River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
There was a light fall of snow in
Madrid, Spain, Feb. e6th.
The outbreak of pleuro- pneumonia in
Manchester, England has increased.
J B. Enos s. Co., of Waterford, n. Y,
have made an assignment. Liabilities $780, 600
Channel storms and snow drifts on the
continent practically prevent postal commun-
icaGiou with England.
On the French slopes of the eastern
Pyrennees there Is more snow than the Oldest
lnhabitant remembers.
Srow to the depth of a foot fell in ONO,
Sunday, March ID, and drifts are formed that
will cause detention to travel on the railroads.
The Pope has given notice of his inten-
ton to make Dr. Hergenroitker Professor of
ecclesiastical history at Wurzburg,a Cardinal.
g ii. Allston, late Of the ST. Louis Repetb-
lean, died at Bay St. Louis March 3rd.
A Cape Town, South African, telegram
saws, affairs in the Transyaal cause anxiety
Tba Beers are suspected offayoring the Zulus,
and a conflict of authority has occurred be-
tween British magistrate and Dutch com
mandant
A Cincinnati telegram of March I'd
saws, the affairs of Archbishop Purcell were
further complicated to-day, by suit being
entered against him by creditors. 1t is thought
he will make an assignment next Tuesday,
vixen a meeting of all the priests OF the
diocese will be held.
A Versailles telegram of March LIST
,iv,is oF fstsff in a debate
OF the amnesty bill said he did not deny some
persons, unworthy of pardons, might return
to Paris, but this need not cause alarm. If
any of them showed ingratitude the govern
| mont would know how to be rigorous.
The Viceroy of India telegraphs he has
received the following letter from Yakooh
| Khan, son of Shere Ali, the ameer of Afghan
istan dated the 26th of February: News has
| been received here of the death of my father
on the 21st of February. AS my father was
an old friend OF the British government
send the information out of friendship.
DR.. De;mars, government inspector of
| the Grand Trunk railway, stating most posi-
| lively that there is no trace or suspicion Of
plcuro pneumonia in any section of the uiuted
States, and expressing confidence that no
harm whatever could ensue from granting
passage for cattle from the United States
| through Canada.
A good deal of sensation was caused at
Madison, Wis, Feb. 25 over the fact brought
down by Hon. IAe Stephenson, of Marinette,
that gold and silver has been discovered in an
| iron mine near Marinette, Wisconsin. Iron
ore from the Emmett iron mine sent to
| Chicago for assay showed as high as 500 TO the
| ton of ore. Mr.. Stephenson is a highly re-
spected citizen of the State, and his report can
be relied on.
a publication of the Russian Secret
| Press of Berlin, declares the governor of
| Charkoff had been condemned to death by the
Russian socialist party for inhuman treatment
Of political prisoners. The act Of assassina-
ton was consequently executed by one of that
party. The publication charges the governor
with beating students nearly to death, and
concludes with q declaration of death for
death, and terror for terror This is our
answer to all threats and prosecutions Of the
government.
The census bill as it passed the House
provides that enumeration shall commence on
the first Monday in June, and ruturns shall
be forwarded to the supervisors on or before
tbc 1st of July, 1880, and in any city having
over 10, 600 inhabitance the enumeration shall
be taken within two weeks from the first
Monday in June The President, by and with
consent of the Senate is to have the appoint
mcnt of supervisors Of the census, whose
number is limited to $50, and who are TO re-
cejve a compensation of $500 each. The sum
OF $3,25O0oO, which is hereby appropriated,
is limited As the maximum cost Of the cen
sus.
Senators Sargent, Booth, Mitchell, aud
Jones OF Nevada, and Representatives. Viii
| liams Of Oregon, Wren, Page and Davis and
ex Representative Phelps had a conference
with the President February 18th for about
an hour, and urged him to sign the bill re-
stricting Chinese immigration. Sargent, in
his arguments, pictured the evils, moral,
commercial and national, which came with
the Chinease, reviewed their history in TINS
| country and showed the evil results of whiCh
their presence had been productive. He
called attention to the deterioration of Amer
ican labor which existed wherever the Chinese
had found their way. He also stated veto
of the ILL might affect Republican interests
| in California disastrously All the gentle
men made similar arguments, and called at
| tention to numerous petitions from the West
| foi radiance of the Chinese, and presented
a number just received. The President fire.
qUently questioned the speakers. When they
had finished their arguments he stated he too
had received many appeals from people in
the West to sigr the bill, and petitions from
the same and others not to sign it. He was
glad to hear all he could on the subject, and
would carefully consider the arguments. A
majority of the Congress delegation left the
President with the impression he would not
sign the bill.