The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

States under .Johpsons administrator was
cleared up on the 18th inst. by 'ne oi'oose.y
of his body floating in Lake Michigan, ABOUT
FIVE miles south of Milwaukee, WIS. Dihch-
lev disappeared from that city on the 4tn
inst, and when last seen was iaoorihs unue
severe fit of melancholy the result u
domestic infelicity.
THE trunk line freight agents met at ohl-
cago on the 10th, ard fixed the rate Oh
grain to New York at20 cents. oeeus Were
allowed to be put in with iour'n Class
freight.
THE Ohio Democratic state central COM
mittee have issued call for convention
to be held at Columbus on the 2oth OF June
On the 18th inst, both branches OF the
Ohio legislature adjourned till next 1ahu-
airy.
DR.. S. IVES CURTIS now at Leipslg' Ter
many, has been elected to NIL the chair Oh
biblical literature in Union Park theological
seminary Congregational at Chicago, po-
sition which for many years was hlled oy
Prof. S. c. Bartlett, now president OF Dart
mouth college.
In the lower branch of the Ohio leglsla-
ture resolution declaring the seat OF Repre-
sentative John O'Connor vacant was passed
by a vote of GA yeas to Is nays OConnor
is an unpardoned convict; hence the action.
AT the present term of the United States
Court at Des Moines, decision Will be
given regarding B. F. Aliens $l,0OO,OCO
blanket mortgage.
A GRAND musical festival was Inaugural
ed at Cincinnati on the evening OF the
14th inst. A large number of strangers
were present and the city was handsomely
decorated.
THE seventh cavalry, at Fort Lincoln, has
recoivod o-do.. ta be in readiness for field
duty, but for what point Gen Sturgis is
totally ignorant.
1HADDEUs AMAT Roman Catholic bishop
of Monterey and Los Angeles, died at Los
Angeles, Cal, on the 18th inst.
WASHINGTON.
The president has nominated Henry c.
Marston, of ILLINOIS, to be United States
consul at Port Louis.
| SPENCER f, BAIRD, assistant secretary OF
the Smithsonian Institute, has been elected
secretary in place of Prof. Henry, deceased
THE president, on the 10th instant, nomi.
mated Amos Smith, Jr., of Cincinnati to be
collector of internal revenue for the first
district of Ohio, vice Weitzel to be remov
ed; Gustavus st. Germ, surveyor of customs
at st. LOUIS, and John I'll. Smyth, of North
| Carolina, to be minister resident and consul
general at Liberia.
! SECRETARY EvARTs and Mr.. Rogers, the
presidents private secretary, before the
senate committee on appropriations on the
18th instant, claimed that the house made
/ Inadequate provision for the necessary ex
penditures of their departments.
THE senate in executive session on the
| 18th instant, ratified the treaty between
France and the United States, providing
for convention at Paris the present sum
mer, with view to the adoption of met
rical system of weights and measures.
THE report of the United States engineers
to whom the petition of Capt. Eads, for a
modification of the jetty accounts, was re
ferred by the secretary of war, states that
the works are permanent and their success
is so decided as to make it important to
prosecute them with vigor.
THE president on the 14th inst, nomina
| ted Gustav Reiche register of the land Office
at Bonneville, No, and Franklin w. Oakley
United States marshal of the western dis
trict of Wisconsin.
A BILL has been introduced in the house
declaring the introduction of Texas, Mexi.
can or Indian cattle into Missouri, Kansas
or Illinois from March l to November l of
each year an otftnse punishable with fine OF
imprisonment The design of the bill is to
protect domesti. cattle from what is known
as Texas fever.
PROF. JOSEPH HENRY, of the Smithson
ian Institute, died on the 18th inst.
A MEMBER ofthe cabinet is authority fol
the statement that ex-senator Fenton, OF
New York, is to head the silver commission
that is to go abr,ad this summer.
THE marriage of Winnie Ream, the artist
and Lieut. Hmie, chief engineer of tie
District of Columbia, is announced to take
! place on the 2Sth of the present month.