River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-12-11

iHa ~ A"HaiAy' aESi 1NdkCA W SUSPENSION
from his employment, caused p. Ruth,
of the Metropolitan police force Of Gin.
cinnati, to make desperate and proba
oily successful attempt at suicide Satur.
day. H9 shot himself twice in the left
breast and under the right ear.
Some sort Of riot has occurred at
Vicksburg, Of which we have no partic.
ulars, except that all was quiet Sattr.
day, but no solution Of the trouble had
been reached, although the Governor
had issued his proclamation command.
ing the rioters to dispense, etc.
The French Assembly has been
excited for two days over bill, sup
ported by the clerical deputies for free.
ing tho University Of Paris from con.
troll Of the State. At last the bill
pa ssed to its second reading by $50 to
-.
A communication from Bismarck
announced to the Reichstag yesterday
that, in accordance with the decision
Of the federal council. the sum for
the maintenance Of the German legation
TO the Vatican is struck out Of the
budget.
Three negroes, accused Of starting
incendiary fires in or near Morganfeld,
KY, we're taken from Jail by mount
co mob from Uniontown, Tuesday
night and hanged. The negroes con.
fessed 70 setting a distillcry on fire be.
cause its proprietor had turned the
mother Of one Of them out Of house
She occupied.
Thirteen insurance companies have
commenced suit in the United States
Circuit Court, az New York, to recover
from the government the amount coll
lected from them as revenue tax upon
dividends declared upon accrued earn.
inp'. The point taken is that the law
Of 1860, with its subsequent amend.
ments, IS unconstitutional.
About 365 Of the passengers Of the
ste' mer Abbottsford, who let that
vessel for Liverpool before il was dis
covered she had small pox on board,
embarked ON the steamer Illinois for
Philadelphia, but their final medical
examination proving unsatisfactory,
they were again landed and are now To-
Gated temporarily in the Liverpool
workhouse.
In the German Riechstag Saturday
the nltramontane Deputy, Windhorst,
assailed the Ministr,- for suppressing
the legation at the Vatican and was re-
piled 20 by Bismarck, who took ocea.
sion TO recall the conciiotory scnti.
ments he had expressed on Friday and
said that so long as the Pope urges the
clergy to break the laws Of State in
which they live, diplomatic relations be.
tween him and Germany were useless.
A certain United States Senator.
resident in Nevada, having recently
purchased horse 10 complete his dou-
BILE teaIp, insisted upon calling his ac-
QUESTION "lndus, and upon being
questioned for his reasons therefor, re-
piled that he had heard somewhere Of
Indus to the pole" Nevada Senators
have always been famous for their elias.
steal attainments.
The Hon. Gerrit Smith has Just
given ten thousand dollars 10 Hamilton
College. at Clinton, New York, to be
used at the discretion of the trustees of
the institution. Mr.. Smith gave the
college ten thousand dollars last Feb.
ruary for general purposes. and lately
ordered a portrait Of President Backus
to be placed in Memorial Hall.
Ira Aldridge, the negro actor who
gained such fame in Europe, used to
play Lear, and of course got himself up
as a white man. A flesh.colored skull
cap with a few locks of silver hair GOV.
eriHg his woody curls came down TO his
eyebrows; a wax addition was made to
his flat nose a thick coat OF naint be-
decsed his checks, while great wife
beard concealed the lower part of his
face and fell upon his bosom. lie
dressed the character successfully, and
in Germany and Russia, where he was a
great favorite, lac was thought to play
II with magnificent force and genius.