River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-16

BLATANT DUNCAN will emigrate 10 Eu-
rope.
JACK EVANS is known as the Demos
themes of Texas.
The whereabouts OF Gov. Hendricks
vexes the Indiana mind.
BYRON had produced his most bril-
liant works at thirty four.
BIcHAT, distinguished anatomist,
died at thirty-one
MOZART, the great German musician,
died at thirt y-five.
If the staff be crooked, the shadow
cannot be straight
SINCE 1849 the Pope has received
17o,0OO,00O francs in the way OF Peters
pence.
PROF. CHILD, of Harvard, the Ohau-
certan scholar, is in England, hunting
Up old unpublished ballads.
GEo. WASHINGTON, at the age OF
twentyAfour years, was commander-in-
chief Of all the armed forces of Wiz.
ginia.
JEffERsoN Davis has resigned tbs
presidency Of the Carolina Life tnsiif-
snce Company.
Troy proposes to give reception 90
Mr.. Francis, Minister to Greece, on his
return next month.
BARNUM has a new show with the as.
tonishing title of p. T. BIS Marvel
lous Drawing room Aggregation"
SAMUEL BowLEs, of the Springfield
Republican, Is trying his best to for
get Butler, at Old Orch ! Beach,
Maine. a,,s
Gov. WALKER, of Virginia, has sc.
cepted an invitation to address the
State Agricultural Society at their fair,
in October.
Miss NELSON has rewarded the zeal
of London theatrical agent with an
emerald ring. II will probably keep
her memory green,
Miss WHITE CndUD, daughter Of the
Indian chief, has confded her hopes
of earthly bliss to native of Irelvnd
named Pat Mcclure.
EMMA BLACK, of Mississippi, since
she towed drowning man ashore by
means of her abundant hair, scknowl.
edges herself tow.head.
BENJAMIN YOU'VE, an actor, we'll
known as delineator of negro char
aeters; particularly in the rote of Uncle
Tom, died suddenly in Philadelphia.
SENATOR LEWIS, of Virginia, salary
grabber, has physicians certificate
that he had better visit California, and
stay there till after the election.
Mrs. GENERAL PEGRAM, once re-
nowned as beauty and belle, is now
at the head of fashionable young
ladies' boarding school in Baltimore.
SERGEANT BATES. the banner fool,
writes to Mayor Medill, of Chicago, for
permission to go as his substitute in
the Graphic balloon. In momentary
inadvertence the Mayor refused.
Rev. TITUS CoAN, the venerable Sand.
wich islands missionary, whose wife
died last fall, is soon to marry Miss
Lydia Bingham, of the girls boarding
school at Honolulu.
THURLow WEED is supposed TO be in
failing health, for he writes to the
warden of the Sing Sing prison, con-
corning young Walworth haven't
the strength to write all the good I
know of him."
THR great antiquity of Bill Allen is
beyond question, as Homer speaks OF
him under the alias of Stentor. After
Moves takes some of the wind out of
him, it is said he will be offered sit
uation to act as fog horn on the Rhode
Island coast.
BERLIN reports state that Captain
Werner, who has made himself SO
widely known by his seizure of the
Spanish iron clads, has been appointed
director of naval constructions at Will
helmshafen, in place of Capt. Ppreze-
wisenski, of the Imperial German navy.
The wealthy Duke # Sutherland,
who is constructing at his own cost the
Sutherland and Carthness railway in
England, is practical engineer, and
often mounts the locomotive and drives
his own cars up and down the line.
NEBRASKA named town Vanderbilt
and then wrote to the commodore. He
replied that he didn't care a d-n, and
the way they changed the name of that
town would have made his hair stand
on end.
JESSIE FREMONT has posted up, all
over the shores of her husbands Por-
cupine Island, off the coast of Maine,
notices in her own hand writing, for
bidding all persons from landing. This
is done because careless picnic party
a week or two since, set fire to a valu.
able tract of woodland. Gen. Fremont
is himself very i'll in bed.
CART. WIN. NORTON PERsE, of the
Royal Artillery, was prevented from
entering stall in the Princess Thea
ire, London, because he had not on a
white tie. He naturally made row,
aud was, of course, arrested. But
white ties are not hereafter to be re.
CURED for entrance to stalls in the
Princess Theater.
, The mother of Bou-Mezrag, the
Arb Chief condemned to death for his
share in the last Arab insurrection
, against the French, arrived in Paris
some days back TO solicit the life of
; her son. Her efforts have been crown