The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-28
BADGER GOSSIP.

The debt of Fond du Lac city is STA
800.
THE outstandin, 6 indebtedness Of Nee
nah is 81 $3.50.
FIELDS artesian well at East Troy is
|, $50 feet deep.
FARMERS say that the February |
sowed wheat is not injured, and will /
come out all right
AS soon as business and the times will
warrant, the NJ l.. S. and w. r. r. will
be extended from New London through
the Embarrass to the Upper Wolf.
THE soldiers of the Sixth Wisconsin
Light Artillery purpose holding their an
nual reunion at Avoca, Monday, May
23d.
APPLETON has nine physicians, seven
lawyers, three weekly papers and two
monthlies, three news depots, four drug
stores, and nine meat markets.
IT is rumored that the line of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad is to be ex-
tended to the junction of the North
western and Milwaukee, Lake Shore and
Western roads, near Appleton. The dis
lance is about four miles miles.
THE Cabinet of the State Historical
Rooms has been enriched by the reCep-
ton of two pieces of the Rock of Gibral-
ter A live horned frog from Texas has
also arrived, by the way of Prairie du
Chen.
A MAJORITY of the votes of York
township, Green county, petitioned for
an election to vote $4,000 to aid a mar
row-gauge railroad When the election
was held, seventy-six votes were cast
against the proposed aid, and only one
! for it.
THE special train carrying the officers
of the railroad from Columbus to Kill
bourn, recently, injured man at Rio
died.
THE approach to the east end of East
River street bridge, Green Bay, gave
way few days since and sank to the
depth of about four feet. The grading
has been done during the winter.
1t is rumored that line of narrow
gauge railroad is to be constructed from
Fond du Lac north into the lumber re
gions during the present season. Sur
veyors will begin exploring the line mex
week. Mr.. c. J. l.. Meyer is the princi
pal mover in the enterprise.
Hon. H. S. ORION, and J. H. Carpen
ter, of Madison, have been added to thu
Revisers of the Statutes of Wisconsin
More than $4,000 have already beef
spent in the revision by Judge Taylor
J. p. G.. Cottrill and w. F. Villas. 1t i
expected that the five lawyers now OF
the commission will be able to finish tn
work during the century.
DURING the excavations in tn
cellar of the old United States block a
Madison, the other day, numbe
of turnips and cabbages were unearthe
from the ancient hotel cellar; havin
been buried for a quarter Of century
they were yet sound, though somewha
shrivelled. They were handed over t.
the Historical Society, to swell the pre-
historic collections.
SINCE the LIST of March, there haC
been used. on the Dells improvement a
oh hmm ,,f
feet of pine and oak lumber, ten tons O
iron bolts, and nearly one thousanC
yards of rock filling. The average mum
Der of men employed in the differen
branches is forty. The east and ives
shore piers will be completed in few
days, after which the work will be sus
pended until after the high water season
when it will be resumed.
THE Executive Privy seal of the stat
of Wisconsin consists of metallic disc
one and three-fourths inches in diane
ter, containing within an ornamenteC
corded border, the following devices anC
matters, to-wit: A ribbon bearing tn,
word Forward above badger statant
in wreath (the crest of the state arms
and in the exergue a scroll bearing the
! figures "1S4S'' (the date of the admission
of Wisconsin into the Union), inter
twined with an olive branch; above tn,
device, in a curved line, parallel with the
border, the words: Executive Priv
Seal" and below the device, in a curved
line, parallel with the border, the word
estate of Wisconsin"
THE Board of Charities and Reform
accompanied by the Governor and othe
leading officials, went on tour of in
spection to the State Hospitol at Men
dota, a few days since. In going tn,
rounds of the extensive institution the,
were invited to look at the water works
of which Superintendent Boughton j
Justly proud. Through a mistake of boil
pipemen and visitors, full blast from
the main nozzle was aimed at the party
Some of the weaker ones sprawled out on
the ground as fat as a pancake, othe
gentlemen were knocked into neigh
boring ditch, and all were most effect
uallv wet to the skin. They were /;
sorry looking crowd when they reached
Madison, all mud and dripping.
THE Columbus Republican says: TIL,
railroad bridge across the Wisconsin a
Kilbourn is deemed unsafe for the pas
sage of trains, one end having settled