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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
CSnsIiGuIiOnaiity Of the New Postal
Law 10 be Tested.

A case involving the constitutionality
of the amended postal law has been
brought III the United States Circuit
Court for the district of New York. A
gentleman offers book for mail trans
mission to Philadelphia from this city,
postage at old rates being affixed. Being
refused, he applies for mandamus to
compel the postmaster to receive the
package The argument for the appli-
cant is that the sundry civil appropriation
bill, into which the amendment increas-
ing the rate on third-class mail matter
was inserted, was not a bill for raising
revenue, that the Senate has no consti-
tut'onal authority to originate measures
for that purpose, that being sole pre-,
rogative of the house; and that the postal
amendment, having originated with the
Senate and been grated ON bill which
was not one for revenue purposes, is
| therefore unconstitutional
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
Details Of the Recent Earthquake

The last steamer arrival at New York
from Panama brings later details of the
great earthquake in South America.
Cucuta Is in ruins, not a single house re-
naming. The killed are calculated at
5000. Rosario, Sanantonio, Capacho,
Guieme, Jan Juan, Deurano, Tuau Cay
etuno, San Cristobai, Tariba, Lobatera,
Legrita, and adjoining villages are in com
plete ruins. Salasean suffered severely,
and the adjoining country is nearly de-
vastated. Chenacata, ChapO, Pamplona,
CucutIlla, Arbedollas, Santiago, GallindO,
Gramatate have also been great sufferers.
The number Of dead in Cucuta IS calcu-
lated at three-fourthS of the population.
The families saved are in the outskirts of
what was the city, but they will soon be
obliged to retire, as the qualification of
the dead will not allow them to remain.
IL Is hcartrendlng to see the wounded,
who have no care. and who cannot live
long IN their present condition. The
thieves and robbers swept down on the
Inflated city, ana hardly a single safe has
been saved from the custom house. The
pillage is general. Four hundred mules
were killed in the streets, and as there is
no one to remove them the stencil is be-
coming frightfnl. The StOre-houSe at
Puerto de Los Cachas was sacked and
burned by bandits. In Piedecurata the
town hall is destroyed, and in Pampelo
the cathedral is in ruins. The Venezuela
side has suffered, if possible, more than
the Columbian. ThiIt teen thousand dol
lars have been sent from Panama for the
relief Of the sufferers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

New York Tribune, 18th. /

Few eXtenuatng circumstances, either
Tor the railroad company or its officials,
have yet been developed in the Coroner s
investigation of the Rockawav railway
disaster. 1t appears that Conductor
Hubbard was heard to remark that he had
only one minute and a half III which to
get tiom Woodsburg to Rockaway,
whereas the time allowed by the present
schedule is four minutes and was former
ly SIX minutes. Conductors, says the
traln-master, ''often take risks in that
way We find also that there has been
no telegraph office at W oodSburg for two
years; the railroad agent was an oper-
ator, but had no instrument. There are
various other Indications of criminally
loose management, which make disaster
like that of the 9Th of July rather mat
ter of course on such a road.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
An Arkansas Desperate X iiEed.
Al 4 IL. i


Capt. j. G. Ray and Mr.. j. p. Hulse Y
left this place one day last week for Pike
county, for the purpose of capturing tho
desperate Ambrose III. White, charged
with murder, and who escaped custody,
and has since set the authorities at def
ance. They state he was captured Just
before their arrival there, by two brothers
named Cox, and afterward, in attempting
to escape, was shot and killed by one OF
the CoXes. The circumstances of the
capture and killing were substantially as
follows: 1t appears that W hite had been
on terms of criminal intimacy for some
time past with girl that one of the Cox
boys wished to marry, but the girl prefer
ring W mte, was preparing to leave
the country with him. This excited the
anger of Cox, and he, with his brother,
agreed upon Whites capture. Being on
intimate terms with him, they rode up to
the house of the girl where White was,
and he, being unSuspici"us Of danger,
greeted them kindly. He was sitting on
chair, with his gun across his lap, and,
while one of the CoXes engaged him in
conversation, the other got behind him,
and at favorable moment seized him
IRON DeHillu anu pilliOltu us dILlS, Wlllle
the other presented a revolver at his
breast and disarmed him. White then
tried to beg off, promising to leave the
country and not harm them. They re-
fused to release him, when White asked
the privilege of getting drink of water.
When on the way to the well,
he broke to run, and was shot by
one of the CoXes through the body, and
ran some distance before he fell. Cox
then ran up to him, when White begged
him not to shoot him, as he was already
a dead man. Cox replied, mo, d--n YOU
you might get up, so look out for your
head-here goes" and fired, shooting
him through the temple, killing him in
stantly. The other Cox had his hands
full in managing the girl, who showed
pluck and a disposition to defend White
with her life. Pike county is thus rid of
a very desperate and dangerous man,
and though his taking off was to satisfy
personal revenge rather than violated law,
the people of that county have reason to
be glad of it. If Pike can now get rid of
the CoXes it would be all the better for
it. A coroner's inquest was held on the
body; and the jury returned a verdict iii
accordance with the above facts.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
The ponca Agency Fight.
Correspondence Yankton Press and d,


Correspondence Yankton Press and Dalo-
tian.l
\ war party of Sioux entered the vii
lage of Ponca Agency early Tuesday
morning, the 9th, and fired twice at q
squaw. They then started for the bluffs,
followed by few Poncas, who kept up an
irregular fire for some time, when they
disappeared behind the bluffs. Thinking
possibly that now was their time to get
a few Ponca scalps, las most of them were
absent upon hunt,) they returned to the
bluffs at $50 A. NJ, from which they open
ed fire on the mission and soldiers quar-
ters. As many of them had the two
band needle gun" lately in use in the
United States army, several of the balls
struck both the soldiers quarters and mis-
sion building, although they were l,4OO
yards distant by measurement. Things
began to look serious, as there were only
seven soldiers and five whites, one being
sent for reinforcements. With all the
Poncas, we could not bring more than
twenty effective guns into action. Provi-
dentially there was twelve pound howlt-
Ger at the agency, which was speedily
loaded with boiler rivetS and discharged
among the foe. The second discharge
demoralized them, when, after firing a
parting volley and making a. few threats,
they decamped, being seen at noon the
same day opposite Yankton Agency. 1t
is the opinion of all that had it not been
for the howitzer there would have been
many hurt, as there were nearly $50 In
dams III sight.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
News from England of the 18th brings

News from England of the 18th brings
reports of heavy rains causing much
damage. In Wales, the river Ogmore
overfowed It's banks, inundating the
town of Brig, and lives were lost and
much live stock drowned. The water in
a reserve pond for supplying Monmouth
shire canal at Cornwall, burst through its
banks, and thirteen persons were drowned.
There is food at Cornwall Valley. Eng
hsh crops, especially hay, suffered Sc
verely.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22
John Gordon sill Held by the Will
[Omaha, July 10, Correspondence Chicago
Times

[Omaha, July 10, Correspondence Chicago
Times
The public generally are not aware of
the fact that Capt. John Gordon, who
was captured by the military early last
spring while cndeayoring to lead a mining
expedition INTO the Black Hills, has been
under confinement ever since at Fort
Sherman, III this Safe. His friends have
interested themselves iii his case, and
have finally secured the serving upon
Gen. Crook, the commandant of this de-
partment, of a notice that a hearing of
the case will be had before Judge Lake,
of the district court here, on writ of a
habeas corpus. Gordon will be brought
to Omaha within a few days, and the trial
will probably take place early next week,
and will certainly prove very interesting
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Hon. VIM. r. Foster, Chief Justice OF
the Circuit Court of New Hampshire,
while riding in Pullman car from Boston
to Concord Friday, the 10th, was shot IN
the right arm through an open window as
the train was passing Merrimac station.
The shot was doubtless fired by tramp
in revenge for being put off the cars the
night before.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

connected with the massacre. Among
the witnesses are some who actually took
part in it, and some who attended meet
ing of the participants after their return
from the field of slaughter. The officers
have had the greatest difficulty in getting
witnesses for Lees defense. Quite a
number have positively refused and de-
fled the marshal, while all those on
Dame S behalf are present, which is at
tributed to the fact that Dame is Nor
mon in full fellowship and Lee is not.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

At northampton, Mass, Mrs. Aurora
X. Dimmock attempted to take the life
of DR.. A. w. Thompson, with revolver
because he failed to keep his promise to
marry her. She failed, and the doctor
has since taken steps for her confinement
as a lunatic, which causes great excite
ment in the town.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-22

Minnie Bush, young girl, died on the
evening of the 18th at Flint, Mich, from
swallowing pin two weeks before.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
AMER Marriage.

A philosopher writes ; The girl
is generally educated on novels, and
her first disappointment comes in
on the quiet indifference of the hus-
hand after the honeymoon. "1 ou
love me no longer" said a bride to
her better half in his gown and
slippers. 'FWhy do you say that
Puss?" he asked quietly moving a
cigar from his lips. "You do not
caTess me nor call me pet names;
you no longer seek so anxiously Tor
nv company" was the fearful an
gwer. dMy dear, conutiued the ag-
ravating wretch, "did you ever
notice a man running after carr
How does he run-over stones,
through mud regardless of every,
thing until he reaches the car and
he seizes hold and swings on. Then
he quietly seats himself and reads
his paper.;' An illustration, my
dear. The car is as important to
the man after he gets in as when he
is chasing it, but the manifestation
is no longer called for. l would
have shot any one who put himself
in my way when in pursuit of yor
as | would now shoot any one who
would come between us, but as
proof of nv love you insist upor
my running after the car.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
utIlLznng a Congressman.

We see in one of the papers par
agraph from a Washington letter,
which saws that it costs the COVER
ment two thousand dollars to bury
a congressman who dies at the cap
ital. We should not have noticed
the statement but for the fact that,
we have come across another te the
following effect: "Reeently an eccen-
trio Englishman died and left fifty
pounds in his will to a London gas
company on condition that 1t should
convert him into gas in one of ITS
crueibles." Now, if it is really prac-
ticable to make gas out of an ordin-
airy human being, imagine how enor-
nous would be the quantity that
could be made from an average Con-
gresham Therefore, instead OF
spending so much money for funer-
ais, we insist that hereafter every
defunct Congressman shall be turned
over TO the gas company to be
worked up, and run through meter
and sold by the cubic foot. 1t would
be an unusually exhilarating exper-
ience to read a newspaper by the
light of a vaporized Congressman,
and to turn the statesman out when
we go to bed! There are a great
many Congressman who never will
throw light on anything unless they
are put through crucible and emit
ted from burner.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07

WHITE WAsHING.-As the time
for cleaning and white-washing ap-
proaches, the following receipt for
preventing whitewash from adher-
ing to everything that happens to
be brushed against it, will be read
with interest:
Soak four ounces of glue in a
quart of warm water for, twenty-four
hours, then add a pint of water
place the vessel (tin) in kettle of
hot water over the fire, and agitate
the glue, until it is thoroughly dis
solved and the solution quite clear.
Now put five or six pounds of pow
dered Paris White (costs three cts.
a pound) into bucket, and add hot
water until the mixture is of the
consistency of cream, Then mix
the glue with it, stirit well, and put
on with an ordinary whitewash
brush. 1t is of the most Importance
that the calcimining mixture be
spread smoothly, and if too thick, a
little hot water should be added
The quantities given above are suf-
fcient for two coats on large room
eighteen feet square. To make a
good job, two coats should always
be applied.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07

1t is easy enough to start a daily
paper. Keeping it going is what
exercises the inventive genius. The
Chicago 1Fi6aue, however, knows
some folks who have no doubt of
competency to wrestle with the
problem. 1t observes:
sThere are two kinds of business
which every man feels himself to be
entirely capable of conducting on an
improved plan. We never yet met
a person who couldn't run hotel
or manage a newspaper. Everything
else under the sun seems to require
some special training. One dosen't
practice law or prescribe medicines,
or manage a bank, or manufacture
clothespins, without previously de-
voting some study to the calling
But one edits and publishes a news
paper as matter of course. 1t is a
gift generally distributed among man
kind, without distinction as to race,
color, or previous condition. A pc
cuIiar characteristic of this general
faculty is that any man who does not
happen to edit and publish a news
paper, knows how it ought to be
done very much better than every
other man who is actually engaged
in the business. The horse cars
swarm with the gifted journalists in
embryo-these flowers of genius
born to blush unseen. No house
hold is complete without one or
more of them. They infest the
newspaper offices, and think their
special mission in life is to visit edi-
tors and tell them how they ought
to conduct their newspapers. When
these good-hearted and talented am
ateurs have not time to make per-
sonal visitation, they send their
thoughts upon winged messengers
in the shape of communica-
tions, to enfighten the heathens
whom accident has placed where ac-
cident had called, and to improve
the world by improving the news
papers the world lives on"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
From the Lesvensworth Times.
The Bitter Bitten.


The numerous cases of swindling
of passengers on the western rail-
roads by three-card monte men have
ceased to tract atattention from the
frequency of their occurrence; but
when the spotted victim happened
to come out first in the little game,
then it is deemed a subject worthy
of notice. The Missouri Pacific
Railroad, especially between Leav-
enworth and Kansas City, seems to
afford a rich field for these robbers,
and many a mans hard earned dol
lars have found their way into the
capacious pockets of these sharpers.
On the down train from Atchison,
Friday afternoon, there was pas
senger, Adams by name, whose oc-
cupation is that of drummer, for a
Chicago wholesale house. He is
somewhat of a sleepy looking indi-
yidual, but underneath his calm ex-
terror. is concealed a sharp wit and
good sense, not discernable to the
ordinary observer. While he lay in
his seat doing away the time, he
was approached by seemingly
drunken fellow well dressed and
bearing in his countenance the marks
of dissipation and fast living. He
took seat alongside of the drum
mer. and entered into conversation
with him. Thinking he had caught
a g1eenhorn, he broached the subject
of card playing, saying he had a
little game which was easy to under.
stand, and which it might be worth
while to try. The drummer ae-
uuiesced, and the sharper, taking
from his pockets three cards, laid
them down upon his knee and pro-
ceeded to initiate his companion into
the mysteries of the game. 'Now
YOU see" said he, "1'll just give
these cards turn, and I'll bet you
; ten dollars you can't pick out the
one that you looked at first" The
bet was quietly taken, and the mon
ey staked, the cards turned, and the
result was that the drummer won.
A second bet was made, this time of
$40, and again the monte man, was
the loser. "We1l make it $50 this,
time if you please suggested the
man of cards, and the last bet was
also taken up; and when the paste
boards were turned for the third
time it was evident that the drum
mer had not lost. Barely able to
conceal his chagrin and disgust, the
trickster staked his last $25, mani
pulated the cards, and lost. The
train this time was drawing near a
station. and, as it stopped, the
drummer with a quiet smile, said:
sI guess you'd better drop off here,
OF Tll make it warm for YOU" With
a half muttered oath, the foiled and
disappointed villain turned and left
the car, saying "We'll make it hot
for you yet, old pard," He had ev-
identity walked up the wrong passen-
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
NOTICE.

The R.StaSafa Stats Gf So Ohio the Probate Court
AlvIra Uhord. Adm'x of estate -,
of Charles Uford, Deceased, FetlIon !" seii
vs.. Lana.
Ann Eliza Avery, ct al.
IN pursuance of an Order of Sale
Il issued il the above action, will offer at pub
lie vendue on the
18th DAY OF MAY, 1875, at KINGSVILLE,
on the premises, the following described lands to
wit:
County and bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning
Miles Ransom's land, thence north IS chains and
OF links TO a stone pipe Stake. thence S SSk deg.
E. % chains and 81 links to the road running from
the depot to Kingsvile village, thence s. % deg.
e. along the center of said road chains and 80
links, thence S. So deg. E 4 chain and 25 links,
thence S. Sc deg W.3 chains and q links TO stone
pipe stake thence n. SS% deg. W. 13 chains 80
links to stone pipe stake, thence south ~ chains
and links to stone pipe stake on the north line
of said RansOm's land. thence n. SS16 W. 3 chains
and 81 links to the place of beginning. contain
so and 31100 acres, being parts of lots S3 and 2S
Also the dwelling house lot OF the late Charles
Uhord, deceased, situate in kingsv1lle aforessld,
and bounded on the north and east by lands OF E.
south by lands of Chester Lyon, containing ABOUT
IL acres.
Said lands will be sold subject to the dover es-
tate of said Alvira Uford, which has been as
slgued by metes and bounds and Enclosures all OF
the said dwelling house lot, and about y acres IN
the north part of land first above described.
Terms of sale-One thirdin hand, one third IN
one year. and balance in two years, with interest,
and secured by mortgage on the premises;
ALVIRA UFFORD,
Administrative aforesaid.
c. Booth, Atty for Petitioner.
Dated April 18th, 1875. 4t1319
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07

WRITE PLAINLY.-There is a GER
tain set of scribes-not experienced
ones-who seem to be impressed
with an idea that Iillegible manu-
script is an index of genius. Print
ers know a great deal better, and to
their cost, too, for crooked blotched
chirography is sore trial to the tenn
per and eyesight alike; and to make
matters worse, to heap tribulations
on misery's head, as it were, the cal
lous authors are Indignantly sensitive
on all the subjects of typographical
errors. A printers mistake IS to
them the objectionable sin; they
would if they could, have the offend
ing compositor severely punished.
Losing sight, in their anger, of the
more important fact that their copy
was sort of Chinese puzzle, a CO.
nundrum replete with errors, toe
and because the men OF types did
not correct them all, the careless
writer assumes the role of much
injured innocent. Now is this quite
fair? And as so much has beer
written concerning the blunders ot
the "intel1igent compositOr," nigh
not something be said not exactly
fattering, but quite true, in refer
ence TO the careless, and mayhap, a
times, not intelligent writer?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
Continued from first pace

leaving a watchman who wouldn't
neglect his duty, Hal and l turned
out In a procession, and followed
our precious duo to the guard-house.
Hawkweed, without theiron gray
wig, was the miserable hack-eyed,
surly looking dog whom have call
ed a chop-house character.
He whined and begged piteously
to be let off; but 1 had the satisfac-
ton of having him sent up,
Mr.. Griford opened bank ac-
count when he returned, and have
never been left in charge since.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
Back -biters-feas.

Living on excitement is very ex-
pensive living.
"A deparved punster says Le shall
smoke if he chews too.
When man bows to circumstan-
ces he is forced to be polite.
A dress-maker's apprentice speaks
OF her cross-eyed lover, as the fellow
whose looks are cut bias.
The one thing needful for the per-
feet enjoyment of love is confidence
the same with hash and sausages.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07

ROBERT CoLLYER says the chill
dren must have less study and more
fun, He is right. There is the boy
in the family across the way. Last
Thursday afternoon he put dead
mouse in his mothers work basket,
attached a split stick to the tail of
the next-door cat, set the vinegar
faucet up in business, palmed him
self off as a ghost on the hired
girl as she went down cellar after
the butter, besmeared his fathers
choice white tame rooster with blue
ink, and finally wound up the enter
tainment by tying the boiler to a
strange dogs tail, and slipping
down in the slush and hurting his
back. His exasperated father hardly
knows which to hunt up frst-the
strange dog with the boiler or Rob
bert Collyer.- Dan6ery Neaos.
Time is money, and many people
II
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
LEGAL.
ONCE of the AshtabuIa, Youngstown
A Pittsburgh Railroad Co.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the
stakeholder of this Company wilib held ia at
;be office of the company in the Incorporated VIZ
lace of Ashtabula, Ohio, on
TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE NEAL
at 10 O'Clock A NJ, for the election OF DlteCtoIs
fo- The ensuing wear and for the transaction OF
s1cb other business as may come before them
JAS r. SHALER, Secy =
Ashtahnla Ohio April 18th, 1875. 5llaEt