The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-26
PERSONAL.

1t is reported that JEFF Davis has &C.
copied an invitation from the Knox coun-
ty, Illinois, agricultural society to de-
liver an address at the Knoxville Far in
September.
Admiral Worden and naval officers
were banquetted at Southampton, Eng,
Friday night the Goth. Toasts to the
Queen and President were drank with
enthusiasm.
Prof. Joel Parker, the eminent organ
list. died at Cambridge, Mass, Tuesday
the 18th, aged so years. The same day
at New Orleans, Hon. John Weller, ex-
Governor of California died in his 10Th
year.
Friends Of Fitz John Porter, influential
and numerous, it is said, will appeal to
Congress to reverse the recent decision of
the President, refusing a new trial on the
charges on which Gen. Porter was CASH
tered
Henry I. Helmbold, the famous patent
medicine proprietor, recently returned
from Europe, has been pronounced insane
by two physicians and placed in the asy-
lum where his father died and his sister
is now confined.
All hope of the restoration Of Robert
Dale Owen to reason appears to have
been abandoned. He is at present con-
fined in the Indiana insane asylum, but
not being violent is accorded full liberty
to go about as he pleases.
Hon. j. Russell Jones, when questioned
as to the truth Of the report that he has
been rendered the secretaryShip of the
interior department, replied that matters
We're i'll such shape at present that he
could not give definite answer.
Ex-Representative jeremiah NJ. Will
son has been appointed special assistant
U. S. Attorney for the District of Colum.
bla, to assist in the prosecution of the
parties recently arrested for the $47 900
robbery from the U. S. Treasury.
DR.. Helmbold, the famous quack medi.
cine man, has recovered from his late
temporary insanity, caused by the too
hearty congratulations of his Philadel-
pha friends, on his return from Europe,
and has gone to join his wife at Long
Branch.
Governor Porter Of Tennessee has ap-
pointed D. NJ. Key to succeed ex-Presi-
dent johnson in the United States Sen.
ate. Mr.. Key is man of As, of decided
talent, diffident, retiring, and very popu-
lar in his own section, but is not known
as politician.
1t is now said that the visit of Minister
Litillier 10 Manitoba is in connection with
scheme for settling in that section a
body of French Canadians now in Massa-
chuSetts. This causes considerable dis
appointment, as his visit was supposed
to be in connection with the grasshopDer
devastation.
John Gordon, the Black Hills miner
who has been at large on his parole. sur
rendered himself at Omaha. Saturday,
the 2lst, and then attempted an escape.
lie was, however, captured and locked up
in the military barracks. Gordon then
had General Ruggles arrested for false
Imprisonment, and the Generals and
others assisting in his capture arrested
for assault and battery.
w. E Copeland, the newspaper cores
pendent ana pretended Methodist minis
ter who was tarred and feathered at Knox
vile. Tenn, for slandering ex-Presdent
johnson, has had fifteen aliases. At st.
Louis he figured as Wave, at Milwaukee
as Copeland, at Canton as Horton, at
Memphis as Simmons, and at Wilmington
as Warner. Money does not seem to be
his object, but society and women