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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

We had OCCASION this week to
go out to the western limit Of the
county, some fourteen miles, over
The old ST. Paul stage road. Tie
loneliness Of the trip was really OPP
pressiYc; not a sonl did we meet or
see in the entire distance, going or
returning. From town to Fay's
turmoil, four miles, theroal is in fair
condition beyond Shat it is in very
poor order. The bridge ever the
Pokegama, buraed tao years ago,
has never been rebuilt and that
stream has to be fordcd. Further
on the bridges are burned down, or
so decayed as 10 be unsafe; the old
courduroy timbers over the swamps
have come to the surface, brush has
grown up ten to twenty feet high
on each side Of The rood, leaving q
narrow avenue over which the
branches meet, the old dsches are
choked up and full Of water, and
everything about the road and the
country indicates neglect and abar-
donmcnt. The timber on both
SIDES ofthe road was very generally
killed by the great forest fires of
1875 /; much Of it has since fallen
down and now lays on the surface,
an impenetrable, tangled mass of
inviting fuel for another and final
fire, 1t is sickening to think Of the
many thousands of dollars that were
spent by the county on this old road,
that might have been better en-
ployed If the road had been built
southwark through our own State,
the southern portion of our county
would in all likelihood not be the
bowling wilderness that it now is,
and the railroad relations of this
point might be very different to
what they now are. But SO goes
the world. There is no use in cry
ing over spilled milk.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

tSREaEBACKs aro now less than
ffe cents below par, and stiI rising
II wouLl seem from this that we
have ccrtainly neatly reached bot
tom, aad business ought to begin
torerife pretty soon. This decline
lid gold, or perhaps rise in green
backs, IS due mainly to The fact that
The hard times have so reduced the
expense of the people by enforced
economy, that the exports Of the
country largely exceed the imports,
and there is large quantities Of gold
coming from Europe. The mere
fact that the country is selling more
than it IS buying is not of itself an
evidence Of prosperity, but a period
Of growth and prosperity is pretty
certain 10 come soon when sach a
condition Of things exist. As na-
ton, we are now seling largely of
all products, and buy ng little. The
result Of this viii be that capitalists
will soon accumulate large sums of
money. Uninyestej capital VIII
not be long in stimulating is own,
ers to seek investment. 1t is un-
doubledly true that there are at
present large amounts of capital in
this county seeking investment.
The period ofinyestment is near at
hand, and when it comes labor will
begin to find employment and-he
Whole country will start upon new
era Of prosperity. ty.-Keatson Dena-
0erat.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

The heirs # 1irs. Thomas Fin
negan are wanted, to lay claim to
@lI.O worth Of property, now
in probate in Rock county. Her
maiden name was Ann Griffin,
and she was married in the couaty
and Parish ofDown, Ireland, came
to New York, aud from thonce, it is
to Racine or Dodge coun-
ty, Wisconsin, 81 years ago. They
may put us down for one of them
if nobody else will take the chance.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

To Town 0rr,cEns.-By chan.
ter ESQ Of the lawsofthe last session
Of 'he state Legislature it is made a
misdemeanor for any town officer
to sign, or issue, town order un-
less the fund out of which it is to
be paid has been actually levied,
and placed in the tax roll, and the
tax roll delivered to the treasurer
for collection. All town officers are
al alsoprohibited from being interested
directly or indirectly, in any con-
tract made with or on in behalf OF
the .oWn. and from purchasing and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

Frank Leslie's Magazine for
May is certainly not surpassed in
merit by any OF the four famous
numbers which preccde it, aud we
are gratifed in the assurance that
Mr.. Leslie will spare no effort to in
sure for this welcome and valuable
publication the continued patronage
and praise Of the Christian public
in general. The May number will
be especially sought after and care
fully preserved. 1t contains bean
titul illustrations by Dore, and 9TH
ers; short stories; continued tales !;
a number of instructive articles and
fund of general information an
ecdotes, poetry, etc., etc. The
SUNDAY MAGAZINE may be secured
for $3.50 for one year, free, fiom
ERANK LESLIE, l37 Pearl Street,
New York.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

We are informed that steps are
being taken by Mr.. Setter and 9TH
ers to prevent the issuing OF tax
deeds on property sold at the tax
sale of 1874, on which deeds will be
due in May. They take the ground,
we believe, that the sale and prior
proceedings were illegal and that
therefore deeds are not justly due
to the purchasers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

TuE United States now furnish
Canod4 with nearly all its white
sugar, with large proportion Of
its ten and IN the matter Of manu-
facturel goods is rapidly suppIant-
ing the English article. IN exhibit
shows that Notwithstanding a de-
cine Of 532 COOS coo in the import
trade Of tIat country, the percent
age Of American manufactures i'm
ported has increased from 1915 to
50 per cent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

The new board, /. w. Gates,
chairman, james Collier and U
Congo, held their first meeting in
the town Office on Saturday last.
The principal question considered
was how to support the poor com
fortably at less expense than hereto
fore, but no definite plan was
adopted. The idea seemed to pre-
vail that the supplies for the poor
should be obtained at cash prices,
and cash tax levied and raised to
pay for them. This plan If carried
out would certainly lessen the ex-
pense of maintaining the poor over
one halt, and give them better sup
port than they now receive. Last
year, according TO the town report,
over $1,000 was expended for the
poor. This year with proper man
81 goo ought to be made
to cover their entire expense.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14


Election in Ashland Super
visors, S S. Vaughn, chairman, Ed
Green, d.. g. Ellis; town clerk
John Nc Carthy; town treasurer IL.
d. Weed ; assessor Peter Stefan ;
county judge John Bell. Vote
polIed, III. At bayfield,: Super
visors, n. Bontin, chairman, r. d.
Pike, Fred Fisher; treasurer J. IL.
Nourse, clerk J. D. Cruttenden.
From La Pointe election we have
so definite information, but it ap-
pears to have been a kind Of a
Louisiana affair.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

Tna Northwestern Railroad Com
pany Is just now constructing a neg
branch from Spalding to the Me
nomonccriyer, distance of twenty
four miles which viii be knows as
the Meuomonee River Railroad.
The road is All graded, and will be
flushed in July. 1t opens up a
section Of country very rich in lum-
bcr aud full Of iron deposits.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
valued at $l,5oo,ooo has been large

valued at sl,500,000 has been large
~ due to the general collapse of
stock values consequent upon the
panic. One item of the assets was
over 100000 of stock of the Por-
tage Lake Canal, which had been
forfeited to the bank as collateral
for loans. Stevenson, the banks
President, was largely indebted to
the bank for overdratts, and Coarles
Calender, Bank Examiner, owed
the bank large sum.
Receiver Davis offered to the
highest bidder, yesterday, the as
setts that he had been unable to
turn to cash. The stockholders
had made strenuGas efforts to pre-
vent the sale, having passed reso-
lutions questioning the receivers
motives, and sent committee to
w ashington to request the Com
ptroller Of the Currency to order
postponement of the sale; but their
efforts were unavaiIing as just be-
fore the bidding was begun the
Com, troller telegraphed that he
would not interfere.
FIRST in bulk, if not III value, was
over 1000 acres of land in Egypt"
H., taken by the bank for debt in
865. The title is good, and the
assessed value is from s. to $50 per
acre, yet its auction price averaged
only a fraction over 81 per acre
Large tracts were sold for 80 cents
per acre, and the best cultivated
lands, with houses and buildings
thereon, were sold az only $3.50 an
acre.
Then the auctioneer offered the
Irondale Coal and iron property,
whose title passed to the Ocean
Bank because of default in large
loans. 1t consists of l,l2O ocres in
Preston county, " est Virginia,
containing coal veins, iron ore beds,
limestone qnarries, blast furnaces,
and all The paraphernaIa for coal
and iron mining. 1t cost 100000.
Nr. Hedges bought it for $4,000.
Next was q lot Of call loans that
had been secured with such co'lat
eral as shares in the Susquehanna
aud Wyoming Valley Railroad Com
pany, Gregory Sold Mining Com
pany, Earmerdale Coal Company,
Portage Lake Canal Company, and
Solar Oil Company. One lot was
the call loan of J. X Gapin for
$4l, ,l38, Tor which $352,962 shares
Of Wabash aud Erie Canal Com
pany's stock was sold as the pledged
collateral. Mr.. Gapin read a writ
ten protest in which he denied that
he owed the money or was in any
way indebted to the bank. His
protest attracted attention to the
lot, and his check was sold for $500,
and the stock for 5000.
About fifty judgments of the
Supreme Court and of the Common
Pleas were sold One against
Charles Calender for S4,997 was
sold for S26 that against Columbus
5. Stevenson for $25, ,085, was sold
for 800; Silas B. Dutcher's 1925
sold for $50. Many bonds and
stocks were sold for about their
value as old parchment. Some life
insurance policies Jared better.
One paid up on the life of James
Dayett, in the Mutual Benefit office
of New ark, was sold tor $505; an
endowment policy, paid up, $3.50,
payable in 1880, on the .ife of A c.
Smith, Jr., by the Mutual Life of
New York, was sold for $2,480;
5. S. Bowman's annual premium
policy in the Home Life for 5000,
was sold for 81, $50; another of the
same kind in the Manhattan Lite
for $4,000, was soid for s3,250,
The sale yielded less than s43,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

Mr.. Chas Fregau this week re-
ceiyed letter from Victor Desim-
val who is with the Whitehead
party for the Black Hills, The
letter is dated from Cedar Greek so
miles west of Bismarck, April lst.
The writer says his health is good,
and that the party numbers 800
men and seventy-fve teams.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

They expect an unusually heavy
crop in Oregon this year. Cronin
having moved to the western coast,
the shadow OF his nose Will tall on
the sea.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
Is the Only Line
hat runs on any of its trains the celebrated
Pullman Palace Cars.

All trains Of this great route run through
without change of ears. Pullman Palace
Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars are run
on all it's trains.
All Express Trains ou this route are
equipped with Westinghouse Patent Air
Brakes and MilIer's Patent Safety Platform
and CCuplers-.The Most Perfect Protection
against Aoclueuts known.
This popular route is unsurpassed for
Speed, Comfort and Safety. The Smooth,
Well Balasted and Perfect Track os Steel
Rails, the Celebrated Pullman Palace Sleep
ing Cars, the Perfect Telegraph System of
Moving Trains, the Regularity with which
they run, the admirable arrangement for
running Through Cars between Chicago and
all Points West, North and North West, Sc
cure to passengers all the COMFORTS IN
MODERN RAILWAY TRAVELLING.
IF YOU wish the Best Travelling Accommo-
dations, YOU will buy your Tickets by this
Route AND WILL TAKE NO OTHER.
All Ticket Agents can sell you Through
Tickets and Check usual Baggage Free by
this Line
Passengers for Chicago, Detroit, Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Port
land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltl-
more, Washington, indianapolis, St. Louis,
Cairo and all
POINTS SOUTH AND EAST
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
THE CHICAGO, ST. PAUL AND
MINNEAPOLIS LINE"

It is the ONLY LINE between S., Paul and
Minneapolis and Chicago that passes through
Hudson Eau Claire, Black River Falls, Elroy
and Madison and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
II ortllern Pacific Railroad.
MINNESOTA DIVISION.

- Trains on the Dakota Division, will
leave Fargo Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days only and Bismarck Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays only.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
This is the CHEAPEST and
Quickest Route to St.
Paul, La Crosse and
Winona.
COMFORTABLE SLEEPING CARS

COMFORTABLE SLEEPING CARS
Are run night trains between Stevens Point NIL
waukee and Chicago and herths can be secured at
principal stations or by telegraph.
CONNECTIONS ARE H4DE
AT MILWAUKEE-W tn Chicago Milwaukee & St
Paul, and Western Union Railways in Union Be,
pot, Reed Street.
AT PLYM0UfH-With Sheboygan & Fon du Lac
Railway for Sheboygan & Fou Gu Lac.
AT FOREST JUNCIION-WIth Milwaukee Lake
Shore AID Western Railway.
AT GREEN BAY-With Green Bay & Minnesota
Road, for New London c, North western for
"e.upr NORTH.
AT AMHERST JUNCTI0N-With Green Bay &
Minnesota Railway.
AT JUNCTION CLTY-With Wisconsin Vall.y Rail
way for Nausau.
ATPL0YER-With G. p. & VI. Railway.
AT OVERWHELMINGLY Chicago Milwaukee and St
Paul for Madison and the West
L. B. PHILLIPS, L. BACON,
Gen. Manager. Sup't.
HENRY PRATT, Gen. Ticket Agt Milwaukee.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

THIS COMPANY offers for sale large amouut of
r. Eyfs excellent Farming and Timber
AA ~ ~. Land on the tine Of rs Road, cows
erei with he2"y growth of Pine, Hemlock, Oak,
Maple, Beach aud Elm. PAYMENTS easy,
CHAS. l.. COLBY, Land Commissioner,
MILWAUKEE, WIS,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
should buy their tickets via
The Chicago. St. Paul & Minneapolis
Tina -

Close Connections are made at Chicago with the
Lake Shore Michigan Southern, Baltimore &
Ohio, Michigan Central, Pittsbureh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago kankakee Line and Pan Handle Routes for
all points EAST and SOUTH EAST. and with the
Chicago & Alton aud Illinois Central for all points
SOUTH.
New York Office, No. 415 Broadway; Boston Office,
No. State Street St. Paul Ticket Offices. Corner
Third and jackson 81. aud at Depot on SIbiy ST.
Minneapolis Ticket Offices, NO. N1colet House
Block ard at st. Paul Pacific depot Chicago Ticket
Offices 6a CLARK St, under Sherman House; IS
Canal corner Madison St: Kinzie St. Depot, cor.
West Kiuzie and Canal Sts.; Wells St, Depot, cor.
Wells and kinze Streets.
7. B. GLARK,
8. P. A, W. W: R'y, st. Paul
w. III. SFEESETT,
Gen. Pass Ag't Chicago
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
PORTAGE, MADISON.
ono daily train between
BUTTERNUT CREEK & MILWAUKEE,

Connecting with Southern Division at Stevens
Point iOr Portage and Madison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04

cause there Is general lack of learn
ing and culture among them. Ignorant
communities have no ambition for any
thing better than the huts which keen
out the storm and cold Poverty. which
usually attends ignorance, cannot pro-
vide anything beyond the rudest shelter
so that in those old countries beyond;
the sea, where both ignorance and pow
erty prevail, the houses of those who
live by cultivating the soil are very
rude, low, and altogether destitute of
style and taste. Education begets a
perception of beauty and grandeur in
external objects. From study of the
works of God, we ourselves gain de-
sire to create, TO build From the beau
tlful idea that angelic beings dwell in
temples not made with hands, eternal
IN the heavens, the wish springs into
beng to possess the next best thing. a
tasteful material structure, made bv
skilliul hands and fixed to the earth.
Our domestic architecture is always
an exponent of our civilization and our
progress in wealth-gettIng. A man,
learned and cultured, may not have the
means to give expression 10 his idea of
what a home is, or should be: so with
communities; but there will appear,
always, about the humble threshold I'M
mistakable indications of higher in
tellectual and moral character
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
A Chinaman on English Warfare.

At the commencement of the late
war in China, the Chinese authorities
treated the invaders with supreme con-
tempt, and their reports are eX-
tremely amusing. This is one Of them:
"The English barbarians are an insight
ficant ana detestable race, trusting en-
tirely to their strong ships and large
guns; but the immense distance they
have traversed will render the arrival
OF seasonable supplies impossible, and
their soldiers after single defeat, being
deprived of provisions, will become
dispirited and lost. Though it is very
true that their guns are destructive,
still, in the attack of our harbors, they
will be too elevated, and their aim,
moreover, rendered unsteady by the
waves, whileWe, in our forts, with larger
pieces, can more steadily return The
fire. Notwithstanding tie riches Of
their ent, the people are poor,
and unable to contribute to the ey
penses of an army at such distance.
Granted that Their vessels are their
homes, and in them they defy wind
and weather, still they require a great
draft Of water; ana since our coasts
are beset with shoals. they will certainly,
without the aid o. native pilots, run
ashore, without approaching very close
~. Though waterproof, their ships ale
not fire-proof, and we may, therefore,
burn them. The crews will not be able
to stand the ravages of our climate, and
will surely waste away by degrees; and
to fight on shore, their soldiers possess
not sufficient activity. Without, there
fore, despising the enemy, We have no
cause to fear them. While guarding
the approaches to the interior, and re-
moving to the coast the largest guns, to
give their ships a terrific reception, we
should, at the same time, keep vessels
filed with brushwood, oil, saltpetre,
and sulphur. in readiness to let them
drive, under the direction Of our maine,
with wind and tide against their ship
ping When once on fire, we may open
our batteries upon them, display the
celestial terror, and exterminate them
without the loss OF single life. The
Russians are now our friends; their
territory is not far from the English,
and joins ours. We should therefore,
spend thirty millions of taels in raising
a daring army, and march directly
through the Russian country to Eng
land. By carrying the WAR home to
them, and occupying their own country,
we should forever Danish them from
our shores. Since the Russians are the
enemies of the English, they would
support our undertaking, finding us, on
our arrival in their country, with guns,
and furnishing us with auXiliarieS.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
Troubles of a Young Bridegroom.

The Albany Argus of Friday says:
!" Yesterday morning James d. Rourke
was arrested on complaint of his son
Joseph, aged H. who alleges that his
father assaulted and severely beat him.
On an examination of the case before
Justice Mott, it appeared from the testi-
mony that Joseph, without his parents
knowledge or counsel, was married on
the 9th inst. to a daughter of saloon
keeper in the neighborhood. AS soon
as his father heard of the event he dis
owned the boy, forbidding him to come
upon the same street in which he lived
thereafter, saying he had brought the
ramily to disgrace and broken his
mothers heart by contracting such a
marriage. The young man left home
and secured rooms for himself and wife
on Morton street. On Sunday last the
young couple went out for walk, and
in going over Delaware avenue passed
bis fathers house Rourke senior was
sitting on the stoop, and as they went
by he arose and followed them. Fear
ing that he intended mischief the couple
started across the fields to evade him
and reach home The father, however
ran and caught his son, throwing him
down and giving him a severe beating
He then turned his attention to his wife
and beat her. Others interfered and
rescued the pair, who then proceeded
home, and subsequently the son pro-
cured the warrant. Finally, under the
alternative of going to jail, the father
consented to refrain from molesting the
boy hereafter, when the latter Withdrew
the complaint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
at used to be 1Ivra. she sobbed re-

at used to be Myra,' she sobbed re-
proachfully.
True, but those were days that car
never be recalled.
q You are cruel"
% / do not wish to be so, but must be
frank with you The past is dead New
er can We revive that love that was once
so precious to me, so very triHing to
YOU"
. No, no, you wrong me. Alas for me,
it is my misfortune that / cannot con-
quer my great love for you"
But mine died when it was insulted
and sighted"
Here Gilbert drew a deep sign of re
lief at the appearance of Aunt Jane,
entering the room behind .Myra's chair.
Mrs. GOrham did not hear her light ste1
and sobbed,-
"Your love cannot be dead, Gilbert.
1t will live again. Pity and forgive me- y
Il both pity and forgive YOU" said
Gilbert, very gently.
"Buti-
But" said Aunt Jane, in her hardest
tone, and with her face set in rigid lines,
you forge Mrs Gorham, the law does
not permit man to marry his grand
mother"
With cry of rage, Mrs. Gorham
sprang to her feet, but something in the
cold, grave faces checked the torrent OF
wrath upon her lips, and she left the
room.
The next day she terminated her Wis
il, and loftily declined an invitation, sent
three months later, to be present at the
wedding of Gilbert Gorham, and his
! gentle Dride-Ella.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
Five Bears freed and Killed.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.

On the evening of the 18th inst. one
old bear and four cubs were found by a
dog on the trees of the door-yard OF
Peter Small, on Pelican Lake. Mr..
Small, with the assistance of his faith
full dog, managed to keep the five beals
up in the trees while his son ransacked
the neigborhood for guns and ammu-
milton. The attack commenced at II
o'clock D. M, and at daybreak the last
cub was killed We heard the shoot
ing during the night, and not knowing
what it was, took an early start from
the former summer residence of Mr..
James Peabody, arriving just in time
to see the last one laid out. We gladly
volunteered to carry it to Bells Hotel,
Fergus Falls, where an excellent bear
roast delighted its guests to-day at
nOOu.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
How She Got Home First.

The Springfield MASS. Republican tells
the following some New Hampshire
folks on their way home from the camp
meeting at Lake Pleasant the other day
came near being converted to Spiritual
ism. As they were nearing South Yer
non one O. Their party was missed and
great CONSERVATION prevailed The last
seen OF her she was standing near the
car-deor just before the train started,
and it was believ ed she had fallen from
the platform. As they Grew up at South
Vernon Depot, VINO should they find
standing there out Aunt Clara, waving
her handkerchief and parasol to wei
come the weeping party. They all be-
ieved for the moment that they looked
upon a spirit, and could only gaze at
her in speechless and open-mouthed
wonder. When her husband at last
managed to articulate, Phenomenal
naturalization in broad daylight she
exclaimed, Joe, don't be a fool. The
way twas, [ dropped my palm leaf fan,
and got out to pick il up, and the train
up and started, and went off n left
me-. ! hired a man to take me in a
hoss and buggy from the lake to the
corner, and caught the express on the
Vermont Central and came straight up,
while you've been peddling huckelber-
ries round by Greenfield on that mixed
train.