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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-04-11
A DeeeitfuI Husband Punished
TSan Antonio Express.


We met old Nose yesterday, and noticed
that there was a dark cloud lowering over
his Respondent brow.
"What's the matter, Uncle?" we asked.
He shook his head as if he had nothing
left to live for, and said:
Else in peck of trouble. De Lord knows
where dis heah is gwine to end. Ise done
glib it up
.sWhat is the trouble about?"
After several signs which seemed to come
ND from the bottom of his boots, he explain
ed that he was the secretary of the local
colored lodge of Free Masons; that he was
the custodian of the books; that for keeping
the books he was paid by the lodge
$40 month; that every Sat
urday night, after the lodge was over, he
carried the books home, and turned them
over to the sole CONAN, Aunt Dinah," for
safe-keeping, and she slowed them away in
her trunk, .'along wild her 'tishal flowers, and
fedders, and fnery, and sich." He also stat
ed that he had forgotten to mention to Aunt
Dinah that he was receiving 80 month for
keeping the books, and he had uniformly
forgotten to turn over to her the aforesaid
$40, but had squandered the same for his
own little personal expenses; that some I'M
known demon had informed Dinah that old
Nose was getting $40 for keeping the books,
and consequently, when he remarked the
other evening that it was time for him to go
to the lodge, and requested her to hand him
out the books, instead of doing so she sat
down on the trunk and positively refused to
turn over the documents until he paid over
the $40. When he told her the so We're
his'n for keeping the books, she retorted:
.'Who's been keepin' dem ar books? Hasn't
7 been keepin' de books in de trunk all de
time? Fan out dem funds watts comm to
me for keepin' de books"
What did you tell her, Mose?
II tole her wanted dem books to keep de
minits in, dat she didn't know how to keep
de books, but she lowed she was gwine to
show me she knowed how to keep de books.
and foah God. she is keepin' dem. De lodge
has pinted committee to investigate my ac-
counts, and dar she is squattin' on de trunk
holdin' out her han for de $40 Use done
spent. Doesn' yer Know somebody who
wants 80 wuff of whitewashin' done in adj
yance?"
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At Sacramento, Cal, according to a
local newspaper, there are two animated
barometers which have proved trust
worthy, even when the artificial instru-
ments have failed. One of these is cat
fish which is kept in water trough. No
matter how clear the weather may be and
before the karometers have indicated a
change, this fish always. before storm,
swims about with his head below the
water and his tail above until rain begins
to fall, wnen he goes out of sight until
the weather changes. The other barome-
ter consists OF two frogs under the fiool
of the police office, which have never yet
been seen by any of the officers, but
which presage storm several hours in
advance of the barometrical indications
by series of peculiarly discordant
croaks. No matter how clear and bright
the night, the police officers prepare for a
storm when the warning comes.
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Published March aS, 1875. +
GuA pTtEsI9 400


AN ACT to amend chapter 2S6 of the lava az
Wisconsin for 1877, entitled "An act 10 de.
line the duties oftowns and town officers in
certain cases.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin. renre.
scented in Senate and Assembly do enact as
follows
Section l. The chairman Of the board OF
supervisors and the town clerk of any town
are hereby prohibited from drawing signing
or countersigning any order or orders
on the treasurer of their town for the dishurse
ment of any money OF such town, until the
tax for the payment of such order or orders
shall have been voted by the electors of sueh
town, or until the board of supervisors ofsuch
town shall have authorized the issue OF such
order or orders, not exceeding the amount
which@uch town is auth orzed to appropri-
ate tor the purpose for which such orders are
issued.
Section 2 This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage
Approved March 10 1875
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The Curious Process of Making Rubber
Balls.

The process of making the hollow rub
Der balls used by children for play
things is quite curious, and may he in
teresting to those not familiar with it. A
Hollyoke writer thus describes it The
upper room OF the MIL
prepared to push this branch of the bust
ness for few months, and will probably
turn out some $4,000 dozen OF these balls
between January and June. These balls
have a solid surface, are made from a
different process from that OF making the
soft rubber balls which are perforated by
an opening. and, of course, are much
more firm. durable and elastic. The
sheets of rubber prepared for the balls
are cut into strips of double convex
shane. The edges OF the strips are
moistened with a preparation OF rubber
and naptha, by which they are joined
firmly together, three of the strips being
used for one ball.
This mart of the work is done by girls,
and skillful girl can earn about Sl.oo
per day. When the strips are joined To-
gether, the ball is very near the shape Oh
a Brazil nut. Before the last opening Is
closed, small quantity OF carbonate OF
amonia is put inside, Wnlch, "ien SUI. i
iected to strong heat, win make the rub
Der expand and fill out the ball mold.
The opening is then closed with the ad-
bes1ve mixture and it is placed IN in
iron mold of the size and shape OF the
ball desired. The molds are packed INTO
frames in which they are subjected 10 the
heat OF the vulcanizer.
They are kept in palace In inc frame
by iron rods along the side, and when II
is fall. iron plates at the ends are screwed
down tightly upon the molds TO hold
them in place. These iron plates are
about three fourths of an inch thick, ana
so strong is the expansive force OF the
rubber in the mold that they have Den[
this thick iron into curve. ii one Oh
the molds should work out OF place whi .1s
inflammation is in process, the mods VIII
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Published March Is, 1878.
CpAPTFR $50.


AN ACT to amend section l of chapter 273,
General laws of 1862, entitled IAN act IL
regulate the keeping and maintaining Of
slaughter houses in the State.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows.
Section |. Hereafter it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to erect, maint in
or keep slaughter house upon the bank or
banks of any running stream Of water. or ~
throw or deposit any OF the carcasses o.
offal therefrom in or upon the banks OF anv
such running stream which shall flow through
any unincorporated village or organized town
containing Two hundred or more inhabitants,
and any person or persons who shall throw
or deposit in sach running stream any dead
animal, or any part thereof, shall be guilty OF
the Ike ofFense, and subject To the same pen
allies AZ named in section three Of the act to
which this is amendaiory.
Section q This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March 49, 1878.
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OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.

TPablisl g March e. 1873
CHAPTER 1853.
AN ACT to amend section CT chapter 146 OF
the general laws of 1872, entitled, AN act
to authorize the organization Of eorpon
tions Tor other than manufacturing, mer-
camille, insurance, banking, transportation
or trading purposes"
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, repre-.
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. Section Of chapter 146 of the
general laws of 1872 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows: Section 4. Any corpor-
alton organized under the provisions OF this
act, existing or organized under any special
charter or law of this State, Tor any the pur-
poses for which corporations may be formed
or organized under this act, may at any time,
by vote of at least three fifths OF its men,
beers, alter or amend its charter or articles OF
association by changing the name OF the
corporation, modifying or enlarging the
purposes for which it was created, and in
creaslng or diminishing the amount of prop
erty which ii shall have q right to acquire and
hold: provided, that such alterations or
amendments shall be in writing, verified and
recorded in the manner provided in section 3
OF said act, aud SHALL in case of a corporation
organized under general law, be made pur
suaut To Its articles of association, ii they con-
tain any provisions on the subject; and pro-
vided further, that such alterations or amen1-
ments shall be made only at a meeting of the
members specially called for that purpose,
and that the charter or articles of association
of any corporation, which provides that its
trustees, directors or managing officers shall
be elected by the stockholders, shall be altered
or amended only by the stockholders at q
meeting of such stockholders, specially called
for that purpose, at which votes on ma.
jority Of at least two thirds of its stock shall
be east in favor of such alterations OF
amendments.
Section 3. This act shall be in force from
and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Is, 1873
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fly out with noise like the report Of a
dozen pistols, and the work is spoiled.
The action of the heat does the rest.
When the molds are opened they contain
the perfect round balls, with no mark Of
The places where the pices were placed.
The slight ridge made by the mold is
ground off by stone used for the pur-
pose, and the ball is done. This is but
one process of rubber work. Besides the
hollow balls are made solid balls of rub
Der, etc.
See I. G. Mandt's advertisement of the
Stoughton wagon and carriages.
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Naughty Somebody.

Somebody's been in the pantry, SOMEBODY'S
been in the press,
Nibbling and gnawin- and smiling pudding
and pie and dress;
Somebody's been upsetting things all over the
housed
Maybe" piped roguish Willie, maybe it was
mousse
Somebody's little scissors are under the
clothes press door;
Somebody's little apron is on the pantry floor;
Somebody's little finger prints are in the
custard pie.
Maybe, them WHISPERED Willie, maybe il
wasn't
Somebody's naughty boy, then, or. perhaps
some naughty girl,
For, close By the little scissors, lay tangled
golden curl.
Rose-red grew Willie with shouting, mamma
! sha'nt tell a liel
Twas nobody's naughty somebody; no little
mouse; twas ! -
Elsie GOrhdJQ in Y0uth's Communion
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Fatal ExDlosfOn.

The Rochester oven for baking Japan
ned tin cases in the thermometer factory,
fourth story, oyer Graves & CO. candy man
ufactory, Rochester, y. Y, exploded on the
5th inst The roof was entirely blown of and
q workman named John Prescott, shaking the
fire at the time, was carried to the floor be-
low by the debris and slowly burned to death
before those endeavoring to rescue him.
Frank Mcdonald, while carrying out goods on
the floor below was carried by the falling de-
bris to the cellar, where he remained three
hours covered with timbers. He was finally
rescued unhurt. He said two Others were
carried down with him, but as yet they have
not been found. Loss on building and adjoin-
ing edifices over $4,000; insu ance $4,000
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Relation. WIN Msxico.

Accounts from the Texas border show
that recently there has been but few if any il,
cursions from the Mexican side. Members OF
Congress who have the subject of our relations
with Mexico under consideration, say the dc
lay of our government in recognizing that o.
Mexico, has produced an improved condition
of affairs on the border, but that government
has not yet done what is required by our own
as prerequisite to recognition. One of the
most serious causes of complaint is that ouf
citizens are not protected from the forced
loan, while British and French subjects resid,
ing IN Mexico are, it is said, not subjected to
Oh Illegal transactions.
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NEWS OFTHE WEEK.
Foreign Grain Markets.

The Mark Lane Express says reports
concerning the wheat plant from all parts oil
the kingdom continue satisfactory. The
country trade Is steady but not active. The
provincial markets are scantily supplied with
home grown grain. Imports OF foreign wheat
into London have been liberal. The pressure
to sell American wheat brought about sfsht
reduction in the value of this class oil gram.
Russia is anxious to dispose OF her produce
and with her and America competing 1t Is dif-
fcult.te see. whence the trade is to derive
strength TO enable prices to hold up. lndia
NAV be disregarded for time, a she cannot
ship much wheat until the new crop Is gain
cred, but Germany has been steadily export
ing to This country.
Politics have once more monopolized the
entire attention of trade. With fair arrivals
posts of call, floating cargo trade for wheat is
firm, and. owing to the more unsettled state
of political matters, prices have advanced two
or three shillings per quarter. The CONT
mental demand continues. Maize improved
nine pence to a shilling per quarter. Barley
ruled firm, at sixpence per quarter advance
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-04-11
x,sanDoat Boiler ExpI.sion.

The Sandy Fashion, a small steamer
running from Cattlesburg, KY, up the sand
river exploded her boiler on the 9th inst, at
the mouth of the Sandy and sunk in
three minutes In nine feet of water. She had
about forty passengers and crew. Joseph
Newburg a merchant of Richmond, Ky, A.
Osborn, pilot, and two Others, names unknown
were kiled. Hiram Rice, engineer was badly
scaIded Cyrus Preston, clerk, was cut in the
head; Hiram Taugart was cut in the head
and several others injured but not seriously.
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Milwaukee Produce Market.

GRAIN-wheat, opened firm and IL higher and
cosed easier; No. hard $1.20; No. l, 1.l9; No 2,
April, 1.14k; May, 1.145s; June. 11Ha. Corn,
dull; No. nominal at 42c. Oats scarce, but firmer
Ne 2, Csc. Rye, strong: No. /, 6o1zc. Barley,
quiet and firm; No. 2, SIC; April, sac.
PROFESSIONALISM and weak; mess pork 9.371a
cash or seller April; $50 May Lard, prime steam
Use cash and April; TAG May.
Chicago Produce Market.
GRAIN-wheat, quiet, weak and lower at Sill
April; I.133 May. Corn. firmer but not quotaby
higher. Oats frmer and advanced sc.
pROVISIONS-Pork, firmer and advanced 2Hc.
Lara frrner but not quotably higher.
New York Produce Market.
GRAIN-wheat, irregular and unsettled; opened
easy and closed higher; receipts I15,000 bushels
No. spring 81 .23G1.24 steam; No. spring LBS;
No. Chicago 1.2701.2S; No. Milwaukee 1.29g
I3O; ungradei red winter 1.33H No. 8 do 1.34; No
do 1.36(1I.3S No. do 1.S9QD139m; No. / spring
lSSl1134; ungraded do 1928; extra white 1.45G1 4S
No. do 1.42; No. spring April 1.260I .26l; May
1.25lS0126 Rye, quiet and firm; No. western 15e.
Barley, quiet; twc-rowed State 62g65c. Corn, de-
mand active; receipts $4,000 bushels; ungraded
western mixed 45GJ53c steam mixed 54c; low mixed
55sc No. 2, 55Isc; steam yellow SAC; white SAC
old western mixed 54c yellow do 56lsc. Oats, dull
receipts Is, 900 bushes; mixed western 34l13512c
white 34tS0l39c; No. /, 35c.
PRovIsIoNs-Pork, S1o.2o91o25. Beef, quiet.
Cut meats, western long clear middles, duh at 81 c.
Lard prime steam 81. 421a07.4712.
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Approved March 10, 1878.
Published March Is, 1878. !
CHAPTER 143.

AN ACT to repeal chapter pa of the laws OF
Wisconsin for 1876, entitled, IAN act TO au-
thorize the sale or conveyance for agricul-
tural purposes of certain of the lands con
ferrcd by chapter los, general laws of 1868,
Of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan
ship canal and harbor company"
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows;
Section l. Chapter 224 of the laws OF Wis
eonsm for 1876, entitled IAN act to authorize
the sale or conveyance for agricultural pur-
poses of certain of the lands conferred by
chapter 1916, general laws of 1868, or the Stur,
geon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal ana
harbor company" is hereby repealed proptde1,
this act shall not effect any existing contract
made in compliance with said chapter 224 OF
the general laws of Wisconsin for the year
1876.
Section q This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and pub
LEGATION.
Approved March -. 1878
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suppose<i Murder.

Boyd Eliot, well-known mechanical
engineer and patent solicitor, missing for sew
eral days, was last seen in Philadelphia, where
he purchased ticket for New York. and sent
a dispatch to friends stating that he would ne
home that night. His baggage arrived but
he was not heard Of He had large amount
of money about him, and his friends fear he
has been foully dealt with. Detectives are at
work on the case.
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ATerrihIe Tragedy.

A variety company from Mosart's Gar
den, Brooklyn, has been playing in
the Opera house at Pawtucket, Il. !. One
feat is the shooting of an apple from the heac
or hand of the performer. Mile. Volante
trapeze performer, held the apple on her heat
and Mrs Jennie Fowler, known on the stage
rs Franklin, was to shoot the apple. Will
uncommon recklessness she stood with hel
back to the mark taking aim by reflection IL
a mirror The rifle was discharged, and Mile
Volante fell dead on the stage, shot through
the forehead. Nothing can be learned OF the
victim who has been on the public stage bu
five weeks. Mrs. Franklin, was taken int
custody by the police.
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Published April 2, 1873.
on pier go

CHAPTER 10y.
AN ACT to amend section Ia OF chapter ~ OF
the general laws of 1870 relating to hawk
ers and peddlers.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows
Section /. Section l of chapter 296 of the
laws of Wisconsin for 1877, relating, TO
hawkers and peddlers, Is hereby amended so
as to read as follows: Section /. Each and
every person who shall travel from place TO
place, on foot, by horse and wagon,or by team,
within this State for the purpose OF selling, or
Offering for sale at retail, or the consumers,
any goods, wares, merchandise, notions, or
other article Of trade whatsoever, whether by
sample or oterwise, and wheather said goods,
wares, merchandise, notions, or other articles
of trade whatsoever, are delivered at time OF
sale or to be delivered at some future day. is
hereby required to first take out a license
therefor in accordance with the existing laws
of the State relating to hawkers and peddleTs,
and for any violation of the provisions of this
section shall be subjected 10 the same penal
ties prescribed by the existing laws OF this
State for violation OF the said laws relating to
hawkers and peddlers; prOVided, hotreeeF, that
no person who shall travel from place To
place in this State on loot or by horse and
wagon, or team, selling or offering to sell at
wholesale to dealers exclusively, any goods,
wares merchandise, notions or other articles
of trade whatsoever, by sample or otherwise,
shall hereafter be required to take out, or pay
for any license for selling at wholesale by
virtue of any law OF this State relating TO
hawkers and peddlers; train boys and fish
peddlers, and citizens or residents of the State
who are incapacitated for ordinary business or
labor on account of being blind, deaf aud
dumb, manned or crippled, are also hereby
excepted from the provisions of the laws OF
this State relating TO hawkers and peddlers.
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed
Section 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and publ
cation.
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Gov. Nichols has signed the death
warrants of wesly Turner, who killed Fred
crick Erhardt; Jackson Edwards for the
,,,,r,ler Of james Edwards; and Alex Brown,
--ho killed William Dudley, The condemned
are all negroes, and committed their crimes
IN the parish of ST. Mary. They viii oe
hanged on the same gailows, at franklin
Monday, the ed inst.
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A Portland dispatch says it is asserted
good authority, that an arrangement has
cen perfected by which the English and
German bondholders who have Tor some time
partly owned the Oregon and California rail-
road, the Oregon Central railroad, and the
Oregon Steamship line are to divide the prop
crty The English bond-holders will take the
Oregon Central railroad, which they have
controlled for some time, and the Oregon
steamship company, and the German capital
lists will take the Oregon and California rail-
road
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Whisky Frauds,

Considerable excitement exists in Mad
ison Wis, over the fact that the old Middleton
whisky fraud case is to be re-opened and men
implicated, here tofore not supposed to have
any connectiC / with whisky frauds, are to re-
eeiye trial for completely therein. The dis
tillery at Midletown was the first distillery
seized In the Northwes at the commencement
of the wills lly'fraud raid. Those implicated in
II that were then known, escaping with light
sentence A United States attorney has been
at Madison looking the matter up, and tie
case will De re-opened in the United States
district court in June.
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Michigan CentriI Railroad.

The annual report of the Michigan
Central Railroad company states the road is
now all laid with steel rails, some 5000 tons
being laid this year, and charged to expenses,
and there is no floating debt. The equipment
and rolling stock are in first class order, and
the general condition of the road was such
improved during the past year. Dexter
Richards, Concord, n. H., was elected director
to fill the place of j. V. Barrow, of that place,
deceased. After paying dividend of two per
cent a handsome surplus remains. The
transfer of books close the 18th of May.
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Sn,axefer,

Ii is announced the great trotting stall
lion smuggler, who has record of 2:l54,
will not be run during the coming summer
but will make the season at Wilson's Abdallah
Park Cythiana, KY.
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Mr.. Whitman's Letter.

Mrs. Whitman is like all the rest OF
them She loves Whitman as a wife should,
and she knows that he doesn't pass any
hour of the twenty-f0ur where he Would
be ashamed to take her. Still when the
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A late issue Of the London 7'tgsfs CEN
tainssA interesting compilation Of the stats.
by England for food from abroad, from which
ii is 6fhrned thatthe amount paid In the year
1877 III foreign nations for corn, cattle amp
meat Nas 1854 :30s, ss5, to contrast with $445,-
$50 GSl 1876.
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/ George Sherry and Tn Connolly,
who were recently found gui > of the murder
I. + Mcconnell in Chicago were sentenced to
be hanged on the 21sL of June. On receiving
the sentence Connolly replied. THANK you"
to the Judge, and sat down apparently salts