The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-09

to the poor.
" cuison soils at fre cents a
pound at hilbourn City, Wis.
Cheap FOR deer meat
Credit is a system by which a
man spends his money before he
gets it.
-Tokeepmoths out Of old clothes,
it is recommended to give the
clothes to the poor.
Its boy. aud only two days
old. For further particulars address
L. g. Mclean, enclosing stamp,
We are informed that the Wis.
Central will DO no further surveying
between Ashland and the Junction
for at least two or three months.
The Rev. Mr.. Wainwright will
deliver his sermon on "The Eternity
OF Punishment" ia the Episcopal
church on Sunday afternoon Dext.
Young man, don't waste your
time complaining that the world
owes you living, bat pull off your
coat and fax about and take the
living OFT Of the worlds hide.
In ancient days the precept
was, Know myself" In modern
times it has been suppIanted by the
more fashionable maxim, "Know
thy neighbor and everything about
hlm."
Six horses came up from Still
water and went out to the St Crox
Lumber Cos. camps this week.
The motto Of the Saltwater lumber
men is, "If you can't haul a loe
with one team hitch on three teams. >
The spring election time IS ap-
proaching-now only sixty days
away The candidates betray
themselves by their smiling coun-
tenances, and sympathetic enquiries
for the condition Of your grandpa's
bunions.
The residence Of Dir. Mahan
Indian Agent, at Red Cliff, mean
Bayfield,, occupied by his brother
in-law, AIr. Clement, was recently
destroyed by fire, together with its
entire contents. Loss probably So
600. No insurance.
Mr., John Riddle, brother OF
Mrs. Colonel Thomas A. Scott,
had his leg shattered by bail
gIancing from a target on Saturday,
in Erie. The limb had to be am
putated above the knee. Mr..
Riddle spent 3 season en- Lake
Superior couple Of years ago.
The other day the mail brought
along letter addressed to "Any
Millionaire, Superior, Wis" o.
course we promptly claimed it, but
the postmaster chuckod it into an
other fellows box, thus indicating
in language palmer than English
that he did not think we were the
only millionaire in town.
We observe that Mr.. J. S
Richie is shipping considerable
baled timothy hay from his farm
adjoining town. No soil in the
west is better adapted to the raising
of grass than the red clay around
the head Of Lake Superior, and it is
gratifying to see that people are
beginning to turn this fact to profit.
On Monday Mr.. Ransom Shell.
don, of Houghton, sold to Messrs
Hubbard & Thurbcr, tract of pine
land east Of Torch Lake. for S22,
coo or at the rate of $500 per
acre. Twenty-Five thousand dol.
lars cash, il these times, seems a
big pie Of money, but Messrs. Hib-
bard q Tbu,ber can nevertheless
congratulate themselves on having
bought hat pine tact 'dog cheap. ,
--Haa1ocf. Journal.
- letter received Yesterday
from the 4. 2. Junction, 4. ?. r.
r. says that the St. Paul & Duluth
Railroad company, Successors to
the Lake Superior & AUssissippi,)
are in earnest now, and will build
their branch road from the Junction
TO Kuife River Falls to afford an
outlet for the unsawed lumber now
standing upon the St. Louis river.
Those Green Bay (Wis.) and
Wilhamsport (Pal lumber capital
lists stand ready % furnish the funds
for building the branch road, and