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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
Choice Flower and Garden
Seeds, Strawberries, Peaches,
&c.
New Sorts, by Mail.

DLASrS OF the newest and finest improved
= sorts, carefully packed snd prepaid BY
m,il- Ny collection of Strawberries took
the first premium for the best Collection, ae
the great show Of the Mass Horticultural al
Society in Boston. grow over 100 varie-
tes, the most complete collection in the
auntry, including all the new, large
American aud imported kinds Priced
descriptive Catalogues. gratis, BY mail
also, Bulbs, Fruit Trees, Roses, Evergreens.
eaoiee Flower, Gardn, Tree, Evergreen,
Herb, or Fruit Seeds 30 packets of either
~ sl-oo, by mail.
e T. The True Cape God Cranberry,
beat sort for Upfaed, Lowland, or
=. Garden, by mail, prepaid. sl.00
fsr loo, $500 per l,oOo. Wholesale Cata-
'oSlc to The Trade. Agents wanted.
B. NJ. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries
and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass.
Established 1882
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

TIE total output of the upper
penlnsular iron mines, exclusive OF
all-rail shipments to points below
Escanaba, foot up to 72l,403 tons
for little less than h alf the Sc ason.
Of this amount, making no mention
of all-rail shipments by either road
which, perhaps, about offset each
other-and 468.l50 tons can he
credited to the Marquette district,
and 2o0,747 tons TO the mines ott4e
MeEomince ran g e. = Marqctte
Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

THE area of unsurveyed land in
the United States, excluding Alaska,
exceeds the area of lands surveyed
and placed in he market. The un.
surveyed portion ofyoung Nebraska
is greater than the area of England !,
Ireland and Scotland combined.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
1880. Summer Arrangement 1880.

4Heais.
Connects at ST. Paul and Minneapolis with
trAin, Est and South, at st Cloud with trains
for ksrose and the Sank Valley 4 at Brai-
nerd sll trains make clssc connections 10 and
from Duluth and 10 and fr,D the West and
South.
Clo.e connection with st. Paul trains at
y T. Jun -tion 81. Paul ( Pacific Rtilroa d
srsias st Glynd d.hfor Fishers Landing, Fort
'i>rr1 and the British Possessions at Bis
msrek With stages for Standing Rock, Fort
Rioe, Berthosa, Fort keough, and other
points in Montana also with \. W. Stage
md EXPIRES. Co luc TO Dead~ood City and
oil points in tho Black Hills
H. y. SARGENT,
G.nl Manager At. Fsnl.
q. &. SASBORS. H. A. TOWNE,
Gent FRI. ( Ticket AT. Superintendent
st Paul. Brainerd
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
100000 Acres

OF Minnesota and Dakota Lands for sale bv
the Land Department. Reduced rates oil
fare snd freight to actual settlers.
Full information given upon application
- IAsxs h. PowKR, Genn Agent. "a
Jackson street. 81. Paul. or Dramerd, Nina
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JAMES BARDON,
Real Estate Agent,

SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
VII bay aud sell lots 10 Superior, Duluth
aha neiShhorfng towns and lands surround.
aug paf taxes for non residents in suy county
y "isconsia or Minnesota, sud trapsact .
general resi- estate business
ASses speciality of locating lands along
"ae o. the Northern Pacific Reireac
- .f,Ai' Of The Company
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Land Seekers Fand Settlers Tickets

Ca5s be obtained nj nj Sts.opS at forrest Rads.
The northern portion Il thi- Road rius through a
rel, on al,.raus IN rranie. birch. ha-Swoa1. OAK,
elm LeGnls.A AL pine Snecfai Inducements =
parties desiring Ia.,te ma.fi-e-y f,r nang.ay'u-
ing.
Correspondence Sa'.e."L
For Information amply to any gent Of tie Com,
H 2. WI ITC0H5,
CIR East Water AL Mason ~tr.e cts Milwaukee. Wi
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

a $4,000 brIh cont hyuse, $50,
coo school hots, going up, and a
machine shop to 20 up. On third
street Que sees a continuation Of
saloons and ral es.ate Offices.
There is land ciice here for every
farmer and all seam to thrive. AgIi-
cultural implement mgcLants are
as numerous rs the clam Iocators.
GOOD business lots oring $GCQ,
building lots sell from 500 to 500
each, lands from S to $40
per acre. Here | found Mr.. Cutler,
who was Postmaster in Saltwater
for fifteen years. lie IS farming
and speculating IN lands and max
ing money, This 50iut IS about
sevcnty-tiye miles from Penbina,
by land, and boats run from here
TO Pemhina and It. Garry every
week.
Chas. II. Alsop. of Northern
Pacific preliminary suveynotcrioty
around the Lake, is owner of the
Aisop line Of steamers unnirg from
Fargo to Ft. Garry. Buildings at
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
THE WEEKLY PIONEER PRESS
Enlarged to Fifty Six Columns,

with new dress Of clear and beautiful type. Is nov
tie
Queen OF the Family Journals
Of the Northwcst Il edited with great care 70 Incot
all sl- rae1.t-.ments Of the Rural FA5f-LY CInCLa.
Il contains Tie cream Of all the CURRENT LITERATURE
ANb SELECT HEArISs NJ rTEE II the day; carefully
prepared and classified summaries Of ALL TIE IELE-
Graphic aSD Mail. NEWS Of the week, with al the
latest and most important news in full, Is Farm and
Housed oIs Departments and recently added Puzzls
Column are among its attractive features.
Its Weekly Review CT the Markets,
prepared especially for its columns is alone worth
many times the subscription price . every farmer and
country dealer IL gru produce PROVISIONS, live stock
CT any sort Of farm product.
The subscription price Of the Weekly was last year
reduced 70
one Dollar and Fifteen Cents per Year.
This reduced price is stu maintained, uotwl5hstand.
IN IS enlarged size aQd great increase n the price q
paper.
tie wants Of the rural families OF the Northwest it IS
by far the Cheapest and Best Weekly Journal published
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From the Land of the Dakotas, and
Red River of the Eorth.
Editorial Correspondence.

Editorial spondence
GRAND FORKS, Dakota Ter, July H. 80.
The towns along the Northern
Pacific from Brainerd to FARGO do
not seem TO thrive, but 60 west or
north from this last point and eyi-
dence Of growth and prosperity are
visible on every side. On the train
we met Mr.. Hollingsworth, of eally
Duluth history, who with 'little
Benz. Franklin" used to be runnin.
tangents, curves &c. Mr.. II. has
resided in Philadelphia since 1873,
and now returns TO go into the en-
ploy of the Northern Pacific at
Brainerd.
At Fargo We were surprised at
the magic growth of the place. The
"Continental"--a new hotel, when
finished is to have about 200 rooms
and viii cover more ground than
any hotel northwest of Chicago.
Another mammoth hotel is talked
Of to be located on the right ofway
near the bridge. Five years from
now Cass Go. will undoubtedly be
the richest county in the United
States, producing more wealth from
the soil. At Fargo we met Cuyler
Adams, the dj5ti,sgue looking
bachelor farmer Of Spiritwood farm,
near Jimto~n. Cuyler has several
hundred acres of wheat, owns an
elevator, bat has no wife yet. IL
probably is afraid the grasshoppers
might come along some time and
carry fellows wife OF. | guess
that's why there are so many grass
widows" in the country. Fargo is
10 have the Holly water works and
many other metropolitan improve
meAts. Our companion d,s coyuge
to this point was Senator \Ym.
Window, who owns large landed F.
interests north Of here. Ex. Gov. .
Horace Austin, OF Minnesota, is ia
tie L, 5. Land Office here, bat l
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

EAT FRUIT.-Now is the time to
eat fruit, Whether vegetarians be
correct in their theories or not,
there can be no question thai the
summer season is a time when peo-
pic can dispense very largely with
animal tood. The best time for any
particular diet is the time when
nature supplies it. Some people
ave fond of eating things out Of sea-
SOD. The foundation of this taste
is, no doubt, to be sought in the
fact that food out OF its season is
difficult to obtain, and correspond
ingly expensive; and this is just
what . great many people like. But
the tYue rule is TO eat In season.
Aud summer is the season when
Nature affords Eer great supply Of
fruits and vegetables. No diet can
equal this during the heated term,
People are never injured by it il
they vii only follow the rule of
taking it in season, and in modera-
ton. If a person takes hearty
meal of unripe fruit be will very
likely suffer troa it, but that is be
cause he eats it out Of season. Or
if he Grams bis stomach with green
peas and young potatoes, he should
not be surprised to find his gluttony
rewarded with touch Of collie or
cholera. 1t is the proper use OF
things that is beneficial the abase
of anything, 10 matter how good,
ii itself, il sure 10 be Gil injury.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

THE last new kim n photography
surpasses the ingenuity OF the man
who invented The spirit photo
graphs, and suggests how handy ii
would have been had that crafty
person added this TO bis devices.
\ Frcnchman takes one negative Of
a sitter with open eyes. Then he
makes the sitter shut his eyes and
remain In exactly the same position
while another negative is take. The
two negatives are printed on the
same paper, one on each side, eX-
ac,ly coinciling. When this double
faced picture is hela in proper posi-
ton before 4 lamp, and the lamp is
rapidly moved or caused TO flicker,
the curious effect is produced Of
long-continued winking. II is not
claimed that . person looks more
beautiful when he keeps winking,
but it cannot be denied that It gives
one a very interesting appearance.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
IL NTiSERy

II i. NETJALF D. n. s. Duluth. once over
VI. the Post Office. The saving OF teeth q
Specially. 0.,srutiY. and Mechanical Dentistry
and satisfaction guaranteed ug S-5m
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
st. Paul & Duluth
Railroad.
FAVORITE ROUTE BETWEEN TIE
NORTHWEST AND EAST.

Direct route from Duluth, to ST. Paul
ports on Lake Superior and all eastern points,
Saltwater and points on the st. Croix river.
CONNECTIONS:
ATST. PAUL-With trains for the East.
South and Southwest
At WHITE BEAR-With trains for
Saltwater and the II. & St. L. Ry. for Min
neapolis.
AT WYOMING-stage to Taylors Falls.
AT NORTH BRANCH-Stage to Sunrise
CITY.
AT HARRlS-stage to Cambridge and
Isanti County.
AT RUSH CITY-Stage to Grantsburg
and the cranberry country OF 6urnett county,
VIE
AT FINE CITY-Stage to Brunswick,
kanabec county.
On and after May 30th, 1880, and until
fnrther notice, passenger trains will be run
as follows.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
GRAND FORKS, DIT,

is on the west bank OF the Red
River, opposite the mouth Of Ned
Lake river. As we crossed the tur-
bid Red in the suburbs Of this
this place, we looked down upon
its elm and cottonwood shaded
banks and saw a Sioux squaw oper-
ating sewing machine, placed in
the green grass, in front Of her wig
wan. This is by far the most pros
porous place we have yet seen; only
two years since its new start, being
IN old Hudson Bay trading post.
1t has fifteen hundred population.
three newspapers, three elevators,
two grist mills, two banks, three
principal hotels. (anI about seven
teen other kinds, SIX lumber yards,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24
TIsHERs LANDING

is on Red livcr. The old classical
name Of the place is "Shirt Tail
Bend" 1t was rhe point where the
heavy draft boats from Ft. Garry
and Pembina met the light draft
boats from above. The place is q
little over two years old, has some
three hundred population, and
growing. Mr.. Dewey, formerly Of
the Barron County Shield, runs the
paper here. Mr. Thompson, former
~ of St. Croix Falls, owns a gri~t
mill aud stose. We were shown
less than a section Of land of his,
near the depot, said to contain $l0,-
600 worth Of wheat, some stalks of
~ hich measured seventy inches in
length to-day. They say the hotel
here has a good tabIe--a sort of
turn-table, or extension, where ham
is served twenty-one times q week.
Mr. Brown, formerly Of D'Unger's
Duluth Herald is associated with
Mr.. Dewey IN the pub lication Of
his paper.
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a Leader OF Opinion
Its Improved Market Feporta.
TERMS:

INC TAIIl II'Nf.FFs i7fif-73, EeTll l8sIhs Tcf
week. postage paid. 5l2 90
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
A Locomotive Built for Fast Run.
ming.

THE Baldwin Locomotive Works have
Just turned out remarkable specimen
of work intended for remarkable pur-
pose. 1t is passenger engine con-
structed for the Reading Road, to be
run over the Bound Brook route,
between this city and New York, in
which service it is expected to eclipse
any thing of the kind going. 1t has
been built chiefly for speed; and, if the
expectations of the contracting parties
are carried out, the time between this
city and New York over the above route
will be lessened about half an hour.
The distance from Philadelphia to New
York is ninety miles, and the fast trains
over both the Pennsylvania and Bound
Brook roads have been making it in
about two hours. The Reading people
are aiming to make the distance in one
hour and half, and with this object
in view they some time ago contracted
with the Baldwin Company to build
them an engine that would perform that
work, or, in other words, accomplish
ninety miles in ninety consecutive
minutes. The new engine has the
largest pair of driving wheels, perhaps,
of any passenger locomotive in this
country, the wheels being 6 1-2 feet in
diameter. The ordinary driving wheel
of passenger engines has diameter of
from to 5 1-2 feet. The new engine is
different in other respects also, having
but one pair of driving wheels instead
of two additional smaller ones, as is the
usual custom. 1t is also much
heavier than the regular passenger en-
CINE; its weight is about 81, 900 pounds,
while the ordinary engine weighs from
10000 to 10000 pounds. 1t is expected
to make the entire distance to New
York without stopping to take water.
That this may be done it is supplied
with tank of about twice the capacity
of engines in general. 1t will hold A.
600 gallons of water The capacity of
the ordinary passenger engine is from
1000 to $500 gallons. The new engine,
which was taken out of the works few
days ago and is now at Reading, will
be put to use on the Bound Brook Route
within week or ten days. Should the
attempt to thus lessen the time between
Philadelphia and New York prove sue
cessful other engines will be built and
put regularly on the road.-Philadclphia
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
A MethOdical Guillotincd by
His Own Hand.

A Boston dispatch of the goth says !:
The citizens of Chelsea and adjoining
towns and cities have been afforded a
sensation entirely novel in this part of
the country, in the shape of a suicide,
in which remarkable ingenuity and
deliberate study as to details renders
the story, as told to interested citizens,
almost beyond belief. Stephen M.
Pillsbury, Jr., aged thirty, eldest son of
raiser of poultry and vegetables, has
for the past few years assisted his father
on the farm, sleeping during the sum-
mer in barn on the premises with his
father. In the winter he lived in South
Boston and visited the farm daily to
tend the stock and poultry. Last Sat
urday both slept at night in the barn.
In the morning the father set off for
home, leaving the son asleep in the loft.
He returned; and on opening the door
of the barn was Mortified to see the
headless corpse of his son lying upon
the floor in pool of gore. Above the
body stood rudely constructed gull
lotine, which had been improvised from
material found in the barn. 1t was
patterned after the famous instrument
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
The Gushing Woman.

THE gushing woman is ubiquitous
parsonage; her presence is feature of
almost every community from Cape
Colony to Kamschatka; we may find
her in transports over the ruins of
Thebes, going into ecstasies at Pompeii,
enraptured over an old master or a
young Apollo, over a Grecian urn or a
Partisan bonnet, over a cracked tea-cup
or the cut of a panier. A baby sends
her into paroxysms of enthusiasm, so
does the last novel by an acknowledged
genius; she dotes upon poetry, and
pirates about Bach and Beethoven as if
they had been her school mates. In the
mean time she is not altogether without
discretion; she knows ON which side her
bread is buttered, and gushes to suit the
occasion, while she pushes herself into
favorable positions, into distinguished
intimacies, by her persistent effusiveness.
To be sure, there is the woman who
gushes by nature, in spite of herself and
every body else, whose spontaneity is as
irrepressible as Traddles's hair, who
would find something to be eager and
interested about in dungeon cell, or
subjects to excite vivacity in the bottom
less pit; and there is her sister who is
grandiloquent by art, because enthusiasm
has proved becoming in another, pre-
serves an air of youth and righteousness
about one; she attitudinizes mentally
for the benefit of her audience, because
the postures take her fancy, are striking
and popular and applauded. At first ac-
quaintance one is, perhaps, made cap
tive by her vivacity; but familiarity
breeds contempt; she becomes your
bosom-friend in the space Of
morning call, if you
are worth cultivating, and she writes
love-letters to you, if you are one whom
others delight to honor, one in whose
society it is a distinction to be found
She confides her biography to whomso-
ever will listen, and, seen through her
spectacles, it is usually quite remark
able one. GA primrose by the rivers
brim y is great deal more to her than
yellow primrose merely; it is an op-
portunity to marshal her adjectives, and
to order up her battalion of SMILES for
service. The gushing woman is no
doubt product of civilization. which
in giving her a certain amount of cult
walton has not been able to supply an
equal share of brains; she mistakes the
exaggerated expression of a feeling for
the emotion itself. Sometimes indeed,
it is not so much intentional affectation
with her, a desire tc seem capable Of
profound appreciation for all that is re-
fined or abstruse, as it is the strong ne
cessity for excitement developed in some
natures, a revolt against the common
place and even tenorsof her way In
the mean time we would not be under
stood as decrying enthusiasms which
are the natural outgrowths of a sincere
and active mind, and whose manifesto
tons bear the same relation to the pretty
rhapsodies of the gushing woman as
the substance bears to the shadow
H07per'S BdzGr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
A Female COIOred Soldier.

A VERY curious case has been devel-
oped before Prothonotary Mann, in Phil
adelphia. A young colored woman who
served in the ranks during the war made
application for a pension, stating that
she believed she was entitled, because
of her long service during the rebellion.
and having received three or four
wounds, one of which kept her in the
hospital for number of months. She
is rather neat-looking colored woman.
giving her name as Catharine Hill and
her age, as near as she can tell, about
thirty-two. She told such straight
forward story, entering into all the de-
tails of her service in the army, that it
seemed impossible to doubt her, espe-
cially as she is able to produce wit
nesses to substantiate her story. The
Prothonotary questioned her closely,
and her answers were always ready.
The case was such an interesting one
that it excited more than ordinary at
tention. Catharine was in the service
between three and four years, and, all
though her sex was known after she was
in the hospital, she was permitted to
continue in the service, and at the close
of the war received an honorable dis
charge. She says that she enlisted in
the 9th Maryland, and was passed by
Drs. Creek and Perry, of Baltimore.
The reason she enlisted was because she
got into =" a little difficulty" She paid
one of the doctors $3.50 for passing her.
She was asked, "Were you wounded
at any timeP''
Yes, SIR" she replied; sIslsas
struck right here" (pointing to the
scar on her fright cheeky, s'with bull
let, that knocked two of my teeth out :"
(and then showed the course of the bull
let.) "I was also shot here" Gin the
thigh, cat Newbern, N. c., and was
wounded in the side.'
elbow long did you serve in the
army?"
81 was seven months in the hospital
and three years in the field. When l
was wounded in the side went to New
bern, but was not SO bad that could
not 60 around"
The name she enlisted under was
Henry Williams. She said she was
handy with a gun, and rose to be SER
geant She marched with the rest, used
a regular musket and bit the cartridges,
"although it was pretty hard on the
teeth" She kept Der hair cut short.
When she got into the hospital it was
discovered that she was woman, but
when she got well they did not dis
charge her. There were six men in her
mess. Her story is hard to believe, but
it is undoubtedly true, and Mr.. Mann
thinks a pension should he awarded her.
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of death, and despite the roughness Of
its construction performed its bloody
work as thoroughly and unerringly as
did the foreign-made murderous ma
chine. The two uprights were twelve
feet high, and securely spiked to the
floor OF the upper story, to which they
reached. These were grooved on the
inside, and allowed of easy movement a
piece of plank in which was secured,
edge downward, the blade of carpen-
ter's broad-ax keenly sharpened. At
the base of the guillotine was broad
plank, in which a hole had been
chiseled the size of a mans neck, in a
line with the path the ak must take in
descending. The weight of the plank
in which the murderous AK was set was
increased by a box containing fifty
pounds or more of stone, securely fast
ened above. At the end of a cord
which connected with lever near the
top of the guillotine dangled an ordinary
three-gallon tin wateringpot, perforated
with holes. This was empty, and from
an examination it seemed that the sui
eide contrived his destructive machine
with internal cunning and ingenuity.
He had evidently set his death-trap with
great GOODNESS, placing the murderous
knife at the top, and holding it in place
with the lever, which, in turn, was sus-
tanned by the weight of the pot of water.
He then poured into cavity in heavy
timber large quantity of ether, the
fumes of which would Supply him, as
his head come directly above. All
being ready he laid coolly down, and
his headless trunk attested the accuracy
of his calculations. News of the tragedy
spread rapidly, and thousands fiocked
to the scene. The guillotine was taken
down and removed to the City Marshal's
office, which was so besieged by the
curious that guard of police was sta
toned at the doors all through the even
ing. 1t is believed that the suicide was
demented, as he had been frequently
known to act strangely, and insanity
had prevailed in the family.
The following letter was found in the
barn:
CHELSEA, April II, 1SS0.-Dcar Parents,
Brothers and Sisters: l believe that the end
of my life is near at hand, and write this to
bid you all goodbye. The step [ am about
to take is, it seems to me, the only right one,
and | will not attempt to express any regrets
or make any excuses, believing, as do, that
it is best for you as well as for myself. This
is the country and the age in which to enjoy
life, and L hope you will live long and hap
PLY.
lSignedl S. NJ. PILLSBURY, JR.
Z. ST. wish I could see YOU again. |
was of a good mind to 60 home last evening,
but gave it up, had so little time.
S. NJ. p, in.