River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-15
Personal.
/ BoNHEUR is coming.

MEssRs. a. AND w. SPRAGUE, of Provi-
dence, r l., have recently purchased 45O.-
600 acres Of timber land in Maine, paying
therefor $l,350,OOO. Ar
The Emperors of Germany and Austria
and the King of Bavaria are going to
Dresden to attend the golden wedding of
the King of Saxony, &8 @@WSm
THE remains of Fanny Fern" have
been deposited in Mount Auburn, in brick
catacomb by the side of the remains of her
first husband. hh'Aah eF
In the long course of his legal practice.
MIR. Seward was never known to act for a
man against woman. $500 s
Ex.SEcRETARY JOHN P USHER is finish.
ing a $4,000 residence at Lawrence.
Kan.
Miss RosINE SLIpELL, daughter Of ex.
rebel Commissioner SliIell, is in Paris.
and about to be married to the Viscount
de Saint Romans. se6
PERE HYACINTHE advises all men to
marry. One who has long served in the
harnsss remarks "He has only been mar
ried three monthsw ay
NENAN 10 coIinS W tHiS country early
in January. His "Life of Christi and
other works have made for him many ad-
mirers ON this side OF the water. OF
IT is stated that the ex-Emperor Napo-
leon will leave England for Madeira, in
the spring, in the royal yacht Victoria and
Albert. '-.t'...'e.7'ee
The Rev. Daniel Ladd, for many years
a missionary in Asia Minor in tie employ
of the American Board, died at Middle
bury, VT, on the 18th inst. ,-.t
SOME one says that the popularity of an
American young lady is that everywhere
and always she appears to be mistress of
thu situation. v.-sHa
| MAINE has an inmate in her insane asv.
lum, Mrs. Betsy Croker, SO years old. She
was born in the camp of the Revolutionary
army in l776. aa YsHe}f&
COLONEL ALvAH CROKER, NJ. c., of
Fitchburg, Mass, is 70 years old, and
worth $2,00O,000. He is President of two
banks, and is one of the greatest manufac.
turers Of paper in the country.
CHARLES READE has written a letter to
the New York Tribune, thanking its editors
for their enterprise in procuring details
OF the alleged acknowledgement of a lunatic
asylum near New York.
G. E. DELANEY, clerk in the navel SER
vice, at Kittery, Me-, lately dead, had no
hands, but wrote rapidly, holding the pen
between his wrists
Mrs. CLARA HApGooD DASH has just
been admitted to the lar at Machias, the
first New England woman to gain full
legal standing.
The fees of Mayor Blackmore, of Pitts.
burg. are now at the rate of $4,000 per
annum, and will be at the rate of $25,00O
when the south side of that city, few
months hence, comes into the municipality.
MRS SHERMAN, wife of General Sher-
man, owing to the death of her father, the
late Judge Ewing, of Ohio, will not 60 into
society at Washington this winter.
Mr.. W. H. SIMMONS, one of the Harvard
four who rowed against the Oxfords, has
returned to this country, having completed
three years. course of study abroad and
taken the degree of nj. D..
COLONEL HENRY B. BEEcHEa, son of the
Brooklyn divine, and lumber merchant
in Albany, has been elected Captain of the
Albany Burgesses Corps. He served and
earned his title in the late war. s.
EDMUND WINSTON HENRY, the younger
and last of the sons Of Patrick Henry, died
on the 18th inst, at his late residence in
the County of Charlotte, Va, in the seven
ty-ninth year of his age. 1t has not been
long since we were called upon to record
the demise ofseveral of his contempora-
rles in the ssme county-Paul and Henry
Darlington, John Marshall, and his broth.
er, John Henry. "a gue1g4as
RICH mems daughters, who marry
cOachmen, are not of necessity unhappy
The story OF Miss Boxer, of New York,
daughter of the millionaire who made
Boxers Bitters," is again revived. She
convulsed the fashionabes by marrying
John Dean, her fathers coachmau, and 50
dissolving her old family and social rela-
tions But John, it appears, turned out
successful business man, end the two live
comfortably and happily. s.
The Geneva On. w. Gazette relates the
story OF young man named George Wat
ers, who, it is stated, was assisted by tho
late William ii. Seward and Theodore NJ
Pomeroy, of Auburn, 10 get his college
honors to Hobart College, few years
since. lie went TO California. made and
lost two fortunes, and finally located
mining claim at Sheibourne, New. When
it was decided to him, he conveyed LOO
feet to each Of his former bcnefactors, Sew
ard and Pomeroy, in remembrance other
early kindness The story goes that the
lucky miner has sold his part Of the mine
for $4OO,OOo, while $40, 900 has been placl
ed to the credit Of Messrs Seward and
POmerOy. giftE ..stN