The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
Items.-There was heavy rain

Items.-There was n heavy rain
storm last Monday.
-GEoRGB DRESSER, of this village
is manufacturing first rate article OF
ink. We have used it for some time,
and know where of we affirm.
DO not fail to attend the political.
meeting on Saturday evening.
See ]. w. PARTS new advertise
ment of Cash Store.
The fourth of July will come the
early part Of next month.
We hear that new paper has
broke out at Pcpin. Why don't you
send an X, gentlemen?
There is a fellow in town who wears
a tassell on his cap, which he says IS
made of a "Linceln rail" He will 7otc
the republican ticket next fail.
Mr.. PEABODY of Hammond, and
Judge FOSTER of this village are going to
the southern part of the State to pur-
chase sheep to bring into this and St
Croix counties. The Judge few days
ago sheared III lbs. of wool from
vearlng buck and 81 lbs. from q year
ling eve. They were q cross between
native stock and merinO.
The Free Press says one boat took
three thousand bushels of wheat from
Eau Claire one day last week.
Tho Times SAYS ''critter" was
brought into st. Paul the other day
weighing 1890 lbs.
The Independent says that many
emirrsnts, some of them men of wealth,
arc coming into Hastings and the sur
rounding country.
There has never been n season when
so much improvement in tho country was
being done here. as this summer. 1t is
estimated that fifty breaking teams are at
work in this part of Pierce and St. Croix
counties.
IS. w. Dickenson's justice Office is
next door to our sanctum. If anybody
doubts the truth of what appears in the
journal VIC ar e ready to swear to our
statements.
We learn from tho Star that L. D.
Bartlett and R. A. Gridley are to build
large ware house at Hudson. 1t is to be
loo feet long by 40 in width.
The brothers LEWIS, of Bay City
have bought portion of the Forestyille
property and intend TO remove there
We hear they contemplate starting
plow factory.
Strawberries are said to be found in
abundance here this season. Ripe ones
are being brought in now, and soon
they will be so plentiful that all who
have dime to buy with, or an hours leis-
ure to gather than, may partake thereof.
Speaking of Strawberries, recalls, pleasing
remembrances of scenes enacted in days
gone by, when on q bright summers af-
ternoon when we, with our Cousin wan
dered away in the field to find and pluck
TIE ripe fruit, And when tired, sitting
under the oak on the hillside, we plucked
the berries from the stems, and with crinl-
son juice, for our paint we sketched the
surroundings upon our Cousins cheeks.
Youths, go there and do likewise.
The Saltwater Messenger says that
party of gentlemen from that city re-
Gently caught, 700 trout in Kinickinic
aud Rush rivers, many of them weighing
over four pounds. Now VAN, while you
are about it, why don't you tell fish sto-
ry? Why, boys here, beat that, as will
seen BY the following incident which we
have learned from q reliable source. \
1t has long been known to all fisher
man here, that a monstrous fish WIS in the
Mill pond, on the South Fork of the Kin
ickinic. Quite number have had the
luck to hook him, but he always broke
either hook or line. and by reason of
such exploits, the said fish has attained
quite local reputation, and many ofour
ambitious piscaterial friends have had a
longing to capture him.
Well, one day last week the thing was
cid. A party ofboys were fishing in the