River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
General Items.


GREAT BRITAN has 1865, 200 licensed
horses.
GAIN1svnLE, Ca, is having popcorn
festivals.
LIE temperance reform is fiourishine
Two Chinese restaurants flourish in
Helena, Ark.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, has nine miles of
water-piping
A GRANGER beet-sugar factory is in
Washington Territory.
MEMPHIS is soon to have a colored
Episcopal Church.
THEnew Methodist Church at Schenec-
tady cost 100000.
The Bible is read in 10000 Pennsyl-
vania schools.
POTTER VALLEY is one of the richest
agricultural districts in California.
DALLAS, Tex, is excited over finding
two aligators in one of her sewers.
BuTTE SLOUGH is the greatest broom
corn producing locality in California.
NNETY.sIx barrels of whiskey have
been confscated at Shelbyville, Tenn.
A COTTON grower in Jefferson county.
Ga, askes $1,000 for bushel of seed.
The great desert of Africa has nearly
the dimensions of the United States.
DARTMOUTH students have reconsid-
cred their determination not to row at
Saratoga.
SALT LIKE has new directory, which
credits her with having 10000 inhabi-
tants.
The fishermen are having rare sport
on Lake George in capturing trout
through the ice.
The Mediterranean, if placed across
North America, would make sea navi.
cation from San Diego to Baltimore.
GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland are about
as large as New Mexico, but not as
large as lows and Nebraska.
THE Red Sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, and tits three times
rs wide as Lake Ontario.
The English channel is nearly as
large as Lake Superior, and Lake HUI
ron is as large as the sea of Azof
THE wife of liquor seller in Elmira,
n. Y, joined the woman's praying band
ON their visits to the saloons.
FORTY persons have been admitted TO
the Washington Territory Insane Asy-
lum in the past year.
AT no time within twenty years have
horses sold at so comparatively cheap
rates in New York as this winter
Hog product in tin cans for Euro
pean consumption" lisa new industry in
Cincinnati.
The Dahlonega, Ga, gold fields are
attracting the attention of Eastern cap
italists.
A SANTA BARBARA, Cal, farmer, last
week, plowed up silver coin bearing
date 1872.
The census Of Galveston, Just COM
pleted, shows an increase of 10000 in
years.
GRIFFIN, Ga, is commenting on the
return of a prodigal after % years alb
sence.
CoNGLoMERATE rock is brought from
Napa to San Francisco for building
grottos and fountains.
NooNsAcK VALLEY, w. L. producesto-
bacco that cannot be excelled by the
famous Kentucky leaf
MORE ocean steamers sail from New
York in one year than from any other
port in the world.
SAN Francisco is opposed to woman's
rights. 1t wants the Legislature to
prohibit women from selling liquor in
saloons.
A PARTRIDGE comes regularly from
the woods to a dwelling in Craftsbury,
Vt, and is fed with crumbs by the
children.
A SOLDIER named Lee was stabbed
and instantly killed by another soldier
named Moy, at Fort Boise, l. t., Feb
ruary 2lst.
The ladies of Auburn, n. Y, have
been holding "a mass-meeting to take
measures to suppress intemperance in
that city.
In England recently man attending
the funeral of his father was arrested
for an offence committed fourteen years
previously.
AN experiment is shortly to be tried
In Fort Byron, y. L., In the manufac-
ture of large poster type from water
proof paper
WORK on the new City hall and Court
House, in Buffalo, will soon be resum-
ed. The cost of the building will be
81 100000
THE total amount expended to date
on the Buffalo asylum fer the insane, is
$500, 900; at least 100000 more is
needed to complete it.
THE telegraph message boys of Alba
NY formed a ring recently, and charged
and received pay for over 1000 mes
sages that had never been received.
The following are the present retail
prices for fuel at Gold Hill, Nevada:
Nut pine, SIC per cord limb wood, S15;
split wood, Sl4; coal, S22.50 per ton.
Monterey is oneofthe loveliest towns
Of the Pacific coast The climate is nm
surpassed, the scenery inviting, and the
anchorage sufficient for large ships.