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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Kickapoo and Lipan camp in Texas, attacked
it and killed two, captured four Indians and
a hundred horses.
1t is thought the Indians will be
very troublesome on the roads leading to the
isolated forts during the remainder OF the
season A wagon master in charga OF pro
visions for fort Fetterman was killed last
week and the wagons burned.
A mortgage deed for $32,0O0.0 200,
to bear seven per cent interest, yearly and
two millions six per cent, given by the Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroad companies to
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and VIM. H. Van
derbilt was recorded in the county clerk S
Office of Albany, on Monday.
Officials of the exhibition, General
Hawley among others, are confident that the
attendance will run up to 100000 day after
the first of September. Advices received
from all parts of the country show that the
majority OF the people who have not visited
the exhibition, but intend to do so, are post
poning their visit to cooler weather.
The Chicago Post and Mail now APP
pears as the Chicago Post, under the direc-
ton of McMullen Bros, who are known as
journalists of experience and talent. The
paper will remain Republican in politics, and
has been improved in many particulars.
George W. McAIullen has editorial charge,
and David S. McMullen is business manager.
The national guard ,encamped Unfair
mount Park, was a grand affair. There were
at least 5000 men under the canvass there.
Gov. Hartranft, commander-in-chiefo OF the
national guard established his Headquarters
| in the encampment Adjutant General Lolita
also quartered himself in an adjoining tent.
Major General Banks ordered the first di-
vision to participate i'll the grand review, and
| it is estimated that nearly ten thousand men
were in line
An official telegram from Camp
Brown, wy, says the Indian scouts sent out
| from there reports the hostile Indians NOV
| ing southeast They traced them from the
head of Crazy Waman's fork to the head OF
| Little Powder river. The number is I'M
known, but believed to be large. This cor
roborates the reports received from other
sources A large number of Indians are
doubtless making tor the agencies.
| In the evidence brought out i'll a
New York divorce case it appears that Pierre
pont, our minister to England, not long since
wrote letter ''to the spirit world'' to ascer-
tain more of his English ancestors than could
be learned from the British records. 1t was
| the custom of the medium to open the letters,
learn their contents, care fully re-seal the mis-
sives and then collect such information on
| the subject as could be ascertained and write
esprit letter. to the enquirer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
LAMAR'S SPEECH.

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
The political campaign was apparent
" reopened in the House on the I'd
with a remarkable speech delivered by
Lamar. Col. Lamar has long desired
to give to the country judicial and
dispassionate review of the Southern
question, and his discussion of it to-
day will be received by every one.
without regard to party, as the best
presentation of it that has thus far
been made from his standpoint. Col.
Lamar spoke to-day as statesman and
not as a politician. The opening por-
ton of his speech, in which he dis
cussed the relations which political
parties bear to our institutions of
Government, and the dangers which
have arisen from the intervention of
party organization between the gov
eminent and the people, was a muster
piece of eloquence and sound political
philosophy which will be of equal
value to students of political history
irrespective of party. Lamar discuss
ed the causes of the present condition
of the south from the highest stand
point of statesman. He dealt in no
invectives, INDUCED in no personal
criticisms. and abused no party, but
attempted to lay before the House a
description Of the true condition of
the south, and to explain its causes,
and allowed others to draw their own
differences as to the best way in which
the remedy he suggested. which was
the restoration of local self-govern-
ment, could be applied. Col. Lamar's
speech was listened to throughout
with marked attention, and was uni
versally admitted, as well by those
who disagreed with his conclusions as
by those who approved them, to be
one of the ableSt, if not the very
ablest, of the session.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
ON THE BIG HORN

\ man named Hall has Just returned
from a lone hunt in the Black Hills
and Big Horn country. The Big Horn
country, into which Mr.. Hall pene-
trated some distance with great diff
Guilty, lies about 400 miles north of the
Union Pacific Railway. The number
OF hostile Indians there is, according
to Mr.. Hall, at least double that given
by the military authorities. He is
confident from what he has seen and
heard that the force of warriors under
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail is at least
10000 strong. The troops opposed to
this band are ridiculously few and are
entirely Inadequate to suppress the in
surrrectiOn. How little has actually
been accomplished towards suppression
is shown by the records of the past
month. The Indians, he SAYS, are
brave and desperate, nearly all being
armed with first-class rifles, aud con-
stltute foe not to be despised, nor to
be frightened by few companies of
United States troops. From the Big
Horn to the Little Horn the whole
country is in imminent danger. None
OF the settlers are secure of their lives
for a moment. The Sioux are liable to
dash in at any moment and destroy the
settlements and tear up the railroad
All along the line of the Union Pacific
the Station-maSterS are Offering extra
inducements to men to guard the
track. Mr.. Sidney Dillon, the Presi-
dent of the road, is now in Denver and
is manifesting extreme anxiety for
the road.
From the Indian Agency So miles
north of YanktOn MI. Hall went out
100 miles in the Indian country, going
as far as the foothills of the range
known as the Black Hills. He found a
regular panic among miners, all being
anxious to leave for safe quarters. Ac-
cording to an order recently issued by
Gen. Crook, miners are not allowed to
cross the country except in parties of
twenty-five or more. He travelled us
far as he could go, getting within As to
SO miles of Gen. Terry's command, and
was then compelled to retire in short
order. M. Hall says that of the 5000
friendly Indians at the Yankton Agency
at least per cent. have withdrawn
and joined in the war against the
whites. No one can go 50 miles from
a white settlement III any part of
Dakota without hostile Indians.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
CHOLERA In Ind a.

One of the dark spots in Indian vii
lage life is the periodical visitation Of
some epidemic which enters almost
every howell and carries off one or more
of the occupants. The villagers may
have been living happily together,
their minds perpleXed about nothing
more serious than the state of their
crops, their cattle, or the ordinary
gossip of their little community, when
suddenly the destroyer appears, and
the scene is inStantaneOusly changed
from peacefullneSS into terror and con-
fusion. A sad instance of this fact has
occurred III this Presidency within the
last few days. Where there was once
a thriving, pleasant little village stu
ated on the Sea-shore, there is now q
deserted collection of huts. Not a hui
man sound is to be heard in the place
from morn till night. Most of the in
habitantS are dead, the victims of q
terribly sudden invasion of cholera,
and the survivors have left everything
in their huts and fed to the adjoining
maintains The few survivors and
every poor wretch who could move
have fled to the adjacent hills, where
they are now huddled together and
struggling to exist on such food as
they can find in that barren locality.
Such was the terror and helplessness
of the people when the outbreak oc-
CURED that they did not bury their
dead, and bodies lay rotting in the
streets for two whole days, during
which the stencil was abominable. No
reason for the outbreak has been as
signed, and the fate Of GOlWOOd fur
niSheS one more instance of the mys-
ferrous movements of cholera. The
misery of the people was aggravated
by the fact that there was no doctor
at hand. A Mr.. II. B. Wharton, per-
manent way inspector on the B. B. &
c.. /. line, has house close to the vii
lage, and when the epidemic appeared
the people ran to him for help. He
was the only European in the station.
and they naturally thought the sahib
might be able to help them. lie hap
pened to have supply of cholera mix
ture and chlOrOdyne, but it was soon
exhausted among so many applicants,
and Mr.. Wharton could do nothing but
listen helplessly while tales of death
were being told him on every side by
panic-stricken people. Mr.. Wharton
says that the cholera was the most
viTulent he had ever seen in the course
of long experience. He saw people
die within thirty minutes from the
moment of attack. The village was
filled with lamentations, and natives
rushed wildly hither and thither.
Many people died in the streets; while
running away they were seized with
the pangs of the disease ana dropped
on the spot and soon expired.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

A large number of dairymen need to
make improvements in their milking
barns. The milking barns which are
thought to be the most convenient by
dairymen of long experience are ar
ranged with doors opening at the end
of the stable, the COWS taking their
place on either side their heads turned
outward, and with wide open space
between the rows of animals. The
herd enters the stable at the wide
doors i'll the centre of either part of
the building and the animals take po-
SitiOns on either side, and thus one
man is enabled to make secure III the
stanchlons large herd III very short
space of time. Ifwide doors are ar
ranged on both ends of a building. and
if it stand SO as to get the sweep Of
prevailing winds through the center
of the stable, the animals and mixers
may have tolerably cool place III hot
weather during the time Of milking.
But i'll many cases the barn is SO loca-
ted and the ventilation so imperfect
that the heat and animal OdOrs are al
most intolerable through the hot
months. Such a state of things causes
great discomfort to both mixers and
animals, besides doing great injury
to the milk.
We have referred heretofore in these
columns to the bad character of milk
from overheated COWS. Fast driving
from pasture to q hot sitting stable
there to sweater and breathe over and
over the air vitiated by the Odors and
Of a large herds not
likely to be favorable condition for
nice, healthy. sweet milk. Now, in
order to remedy the bad construction
Of such stables, long, horizontal open
Ings are made in the sides of the build
ing directly in front of the COWS
heads. These are hung with doors
which are raised in hot weather thus
giving ample ventilation directly in
'front.' of the COWS. We have seen
milking barns SO arranged that almost
he entire side of the stable could be
thrown open or closed at pleasure, and
uch stables are a great relief during
lot weather, atfOrding comfort to man
md beast and amply paying the cost
# the improvement by the better quail
ty and quantity of the milk Welded
\ cool, clean, well-ventilated milking
,arn is one Of the luxuries connected
With dairy farming dnring our intense
y hot summers, and the progressive
armer cannot we'll afford to be with
ut one.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
Turning Under Glover and Buekwheat.

That there is great fertility in plow-
ing in a heavy crop of green clover is
known to all good farmers; but the
question is, when ought it to be turned
over! If it be plowed in when first
in blossom, the land cannot be used
Immediately for any other crop, unless
it be for buckWheat, OF some other
green corp to be cut for stock and fed
green. If such crops are wanted. that
system Of management would be
good one; but by cutting the first crop
of clover for hay and turning under
the second crop in the fall of the
year, a good opportunity would be had
for large crop Of wheat the next
spring. Buckwheat turned under
when in blossom, if grown thick also
enriches land to the value of many
times its costs. A sub-soil OH sandy
land can be made by a process Of this
kind which will be durable for many
wears.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Conducted by Veteran Northwestern Asriculturist
Meaning Colts.

As general rule we do not think
that spring colt should be weaned be-
tore late fall say in October. If a
colt becomes poor in weaving time, it
takes a good deal of nursing to get him
through the winter in good order. 1t
Is not necessary to separate colt from
us mother when being wsaned. All
that is necessary is to put a head
stall upon their heads, with the nose
piece well filled with long sharpened
nlils to prevent their sucking, and let
them go with the mare as before. The
colt will do better, because he will
spend his time in feeding instead of
worrying.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
FIRED By A TRAMP.

Tramps are hanging about the out
skirts of Joliet, H., in considerable
numbers. The news, in reliable shape,
has Just reached us Of the burning
of a large. amount Of property II miles
out from there, in Kendall county, on
Friday last, by tramp, which put all
the farmers on the lookout. lie ap-
piled at the house of Eusias Worthing,
a prosperous farmer, for something to
eat. Only girl was at the house, the
men being at work in a distant field.
She gave him a meal, which he hastily
devoured, and rose up and asked, SIS
there any money in the house Z She
answered there was not. The tramp
apparently flew into rage, and said
he would see about that, and walked
ont to the barn, lit match and threw
il into the hay, and before the men
oot in from the field it was too late to
Save ANYTHING. The barn, 10 tons OF
hav, five horses, and some 5000 BUSH
els of corn were consumed. The tramp
escaped through an adjoining corn
field. The neighborhood IS much ex-
cited against the tramps.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

The Monongehela Presbytery of the
United Presbyterian Church declares
that the standards of the denomina-
ton are opposed to secret, oath-bound
associations, and that, if the rules are
strictly enforced, members of secret
societies cannot be received to the
membership of the church. In accord
ance with this declaration the Presby-
terry has sustained the action of a
Pittsburg church in refusing to admit
two young men who were members of
a secret society.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
Miscellaneous News Items.

The House committee on currency
has reported bill for the repeal OF the special
resumption act
In trial against time the trotting
mare Lulu, on the Buffalo track, made the re-
markable record of 4:16s.
1t is estimated that there is about
$40, 000, 900 in gold coin in circulation in Cali
fornia now, against half that amount at the
time of the panic.
A San Antonio dispatch received at
General Sheridan's headquarters SAYS a small
command, under Lieutenant Bulls. found a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Tho 'Hepclling reform meets with
opposition i'll some quarters. The Rich
mond Dispatch, for instance, argues
very strongly that if the rule of spell
ing according to pronunciation is
adopted there will be rs many forms
of spelling some words as there are
States in the Union. In illustration of
its meaning it cites half-dozen differ
ent methods of pronouncing the word
tomatoes" and declares that ''horse'
would have no s'r" in it in Virginia.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Dio Lewis, having perfected his sys-
tenn of healthful and economic diet,
has gone to California to seelfa change
of climate will not relieve him Of the
dyspepsia, which diligent practice of
his system has brought on.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

The Monaghan question is begin
ming to be agitated in England.
Jeames and the cook have become SO
insubordinate and Incorporate that
the British nation signs for a change,
and has begun to turn longing eyes
Chinaward. The celestial washerman
has already pitched his tent in London,
and it is rumored that his brethren
are to follow in shoals.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

The Mormon prophet has succeeded
in having Ann ELIAS alimony reduced
from $500 per month to 800. This is
about as little as it cost him to sup
port her at home and as his wife, so
that he may be looked upon as having
got off very cheaplv.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Canada has revived the sports of
1.-The ring" a regularly adjusted prize
fight" having been fought in Toronto
recently without any interference
from the authorities. Neither of the
parties was seriously injured, unfor-
tuuately.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

The ST. Louis bankers are not I'M
grateful. One of them overpaid a
customer thousand dollars few
days since, and when the man returned
it the next day he was courteously
told that he had laid himself liable to
arrest by notreturning it Immediately,
but as he had saved the bank that
trouble his offense would be over
looked.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

In the dearth of other business,
Boston still interests herself with the
"Old South" problem. The latest
proposition is that the city itself buy
the edifice and the ground wherein it
stands
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
AND HENDRICKS
The Long delayed Letters of Acceptance
Publis he'd at Last

The Long delayed Letters of Acceptance
Publis he'd at Last.
The letters of Cows. Tilden and
Hendricks formally accepting the
nominations of the Democratic nation
al convention are almost voluminous,
exhaustively treating the main ques-
tions to be brought into the pending
canvass. Gov. Tilden, after apologies
ing for the delay in writing the letter
which custom has made a rule, says
the present depression in business and
the industries has its cause in excess
slve governmental corruption, and is
aggravated by the most unscientific
methods of taxation. He would give
all the lagerdemain of finance and
fnanceriDg for the old maxim, Live
within your means he would have
an amendment to the constitution
separating into distinct bills the appro-
priations for the various branches of
government, excluding from each bill
all appropriations for other objects
and all independent legislation. In
this way alone, he thinks, can the
power of each of the two houses and
the executive be preserved from the
moral duress which often compelS con-
sent to Objectionable appropriations
rather than stop the wheels of govern
ment.
The establishment of cordial frater-
nifty and good will among the different
classes of the South he regards as of
the utmost Importance, and charges
upon ignorant and dishonest admin
STATIONS enormous issues of fraudu-
lent bonds, the scanty availS of which
have been wasted and stolen, also OPP
presSive taxation which has destroyed
the marketable value Of property.
These evils rest upon the prosperity
of the whole nation.
Of civil service reform he saws the
first step is the elevation of the stand
ard by which the appointing power
selects agents to execute official trusts;
next is conscientious fidelity in the
exercise of authority-to hold to &C
count and displaca Enthusiastically OF
incapable subordinates, but ''nO re-
form of the civil service will be COM
plete and permanent until the chief
magistrate is cOnStitutionaily disquali-
fed for reelection"
The larger portion of Tilden's letter
is given to a discussation Of the fin
ancial problem, and is, probably, as
able a treatise upon the question DIS
has been produced from his stand
point. He thinks the specific meas
ures and actual date of resumption be-
long to the domain of practical ad-
ministrative statesmen. He charges
congress and the President with per-
sistently legislating out of existence
every possible surplus applicable to
bringing about the return to specie
payments fixed by law to take place i'll
1919.
He concludes the subject as follows
The government of the United States,
in my opinion, can advance to a re-
sumption of specie payments on its
legal tender notes by gradual and
safe process tending to relieve the
present business distress. If charged
by the people with the administration
of the executive office, [ should deem
it duty to so exercise the powers
with what has been or may be invest
ed by congress, aS best and SureSt to
conduct the country to that beneficent
result.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Rhode Island celebrates this week
the two hundreth anniversary Of King
Philips death. A part of the old
chiefs earthly tenement rests beneath
Rhode Island soil. The rest is across
the line in Connecticut. The celebra-
ton will take place in the form of a
clam bake, as all Rhode Island cele-
brations do when they come in the
green corn season.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
stands

Watterson, of the Louisville Courier
journal, is accused of saying that lice
is water gone to sleep. Being Wa
ters 's-son he ought to know, but it
seems little disrespectful toward the
old man.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

In the London Lancet, DR.. Spencer
Thomson calls attention to the use of
gelseminum sempervirens in neuralgia
in doses of twenty minims for an adult
every hour and half. He has rarely
had to order third dose in any of his
forty cases, and he has never found
any inconvenience result from the
dose.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11

Gov. Hendricks fully agrees in 1.-THE
principles, approves the policies and
sympathises with the purposes enunci-
ated in the platform adopted by the st.
Louis convention. He charges the eX-
ecutive department of the government
with dishonesty, venality and rapacity,
but says the President alone should
not be made the Scrape-goat for all, as
in some respects he has been the vic
tim rather than the author of the vici-
Gus system, and that the congressional
and party leaders have been stronger
than the President. The financial
system must be reformed. Gold and
silver care the real standards of values,
and our national currency will not be
a perfect medium of exchange until it
shall be convertible at the pleasure of
the holder" He reiterateS previous
statement that he disbelieves in the
possibility of a return to a specie basis
by a contraction of the currency, nor
can wealth and prosperity, he asserts,
be created by initiation. He deems a
revision of treaties with foreign pow
ers, and the abolition of the iniquit-
Gus COOlie system as necessary, and
concludes
st viii be seen, gentlemen, that [
am in entire accord with the platform
of the convention by which | have
been nominated as candidate for the
office of vice president of the United
States. Permit me in conclusion tie eX-
press my satisfaction at being aSSOciat-
ed with u candidate for the presidency
who is the first among his equals as a
representative of the spirit or of the
of reform. In his official
career as the executive of the great
state of New York, he has, in COM
paratively short period, reformed the
public service and reduced the public
burden so as to have earned at once
the great gratitude of his state and the
of the country. The peo-
pie know him to be thoroughly IN
He has shown himself to be |
possessed with powers which fit HIM |
i'll an eminent degree for the great |
work of reformation which this coun- |
try now needs, and if he shall be |
chosen by the people to the high office
Of president of the United States, be-
Iieve that the day of his inauguration
will be the beginning of new era OF
peace, purity, and prosperity III all the
of our government.