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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-22
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MRs. LINCOLN The following
news item has been going the
rounds Of the newspapers for sever
al months, aud inadvertently APP
pearcd in The 'PersonaI' in yester-
day. Chronicle.
"Mrs Lincoln, widow of the late
President Lincoln, is iii Paris"
The distinguished lady referred
to has not been abroad for several
years. II any body is in Paris,
France, representing herself to be
the widow Of the late President
Lincoln, She IS an imposter.- Wash
:agton Ctroaic1e.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-22
THE SUPERIOR TIMES.
SATURDAY, AUGUST y. 1871
LOCAL AFF-AI IRIS
On Wednesday morning A m;

On Wednesday morning man
fishing at the Duluth dock, caught
on his hook and brought up the
body Of negro man who had been
drowned from steamboat some six
or eight days befoic. The body
was Inferred mt Duluth.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-22

There strayed into my meadow on the
Aminicon river in this county ON the 10Th
inst, a large red and white OK, about eight
years old, and having brass buttons on his
horns. He Is now in my possession at Supe-
rior, and the owner can have him by proving
property and paying charges.
JAMES BARDON.
Dated Superior Aug -, 1874. aug22
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

That wrath which General Butler cherishes
for the newspapers was unbottled in the
House Wednesday. 1t foamed up hot n furi-
Gus. lie could not begin to convey his detes-
tation and disgust for the OF the
newspapers. They are a burden which he
proposed to lift from the public balk with his
own valiant arm. They undid the teach
ings OF good which Congress had been send
ing OF: for years. The Generals remarks fur
nish rather exhilarating reading. 1t is rs "A
Ward uged.to put it, $50 amoosin" to see
how the little cuss'' takes it to heart. sit
is unfortunate for the effectiveness OF the
Generals onslaught, that the press got in its
testimony first, and that however much he
may scorn the press, there IS no o V
lost? and there is the %severest rub to the
generator there is no one who better I'M
derstands or has more poignant reason to
remember the power it Yields as opposed to
gentlemen of the Generals kind.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

The various great departments of the gov
eminent were greatly exercised Saturday
when the printed draft of the new bill pro-
viding Tor legislative, executive and judicial
appropriations was sent out. The bill cuts
out all the sops that nave been flung to rela'
tives and friends by the ''great party" 1t
checks the illegal action of the cabinet off,
GERS in creating divisions and bureaus in the
departments and putting at their heads favor
ties and friends at exaggerated salaries.
With these there are costly squads of tenn
porary clerks whose positions are simply
sinecures, and given them to pay their ex-
penses in Washington While visiting official
friends. In the postofice department
the economical Creswell; inds work for q
dozen Z" chiefs Of division who draw big
salaries, to marshal their subordinate clerks,
BY this ingenious arrangement places are
made for the friends OF high i~unctionaries
whose good graces it behooves the postmas-
ter general to cultivate. The new bill, in
great part the work of Mr.. Holman, abolishes
these rich pastures for political feeding, and
reduces the clerks to the proper place with
proper salaries. Combined opposition is
announced. and the friends of the wayfaring
clerks are expected TO defeat the bill on its
final passage in the House or Senate. Oliver,
who believes ours the cheapest and best ad
ministered civil service in the world, will
of course turn his back upon a bill which
would by its very provisions cast suspicion
npon the beneicently economical sytem?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

-
addressed direct to the range There are
several griefs told to the plying ears OF
mon in this altogether unique document,
the substantial points are herewith APP
pended. First, concerning some fault in
the manufacturers terms, he says
1t is due to the manufacturers who have
made terms with us that they should know
something near the number of their ma
chimes that Will be wanted. In many cases
they lose all their regular trade by making
terms with us, and it is but simple justice
TO them to give hem whatever assurance
we can of the number ofimplements we pro-
pose to order.
This in the way of a general grievance, a
more touching and personal one follows:
In regard to my commission of three per
cent. for purchasing, l w only to say: "At
the time / was appointed state purchasing
agent the state grange was not in a condi-
ton financially TO otter a salary. The COM
mission of three per cent. was my own
proposition, though several members of the
executive committee thought too low, and
would ave made the rate five per cent. if /
had asked it. Up to the present time the
sum / have received has not paid me for my
time, labor and expenses. / have been
obliged to employ an assistant editor to
take my place on the paper, a practical
larIDeT 10 eAnlDlt lupleu1entSy anu a cl0Tk
to attend to correspondence. | have also
been obliged to rent two rooms for the pur-
pose of storing and showing plows and other
implements.
There you have it; the same old story; the
trail of the serpent is over them all. 1.-THE
good brother Kingsbury were not fieecy
with hay seed and perfectly stiff with yellow
clay, we should every soul of US set him
down as a grinding m:ddleman, bent only
upon the profits of trade. As it is, knowing
him to be a granger, who can doubt that
three per cent. is slow starvation, and the
eventual bankruptcy of the organ OF
the purchasing? agency How can it be
expected of a man that he shall edit, an organ
and an order at the same time? In either
case, the good man does not repose on beds
of downy softness. That is why the Sentinel
sets out with the melancholy burden which
opens this comment.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

~. ~ ~
reader must be prepared to see and hear a
good deal more, before the last Of it is heard.
What seemed at FIRST but q temporary inn
pulse, now looks very much like an
irresistible wave of reform, 1t won't
do to meet it with sneers and in
credulty and it will answer less to resist
The Only thing to DO is 10 join hands and
help the women, and when the glaring
evils have been corrected begin anew.
Those who have seen the sin and sorrow
of intemperance, are moved to aid the
women, no matter how unreasonable the
crusade may appear on it's face. Those
who believe in the largest liberation for
personal privileges, rave themselves to
blame that under this pleasant laxity a
state of things has arisen which
has melted the combined efforts Of the wo-
men ofthe country to check and Overmaster
ANY degree of restraint on thepart of those
who contend for the very proper principles
of personal freedom, would have so regu-
lated the use of liquor that mothers and
wives would never have been moved as by
an irresistible impulse to stem the tide OF
moral wreck. The woman's way is per-
haps illogical, but the results will be per-
manent. 1t is not always the most logical
and matured measures that take the breath
of life, and it looks very much now as
though the womens action of protest against
the ove~rshadowing evil were to penetrate
more deeply than its enemies dream.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

The ring triumph in Philadelphia has
strengthened the faith OF the republicans
in congress, and there is less anxiety ex-
pressed now concerning economy. Had the
city been carried by the reformers, the ad-
ministration folks would have accepted il
as a hint that the unloading process must
be really inaugurated. As it is, the man.
ayers declare the party too strong to
be seriously crippled by disaffection,
and that so long as the country
has a choice between the two parties only,
it will take the republican every time.
On the strength of this faith calculations
are making on the election of the republi-
can candidate for governor in New Hamp-
shire, a week from next Tuesday, and it is
only fair to say that the canvass has every
appearance of fulfilling the calculation.
The republicans shrewdly saw the tendency
of the time, and made up their ticket with a
leading,farmer of the state at the head as can
didate for governor and made their platform
a virtual echo Ofthe granger's demands. The
opponents of the party IN power, could not
agree upon an Independent action which
should give the people of the state a chance
to combine, and the consequence is, the re-
publicans who are largely in the majority
have every advantage, even with the scand-
alous and ruinoGs record of the party to
bear. The administration congressman
hitherto the most gloomy as to the
future of their party are now jul
bilant, thinking hat the independ-
ent movements are languishing, and
that the contests of the future will be like
those of the past, between two overzealous
party factions. in which men are at stake
and not measures. 1t is not easy TO con-
vince politicians that a people so energetic
and intelligent as Americans require
changes. New conditions are constantly
arising. The party machinery of ten years
ago cannot be effective now, or if it
is forced upon people, they will make
no change. Parties are not like churches.
They rarely proselytize. If a man quits one
party he is not apt to join the one that he
has opposed for a life time-unless peculiar
conditions render it necessary for the time
being. This is a time Of the widest freedom
in religious and political thought, and ii
would be as logical to attempt to turn the
spring freshets backward into summer
channels as to ask the growing sentiment o.
the country to express itself through h
medium of old parties.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1.-THE demand of the country had not been
made in pretty unmistakable terms, there
can be no doubt tina the present congress
would have refused TO repeal the salary grab.
Having been forced to do that it has followed
up its record by an evident purpose to res
tore the ranking theft, a measure a hun
dred fold more scandalOus than the
salary robbery. The country sees with
i~ncredulity the names of a number OF men
vino. have heretofore borne a reputation for
honesty. in favor of the pending bill re-
storing the thieving practice. If the bill Is
passed, the men by whose fundamentally
1t is carried will have worse than a grab on
their backs in the next canvass.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1Ieyed to possess. No doubt he could have
had the chief justiceship lately but he prob
bly, preferred his power as a Senators
\ position which, so long as he is with the ruling
party IN congress and as the power of the
state OF New York behind him. gives him
tie very greatest political Importance. Such
a man must necessarily prove a strong com.
petitcr for TIE presidency.
Reporter-Is there any prospect for a
SPEEDY healing OF
THE WOUNDS EFT BY THE WAR,
through the agitation of questions not sec
<ional in character or by this farmers move
ment for instance?
General-I see no chance of that.
Reporter-May not financial questions gain
the same end?
General-Men are certainly notdivided by
parry lines on these questions. / have been
amused to hear an old line democrat talking
loudly Termination, n republican arguing
for hara money. As to the South, l see no
hope tor such states as Mississippi and South
Carolina, where the negroes are in the ma
jority. In Carolina the effect NAV be to
drive all the white people out of the state
and then the blacks will fall out
among themselves. TIL negroes are arrayed
against their old masters. They consult the
latter in other matters, but never listen to
them in politics. When the freedmen want
help they are quick enough to apply to their
old masters. They know everybody and
where to apply, they never ask anything of
the carpet baggers. L think the prospect is
more favorable in Arkansas.
Reporter-What do you think congress
will do with the internal Improvement
schemes?
General-It think some bill e~mbodying the
most prominent of these plans is likely to
pass. No single one of them has any chance
alone, for the friends of the others would in
that case combine to kill it. The west wants
greater facilities for transportation, the
south wants improvements also, and your
own state comes in, L believe, for an enlarge
ment of the Erie canal. OF course, these
schemes will cost monstrous sums and
should be let alone.
The conversation closed with some refer
ence to the growing power of the west.
1.-The west" said Mr.. Blair, twill have con-
troll in time. 1t is the central section and
ought to ave control. And the power will
be safe in its hands; for should the Pacific.
or the southern or the eastern states show
inclination TO fall off from the whole body.
the interests of the west would force it to stop
them. 1t must have communicate with
the seaboard all t~hroughthere states"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1t is a vile and thankless world this. We
don't have to reach the respectable age of
Methuselah either to find it out. Just as our
gates, there is always a something to trip us
up and send us sprawling and bleeding
down among the children of darkness be-
yond. These ~lugubrious reflections are sug-
gested by a dolorous plant put forth in
the last issue of a weekly way-
farer published in this city, whose editor is
a horny handed son of toll, a husbandman
on the meadow of letters, atiller of the intel
lectual soil, so to speak, turned up by the
pillow share of the grangers. This battling
brother has given his large mind and mani
fold efforts to the erection of an agricultural
organ, which should be a pleasure to the
reader and a profit to the publisher. The
paper, which had moved in a circle of void
before the dawning of the grange awaken
ing. has found its mission, albeit, slow to
seize the advantages. In furtherance of the
;n-every-way laudable desire to make the
movement pay, the editor at once removed
the vestiges of party vassalsge, and planted
a crop of hay seed, adjoining himself
at the same time, with all the signs
and tokens of the sons of the soil. Phi
lar thropy and thrift were therefore touching
ly mingled, as the editor of the Indiana
Farmer pat himself in the market as the
agent of the organization to purchase the i'm
plements of husbsndry. While the order
has been increasing with wonderful force
and rapidity, the editor, however,
has not CLEANED that profit he an
ticipated, and the last issue of
his paper contains a mournful plant
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Gen. Coburn, II seems has not ~relinquished
his purpose of cutting down the so-called
military expenditures. His efforts thus far
have resulted in a very CONSIDERABLE decrease
of the annual bills and a greater falling off
might be expected of the tricks of the con-
tractors were not swallowed, as actual veri-
ties in Washington. These tricks are really
masterpieces ofingenuity. The Washington
lobby ring whose rsmi6cstions extend into
every possible phase of public expenditure
learn that the military committee is bent on
cutting down the great extravaganza in ma
terial furnished the outposts. Thai the
forces are to be reduced and the supplies, as
a consequence greatly diminished. They
apprise the members of the rings at the
frontier and Immediately there is a loud
clamor of "war on the border;'' concerted
attack Of the Indians; reinforcements de-
manded by the settlers? This goes to the
war department.. The president is informed
OF the. danger and the committee notified
that an emergency is upon the department.
The result is that the curtailing order is re-
scinded and the expenses are kept up,
the ring meantime keeping up the
pretence OF war and raiding by the Indians.
General Coburn, 1t seems, was too sharp for
these chaps, and held the committee to its
work, and although the army is not cut
down to the lowest terms, of which it is sus-
ceptible, still there is a material and whole
some reform. 1t is well to note in this respect
that the principal work OF economy fought
out to an actual triumph. This session has
been carried by Indiana members, the
Hon. w. s. Holman and General Coburn. Of
course, other members rave done well but
these two gentlemen qualified by long expe-
rience in the House, nave been enabled to
put into actual execution what equally
honest men have desired and purposed, but
failed in.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Cincinnati like indianapolis, has a park on
its hands. A number of patriots voted for
it in the council. The trail ofthe serpent
was on the sale. An investigation has
been called and 10! there being no party Or
gan to stop the thing, they have actually
cornered the culprits. The great Groesbeck,
it seems. paid out a tride of $4,000. to make
a tund Of So, 900 to grease" the way for the
lob through the council.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

The mystery of Chang and Eng which has
puzzled scientific men for half a century has
at last been solved. The autopsy show that
a tissue, the same in effect as the liver, was
continuous in the twins and that in all prob
ability, any attempt to sever the igature
during the life Of the firm would have re-
suited in death to both.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

~ HOth y OOho ~ EAENIo-NO AlN1o
L0ST.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 25.-The large stern
wheel steamer Belfast, belonging to the
Belfast Transportation Company, became
manageable while ascending the
falls late last night, the drift-wood
with the working of the rudder, and struck
a hidden obstruction, breaking inside of the
huh just forward of the boilers. She was run
on a ~neighboring bar, and rapidly
settled, sliding off the bar just before
going down, This afternoon the cabin
at the stern separated, and the boat will
probably go to pieces before the river
begins to fall. She now lies in 40 feet water
at the stern and 25 feet at the bow. The
officers and crew escaped, one rousta-
bout only being injured by a falling
spar. All books, papers and money were
saved. The Belfast had 500 tons
Of pig iron, 800 ton of ship stuff, and one
hundred tons of miscellaneous freight on
board. The boat was insured in the Cincin-
matt and Wheeling offices for 500, 600, and
was valued at $4,000. Her freight list is in
sured for $500.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

In tie house Tuesday, the bill to restore
the ranking privilege in its essential par
ticulars came up, and was discussed with all
the energy and heat a new measure might
be supposed to call out. The arguments
were neither new or forcible on either side,
and after a dreary waste of platitudes, the
bill went over without action.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1t IS the beautiful faith which springs eter-
nal in the breast OF the South Bend Tribune
inspires this touching pre~diction:-"We are
always glad to see Mr.. Colfax, and his pleas
ant face was particularly welcome last Mon
dav. We believe in SCHUYLER Colfax, and
hope ere long to cast our vote for him as
President Of the United States" But about
that chack7
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1t may rejoice the temperance folks to
learn that the women's prayer cure has
had one good effect. That prodigious cor
poration, Trinity church, New York, which
owns thirty millions dollars worth of rem
tai. has been inspired to refuse to rent
forty shops, which are now used for sa-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Dropping's from the woman's crusade,
come n from all points. The rural districts
where the miseries Of unrestrained traffic
are the most apparent, are the principal
points OF attack. In the cities, the avs ana
the police render the wOmen's aid useless.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
Chs Semtfmsl.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

Tsrre Haute says, initiate. An immense
mass meeting Tuesday night addressed by
the Hons. r. W. Thompson and ID. M.
voorhees,, resolved unanimously, that con-
cress be asked for more currency.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Whatever is new of note or Importance,
on the temperance agitation win be found
on the seventh page, a stirring address from
the Temperance League, leads the the van,
supplemented by a remarkable sermon by
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The "woman's
war" IS now the topic of the day and the
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