River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-14
Generai Items.


PROFESSOR LEWIS r. PACKARD, of
Yale College, is seriously i'll.
Ex-GovERNoR BULLOCK declines to
run for the Massachusetts Legislature.
PROFESSOR JEwErr has to quit work
for the present or die.
MAST has lecturea, and now thew
say say he talks through his nose.
LAST week Caleb Cushing superin-
tended the marriage OF one of his
nephews.
The Sultan OF Zanzibar will make
that visit of his to England some time
next summer
LORD SKEhMEBsDALE has returned to
New York city, after season of
roughing it, on the plains.
PROCTOR, the English astronomer, is
a perfect glutton Tor work, without an
idle nerve in his whole body.
BRADLAUGH is not drawing we'll.
Neither is Wilkie Collins. The hon
business IS beginning to play out.
GEN. RossER has resigned HE posi-
ton as engineer of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Rev. GREEN CLAY SMITH, Of Ken
tucky,is organizing colored temperance
societies in Kentucky.
PoMERoY is accused of having had on
a steel-breast-pla at the time Conway
tried to kill him.
CAPTAIN HALPIN, of the steamer
Great Eastern, has been married to an
English clergyman's daughter.
The net duty on dogs in England,
during the last fiscal year, amounted
to no less than 81, 500, 098.
The old Catholic Bishop Reinkers,
having got the recognition of Prussia,
is applying for that of the other Ger
man States.
A LATE witness in the Tichborne case
described Arthur Orion as resembling
8 a whitewashed Yankee with a billy
goats beard'
MADAME CATAcAzY recently visited
the Vienna fair She fully sustained
her fame as one of the most exquisitely
dressed women Of the day.
The Emperor William ordinarily re-
tires at 10 o'clock and rises at Z. Two
servants keep watch i'll the corridor
during the night.
ROBERT T. CARR is to be President of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and
General Manager of the Atlantic and
Pacific Road.
The Duke dc Berry, father of the
present Counte de Chambord, was an
old bigamist. He married a wife at
London and one at Paris.
The report that the second son of the
Duke of Marlborough is to be married
to Miss Jerome, of New York City, is
pronounced untrue.
WILLIAM q. LAPHAN, Superintendent
of the Middle Division of the New
York Central Railroad, died on Satur-
day, in the fifty seventh year of his age.
THE Salt Lake Tribune saws
Brother Brlgham's new residence,
now building, will be one Of the most
gorgeous and costly anywhere between
sunrise and sunset"
COUNT PoURTALEs has resigned his
position in the United States coast
survey, after having held it for twenty
five years. He goes to help along
the Agassiz scientific school.
:" DECLARE, mother, said a pretty
little girl, in pretty little way, "'tis
too bad You always send me TO bed
when / am not sleepy, and you always
make me get up when | am sleepy"
GERALD MASSEY, the English poet,
lectured in New York the other even
ing on the question, Why don't God
kill the Devil He didn't answer il
satisfactorily, however.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain has left
Paris for while, but her whereabouts
are known by detectives who have been
put upon her track by tradespeople
who have little accounts against her.
Gov. Stewards son. Frederick w.
Seward, is helping Thurlow Weed in
his autobiography and political and
personal recollections. The first vol
ume is published.
Mrs. BRIGHAM YOU'VE, No. IL, backed
by good friends and eminent counsel.
will soon resume the prosecution of
her suit against the prophet for a
divorce and for alimony.
Sir MORTON PRO is constructing in
Cornwall, Eng, series Of narrow
guage lines extending more than 80
miles, which are 10 he used for the
conveyance Of iron ore and china clay.
THE British Parliamentary Commit
tee which has inquired into the subject
has come to the conclusion "that coal
viii never again be 50 cheap in Great
Britain rs 1t was two years ago"
Mn. BEEcHER declares that, in the
very nature of things. successful
party becomes corrupt party, in time.
aud somebody wants to know if the
same rule doesn't apply to successful
mer.
IHE German navy is long way from
that imposing appearance, even
on paper, which the Germans want. II
consists OF only AZ ships carrying 307
guns. There are but twenty ships in