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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Horrors of Starvation.

correspondent writing from Mizpah
Mocadoz, Morocco, states that more than
thirteen thousand persons had persisted in
that town from hunger. There were dead or
dying in every street in and out of town.
The dead were buried not more than one
span deep, and dogs soon uncovered the
earth and fed on the bodies. Smallpox,
measles, cholera and typhoid fever (the
latter now raging have succeeded each
other. In Mullahor, the Jewish quarter,
every house has been turned into hospital.
Starvation was not confined to men. Cattle,
camels, horses, asses, sheep and poultry
have all, or nearly all, persisted, but the
dogs have survived, and in their Unsuitable
hunger, finding no food in towns, and
abandoned by their masters, who have
either died or left them in search of food,
fed on human flesh. Roaming over the
country, in bands of twenty, thirty and
fifty, they sometimes even attacked any
human being they met, and devoured him.
Some twenty men, women and children
were eaten up within one mile of town.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
A Texas Flood.

4 food at Houston, Texas, on the 25th,
was the most destructive in the history OF
city. The water rose from A. NJ. to 5,
twelve inches, and continued rising all day.
The old cemetery was almost entirely inun-
dated and many graves ratings were torn
torn away and carried down stream. Many
buildings are submerged and the residents
driven out. On Texan avenue the water
rose from four to ten feet in dwellings.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Doomed City.

violent hurricane at Szegedin, Hungary,
on the 30th ult., destroyed the works pre-
pared for restoring the railway and filling
the breaches in the dam. Barges filled with
building material and earth were mostly
sunk. The storm caused extensive fresh
breaches in the railway embankment, and
the laborers are in great danger. Relief has
been sent them.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
A BAD ROnf.RIack

AT San Francisco, CAL, on the night of
the 25th, boot-black named VIM. Bou-
LANCE, attempted to shoot Pauline Christian,
servant girl who had repulsed his atten-
ton. He red an Intellectual shot. A
policeman attempting to arrest him received
shot in the arm and he in turn shot Bou-
LANCE in the face. The latter then fired at
VIM. Frey, the girls employer, killing him.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Burned to Death.

The house OF John L. Keogh, at Carbon
Hill, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 29th,
and son eyed II, and daughter Is, were
burned to death Keogh had his face and
hand terribly burned in endeavoring to
rescue his children. His younger child
aged FIVE, had his head and arms badly
scorched and its recovery is doubtful.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Chicago.

CHICAGO, May 80 P. M.-Flour-
Steady bat quiet. Wheat Steady and easier
at 92c for cash; 92Ae for seller May 9224c
for seller June. Corn-Weak and easier
at 3334c for cash; 35c bid for seller May !;
Soc for seller June. Oats-Steady at 25c fer
cash; 2534c for seller May. Rye-Unchang-
ed. Barley-Higher; zoe bid. Pork
Heavy and lower at 1886 for cash; 1915
for seller June; SO So for seller July. Lard
Weak and easy; $500 asked Tor cash !;
$6.6216 bid for seller June; $60711 for SELL
er July. Whisky-At $1.O4. Hogs-Re.
ceipts $500 head; active and firm and SO
10c higher; light at $3.55@36 5; heavy
packing at $3.30@3 60; shipping at So 4O@
3.75.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Gone ~ the all.

About two months ago the new Park Ho.
tel was opened in fine style, at Columbus,
o., and on the 1st inst. w. D. Horn was ap.
pointed receiver, to manage the hotel at the
request of the creditors, who furnished the
building. The claims thus far filed aggre.
cate about $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Gov. Seymour Declines.

Gov. Seymour has written lengthy re-
Belmont conference, asking him to accept
the nomination for governor of New York
ply to the letter of the committee of the
nextfall. He refuses to accept the tender,
and in the most positive terms asserts that
he has retired from politics.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

Warehouses, foundries, stores, ETC., were
flooded, and all buildings on the South
Side, from the corner of Maine and Com
merce streets to Travis, have their rear ends
and cellars filed. Many valuable buildings
were entirely swept Oft,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
1t Must BE Stoppot.

The principal matter cons idered at the
cabinet session on the I'd inst. was the
threatened invasion of the Indian territory
by whites. Late information received by
the secretary of the interior, indicates that
the movement rs more formidable than at
first stated, parties being formed in various
portions OF the country. 1t was determined
this incursion should be prevented as far as
practicable.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
New jerseys Holy Civ.

Nearly all the saloons and a majority of
the cigar stores at Newark, n. j., were
closed on Sunday, the 9th, and even the
sale of New York papers stopped, by agents
of the Citizens Protection association,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
western FreebOOfers.

The Ruby Hill stage was stopped near
Eureka, New, on the night of the Goth ult.,
by three men, and the passengers and ex-
press box rifled. In Eureka the same night,
two men went to a livery stable, bull-dozed
the hostlers, took two of the best horses and
started Oft, pursued by the sherif's posse.
They were overtaken and in the fight that
ensued one of them, John Sullivan, was
killed, and one other wounded and taken to
-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Great Fire Mt OrenburS. Russia.

The recent fire at Orenburg, Russia, is
attributed to carelessness. Nine hundred
and forty-nine dwellings were burned to.
gether with one mosque, four mills, two
hundred and ninety-two shops, several tar,
coal and fre-wood stores, lumber yards,
meat market and fruit market, women's
gymnasium, club house, work house, police
station and Justices court, besides the build
ings already named. The car has contri-
buted ten thousand roubles for the relief of
the sufferers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
A Crazy Mans Terrible Sacrifice,

Charlesi f. Freeman, of Pocasset, Mass,
on the I'd instant, killed his fve-year-old
daughter. The man is Second Adventist,
and has been attending revival meetings.
About week ago he claimed to have re.
ceived a"wonderful revelation" and has,,not
eaten or slept since. He says the Lord di-
rected him to sacrifice his little daughter
and declares that she will rise again in three
days. On I'd inst. he sent word to the neigh
bors that he would make the revelation
known and offer an orthodox sacrifice. In
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

GEN. RATHBoNE, chief of Gen. Dix
old personal staff, when he saw that not
a single surviving member of the staff
was to be absent from the funeral OF
their commander, said: "This shows
the relation of Gen. Dix to his staff.
There has never been a more delightful
relation between any officer and his staff.
The fact is we all loved him."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The EarthunaEe

The official report of the earthquake at
Miaret, Persia, ON the 22d of March, says
that twenty-one villages were totally de-
stroyed, and 922 persons, 1850 sheep, 1,125
oxen, ia horses and 55 camels killed,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

A posse of citizens attempted to arrest a
gang of horse thieves at the house of one
Mr.. Pierson, fourteen miles from Forsythe,
in fancy county, Mo-, on the night of the
30th ult. The thieves resisted, and in a
melee James Cogburn and VIM. Bates, of
the posse, were killed and another severely
wounded, and man named Lockhard,
believed to be killed. The rest of the out
laws escaped. Great excitement existed
among the citizens.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
PrenarinR to Resist

The Bulgarians, afraid of the province
being again occupied by Turkish troops,
are making preparations for resistance. 1t
is rumored they mean to oppose and modest
even international delimitation commits.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Death Roll.

Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, for half a century
editress of GodyS Lady'S Book died on the
30th ult.
Ex-Congressman c. L. Cobb died al
Elizabeth City, n. j., on the 30th ult.
Rev. Charles D. Helmer, d. D., for.
merly of Chicago and Milwaukee, died at
Lockport, New York, on the 2Sth, after a
prolonged illness.
Congressman Rush Clark, of Iowa, died
suddenly at his rooms at Washington on the
18th ult, after an illness of only few hours.
His disease was meningitis.
Doctor and ex-Mayor Stephen Harris, OF
San Francisco, died at Napa, Cal, on the
2Sth.
Gen. James P. Brownlow, late cavalry of.
fcer of the federal army, and son of ex.
senator Brownlow, died at Knoxville, Tenn,
on the Goth.
Gen. Alfred Sully, L. S. A, died at Van
eouver (W. t. barracks, on the 9th.
Countess Florini Mazzini, the celebrated
botanist, is dead.
Ex-Judge George S. Barnard, of the New
York supreme court, died at New York, on
the 9th.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Another Railroad Soil,

The Chicago and Pacific railroad was sold
at auction at Chicago, on the LIST inst, by a
master in chancery, John II. Wrenn, for
$916,10O. 1t is said the property is really
bought for John l. Blair, Esq.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Public Debt

The debt statement for April shows an in.
crease of $l9,952. Decrease since June 80,
1878, $7SS, 666.615. Cash in treasury, $44S,-
467, 1856.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Milwaukee.

MINIATURES, May $500 P. M.-Flour
Tame but strong; choice spring at $500
@4.50; common to fair extras at $325@3.75.
Wheat-Quiet but easier: No. 2 cash at
91@9l nc; No. ct 7712@77Ac; No. at
72@74c; No. seller May at 9l@91 nc; seller
June at 92H@93c; seller July at 94c. Oats
Dull at Csc. Corn-Dull at 1890. Rye
Quiet at doc. Barley-Sronger No. 2
57@58c; No. 3 at 38@39c. Pork-Lower tt
1886. Lard-At $500. Hogs-At $3.50
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Test Case.

Preliminary papers have been served in
the suit which S. B. Chittenden and Gen.
Butler agreed should be brought to test the
validity of the reissue of United States
legal tender notes in time of peace. The
suit has been brought in the United States
Circuit Court for the southern district of
New York, and is founded upon genuine
transaction in the regular course of bust
ness. The trial of the action may not take
place for month at least, but whatever the
decision is by Judge Blatchford, may be the
defeated party will appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States in time probably
for argument at the October term.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

New York.

Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN & Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
FOrRiQn

LONDON, May 3.-12:30 P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market opens steady; floating car
goes steady
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Remarkable Escape.

After four days entombment, the miners
imprisoned at Sugar Notch, Pa, by the
fall of the roof of the mine, were released
on the 28th. The men sustained life by the
meat of the mule, which the boy, sent to
give them warning, had fortunately taken
with him, and the stream running through
the mine gave them the needful supply of
water. Reliefs of laborers worked con.
stantly night and day, and finally
they succeeded in making a channe
through ffty-foot block of coal. The men
suffered little from the confinement, and
they and their rescuers were loudly cheered
as they reached the surface of the mine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

knS Ae1&n Oh tefFOF
A feeling of gloom prevails. The rigorous
police regulations respecting the watching
of houses and visits and searches by night,
are to be made still more stringent. After
nine o'clock in the evening nobody will be
at liberty to show himself in the street
without a certificate upon which must be
written and attested the place from which
the bearer comes and to whence he is going.
Gen. Gourko, the governor general, planned
this ordinance. Soon it will not be neces.
sary to light candle before half-past min 2
O'Clock, yet at nine everybody must be in
doors and after ten O'Clock, as in barracks,
every light must be out. Notwithstanding
all this the insecurity in St. Petersburg in.
creases every day. Grenades are exploded
in the streets. The intention of the
Nihilists is believed to be to keep the police
| in a state OF constant excitement and tire
them out or lull them to sleep with the idea
that the danger has been exaggerated.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Self SLAUGHTER,

NJ. D. Vincent, of the firm of Vincent &
Co., clothiers, New Brunswick, N. j., which
firm was recently sold out by receiver,
suicided at New Brunswick on the I'd inst.
Henry Axman, butcher, hung himself
at Memphis, Tenn, on the I'd inst.
James H. Field, aged sixty, of the frm
of Field & Cary, furniture dealers, killed
himself at Providence, R. l.
Mrs. M. E. Raymer, residing at $50 Third
street, Memphis, Tenn, suicided on the
9th, by taking an overdose of morphine.
Cause, domestic trouble.
w. F. Cassebohm, first assistant treasurer
of the city of San Francisco, CAL, shot him.
self fatally on the 2Sth. He left note
directed to the coroner stating that he had
lost $4,000 in speculation, and had used
$4,000 of the city's money to cover mar
gins.
George Ensig, convicted of murder in the
first degree, for killing his wife, suicided in
his cell at York, Pa, on the 9th, by cutting
his throat with razor and then hanging
himself with rope made out of towel.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Chtcago's Latest Sensation.

Last December, Mrs. Ada Roberts filed q
bill against Theodore B. Weber, member of
promin ent boot aud shoe firm at Chicago,
charging Weber with seduction, and that
he had promised to pay her per cent. en-
FIVE thousand dollars during his life, on con.
dition that she would support their son and
keep silence; that Edmund Jassun, his
lawyer, was appointed trustee of the fund,
but that Weber had unaccountably slipped
these payments. Weber filed answer last
month alleging that blackmail had been
practiced, and confessing that certain sums
had been extorted from him, but that the
woman having failed to keep silence, he
had stopped payments. On the afternoon
of the 18th instant, as Weber, Mrs. Roberts
and Jassun were in the latter's office, tax.
ing Weber's testimony, Mrs. Roberts sud-
denly drew pistol and shot Weber in the
abdomen. He was taken home, bleeding
inwardly. Physicians pronounce his recov-
cry improbable.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-10

known steamboat men Of New York, and Couu-
sellor r. II, Graham OF the New York bar.
r. WitKlNsON and wife, OF london W. G. Dickey
of Ohio; Il. J. Cisnews, New York; J. H. Durking
Florida; +. H. Smith, New York, and Q. + Hamil.
ton, Boston, arc stopping at the Riggs House
NJ G. WILCOX, Mount Airy, Ca; William III. Ira
yers, West Virginia; o. North aud wife Richmond
+. a. sumner. Old Fort, n. c., and John J, llil
Asheyille, ~ e. registered at the st. James yesIer
day.
L. T. MoREUEAD. North Carolina II. r. Bridgers
North Carolina Walter Scott and wife, New York
w. f.. Wattos Scranton, Pa; NJ. Myers and wiie
Virginia. and A. i. Shrevc, New York, registered
at the Metropolitan yesterday.
REV. FATHER DE WUIF, formerly pastor Of st.
Peters Church, this city and who has been on an
extended trip to Europe left L'vernool In the
steamer Celtic on the Gth instant aud expects TO ar
rive in this city the latter part of the month.
ENGINEER COMMISSIONER WILLIAM J. TwtSING
A.. who has been absent from the city for more
than fortnight returned yesterday. While away
he examined the sewerage system in several OF INC
Northern cities, and will take advantage OF all Tho
Improvements brought to his observation in ex
tending the sewerage of the District.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-10
votes North and South {:


We concur with the Herdld's view, for it
is selfapparent that in a contest between
the Solid South and the Solid North the lat
ter would have majority of 93, but trans
fer of AZ of its votes to the candidate of the
South would elect him. All consideration
of third-party candidate securing a State
and possibly throwing the election into the
House may now bc dismissed as wholly out
of the question. The struggle will lie be-
tween the two great parties, and the Ma
tionals can do no more than to make their
influence felt by swelling the vote of one Of
these parties by combination, or decreasing
it by running an Independent ticket. In
the existing state of public opinion there is
not the slightest hope of Democratic success
without the 80 votes of New York.
With these secured there are still II to be
gained. Indiana might give the required
dozen, with three to spare. New Jersey
and Oregan might possibly squeeze the
Democratic candidate in, and the exact
number needed might also be given by Cali
fornia and Connecticut. All these five COM
bined, without New York, would fall 8
votes short of the number required. Out
side of these six States we do not believe
the most enthusiastically sanguine Demo-
crat would claim a single vote. On the
vote of New York, then, the contest mainly
turns. If that State casts its vote for the
Republican candidate there is scarcely the
shadow of hope for Democrat President.
| If it goes Democratic the election of a
Democratic President is not made certain
but there is something more than q bare
possibility TILDEN claims that no other
Democratic candidate than himself can
carry the State, and he knows that, unless
there is free field for fraudulent voting in
New York city to overcome the Republican
majority outside of Manhattan Island, even
he cannot do it. Hence the desperate battle
waged in his interest for unprotected polls
and unlimited fraud.
The Herald's view of the case is eminently
conservative and cautious, and clearly shows
why the Democrats are now so desperate
and so persistent in their desperation. They
desire to break down the safeguards against
fraud and corruption which the election
| laws interpose, so that the clty oil new fork
may oyerwhelm the honest vote of the rural
districts by its food of illegal votes, cast
through false registration and repeating.
With TILDEE as their candidate, and the
flood gates of dishonesty thrown open, they
hope to secure thirty-ive of the needed votes
to swell the Southern vote toward ma
jorIty But even if these safeguards are en-
tirely removed, which they will not be, the
tide has turned so strongly against the DEM
oeratc party in all thoughtful and bust
ness circles under its revolutionary indica-
tions, that the Republican majority will
rise to that of 1879, thus settling the ques-
ton beyond aperadventure. If the Repub'
licans carry New York, which is certain un-
der an honest election, and more than prob
able under the most adverse circumstances
New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Indi-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-10
TIE souTHERN EXODUS.

The exodus of the colored people Of the
cotton and sugar States seems TO have
aroused the planters to sense of what this
departure means and what 1t will bring in its
train of consequences. They freely admit in
open convention that the colored race have
been wronged and oppressed to point be-
yond the average power of endurance, and
that the exodus is not without provocation.
They even go so far under menacing con-
sequences to them, rs TO admit also that
these causes should be removed. This may
look like a step in the direction of relief,
but confidence in such relenting will be
slow of growth for the simple reason that
the spirit out of which the provocations
have grown, although rebuked, is not up
rooted These provocations never should
have existed, and never would under q
proper regard for the equal rights which the
law ostensibly vouchsaies to the citizen ey-
erywhere in this free country.
1t has required severe and practical les
son to teach the planters Of the South what
they should have known before, that their
plantations are worthless to them without
labor to perform the tillage and the gather
ing in harvest. They should have under
stood, what they would but for their aristo-
cratic cussedness, that after the colored
| slave had become freeman, invested with
equal rights, that if his services were to be
retained for any length of time he must be
treated as q citizen and not as chattel. a
modicum of common sense would have
taught the landowners that their only
source of labor was the colored race, and
that their only hope of securing that labor
was by treating the blacks III every Other
relation, save that of society, as they treat
each other They should have learned fal
in advance of this exodus that they mus
respect the political opinions and rights o
the colored citizen, and deal will
him honestly and justly in al
matters of business, if they expected
to secure his confidence and aid in the con
duct of their enterprises. This they neg
lected or despised, perhaps; aud hence tn
exodus has come to punish them for tn
wrongs they have perpetrated. They nov
promise to reverse their policy, but there i
a latent fear that they cannot be trusted
that this promising opens the eyes Of ex
"pectation only to be closed again in dis
appointment. If the people of the Soutl
can but learn and practice the lesson O
good faith, civil respect, and honest and fai
dealing with the colored man, we shoul,
sincerely advise him to remain in the LIANT
of his fathers and in the home Of his youth
but never at the expense of his equal right
as free man and citizen Of the Unite
States. 1t has not afforded us any NOR
pleasure to contemplate this exodus than i
did to witness secession and rebellion bu
, it having come as the result of injustice W
have regarded it as an act of humanity t
aid in ameliorating the condition of thes
wanderers from oppression.
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