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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Mr.. Chas. Harper is suffering from a
severe attack of brain fever.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

The 18th annual exhibition of the
Pierce County Agricultural Society
will be held at Prescott, September
9th and 18th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09
Sensible Advice.

You are asked every day through the col.
ums Of newspapers and by your Druggist to
use somthing for your Dyspepsia and LIVER
get discouraged spending money with but
little success. Now TO give you satisfactory
proof thss GREENS AUGUST FLOWER will cure
You Of Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint with
all its effects, such IS sour stomach, Sick
Headache, Hshitual Costiveness, Palpitasion
OF the Heart, heartburn. Water brash, Full
ness AZ the pit Of the Stomach, Yellow Skin,
Coated Tongue, Indigestion, swimming OF
the head, low spirits Sc., we ask you TO go 10
your Druggist, c. e. Drvis OF r. s. Freeman,
and get Sample Bottle of GREENS AUsusT
FLowRR tor 10 cents and try it, or q regular
size for 20 cents. Two doses will relieve YOU
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Many farmers have finished their
harvesting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

The hotel on the levee at Hudson.
called the Taylor House was burned
on Tuesday last.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Mrs. Perley, mother of j. W. Perley,
of this village, is lying dangerously ill
at the residence of the latter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

The dwelling OF Mr.. Z. F. Case, of
Ellsworth, one of the prOprietOrs of
the Herald, was destroyed by fire last
Saturday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

You can get good article of dried
Beef at Bradshaw's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

st. Paul is soon to have another dali
~ paper. printed in the German Ian
guage, to be called the ''YOlks-Zeit-
ing"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

colony of one hundred and fifty
MenOnites, from Russia, have located
at Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

A double carriage and a heavy lum.
Der wagon for sale, by r. ". Fleming.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

School district orders, teachers Coz.
tracts. blank notes, etc, printed and
for sale at this office. If
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

The North Carolinians at the Acade-
my of Music Saturday evening.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09
RIVER FALLS GRANGE. no. l52.

Regular Meetings on the I'd Saturday of ev-
cry month, at 2 O'clock, in Geo. Prattss Hall
A NJ RosESoUisr, Master,
NJ. ID. PROCTOR, Secretary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Wheat in this section will average
twenty bushels to the acre it is thought
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

DR.. Hedderly, dentist, has fitted up
rooms over Z. L. Bakers drug store
and is now ready for business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Remember the school meeting this
evening.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09


his paper, the Winona Herald. writ
ten while rusticating here recently,
speaks of our village and its surround
ings as follows:
RIVER FALLS.
This thriving village of fifteen hundred in
habitants is located IA miles in the interior
from Prescott and about the same distance
from Hudson. Il is on beautiful stream OF
water, the Kinnickinnic, which affords ample
water power for a number of manufacturing
industries, among which are several large
Touring mills. The streets are every day
thrOnged with teams and to observe the bus
mess which pervades this people, one would
scarcely realize that the hard times had ever
reached this prosperous community. And
we may say, to very reasonable extent such
is the fact Surrounded as it is by one of the
finest and best improved agricultural dis
tricts that the sun ever shown upon; the
farmers are largely out of debt, and many OF
them are able and willing to hold their wheat
until there is 'raise, F" the town seems to be
be favored spot-where railroad ''strikers"
are unknOwn-Baldwin on the West Wis
consin road and Tasting ON the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road being the nearest
points TO railroad communication.
A majority OF its inhabitants would be ut
terly opposed to ever voting a railroad bonus
to aid In the building Of road to this point.
a railroad OvershadOws any that possibly
might he secured by the construction OF .
road to rtersect either the West Wisconsin
or the Chicago, Milwaukee x St. Paul road.
And here she stands in her glory, with a
Normal school, and two newspapers to edu-
cate the rising generation
For miles and miles, as tar as the human
eve can reach, and then miles and miles be
yond in every direction are extended fields
OF waving grain. And to-day, the harvest
has fully begun. ride OF ten miles uD the
valley this morning we noticed the hum of
the reaper in many fields, which sound, to
the Granger, is more gladstone than the song
of the nightingale. The wheat harvest here
promises q bOuntiiul yield, and if no unfOr-
seen calamity befalls the husbandmans
shock rs he gathers it in, he can add still
more 10 his ducsts aud his independence OF
character. There is no occupation in life so
independent, so blessed, so honorable, so
glorious, providing always, there is favor
able wind-whieh takes the grasshopper
from You, and everything else that prevents
a generous harvest and a high price for wheat,
ali ci which il may be observed = not an in
variable rule in this "blarsted country" OF
OuFs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Township No 20, mango ~. Z
Unknown a part 81 com
mencing at a point ii
rods u from the sw cor
ner Of lot no. ] al the
boundary Of Lake 81.
CrUix thence n 20 rods
on Lake St. Croix thence
e 80 rods, thence 5 70
rods. thence v 81 rods
TO place Of beginning. 3
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Eau Claire is to have gas works.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-09

Nice fresh Lemons at Bradshaw,s.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

below in momentary expectation of his
certain death. Young Miranda has
only q faint recollection of his wander
ings. He pursued his way down one
of the avenues unmolested by "the
best police" who were too sleepy to
notice any inoongruity of appearance
or scantiness of attire. He remembers
taking q room at hotel in Eight street,
and finding it SO cold and lonely as to
compel him to slip out into the street
again. Then he went to the house of
q member of the Tivoli Theater and
pounded at the door until it was
opened, when he was recognized and
taken in and put to bed. Here his
father found him at o'clock in q ter
rlble delirium. Afterward he became
well enough to be taken home, and last
evening appeared to have suffered no
evil consequences from his escapade.
Neau York Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
A Smitten DamSeI.

One Of the sensations of the season
has grown out of the infatuation of a
young woman with Coughlan, the lead
ing actor at the New York Fifth Ave
nue. Theatre. She is heiress to one OF
the largest fortunes in the city, and un-
fortunately is the wife of a German
nobleman who met and won her while
serving his country here in diplomatic
capacity. She is blonde; her rosy
complexion and golden hair set off by
sparkling black eyes. In a proscen-
ium box she can usually be seen when
the theatre is accessible, apparently un-
conscious of everybody except the
hondsome actor whom she devours
with eager and greedy attention. She
leans from the box to. see him, and
when he seems for the moment to for
get her presence, she utters little APP
pealing cough. Altogether it is too
much, far too much for the gravity of
a respectable New York audience, and
the people have begun to throng the
theatre to see play not put down on
the bill. 1t is said that the handsome
actor receives numerous billets-doux
from his charming prosecutor, with
bouquets and other presents, all of
which like a model husband and viz
tuous actor he of course hands over to
his wife. But one would like to have
the German husbands version of the
affair translated into idiomatic Eng
Iish
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Trains Vocabulary.

George Francis Train predicts in biz
paper: Many words will be abbrevi
ated. Programme will be spelled pro-
gram. The compound letter oe, and q
as in subpoena or encyclopaedia, will be
omitted. Latin, French, and other
foreign phrases will no longer be itali-
cized. Language will be condensed as
in cablegrams, where IS word enforces
brevity. Nobody will be quoted.
Words, ideas, and thoughts stereotyped
in these columns will be ample reward
without names. All will be absorbed.
The bank of knowledge will be drawn on
inexhaustively. To economic space
enitials of public men will often be
used for the full name. Christianity
will be writted x. Tianity The Mos
lem word Allah will be adopted. The
powerful word bulldoze will be acclima-
ted. Short names of prominent repre-.
sentative men will appear in endless
repetition."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Strange Vagaries of Delirious Aero
bat.

A spaniard named Senior Miranda
called early yesterday morning, at the
Police Central Office in great agitation,
and declared that his son, profession
al gymnast, who has been engaged a
number years at the TivoG Theater,
had escaped from his chamber while
delirious from sickness and was no.
where to to be found. The story of
the young mans flight from his bed
room as related at headquarters was
very thrilling. He had been delirious
for several days, and it was found
necessary to bind him to prevent his
escape. About l A. M. yesterday he
burst the bonds that held him, broke
through the window, turning somer-
sault as he went, hung for moment
at the easement, let go, and caught the
metal leader from the ewes, which he
climbed up hand over hand, and final
ly, after running along the edge of the
gutter to the next house, reached the
street by succession Of handspring
from window to window. He then ran
out of sight at rate too rapid to be
followed by his friends, who had
watched his perilous gymnastics from
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

said the widow, with start that came
very near jerking the robe off his knees.
One of the traces is off," said he.
"Well, why don't you get out and
put it on?'
"I can't" said Bill; GIVE got-that
is l haven't got-oh, dear, Pm so sick
What shall do?"
"Why, Willie" she said, tenderly,
"what is the matter do tell me-" and
looking into his pale face she thought
he was going to faint, so she got out
her smelling bottle with her lett hand
and pulling the stopper with her teeth
she stuck it to his nose.
Bill Was just taking in breath for a
mighty sigh, and the pugnant odor
made him throw back his head 40 far
that he lost his balance and went over
the low-backed buggy. The little
woman gave little scream as his bare
legs flew past her head; and covering
her face with her hands, gave way to
tears or smiles-it is hard to tell which.
Bill was right side up" in q moment,
and was leaning over the back of the
seat humbly apologizing and explain
ing, when Ed. Wilbur, with his wife
and baby, drove up behind him and
stopped. Poor Bill felt that he would
rather have been shot than have them
catch him in such a scrape; but there was
no help for it now, SO be called Ed. to
him and whispered in his ear. Ed.
liked to burst with suppressed laughter,
and he motioned to his wife to draw
up, and after saying something to her
he helped the widow out of Bills buggy
into his, and the two women went on
leaving the two men behind.
Bill lost no time in arranging his
toilet as well as he could, and then with
great persuasion Ed. got him to &C
home with him; and after hunting up
slippers and socks, and getting him
washed and combed, had him quite
presentable when the lambs arrived
I need not tell how the story was
wormed out Of bashful Bill, and how
they all laughed as they sat arou I'd the
tea table that night, but will conclude
by saying that they went to the show
together, and Bill has no fear of Gus
Sockrider now.
This is the story Of Bill and the
widow, just as | had it from Ed. Viii
bur, and if there is anything unsatis
factory about it ask him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Cultivation of Mushrooms i'm japan:

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
One of the industries of Japan is the
cultivation of mushrooms, which are
exported in large quantities from that
country, and the most interesting in.
formation respecting them is given by
Consul Robertson in bis report on the
trade of Kanawaga, lately issued.
The best of the edible species OF
mushrooms are known as n atsutake'
and "shii take" The difficulties at
tendant on preserving the forme r kind
almost exclude them from the market
for exports; for not only do they de.
compose very rapidly, but even when
successfully dried are nearly tasteless
and thus useless in cookery. The shii
take species, however have this peculiar
excellence, that, though all but tasteless
IN their raw state, when they are dried
they have an extremely fine flavor.
The quantity that grows naturally on
the decayed roots or cut stumps Of the
shii tree is not sufficient to meet the
demand for them; consequently much
skill has been brought to bear on their
cultivation, notably BY cutting off the
trunks of the shii and other trees and
forcing the growth of the mushroom
on them. Different varieties of the
oak are most in favor for the cultiva-
ton of the mushroom, the tree known
rs the shii giving, however, the best
results.
About the beginning of autumn the
trunk, about five or six inches in
diameter, is selected and cut up into
lengths of four or five feet; each piece
is then split down lengthwise into four,
and on the outer bark slight missions
are either made at once with q Ratchet,
or the cut logs are left till the following
spring, and then deep wounds seven or
eight inches long are incised on them.
Assuming the first course to have been
pursued, the logs, after having received
several slight missions, are placed in q
wood or grove where they can get the
full benefit of the air and heat. In
about three years they will be tolerably
rotten in parts. After the more rotten
parts are removed they are placed
against a rack in a slanting position,
and about the middle of the ensuing
spring the mushrooms will come forth
In abundance. They are then gathered.
The logs are, however, still kept, and
are submitted to the following process:
Every morning they are put in water,
where they remain till afternoon, when
they are taken out, laid lengthwise on
the ground and beaten with mallet.
They are then ranged on end in the
same slanting position as before, and
in two or three days mushrooms will
again make their appearance. When
the logs are beaten SO heavily that the
wood swells, mushrooms are Induced of
more than ordinarily large growth.
If the logs are beaten gently, a great
number of small-sized mushrooms
grow up in succession. In places
where there is scarcity of water, RAN
water should be kept for sleeping the
logs in.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Two Odd Dreams.

An exchange tells story of a gen
tleman who, on going to bed, lost a
collar button, which on becoming de-
tached rolled to distant corner of the
room. He searched for it about ten
minutes, and then gave it up for lost.
In the night he dreamed that he found
it under the wash stand, and on waking
up found it in that spot. This isn't
half SO odd as the case of q man who
lost valuable horse, and before going
to bed ate b Welsh rarebit. He
dreamed his horse was in village
church fifteen miles away, and was
quietly consuming the hair in the pew
cushions, having left the buggy on the
pulpit steps. When he awoke the
next morning he found that in reality
neighbours boy had found the horse
and vehicle and had put it up in livery
stable until he could claim reward.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
SEASIDE THOUGHTS.
BIZ RosK o'HALLoRAN.

oh, mystic seat Oh, wondrous deepl
Where still unnumbered secrets sleep,
Though long observed the watery robe
That shines around the moving globe,
Thy vast untraversed regions lie
Too deep and dark for mortal eye;
In pearly garb and colors gay
Thy fnny tribes disport and play,
Where living man no shelter kind
Or place of rest can hope to And;
And danger dark and wondrous might
Are larking in thy pillows bright.
The tints of day are in thee laid,
The sunset glow, the midnight shade:
The star of evening gilds thy waves
And lights the gloomy seagirt caves.
Perchance, upon its oceans breast
The rays of earth are flown to rest,
And in its view thy tracts afar
Are standings on q distant star
Emotion weird thy breast absorbs,
AS, swayed by silent, far-off orbs
Whose golden gaze is language strong,
Thy waves attune their tidal song.
Thy whispers meath a sunny cline,
Thy waillngs through the winter time,
Thy stormy roar or seething hiss,
They tell not of thy deep abyss.
Some shells Of beauteous shade and mold,
And fish in varied tints of gold,
Some messy leaves and pearly gems
And fragments from thy coral stems,
Along the rocky shores we CLEAN
AS takens of thy hord unseen
Are works to grand Tor human tnOugnt
Within thy governed bosom wrought
Are scenes to dire for mortal sight
Entombed within thy wales of night
Thy weedy forests, dank and strange.
Where creatures grim and awful range,
Have echoed neer the axes sound,
Nor through those sunless depths profound,
Has thrilled the song of soaring lark;
No Fight illumes the cneerless dark,
Since bygone times the home and grave
Of myriads swarming meath the wave
In life, in death, and countless forms,
Unmoved by winters widest storms,
Will hand divine uplift the screen,
Or sunshine e'er illume the scene
That long thy watery volumes keep,
Unsearched, unknown, o, wondrous deep?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

Death of Six Rear-AdmiraIs Within a
Monthly Deaths Within
sails.
From the New York Tribune.
The late mortality among the officers
of the third grade in the navy seems to
be without precedent. Since the 18th
of January six Rear-Admirals have
died, the death of five occurring within
fortnight. Their names in the order
of their deaths, are: Joseph Smith,
James Alden, Charles Wilkes, Theo-
dorus Bailey, Charles Fl. Davis and
Louis M. Goldsborough, who died last
Tuesday. With the exception of
James Alden who died in San Francis
CO, all died in Washington. Their
deaths create no vacancy in the navy.
All of the officers mentioned above
had passed the age of three score and
ten, and, with the exception Of AID
miral Davis, all were on the retired list.
Congress several years ago passed a
special act extending his term of active
service for ten years. This extension
had almost expired when he died, af-
ter ffty-four years of service. Ad-
miral Smiths length of service, sixty
eight years, exceeded Admiral Colds
borough's by only three years. Ad-
mirals Wilkes and Bailey served terms
of equal length, ffty-nine years. AID
miral Alden entered the service forty
nine years a go. Admiral Smith served
with distinguished gallantry, while yet
young, at the battle of Lake Cham
plain, and also at the capture of AL
gerian vessels, q year later. Admiral
Alden took 8 prominent part in all the
great naval battles of the late war, and
IN every instance WAS handsomely men
toned in the official reports. He prob
ably saw more hard fighting than any
other officer of his grade. Admiral
Wilkes was best known for his services
as an explorer in the Southern seas,
and for his capture of the Confederate
Ministers, Mason and Slidell, while on
their way to England. Admiral Bailey
rendered valuable service on the block
aiding stations during the war, and, as
second in command, led the passage of
the forts when Farragut took New Or
leans. Admiral Davis connection with
the Naval Observatory and "The Nauti-
Cdl AluldudC uAS ulEU0 LIS name well
known all over the world. During the
war he distinguished himself as the
commander of the Mississippi hotilla.
He destroyed the rebel fleet below
Memphis, and then took the city. A
sketch of Admiral Goldsborough's SER
vices was given on Wednesday, John
Rodgers, the son of Commodore Rodg-
ers, now heads the active list of Rear
Admirals. He is at present the Super
intendent of the Naval Academy.
The naval neurology for the past
year shows 81 deaths, as follows: 8
Rear Admirals, 2 Commadores, 8 Cap
tains, Commanders, 1 Lieutenant
Commander, 1 Lieutsnant, Midship-
man, 8 Cadet Midshipmen, 2 Medical
Directors, 3 Pay Directors, Assistant
Paymaster, Past Assistant Engineer,
8 Boatswains and 2 Captains in the
marine corps. During 1876 there were
so designations in the navy, and Is dis
missals, the latter ranking as follows:
1 Lieutenant Commander, l Ensign, /
Pay Inspector, 9 Cadet Midshipmen, /
Assistant Engineer, 1 Bo atswain and /
Acting Boatswain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
AFTER THE STORM.
From tn.

After the storm. calm;
After the bruise, balm;
From the ill brings good in tho Lords own tim
And the sigh becomes psalm.
After the drought, the dew;
After the cloud, the blue;
From the sky will smile, in the SUMS good time
And the earth grow glad and new.
Bloom is the heir of blight,
Dawn is the child of night,
AND the rolling change of the busy world
Bids the wrong yield back the right
Under the font of i'll
Many cup doth fill,
And tue patient lip, though it drinketh oft,
Finds only the bitter still
Truth seemed oft to Sleep
Blessings slow to reap
Till the hours OF waiting weary to bear.
And the courage is hard to keep.
Nevertheless, know
Out Of the dark must grow
Sooner or LATER whatever is fair,
Since the heavens have wiled it SO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14
Didn't Want any Crackers.

The following circumstances which
recently occurred in Boston is too good
to be lost. A quick-witted topper went
into bar-room, and called for some
thing to drink.
1--WE don't sell liquor" said the law
abiding landlord. ave will give you a
glass, and then if you want to buy q
cracker, we will sell it to you for twelve
cents"
"Very WE'LL" said the Yankee Gus
toner, "hand down your decanter."
The "good creature was handed
down and our hero took q stiff horn
when, on turning round to depart, the
unsuspecting landlord handed him the
crackers, with the remark: " Don't you
want crackerP
"Well, NO; guess not; you sell 'em
too dear. / can get lots on 'em i've OF
six for q cent anywhere else."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

A TEAM drawing heavy load of
wood met milkmans's sleigh on mar
row street, and neither would give a
foot of the track. off I was loaded
with milk and water I'd turn out I"
shouted the man with wood. eff
could make three-quarters of cord
of wood pile up full cord I'd turn
clear into the ditch |" was the ready
answer. They looked at each other
for a long time, and the man with the
wood finally turned out.