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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
A BOar.Fish:

Among the many wonders of the deep
to be seen at the Brighton Aquarium is
a most exquisite and rare British fish,
placed in tank No. 2, viz: The boar
fish (capros aper), originally classed as
having only been found in the Mediter-
ranean. The fish obtains it's name
from the shape of its snolt, which is
turned mp and capable of being greatly
protruded. The spines of its first dor
sal fin are stiff and long, like bristles,
added to which it exudes a strong and
unpleasant smell. If the boar-tish men
toned in Pliny as being found in the
River Achelous be the same, it will
probably be found to utter granting
sound, all of which pec,lliarities were
supposed to point out sufficient re
semblaace to boar to warrant the APP
pellation. The length of the fish is
about four inches. The color of the
eve is bright yellow and silvery white
the body fine crimson, delicately
bright, fading into yellow, and thence
to silyery white as it approaches the
belly. 1t is the only specimen that has
ever been exhibited alive in England.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
some time, has written two-column let

some time, has written two-column let
ter in answer to the Legislative resolu-
tons asking him to explain, in which
he says:
''Under what arrangement, DID re-
ceive large sum of money about the
time of the passage of the Pacific Mail
subsidy bill is matter which [ do not
propose to disclose to the world, except
in my own good time, nor until The evi-
dence, which am unable to reach now,
can be secured, to the end that the ex-
act facts in the case can be presented
to the public, which will bring to me
the fullest and most complete vindication
against the falsehood which you have
spread upon yonr respective Journals.
Until that time, which trust will not
be far distant, have only to say that
not one dollar of the moaey received by
me, of which so much has been talked
and written, was ever intended or ap-
piled to influence vote upon Che Pa
cific Mail subsidy, and no word or line
of all the evidence that has been taken
during this long and most earching in.
vestigation even points to any such
conclusion"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
Washington.

THE Senate had y twenty-nine hours session
on the resolution to admit Pinchback OF
Louisiana, and finally tabled it.
ARKANSAS politicians in Washington are con
tident that Congress will pass a resolution
recognizing Brooks a. governor of that state.
BILL has been agreed upon by the
House Judiciary committee which seeks TO pre-
vent the importation of women from China.
Japan, or any Oriental country for immoral
purposes. the violation of the law to be visited
with severe penalties.
Instructions have been sen: TO Military
commanders in the west to carry out the pro-
visions of the general order furnishing supplies
to grasshopper sufferers.
THE receipts from internal revenue and cns
toms ON the 18th inst. were over y. 600. OO0
the coin receipts being very near $3.50, 600 and
the total from internal revenue and customs
making the heaviest revenue that has been re-
ceived in any one day since the panic in 1873
AMONG new items in the civil service appro-
priation bill, agreed to by the House commit
tee and appropriations of $4,000 for the pur-
chase of Ransom g portrait of General Thomas
and S25, 900 for the purchase of Carpenters
painting OF the signing of the Emancipation
reclamation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
The Gautier.

Charles Gautier, the last descendant
of one of the Oldest French families,
although not belonging to the nobility,
died in Paris the other day. This
family, Gautier, is traced back into the
days of the early Capetian monarchs.
The head of the family has always been
called Charles. One of them held a
high command in the army of Francis
l.; another was lieutenant of police
under Louis Kill: in all the family fur
nished more than twenty sherltts to the
city of Paris. Many Kings Of France
offered to raise the GATHERS to the peer
age, but they would never accept
the distinction, preferring to retain
their old name. The last of his race,
has just died, at only y years OF
of age. He died from serious wound
received while lighting in defence of his
country in the late Franco-Prussian
war.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
The Concord Fight of 1875.

The town of Concord, Mass, purposes
to celebrate the Centennial anniversary
of Concord fight" on the 10Th of
April, 1875, in manner appropriate to
to the Importance of that day which
''made cancellation impossible and indie
pendence certain. The exercises Will
consist of an Grafton by George William
Curtis, of New York; a grand military
and civic procession to the site of the
"Old North Bridge" the unwilling and
dedication of a bronze statue of q Min
ute Man on the spot where Davis and
Hosmer fell, and where was 'tfred the
shot heard around the world;'' a
public dinner, with toasts and speeches,
and grand ball, in the evening. The
people OF Acton, Bedford, Beverly,
Billerica, Brookiine, Cambl idge,
Charlestown, Chelmsford Danvers,
Dedham, birmingham, Lexington,
Lynn, Medford, Needham, Newton,
Roxbury, Salem, Stow, Sudbury,
Watertown, and Woburn, have been
invited to participate in the celebration,
as their fathers did in the struggle for
liberty. The town of Concord hopes
that all those who are connected with
her by descent or affection will join with
her in this interesting commemoration.
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4 New Grass.

TheSavannah Advertiser says that after
Sherman made his march to sea, all in
the wide track of waste and desolation
that he made with the tramp of his
footman and the iron feet Of his cavalry
there sprung up new and unknown
grass from the soil, which the farmers
called SHERMAN clover" 1t would
grow up in the IN ost unexpected places,
and it is..said would root out Bermuda
grass; and, as strange similarity, we
now hear that after the Franco Prussian
war of 1S70-71, in many districts of
France q new vegetation sprang up,
evidently the result of the invasion.
1t was believed that this vegetation
would become ,acclimatized, but very
few of the species introduced in this
way appear likely to continue to flour
ish. In the departments of Loir and
Loiret- Choir, of one hundred and sixty
three German species, at least one-half
have already disappeared, and the sur
viving species diminish in vigor each
year. Scarcely five or six species
appear to manifest any tendency to
become acclimatized. Can any of our
naturalists account for it.
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ss IFS
BY CHRISTINA RossErr

Il ne would come, to-day, to-day, to-day.
Y, What day to-day would be,
out now hes away, miles and miles awav.
from me across the sea.
" little bird, flying, flying, flying
10 your nest in the warm West.
Leu me as you pass that am dyine~
As you pass home to your nest
l nave sister, l have brother.
faithful hound, a tame white dove
but had another, once had another.
And l miss him. nay love, my love-
In this weary world it is SO cold. 80 cold
While ait here all~alone:
l would not like to wait aud to grow old
But just be dead and gone.
Make me fair when lie dead on my bod.
Fair where am lying;
Perhaps he may come and look upon me dead
He for whom am dying.
Dig my grave for two, with stone to show il,
And on the stone write my name;
If he never comes, shall never know it. q.
But sleep on all the same.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
AN EXTRA SESSION.

The following is the message of the
President calling an extra session of the
Senate.
BY the President of the United States of
America, proclamation:
WHEREAS. Objects of interest to theUnited
States require that the Senate should
be convened ut y O'Clock on the 9Th day OF
March neNt, to receive an act upon such COM
municaticns Is may be made to it on the part
OF the Executive: Now. therefore. l. Ulysses
5 Grant, President of the United States, have
considered it to be my duty to issue this
my proclamation. declaring that an extra
ordinary occasion requires the Senate of the
United States to convene for the transaction
of business at the Capital, i'll the city OF
Washington, the 5tl, day of March next
at II O'Clock ST noon ON that DAY. of which
all Who shall at that time be entitled to act ar
members Of that body are hereby required to
take notice.
Given under my hand and the seal Of the
United States. at Washington, on the seven
teenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
five. and of the Independence of the United
States of America the nintv-ninth.
[. S. GRANT.
BY the President.
u,,,yrrnS Crcrr Sac~atary of Stata
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rHESUPERI0R TIMES,
SUPERIOR. wfe.
THE NEWS.
The East.

Ii has been decided by the stock breeders of
Connecticut to hold spring meeting as well
as fall meeting this year. The premiums at
the former will amount to l12, 900, and at the
latter about $4,000
The fruit crop ii central and southern Ohio
il believed to have been destroyed by the re-
cent cold weather
Rev. FATHER BYRNE. of New York, president
Of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, has written letter advising that the
organization should not take part in parades
on st. Pa'rick's Day. partly on the ground of
excessive expense, and partly for the reason
that parades detract from religious associa-
tions of the day.
The striking operatives at Fall River, Mass,
have voted to exclude reporters of tho Dress
from future meetings, alleging that false and
damaging reports of their transactions had
been published.
IN New York city, few nights ago, an aile1-
cation between Aaron Churchill and his son, a
lad of 16 years, resulted in the father being
shot and killed by his unnatural offspring.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
THE REVENUE BILL.

The only changes which have thus ia,
been made In the Committee of the
Whole in the Revenue bill, as it was
originally reported, are the adoption OF
an amendment increasing the tax on
champagne wines from Sc to 50 pei
dozen for quarts, and to 81 and 81. sc
for pints; an amendment increasing the
tax on cigars from So to IS per thou
sand, AID an amendment which struck
out the provision that repealed the tax
on matches. The votes upon these
amendments in the Committee of the
Whole, however, do not furnish GER
tain index as to the final vote upon the
amendments IN the Committee of the
Whole, who will vote against the bill in
the House.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
The Bee as a Scayenger.

The Schoharie Republic has the
following:
A mouse found his way into the hive
of one our amateur bee men not long
since, and the intruder was found dead
and completely imbedded in wex. The
mouse having - sweet tooth, crept into
the hive to steal honey, but unfortu-
nately aroused the inmates, and before
he could find his way out again was
stung to death. By and by decomposition
set in and Mr.. Mousey began to dissem-
mate the bad odor, which bees cannot
tolerate; but finding it impossible to
hustle him over the ramparts az they do
other nuisances, they went emerge ideally
to work and sealed him mp in wax; her
medically sealed him, in fact, so that
not the slightest odor escaped to make
the hive unpleasant for the hlgh-toned,
extremely neat and clean inhabitants.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
Navigation of the Red River Of the
North

The Merchants International Steam
boat Company, the corporators of
which reside in Winona, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, and Moorhead, and
which was organized under the general
State law, completed arrangements for
next season at meeting held in ST.
Paul on Wednesday. The Company
will run next season two steamers with
barges on the Red River of the North.
One was shipped in sections from Gin
cinnati, Saturday last, the other
being transported bodily by rail from
st. Croix to Red River This will
make three companies, with eight
steamers, operating on Red River.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27

{" HI SAMUEL, has you moved yit?''
inquired one colored man of another
whom he met at market yesterday.
" No, Use still in the old place." was
the answer But / war told dat you
war gwine to get out oh de neighbor-
hood, continued the first. .'Wall,
did make mp my mind to. bnt You see
de family next door, and de family on
de corner, and de family cross de
street, have left dere wood piles ont
doors, and / doesn't desire to change. +"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
Life and the Sun.

The physical influence of the solar
forces in exciting life III germs has of
late years attracted much attention.
Some observations recently recorded
by Professor Won Heldreich, of Athens,
seem to show that certain seeds may
germinate after having lain dormant in
the ground for at least fifteen hundred
years. Aspecies of Gtauciuna, one Of
the poppy order, has sprung up . in
localities which have been covered with
a great thickness of old slags from the
smelling works in which silver or S
from the Laurium mines were reduced,
these slags being now reworked for the
sake of the metal which they still re-
tain. 1t is known that the accumula-
ton of slags cannot be less than fifteen
hundred and may be two thousand
years old. The plant appears to be the
same described by Pliny and DiCscor-
ides, and has received the distinctive
name of @. ,Serpieri. These obserya-
tions go to prove the correctness Of
Lavoisier's statement that organization
and life are directly dependent on light.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
Bill. KING HEARD FROM

Congressman King, of Minnesota.
charged with selling his influence to the
Pacific Mail Company, and whose
whereas outs have been unknown for
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27

SOONER or later, justice certainly
overtakes the leader of the country
brass band. A bridge came along and
struck one on the head the other day,
as he stood on the top OF an Erie
freight train.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
The Norway Birds Christmas Caro-

Inc Norway Birds christmas Carol.
They have sweet music in Norway
Norway, that far-off country, with
the steel blue sky and frozen sea. 1t is
a song in the air. The simple peasants
make the bin DIS that inhabit those rude
coasts and ice valleys so very happy on
this one day of the year that they sing
to their own accord glad carol on
Christmas morning, and all the people
come out of their homes and rejoice to
hear it. On Christmas eve, after the
birds have shelter from the North wind,
and the still night is bright with stars,
the good people bring from their store
houses sheaves of corn and wheat, and,
tying them to slender poles, raise them
from every spire, barn, gate post, and
gable. Then when, after the long
night, the Christmas sun arises, crown
ing the mountain with splendor, every
spire and gable bursts into sudden
song. The children run out to hear
the old church spire singing; the older
people follow; the air is filled with a
flutter of wings and alive with carols
of gladness. The song of the birds fills
every village with happiness, and to
this living, grateful anthem the people
respond in their hearts, "Glory to God
in the highest; on earth goodwill to
man. From st. Nicholas.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

MONDAY, February 15.-8 P. M.-Pe-
titions were presented ASKING freedom of opinion
for boys in the Reform School, aud against taxa
tion.-The oppo ntmeni of DIR. Wight as State
Geologist was confirmed. - Several bills passed
The most important were to Encourage the building
of narrow gauge railroads; to incorporate the Ais
public charities passed. also to appropriate
$50, Ooo to erect new buildings for scientific pur-
poses.--The Senate then adjourned.
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HOW THEY CLOSE UP,

Ildls -,..-.. o.tO 10 3. IA
HOW THEY CLOSE UP.
Many able and sound arguments in
the body Of the report must be left for
future attention. The conclusion, or
summary is as follows:
The only form of railway control likely to
prove successful under present conditions is
the legislation supplemented by direct super
vision; the Legislature laying down general
rules of action, but leaving the application and
enforcement of these rules tie a commission
judlcous application of this method re-
quires-
/. A determination. by the commissioners.
Of the actual cash value of each railroad; such
value not to be greater than the actual cost
thereof, and the valuation subject to legsla-
tive revision.
2. An annual determination of the gross and
net earnings of each company, from the re-
ports of companies, by actual inspection of
books and affairs aid by all other practicable
methods.
g. A division of roads into two classes the
first class including all roads paying a reason
able compensation on valuation. and the Sec
ond class including all other roads.
f. maximum of rates of fare and freight
for roads ascertained to belong to the first
class such maximum being subject to legiela-
tive revision.
s. No restriction eff earnings upon roads of
second class, except Dy way OF romedynS un-
just determinations.
g. prohibition of nm just determinations
and unreasonable or excessive rates on all
roads; any person complaining of discrimina-
ton or eXtortionate charges having the right
of appeal to the Board of Commissioners,
under such rules as to evidence of facts as the
Commissioners may determine: the board de-
terminating the fact of discrimination on evil
dence and notice to both Sides and its concll-
sions to be prin1G tGcie evidence as to fact of
discrimination, or of unreasonable charges.
Z. Additional police regulations, especially
as to running connections, and the passage of
freight from one road to another.
8. Limited power of the Commissioners to
require repair of roads, improvement of roads
or rolling stock, and increased accommodations
for passenger travel.
81 Full and oonpleto publicity of rates of
fare and freight.
10. Publicity of all important contracts and
agreements between railway companies, and of
their business transactions generally
II. Greater uniformity and completeness of
accounts as well as greater fulmess and fire.
quency of reports.
II. Adequate penalties for the Justification
or concealment of earnings and expenditures,
or other facts.
- Efficient means for the prompt enforce
ment of all provisions of the law, at the ex
pense of the state"
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StTHTt.
SATURDAY. February 20.-The Com

mittee Education reported adversely on the CON-
puisory education resolution.-A message was re-
ceived from the Governor appointing John W.
Hoyt railroad commissioning Senate Went
into committee of the whole. Afterward number
of bills were passed, among which was one pro
yidlng that majority of any school board may
allow the of their schoolhouse for the purpose
of holding public meetings.--A motion was made
st Lukes hospital, Racine, was killed yesterday.
The vote reconsdered and the bill passed
The same done for the Cadle Home bill.-The
Senate unanimously concurred in the joint resoiu-
ton extending time of final adjournment until
March 4, and then adjourned till Tuesday at 10
O'clock
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quire in this regard, by general enact


ments.
SIT is suggested that the laws thus
framed, limiting without endangering
the rewards of capital, protecting with.
out jeopardizing the public interest in
railway enterprise its administration
subject to the immediate supervision
and in some degree to the discretion of
the Railway Commissioners, would be
most likely to combine all the whole
some restraints claimed for an enlight-
ened public opinion, With the most eff
cient restraints of positive law"
IF 1T SHALL BE AGREED
that the railroad companies are entitled
to rates which shall yield fair per
centage on the value of the property
and that seems to be their view, they
argue that such value cannot be deter
mined by the cost of construction, as
discounts and interest form an undue
proportion; nor by adding the total
debt to the total capital stock, for the
stock is worth but fraction of its par
value; nor by the market price of the
bonds and stocks, which is always fiuc-
tuating, increased and diminished by
spectators, and often the prey of ''cor.
ner" operators. The value Of the prop
erty, they say, must be determined by
appraisal.
FIRST CLASS FARE.
Among the many useful and interest
ing statistics of this book is a table of
fare on railroads in the various countries
of Europe, which will be of interest to
those who declare that Wisconsin rail-
roads can carry fisrt class passengers at
three cents a mile In the thickly pop-
ulated countries of Europe first class
fares are at the following rate per mile:
countries. Cents per mile
England NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. L. sc to 6. ii
4
Prussia Observation-Disclosures. 3.3S to 4 II
Central Germany. ..............2 ~ to g. "a
South GERMANY 800. .. g. 20 to 3 i :
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it is said are all that law can prescribe
and enforce. They say: Believing
that the state does not possess and never
can possess the necessary foresight and
knowledge of the ever shifting condi-
tons upon which railway earnings de-
pend, to enable it to prescribe details
of management by statute, we believe
it may and should determine the gener-
al conditions of both organization and
management In addition to legisla-
ton against discrimination, as already
suggested, the legislature may most
practically fix a maximum of aggregate
earnings, and possibly of gross operat-
ing expenditure upon definite invest
ment. In this respect the state may
accomplish all that it deems best to ac-
complish, and all that the scope of its
duties or the interests of the public re-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27

The House met at IL A. NJ. On The conclusion of
the reading of the journal, the bill in regard
election of President and Vice President, was de-
manded, but not called up.-The House went
INTO committee of the whole ON the tariff b--with
rose. and the House took q recess until evening,
when business from the judiciary committee only
was to he considered
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THE RAILROADS.
Report Of the State Railroad Commits.
siOners-A Valuable D0cu-
ment-Cost of Our
Railroad System.

The State Railroad Commissioners
have made their report, which is vol
luminous document of 653 pages, and
from which we make the following ex-
tracts:
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7:3o p. M.-Petitions Were presented against taxa
ton of churches, and asking that railroads be
made to carry wood at rates prescribed by law
Bills were passed appropriating $500 to the geologi-
cal survey; TO improve Spring street. Milwaukee, to
build boom at Boseobel; granting $ie0 to Outta-
gamie Agricultural Society; amending the Madison
charter: also the Boscobel charter; allowing
county boards of supervisors TO appoint land in
spectors in relation to the election of Directors
the st. Paul company; relating to common schools;
amending the Silver Glance mining company act
to establish ferry across Lake st. Croix commu-
nications were received in reference to the Small
parchment, and were referred to a special commit
tee of fye.-Seyeral Senate bills were concurred
in, and the Senate adjourned.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-27

The Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, and
the Lake Shore roads seem to be omit
ted from these schedules. Also, the
length of miles ON the ST. Paul road
does not include side tracks and prob
ably some fractional lines. The total
length of the ST. Paul road in the state
elsewhere stated in the report is 766
miles. Its total present value of lines
in the state is placed at S2S, $50, $40.
This includes enuiOmeptS