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The various UNCONVENTIONAL societies, such
as church Extension, Freedman's Aid, sunday,
school and Tract societies, and Indeed
all the great agencies by which mo NJ ".
Church hns gained the position IL holl5 are
outgIowths OF It's ltcnerancy
Atayery early period In our history the suo-
ject OF the diffusion OF knowledge by inc CIR
culailon OF books and the education or tho
children and youth OF the church engaged tho
attention OF our fathers. Tho preacher
then gave history OF the Book Concern, trac'
Ing II down to the present. aud In connection
with II referred 10 the periodical literature OF
the Church, including tho Methodist Magazine,
now grown Into the Qudtter(y ReCieW
and the official and nOn-ofllclal weobllo5 ana
monthlies, together with the sunday.school
and tract publications which md thelr way
Into tho thousands OF families that compose
the aggregate OF Methodism.
As far back as 1850 Mr.. Asbury gave epeolal
attention 10 the subject OF education, but OW-
ing to tho state OF the country, then In her
struggle for liberty, little or nothing was
done. at the organization OF the church an
after the names Of the two superintendents,
Cokespury, but its history was brief ana dlsas.
trous. The failure, though great disappoint.
ment, did not abate the conviction felt for tho
necessity OF education, and next In the limo OF
colleges followed Asbury College In tho city OF
Baltimore, which, like the other, was destroyed
by FIRE. Otner efforts were made, but all these
early efforts wore In advance OF the times In
when they were made, ana 80 we
Had 10 Wait for Success.
The successful history of college education
among us properly begins with 1923, wher
The Evening critic., 1884-03-06


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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
GENERAL.

1HE committee on postofiices and post roads
is considering postal telegraph biH.
j. VI. FULLER Co.. grain dealers, New
York City, assigned on the 18th. Liabilities
100000.
f. ". COLEMAN & Co., grain dealers, New
York, assigned on the 18th. Liabilities $780,
00o.
The labor congress, in session at Philadel-
phia, Pa, on the 18th passed resolutions favor
ing protective tariff.
ALABAMA reports damage of 81 200. 900 to
the orange groves by the recent cold snap.
A NEW YORK dispstch OF the 18th stated that
the fortune Of ex-senator Conkling was sunk
in the recent drop in Northern Pacific stock.
OK the 11th the ice cutters at Hudson. N Y.
struck for higher wages.
A DISPATCH from Port Deposit, Nd, on the
1lth. reported a dangerous ice gorge IN the
Susquehsnna River, short distance above
that town.
The coroner's jury on the 11th, ID the Brinton
disaster, censured the Pennsylvania Rsilroad
Company for not exercising more care in pro-
tectlpg laborers.
Ok the 10th, Washington dispatch stated
that Brewster Cameron's accounts Of his ad-
ministration in the department Of justice are
to be Investigated, and gives SIS a reason that
the amount of nearly $4,000. while the mar
shaps return only shows little over $50. 900.
NEW legislation to prohibit the immigration
of Chinese, is the cry from the Pacific coast.
A COMMITTEE representing the cattle inter-
ests laid their claims before a congressional
committee on the 10th, and requested legisla-
ton that would aid in the detection and stamp
ing ont of pleuro-pneumoDia and other cattle
diseases,
BUCKLEY & Co, dry goods, Utica, N Y,
failed on the 10th. Liabilities 100000.
NJ. WATERMAN, & Co, grain dealers, San
Francisco, Cal, failed on the 10th. Liabilities
81, 500, 600.
Il New York. on the 10th, Johnson & Aus
tin. Lumber dealers, with liabilities Of $3.50
and James Bisland, dry goods, with liabilities
of $50, 900, assigned.
FIGHT between the Pottawattomie and
Chippewa tribes of Indians is reported to have
occurred recently. Two horses of the Chippewas
strayed away and were shot and the fight re-
suited. Five we're killed.
|. c. d. GILMORE, on the 9Th brought suit
against Carl schurz at Washington. D. c , for
1900, 600 damages, because Schurz as secre-
tary of the interior debarred Gilmore from
practice by reason OF accepting fraudulent
compensation as pensions attorney.
The Chagrin Falls (O.) Paper Company
failed on the 9th. Liabilities over $50, 600.
AT McKeesport Pa. on the 9th the National
Forge Company. the Woods Iron Works and
the National Tube Works resumed operations
The Reading, Pa, iron works resumed at a
slight reduction IN wages.
TREASURY department figures show that the
national debt August 81. 1865, was 30, 756, 431,-
5u; June 80, 1888 it was 81 ,551, ,o91, ,207.
r. B. OGILvIE, dry goods, Madison, Wis,
failed on the 8th. Liabilities sos, GOO.
]. RosEsFELD. leaf tobacco, Detroit, Mich,
assigned on the 8th. Liabilities $6n,040.
TIE appointment of Archbishop Gibbons, of
Baltimore, Nd, as apostolic delegate to pre-
side at the council at Baltimore in 1885, was
confirmed by the pope on the 7th
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
SPORTING.

EDWARD PAYsoN WESTON is now in
England, attempting to walk 5000
miles in 100 days.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN, the pueilist, was
the highest priced ball player on the
field last season. He was paid upward
of 50, coo for pitching in three games
one with the Metropolitan, one with the
Athletic and one with the ST. Louis.
The Northwestern Association Will be
II existence 1ext season, notwithstand-
ing the secession of the champion Tole-
dos. Professional teams In Milwaukee,
st. Paul, Evansville, Terre Raute and
Dayton will probably be admitted at the
meeting IN Chicago January 10th.
PHILADELPHIA viii try to suppors
three professional teams next season,
representing respectively the American
Association, National League and Union
Association. If the schedules are all
carried out there will be 151 champion
ship games played in the Quaker City
during the season of 1884.
JOHN T. HUGHES, of Lexington, KY,
has sold to J. ". Lusk, of Hagerstown,
Nd, for Washington parties, a pair of
brown geldiDgs-one by Pacing Abdal.
lab, out of mare by Simms' Clark Chief,
and the other by Scott's Justin Morgao,
dam by Downing's Bay Messenger for
g, 500. Also, to Mr.. Howell of Boston,
Mass, the bay road horse Billy Davis,
2:32, for 81, 600.
81. STOKES, starting from the scratch
in a ffty-mlle bicycle road race, from
Keputon TO Melbourne, Australia. Oc-
tober 9th, is stated to have accom-
piished the distance i'll the fast time Of
8 hours, II minutes, or seventeen min
utes less than the winner, J. Fentop,
who had start of tifty-four minutes.
A local journal states that the fast time
the best ever made in the colonies
was due TO a strong wind which blew at
the back OF the riders ali the way.
A NEW game of pool has been intro
duced in the east that is becoming popu-
lar. The balls are set up in the ordi-
nary way, and, after the small balls are
distributed to determine the order of
play, they are sent around again, and
when each player has noted tine number
of The ball he retains it for future refer
ence and keeps the number secret
from his opponents. The small balls
being numbered from 1 to Is, the num-
Der of the ball each player has is added
te the total made as if it were a ball
pocketed. Pool is Al any player eonnt-
ing above that number is burst" and
all the balls he has in the rack must go
back again On the table. A player on
making a scratch must put bali back
again On the table, Ii behas one or more
in the rack, and he can name the ball he
prefers to spot. Ii he has not ball In
the rack, the first one he pockets is spot
ted. The play is TO make Al, or as near
Al as possible.
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---------------
Mortality i'm Armies,
From the London Globe. /

A learned professor of the university
at Pavia has compiled and published a
statistical account of the proportionate
number of deaths in Enropean armies.
He finds that In every 10, 900 men the
comparative mortality amounts 70 only
fifty-se seven in Prussian armies, whereas
in the English it Is eighty-four and in
the French nlnety-two, while IN the
Austrian and Italian it rises as high as
112 and lie. This sverymoderate mum Der
recorded to the credit of Prussia is the
more remarkable inasmuch as it is said
to have been ascertained that IN her
armies considerable number of deaths
are the result of suicide. There are,
however, some other very curious anam
olies in the table thus made ont. For
instance. the tendency of soldiers to die
appears to increase almost IN inverse
pronortion to the rate Of mortality
among civilians. Thus, among the
latter. the number of deaths In every
10, 900 amounts to 2I7 in England, pa
in France, and 269 IN Prussia. This
would make 1T appear that in the last
mentioned country the warriors are
about five times less likely to die than
tue tiFit NaCiCoS III y @-A1D
and England they are only twice Is IN
likely to pay the debt OF nature. The
professor is obliged to infer from this
that the sanitary conditions under which
Prussian soldiers live are very far more
satisfactory than those OF military life
in England or France. But it may be
suggested that some other important
considerations ought TO be admitted IN
explaining the difference between the
three armies. French, and still more
especially British soldiers, are exposed
to all sorts of risks in the unhealthy dis
tricts TO which they are liable to be sent,
even In times OF peace, whereas Ger
many, with its lack of colonies, has nc
occasion to send the children of the
Fathex!snd to such outlandish and un.
comfortable quarters. But this explain.
alton still leaves il an open question why
| the Prussisn hosts should be so muct
more healthy than the Austrian, which
| enjoy similar Immunity.
JOHN ". GARRETT, president of the b
ard @. Railroad, has sent a Christina
check for "a 900 10 the "POor Associa
! tiOu." of Baltimore
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
Got 'em Again.

From the Troy Times.]
About 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon a
COW followed bv calf trotted down
North Second Street. At the ! on
Bridge Avenue the COW turned to the
right and headed for the bridge, across
which train of cars was coming. Sight
ing the locomotive the animal turned
about ard continued along the track
toward the Union Depot. just at that
time freight train on the Isoy and
Boston road, which had just left the de-
pot, came along. The COW again turned
about and ran past the swltchman's
shanty on North Second Street toward
River Street, on the track on which
the train from the west was approach
ing. The switchman seized the red flag
and shook it IN the cows face. This
capped the climax. The COW was directly
opposite a door leading into the back
yard of a Federal Street saloon. The
animal dashed into the open door and on
through the kitchen, jumping and bel
lowing. A woman was mixing bread III
the kitchen when the cow arrived. The
woman did not wait to learn particulars,
but, clearing the table at one jump, r,n
into the hail, and paused not until she
had reached the upper iloor Of the house.
The kitchen adjoins the bar, and through
the door leading 20 the bar-room the
COW proceeded. Two men, one of whom
was Il the act Of swallowing a glass Of
whisky to steady his nerves, stood In
front of the bar As the cows head ap-
peared in the kitchen door he yelled,
I've got 'em aqini Look theTep' and
in an instant he was running up Federal
Street, casting terrified glances over his
shoulder. The COW was left in undis-
puted possession of the bar-room for sew
eral minutes, when the COOK mustered
ND courage enough to slip out through
the ball and open the two frcnt doors.
In the meantime the calf had been
caught on North Second Street and led
around on Federal Street. The COW,
seeing the calf, walked cut of the saloon,
and the demoralized inmates again took
possession OF the bar-room and kitchen,
and the cook kept the back door bolted
all the afternoon.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
MORE BODY sNATCHING,
Body Snatchers at Work in Illinois
and Iowa.

CHICAGO, January 8. Turtles Agency
yesterday recovered from the Homeo
pathle Medical College, corner OF Wood
ana York Streets, the stolen cospse of
Mrs. G. Nj. McConaughy, the young
wife OF Nebraska attorney. Mrs. Nc
Conaughy was the daughter of Mr.. J.
t. Craft, boot and shoe merchant of
Rochelle, ILL.,, and, until her marriage
about year ago. was the acknowledged
belle OF that town. She was % years
old then, of very attractive per-
.sonai appearance, and highly az
complshed. She died at Rochelle while
on visit to her parents, and was buried
New Years day. She was schoolmate
IN her girlhood at Rochelle of Newton
j. Shlnkle, one of the medical students
and alleged ghouls now under arrest,
and 1t is said. that Shinkle at one time
was devoted admirer of the young lady.
Now, however, he is in cell, charged
with desecrating the grave of his one
time sweetheart and selling the remains
for few paltry dollars which we're
sha- ed with his alleged confederates.
ANOTHER "sUBJEor'' RECOVERED.
DEs MONIES. Ia, January 9.-The
turning over to medical college of the
body of Swede pauper Thomas Lar
rell, who was frozen to death Friday
night at Saylor, excited the Indignation
Of the Scandinavian population to the
highest pitch. About 3G0 of them
stopped work yesterday morning, and
the streets in the vicinity of the college
were crowded with them. Three of the
leaders sued out a writ of replevir, and an
officer armed with it climbed the stairs to
the top of the building. The dean could
not be found, and the professors in
charge denied the possession of the body.
The officer broke down the doc. Of the
dissecting-room and there discovered
the corpse lying on table, with the
missing dean standing near by. The
body was taken possession of aud turned
over to the dead mans countrymen and
burned. The college will bring suit to
recover. There can be no doubt that
had not the authority of law been in
vcked the Scandinavian population would
have forcibly entered the college and
taken possession of Larrell's body.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
Ocean Gambling Sharks.
(From the PhiiadeIphia Press. !

The fact has long been well known to
travellers who have journeyed between
England and this country that the prac-
tice OF gambling on board of steamships
is. made regular profession by certain
New York and London sharpers. They
discovered years ago that transatlantic
steamers offered them an admirable field
for operations, because, as q rule, tbe
frst-class passengers had plenty Of
money and where willing enough to
while away the monotomy of the voyage
by taking a hand in a '1ittle game. +"
These professional gamblers were always
eminently proper young men, or most
respectable looking elderly gentlemen.
They generally lost little at first, but
as the days wore on and every body in
the game became more excited. they be-
gan TO win steadily, and then nobody was
more astouisised at their "iuck" than
themselves.
Of course, these gentry assumed all
kinds OF disguises and varied their meth
DDS according to circumstances. ia
vorite trick Of two notorious New York
poker sharps was for the one TO dress as
a clergyman and the other to appear as
2 commercial traveller. For the ntst day
or two neither profegsed to know each
other, and they passedfor strangers. On
the third or fourth day the commercial
traveller would propose a quiet lit
tie game, just for fun, and suggest to
some other passenger that it would be
tirst-rate amusement to get the pafson
to join. OF course, the parson would
not hear of such thing, but after much
persuasion he would consent to take a
hand, provided there was no gam bling.
He made the most fearful blunders and
apelogized to the laughing players FOR
his ignorance and stupidity. Gradually
he became more and more interested.
consented to bet small sums, and near
the end of the voyage, when every play
er who had been "roped into the " Int
tie game" was red hot. he aud the
CON mercial traveller were surprised 10
find themselves III the possession of a
good deal of money.
Ships officers may DO much by vigi.
lance TO prevent passengers from being
swindled by expert rascais, but the pub
lie also must do something to protect
themselves. Passengers should be wary
of entering any game as cards suggested
Dy a stranger, ana tHey viii nave them-
selves to blame if they permit them.
selves to lose heavy sums to men they
know nothing about. They should
patiently keep their weather eye open,
and remember that there be many kinds
of hsrks-land sharks and sea sharks,
and sharks that float around the card
room of almost every steamer that crosses
the Atlantic.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
CASUALTIES.

On the 18th fire DESTROYED the BostoI Mass
telephone office and that city viii be without
telephone communication for week or two,
FIREs on the 12th Ralph Lidster. dealer in
agricultural implements, and adjoining pro-
perry. Beloit, VII, loss S25, 900: railroad re-
pair shop at Auburn, N. Y, loss S25, 5,OOO; Will
iowdsle Mill at Ip5witch. Mass, loss $50. coo:
hnoules' voolen mills, Newcastle, Del, loss
$50. 900.
A RISE in Elk River on the 18th caused less
OF 100000 IN slaves, bark snd lumber at
Charlestown, W Va
TIE Baptist Church at JaIesviiIe Wis. was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $40, 600.
On he 18th, John Eisen was run ever and
killed By switch engine at Appleton. Wis
OS the 18th H o. Holnss and Mrs Paul
sherman were drowned in az attempt TO go IN
8 skIf from Sandy Neck 70 BarDstable. Mass
FIRES on the ilth: Asrnuth 4 Co.'s eie-
yator. Milv aukee. Wis, loss s15.0e0; tie horf-
my mills Of Backus i Co., Indiauapolls, Ind.
loss $4,000: TivoIi Tbeater and adjoining
bindings Pueblo Col. loss S15. coo: Touring
mill Of John Stende at New MaTtinville, ".
Va, loss $4,000.
FIRES on the 10th: At Onsiaska. Wis. the
brewery of Wilhelm Msder. loss 500. .0oo; at
Batesviile. Ind. the grist mill Of C. Schwier.
loss $4,000; at Ashtabula, O.. the Asbtabula
Park Hotel, loss 500, 90: Mavsyille. Ind
buildings valued at S20, 900: Edwards Opers
House. Selma, Ala, loss s14.0 900: cotton mill at
Jonesboro, Ga, loss s35. 900.
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OK the 10th the bark Elmirs, sunk near West
Greek, n. j.. with all on board.
OK the 10th the coroner accepted as official
the statement of surviving sisters, that the
Beiieville convent contained 63 persons at the
time OF tie tire, or which 81 were rescued and
26 lost.
AUGUST BUcKLAyD was killed on the 10th in a
logging camp near Hayward, Wis, by a falling
tree.
The female college at Columbus, Ca, burned
on the 9Th. All the inmates escaped. Loss
50 200.
FIRE at Baid. Tex, on tie Sth. destroyed
property valued at $50, 600.
THE mill of Herzier Bros, Akron, o., burned
on the 9th. Loss $50, 900.
A BREWERY near Wilkesbarre, Pa. burned on
the 9th. Loss $50, 900.
On the night of the Sth, snow storm ac-
companied by high waves destroyed bath
houses, piers and other buildings at Atlantic
City. n. j.. and Coney Island. N. Y. Ire dam
age Will amount to 81, ,0O0, 600.
IN a railroad accident near Easton, Pa, on
the 9Th, Thomas Green. conductor, was IA
tally, and nine Others seriously injured.
AT Brinton Station, Pa, on the..Pennsylvania
Railroad on the 9th, some fifteen or twenty
laborers were engaged iu shoveiing drifted
snow out Of cut, when train dashed INTO
them. Two were killed and five seriously in
jured.
AN entire family Of negroes-Wm. Groom,
wife and six children-perished in their burn
ing dwelling on the night of the 9Th, near
Raleigh, N. c.
FIRES on the 8th. The coffin factory Of
Smith, Winston & Co., New York, loss about
$50, 600; Opera House block, Meadvie, Pa.
loss 500, 900; five frame buildings at Pitts
burg, Kas., loss S21 600;
The house Of Mrs. Almy Haines, near Sagi
nav. Mich. burned on the 7th. Her daughter
Lydia, aged Is, perished in the flames.
THE workshops Of the saltwater. Minn.,
prison were destroyed by fire on the sth. The
cell building was not injured Loss about
100000
HAMPTON BIRD and two of his daughters, at
Kaufman, Tex. died ON the Sth from poison in
food.
OK the 9th scsffolding at four-s story build
ing, Milwaukee, Wis, broke and J. I. Dunn
contractor. and Kazimsr KIopotes mason,
were killed, and Henry Hove, mason. seriously
injured.
A BOILER in Hood It Parsons mill Merrill
Mich. exploded on the 7tb, wreckIng the mill
and killing ten men.
THREE hunters-Henry Shields Edward
Shields and James Anderson-were frozen to
death on the plans in Chickasaw Nation, In
dian Territory, on the 5th.
BARN on the farm of Mrs. Rosene Baurers,
near Elgin. H., burned on the 7th. Forty-five
COWS perlshed ia the flames.
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ieks, the present owners, and young
Opdyke purchased and located on farm
near Bloomfield Center with his wife
and fa1nily.
On Friday last the following dispatch
was received at this place:
SARATOGA, N. Y, December PSI. X. OPP
dyke, Birmingham, Mich: Your father viii
be dead by the time You receive this dispatch.
Come at once J.. S. SKIDMoRE
This was the first intimation that the
family had of the whereabouts of the
missing man, aud the son, to whom the
dispatch was addressed, took the train
for Saratoga on Friday evening. Some
time ago this son received postal from
a friend in New York state saying that
the aforesaid friend had seen his father
a short time before, and gave his ad-
dress in care of firm in Saratoga, but
no answer came in response to repeated
letters to the. address named, and the
gradually became established
that there was mistake about it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
A QuaAr StnrY.

Correspondence of the Detroit Post and Tribune
Eight years ago, December 16, Rob
ert F. Opdyke, proprietor OF the Biz
mingham Mich. } FIGURING Mills. went
to Detrois to transact some business
with parties to whom he had shipped
-four. He went without his overcoat
and in the same manner that be had
gone many times before, but he never
came back again. OF course, there was
hue and cry. The whole police force
of Detroit were engaged in the general
search for the missing man, but nothing
was oiscoverel further than the fact
that he was seen at the Detroit and MIL
waukee depot few minutes before the
train left on which be was expected
home
His son, J. &. Opdyke, was acting ia
the capacity of miller under his fathers
direction when the latter left for De-
froit, ard he took charge OF the mill
o. Popple.on. ef this place, had q heavy
mortgage on the MIA proper.r, and tins
mortgage was foreclosed and the mill
subsequently sold to his sons wife and
afterwards sold TO Hopfhaur & Freder.