River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-07-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

/ he BRUSH House on commons passed
/ the grant to deiray expenses Of the Prince
Of Wales visit to India, by vote Of 1888
yeas to 10 nays.
The printers Of the Milwaukee us.
coBSin nave accepted reduction of ten
per cent. on their wages. which reduces
composition TO 81 cents a thousand ems.
A company Of 100 to $50 picked Welsh
singers is being organized to visit the
United States in July next, on occasion
of the centennpl celebration of Ameri-
can independence.
The Saginaw salt manufacturers have
finally formed a combination, in which it
is believed all the salt manufacturers of
the country will join. probably with a
view TO stop competition.
Additional bands of retreatIng Carlsts
have been driven over the Spanish line
into SPAN, and the insurrection has been
confined to the mountains of Navarro,
and the Basque and Catalonia provinces.
Iceland is afflicted by famine, caused
by the destruction Of all vegetation over
5000 luare miles Of the country, which
has been covered with Scoriaceous sand,
pumicc and ashes BY the volcanic erup-
tons of this year.
The Minister of Agric llture and Immi-
grafton of the Canadian Dominion re-
ports that Of the immigrants who have
landed at Quebec in the seven years end
ing with December last, $40 1853 came on
TO the United States, while 209,S75 set.
tied in Canada.
The Havana correspondent of the New
York Herald, under date Of the 7tb,
says there are one hundred thousand
Spanish soldiers actively engaged against
the Cuban Insurgents, the latter being
able TO contest possession of a country
$50 miles long by As miles wide.
The Ponca Indians who He'd from their
reservation lately, on approach Of the
Sioux, and are cncamped on Bow river
/ IN Cedar county, Nebraska, are accused
/ of numbering an emigraut family which
j passed through st. Helena on the Sth,
and have not since been heard from.
! 4 Washington telegram Of the 18th
SAYS The names OF several prominent
gentlemen have been presented for the
vacant post of Minister to Brussels, but
/ there is reason TO believe that General
Badeau, now Consul General at London,
will be the successor Of j. Russell Jones.
The excitement growing out of the
| forthcoming election for head chief in the
Indian territory, is leading 10 a large
number of bloody rencontres, 6 men and
I two women having been murdered in the
last sixty DAYS. Among them is MIR. Bus
hey, Head Jack, Double Tooth and Dick
Fields, an prominent Downing men.
The Legislature OF Michigan has ap.
proprated $1,000, and the Governor has
appointed a committee 10 Get up a collec.
ton of Michigan fruit for the exhibition
at the Chicago Exposition in September
aud October next II Is now understood
that n large majority Of the States will be
represented through their various organ
izatlons and private fruit growers.
\ meeting was held in London. the 10th,
% which Il was resolved to open public
subscription for the erection of statue
TO Lord Byron, in that city. Among
those present was Gen. Wilson, of the
United States, who stated, in behalf Of
his couutrymen, that they claimed share
IN Byron. and that lac was sure they
would gladly contribute az least a quarter
of the $4,000 which il was estimated the
statue would cost
The steamship Idaho, from Liverpool.
reached Castle Garden, New York har.
Dor, on the 18th, with about $50 Nor
mons, under charge Of seven agents ap.
pointed by Brigham Young 70 conduct
them from Europe to Utah. OF this
number, between 500 and 600 are adults,
including number of young women
( Nnety-siN are natives ofthe British Isles,
while the remainder are Scandinayians.
Geo. n jackson, deputy United States
collcctceat Louisville, IN whose accounts
a dedication of $4,000 has lust been
brought to light, committed suicide
Thursday, the 18th, by poison, diving
about midnight, Jackson was promi.
nent member Of the church. member Of
the School Board, and esteemed and re-.
f spected by al who know him. lie leaves
a wife and several young children.