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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07
NERVE AND GRIT.
[ShepherdsviIle, Ky, Special to Cincinnati
Enquirer.

| Shepherdsville, KY, Special to Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The report of an attempt of two rufi1ans,
travelling in the eastern part of Bullltt CONF
ty under the gnise of peddlers, to outrage
Mrs. Nora Connolly, who lives about four
miles east of Mt. Washington. is brought
here by gentleman of responsibility.
About six weeks since SIR. j. nj. Connolly,
husband of the lady referred to, left home to
attend to claim of lands owned by him in
Colorado, and during his absence Mrs. q.
has had the company of deaf and dumb
young lady and a brother of Mr.. Connolly.
Yesterday morning about eight o'clock,
while the young Mr.. Connolly was out in
field gathering corn, two unknown men en-
tered the house under the pretense of selling
bibles and notions, and finding Mrs. G. alone
(the deaf and dumb lady being in an adjoin-
ing ROOM one of the men proposed to sell a
bible, and made an indecent proposal. At
this Mrs. Connolly became exasperated, when
suddenly the men seized her, and then
general fight ensued. Mrs. Connolly, how
ever, proved to much for the rascals, as she
gathered on to meat -cleaver, with which she
struck one of the men blow on the arm,
laying open the flesh from the shoulder to
the elbow. This man ran, leaving his part
ner cornered behind door in the family
room. Seeing that one of the parties had
fled, Mrs. Connolly proceeded TO work ON
the one left, and when they clinched the
ruffian knocked her down, which caused the
house to jar, and this drew the attention of
the deaf and dumb lady, who entered the
room and at once realized what was going
on. She, too, took a hand in the meelee
and with the single stroke of chair sue
ceeded in combing the mans hair in
beautiful style; meanwhile Mrs. Connolly re
| gained her feet, and coming down with g
murderous blow, chopped off the fellows eal
completely: then an opportunity offering, he
Ieaped for the door and made good his
escape.
| Two packages of goods were left in The
| house, and the bundle containing the bibles
| had cards in it bearing the name of pub
| fishing house at Nashville, Tenn, but there
was nothing left by which their identified
| ton could DE established. Just as soon al
| the affair had ended the ladies went to thu
feld where young Connolly was at work, ant
in short time men were in pursuit of tn
/ fiends, and they were heard of several times
| but not captured at last accounts. The.
stopped at the cabin of an old colored man
whose wife bandaged their wounds, for which
! they paid her. They told the negro that the.
had been attacked by party of wood-chop
| perS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07
GIVE THANKS.
The President Enjoins the People to Set
Apart the 2Sth of November as Day of
Thanksgiving and Prayer.

The President Enjoins the People to Set
Apart the 2Sth of November as a Day of
Thanksgiving and Prayer.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S1.-The President to-day
signed the commission of Halbert E. Payne, of
Wisconsin, to be commissioner of patents. vice
Ellis Spear, resigned. Gen. Payne will enter
upon his official duties tomorrow.
The President has issued the following
proclamation, setting apart Thursday, Nov 70,
as a day of thanksgiving:
BY the President of the United States. A
proclamation: The recurrence of that season
at which it is the habit of our people to make
devout and public confession of their constant
dependence upon divine favor for all
the good gifts of life and happiness,
and of public peace and prosperity
exhibits in the record of the year
abundant reasons for our gratitude and thanks
giving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines,
ample crops of the staples of trade and manu-
features, have enriched the country. The re-
sources thus far furnished to reylving in
dustry and expanding commerce, and hasten
ing the day when dlscorcs and dlstresses
through the length and breadth of the land
will, under the continued favor of Providence.
have given way to confidence and energy ana
assured prosperity. Peace with all nations has
remained unbroken, domestic tranquility has
prevailed and the institution of liberty and us
tice which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers
established, remain the glory and defense OF
their children. The general prevalence of
the blessings of health throughout our wide
land has made more conspicuous the sufferings
and sorrows where the dark shadow of pesti-
lence has cast upon a portion OF our people.
This heavy affection even, the Divine Ruler has
tempered to the suffering communities by the
universal sympathy and succor which have
flowed to their relief, and the whole nation
may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our peo-
pie by which they cheerfully share one an
Others burdens.
Now, therefore, /, Rutherford b. Hayes,
President of the United States do appoint
Thursday, the 26th day of November next, as a
day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and
earnestly recommend that, withdrawing them
selves from secular cares and labors, the
people of the United States do meet together
on that day in their respective places of
worship there to give thanks and
praise to Almighty God for his mercies,
and to devoutly beseech their continuance. In
witness whereof l have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this S)th day
of November, in the year of our Lord 57S, and
the independence of the United States the
one hundred and third.
ISeal. Il. B. HAYES.
BY the President,
WM. nj. EvARTs,
Secretary of State
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Meaning the Web.

THIS morn win weave my web" she said,
AZ she s.ood by Ter loom i'm the rosy light,
And her young eyes. hopefully glad and clear
Followed affair the swallows flight
'As soon as the days first tasks are done,
While yet am fresh and strong" said she,
81 viii hasten 10 weave the beautiful web
Whose TatteSns Is known to none but me.
81 will weave Il fbe, viii weave it fair,
AUD all how tho colors will glowm she
said,
"So fadeless and strong will weave my web
That perhaps 1t will live after | am dead"
But the morning hours sped ON apace;
The air grew sweet with the breath OF june;
And the young love hid by the waiting loem,
Tangled the threads as she hummedla tune.
"Ah, life is so sch and fall" she cried,
And morn lis short though the days are
long!
This noon VIII weave my beautiful web,
win weave Il carefully, fine and strong"
Bat the sun rode high in the cloudless sky
The burden ana heat Of the day she bore;
And hither and Either she came and went,
While the looni stood still as it stood before.
aAb life is TOD busy at noon" she said;
"My web mast wait tall the eventide,
Tfu the common work of the day is done,
And my heart grows calm in the silence
wideN,
so. one by ona, the hours passed on
grown; -.
TIL the houscswas still, and the breezes slept,
And her singing birds to their nests had
flown.
nd now will weave my Web she said,
| As she turned to her loom ere set OF sun,
| And laid he: hand on the shining threads
| To set then I'm order, one by one
But hand was tired, ard heart was weak;
Il am not as strong as was" sighed she,
and the pGtteru is blurred, and the colors
| rare
Are not 81, bright, or so fair TO see!
II must wait, think, till another morn;
snust 60 10 my rest with my work undone;
| II is growing to dark to weaver she cried,
| AS lower aud lower sank the sun.
| She dropped the shuttle; the loom stood still;
The weavCf slept in the twilight grey.
Dear heart viii she weave her beautiful
| web
In the golden light of longer day.
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robbery Shortly after midnight four per
sons came to the Jail and signing bond for
bis appearance he YVES set free. On the out
side he was seized and thrown into an omnl
bus and hurried away. Hszzard says they
had rope and told him they intended to hang
him. He, however, managed to cry for help,
which brought the police, who returned him
to Jail. Other bondsmen have appeared from
Anderson with an acceptable bond when
claiming the custody of Hazard to secure
themselves, officers from Auburn proclaimed
right to arrested him and take him hence.
Hazard fears being mobbed if taken to Au-
burn, and the sheriff at Logansport aa
precautionary measure, again took MIN I'D
custody where he is tonight. james Haz
card, the cashier of the Auburn bank, was IN
Loganport last night looking after his broth
er's interest, when he was gobbled and taken
to Auburn ON a warrant charging him with
forgery
THE FISHERY QUESTION.
The Pal Mall Gazette gives the English
view of Secretary Eyarts' late Fisheries dis
patch in the following language: That the
United States should choose this precise mo-
ment to publish what seems from the tele-
graphic summary to be rather a threatening
dispatch addressed by Secretary Eyarts to
American Minister Welch can scarcely be re-
garded as accidental. All the world can see
we have on our hands just now quite as much
as We can well deal with, and really fricne-
ly power with grievance like that, whilst
holding to its position, would refrai1 from
atng the matter in an irritating way before
s.,e public until our affairs had assumed a
peaceful aspect. At any rate this is " hat, ac-
cording to admirers of the Alabama arbitra-
ton, we might certainly have expected from
America. The truth is that while the very
party with which the bargain was made still
holds office in the Uuited States, the first OPP
portunity is seized to make point against us
Just when it is reckoned that our difficulties
may force us to give way. Nothing else was
to be expected, and for our own part we are
inclined to thank Evaits for teaching our
countrymen that nations generally are more
inclined to forego their advantages over one
another in the nineteenth century than in the
eighteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth or first.
Let sentimentalists blame Evarts, for he has
disappointed them, not US.
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The Spirit World.

The very grave is a passage into the
beautiful ana glorious. We have laid
our friends in the grave, but they are
around us. The little children that sat
upon our knees, into whose eyes
ne looked withllove, whose little hands
have clasped our neck, on whose cheek
we have imprinted the kiss-we can al
most feel the throbbing of their hearts
70 day. They have passed from us--but
whore are they2 Just beyond the line of
the invisible. And the fathers and
mothers who educated US. who directed
and comforted US, where are they but
lust beyond the line Of the invisiblei
The associates of our lives, that walked
along life's pathway, those with whom
We took sweet counsel, and who dropped
from our side-where are they but just
beyond usg-not far AWAIT may be
yerv pear us. in the heaven of light and
love. Is there anything TO alarm us IN
the thought Of The inyisiblel No. 1t
seems to me that sometimes when our
heads are on the pillow, there come
sgisi-rers Of joy from the spirit land,
wnic.l nave dropped into our hearts
thoughts af the sublime and beautiful
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07
A STRANGE MALFoRMATIoN.
New York Sun.

DIR. Eugene A. Groux, surgeon of the 2S!h
regiment, lately mustered out of the service,
and a we'll known practitioner in Williams
burgh, died on Tuesday night of uremie, in
his residence in Meserole street, near Union
avenue, Williamsburgh. DR.. Groux, who
was 45 years of age, was looked upon by
members of the profession with special in
terest, because, having been born practically
without a sternum (the sternum is the fiat
bone III the middle of the breast), he could
control and suppress at will the pulsations
of the heart. He frequently gave ex-
hibi ions this power to the faculty, and
the last time TO the students of the Long
Island College hospital. Years ago he show
ed the power to DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
the poet and promised DIR. Holmes that if
he lDr. Groux) should die first he would
leave a REQUEST for DR.. Holmes to make a
post-mortem examination of his bod for the
benefit of science. DR.. Holmes was in
formed of his friends death, but was unable
to come to Williamsburgh to attend the post
mortem examination, which was made yes
terday afternoon.
There were present at the examination
Profs. Dalton of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Darling, WEIGH and Pitcher
of the Long Island college, and Drs. Riedel,
E.ady, Hesse, levitt, Schlitz, Baker, De
Long, Fuhs (who attended the dead MANI,
Harbrecht, Quackenbos, Schmidt, Creamer,
Feeley, Valentine, Miller, Hardrich, Johnson,
and Banks. The examination showed a
deficiency of the breast-bone, congenital
fissure of the sternum forked in shape, be-
tween the second and third ribs, extending
along and to the left of the median line. 1t
has always been a disputed question among
the faculty whether the outward indications
of pulsation were caused by the aorta or
right ven ricIe This examination proved
conclusively that they are caused by the
right ventricle. A full report Of the case 10
to be prepared.
There is said to be only one other case of
rnalformation similar TO that of DR.. Groux
reported in medical books. It is that of Mr..
Thompson, of England. The account of
this case is mesger, and SO all the more i'm
portance is caed to yesterdays examina-
tion.
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The Management Of HOrsss.--They
should be fed in proportion to their work.
An idle team may be wintered upon
good hay alone; when working
lightly feed CT grain at noon viii be
sufficient, with hay morning and night.
With heavy work, ten quarts Of ground
corn and oats, and chaffed straw or corn
fodder, viii be good feeding, and in many
cases, for small horses, less will do. Good
grooming is necessary for health in win
ter. Ground gypsum spread upon the
floors will prevent the pungent odor COM
mon to stables. This vapor of ammonia
is hurtful to horses eyes, and the frequent
cause If ophthalmis, and resulting in
blindness, with which SO many horses
arc troubled. Throw a few pailsfull of
water upon the floor first. and then scat
ter around shogeiful Of the gypsum.
Fresh air should enter The stables at the
bottom and the foul AIR escape at the
TOP. Make small sliding doors for VEN
tilation. and cover them with wire net
ting or laths, to exclude yermin.-Agrs-
c1lturfst.
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Its said that DR.. Caievalier, Of Norfolk,
England, observing soma very fertile ears
in 4 crop Of barley, separated thsm from
the rest, anu. by sowing the grams
separately, gradually prcpagated the va.
riety which goes By his name Its pro-
.iEc qualities has b3en tested hg "a fS
traordinary fact that $50 stems rave IL
sued from q single grain,
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country contagious to our border will prob
ably IN due time fall into tine la of Uns
Sam like an oyer-ripe apple, without hayirg
any trouble about it,. That is about all he
cares to have from that section.
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and glorious, as though some angels
wings passed over our brow, and some
dear one sat by our pillow and communed
with our hearts to raise our affections
oward the other ami better world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07

An ac..Ye eruption Of Mount YesuT-u us
Is reported
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A special to the Columbus, O., State
Journal from Reynoldsburg, states that q
negro named William Slefort, went to the
woods where three women and man were
encamped, and attempted to outrage one of
the women. Upon being urged by the male
companion to desist the negro became en-
ragged and struck the man with a fence rail
and it is supposed fatally injured him. The
negro was afterwards arrested and is now in
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VAR WITH THE SIOUX FOLLOWED,


and when it ended the country was lost to
these Indians, and those who did not flee the
country to British America, found them
selves confined to a reservation embracing
the poorest of all this extensive region, with
agencies on the Missouri river, with the
exception of the Red Cloud band of Ogalla-
las and the Spotted Tail band of Brule Sioux,
whose agencies are now on White river,
Nebraska, SO that in 1877, the great country
above referred to, which, IL 1869 belonged
the Ipdiaus, and extended from the lin
of the British Possessions on the north, and
almost to the Gulf of Mexico on the south,
had passed. into the hands of the whites,
with the exception of the limited reservations
assigned to the Indians, and with no COM
pensation beyond the promise of religious
instruction. schools, supplies of food and
clothing, and an opportunity of learning the
ways in which the white man cultivated the
ground-most of which promises have never
been fulfilled. In other words, We took their
country and their means of support, broke
up their living, their habits of life, intro
duced disease and decay among them, and il
was for this and against this they made war.
Could any one expect less? Then why won
der at Indian difficulties?
These wars night have been regarded as
inevitable, and therefore a sufficient number
of soldiers should have been provided 70
meet them, bat it was not done, and heEce
the fatal results which followed. No other
nation in the world would have attempted
the reduction of these wild tribss and occu-
patton Of their country with less than 60,0oa
to 10000 men, while the whole force en-
ployed and scattered over the enormous re-
gion described never numbered II 900 men.
and nsar.y one-:hird Of this force has been
confined to tls line OF the lie Grande 10
protect the Mexican frontier. The conse-
quence was that every engagement was for
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07
KIDNAPPED.

James Donahue, who was recently ar
rested in Detroit and taken TO Chicago on
charge Of swindliug Henry Heberg out Of
$500. and who is out on bail, has succeeded
in kidnapping Helberg. Donahue is believed
to be the Vim. Murphy iwhO is wanted in
New York for crime committed some three
years ago in that city This is the second at
tanpt to kidnap Helberg, who was the pun-
cinaI witness AGAINST him
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A dispatch from Cletopa, Kansas, says
that Theodore Nuns .erman, a farmer, was
arrested there, charged with numbering
farmer named Hunt, living soma twenty
miles from Chetope, and MORALLY woun3ing
his wife, on the 10Th of October Hunt was
shot through the right eye. His wife revived
sufficiently, after the condition of affairs was
discovered, to st.te that Munsterman com
mitted the deed. An old feud IS said TO have
existed between the two men, which is sup
posed to have be IN the cause Of the murder.
PURCHASE OF SILVER.
The secretary of the treasury has
opened BIDS for supply ng 100000 osnees OF
fine silver, recently given, inviting proposals
every week. The offers VIII not be made pub
lie. Not matter whether the bids are accept.
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BODY sNATCAING.

4 Keokuk, Ia, special says: 1t has
been discovered that A. Maekey, of that city,
has been receiving the bodies OF recently
buried people, graves having been robbed at
Beacon Ia, the bodies barreed and shipped.
The barrels were consigned to Mackey, but
the railroad agent, becoming suspicious,
opened one of them, and found the body OF
John Hines, who had been recently buried
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REMODELING MEXICo.

WEI. nj. EvARTs,
Secretary of State.
National Republican., 1878-10-28
Baltimore General Market.

BALTIMORE, OCt ISIS.
Cotton dull, weak, land Hat. Middling nomInally
exc.
Flour quiet; local trade only. Howard.street and
Western superhne, q 1903 so. do. extra " 1904
do family, a SuaJbi city Mills supernne, saa3 50; do
extra sI9A2S; do. Rio brands, SS5 Isl Patapsco
Ny. ST.
Wheni-southeTn quiet and q shade easier Western
dull and lower. southern red, 95c@sl o.; do amber
NOjGi d; No. Western winter red. spot and octo
Der. IL ok November 81 OoA. oo; december 81 O2h
u Gb.
Corn southern dull aud lower. Western duh
Southern white. $50 &C: do. yellow. ti@4Sc. Western
p,iKed spot and ocIuhrI it@IiSc; November. I7Jao
December, new, tSt4GIijhc
Oats Imlrly active and steady, southern, 2I6l?ac
Western white :sQi 2oc; 10. naked. ?Syl .5c rennsy
vanln, .Gttp9S.
/, Key quiet southern, sc.
Hay very quiet Maryland and Pennsylvania
prime, sllGgl2.
Provisions quiet and nonIn al. Pork-Mess. 100 2S
Bulk meats Loose shoulders. &c; cleATrib sides SIC
packed, i4@6i4C BacOn-Shouldcrs SIC CleaT.rIb
sides G4c. Hams SuFaT.cured, 49, "a lai,c. Lard
Refined ticTces nOmnally I'sc. Butter dull, Western
Petroleum nominally steady. Crude, 71,cl refined,
tGg.C.
Cuice dull. Rio cargoes, I9GGI6'4c.
Sugar quiet A son. G9W,C
WHISKY shade better at u ll's@l u
Freghts to Liverpool per steam quiet with engage
nens Ter cotton nj li32d: Hour, = VI; grain, Sd.
keCcpIs-Flour $3.50 bbls; wheat 90 ,9l2 UU, corn,
1850 bu; oats, ltOUbu.
shipmcnIs- Wheat, iOS, 600 bu; corn, 81 ,IOc bu.
National Republican., 1878-10-28

heirs, Miss Hamilton and Mrs. Duering sister, re.
sponded and founded their claim on the declara-
ton that they are first cousins Of tho deceaseds
mother; The claimants are represented by Mr.. II.
b. Moulton and the United States by District Attor-
ney Wells. The witnesses examined last Saturday
were Messs. Joseph A. McDermott, W. II. smith,
Urias Hurst and ID. d. Wise. The Government Is
endeavoring TO show that Robert Harrison was not
the son Of Mrs. Harrison, born Hamilton, but Of
one THY Ashford, who Is known 10 have had
child In Alexandria by Robert Rutherford. The
examination will be continued to-day.
CRIMINAL CoURT-JusTiCE wYLIE.
George Williams, alias william Ilolstead motion
for new trial denied. Patrick Babbington. assault
ing police officer; bail fixed at $500. Robert WI.
son, information quashed. O. W Smithson, q nolRe
pros. entered. X. r, Harvey. bench warrant issued
Tor his arrest.
AssIoNMENTs FOR TO-DAY.
Criminal Court-Justice Wylie.-PatrcK Bah.
bington, Rssaulting policeman Sadie Ellsworth and
Pearl Levy, keeping bnwdy house: Frank Hyde.
man, larceny; N. b. whiteside, obtaining money
under false prctenscs Lewis Frazier resisting OIL.
Ger; James Worden, petit larceny, second offensc
james Wells, assault; Walter CallAghan, resisting
officer; Samuel o. Milgan, assault; william Nor
ris, larceny.