River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

Iris stated that $50 deputies of the Frep h
Assembly will support motion for the res.
toration of the Monarchy.
TIE celebrated Parsons College has been
hnally located at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. which
settles along-mooted question in the Presby-
terian Church.
JOHN REED Killed Samuel Griffith. at York
centre, Union county, ONO, ON Friday night
stabblng him in the abdomen. Reed was ar
rested. Both parties were drunk an quarrel
ing,
InE change of gauge of the Grand Trunk
hallway IN Canada, was completed on Satur-
day, over the entire line, aud trains will re.
sumo their regular trips on Monday. The In
ternationafbridge at Buffalo will be completed
on the 9th, alter which trains can pass be-
tween Canada and the eastern and western
states.
Four companies of the Eighth, and six
companies OF the Ninth infantry, in command
of LleHt. Col Bradley, arrived at Yankton by
boat, from the Northern Pacific survey, Satur-
day, Ell route for Omaha. In transferring TO
another boat private Hennessy Of Co. &C, -
Eighth infantry, fell overheard, aud was
struck by the wheel and killed.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade Monday,
adopted resolution iavoring repeal Of all
usury laws, per cent. interest in the absence
of contract, and the modification of the ma
tional banking law, SO as TO allow every assoc
citation having $4,000 of government bonds,
the right to deposit some and receive national
bank notes, under restriction rendering bill
holders secure, as under the present system.
FIFTEEN yellow fever interments at Shrove-
port on Sunday, aud sixteen on Monday.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the relief of the yellow
fever sufferers at Memphis and Shreveport
are being made in all OF the leading cities Of
tine United States.
A COMMITTEE OF Galveston aud Houston
physicians have reported the fever at Calvert,
Texas, to be the genuine yellow fever forty
cases are reported in all.
The Treasury Department is now paying
persons who were employed in taking the
United States census IN the Southern States
in 1860, just previous to the breaking out OF
the war, and who We're deprived Of their
money ON that account Already S67, 6l9 have
been paid to such employees, in sums from $50
to 5000.
The President has requested the Secretary
of War to direct the Commissary General TO
send ten thousand rations to Memphis for the
relief of the yellow fever sufferers.
THREE ruffians named Henry CLAY, Edward
Current and Matt. Current, murdered Deputy
Marshal w. A. Burton, at Paris, KY. on Mon
day.
THIRTY SEVEN yelloS fever interments a
Memphis, Monday
The President has signed the commissions
of Edward G. Negley, postmaster at Pitts
burg, and Josiah E. West, postmaster at st.
Cloud, Mimi, and appointed Philip Allen. Jr.
postmaster at Mineral Point. WIS, rice Philip
Lawrence. suspended.
DONALDSON, the aeronaut, made balloon
ascensirn from the Capitoline grounds in
Broo klyn, early Monday morning, with the
avowed purpose of crossing the Atlantic. He
took with him as companions George Wash
ington Lunt and Alfred Ford. When the air.
ship reached Canada, in the northeastern cor
ner of Connecticut, it was caught in a violent
''Ohhi3 anu pcih5 hSdi tht CaIlu, ITOI Dun
aldson and his friends jumped out and per-
mitted the balloon to escape.
A FIRE Wednesday night, at Toledo, de
stroyed ID. N. Trowbridge & Sons barrel and
stave factory. Loss $4,000. Another, Thurs
day morning, burned the manufactures of
Osborne, Chase d Swayne, Toledo Pump Com
pany, and Russell & Thaycrs novelty works.
Loss about $50, 0OG.
ROBERT BIGsBY, the English writer, is dead
On the 23d of August several shocks OF
earthquake were felt in Guatemala, causing
great alarm, but no damage.
HoN. john b, BALDWIN, formerly Speaker Of
the Confederate House of Representatives.
died at Stanton, Va. Tuesday.
DISPATCH from Portland, Oregon. saws
work on the Northern Pacific Railroad is not
suspended, and 1t is expected cars will be run
ming to Tacoma this autumn.
abroad.
IT is reported that the crops have failed in
Hungary, and that famine prevails in some
sections.
A DISPATCH from Alexandra, Egypt, saws a
financial panic prevails IN that city. Money
ierery scarce. No failures yet reported.