davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
THE EAST.

DAVID CONRoY, leading communist of
New York city, has been sentenced to state s
prison, convicted of felonious assault.
IN the course of his talk, on the evening
of the 10th inst, at Plymouth church, Mr..
Beecher announced the receipt of telegram
from his brother Thomas, at Elmira, N. Y,
stating that their sister Catharine Beecher
had been stricken with apoplexy, and was
dying.
THE Home Montreal insurance company,
of Boston, Mass, has been enioined and
will close up its affairs. Assets Sal $50;
liabilities 81 ,44S, 1893; outstanding risks at
present 100000.
THE commission appointed by the treasury
department are investigating the affairs of
the Philadelphia custom house.
CHARLES MORGAN, a prominent mer-
chant of New York city, died on the Sth in
slant.
MURRAY HOFFMAN, the well-known com
piler of law books died on the 9TH instant,
at his home in Flushing, N. Y, aged "a.
THE directors of the new Charter Oak life
insurance company, at meeting held at
Hartford, Conn, on the 17th elected Geo.
NJ. Bartholomew president
THE Vermont Republican state convention
will be he'd at Burlington, May 23d.
THE firm of Franklin Upton & Co., Bos-
ton, hide and leather dealers, suspended
on the 9th instant, with liabilities amount
ing to 100000.
The funeral of John Morrissey took place
on the 4th instant from st. Peters Catholic
Church, and was attended by an immense
concourse of people. The entire state senate,
with Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer and
delegation of assemblymen, were present.
Bishop McNierney, of Albany, assisted at
the religious services, which were partici-
pated in by number of clergymen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

TIE Reno New Journal says: Large
numbers of Italians are coming from the
east daily, for the purpose of going into
the mountains to cut timber during the
summer. A great many are already
going to the Genoa country and above
Carson. A gentleman tells us the Ital-
ians always go to Canada every winter,
where they find some kind of employ
ment, and return here in the spring for
the seasons chopping."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

A Boston man named Samuel B. Hale,
who has been farming in Buenos Ayres
forty-five years, owns now $4,000 acres
of rich prairie, 5000 cattle, 500 horses,
10000 sheep and 1.400 hogs. The
fences cost $4,000. Last year the wool
product of the farm Melted $4,000
pounds, and there was yield of 3O0,-
600 pounds of tallow; also 25,540 sheep
skins.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

committee of the whole on the private calendar.
The William and Mary college bill was passed over
without action, and bill appropriating $500 to
Richard Heater of Virginia. for stores and sunnIia
taken by the =. S. army, taken up. Debar e
waxed not until the speaker became powerless to
snehce the noisy ones, when the sergeant at
was called, but his services were rendered unneeas
sary by sensible men on both sides who led away
the angry dlsputants to their seats Discussion was
e!oseo' ana the committee rose and reported the
bill to the house with the Recommendation That -
90 pass. Inc bull was then passed 80. Adjourned
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

A SAD story is told of a prominent
Boston merchants ruin by the great fire
in 1872, his prostration and death from
dependency, and the subsequent pow
erty and want of his family. His wife.
woman of culture and inestimable
goodness, struggled on, doing what work
she could find, and at last seeking help
from New York friends in vain, till two
of her little daughters died from malig-
nant diseases, and the third was driven
by hunger into the streets to beg. The
theft Of loaf of bread by this child
was finally her own and her mother
salvation. She was arrested and taken
into court, and her mother, when she
came to her rescue, was recognized by a
benevolent woman, friend in more
prosperous times, who is making life
pleasanter for the mother and daughter
now.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

THE kingof Burmah is so pleased with
the experimental manufacture of sugar
that he has imported large amount of
sugar-making and refining machinery,
and ordered 500 planters to engage in the
cultivation of the cane this year.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

PERHAPS the heaviest game of poker
ever played in America was between
John Morrissey and New Yorker, re-
Gently bankrupt. 1t was played in a
private room, and beginning early in the
evening, lasted all night. Even-handed
at first, fortune soon favored Morrissey
First his opponents cash disappeared,
his bank account next, and long after
midnight he began mortgaging his prop
erty. Memorandum after memorandum
was bought by his relentless antagonist,
until in the morning light he arose loser
of 800 600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

SHARoN's seven-story palace hotel in
Frisco is the biggest kind of an elephant
on the hands of the proprietor Every
month at least So 900 interest is due on
mortgage account, and the running ex-
penses of the institution are scarcely met
by the receipts.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

Boston law says that a full loaf of
bread shall weigh two pounds, and
smaller loaves shall be either three-quar-
tiers, half or quarter of the full loaves
in weight, each size to be marked for
precisely what it is
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

PROBABLY the smallest paper in the
country, if not in the world, is published
at Orlando, Florida. Its size is two and
half by three inches, and it claims a
circulation of 1900. 1t is printed
monthly, and its name is the Florida
MITE
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

MIss MINNIE STEVENS, daughter of
the late Paran Stevens, and lately a
guest of the Princess Of Vale at Sand
bingham, has, it is reported, accepted a
proposal of marriage form Bass, the mil
lionaire English brewer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

THE Peabody fund in London, which
now amounts to about $3,400,000, has
been increased by a donation of 100000
from an anonymous source. At the
close of the year 8, CSC persons resided in
the dwellings built by this fund.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

IN Allegheny, Pa, ga list of all the
people in the city who have claimed the
benefit of the law exempting $500 worth
of property from levy and sale is being
prepared by the ward constables for the
benfit of business men generally"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

THE supreme court of Massachusetts,
has decided that a note given for a
church subscription does not carry with
it an obligation to pay, since it is given
without consideration.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

A MARBLE slab has been set up in the
new municipal building at Brooklyn,
showing by figures that the edifce was
finished at 81 cents less than the appro-
priation of 100000. This is the first
instance of the kind known in that
vicinity for half a century,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
VARIOUS TOPICS.

THE activity in the cotton trade has
had the effect to diminish the supply on
hand both in the United States and in
Europe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

SWITZERLAND is suffering greatly
from business depression. The state OF
Europe discurages travel, and the Swiss
hotels are ia very poor way.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

In the year 1877 marriages in England
fell, for the first time in six years, below
100000. In Scotland the number was
the lowest registered since 1872.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

cendiary, because Leindecker had reduced
the price of milk
THE show window of Stephen PAINS jew
elry store, at Providence, r. l., was robbed,
on the night of the 9th inst, of $1,000 worth
of diamonds
MICHAEL DUTToN was murdered near
WATERFOWL, N Y, on the 4th, and Peter
Brestinham has been arrested, suspected of
the crime.
| JOHN NJ. BINCKLEY, lawyer and we'll
known in political circles, having occupied
the position of assistant attorney general
under President Andrew johnson, mystic
riously disappeared from his home in Mil
waukee, Wis, on the night of the 4th inst.
His coat and hat was found on the shore
of Lake Michigan, together with a note
pinned to tree stating his (Binckley's) in
tention of walking into the lake and ending
his life.
WASHINGTON.
THE secret service division is informed
that new counterfeit 500 notes have made
their appearance in Chicago. They are on
the Second National bank of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, aud the National Revere bank, of Bos-
ton, Mass. They are transfer from the
countexfeitof the Merchants National bank,
of New Bedford, Mass, which made Its ap-
pearance last week. The work is well exc
cuted, and all National bank notes of this
denomination should be carefully examined,
as other counterfeit issues from this plate
are likely to he placed on the market.
| The individual members OF the house
| bov Il
themselves in opposition to reporting the
resolution for investigation of the alleged
Florida presidential election frauds as de-
sired by those who have initiated proceed
ings to that end.
THE senate committee on naval affairs
having completed their investigation of the
charges against Paymaster Cutter took a
vote on his nomination to be paymaster-
general of the navy, and decided to recon-
mend its confirmation.
THE president has nominated George A.
Sheridan, of Louisiana, to be recorder OF
deeds in the District of Columbia
THE secretary of wsr has appointed the
following visitors to West Point military
academy at the annual examination in June:
Prof. A. S. Movable, university of Virginia
Hon. John c.. Roper, Boston; Rev. F. B.
Wheeler, Poughkeepsie, N. Y; David A.
Wells, Connecticut; Capt. S. II. Franklin,
U. S. N; Rev. JAS. Lewis, of Howell,
Michigan, and Brig. Gen. c. c. Augur, U.
s. A.
THE President has nominated Stephen d.
Packard, of Louisiana, United States consul
at Liverpool; Lucius Fairchild, of Wiscen-
sin, as consul general at Paris; Horace E.
James, of Indiana, consul at Turks Island;
John Virgin, postmaster at Fairbury, I'LL.
THE postmaster general has sent Senator
Dorsey, chairman of the committee on APP
preparations, several letters from the bureau
chiefs showing why the estimates of expenses
of the department should not be reduced.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
Foreign Grain Trade aud Crop Pros
poets.


LONDON, May THE Mark Lane Express
says farmers continue to market wheat very
sparingly, in spite of the promising appear
ance of growing crops, doubtless in the
hope of obtaining better prices for the re-
duced stocks still in their hands, should the
market rise under the influence of posi-
BILE war. English wheat has advanced a shil-
ling In many important provincial markets,
but the trade has disappointed London
factors, as sales have only been prac-
ticeble at former rates. Imports of for
eign wheat into London have been
fair, the bulk of the supply con-
sisting of American and Russian description,
upon which the milling demand has princi-
pally turned during the last fortnight Of
Calcutta wheat there is little remaining in
our market. Sellers for future delivery
have shown resolve to hold, as this branch
of trade may be seriously affected by a rise
which will doubtless occur in freights should
the government continue to charter extern
sively for transport of troops from India
Maize ruled steady for sound lots of new
com, and also for limited stocks there re-
naming of old, but the demand for cargoes
on passage and for shipment was checked
by fears regarding their condition upon
which the approach of warm weather has
begun to tell, nearly all cargoes that arrived
off coast being in damaged state. There
is little quotable alterations in values in
barley or oats, but the trade in feeding corn
has been inanimate and prices eased slightly.
With moderate arrivals at ports of cal, the
floating cargo trade for wheat is quiet, and
prices declined shilling, owing to fine
weather and more pacific aspect of politi-
cal affairs. Maize advanced three pence for
perfect cargoes, which are scarce; barley
steady.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
Chicago.

CHICAGO, May Ill: 80 p. M.-Wheat
Firm steady and active; 81 II for seller
May; $r.c691.oS1s for seller June; S1.O55s
for seller July. Corn-Firmer at 40@401sc
for cash; 3934c for seller May; 395sc for
seller June. Oats-Quiet and steady al
26Lc for cash and seller May and June.
Rye-At 5S13c. Barley-At 49%@50c.
Pork-Active and easier at SS.3715 for cash
$S.42H@S.45 for seller June; $S624 bid
for seller July. Lard-Active and easy at
S6.S2H for cash; So S5@6S71a for seller
June. Whisky-At $1.04 Hogs-Receipts
1000 head; moderately active and 5@l0c
lower; light at $3.25@3.30; heavy mixed
packing at SS.15@3.30; heavy shipping at
$3.300345.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

AUGUSTA, Ga, is greatly pleased with
the manufacture of cotton goods which
is growing up there and in that vicinity.
The Graniteville Manufacturing Com
pany, for instance, with capital of
100000 and $4,000 spindles, has pro-
duced 104, 462, 062 yards of cotton cloth
in ten years, paying 1904, 900 in divi-
dends, having 1882 900 on hand in sur
plus fund and with its stock quoted at
S117 to S120 per share of 500. They
want to know what New England cotton
mill of equal capital and capacity has
done SO well. By August 1st this same
company expects to have new mill of
10000 spindles running at Vauchuse,
near Augusta.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
The Austrian govern.

out at any moment. The Austrian govern
ment has telegraphed to Smyrna, ordering
three men-of-war there to proceed to Cat
taro.
THE st. Petersburg Agence Russo says that
Russia has no thought of setting aside Eng
lands legitimate influence or exercising an
exclusive preponderance of power in Tur-
key. This is shown by the fact that despite
the Russian sacrifices English influence is
still predominant at Constantinople.
DISPATCH from onstantinople says Gen.
Todleben is about to retire to lines of Tcha.
haldja, leaving small force at San Stefano.
The Russians offer to fall back behind the
straight line drawn between Dudeagatch
and Adrianople if the British feet will
withdraw at the same time.
THE Servian minister OF war has resigned
owing to ministerial differences. 1t is now
confidently stated that Servia will not join
Russia in case of war.
A SPECIAL from Constant;nople dated
May 5, says: "Sadyk Pasha, chief of the
Turkish council of ministers, and Safvet
Pasha, minister of foreign affairs, had a long
interview with Gen. Todleben yesterday
Gen. Todleben to-day visited Buyukdere
with his staff and examined the coast of the
Bosphorus."
COUNT SCHoUvALoFF, the Russian am.
bassador at London, is expected at ST. Pc
tersburg. Much Importance is attached to
his visit. 1t is understood that he will re.
main about two weeks.
NOTWITHSTANDING the hopeful news OF
Russian concession announced from Vienna
and intimated from st. Petersburg, it can.
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."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AN explosion of generated gas occurred
on the steamship Sardinia, as she was enter.
ing Tough Fogle, the harbor of Londonder-
~ on the 10th instant The ship was bound
for Quebec from Liverpool, and at the time
of the accident had 400 passengers OF board.
Three were killed and forty injured in the
forehold. Attempts to scuttle the ship were
at latest reports unsuccessful. Some of the
steerage passengers were cut off from help,
but it was believed they would be saved.
A STRAY shot from a William Tell per.
Torrance in circus at Rockport, Ind, on
the 10th, killed an eight-year- old boy named
Wiegel, who was playing near the tent.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10th, Daniel
D. Boas, wealthy citizen, was killed by the
upsetting of his carriage.
BY an explosion in the Glendown colliery
at Pottsville, Pa. on the 10th inst. Rev.
John Anyl, the superintendent, and Thomas
Morgan, a laborer, were killed.
A YOUNG woman named Smith, disap-
pointed in marriage, drowned herself and
child at Bath, New Brunswick, on the 9th
instant.
AT the Fort Wayne depot, Chicago, on
inc otH instant, CHdIleS nducSOlu, Well
known miller and commission merchant of
Milwaukee, while experimenting the switch
ing of some cars, was struck by locomo-
tive and instantly killed.
NJ. HALFPENNY & Co.'s wooden mill, at
Lewisburg, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
on the 9TH inst. Loss about 5000; insur-
ance $4,000.
HENRY SPEAKS and Lille Richards, col
ored servants, guarreled at Baltimore, on
the Sth inst, and Speaks stabbed the girl.
SUSAN A. STEWART, a public school
teacher at Zion church. Norfolk county, n
Y, was found murdered in her room over
the school house.
AN elevator in the Boston dry goods store,
Chicago, fell from the third story, on the
eth inst, and four persons were seriously
injured.
AT the opening of the new hunting park
at Philadelphia, on the 9TH inst, Peter Nor
ris' horse fell while running the hurdle race.
The animal fell upon Morris, fatally iniur-
ing him.
THE boiler OF portable engine exploded
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 9th inst, killing
two men and severely injuring several
others.
A FIRE at c. Leindecker's place, two and
half miles from Muscatine, Ia, on the
4th inst, destroyed his barn, with six horses,
fine Jersey bull and calf, with lot of
agricultural machinery. Loss, $1,000; no
insurance. The fire is supposed to be in.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

INDIAN students fall into most anus.
ng errors through their ignorance of
English, and especially of technical
terms. One of the Civil Engineer Col
lege students, when asked by the exam
liner in engineering, "What plant is re-
CURED to turn out 10000 bricks pc
diem ?" replied that in India teak was
the plant always used, whilst in England
oak was invariably employed. Another
candidate for an overseer's certificate,
who, however, was not a college student,
on being asked what was "the ruling
gradient of a road p replied that the
chief ingredient" was gravel.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
MilWaukee.

MILWAUKEE, May lis 100 p. M.-FIour
Quiet but steady; choice spring extras, 1925
@5.50; fair to good, $4.75@5.10; common
spring at $3.50. Wheat-Active and higher;
No. l $l.13H@1.13A; No. 2 at $11OA@
LII; seller June at S1.09@1.09k; seller
July at $1.O6A@1.O73s. Corn-Quiet at 4oc
new at SIC. Oats-Dull but steady at 26Hc
Rye-Quiet at 5SKc. Barley-Strong and
higher at &c bid for No. cash. Pork
Very dull and lower at $3.50. Lard-At
$6.S7k@7.00. Hogs-Quite dull at $1,000
25. Butter-GoOd to extra choice at 17@
1Sc; extra dairy at 10000; creamery at %
@23c; fair to good at 14@16c; common at 9
Ollie. Cheese-Good to prime at 12@13c;
common at 10@11Xc. Eggs-At S0812 %
dozen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
FOREIGN.

LONDON, May lip 80 P. M.-Consols
for money at % 15-16 and 96 for account.
Liverpool wheat market opens quiet. Float
ing cargoes turn dearer. Good cargoes No.
spring wheat, off coast 49s@49s cd.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25

FRIDAY, May 10-The house Joint
resolution authorizing the expenditure of of
the money appropriated to give greater stability
the foundation of the Washington monument was
passed - The president pro laid befdre the
ate a communication from the secretary of war,
transmitting a communication from Hon. F. Akin
son. president OF the Moline water power company,
of Illinois, and also communication from the chief
of ordnance bureau, renewing his recommendation
that SI57,350 be appropriated to complete the de-
velepment of the water power at Rock Island arse
nal Ordered printed and laid on the table,. Con-
sideration of the bill to repeal the bankrupt law
was resumed, and after debate Thurman's amend
mens striking out January, l, 1879 - and insert
ing September l. 1873 " SO that the repeal shall
tdke effect the first of September next, was
agreed to-yeas 80, nays q Beck moved to amend
by striking out the words the first day of Sep
tember 1878 and insert in lieu thereof from and
after the passage of the bill. Reiected-yeas %,
nays24 The question then required on the amend
ment of the judiciary committee amended by
Thurman and it was agreed to-yeas %, nays 21-
and the bill was passed. II now goes back TO the
house of representatives for the concurrence Of that
bod AFTER an executive session the senate ad-
journed until Monday.
House.
FRIDAY, May 10.-Dunnelli introduced
bill providing that notice of contest under pre-
emption, homestead and timber culture laws must
be printed in newspapers in the county where
such contest lies Passed w The house went into
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-25
House.

WEDNESDAY, May S.-The commit
tee elections reported in the contested election
cases from the second district of South Carolina,
sixth district of Mississippi and Oregon, de-
claring the sitting members, Cain, Chalmers and
Williams entitled 10 seats. The report adopted
Wood moved to go into committee of the whole
the tariff bill. a debate followed over a an at
tempt by Conger to have the bill reported back TO
the house with the enscting clause struck out The
effort was defeated whereupon Conger moved that
general debate be limited to two hours Also de-
feated-yeas 107 nays 1872. Woods melton to go
into committee of the whole was carried, and the
house resolved itself into such committee. After
listening to speeches from Tucker and Robbins in
support of the bill the committee without ac-
ton, and the house took recess until So the
evening session to be for debate only,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-05-30

disciple seems to have q different reason
and different theory. and indeed different
scheme.
1t may be that this whole question of ir-
redeemable notes-this whole question OF
inflated paper currency and consequent I'M
settling OF all values and contracts. and
stimulating OF extravaganza In speculation
and expenditure,is to be all gone over az ain
inthis last quarter OF the nineteenth Gen.
tury, in enlig htened America. In spite OF
the terrible experiences Of nations who have
tried it before Us. aud in spite OF our own
bitter experience, eliminating in the panic
OF 1873
II this question is 10 be tried again after
SO many ruinous experiences, the AMERI-
CAN will be found on the side supported by
experience.