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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

WHY THE SoUTH FAILED.-In an
address before the University of
Georgia delivered few days since,
Gen. J. b. Gordon, L. S. Senator
of Georgia, set forth the reasons
why the rebellion was not success
full. lie is reported as saying:
"And just here | am tempted to
break the thread Of my argument to
make a remark which | think
ought TO be made in this connec-
ton. 1t is this: that this civiIiza-
ton and these institutions, whatever
may be said of their evils, were
also the sources from which sprung
the matchless nrowess and selt-sac-
rifce exhibited by the South in the
late war, and as | have introduced
this subject, let me add also that |
mean no mimic regret when L de
plore the efforts to place the re-
sponsihility Of our failure at the
door Of this or that man, or upon
this or that cause. The truth is, we
have failed because it was impossi-
bic to succeed, and if, with all the
experience Of both sides, we had the
war to fight over again, we should
accomplish no more; nor has any
other race, under like circumstances
ever accomplished SO much in the
past, nor can ever accomplish more
in the future. What is it you
ought to have done that was left
undone You did all that human
hands could accomplish, human
intellects suggest, human skill de-
wise, or human hearts endure. And
you yielded at last only to over
whelming calamities. to crushing
impossibilities, to the DEGREES of a
destiny as inexorable rs death-to
resist which you brought public
and private economy, public and
private devotedneSs, and unitedness,
skill, intellect, courage, Will, energy,
sacrifices, prayers, churches, States,
manhood, and womanhood endur-
ing, suffering, struggling, with a
faith, a heroiSm, and martial spirit,
unexampled in history and lustrous
in defeat"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

subject, the average receipts of the
New York dailies for advertising
amount annually to $8,90S,OoO. OF
this sum the Herald receives upward
OF $4,000, 900, or about $4,000 a day,
the Stuats Zeitetng 81 1885, 900, the
Times 81 100000, and so on down
TO some of the more obscure sheets,
none OF which receive less than
100000. The weekly papers take
nearly half million annually as
their share of the advertising pat
ronage, and perhaps fully 100000
Is spent IN posters, circulars, steam
boat and street car advertising, etc.
The writer also shows whence this
immense revenue comes, and quotes
the folio Wing figures from the led
gers Of some of the leading business
firms: \. L. Stewart, for instance,
is said to spend $500, 900 for priut-
ers' ink; Lord 81 Taylor, 1925, 900;
Arnold 81 Constable, Sl75, 900; Rob
ert Bonner, 100000; Babbitt, the
soap man, s225,000; while Barnum
pays out every year about 100000,
and all have made their fortunes
largely through this instrumentaIity.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

which abounded in arboreal fruits.
had disappeared during the long
period of the subsequent pliocene
formations, the climate of Central
Europe, meanwhile, having gradual
ly become cooler. Nature supplied
no fruits for the food of man. What
food he got by hunting and fishing
was precarlous, and there were in
teryals OF famine; for fortune does
not always smile on the hunter, and
the beasts Of the forest are not al
ways equally numerous. The food,
too, was uniform, and altogether
adapted for man, for the flesh Of wild
animals lack ft' The man of thos SC
times had not an> Of The heat
producers in hi food; and that he
felt this want, We learn from his
taste for the marrow of bones. AL
the long bones OF animals that are
found III cave dwellings are cracked
open lengthwise, in order to get out
the marrow. Now, this insufficient
uniform food has its counterpart, in
the low grade Of culture, which then
prevailed, as evidenced by the mode
Of life, the weapons, and the tools
Man then lived isolated, without
social orgaization; he dweIt in cav.
ems, and his only protection against
the cold was the skins Of animals
and the fire on the hearth. His
tools were Of stone, unpolished, un
adorned; 50 rudely fashioned, that
only the eye Of the conaoisseur can
recognize in them mans handiwork
-From g Food and the Deuelop
nae'.t Of Nan," IN P9pular Scjeac.
NonthIy jor Septeneber.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29
THE NEW WELL4ND CANAL

The new Welland Canal will be
one mile shorter than the present
canal, and will have one less lock.
1t will be a great boon t. western
producers, to Judge from its route
and dimensions. When it is com
pleted by the Dominion Govern
ment, in 1877, Lake Ontario will be
placed on par with Lake Erie, as
far as the carrying capacity of pro
peIlers and sailing vessels Is coG
cerned. The prism Of the canal will
have 100 feet bottom width, slopes
of banks two feet to one of height ;
height Of banks, seventeen feet, and
width from surface edge of tow path
TO the same Of beam bank, los feet.
The locks are to be $50 feet long
in chamber, torty-slX wide, and TO
have fourteen feet of water over mi
ter sill, and twelve feet lift, which
will allow a vessel to pass of 260
feet length, forty-tiye feet width,
and drawing fourteen feet of water.
Such a vessel will easily carry Co.
600 bushels of grain. The whole
line of canal will have at least six
teen feet of water throughout, so
that a vessel drawing fourteen feet,
with the water required to feed the
line and the locks, will have no diff
Guilty in passing, and no delay VII
be occasioned by a shortness in the
water supply.
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Rail vi Y NOTES.

Up to August 22d, the number
of miles Of railroad built this year is
9l6; during the same time in 1878
it was 2,n28; and in 1872, 3,485.
Quite a falling of,
A Meeting of railway managers
of all the Western and Southwestern
roads will be held at the Grand Pa
cihc Hotel, in Chicago, September
ID, TO discuss matters of interest.
Tho managers of the Canada
Southern road have projected an
other international bridge which will
cross the western international
branch of the Niagara river just be-
low Black creek, to which short
line VIII be built from Steyensville
then run along Grand Island dis.
tance of about seven miles, and cross
the eastern American branch to the
main land, near Tonawanda, there
connecting with the Erie and Cen
tral. The bridge, it is announced
will be finished in August, 1878
and will take the road around Buf:
talo instead of through it.
At a recent meeting Of railroad
and steamboat managers regarding
rates from points ON the Mississippi
river, it was resolved that grain and
flour rates from points between Du-
buque anil St. Paul to Chicago, Mil
waukee and Green Bay shall be:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

& fields while children brought their
"food.'
Quoting from Daniels vision of
the ram and the he-goat in this con-
nection, we may say, that water " is
the little horn which waxed exceed
ing great toward the south, and
toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land
For the water brooks and the
fountains, with a chance at gOodly
pastures in juxtaposition, it was,
that this correspondent wandered,
starting from the foot of the Black
Hills and hauling up under the Rat
on Mountains, which is a like pro-
cess sent out of the yortebral eel
umn of our continent some hundreds
of miles TO the south.
| thought then and think now,
that my eyes never dwelt upon a
falrer view than that which opened,
as | crossed the latter range. and
looked towards the sunny south-a
view which impressed the writer
! (ide) and his horse with similar
emotions apparently for both in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

The decision Of the Supreme
Court, in the injunction case of the
State against the Railroad compa-
nies which was expected on the
25th, was postponed; the Judges
having been prevented by other du-
ties from giving Us thorough an ex-
animation as they desired, to the
important questions involved. Their
decision will probably be rendered
in week or two, and is looked for
with great interest both at home
and abroad
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

IN EUROPE.

The superiority of our copper is
conceded by manufacturers at
home aud abroad. But little of it
as yet has been shipped to Europe,
and undoubtedly dealers in English
and Chill copper would not desire
to have it assume place as a steady
competitor. Recently quite an
amount of our product was sold for
foreign consumption, and we feel
confident that if the price remains
ut the present low figure that it has
been forced to by protracted indus
trial stagnation the world over,
that a golden opportunity offers it.
sell for better Introduction Of Lake
Superior copper in the countries of
Europe. The consumption of cop
per in Europe III the manufacture
OF shells for small-arm cartridges is
something enormous, and they de-
mand superior quality of metal for
this purpose. 1t must be almost
absolutely free from baser metals
or alloys to attain the maximum
ductiIity and tenacity. In this
country the greatest care is eXercis-
q in the selection ofcopper for this
purpose, and we should like to hear
ola trial Of Lake Superior copper for
this use abroad Portage Lake
-UiHinQ GQ=ette.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

THE EFFORTS OF THE Hens.
curious statement has been made
and published in a French paper
III regard to hens. 1t reckons the
number of hens in France at 4O,-
OO,OOO, valued at 100000. Oh
these about one fifth are killed an
nually for the market. There is an
annual net production Of 30,0OO,OOC
chickens, which in market yield
s24,OOO,000. The extra value to be
added for capons, fattened hens, and
the like, is put at S2,200,0OO. The
production Of eggs is reckoned at an
average of 100 eggs per hen, worth
S4S, 100000. In all it is reckoned
that the value Of hens, chickens and
eggs, sold i'll the markets Of France
is $50, 100000.
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PUT INTO IA RKET

PUT INTO H4 RKET
a correspondent writes us from
Washington, +" | learn through what
/ consider reliable authority. that
the lands of the St. Croix grant will
not be brought into market until af.
ter the meeting Of Congress, in De
cember next" And we quote the
following on the same question,
from the Madison State Journal of
the oath;
The people of Northwestern Wis
consln will be glad to learn that
news has been received here, from
a reliable source, that, notwithstand-
ing the recent opinion of L. S. At
torney General Williams, that the
lands granted for 4 railroad from
Lake St. Croix TO Superior are for
telted, they will not be put in the
market until so ordered by Con
greSs. The work Of building the
railroad, for which the lands were
granted, viii 90 ON, ana Congress
will certainly not do the injustice OF
refusing the builders their just re
ward.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

ent parts Of the work, at an aggre-
gate of s23, ,464, except plumbing
and gas-titting, which will not cost
over 1920. There were five bid
ders for the whole job at from s27,-
2sS to s40,494, and fifteen other
bidders for parts of the work.
James Livessey, Of Madison, does
the mason work and plastering for
81 ,465. The cost viii fall much be-
low the appropriation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

LAND GRANTS TO RAILWAYS
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee have prepared a statement
from the books ut the General Land
Office, showing the number Of acres
of land granted to railroads which
have reverted to the Government
under the conditions of their grant
and the recent decision Of the At
torney General. The lands will
soon be again opened for settlement
They are distributed as follows:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN.-A move
nent is being made to introduce the
prairie-chicken into various waste
tracts in Europe and America, and
with every prospect of success. 1t
is stated that, few years ago, sew
eral pairs were transferred to dis
trict of Maryland, and that, IN con
sequence of proper protection, the
progeny already amounts to several
thousands.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

STRENGTH OF METALS, WooDs,
ETC.-It is q remarkable provision
Of Nature that iron, which is the
most abundant material yielded by
the earth, is also the strongest Of all
known substances. Made into the
best steel, a rod one-tourth of an
inch in diameter will sustain 5000
pounds before breaking; made into
soft steel, a rod OF the same dimen-
sions viii sustain 1000 pounds into
iron wire, 5000; wrought iron, A.,
600; inferior bar-iron, 1900; and
cast-iron 1000 to 5000. \ bar Of
copper wire Of the same size will
sustain 5000 pounds; of silver, 2,
600; gold, $500; tin, 800; cast zinc,
100; east lead, so; and niIled lead,
200. OF wood, a bar of box and
locust Of equal size will sustain 200
pounds; of the toughest ash, 900;
elm, 800; beech, cedar, white. oak,
pitch-piue, 600; chestnut aud maple,
$50; and poplar, 400. Wood which
will bear a heavy weight for min
ute or two viii break with two-thirds
The force acting a long time. A
rod Of iron Is about ten times as
strong as hemp-cord. A rope an
inch in diameter viii bear about >
tons, but IN practice it is not safe to
subject It to a strain Of more than
about a ton Decrease the rope III
diameter one-half, and It's strength
will decrease jhree-tourthS. Thus a
rope naif an inch In diameter will
sustain one-fourth as much as rope
AN inch in diameter.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29
4 REN4RhABLE FA.HILY.

Nnety-nlne years ago there was
born in New Haven, Conn, a child
who was destined to become one of
the foremost preachers Of his day
and the father OF numerous prog
eny, many of whom are no less dis
tingulshed than he was himself Out
of the thirteen children Of DR.. Ly-
man Beecher-one of whom died in
infancy, and another, the Rev.
George Beecher, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his own gun
while still young man-eight are
well known all over the country.
The most eminent member OF. the
family Is the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, whose unfortunate compli-
cation with the Tiltons is now the
subject Of so much scandal. ! is
unnecessary to review his public ca
reer, even for the purpose OF con
trastlng it with that of the other
Beechers; but we must be excused
for remarking that, as Livingston
street was his Golgotha, SO has there
been a place OF skeletons for nearly
every one Of the eminent Beechers.
The fathers pecullarity Of playing
''Auld Lang Syne" on his fiddle Or
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

Popular juvenile conversation
First boy-Lemme see your tongue.
Second boy-Lemme see yours.
First boy-There. Second boy
Your mother only lets you have one
piece Of huckleberry pie. Had the
panic down to your house, didn
YOU"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

The Trustees of the Wisconsin
Hospital for Insane at Madison
have awarded tue contract for build
mo stone addition in the rear OF
,hc building tor kitchen room Tor
tmpioves, etc, 95 BY t6 feet, three
stories high, with connecting cor
sidor 28 by 80 feet, two stories high,
to four different bidders, for differ
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29


1t has long been held thai lands
that have once been granted TO rail
roads could not revert to the nation
al domain except by some subse-
quent legislation Of Congress. This
opinion was held by Joseph Wilson,
the late Commissioner of the Land
Office, and has not been reversed
until within a few days, when Atty
Gen. Williams, in response to an
inquiry of the Secretary of the In
terror, decided that subsequent ac-
ton Of Congress was not necessary,
and that original grants were to
be interpreted in accordance with
the real intent of Congress, and not
by the principle of the common law
as to conditions subsequent.
Fortunately for Northern Wis
consin, the L. S. District Court,
Justice Miller and Judge Dillon
much higher authority than Attor-
ney General WilIiams-in the case
of the St. Croix and Superior land
grant, gave q decision just the re-
verse OF the late opinion of the
Atty General.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

The grain rates are 3 cents per
100 less than the April rates. Wheat
forms the chief traffic to Lake Mich
igan, and the all rail rates above are
l5.6, ID, 12.9 cents per bushcl; the
rail and river rates II cents per
bushel less.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

S,TATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
- In Circuit Court.
Eber Il. Bly,, plaintiff, against
Adolph Buechner, Katherine Buechner his
wife, Scargall Wakelir and Mary Wakeln
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 III the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court in the Court House at Superior In said
County of Douglas, and serve copy of your
answer on the subscriber al his office III SUI
perior aforesaid within twenty days after the
service Of the summons III this action exclu-
sive of the day of service. If you fail to an
swer the complaint within that time the
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded il the complaint,
Dated July 10th 1874.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

BIG FIGUREs.-According to q
correspondent of the Cincinn ati En-
q,sirer. who fully investigated the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
A Republican Congressional Convention
for the Eighth District, will be held at Grand
Rapids, on
Wednesday, September 23d,
at PM, TO nominate candidate for Con-
gress,
Each Assembly District will be entitled to
five delegates. Each fractional part of dis
trct as follows: Dunn, FIVE votes; Shawano,
three votes.
GEO. c. GINTY, Ch'm'n,
j. o. RAYMOND,
JNC. I. KINGSTON,
X. j. FLINT,
5. S FIFIELD,
c. S. KELSEY,
Congressional District Committee.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29

STATE OF WISCONSIN,, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
- Ia Circuit Cour-.
William Ii. Smith administrator of the estate
of Bella Brooks deceased intestate, against
Hezeziah 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 Sl159.T6 due to the plaintiff for
principal, interest and costs in said cause be
sold at public auction by OF under the direc-
ton of the Sheriff of said county, shall on
the tn 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, cognty Of Douglas and State of Wlscon-
sin namely: The southeast quarter OF the
southeast quarter of section two (2) III town
ship forty-eight (4S) north of range fourteen
04) west containing 40 acres more or less.
Dated Sheriff's Office, superior, Wisconsin,
June Goth 1874. JAMES NEWTON,
Sheriff of Douglas Co, Wis.
H. HAYES Plaintiffs Attorney. jun27augS
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l hereby adjourn this sale until the ith
day of September 1874.
Sheriff's Office, Superior, Wisconsin, Aug
1lth, 1874. JAS. NEWTON,
sep5 Sheriff of Douglas County Wise.
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HIRAM HAYES,

Plt'f7s Atty, Superior, Wisconsin.
int1 antrDD
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TERMS F.:
THE ST. CROLX LANDS NOT T0 RI

6S SO PER A N MUM
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-12

North Carolina and the election of the Ku7
Klux ticket. A private letter from that State
thus truthfully describes tho general result;
Judge Kerr, a man who Is supposed to
''have been implicated in some way in the
murder Of Stephens by the Ku-Klux, is
elected Judge of the Superior Court in the
| Greensboro district over Col. Rufin, indie
pendent Democrat, by about 300 majority.
''Strudwick, the solicitor elect of the same
district, was chief of a khan, and was en-
gagged In raids, as appeared by the testi-
'tmony taken in the Holden impeachment
''trial. Schenck, elected judge in place Of
Logan in the Charlotte district was lead
ting Ku-Klux, as he confessed before the
Scott committee. Mccoy, probably elected
Judge in the Wilmington district, was a
leading Ku-KIux Holden and the Era
made war on the Republican organization,
''and the Democrats have carried Wake,
taking a Senator and four members of the
House of Representatives. Holden is
''treacherous devil. He is in favor of new
''party. His cry now is, back seats for the
'Fcarpet-baggers and the niggers.' Jim
Boyd was elected to the Legislature in a
Democratic county, (Alamance,) because
'he favors Legislative amnesty to the Ku.
''Klux indicted for murder. Plato Durham
"was defeated by a large majority. He was
Cooked upon as John POOLS candidate. All
''the capital the Democrats had was civil
&c rights All the Republicans on the stump
" opposed civil rights, and for that reason
&c thousands of cOlored men stayed away
I" from the polls. 1 should think this strong
" opposition to civil rights would give Re-
" publican leaders In the North q grand
" opportunity to rally the Republican
party to the old position held in 81 and
"'69, when there was such q clamor in
1.-THE South against giving the blacks the
" ballot and the right to testify and sit as
Jurors. The result here demonstrates the
" fact that Southern white men, Republi-
" cans as well es Democrats, are opposed
d" to making the black man equal before the
&c law to the white man. The Democrats
I" this time took possession Of the polling
places as they did in 1870, when the Ku-
" Kluxwere in perfect organization. be-
" lieve you will find when the vote is-all
d" in that enough colored men stayed away
" from the polls to have carried this State
I" by good majority"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-12

aid of journals prepared for the purpose,
with the expectation of not only protesting
"to represent public opinion, but also with
the ingeniously prepared intimation at the
"same time that the labors of the respective
Governments were concluded, and that
"the work was done. Casual readers were
"led to believe that opposition would be
useless; that measure so generally ap-
"proved by the press and so vigorously
" fought over by the respective negotiators,
"and finally approved by the Executives Of
" each of the three Powers concerned, could
"not be resisted at so late an hour" We
do not indorse all these charges of our
Contemporary; but 1t is in a position to be
fully informed upon the subject, and there
is strong presumptive evidence that what
II says is not without foundation in fact
If it is not, the cause of reciprocity will be
all the stronger. If its assertions are true,
the crime is grave one, and should be
punished in the only way it can be pun
ished, by public opinion. A committee of
Congress Is The only tribunal before which
it can be brought Let the so-called indie
pendent press go upon the stand and clear
itself of the charge that it sold its influence
to Mr.. Brown and the British legation at
Washington.