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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
A Frenchman on Venice.

At the end of the review of Yriarte's
new illustrated book on Venice, M. Phil
ippe Burty proclaims himself true
Frenchman as follows: +" | have been
in Venice only once, and then for too
short time; but the memory can never
be effaced The brilliant and delicate
splendor of her atmosphere, the courtesy
of her inhabitants, the silence of her
thoroughfares, without horses and with
out children Children are all brought up
on terra .frma), the grace of her very
poverty, the complaisance of her learned
Librarians and the curators of her
museums, the facilities of her material
and intellectual life, left the sweet and
weIl-ordered impression upon me of
sort of vast convent, similar to the one
described by Rabelais under the name of
'PAbbaye de Thele mes One must
think of Venice often, talk about her in
low tones with friend-and not look at
her in photographs"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

were good men in their way, and not
charlatans. You might find one priest
in multitude capable of climbing into
recess and calling upon people to pay
pew-rent or tithes or something of the
kind. But this sound continued for
generations, and / do not think you
could find generations of priests carry
ing on the deception for years and years,
SO | dismiss that theory and take another
which Brugsch explains to us. The
statue would be moist with dew at sun
rise, and the suns rays acting upon the
dew to emit sound like an interrupted
chord of music-just such sound as you
hear from a sea shell if you hold it to
your ear. AS the sun is sure to shine
every morning on these plains, you could
be certain that such phenomenon would
occur daily. | can well imagine how a
freak of nature might be taken as the
voice Of the gods, and how humble priests
would bow down to it, and not enter into
scientific speculations. After the statue
had been tossed by an earthquake and
riven, the music ceased, which only con-
firms me in doing justice to the poor
priests.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
Chica~o.

CHICAGO, April 1872 80 P. Wheat
Easy and lower; gilt edge at $1.0S for cash :;
regular at Sl.O6% for cash and seller April;
$l.0Sb for seller May; $1.073s for seller
June. Corn-In fair demand and steady at
4oAc Tor gilt edge; regular at 38c for cash
Ale bid for seller May. Oats-Weak and
lower at % &c for cash; 261sc for seller May.
Rye-At 5Sc. Barley-At 44@4413c. Pork
Heavy and lower at $3.50 for cash and
seller May, and SS.921z for seller June.
Lard-Weak and lower at $500 for cash ;
$6.92H for seller May; $6971 for seller
June Alcohol-Higher at 1882 Hogs :
Receipts 5000 head; moderately active and
shade higher; light at $3.35@3.45; heavy
packing at $3.35@3.5 so; heavy shipping at
$3.50@3.75.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
THE MARKETS,
New York

NEW YORK, April 13.-3 100 P. Motion
Quiet and unchanged. Flour-Dull and
unchanged; receipts 5000 bbls; sales 5000
bbls. Wheat-K@1c lower on futures
receipts $4,000 bus; sales S,000busa at $123H
@1.23H for No. spring seller April. Rye
Steady and unchanged. Confirm; re-
ceipts 900 bus; sales $1,000 bus at 400
soc. Barley-Quiet. Oats-Stes dy receipts
$1,000 bus; sales $1,000 bus; prices I'M
1925. Whisky-At $1.07K. Petroleum
Unchanged.
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N extraordinary criminal case

AN extraordinary criminal case is
being tried at Antwerp. An old-c clothes
dealer, named Mestag, is charged with
numbering his wife. The remains of the
unfortunate victim were found in the
cespool of the house which Mestag occu-
pied, cut up into no less than 153 pieces.
The pair were both addicted to habits of
intemperance. Mestag's defence is that
his wife fell out of bed one night when
she was intoxicated, and killed herself,
and that in order to avoid the scandal of
such an end being publicly known he
eudeavored to make away with the re-
mains. The evidence is entirely sgainst
the accused.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, April 1890 p. M
Flour-The market is very quiet and prices
weak at previous quotations. WheatIDulI
No. cash $1.14; No. 2 $1.O9I@1 10; No. 2
seller May at s1.OSA@1 O95s June at $1.OSA
GLOSS. Corn-Dull; 4Oc for No. /. Oats
Quiet at Csc cash. Barley-Quiet at soc /;
April 52Kc. Rye-Very dull but steady at
5Sc; Proyisions-Very quiet. Pork-$9.OQ
cash. Lard-7c for steam Hogs-Receipts
small with prices nominal at $33O@3.50 as
to quality.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

"GoD cuth you, boyth, fire at their
shoe buckleth" is the way Gen. Putnam
gave his order to the troops at Bunker
Hill-the old fellow lisping, and being
fond of saying Good cuth you" Mrs.
Sarah Truman, an old lady of Lebanon,
n. H., was told the story by her father,
who was there
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

The grand lodge of Michigan Free
Masons, at a recent meeting, passed a
resolution declaring the manufacture or
sale by Mason of intoxicating liquor,
as beverage" a masonic offence, pun
ishable, at the discretion of the lodge,
by suspension or expulsion.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

AUSTRIA can put in the field for war
purposes astanding army of S00,0o0 men,
including reserves, besides landwehr,
ersatz, reserve and sturm. The compul-
sorry system will attain it's full develop
ment this year, 1878, and it would not
be an exaggeration of the results of
Baron Kuhn's organization if we esti
mate the force now available at 100000
regular troops.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
A Complete Failure.
Elkn (Ney.l Post.

A dozen men were sitting in saloon
recently, when female voice was heard
from an adjacent doorstep. " Well, good
morning, Mrs. Blank. If had anything
on I'd go with you" There was a mad
rush for the door, an eager, expectant
crowd with outstretched necks, peering
over each others shoulders in the d.
rection from whence the voice proceeded,
and then return to the vacated chairs.
while one of the party inquired, What
good does it do woman to lie that way,
anvhow?"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

THE school lands in Kansas amount to
about three million acres, body of land
considerably larger than the states of
Rhode Island and Delaware put together,
and as large as the entire state of Con-
necticut.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

A NUMBER of valuable patent rights
were sold at auction, recently, at New
York, the entire sale netting $40, 700.
Among the more prominent inventions
were an improvement in water coolers,
81 200; improvement in boot and shoe
trimming machine, $1,075; improve
ment in bale ties, whereby they can be
manufactured at one-half the present
cost, $3.50; improvement in dosimeter,
$1,000; improvement in gliding frames,
$1,O75; improvement in gas stoves,
whereby more perfect combustion is
obtained, thus saving at least 40 per
cent. of gas, So, 225, and so on.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

Mr.. EDISON, besides being the inven-
tor of the phonograph, is the originator
OF the electromagnetic, for which he
received the eighth patent issued by the
United States for original discovery
and is the inventor of the American dis
trict telegraph (the messenger service),
the stock reporter, the automatic system,
the chemical recorder, the Roman letter
printing telegraph, the celebrated
quadruplex system, on which the
Western Union pays him large royalty,
speaking telephone, and the electric
pen for duplicating letters and circulars,
CT which $4,000 are now in use.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

EDIsoN's monograph has been on ex-
hibition among the scientists of Paris.
When the instrument was placed ON the
table and vociferated, "The photograph
presents its compliments to the Academy
of Science" there was roar of laughter
from the audience, which could with
difficulty be persuaded that the sound
did not proceed from some concealed
yentriloouist.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
EOreiRn.

LONDON, April 1872 BOP. M.-Consols
at 95H; now at 95 Lilo. Liverpool wheat
market opens steady. Average California at
lis 2d@1ls Cd spring at los 3d@10s 10d.
Floating cargoes quiet; on passage quiet
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

A NEW grain, claimed to be superior to
rye, and with kernal twice as large, is
now being raised in large quantities in
California, from the sowing of a single
seed obtained from the crop of wild
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

The Cincinnati Price Current twenty
ninth annual report of the pork packing
In the west shows the total winter pack
ing was 6,5O5,O00; average ret weight
226 400 pounds; yield of lard, SO 61-10O
pounds per hog; cost per 100 pounds, net,
four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Compared with last winter, there is a
gain of ,404, 900 in the number of hogs
packed, ten and twelve hundredths
pounds is the average, net weight, four
and fifty-three hundredths is the average
yield of lard, and decrease of two dol
lars and nineteen cents is the average
cost per 100 pounds.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A SMALL skitf, containing three boys, was
struck by the wheel of the propeller Benton,
on the Saginaw river on the 18th inst. The
skiff was demolished, two boys were
drowned, and the third was seriously in
jured.
MICHAEL LYNCH was fatally shot, at
Trenton, N. j., on the 18th inst, by James
McCarty, in a quarrel about a dog fight
AT Meyersburg, Canada, on the evening
OF the 18th inst, Bertha Wayne, aged 10,
was killed by school teacher named Shan.
non.
A FIRE at Bay City, Mich, on the 18th,
destroyed 100000 feet of lumber, 1000
barrels of salt, some docks, and thirty build
lngs, mostly residences. Estimated loss,
10000; insurance not obtainable The fire
was occasioned by sparks Of passing tug.
JOHN +. LYON, president of the Boston,
Concord and Montreal railway, was burned
to death at a hotel in Plymouth n H., on
the night of the 18th inst. Being i'll, he
arose during the night, fell, and lamp in
his hand breaking, set fire TO his clothing
AT Toledo, o., on the 10th inst, Frank
Perrigo, a well-connected and highly esteem
ed young man, was instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun while duck
shooting in the marshes below the city.
SANGER CHASE, treasurer of the Union
mills, Fall River, Mass. has turned out to
be defaulter to the extent of $3.50, 900.
The defalcatiou has been going on for years.
Chace occupied high social position, is
about IS years of age, and has been resi-
dent of Fall River since 1922. He was a
member of the house in 1865 and of the state
senate in 1867 and 1868. Besides being
treasurer of the Union mills, he was presi-
dent of the Second National bank and of
the Five Cent Savings bank.
FIRE at Lancaster, n H., on the even
ing of the 9th inst, destroyed about half the
business portion of the town, including
eight stores, a number of dwellings and the
office of the Republican. Loss, $50, 900; in
surance, $4,000.
The body of woman was found in the
river at Beddeford, Me-, on the 9th inst,
with no clothing on save a chemise, and
rope around one ankle. The remains were
identified as those of a young lady named
Rose Vincent. A Frenchman named Fred
erick Savage was arrested, and confessed the
murder saying: oh, loved her so much. "
THE small steamer Sandy Fashion ex
ploded her boiler on Sandy river, near Cat
lettsburg, KY, on the sth. She had forty
passengers on board. Joseph Newberg, a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
GENERAL.

DISPATCHES from nearly two hundred
points in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka and Missouri, covering the whole of the
western spring wheat region, show, when
summarized, that the average is nearly fifty
pei. greater than last year; that the
condition and prospects are better than at
any time since 1860; that the seasons work
and vegetation are three to six weeks ahead
of the usual time, and, that there is an aver
age of fifteen to twenty per cent. of the old
crops on hand.
GEORGE TYLER BIGELow, LII. D., ex.
chief justice of the Supreme Court, of
Massachusetts, died on the 18th inst
1T is said that the investigation OF the &C.
counts of the Agricultural Insurance con-
paEy, of Ottawa, Canada, shows the late
secretary and treasurer, J. Blackburn, to be
a defaulter 10 the extent of $4,000.
EDWIN MIDDLETON ALMoNTE, the first
clown of Barnum's circus, better known as
Ted Almonte, died recently Of quick Con
sumption, aged 81,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
THE WEST.

THE eighth annual meeting of the North
western Branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society was held at Chicago on
the 18th instant, and about $50 delegates,
representing conferences in all of the north
western states, were in attendance. The
meeting was unually interesting, andreports
showed satisfactory progress.
JAMES WARD, senior member of the firm
of James Ward & Co., iron merchants, Niles,
Ohio, filed a petition in bankruptcy on the
18th inst. Liabilities $168,000.
1T is reported that Col. John G.. Sykes, a
special secret agent sent out by President
Hayes, has been In San Francisco several
weeks investigating the Chinese question.
1t is supposed that the presidents purpose
was to obtain material for his promised spe-
cial message on the Chinese question. Hav-
ing fulfilled his mission, Sykes left for Wash
ton few days ago.
6, J. CLARK, Jr., of Detroit, tke grain
Spectator, who lately fed to Canada, has
ment with his creditors.
MAJ. E. WALSH formerly post trader at
Fort Mcpherson and Camp Sheridan, Neb,
and lately one of the heaviest property
owners in the Black Hills, died at Deadwood
on the 10th.
THE Cincinnati Price Currents twenty
ninth annual report of the pork packing in
he west was published on the 18th. The
total winter packing in the west was $685.
600; average net weight 226 4-100 pounds :;
yield of lard SO 61-100 pounds per hog, cost
per hundred pounds net $4.99. Compared
with last winter there is gain of 1, 440, 600 in
the number of hogs packed.
On the 9th inst a telegram was received
from the proprietors of the Lick House, San
Francisco, addressed to Mrs. Vance, of Gin
cinnati, stating that her husband, ex-Con-
gresham j. L. Vance, who mysteriously
disappeared short TINS ago, is there, and is
insane.
THE governor of Ohio, on the 9th inst,
appointed John C. Fistir, of Cashocton, Lew
A. Harris, of Himilton, and Robert Cum.
Minis, of Lucas, to be state commissioners of
fisheries.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected by
which the English and German bondholders
now controlling the Oregon and California
railroad, the Oregon Central railroad and
Oregon steamship line, will divide the prop
erty. The Englisemen will take the o. C.
r. r., and the O. S. S. Co., and the Germans
the O. and c.. R. R.
T. X. CLARK, of Detroit, Mich, who it is
stated, has recently been dealing heavily in
wheat for future delivery, has disappeared.
He is reported to have drawn 1000 from
the bank on checks given him, in settling
his transactions His Liabilities in Detroit,
are reported to be not less than $4,000.
JOHN w. AMEs, recently appointed
United States surveyor general for Califor-
mia, died at San Rafael on the 9th inst.
GENERAL.
DISPATCHES from nearly two hundred
points in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka and Missouri, covering the whole of the
western spring wheat region, show, when
that the average is nearly fifty
per- cent greater than last year; that the
condition and prospects are better than at
any time since 1860; that the seasons work
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.


TEE Paris communistic organ La Com
exhausted the amount of money it was
obliged to deposit with the government
THE steamer Childwall Hall, wrecked at
Sagres, Portugal, had crew of 40 and 8
passengers. The fate of % is unknown.
remainder saved.
THE scenes at Lord Leitrim's funeral, on
the 18th, were violent and disgraceful. The
mob that gathered in front of the church
endeavored to capture the hearse, declaring
their intention to drag out the corpse. They
vituperated the late earl as an old ruffian
and hereto" Several of the mourners
were roughly handled while endeavoring to
make their way into the churchyard.
A RUMoR is current in military circles
that the British have sustained disastrous
defeat in South Africa. The Colonial Office
is ignorant of such defeat.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai reports that
the famine in the northern provinces of
China is increasing.
SENIOR MARTINI De HERRERA, formerly
Spanish minister of justice, died on the 10th.
A MEMBER of the Berlin banking house of
Mendelssohn was in Paris on the 9th inst,
seeking cooperation of the Paris houses
concerned in last years Russian loan to
to place about 100000 francs more, but was
unsuccessful.
EIGHT thousand Thessalians from a burn
ed village in Thessaly have taken refuge in
Greece. They are utterly destitute.
FIFTEEN supplementary elections to fill
vacancies in the chamber of deputies caused
by Installations of previous elections took
place on the Sth. Fourteen Republicans
were returned. one district a second
ballot is necessary.
THE English house of commons has passed
resolution favoring an increase of the
tobacco duty and income tax.
THE owners of the steamer which recov-
cred the Cleopatra obelisk have been
awarded 10000 salvage.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
WAR NOTES.

IT is stated that 20, 900 men OF the eleventh
Russian army corps will hold Bucharest and
the remainder of the corps will hold the sta
tons on the line of Giurgevo. Other Rus
sian troops are expected in the territory of
Aluta.
THE porte has issued cirular to the pow
ers recognizing the treaty of Stefano as the
result of reverses sustained by Turkey in
the late war, ana expressing determine
ton to carry out the terms of the treaty.
A SPECIAL from San Stefano says that
Grand Duke Nicholas and Gems. Gourko,
Skobelof, Nepokvitchitzky, Shovoloff and
Devitzky, with large staff and escort of
fifty cavalry, visited the principal defensive
works lately commenced Dy the Turks be-
tween San Stefano and Constantinople, and
then embarked on board the imperial yacht
Livadia for the city. The erection of these
defenses has caused great indignation. The
Grand Duke Nicholas has obtained an or
der to stop it.
A TELEGRAM from Bucharest says that
Russian troops, especially artillery, have
arrived at various places ON the Roumanian
bank of the Danube. They have entered
Fratesti and command the railway station
at Giurgevo. They have also occupied i'm
portant positions on the Nyashlov river.
FOURTEEN thousand Russians are sick
between San Stefano and Adrianople.
THE London Times of the 9th contained
Prince Gortschakof's reply to Lord Sails.
bury's circular dispatch. The reply has a
conciliatory tone, and yet avows that Rus
STA must have fair recompense for her
sacrifices in the war.
THE Russians are completing the fortifi-
cations began by the Turks at Schekmedia
and Serkas.
THE sultan has asked the Grand Duke
Nicholas when the Russian troops would
evacuate points on the Turkish side of the
line of demarcation. The Grand Duke in
reply alluded to the continuance of the
British feet in the Sea of Marmora.
MOVEMENTS of the Russian forces on the
Danube and in Roumania indicate determ-
ination to prepare thoroughly against the
contingency of an Austrian attack in the
rear.
A SPECIAL from San Stefano reports that
the first Russian cavalry division and
division of the Cossacks of the Don have
begun the homeward march by way of
lbrail. Three regiments of Cossacks, two
batteries and the eleventh corps, under
Gen. Schakoffsky, have gone by way of
Rustchuk.
INTELLIGENCE from st. Petersburg seems
to indicate that the peace party is acquiring
greater influence in the counsels of the car.
1t is expected here that the ear will solicit
the good offices of the emperor of Germany
as mediator between himself and England.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

ADoLPH SUTRo, of Sutro tunnel fame
Is remarkable man. When he project
ed his now famous tunnel he was laughed
at. When he went to Washington and
illustrated his views by lectures, he was
made butt of. At every stage of his
progress he has encountered ridicule and
abuse, but he has never turned back.
Despite all predictions, despite all oppo-
sltlon, his tunnel has been prosecuted
steadily When he has made apparently
wild and intolerable demands, they have
somehow been coded, Notwithstanding
their Objectionable character. He has
made his way, inch by inch and foot by
foot, until his tunnel has come to be re-
garded as an established institution,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
House..

FRIDAY, April 12-The bill author
izng the secretary of to relinquish portions of
Fort Hartsuf military reservation in Nebraska to
homestead and presumption settlers, passed; also
the senate bill authorizing improvements within
Fort Riley military reservation, Kansas. The
house soon afterwards went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar, the first bill for COLI
sideration being to reimburse the college of
William and Mary, in Virginia, for property de-
stroyed during the war. Loring and Townsend
spoke thereon, the former in advocacy of the bill
and the latter against senate amendments
to the general deficiency and diplomatic appropra-
ton bill were nenconcurred in, and conference
committees were appointed. .....Ad journed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27


The King of Italy begins his reign as
generous and judicicus assistant of Ital-
ian culture. He has written to the pres
ident of the Lincei to announce to the
academy the foundation of two annual
prizes of 10000 francs each, from his
private purse, one paper On the physical
or natural sciences; the other on
moral, historical or philosophical SUBJ
ject This academy is the most ancient
scientific association in Italy. dating
from 1903, and Calico was one of the
founders. In his letter the king saws:
am perfectly of opinion with you
that the value of nations must be meas
ured by their knowledge. For that
reason shall neglect nothing to favor
the progress of the national culture"
The Pacific Life publishes a letter
from Seth Green to the effect that fish
have an enemy in the cormorant much
more dangerous than the sea lion. These
voracious and predatory birds swarm in
thousands along the shores, and each one
Mr.. Green says, consumes pound os
fish day. The difference between cor
morant and the sea lion in selecting food
is very great. While the latter eats
only the full grown, marketable fish. the
former destroys the young fish which
have just passed through all the perils of
childhood" and are ready to develop
into large ones. The size most sought
by the cormorant is that of one to two
ounces weight, although they can swal-
low fish weighing pound. The cor
morant is like good many ladies and
gentlemen who fish for pleasure and &c
away leaving two or three hundred small
fish dead in the boat, when they should
have been taken carefully from the hook
and thrown back into the water in order
TO give them a change to grow up and be