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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

The shield was won by the Dublin marksmen,
the score standing Dublin, i'64 Amateur On
V, $50 Belfast, 521.
THIRTY-FIvE bridges were destroyed by the
recent floods IN southern France.
ADvIcEs say the Alphonists have the Car
lists surrounded in Catalonia, and every avenue
of escape closed. Cataviejos is being lombard
ed by three batteries.
CHINESE news says that several foreigners
have been assaulted in Pekin. The native
soldiers who insulted the American Consurs
wife and made hostile demonstrations against
the British Consulate at Chin Kiang have been
punished.
A GERMAN squadron viii visit the United
States next year. and return the call of Ad-
miral Wordens fleet
THE Americans have won still further honor
in Ireland On the day after the great contest
the Spencer Cup shot for, free to all
corners. Messrs. Bruce Yale, Dakin Glider
sleeve, Ballard, Coleman and Garfield of the
Am erican Team and all members of the Irish
Team, and Shooting Club took part. The
contest resulted in another victory for the
Americans. r. C. Coleman won the cup max
ing score of II out of a possible so. The
range was 1000 yards. Gildersleeve and Yale
also won prizes during the days shooting.
THE Pope has sent 81, 900 relief to the suf-
ferers by the French inundation.
THE Spanish Gen. Martinez Campos has
occupied positions on the Ebro to prevent the
escape of the Carlists from Valencia and Ara
gon into Colonia. Gen. Jovellar, commander
of the Army of the Centre, with IS 900 troops,
is advancing by different routes on the Carlist
leader Dorregary, who commands II, 900
man
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
The South

The South Carolina Bank and Trust Compa-
ny, OF Columbia, has suspended. The suspen-
sion Is attributed TO heavy run of depositors.
and the Impossibility of collecting loans.
THE revenue collector in the second district
of Missouri, has recently seized several dis
tllleries i'll Ozark Hills. Phelps county, and ar
rested Hamilton Ledbetter, Abraham Lewis,
ank Ed Gentry. Collector Mallory, of the
Fourth District of Texas, seized large distil-
lery some days ago in the woods of Harrison
county, Tex, and arrested Walter and George
Godfrey, the proprietors. 1t was a peach
brandy and whisky distillery, and had never in
any way conformed with the law.
\ GoLDsBoRo On. c. letter says that Geo.
Applewhite, the last of the Lowrey gang was
arrested there July l. after a desperate etrug-
gle, and lodged III jail. There is standing
reward for bis body, dead or alive. A strong
guard have been placed around the prison to
prevent any possible attempt at rescue.
CoRTINA. the Mexican insursent, is in prison
at Matamoras, and orders have been issued
that he will be shot if an attempt is made to
rescue him.
The governor of Kentucky has appointed
DIR. Robert c. Chenault of Richmond, Madison
county. 10 take the place of Medical Supenn-
tendcnt of the First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum,
made vacant by the death of Dr. Bryant
On an official report of the New Orleans
board OF health, Governor Kellogg has pro-
claimed ten days quarantine against the
port of Key West. The health officer at the
latter place officially announces the prevalence
of yellow fever in an epidemic form there, and
one death has already taken place.
IT Is said that B. Gratz Brown. who with Mr..
Greeley headed the Liberal presidential ticket.
is going into the newspaper business, and that
he Is negotiating for the purchase of the st.
Louis Times.
CAPTAIN EADs informs the president Of the
progress made in improving the mouth of the
Mississippi. He says provisional works 1000
feet long have already been constructed on the
line Of the last jetty. and are being pushed
seaward at the rate of 200 feet daily. Two
hundred mechanics are at work, and large
quantity of stone and other material is already
at hand The captain is qaite sure that there
will be 20 feet or more of water on the bar at
the South Pass by the LIST of next February
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
NEWS BREVITIES.
The East.

ROBERT DALE OWEN has become insane on
spiritualisrn.
THE great American hippodrome was sold bv
the sheriff of Ogdensburg. New York, few
days ago. for debt.
ANN ELIZA seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, has commenced proceedings against
him at Boston, for perjury, and hopes to pro-
cure his indictment.
The Wyoming Insurance Company of Wilkes
barre, Pa, has wound up its business The
Commercial Union of London. assumes the
outstanding risks Of the company.
AT New York, on the I'd inst, Judge
Brady gave an opinion conveying his decision
on David Dudley Fields motion to quash the
indictments against William NJ. Tweed. He
denies the molten except as regards the two
indictments which it was concede in argument
are superseded, and says the objections raised
should be made, if at all, on a plea, not a.
motion to quash.
The internal revenue receipts Of the first
district of Ohio for the fiscal year, ending with
June 3Oth, are IS, O55, 517.45, being an increase
of S615, 365.26 over the previous year
The motion for reduction of bail in the case
of Vim. NJ. Tweed has been withdrawn for an
indefinite period. 1t is presumed that this ac-
ton was taken on account of Judge Davis sit
ting in the chamber where the motion was to
have been made
MEETING of Northern Pacific bondhoIders
was held in New York on the 30th Twenty
millions of the bonds were represented and
an arrangement was agree ed upon by which in
vestments i'll the road would be saved, and the
road completed.
LG.DER the man who swore to alleged new
evidence in the Beecher-Tilton trial, is OH trial
for perjury.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Crimes and Casualties.

AT Toronto James Warren aged fnrtv-one
who was imprisoned on the LIST Of June for
committing an indecent assault on a little girl
received twenty lashes with - a cat o-nine
tails in the jail yard. He will receive twenty
more lashes before leaving prison.
HENRY G. STRATToN, constable of the
Municipal court, Boston, Mass, committed
suicide recently by taking laudanum. He left
letters SEATING that he was not insane, but felt
that he would be happier in the spirit world.
Four masked men entered the houee of
Levi Washburn, at Carmel n. Y, few nights
age. bound and beat him, and searched the
house, finding only $50. They stole Mrs
Ludington's horses and carriage and drove off
in the direction of Fishhill
AT Helena, Ark, on she 30th, the World and
Independent newspaper Offices and Burnett's
job Office, were burned by incendiary fires
The entire block ia which the offices were stu
ated was burned. The Worlds loss is $1,000
MAN named Holmes, the husband of a
Louisville milliner, cut his thrat with a razor
a few days ago. Holmes wife had just sued
for divorce, and he was drunk when he com
mitted the act
On the Both, Major J. Lyle Clarke, well
known citizen of Baltimore, Wac shot while
seated at the dinner table at st. Charles Hotel
by young man named IL. W. Brewer OF
Georgetown, d. c., who was arrested, and
stated he was driven to the act to avenge g
sisters wrong. Clarke's wound is not fatal
A NEGRO named John Hagan was hung by
the citizens near RussellviIle, Ark, for at
tempting to get into bed with two white girls.
for the purpose of rape.
PEMBERTON, who murdered Mrs Bingham
at Boston, has been sentenced to be hanged.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Washington.

HE street pavement sWindle controversy
has been renewed by 1he Star newspaper for
merly the defender of the 'ring.n That
paper now calls upon the District commission
ers to force the contractors to comply with the
terms of their contract. which require them
to keep the pavements in repair FOR stated
time, which has not yet expired.
The commission for testing steam boilers
viii get to work at an early day. The vacancy
caused by the death of the late president will
doubtless be filed by the appointment of Dr.
Bernard, the president Of Columbia College.
Tests viii be made at Sandy Hook and Pitts
burg.
COUNT CoRTI, for several years italian min
lister 10 this country, has presente to the
President, at Long Branch, his letter recall
TIE counting of the money ia the United
States treasury commenced on the night of
the Seth nit. Seven persons were engaged in
the count
MANY minor changes were made III the treas
ury department on the new treasurer taking
charge. Dir. New brought several acquam-
tances with him TO take positions under him,
and some twenty subordinates were relieved.
and their places assumed by new men.
IT is said that Secretary Delano has not
abandoned his desire to retire from the Cabi-
net, but the period at which this may take
place uncertain
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
tlOn OF CeftlIlCdt6S
of deposit. .... 50, 415, 600
The Iron Mask.

The following anecdote was related
to Chas. Sumner, by Gen. Cass, and is
given in A. B. Johnson's Recollec
tlOns of Charles Sumner" in Scribner
for July: When Gen. Cass was minis
ter to France, he became somewhat in
innate with the then King of France,
Louis Philippe. One morning when
they were alone, the General asked per
mission to ask a question.
g Ask what you please" the King re-
piled.
"Then," queried the minister, can
your Majesty tell me anything of the
man in the Iron Mask ?
"Ah," replied Louis, somewhat
amazed, eyes, and l will tell you all 1
know about it. When [ returned from
America, Immediately upon seeing nv
cousin, Count d'Artois, I, evincing this
same curiosity, asked him whether he
he could tell me anything about the
mystery. Only this replied the
Count: 'Once, in rambling through
the Tuileries, [ found myself in the
apartments of the Queen, Marie An
tolnette. Parting the curtains which
concealed me from her eyes, | saw her
on her knees before the King. "In
mercy's name," she said, "Sire, tell
me who was the man in the Iron
Mask D." q can not tell you" ans
wered Louis XIV, sternly. 81
learned it from my predecessor, and
can tell it only to my successor. But
this [ will tell to you; if you knew who
he was, you would be greatly disap-
pointed at the curiosity which he has
excited -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Ingenious Smuggling.

The revenue officers at Philadelphia
have discovered very complete system
of smuggling cigars from Havana. The
manner of the smuggling is as follows:
The agent of the smugglers goes to
Havana, lays in good stock of cigars,
embarks on the regular steamer, and
then waits his opportunity. This op-
portunity is found at Delaware cape, a
point where vessels coming into Phila-
delphia are aignaled by the commercial
agencies. When the Havana steamer
reaches this point, the agent on board
signals to his accomplices on
shore, and then throws his stock
of cigars overheard. He has employed
his time during the voyage to fasten up
the cigars in air-tight India-rubber
bags, which float upon the surface of
the water. They are afterward picked
up by smugglers in small boats, when
the steamer his gone on far enough to
allow them to work without suspicion.
Recently the revenue officers captured
one of these bags, out at sea, and by
this means the system of smuggling has
been discovered. 1t is believed that the
same system extends to all seaboard
cities from which Havana steamers Fly.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

A PLEASING illustration of the deep
popular interest now almost universally
taken in scientific research, comes to
US from Sweden. DIR. Berggren, a
Swedish botanist, who had explored
Spitzbergen in 1868, and Greenland in
1870, found himself last year in New
Zealand without the means necessary
for pursuing his Investigations into the
forests of that country. The situation
was made public by Swedish newspa.
per, and Immediately the proprietors of
anoth J. Swedish newspaper, Goteborg's
Post, forwarded large sum toward the
prosecution of the work, and private
contributions came in so rapidly that
DIR. Berggren is now in possession of
all the pecuniary aid he needs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

Our of 100000 of the last levy of
conscripts in France, $4,000 have been
declared exempted from both active and
passive duties in the military line. 1t
looks bad when SO many men are not
even fit to be food for gunpowder,
though the fact should be considered as
a good sign in behalf of peace.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Foreign.

The shooting for the All-Ireland challenge
shield took place st Dollymount on the 81.
The competitors were four members each of
the Dublin Belfast and New York Clubs The
ranges were 100 and 900 yards, in each of
which every participant had twenty shots
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

The Chicago InterOcean of the 25th
contained only so pages of advertise
ments of delinquent taxes for that
city. There is not another city in the
country that can proclaim similar
record.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
/ good sign in behalf Of peace.

A GERMAN philosopher puts the mat
ter thus acutely: "There are 1,3l3,-
100000 human beings on this earth. AS
all living animals are parasites feeding
on each other, just bring home the
question to yourself, reader, and reflect
how many fees, flies, worms, tadpoles,
forget-me nots, and other two-legged
and centipeded creatures are sticking
closer to you than brother In the
course of time there must be an end to
all this, as an empty sack won't stand
no.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
DEBT STATEMENT.

The public debt statement for July l
is as follows
6-per cent. bonds. 81, 100, 500, $50
5-per cent. bonds. 607, 1872, $50
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

AN interesting practice among Chi
cago butchers has just come to light in
the course of some litigation relative to
slaughter houses, which will probably
result III decreased demand for veal
among high-livers of that city. The
testimony showed that in the slaughter
of cows, the packing houses claimed
the embryo offspring as their perquisite
and sent it to market for their profit.
These perquisites are known among the
slaughter house men as "slunk," and
are distinguished from healthy meat by
its slippery condition. They are found
IN countless numbers, and after the
epicues of Chicago are daily supplied,
large shipments are made to st. Louis
and eastern markets. One witness testi-
fed that the eating of this offal ''has a
very bad effect, it makes people sick;
and the worst of it is that people don't
know exactly what ails them"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

A VERY eulogistic article appears in
the London News upon the occasion of
Carl Schurz' visit, and kind reception
in Berlin. Not only were his American
friends warm in their praises and adj
miration of the Senator, but his Ger
man friends as well. The News takes this
occasion to remark that it Is an illustra-
ton of the change which recent years
have made in the political condition of
Germany, that Carl Schurz, the revolu-
ZIONIST of 1913, is In Berlin at all. This
is one of the many foreign journals
which, although it admits the power of
American citizenship, does not realize
it. Schurz is inviolable property in
the same way that Garabaldi was when
he escaped from Italy, became a citi-
zen of the United States, returned to
his own country again successfully tir-
ring up issurrections against the Papal
authority, was defeated by the Austrian
forces, imprisoned released when
he informed them, among other things,
that he was an American citizen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

" That ar patch of grounds mem ri
bic, : said an Omaha man, pointing to
a grave all by itself outside the town.
" l reckin you'll know that, stranger.
when you 1T ag'in. The ockypant of
that was the furst man Horus Greeley
ever told to git west-likewise he was
hung for stealth mewl."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Recovered His Cigar.

The following incident is described by
a California paper: A gentlemen about
to pass into one of our hotels with two
ladies, the other evening. found he had
a freshly lighted cigar to dispose of.
There was pleasant looking young lad
near the door, and he asked him to hold
the weed until he returned When the
gentleman came out he was so pleased
with the boys honesty that he gave him
five cents, saying, Don't you smoker"
Eyes, said the boy. ''How is it you
didn't make off with this cigar, then p
many boys would have done it." said
the gratitied gentleman. Il don't know
about that, said the youth: 1T must be
a pretty hard pushed boy who'd run
away with such cigar as that" The
ladies Uttered. but the gentleman did
not
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

The census of Duluth, the "Zenith
Cittee of the Unsalted Seas" has just
been completed, and it is little short
of 1900, which is a loss of 1000 since
1872. This is u bad showing for the
city that was 10 eclipse everything on
the contiaent, and become the centre
of all creation. The same rate of de-
crease for the next five years would
leave it desolate. Should st. Paul be-
come practically the terminus of the
North Pacific, of which there is now
prospect through the completion of the
st. Paul Pacific to its projected juno
ton with that road, Duluth would
probably not gain an inhabitant in a
generation. When the road is built
along the southern shore of Lake Su-
parior, and the North Wisconsin com
pletcd to Superior, the latter town will
enter upon steady growth, and be-
come the town at the west end Of the
lakes.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
A Child and an oyster.

The following is from the London So
licitors' Journal: "The English law
presents al extraordinary contrast. On
the one side il is held that the negli-
gence of person having charge Of a
young child is the negligence of the
child and imputable to the child, and
that there is no redress if the child is
negligentiy run over. On the other
side, it is held that, though oysters are
negligently placed in river bed, it is
an injury redressable by damages for
vessel to negligently disturb them. The
child, were he an oyster, would be pro-
tected; but as child, under analogous
of neglect, he is without
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

THE Cincinnati Commercial publishes
an article on the subject of the Buffalo
Convention. intended to show the peo-
PIE of the states the wealth which may
some day be incorporated in the union.
The United States and Great Britain at
present almost monopolize the Can dian
trade. About $4,000, 900 is annually
received here from Canada and S31, OOO,-
600 IN Great Britain. Last year this
country shipped to Canada S48, co., 600.
and Great Britain sent exports 10 the
same markets valued at S68, 000,0 900.
Canadian revenue receipts amount an
nually to about 81 900, 900, and inter
nal revenue taxation reaches the neigh
borhood Of $5,000,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

IT is stated in the Chicago newspa-
pers that the buildings in that city are
running from the extreme of magnifi-
cence IN 1873 to the extreme of mean
ness III 1875. The chief object of the
builders appears to be to put up some
form of building which will pay a large
interest onthe investment. Chicago real
estate has III past years paid from ten
to twenty per cent. per annum. Now
the point is, how can large rate of in
terest be secured in these grinding and
Oppressive tines The Inter-Ocean
thus opens up seam in a new swindle:
There are many contractors low who
have had no experience IN the business, and
they are taking contracts for less money than
It Will cost to fulfill them honestly. 1t is no.
sltlvely asserted by many trustworthy PERSONS
who are thoroughly informed upon the subject
that there are many houses now being built
that will be worth less, Hhen finished than
the materials would be if they had not been
put into the houses. 1t would take column %
specify the instances Of criminal disregard of
any rules of safety in the construction of
foundation, the laying of josts, the fastenings
Of roofs. etc, etc. of which We hear,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15


The cool and damp weather of June
and the first days of July, in the north
western states is of inestimable value to
the wheat and grass crops, and we
should not be at all surprised if the
next crop report was raised from
"a, which it was On the first of June,
to 100 on the first of July, as it is
many years since the wheat growing
farmers of this state have had so favor
able June. The wheat crop is light
in the Middle and Atlantic states, and
the prospects are therefore more favor
able for better prices III the autumn of
1875 than in the autumn Of 1874 And
this will insure a very large and re-
munerative business for every branch of
trade.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

1t is as unjust to the Bible as it is
vexatious to science, to.endeavor to re-
dHce scientific systems into conformity
with the Biblical accounts, or TO require
the Bible to give us scientific systems.
Arthur p. Sonley.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
Tree.Planting i'm Minnesota.

DAN. DAVIS of Virginia City, paid
visit to Promontory, on the Central Pa
cific Railroad, and was charmed with
the manners and ustoms-almost patri-
archal in their frank simplicity-of the
people He stopped at the principal
hotel of the town. 1t was nice place,
and the landlord was very agreeable
and friendly sort of man. Says Dan:
when dinner was ready the landlord
came out into the street in front Of his
hotel with a double barreled shotgun.
Raising the gun above his head he fired
off one barrel. / said to him, What
did you DO that for?' Said he: TO
call nay boarders to dinner | said
why don't you fire off both barrels: 2
'Oh, said he, 4 keep the other to col
lect with , ,"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15
OutagRmie County.

The Appleton Post accounts for the
absence of prisoners in the Jail there.
by stating that the editors were attend
ing the convention in Milwaukee.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-12-09
Rough on our Democratic Friends

The Dem ocratic House of Rep
resentatives will have control of
over $50 appointments. The saIa-
ries range from S., 900 down. There
is great scramble for these places.
A Correspondent Of The Cincin-
natl Commercial, an Independent
paper, gives the following pictures
of the appearance IN ashington
now: "The sights now seen here
daily and nightly, and all day and
all night are sickening and alarming.
| have seen drinkingn Washington
before, and hard drinking at that,
IN saloous, at hotel bars, up in the
private rooms Of boarders, down in
the Easements of oyster shops, but
L never saw such gulping as [ see
here now. The fiery flood is liter
ally poured down by the halt-tum-
bler-ful, without water, without
sugar, without anything to bate it's
fury or lessen it's intense heat
HelI-fire could hardly be hotter, and
hell-fire is what it will be found TO
be-"