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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
Kellogg IN Switzerland.

A pleasant little incident is related
of Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, which
occurred while visiting the Grindel-
valid glacier in Switzerland, during
her late tour. Her party encountered,
as other travellers do, young Italian
Swiss, vino earned a precarious exist
ence by frantic efforts to rouse an echo
from the opposite cliffs by means of an
awkward horn. After straining every
muscle he brought forth a melancholy
foot, with no great effect upon the OPP
posite crags. Miss kellogg watched
for some time his vain endeavors, and
then, rising in the carriage, she gave
one of the charming mountain iodels,
finishing off with a specimen of those
inimitable trills which require no patent
to render them unapproachable. In an
instant came back four or five beauti-
fully perfect echoes. with an imperti-
nently clear trim at the end. The
young Italian dofed his hat, and ex.
claimed "Ah, madame, could / but
make nm echo like that my fortune here
would be made"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

A lady residing in Clifton, Bristol Eng.
land), OF good family, and enjoying for
tune in her own right, has Just conferred
her hand upon a young man of the hum
bier class, who hitherto has had no higher
occupation than attending the "leadern Of
an omnibus, and attaching drags to the
wheels of carriages. The lady in ques-
ton, il appears, was district visitor, and
in that capacity visited the houses
Of the poor in a populous district of Cliff.
ton. In the course Of these visits she
happened to call upon this young mans
mother, who has been until recently an
invalid, and was SO much struck with the
flial attention and aifectioaate disposition
Of the youth. that she took notice of him
from time TO time. The wedding was
celebrated few days since at one Of the
churches Of the cathedral ely of Wells.
The juvenile bridegroom has not seen
more than seventeen or eighteen summers,
while his better half whose infatuation
IN led her to sacrifice position, relatives
and friends, is about thirty years Of age
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THE CORNER IN NORTHWESTERy.


~" pDbAN h&MA DEf"s
The New York Times of Sunday has
the following about the new corner:
During the forenoon and in the
early pant of the day William Travers
covered his shorts, paying, it is alleged,
$3.50, GOO difference Charley Lamont
stood up to the rack, also, and paid his
differences, amounting to nearly the
same sum. These contracts were
settled on the basis of $3.50. The
highest estimate of the amount of stock
of which Daniel Drew is short is 81. 900
shares, and the lowest 10000. S&ould
he settle in full upon the closing price
OF new, he will lose nearly 81, 500, 600
Common rumor said II. n. Smith was
short 80, 600 shares, which win involve
him 10 greater extent than Daniel
Drew. The opinion was freely expressed
ON the street that he would not pav his
losses IN full, hut let his brokers
stand the brunt of the contracts. Itls
said Drew was caught in the trap by 4
device of Gould's, ingenious in its
way. Gould went 10 Drew few weeks
ago and suggested the possibility of
singing the street IA Erie, in which
transaction the latter was 10 appear as
a bull. Drew joined in with the idea.
and went 10 work secretly 10 buy up
large blocks of Erie. locking them up
IN safes rs fast as purchased. The stock
of this market was soon gobbied up.
and, as a consequence, the price OF
Erie began 10 advance. Gould also
bought Erie largely At low figures on
the streets, but abstainei from pur-
chasing any when II began 10 ad-
vance. The stock rose 10 56i. and
Gould unloaded his entire interest
upon Drew, thereby netting a consid-
cradle profit. Drew, ignorant Of the
bad faith of his ally, and wondering
at the large quantities of Erie stock
which continued 20 how in as he kept
on purchasing went il alone. and was
making FAIR progress in building the
market on his own account, when
Gould turned n new cord. In some
way he become acquainted with the
fact that the Harry I. Clark. August
Schell and Vanderbilt party gener.
ally were ende6voring 10 uo.ain con-
troll of the Chicago and Northwestern
stock IN order 10 get the road into
their own hands, and supply the mis-.
sing link in the great railroad chain
70 the West. He thereupon
formed coalition with the North.
western clique, and. going TO Drew,
who still supposed he was helping to
bull Erie, suggested that as a blind 10
their real operations il would be a good
plan to 60 short IN Northwestern and
thereby throw the street of the scent.
Drew, relying upon the judgement Of
his quondam associate in Erie, acqui-
esced N this arrangement, merely say
ing he guessed u vas safe to a. short
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
African Exploration.

AT a meeting of the Royal Geographic
cal Society in London, November IL.
the President, Major General Sir Hen
ry Rawlinson, said in his inaugural. .
" Let it be understood, once for ali.
that there is not the remotest ground
for questioning the accuracy Of Mr..
Stanley's statement of his meeting with
Livingstone. So satisfied are Living
stones friends in England that the Lu
alaba River is identical with the Con-
go, that they have originated an inde-
pendent relief expedition, to be called
the Livingstone Congo Expedition,
which will rendezvous at st. Paul de
Loando, and have the cordial support
OF the Portuguese authorities. The
Court of Lisbon are very DESTROYS to
open the Congo to civilized trade
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
THE DEVIL FISH.
Capture ofune at Bonavista-A Curios-
lily of Natural History

ty OI Natufal History.
Abiding to the report that in Bona.
vista harbor a gigantic cutyle-fish was
captured, measuring thirty feet from
the tip of the horns to the extremity of
the tail, and having bill, the top of
which resembles that of the largest
eagle, and the under part that of a par
rot, a correspondent of the st, John
On. 81 Telegraph says
If the captor of this thirty-feet
cutie could have procured enough rum
to preserve it (no easy job certainly, it
would have been a fortune to him.
Barnum and Agassiz would bid against
each other furiously for possession of
the creature, and the managers of the
British Museum would have sent out
an agent to compete. Perhaps the
highest bidder of all, provided he is in
pocket just now, would have been Vic
tor Hugo; as he could confront the
world with this, and prove that his
celebrated devil fish, in the 'Toilers of
the Sea- is no fanclful creature, and
that fact is stronger than fiction.
That some specimens of the cuttle-fish
have attained enormous dimensions is
well established. In oriental tales,
they are represented as throwing their
arms over ships hull, and dragging
her Under water; and some of the older
naturalists accepted these stories as
true. There are, however, we'll
authenticated instances of divers in the
Indian seas having been caught in the
long, 1.-the arms of this fish, with their
cold adhesive powers, and held by the
monster in its clammy embrace till life
was extinct. Nothing can be more hor-
rible and repulsive than one of the large
cuttle-hsh, with its fabby, corpse like
heshiness, its livid hue that comes and
goes so strangely, its uncouth agility
and its ghastely green eyes that are
enough TO paralyze its victim. Its head
protrudes from a muscular sac, and is
distinct from the body. The mouth is
armed with pair of horney mandibies,
resembling the bill of parrot Sur
rounding the mouth are the tentacular
APPENDICES or arms, which serve at once
for instruments of locomotion and or
gans for Selling and holding of prev.
They are eight in number, each being
supplied with double row of sucking
disks, which act on the principle of a
cupping glass, and beng applied to
any surface, adhere to it, at the will
OF the animal, with such force that it is
easier to tear away the substance of the
limb than release it from its attachment.
Each of its eight arms carries one hum
dred and twenty pair of sucking disks.
Flinging ont pair of these tentacula,
the cutie seizes its victim which, in its
struggles, comes in contact with more
and more of the fatal disks in success
sion, till it is powerless in the grip of
Its enemy, whose sharp, horny beak
soon tears it to peces / am inclined to
think that the correspondent has been
accurate in his measurements, or has
accepted secondhand statements. This
much, however, is certain-that a
gigantic cutie has been captured, Of
dimensions sufficiently large enough to
satisfy the most devoted lover of the
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Suburban New York.

Quite spirited contest is going on
at the present moment in the thriving
towns of West Farms, Yonkers, Norris
ania and West Chester, as to whether
they shall be consolidated under one
government, or continue their individ-
ual existence. Morrisania includes no
less than l3 separate villages, West
Farms has 10, aud West Chester and
1onkers as many more. All have sep
arate municipal government, with
separate Indebtedness from $500 to a
81, 100000 One party favors the con-
solidation of towns, and an independ-
ent government, while another pro-
poses to annex the whole to New York
at once, and possess the privileges of
that city-the right TO gas, water, po.
lice and municipal goye=nment-with-
out separate expense. The subject
will come before the New York Legis-
lature this winter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
A Malt House Destroyed BY a Dog.


Yesterday morning a large woolly
dog in Schmidt & AlteAbrandt's malt
house, At North Seventh and Sixth
streets, Williamsburgh, set fire 10 the
building, entailng damage Of 500
GOO. The dog persisted in the flames.
In the runs his charred carcass was
visible. One of the proprietors of the
malt house pointed to the object, say
ing, There is the fellow who caused
the ruin. When We stop work he was
always placed in the furnace room,
where he rolls himself up TO sleep in
front of the fire; being a woolly fellow,
his hair took fire, and he rushed into
the drying room, communicating the
flame to the combustibles stored in
there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

The SUPREME QUESTION is
the most important of earthly bless
ings, and therefore the nervous anxiety
of the sick to ascertain the relative
merits of the various medicines in use
is not surprising. With the last two
years many thousands of invalids have
abandoned the preparations of the
pharmacopoljst for the remedy intro
duced by DIR. Walker, of California,
under thessomewhat eccentric name OF
VINEGAR BITFERs. That this new Veg
etable medicine is "winning golden
opinions, Of all sorts of people" is be-
yond doubt. The accounts we hear
of its extraordinary effects in cases of
chronic dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver
complaints, malarious fevers, nervous
prostrations and many other distress.
ing diseases, certainly justify ,the.po
ularity which it has everywhete ac-
quired. -eS rISl
DIR. Walker claims for his specific
remedial power over all disorders that
do not involve an irreparable destruc-
ton Of bone and fibre, and results so
far appear to have justified the claim.
In this age of wonders we are not dis
posed to deny the possibility of any
phenomena not directly at variance
with the laws of nature, and as it, is
held by many psychologists that all
maladies proceed from the same gene.
rlc cause, we see no reason for the in
credulity with which some people re-
gard the idea of Universal Medicine.
DIR. Walkers preparation seems des-
tined % be universally approved. Com.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

QUEBEC is to-day the most quaint
looking city on the North American
continent, with its ancient cathedrals,
churches, converts, monasteries and
market places; its little, old-fashioned
and dilapidated dwellings, low one and
two story houses, plastered and painted
both in white and dlngy colors, with
bright green shutters and high and
steep red tile or bright implanted tin
roofs, with queer little dormer windows
peeping out of them, and tall Chin
neys topping high over the gable ends.
The business thoroughfares have some
solid stone buildings fronting on them,
but few of which are of modern de-
sign.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

WINTER is now fairly upon us, and
the teams are fastening 10 the lumber woods
in various parts of the country. Our advice
to every man who goes to the woods, be he
captain, cook, teamster or any other man, is
to take along good stock OF JshnSon's Ano-
dyne Lininent and Parsons P,ogatice PiRs.
Many months Of labor lin the aggregated may
be saved by this precaution.
BAD enough to look and feel bad yourself I;
but no excuse for having your horse look and
feel badly, when for a small sum YOU can buv
SheTiddn's CdUdby Condition P0,cders, which
given in grain two or three times week will
make him look and feel well.-Com.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
Boston Pluck.

Four weeks ago the Unitarian Asso-
citation OF Boston voted $50, for tho
erection of anew church of this denomi-
nation in Washington. Fearing that the
late fire would interfere with the large
the local Secretary in
Washington wrote to ascertain If this
money would be forthcoming in view of
their great calamity. An answer was
Immediately received to the effect that
the fire would make no difference what
ever With tie intended donation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

RURAL BEAUTIES AND CITY Bellies
Country girls not whit behind their metropoli-
tan sisters in the natural elements of loveiness but
must be conceded that the city bellies best under
stand the art OF preserving and frightening their
personal beauty The most perfect features lose half
their attraction unless the complexion is properly
cared for and If the pretty girls of the rural districts
wish TO compete with the Farstars of the fashion
able world in refined attractions they must pay due
attention to this important point They ought
EoLIA BALM imparts to the skin delicate peary
appearance, unprsducaDle by any other preparation
under the sun. No matter how the cuticle may have
been roughened by exposure dscolored by the SUM-
the Balm will render 1t soft and pable and removes
blemisl.-COm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
The Signal NerYice.

With the view of diminishing the
expenses of the signal service, and nj
the same time possessing the power of
suddenly increasing the number of
stations from which reports are 10 be
had in any section OF the country which
may ut any season of the year be espe-
cially threatened 10y storms, which at
different seasons seem to pass more
frequently over particular portions of
the territories OF the United States. the
organization of mobilized corps of
observers has been commenced. This
corps, which will consist Of picked
men, skiiliul aud chosen for their
special fitness for its contemplated
duties, will bo equipped with
portable apparatus comprising all in.
strumonts that will be required for use
at any station TO which they may be
suddenly ordered. The stations will
be properly occupied in each section
OF the country in reference 70 the
storms to which that section is habitu.
ally exposed at particular seasons, and
will be designated in advance and pro.
per telegraph connections FOR those
stations be previously arranged 1t
will be possible to occupy in this way
the stations with great rapidity The
period of danger for which they may
be occupied being passed, they will be
abandoned, aud the force left free TO
be transferred for the protection Of
other sections whose seasons of danger
may be then approaching.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

hrutc parent 10 dandy son" Oh
yer don't want to go into business,
don't yer. O. yer want to be a clerk
IN the post-hoflice, do yer , Post-hof.
fee, indeed Why, al you're fit for
Is to stand houtside with your tongue
bout for people to wet the stamps
Ug0nst.'
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If yoU WISH to purchase tickets to or
from Europe, or draft on Great Brit
ain and the Continent, address f. II.
MCCLURE & Co., Bankers and General
Passage Agents, 365 East Water street,
Milwaukee.
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Maths.
BY EMMA LAZARUS.

~ A@ah'AtN A+tAa+-ANNNf'
Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky.
Through yapors hurrying by,
Larger than wont, on high
Floats the horned, yellow moon.
Chill airs are family stirred,
And far away is heard,
or some fresh-wakered bird,
The querulous, shrill tune.
The dark mist hides the face
OF the dim land no trace
Ofroek or rivers place
In the thick air is drawn;
But dripping grass smells sweet,
And rustling branches meet,
And sounding waters greet
The slow, sure, sacred dawn.
Past is the long black night,
With its keen lightnings white,
Thunder and floods new light
The glimmering low cast streaks.
The dense clouds part between
Their jagged rents are seen
Pale reaches blue and green,
As the mirk curtain breaks.
Above the shadowy world,
Still more and more uufurled
The gathered mists upcurled
Like phantoms melt and pass.
In clear-obscure revealed,
Brown wood, gray stream, dark field
Fresh, healthy odors yield
Wet burrows, flowers and grass.
The sudden, splendid CLEAN
OF one thin, golden beam
Shoots from the feathered Tim
Of yon hill crowned with woods.
Down its empowered side,
Az living waters slide,
81 the great morning tide
Follows in sunny floods.
From bush and hedge and tree
JOY, unrestrained and free,
Breaks forth in melody,
Twltter and chwp ana song:
Alive the festal air
With gauze-winged creatures fair,
That flicker everywhere,
Dart, poiso and fash along.
The shining mists are gone,
Slight tilms Of gold swift-bown
Before the strong, bright sun
Or the deep-eol0red sky:
A world OF lie and glow
Sparhles and ba SKIS below,
Where the soft mcads arrow,
Hoary with dew-fall, lie.
Does not the morn break thus,
Swift, bright, victorious.
With new skies cleared for n,
Over the soul storm-.ost?
Her night was long and deep,
Strange visions vexed her sleep,
Strange sorrows babe her weep
Her faith in dawn was lost.
No halt, no rest for her,
The immortal wanderer
From sphere to higher sphere,
Toward the pure source Of day.
The new light shames her fears,
Her taithlessness, her tears,
As the new sun appears
To light her godlike way.
-LiPpiacot's Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

The Coroner's jury in the Van sickel
poisoning case, in Brooklyn, N. Y,
found the effects of poisoning by arse
mic administered to her in tea by her
hus band, John Van Sickel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13
VERIFY IT HATH No EQUAL.
CONSERVATIVES, READl

Would you cure that distressing cough, and bring
back that healthy vigor till lately planted in your
cheek IL you would, do not delay for ere you are
aware, 1t will be too late
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

Mrs. ELKTNs, aged 70, lately drove
her own team, with load OF apples,
from jackson, N. H., through the
Pinkham Notch of the White Noun
tains to Guildhall, vt. "Age cannot
tire -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

A FRENCH society has decided that it
prolongs the lives and increases the
of dogs to make them work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

TINS Princess Mathilde. who was ex.
tremely partial to Theophile Gautier,
went 20 see him laid out after death.
and vept abuudau,ly.
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A CHALLENGE

extended to the uoTld TO place before the public
A. a better cough or lung remedy tnau ALIENS
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ALIENS LUNG DALsAM

Is your hope. IL has been tried by thousands such
you who have been cured many, in their grattude
have lent their names TO us, thar suffering humanity
can read Their evidence and believe. Don't expert
ment with new and untried mixlures-you cannot AZ.
ford t-but try at once this invaluable article II is
warranted TO break up the most troublesome cough
in few hours IL not of too long standing IL Is war
ranted to give entire satisfaction in all Of lung
and throat difficulties
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CAUTION

BE not deceived Call for ALIENS LUNG BAL.
SAN, and take no other
~ Directions accompany each bottle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-13

DR JArNE's ExiEcroRASr Is both palliative ana
curative 10 Al Lung Complaints, gsonchitis &c. II
= standard remedy for Couzhs and Colds. aud
nctA yaly TRIAL Is pe5ve as worta
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WHAT WELL KNOWN DRUGGISTS SA'
ABOUT ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM

AGAIN RFAD THE EVIDENCE from Druggist
largely.
1. @. Cottren DruFgist at Marine City, Michigan.
writes. sept ~, 1871 " am out OF Aliens Lung Bal
sam send me half gross as sou can would
rather be out of any other medisne IN my store The
with cough
+ Is harmless 10 the most delicate child.
II contains no opium In any form.
IL Is sold by Medieine.dealers generally
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-15

men there whose records you would be
compelled ito defend at every whisper
ofreproach? Did you want no nomi-
nations and anew convention, when
we already had two conventions, and
in third were certain. to meet more
difficulties, more embarrassments and
more and greater bitterness of feeling
than in either of its predecessors
If none of these things were wanted,
what you did really want, we humbly
submit, is now presented for your ac-
ceptance. You yourself might have
done better, perhaps, but could seven
hundred men all determined as your
self and no ten agreeing wholly, have
done better than the Convention re-
Gently adjourned? Settle that question
affirmatively, and the country will call
you BLESSED!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-15
Gen. Grants Letter Of Acceptance.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Washington, ID. G., June 10, 1872.
Hon. Thomas Settle, President of the Ma
tional Republican Conventions; Paul
Strowback, Elisha Baxter, c. A. ,scrgent,
men:
Your letter of this date, advising
me of the action, of the Convention
held in Philadelphia, Pa, on the fifth
and sixth of this month, and of my
unanimous nomination for the Prcsi-
dency by it, is received. I accept the
nomination, and through you return
my heartfelt thanks to your constitu-
ents for this mark of their confidence
and support.
ed by a kind Providence in health and
strength to perform the duties of the
high trust conferred promise the same
zeal and devotion to the good of the
whole people, for the future of my
official life as in the past. Past cxpe-
rience may guide me in avoiding mis-
takes inevitable with noviccs in all
professions and in all occupations.
When relieved from the. responsible
tics of my present trust, by the cleo
ton of Il successor, whether it be at the
end OF this term or the next, l hope to
leave to him as Executive a country
at peace with its borders, at peace with
outside nations, with Il credit at home
and abroad, and without embarrassing
questions to threaten its future pros
perity.
With the expressions OF Il desire to
see speedy healing of all bitterness
of feeling between sections, parties, or
races of citizens, and the time when
the title of citizen carries with it all the
protection and privileges to the hum
blcst that it does to the most exalted.
l subscribe myself very respectfully
your obelient servant, L. s. GRANT.