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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-25

you must look elsewhere than in maiden's
chamber for it"
"We seek the rebel, Davie; you've got
him hid here, and we'll settle his account first,
and take the booty afterward, pretty Miss, u
cried Ferris, coarsely. $50 stand one side
and let us pass"
"Do not dare to touch me-" cried Ellen,
shrinking from his rude grasp; "you pass not
this threshold but over my dead body. But
demand to see your master. / am not accus.
toned to deal with such ruA6ans as you" said
the undaunted girl, who espied Captain Har-
dy hanging back in the distance, ashamed OF
the part he was acting.
II own no MASTER" replied Ferris, surlily
"and if you would save yourself from what
you call insult, you had better keep civil
tongue in your head"
captain Hardy was not wont" cried
Ellen, contemptuously, "to need spokesman,
and if the choice he has now made is an evi-
dence of his general tastes, can we'll under
stand the disposition that leads him to war
against women and fly from his own SEX"
"Capt. Hardy is here to answer for him:
SELF" the Captain replied, advancing toward
her, stung by her sarcasm "and if Miss
Campbell cannot understand the delcacy
that would have saved her from meeting an
acquaintance under such trying circumstances
l will not attempt to explain. I come in the
discharge of duty to capture noted rebel
against his king and country, and l command
you in the kings name to allow me the right
of search"
"Miss Campbell is singularly obtuse in
perceiving the delicacy that would send such
rufian as you into her chamber" said the
girl, with proud contempt, pointing to Ferris,
who stood in angry impatience at this parley
"Why you should Judge rebel concealed in
my room, 1 cannot understand, and would
beg you to retire, at least until I can com
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

to start fire, nd at later hour a saloon
keeper named kluth was stabbed and instant
~ killed by temster named Frank Hal1lnS-
ton. The parte quarreled over liquor bill.
A fearful fghtoccmred on the 25th ult., near
Seward, Neb., at school house where nightly
religious meeting have been held lately. A
party of men attempted to break up the meet
ing. A lively tusle ensued, IN which many
shots were interhanged and eight persons
wounded. Vim. Bates died on the 9th from
bis wounds, and .eyi Bates is probably fatally
wounded. Elghtmen have been arrested and
more arrests are expected. The quarrel orlGl-
mated In the expulsion of two children from
school recently.
A sulmmage t Quero, Texas, on the 2Sth:
Three men, HolAnd, Martin and Coward, were
engaged pltchinghalf dollars for drinks. Hol-
land disputed tie game and started for his
hosue for gun o kill Martin. His mother, 10
years old, came from the house and caught
Martin who vast trying to prevent Holland get
ting the gun. She held Martins arms while
Holland drew lnife and savagely hacked Mar
TINS TIN oat. Coward placed pistol III Martin :
hand, when hcshOt Holland in the arm, and,
shaking himself clear of the old woman,
knocked her down, and shot her, inticting a
wound from which she shortly died. He then
fired again at Holland, wOundlng HIM portalIy.
Martins injuries are not serious.
Fred Seller shot and killed A. j. Hickman, a
saloon keeper, at Evansville, Ind, on the 29th
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
Chinese Lotteries.

There is hardly a town on the coast In
which Chinese lotteries do not exist,
either az local affair, or as one of the
agencies OF large lotteries of the kind IN
San Francisco. The tickets are square
slips of paper, on which are printed 80
letters, these letters being the last III the
Chinese first reader, or "Gin Chez
Choo, as it is called. These tickets are
for sale at all Of the Chinese stores, and
can be purchased for any price from 10
cents to s., the amount of the prize
drawing depending upon the price paid
lor the ticket When the ticket is
bought the purchaser chooses ten let
ters on it, by marking them ont with
pen, and upon these ten his chances de-
pend. The drawing is conducted as fol-
lows: Eighty square slips of paper,
each bearing one of the letters upon the
tickets, are pasted by one corner upon
large board used for the purpose. After
being thus pasted and found to be cor
rect; they are next put In a large pan
and thoroughly mixed. From this pan
they are transferred to four porcelain
bowls, twenty in each bowl. -Four slips
of paper marked respectively /, 2, 3 and
4, are next placed in the bowl, and one
drawn out, which indicates the bowl of
tickets to be used in the drawing. After
determining this the twenty tickets III the
bowl indicated are taken out one by one
and repasted upon the large board, a
caller announcing each letter as it is
drawn, and the clerks recording it. Out
of twenty letters drawn, If the holder of a
chance is so fortunate, rs to have marked
off ten upon his ticket, he secures a large
prize, ranging from 81 900 to 80, 900, and
even $4,000, according to the money IN
vested III the ticket. The drawings are
made thrice day, and the dealers of the
game, if at I'll fortunate, make a large
amount of money from it. The chances
are very great in favor OF the game, but
seldom over three or four spots being
won upon ticket, and over seven is a
rarity Under four spots scored the
tickets lose, and over this is as high as
eight, the prices are nominal, varying
from % cents to $50. This species Of
gambling is very popular among the
Chinese, and here is hardly one but
holds tickets for each drawing.
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THE MARKETS..
Reported by CHANDLER, Brown & Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.


New YORK, March $500 P. M.-Flour-
In buyers favor AMI dull; receipts II, 429 bbls;
round hoop Ohio 1t S5.75@G. choice do at
S6.10@7.5O; superfme western at S4.9O@5.3O
for common to good extra do at S5.50@ 5. 49,;
choice do at S5OM2O0; choice white wheat
do at S5.S5@6.50 Wheat-Spring dull and
nominal; winter very heavy and 102d lower;
sales Is 900 bus NJ. red seller March at S1.4G1;
2G4, 600 bus do seller April at S1.4634 @1.43I g.;
10000 bus d. seller May at Sl.45M1. AZ;
latter prices ealy. Con-Shade easer and dull +;
mixed western spot at 58@6O94c; do future at
53@ 5614c. Cats-Quiot; western at 48@52c
Beef-Steady light trade; new plain mess at
S10.50@11 90; new extra do at S11.00@12.00
Pork-Dul ana lower; old mess at sits
Lard-Shade easier; steam rendered at S7.G5
Butter-Withou' important change; Ohio at 1G
G129c. Whisky-Nominal western at @1.10.
Sugar-very firm; moderate inquiry. Moasses
Firm and quiet. PetToleum-Dull and I'M
settled. Rice-Dull and i'll buyers favor.
Coffee-Dull and unchanged. Froights-Firm;
Spirits of Turoentine-Steady at Acc. Resin
Quiet at $1.45G1.52]&. TaIow-Firm at G15c
for western. Esgs-About steady at Hobo for
fair to choice.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
A Violent Tornado.

Early on the morning Of the 9Th inst, ter
rife gale, accompanied by thunder and light
ming, visited portions of Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, intlicting considerable damage in its
track
At Cleveland, O., several small iame build
mgs were wrecked, and the headlight at Doan's
non works was thrown against and set fire TO a
gasoline tank, involving $50 worth of damage
Three hundred dollars worth of plate glass in
the front Of odd Fellows block, Pearl street,
was ruined. Tie Cleveland femal9 seminary,
Woodland avenue, was half uuroofcd and part
OF the upper west wall demolished. About
seventy young ladies were sleeping in the insti-
tuition, but none were injured The roof OF the
new brick vine mill of the Cleveland Rolling
Mill company, in the Eighteenth ward, was up
lifted and one end of the wall blown in on the
workmen, killing julius Brown and severely in
juIlng several others.
Vt Toledo, a chimney of the Buckeye brewery
was blown down, falling on and crushing the en-
glnc house III which Policemen John Hassett
and NJ T. Doyle and a nightwatchman at the
brewery Lad taken refuge The two former
were killed and the latter seriously injured.
AT indianapolis, Ind, a large number of
houses were unrOofed, Chimneys blown down,
and trees umOoted. The Central Avenue Meth
Odist Church was almost entirely demolished
and one dwelling house was lifted from ito
foundation and carried five or six feet. The in
mates of the house escaped with but slight in
Jury. Two or three persons were seriously in
juTed, but so far as known no lives were lost.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
Suicide.

Nicholas Bicht, well-to-do business man Of
Fort Branch, a few miles from Evansville, Ind,
committed suicide, on the 4th inst, by shooting
himself through the heart With pistol. He
had been slightly sick Tor a day or two.
Mrs. Julia Ann Jenkins suicided at Mt. Yer
non, O., on the Sd inst. She tied her lower
limos together and jumped into a cstern while
her husband and children were absent. No
cause assigned.
John prinzel, an aged drayman, hung HIM
self in his stable at Mount Vernon, Ind, on the
ID inst.
AT Evansville, Ind, on the I'd inst, George
Woods, printer, aged about 26 years, on trial
for the second time for the murder of Mrs.
Nellie Hobbs in 1877, took morphine and
found dead III his cell. The jury had disagreed
and were discharged, hence Woods discourage
ment.
Fred Fuchs, a discouraged Milwaukeean,
suIcided by hanging himself In an unoccuped
boat Shed. His body was discovered ON the I'd
inst. He leaves a sick wife and tive children in
destitute circumstances.
John II. Martin, an inmate Of an Ohio insane
asylum, suicided by cutting his throat, on the
18th ult. As he had policy of $4,000 on bis
life, ii leaves upen again the question of the
sponsibility Of insurance companies in such
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
MOrIItary.

Commodore Isaiah Hanscomb, chief of the
bureau of construction and repair of the navy
department, died at Washington on the 9Th inst.
W. Cummings, general western freight agent
of the New York Central railroad, dropped dead
al the lift house, Buffalo, on the Sd inst.
Henry Pepper, law partner Of Senator Bay
ard, was found dead i'll his bed on the morning
of the Sd inst
Count Litta, first secretary of the Italian
legation at Washington is dead,
Surgeon General Vim. Maxwell Wood L. S.
n, died at Owings Mills, Baltimore county,
Nd, on the I'd inst
Mrs. Mary Chapman, formerly wel-known
actress died at San Francisco, on the 1st inst,
aged 81.
Joseph Nickerson, a prominent railroad man,
died at Brewster, Mass, on the 2Sth ult. He
was president of the Pueblo and Arkansas Val
ley road and q director of the Atchison and
Santa Fe road.
Judge c. d. Coffin, one of the oldest mem
bers OF the Cincinnati bar, died on the 2Sth nit.
Herr Zimmerman, a member of the German
and Prussian parliament is dead.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

THERE are persons who begin to think that
the days Of sailing yachts are about over In
the ship yards MP the Hudson most Of the
voel'ts nov building VIII have steam as their
propelhn6 power. BENEFITS yacht. which il to
cost $4,000, is to be finished in july. II is
being built at Newburg, and viii lie Of mon,
Al feet long, IS feet beam and ~ feet depth Of
hold \ ship building firm in Philadelphia is
building two iron steam yachts that are to cost
$4,000 each. At Chester Penn, an iron
steam yacht Is on the stocks that like the two
Philadelphia vessels, is 10 lie finished by June
|. 1t IS to be owned by a New York banker and
i to cost tie sum of $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
Disastrous BlaZes.

\ fire. supposed to be mcendiary. broke out
during the storm on the night of the 4th inst,
lnthe chemical works and pot house Of the De
PAW Plate Glass mandatory, at New Albany
Ind. Both were destroyed. Loss between
$4,000 and 900; insurance $50, 600.
At Barr mills, Me-, on the 9Th inst, McKen-
zies grlst mill and a covered bridge $50 feet
long were burned. Loss $50, 600
The Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley rail- DAD
depot at Clrcleyllle, o., vas struck by lightning
at an early hour on the 18th inst The building
and contents were burned to the ground. Loss
$1,000.
Gallagher's furniture store, Odd Fellows
hall and the residence Of Mr. OHara, were
burned at Scquin Texas, on the 4th inst.
LchrbiIds brewery. two miles from Daven-
port, Iowa, burned on the 4Ih inst. Loss S2i,-
coo: insurance $4,000. 1t contained about II, :
eco bushels Of grain.
4 fire in Brincl,ley. Ark, on the Sd inst
burned large hotel owned by Gum Il Black
Loss 100000; insured. The west end Of the
hotel was occupied as al Office by the Southern
Express company and Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad company. All the papers and yalua-
biCs we're destroyed.
Falnham & Comstock 5 planning mill and the
Domestic sewing machine factory, in New York
city, We're destroyed on the ID Loss about
1150.OOO. The engineer Of the planning mill,
karctz (. DecaIey, was fatally burned.
The village Of Bergen, Gcncssee cOuRty, y.
y. was laid il ashes on the ID inst. Every
business place in the village hut one, twenty
eight in all, was burned to the ground. Nine
families were left houseless and one young
man Burt Hall by name, was burned nearly to
death. The fire was incendiary. and suspicion
rests on two prominent citizens. Fourteen
years go the same village was half burned in
the same manner, and at that time. as now
both these men held heavy insurance
4 fire in Main street, Walkesbarre, Pa, on the
I'd inst, caused q loss Of $50. 600.
At Memphis, Tenn, on the LIST inst, Roos &
Graham wagon factory was destroyed by fire
Loss about $65, 600.
The Atlantic and Virginia Fertilizer company =
factory at Orient Harbor, Long Island, has
burned. Loss $40, 900; insurance $4,000
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
Recent Tragedies.

At Cincinnati o.. on the morning OF the 5th
inst, Chas. Link inflicted fatal knife wound on
Louis Schmidt, the two having previously had
some difficulty at a ball about young woman.
Warning SchOoey, aged IA, son of prominent
cllIZen of PittSton. Pa, was found on the even
ing of the 4th inst, on the outskirts of the
town, III an unconscious condition, he having
been shot and fatally wounded by an unknown
party. Mrs. SchoolGy dropped dead when her
son was carried into the house
John and George, sons of Whitfield Moody,
q farmer living near Kingston. KY, quarreled
on the night OF the Sd inst. John was about to
assault George with knife when the latter shot
him dead
Near Chillicothe, H.. on the Sd inst, John
GuttlItfe and jeremiah Webster, farmers, quar-
relied about fence, when Guttlffe shot Web
ster fatally.
On the 2sth ult.. one-armed negro namep
Louis Kinder outrageousy assaulted white
woman named Bird at Georges station. Cole
ton county, South Carolina. He was captured
on the 29tL and lodged in jail. On the LIST in
slant, while the prisoner was being transferred
to another jail, the guard was overpowered bv a
mob, and after being identified bv his victim
kinder was hung and his body perforated with
bullets. At the last moment he Acknowledged
the outrage, confessed to having outraged a col
ored woman in NewbeIry six years ago, to kill
ing colored giTl near Kings Tree last April. to
four burglaTies and innumerable thefts
The dead body of G. W. Parker, man of
considerable means, was found floating in the
canal at Cincinnati. on the I'd instant. His gold
watch was missing; consequently foul play Is
suspected. He was awidower, 65 years old.
Rawlings, W., was the scene Of two murders
on the I'd inst. In one case man named Ed.
Clarke, returning home about o'clock. A. NJ,
vas shot and MORALLY wounded by his partner,
John Lee, for the hiiing offense Of attempting
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

MEXICO can produce q very fine quality of
coffee to the value of 500, 900 yearly Last
year fought that amount of coffee, mainly
from south and Central America. If the Mex
cans would stop their tiddle-faddle and proceed
to plant coffee and otherwise develop the en-
ormons resources of their fertile country, they
could supply the whole demand of this country
for coffee as the area adapted for such culture
i enormous, extending thousand miles on the
Pacific coast, and on the Gulf coast to the State
Of Tamaulinas
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
4 horrible War "Reminiscences.

The United States Senate. on the 4tb inst
rejected the nomination Of JOhu Mcneil. of St
Louis, Is United States marshal for the Eastern
district of Missouri. Gen. McNeiIs rejection
was Effected by 4 very decisive vote-$2 NAYS
against : yeas. This action was based VI on an
adverse report from the judiciary committee.
accompanied with q statement to the effect that
Gen. Mcneil, in the year 1862, while in COM
mand OF the United States troops at PALMYRA
Mo-. ordered the execution of eleven citizens
of that nelghborhood who had been arrested
bat not yet tried on the charge of 'bushwhack-
of retaliation for the alleged abduction and
supposed murder OF union man in the same
county. McNeil's orders required the execution
of these prisoners Il the missing unionist was
not returned within a certain period, and as
nothing WAS heard from the latter lie orders
were carried into effect hv Mcneil. 1rroyost no.
shal upon the designated day. II was aIzo
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
Norwegian Trains.
From the Argosy.l

In the slowness of their trains the Nor
wegians excel the Dutch, and yet the
latter, for this merit or defect, according
to the time, nerves, and fancy of the in
diyidual traveller, may place themselves
ut the head of other European countries.
But here all comparison ends, for while
the Dutch possess but small territory
sufficiently intersected by lines, Norway,
with its great tract Of country, has
scarcely any railroads at ali. Nor IS it
probable that she viii ever be much bet
ter off III this respect. The land is 80
thinly populated that railroads could
never pay. From the billy nature Of the
country their construction would cost
much. while the people are poor. And
lastly, the present mode of travelling is
all they need. Time is OF less conse-
quence 10 Norwegians than to other
people, because they have less to do.
They do not rush through life as we do,
for instance. giving to one day the work
OF six They breathe; the remainder Of
the civilized world Is, for the most part,
breathless. IF they have hundred
miles to travel, they can as well devote a
week to it, as half dozen hours: OF, if
they cannot, they wisely stay at home.
SO that travelling in Norway is very much
what it was in England a century ago.
A little slower and more leisurely, per
haps, now than then, for nowhere in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

STATISTICS of divorce in Massachusetts ex-
hlbt an extraordinary AMI alarming increase
Since 500 no less than !, 233 divorces have been
obtained il that model state since 1860 the
number of yearly divorces have increased N
that state from 2i3 to Goo, while the number Of
marriages have increased only from 400 to
1888. The ratio OF divorce. to marriages IN
the state u 1860 was l to 51.0, and in 1917 the
ratio was t. 21.4. The statistics have been
prepared b. Carroll g. Wright, one of the most
careful etausticians in the country. In Vermont
the ratio for the last eight or ten years Is di-
vorce to ~ marriages; IN Rhode Island to II:
ia Connecticut; l to IL.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
EnQIish Road Engines.

The steamship Erin has just brought
over from England It number OF road To-
conotives and wagon-trains, designed
for use in the far west instead OF mules.
The Times thus describes these engines:
They weigh about tons each, and
are rated at II to fourteen horse power,
They have horizontal boilers, which are
fitted with large fire boxes for burning
almost any description of fuel, ana water
tanks are affixed capable OF holding a
supply for three OF four hours. The en-
gines are so arranged that they can he
used for turning fixed machinery. The
driving wheels are 7 feet IL diameter and
II inches In width, and the steering, or
front wheels are 1 feet III diameter and
9 inches wide An important advantage
in the road locomotive is that III case OF
need the road wheels can be replaced by
the ordinary tlange wheels for running on
rails. Those brought by the Erin have
an important addition, in the shape of a
winding drum, fitted to the driving axle,
capable Of holding from 80 to 100 yards
of coiled rope, which can be employed III
hosting heavy weights and IN hauling
the loaded wagons up otherwise lmprac-
ticable grades. :" One engineer and two
laborers can manage each train. The
locomotives can be employed on roads
with moderate grades, not exceeding
foot in L, and each one viii draw load
of from ten to twelve tons at an average
speed Of three and half miles an hour
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

A BRIDAL party approached the by
meneal altar and the clergyman proceeded
with the service: Wilt thou, Mary,
take, ETC." he inquiries. Nav " is the
reply. "What ! " cries the good pastor;
"if You don't want to marry this gentle
man, why didn't you say so sooner 1?
What made you wait till the moment of
the ceremony" Because, sir, you
are the first that has condescended TO
ask to ask my advice or consent IN the
matter
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

IL 1859 absolute starvation prevailed for sew
eral months throughout Finland and along the
Bate seaboard, aggravated by frost of unex-
ample severity, which destroyed hundreds of
those who made for the towns III quest of relief.
In 1871 vet more terrible famine decilnated
inc population Of northwestern China. many of
the sufferers being driven 10 gnaw the bark
from the trees and even to deyour the bodies
Ct tie dead, Similar horrors were enacted on
smaller scale in eastern Russia during the
great drought Of 1873. Tie failure of the
Bengal rice crop at the close Of that wear swept
away during tie early months of that wear. At
least half million lives. The dearth in BuI-
garia IL 1873, and that IN Cashmere twelve
months ago, are still fresh in public memory.
white the present year has been u.her,d IN lv
three distinct famihes--in Ireland, IN Silesia and
IN tie Persian province # SciStan.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
81. GOthard Tunnel.

The work of piercing Mount st. Gothard
was satisfactorily completed at O'Clock on the
morning of the 10Th ult., thus connecting the
main railway system of Italy with that of
Switzerland and Germany. The tunnel is nine
and half miles long, or IA, 800 metres. The
next longest tunnel in the world is II, $40
metres. After that comes our Hoosac with q
length of 1850 metres. The work on the st.
Gothard was begun in 1872. The main line and
its subsidiary lines are in all only 116 miles long,
but their cost, including the tunnel, is about
Sl5, 00O,0U0. OF this amount Switzerland gave
S6,00000O, Germany sG,0O0,000 and Italy S11,-
100000. The shareholders paid in but $1,000,
coo, and the bonded debt Of the road is S16,-
O0Q, 0O0
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13

Inquiry into the tall Of the railway bridge
over the Firth of Tay Oh the night of December
2Sth. by which so many lives were lost. is pro-
ccedng at Dundee before the board Of trade
Several painters Who tainted the bridge last
summer testified that they saw several bolt
holes empty, found bolts in holes where there
should have been rlvets and found rivets with
out heads, and lars looscnei and nuts un-
screwed; that one Of the supporting columns Of
the high glrders was cracked from topto bottom
and held together with -four hoop bands; that
sometimes the oscillation of the bridge was so
great tLat they feared Il would fall