The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
PEN AND SCISSORS.

PEN AND SCISSORS.
The citizens of Springfield Illinois,
are about to put up large sugar mill in
that place for the purpose Of manufac-
turing the sugar from the new sugar
cane.
Gen. Scott was 70 years old on the
14th of this month. He has been in the
army half century.
1t is said that scraps of leather burn
ed under plum tree whom in full! bloom,
SO that the smoke will 60 into the tree,
will efectually kill the Insect that destroys
the fruit.
The amount expended annually in
the manufacture of beer within st Louis,
is $1.769,7oo.
1t is said that Gov. Denver, has be-
come Disguised with the dirty work re-
quired of him in Kansas, and will soon
resign his post. Another to be added to
the numerous company of Kansas Gov
ernors, who have found it impossible to
carry out the despotic behests of the De-
mocracy.
The Herazdof Freedom, Lawrence,
estimates the present population of Kan
sas, at 100000, and thinks it will be 15O-
900 before the year closes. The Editor
does not think it necessary to urge rea-
sons for voting down the Lecompton
proposition, because he has seen but three
men IN favor of accepting it in any con-
tingeucy.
AN old lady possessed of a fine for
tune, and noted for her penchant for the
use of 6gurative expressions, one day as
sembled her grandchildren, when the fol
loving conversation took place. "My
children" said the old lady, 81 am the
root, and you are the branches" "Grand-
ma," said one. s'What my child?" II
was thinking how much better the branch
es would flourish, if the root was under
the ground. .
Our adyices from Washington state
that Lord Napier has received dispatches
from the commander of the British squad
ron in the Gulf who not only expressly
denies having authorized the outrages
complained Of, but states that he took
prompt measures to check them. The
Cabinet is said to 'breathe deeper and
freel'" in consequence. This will give a
ouietus to the war panic.
The election of Henry B. Anthony,
ia Republican, to the U. S. Senate, from
Rhode Island, displaces the last Demo
crat in that body from Ney England.
Mrs. Goldschmidt, denny Lind) re-
Gently gave birth to twins--one of each
sex. Here we have another edition in two
volumes of "Goldsmith's Animated Ma
ture."
Captain Enoch Boone, the first
white man born in Kentucky, still lives
there on his farm on the Ohio river
Heis nephew of Daniel Boone, the pio-
neer.
The election in Kansas under the
English bill is fixed for the first of August
the same day the election transpires in
Missouri.
The old frigate Observation-Disclosures
known as old Lonsides-has just been
repaired and made as good as new
She is sixty years old.
--Parson Brownlow lately, in speech
at Montgomery, Alabama, said that che
was Wing, had always been Wing,
and would rather now vote for the suit of
clothes last worn by Henry Clay, stuffed
with straw, than for any of the whining,
cringing demagogues of the present day."
There is an organized gang of swind-
ling Ian brokers in Iowa and Southern
Minnesota, who are bound together by Sc
cret oaths and passwords. They soll
counterfeit titles to lands. In Iowa there
has been land to the amount of$1O0,OoO
sold under these fictitious titles.
Slavery in Texas.
There is a serious danger of the utter