The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-06-20

wears ago a resident of North Alabama, and is
well known both in that section and Middle
Tennessee He was, before the civil war, a
judge of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.
THE cornerstone of the new Merchant
Exchange building in st. Louis was laid on the
9th inst.
THos. SWAN. the leader of the rioters i'll the
cemetery at Memphis on Decoration Day, who
s now awaiting trial, publishes card denying
that his friends tlleatened to sack the city be
cause of his arrest.
EVERYTHING is quiet at Little Rock June 5
was observed az day of thanksgiving and
PRAYER. i'll pursuance of proclamation of Gov.
Baxter.
CHARLES CLAIBORNE, late Clerk OF the
L. S. District Court, in Louisiana, absconded
with large amount of money belonging to
litigants. estimated from S30. 600 to 800, 900
The suspension of the commercial firm of J.
IT. Payne & Co. of New Orleans, is an
nounced.
Ex-Goy. Thomas E. BraIhette, of Kentucky
was married. June 3, at Louisville, to hlrs.
Mary J Adams, daughter Of DR.. G. G. Gra-
ham of that city.
General.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons, i'll SEES
sion at Philadelphia contributed Il 900 for the
relief of Louisiana sufferers.
GROVER, the democratic governor elect OF
Oregon has majority of 400 over his op
ponent.
RESIDENTS in NV York, of the Hebrew
aith are making contributions for the relief
! - tiar in
famine.
The President has nominated John L. Ions
| for Surveyor of Customs at st. Louis
| BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina, which ha
| been for some time rumbling, and qrdilng
and heaylug in very remarkable manner, ha
now broken out i'll a direction. 1t Is re
ported that Il huge light was recently aeei
moving up Broad river. accompanied by
quaking of the mountain. The light shon'
with such intensity as to exhibit the trees an'
hills for an eighth of a mile on each side o
the river and then suddenly Disappeared.
BEr. HOLIDAY, the great mail and stag
man, has contracted to carry the Sltka mails
DIR Benz. A. GOULD, the eminent astron
omer, formerly director of the Dudley Oh
in Boston, has won great fame as director o
the National Observatory of the Argentine Re
public He has made observations embracin,
| II 900 stars and III a few months he will hay
ready 700 maps of $1,000 stars.
THE scientific party to observe the transit o
Venus sailed from New York on the It'll inst
| in the e. S. steamer Swalara.
THE French communists, Rochefort, Paine
and Benedict, have sailed for Europe
JAMES f. BABcocK, formerly of the New Tia
ven Palladium, has been made City Judge G
New Haven Ct, by the Democrats i'll the Leg
islature.
ADvcEs from Kansas City, report the toti
drive of Texan stock $50, 900 head, nearly j
per cent less than anticipated. One hundre
and five thousand have already passed Sa
Fork $4,000 for Ellsworth and 25,O0O fC
Wichita There Will be 5000 III the vcinit
OF Salt Fork soon leaving 10 900 yet to arrive
The stock is the best ever driven, being larg,
good cattle Business there has become nor
active.
JEFFERSON DAVIS sailed from Liverpool Q
the Ith inst. for home.
Il Two trottng horses came III collision
Prospect Park, New York, recently, fatally Ii
jmin. both
The will OF J. Edgar Thompson, after pre-
viding for his family, devotea tie balance
his property to supporting orphaus of railroa
an,r,loya. killed in thp S,t,yipa