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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-09-12
Election otice---Douglas County.
Secretary of State
SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
W., Snr IL ISrf

|
| Superior, Wis, Sept. lst, 1874. {
will be held in the town of Superior, Douglas
county, on the Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday, being the third dav of November, A
D. 1874, in accordance with the foregoing
notice; at which time the qualified voters OF
said town will vote for the following officers:
! A member of Congress from the Eighth
| Congressional district, in place of Alexander
| S. McDIll, whose terra of office will expire on
/ the fourth day of March A. d. 1875.
A member of Assembly for the Assembly
district composed of the counties OF Polk,
/ Burnett Barron, Douglas, Bayfield, and Ash
! land, in place of Samuel S. Fifed, whose
term of office will expire on the 3lst day of
| December, 4. d. 1874
/ A county treasurer in place Of Thompson
Ritchie, whose term of office will expire on
the 3lst day of December, \. d. 1874.
/ a county clerk in place Of Richard Relf,
whose term Of Office will expire Gu the 3lst
day of December i. d. 1874.
1 A Register of Deeds in place of D. Geo.
| Morrison whose term of Office will expire on
the lst day Of December, A. d. 1874.
/ 4 sheriff in place of James Newton whose
term Of Office will expire on the 3lst day of
December, 1874.
Il dlotlicI attorney lt placb vi hiram
Hayes, whose term OF office will expire on
the 3lst day Of December, A. d. 1874
! A clerk of the circuit court in place of
James Syer whose term of Office will expire
on the 3lst day of December A D. 1874
/ A coroner in place of L. +. Wheeock,
whose term of Office will expire on the 3lst
day of December 4. D. 1874
A county Surveyor in place Of Thomas
/ Clark whose term of Office will expire on the
/ 3lst day of December, \. d. 1874.
At the same time the qualified voters of
said county will vote upon a proposition to
amend section three OF article eleven of the
constitution of the State of Wisconsin, to-
wit, as provided in the foregoing notice from
the Secretary of State published herewith.
JAMES NEWTON.
t sep5oc3l Sheriff of Douglas County.
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STATIsTICS.-

WHEAT STATIsTICs.-Mr. III.
Kains Jackson, a recognized author
itv, estimates that the British wheat
crop this year is between 1l2,000,-
600 and l2O,0OO,0O0 bushels; that
"a 900, 900 to 72,ooo,ooo more will
be wanted there; that the United
States Gncluding the Pacific States)
Russia, Hungary, Germany, France
and Turkey have a surplus of So
900, 900 bushels, for which England
is the only customer; that the aver
age price of English wheat will fall
below fifty shillings per quarter
(sl.5o gold, sl.65 currency, being
a decrease of eight shiIlings per
quarter from the rates obtaining at
the time Of his estimate (Aug l5).
1t is reported that Hon. Q. II.
Waldo, of Milwaukee, is lying dan
gerously i'll at his home, with small
hopes OF recovery. His loss would
be a great one, not only to Mllwau-
kee. but to the State.
THE Prince Of Wales is visiting
Berlin, Germany.
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Superior, Sept. II, 1874


The Times !. From the crest of
the Ra,ons, lateral range thrust
from the Rocky Mountains as before
mentioned, and constituting the
border land Of Colorado and New
Mexico, we looked to the south into
the valley of rivers, into mighty
canons, into the tops of extinct vol
canoes, and many league off over
grassy plains beyond.
East and west the uplift or Mesa
ran with Its summit, smooth and
level is the surface of table, which
is the English of the word-like a
series of truncated cones, or as if
the heights along the north shore Of
your Lake Superior were cut down
4 quarter of their elevation to Il par
allel with the water.
The formation stretched away to
the right until lost in the upper
space and everlasting snow of the
Sierras, and on the left went off in
TO the Indian Territory, where it
sank gradually into the level coun-
try, extending, how far | know not.
Behind me to north lay the great
basin over which | had been Jour
neying a week, with the bold Span
ish peaks on It's margln-glant war
ders and watchmen of the plains,
which had never left my mind or
sight, the first thing in view at
morning, and the last TO disappear
at nightfall.
Mount Capolin, a dozen miles or
so southwest, is an old worn out
blast-turnace, from which | Judge a
lively flame had issued before its
draft got choked from disuse or neg
lect. Perhaps the Titans, who
wrought there, struck for more wa
ges and stopped work, or their mas
Ter had ceased the reduction of
metals from hard times, low tariff
or other Encouragement. The
works at any rate, were now silent,
cold, abandoned-bu as / looked a
column of mist was slowly rising
from the mountain and the fancy
easily shaped it into the wrath OF
the old hammer-smith, Vulcan, son
of Jove, yet haunting in the sorrow
full aud troubled spirit the scene OF
his ancient labors
After taking drink from little
spring, the very source of the river
Cimarron, we viz: Trinchara (horse)
and self, began to descend into the
intricacies of the region, through
which our path now lay, and soon
came to the hospitable dwelling OF
a Mr.. Brown. He had come all the
way from Missouri to perch on these
heights and keep cattle. He had
no fault to find except the short
seasons at his altitude, and this he
meant 10 correct by moving down
lower, thus guaging the climate to
his liking.
About noon we came TO MeNi-
can p5aza where a pack OF huge and
hungry dogs, made n attack upon
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us. Pistol and horse-heels with
much shouting, dispersed the fierce
assailants, and impressed the sinister
looking Mexicans who stood by,
with certain respect for our prov
ess as it seemed to me, for they then
began to call the hounds off and re-
tired within their walls.
As the law of supply and demand
is understood, | should say that a
trade in strychnine might be got up
between the head of the lake and
that section, and the adopts in Sc
cret dog-poisoning could find there
full employment. The natives doubt
less would raise question as to the
morality and manliness of the prac-
tice, and might on suspicion retail
ate in some deadly way upon the
offender.
As a general rule, in all civilized
countries, if a dog is to be put to
death, they give him the coup de
grace with slug or a sled stake, In
a direct and open way, and not by
the arts of assassination arts which
require only cultivation and famil-
iaritv In order to ascend scale
higher in their application, and to
be practised upon the human kind.
But not to digress: All day jour
neyed through solitary places, meet
ing seldom a human being, but an
immense population of prairie-dogs
appeared to have heard that | was
coming, for all along the way, from
numberless holes in the ground
these little creatures squeaked and
chattered, a sort Of recognition OF
my visit.
The other folks were not at home
or kept in doors. namely the rattle
snakes and owls. The three form a
copartnership in living it is said, but
by what law OF association or divis-
ion of expenses does not appear. 1t
was in March and too cold for snakes
to be out; the owls doubtless prefer
to receive calls in the evening.
When all three appear on exhibit
tion to show off, it is said that the
squirrel clippers, the serpent rattles
and the owl fys up a hundred feet
or two perpendicular, and plump>
down again right into his hole. ]
suspect that the two latter are dead.
beats, living off the squirrel, who
digs the habitation and doubtless
provides whatever the family gets
to eat. This is an injustice, which
let us hope will be corrected by
some amendment of the constitution
of natural history in New Mexico.
Towards night my road suddenly
turned into grand highway-harc
as a pavement and more than one
hundred feet wide-a matter o
/ great wonderment to me, as to Whes
it lead, and what could occasion 81
great travel upon a thoroughtare SC
broad and well built. The solution
was given, when long train o
Mexican wagons, drawn by from si2
to eight yoke of cattle to each vehi
Gle hove in sight. They were NOV
! inc from the railroad to Santa Fe
laden with merchandise and good
from the States. This then was th,
high road from the great American
people to one of their utying de
pendencies to the far southwest.
X.
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working the mine, which, together
with the fire, reduced the ore to {
condition which rendered its reno
val in detail easily accomplished
Finely tempered knife blades have
been picked out of the pit, and gran
ite hammers of such size as to re.
quire the strength of no ordinary
man to WELD successfully.
These discoveries, wonderful as
they are, do not stand alone, nor do
they present any new facts in rela-
ton to the people who formerly in
habited this Continent. They sim
ply 90 to strengthen the evidence
that, centuries before the written
history of America, powerful and
civilized communities occupied eve
ry portion of It's domain, who, dis
appearing, left behind them proofs
of their progress in the arts and
/ sciences, and their indubitable skill
in architecture. For three thousand
miles along the valleys of our great
! Western rivers, traces of towns and
cities occur at int ryals, together
with the remains of large fortified
encampments, which show, from
their position and arrangement, that
their builders were no mean adopts
! in the art of warfare. Vast tumuli,
with dead buried iii a sitting pos
ture, and at their feet shells unknown
to this Continent, exist by the hun
| dred in the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys. In the dense Yucatan for
ests there are ruins of temples and
palaces, resembling in solidity of
construction, maSsiveness of materi-
ais, general design and execution,
the ancient remains of the old Egyp-
tian dynasties. Yet neither in
| Western America nor in Yucatan
exists the faintest tradition as to
that mysterious race which has left
behind it the imperishable record OF
its genius and civilization. We can
do nothing but conjecture. Pursue
our investigations as we may, we
are still led back to the starting
point, with no more definite knowl-
edge than we set out with. The
thread is lost never to be recovered.
1t is singular fact that, thus far.
there has never been discovered in
any Of the ruins, or in connection
with the tools and war implements
mentioned, any mark, letter or trace
whereon any clue, either to the ori
gin, customs, or language of this
mysterious race, might be caught
and gathered up. In Europe the
gradual process of development from
a half savage state to the high cul
ture Of the present day, may be
traced, stage by stage, and every
distant era marked by a definite
date. But here the links that bouno
one generation to another have beer
abruptly severed, and the mound
builders of the Ohio, the architect.
of Copan and Palenque, and The
copper workers on the shores o
Lake Superior alike lie beyond the
reach of the historian and specula
tions OF the archaologist. The rel
les they have left behind them only
serve to excite the conjectures of the
curious and the Investigations of The
scientific. Possibly, IN some ye
undiscovered ruin or tomb, the key
may be found to the problem which
now puzzles the world; but then i
is only a possibility. There is little
doubt that the mystery will remaiu
until the great day when the Sc;
gives up its dead and the past be
stretched before us like SCROLL
Iron Age.
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hereby adjourn this sale until the llth
day of September 1874.
Sheriff's Office, Superior, Wisconsin, Aug.
llth, 1874. JAS. NEWTON,
sep5 Sheriff of Douglas County Wise.
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A square vii be counted the space OF ter lines o
this kind of type.
Business cards lines or less $500 year.
Legal advertisements charged the prescrib-
ed by statute.
Special uotces 10 cents per line for each insertion
Transient advertisements must be paid for in ad-
vance; all others quarterly.
Advertisements not otherwise ordered, will be
tinued until ordered out and charged accordingly.
No proof of legal advertisements furnished until the
advertisement is paid for.
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ALL AN LINE.
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General Western Office, Chicago lllinois.)
Despatch of their First Class Full powered
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three times every week in winter each way between
Liverpool and Glasgow and Quebec, Portland, Balt>
more, Norfolk.
PASSAGE TICKETS, all classes. between principal
points in Europe and America, at lowest rates.
Special Inducements for Emigrants offered to par-
ties wishing send for friends IN the Old Country
Our Agents throughout the Northwest offer
the same terms as ourselves.
ALLAN & CO.
n and "A LfSulle Street, Chicago,
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HACK KER7S
Book & Variety Store

Coddington Block,
SECOND ST, SUPERIOR, WIS,
Keeps constantly on hand good assortment of
BOOKS, STATIONERY, YANKEE NOTIONS
COMBS. CLOCKS.
STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS ALBUMS
PICTURE FRAMES, LOOKING GLASSES
CRACKERS, CIGARS, and CONFECTIONERY.
ALSO FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON,
Cheap for Cash.
aug16,73 u w FLA CKER
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From Bismarck, d. T. Tribune Interview.


Custer-The reports are not exag-
gerated in the least; the prospects
are even better than represented. |
am familiar with and 10 some extent
interested in Colorado mines, and |
saw localities in the Black Hills sim
liar, as to formation, to the richest
regions in Colorado, where the geol-
ogists insisted the precious metals
must be found, that were not explor-
ed by the miners at all These local.
ities were met with in my rambles
among the valleys when the explor-
ers were not within reach.
Reporter-What was the best
prospect reported to You?
C.--The product Of one pan OF
earth was laid on my table which
was worth not less than two dollars.
1t contained some fifty particles ot
gold, from a color to the size OF a
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"HILITARY NECESSITY.n

Custer Says that tie Pea VIZ Ertinguish The
.Sio1tr's Title to the Black RiHs-He Pouches
for the Wealth Of That Land-7he Best
Ro,ae-Ba While tie Indians Hold Title
''7he Military H7U Do It's Duty"
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III. E. LAFFITTE,
Surgeon DENTS t,

2ND ST., SUPERIOR, WIS.
no1172 Office hours from am. to PIN.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-13

I'D hate to be in your Shoes" said a
Moline woman, as she was quarrel
ing with a neighbor. you couldn't get
in them" sarcastically remarked the neigh
Dor.
1t was darling Gweorge" when a
bridal couple left Omaha; it was dear
George" at Chicago; at Detroit it was
George" and when they reached Niagara
Falls it was Say YOU"
The Treasurer of the Peoria and Rock
Island railroad is in this city consulting
with the bondholders of that road with a
view to funding the coupons in default, and
the four next maturing coupons.--N. \.
Tribune.
There is a curious situation Of affairs
in the LIST Iowa District. A Republican
convention was held at Fairfield OF Mon
day the 3D., aud George w. McCrary, the
present incumbent, of cheap transporta-
ton not0riety, was renominated. After
the convention it appeared that the nomin-
| alton was a trick of one John Ii. Gear, who
had been a candidate for the position.
| When he found he could not be chosen he
nominated Mr.. McCrary, and as soon as he
accepted, he vent to him and told him he
must decline or he would beat him out of
sight" Mr.. McCrary accordingly declIn.
ed, and a new convention has been called
at Burlington, which Gear will do his best
to pack. The whole disgraceful business
is a pitiful satire upon the amount Of infu-
ence which the average citizen has IN
| nominating conventions.
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Chancery Notice.
sTATE OF ILLINOIS,

STATE OF ILLINOIS, -
Rock Island oUNTY
In tie Circnii Court of said Rock Island County. to
The september Term, A. a. lS-4-iu Uhancerr.
Georga ". IAken and Eliza J. Luken.-complain.
ant.
John strong and he other unknown heirs Of Jacob
1. strong, aad tue unknown persons Calming to
own or nave an Interest in he rortE one hundred
ana twenty i've acres 81 the north east quarter #
section ten. IN township sen ntcen. nortn of range
t"n- west Of the iour-# principal meridian tex
Gefl the rlghE OF way q the Rock Island & PeoFia
hal road Company over and across the same
uhetf and hyNirtuc vi a Certa n deed ~pretendy.
U AsNe been made by one Bynjamtn Carr TO said
J@s1o 9 Strong, bearing dare the 9Th day of Nav.
a. ID: 1853, and recorded in the Recorjrr's Ofhte
81 said hook island County. Ill book Is OF Dseds.
al page l9 Observation-Disclosures.
To all Of -aid defendants in the above entitled suit.
Notice II hereby given that the above au,i,t.5
sun l now pending IN said uurt. and that . IL
oil SUMMONS has been issuVd against you 49,
Now. unless you shall personally l., aud an,
before the said circuit Court on the ar,t Sav a. a.
next term thereof, To- he holden in the Court Ucus.
In the City Of Rock Island, in the County 81 P,Sss
A. u. 1874. TO which time and place the said sun,
mons Ia made retnrnabie, and plead, answ 7 or de.
mur to the bill in said suit filed, that the same viii.
be taken fr confessed as against you aud decree
entered accordingly
Rock Island. Illinois, July 18th, A, ID. 1874.
GEORGE ID. GOULD.
Clerk OF said Court.
HsssT CURTIS, JR., Compartments Solicitor,
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brilliant conversatioualist and bright, incl
! sive writer. whom | had met but a few
weeks before. Naturally our conversation
drifted at last into the Brooklyn excite
ment. and as all, except myself, were
more or less intimately acquainted with all
The parties concerned, opinions were pretty
freely expressed till the Californian casually
mentioned that she had forgotten to mail
a letter written by her to Mr.. Tilton. OF
course, knowing her intellectual powers
say to him, and finally succeeded in per,
suading her into opening her letter and
letting us hear the contents, which proved
themselves of such force and pertlnence
that any man not entirely careless OF the
opinions held Of him, must have peer
tempted 10 yield to the wishes OF inc
| writer and tell all there was to ten. ana
that was only one voice OF the tnousahds
which urged him Oh from day to day. and
finally opened his lips in mere selt-detense
But the most convincing proof OF the
trnth of Mr.. Tilton's charge is. in my es-
timation, the AFFECT misery and haunting
dread of exposure expressed in MIR. Beech
er's letters. No man of his fine physique
and corresponding mental calibre, would
for merely advising a woman to leave
a worthless husband, pass through such
stages of mortal despair as they ex-
press and all the explanations possible
will not suffice to convince thinking people
to the contrary. No, judging the public
at large by the inhabitants of this city, L
am convinced that nothing short OF proofs
stamping the accusation as an offspring OF
T;Iton's IMAGINATION and his pastors NOR.
bid s%entimentaIity, can ever replace Mr..
Beecher upon the pedestal Of public adora-
ton from which he has been hurled, or
make Mrs. Tilton appear anything but a
week, malignant being whom, while plying,
we despise for her utter forgetfulness of
what is due to herself both as a woman and
a mother.
And now having said for ever SO much
more than | meant to say, III close for to-
day. LIE NARD.
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CLIMAX! CLIMAX !

Pages Climax Salve, q Family
blessing for 25 cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
We warrant it to cure crOfnla
Sores, Salt Rheum, Chilblains,
Sore Breasts or Nipples, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, and Sprains.
1t has been used over twenty
years, without one failure.
1t hasnO parallel-having per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and putupin larger
bOXesforthesam price than any
other Ointment.
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STATE CONVENTION.

TO the Democracy, Liberals, and all other oppo'
The TaM'i p %a sSs nsp State Central frI Committee, IN pur,
euAnce II power vested in it by the Demoef a a state
Convention Of 1874, hereby gives notice On nv Wednes.
day, the a6th day Of August, 1874, a. ~ ;oln IN send.
Ali voters of the State are invited . d I"I n nro.
ing delegates to that convention
m1'e me 1pe i restorstioh az gold and silver a. the basis
Of the currency Of the s9an ans the n eps9uy 81 II
s 81 Gon Of . gpssbti ssyssii in the money recognized
by the civilized wond.
: Individual liberty and opposition to sumptu-
Il Rigid restriction Of the government. both,
State and National. to the legitimate donsin "i
tive and legislative intermeddling with the anairs
of society, whereby monopolies are fosfered, PRIV,
i negeas s,sssss a agff onDressivs sn1 resirained.
8 The right and duty of the State to protect ls
citizens from ~extortion and unjust discriminate
ny 3rhe r,mmittee. believing the opposition to Re.
publican misrule can tremendously lutte upon the
foregoing principles, earnestly wish the free coop
Grafton q ali men, regardless Of past political afil;
iation, in an earnest effort to place the State and
National governments IN the hands OF men VINO
are actuated by the principles above enumerated.
Each county will be entitled to send one delegate
for every 800 votes, and one delegate for every frac
ton of $50 votes and over, cast in said county Tor
TUndsr this apportionment Rock Island County
10 entitled to 10 delegates; Henry IL; Mercer 81
c. II. MCCORMICK, Chairman.
AtIa,os G. H. Mccormick.
NN"is' James Z. Robinson.
LIST District-Geo s. Kimberly.
I'd District-A. Q. Story.
3D. District-Theodore Schintz.
9TH District--Jas d. TcknOr.
9Th District-W. o. Wright.
18th District-Jas g. Elwood.
Sth District-W. z. Cook.
9Th Disrict-Wm 7. Dowdall
10th District-Thos. B. Cabeen.
18th District-A. A. Glenn.
18th District-E. L. Merritt.
14th District. X. Cunningham.
18th Districts. b. Wilcox.
18th District-Wm. II. Green.
18th District-Chas. Carroll.
Democratic State Central
The undersigned citizens, being in full harmony
with the principles enunciated In the above call,
and DESTROYS of combining all voters of the state
who agree with these principles in an Opposition
Party strong enough to put an end to the mlsrule
OF the Republican party, heartily join in the above
call.
A, C. Hesing. Is. G. Caulfeld.
Herman Raster, Herman Lieb.
John M. Palmer. J X. Doolittle. Jr.
Edward Rummel. Thomas Hoyne.
John A. McClernand. Andre Mateson.
John H.. Oberly. NJ. b. Bailey.
Daniel Cameron. j. II. johnson.
Chas. II. Lanphier, Richard Michaells,
K. A. S~niveley. g. w. Ho!aling,
A. Orendorf.
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The Ii Nard Letters.

A Woman's Searching Review Of the Beecher-
TIlton I%mbroglio- Former Opinions Of lie
Nard on the sub;est--A Meeting Of Writers
and Thinkers at LIE Nard's House Beecher's
Haunting Dread Of Public Exposure-H He Is
Hurled from the Pedestal Of Public Adora-
ton HIS Mortal Despair.at his Condition.