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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

at the Philadelphia Mint, and the dies are
nearly completed The object IN view is to
make the workmanship so fine as to render
counterfeiting more difficult than at present
The new devices will not be adopted unless
Congress takes definite action on the silver
question. The Mint is preparing die Tor
S50-gold coin, which, it is said, Will be the
LARGEST gold niece ever struck in any coun-
try.
THEODORE NJ VAIL, Superintendent OF
the Railway Mail Service, William A. Knapp,
Chief Clerk of the Post Office department,
and J. B. Minnick, of the office of First
Assistant Postmaster-General, were on the
Goth inst, appointed commission to revise
the rates of tolls paid by the Government to
telegraph companies, and fix them Tor the
ensuing year.
THE United States minister at Stockholm
informed the state department that the agri-
cultural exhibition to be held at Christiana,
Norway, from the I'd to the 7th of October
next, will be open to foreign as well as do
nestle implements and machines
THE interior department is informed that
the Canadian government will hold grand
council in July or August with the Indian
tribes in the region north of Dakota and
Montana, living within the territory OF
Manitoba. 1t is understood that Lord Duf-
ferin, the Governor General, will be present,
and that the chief purpose of the council is
to obtain an accession of territory from the
Indians. The number of savages included
in the tribes to be represented at the council
is supposed to be about $4,000. The Can
adam authorities have been so uniformly
successful in their treatment of the Indians
in avoiding wars and establishing relations
satisfactory to the red men as well as the
whites, that the methods they employ could
no doubt be studied with profit by our gov
eminent.
ATToRNEY-G GENERAL Owens has render
ed an opinion that Congress intended to fix
the amount of fractional currency at $1,000,
600, and that the Secretary of the Treasury
can issue subsidiary coin in place of the S.,
000, 900 destroyed by use.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

main travelled road, as they had several
bridges to cross, which they represented
as rather dangerous to cross over at SO
late an hour. The road was reached, and
forthwith they put into execution their
foul plot to rob him. They tied and
gagged him, then stripped him of all his
clothing, leaving him with nothing but
one of the tramps' old pants and shirt.
They then passed over into Illinois and
left the unfortunate johnson to make
his way to Beloit the best he could. Of-
ficers were Immediately put upon their
track, but no traces of them have been
obtained as yet.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
A Benediction with a Limitation
Harper's Magazine.

An officer of the navy, on board one
of our vessels in China, tells us this neat
thing in the way of blessing;
A man on board the U. ). ,. Mono
cacy, whose term of service had Just eh-
PRED, proceeded to take leave OF his late
officers. Approaching the commander
he invoked the choicest blessings on his
head, in brogue that left no doubt as
to his native sod And so he went from
one to another with a "God bless ye,"
or .aMay heaven reward we" until he
came opposite the acknowledgements
or who had frequently been obliged to
~rnross PATS love for the ardent by
stonn;ng his leave. With a reluctant
touch Of his cap, and downcast eye' ne
mumbled out, " And may God bless you
too, Mister c., to sort'" er''"''
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

The Russians have suffered heavy losses be-
fore Kars. Artillery engagements between
The besiegers and the garrison continue.
THE Russians have definitely determined
to make the passage of the Danube midway
between Peketu and Turnu Magwieli.
Preparations indicate early operations.
GENERAL.
THE June report of the department of
agriculture, indicates better prospect than
usual for wheat. The report of June 10th
made an average for the country of Is per
centum below the standard of the normal
condition, and subsequent returns of the
condition of the yield were still lower
forecasting scarcity which has oc-
CURED. The average for winter and spring
wheat together is this year 100, winter wheat
being above that figure and spring wheat be-
low it.
THE concluding exercises of the examina-
ton at the Naval academy, and the distribu-
ton of diplomas to the graduating class,
took place on the the Goth inst, in the pres
ence of large number of distinguished
visitors, including President Hayes. The
number of graduates is 40, of whom the first
five or star graduates are w. +. Fullom, of
New York; III. NJ. Witzel, of Wisconsin; O.
G.. Dodge, of Kansas; w. G. David, of New
York, and A. G. Winterholtcr of Michigan
There is no engineer class this year.
THE President has issued proclamation
declaring public sale of valuable govern
ment lands to be held at the land office at
Harrison, Ark, October 1st, under the act of
Congress, July 4, 1876, re-opening to public
sale government lands in Arkansas, Louis
lana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida,
which had previously been subject only to
homestead settlement. The lands consist of
several hundred thousand acres in Arkansas.
No bid less than the government minimum,
81 .25, will be entertained.
SECRETARY SCHURZ has no official infor-
nation of any change of purpose on the part
of the French Government concerning the
Paris Exposition. All the communications
received give assurances that the fair will
| be held next year as announced. In and out
of the State Department, however, the
opinion gathers strength that postpone
ment will be decided upon before long. In
addition to the war exciting all Europe and
| likely to prove an insuperable obstacle to
holding satisfactory exhibition, there is
now new difficulty in the political crisis in
| France.
THE fishing commission provided for by
the treaty of Washington, met at Halifax on
the 10Th inst, with closed doors. 1t is un.
derstood that the claim for the Canadian
fisheries embraced in the case filed by Great
Britain amounts TO $20,000,000. The com
mission adjourned for six weeks. The
Americans have three weeks to put in THEN
answer and the British have a right to reply
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

CHARLES FREDERICK BRIGGS, one of the
Oldest and active journalists in New York,
died suddenly on the night of the Goth inst,
of heart disease, at his residence in Brooklyn,
in the 74th year of his age. During the day
he performed his duties at the office of the
Independent with his usual ability, and was
apparently in good health when he left for
his home in the afternoon.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT arrived at New
York from Europe on the 22d inst.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was created at
New York city, on the goth inst, by the re-
fusal of the managers of the Grand Union
Hotel, Saratoga, to entertain MIR. Seligman,
and the announcement that the hotel would
receive no Hebrew guests whatever. The
establishment is owned by the A. I. Stewart
estate, and is managed by his executor,
Judge Hilton. Jewish firms throughout the
country are Withdrawing their patronage
from the A. T. Stewart agencies.
THE newly-elected Bishop Gregg, of the
Reformed Episcopal Church, was consecrat-
ed at New York ON the Goth inst, in the
church of which DR.. Sabin is pastor. The
congregation was large. The new Bishop
goes to London, and will head the Reformed.
Church movement in England.
THE silk weavers of Patterson, N. j., are
on strike. About 800 or 600 are out.
TIE Fitchburg, Mass, Sentinel, having
reflected severely upon I'll. A. Blood, in con-
nection with his failure and statement OF
liabilities, he has began suit for libel, laying
damages at 100000.
THE class of 1880 (Freshmen) of Princeton
College, numbering nearly 100 young
men, was suspended on the 18th inst
Cause" buldozing" the Faculty.
MONDAY, June IS, was observed at Boston
as holiday in the celebration of the one
hundred and second anniversary of the bat
lie of Bunker HILL
Rev. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT historian, died
at Fairhaven, Conn, on the 18th inst.
The affairs of the American Popular Life
Insurance Company, of New York, have
been wound up. Edward G. Lawrence has
been appointed receiver.
THE school-ship Mercury, which recently
cost the city of New York. $50, 900 for repairs
was sold on the 10th inst, for Sc 900.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
WASHINGTON.

At cabinet meeting on the odd inst, the
circular letter designed to prohibit federal
affairs from taking part in political conven-
tons. committees, &C., just prepared was
read, and it was determined to issue it at
once.
THE secretary of war has received a dis
patch from General Ord in regard to the
trouble on the Rio Grande, just received
through Lieutenant General Sheridan, at
Chicago, which states that General Treyino
commanding the forces of Bravo, had talk
with General Ord, and good understanding
existed. This dispatch was received with
much qualification, it being regarded as an
evidence of the Mexican authorities inten-
ton to cooperate with our authorities in
the raids across the Rio Grande.
NEW devices for coin have been prepared
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

JAPANESE advices give the official returns
of the casualties in the Satsuma rebellion
Killed in battle on the imperial side, 2,135
died in the hospitals, S24; wounded, 1882
now in hospitals, 1854; recovered and re-
turned to duty, 263.
AT consistory held at the Vatican on
the 22d inst, the Pope raised Mgr. Miholo,
Wiz, Archbishop of Agram; Mgr. Kutschter,
Archbishop of Vienna, and Mgr. Harocehi,
Archbishop of Bologna, to the dignity of
Cardinals Several Bishops were also nom.
mated.
4 STATEMENT of the affairs of Alexander
Barclay & Co., of Guttenburg, Sweden, has
been submitted to the creditors. The assets
amount to $950,000; liabilities, 81, 1886, 900.
OF the large number of foreign creditors
three are in London and one in Liverpool,
their aggregate claims amounting to $780,
600. The difficulty of the firm arose from
cotton speculations in 1879 and 1876
THE funeral of the queen of Netherlands
took place on the Goth irst., at the Hague
The prince of Orange, representatives Of
foreign courts and an immense concourse
of people attended.
EN-PREsIDENT GRANT will not leave Eng
land as soon as was expected. Besides the
banquet at Liverpool on the 2Sth inst, there
is to be dinner in his honor at the u, S.
Service club the Sd of July.
THE London Reform Club gave adinner on
the night of the 18th inst, in honor of Gen.
Grant Among the American guests were
Consul-gcneral Badeau and the United
States Minister TO Russia. Mr.. Pierrepont
was unable to attend. Lord Derby, to whom
an invitation was sent in order to show that
the gathering was not party one, replied,
expressing regret that previous engagement
prevented him from accepting it.
AT Berlin on the 10th inst, Herr Bibel, a
social democrat, and a member of the
Reichstag, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
PORTUGAL has proclaimed her neutrality
in the Russia-Turkish difficulty. Germany
will not issue special proclamation of neu-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

ONE of the New York clubs appointed
committee of five recently to ascertain
whether the highest type of physical
beauty was to be found among the
fashionable bellies of Fifth avenue and the
streets and squares Immediately contig-
uous thereto or among the shop girls and
laundry maids. The committee, after an
exhaustive examination, which involved
vast amount of visiting, considerable
shopping and the procuring of unusual
washing, have reported that the highest
type of physical beauty is found among
the women and girls who are engaged in
daily labor And the Fifth avenue
belle says: "Pshaw!"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

BosToN goes back for her first news
paper to 1904, and New York to her first
Gasette in 1725, while the honor of print
ing the first paper abroad is asked by at
least as many cities as claim the honor of
being the birthplace Of Homer. Venice
names 1870, and Nuremburg, Bavaria,
14j7, or five years after Peter Sch@efe
cast or invented the first movable tyes in
the same place. Cologne also had its
Chronicle in 1899
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

ONLY fifteen years ago China held the
monopoly of tea production; now India
is proving a formidable rival. From
| 800, 900 pounds in 1861, the export
the export from Calcutta advanced to
% 0OO. GOO pounds in 1876.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

No wonder the London ladies have
such admirable compilations. During
the last week in May the Astronomer
Royal reported that in London the dura-
ton of registered sunshine was l3.5 hours
ont of the lila hours that the sun was
above the horizon.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

AN effort is being made to establish in
San Francisco the business of preparing
the skins of the fur seal for market.
There is an annual passage through the
city of $50, 900 of these skins, which are
sent to London for preparation, and
after nearly year many are brought
back. The average extra expense of
having the work done in London is esti-
mated to be fifty per cent. English
purchasers pay so each for raw skins,
and charge $40 for prepared ones. 1t is
said by those familiar with the business
that the work can be skillfully and
proftably carried on in this country.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

HE Chinese immigration has set in
again Over 5000 Cinnamon landed at
san Francisco during May, and more are
coming. The anti-Coolie editors raise
their hands in pious horror and groan
increasingly. The and-grabbers and
the Mongolians," they exclaim, are the
ogrcs of California" There will be
revolution in the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys" "Coolie labor is
worse than the African slavery, which it
has cost the nation more than million
of lives and more than four thousand
million dollars to throw off, The OPP
pressed millions will be impelled to the
last resort of revolution to redress their
wrongs" Was the Chico massacre the
% last resort of revolution?" The
editors need to be muzzled.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

THE Hon. George P. Marsh, United
States Minister to Italy, has received
permission to have cast taken of the
famous statue, the Mercury of the
Vatican" for the Park Gallery at Bur
Iincton, VT The cast will, be shipped
soon to the United States.
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wore corsets

CINCINNATI proposes to economic by
lighting her public lamps a half hour
later and extinguishing them half hour
earlier than heretofore The estimated
saving is 100000 yearly, which is enough
to make the change an object.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

PEABODY Academy of Science is to
have summer school of biology, begin
ning in July and lasting six weeks.
Drew Theological Seminary is still max
ing appeals for an endowment fund of
S2oo,00O, and has secured subscriptions
amounting to $4,000 Michigan Uni
Verslty Is likely to lose Prof. Harrington,
VINO has been offered $1,000 a year by
Chma's Government College. Toronto
University has forty-eight students,
trinity, twenty-nine, Knox, eighty, and
the other Canadian colleges are no better
oil. Harvard gives 81, 900 a year to
merltorlous students Harvard's sum-
mer school of geology is to be divided be-
tween the Connecticut valley, the Berk
shire hills and the Catskill mountains.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
THE WEST.

AT Columbus, o., Will n. Lake, an
amateur, commenced June l, and completed
on the 22d inst, walk of 800 miles in 500
consecutive hours, average time, Is minutes.
THERE will be no default in the payment
of the July interest.
THE thirty-second annual session of the
National Division of the Sons of Temper
ance of North America convened at Detroit
Mich, on the Goth inst. About seventy-fve
delegates were present, representing the
most of the States and the Canadas. The
reports of the Grand Patriarch and Scribe
showed a falling off in membership, interest,
and funds since last year. The net loss in
membership is over 200, accounted for by
the unparalleled business depression, the
turmoil of the Centennial year, the exciting
Presidential campaign, and the popular tenn
perance movements.
THE commanding officer of Fort Lapwai
Idaho, Col. Perry, with his command and
some volunteers engaged the Indians at
Whitebird about daylight on the 18th inst.
They fought for about three hours when the
troops were repulsed with heavy loss of men
and horses. Some of the men who have re-
iutHtu tsllildtSU Tic lOSS Ill KILLED. ana
wounded at twenty-seven men, including
Capt. Thelle.
THE twentieth annual convention of the
Masonic Grand Lodge assembled at Omaha
on the 10Th inst. About 200 delegates were
present.
HENRY RUBLE, wholesale dealerin agri-
cultural implements for twenty years at
McGregor, Iowa, died of typhoid pneumonia
at his residence in that city on the 18th inst.
He was confined to his bed only three DAYS.
THE annual regatta of the National ANA
teur Rowing Association will be held at De-
troit, Aug. 18th and 10th.
THE Home bank, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
heretofore considered the strongest in the
country, suspended on the 10th inst The
members claim that the embarrassment will
be only temporary and is solely due to dam
aging and exaggerated rumors that have been
circulated against members of the firm.
Liabilities about 100000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

The three cent coins issued in 1858,
whose temperance in large quantities
has caused so much annoyance to post
masters in different sections of the coun-
try, are being circulated to a consider
able extent in Boston. The boston post
office has, however, established certain
rules in reference to these coins, which
provide for their exchange for stamps or
postal cards only in sums of five dollars
or more. The parties presenting these
coins may be required to leave them
until such time as they can be properly
counted and inspected. If the surface of
the coins is worn smooth, or there are
any punctures or clippings, such coins,
are rejected.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
What it Costs to Keep Our Representa-
tives Abroad.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The following is a list of the principal
missions and consulates, with their pres
ent salaries. There are many eonsulates
with 81 900 year, and others dependent
on fees, which are omitted from this COM
pilation. These two classes are allowed
to transact business, but the privilege is
not considered valuable, since it is denied
all other grades:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

JAMES A. BEAL, a lawyer in St Louis,
advertised 'to obtain divorces without
exposure" An action was brought by
the Bar Association to disbar him for
unprofessional conduct. The Judge of
the Circuit Court, in summing up, de-
clded that such an announcement
reflected injuriously upon the courts
and the profession, and tended to bring
both into dispute" q degree of publicity
invariably attending judicial proceed
lngs; but as the advertisement only APP
peared in eleven issues, and was with
drawn as soon as its improperly was
suggested, the court merely suspended
Mr., Beal from practicing for the space of
one term rs wholesome example.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN,.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

A LOT of Brooklyn schoolmarms took
a trip to West Point recently, and they
all came to the conclusion that the cadets
wore corsets.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30
MISSIONS.

salary. |
Argentine Republic Minister Resident........$ 800
Austria Hungary Envoy Extraordinary 49,. L., 900 |
Belgium, Minister Resident 1900
Brazil Envoy Extraordinary u 900
Brazil Secretary of Legation 800
Central Am. States five Ministers Residents 10000 |
Chilli Envoy Extraordinary ......... 10 900 |
China Envoy Extraordinary u 900
Denmark Charge d Atiares. 100
France Envoy Extraordinary II 500
France First Secretary of Legation .......... 2625
France Second Secretary of Legation ....... 1000
Germany Envoy Extraordinary l., 500
Germany, First Secretary of Legation....... 2,625
Germany Second Secretary of Legation ....... 1000
Great Britain Envoy Extraordinary 800
Great Britain, First Secretary of legation. 2,621
Great Britain, Second Sec of Legaton....... 1000
Greece, Charge Atfaires 5000
Hawaiian Islands, Minister Resident.......... 1900
Hayti Minister Resident 800 /
Italy Envoy Extraordinary ................ l., 900
italy Secretary of Legation ............... 800
Japan Envoy Extraordinary IL 600
Japan, Secretary of Legation. $500
Japan Interpreter $500
Liberia Minister Resident 900
Mexico, Envoy Extraordinary .............. u 900
Mexico Secretary of Legation .............- 800
Netherlands, Minister Resident 800
Paraguay and Uruguay, Charge Atfaires...-. 5000
Peru Envoy Extraordinary 10 900
Portugal Charge flares 5000
Prussia, Envoy Extraordinary ............. j., 800
Russia Secretary of Legation .............. 1925
Spain, Envoy Extraordinary Il, 900
Spain, Secretary of Legation 800
Sweden and Norway, Minister Resident. 800
Switzerland Charge d flares .............. 5000
Turkey, Minister Resident 1900
Turkey, Secretary of Legation ............. 5000
Turkey Interpreter. 5000
Venezuela Minister Resident. 1900
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-30

THE taxpayers of Spain, to an iuered-
ible number, have sent petition to hlng
Alfonso complaining of the hardshlps
put upon them.