River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-04-06
NEWS NEBULE.

fT%s" NANtiatA ~ IRHNAttNA@AA VI
$4,000
Bay City, Mich, has 5000 volumes in
the public library.
Iowa high.school girls have decided
to graduate in calico dresses.
Henry county, Indiana, has but one
democratic town--Lewisyille.
The people of Clinton and Jackson
counties, Iowa, have the choice of 300
saloons.
The county jail in Traverse City,
Mich, has been without an occupant
for two years.
Peaches raised III southern Illinois
this year will probably be worth about
25 cents apiece.
Thos. Blake, a citizen Of Mendoza,
H., was killed recently in southern
steamboat accident.
The newspapers TO be started in the
Black Hills will be edited with six.
shooters and bowie.knives.
Mr.. Albert Bromer, of SchweGksville,
Montgomery county, Pa, has clock
supposed to be 200 years old.
Rats gnawed off portion Of one of
the hoofs of large gray horse belong.
ing to Hiram schiller, of Reading, Pa.
The question at issue in the school
election at Bellevue, Iowa, was the
study of Latin and Latin went out.
The wheat crop Of southern Illinois,
thus far, is said to be the most prom
Using of any for several years past.
The convention Of superintendent
of the poor, at ColdWater, Mich, tried
to settle the tramp question hut failed.
"Female Pimples' was the subject
of an essay read before the Young
Mems Christian Association, Lafayette,
Ind.
John Clarkson, of Cherokee. Iowa,
has started for England with cargo
of dried pork, prepared by new pro-
cess.
A wallet in Logansport IS l23 years
old, and 1t feels that it ought to have
something in it before its gets much
older.
David Snodgrass, an old citizen of
Nigor county, Indiana, committed sui
eide recently by hanging himself up by
rope.
Prof. Frank Wells, of the Cleveland
Medical College, was recently elected
Fellow of the 0bsterical Society of
London.
j. F. Parr, treasurer of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was lately robbed Of $3.50.
His funds are rather below Parr at
present.
OF the III women now studying at
the Michigan University, four have
fhngnr, 1axrr A q
allure and science.
Some of the Fort Wayne physicians
are waging a very bitter warfare
against the new medical college to be
established there.
For the reasonable fee of Is cents
head, Rev. j. +. Chatfee is telling the
people of the upper Mississippi towns
''Iow to Kill the Devil"
1t is reported that detective from
Nevada captured a murderer near
Oconto, Wis. last week for whom
reward of $4,000 had been offered.
South Hadley, Mass, has a school
teacher who has just completed her
10th year. For more than 45 years she
has taught school in the same town.
The Wyoming, Pa, Historical and
Geological society of Wilkesbarre has
forwarded its 200 pound petrihed
tree-stump to the Centennial grounds.
\ Keokuk woman sent to store for
fresh supply of embroidery the other
day. She had given birth to a new pair
of twins, and had only provided for one
baby.
Gov. Klrkwood's official family at
Des Moine5 has lately been increased
by the appointment of Col. John Pat
tee, his brother-in,law. as private sec.
TetaTv.
man in Erie, Pa, in trying to man
age baulky horse fastened chain to
his lower jaw, and, hitehing another
horse to the chain, pulled the Jaw en-
tirely off
Hon. John Gordon, of Morgan county,
Illinois, who has taken much pains to
collect statistics in regard to the hog
cholera, estimates the loss in pastyears
at S5,000,000.
Wilton, Iowa, has free reading
room, and now the ladies' of that town
spend their evenings III reading, and
don't tar and feather odious Young girls
as much as they did.
M'Crary & Lands Touring mill, at
Florence, Switzerland county, Ind, was
destroyed by fire Wednesday night. Ii
had been insured but an hour before
the fire for IS, 500.
The jack.rabbits in Sierra valley, Cal
lfonia, have been starved out by the
deep snow, and congregate in droves
about the hay-stacks, where the farm.
ers kill them by hundreds,
\ company has been organized for
the purpose of building a railroad from
Cedar Rapids, to run in southerly OF
southwesterly direction. in order to
reach the Iowa coal-tields at the most
convenient and accessible point or
! points.
Some forty of the largest taxpayers
of Otterville school district. Jersey
county, H., are resisting payment in
the circuit court at this term. on the
ground that the "old stone school.
house was torn down and new
$4,000 house built illegally.