The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-26
Items of General Interest,


rogued Parliament until Oct. 20.
Mrs. ANDREW JOHNSON is said to
be recovering from her late very
severe indisposition.
SARToRIs, Nellie and the baby
will leave Long Branch tor their
England home on next Saturday.
Those fellows over in Brooklyn
have hard time preserving their
reputation. TiIton has now sued
Thomas Kinsella and the Brooklyn
Eagle for libel in the Brooklyn City
court. The case will come on III
September. Damages 800, 200.
Hon. JAS. r. DooLITTLE has been
invited to deliver the address at
the Rockford 0ll.) fair in place of
jeff: Davis, whose appointment
there has been cancelled. That
society will probably have a new
Secretary at its next meeting.
MADAME MACMAHoN is meeting
with excellent success In collecting
subscriptions for the sufferers by
the French inundations. She has
already received about s2,5OO,o0O.
The Niceroy OF Egypt sent s., 900.
and Prince Henry, brother of the
King of Holland, $500.
GOVERNORS and ex-Goveln nors
are said to be plenty at Saratoga
this season. The following are
either there at present or Lave been
thererecentI Gov. Tilden and ex-
Governor Hoffman, of New York,
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, ex-Gov.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, ex Gov.
Akin, of South Carolina, ex-Gov.
Jenkins, of Georgia, and ex-Gov
Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland.
WENDELL PHILL1Ps, in his ora
t;on at an O'Connell celebration,
gives his idea Of the press. He says:
Seemingly Independent, and some
times really so, the press can afford
only to mount the crestlng wave,
not 90 beyond it. The editor
might as we'll shoot his reader with
bullet as with a new idea. He
must hit the exact line of the opin-
ion Of the day.
Nh, SANKEY, the fellow -laborer of
Mr.. Moody in the great revival
meetings of England, in a letter
inclosing a fine photograph Of
Queen Victoria and her grand
children, says: ''The little folks are
just such shy-looking youngsters as
We have by millions in our Sumo ay
schools, and their grandmother Just
such a pleasant, womanly body as
we see every Sabbath in the Amen
corner of our Methodist churches Ia
America.
Even the Indians have caught
the education spirit. At South
Canadian, Indian Territory, last
week, the cornerstone of a female
academy was laid with appropriate
ceremonies. Hundreds Of people,
both red and white, were present.
Similar exercises are to take place,
this week, at Muscogee, when the
cornerstone of an educational insti-
tuition for the use of the Cherokee,
Choctaw, Chickinsaw, Greek and
Semin ole tribe will be laid.
In Oregon the three parties, Dem
ocratic Republican and Independent
have each held State Conventions
and nomin ated separate tickets for
Congress. The Democrats were
first in the field and presented a
son of General Joe Lane as their
candidate. The Republicans have
nominated Henry Warner, and the
Independents propose q. NJ. Whit
ney, designated as "sawmiIl man"
The unfortunate Mill River Valley
OF Massachusetts has suffered
another loss from the breaking of a
dam, by which the waters of the
Searsvllle reservoir were let loose.
The devastation was not As serious
as that of May last. Bridges and
houses, however, were swept away
by the wholesale. No lives were
lost, The people followed the
scrlpturai Injunction TO flee unIo