River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

Five hundred dollars have been sent to
the yellow fever suffers in Memphis by the
grand body of Odd Fellows of Illinois.
The Paris Bulletin des Halls reports the
new wheat threshed so for unsatisfactory
ia yield and quality and deficient 10 average.
The postoffice which was destroyed by
the Deadwood fire lost $1,000 in postage
stamps and samped envelopes. No mails
were destroyed.
The Pail Mall Gazette says; at has be-
come apparent that serious rouble is brew.
ing in Ireland in consequence OF the anti-rent
and nationalist questions"
Five of the largest stores in Bolton
Texas, have been destroyed by fire, and two
others were pulled down to prevent the spread
Of the fa,les Loss, 100000.
The Sycamore mill spinners of Fall
River, Mass, having been notified that they
would be required to pay board equivalent to
i reduction o. wages, have struck.
Robert Bonner, of New York, will
make his public sale of trotting horses at auc-
ton, the latter part of October. He will sell
about fifty heod The sale will be the huge
event of the season.
J. F. Potter, secretary of the Mallea-
BILE Iron company, Chicago, was found dead
in his room at the Grand Pacific hotel on the
morning Of Sept. 20, having apparently died
Of apoplexy. He was So years old and about
To he married.
The yiceroy of India telegraphs to
London, Sept %, that cholera is prevalent only
on the route from Rawal Pindee to Jamrood.
There had been few cases at Almusjid. As
Che troops advance beyond JamrOod they lose
the cholera influence.
The Berlin Germania of September 25,
says it has every reason for assuming that the
negotiations between Bismarck and Jacobini,
papal nuncio, has not changed the situation
or increased the chances Of peace between
Prussia and the vatican.
The ShebOygan & Fond du Lac rail-
road has been purchased in the interest of the
Northwestern railroad company, and will be
known hereafter as an extension of that COM
panys lines. twill be extended from Prince
ton, its present terminus, to Elroy, and will be
valuable outlet to that road.
A London telegram of Sept. 30, says a
correspondent telegraphs that Sicily and Sou
thern Italy have been visited by a great storm,
Sunday, which carried away the railway
bridge between Cero aud Crucili, hurting a
passenger train into tho torrent. 'rhe engi-
neer was killed and all the passengers more
or less injured.
The Milwaukee chamber of commerce,
September 9th, adopted resolution estsb-
fishing a new grade of wheat, 10 be designated
No. hard spring wheat, which wheat must
be sound and reasonably clean, composed
mostly of the hard varieties of spring wheat,
and weigh not less than fifty-six pounds to
the measured bushel.
All that was saved of the county rec
ords, books, etc, from the late Deadwood,
Black Hills. great fire, was one set of books
the treasurer's office The assessment rolls
were all destroyed, and at a meeting of the
county commissioners this afternoon a new
assessment was ordered as soon as possible
Strong guards are on duty at the bank vaults
the outer doors of which were left unlocked
and no one is allowed 10 pass without being
recognized.
Al St Louis, September %, the Bap-
list association by a vote of q to II expelled
the second church and ifs pastor Rev. DR..
Boyd, for heresy. The heresy consisted in at
iliatioon with Jews in union meeting and
joining IN singing hymn from which all at
scntion to the Savior was carefully omitted,
aud in breaking over the line Of close com
alunion by inviting Unitarian minister to
commune with the church. The second
church is the strongest of the denomination
Il, St. Louis
The Post-office department is prepar-
ing proposals for carrying the mails in Ohio,
Indiana, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky and
Tennessee, which viii be published in Novem-
her, and the opening win be in February next
The mail service, under the proposals, win be
doubled, as on all roads where the service is
now weekly it viii be semi-weekly; al semi
weekly service viii be increased TO tri-weekly,
and all country towns and court houses win
have daily service.
A private circular has been issued at
st. Louis by the trades assembly, and sert to
all the assemblies in the Cnlted States aud
British North America, setting forth : project
for general strike Of all trades. the time to be
determined BY the trades Assem- hIies, and 10
tssa united aetion Cor the adoption and en-
foTcemeut Of the eight hour law, the abolition