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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

Iris estimated that fifty thousand men
and women are employed in Philadelphia
in the manufacture of clothing, and
twenty million suits are made there
every year. Cutting machines are
gradually finding their way into all the
large manufacturing establishments of
the city. These machines have a capa-
sility of cutting nearly eighteen hun
dred garments in day of twelve hours,
or about equal to the combined result of
the labor of eight men. Button-holes,
also, can be worked by machinery at the
rate of one hundred and eighty per
hour, while by hand it would take the
same period to complete three holes. By
the cutting machines folds of cloth forty
ply thickness can be easily cut through.
An instance of the value of machinery
in expediting manufacture is afforded
in the fact that the establishment where
cutting and button-hole machines are
used turns out one hundred suits ready
for wear inside of twelve hours.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN & Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.

NEW YORK, July 26-3 coop. M.-Cotton-
Quiet at 11'16c for middling uplands.
Without decided change; receipts
5000 bbls; sales IL 900 bbls western at ST.
@4.35 extra state $4.50@4.65; extra western
SA.50@4,70 round hoop Ohio at 81 100000;
rye -four quiet and steady. Wheat-Spring
quiet and nominal; winter 13@34c better;
receipts $4,000 bus sales 81, 600 bus; No. 2
red cash at$L121a. Rye-Firm at 6415@65c
for No. western; 65@67Hc for Canada and
state. Corn-Dull and a shade easier; re.
ce1pts 100000 bus; sales 10000 bus at 49,
@451sc for western mixed. Barley-Nom.
inal. Oats-Quiet; receipts $4,000 bus; sales
$4,000 bus at 361z@37c for mixed western !;
3814@44c for white. Pork-Srong at
$9.12H. Beef-Steady and quiet. Lard
Firmer at $6.00@6.07K. Butter-At7@16Hc.
Cheese-At 4@6Ac. Whisky-At $1,07.
Sugar-At 6 11-16@7c. Eggs-At 10@15c.
Petroleum-Crude at 5(95Ac; refined at 6A
@7c. Tallow-At 52a@15 Lice. Coal
Dull and unchanged. Leather-Very firm
good business. Weol-Firm and in better
demand at 35c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

THE extent to which American cheese
is being imported into Ayrshire and
retailed at prices greatly under the cost
of the home produce is, says the Scotsman,
beginning to tell in way that was hard
ly anticipated by dairy farmers in the
country. Many of those farmers, it ap-
pears, still find themselves in possession
of the bulk of the cheese manufactured
lastseason, with little prospect of getting
it disposed of at anything like the
figure they have been in the habit Of
realizing.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

IT is stated that DR.. LIE Moyne, the
cremationist, living at Washington, hes
donated to Washington and Jefferson
college the sum of $4,000, The Johns
town Tribune states that not long ago
DR.. LIE Moyne made will bequeathing
$4,000 to his son, a physician residing
in Pittsburg, who took very great in
terest in and superintendent the build
ing of the celebrated furnace near
Washington for cremating the dead
Recently the Pittsburg sons little boy
died and was buried in one of the
cemeteries of the city. This greatly
incensed DR.. LIE Moyne, who regarded it
as disbelief in cremation on the part of
his son, and he Immediately destroyed
the will, thus cutting off his inheritance,
and gave half of the amount to Wash
ingt0n and Jefferson college.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Impudent "Kanuck sayapeS.

The Indian agent at Fort Belknap, re-
ports to the commissioners of Indian affairs
that camp of % lodges of "British
bloods" recently crossed the line and
camped near his post. They were supplied
with meat and were very impudent. They
waited upon the agent in body and demand.
ed feast. Upon his refusal they set fire to
the hay on the meadow and exhibited other
hostilities. They are now camped five or
six miles from the fort and the agent says
intend remaining there for some time. He
suggests that the military take the band in
hand and show them across the line at an
early day.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
VARIOUS TOPICS.

AN eucalyptus tree (the blue gum)
has for long time been acknowledged
as natural agent antagonistic to ma
larial fever. Is it not possible that if
the eucalyptus tree was planted in the
yellow fever districts in the south it
might, if not prevented by very bad
drainage, have good effect? 1t grows
tall and is not very pretty. In Algeria
the locust spares eucalyptus forests, and
the sea worm never bores the wood of
Australian ships made from the blue
gum"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Fatal Explosions.

By the premature explosion of blast in
the quarry near Huntingdon, Pa, on the
22d inst, three men, Michael Ryan, SUBJ
contractor of Philadelphia, John Roneorni
and a Mr.. Keith were instantly killed.
Their bodies were terribly mutilated.
James Davis escaped with loss of hearing.
The boiler in the Central Pacific railroad
shops at Sacramento, CAL, exploded on the
goth inst, wrecking the shops, and causing
$4,000 damage. ]. NJ. Keyes, fireman, was
blown to pieces others injured.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
A Grave OHtIOoE

The situation at Memphis hourly becomes
more critical. New obstacles have arisen,
which threaten to thwart the scheme of the
authorities to depopulate the city. The
tents forwarded by the government have
arrived, and a site for the establishment of
camp has been selected. The point chosen
is seven miles due north, on the Paducah
railroad. The issue at stake, however, is
the means of transportation, the superin-
tendent of the Paduoah railroad having
peremptorily refused to furnish cars. The
people residing near the site are also so hos
tile to the movement that it is likely the
track will be torn mp to prevent the passage
of trains. Then, again, the colored people
sre not in favor of the proposed camp
scheme. They do not like the idea of being
removed from the city.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

The latest incorporated company at
tracing attention in London is the
Anglo-American Food Supply Stores
and Trading Company" with capital
of e150,00O sterling. The prospectus in
forms Englishmen generally that it is
the intention Of the company to open an
establishment in London where the
public will be enabled to purchase all
articles of food under one roof, and from
6rst hands, at a much less cost than they
are now sold for. The company is now
making special arrangements by which
the products of the great food centres of
America will be brought almost to the
door of the consumers without the en-
ployment of agents and the usual at
tendant expenses.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

Positive instructions have been sent by
the war department to prevent General
Miles from bringing on an Indian war, and
telling him that the only purpose of sending
him into the field was to protect navigation
on the Missouri river.
Secretaries McCrary, Thompson and
Schurz have considered the Indian outlook
in the northwest, and are unanimously of
the opinion that every precaution to pre-.
vent hostilities with the Indians should be
taken. 1t is thought to be the intention of
Gen. Miles to reconnoiter Sitting BULBS
camp,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, July 26-3: 100 P. M.--Flour
Quiet but firm; common to good spring
at $3.75@4.00; choice spring at $425@450.
Wheat--Active and higher, No. hard at
$1.06; No. at 9414@95Ac; No. 8 at SAG
sac; No. at TIC; No. seller August
at at 949s@95Ac seller September at $3.50
$500. Corn-Dull at 35Zc. Oats-Dull
and lower at &c. Rye-Steady at 53c.
Barley-Dul at &c for No. cash; 75c for
seller September; No. cash at 45c. Pork
Firm at $3.50. Lard-Dun at So so.
Hogs-Dull at $3.25@3.75.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

A RECENT appeal issued by the italian
silk-growers and weavers to the ladies of
Europe is at once touching and I'M
sophisticated. It seems that there has
been failure in the crop of silk-werm
cocoons, and that at the same time the
demand for silk has fallen off enormously.
The memorial begs the ladies who, under
the rule of Partisan fashion, have this
season taken to wearing SO many light
wooden and cotton materials where
lately they wore silk, to return to silks
again for the sake of the weavers and
small cocoon growers who are in a very
bad way.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Sad Accident In the Harvest Field.

Mrs. John Mehlbrecht, while assisting her
husband by driving harvester near Men
dota, H., on the 25th inst, cut both legs off
her little boy, scarcely three years old.
The mother had left the child sleeping in
distant part of the field, but while she was
going found the little fellow woke up and
wandered off into the wheat. When she
discovered that she had cut her child's legs
in that condition by her husband. Ere
doctor could arrive the child was dead,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
self Destruction.

A distressing double tragedy occurred at
Hyde Park, suburb of Chicago, on the
evening OF the 21st inst. Three maiden
sisters named Elizabeth, Anna and Nora
Trowbridge, aged respectively 43, 40 and 80
years, became imbued with the idea that
their father was abusing his trust in the
management of their property, and in a fit
of dependency the two eldest suicided by
hanging. Nora, the youngest, dwarf, per
agreement, retired to the attic until the
awful deed was accomplished and then gave
the alarm. The trio had long been regarded
as trife insane.
Joseph w. Norton, commercial travel.
er, killed himself at Syracuse, n. Y, on the
22d inst.
The Chicago Inter. Oceans Decatur, H.,
special of the 21st inst, says: Mrs. Rine-
hart and her iaughte Miss Honiker were
drowned in the Sangamon river to-day.iThe
young lady was to have been married in the
Catholic church to-day but her affianced
failed to appear and in a fit of desperation
she started for the river followed by her
mother. She plunged in and as Mrs. Rine-
hart was attempting to save her life, both
were drowned. Others of the bridal party
narrowly escaped the same fate"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

ALL the planets will be visible this
month-an unusual spectacle. Venus
can be first seen in the evening twilight.
Mercury is visible as bright star
glimmering in the west just after SUM-
set. Ruddy Mars is seen toward morn
ing, and is increasing in its glow.
Jupiter is wonderfully bright in the
east about midnight. Saturn can also
now be seen shining with pale yellow
light just before midnight. Uranus will
be near the new moon On the 21st, and
Neptune may be detected in the east
little above the horizon after the 9th.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Twenty.One Persons Killed.

The minister of the interior at st. Peters
burg, received a telegram from the governor
of Mini Novogorod, stating that a fire broke
out there on the 10th instant, destroying
the bazaar and many houses and shops.
While the fire was raging an explosion oc.
Cured in one of the shops, killing twenty
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Criminal Happenings.

DR.. Carter shot and killed a man named
Spalding, in the latter's yard, at Dodge,
Texas, on the 25th inst. Spalding had cut
Carriers friend in quarrel the day previous.
VIM. Hubbard and VIM. Woodland, milk.
men of Someryille, Mass, intoxicated, on
the 25th inst. entered the laundry of Hop
Lee, Charlestown. A dispute arose about
the payment of bill and four Cinnamon
assaulted the two men with an axe. The
men fled and the Cinnamon pursued,
killing Hubbard, and badly hacking Wood.
ard.
Bill Stallworth threatened the life of a
resident of Waco, Texas, and was arrested
On the 25th inst. While asleep under tree
under charge of the guard, party rode up
and inquired fer the prisoner. He answered,
when the mob fred, killing Stallworth and
one guard.
John Barrett, convict at Sing Sing, N.
Y, prison, attacked the officers on the 25th
and was shot dead.
A desperate fight occurred between a
posse of detectives and band of outlaws
about $50 miles from Grand Island, Ne.
braska, on the 21st inst. The detectives
were trying to get Middleton to give himself
up, and receive the pardon promised by the
governor of Nebraska for past offences, but
while Middleton was considering the propo-
sltion they opened fire on the renegades.
In the fight which ensued, two of the out
laws were killed and three wounded, the
leader, Middleton, dangerously. Two thou.
sand dollars reward is offered for the arrest
of Middleton, who is one of the worst out
laws in Nebraska.
Michael Bolander, foreman of Slauson 4
Co.'S candy works, New York city, was
murdered on the open street on the 22d
inst by Frank Portelli, an Italian whom he
had recently discharged. The victim was
stabbed to the heart
DIR. Hull, one of the leading physicians in
the vicinity OF Smithfeld, ILL.,, had Quarrel
with Stephen Joy, also highly respected
citizen, on the 10Th inst, and deliberately
stabbed him TO death.
AT Stockton, Texas, on the 22d inst. nr;.
vate Banner, of Company B, 10th cavalry.
stabbed and instantly killed Corporal Frey
OF the 10Th infantry. Banner was given
over to the civil authorities.
Samuel G. Grasty, railroad and CONNER.
clal traveller OF Atlanta, Ga., shot Mr.
Read and his son at Opelika, on the 21st
INST They attacked him in his room at the /,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
The Shot Gun Argument in Hayts.

Particulars have been received of the re-
cent deplorable riots st Port au Prince,
Hayti. The disorder began during the sit
ting of the chambers on the 3Oth of June
when party of liberals fired on Gen. Canal,
brother of the president and member of
the chamber of deputies. The general was
not hurt but the sitting was Immediately
suspended and fierce fighting commenced in
the street. The nationals held the palace.
but the liberals erected barbados and for
tiled many houses. The minister of war
was killed while trying to dispense the mob.
President Canal offered the rebels full par.
don and leave to embark unmolested for
any port they desired, but they stoutly re-.
fused the conditions and fighting continued.
On July Sd the patience of the presi-
dent became exhausted and he determined
to act. Cannon were placed quarter OF a
mile from the front of the houses occupied
by the rebels. The first shell set fire to one
of the houses and Immediately ali were
ablsZe, scattering the rebels in every direc-
ton. The fire spread fearfully, sweeping
away four blocks of buildings and destroy
ing the finance department with all its doe.
uments. About 100 houses were reduced to
ashes and 800 men killed aud wounded.
Fortunately the commercial part of the
town escaped damage. During the riots in
the capitol Gonalves st. Marie and Arcahall
rose in insurreotion, and at last accounts
were in possession of the rebels. President
Canal has dispatched troops to these towns
and expected 10 subdue the uprisings
there shortly. Cape Haytien and neigh
borhood have been the scene of constant
fighting. Many rebels have fled to st. Do
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
A Terrible Fall.

At La Sale, ILL.,, on the 10Th inst, efforts
were being made to recover the body of a
stranger, name unknown, who had fallen
into deserted coal mine west of the city.
The shaft is $50 feet deep.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

LONDON, July 26--12:3 80 P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market opens firm. Floating cargoes
steady; on passage firm; good eargoes No.
2 spring wheat off coast at ABS Cd fair aver.
age quality No. 2 Chicago spring wheat for
shipment, ETC., at AIS Cd. Weather in Eng
land unsettled.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Valuable Acquisition,

Over six hundred steerage passengers,
mostly Russians, arrived at New York on
the steamer Mosel on the 10th. Among
them are sixty families having 213 children.
The entire party represent capital of over
100000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

The single scull race IL miles and return,
between Courtney and Riley, $500 side,
took place at Silver Lake, New York, on
the 18th inst, Courtney winning the race
by half boat length. Time, 27.37A.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

The Nova Scotian ship st. Bernard, Capt
Burns, which left New York on the 9th of
June for Antwerp, has been lost On the
banks off the Belgium coast. Captain
Burns, the pilot and five men drowned.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Fatal Fall.

At Cincinnati, on the 21st instant, L. D.
Brinkley, store keeper of the Walnut
Street House, fell from fifth story window
to the ground in The rear of the hotel, and
was killed
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

A LITTLE boy of Providence, not yet
out of his short clothes, wss asked by his
grandmother the other day how he had
torn his dress. He replied that it had
got caught on a clover leaf"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Crushing Defeat of the Zulus.

The English government are in receipt of
a telegram dated Capetown, July Sth, stat
ing that Lord Chelmsford remained in camp
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

hotel for alleged improper intimacy with
Miss Read. Grasty was badly cut on the
head and hands. The elder Read was shot
dangerously in the eye and abdomen, and
the younger under the right jaw. Grasty is
under arrest.
Charles Brown (colored) was killed by
Fred Links for disturbing religious meet
ing at Clintonville, KY, on the goth inst.
During game of cards between James
Deadman and Louis Hagel, in q saloon at
Cincinnati, on the Goth inst, q dispute arose
between the two men, which terminated by
Hagel stabbing Deadman twice in the neck
and breast, killing him instantly.
In free fight at Myers grove, five
miles from Louisville, KY, on the evening
of the Goth, John Hughes (colored) was
killed and several others badly injured. In
the West Woods settlement, another Louis
vile suburb, Charles Kerr, aged 10, was
killed by Joseph P. Patterson, in a quarrel
about game of cards.
A Mormon preacher named Joseph Stand.
men in Catoosa county, Ca, on the 21st inst
Near Henderson, KY, on the 18th inst,
Jas. Leutrell killed Elisha Thompson by a
blow on the head with gun. Thompso
was in the act of preventing Leutrell from
shooting q man named Wedding. Cause
whisky.
A assassin sent bullet through the heart
of Frank Smith, at barn dance at Keys.
bury, KY, on the night of the 10th.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

till the afternoon of July Sd, awaiting the
surrender of cannon and 1000 rifles, cap
tured by the Zulus at Isandula. THESE not
arriving, he advanced and was attacked In
the open country by $4,000, who fed under
the heavy fire of the British, Lord Chelms-
ford then advanced and destroyed Unlundl.
Zulu loss 500; British lost ten killed and
Sfty.three wounded. The Zulu force va
riously estimated at from ten to twenty
thousand, surrounded the British troops
who formed a hollow square, which the
savages charged on all four sides. Alter
the Zulus were broken by the British ire,
they were pursued by cavalry and utterly
routed them. Lord Chelmsford burned
and destroyed all the military kraals and
returned to his camp the same evening.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

1T is good to dwell in amity, though
it is amity hard thing to do with some
people.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Drowned.

Samuel Farrell, journalist, George Mar
tin, of South Boston, and Mr. Miller, are
believed to have been lost in the recent gale
while boating near Boston.
B. s. Ford, of Chestertown, Ind, member
of the Indiana senate, was drowned at
Ocean City, Del, on the goth, while bathing.
By the capsizing of boat at Toronto, on
on the evening of the 10Th inst, Mrs.
Ochanie de Lisk, Emily Loren, Louis
Lefebre and son, Louis Gauvin, Leavier
Gernau, FERDINAND Blais and DeErnest De
Isle were drowned.
The steamship Langshaw, of the New Bel
fast direct line, which left New York on the
18th, returned the next day with the loss of
Capt. Balm, who had fallen overheard and
was drowned.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Obituary..

General Donald Mcleod, veteran of the
battle of Waterloo. died at his residence at
Cleveland, o., on the 23d, aged 100 years, 6
months and % days.
John Pro1att, a prominent lawyer and
author of several legal works, died at San
Francisco on the 22d instant, aged 80 years.
James A. Frazer, for many years prom
inent wholesale grocer of Cincinnati, died
on the 22d instant, after brief illness.
Peter Netf, the pioneer hardware importer
west of the Alleghanies, died at Cincinnati,
Ohio, on the Goth instant.
Perry Palmer, of the irm of Jarrett &
Palmer, died in London, England, on the
10Th instant.
Col. w. F. Barry, of the second cavalry,
and commander of Fort McHenry, died on
the 18th instant.
D. A. January, an old and wealthy mer
chant OF st. Louis, died on the 10Th. He
was IS years of age and had been identified
with many leading enterprises.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

The charm-holder is an ingenious ar
rangement of horseshoe, gauntlet and
spur. The charms are a tiny cavalry
sword, field glass, orderly cap, and other
military objects in miniature. The fate
of the young staff officer is unknown to
her
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02
Presented to
REPFCCA T, WRIGHT

Winchester, Va, by General P. II. Sherida
A memento of September 10, 1864.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-02
What's the Matter?

Mr.. Thomas of Portland introduced
series of resolves in the Senate yesterday,
expressing qualification with the fact that
the government had resumed specie pay
ments. 1t WAS peculiarly appropriate that
the Legislature having assembled on the
very day that Resumption began should de-
clare itself in the language of the resou-
tons. and it was to be presumed that they
would pass without opposition, or if OPP
posed by the greenbackers that the hard
money democrats would support them.
The result was however that they passed
the Senate by the vote of the republicans
only, and went down to the House to be
laid upon the table on the motion of Mr..
Wilson of Thomaston. hard money dem
Ocrat, by vote of 70 to 81, one democrat,
and two greenbackers voting with the
republicans in favor of giving the resolves
a passage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-02

stituted for violence, and very little pains
taken to conceal the fact
have heard of many outrages committed
in Feliciana Concordia, st. Mary ST. Lam
dry, Bossier, Rspides, Red River. Grant and
other parishes, but not as yet in n manner
which authorizes official action. Throughout
Caddo, Natchitoches Ouachita and Tensas. a
reign of terror was inaugurated which is still
maintained and which will long continue. 1t
issprobable that such is also the case in many
other parishes. Our Circuit Court will be in
session next week. A grand jury will at once
be empannelled, and am informed that many
matters will be presented to the jury to
which my attention has been called. As soon
as il can be done will prepare and forward
to YOU a detailed report of what is herein
generally stated. and also of all other cases
which may be brought to my knowledge Of
icially. Very respectfully,
4. II. LEONARD,
United States Attorney, Louisiana.
These are but the beginning of the evil
dence which will appear in regard to the
frauds and outrages of the bulldozers in
the South. More will be forthcoming,
sufficient to convince the most sceptcal
that it is time the North aroused itself in
defence of an honest, untramelled ballot.