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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-12-20
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GODD REPORT.
SAN FRANCISCO, December IT,
Gold, liz.
Greenbacks-Buying, 80; selling, 90.
San Francisco Markcts-By Telegraph,
SAN FRANCISCO. December 10.

SAN FRANCISCO. December 10.
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WHEAT-Sl 35(sl 55.
BARLEY--Si 22t5CSl 10.
OATS-s1 35Gl 6L
RYE-Sl l24.
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CORN-Sl 40al A..
BEANS-214 40g5c.
HOPS 0I32t&c.
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BUTTER-40d50c.
CHEESE-l3a17c.
EGGS-60a a6l12c. per doz.
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APPLES-SlCzSl rs % box.
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
The South,

The Constitutional Convention of Arkansas
is in session at Little Rock.
MICHAEL FITZGERALD, county Judge, at st.
Joseph. Mo-, has been arrested for selling
forged county warrants. He was held III 81 900
bonds
The election i'll Kentucky on the Sd inst,
for clerk of the court of appeals. resulted in
the selection of Jones, Democratic candidate by
large majority. The Democrats were also
successful in the local elections At Licking
ton the democratic ma ority was 200 to 400
NEAR Sedalia, Mo-. an alteration occurred
between fourmen named Wilson, Rollins, Ray.
and Henry, and George and David Davis The
former had let down the fences of the Davis
brothers farm, IN passing. Rollins and Wilson
were badly wounded. Constable Derrel, with
posse, attempted to arrest the Davis bows,
when another fight ensued, the constable and
one of his men being seriously wounded Two
or three of the wounded men will die
The white taxpayers of Natchitoches par
ish, numbering 700, II ct in convention on the
9th ult., and demanded the resignation of the
district and parish judges, tax collector and
parish attorney. The two Judges had left
the parish, and the demand was not complied
with. The tax collector and attorney resign
ed. All quiet. No violence apprehended
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
AN IlNOCENT MAN IN PRISON.

A parton has been issued by Gov.
Taylor, Of Wisconsin, to James b. Car
ter, who has spent over seven years in
Waup1n on life-sentence for murder,
of which he was convicted largely on
his own admission, at tke Lacrosse
County Court in 1867, but of which, it
nowappears, he was Innocent. He was
living with shoemaker named Ira B.
Wheeler, in Pepin County. He and
his wife differed, and she was regarded
as quite loose. Quarreling about some
shOe-pegs she brushed over with her
dress while he was at work, she picked
Up the Ratchet, struck him in the head
and killed him. Garter, horror struck,
saw the deed, aud attempted to fly, but
threats of accusing him of the murder,
and persuasion, induced him tt stay
and help hide the body. Suspicion was
aroused, and both were arrested. On
the plea that by confessing the guilt
himself he could-secure Mrs. Wheeler's
discharge, and then her testimony with
other influences, could be used to secure
his release, he was induced by counsel
10 duHllb UHe crime. DOtll, however,
were convicted. The woman discharge
was secured by writ of error on tech
nical grounds, and Carter sent to State
Prison His brother has persistently
labored to prove Carter innocent and
secure his release. and recently left for
Waupun with free pardon granted by
the Executive on mass of documents
showing the above facts, the mans good
conduct in prison, etc. The official
statement of the reasons for the pardon
relates that the record showed the man
was made victim of thewoman Wheel
er and her friends, andpardon is recon-
mended among others by the Judge who
sentenced him, the District Attorney
who prosecuted, and five of the jurors,
several of the witnesses for the state,
county officials, and nearly 900 citizens
of Darai,a.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
ADVANCING THE RATES.

An important meeting of Western
railway managers was held in Chicago
the 4th inst, which was attended by
representatives from the Chicago and
Alton, Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific, Chicago and Northwestern, Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy, Illinois
Central, Hannibal and ST. Joseph, Kan
sas City and Northern, and several St.
Louis roads. There were also repre-
scented III the session the agents of the
mississippi steamboat lines located in
that city.
The object of the conference, as ex-
planned by those in attendance, was to
raise the grain rate from Mississippi
and Missouri River points and cities in
Iowa and Missouri 10 that charged one
year ago. Some time previous to the
panic, the farmers were receiving only
- cents bushel for corn. which
would not pay the charge for transport
ing it to Chicago, and the railroads re-
duced the rate then imposed five cents
per hundred pounds. Considering the
present prosperity of the Changers, and
the high prices they are receiving for
their grain, the companies have placed
the tariff back to where It stood twelve
months since. The revised tariffs have
not yet been completed, but the fol
owing are the rates announced from
the principal points to Chicago
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
The West.

AN election for delegates to Congress and
county and tonn offices took place at Salt Lake
City on the Sd inst. Cannon, late delegate.
was renominated by the Mormons, and r. n.
Bsskn by the Liberals. Considerable excite
ment attended the voting, and at one time a
not seemed imminent. The women generally
voten. result of tile election had not
been ascertained at this writing
Col, WEI. r. Steele, present Delegate to
Congress from Dakota. was renomnated by
the Democratic Convention on the Sd inst.
GRAssHoPPERs i'll Kansas are doing immense
damage. The owner of 6O-acre field writes
that they destroyed more of his corn in twenty.
four hours after descending than 5000 cattle
could in the same length of time The terri
tory covered by the pests is over 100 miles in
width, extending from the Nebraska line on
the north to the Arkansas River on the south
CUsTER's expedition was in camp at Fort
Black Hills, near Bear Butte. on the 31st nit.
The Indians in the nejghborhood were peace
able.
ADIsPATcH from Fit. Garry, Manitoba. of the
Sd inst. says: Lord Gordon. the infamous
swindler and confidence man, shot himself
Saturday last, at his residence, at Headingly
III this province. Two English detectives az
rested him, and he promised to go quetl
with them if they would not so through the
United States While III his room. preparing
for his journey, he blew ont his brains
A VIGILANCE Committee of about one hun
dred men has been formed at Wilmington and
other points i'll Kansas. for hanging horse
thieves. Three men named Hosbrook. Bell,
and Charley Smith We're hung near Wilmington.
aud made confessions involving twenty other
arti
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON dispatches say Elihu b. Wash
burne, our Minister to Paris, is expected III
this country early in October next The
change i'll the PRESIDENT Cabinet will not take
place till that time when Mr.. Washburne will
be appointed Secretary of the Treasury The
friends of Mr.. Washbulne have his assurance
that he desires to give up the mission to the
French court, and that he positively will no
return to Paris as our representative Mr..
Sawyer, formerly Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, it is said is making efforts to Sc
cure his appointment as Minister to Russia
The Treasury Department has been notified
that the government Of SaXony has issued a
decree that on and after Jan /. 1875. the cur
rency of marks shall be enforced on that king
dom. The mark is the monetary unit of the
German Empire
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS has returned
to Washington. Admiral Reynolds is acting
secretary of the navy during the absence of
:, cretary Robson.
Mn. l.. L. CnoUSsE, late Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Times, is announced
the editor of the new Administration organ
to be started in New York at an early day
REPRESENTATIVE PLATT, of Virginia. has en-
tered suit against the Washington Sunday Ga
zette, for libel.
IT is said Postmaster General Jewell will
make some changes. Among them, Assistant
Postmaster-Ge Barber, the present third
assistant will be permitted to retire, Mr., Jewell
naturally preferrng a confidential friend for
the position.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
EOrei2n.

ESGLAND.-The public worship regulation
bill has passed to a third reading in the Com
mons.-lnterest i'll base ball is increasing as
the American players become known.
SPMS.-The British Mediterranean squad
ron has sailed for Malta. An Italian frigate
has also ben ordered to the coast of Spain
Twelve thousand additional troops are TO be
sent to Cuba.--The Carlists have shot the
Canon of Vittora.-The republican troops
have entered Oleat The Carlists fled. leaving
100 prisoners.
GERMANy.-It is reported from Berlin that
the Roman Catholic bishops have forwarded
to the government a protest, declaring that
they cannot submit to the one-sided laws. and
claiming that Legislative powers in matters
concerning the church belong TO the Pope
alone.
FRANCE.-The Paris police are again search
ing the houses of Bonapartist sympathizers
and siezins documents.
MoRAvIA.-EleveH towns and villages We're
devastated by the storms i'll Morayia.
BELGIUM.-It is understood majority Of
the delegates to the international congress
favor exclusion of all points relating TO naval
warfare, and strict adherence TO matters
strictly connected with ameloration of human
suffering iii time of war
CANADA.-Three members of the Canadian
cabinet Chaplin, Ouimet. and Arch. Ambaut
are charged with quietly swapping piece of
government land, worth $3.50, 900, for another
plot outside. of value which could not exceed
$40 600, and deviding the spols
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

Tie Supreme Court 'ot Maine has
just rendered a somewhat important de-
cision relating to the liability Of tele-
graph companies for errors in the trans
mission of dispatches. Some four
years ago business firm in that state
telegraphed to firm in Chicago by the
Western Union line for ten thousand
bushels of corn, but the dispatch was
made to read lone thousand" and be-
fore the error could be corrected, corn
rose, and the firm lost nine hundred
dollars. 1t was night message, and
the usual agreement that the telegraph
company shall not be liable for blum
ders was signed, but the court decided
that such a contract, being against pub
lie policy, is void, and therefore award
ed the amount claimed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
ANOTHER COMET.

A new comet was discovered at Mar
sellles, France, on Sunday morning
last, in the constellation of DRAGON, the
announcement of which reached me
this morning by the New York Herald.
/ commenced searching for it at early
darkness, and in few minutes !
caught glimpse of the stranger.
found it quite large and bright for a
telescope comet. 1t has a strong,
central condensation, but as far as /
could Judge, by observing it in both
solar and lunar twilight,it was destitute
of both nucleus and tail.
1t Is in the fourth coil of Draco, aud
about one-fourth the distance from
Iota Draconis to Gamma Ursae Mino-
ris. 1t has moved some five degrees
since its disc very, or about one de-
gree a day, toward Alpha Ursae Major
is, the brightest Of the pointers, and
the one nearest the pole-star 1t is
going to be brighter, but how much
cannot be known at this wiring.
But little is known about it, there
fore it is wisdom to say but little.
LEWIS SWIFT.
Rochester \. Y. July 30. 1874
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
DEPARTMENT REPORT.

The July report of the Department OF
Agriculture says that an increase in the
corn area of fully 1900, 600 acres is APP
parent, or six per centum above the
breadth Of last year. The per centage
is largest in the south; the incre ase III
acres is largest i'll the west Returns
make the gain in Iowa over 300, 900
acres; in Missouri, about the same; in
Illinois, about 200, 900; in Indiana,
fully 100000; in Kansas, about no.,
900. Georgia shows almost as high an
increase as Iowa. and Missouri; Ala
bama, 1901 acres; Mississippi 120,-
coo acres; Texas, 200,O The in
ducement to enlarge the corn area OF
the cotton states appears to have been
less influential in the Mississippi Val
ley than in the more eastern states,
Georgia particularly. The increase in
Texas is simply due to the natural ex-
pansion of crop areas from immigra-
ton, and is equally noticeable III cot
ton and other states.
The number Of states reporting Il de-
crease in area is small, including only
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Flor
ida, Louisiana, Tennessee, West Viz
ginia, Kentucky, and California. In
Northern New England late unfavor-
able spring interfered with planting,
and III Louisiana the area is less by
reason of the overflow.
The states making increase are as
follows: Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin,
101; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska,
102; Massachusetts, Oregon, 1O3; Con
necticut, North Carolina, Illinois, 104;
South Carolina, Michigan, JOG; Indi-
ana, los; Iowa, 100; Minnesota, 10;
Alabama, Arkansas, 10; Kansas, Ia;
Georgia. 115.
The report says the general condi-
ton of the corn crop i'll the west is
good, but elsewhere variable.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
LOUISIANA RICE CROP.

An agricultural revolution, We are
told, is impending in the delta region
of Louisiana, where the planters are
meditating to q certain extent the
abandonment of cotton and sugar
planting for rice cultu1e. The reason
is that experience has taught tt EN- that
sugar and cotton cannot with profit he
grown il the delta region. Low prices
and difficulties of various sorts prevent
their successful competition with more
favored parts Of the world. Year after
year the planters have struggled with
unfavorable results, whist a small
number of creoles in the parish Of
Plaquemines have been growing rice
and getting rich at it. Ia 1861 Louisi-
ana raised 9, coo barrels of rice, but the
war paralyzcd the business. Subse-
quently it revived, and in 1868 the
crop was 1000 barrels, whilst for
this year the estimated crop is
125, 900 barrels. With this large
supply it may be natur lily supposed
that New Orleans is becoming an i'm,
pOrtant rice market. Formerly, LOul
siana ice was of poor quality, bnt with
the growth of the trade and the addi-
tional experience of the planters, and
the additional agricultural improve
ments from time to time adopted, the
quality has advanced. The best Caro-
lima and Honduras seed are now im-
ported for planting, and the character
of the crop grows better every year.
The New Orleans newspapers show
how much the desire for going into
this profitable culture has gained
ground there, when they say that IN
area OF two thousand square miles of
land along the Mississippi and its
many bdyous will soon be turned into
rice fields. If 12S, 600 acres are thus
added to the land sown with rice. the
Louisiana crop will make an extraor-
binary advance. Louisiana has had
SO many mlsfortuBes, that the country
will receive the intelligence of her
prospective cool luck with genuine
gladness - Charleston Neus.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15

Canada. Monroe had the warrants IN
dorsed by the Stipendiary Magistrate
Gilbert McMicken, at Fl. Garry, and
accompanied by two of the local police
and Mr.. Balm, lawyer, acting for Mar
shall & Son, started Saturday afternoon
for Headingly, where they arrived IN
the evening. They proceeded to Mrs:
Corbett's, where Gordon boarded, and
Monroe made the arrestin the presence
of the others. Gordon seemed calm and
self-possessed, but asked if it was an
other kidnapping affair. On being as
sured it was not, and hearing thenature
and regularity OF the arrest, he begged
that he should not be taken through
the states. He also asked the priv
ilege of changing his clothes for
heavier ones, and the handouts were re-
moved for that purpose, Monroe fol-
lowing him closely. He went to the
foot of his bed, pretending to look for
his Scotch cap, when he seized pistol,
and, declaring 4 will not go step
further" placed it to his right eau and
fired, killing himself instantly. The
tragedy created much excitement.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
IOWA AND GEORGIA.
Correspondence Atlanta (Ga.) Herald.

When you talk of coincidence, COM
mend me to the following: In prying
into some statistics, which / have come
to regard rs the true eye-sight of the
state, | found this puzzler in a table
published by authority of Illinois, IN
1870. This paper says that the popula-
ton of Georgia is 1,1S5, 900; that of
Iowa l. S2, 933. The insane in Georgia
were 1,1S5; of Iowa, 1.1S3. Georgia
had 100 idiots; Iowa, 7S9 Georgia s
deaf mutes numbered 677; Iewa's, 676
Georgia's blind, 474; Iowa's, AS. To-
tai for Georgia, 1,126; for Iowa, ,121.
The difference in the population of the
two states is 2,067, and their insane
Just two; in their idiots just one; in
their deaf mutes Just one; III their
blind only one.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
GORDON GORDON.

The notorious Lord Gordon Gordon
came to a tragic end by his own hand
at Fl Garry, Manitoba, on August 1.
1t appears that one Monroe, a detec-
tive from Toronto, arrived there on the
steamer International with two war
rants, issued by Police Magistrate Nc
Nab. of Toronto; one was on the IN
formation of Marshall & Son, jewelers.,
of Edinburg, Scotland, charging Cor
don with obtaining goods under false
pretenses the second warrant charged
him with bringing stolen goods into
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
FRENCH CABINET TROUBLES.

A letter from Paris says the story OF
the crisis in the French cabinet, is
briefly this: Magne, late Minister OF
Finance, after long losing fight, see
ing his last plan for balancing the
budget rejected by a great majority in
the House, insisted on giving his resig-
nation which was accepted. He was a
confessed representa- tive Of Bonapalt
ism in the cabinet. A little later
Fourier, Minister of tn e Interior, in
sisted off resigning. There were sew
eral reasons for his leaving, the most
plausible of which are as follows: He
demanded that Bonapartlst should
be taken in the place that Magne had
vacated; that on the reception OF Ven
tavon's report the President should, III
advance and 10y message, repel the
Casimer former proposition that the
Project of Police, who, having pushed
the Investigations he was ordered to
institute into the Illegal Bonapartist
intrigues to the basis of criminal pros
ecntioD, insisting that the law should
have its course, should be dismissed
from office. All these demands were
in cabinet council resisted, and finally
rejected The conducting chief of re
sistance is the Duke de Casees, Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, an Or
leanis.. SO fan as any one is an Or
leanist to day, he is an Orleanist by all
his autecedents.
Fourier is comparatively young
man, and free from binding antece
dents He was once minister under
Theirs, and has always, though at first
in another department, been minis
ter under Mae Mahon. The signifi-
canoe, if there be any, IL Fourtier's
departure from the Presidents Coun-
ell within less than ten days of his
acting as the Presidents authorized
mouthpiece to the Committee of
Thirty, lies III the fact that while he
was personal Septennarchist, appar-
emily with the honest Ma1shal's APP
proval, he ceases to be n minister
in order that it might seem as though
the honesty of the Marshal was grown
somewhat tired of that queer finishing
but boldly false policy of the truce Of
parties.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
KNloR. WIS.
THE NEWS.
The Ea ST.

The Pennsylvania state insurance commits
sioners have given the Safeguard Insurance
Company. of Philadelphia, notice to discon-
tinue business in that state, until re-examina-
ton of its affairs.
FRANK WALwoRTH. the New York paricide,
has been placed in the state asylum for insane
convicts.
THE reservoir which supplies the city of
Trenton, New Jersey, with water, gave way on
the Ord inst, and sert 10000, 900 gallons of
water over the city. There was no damage
dine beyond filling cellars and carrying away
fencing.
ANOTHER body, victim of the Pittsburg
disaster, has been found among the RUNS of
Butchers Run-that of a female child, found
in the cellar of a house, where it had been
washed by the water.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-15
HOW 1T WORKS.

A dispatch from Bloomington, Ill. of
the Both, i'll relation to the effect of
prohibitory laws, says: Gone month
ago an ordinance went into effect re-
straining the sale of all kinds of
liquor in quantities less than one gal
lon, and prohibiting the drinking of
liquor in the place where bought This
ordinance was an attempt to carry ont
the vote of the people on the license
question, but it seems to have neither
suited one party nor the other, and to
have proved decided failure. BY
various devices, more liquor than ever
is sold, and drinking is going on as
freely as ever. Breweries that never
before ran in the summer are running
now at nearly their full capacity, and
violations of the law are becoming
alarmingly frequent. This being the
case, public opinion is fast working up
against this childish attempt at prohibi
ton, and it is entirely possible that, at
the Council meeting tomorrow evening,
this ordinance will be repealed. Public
sentiment is such that more vigorous
measures cannot be adopted, and it is
likely that a change will be made in
favor of license. The Paragraph and
Leader both are openly advocating new
legislation on this question. At Chenoa
similar dissatisfaction exists regarding
the ordinance there in force, and pub
lie meeting disappointed for Saturday to
discuss the question.