River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-05-02
General News

| new ork state Cansss5
A Madrid dispatch ienies that .he Com
mune has been proclaimed.
II is said Won siumau VIII be appointed
| Secretary Of the Germsr Legation 81 WASH
tingloB.
Congressman Cotton, Of Iowa has infc~m.
sd the treasury that lie viii not accept Ms
bltk bay.
CALIFORNIA; is casting its big strawberries
in the teeth Of the dveilcfs in colder clithss
at the rate Of a dollar 8 basket.
4 Rockford til. ghos, was exercised
last week by revolver in The hands of q
sceptical citizen wbo.had spirit cf bis own.
| Fifty four thousand four hundred aud
eighiy-nine immigrants have arrived in New
York since January LIST, against IS, 7sS the
same time in 1872.
The newly elected democratic mayor Of
Chillicothe, Ohio, refuses TO appoint col.
ored policemen although strong pressure
~ bEONHhL " hCdf oh hthf.
IN indiana lawyer lately defended
msn for keeping his saloon open after 10
o'clock at night. lie made the plea that
ii was 10 o'clock untilit was II, and won
his case.
ofhcal advices from London indicate
that the amount due the United States un-
der the Geneva award, some SIS. 500. 600
will not reach Washington. where il Is to
he covered int the treasury, before Au-
gust neat.
Captain Williams has been eensured nv
the Halifax Investigating COMMITTEES. Wsrs
1t net for bravery after the ship struck.
the certificate under which he is allowed TO
sail would be cancelled altogether; as ii is,
it is revoked for two years.
Tho Chicago packing and provision com
pany have purchased five acres Of ground
adjoining the new Union stock yard in East
ST. Louis On which they will erect mann
moth pork packing establishment in time
for next seasons operations.
Poor Cuba still continues 10 be what
serrii Smith says she has beeer for ages
slave-pen and slaughter house Spain
won't free her negroes, and O'kelley can't
"blood picture in the Book OF Time" IS
did conquered and sundered Sarmatia.
he KeOkuk presbytery Of the United
Presbyterian church has suspended severe
al Of its communicates for the offense OF
joining secret societies, oranges. or patrons
of hnsbandry. The suspended members
intend to appeal to the Iowa synod, and.
failing in that, to the general assembly Of
he church.
A meek.looking Ind went into New Ha-
ven, Conn, store, and asked for an article
which was kept in the cellar. While the
clerk was gone he helped himself TO the
contents Of the money drawer. Upon the
clerks return he bought wooden nutmeg,
Iaid for it with the stolen funds, and DELHI
ertely retired.
The Department Of State has received in.
formation 10 the effect that 5000 addition
al square feet Of space has been allotted to
the American department of the Vienna
exposition and that articles from the Unit.
ed States intended for exhibition will be-.
received until the 10th Of June next
A sad story is told Of a poor widow.
whose husband enlisted in ono OF the Mass
achuseits regiments, was in the fight at
fredericksburg and never heard Of al
terward. As she could not prove that be
lost his life in the service, she can get no
government pension, aul for ten years has
supported herself with her needle, though
entirely blind.
An engineer officer has arrived at WASH
ington with plans Of q Southern coast ca
nal 10 connect the Rio Grande with the
Atlantic, near Savannah. They have been
submitted 10 the government, aud will be.
laid before the conve tion Of southern
Governors who meet NJ Atlantis in May to
discuss the subject o. utter continental
transportation.
ut is k~.~n, says The Brooklyn Eagle,
''in every uewsp per Office in these two
cities, that Henry 6. Bowen is the author
o.. perhaps, all shat is tsugiblc in the slan.
ders on the Ii 10 aud morale Of the Rev.
Henry Ward Egecber-s lanaery whi,h
haxS perIsestod, recently, IN one form ~
another every circle of socis,y IN these
cities It 10 eqsally we'll known that, in
order 10 blast she rspu,atios % the pastor.
whose rsinisRsiion he ssil Ds,eniaiieusiv
processes to profit by. Henry q. Bovsyl
MS prepared 20 snbjees 20 the worlds pits !.
os ssern, q rnonbes OF his own household. :
And now i appears that the story II ~,
Immense legacy 10 be Distributed anaDg
the "Chsse heirsS IL an the vericst M0Os-
SHINE. Mr.. Charles u. Chase, who haA