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Year: 1871

Editor Superior TINES


Dear Sir Mink and muskrat skins still continue to
bring good demand, and should the Duluth
Smasnwater bill pass the price would not in the least
be affected


am informed upon very reliable authority that the
Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad has been pur-
chased by Geo Francis Train who contempates start
ing dairy on that bluff by Rice's Point. Mr. Train is
now in Europe purchasing blood heifers and horned
enterprise, his mone7 hold out
he will want Bishops goats I think meeting of
your Board of Trade and if possible meeting
YOUR citizens should be called take active
on the question: and prevent if possible the sale of the
goats.


It perhaps necessary tell your readers that the
ub' is little place and contains nice build
ings among the tip top-most is Faneuil Hall, Music
Hail. and Merchants Exchange. The City Hal. is an
imposing edifce and looks something like retired
military heros farm house; its size is 40" By Gum
not including the wire fence or belt trees.
/ Bunker Hill Monument marks the spot where our
parental ancestors fought and shed their only blood
/ licking Mr. "lSoginosh." This monument has been
purchased bv Jaw Cooke who, / am informed intends
to put it on the Duluth Breakwater and use for
summer residence pFeulct
he will hot be troubled by mosquitoes in his new
quarters, and if he is Congress will be pettioned for
an appropriation of land and greenbacks to have them
removed.


Ere this your readers have received the of the
downfall of Paris 1t is said that had Bismarck only
known that Leopold was at Superior he would have
never taken command of the army in the field, but
have sent for his cousin to come bv cable.


Pound net fishing on the coast good this season
and the way they caught the cod and mackerel would
make your eye stick out, 1t did theirs anyhow.
/ think stage route between here and Worcester
would do we'll they have nothing but three -four
railroads \ good stage with a nice horn would pay
well provided they kept blowing the horn right along
We have five wells here and the pumps all appear
! to work well with but four exceptions.


Since the fall of Paris the price of breech- -clouts
steadily advancing, and number article brings
good round figure, NICK CoNNlS.
Year: 1871

Let it not be forgotten by the National
Government that Jay Cooke and others are
asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars
and hundreds Of thousands of acres from
the Congress of the United States to enable
him and them to destroy natural entry and
excayate an artificial entry, to neglect a
natural breakwater and construct an artii-
cial breakwater, to disuse harbor common
by nature to two States, and make new
harbor that can be used by only one State.


Let it not be forgotten by the National
Government that deliberate attempt has
been made and is yet being made to des-
troy the entry to the Bay Of Superior, to
the untold injury of the interests of the
State of Wisconsin at the head of Lake
Superior.


Let it not be forgotten bv the National
Government that Jay Cooke has already
given out his intention if possible to carry
a railway across the entry of the Bay of
Superior; even the Northern Pacific if he
can induce the Company to build their
main line through Duluth; aud that not
withstanding the prohibition of the legisla-
ture of Wisconsin,, Mr. Cooke yet holds his
threatening attitude upon this point.


Let it not be forgotten by the National
Government that a memorial to Congress
that was lobbied through the last legisla
ture of Minnesota plainly reveals the inten-
ton to destroy the entry of the Bay Of SUI
perior if possible. That this lobbed ne-
mortal of the Minnesota legislature asks
Congress for help on the ground that the
Y. 5. work on this entry is "abortive'
That this is said in fat contradiction OF an
official statement of U. 5. Engineers made
. short time before the memorial.


That in this, and many other ways, too
numerous to mention, the strongest efforts
are being put forth by certain parties who
are interested at Duluth in the State Of
Minnesota, to obtain millions of money from
the general government in land grants and
cash, fer the purpose of building costly, I'M
necessary and artificial harbors at Duluth,
that intended for the express purpose
Of saperseding and destroying the natural
commercial advantages possessed by Wis
consn at this point, thus throwing the inn
mense power of the government of the
United States IN favor Of one Stute and
against another.


FINALLY, let it not be forgotten by the Ma
tional Government, while these monstrous
frauds are seeking its aid and countenance,
that board of Z. S. Engineers met by or
der at Milwaukee January 10, 1870, and in
their report to government upon the harbor
of Superior and the need of harbor at
Duluth, they said: "The only natural mar
Dor In this part of the Lake is that afforded
by the St. Louis river, and for this the gen
eral government has already adopted plan
of Improvement, and progressed herewith
to the extent of making the mouth of the
river caluable as harbor. The compile
ton of this improvement will undoubtedly
furnish all the accommodation for vessels
required by the present or prospective wants
of the commerce likely to center at the head
of Lake Superior. An exterior artificial
harbor at Duluth could be constructed only
at mitch greater cost, and when made
would be more limited in its advantages
and more expensive to keep en- repair"
Year: 1871

ing city, he certainly wold hare selected Duluth. Up
on the side of mountain the head of the lake. schere
the ,eid AID The hare uninterrupted s,rep for
four hundred miles ea the eiter gales dorm from
the northeast ana not natural fool that to
bsld and naietea har6or there Is simply impossible
The foolish men of whom have before spoken have
poured of the money Of their confdng friends
in the attempt in untold thousands But their grand
breakwater built at immense COST swept away by
the first storm (and not much of a storm at that J
as if built of pine boards.
Year: 1871

If we are ovERsrocKED in anything it is in Grocer
les and Provisions of which we keep a Coed Stock,
consisting of CHOICE and FANCY GROCERIES,,
as well as STAPLES In this line we would call
special attention to our TEAS, which we think are
not exceled by anything in the market.


EY-When visiting our store, if you do not see what
you want, ASK FOR IT.
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote c"nnuAal
haupiucss, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes n weary pilgrimage, the
nrnsnoct hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the me snchoy reflection that the happiness ot
anctlp, IS blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

anear relative, which took place about
five years ago. A daughter of the
household, occupying the room, first
heard some weeks ago in the dead of
night tapping upon the head-board d of
her bed, which increased in Ioudness
until sleep became impossible; she was
obliged to WOO the god of slumber in
another apartment Afterward the
wife Of this municipal legislator, while
in the ghostly room, heard the same
sounds proceeding from the same quar-
ter. At first she thought they were
made by her little son, but slight in
vestigation convinced her that no flesh
ly fingers were, tab, tabbing, upon the
head-bOard of the bed in which the de-
ceased relative breathed his last. In
great alarm she fled from the fatal room,
not caring just then to communicate
with the other world, or preferring some
other mode Of spiritual intercourse.


Since the first manifestations the
noises have been heard at frequent in
tervals, always in the same place and
seemingly made in the same manner.
The room has been closed and left ex-
clusively to the ghostly tenant, who
seems unable to desert quarters which
he once found so quiet and comfortable.
The Councilman is still to be seen ON
the public streets, but slightly thinner
and more carewOrn than before the de-
ceased member of his family revisited
his old home. The municipal legisla--
ton is nOticeably impeded by this un-
expected unearthly contrctcmpt8. We
await further developments with pain
ful interest," Gin. Eng.
Year: 1871




When was in Washington about two
months ago, 1 had it from an authority
inside the Ku-Klux Klan-onc who had
a right to spcak-thst their organization
was SO perfect, there could not be one
crime committed in any single South
ern State, where, if the Government
trusted to its punishment by the tribu-
nal of jury, that organization, a secret
association, was not powerful enough
enough TO pack the jury and secure an
acquittal. So that this largely-spread
and deeply-rOOted secret organization
like the AIasons of thirty years ago.
can utterly defeat and defy civil war.
And the moral which these repentant
lips drew for me, from his own actual
experience, was: 'If you can do Moth
ing with us except by a Judge on a
bench and twelve jurymen in q box, the
effort is absolutely contemplate. We
can sweep the States in utter defiance
of the State Government, if that is the
aim of your method Now 1 believe
that you will find that the evidence be-
fore the Senate Committee amply sup
ports these statements, and that unless
President Grant has made up his mind
to stretch the long arm of his new pow
er into the center of. the Rebel States,
and strangle this rebellion Of assassins,
he will never have success; and when I
say that am only repeating the utter
anees of the counselor who stands near
est to the right hand of the President /,
1 am only repeating what the man says
whose opportunities are the largest to
investigate the facts-whose political in
sight is the keenest to discover them;
that if Congress had adjourned without
giving General Grant even the limited
power which he has to-day, and had
left US to meet the 1st day of Decem Der
as we stood on the 1st day of March,
there never would have been Repub-
can successor to General Grant in the
White House. Now, 1 want General
Grant to go down into Georgia and
South Carolina, and not arrest two
men, such as the telegraph told US were
arrested the other day, of disreputable
character. want him to go down and
arrest some ex-General, who counts his
acres by thousands, numbers his wealth
by millions, and stands possessed Of the
loving admiration Of half the South.
want him to track him to his lair in his
nest Ofassassins, and arrest him at mid
night, try him before daylight, and
hang him before the sun is an hour
high. When this is done you will nev-
er hear Of the Ku-Klux again-exeept
in the nursery legend. But if this is
not done that power will enter the
White House, and you will have the
war to fight over again.


Wendell Phillips.
Year: 1871

gagged in the work of selecting Presi
dental candidates and arranging q
platform for the Democratic party
They are agreed upon several import
ant points; among them, that the DEM
ocracy have some chance of rcgaining
power, that Mr.. Pendleton or General
Hancock must not be nominated, but
that moderate Republican like Chase,
or Trumbull, Or conservative Demo-
crat like Thurman, must be selected,
and above all that platform similar to
that of the sham Republican party must
be adopted pledging the Democratic
masses to unqualified endorsement Of
the usurpatiOns Of Congress. In this
the sham Republicans are aided by the
New York World, the bOndholders' or
gan, and many pretended Democratic
Journals in the South whose principles
are comprehended in the single sentence
the five lOaves and two fishes


We cannot believe that the honest
leaders and press of the Democratic
DdEEy VIII UG 81 lulGC " Guu
their country as to yield to the dictatiOn
of the sham Republicans and the clam
or Of time-servers in the South. We
cannot for moment think that cOrrup-
ton has reached SO far as to demoralize
the true men into whose hands the des.
TIMES Of this country will be placed at
the Democratic Convention next wear,
and that they will prove false to their
records, desert the people, and sell
themselves out to the common enemy.
They reverence Republican institutions;
they have not lost faith in the intelli-
gence and patriotism of the masses; they
will make still another effort to restore
the Constitution, and check that pro-
gress' which is making such rapid
strides towards the complete overthrow
of the liberties Of the people.
Year: 1871




Monday for wealth;


Tuesday for health;


Wednesday the best day OF sll;


Thursday for crosses;


Friday for losses;


Saturday no luck at all.


Another writer says: Young ladies
should abstain from listening to any one
whose surname begins with the same
letter as their own


To change the name and not the letter,
Is a change for the worse, and not the better.
And they would do well to take the
precautiOn Of placing their initials in
conjunction with those of any admirer
they incline to favor, and ask, like
MalvOliO, What should that alphabet
cal position portendg for if, of the uni
ted initials, any word can be formed,
they may be certain the owners of them
will never be happy together.


1t is an unhappy omen for wedding
to be put off when the day has once
been fixed. In Sweden it is believed
much harm will ensue if a bridegroom
stands at the junction of crossroads, or
beside closed gate, upon his wedding
morn. 1t is a bad sign if the bride fails
to shed tears on the happy day, or if
she INDUCES herself by taking a last ad-
miring glance at the lOoking-glass after
her toilet is completed; but she may
crafty her vanity without danger, if
she leaves one hand unglOved until be-
yOnd temptation.


The custom of throwing shoes after q
newly-wedded couple, for luck, is a
very old one. In the Isle of Man, the
shoe is thrown after the bride and BRIDE
groom as they leave their respective
abodes; but the ceremony is generally
performed elsewhere, upon the depart
ure of the hero and heroine of the day
for the honeymoon trip. In some parts
Of Kent, the shoe-thrOwing does not
take place until after they have gone,
when the single ladies range themselves
in one line, and the bachelors range
themselves in another. An old shoe is
then thrown as far as the thrOwer's
strength permits, and the ladies race af-
ter it, the winner being rewarded by the
assurance that she will be married be-
fore any other rivals. She then throws
the shoe at the gentlemen, the one she
hits laying the same pleasing unctiOn to
his heart. Something like this is prac-
ticed, too, in Yorkshire and Scotland.
In Germany it used TO be the rule for
the bride, as she was being conducted
to her chamber, to take off her shoe
and throw it among the guests, who
battle for its possession, the successful
he or she being held destined to be
speedily married and settled.
Year: 1871

Ia the old Division street graveyard
at Bridgeport there is a marble slab
marking the grave of Robert Linus
Backus, who died on the 10th Of Febru-
'ary, 1884, aged II years and months.
On the reverse of the stone is a stain
which represents a woman grasping a
club with which she is in the act of
striking; all attempts to obliterate this
stain by scraping are Intellectual, and
we are told that this is the fifth stone
which has marked the spot, the preced-
ing ones having been removed on ac-
count Of their inveterate tendency to
represent the same scene. The legend
connected with this singular circum-
stance is that the child was killed by its
enthusiastically Evening Post.
Year: 1871

The residence Of a member of the
Board Of Councilmen who lives on Sew
enth street is said to be the scene Of
most singular and mysterious noises,
supposed to be caused by visitanUs from
the spirit world. They occur In a room
memorable on accent Of the decease Of
Year: 1871

Many thOughtless people have seen
fit to make sport of Mr.. Greeley's ideas
af agriculture, but we have always re-
Trained until now, but when he advises
an uncle of ours out West that the best
way to raise cashmere shawls is to graft
a cashmere goat with the hardy native
billy goat, it is too much, and we shall
go for tht old cuss every chance that
presents Exchange.
Year: 1871

1t was an evening in September, cool
aud clear. Aubrey and I had been
walking by the banks of an artificial
lake in an unfrequented part of the
park. o how beautiful had been his
conversation upon that occasion! What
grand passages he had read from raTest
PONIES in harmony with the time and
place! Indeed, indeed his heart, like
that of Walter of the VOgelweid, was a
very
Year: 1871

ago learned TO accept the word of the ex-
Senator who Is at its head rs readily as they
would the oaths of half the Sen
ate. And the third member of the
Commission. President White of Cor
nell, is gentleman Of such standing, so
removed from political schemes, and so en-
tirely uncOmmitted on the whole question,
that his opinion will be received like the
carefully considered verdict of Judge
These gentlemen go out without instructions
from the White House. and with no purpose
save to perform impartially the duties
assigned by the law under which they are ap-
pointed. The investigation could not be begun
under better auspices; and with the sailing OF
the Commission, and the publication, this morn.
ing. of the documents from the State Department
reciting the history of the previous nesotia-
tons and discoveries, we gladly dismiss the
question from the domain of present political
6iscIlcsion
Year: 1871

Washington, which says:


"Take the charge that salt freghts would Increase II
the duty on salt removed. Experience has proved
otherwise But suppose they did, not the shipping
interests as val 10 the country the interests OF
the Syracuse salt monopoly Salt ballast is good thing
for shipowner He would bring salt, return tobacco,
petroleum. cotton, grain, rum whisky, and many things.
lie could afford to bring salt at the half trips expense
thing ship owners hardly ever attempt now and the
suit would more likely DO reduction in frcghts instead
OF an increase thus giving exporters better chance
compete In the markets Of the world 1t was before
the war and the present excessive duty salt has had
the effect since IL levied OF retaining hundred
thousand uns domestic products in this country that
might otherwise with cheaper ireights out, have found
"a foreign market"


Comments.-That the price of Salt in the
West Indies and the cost of bringing It thence
to our ports, would be increased by repeal
or essential reduction Of the duty, il shown by
the interest taken by foreign producers and by
shippers in the question. We import as much
Salt as we did ten years ago, and it ID sold
here lust about as cheap ~ II vas then while
Year: 1871

The House yesterday declined to inter
tere with the sale Of the delinquent rail-
roads. 1t was urged with very considerable
force by the friends ofthe Senate resolution
that the interests Of the stockholders re-
quired that the sale should be suspended.
But the majority of the House by their vote
expressed entire confidence in the discretion
with which the Commissioners were en-
trusted by leaving the matter exclusively to
them under the decree of Chancellor East.


As an evidence of the correctness of this
judgment of the House, we may state that
the Commissioners rejected all the bids
offered yesterday. The advertised roads
are still Imsold.
Year: 1871

WARMERS VINUM VITE, or WINE OF LIFE, is free from any poisonous drugs or impurities being prepared for those who require stimulant. It is

 splendid appetizer and tonic, and the finest thing most pleasant and delicious article ever offered to the pubic, far superior to brandy whiskey wine, bitters or any other article It is more healthy, and cheaper. Both male or female, young or old, can take the Wine of Life. It is in fact, life preserver. Those who wish to enjoy good health and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take the Wine of Life. It is different from anything ever before in use. It is sold by all druggists. Price $1, in quart bottles.
Year: 1871

The arrest of one of the first citizens of New Preston, teacher of its academy, 6 leading church member, and man who has hitherto borne an irreproachable repu. tation. on charge of seducing girl of thir. teen takes all decent men by surprise. As Q general thing the public is slow to credit charges of gross crime against respectable men. The great moral advance society has made within generation or two is best evidenced by the slow credence now given to charges of Q grossly criminal nature. This change in social feeling appears also in the jury box, where the strictness of proof required for the conviction of crime has most noticeably increased within half Q century or less. The time was when men were sent to the gallows on evidence which would not in our day suffice for recovery in an action for petty trespass. The rea- son of this change is undoubtedly owing to more elevated moral tone in community. Men feel 50 little temptation to the breach of the greater commandments, and to the commission of crime. that they are slow to impute vicious intent to others.

 To this general rule there is one most marked and deplorable exception. The purest reputation ayails comparatively little against charges of unchastity. A great many men and some women always treat the mere charge as equivalent to con- viction. Good character only increases the greediness with which the scandalous s'dis. closure" is swallowed. This state of facts indicates either very low stage of public morals in that important particular, or the consciousness of great individual weakness on the part of a multitude of nasty believ- CTS. Doubtless responsibility, or rather male responsibility, is good deal weak in this regard; but little scrutiny into the reputations of such as make too much haste to believe evil of their neighbors. generally discloses that which ought to dispose them to greater charity.

 The trial of the New Preston case com. mences to day "Wednesday we understand, and comment is reserved till the evidence is in. We shall believe the horrible story when proved beyond reasonable doubt, and not before; and that is very queer community in which, till proved guilty. a life practice of morality will avail a man nothing.
Year: 1871

The best evidence of the perfect safety of Pratts Astral Oil, is that from nearly mil lion gallons sold, no accident has occurred from it's use, in any way, directly or indirect ly. It is free from any explosive material. and perfectly reliable in every respect.
Year: 1871

Of his rights under the constitution. II,
Is to protect and perpetuate the rights
which every freeman cherish,
to revive in all hearts the feeling OF
friendship, affection and harmony which
are the best guarantees Of law and order,
and to throw around the humblest citizen,
whatever he may be, the protection of
these safeguards Of personal safety which
are the fundamental laws Of the land, that
We invoke the aid Of all good men in the
work Of peace and reconciliation We in
vte their generous cooperation irrespec-
tive Of all former differences and opinion,
so that the harsh voice Of discord may be
relieved that a new and dangerous sec
tional agitation may be checked that the
burdens Of taxation, direct or indirect,
may be reduced to the lowest point consis.
tent with the good faith It's every just ma.
tionsl obligation, and with strictly econ.
omical administration Of the Government
and that the States may be restored in
thcir integrity and true relations to our
Federal Union.


Here follows the signatures of all the
Democratic Senator'S and most of the Rep
Year: 1871

The Boston Herald advocates the
formation of Marriage Bureau" by
means of which the surplus number of
young women Of the Eastern States can
be induced to leave that. uupromising
region and seek homes and husbands in
the Wet