River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-02-07
General Items.

has killed a man and two boys. The
New York papers are anxious to have
him settle there.
Ten students have been expelled
from Williston Seminary, Easthamp.
ton, Mass, for taking part in the New
Years Eve carousal.
STILL the literary landmarks vanish.
They have pulled down the house, IN
Plough Court, Lombard street, Lon
don, IN which Pope was born.
THE two additional Judges of tho
Missouri Supreme Court have drawn
for terms, viz: Sherwood, ten years
Ewing, eight years.
IF three miles make league, how
many will make conference2
One hundred and fifty men have
been lynched in the State of Missouri
within the past three years for horse
stealing.
BETWEEN May and December of last
year, fifty-seven vessels i'll the lumber
trade were wrecked or abandoned be-
tween British and American ports.
A LARGE quantity of sugar-cane cut
tings from the East Indies has arrived
ia Louisiana to take the place of the
degenerate native seed.
HIGHWAY robbery, as a means of SUBJ
sistence, is becoming popular IN Eng
land, and the exploits of Dick Turpin
and Claude Duval are being repeated.
Mn. GODFREY, promising young
lawyer of Great Bend, Kansas, was so
badly frozen, recently, that his feet
and hands will have to be amputated.
THERE are people in Lafayette, Ind,
so Door that they are compelled to buy
coal by the market basketful, and have
their children carry it to their homes.
THE Vermont Central Railroad cam
not pay its employees; cannot buy any
cars; caunot even buy any wood, and
the state is going to sell it to the high
est bidder.
HENRY DUMAS, one of the colored
members of the Pinchback Louisiana
Legislature, is conservative He rep.
resents the parish of ST. John the Bap-
fist, and Is worth $4,000.
THE receipts of corn at Peoria, H..
for 1872, were 5,791, 445 bushels; of
oats, 2, $50, 695 bushels; cattle, SO, 1885,
105; hogs, III, 767.
THE English have some curious laws.
A London whisky-seller lately refused
to sell a man a drink, aud the man
went off and cut his throat. The sa.
loon keeper is now under arrest as re-
sponsible for the death.
The area of soil suitable for grape
production in California is said to ex-
coed that of France in the proportion
of four to one, or, $4,000, 900 acres in
California to about IA, 900 square miles
for France.
THE lumber business of Chicago
during the season about to close has
increased eight per cent. over that of
1871, and ten per cent. over that of
1870. Last year 1000, 900, 900 feet of
lumber were received there, which,
with laths and shingles, constitute a
business amounting to $21, 900. 900.
THE vintage of the United States is
beginning TO receive some attention at
the hands of Congress. A bill is now
in preparation for the protection of
wine-growers, and to pre-, ont the man.
ufacture of imitation wines. The inter-
nal revenue bureau is taking the initia-
tive step in the matter.
THE statistics of the foreign trade
of New York during the last calendar
year are not yet complete, but for the
eleven months ending with November,
the combined imports and exports were
$6S8, 401, 624. BY adding an estimate
OF one-eleventh for December we have
total for the year of $3.50, 9S3, 500.
NOTWITHSTANDING the loss of her two
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine,
France still has a population % over
3o,OO0,O0 people, diminution OF
only 666, 900 since the last census. Her
population is equal to that of all the
United States, although her territory
IS only the area of the state of Texas.
BosToN proposes to use portion of
the burnt district as the site of grand
central depot. 1t will extend from
Summer to Franklin streets, filling the
space between Devonshire and Federal,
and is to be entered by the Boston and
Providence, Old Colony. and Boston
and Albany railroads. The project is
not yet fully consummated.
IT is said that the proprietor of the
London Daily Telegraph, In imitation
of the enterprise of the New York
Herald, has given carte blanche to
George Smith, of the British Museum,
the recent discoverer of Chaldean ac-
count OF the Deluge. to proceed to the
East to undertake further researches.
OF course, it will be grand card for
that paper.
THERE are nineteen large tanneries
in Maine, which use annually 10000
cords of bark This bark tans 1O.0OO
to ll,0OO tons of leather. The average
cost of the bark is $3.50 per cord, and
aggregating $4,000 annually. The
leather Is generally tanned 10y the huu.