River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
GENERAL NOTES.

TELEGRAPHIC advices frola many
points in New England, New York and
Pennsylvania, under DE- te of the oath inst
state mat a severe wind and snow storm
has been prevailing il the east. The
snow las fallen foot deep in many
places.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of the 21st
gives the official vote of Hamilton coun-
", including Cincinnati at the late cleo
lion as follows: Foster, 29,616; Ewing,
25,971; Piatt national, 1859; Hood, so.
cialist, 451; Stewart, prohibition, 90.
A CHTc kGo dispatch of the 21st states
that a dispatch has just been received
from Lake, Indiana, as follows: "a pack
age of papers was found on the beach
here this morning, thrown out of the bal
loon Pathfinder.
A BALTIMORE dispatch of the 23rd
states that the democrats on the 22nd
elected their mayor by nearly 5000 ma
jority. The vote was as follows: La
trobe, democrat, 1929; Hooper, repub-
lican, 1880; national greenbacker, 975
A MONTREAL dispatch of the 23rd
says two hundred and fifty persons from
Vermont passed through by way train
last night for the western states. An ad-
dItional party of three hundred more
from Maine and Quebec, left to-day for
The same destination.
A PORTLAND dispatch of the Goth states
that Gen. Grant informed an Oreg0nada
reporter that he intended TO go direct to
Galena from this coast, and would re-
main there short time before attending
the reunion of the Army Of the Tennes-
see, at Chicago, and would in all proba-
bility make Galena his future home.
A New YORK telegram of the 22nd
saws the steamship Wieland, from
Europe, brought Sl,413,G00 in French
gold This makes a total of "a 541 600
in gold that has arrived from Europe
since Saturday morning. Nearly
500 100000 of specie has come into this
country since the resumption of specie
payments, and nearly nine tenths of the
whole amount arrived since Aug. /,
A DISPATCH from Washington dated
Oct, goth states that Inspector W. j. Pol
lock telegraphs 10 the Commissioner of
Indian affairs from Denver, COL: ''The
governor and other leading citizens here
unanimously affirm that the Indians
must be removed from the state, or be
exterminated by the state, If not by fed
eral force. Confidence, they say, can
INNCA UC INStNi ONs 1uA II - 0Hal
ton whether the result will be attained
at once, or by slow and tedious war
faren
A SAN Francisco telegram of the 22nd
inst says he British ship Naturalists, 259
days cut from Calcutta, for San
Francisco, is given up for lost,
and the insurance companies hav-
ing risks on her, paid them yesterday,
aggregating Sl13,500, divided among
twelve companies.
A BUFFALO dispatch under date of Oct.
25th says over one hundred and fifty YES
sells, all classes, have arrived at this port
the past week, the largest fleet that has
been here at one time in 10 years. The
effect on grain freights by canal hence
10 eastern points has resulted in rapid
advance, wheat being taken at 10 and
corn at IL cents per bushel to New York;
while the result on up freights by the
lake has bern just the reverse. coal fall
ing 10 s. cents a ton-a decline of fifteen
ger cent, with further decrease looked
for.
News from Washington and from
military headquarters at Chicago and