The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-11

al showers.
The mail now closes at 8 and arrives at
p. m,
If this is "dry'moon we wonder what
"wet' one is like.
When man has no bills against him he
feels as if he belonged to the nobility.
The Philadelphia mint is the only estab-
lishment that's making money nowadays.
Geo. L. Brooks is making quite neat
slip for his ferry steamer in the rear of Quebec
Pier.
About $1,000 of taxes have been col
lected by the county treasurer since the first
of April
Mr. Cassius Merritt and family, of 0neota,
are visiting the family Of a. G. Bertrand,
Esq
They say that Eve neFer locked through
Adams pockets for letters from other
women.
The Murphy movement is now in full
blast here. A grub hoe is the ensignia of
the order.
The town authorities talk of extending
two avenues westward into the woods-one
from Uppertown and one from LowertoYn.
A good idea.
The church building eected by the
Presbyterians on Sixth street in 1856, but
never used, is leaning dangerously, and may
fall any day.
"A negro teamster says he must either
give up driving mules or Withdraw from
the church, the two positions being incom-
patible.
-Ffeld of the Ashland Press, has Is
hens and Bardon, of the SUaRIoR TINES has
twenty. Where is the man that made that
scurrilous remark about editors never being
wealthy.-Barro Co. Cbpnotype
TO get rid of his neighbours bowling
dog New Yorker boughthim and shot him.
The original owner dug up the carcass,
secured the one dollar rewald for his scalp,
and then bought another dog. Then the
neighbor howled.
In Prussia it is said the potato is cult
waited with peculiar success. As the stalk
grows, the earth is hoed W, leaving only
three leaves at the top; rootsare thus greatly
increased, while the produte is said to be
astonishing.
For the Ashland Press: a Norristown
fisherman on Friday last caught twenty-sev-
en- trout, some of them, he says, weighing
over two pounds apiece He would have
caught more but he is not a very good liar. ,
-N0rriStown Herald
The Clark House, duluth, has lately
been thoroughly overhauel, painted, white
washed, papered. new floors put in, roof
erected over the upper front porch, so that
now even the most fastidioas can find not a
particle of fault with the House or anything
about it. 1t is one of the largest and best
hotels in the west, and viii do a good bust
ness this year.
"A large bed of superior white clay, with
BLUSH TIT, and believed II be suitable for
the manufacture of all kinds of earthen ware.
has been discovered on the 81 Paul & Duluth
railroad, and in the vicinity Of Kettle river.
The deposit is from five to eight feet below
the surface, and nearly ir he center of a
grassy slough, Tue bed was first found by
persons making soundings.-Pioneer Press.
Inc new running arrangements of the
St. Paul & Duluth railroad commenced on
Sunday last. Two passenger trains now run
daily over the line, leaving st. Paul at $40
a. m. and 700 p m., arriving at Duluth at
$3.50 P. m. and a. m.; leave Duluth q t 7:3O
a. m. and $50 p. m., arriving at St. Paul at
5:l0 p. m. and a. m. All passenger trains
run into and start from the St Paul g. Pa
cifc depot in St. Paul. which saves travellers
the long walk from the old depot into the
city.
The law in reference to the erection of
guide boards is very stringent one
Sec. l. 1t shall be the duty ofthe Chair
man of the Supervisors of each town in this
State, to cause to be erected at the intersec-
ton OF all main Travelled roads within his
town, with other legally laid out roads, suit
able and intelligent post-guiies, or guide
boards
Sec. II. Any chairman Of Supervisors
who shall neglect the duty required by the
preceding section, shall forfeit and pay for
each months neglect of such duty and for
each instance of such neglect, for the time
aforesaid, fine of FIVE dollars, to be recov-
cred before any Justice.
County Surveyor Chase made trip to
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