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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-21
Gen. Santa Anna in His Old Age

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He lives in the City of Mexico, in a
third-rate house of two stories, with
courts of not more than twenty feet
square, the pavements out of repair
the whole telling story of poverty. He
was seated upon much-worn sofa, at
tended by a smart appearing
Mexican of middle age, and rose with
some difficulty in receiving us. He
complained considerably of his wooden
leg, and blindness. He is an old man
of eighty years, very decrepit, yet III
full command of his faculties; has .
good head and face, not unlike the pic
ture Of Humboldtin old age, with broad
temples and an abrupt, square nose,
and at at one time, good eyes. He had
little to say, but appeared pleased at
our visit; and, as we told him of the
four or five general officers Of the Mex
lean war still living, he listened with
interest, but showing no special recog-
milton until the name Of Pillow was
mentioned, whom he remembered per-
fectly Over the sofa where Santa
Anna sat was the picture of a beautiful
woman in the fullness of youth and
loneliness. This was his wife when
both led the fortunes of Mexico. AS
we passed out Of the court our atten-
ton was called to the figure of a wo-
man of fifty in a window opposite, in
plain dress and devoid of any interest
ing attribute. This was she whose pic
ture had SO interested us-Mrs. General
Santa Anna.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-21

THE take of buffalo robes in Mon
tana this season will be the largest for
several years, and some dealers will
ship 5000 to 10000 robes each.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-21

instantly killing him, calker named John
Mahoney and boy, Chas. Gambler. Fred
Smith, a jeweler, and Samuel Ingraham, q
boy, were seriously injured. Smiths inju-
ries are about the head, and may prove IA
tai. Ingraham's eyes were destroyed, but it
is thought that he will live. Several persons
were slightly injured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IT is reported that the ST. Pau, Pioneer
Press has purchased the Minneapolis Epcr.-
ing MaH D. Blakely will take charge
editorally
MCDONALD, MOODY e. Co., wholesale hat
tiers and furriers, Montreal, have assigned.
Their liabilities are about SITS, OOO The
firms assets exceed their liabilities by $780,
900, but the capital is locked up in outside
speculations.
THE national banks are hard at work in
Washington trying to have the law repealed
imposing tax on capital and deposits.
PREsIDENP-ELECT PRADo, of Peru arrived
in New York on the 10th.
THE musical societies of Paris and vacini-
ty, have organized grand operate festival
for April oath, the proceeds to be devoted
to a monument to be erected in New York
Harbor.
THE Governor of Bosnia telegraphs that
the troops defeated 1,500 insurgents near
MAIDEN, last Saturday, killing sixty. The
Turks lost five killed.
THE cause of the attack of the Mexican
troops upon the United States forces, was
that Col Merriam, o. S. A. demanded the
release of an American merchant who had
refused to pay a fine of 800 for refusing to
confscate ris property to the Mexican gov
eminent.
CHARLES B. WILKINSON, late United
States Collector for the st. Joseph (Mo.)
district has been indicted for crooked
ness" His Indictment creates great sur
prise. e.
REPORTS from different parts of Ohio in
dictate about one-half a crop of pears, one
eighth of peaches, and fair yield of apples.
The recent bad weather has almost COM
pletely destroyed all hopes of peach crop
for Illinois
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fund of the Senate to defray the expenses of
the Spencer investigation, is up to date SILL
800, of which $10,61S was for mileage per
diem of witnesses.
BEFORE the House committee on Judiciary
Gen. Babcock denies having had any knowl-
edge of the safe burglary and explains this
sentence in letter to Col. Whitney :-"Y GU
can wait with confidence that in the end
your serviceswill be fully appreciated by
saying that being informed that the treas
ury officials had turned Whitney and his
associates out of Office without paying them
for past services, he thought it but just
to thus reassure Col. Whitney of justice be-
ing done him eventually.
THE United States will insist upon its de-
mand for the extradition of Winslow under
the treaty of 1912.
The defense in the Spencer Investigation
trial decline to offer testimony. They claim
that the government has proven nothing.
FOREIGN.
SPECIE in the Bank of France has in
creased 2,583,O0O francs the past week.
LAToURBE & Co., merchants of Liverpool,
and Havre and Jackmel, have suspended.
Their liabilities are $850,000, and believed
to be covered by assets.
| A TELEGRAM from Washington received at
London, speaks positively of Schenck re-
Stunning the functions of Minister to Eng
land.
RoHLAND & MULLER, cotton firm, of
Bremen, has suspended. The liabilities are
heavy.
IT is reported that several of the passen-
gers on the steamer Thyra from st. Thomas,
were shot on landing at Jackwell, Cuba.
Two United States men-of-war at Port Au
Prince threaten to use force if the decree
taxing foreigners is carried out against
Americans, or moneys already collected are
not returned to them. The French consul
insists on the same treatment for French
citizens
A SPECIAL to the Galveston NeVs says the
Mexican Federal troops opened fire upon
the United States Government troops at 7
o'clock P NJ, April 10th, the United States
troops returning the fire with twelve pound
howitzer, Smelling New Laredo, Mexico. 1t
was a hot fight.
THE Ruski Mir asserts that Prince Wrede,
Austrian representative at Belgrade, few
days ago threatened that Austrian and Turk
ish troops would occupy Servia if she de-
clared war against Turkey. Prince Milan
asked Wrede to repeat the threat in writing.
Wrede Immediately complied. Prince
Milan laid the written communication be-
fore the ministers, and a Parliamentary
Committee of eighteen members, who unan-
imously advised him to pay no attention
to it.
THE Herzegovinians intend to resume
hostilities on the 18th inst, when the truce
between them and the Turks expires. The
instruction in Bosnia and Croatia is rapidly
spreading, majority of the troops being
veterans of the Austrian militia The gov
ernor of Bosnia has advised proclamation
of holy war, and has been recalled The
intelligence is SO alarming that the Russian
government is afraid to publish in Odessa.
In consequence of his restoration to health
the Gar of Russia will not abdicate in favor
of the CZarOwitch
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-21

HYDRATE of choral has been used
with success in the treatment Of cases
Of lock jaw.
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Published April 4, 1876.
CHAPTER 403.

AN ACT to provide for The numbering consecutively
OF instruments writings offered for record
to be filed in the office of register of deeds.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
IN enate and Assembly, do enact follows:
Section l. Every register of deeds shall, within
three months from the passage and pubica ion of
this act ma Ike approximate estimate of the total
number OF instruments writings on record or on
file IN his office. He shall then add to that number
a number sufficient to make the sum OF the two
numbers, beyond all doubt, greater than the total
number OF instruments or writings record file
In his office, which said number thus obtained wiz:
the sum of the two numbers above mentioned),
shall he used as shall be provided for by section
TWO OF this act, for commencing the numbering of
lnstrumt nts and writings offered for record to
be hted III the Office of register of deeds.
Section 2. IS > the register of deeds shall
have AscertaIned the number Inch, in accordance
win section one of this act it is his duty TO ascer-
TAM he shall afhX such number to the first nstru-
ment, which snail b. offered for record or file lie
snail afx the said numbers plainly upon the top of
the pack OF the said Instrument when folded, and
shall afhX 1t Immediately upon the receipt of the
SAID instrument or writing, and he sha in like
manner afhG to each lnstrum mt writing there
after presented f1r record or file, a number conse-
cntlVt TO the number affixed to the last instrument
Section z. Whenever the time of reception OF two
or lore instruments shall be the same the register
OF deeds snail designate, up the instrument and
no b, III C, that the iustrum ents thus mum
bered and des gnattd received for record at
the time.
s. ction t. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March 49, 1876.
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House..

WEDNESDAY, April 12.-The bill to
supply the deficiency in the Printing Bureau
and the silver currency bill being agreed to,
as to the Senate amendments, now goes to
the President ... During the evening SEES
sion after an animated discussion, mo-
ton made by Hill, of Georgia, to strike out
of the Legislative Appropriation bill 500
900 for Furnishing violations of the internal
revenue laws, was rejected...... While con-
sidering the item for the Bureau of Statistics
the House adjourned.
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place to be designated III such petition; such Board
OF supervisors may, i its discretion, submit the
question OF removal OF the county seat to vote OF
the qualified voters of the county in the manner
hereinafter provided. Such election shall be held
only on the day OF the general election for state anC
county officers, and shall be conducted acd the
votes canVassed, certified and recorded III the same
manner as other votes at such election, and none
put cltzens entitled to vote at such general election
snaIl re entitled TO vote on The question of the
change OF such county seat At such election those
o!nS Tor the Change of the county seat shall de-
POST ballot in separate box to be provided for
20 1 purpose containing the words, ''For the change
~ my county seat, aud those voting against such
! - nse snah deposit ballot containing the words,
| against the change of the county seat" If q
=; vi al the votes cast at such election shall be
h ai ol such change, il shall be the duty of the
go S.i OF the Board of Supervisors to certify the
~ win Ine attestation of the county clerk. to the
to1ein oi, VINO shall thereupon issue his procama-
ioi " mat effect, and cause the same to be pub
&c - ~ pliClal state paper; and from the date
OF sli'h proclamation he place so DESIGNATED shall
oe INC scat OF such county, but if nj iority
" ca lfoteeJ shall De against such removal then
IL snail moi De laWlu Tor the Board of SuDeryisors
TO again submit the question of removal TO he same
point at any time within five years: four weeks ore
notice of such election shall lie rivey NV the
county clerk by publishing the same or &c a week
for four weeks, in all the newspapers pub isbed in
such county, if there be newspap, rs pubished
il such county, when written or printed notice
[shal be posted in two conspicuous places in each
town in the county at least four weeks previous to
such election.
Section .. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March Is, 1875.
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TUESDAY, April IA bill was passed
authorizing the construction of a bridge
across the Missouri River, at or near Sioux
City. ...... The Senate bill appropriating
$25, 900 for mprovement of the capital
grounds, being amended by reducing the
amount to $4,000, passed.. Little progress
was made in the legislative appropriation
bill during the evening session, discussion
and action being confined to the reduction
of special treasury agents, who were limited
to ten; to a proposition by Mr.. White of
Kentucky, to relieve small private distil-
leries from taxation, which was voted down
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Mr.. WHITEHoUsE, Chairman of the House
Committee on Civil Service, has received a
letter from Chicago urging that the Com
mittee investigate the charges against United
tates Marshal Campbell, of Northern
Illinois. The charge made in the letter is
that Campbell has compelled Miss Sweet,
Pension Agent at Chicago, to pay him one
half of her salary each month on account
of his supposed political influence in secur-
ing her appointment or retaining her in
office The letter charges that Campbell is
a brother-in-law of Gen. Babcock Other
members of the Committee have received
similar letters making the charges against
other Federal officers in Chicago.
THE Committee on Ways and Means COM
pleted the Morrison's tariff bill on the 18th,
and ordered it to be reported fayorably To
the House The tax on coffee of three cents,
and on tea fifteen cents was stricken out.
GEN. BABCoCK appeared before the Judi
ciary Committee Monday and produced the
letter of Col. Whitley, the substance of
which he tried to give on Saturday In it
Whitley complained that he had not been
paid, and asking Babcock to use his infu-
ence to obtain the money for him.
THE amount paid ont OF the contingent
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Senate.

THURSDAY, April 13.-Mr. Bogy pre-
scented a memorial from the st. Louis Cot
ton Exchange advocating an increased APP
preparation for the signal service. Re-
ferred The following bills passsd: Pro-
viding for the separate entry of packages
contained in one importation; authorizing
the construction of pontoon bridge across
the Mississippi River from some point in
La Crosse county, Wis, to some point in
Houston cotnty, Mimi. ......After short ex-
ecutive session the Senate adjourned until
Monday.
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Senate.
SATURDAY, April S.-Senate not il
session
The Morning herald., 1876-07-05
National Banner.

The chorus Of Dexter Smith, Of Massa
chusetts, "Our National Banner" J" was sung
upon the conclusion Of Mr.. Taylor's poem.
The words being as follows:
The Morning herald., 1876-07-05

Ger the high and DER the lowly
Floats that banner bright and holy
In the rays of freedom g sun;
In the nations heart imbedded,
Ger our Union newly welded
One in all, and all in one.
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AxS4 WSe - oNI0 IN tDtuo OeQ o0llbO443,
Yet staye s0me richer sense
WoAs4som the mtxtuss 0f thine elements, Z
10 gutde thevsgYsnt scbems,
And winD0w tvuth from each con6ctin(
dream sESsi
Yet In thy blood shall live & 4
Some force uDepent, some essence pFtmitiv
TO seiss the highest use Of things;
For Fate. TO mould thee to her plan,
Denied thee food Of kings-
W1thhsld the udder and the orchard fruits
Fed thee with savage roots,
And forced thy harsher milk from barrel
breasts Of man
Is o sacred woman. Form
Of the first peoples need and passiol
wrought s3s
No thin. pale ghost Of thought,
But fair g morning and as hearts blood
warm .s;B
Wearing thy priestly Tiar on Judah's hills
Clear-eyed beneath Athens helm Of gold
Or from Rome's central seat
Hesrfng the pulses Of the Continents beat
In thunder where her legions rolled
Compact Of high heroic hearts and willst
Whose being circles al
The selfish aims of men, and all fulGlls;
Thyself not free 80 long as one is thrall;
Goddess, that as nation lives,
And as 9. nation dies, v
That for her children as man defles,
And TO her children ~ . mother gives
Take our fresh feslty now!
No more cliieftainess, with wampum zone
And feather-cireled brow
No more new Britannia, grown
To spread IN equsl banner to the breeze,
And lift thy trident DER the double seas /;
But with unborr0wed crest,
In thine own native beauty dressed
The front of pure command, the unfinching
eye, thine 0wn
Look up, look forth, and on
There's light In the dawning sky:
The clouds are parting, the night 10 gone
Prepare for the work Of the day
Fallow thy pastures lie,
And far thy shepherds stray,
And the fields Of thy vast domain
Are wsiting for purer seed
OF knowledge, desire and deed,
For keener sunshine and mellower rain
But keep thy garments pure
Pluck them back, with the old disdain,
From touch Of the hands that stain
So shall thy strength endure.
Transmute into good the gold of gain,
Compel to beauty thy ruder powers,
Till the bounty of coming hours
Shall plant on thy fields apart
With the oak OF toll, the rose of art
Be watchful, and keep US SO:
Be strong, and fear no foe
Be just, and the world shall knowl
With the same for love us, az we give;
And the day shall never come
That finds us weak or dumb,
To join and smitc and cry II
In the great task, for thee to die,
And the greater task, for thee to live!
BAYARD, TAYLOR.
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Anu III lC6 plan sublime
Our eras are the dust of Time, a
The faroff yesterday of power
Creeps back with stealthy feet,
Invades the lordship of the hour, .
And at our banquet takes the unbidden
seat.
From all unchronicled and silent ages
Before the Future first begot the Past,
Till History dared, at last,
From Egypt's tawny drift, and Assur's
mound,
And where, uplifted white and far,
Earth highest yearns to meet star,
And man his manhood by the Ganges
found
Imperial heads, of old Millennisl sway,
And still by some pale splendor crowned,
Chill as corpse-light in our full-orbed day,
In ghostly grandeur rise
And say, through stony lips and vacant
eyes:
"Thou that asserted freedom, power and
Declare to us thy claim"
On the shores of Continent cast,
She won the inviolate soil
By loss of heirdom of all the Past,
And faith in the royal right Of Toll
She planted homes on the savage sod:
Into the wilderness lone
She walked with fearless feet,
In her hand the divining-rod.
Till the veins of the mountains beat
With fire of metal and force of stone!
She set the speed of the river-head
To turn the mills of her bread;
s he drove the ploughshare deep
Through the prairie's thousand -centuried
sleep;
To the South, and West, and North, 50
She called the pathfinder forth,
her faithful and sole Companion,
Where the flushed Sierra, snowy starred,
Her way to the sunset barred,
And the nameless rivers In thunder, and
Chaunsled the terrible Canyonl
4 NOrpiu9ed, TIL hes utt1rnoat home Il
Was built, - ths lnile 0f : b0issr ~
Ard the glory of beauty still W u, s's'ss
Where the haunted waves o. A1ih dle
On the Strand "a The osld-Wids ~
n - #
Ths faoe, II cenqusrins, @ n
Some 1eyca Tltanic jcy Of cCn0s sogt knOWUs
he(her ii yoins ~ M IL kinE,
Odf G1ciont hlocd tSot6 G0taoto IA repcse.|
ChA11 " ef Naknt0 upsntl WI n WI
AHatta IA l(4psg ~ 1Np n luVVg; n g9S| Is
I + : ! ) ! ) ! ] |, !
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The National Ode.

Sun of the stately Day,
Let Asia into the shadow drift,
Let Europe fast in thy ripened ray,
And over the severipg ocean lift
A brow of brocader splendor!
Give light to the eager eyes
OF the land that waits to behold thee rise
The gladness of morning lend her,
With the triumph Of noon attend her,
And the peace Of the vesper skies!
For, 10! she cometh now
With hope on the lip and pride on the brow,
Stronger, and dearer, and fafrer,
To smile on the love we bear her,
To live, as we dreamed her and sought her,
Liberty's latest daughter!
In the clefts of the rocks, in the secrect
places,
We found her traces:
On the hills, in the crash of woods that fall
We heard her call;
When the lines of battle broke,
We saw her face in the fiery smoke;
Through toll, and anguish, and desolati0n,
We followed. and found her
With the grace of virgin nation
As sacred zone around her!
Who shall rejoice
With righteous voice,
Far-heard through the ages, If not she's
For the menace is dumb that defed her,
The doubt is dead that denied her,
And she stands acknowledged, and strong,
and free!
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As 1t fioated long before us, ~
Be 1t ever floating DER US,
Der our land + ON shore to shore;
There are freemen yet to wave it.
Millions who would die to save it,
Wave 1t, save it evermorS.
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Behold she bcndeth now.

Behold she bcndeth now,
Humbling the chaplet of her hundred years
There is a solemn sweetness on her brow,
And in her eyes are sacred tears.
Can she forget,
In present joy, the burden of her debt,
When for q captive race
She grandly staked and won
The total promise of her power begun,
And barred her bosom's grace
To the sharp wound that only tortues yeti
Can she forget
The million graves her young devotain set
The hands that clasp above
From either side, in sad, returning loves
Can she forget,
Here, where the Ruler Of to-day,
The citizen Of to morrow,
And equal thousands 10 rsjoice and pray
Beside these holy walls ore met,
Her birth-cry, mixed of kceuest bliss and
sorrOws
Where, on July's immortal morn
Held forth, the People, faw her head
And shouted to the world: "The King is
dead,
But 10 the Heir is bornp
When fire of Youth, and eober trust of Age,
In Farmer, Soldier, Priest and Sage
Arose and cast upon her
Baptismal garments-never robes 90 fair
Glad prince in Old-world air.
Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor
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i
She was born In the longing Of ases,
BY the truth Of the noble dead
,.x And the faith Of the living fedi
NQfblood in her lightest veins
EY&fs ct remembered chains,
Fdr+shame Of bondage has bowed her he "a
In ber form and featurrs still
ThAnnblenching Puritan WIN,
Cavalier honor, Huguenot gracs,
The Quaker truth and sweetness,
And this strength Of the danger-g gfrdlet
race
OF Holland, blend In proud completeness
From the homes Of al, where her beinl
sh\ took what she gave to man:
Jutice, that knew no station,
elief, as soul decreed,
Frke air for aspiration,
Free force for independent deed!
She takes, but to give again,
As the ses returns the rivers In rain,
And gathers the chosen of her seed
From the hunted Of every crown and creed
Her Germany dwells BY a gentle Rhine;
Her ireland sees the old sunburst shine;
Her France pursues some dream divine;
Hen Norway keeps his mountain pine;
Her Italy waits by the western brine;
And, broad-based under sll,
Is planted England's oaken hearted mood
As rich in fOrtitude
As e'er went Woodward from the island
wall
Fused In her candid light,
Tone strong race all races here unite.
Tongues melt 10 hers hereditary foemen
Forget their sword and slogan. kith and clan
Twas glory, once, to be Roman:
Shem es it glory, now, to be man!
Bow down!
sDoff thine Eonian crownl
One hour forget
The glory, and recall the debt:
Make expiation,
OF humber mood,
For the pride of thine exultation
O'er peril conquered and strife subdued
But half the right is wrested
When victory yields her prize,
And half the marrow tested
When old endurance dies.
In the sight of them that love thee,
Bow to the Creator above thee
He faileth not to suit
The idle ownership of Right,
Nor spares to sinews fresh from trial
And virtue schooled in long denial,
The tests that wait for thee
In larger perils of prosperity.
Here, at the Century's awful shrine,
Bow to thy Fathers God, and thine.
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Let that banner wave forever,
May its lustrous stars fade never
Till the stars shall pale on hi, b;
Where there's right the wrong defeating,
While there's hope in true heart beating
Truth and freedom shall not die,
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Blending all forms 10 one benignant glow,
Crowned coneeience tender care,
Justict that answers every bondn6anss
prayer,
Freed@ @pwbere Faith may had, OF Thought
nay dare,
Tho tHpwer minds that know,
Pas@ @6pUf hesStb 5bAt feel,
Pur1haAed bv bleed sand WOO,
Gua4aed BY fire and -sssIy
Hath khe secureda What blazon on her
phield, s
in tAs clear Century'slight ~
ShiIAs tothe world revealed, ~
Declaring nobler triumph, born of Rig1ti