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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08

BOSTON, May 22.-The demand from
manufacturers is confined to Immediate
wants and holders are unable to obtain any
advance round lots of fleece cannot be sold
except at low prices. On all old wool now
on hand holders have to submit to great
shrinkage in prices and even at the present
low prices it is difficult for manufacturers to
obtain the cost of goods. Ohio and Penn
syivanla fieeces very quiet; 3619(03Sc fer X
and Xxx and above; Michigan and Wiscon-
sin at 35936c for good average lots down to
S0(933c for low and coarse combing: delaine
heeces quiet at 33(935c for low and coarse.
and 3S(945c for fair TO choice lots
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
MilWaukee.

MILWAUKEE, May $500 P. M.-Flour
Quiet; choice city spring extras, 81 75@
5.25; common S4.0o@4 % superfne spring 9,
$2.75@400. Wheat-Lower; No. / cash
S1.04A No. l hard, $1.o5; No. 2, Sl.04 !:
No. 8, 90c; June options sold at S101%
lO2K; July, 99Kc; May, sl:o4@lO44 ;
Corn-Lower; No. nominal at SIC.
Rye--Lower; No. /, soc. Barley-Dull at
59@60c for No. , seller June. Butter
good supply at 15@17c for good to extra
choice. Cheese-Prime factory at 1870
lie. Eggs-At S15@9c. Pcrk-Mess, at
H.S7E. Lard-Prime clear, at Ss4@6Tc.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A Miss EDWARDS, aged Is years, was de
hberately murdered by a negro near Cairo.
Ill.,, on the oath.
JOHN HOLLAND, an old and prominent
citizen OF st. Paul, Mimi, suicided on the
oath by hanging himself.
A LARGE building known as Kehn,s
block, Market street, Hartford. Conn.
burned on the oath inst. An explosion
threw down portion of the wall, killing
three firemen, ID. S. Camp, Chas. Harper
and John III. Parker, and wounding six 9th.
ers, two of whom are in critical condition
WHILE at work tearing down the build.
ing at 80 Mercer street, New York. on the
oath, the second floor gave way, and man
named Fitzgerald was killed, and Patrick
Hart fatally injured. Three others were
more or less hurt.
A FIRE on .the morning of the oath, at
w. Va. destroyed five dwell
ings and ten business houses. The business
portion of the city was seriously threatened
at one time. Loss about 100000
A FIRE at Suncook, N. H., on the morning
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
THE EAST.

SIX accredited agents of the Russian gov
eminent reached Philadelphia from New
York on the OATH They visited Cramps
ship-yard and inspected preparations on the
State of California and steamer Columbia
They will visit Roach's ship-yard at Chester,
and it is rumored that the new steamer City
of Para, which was launched with so much
ceremony recedtly, is to be purchased by
the Russians.
THE Vermont Republican convention
nominated Col. Redfeld Proctor, of Rut
land, for governor, on the 23d.
ANDREW Fl. DILL was nominated for gov.
ernor by the Pennsylvania democrats in
convention at Pittsburg on the Odd.
THE New York board of education has
taken steps to abolish colored schools, and
provide for the pupils at the public schools
with white children.
HARVARD students have been recently
discovered by college authorities to have
knowledge of examination papers before
regularly issued, and two members of the
Junior class have been expelled and one or
two employees removed.
The Brooklyn armories and police stations
are being connected by telegraph, in fear of
communists
REV. SAMUEL S. IsAACs, editor of the
Jewish Messenger, and the oldest Jewish
minister in the country, died on the night
of the 10th, aged "a years.
LETTERS of administration on the estate
of the late VIM. orion, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, were
applied for to the Surrogate, at New York
on the 18th instant, by VIM. Orion, Jr. 1t
is stated in the petition that the personal
estate does not exceed 0,0O0 The parties
to receive under the will are the widow and
six children, three of whom are of age and
three minors. The petitioner and Oliver H.
Palmer were appointed administrators by
the Surrogate, and their bond fixed at $780,
600.
E. II. WILSON. United States marshal of
Portland, Me-, has disappeared, defaulter.
A PLYMOUTH church, On. Y.,) member
has lodged formal complaint against Mrs
Tilton and Mrs. Morse in order to have them
dropped from the church rolls. The reason
is believed to be an astounding piece of in
formation that they have lately received,
and delay of four or five months may re-
suit in giving the committee of Plymouth
church and the world certain proofs of Mrs.
Tilton's interesting condition when she
wrote the confession.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08

L WOULDN'T give ten cents a yard for
all the pedigree in this world; if man
haz got level head on his shoulders and
an honest harte in his body, he haz got
all the pedigree | am in search oy.-.Josh
Billings.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
Foreign.

LONDON, May 25-12:3 80 P. M.-Consols
at 96%. Liverpool wheat market opens
steady; floating cargoes firmer; on passage
very little demand.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
WASHINGTON.

The adoption by the house of the resolu.
ton calling on the attorney general for a
list of pardons issued under the present
administration, and history of each case, is
likely to have the effect of causing the ad
ministration to discontinue the issue of
pardons. 1t appears that the number of
pardons already issued during the first year
and half of this administration exceeds
the number issued during the four years of
the presidents predecessors. AS many as
seven pardons have been granted daily for a
month. Many of these pardons have been
for political offenses, and for violation of
election laws in the last presidential election.
GEN. RUSSELL HASTINGS, of Rockford,
H., formerly marshal of northern Ohio, and
during the war lieutenant colonel of Pres-
dent Hayes regiment, and Miss Pratt, neice
of President Hayes, will be married at the
white house, the latter part of next month.
THE national democratic committee, in
session at the Arlington House on the
night of the Esd, adopted the following:
Resolved That the action of the house of
representatives in appointing committee
fully empowered to investigate and report
upon the frauds alleged to have been COM
mitted in the late presidential election, to
the end that the truth may be made known
to the people and the repetition of such
frauds be prevented in the future, meets the
approval of this committee.
THE senate confirmed the nomination of
Stephen B. Packard, of Liverpool, vice
Fairchild, transferred to Paris. There was
a brief discussion over this nomination, and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08

THURSDAY, May 23.-The resolution
OF Davis w. Va authorizing a select committee
toinvestigate the finance reports books, etc, of the
treasury department, was amended so as to allow
the committee to sit during recess, and agreed to
The bill authorizing the secretary of war to
have headstones erected over the graves OF Union
soldiers in private cemeteries was taken up and
passed......After discussing the bill providing for
permanent government for the District of Column
bia the senate went into executive session. and
after adjourned
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08

FRIDAY, May 25.-Edmunds, from a
select committee, reported in the form of bill to
amend sundry provisions of chapter /, title 8, re-
vised statutes of the United States relating to
Dental elections and TO provide for and regulate the
the counting of the votes for president and vice
president and decision of the question thereon
RACED on the calendar Burnside, from the com
mittee on education and labor, reported adversely
on the house joint resolution to provide for the en-
forcement OF the eight-hour law and also adversely
upon the senate bill to regulate the hours of labor
also Dill to establish educational fund and ap-
ply PORTION of the proceeds of public lands pub
education, and to provide for more complete en-
dowment and support of national colleges, for the
advancement of scientific and industrial education
All were placed the calendar. AT the expira-
ton OF the morning hour consideration resume |
OF the bill providing permanent form of govern
ment for the District of Columbia Paddock sub
united an amendment 10 the Texas Pacific rail-
road hill extending aid to the Republican Valley
railroad company. Referred ...... Matthews by re-
quest, introduced bin to invest the court claims
With Jurisdiction to hear all titles and claims of
nGes 10 unpatented lands in the city OF Chicago,
Iihos, and to invest the proper claimant or claim
ants To said lands with legal title thereof by de-
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21
Emperor and Father.

The following Incident is related OF the
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. Soon af-
ter he was first assigned 10 duty rs mid
shipman his vessel was wrecked off the
coast of Denmark. The admiral COM
manding resolved to save the young man,
ordered him to take charge of the first
boat which put off from the doomed ship.
The Grand Duke disdained safety thus
bought, and declined. My duty is here"
he said to the admiral, land | must be
the last to leave the ship."-"Do you not
understand, SIR exclaimed the admiral
"that you are under my commando and
do you dare to refuse obedience to my
ordersl"-"I know my duty" answered
the midshipmau, land will obey any
orders you may see tit to give me, except
an order to leave the ship, where my duty
now commands me TO remain" The all
miral gave up his point, and Alexis was
the last man to leave the ship, and after
landing, was promptly ordered under ar
rest for disobedience of orders. He sub
mitted without murmur. The admiral
sent dispatches to the emperor detailing
the affair, aud the emperor wrote-"I APP
prove your having placed the midship-
man Alexis under arrest for disobedience,
and bless my boy for having disobeyed."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21
Growth of the Roman Catholic
Church.

The Repub,ique franchise gives some
statistics OF the increase which has been
made in the hierarchy OF the Roman
Catholic Church during the Pontificate
of the present Pope:
During his heightened reign Plus lX.
has, il appears, founded 80 metropolitan
churches, 1870 episcopal cuairs, 3 chairs
nullius di4cesos 3 apostolic delegations,
33 apostolic vicarages and Is apostolic
procedures. In Europe at the present
time there are altogether 595 bshoprics
and archbishoprcs, either Immediately
subject to the Papal See or suffragans of
metropolitan churches; in America, 72
in Africa, II; in Asia. 10; and in Aus
tralia and Polynesia, 81. OF religious
orders there are SO; and of monastic or
ders, Is; and of mendicant orders, IA.
Thirteen states are represented at the
Vatican namely: France, Austria, Spain,
Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil. Chill, Peru,
Costa Rca, Nicaragua, Portugal, Para
quay. and finally, the Principally oi
| Monaco. On the other hand the Pope is
represented abroad by apostolic nuncios,
delegates or charges d'atlaires. in Paris,
Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Munich, Brus-
sells, the Hague; by all apostolic inter
nuncio in Brazil, who is also delegate for
the states of Paraguay, Bolivia, Chill
and the Argentine Republics; and by a
single apostolic delegate for the states Of
San Domingo, Hayti, and Venezuela
while similar appointment for the
states of Central America, Columbia
and Peru is at the present moment va
Pal Mall Gazette.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21
Winter Tales.
(FRoM THE GERMANY

The earth doth sleep. With garment Whit
Hath winter folded her about,
She is not dead, she slumbering waits,
Till spring shall come and call her out.
AS fearlessly the little child
Lies folded to its mothers breast
so all the sweet flower children sleep,
Rocked safely to their winter rest.
They dream of mildly blowing airs
OF sunshine and the crystal dew,
Elate with winged sweets they see
Green woods again and meadow new.
They list to what the birdlings sing,
To what the wave and brooklet say,
They prattle with the butterfly,
The wild bee greeteth them, "Good-day."
And stretching up they fain would see
The splendor shining far and near;
Then comes the fair dream to an end
For To- the spring herself is here.
Translated by Irene ConneU
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

married the evening before, by our pastor
at Lowbridge.
She took her place coolly at the table.
"You needn't hesitate to take Gage
Row, Gertrude; he's dead in love with
you, and as like Clyde best | thought
I'd decide the matter without any com
plications."
l think l was mbfounded. But l
found my tongue when Mr. Redmond
came that evening" and said Yes"
| give my experience for the benefit OF
others. 1t is dangerous loaning ones
lover.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

To KEEP EGGs FOR HATCHING.--There
are mauy theories advanced and ways
proposed. AS beet suited to preserve the
germ of life in the egg till it can be
placed under the hen. Extremes of heat
and cold, and evaporation of moisture
from the egg, are what We wish to avoid.
In this, as in many other matters, nature
Is our best guide. The ground covered
with leaves constitutes the natural nest,
the tendency of which is to retain, rather
than dispel, moisture. BY putting soil
and leaves in box, and placing it, with
the eggs, either in the cellar or cellarway
1--WE mean the staircase between the cellar
and the next story, according to the de-
gree of moisture IN the two positions,
we get perhaps the most complete imita-
ton of nature practicable. We should
prefer in winter room warmed arti-
ticially in which to keep eggs for hatch
ing, were it not that the air in such a
room is almost always 100 dry.-Poultry
World.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

A MAN named Sears, living near South
Londonderry, VT, who had trouble in
his leg which kept him confined, attempt
ed to turn over in bed recently, when tho
leg broke in two little above the knee.
On being amputated the bone was found
TO be dry and brittle and full of holes
ike honeycomb. The amputstion
seemed to change the condition of the
bone and blood, and Mr.. Sears rapidly
recovered.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

WESTERN man has invented some
thing that beats the telephone. He pro-
poses 10 station line of women so steps
apart, and commit the news to the first
as a secret. No doubt very musical
instrument.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

THE Georgia constitutional convention
has given the Legislature power to regu-
late rates and passenger fares on rail-
roads.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21

WHAT word is that of which you take
away the first letter ell will remainl Fall.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

A vigorous contest, but fruitless one,
was made in the Cincinnati convention,
for the good old principles of the Repub-
lican party. The Cincinnati Gazette
thus reports it:
Gen. Beatty, Of Franklin county, re-
newed his inquiry as to whether the
word "Mexicanize" referred to the action
of the President in surrendering two
Republican States to the rebels.
A point of order was again raised on
the ground that Mr.. Beatty was not
speaking to the point on the question oil
the adoption of the resolutions.
The Chair ruled the point OF order was
we'll taken.
Gen. Beatty then made motion to
lay the resolution on the table, and was
proceeding to debate his motion, when
the Chair ruled that motion to lay on
the table was not debatable.
Gen Beatty thereupon withdrew that
motion, and offered as q substitute for
the resolution referring to Pres ident
Hayes, the following:
"ResoEUed That we hereby renew our
pledge of fidelity to the principles of the
Republican party, as enunciated in the
platforms of its national conventions,
and Incorporated in the later amend
ments to the Federal Constitution; and,
while recognizing the existence of radical
difference of opinion respecting the
Southern policy of the administration,
and as to the methods adopted for the
improvement of the civil service, we
nevertheless agree in an earnest desire
for permanent pacifcation of the coun-
try, founded on liberty, equality and
iustice for the attainment OF civil SER
vice based on honesty, capacity, and ex-
perience, and in affirming that the title
of President Hayes to the executive office
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

When the Potter investigation began
to take tangible shape, John Sherman
became very indignant, and clustered
around savagely. When called upon
the witness. stand, and confronted with
his rascally letter, he hesitated, and
completely broke down. Nothing has
been heard from him since.
When the terrible revelations were
made against Stanley Matthews, he was
mercifully requested to appear before the
committee, and explain if he could. He
declined. Then he was regularly sub
pmnaed to appear, but he utterly refused,
and threw himself upon his privilege as
Senator. Thus he has confessed his
guilt. Next comes Gen. Butler, and pro-
poses to 90 into the Commission which
broke up the legal, Republican Govern
ment of Louisiana. This touches the
whole rascally gang where they live, and
they confess their guilt by refusing to be
investigated, as follows:
"WAsH1NGToN, D. C, June II, 1878.
ITO Hon. Clarkson n Potter, Chairman
Committee of Investigation, House OF
Representatives
DEAR S1R-I have had the honor to re-
ceiye from the Clerk of the committee of
which YOU are Chairman the folloWlng
resolution:
"ReSoIved, That the Secretary of State
be requested to furnish this committee
all original communications, whether
written, printed, or telegraphic, now IN,
or which may have been in, the office OF
the Secretary Of State, and which may be
under his control, received by him or
other persons in the State Department,
purporting to come from either or all OF
| the members of the commission OF which
Hon Wayne McVeagh and Hon. James
| H. Harlan were members; which com
mittee was sent by the President to New
Orleans, L., in April, 1877, and also GER
titled copies of all communications, Wheth
er written, printed, or telegraphlc, dellV
cred to or sent to said commission, or tc
all or either of the members OF said com
mission, from the State Department OIL
President, which passed through said
department.
Upon laying this resolution before the
President, | am instructed by him to say
that while he considers it not at all i'm
compatible with public interests that al
documents sought for by this resolution
should be made public, yet he is unable
to perceive that the subject embraced IN
said resolution is within the authority fol
inquiry impaired to your committee by
the House of Representatives.
"The President has upon this view o.
the matter directed me to communicate
to the House of Representatives the In
formation sought in resolution OF youl
committee for such disposition by that
honorable body as shall seem to 1t meet
l have the honor to be sir, your obedient
servant,
Signed WIN. M. EYARTs.
Adjourned.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

The st. Louis Evening Post is getting
sarcastic at the expense of large crop of
idiots, who are boring all newspapers at
present, and it says: we would say, in
order to save time and trouble for the
Office and its correspondents, that this
department of the Evening Post does
want few good correspondents in Paris
this summer, to keep US posted in Expo
sition matters. We will pay the expenses
of the correspondent to and from Paris,
pay his board in the city during the sum-
mer, furnish him with free season passes
for self and friends to the Exposition,
and pay a salary of $3S a week. We want
about six such correspondents. Applica-
ton must be made in person, as no atten-
ton will be paid to letters. Office hours
from 23O a. M to 345 p. M. No English
Irish, Americans, Germans, Negroes,
Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, South
Americans, Africans, Chinese, Tartars,
Austrians, Prussans. Italians, Swedes,
French, Cannibals, Danes, Scotch, Fen
ians or Greeks need apply"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

We publish in another column the
platform adopted by the Republicans in
State Convention at Cincinnati, Wednes-
day. 1t is vigorous and emphatic enough
upon all questions upon which Republi
cans are agreed, and upon all others is
meaningless enough to admit of any de-
sired construction. We are all agreed in
saying that the Democracy deserve to be
beaten, and the platform that embodies
that thought is the platform for the time
1t is about time that men who frame
political platforms had learned that the
people are not fools, and that the effort
to so select words as that they shall be
accepted as meaning what everybody of
sense knows they do not in fact mean was
abandoned In other words, what the
Republicans cannot unitedly say it We're
as we'll not to attempt They can unit
edly say the Democracy ought to be beat
en-. They cannot unitedly say, that
President Hayes is the embodiment of all
the wisdom of the party, or that Stanley
Matthews is a shining civil service re-
former Newark American.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

There was a reunion of the Blazer
family, below Gallipolis last week. There
were present 22l members of the family
(the rest got away consisting Of children,
grandchildren, nephews, nieces, etc. They
had big feed, after which the old gentle
man explained how he got his start
"The first money l ever earned" said he,
II made digging ginseng at three cents a
pound. And the first pair Of shoes my
oldest sister every wore | bought for her
with ginseng, which l dug and sold at
three cents a pound.
This beats Brother Mackley's eXpe-
rience in cutting cordword at sixteen
cents q cord. - Pomeroy Telegraph.
Bro. Chapman can afford to sneer at
the poor boy who earns his money by
honest toll We know how hard it is to
earn few cents day by digging ginseng
and cutting cordwood. We have had ex-
perience in both. We have never been
ashamed of it. If we had grabbed $8S
from the overburdened taxpayers that
we never earned, we would be ashamed
to sneer at the poor laborer; but some
men have cheeks of polished brass.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-06-27

We found the following on our table,
cut from some one our exchanges, but we
forgot which it was No matter 1t is
the truth:
Mr.. Fitz John Porter was not precise
ly a rebel, but having been U Unlon officer
who was cashiered for disobedience OF
orders on the battlefield, his claim to be
conciliated by rehearing of his case has
been granted by the President. Mr.. Por-
ter does not deny that he disobeyed Gen
Popes order to attack the enemy
but promises to show that the enemy
were in greater force than Pope supposed,
and that, hence, had he obeyed the order,
an unpleasant amount of fighting might
have followed. 1t was the opinion OF
both President johnson and President
Grant that when an officer had been cash
iered for an open disobedience of Oh
ders. it was not worth while to listen to
subsequent evidence showing why he
committed the crime. Mr.. Hayes, how
ever. has a heart which bleeds for the
poor cashiered officers of the Army, and,
accordingly, he has taken the preliminary
steps which Mr.. Porter hopes will lead to
a reversal of the sentence OF the court
martial The rehearing is now IN pro
gress at West Point, and II Mr.. Porter
satisfactorily shows that an othcer Is at
| liberty to disobey orders on the battle
field, provided he does not personally
like his commander, cadets of the Militia
ry Academy will learn new and valua
| bIa Iaccon