River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania
owns the fastest team in Harrisburg.
The Boston Jouvqal says Walter
Hastings bequest TO Harvard college
will amount to $500 000-the largest be
quest ever made to that institution.
Gen. Eli Warren, of Perry, Ga, has
been engaged on one side or the other
| IN every murder case that has been
tried in that county during the past
fifty years.
A representative of the heir of Hen.
ry Clay was in Boston a few days age
negotiating for the sale of the famous
Clay vase, bought by the contributions
of ardent wings in lS44.
Rev. E. l.. Magoon, of Philadelphia
formerly of Albany, N. Y, has given
six hundred books, worth about 81 600
to Rochester university. The gilt in,
clGdes several rare and costly works.
Ex-Governor Hoffman, of New York,
had made arrangements for sailing for
Europe on Wednesday of last week
Not willing to lose his vote he succeed.
ed in pairing off with John A. Girls.
void.
The Chicago Joatrnol says Jane Grey
Swisshelm is the only person in the
United States who knows everything.
z )ssiblS; but the Journal should bear
IN mind the fact that nobobody is as
old as Jane Grey Swisshelm.-Bu 6;iIo
Express.
William E. Chandler is still detained
in Salt Lake City by the illness of his
eldest son. Early in the summer the
two went west for a pleasure trip. On
reaching Salt Lake City on their re-
turn, the son was stricken down with
mountain fever, which was succeeded
by an attack of typhoid fever. Mr..
Chandler has thus been detained in
Salt Lake city three months. His son
has had two relapses, and his case is
regarded as critical.
Baron Rothschild, of Vienna, has a
favorlte horse, for whose accommoda-
ton he has had a special box built at
cost of $4,000. This elegant room
forms part of new stable which cost
$4,000, and which has marble floors;
encaustic tiles painted by distinguished
artists; rings, chains and drain traps of
silver, and walls frescoed with splendid
hunting scenes from the pencils of
eminent animal painters. The baron's
annual income is fortunately ST.
100000
BY South Carolina law passed in
March, 1878, there must, in congress
sional and presidential elections in that
state, be two ballot boxes for each pre-
cinct, which boxes must be kept
separate and apart and not in the
same apartment" In one box are to
be deposited the ballots for conel ess-
men and presidential electors, and in
the other the ballots for state, circuit
and county officers.
The Augusta Ga, ConStitadionaliSt says
it is an encouraging fact that the cot
ton sold in that city last week, as COM
pared with the corresponding period of
last year, owing to the advance in
prices, makes a difference IN favor of
the planter of about one hundred
thousand dollars. The amount of cot
ton sod in October this year in the
southern states will net producers from
eight to ten millions more than the
sales for October last year. This is not
from the larger sales, but from the in
creased price for cotton.
Olive Logan comes to the defense CT
Lucy Hamilton Hooper, the brilliant
Paris letter writer, who has been I'M
mercifully abused by the Figaro for
some very free criticism on French
society. Olive calls special attention to
the fact that no attempt is made to dis
prove or deny Mrs. Hooper's assertion
that young lady would be safer in the
hands of an American in journey
across the continent than she would be
if lett alone with Frenchman for ten
minutes in drawing-room.
Of the late Senator Chandler, it is re-
lated by the Toledo Blade, that when he
became secretary of the interior he de-
sired that certain position in the de-
partment should be filled by lawyer
from the west whose fitness was I'M
doubted. The lawyer refused the ap-
pointment on the ground that he could
not afford the pecuniary sacrifice inn
posed by his withdrawal from his BUSH
ness. "What sum will make you
good? ?" asked Mr.. Chandler. "Not less
than $5 600 year," answered the law
yer You shall have it," said the sec
rotary; and during his occupancy of
the office the lawyer every year re-
ceived check for that amount paid
from MIR. Chambers own pocket.
Five young ladies, the Misses Pri-
deauxBrune and Miss Nora o Shaugh-
messy, have just received from the Brit
ish Lifeboat Institution five silver med
ais in acknowledged of their intrepid
service in rowing their boats through a
rough sea and saving, at considerable
risk of life, an exhausted sailor from a
boat capsized in squally weather. The
accident occurred on the coast OF
Cornwall; two sailors had already per-
ished before their arrival; and it is re-
lated that the young heroiues rowed
like tigers" to the rescue. The pre-
sentation of the medals was made at a
formal meeting, which the ladies at
tended dressed in their boating costume.
Mr.. Prideaux- Bruno returned thanks
Tor his daughters and their friends.
The Prince of Wales being in Paris
visited Mile. Sara Bernhardt's studio
and asked on behalf of the princess,
when the pictures they had ordered
would be ready. The artist replied
that she had, as she thought, finished
them, but was now pupil of Stevens,
and was sure she could do better. so
she would not let them go now. The
prince gave her news of the two kittens
which the princess bought at the
charity fair. and which she had taken
with her to Scotland, Denmark and
Paris. Then the prince and princess,
with the czarowitch and czarevna, went
to see "Hernapi" at the Francals, and
applauded Sara Bernhardt in the second
act. Then the prince and the czaro
witch congratulated her and NJ. Got in
the green-room. Then they were all
happy.-New York World.
THE life-saving stations along the
New Jersey coast are thOrOuQnlV equip