River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-11
General LIENS.

DoMBEY AND Son IS the title OF an
English tailoring firm.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE is in the New
York Custom House.
JEFF. DAVIS private secretary has
started Texas paper.
DIR. STRONG, of Madison, N, j., is to
lead an exploring expedition to the
Holy Land.
PRINCE NAPOLEON is said TO entertain
the project of starting cheap newspa-
per in Paris.
Mrs JEAN MARGERET DAVENPORT
LANDER, the tragedienne, is spending
the winter in Rome.
The intellect of the Empress Carlot-
ia is said to be becoming clearer as she
draws daily nearer to death.
A ST. Louis lady is opposed to fe-
male clerks, because it destroys the ro-
nance of shopping.
A sEAMsTREss in Cincinnati uses a
gray squirrel as motive power for her
sewing-machine.
LADIES wear their dresses longer
than they used to, which is good news :
for husbands.
JOAQUIN MILLER Is writing -" By the
Shutdown Seas" to be published in
London in the fall.
Mr.. LAWRENCE BARRETT is regarded
in the South as the coming representa-
tive American tragedian.
JOSH WARD, the champion oarsman,
has become policeman of Cornwall,
n Y.
A GEORGIA convict stole the chap
lain's knife the other day, and cut way
to liberty.
The educated pig has been seized in
Washington for debt, and will be sold
by auction.
THE Marquis of Butte, we read, will
visit America, this Summer. The Mar
quis, we believe does not lecture.
A CALIFORNIA town boasts of raising
chickens which are black +" all the way
through"
THE London tramways ran 967, 00s
miles during the past six months at an
expense of ten and half pence mile.
The recent sale of Theophile Gau-
tiers effects, consisting chiefly of OBJ
jects of art, realized 10000 francs.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BARNEY WILLIAMS are
IN London, after five months tour of
Italy, France, Prussia and Holland.
GEN. SHERIDAN is about to publish
military book, with reference toir
late war between France and Prussia.
A MEAT company has been organized
In Texas to can all the beef they raise,
and raise all the beef they can.
Henry G. Bowen refused $3.50. 900
cash for the Brooklyn Union last week.
Bowen holds it firm mt $500. 900. on
which it annually pays fifteen per cent
Mr.. JAMES LICK, of San Francisco
has given valuable lot of land to the
Academy of Sciences in that city, and
another to the Pioneer Society.
ITis stated by a Welsh newspaper
that the Hon. John L. Jones, Senator
elect from Nevada, was born at Hav.
Brecknickshire. South Wales, IN 1925.
CHARLOTTE CUsHNIAN gets six thou:
sand dollars for her two weeks por-
formance at Walls Opera House, Wash.
ington.
HENRY WARD BEEcuER returned
home from his Western tour of seven.
teen lectures with $21,000 as his net
profits.
A PHYSICIAN in Muncie, ILL.,, was late
~ injured by the caving.in of well.
He will hereafter attend to the sick and
let the well alone.- " y Mail.
A REMARKABLE Invention. One of
the most important improvements ever
perfected IN musical instruments has
lately been Introduce by Geo. Woods
X Co., in their improved Parlor Or
gans. 1t consists of piano of exauis-
lite quality OF tone, which will never
require tuning. The instrument was
lately introduced at a musical soiree
IN Baltimore, and received the cordial
applause and Endorsement of the many
eminent urofnesiono1o s,,,asa,,t D.