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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Personal.

THEIR is Is.
SPOTTED TAIL is AZ.
SIMON CAMsRoN is 70.
HORACE GREELEY is a UniyersaIist.
B. CRATE BRowN is Presbyterian.
HENRY WILSON il Congregationalist.
JOE JEFFERSON eyesight is complete
ly restored.
Mas. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is living in
Waukesha, Wis.
VICE-PREsIDENT CoLFAx's mother was
a victim of cancer.
GEN. GRANT belongs to no churh.
but leans toward Methodism.
JOAQUIN MILLER has presented Grae
Greenwood with pair of earrings mae
OF a rattlesnake's rattles, noun ed via
gold.
THE Christian Union says: "Whethei
women ought to preach depends upon
whether they can preach. Experiment
should be made, but cautiously, and on
a small SCALE"
The two men now most in demand
by the lecture committees are DR.. Hou.
ard and Herald Stanley. 1t is under.
stood that both will mountthe rostrum.
ROBERT and Jacob MCLEAN are twin
brothers, seventy-two years of age, both
hale and hearty, and over six feet high.
They live with their mother, 90 years
of age, who is growing feeble, at Rob
Roy, Ill.
BRIGHAM You've has just made the
necessary application to the Comptrol-
ler's office at Washington to establish
bank at Salt Lake City, to be called the
Bank of Deseret. The capital proposed
is.$200,000.
COL JOSEPH LEFFLER, ofSpringfeld, o.,
was married the other day to Miss Eva
line Beasley. The Colonel is As inches
high, weighs So pounds, and is SO years
old. His wife is five inches taller than
he, weighs IS pounds, and is 20 years
old. Letter is one of the most success.
full bee keepers in the United States.
JOAQUIN MILLER is thirty.five; Senator
Nye is tifty-sey en-; Fenton is fifty-three;
Senator Bayard is ffty-four; Sumner is
sixty-one years old; Lew Campbell is
sixty-one; Senator Earlan is tifty-two;
Conkling is iorty.three; Henry Wilson
is sixty; Senator Thurman is fifty-nine;
John A. Logan is forty-four.
Miss MAGGIE HAGGERIY, of Tarrytown,
n. Y, recently horsewhipped man
because he had named his mare after
her, and then entered the beast for
race with another mare named Josie
Mansfield, and placarded the two names
side by side all over town, which Miss
Maggie considered an insult and an in
Jury,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
To Make Popcorn Balls.

While popping your corn put some
strip on the stove, the nicer the better,
and boil it down quite thick. Put your
corn, while hot, in dish.pan, or any
large vessel convenient, pour the sirup
over it and stir it we'll with q spoon. 1t
only needs enough to make the corn
stick together. Butter your fingers and
make up the balls quickly any size you
wish. Lay on plate until cool, and
they are nice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Foreign Gossip.

LONDON bootblacks wear regular
uniform.
Ex-ENpREss ISABELLA OF Spain is still
fat and devotional. She resides in
Paris.
DIAMONDS of the first quality are nos
dearer than ever before, in all parts of
the world.
WAGNER, the composer, has nine libel
suits pending against German newspa.
pers.
The Marquis Of Lorne, Queen Victo
ria's son .in.law, is lay preaching in Eng
land.
NJ. THEIRS thinks he will be able to
pay all the German indemnity by Sep,
TENDER, 1873.
JUICE DowLING, of the New York
Tombs Police Court, who is travelling in
Europe, has been presented by Napo
leon with portrait of himself, in oil.
THE Prussian Cultus Minister has
given decision that female teachers
may indeed be employed in German
schools, but only in such instances
where male instruction is not to be ob.
tanned.
THERE is talk in Berlin about the or.
ganization of large stock company for
the publication OF new daily paper,
destined to be the largest in the world,
and to be managed on the plan Of the
American )urnals.
A CLERGYMAN Of England, who has
abundant means, publishes religious ar
ticles in newspapers as advertisements,
and is 80 we'll satisfied with the result
that he proposes TO purchase space, this
year, in five hundred papers.
The fish poachers in England have
appealed to science for help, and are
too clever for the law. They explode
dynamite under the water, and kill
hundreds of fish at single explosion.
Then they let them float down the
streams to safe place and net them.
A COLOSSAL statue of Richard Baxter,
the famous semi.nonconformist preach
er, during the years Of the Common
wealth and of Charles H., is proposed
for the town of Ketderminster, Eng
land, where he lived for many year,,
and VIII ire most Of his great religious
books were written.
SIrGREAvEs, the English adventurer,
who personatei the Hon. George Bon
croft on various occasions in Germany,
and whose principal occupation was to
sell spurious letters of celebrated men
TO collectors of autographs, has been
sentenced at Coblentz to four years
imprisonment at hard labor.
DURING the past six months an anti.
tobacco league has been formed in
France. whose members are taking very
active steps against the use IS tobacco,
on the ground of its having greatly con
tribute to the dCgeUeracy OF French
men, and their consequent failure in
the last campaign.
OFFICIAL reports show that theratio OF
lunatics TO the whole number of people
in England and Wales is a steadily in.
creasing one. In 1859, the ratio per
thousand was l.S6; in 1860 | 81; 1861,
l.97; in 1862, BOP, and so on, growing
larger each year, until in 1872 ii is 2.54
Out of every two thousand people, then,
five are of unsound mind. We doubt
whether this ratio is surpassed even in
France. Melancholy is at least as POI
tent cause of madness as excitement,
and melancholy's chef domain is in
what used to be 'Merrie England"
The last mana cobbler. A tight
fit-Delirium tremens. A water pitcher
"A fire engine. A shaky business
Making jelles A water.spout-A tee.
total lecture. Real water colors-Green
and blue. An innocent cuss-Darn it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Too Much.

Rectors Daughter" Well, Dennis,
how are you getting on? How do you
like your new MASTERY" Dennis
=" Faith, Miss, ] Dunno r. D." He's
very kind and faithful man; you
can't do too much for him p Dennis.
San sure, Miss, | don't name or
Fun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
When TO Prune.

The Neo England Farmer has these
suggestions on pruning:
There is less correct knowledge among
cultivators, of the habits and nature of
growth OF trees, than in any other de.
partment Of farming. With regard
TO pruning there is one infallibe guide,
namely: Never prune q tree hen the.
saw you are using will keep bright
That proves that the pores of the wood
are full of thin sap. If they are then
cut th sap will run out When shall
we pi une? When the sap is thick and
will gum up the saw so that il will need
washing once or twice in two or three
hours. The thin sap has then assembled
to swell the buds, and expand the bios
SONS and caves, and having performed
its required labor there, what portion r..
mains-out in thickened form-re.
turns down under the outside bark, and
increases the diameter. The sap YES
sells are now comparatively empty, and
the tree can be pruned, if judiciously
done, without much injury.
shortening trees is another matter.
That may be done in most trees az any
time without much harm. as none of
the large vessels are cut, and the leaves
below the place cut would be likely to
absorb the passing sap. The downward
motion of the sap takes place about the
middle OF June. Then the sap vessels
are comparatively empty. After the
leaves have fallen in the autumn they
are in a similar condition.
FARMERS are becoming more and
more convinced Of the advantage dc.
rived in sowing corn for soiling pur.
poses Dairymen, especially on clay OF
sandy soils easily affected by the drought,
realize the fact of It's being superior TO
almost any other food for the produc.
ton Of milk during midsummer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Worth Preserving.

ia case OF poison, make your patient
vomit by giving a tumbler of warm
water with a teaspoonful of mustard in
il, and then send for the doctor. If il
be necessary 10 act without the doctor,
and the poison is arsenic, give large
quantities OF milk and raw eggs, or flour
and water II the poison is an acid.
give maguesia and water and plenty Of
warm water besides. II Il is an alkali,
like potash, give vinegar and water,
lomonjuicct or some other safe acid.
Alwals remember the emetic first III
IL be audanum, strong coffee il good
thing to give until The doctor comes.
Keep the patient awake Bls,o,ug.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

Ar Westville, Ohio, lives an old sailor
Of 1912, named George Murphy. now 81
years Of age who, in his younger days,
when he was rafting on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, walked from New Or
leans 70 Pittsburgh once, and from New
Orleans TO Cincinnati twice Last win.
ter he chopped and put up twenty five
cords Of wood, and this summer he has
made full hand in the harvest field.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Games for Children.

There is pile of inventive genius in
Connecticut. A gentleman from New
Haven showed me some of the sweet.
est little games for children | ever saw.
| appreciate his efforts to please the
children. | believe innocent parlor
games have tendency to make home
pleasant, and keep the children from
going to the circus. He showed me
his highly interesting, moral and enter.
tanning game called "The fly leaf"
would advise every parent to get one.
1t is done in this way: Take sheet
of writing paper Kalsomine it on one
side with gum mucilage; then catch a
fly; turn the fly over on its back stick
the back Of the fly on to the paper;
then catch another fly, and do likewise;
put the flies close together, heads all
one way keep on doing this until you
get the sheet full then turn the paper
over, and you'd swear that paper was
aliPe. 1t will run all around the room.
When you tire of this sport turn the
paper over, and admire the movements
Of the flies legs. 1t will be a perfect
fac simile of grass swayed by zephyr.
This will be cheaper than taking the
children to the country to see it. Zeph.
yrs are an expensive luxury nowadays.
Another enchanting game for chill.
rem that this highly pious man showed
me was this: Catch six cockroaches
(those that have never taken Paris green
preferred) pin these reaches to the
wall, legs out then let your children
sit in front of them and see how many
chapters in the Bible they can commit
to memory before the last leg dies. This
is calculated to exalt the morals OF the
young, and cause them to grow up good
citizens. The gentleman informed me
that the idea first struck him upon
hearing the following conversation be-
tween two good little boys on their way
home from Sunday School;
Johnny
What?''
"Come here"
I" ! can't
"Why not 2"
cause I'm in a hurry to get home.
Pa is going to drown a litter of kittens
this afternoon, and / want to see the
builders. Correspondence Of the Ne,o
York SIN.
The largest and finest exhibition of
cattle ever held in the United States
will come off at Boston in September
next, under the auspices of the Massa
chusetts Society for Promoting Agricul-
ture. The amount 10 be awarded in
premiums is over $4,000.
4 4 -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

Two twin beys in Warren GO uty,
Ind, aged - years, are teuderly cared
for by me ther Of 60.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

ALL the bricks in New York city
would not make the great pyramid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

A FISHING schooner from Gloucester,
Mass, set her seine around school Of
mackerel on a recent occasion, and sue.
ceeded in getting it full, when whale
went clear through the seine tearing
the net badly, and allowing the mackerel
to escape.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

How much did he leave n inquired
gentleman Of a wag, on learning Of
the death Of wealthy citizen " Every.
thing replied the wag; he didn't
take a dollar with him.
CAMP MEETINGS have been more nu'
merous this season than ever before.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

LONDON bootblacks wear a regular
uniform,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26
THE FUNERAL OF Bx-AssEMBLYMAN otNEIiL.

The funeral services Of James O'Neill. ex-member
OF Assembly from the Ninth district took place al
his late residence, $40 Greenwich street, yesterday
morning at ten O'Clock. The remains were encased
In q handsome rosewood casket, the lid OF which
contained silver plate bearing the following in
scription:-"James O'Neil, died June o. 1879, aged
81 years, months and days. The room In which
the remains lay, as well as the casket, were fra
grant with rare and choice flowers. The pail bear
ers were superintendent Kelso, ex-Judge Dodge,
ex-Alderman Flynn John Richardson Chrlss
Connor, William a. Jennings, John Houghtalin,
Daniel Williams and Buck Brown. At ten O'Clock
the friends OF the deceased accompanied the re,
mains to st. Josephs church, OF West WASH
ington place and Sixth avenue, where a solemn
high mass was held by Father Farrell. The Board
oil EXCISE or which deceased was chief clerk weroa
present. also the b. III. r. Club the Thomas JefYer-
son club and the Tammany Hall General Commit
tee OF the Ninth ward. The remains were Inferred
In Calvary Cemetery.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26
BROOKLYN COURTS.
SUPREME COURT-CIRCUIT.
Before Judge Pratt

Before Judge Pratt
The Suit Against the Belt Railroad Conn
pany-$s,OOO Damages Awarded.
Mary Meyers vs.. The Central Park and North and
East River Railroad Company.-This case wqs re-
ported yesterday The plaintiff claimed damages
In the Of $4,000 for injuries received by being
thrown from one OF the company's cars In the
month of June 1868. She was eaaceinte at the time,
and while stepping or the ear the vehicle was
started suddenly and she was thrown violently to
the street. She had premature delivery as the
result of the accident and has since been seriously
affected
The company claimed that the occurrence was
the result OF her own negligence.
Yesterday morning the jury In the case rendered
verdict In favor OF plaintiff and assessed the dam
ages at 5000.
Hugh Webster's Suits.
When Hugh Webster kept grocery store at St.
James place and Fulton avenue he purchased from
man who came to the store quantity Of gro
ceries. Subsequently Hugo Hirsch appeared at the
store, and claiming that the goods belonged to
him and had been taken by one Of his clerks, took
them away. Webster was also arrested on charge
OF receiving stolen property, but was acquitted.
He thereupon brought suit against Hirsch for false
Imprisonment and recovered damages.
Yesterday he brought another suit to recover
$114 the amount he paid for the groceries in qles-
ton, and $500 damages additional for the seizure
Hrsch said that the groceries belonged to him,
and therefore he had right to take them from
Webster
The jury rendered a verdict for defendant.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26
A DISCARDED wIFE's TROUBLES,
The History OF an Assault and Battery
Case-COnspirfng to Get Rid OF
Troublesome Wife.


The History OF an Assault and Battery
Case-COnspirfng to Get Rid OF q
Troublesome Wife.
The habitues of the Yorkvllle Police Court went
into ecstacies yesterday over a bit of scandal
which came out during the examination OF an
ordinary assault and battery case.
Mrs. Ann Congdon, handsome young widow
who keeps boarding house at 243 East Flty-fourth
street. charged Mrs. Ann E. Hatch, of Yonkers
with having struck her and threatened to take
her life at the Grand Central depot on Saturday
last. The cause Of the trouble between
the ladies seems to be ths:-Mr. Hatch
some five years ago. so 1t is alleged during the alb
sence in England Of his wife, formed the acquaint-
ance OF Mrs. Congdon, whose little dinners he liked
so well that bis wife on her return could not induce
him to come back to her. although she had been his
faithful vile for twentyone years For the last two
and half years 1t is said he has lived at
Mrs. Congdons house, and on one occasion
when he proposed returning to his wife Mrs.
Congdon threatened If he did "she'd let daylight
through him." He at once RECONSTRUCTED his pro-
posal and concluded to remain where he was. He
told Mrs. Hatch few weeks ago how matters
stood, and she determined to speak to Mrs. Cong
don In person. and for the first time. Last Friday
while the latter was at Tarrytown, Mrs. Hatch had
an interview with her for this purpose. Her hns-
band happened, by mere chance of course, to be
interview with Mrs. Congdon proving unsat-
isactory, Mrs. Hatch came on to this city in the
same train with her husband. On their arrival at
the depot, In Forty-second street, the women met,
and OF course, there was grand row. IL was
plain to the Court that Mrs. Hatch was being i'm
posed upon, for the counsel for Mrs. COngdon are
also, as Mrs. Hatch declares, Hatch's private coun-
sci. The lawyer who appeared for the forlorn wife
brought out these facts so successfully that the
Court peremptorily dismissed the complaint. The
counsel for Mrs. COngd0n was so shocked at the
to hm--extraordnary decision that he bounced
out OF the Co1rs amGs, Iopgeshg DIS nat ~ MS
vile Police Court practice for some time to come.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26
THE RECENT TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Death OF Another victim-Mrs. Maggiori
Recovering.

Louis Margraf-the young German who was
shot in the head and hand by his brother-In-
law, Carlo J. Maggior, an Italian painter in
East Houston street, on the afternoon OF the 10th
instant-died on Monday evening In Bellevue Hos
pital, where he had been under treatment since the
occurrence. Maggioris wife had LETT him on ac-
count OF i'll treatment, and on the day named he
called upon her at AIS East Houston street for the
pretended purpose OF negotiating for a separation
or divorce On leaving the room and reaching
the bottom of flight OF stairs Maggorl
drew pistol and shot his wife In the
left breast; Margrai who was present, intcrfered
TO protect MS sister, and In turn pursued Maggior
into the Eleventh precinct station house where he
shot him In the right oin as he was running up The
stairs toward the Captains desk. Maggiori died
in three days afterward, and now we record the
death OF Margr1.
a post.mortem examination on the body OF Young
Margraf showed that he had extensive valyular
disease OF the heart which greatly tended to hasten
his DEATH Had he been In perfect health il is quite
possible that Margraf might have survived his inju-
ries. Mrs. Caroline Maggori Is still confined in the
hospital but hopes entertained OF her recovery.
Coroner Young has the case In charge, but the
investigation Is now reduced 10 0 mere formal
Wattegs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26
MACARONI.
south Street Merchants Charged with
Fraud.

The Custom House officers went to the ONCE OF j.
p. Phillips a. Sons, commission merchants, OF No.
So South street, yesterday, and took possession Of
their books and papers on charge that the firm
had been engaged in defrauding the government
1t Is alleged that the merchants have been in the
habit OF importing considerable quantities
OF macaroni from Italy and invoicing the
goods at one and half francs below the market
value. A cargo which arrived short time ago and
was 80 invoiced was detained at the Custom House
until the firm paid penalty. Messrs Phillips have
been In business for several years. and they assert
that they are entirely innocent OF any intent to
dervalue the goods sent to them. They claim that
most Of the goods which passed through the Custom
House In their name were intended for small Italian
dealers In this country, for whom they merely acted
as forwarding agents. In some instances the con-
siRner OF such goods would forward two or
three hundred cases Of macaroni to them
direct to sell commission. They were
not sufficiently informed to know the home value OF
the macaroni, and had TO go according to the ia
voices In their transactions with the Custom House,
When they found that macaroni was selling at
eight francs per case In Italy they Immediately in
creased the price on the invoices to that amount.
They stigmatiZe the action OF the government au-
thories as an outrage. and say that the seizure OF
taeH books wil serlQpsy interrupt their business,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-26

plainant, believing that Johnson and Morton were
acting in completely with Miner, detained them.
Ofcer Woolsey proved That az nalIpast .,, one
prisoners together the corner or Twenty second
street and Fifth avenue
The accused offered no testimony, and the jury
rendered verdict Of guilty
His counsel asked to have Judgment postponed
Tor lew days In order to show the Court that re-
Gently Miner had been an industrious man.
Assistant District Attorney Stewart said Miner
was one or the most notorious thieves in the city,
and that he held in his hand indictments against
The Recorder remarked that he would pass
sentence next Friday.
Chaunccy johnson ON Trial for Grand
Larceny.
AT the termination of this trial Charles Johnson,
alias Chauncey Johnson, an alleged notorious
criminal, was placed at the bar. Mr. Howe
defended him, and occupied considerable
time in procuring jury. The evidence
was precisely the same as that adduced
upon the trial OF Miner, with the additional facts
that Johnson and Morton were placed In charge OF
one OF Mr. Debucks wOrkmen; that while he went
ont for an officer they broke away from him; while
they were running down stairs they were caught
by Mr. Debuck and Onlcer Folls and arrested on the
spot. The Clerk OF the Court produced the record,
which showed that on the 2lst OF December, 1870
Johnson pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand lar
ceny In the Oyer and Termner, and was sent to the
State Prison for one year by Judge Cardozo. This
item Ofproof was given TO establish an allegation in
the indictment, charging the accused with second
offence, which, II established, enables the Court to
send the party to the State Prison for ten years.
Johnson was examined In his own behalf; and,
while admitting that he was In Miners company
that afternoon, he said that he did not know he
(Miner) intended to go into Debuck's place.
Mr.. Howe, in his address to the jury, said all that
he could for his client, and Mr.. Stewart contended
with equal vgor that 1t was important to the in
terests OF the community that Johnson, who
had served a number of years In the State
Prison, should be put out of the way.
AS the not 1ntSheu Till q late hOur the
Recorder postponed his charge till this (Wednes-
day. morning.