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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25
Foreign.

TuE Vera dc Cuba says conspiracy has
been discovered IN Halgulu aud the surround
ing jurisdiction Tor a rising simultaneously
with the landing Of the yirgnius expedition
The plot had extensive ramiications through
out the island, aud would have been carried
iuto execution ou tue list OF November Many
persons have already been arrested, aud the
arrests are daily increasing.
4 SPECIAL dispatch from Alden says that in
he encounters recently in III Paso, between
the Arabs aud Turks, 800 Of the former and
20 Of the latter w,re killed and wounded II
il probable that the British force at Alden
will interfere aud prevent encroaehments by
the Turks.
A LONDON dispatch states that the Ashautoe
expedition has advanced twenty-five miles
from Elmlra, and that the Ashantees are re-
treating on the river Pratt having been defeat
el with great loss in killed and wounded, ard
hive villages burned.
ApyIcrs from Autlcosta state that Of five
kundrcd Observation-Disclosures on the island only
one hundred are supplied with provisions.
The revolution in Panama il over, and
amnesty has been proclaimed. Gen. Corrcrso,
leader Of the rebel forces, nas sailed tor
Peru. A portion Of the Cabinet IS at war
with the President, and the Constituent As.
sembly IL against him, hence he threatens its
dissolution at the poiut OF tho bayonet ~
nee, ssary.
GfNtEAL PnLruv late Captain General q
Cuba, has arrived at Cadz.
raE report current SUNDAY that Admiral
ralo dc Barnab,, spanish Minister al Wash.
inetou was to DC superseded is denied.
fnf American hhoustering steamer. Gen.
eral sherman entered the harbot u A,puwall
~ the 81 instant under the name 81 Genera,
ARIA, and vas at once seized hy capt uu,h-
4 mg, II the United States stoam,. Wyoming.
Tor using illegal ship papers and sa,hug under
the las u Honduras, while II is claimed she
/ /, 40 American vessel. Her case viii 81 de-
ended by Uuited stitrs courts.
/ rur Punch Assembly il IN session. and
have under consideration a r,port lfom the
Right ~ ialur d the prolongation o. pfc.l.
+ Snt Maeh ahnu's term " office.
i ki>e NlcraB EMtNuu opened the Italian
i Parliament ou SATURDAY, III speech, Ia w Inch
he said DC hoped Tor q eununuaue II tile
f Worh u mttnalufgaudalion, that ltaly might
increase hFr prosperity amid order ana safe.
Is, the tua indispensable conditions 81 indus.
tr4 and progress Il has b,,u shown that
ttUmt udsht become The capital without IN.
reaehns upon the independence &c tht rapo
ur the eS"elso o. spiritual functions. aud
ta.auous ut the Catholic world. WewIll ID.
spee, IL. religions sentiments AMI hrs liberty
Int will not permit attacks upon the nation q,
IT, constitution.
Fut team.hlp City q Montreal has arrived
ai Queenstown With the disabled steamship
City II Richmond III tow. All aou.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25

Well, YOU SEE, sir, it seems to be one
of them things rs won't wear out. It's
a thing as attracts children aud grown
people people with young ideas,
you know and as it isn't likely that
children will ever wear out,-I mean
the custom Of having children, why.
il isn't likely is circuses I'll ever go
down. Why, how the old country peo-
PIE now talk about going mp to Lon
don and see the sights; why, what s
the thing they always recklest best
Why, isn't it about going to clash
leys n To be sure 1t is; and some of
them viii talk to you for long enough
about old Ducrow, and her cream
ponies, and Miss Woodford pitching
of the horse on her head, and then
about the fire, and Batty and the Cook,
and all the rest of it And | don't
care, summer or winter, wet or dry,
whenever We go with our troupe into a
country town, there is always an au-
dience.
Nothing takes like a circus and
yours takes better than anybody's,
can tell you am only an understrap-
per, now, you know but the gunner
did the right thing by me, and of
course | do the right thing by him.
You see, we always make good fuss
in the shape Of well billing the place
we are going to, fot il doesn't do to- be
stingy in that way, aud the guvnor has
some spicy affairs of rampagious horses
and wonderful jumping, and all the
At,WN anFql In txhsla g.
the shop windows there's some itho-
graphs OF the performing horse, or the
elephant, or the gutta-percha brothers,
tied in uman knot, while every one
who exhibits has ticket for free adj
mission.
But 1t is a queer life, sir, aud one
not to Lee enyied, only, you see, Won
must live: aud when there's o wife and
some little 'uns, why, OF course. they
must live, too and having been in
the profession all my life, why. il
doesn't seem rs II could DO anything
ont.
There. now, then, thems two of
mine coming in the ring now First
ones eleven. and t'uther's nine The
pIumy Twistcrs, we call 'em in the
bill, and they don't DO amiss for their
size. Pitch snmmerset easy, either
OF them. There they 10, you see and
after another year or two's eddieation
they'll be- great help 70 the family,
besides having profession Of their
own Ia make Gun independent when
they won't stop in the nest any longer.
All theyv got 90 do i " keep clear OF
their fathers accident for, get hip.
Joint put out a. dad, aud the country
doctor Ia shy IL WIS strain, and nvyer
put It up TN too llto--got in for an ac-
cldcnt like that. by trcadlng ON an
orange peel and slipping when running
for a jump. then it's i doer mp for life
as With me.
But il il queer Z. sir NJ rest,
com font. no peace ~ All. Public
ousa Ill ways aud say, now. heres %.
ay long distance t. come, and had
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25

Full many a Northern breath hath swept
Ger Augostura'- plalu,
And Long the pltyng eye hath wept
Above the moldCring slain;
The ravens scream, or eagles flight,
Or shepherds pensIye lay,
Alone aNakes each sullen height
That frowned n that dread day.
Now, meath the parent turf they rest,
Far from the CORY field,
Borne to a Spartan mothers breast
On many d bloody shield
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly On tha,u here.
Ard kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The soldiers sepnlchre.
Il ST on, embalmed aud saiuted dead
Dear is the blood We gavel
No imlp0us footsteps here shall tread
The heritage of YOUR grave
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Game her record keeps,
OR Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Yalor proudly sleeps.
Yon faithiui herdldS blaznned stone,
With niu0Iuful pride shall tell,
When many d vanished age hath down,
The story how We fell
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winters high
Nor Times emorseless doom,
shall mar one ray Of elory's light
That gilds your deathles- tomb.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25
Wood Carpeiings.

The Scientific American describes
the new wood carpetiug that Ia coming
lnto extensive use as follows "The
fabric is made Of Stats or more orna.
mental shapes, glued OF cemented up.
on cloth backing. The slabs or strips
of wood are Of different colors. and are
arranged to produce all the effects of
tesselated floor, mosaic work, ETC., and
being about quarter Of an inch in
thickness, they Will wear many years.
The are finished III oil, and tit togeth-
er 80 tightly that the Joints are rs per.
feet as those In inlaid work. The sur
face thus produced can therefore be
scrubbed, washed and oiled When
needed, precisely like other floors made
Ut ornamental woods, which floors they
resemble in all respects.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25
A Lonely Dnei.
From the 81. Josenh lMo.l Herald

From the st. Joseph (Mo.l Herald.
A duel without witnesses was fought
recently in fancy county, near the
county seat of Forsythe. John Go
forth and Simon Melville went out to
hunt deer. Each was armed with the
old-fashioned squirrel rifle. Goforth
said to Melville: 81 hear that you have
been lying on me. "What did you
hear / said 2" asked Melville. "That
had been beating my wife. And
SO you have, replied Melville. "Those
who told it lied and when You re-
peated it you lied and You knew ut
the time you were lying These we're
pretty plain words, and they brought
about some pretty plain shooting.
Both men agreed to step off thirty
yards each, wheel AZ the word, and fire
Immediately after wheeling. They did
so. Melville, when he had measured
OFT his thirty steps, called out
" Wheel! ! aud both men turned and
fired. Gotorth was shot in the right
arm and Melville IN the right shoulder.
They managed, however, to walk into
Forsythe, where a physician extracted
both balls, and consoled Goforth with
the information that unless he was
very careful he might have 10 cut his
arm OIL. fhIs version Of the case
agrees IN the main with the stories of
bothme
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25

Little Rock, Tor the repose Of the souls OF
those who died Of yellow fever
An officer Of the Cuban Junta Is at Mem
pins, it is said, for the purpose Of raising a
colored regiment to assist IN liberatIng the
slaves on that island.
| A SPECIAL to the New Orleans Times reports
the killing, by citizeng, Of seven Of the nine
negroes implicated 10 the recent Grant parish
outrage.
r. II. Brooks has been held IN $4,000 bail
for examination, on charge Of embozzling
500 900 Of the funds Of the Merchants Ma
tonal Bank Of Petersburg. Va, Of which he
was President,
MONTGOMERY Roach rhot and killed his
cousin, James Il ae.i, twelve miles from
Frankfort, Ky. 90 account Of an old quarrel
about dog. james Roach had threatened 20
shoot Montg omery on sight, and commenced
firing on HIM. Several shots were exchanged
before James was killed. Montgomery Roach
went to Frankfort aud surrendered himself
He was a Baptist clergyman
ARAILRoAp accident occurred near Browns
Vile, Texas few days ago, by which pas
sengcr, Mrs. Agnes McKenna, had her collar
bone broken. car loaded with laborers
from CHI ago was demolished, but, save slight
bruises anI cuts, none were injured. The en-
glneer discovered the obstruction N time to
apply the air brakes, and check the speed Of
his train. else all would probably have been
killed or wounded.
TuE supposed railway robbers arrested IN
Kansas, turn out 20 be horse thieves
The results Of the late election IN Arkansas
will make the Legislature stand Senate, Re-
puhlicans, - Democrats, Il. House, Repub-
leans, %; Democrats, S..
AT Dennison, Texas, recently man start
ed ont Of a saloon With q kuite in his hand,
remarkng that he would meet some one in
less than ten minutes. lie was soon after
ound with pistol shot through his shoulder.
YELLOW FEVER has broken out again in
Balubrldge Ga. Tho death Of Lewis, the
mayor Of the ctty, is announced.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25
The South.

CLARENCE FHrNucr, the on, surviving sou
Of Geo. y. Prentice, was thrown from u hggy
aud killed, while returning home a fvW mile.
from Louisville
Az infantry company u SIXTY hKe mon, On.
gained ia Louisville, have tpndetei their ST.
vices 70 the Government, and arc anxious
be- sent 20 the prospective spanish war. A
meeting will BE- held 10 secure further enlist
meuts A Federal veteran also offers 81 ruse
regiment Of 1000 men.
Man named Thompson, ii Henderson
Ky, while ia drunken o. shot ana killed.
MS wife, and after firing Al policeman Who
attempted to arrest him, ho unsucct ssiully
attempted suicide He il now III TAIL
Hon mass was celebrated At ST. Peters
hurch, Memphis. by Bishop Fitzgerald,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-25
The i.Lrnnac Of The Dead.

This poem was written by Theodore O'Hara
Of Kentucky, at the time Of the removal u ia
remains Of the Kentuckians killed IA the Mes
lean war. TO Frankfort, aud the erection thef
OF monument 20 their memory Mr.. omar
served in the Confederate army during the lal
war. ana It is supposed he died, either durIn
the war OF after MS close
The mulilei drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo
No mere on lfe's parade shall nc"t
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents ar apield,
Ana Gloev guards, with solemn round,
Tile blyuuac Of the dead.
No tumor Of the foes advance
Now sweeps upon the wind
No troubled thoughts al midnight haunt
of loved ones left behind.
No vision oil the laOlrows STRIFE
The warriors dream alarms
Nor braVug horn nor screaming HE
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shlvercd swords are red with rust
Their Dlumed heads are bowed
Their naughty banner, tailed IA dust,
l. uoW their martial shroud
And plcuteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains FROM each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are freed from anguish now.
The ueghng troop, the flashing blade,
The bugler stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are past
Nor wars Wild note, nor gl0ry's peel,
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts taat neycrmoIe may feel
The raptures Of the fight.
For. ike the dreadful hurricane
That sweeps the wide plateau,
Flushed With the triumph yet to gam,
Game down the serrled Toe,
Who heard the tempest Of the fray
Break DER he field bone ath,
Knew well the watchword OF the day
Was Victory o. Death
Long had the doubtful conflict ragged
Across the surgine PLAIN,
For ne'cr such fight before had waged
The fiery sons Of Spain
And still the storm OF battle blew,
Stll sweled the CORY tide
Not long, our stout old cmeftaln know,
Such odds hi- strength could hide
Twas Ia that hour his sterr ,mmand
Called 10 . martyrs gra
The flower Of his own 10 "a land,
The nations tiag to save.
By rivers of their fathers gore
Ills first born laurels grew,
Aud welt he deemed the sols would pour
Their lives ior glory too
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28
THE MARKETS.

RAvENNA, August %, 1878.
FLOUR = Ranges from 50 90, for Xxx Red,
to 50 90 for XXX White. Demand steady.
WHEAT-No. /. old, sells for 81 80 q 81 a5 +;
new, 81 259s 81 80 ~ sne ee@e- -, -
. CoRN-Shelledb brings SIC; in ear 30e.' -
i OATS-Whlte, sells for 40 cents; Black, Soc.
RYE-No. 1 brings 6O965c; Supply light
IA .BARLEY-From 60e a 81 00 according to
quality. But iittle'ofered, f{
HAY-selling at sl2 g, SIS; according to
quality.
). !LARD-City render cd 1a3Sc; country 1Oc.
BEEF-serls at S. 90 a 81 90 per hundred.
SMOKED MEATS-City Sugar Cured Hams
selling at 17cs Country cured, 10 @.I2e; 50
Shoulders. City cured selling at &c q Zoe. Dried
Beef selling at 20c. a a2c.
POULTRY-Nota large supply in the market.
Chickens, dressed, buyers pay 10c a 12 12;undr6ss-
ed Sc q Sc; Turkies. dressed 10c@12c, live SO 90; ;
Geese 9c91Oc.
BUTTER-Dull at 1Sc.
CHEESE-Factory retails, new Ice.
EGGS buyers pay 14c per dOz.
PoTAToEs-Newsp purchasers pay 20 @ 70
BEANS-Choicc hand picked in good demand
at So 20 per bu. Medium 81 70.
ONIONS per bushe1 81 90 a $1.25
HOPS-80c. aft#Fs fe AEF
sAGE.-Retails at 50c. s 4 . 5f
VINEGAR-Pure cider, retails SOC per gal
TALLOW-Buyers pay7c. -
FEATHERS-Retai at 81 90.
WHITE LIME-$1 20 per bhl.
WATER LIME s. 20 Gls3 90.
SALr--Coarse sells at So 90; line 81 so.
woOD-stove$ e. O0@s 0;s feet wood Ss 90
@ 50 90 per cord.
WOOL $50 45c,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28

THE eoIored population held mass
convention at Chillicothe on Friday,
to consider the political situation
The following among other resolu-
tions were adopted almost unani-
mously, which goes to show that they
are not entirely satisfied with their
political status, and that they don't
intend much longer to be used as cats
paws to rake the Radical chestnuts
from the embers: ea
.ResoLved, That the colored voters
of this State do not consider them
selves under eternal obligations to
a party which favors us as class on
ly in proportion as it is driven by its
own necessities. a
Resolved, That the colored men of
the State are hereby urged to refrain
from Internationally pledging them
selves to the nominees of their local
conventions, and that they use their
best discrimination in determining for
themselves in each locality whom to
vote for, or whether to vote at all.
The situation is really alarming,
and IL the Republicans expect to hold
the negro vote, they will have to be-
stir themselves. ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28
What They Have Done.


'sWhile the Democratic party point
to what they promise TO do, the Re-
publicans point to what they haye
done."-Albany E0entaag Journal.
In reply to the above the World
aptly Gays:
"YCs, you can point to subsidized
monOpolies, a plundered treasury, a
squandered domain, protection of
corrupt combinations, promotion of
the thieves and rascals in your party.
You can point to the upholding of
the carpet-bag plundePers in the
South, while they are robbing the
people of their substance, and the in
auguration in the State legislatures
and Congress, since your party came
into power, of corruption that is per-
fec!ly appalling. And what is more,
your party has done all within its
power to whitewash, shield, and pro-
tect the men, if they claim to be Re-
publicans, who are guilty sof these
deeds. If a dsfaulter, swindler, or
a repeater is convicted, a Republican
President at once pardons him if he
is Republican, while those who are
the deepest in the swindles before
Congress are appointed to foreign
missions or urged by the Adminis-
tration for Governors in their re-
spective States.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28
Tbe last Groat sca,do1-

What the n. Y. Tribune says of the
man who will be President if Grant
and Wilson die:
We are not in the midst of a hot
campaign, and as there is no reason
for attacking private character or re-
failing political scandal or seaside
gossip, so there is no excuse for sup
pressing the truth when its pubIica-
ton is needed and no pretext for at
tributing it to partisanship or preju-
dice. Distine uished public men, Rep
resentatives and Senators in Congress,
have had the effrontery to stand up in
Congress and before their constitu-
ents and undertake to defend as
shameless breach of public trust as
ever was thrust in the face of de-
cent people, and instead of q hot out
burst of indignant denunciation, there
has been only sort of a sick-at-the-
stomach turning away from the low
flung self-seeking gang; rascalities
have been developed in all depart
ments that should keep our prisons
more than full were justice done !;
Legislation has been bought and sold.
and corporations have in the most de-
liberate and unblushing manner
bought seats in the Senate for their
retained attorneys; the Legislature
has become a market-place, and the
polls an arena for violence or bribery !;
and we settle down to our lower
standards of morality, our debasing
tendencies and constantly deteriorat-
ing moral sense with complacent
calmness as if to the natural and in
eVitable.
Inr fo,, IL. Ia L. H.
of perception, this utter deadness to
all sense OF shame, carry us? ? Grant
ed that in the fierceness of our money
getting passion we may put con-
science out of court entirely, and sac
rifce everything to the main chance
shall we stop at that? Or are we
to have sitting at our hearths as house,
hold gods all shames and crimes !?
The last great scandal, touched lightly
by the press but bruited everywhere
now, is not of aYarice and greed, but
of intemperance and lust. Open,
public, brazen, flaunted in the faces of
decent wives and mothers, and of
pure daughters and sisters, shame,
foul-fronted, sickening, beastIy. Be-
tween the sensual sot, of brilliant in
tellect but vile associations and de-
praved habits, who so lately set HIM
self and paramour on public exhibit
tion in this city and at Long Branch
between him and the Presidency of
the United States are but two lives,
and one of them of frailest tenure. Is
the nation drunken that it sees this
large disgrace paraded under its very
eyes, and takes into its nostrils the
stencil of the offense, and makes no
sign OF nausea? Has dead and buried
decency no resurrection Who and
where is the clear-thinking statesman
no, not statesman, common man
everyday man hard-fisted, rough,
and hearty, but honest way down,
true to wife and family and his own
manhood, who will roll away the
stone from the sepulchre of public
virtue? The time calls out for him.
The country waits his coming. A
nation bowed down with the shame
brought on it by its trusted servants,
with its face in the dust, pray in its
anguish for some -convulsion that
shall rend the heavens and purify the
air.
And the United States Senate
what is its duty? Has it any self
respect?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Excerpts from the Enquirer. a.ss ...ss-
Did Subsidy Pomeroy and Caldwell
bribe their way to the Senate in the
name of bleeding Kansas? ~
Did Oakes Ames corrupt the Chris
tian Statesmen in the name of ''the
men who died that the country might
live?
Shall Republicans steal ad 1s6itatpa,
Gd gnfngtltn1, because claiming it to
be surrounded by the halo of war
record?
Did Harlan and his tool, Wright,
rob the country of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars ia the name of the
soldiers graves
Did Carolina Patterson buy. his way
to the Senate in the name of the
and the armless sleeves?
Did Patterson, of New Hampshire,
take his slice of the Credit Mobilier
steal, and lie about it in the name of
the bloody battle-felds?
Did the Credit Mobilier statesmen
rob the country of $5O,O00,000 in the
name of the bloody battle-fields, of
armless sleeves aud wooden IegsF
How long, o Lord, how long will
the Republican party claim the right
to steal the money of the people in
the name of "the bloody battle-fields ~
Did Schuyler Colfax accept thou
sands of dollars from a Government
contractor, and accept thousands of
dollars from Oakes Ames, and then
lie about it, for the sake of the men
l., -l,k
who now lie in soldiers graves llag
Did Garfield take his little subsidy
from Oakes Ames in the name of the
bloody battle-fields, and for the sake
of the widows and orphans whom the
late terrible war left in its track
Is Chaplain Newman travelling over
the world at $4,000 year to do
nothing, drawing meanwhile his saIa-
ry as Chaplain, in the name of the
armless sleeves and wooden legs, and
the CORY battle-fields and the soldiers
graves? .4s.5.st ..,t T.. =
Is it true that the Delano Senatorial
interest said recently to the Noyes in
tePest! eff yon don't take Noyes out
of the. Senatorial fight We'll beat him
in the race for The lGovernership ,3H If
lAlS DS lIuS, Is IL GTuo ILldI NOY0 OOu-
sented to withdraw from the Senate
rial contest? If both these questions
can be tfdthfully answered afffrna-
lively, is it true that Noyes Is keeping
his promisep There are those who
can answer these questions. : ~
OF course a Republican Congress
passed the Increase-ofrsalary bill,
which took $l,500000 from the
Treasury, and President Grant signed
it, thereby doubling his own salary,
in consideration of services rendered
on the bloody battle-ficlds of the re.
hellion, hiie 4d -nlo8 81
Empty sleeves and legless panta-
looms are excellent Republican argu-
ments in political campaign; but
they will scarcely eounterbalance an
empty Treasury, robbed in the name
of the patriotic dead who sleep upon
the bloody battle-felds of the South.