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

MISCELLANEOUS.
The British House of Commons passed
the grant to defray expenses of the Prince
of Wales visit to India, by vote of 33S
yeas to Is nays.
The printers of the Milwaukee Wis.
cO7tSi1l have accepted a reduction of ten
per cent. on their wages. which reduces
composition to 80 cents thousand ems.
A company of 100 to $50 picked Welsh
singers is being organized to visit the
United States in July next, on occasion
of the centennial celebration of Ameri-
can independence.
The Saginaw salt manufacturers have
finally formed combination, in which 1t
| is believed all the salt manufacturers Of
the country will join. probably with a
view to stop competition.
| Additional bands of retreating Carlists
| have been driven over the Spanish line
| into SPAN, and the insurrectlOn has been
confined to the mountains of Navarro,
and the Basque and Catalonia provinces,
Iceland is afflicted by famine, caused
| by the destruction of all vegetation over
| 5000 suuare miles of the country, which
| has been covered with scOriaceous sand,
pumice and ashes by the volcanic erup-
tons of this year.
The Minister of Agric allure and Immi-
grafton of the Canadian Dominion re-
| ports that of the immigrants who have
| landed at Quebec in the seven years end
inc with December last, SAC, 463 came on
to the United States, while 2O9,S75 set
| tied i'll Canada.
The Havana correspondent of the New
York Herald, under date of the 18th,
SAYS there are one hundred thousand
| Spanish soldiers actively engaged against
| the Cuban Insurgents, the latter beng
able to contest possession of country
$50 miles long by As miles wide.
The Ponca Indians who fled from their
| reservation lately, on approach OF the
Sioux, and are encamped on Bow river
in Cedar. county, Nebraska, are accused
of numbering an enngrant family which
passed through St. Helena on the Sth,
| and have not since been heard from.
A Washington telegram of the 18th
SAYS The names of several prominent
gentlemen have been presented for the
vacant post of Minister to Brussels, but
there is reason to believe that General
Badeau, now Consul General at London,
will be the successor Of j. Russell Jones.
The excitement growing out of the
! forthcoming election for head chief in the
| Indian territory, is leading to large
number of bloody rencontres, Is men and
| two women having been murdered IN the
last sixty DAYS Among them is Mr.. Bus
bey, Head Jack, Double Tooth and Dick
Fields, all prominent Downing men.
! The Legislature of Michigan has APP
| propriated s. 900, and the Governor has
| appointed a committee to get up cOllec-
ton of Michigan fruit for the exhibition
at the Chicago Exposition in September
and October next. 1t is now understood
that large majority Of the States will be
represented through their various organ
izations and private fruit growers.
A meeting was held in London, the 10Th,
at which it was resolved to open public
subscription for the erection of statue
to Lord Byron, in that city. Among
those present was Gen. Wilson, of the
| United States, who stated. IN behalf Of
his countrymen, that they claimed share
in Byron, and that he was sure they
would gladly contribute at least quarter
of the $4,000 which it was estimated the
statue would cost.
The steamship Idaho, from Liverpool,
reached Castle Garden, New York har
Dor, on the 18th, with about $50 Nor
mons, under charge Of seven agents APP
pointed by Brigham Young to conduct
them from Europe to Utah. OF this
number, between 500 and 900 are adults,
including a number of young women.
! Ninety-siX are natives of the British Isles,
while the remainder are Scandinavans.
Geo n. Jackson. deputy United States
collector at Louisville. in whose accounts
a defalcation of $500 has just been
brought to light, committed suicide
/ Thursday. the 18th, by poison, dying
about midnight Jackson was a promi-
nent member of the church, member of
the School Board, and esteemed and re-
spected by all who knew him. He leaves