River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-12-06
miscellaneous.

The English feet is still at Besika Bay
and It II thought will winter there.
The Chamber of Deputies at Rome has
adopted a clause aboiishing capital punish
ment
The steamer Kashgar has been aground
in the suez Canal, and Ill traffic stopped since
the 9th
The British and German governments
are making The telephone part of their tele-
graph system.
Foreigners are jealously watched in
the city % Mexico and troops parade the
streets constantly.
The Republic Trust company of New
ark, \. j., has decided TO discontinue business.
deposites will be paid in full
A correspondent states that the estab-
lishment Of tho Roman hierarchy Of Scotland
has been ind' initeIy postponed.
The Cleve. and Herald has been sold to
ex-Congressmal 4. {. Parsons and Col. W.
+. Fogg Of that city for $4,000.
Irvine Moore, of Springfield, H., has
filed voluntary petition of bankruptcy.
Liabilities sl25,OOO; assets, nothing.
The steamer Lotus No ,, burned on
the lst inst. near Waterloo, on the lower
Mississippi, with 800 bales of cotton.
The vatican have accepted the English
governments condition, so as to be able to
proclaim hierarchy Of Scotland Immediately
All dangers on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad have been repaired, and freight and
passenger trains are now moved ON schedule
time.
The workingmen's parade in San
Francisco on Thanksgiving day passed of
quietly and without any disturbance what
ever.
The freshet at Buchanan Va. drowned
twenty people, swept away bridge and
thirty dwellings aud destroyed a vast amount
ofproperty.
The jetties at the mouth IF the Missis-
sippI have proven decidedly successful and
already show depth Of twenty one and three
tenths feet.
Distress among the mining population
10 Cornwall England, has become 50 great as
10 require an organized charitable movement
for their relief
The directors of the Erie Railroad met
in Sew York, on the end and formally au-
thorized Receiver Jewett to facilitate the reor-
kAltGatAuu sCueAhc-
A detachment Of sailors and marines
are patrol the beach near the wreck OF the
steamer Huron in hopes Of recovering the bod
les OF some Of the drowned.
Germany has informed Switzerland
that subject 70 ratification by the German par
lament It will contribute an additional -,
OOO00O toward the St. Gothard railway.
Tie steamer Z. 4. Northern, PLYING be
tween New York and New Haven, burned
the dock. in New York on the morning Of the
97th-three colored men perishing in her.
The L. s. torpedo boat Alarm. collided
Nov. 2Sth. OF Barnegat with the schooner c.
& c. Brooks, from Virginia, carrying away the
Iatter's sails, and causing her TO leak badly.
The outer door of Joseph Bsller's safe
and the glass and sash in the front and back
part % his store, in GAINESVILLE, Ohio. were CON-
pletely demolished with powder by burglars
on the night Of the 26ih.
At the session of the national grange
In Cincinnati on the 50th, the Grange BSlletin
edited hy he national executive committee,
wss ordered discontinued. The grange adj
iourned to meet next year at Richmond.
The Paris newspapers are discussing
whether in case of aconfict, the srmy win
support AfacSGahon or the Republicans PA
cards threatening or insulting President Mac
Yshon hsve been posted, and 100 persons have