The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-07-18
General Items.


tied by SIS tourists up to June 20.
DELAWARE has sold 100000 quarts
of strawberries in three weeks.
A Belvidere, Vt, girl, Ii years old,
carried on q sugar orchard, all alone,
last Spring.
ONE Coolidgein Boston has been fined
$40 for selling ten barrels of decayed
green peas.
The ladies of Providence, r. l., God
bless them), are about to establish
Home for Aged Men.
A GIRL on trial at Boston for stealing
an apple, the other day, was so weak
from lack of food that she tainted i'll
the courtroom.
A HAPPY man is Adelbert Harrington,
of Sherburne. n. L., for lie has heifer
only two years old and daily yielding
90 pounds of milk.
A BosToN millionaire lately offered a
man who had stopped his runaway
horse and saved his daughters life the
handsome sum of g. 80.
Work has been inaugurated on the
first brick building in Tacoma. Tacoma
is the terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad. and-need it be added-the
"Chicago of the Pacific
A NEW clothes linewas contributed to
the Mill river relief fund by Boston
lady, and 1t was labeled "To be used
in hanging the contractors who built
the reservoir
ARTICLES presented to Mrs. Etfie
Ellsler, q favorite actress, III Cleveland:
One pair of diamond ear-drops, one
beautifully bound prayer book, one
bronze group of Romeo and Juliet.
A BLACKBIRD with three legs has been
caught in Belvidere and presented to
the seminary He died soon after his
capture, SO that, notwithstanding his
three legs, he didn't make any remark
able time after all.
The secretary of the Kansas Board of
Agriculture Indignantly denies III print
that chinch bugs are there doing any
damage worthy of note, constitutional
grumblers and item gatherers to the
contrary notwithstanding.
ALFRED MARTIN, of Cambridge, Me-,
was III his barn the other day when the
editice was taken up by gentle whirl-
wind into the air distance of 100 feet,
and then waited two miles into swamp.
Mr.. Martin was uninlured by this aerial
voyage.
A PROMINET Chinese merchant in San
Francisco received g telegraph dispatch
recently from China, announcing that
the CLinaman who murdered Look
Chong, Chinese drug storekeeper in
San Francisco, several months ago, had
been taken into custody in the Chinese
empire. The dispatch cost him 5000.
THE Indians have vanquished the
whites again IN Oregon A Pendleton
paper says: GA foot-Tace between an
Indian and a white man came off re-
Gently on the race-track east of town
The noble red man of the forest beat
the Caucasian several yards, whereat
the red skins III attendance were highly
elated, and manifested their Joy by
whooping and yelling, and hearty each
nations.
A CoLoRED man has graduated at the
Yale theological school, this year, and
q full blooded African took his degree
IN the academic department. About 40
years ago. colored man asked the fac
ulty If they would receive him as a
student, and they said they would con-
slider his case and give him a reply, but
he has never heard from them on the
subject. His son, however, graduated
trom the medical department III 1857.
SILVER IsLET, III Lake Superior, con-
tlnues to pan out remarkably rich
Within a short time new discoveries
have been made of silver on the fifth
and sixth level, the latter being the
present bottom OF the mine. The oreis
said to be yielding $1,000 to the ton.
These recent discoveries have greatly
increased the excitement i'll reference
to this mine. The company owns the
shore to the extent of five miles, run
ming back to a distance of two miles,
which is all of the island that is valu-
able.
ONE of the most pleasing results of
the pacification of Mexico is the devel-
opment of the cotton producing indus
try in that country A letter from Aca-
pulco says Several new cotton mills
have been started in the states of Mic
hoacan, Jalisco, Sinaloa, and Sonora,
the demand for cotton has increased,
and all our stock has been shipped in
that direction, giving occupation to
LltSt Oh the Mexican coasters, the num-
Der Of which has been largely increased.
In former years foreign craft partici-
pated a good deal Ill this trade, by
special permit of the respective custom
houses"
The wheat crop of California is now
nearly all harvested. The San Joaquin
Valley Argus, published i'll the heart of
the wheat growing region says $50
far, we have heard of no wheat being
put upon the market at this place, the
farmers apparently being able to hold
on for better prices than are now offered
for the new crop. In San Francisco,
new wheat is quoted nominally at 81. 65
to 81 70, and old wheat for milling at
81. 81. The crop this year will far ex-
ceed that of any past year, and as the
farmers are in better fix for holding on
to their grain, good prices will be real
lied as soon as the shipping season
falrly commences"
A Sharp Bow.