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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-10-30
The Peoples County Ticket

For Member Of Assembly.
G. L. TAYLOR.
For Sheriff.
W. P. KNOWLES.
For County Clerk,
A. o. SATHER.
For County Treasurer.
II. n. BASCOM.
For Register Of Deeds,
J. H. BRASINGTON.
For Clerk Of The Circuit Cont,
J. w. WYNN.
For District Attorney,
w. VANNATTA.
For Superintendent Of Schools,
r. l.. REED.
For County Surveyor,
G.. w. CAIRNS.
For Coroner,
A. CoRNELIsoN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-10-30
ORGANS u PIANOS!

Prof Pratt
Offers for sale complete assortment Of
Organs and Pianos, from the best manu-
factories in the country
Those in need Of frst.class instruments
can rely on
PERFECT SATISFA cTTON.
Prof. Pratt also gives lessons on the
above instruments, and in singing.
Store in JOURNAL BLOCK, near the Post
Office.
River Falls, Wis, April II, 1874.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-10-30
TIE River !AL!s JOURNAL.
A WEEKLY NEW 81 AFFR,

A WEEKLY RENS1 AFER,
Prrrtnrp EvrBY IRuAY, TERMS, 81 %
JOURNAL AND All VANCE ONE YEAR
TO ONE ADDRESS, Sc. Cash IN : D
VANCE.
Local Edihor-JournGl & AdcOnce. pub
iisatd every Fridoy, 81 gear, cash in Gd
Vunre.
A. MORSE & SON. Proprietors.
JeB PRINTING
OF every descriptitD exc uted on short no.
flee, neat and at reasonable prices. o.
FIcE on Main Street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-10-30
SRER URINE ~ PRATT
MASON WORK,
G.. G.. Knowles

e.. G.. Knowles
Does all kinds Of Mason Work, in-
sluding Stone. Brick, Plastering.
Putting n Cisterns, etc.
WILL FURNISH MATERIALS
IF DESIRED.
Work done with promptness, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Rivsr Fails, Wis. B.er
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04

but if you can't get fve-and-thirty, bring
him back again.
I looked the cob over and over again, felt
his hooks and fetlocks, and, with all my
manipulation, found him as quiet as a lamb
"Well my lad" [ said, after bidding him
thirty in vain, I'll give you fve-and-thirty
pounds h.... s.g q -..
"Suvrings, sir" ...
''Well, cheque on Garft's bank will
do?" said smiling .tai,.. ... -.
81 don't know nothing about cheques nor
notes, sir, suvrings for me, please,n said the
lad and the purchase was completed by
my fetching the gold from the bank myself
to return finding the groom just moving off
Thought it was all do, sir,'' said the
man, touching his hat and Frightening up !;
and then, on my remembering him with five
shillings, he led my purchase to the inn,
where he was put to; and drove home,
delighted with my bargain, for no horse
could have gone better. He required a
touch or two with the whip once but, on
the whole, he trotted along almost respecta-
bly,, and was as nice-a-looking plump cob as
a person need wish to drive.
- Our boy was absent on my return, and
had to take the new horse out myself, my
wife coming to see him by lantern light,
patting him, and expressing her admiration
loudly.
Farmer Tomson, being an early man, was
over next morning by the time we had done
breakfast; and proudly led him out to the
stable, untastened the halter, and brought
out the purchase smilingly, while the old
man walked round it, and round it again
looked at it's head, it's tail ; ran his hand all
over it; stopped down by its legs one by
one and then looked at me.
"Well," / said, "what ought I to- have
given for it,"
Pound Leg" he exclaimed.
"Pooh nonsense - | said" what s
he worth ?"
"Pound leg, tell you, man-why,
drat it, parson, you've bought your own old
boss again!"
"What y I exclaimed, laughing
"Absurd l's exclaimed Mrs. Tozer, who
just then joined us. "Why, Prince had
four white legs, and he'd follow me about
like dog and 80 will you some day then
a poor fellow then"
To my utter surprise, the horse walked
up to her and put his nose in her hand, as
had seen Prince do scores of times.
| thought I knew little about horses.
but did not. The hollows over poor
Princes eyes, that had been blown out,
followed out again his locked tail grew.
and the dye wore off his four stockings
while the dodge in re-shoeing. him, so as to
give limp to the near fore-foot, was shown
to me by the old farmer and I learned how
that, where two legs were lame, they formed
pair and the lameness was not noticed.
But, after all, did not lose thirty-one
pounds five; for upon choking down my
disgust, and asking farmer Tomson's adj
vice, he said: "Turn him out in the pad
dock; the lameness may go off; but don't
think of trying law. Bear the first loss,
and don't throw good money after bad. I'll
never say nowt about it,"
Neither did l till now and in preof OF
my journey not being all loss, the lameness
did go off, and we drove old Prince till he
died suddenly, five years after the Turning
of the Screw.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
Charles AStOr Bristed.

Intelligence has been received of the
death, at his residence in Washington, D.
c., of Mr.. Charles Astor Bristed, better
known to the general public as Carl Ben
son." his literary sobriquet. He was born
in the year 1920, and was consequently
fifty three years of age at the time of his
death. His father was Mr. John Bristed,
of Dorsetshire England, first lawyer and
afterwards Episcopalian clergyman, who
came to this country in 1906 and settled at
Bristol r. l., where he died in 1866. In
1920 this gentleman married daughter of
John Jacob Aston, and theiissue of this
marriage was the subject of the sketch.
Charles Aston Bristed went first through
Yale College, and later, in 1910, he entered
the University Of Cambridge, England.
While there he gained some reputation as
classical scholar, and in 1916 he graduated
at Trinity College. Since the time when
Mr. Bristed, under the pseudonym of " Carl
| Benson" entered the field as author and
literateur, he had passed many years abroad.
| His writings were mainly contributed to
magazines, newspapers, and other period
Gals. He did not always, however, give his
thoughts to the public under the disguise of
"Catl Benson,'' for he frequently wrote I'M
! der his own name. He had been for year
| or two previous to his death correspondent
from Washington for the Turf, Field and
| Farm. In these letters, or regular commu-
nications rather, he treated extensively of
turf matters, and when the question Of es-
tablishing race course in the vicinity OF
Washington was agitated couple OF years
ago, he urged the project, CON anaore, in the
columns of the journal named. Among the
more lasting Of Mr.. Bristed's writings
which have been published in book form
may be enumerated the following: " Sc
lections from Catullus," with notes 0849),
"The Upper Ten Thousand Of New York"
and "Letter to Hon. Horace Mann'-the
latter being a reply to attacks that had been
made upon Stephen Girard and John Jacob
Astor, the grandfather of the author, both
of which works were published in 1852, as
was also give Years in an English Uni
versity," and'' The Interference Theory Of
Government :" 1867. A new edition of
Five Yea in an English University"
was brought out in 1872. Mr.. Bristed was
one of the original trustees of the Astor
Library
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
How Ohio Women Fight the Whiskey
Sellers.

The women who are conducting the pray.
er-meeting warfare against Ohio whiskey-
sellers show the sagacity of the Spiritual
serpent A few men still bid them def.
ance, and refuse to shut their doors to GUS
toners or open them to missionaries To
conquer these large strongholds of Satan,
the teetotalers have had a tabernacle " built.
It is small house on wheels, comfortably
warmed and lighted. This they pitch be-
fore the enemy's doorway, and sing and
pray within it's walls ad lib. At night,
when thirsty mortals try to skulk stealthily
into saloon, the rays of a powerful reflector
detect them. They are personally appealed
to, and if they still enter, are made the OBJ
jects of special prayers, which, delivered in
fervent tones, ring through and through
the bar-room. The Tabernacle remains I'M
til midnight, and reappears bright and early
in the morning. No man has yet been
found who can resist it for three days.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
FIOafing Metals.

Miners in Nevada tell us that the
divisibility of quicksilver is so great
that particles of it float down the clear
est stream, invisible to the eye, and
yet large enough to contain still small
er particles of gold or silver, Or of both.
The presence of the floating metals is
shown by the deposits made on copper
vessels, sunk in the streams, where, in
few months, hundreds of dollars worth
of quicksilver is collected. In photo
graph galleries silver and gold aoat off
in the water used for washing the pic
lures, and are gathered by provident
workmen and are again used in the
making of pictures. Infinitely small
as the particles of precious metals are
that float in clear water invisible to the
eye, they have, in the aggregate, great
commercial value, and are to some ex-
tent typical representatives of the par
ticles of ones income that are careless
ly allowed to float away on the stream
of waste, when with little care they
might be made into deposits OF an
aggregate value that would puzzle even
statistician.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
A Heavy Fire Department.

A $4,000 paper pulp mill was
entirely destroyed at Luzerne, Warren
county, the other day. While the fire
was in progress inquiries were made
for the fire engine once owned by the
village. Investigation revealed the
fact that the pumping power of the
engine had been taken out and used by
citizen to force water to his resi-
dence; two of the wheels did duty for
while on common carriage, and the
cannon having burst one day, the dis
abled gun, wheels and ALL were dumped
over the falls the other two wheels
served as running gear for a cart, but
the fate of the box, brakes, ropes, bose
cart, hoze nozzles and other appurte-
nances and attachment oft he defunct
machine; is enveloped in painful mys-
teey. This engine once belonged to
the fire department of Glenns Falls,
Some fourteen years ago it was sold to
Luzerne for 1925, and the citizens of
that place repaired their prize, formed
a company, built an engine house, and
for nearly four years kept the "depart-
ment !" in good working con dition.
Then one Or two leading members of
the force moved away, the owner of the
land upon which stood the engine
house concluded he would use the
building for his individual benefit, and
so turned the ola engine out of doors.
Troy Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04

NOTHING, says Elisee Reclus, can
convey more impressive idea of water
as general agent than the wonderful
canons of Mexico, Texas and the Rocky
Mountains, where the torrents may be
seen rushing along,' through the Incl
sion it has cut for itself in the hard
rock, at depth of severel thousand
feet between perpendicular walls. The
greatest of these canoEs, that of Col
orado, is 298 miles in length, and it's
sides rise perpendicularly to height
of 5000 or 5000 feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
The Babes III the Woods.
BY BRET HARTE.

8 Something characteristic" Ell
Humphi I reckon you mean by that ..
Something that happened IN cur way
Here at the crossing of Big Pine Flat.
Times aren't now as they used to be,
When gold was flush and the boys were
frlsky, N@ &c..
And 8 man would pull out his battery rF
For anything-may be the price of whisky.
Nothing of that sort, ELI? That's strange,
Why, [ thought You might be diverted, .
Hearing how Jones, OF Red Rock Range,
Drawed his 6 HINT to the Unconverted."
And SAVING s'Whar will you have lJ?' shot
Cherokee Bob at the last debating!
What was the question? | fOrgO.-
But Jones didn't like Bobs way OF stating.
Nothing of that kind, eh You mean
Some hing milder Let's see-Oh, Joe!
Tea the stranger that little scene
Out of the ''Babes IN the Woods" You
know,
t'Babes y was the ma a1e we gave 'em, Sir,
Two lean lads in their teens, and greener
Than even the belt OF spruce ard fir
Where thew built their nests, and each day
grew leaner.
No one knew where they came from. None
Cared to ask ii they had a mother.
Runaway school boys, may be. One
Tall and dark as spruce the other
Blue and gold in the eyes and HAIR,
Soft aud low in his speech, but rarely
Talking with us and we didn't care
To get at the secret at all unfairly.
For they were 80 quiet, so sad and shy,
Content TO trust each other solely,
That somehow we'd almost shut one eye,
And never seem to observe them wholly
AS they passed to their work. Twas worn
out claim
And it paid them grub. They could live
without 1t.
For the boys had way of leaving game
In their tent, and forgetting all about it.
Yet no one asked for their secret. Dumb
[. Law in their big eyes heavy hollows.
1t was understood that no one should come
To their tent unaWares, except the bees anC
swallows.
So they lived alone. Until one warm night
[ was sitting here at the tent door, SO sir,
When out Of the sunsets rosy light
Up rode the Sheriff of Mariposa.
knew at once there was something wrong,
For his hand and his voice shock just
little,
And there isn't much you can fetch along
70 make the sinews of Jack Hill brittle.
s. Go warn the Babes |" he whispered hoarse:
< Tell 'em I'm coming-to get and scurry,
For I've got story that's bad, and worse,
I've got a warrant ca d--n it, hurry !"
LOU idte tLSy udC SeSu uiili dCIOSS t1o
[ ran to their tent and / found them lying
Dead in each others arms, and still
Clasping the drug they had taken flying.
And there lay their secret cold aud bare,
Their life, their trial the old, old story
For the sweet blue eyes, and the golden hair
Wasa woman's sh me and woman's glory
6 VINO were they?" Ask no more, or ask
The sun that visits their grave so lightly;
Ask of the whispering reeds, or ask
The mournln ing crlckets that chirrup nightly
All OF their Life but its Love for2vt,
Every thing tender and soft and mGstic,
Tbeseare our Babes in the Woods, you've got
Weil-Human Nature that's characteristic
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
The Orange Groves of California.

Los Angeles Correspondence of the Alta California
The orange groves are a magnificent
sight to behold just now, laden as they
are with their golden burdens-golden
in seeming and golden in reality. e
The harvest is just commencing, and
large quantities are daily arriving at
the depot to be shipped to San Fran
cisco and elsewhere. One dealer of
San Gabriel sold his orange crop for
$50 per thousand. His orange grove
covers five acres, and contains 500 trees.
Estimating these at 1000 oranges each,
the crop is worth SIS, 900. Three thou
sand dollars an acre is a pretty good
return for their cultivation, and nearly
all clear profit, for the crop was sold
on the trees.
One acre in Southern California can
be made to yield as great clear profit
by semi-tropical nut and fruit culture
as twenty or fifty acres in the Eastern
States devoted to ordinary kinds of
farming. When one looks at the loads
of this luscious fruit daily coming into
town, and thinks of the immense profit
they must yield to their owners. he
cannot help but wish he had come here
some twelve or fourteen years sooner
and gone into the orange business.
All kinds of vegetables can be Guilt
waited between the rows of orange trees
peanuts, potatoes, melons, pump
kins, beans, squashes, and peppers,
and many other things. Ramie, too,
could be cultivated with success, and
mulberries. Some planters SOW the
intervening space with barley, and when
this crop is harvested, they put in a
second one of corn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04

The. King of Bavaria has just con-
ferred on M. Richard Wagner, the com
poser, the order of Macmillan, for Sci
ence and Art.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04

well known crest of the Smiths--a fist
clinched upon hammer-and | asked him
few more questions "What is he part.
ing with the cob for ?'' was among the rest
Missus used to drive him, sir but we're
going to have broom now and sixteen.
handler. It is pity. though, for this here's
as nice little thing as ever stepped. That
quiet, you may do any manner o'thing wi tn
him"
"Not very young, my lad, said know.
ingly, after look in the horses mouth
"No, sir, he amt young; but he amt a
old 'oss. Masters only had him two years
don't believe he's eight year, that don t. y
I had him walked [ had him trotted;
had him tried in harness, and l drove him
myself and then he was drove once more
reduced to the halter.
"Rather more skittish than like" I said.
"Skittish, sir I" said the groom. "He
amt skittsh but I tell you what he is, sir ;
he's that fat lazy, and full of play, that he's
spoiled. Just fancy yourself sir shut up in
a loose box, and the missus coming and
blowing you out with corn and reg lar times
till you blew upon it. Wouldn't y0u be
skittish? Why, see how slow he is; he
might do two miles more an hour II he
warn't so fat"
"Well, and now. how about price I" [
said.
"Forty guineas, sir" said the groom
forty-two pounds in gold"
(which means that fve-and thirty
pounds will buy him, l suppose ?o I said !;
for liked the horse, the man, and the
character of the affair altogether.
. The groom looked hard at me for a few
moments, and then his face wrinkled all
over into simple grin. "Well, sir, master
said: ASK forty pounds, and stick to it !;
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11


A COPY of the Wine Dealers Gazette, pub
lished in San Francisco. California, has been
sent US with request to exchange II is de-
voted exclusively to the liquor interest, though
ostensibly to the interest Of the wine growers
of California. It is pretty generally used as
an advertising medium BY wholesale dealers 10,
and manufacturers Of every description Of
tauale.leg, and is furnished to aPothecarles,
druggists, hotel PROJECTORS, wine growers and
Wholesale liquor dealers west Of the Rocky
mountains. grstuitously. It is snconnonly
neat in it, typographical makeup, and 70 its
editorial department. differs only with respect
70 it, advice 10 its patrens, whom i seriously
counsels to tho commission Of suidde; but nof
until they have 6rst impoverished thenselves
and dishonored their families. MayhaP 4
knows it friends better than We, and = better
qualified 70 Judge Of their deserts. We have 'H'
put il on. our list Of exchanges !, saissstI
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11

THE Portland papers givevs discouragisg
accounts Of the Stickeen mines; but still =
great many Of an always adventurous sass<
distinctlvsly denominated stprdApectors,p ,pase
going thither BY every steamer. determines =
zee and prospect the country for taemselvss. y
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11

Saturday Night y - favor q
exterminating. the indians; ) highly pract'-
cal idea, but 10 arc not u ! mood just now =
speak boastfally. Of II humanity. i. -, ..3
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11
PLACERVILLE LETTER.
PLACERylLLE, june 9, 1874

PLACERvlLLE, June 2, 1874.
EDITOR WoRLD:-Our usually quiet little
burg was. on last Sabbath, the scene of great
excitement and commotion, caused by two Of
our worthy citizens settling little dispute in
the old-fashioned way-or rather, / should haye
said. attempting to SETTLE Had it not been for
the interference of Mr.. Sheriff, (who had bet
ter stay at home on Sundays) we would, per-
haps, have now quite sensational item to pen.
Rounds numbering ever so many, with first
blood, and all those things; but just as we got
position, and our pencil out, peace" instead
Of time. was called, and our pugilistic friends
were introduced to our worthy Sheriff, who
had suddenly put in an appearance, and after
the usual civilities had been exchanged, he po.
litely invited them to accompany him to the
quarters of Judge Egan. The Judge, on be-
ing introduced to the beligerents, Immediately
took the bench and proceeded to administer to
their wants, by dshing out several statutory
provisions which they had neglected to respect
as good and law. abiding citizens should. Be-
o1uCS lhCI uttCI Ol SV0euCo'y
provisions, it appeared that they had wickedly
ignored the biblical command to Remember
the Sabbath day and keep it holy" for all Of
which his Honor charged them $13 each. which
sum being paid, our friends were dismissed,
with the admonition to Ego and sin no more"
Mr.. editor, this is not what it would have been
had Mr., Sheriff, like good Christian, remain
ed at home; no, sir: but is it not provoking.
just as We are about to have something happen
IA frst-class affair. at that-none of your
ghosts or hobgoblins. but real exhibition Of
the manly art"-something in which blood
tells. not the Gathering Of dry bones. or the
mysterious jumping aronnd Of chairs and ta-
bles-that it should be interfered with and pre-
vented! Isolated, as we are, away from steam
boats, railroads and theatres, such interfer-
ences in the future will not be tolerated. We
are conscious that if we are happy we will be
virtuous. Yours, &c, DON PEDRO.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11
IDAHO WORLD.

asr i, RiA Building adjoining lsssai' Hall. waR Stre&
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11

THE Monthly Report of the Chief Of the Bs-
reau of Statistics, corrected to May |, 1874, has
been furnished us. 1t is . dreary immensity
of figures, from which q perseverihg statlstl-
clan might derive some information OF more
importance than interest, to the general reader.
We shall go through it, and if we find anything
worth publishing, publish it. IN slt
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-06-11

~I8s15 = IT +Es48 q
THE law is pretty we'll enforced in tho 6tate
Of Nevada. Ithas ) population If about $50,
ana one hundred and twenty -ive Of these are
ID the penitentiary, and smother tarin sf court
approaching. 81 j. ss.ss y. a .s'.s q, ~