000, on a ship
ment offs, 100000 bushels to New
Y ork only, which may be saved to
the producers if their crops are
hurried forward to market during
September ana October. AS there
is no expectation in any well-intorm-
ed quarter of q better market next
spring than now, this fact of pres
ent low freights ought to be sutfi-
cient to call out promptly the ut
most possible amount of wheat
] 81 P13/Z Press Ith
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
TILE RECEDLNG COLLECT

Prof Parkhurst furnishes the
New York Tribune positions of the
Coggia comet up to July D,
1874, the article concluding thus:
VIII it ever come back !?
There is no evidence in the affirm
ative. It's elements do not prove
identical with any comet previously
observed For q while it was sup
posed to be a comet that appeared
in 1897, but this is now exceedingly
doubtful. Its orbit is probably
hyperbollc, and the statement Of
its probable position thousand
years hence would suffice for read
ers who wish to dip into futurity.
As to its visiting the fixed stars
and returning to the earth again, the
calculations Of Mr.. Proctor rather
withdraw such possibility from
the sphere of mundane interest.
He found at the rate that comets OF
a parabolic orbit usually travel, the
outw ard voyage to the nearest star
would occupy something like eight
million years.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
NVESTIG A TTON OF THE STEEL
IUA NTFA CTJRE IN INDIA.

Some special Investigations which
have recently been made relative to
the singular qualities of iron and
steel produced in certain parts of In
dia. show that the ore used is the
magnetic oxide of iron, consisting
of y per cent of iron with % of OK
ygen, combined with quartz, in the
proportion Of 50 of oxide and As Of
quartz. 1t is prepared by stamping,
and then separating the quartz by
washing or winnowing. Nothing, it
would seem, could be more simple
than the manufacturing processes.
Thus, the furnace is built Of clay
alone, from three to five feet high,
and pear-shaped !; the bellows is
formed of two goat skins, with BAN
boo nozzle, ending in a clay pipe.
The fuel is charcoal, upon which the
ore is laid without hux. The bel
lows are piled for four hours, when
the ore is found to be reduced ; 1t is
then taken out, and, while yet red
hot, is cut through with hatchet,
and then forged by the blacksmith
into bars and converted into steel.
The forging is accomplished by re-
peated hammering, until it forms an
apparently unpromising bar of iron,
but which is converted into cast
steel of the very best quality.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
THE EXTENT or THE UNIVERSE.

Since the beginning of this centu
ry, our idea of the universe has un
dergone complete metamorphosis,
though but few persons recognize
this fact. Less than a century ago,
the savants vino admitted the earth's
motion (some still rejected iO pic
tured to themselves the system Of
the universe as being bounded by
the frontier of Saturn's orbit, at a
distance from the central sun equal
to 100000 times the diameter of the
earth, or about $50, 100000 miles.
The stars were fixed, spherically
distributed, at a distance but little
greater than that of Saturn. Be
yond this limit IA vacant space was
supposed to surround the universe.
The discovery of Uranus, IN 1875,
did away at once with this belt, con
,sisting of Saturn's orbit, and the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
The Albany EUening J0wndt

The Albany EDenl0g Journal
says: Peter B. Sweeney, the brains
Of the broken Tammauy Ring, is
taking life easy in Belgium. Con-
molly is gazing on the Pyramids of
Egypt, aud comparing them with the
piles ofmoney he stole. Woodward
fits about Europe, hisproperty being
carefully looked after by a friend
and partner at Norwalll, Connect
icut. Harry Genet is reported to
have been in New York last week,
" beautifully" disguised, and to
have left for Brazil notwithstanding
a little business.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
GORDON GORDON.S CdREER

The adventurer known in this
country as Lord Gordon Gordon
committed suicide in Manitoba on
Saturday last. He died as he had
liyed-fraudulently. His talent for
cheating justice was never more
conspicuously displayed than in the
last act of his life. He was under
arrest, and begged permission of the
officers to change his clothing. Be
ing released for this purpose, he i'm
proved the opportunity to blow his
brains out. Hordon Gordon's ca
reer is one ~ the most brilliant in
the annals Of crime. 1t began in
the very humble walks Of an Eng
lish gentleman's servant. His ser
vice in this capacity vas improved
to the full in acquiring the rudi-
ments Of polite education, as it goes
i'll England and America He learn
ed TO swear in q becoming manner,
to gamble successfully, TO stand up
under his bottles like man, to sneer
at female virtue; and to these ac-
complishments were added the gifts
with which he was endowed by Ma
ture--such as shamelessness and in
ordinate self-confdence. Certain
misadventures with tradesmen whom
he had defrauded compelled his en-
igration to America. He dashed
into notoriety in New York by
sheer exercise of impudence that is
almost without a precedent. He
claimed TO be real Lord and the
possessor of a swollen bank account.
That was enough. He was taken to
the heart of New York society, the
mammas with marriageable daugh-
ters being especially captivated by
the eXtrinsic merits of the man.
Having thus established a position,
he turned with the ready instinct Of
knave to the Improvement of the
main chance He dabblcd in stock
and gold operations in a gentleman
ly way; and won the confidence of
the Street by the credit OF his spon-
sors, who knew nothing Of him ex-
cept that he was received in good
society. Arnong the gentlemen with
whom he effected business relations
were Jay Gould and Horace f.
Clark. These experienced judges
of human nature, we may suppose,
soon pierced through the outer COW
ering of Gordon Gordon's charac-
ter. They set him down for com
mon rascal. In this they erred. He
was a most unco mmOn rascal. When
he was arrested for fraud, Gould and
Clark signed his bail-bond, hoping
thus to put him under Obligations,
and secure a convenient instrument
for difficult and unpleasant work.
! Before the trial came on he fled the
country, taking up a residence in
Manitoba. The attempt Of his
boudsmen to secure his person, the
arrest OF certain officials in Ft Garry
Oh a charge Of kidnapping, and the
final escape of Gordon, are matters
fresh in the minds Of ordinary news
paper readers Only few days
ago there was another development
Of the kidnapping scheme in the
brutal and almost deadly assault
upon Att'y-Gen. Clark, of Manito-
| ba, in the streets of ST. Paul. The
end which has come is appropriate.
1t rounds out the full period Of a
generous rascal's possibilities.-C CHI
cagO Tribune fth
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

Saturday sold Fond du Lac Coun-
ty property on an execution in the
case of Olcott vs.. the County Of
Fond du Lac. The amount of judg-
ment and costs are $4,000. The
amount realized was $3.50. This
case has been before the State and
United States Courts five years,
and was brought on bonds issued
by the county to the Sheboygan
& Fond du Lac Railroads.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
STATE OF WISCONSIN. COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
- In Circuit Court.

STATE OF WISCONSIN. COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
- In Circuit Court.
Eber H. BLY,, plaintiff, against
Adolph Buechner, Katherine Buechner his
wife, Scargall Wakelin and Mary Wakelin
his wife, defendants.
The State of Wisconsin, To the above named
Defendants:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action which is
filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court in the Court House at Superior ia sald
County of Douglas, and serve copy OF your
answer on the subscriber at his office III Su-
perior aforesaid within twenty days after the
service of the summons in this action eXclu-
sive of the day OF service. If you tail to an
swer the complaint within that time the
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated July 10th 1874
HIRAM HAYES,
Plt'f's Atty Superior, Wisconsin.
julllaugl
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08

Last year, during the first six
months, the total number of arrivals
of immigrants, at New York, was
148,482. This year, tor the first six
months, the number of arrivals has
declined to 1928 Here is u de
crease of 70, 150 or very nearl y one
half. This decrease is so marked
that it leads to the expression of a
beliefin New York, that whilst here
tofOre the annual number of arriv-
ing immigrants at that port has
reached 100000, this year it will not
greatly exceed 100000. The chief
comparative falling off is said to be
in the number Of German arrivals,
a fact which is to some extent ac-
counted for by the circumstance
that the German steamers did not
this year reduce their steerage pas
sage fares, as the English vessels
did.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
AMERICANS IS READERS.

Older and richer nations NAV
sneer at the poverty of American
literature, at the poverty in her
world of letters, of men of eminent
genius and learning, who tower head
and shoulders above their contem-
poraries; but that the Americans
are a reading people, even their most
spitetul decriers must acknowledge
W WItness In attestatiOn of this fact
the following statements: Within a
period of thirty days there were
sent through the post office 8,206
books from New York, 1888 from
Philadelphia, 1852 from Boston,
and 1896 from Chicago. In four
cities, through the mail alone, there
were sent out to the people 57,071
books III the space of a month. Dur
ing the same period Of time 319,330
transient newspapers were dispatch
ed from the New York post office,
239,066 from Philadelphia, 1875, ,037
from Boston, and l46, ,942 from Chi
cagO When we consider that the
great bulk Of printed matter is trans
ported to all points by express or as
common freight, these figures testi-
fly eloquently to the intelligence of
the masses.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08
Total No. acres in Co. =

Wheat No. of acres, 66, 702; oats
No. of acres, l5,969; corn No. of
acres, $3.50; barley No. of acres,
76I; rye No. of acres, J88; hops
No. of acres, 3; tobacco No. Of
acres, |. Total No. acres of flax
reported in the County 267.