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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

THE locomotive firemen of the United
States met in annual session at Indianapo-
lis on the 18th. The proceedings were with
closed doors.
FUNG PAX. Chinese merchant of San
Francisco, is on his way to his native land
to check or limit further emigration.
The latest returns from Maine indicate
that O'Connor's (Rep.) majority over all
candidates will not fall below 5000. The
senate stands % republicans and three demo
Gratis; the House 81 republicans, 26 demo-
Gratis, = greenbackers and 26 not reported.
The constitutional amendment limiting the
elective franchise is probably defeated, and
that binding municipal indebtedness over
welmingly adopted
The great council of the United States of
the Improved Order of Red Men, assembled
at Columbus, O., on the 18th inst, and were
received in form by the great council of
Ohio. Joshua Mares, great chief of the
records, made long talk.
ABOUT 200 people attended the celebra-
ton of the centennia! anniversary battle of
Brandywine, at Chadsford, Pa, on the 18th.
SIDNEY DILLON has been elected presi-
/ UShe VI ehT SHiCdSO anu CdHdud OOuIHeTu
railroad; Jas. W. Converse, vice-president;
Benjamin f. Ham, secretary and treasurer.
YELLOW fever has broken out in Fernan.
dina, Fla. Quarantine has been established
against the infected city in all the principal
towns in the state
On the afternoon of the eth daughter of
Doras Martin, farmer in MelrCse township,
Grundy county, H., was sent on an err
rand to blacksmith shop two miles dis
tant. She did not return, and her dead
body was found on the Sth in a cornfield,
the neck indicating that she had been
choked to death. She was IA years old.
THE August report of the Nashville De-
partment of the Cotton Exchange shows
that the cotton crop will average better than
last year.
FIVE steamships freighted with grain and
canned goods sailed from New York for
Europe on the Sth inst. E. I. Delnege,
United Stats consul to a Chinese port and
delegates to the London Librarian Confer
ence, were among the outgoing passengers.
POLITICAL.
THE Democrats OF Massachusetts have
nominated VIM. CASTOR for Governor.
The workingmen of Ohio met in conven-
tion at Columbus, on the 18th, and nominal
ed Stephen Johnson, who has thus far head
ed the greenback ticket, for Governor.
IT is estimated that the official majority
of Connor over Williams, in Maine, will
slightly exceed II 800.
THE Prohibitionists of Massachusetts,
have nominated Judge Pitman for Governor.
RETURNS thus far received from the elec-
tons in California indicate that the question
of calling constitutional convention is lost.
THE Republicans of Wisconsin, in con-
vention on the 18th, nominated Hon. VIM
f. Smith for Governor.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
THE MARK ETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, September 15-3: 80 P. NJ
Cotton-Quiet at HE for middling up
lands. Flour-Steady, moderate inquiry !;
receipts, 700 ibis; sales II 600 bbls Wheat
$4,000 bus, mainly at call, at $1.5034@1.3 y
for No. spring, seller September; No. 2
winter red seller September, $1.40 bid, 81 .42
asked. Rye-Dull. Corn-Firmer; re-
ceipts 10000 bus; sales 10000 bus at 561z
@57Hc for mixed western. Barey-Dull
Oats-Steady; receipts $4,000 bus; sales
81 ,000 bus at 3Ta38c for mixed western; "a
@43c for white do. Pork-Firm at $685.
Lard--Steady at $900@9.O2M. Whisky
At$1.12. Petroleum-Crudea at ne; refined
at lac Tor seller October. Coal-Actve at
$340M3.47 for large cargo. Leather-Firm
at 22@25c. Wool-Firm, good inquiry
partly speculative, at 2S@27c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
Milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, September 15.-Flour-
quiet but steady tone pervades the mar
ket, choice spring extras ranging from 1915
to go and common at $5.00@5.50. Wheat
Active No. l S1.15@1.15&; No. . $1.1OH@
Liz; No. 8 STOCKHOLDERS; No. 2 seller
September at $1.07A @ 1883; Oc-
tober at $L02A@1032s. Corn-Quiet
Steady; No. 24@244c. Rye-Tame;
No. l 81 &c. Barley-Dull and lower
No. 65@66c cash and October 66c Pork
Very quiet at $500 cash. Lard-Dull at
94c. Hogs-Steady at S5.OO@5.20 for pack
ers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

Horse on the occasion of the recent trouble
at Red Cloud Agency. Crazy Horse had
plotted the murder after Modoc Jacks style,
but his plans were frustrated.
LAME DEER's band of hostile Sioux, num-
bering about 400, surrendered at Camp
Sheridan on the 10th instant. The Black
Hills, and Big Horn country is now clear OF
hostiles.
JOHN TAYLOR, president of the NV elve
Apostles, and acting president of the Mormon
church until a new president is elected, was
shot at Nauvoo at the time Joseph Smith
was killed, and is most bitter and bigoted
religious fanatic.
THE Treasury Commission is examining
into custom house affairs at San Francisco,
and have discovered that large amounts OF
opium were Struggled in 1875 through con-
nivance of e. S. employees.
THE apostles of the Mormon church report
that the Lord has revealed to them the steps
they should take. John Taylor, senior,
apostle, is sustained in his position as acting
president of the twelve; also that quorum
of the twelve is the authority of the church.
This is the plan pursued at the time of the
death of Joseph Smith.
NEWS from Fort Welsh, August IA, says:
Sitting Bull is encamped OIL Point Horse
Buttes, 100 miles from Fort Walsh, and 40
miles from Wood Mountain. He has no in
tention of going on the war path. He is de-
termined to remain under British prOtec-
ton.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
Chicago.

CHICAGO. September 15.-3 80 p NJ
Wheat-Firm and higher Sill for cash ;
$L07H for seller September. CONFIRM
and higher at 1870 for cash; 43 &c for seller
October. Oats-Firm at 24Ic for cash !;
24Hc for'seller October 1sye-At 55Ic.
Barley-At 64Ic. Pork-Weak and lower
at $3.50 for cash and seller October Lard
STEADY at 1915 for cash. Whisky-At
$1.09. Hogs-Receipts 5000 head; fairly
active, and 5@10c higher; light at $500
5.65 heavy at $5.50@5.60.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

THE tramway lines now serving Paris
and the suburbs arc so constantly pat
ronized, and render such evident services
to the people who reside in the outskirts
of the capital, that the authorities are
planning additional lines, and ere long
Paris will be traversed in every direction
by tramways. Those drawn by steam
are now working regularly, and it is an
nounced that for the lines outside of
Paris this mode of traction Will be gem
orally adonted.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

A TEXAS paper says that Capt. h.
KING of Santa Gertrudes, is making an
addition of sixty miles to his pasture
fence. and will have inclosed altogether
16O 600 acres of land.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
WASHINGTON,

The retirement of Gov Mccormick from
the position of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury is entirely voluntary, and is against
the wishes both of the President and Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
SEATON SALES, of North Carolina, is a
new candidate for doorkeeper of the house.
A CHARGE has been made against second
auditor French, of the treasury department,
that he has employed clerks irregulary
For this and other reasons it is stated that
there is to be an investigation of his bureau
AN official dispatch received at the war
department from San Carlos, the 9th, saws
Chiefs Victory and Lou and about two hun
dred and fifty Warm Spring Indians have
left their reservation.
EX-CLERK ADAMS is getting ready for the
meeting of the house next month.
A SPECIAL BOARD was recently ordered
by Secretary Thompson to examine the large
iron clad Puritan at League Island navy
yard and report w hat alterations may be
needed to make the vessel more efficient in
armament and machinery.
THE commission appointed to investigate
the affairs of the Philadelphia custom house
say lhdt ou tHc WHOlt the COnUltlOn OF the
service is reasonably satisfactory.
THE question with regard to the Presi-
dents sending the usual annual message
and reports of executive departments to the
extra session was not long ago considered in
the cabinet when it was agreed the message
and accompanying documents should relate
only to the business for which Congress is
to be eSDeoially convened
SEVERAL numerously signed memorials
will be presented to Congress next month,
proposing amendments to the Constitution
abolishing the Presidency, an Executive
Council, Council of State or Cabinet to be
substituted therefor, composed of seven sec
retaries, without any superior officer, all to
have equal authority. That is, to simply
strike out the President and authorize the
secretaries TO have the execution of the laws
and general supervision of the government
four of the council to be elected by the
House and three by the Senate, from men,
bers of their respective houses, for two
years, one or al to be removed at any time
by the House electing them, and all to have
the rights of members in both Houses.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
WAR NOTES.

A DISPATCH dated Bucharest, the 18th,
says: Since the capture of the Griyica re-
doubt before Plevna there has been only a
continued bombarGment of the town and
other positions of the Turks.
THE goth is now mentioned as the date
when the Servian proclamation of war will
be issued and Prince Milan will leave for
the frontier.
A RUSSIAN official dispatch from Paradin,
dated the 18th, says three Turkish redoubts
at Plevna were taken by Gen. Skobeloff.
The heights of Grivica, Osman Pashas
strongest position, was carried by storm.
Russian wounded exceed five thousand
The majority of the Bosnian insurgents
have submitted to the Turkish Government
in the Bosoa Serial.
AT the capture of Lovatz the Russians took
two Turkish standards and a quantity of
arms and ammunition. Two thousand
Turkish dead were buried
THE Montenegrins defeated Hafz Pasha
at Jesero on the 18th, killing 600 and cap
turing 100 prisoners. Hafz Pasha was
marching to the relief of Nicsics at the time
THE report of the capture of Plevna by
the Russians was premature. Rumors of its
capture and of prodigious slaughter of
Turks are still current; one report even says
Osman Pasha is prisoner.
IT is announced from Galatz that from
August 81 to September Z, 10000 men and
5000 horses to reinforce the Russian armies
passed Barboschi.
ACCORDING to latest advices the Russians
have retreated beyond the upper LON. The
Rasgrad army has passed the LON and now
occupies Ablova. The movement caused the
Russians to hurriedly evacuate Papukoi and
the region between Karasan and Osman
Bazaar.
THE Russian army in the rear of Plevna
are preparing to surround Osman Pasha's
forces. The operations of Sulieman Pasha
and Mehemet Ali are too far off to be of use
to Osman.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople reports
that the whole of Sulieman Pasha's army
has passed north of the Balkans
A CATTARO special of the Sth reports
that Nicsics, with nineteen guns, had sur
rendered Internationally.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

TEXAS is so anxious to secure emigra-
ton that she is virtually giving away
her public lands. The head of family
can get 100 acres for the expense of the
survey and patent, which are altogether
about SIS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

THE crop of cabbages is so enormous
this year that it does not pay the Long
Island farmer to bring them to market,
where they only get 81 a hundred, in
stead of IS or so. The cabbages are
consequently rotting in the field, and
becoming horrid nuisance from their
SMELL
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

TEXAS watermelons are so big that a
small boy has to go twice to steal one.
1t is matter of congratulation that
Texas boys are SO ashamed of stealing
that two of them do not like to go to-
gether
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

GERMANY has sent to Nicaragua de-
mand for an indemnity of 100000 on ac-
count of an assault made on the German
consul If it is not paid, and the flag
saluted, a squadron with Krupp guns
will be sent over to see about it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

A sELF-ol .NING envelope, with a
thread in the edge of the upper flap, by
pulling which the envelope is quickly
and neatly opened, is the newest inven-
tion in stationery.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

ACTUATED by desire for the advance
ment of scientific researches, delegation
of young doctors from one of the medical
colleges of New York called on Mayor
Ely, of that city, and asked permission to
take some live dogs from the pounds for
the purpose Of viyisection. The Mayor
declined to grant the request.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

ACCORDING to the Year Book of the
Trinity Church of New York, the total
amount of property held by the corpora
ton is 100000; the annual revenue is
exon 00O
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

IT is claimed that 7,0OO,O0 of the
church members of the United States are
committed by the teaching and discipline
of the churches against secret societies.
In this total the Roman Catholics count
5000 600
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
SENATOR DAWES. like senator Morri

SENATOR DAWES, like Senator Morrill,,
has what he calls farm, although it
consists of but eight acres. As it is
situated in the fourishing village of
Pittsfeld, it is worth more than 500
would be in Mr.. MorrilPs locality. The
Senator has had six children, three of
whom 1.-TWO boys and one gir) are living.
His eldest son graduated at Yale last
summer and is now studying law in Bos-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

NJ BARRE, clerk in drug store at Or
leans, France, received, on the 10th ult.,
a gold medal, presented to him by the
residents on the occasion of his ending
fifty years of service in the same estab-
lishment without missing a day, even
during the German occupation, when the
shop was closed, and for twenty-five days
he made his quarters in an clubhouse.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

THE National Banking Association which
adjourned on the 18th, decided in favor of
gold as the single standard.
The Nevada Bank, of San Francisco, has
sold the government one million and half
ounces OF fine silver on the basis of 54L
pence to the ounce, according to London
prices.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
FOREIGN

LONDON, September 15.-12:30 p. NJ
Consols % LILO. Liverpool wheat market
steady. California club at 13s 1d@13s 4d /;
average California at lbs 1Od013s Id. Float
ing cargoes firm; on passage firm.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
RE-ASSURING.
A telegram from Constantinople date

A telegram from Constantinople dated
yesterday, says re-assuring dispatches
have been received from Usman Pasha,
Mehemet Ali, and Suleiman Pasha. but
information concerning these is of the
most meagre description. A telegram
from Shumla, September 18th, shows that
Mehemet Ais central column is still
at Radizevo. Mehemet Ali himself had
gone towards Eski Djuma, and may be
working westward to compel the Rus
slams to abandon Tirnova and the Balkans.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
THE EAST.

THE Rev. Thomas j. Mooney, pastor of
the Catholic Church of st. Bridget, New
York city, died on the 18th inst. The cause
of his death was injuries received recently
by being thrown from his carriage while
driving with theological student
THE coroners jury eensure the proprietors
of Hale's piano factory, which was burned
with loss of life recently, for not having
adequate means of escape from the structure.
Tue New York workingmen have issued
call for a convention at Troy, October Sth.
On the 18th the American Rifle team
scored total of $50 at SEQ, 900 and 900
yards, against l ,629 by the British team
THE third annual convention of the
American Bankers Association was held in
New York city on the 18th. Chas B. Hall,
of Boston, was chosen president for the en-
suing year.
NEW YORK importers and jobbers say
an unusually heavy trade has set in. A lead
ing importer states that the purchases of
silks, velvets, and the finest grades of wooden
dress goods have been and still are unex-
pectedly large.
IN the ruins of Hale's piano factory
skull, burned and twisted, was dug up on
she 18th. The remains of five persons have
been recovered.
FOLLOWING is the latest regarding the
election in Maine on the 10th: In IA towns
Corners majority is 4,0S6, against 9,S73 last
year. Conner - 1904, Talbot q, 522, seat
tering 264. If these towns come in like
others, allowing for the fact that the green
back ticket is limited to localities the aggre-
gate vote will be about 9S 800, of which Con-
ner should have 5000; Williams, $4,000;
Munson, 800, and Conner's majority will
run up to 500 against 1871 last year.
MI. HOLLY, n. j., was shocked by an
earthquake on the 10th. Houses were
racked and crockery broken.
SALENAC & Sons, silk manufacturers of
Paterson, n. j., have made an assignment.
THE assignment of Frank Leslie, news
paper publisher, to Isaac W. England, was
filed in the office of the county clerk at New
York, on the Sth inst. The Sun saws the
liabilities amount to $330,0O0 The assets
are represented by numerous publications.
His large printing and engraving establish
ment, with its presses, machinery and fix
lures, and considerable establishment at
Interlaken, near Saratoga. Mr. Leslie's en-
barrassmeut arise in good part from too ex-
tended investments in real estate. An ar
rangement has been made whereby the pub
locations will be continued.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
THE
GOOD OLD
STANDBY.
MEXICAN MUSTANG EMINENT
FOR MAN AND BEAST

ESTABLISHED 35 YEARS. Always cures. Always
ready. Always handy. Has never yet failed. Thirty
millions hare tested it, The whole world approves the
glorious old Mustang-the Best and Cheapest Lini-
ment III existence. y cents bottle. The Mustang
Liniment cures when nothing else will
SOLD BY ALL MEDI me VENDERS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
GENERAL.

THE great International rifle match at
Creedmoor, L. l., closed on the 14th inst.
The American team was victorious, beating
their opponents by odds of 80. Following
is recapitulation of the score:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
FOREIGN.

LEGAL proceedings have been commenced
against lie Bien Public an ii lie Gaulois for re-
porting Gambetta's trial.
THE Portuguese historian, Herculano de
Carvalho, is dead.
MADAME TITIENs was brought to London
on the 18th. Her condition has improved.
THE judicial decision sentencing Gam
beta to three months Imprisonment de-
prives him of civil rights for five years.
Should the judgment be confirmed he will
be forced to political retreat.
NEWS of terrible disaster which hap
pened on the English channel on the 4th,
has just been received. By collision be-
tween the British ships Avalanche and
Lockhardt over 100 persons were drowned.
Only II are reported saved out out of 10
passengers and crew. Both vessels were
sunk.
THE English government has ordered the
construction of 80 torpedo boats.
A FIRE is reported raging in Dieppe,
France, and already one-quarter of the town
has been demolished. Loss, $4,000
On the night of August II fight took
place in Sanias, Brazil, between the seamen
of the German corvette Vineta and the
police. One policeman and a seaman was
killed, and several on both sides wounded.
ADVICES from Peru state that there was
an eruption of Mount Cotopaxi on the 25th.
The total loss of life will reach, if it does
not exceed, 900 persons.
A CALCUTTA dispatch has cheering news
from the scene of the famine. All the
Madras districts have had some rain, and in
many parts it was heavy. There has also
been rain in Bengal, Scinde, Mysore and the
central provinces. The situation in the
northwest provinces and in Dude is still
critical The prospect in Punjaub has
greatly improved
THE funeral of NJ. Theirs took place at
Paris, on the Sth inst, and everything passed
off quietly, without political manifestation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
CAPTURED.

At Constantinople, Thursday, the war
office issued telegram from Suleiman
Pasha, dated September 10th, reporting
that on the previous day a
accommodating party from the val
ley of Schipka pushed through
the Balkans to the rear of the Russian
position and captured village held by a
small Russian force ten miles from Ga
brOYa.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22
THE WEST.

DR.. DONALD MCLEAN, of the Michigan
University, removed an ovarian tumor,
weighing 102 pounds, from lady in High
land on the 14th inst. A dispatch says the
patient is doing WELL with a fair prospect of
recovery.
COAL mining was resumed at the Kenosha
Coal Companys mine, La Sale, H., on the
14th inst. The miners are to receive so cents
per ton rough and tumble" weight.
IT is stated that Gen. Crook narrowly es
aped assassination at the hands of Crazy
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-22

MR.. STURGEON says he would sooner
be hanged than write out a sermon. He
once remarked to visitor: eff had a
month given me to prepare a sermon I
would spend thirty days and twenty
three hours in something else. and in the
last hour would make the sermon y Al
the close of one of his most eloouent dis
courses he said to. an interviewer. oTbe
text was given to me by one of nv dea-
cons, who died yesterday, and reoueste9
nl ms last moments that | would nreacb
from It. At this morning I sat down
TO THINK out the discourse. | spent am
hour upon the text and could make moth
ing out OF 1t. | never could preach
from other peoples texts. | said this in
my despair to my wife, who told me to
try again. | tried again, with the same
result. Well said Mrs. s go to the
pulpit and the sermon will come to Won
! followed the advice, and you know the
result"