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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Save your money by buying at
home. Grand opening of new
goods at August Zachau's. Splendid
assortment, and prices cheaper
than the cheapest. No need to go
to Duluth when you can buy cheaper
at home?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Last Sunday was day Of un-
usual interest to our Episcopal
friends, the occasion being the
visit of Bishop WeIles, who held
services in the Episcopal Chapel
both morning and evening, and who
preached two excellent sermons,
each being listened to by large
congreg alton.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

We notice quite an improvement
in the road bed of Second St, just
above the residence of ID. Geo.
Morrison. If these things are
bound to be done, We are glad to
note that they are done well.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

"A Stranger, yesterday, would
have thought, from the Iachrymose-
looking eyes of Superiorites, that
everybody was weeping for his
grand mother or some other fellow.
II was those horn id smoke.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
interest THE TIM


Whatever interest THE TINES
may lack, this week, our readers
must lay to the fire. For two or
three days past it has looked as
though we were not likely to have
any material to get out apaper with,
but thanks to Him who controls
the wind and to those ofour citizens
who labored so assiduously in haul
Ing water and others in fighting and
keeping the fire back from the town,
The TINES office, with the other
buildings of Superior, remain safe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
On Saturday our city was Wis

On Saturday our city was Wis
tied by couple of "nobIe red men"
bedecked in the fantastical para
phernalia of the Indian warrior
They were from a Leech Lake tribe,
and were muchly gazed at by the
curious.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Antoine Cadotte, having closed
out his business, has been employed
by August Zachau. Antoine says
he will be pleased to welcome all
his former patrons at the establish
ment of Mr.. Il.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

We learn that Mr.. |. p. Brad
ford has purchased the saw mill on
Connor's Point, known as the GLOW
ard MILL" and reps ired and com
menced operations in it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Strangers coming across the
bay on The Stilman Witt, admire
the residence of ID. Geo. Morrison
1t presents very inviting appear
ance from the bay.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

We are requested to announce
that Rev. J. A. Russell will hold
services in the Episcopal Chapel,
on Friday evening, at = o'clock.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

The Duluth Herald says we
olive in a glass house" Well, sup
we do; even that is better than liv-
ing in the wreck of a pricked bub-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

mast be, as be says, an lawful stub
born individual" However, we
will wait and see what be has to say
for himself.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Talk about the smoke of
Pittsburg! 1t couldn't hold can
die to that Of Superior yesterday.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

The singing at the Episcopal
Chapel, Sunday, was excellent,
more especially in the evening.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

-Bardon's shingle-mill is prov
ing a terror on shingles, turning
out from 1900 to Is 900 per day.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

We call the attention of
the authorities to the boys
and young men who go in swim
ming, nearly every day, from
off the rats of logs near Bardou'S
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

New lot of dry goods at August
Zachau's.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
MINNESOTA POINT DRUG STORE,

I. B. F,EVSON, Proprietor.
Late with T. Smith
Graduate Of Ontario College Of Pharmacy dealer in
Pure Drugs, Chemicals and
Patent Medicine, Soaps,
Brushes and Toilet articles.
Physicians prescriptions and family receipts accurate
~ dispensed.
he5- riders by mail promptly attended t0.-sg1
ort2S II
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Mrs. Geo. w. Perry is enjoying
a VISIT from two of her sisters,
who arrived on the City of Duluth
W ednesday evening.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
A Fortified Forest in the Desert.

From David Rideout, who has been
engaged in preparing a section of a pet
rified tree for the Centennial exhibition,
we learn the following relative to the
petrified forest in the desert of north
western Humboldt. On the plain, about
thirty miles west of the Blackjack range
Of mountains, stands one of the great
est natural curiosities ever discovered
in Nevada. 1t is a petriied forest, in
which the stumps of many Of the trees,
now changed into solid rock, are still
standing. There are no living trees or
vegetation of any kind other than stunt
ed sage-brush in the vicinity. Some of
these ancient giants of a forest, which
flourished perhaps thousands of years
ago, when the climate of Nevada vas
undoubtedly more favorable for the
growth of luxuriant vegetation that at
the present, rival in size the bigtrees of
California. Stumps, transformed into
solid rock, stand in an upright position
with their roots imbedded in the soil, as
when growing, that measure from fif-
teen to t~wenty-six feet in circumference,
and the vicinity is strewn with the
trunks and limbs which retain their ma
tural shape and size. Mr.. Rideout, de-
termined to secure a section of M of
these trees for the Centennial exhibit
ton, with two other men spent twelve
days in cutting it from the stump. This
was accomplished by drilling all around
the tree and separating it with wedges.
The specimen is three feet high, and
eighteen feet in circumference, and its
estimated weight is three tons. 1t
stands OF the stump from which it was
severed, ready to be loaded on a wagon.
Mr.. Rideout does not feel able to incur
the expense of bringing it by team to
the railroad, though he had once made
arrangements to do so, but the other
party to the agreement failed to per-
form his part. He is anxious to call the
attention of the Centennial Commission
ers to the matter, and see if they will
not furnish the means to get it to the
railroad. The country in whichit is sit
uated is an inviting field for biologists.
-Htnnemuccd Star.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
The Fashions In Furs.

Seal remains the fashionable fur for
sacks, and is also much used for mex
pensive sets, consisting of a muff and
boa. Seal sacks differ from those of
last season in being more shaped to the
figure, and in having from two to four
inches additional length. A stylish
sack is from twenty-eight to thirty-one
inches long. The neck is finished with
a full revers collar. The sleeves are
quite large, and some models are wide
enough to allow a cuff of the fur be-
meath. Plain seal sacks are still worn,
but those trimmed with otter furs are
most fashionable; hence ladies who
have short plain sacks left owe from
previous seasons are having them length
ened by adding a three-inch band of
some other fur as a trimming.
A seal-skin boa, that is to be worn
with a seal sack, should be only a yard
and a half long but if it is to be worn
as part Of a set, it should be two yards
long. Seal muffs are of medium size,
like those of last winter, and are trim
med with ribbon bows that are embroi-
dered; others like t~assels, and some are
perfectly plain.
Among the most desirable wraps are
those lined with fur, while the outside
is very heavy repped black silk or else
Sicilienne. The shape mostly worn is
the plain circular, from forty-six to
fifty-four inches deep, and forming a
perfect semi-circle. They are made of
silk of extra width, manufactured for
the purpose.
Notwithstanding all changes of fash
ion, the crown Russian sable remains
the choicest fur; it is as high in price
as ever, and becomes more difficult TO
obtain yearly.
Perhaps the most dressy of all the
fancy furs introduced lately Is the silver
fox-a light blue-gray fur, interspersed
with those "silver points," or white
tips. that are now thought 20 add so
much to the beauty Of any fur.
Another fashionable gray fun, for sets
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20


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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
Electric Fishes.

OF course the peeuliaritie> Of the tor
pedg have led TO it. receiving a variety
Of characteristic names. In England il
i known as the cramp-fsh, numb-fsh
and electric raw in France a. Ia trem-
BILE: and In Malta as haddsyla, q word
which refers to is beuumbiug power.
Sometimes its flesh Is eaten BIZ the poor
er classes, although the electrical organs
are scrupul9usIy avoided. being Shiny
and disagreeable. But it j. with these
organs that we have chiefly to do. The
uniHitiated person who for the first time
boldly ETa,ps a torpedo Is likely 10 be
very much astOnished. 4 lively fish
sixteen inches long viii give him a more
violent electric shock than any common
person can bear. If, however, he
should be plucky, and retain his hold
upon the creature. the latter will soon
exhaust itself, and be for some time IN
able to generate any more electricity.
But for a while the shocks will succeed
each other very intensely and with great
rapidity. Walsh obtained fifty shocks
from a vigorous torpedo in n minute
and a half, and, by means Of wires, was
able to transmit the impulses through
eight persons at once. After the fish has
become languid, it needs a long rest to
recuperate its powers. When it is in
full yigOr, the shocks are emitted from
all parts of its body, but soon limit
themselves to the immediate vicinity of
the head. They are voluntary in char
acter, being given off at the option Of
the torpedo, which cannot, however,
control their direction. Ordinarily, a
shock is not felt upon merely touching
the fish the latter needs first to be irri-
tated, best by picking its fins. In shall
low ate the torpedo has the ~unpleas-
ant habit Of specifically burying itself
in the mud, in which condition it emits
its most powerful strokes. Then the I'M
happy bather who inadvertently treads
upon the spot receives a charge which
literally knocks him over. Imagine a
colony of torpedoes at Newport, Cape
May or Long Branch.-Penn Monthly.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
Death of an American Fugitive in Paris

Aman has Just died in the Rue Le-
mereier. Batignoles, says the Paris RI,
qaro of October 20, who at n tline hau
a criminal notoriety in the United oIaVg'
at New York, and after many FlciSsl,
tudes had come to seek oblivion III oui
great city. n. rolt
and he was the father of the lnVentoroi
the revolver which bears tnat halho,
In 1917 he lived in New York, on inc
Harlem road, in a wooden house sur
rounded by a garden and remote lrGm
every habitation. He lived Win d lai
tress, with whom he often quaItG h:u
One evening, in a fit of anger, Colt hil,
ed this woman by a blow with WIN "
bottle on the temple.
In the presence of the corpse Lne T ho
fortunate mar only Thought nov
could make away with it the qulcheS;,
An internal thought passed through n'
mind: he cut the body in pieces, anu,
after sailing it, buried it in a boz. ln nr5
he enclosed this box in another oneian nu
transported the funeral load on ot nry
TO a vessel which sailed for New ~ u
leans. Colt had taken care to keep my
head which he had buried IN tne "a
den, and to give a false address IN view
Orleans, c~oncealing also his own mann
as consignor. On reaching ITS ues,i"a
ton, the box could not be deIVereu' ..
the address was fictitious. 1t was SelS
back to New York, opened, anu ~
corpse discovered. Thanks 10 q Iia aba
on the bosom "a tuft OF hair towaIu uo
neck), Justice overlook the gull'y ort
The buried head was found; IN shoi''
Colt was condemned to be hanSeuI
II is Unnecessary to say that the IAN
ilv of the unfortunate Colt mace an
nossible efforts TO procure his pardon,
they were not even listened 10: 6lTt
evening before the day on when I sao
was to be executed in the prison, q III
broke out in the interior OF the in
the celebrated prison OF New lo LINEN
the Egyptian style-and the ;aii
penetrated to the interior Oh th9 5Itis
where one of them-won over py -,
familv-carried to him a nrehl"n7
dress. by means of which he dlsapPe"
ed in the midst of the tumult.
When they noticed his filgnt, \ nd
too late; Colt had left New iorh r;ea.
was lost in the desert wilds OF Anlei
Thus he came to Utah, to San tranc,sco'
TO Mexico, and from there to fran
where he lived unknown IN farIs he
the name of Charles ma
latter having been his mother : pro.
Before diving, Colt, who was IL
testant, sent for his pastor, ana n;ab-
presence, and before one OF ms ~, s;Is
bors-from whom we get these nd
revealed the true story OF ms NV
his identity.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20

Decidedly the most striking eh1faf.
leristie ~ San Francisco Is Co. radical
change constantly going 1b ID is social
and commercial circles Set h4w great.
rapid and astonishing ore the changes
wrought by this intense existence which
we live ID none cau falls understand
except those who reside here. 10 me,
even familiar A. ! have been with Cali
fgrnia life, in years ago, familiar IS
am with it to-day, the change and
changing condition Of the small irae.
ton Of the population whom | call my
friends amazes and ast0nishes me.
cannot comprehend the mysterious fate
that rides through all the departments
Of our affairs. Are we, indeed, differ.
ent from our brothers Of the Atlantic
slope? Is our career more e~rratic, more
dangerous? DO we move in tangents
and not in well defined circles?
Before me stands a man who, a few
short year ago, worked as a day-labor-
err in a mine, and to-day he has more
dollars than any other man in the
United States, rejoicing in an income Of
nearly half amillion Of bullion a month!
Yonder is a man trembling on the verge
of want and utter restitution, who afeW
months ago was a millionaire. In this
passing guady equipage languidly re-
clines a woman, rObed in the richest
fabrics and decked with the rarest jew
els, who, five years ago, took to wash
ing for a living! And that poor, sad
faced and m~eanly-clad woman to my
right. not half a decade has passed
since she was a power in society-the
proud wife of q man worth the reverence
of a kingdom, and who sold all things
short in this life, and then sold death
short! One can find human wrecks all
along our streets-wreeks that nave
been made so with the suddenness OF a
t~hunderbolt! And we can find where
fortune has suddenly poured its golden
stream into the lap of hard labor and
pinching poverty, and the reciplenIs
walk before us now as rulers IN the
marts of commerce. Men pass us on
all sides, anxious and excited, hurrylng
on to disaster and defeat, or to success
and victory, as though this day enfold-
ed all their chances in life and had al
most said, all their hopes in the hereat-
ter. And, must it be said'that women
NANNY Young and beautiful n pure are
found mingling with and taking a part
in and with the surging throng, as any,
ious. as determined to brave ''tate ana
the deviln as are their fathers, husbands
and lovers? All, me! As strange Is NE
and its surroundings here as are the
genial climate, the naked hills ana the
radiant heavens!
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
Odds and Ends.

A curious thing Is love, which
SoIHe'A from aDo'e' anu llShIe'h me i
uohe On some but some IL never Nus
unless il gIVeS them fits, and Sc4tteTS all
tha;r wits oh hmm
-Old-fashiOned sewing societies are
b.ar3 os ,o MGR. L,,. iii q ,r,rar
h04iN VI III H-OLS' oUl sL-I II d "oAAaH
wants to gossip she can lean over the
gate and have a dig at the whole neigh
boFhood without infringing any law.
The family man who doesn't ex-
pect at least fourteen Of his relatives to
help him deyOur his Thanksgiving tur-
can't feel one single throb Of hap
piness in looking forward to the 18th
Fr.g Pres.
-DougIas Jerr52d saws that s.respect-
ability is All very well for folks who can
have il for ready money but tn he obIig-
Cd to run in debt f9rit Is enough to break
the heart Of an ange].''
L. zt51 T
want a near. Father. Haven't / often
tod Won never two ask for things? John
nv lsgnzidcriBg1 Well. the1-DIeaSe
DsDa. NAV I have one without a.kin0'
Pond thinks he shonId have
two for thst.1-Loa49u Fun.
~ nlgI-Lh5 % etecIion-uay
AMI. be5di6g Ger 6er ehsir, reaafsed
"wbo are your candidates, my deary"
- uuu - -
To make her i@aTorits paper rusile9
Their nsmes don't remember, but, =.
. "Ha men ~ so[ls%n e[e u 10y 3ns1ie
A'4N""
An Onondaga minister, who has
preached IN an agricultural communi-
~ mas a a varied experience in get
ing his pay. one farmer at the end Of
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20


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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20
How an Innocent Man Became a Con.
Wet.

A man was pardoned from the
CharlestOwn State Prison Friday, says
the Springfield (Mlass.) Republican, after
serving almost eight years Oh a life-sen-
tence for a crime which he never COM
mitted. This was Moses B. Wheeler,
convicted of arson in February, 1866, on
the testimony of his sister and her hus-
band, who said they saw him fire a house
in Brighton occupied by a widow, and
against his own oath and the testimony
of the widow herself, who declared that
Wheeler saved her house from burning,
the actual damage the building sustained
being $50. Two years after Wheeler
entered upon his life Imprisonment the
sister who had condemned him to it died
of smallpox. On the day before her
death she confessed to another sister,
in IN agony of remorse, that she had
perjured herself at that trial at the bid
ding of others, and for the purpose OF
getting her brother out of the way. Be-
fore a legal deposition could be obtain
ed, the woman was too far gone to give
it. The motive for this unnatural con-
duct was at the outset explained by
Wheeler to be that he was charged by a
brother, who died in battle by his side,
to see that their mother had his prop
erty, which, when he returned home,
he found claimed by this sister on the
strength of a forged letter purporting
to be from the dead brother. Be the
motive what it may, she and her hus-
band had actually put him out of the
way by perjury. Wheeler had made in
cessant efforts since to have his sentence
revoked, and at last succeeds. 1t is a
consideration that might well give pause
to the Jealous advocates of capital pun
ishment that this discovery of innocence
is liable to be paralleled after a man is
hanged. And the Governor and Coun-
Gil cannot uRhang a man.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20

1t is the opinion of the Boston Gkgbe
that the iIl-health Of schoolgirls i TO
be attributed not so much to overwork
imposed by teachers as to improper
food and dress and the ambition of their
parents to have them thoroughly edu-
Gated and accomplished by the time
they are Is,
The Rev. DR.. S.M. Hopkins, Of the
Auburn Theological Seminary, has
taken this view of the Sabbath question /:
The fourth commandment as a law is
abolished, because, under the New Tes-
lament all time is equally sacred; the
Puritan Sabbath was Jewish in its ma
ture, and il observance should be left
to individual option; and legal enact
ments regarding the Sabbath are wrong.
In the sudden death Of Mary E.
Seelye, NJ. D., Of Calcutta, the Woman's
Union Missionary Society has met with
no ordinary loss. A native Of Wood
bury, CT, a niece Of the w~ell-knOwn
Prof. Seelve, Of Amherst, and Of the
President II the new Smith College in
Northampton, admirably endowed and
trained for her calling, beloved and
honOred by high and low, she has been
mysteriously called away from what
- -
a church 1ulit by the Southern
Ae'hod1sts II the United states wa~ re-
emily Dedicated IN the City Of Mexico.
About HD persJ1s were present al the
gpsll1g seTs5ge-, the majority q whom
were AeE=a1s The dedication ser
mon was preached by the Rev. Santiago
F--so d Iolaea the act q dedication
pe1grlet In Spanish by the Rev.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20

-Hay-burning stoves are coming in
10 use in Minnesota.
Sheep are successfully sheared by
machinery in Michigan.
"A new metal called "Gallium," in
honor Of France, has been found in
some of the ores of zinc. 1t resembles
zinc in some of its properties, but great
" differs from it in others.
French experiments indicate that
iron rails of excellent quality show in
three years a wear Of 0.393 inches,
while steel rails show in four years a
yea Of only OBJ inches, the table of
the rail preserving a perfectly regular
form.
Last seasons peanut cror reached
100000 bushels, valued at IS 900, ZOO.
The oil of the North Carolina nut is said
to possess great commercial import
ance, as it is extensively used as a sub
stitute for almond and olive oils.
The number of all the locomotives
in the world is $4,000, representing a
capital Of 2,J00,0O0,0O0 francs. The
United States have 1890; England,
1890; Germany, 800; France, A.
900; Austria, 300; Russia, 1000, and
Italy, l,200.
The two great express companies
of the United States, the Adams and the
American, employ about 5000 men,
1900 horses, 1,200 wagons, and use
5000 iron safes. Their agents travel
more than 100000 miles daily, or more
than 100000 miles annually,
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20

At Union City, Mich, a young
daughter of David Buell. was killed by
a haystack falling upon her.
AT Chickasaw, Iowa, George III.
Hoover, while driving cattle and chas-
ing an unruly steer, vas thrown from
his horse, breaking his neck.
Three members of the family
of Charles Massey, at Fordsville, Ky,
recently died from the effects of
drinking water from a poisoned well.
Who put the poison into the water has
no been discovered.
AT Gun Plain. neal Kalamazoo,
Mich, j. Bartholomew was dressing
down a hog which he had Just butch
cred, when the blade of the knife slip
ped out of the handle and struck his
young grandchild in the neck. He
lived only 10 minutes.
-Llewellyn Barr, aged 10, in peer
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-20

An old lady residing IN Ohio lost
the companion with whom she had jog
ged for many years. She neglected to
mark the spot of his burial by ven a
stone. Not long after coming into pos
session of a small legacy, a sister of the
deceased said to her, 81 suppose you
viii now put up stones for Daniel?"
Her answer was a settler: "If the Lord
wants any thing of Daniel at the resur-
rection | guess he can find him without
a guideboard."