The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-01
MERE MENTION.

An obituary notice Of the death of Mr..
]. M. Grant-a mormon Elder, closes
thus: ssHe is gone now, leaving four
disconsolate widows and several children,
four of whom are under eight weeks Of
age, to mourn their irreparable loss
We expect St. Paul Hotel keepers,
would make splendid dragons, as Pnmp
Carpenter says they were awful on
charge.
The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy is, one is strong will,
and the other strong won't.
Twenty tons of brass hoops were man.
ufactured in one month by the brass
founderies of of Waterbury, Con-, intend
ed for use in hoped skirts.
A Mr.. Olney Bates of Springfield Vt.
made this year seventy-fye pounds OF sr-
gar from one maple tree. The tree is
fourteen feet in circumference, and was
tapped in eight places. Large story, but
his neighbors say it is true.
Some queer genius wonders whether
the news transmitted over the oceanic tel
egraph, through salt water, will be fresh.
An Emeralder on being charged with
stealing wagon, swore he had owned it
ever since it was little ayheel6orrow.
John G. SAKE has entirely recovered
from his recent sickness.
N. P. Willis, ia giving his reasons for
not being present at the celebration of the
opening of the railroad between Cincinn-
natl and St. Louis, speaks of four links
which kept him at home "Link fourth
the uniting of myself to Posterity, land q
bright link let me fervently pray that it
may beD by the birth of promising son,
who "came into operation" at the same
date of this new railway"
The eldest son of Burns, the Poet, died
recently in Scotland, in his list year
He is said to have been a very fine schol-
ar.
A new weekly paper has been started
in Philadelphia, called the Southern
Monitor" to be devoted to the defence of
+" Southern rights and institutions
Rev. Mr. Cobb has closed his connee-
ton with the first Congregational Chnrch
of Prescott.
Missouri since the hope of its becoming
a free State is entertained is rapidly fill
ing up with emigrants.
In she Northwestern section of the State
there are but few slaves, and improved
farms can be bought at from five to eight
dollars per acre.
A gentleman by the name of Marten,
married lady by the name of Martiu;
some one says he s.knoched her eye oct
on the day other marriage Awful! want
it!
Tho fellow who was treated with con-
tempt, says it is not half as good as Bur
gundy.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin
will be called in Noxember next to decide
whether free negroes shall be allowed the
right of suffrage.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills upon the
Hudson City Bank are in circulation. The
Bank has not issued any tens.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, has re-
turned from Europe.
The "squatter Sovereign, the once
special organ of border ruffianism in Kan
'as, has passed into republican hands.
The Empress Eugene of France, re-
'ently appeared at a ball, wearing Jewels
whose value was estimated at 100000,
md having founces of lace on her robe
hat cost $4,000. Whew Amt we
glad we don't have to support her,
Wonder what the circumference of the
hoops were, on which that lace was worn.
The scream Of the steamers whistle is
low heard twenty-seven hundred miles
'bove St. Louis in the Upper waters of
he Missouri and Yellow Stone rivers.