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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

When a man gets so elevated above
the community in which he lives aud is
dependent upon for his support and
business patronage that he cannot get
anything good enough for him without
sending to some distant city or market
tor il, he had better move. The com.
munity is better off without him. and
his place had better be filed by some
one who will take sufficient interest in
the town 10 which he lives TO do his
trading at home, aud thus keep the
money he pays out in the community.
10 short, the way 20 kin town is 70
import everything you eau. and export
as little as possible. The way to build
up town is 10 import as little as posi-
BILE, and export as much as you can.
Lake CITY Leader.
There is meat as well as meaning in
the above paragraph. This practice of
sendiog abroad for all yoa want to pur /.
chase is of doubtful propriety, aud more
especially is it true of any business man
IN aplace. How can you expect that
others will patronize you, if you send
abroad for your own goods, wares, OF
ueeessariesY
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

The census is now being taken all
over the state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

Shipping tags printed and for sale at
this Office.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

St. Croix Free Baptist Quarterly
Meeting, will be held in Brackets
Hall, in River Falls, on Friday, june
ii, at 2 o'clock NJ, and at the usual
hours of services in the evenings, Of
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and at 10i
A, NJ, on Saturday aud Sabbath. A
cordial invitation is extended 10 all.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11
For Sale.

A dwelling house and lot on Second
street, in the village River Falls.
4S.4t Cyrus GLAs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

A private letter from George Cole,
late Of this place, but now Of Kansas,
states that the grasshoppors are strip
ping things rapidly. he states that
they have destroyed his garden aud
twenty-five acres Of fax, aud thinks
they will take every thing he has got.
George don't seem to be very we'll
pleased with the prospect before him
aud says be shall emigrate at an early
day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

A good buggy for sale at bargain
Inquire Of A MORSE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

The ODD Fellows will make their ex
cursion to the Dalles next Tuesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-06-11

Wheat s5 cts.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
A Lesson From Virginia City.

The New York Herald draws from the Virginia City (Nev.) fire the lesson that all our cities are built too fimsily and of too combustible materials, and asks whether, even in that great metropolis, we cannot learn something by this fire. Says the editor Our water supply is abundant. it is true, and we possess 8 most efficient corps of tiremen, trained to battle with the dreaded element but our building system is so bad and danger ous as to invite destruction on the city. There is scarcely a row of. tenement houses in New York that is not source of danger. Party walls are mere thin mockeries of the name. Flooring joints are recklessly built into chimney breasts. Roofs arc light and often covered with an incendiary compound of pitch. and paper. Wooden fences, rendered highly infiammable by long exposure to the summer heat, extend from house to house and from end to end of every blsck, forming the most perfect con- ductors of flame in case of fire. New York has hitherto escaped by a miracle. Let us reform our building system and meet the mercies of God half way by exercising the intelligence with which He has gifted us. Aa# -
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
Free Letter Delivery.

The annual report of the free delivery division of the Post-ofice department of the United States shows that there are now employed by that branch of the service 9, l95 carriers, distributed among a total of eighty-seven offices, and that they delivered during the fiscal year nearly 228,000,000 letters, 68,O0O, GOO newspapers and some 34,O00, 900 postal cards, besides collecting about 243, ,0OO,- 900 .,ieces of various kinds. The total cost of the service was $1, ,88O, ,O42, and the receipts from postage on local matter amounted to $1, ,947, ,559 As compared with tine preceding fiscal year these ag- gregates show an increase in the number of carriers of 146 and in the number of pieces handled of 100000 together with an increase of four per cent. in the cost of the service and of twenty one per cent. in the receipts from local postage, which now for the first time exceed the cost of the free delivery system.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
Closing Days.

The plashing breakers on the beach seem tc
 the listening ear To vail soft sweet plaint1ve dirge for the de.
 parting year 2: The yellow leaves, whirl'd OCT the path by the
 sharp autumn breeze, In eddying clouds are falling fast from all the
 rustling trees. ,,, The frost-be sparkle on the grass, bright in .,.. the chilly dawn; ,- et The mateless thrush his lonely meal seeks on
 the rectory lawn; The laurustinus gins to show her white and
 roseate flowers -Tr Sure token that have fled at last the summer s golden hours. -E .., ~ fs. Black berries on the privet hang, the ash 't shows clusters red, Crown'd with scarlet diadem king oaks ma-
 jestic head >.'' The elms are orange the queen beach is robed o., in russet brown, And from the graceful pendent birch dun
 leaves come showering down.
 shrill voice is mute, % -. NO longer rom the cherry bough the black
 bird tunes his flute s. The white-throat and the nightingale to sun-
 nier climes have flown, And on the berried holly bough the redbreast
 sings alone. .' Ab, sweet and solemn are the days that mark
 the dying year, ..-. ,,.. Waking, like music, in the Il art some slum- bering memories dear or times gone by, of friends long dead, of
 happy leeting hours, When our fond youth was one long dream of
 love and joy and flowers.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
Production of Rails.

The total productio of rails of all kinds in the United States in 1874 was 72O, ,413 net tons, against 890,077 tons in 1873, 100000 in 1872, and 775, 733 tons in 1871. Nineteen States made rails in 1874, against eighteen States in 1873, Kansas having entered the list of rail-making States May, 1874, when the Topeka rolling mill was put in opera tion. This was tho first rolling mill in Kansas. Since it's erection the Decatur rolling mill has been removed from De- catur, Illinois, to Rosedale, Wyandotte county, Kansas, and there are now two rail rolling mills in that State. A rail rolling mill has this year gone into operation at Laramie, in Wyoming Ter ritory. It is owned and operated by the Union Pacific railroad company.
 The whole number of rail rolling mills in the country was ninety-one, of which fifty-seven make heavy rails mainly, and thirty four make only light or street rails. Of the whole ninety-one mills, twenty-two made no rails in 1874. The product of the year was therefore rolled by sixty-nine mills, and many of these ran only 8 part of the time. The capacity of all the rail rolling mills of the country is at least double the pro- duct of 1874, which was 729, ,413 net tons. Of theso sixty nine mills which
 made rails in 1874, seven made both iron and Bessemer steel rails, one made Bes- semer steel rails exclusively, two made steel headed rails exclusively, two made steel-headed rails and iron rails, and one made solid cast steel rails and iron rails.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
An Ignorant Boy.

Mir. Porter, of Detroit, Aas so many irons in the firs that he never has time to sit down and explain things. His son John traded dog for 8 steel trap the other day, supposing it to be rat trap. Then he set the trap on the front steps, supposing that to be the best place. If his father had been different man the boy would have had more perception {; but Mir. Porter never sat down, took the lad on his knee and pointed out the straight and narrow road which the suc- cessful rat catcher must pursue. John was in bed and asleep, and his mother was sewing a three-cornered patch on his pants, when MT. Porter came home and stepped into the trap as he un- locked the hall door. He yelled "Git out 1" and "Murderl" for three straight minutes, and when the neighbors gathered and pried open the trap he went in and licked John till his arm was tired. The boy was next day packing up collar box, knife and pair of stilts, intending to run away. He can't be blamed. Fathers should sit down and explain to their sons all about rat traps and all about the best place to catch rafa
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
Items of Interest.

The Maine honey dealers foretell that this will be an excellent year for their business. t.-...1 ...la.IE The Prince Imperial of France is not only suffering with his oldconstitutional aff1iction, but is in danger of losing his eyesight. ...- .-.-.,......
 There is O dilatory couplein Tennessee that has been engaged ," for twenty five years. tt4"F' a.5
 Monogram waist-belts are the latest agony among the would-be conspicuous girls of the period. A little boy, gazing upon an old pie ture of his mother, taken in 8 low dress, remarked: Mamma, you was mos ready for bed when dat picter was tooken I"
 A butcher who was driving pair of oxen in Galesburg, H., because they would not go as he wished, deliberately cut out the eyes of both. He is to be punished.
 The new hog complaint in Missouri is characterized by no sign of illness until few hours before death, when the head begins to swell and the animal to show signs of itching. '.1
 The editor of the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald has received a gift of an i'm mense rattlesnake, which heskeeps do- mesticated in his sanctum. It's better than a revolver. sgg
 All persons who keep oxalic acid in the house for domestic purposes, may take warning from the fate of Matthew Walpole, of Groton, Ky, whose wife ad- ministered to him that poison instead of Epson salts. He died almost iInmedi- ately. SD. .-. r. szai lz..,d
 Thomas Heveant, a wealthy, trades man of Croane-sur- -Marne, who died there recently, has left the sum of $400 year to the village, to be given to the winner of pig race to be run on cer- tain Sunday, on condition that he shall wear deep mourning for two years after the race. aHa ali
 A remarkable case of child stealing lately occurred at Carlinville, Ill. A message came for Dr. Harrison to attend a case in the country. Arriving at the place designated, he found that he had been hoaxed; and upon returning home, learned that his little girl, aged eighteen months, had been carried of by two women. su
 The tramps, it is said, have way of intelligence to each other by gate posts, A gentleman in New Haven, Conn.,, annoyed by the fre- quent calls of these vagabonds, observed that they inspected the gate post before entering, and, upon examination, found there mark, which he rubbed out. He has not since been troubled. ..-  Mother, dear mother the days are so warm, And am tired of this dress have on ;o. It is so clumsy, and don't fit me right, Pin it back, mother, pin it back tight Now am ready, don't look sweeta Smiling on all happen to meet, I m in the fashion, so that is all right Pin back my skirts, mother, pin lem back
 tight. "tA
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
Tunnels.

Two gigantic engineering feats are in contemplation-one, tunnel under the Straits of Dover, between England and France; the other, tunnel between Spain and Morocco, under the Straits of Gibraltar. The length of the Dover tunnel would be little over twenty miles, the Gibraltar tunnel about nine miles; but the depth of water in the Straits of Gibraltar is so much greater that the difficulties in boring would be much more than at Dover. The com mercial advantages of a tunnel between England and France would be very great.
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
This One.

A little five-year-old friend, who was always allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate, before the other nurslings were drowned, was taken to his mothers sick room the other morning to see the tiny, new, twin babies. He looked refectively from one to the other for minute or two, then pokin his chubby finger into the cheek of thc plumpest baby, he said decidedly: "Sav this one."
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12
What Did It.

"What keeps MT. N. from kirk, James ?" said worthy minister. " l hope it's not Methodism." "No," re- sponded the verger; "it's something worse than Methodism. ' "What thenl Is it Calvinism 2" "Worse, your rev erence, worse l" "Surely, James, it is not Deism2" "Much worse, an it please your reverence, than even that" "Good heavens r. said the astounded pastor, " can it be Atheism which de- prives us of the best churchwarden that ever shook box2" "Truly," respond ed pious James, "'tis a much more seri- GUS matter it is rheumatism l'
Connecticut western news., 1875-11-12

It has been proposed to establish a pigeon post between Europe and the United States, and an ocean homing bird of great docility has been discovered in Iceland, which is said to be admirably calculated for the purpose, being able to fly at the marvellous rate of one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01

CHANCERY COURT OF RICHMOND, SATuR.
DAY, JANUARY 80, 1S75.-The following cases
were disposed Of:
Hardgrove rs. Pollard, &c. Decree, by
cousent, making partial distribution of the
fund now on hand.
Eubank us. Deupree, Sc. Decree confirm
ing report OF commissioners and making q
partial distribution Of the fund on hand.
Grill rs Connor, &c. Decree on petition
of plaintiff referring the cause to commits.
sioner for inquiry and report. -2.' 4
Gray's executors Is. Gray, &c. Decree
constituting the will Of the testator in part
and providing fer the residence Of the widow
under the will.
1t appearing to the court from the repre-
sentations Of counsel and otherwise that the
following causes have either been sub.
stantialy settled or disposed Of, or that the
parties no longer desire to litigate the same.
it ordered that they be seVeraly removed
from the docket, with leave to any person or
party interested to move to reinstate the
same, or any or either of them, for good cause
shown.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01
By EUard Camp, Deputy.

SCHOOL TRUSTEES APPOINTED State
Board of Education has appointed the fol-.
lo9ing school trustees:
Buchanan county: Sand Lick district,
William Combs; Grundy, Daniel Blanken-
ship; Garden, William b. Mcneil. -
CuIpeper county: Salem district, j. j. Por.
ter and j. K. Calvin.
Halifax county: Banister district, Paul
G. Edmunds; Roanoke, Captain Thomas
Watkins; Stauntop, John A. McGraw ;
Meadsvile, Ransom y. Moon; Birch
Creek, John W. Boyd; Mount Carmel,
James E. Blackwell; Black Walnut. Thomas
P. Bruce uice DR.. I. V. Brooks; Red Bank,
DR.. p. j. Palmer.
Middlesex county: Jamaica district, Alex
auder Curtis; saluda, Or. George L. Nichol-
son; Pnetop, Henry Robinson.
Patrick county mayo district, Green
Penn.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01

PERsoNAL.-Rev. Bishop Jesse T. Peck,
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will
spend next Sabbath, the 7th instant, and Sc.
veral days following in this city. He will be
the guest Of bis friend and former pupil Mr..
Il. NJ. Manly.
Speaker Marshall Hanger was out of the
city on Saturday, and General William B.
Tallaterro, member Of the House Of Dele.
gates from Gloucester county, presided in
his absence.
A large number Of ladies visited the
Legislature and the State Library on Satur'
day. -
it Is stated that the Committee on the
State Library will probably secure portrait
of William Writ, Attorney. General OF tht
United States, who resided at one time In
this city. w.,
Hon. Allen T. Capertop, of West Fir.
ginia, is iu the city. lie visited the capito
on Saturday.
Governor Ed. NJ. McCook, of Colorado, is
at the Exchange Hotel.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01
Eeffer from Charlottesville.
spondeuce of the Richm ond Dispatch !
CHARLOTTESVILLE, January 80, 1916.

correspondence OF lte Richie Onu DlSlHciLl
CHARLOTTESVILLE, January 80, 1876.
Matters OF peculiar interest TO the general
reader have not transpired here for some
weeks. Notwithstanding our brilliant busi-
ness prospects contingent upon the estab-
h>hmcnt Of railroad shops, ETC., our town is
exceedingly dull. The lrecZing-up nay have
something TO do with ii. The roads since
tie recent thaH are wretchedly bad, and not
nj all III uducement for country people to
come to town. ! ain happy to report. how
'Ncr that an exceedingly tiDe crop Of ice has
been harvested, some of 1t quite six inches
thick. DR.. Henry Cochran has slowed away
between 400 and 500 tons, convenient to the
Town, which he proposes TO dispense to The
sufferers from the solar heat Of midsummer.
II i, fear that the wheat in some sections
ha' been injured by the freezes at night and
tSaws by day of the past week. There has
been no snow 10 protect it. and the warm
lam which is now falling is likely to be sue
cecded 10y another freeze, which will prove
ivere to the unprotected roots Of the wheat.
tSn,te u bad accident happened at the de.
j Thursday. Mr.. Crauk's wagon was
s'andlng at the crossing waiting for Il train
10 pa>>, when, just as the engine got opposite
lac team. the cuginter blew the water ont
a., ms cylinders, at which the team became
reared, swlngipg round, breaking Oft the
louGuc, a section of which was run into one
q the mules about twelve inches; knocking
iHc driver down aud running the wagon
ever bis breast. Strange TO say, the driver
.ot up and, it is said, drove bis wagon home.
Jhe mule will probably die.
Mr.. +. A. Perry is engaged Oh and will
t"on have completed an invention by which
''.ts may be made from ordinary pho-
''traphs, from which any number OF
'olics uiay be printed on q common print
Ing press. | do not pretend to understand
Tic modus operand,, but am satisfied from
SPECIMENS submitted that the scheme is
lIau,toe, and when completed will work d
t'eat revolution in the outrageous wood.cut
liOnopoiy Of the present day. Mr.. Perry Is
chemist Of much skill understands his buSi-
LIS thoroughly aud as bis invention il en-
i:e!y chemical matter, he has reasonable
I"ie OF succeeding.
The prevalence Of colds in this section CX-
{ "lS anything OF The Kind known. 1t is
- slhdcnic; something Ike "cplzooty " in
orses some time since. In some sections 1t
1s assumed the form of Inembranous Group
III children. Whole families are Frustrated
VIM 1t, aud every one Is more or less
s!lected.
yesterday morning The bluGbirds sang
'"cifiIy, and the robins heGa come, and al
carry spring ls fredie.ed. Qrp.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01

o warrant; or, in other words, to kidnap
her: So soon as, learned that this man
Hambest was lurking about the city ] re-
moved bis sister from the Homie, upon con.
sultation with the; executive committee, TO
q private family. The reappearance- Of Mr:
Demmer this week, and the legal proceed
ings instituted by him, are accurately re-
ported in the Dispatch to-day. >.
A few words, in conclusion, Oh several
points: Mr. Demmer's opinion OF Mary tex.
pressed in the presence Of Colonel MuDford
and mysel0 Is that she was "perfectly truth
.ful and honest" Mary's opinion Of Mr..
'Demmer expressed on the same occasion) Is
that "he was kind to her"; aud when /
inquired "then, why don't you go home
with him ?'' she replied that Mrs. Demmer
treated her badly, and she would not stand
1t longer. She said she did all the cooking
for the family, went to market, made the
fires, waited oh the table, washed the tea
things, and sometimes fed the horse; that
she had no time for study SC. Mr.. Demmer
stated to me that Mary's interest In her
uncle's estate was $1,000 cash, and S5 1000
at The death Of one Of the heirs. a lawyer
In Philadelphia. who says he Is well &c.
quainted with the whole matter and is attor-
ney for two of the heirs, says Mary's interest
is worth $4,000. -. @:0'fto (. .
1t seems singular, indeed, that any gentle.
man who had.hsd the faithful services of an
"honest and truthful" orphan girl for four
years should keep her 10 the kitchen when
be knew that she bad come in possession OF
property amply sufficient to give her good
education. tits more remarkable. too, when
be claims this girl as his "adopted daugh-
ter" and who, If not educated In the next
four years, must be an ignorant girl at eigh-
teen years. at present her education is not
advanced beyond that of many girl of eight
If Mr.. Demmer should be selfish and hard.
hearted enough to hold this faithful and de.
fenceess child, when mother and father had
been in their graves for ten years, to the
lard bargain which poverty and crphanage
had forced upon her, he should certainly
have been willing to allow her to purchase
her liberty with money, especially when that
liberty was to be employed in rescung her
from life of ignorance and in fitting her for
cespecubilty and usefulness.
WILLIAM W. PARKER, NJ. D.,
President.
ISL have by this evenings mail re-.
ceiVed letter from one of the most diStin-
guisbed lawyers in Philadelphia saying he
had secured guardian for Mary Hambest in
Philadelphis. 2.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01

CoEvEYANCEs OF REAL ESTATE for the week
ending January 80, 1875: Lots fronting-6
feet on Albemarle street between Belvidere
and Pine for s92; 31a feet on Marshall street
near MuDford for $1,000; 33 feet on Ninth
street between Leigh and N for $3.50; 80
feet on Main street between Sixth and
Seventh for $4,000; % feet on Cary street
near Fourth for $4,000; ;tSSs,feet on Ninth
street corner Of n for $1,000; 12s feet on
Ross street between Fourteenth and Mayo
for $4,000; 22l feet on Broad street near
Third for $40; % feet on Leigh street near
Second for $3.50; so feet on Wall street near
Ross for $3l; 151 feet on Fifth street be.
tween Jackson and Duval for S453; 30 feet
on franklin street between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth for $4,000; a3 feet on Twen-
ty.tifth street between n aud y for $495 As
feet on Denny street near Fifth for $500.