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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
Excessive Brain Work.

Cine of the clergymen of Worcester,
Mass, ip the course of a sermon recently,
uttered the following cautionary sugges-
lions in regard to immoderate brain
work:
ait is Lesson we are slow 10 learn
one that has TO be enforced by an oc-
casional thrilling fact-that the most ro-
bust physiqUa has its limit of exertion,
that well cemp acted and toughened
mental fibres may succumb to undue
stress at single point, A piece of steel
Wire can bear: only . given amount of
longitudinal tension. Beyond that limit
it snaps. BY, the annealing process of
intense study or application to exacting
business a mans brain gets toughened.
1t can bear an immense, prolonged strain;
but there is an unknown terminus of
your powers-,~eAceed that point ard the
subtle thread of reason snaps. A rup-
tured capillary on the brain paralyzes
that center OF thought, and the stalwart,
brilliant man. of yesterday, full of hope,
projecting grand schemes, the pillar OF
strength to his family, the pride of many,
the possible envy of more, is today an
enfeebled or quite broken down victim,
Of Incorporate brain work. You
might charge me with an exaggerated
idea of the perils Of overexertion among
business men, did not facts justify all
have suggestcd9 Have we not seen some
of the brightest stars in the cluster Of en-
terprising citizens, of which we are justly
proud, wander from their orbit of reason
and pass, unaess God shall disappoint
our fears, inta the shadow of permanent
mental eclip.e2 The saddest feature of
this phenomenon is that il seems to fall
upon the hsgf ly organized, generous,
sympathetic natures first. A cold blood
ed, grasping Shyloc&, who cares little for
the good name SO highly priced by an
other, appears to be in no danger of such
calamity. Better far to confess power.
ty, be an honest bankrupt, than be brok-
en- down in body or mind, under too
great exertion to avoid that calamity.
With emotions of unspeakable pity for
every man barrassed by his unsatisfactory
affairs, turn 20 expostulate with the COM
ing generation. Keep sound mind in a
sound body. Do be cOntented with
things honest, with comfortable medic
Gritty, Husband the stock of physical
and mental life God has given you, that
you may not grow permaturely old-use-
less before your time"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
All Night In q Vault.


Not long age the widow of gentleman
who had recently died desired the vault
wherein the remains had been temper.
arily placed 10 be watched, SO that body.
snatchers could have no opportunity tc
ply their nefarious calling. Thinking
that the vault would be watched better
by the sexton than any one else, MIR.
Radbone was hired TO keep close look
out At dark he took lantern and
blanket and made up a bed in front OF
the vault So that any one approach
ing it would have to step over his body.
But after lying there some time it grew
quite cold, and he thought he could
watch the corpse just as well if he went
inside the vault, out of the cold. So he
unlocked the vault and went in, but
found that he could not lock the vault
from the inside. That would never do,
and vet he was determined not to stay
outside.
Finally he went back to the house and
aroused his hired man, and the two went
back to the vault. Mr. r. then took his
lantern and blanket and went inside,
made bed on the floor, and LAID down
for the night, having for companions to
while away the tedious hours, six corpses.
TIE attendant locked the door from the
outside, and went back to the house and
his warm bed, leaving the sexton alone
in the vault with his silent companions
There was nothing to disturb his tran
guilty during the early part Of the night
Every thing was quiet and still until
about one o'clock, and then there was a
gentle noise, as though some one were
tampering with the vault lock. Mr.. r.
took up his lantern, and the noise stop
ped for few moments, only to begin
again when he laid down on his blanket.
This time it appeared to be in all OPP
posite corner of the vault. He could see
nothing, and could only hear that steady
scratch, scratch, which became more and
more distinct every instant. Mr.. X. is a
brave man, but he confcsses that when
one is locked in vault with six dead
men, with no living soul within half a
mile, and at an unearthly hour to have
such an unexplainable noise IS that, it
was more than nen with ordinary nerves
could stand. At any rate his hair began
TO rise, and Just as he was thinking of the
best way to defend himself against his
spiritual foes a little chipmunk dashed
from dark corner, ran past him and
darted out between the bars in the vault
door. From that time on nothing occur
red to mar his quiet watch, but in the
morning he was rather glad TO be releas.
ed from his dull quarters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
A New Version Of Marco Bozzaris

At midnight in his guarded tenr the
Turk, Mr.. Marco Bozzaris, was dreaming
of the hour when Greece should bend her
knee IN suppiiance, apologize, eat humble
pie and so forth and so on, and tremble a.
his power. In dreams, or, as we might
av. in his mind, through camp and court
be bore the trophies ola conqueror. Also
in his mind he bore the monarch's sienet
ring-which cost four dollars and half
and pressed that monarch's throne-a
king! and thought himself big er man
than the Akoond of Swat. However, an
hour pas ed on-the Turk awoke, he woke
to hear his sentries shrek 'eTo arms
thew come The Greek! The Greek n
This was not all Greek TO Mr. Bozzaris.
He knew full well what it meant, and,
springing out of bed, told the boys to
light into them while he got into his
clothes Then there was flame and smoke
and shout and groan and sabre-stroke
and death-shots falling thick and fast,
ike lightning from the mountain cloud,
and the awfulest uproar generally that
was ever heard outside of q country
school. They fought, like brave men,
long and well, and were about TO mop
up the ground with the Moalem slain,
when they heard, with voice as trumpet
loud, Bozsaris cheer his band from be-
hind the cook-stoTe in bis tent: "strike
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
A PLAToNrC PIANO FOUNDER
Evansville Special. |

Two years ago gray haired, fine looking
man of 90, giving his name as Herman Rose,
came to this city and stopped at the Fulton
Avenue hotel with handsome and well edu-
Gated girl of Is, whom he represented TO he
his wife. They have been very quiet, and
only during the past two days has Rose ven
tured to announce his intention of settling
and teaching music, of which art he is apro-
lessor. Yesterday Detective Brenneke re-
ceiged letter from st. Louis, advising him
that Rose was q music teacher there, and
had eloped with Emma Holman, his pupil
The girl was the daughter of widow, her
father, st. Louis artist, having died eight
years ago. Rose and the girl left home
suddenly five weeks ago. and stopped for
some time in st. Louis, then COM
ing here. The giEl's mother was dying
from the shock, and wanted her TO
come home. On being confronted with the
letter Rose denied any improper intercourse,
saving that he had lived with the girl as q
father, occupying the same room and at night
sleeping on the floor, while she occupied the
only bed in the room. He exhibited decree
of divorce from his wife, issued in st. Louis
in 1876. by which two children were left IN
his wife's custody. The girl said she was
willing to 60 home to see her mother, Duf
wanted it understood she ahad the right to
love whom she pleased She said she loved
Rose, and had stopped at the asslgnatlon
house in st. Louis two weeks with him be-
fore coming here. She is beautiful, q nne
musician, speaks three languages, ana ls very
firm and self-possessed. The girls mother
deprecated any force or exposure, and only
left her request TO the daughter decasions
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
CASUALTIES.

A $4,000 fire occurred at Toronto,
April 10.
April Is, Gen. Garibaldi was takeu in
carriage to the Quirinal, and the King of
Italy conversed with him privately in the car
-iage for half an hour.
At New Orleans April 10, A. Foster
,lliOtt, resident secretary of the Liverpool
sondon- Globe Insurance company and vice
cor III of Brazil, fell dead on the streets.
A tornado passed over portion of St.
Louis county, Mo, on the Sth inst. 1t first
appeared at HowelPs ferry, on the Missouri
river, and travelled due east to Johannesburg
abou' ten miles from st. Louis, where its
force scenes to have been nearly expended.
Some half dozen houses were more or less
damaged, outhouses blown down, chimneys
carried away and fences and other property
scattered about promis"iously, but SO for as
known no lives lost. The track of the storm
was eighteen miles long, half mile wide
There was not much rain but good deal of
very large hail. Heavy rain fell in st. Louis
accompanied by pretty high wind; evidently
the mild end Of the above storm, but no dam
age is repoited.
In the Cabinet meeting of April II,
the Indian question came up for considera-
ton. The discussion took wide range. COW
ering the relations of the Canadian govern
ment to our own in the event of a hostile
movement southwardly, of Sitting Bull and
his band; the habeas corpus of Standing Bear
now in custody of Gen. Crock and incident
therets; fine wisdom of the policy of keeping
the northern Indians in a southern latitude
against their wish if they were disposed to be
peaceful at the north. Sec'y schurz took the
ground that to promote the best interests of
both whites and Indians it was necessary that
the Indians should be kept on their reservation
and out of the way of bad white men who
would incite or provoke them to acts of VIC
lence No definite conclusion in relation to
any branch of the subject was reached,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The Cabinet April II, decided to SEND
naval vessel to Simoa.
Queen Victoria will visit the King and
Queen of Italy at Mona.
The President has nominated Rober
P Wilson, of Pennsylvania, consul to Mos
COW.
The Pope in a circular letter warmly
davocates allegiance to King Alfonso c
pain
Gen. Dick Taylor of the confederate
army, son of the late Zachary Taylor, died il
New York city April II.
The Senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of Arthur L Thomas, of Pittsburg, Sec
rotary of Utah Territory.
Horace Maynard, United States Min
lister to Turkey, sailed April IL from Pbile
delphia for Constantinople.
The Senate confirmed: PostmasteTs-
H. A. Desbrom. Atlantic Ia; Joseph F
Grave, Nashua, Ia; John Steen, Wahoo
Nebraska.
The late Elizabeth Patterson Bonapatte
by her will devised all real and personal prop
erty to her grandsons Jerome Napoleon and
Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
A man in Minneapolis, Mimi, en-
ployed in the Zenith mill, at $50 A. N. April
10, was caught in the machinery and had one
of his arms torn from his body.
the President has nominated George
S. Smith, Nebraska, surveyor general OF
Nebraska; Azor A. Smith. postmaster at Lead
vile, and Thomas II. Dickinson, postmaster
at Vicksburg.
The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives has rejected ,he bill to secure women
right to vote on municipal affairs in cities
and towns. The bin to give women the right
to vote for members of school boards passed.
In the house of commons at Ottawa
April S, a member for British Columbia asked
cave to introduce q bill for the peaceable
separation of British Columbia from Canada
No one seeonding the motion the Speaker
ruled it out of order, and the matter was
dropped.
6 The national executive committee OF
the colord emigration society have adopted a
resolution requesting the government to aid
through the guar termaster's and commissqry
departments, the destitute colnrd emjgrants
arriving at St. Louis or other points on the
4ukSSAoSt EEtls
A letter from the cardinal vicar is pub
Iished complaining bitterly Of the existence in
Rome of Protestant schools supported chiefly
by foreign y. announces that the
Pope has appointed a vigilance committee to
increase and improve the Catholic schools,
and appeals to the nobility and clergy 10 sub
scribe for their support.
A letter of the Pope to Cardinal Vicar
is published, in which the Pope announces
that as the success of the movement for in
creasing and improving Catholic schools viii
greatly depend upon his pecuniary means, he
proposes 70 contribute annually as large an
amount of money as his private means will
permit, and as the conservation of the faith in
Rome is connected with the interest of Catho
lies, he will also devote to the Roman schools
as much of Peters pence as the needs of the
church will permit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CHIMES AVr CRTNINALS.

CRIMES AMI CRIMINALS.
There have been serious riots in col
Tyvillages in Durham, England.
1t is reported rom Wichita, April 9Th
that the Cheyenne Indians are on the war
path.
Sixteen gamblers were arrested on
grand jury indictments at st. Louis, Mo.
April r.
An incendiary fire in Cofeyville, Miss,
April 9, destroyed the greater portion of the
business part of the town.
a dispatch from Berlin says 1000
Nihilists have been arrested at Charkoff
The seventies do not seem to intimidate the
csnspirators.
John P. Phair, hung at Vermont,
Thursday, April 10. left statement declaring
his innocence, and claiming that justice was
not done him.
1t is reported from Ottawa that Indians
al Lapelle river have seized the government
stores there, not from any rebellious design
but probably from hunger.
At Washington, D. c., April 18th
3 Juisa Wallace, colored, convicted of the
-anrder of her infant child in April 1878 was
sentenced to be hing Juue 20.
At East st. Louis, April 10, Mrs Har.
riet Cornwall was arrested on a charge Of
poisoning her husband, and John n. Dethlof
her alleged paramount, is also in custody.
Sunday April 10, at Seville, Spain
two bombs were thrown into the church o.
San Antonio, it is supposed to create panic
and steal the valuable sacramental plate.
April II an attempt to rob mai
stage coach near Sioux Falls, Dakota terri.
tory was made. The robbery was prevented
by a posse Of post Office officials, who over
powered the robber.
Gov. Hoyt, of PENNSYLVANIA, April 8, is
ued warrants for the execution, June 5, o
Jimrod Spittenhower, for the murder of Jo8r
Iewergoll, at Lebanon; and Peter swingler
.olored, for the murder of John Anderson, al
hambersburg.
A San Jose dispatch gives brief &C
count of tragedy in the foothills near thai
city. Four members OF family were horri.
bly, mutilated by an ak or similar weapon
The mother of the family is missing. 1t is
not known whether she is killed or escaped
to the woods. The family lived in seclusior
IN a rough habitation. Nothing is known o
them previous to coming here few months
ago. There is no clue to the perpetrator, ana
no motive is assigned for the deed. Thu
family had no property to excite cupidity.
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Little folks are much beholden
10 the pumpkin fair and golden.
Who within a pumpkin shell
Put his wife and kept her well?
Peter, Peter was the man,
Catch the fellow If you can.
Cinderella, for her carriage,
Cinderella, for her marriage,
To the pumpkin owed a debt.
Has she paid ii, think you, YETI
Jack a. Lantern is beholden
To the pumpkin fair and golden;
But the shell lis his alone,
For the pudding is our own;
And If We the stalk can take,
We a pipe to play on make.
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till the last armed foe expiresl Strike,
Tor your alters and your firesi Strike,
Tor the green graves of your sires, ard I'll
pc with you the moment can get ON these
blamed bootsln
FATE.
A bright little girl,
Giving 4 twirl
On her skate.
A great bearded man
Right into her ran,
Was it fatey
The ice being thin,
1t let them both in;
He was stout,
He climbed up on thesice
And--wasn't it nice?
Pulled her out,
In tweleve months down the aisle,
She came with smile;
On his arm.
Now she skates little deari
And feels, as he's near,
No alarm.
Jean Pierre. in Ph1a. Bulletin.
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promising that if she could see her once
more she would die happy. To-day the girl
refused to return, and the detective is await
ing instructions from headquarters, while the
strangely infatuated girl remains with Rose
at the Fulton Avenue hotel.
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His Tri6e-Denfat by the Canadian Of
JicinIs of His Reported Preparations for
War.
New York World, April IL
A dispatch to the World from Ottawa
says that Col. Macleod, commander of the
mounted police in the Sitting Bull region,
has Just arrived there. The colonel says
that many of the stories recently sent to
ers about Sitting Bulls movements are
false. Sitting Bull, with his Uncapapas,
is enoamped near the boundary line
on tho White Mud river. He is we'll dis
posed toward the Canadian tribes, and his
hostility to the Americans is not shared by
his head men. About Christmas the police
heard that he had sent messengers to the
Crows asking them to accompany him in the
spring on an expedition against the Ameri-
can troops. Sitting Bull admitted to the
police that he had entered into ne
gotiations with the Grows, but it turned out
that they had rejected his overtures,
and even threatened him with violence if he
attempted to cross the line. White Bird and
other leading men among the Uncapapas de-
nounced Sitting Bulls warlike projects, and
said they had enough of fighting single
handed against the Americans, and that a
confederacy of all the Indian tribes was i'm
possible. The police are satisfied that the
counsels of White Bird will prevail. Sitting
Bull has lost caste with his people, and
many lodges have moved out of his camp
northward. These say that he is tyrannical
and that he is always Matching wild schemes
and urging his people to undertake impossi.
bilities. On the Goth of February five
, Uncapapas from Sitting Balls camp went
hunting across the boundary. They camped
in the Grow country, when a band of
Grows attacked them in the night,
killing Hairy Bear, wounding his four
companions and carrying of horses and
provisions. Spotted Eagle, Teton Sioux
chief, Immediately started from Sitting Bulls
camp with ESQ young men, pretending that
they were going for Hairy Bears body, and
to get some buffalo meat they had
cached. They returned on the
9TH inst, but started out again ON the
10th. Maj. Irvine talked to Spotted Eagle,
but as his explanations were not satisfactory
it was deemed advisable to warn the officer
in command at Fort Benton. This, it is be-
heyed, was the basis of the sensational re-
ports sent to Washington. Spotted Tail and
his band, however, returned quietly on the
I'D inst, and are now in camp at Cypress
bills.
The following post routes were established
in Goodhue county by the last Congress.
From Northheld, via Wangs and Stanton, to
Holden; from Xumhrota, via Wanamingo, to
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A SOM RT.

From the Pr'ovencdle Of Jordi, Troubadour of
The Thirteenth Century,
"hals PLACER que dins noun cor sentisse.n
o Joy and pain that in heart perceive,
Now most desired, and most detested now |!
Q Joy that killest, pain that bidd'st nae livei
If Love thou art not, what and whence art
thou?
Joy can that which bringeth pain believe?
Pain can that which bringeth joy avow2
0pain that pleasest, joy that bidd'st me grieve
If Love thou art not, what and whence art
thoug
Nothing | fear. yet am in evil case;
know no peace, yet hear no battles sound;
Myself hate, to others fondly vow.
Nothing touch, yet all the world embrace;
To heavenward soar, yet never leave the
rouno;
II Love thou arr not, what and whence art
thoug
The Spectator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-17

After the adjournment of the meeting, the
warehousemen got together informally, Messrs.
Van Dusen, Barden, Pratt Sterrett, Boyden,
Cargill and others formed the party They
resolved upon nothing in formal way, but
discussed at great length the question of
using the sealed half bushel measure in
receiving and storing grain. The unanimous
verdict was not 10 use it. All agreed to go
right along, just as they were doing. and not
mind the requirement to use the measure. If
any farmer wanted it used, he would be denied
the privilege, and if he didn't like it, he could
go elsewhere with his wheat. 1t was remarked
that by an act of the legislature in 1869, an
iron half bushel measure and scales were re-
CURED But who of the party had them in the
warehouse. To this pointed question, only
MIR. Pratt replied in the affirmative. That old
law had been ignored, and there was no reason
why this one couldn't be treated in the same
way. Such seemed to be the idea or hope gem
orally entertained.
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ssafe ,1,IIers, Association,

Pursuant to call the State Millers' Associa-
ton met at the Nicollet House in Minneapolis
April s. The meeting was called TO order by
the President, w. P. Brown. The secretary =
and treasurer's reports were read. After some
preliminary business the meeting proceeded to
adopt constitution section by section for the
purpose of forming legal organization for
ssmutual benefit and protection"
After lengthy discussion, the following was
adopted;
The undersigned, millers engaged in the man
pfaesure of four and meal IN the State Of
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MISCELLANEOUS

The Scranton, Pa, Savings bank ha:
made an assignment.
There was an ice blockade in the St.
Clair, Mich, river April IL
Trichinasis has appeared for the first
time in Italy at Arescia and Piacenza.
Ten thousand striking miners at Sha.
done's Hill, England vote no surrender.
Two hundred ana thirty more com
munists have been pardoned in France
At Pensacola, Florida, hail storm o.
suEred April Il, q thing unknown before,