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

A SNOW fly is the latest Genealogical
discovery at Salt Lake.
A MILD winter is predicted in the
Northwest, because the corn husks arc
thin
A SPANISH mackerel weighing eight
pounds was'recently caught in Chesa
peake Bay.
ROLLING MILI.s are soon 10 lie erected
in Cheyenne by the Union Pacific Rail
road.
IT is estimated that the bridge across
the Mississippi river at st. Louis, with
its approaches, will cost $1,000 900.
The Boston Advertiser alludes to
one of the freshmen ut Yale as MIR.
Montgomery Sears (of the Sears es-
tate)."
THE new German ironclad now
building in England will be the most
powerful vessel in the German navy.
1t is to be named Deutschland.
ARTHUR FIELD, a London letter car
rier, has been sentenced to five years
penal seryitude for stealing letter. 1t
is different in this country.
The railroad train that is run into
by another is telescoped; the man who
is run into by a Texas OK is steer CO.
scoped.
In the London Times report of the
Archbishop of York; sermon to the
British Association, reference to the
Poet Laureate was made to read
Post office telegraphs"
The Newport Mercury of October
4th records the death during the past
week of ten persons in that city and
vicinity whose ages were 81, 81, rs, SO,
9S, so, rs, 81, SO aud 60, an aggregate
of 772 years.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of September
23d says that two more men have been
killed by the idol car in Madura. The
Bengal Government have ut length or
dered the magistrates TO prevent
danger to life from these Juggernaut
cars.
MANY of our exchanges enormously
speak of the Modoc leaders as having
been executed for the killing of soldiers
and settlers. The fact is, Capt. Jack
and his companions were hanged ac~
cOrding to the laws of war for treacher-
ously violating a flag of truce. They
were recognized as at war with the
United States, and had they carried on
a fair and open warfare they would not
I have suffered.
ENGLISH naval officers are, when on
| foreign stations, in the habit of per.
forming marriage ceremonies, there
being no Consul or Chaplain in the
neighborhood, on board their vessels.
The law officers of the Crown have Just
decided that such marriages are not
valid, and in consequence the Commits
sioners of the Admiralty have directed
that no commanding officer shall in
solemnize Il marriage.
A ooLoRED MAN residing three miles
east of Jacksonville, ILL.,, named Prince
sent his children to district school in
that neighborhood, a few days ago,
when the Directors met them at the
school house and refused them admit
lance, for which offense Prince will
sue the Directors for $4,000 damages
at the next term of the Morgan County
Circuit Court.
A SITKA correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery: "Take one big
mountain, covered with trees from the
base nearly 10 the summit with an
underground of brush, briers and
moss, almost passable-multiply the
one by ten thousand and you will have
Alaska. There is a terrible sameness.
One singular feature of this mass of
forest is the absence OF birds; have
seen but one robin in Sitka."
IT is we'll known that leather articles
kept in stables soon become brittle, III
consequence of ammoniacal exhala'
tions, which affect both harness hang
ing up in such localities and the shoes
OF those who frequent them. The usual
application of grease is not always
sufficient TO meet this difficulty (; but
il is said that by adding TO them
small quantity of glycerine the leather
will be kept continually in soft and
pliable condition.
Wichita is surely entitled 10 wear
the long horns. The biggest shipment
of cattle ever made in one day was
made recently from that place, under
the management of Kline a. Montgom-
cry. One hundred and twenty car
loads of twenty head each, or 2, 400
head of cattle, were shipped inside OF
nine hours. The first train of thirty
one cars, or 600 head of cattle, were
loaded, the shipping bills made out,
and the tran away from the depot in
side of one hour and twenty minutes
time. II took four engines TO pull this
live freight. The value of this one
days shipment was not less than $685.
800.
COMMANDER BLAINE reports TO the
Navy Department that at Wargate,
ninety miles north of Disco, Green
land, the Juniata's launch got fifteen
tons of coal from veins that had never
been worked before, IN nine hours,
having Esquimaux TO assist in the bag
ging and carrying on board. The veins
were from fifteen TO- thirty inches thick,
and the coal became better the further
the veins we're worked into the hills.
II is estimated that one hundred men
could easily mine and embark fifty tons
per day in ordinary weather. The coal
was taken out in Jumps, and ignites
easily and forms but few clnderH Ihe