The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

not be said that there is any possible change
in the principle of the questions in dispute.
THE London Times Pera correspondent
telegraphs: "Gen. Todleben is taking the
Rhodope instruction vigorously in hand.
Troops have been ordered up from Adriano-
pie and Phillippopolis."
GENERAL
A CUBAN named Aguero, with eleven
followers, recently landed on the southern
coast of the central department in lighter
from Jamaica, in the belief that the insur-
rection had broken out again. Finding
tranquility everywhere, and everybody OPP
posed to disturbance, he surrendered, in
dignant at being deceived, and guided the
government officers to the lighter The
vessel contained arms, clothing, and about
twenty boxes of ammunition. The general
commanding the department assured
Aguero and companions of complete pardon.
The appellate court of Chicago, on the
9th inst, confirmed the decision of the
lower court that the city scrip issued last
year is legal and may be paid. This de-
cision opens a way out of the financial
muddle in which the city has been involved,
and presages a like favorable decision as re-
CARDS the validity of the scrip subsequently
issued, which question is now before the
supreme court on an appeal from the city
judges.
THE fifty-lhird anniversary of the Ameri-
can tract society was held at New York on
the Sth inst, the Hon. Judge w. Strong, of
the Circuit Court, occupying the chair
The annual report of the treasurer shows
that there was paid for manufacturing and
issuing publications, $259, 1876; colporteur
agencies, northeast branch, $40 ,6o9.40 for
eign case appropriations, $4,000; services
and expenses of district secretaries for rails
ing funds, $14,610.
THE Western Emigration Society, colored,
have adopted memorial to congress, ask
ing an appropriation to transport emigrants
west, and to furnish outfit of farming uten-
sils, seeds, ETC., for the first year or two,
when it is calculated they will be able to
support themselves.
AT the sixty-second anniversary of the
American Bible Society at New York, on
the 9th inst, the annual report was read,
showing the copies of Bibles manufactured
at the Bible house to be 654, 1913; printed
abroad, 233,90S; purchased abroad, 1873;
total, 906,779. Copies issued at home, $685.
9O0 abroad, 1898; total, S57 ,492. Bibles
for the blind were also issued to the num-
Der of 521, making an aggregate of II 1886
in thirty-six years. The issues of the So
ciety for sixty-two years amount to 34,s64,
315 copies. The receipts for the year were
ASS, 954. This amount is less than that of
last year by $96,6Z5. The fact was men
toned that firm of native publishers in
Japan has expressed desire to participate
in the publication of the Scriptures for their
own countrymen. They will soon issue a
pocket edition of the New Testament in
japanese.
ARTHUR W. BELL, of Porter, Bell & Co.,
and a prominent member of the Young
Mems Christian Association, of Pittsburg
was buried on the 4th inst.
CORBETT & MCCLYMoNT, builders of
London, Surbeton and Westgate-on-Sea,
have failed; liabilities, $7,OOO,OOO; assets
upward of one thousand houses, valued at
from s., 800 to $4,000 each.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.