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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-02-06
LIFE ON THE FRONTIER.

Isaac g. Parker, Judge of the United States
for court the western district of Arkansas
which for Judicial purposes includes the IT,
dian Territory, has recently made visit to
Washington. He says that the observance
of law and the security of life and property
than in Arkansas or Texas. Judge Parker
says that the civilized tribes have local courts,
and the uncivilized have a rude way of in
fiicting punishment upon offenders that in
about three years there have been thirty con-
victions for murder, about the same number
for manslaughter, and about $50 for minor
offenses, chiefly larceny, assault with intent
to kill, violating the internal revenue law,
and smuggling liquor into the Territory. Of
the persons convicted of each class of crime
murder, manslaughter, and minor offenses
about one fifth were Indians.
The motives disclosed for the perpetua-
ton of crime were about the same in the
case of the Indians as of the whites con-
victed. Whisky is the direct cause of much
crime among the Indians, as well as among
the whites. The Territory is a place of re-
fuge for escaped criminals from the States,
who seek it as a region where they can easily
hide. The reputation of the Territory has
10 suffer because of their misdeeds as
well as for their bad example upon the In
dams. Still crime, especially of the higher
grades, is decreasing. The law rs vigorously
executed in the United States courts, and
many of the Indian courts show great
energy in the enforcement of the local
laws. Several of the tribes have each code
of laws, which provides for the punishment
of all offenses against person or property
among themselves. Although these state
mauts do not harmonic with those Of intsT
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ANGEL IN LISBON.
Ho,C He Vas Caught--Jhe Re,cGrd sI
1eII's Su1'eria1s.

Hoe He Vas Cdught--JHe RetCGrtt- 6n-
gers Smferihgs.
From a correspondence from Lisbon to the
formal de C0mnerciO, of Rio de Jane.ro
dec. 23) is taken the following; "a Mr..
Charles Angel, having defrauded an Aruari-
can company to the extent of 100000, shay
ed himself clean of his old beard, put on blue
glasses, assumed the name of John Seymour
and started peacefully on his travels through
Europe, giving himself out as a retired I'm
glish merchant From London and Paris he
sailed to Rio de Janeiro, but for some reason
or other he found The place rather too fever
ish or too hot for him. Perhaps he heard
there of our deliciously soft, cool weather
and here he came.
''Now, the American company was not
disposed to be robbed by its ex-treasurGr 10y
so cool a manner. 1t therefore sent every
where photographs of the man wanted,
and announced a reward of $1,000 in cash
and 10 per cent. of all the moneys found in
Angeles possession, should he be captured.
A clever offer, indeed, to insure 80 600
money hounds after such a precious fol
low.
"The servants of all our hotels we're &C.
Will Tue Ou0Iy dIlu III every tihIiSi-
ent guest they tried to discover the lost df,gsl.
At last one of them, belonging to the Hotel
Central, found him at the very rooms Just
previously occupied by Gen. Grant. In spite
of all his changes, the retired Euglishlpan
looked SO much like the subject Of the p6ct~
ograph that the man waiter thought it wise
to communicate with the United States min
lister, who, in his turn. asked the help of the
FOREIGN minister who saw the minister of
Justice, who ordered the chief of police 40
arrest the supposed English merchant.
"Mr. John Seymour exhibited a passport
signed by Lord Salisbury, but as the chisf
insisted on his declaring his true nationality
Mr.. Seymour, threatened with an inquiry by
telegraph with the foreign Office in London,
gave himself up as the man wanted. The
police then searched his trunks, and in them
were found $4,000 in gold and bank papers.
What cenobite! In six months he managed
to spend $4,000. How much he must have
suffered
'The beautiful part of the affair is Caat
now everybody claims the reward The man
waiter, the American consul, the chief of On.
lice and do not know who else. Some
papers say that should the chief of police yat
cept any reward because he did his duty The
government must Immediately dismiss E:pi.
And if the minister of the United States gtll
not blush to appear in litigation with nata-
servant, the last must eventually feel very
happy with this hunt that will clear linn
S12, 500 net.
"But now Bohemian of the press Suggests
that, after all, Seymour himself is entitled. 10
the reward, for he was the principal witness
against Charles Angell-the one who rea3ly
denounced him..
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HUDsON's BAY NAVIGATION.



Under the authority of the department of
the interior a report on the navigation of
Hudson's bay has been issued. The report
contains the whole of Prof. Kinds testimony
on this subject given before the committee
of immigration and colonization last winter,
and it is supplemented by paper from the
same gentleman on the whale fisheries of
Hudson's bay, in support of his statement
that the great inland sea contains extenseiv
fishery wealth. A letter from Mr.. G. Horetsky,
formerly of the Hudson Bay company's
service, is also given, which sustains Prof
Kinds contention. and is based on expert
ence gained by a five years residence at
Moose Factory. The report is accompanied
by map of Canada, with each province col
ored, to show its latest boundary decisions,
and the extent situation and character of the
public lands of the country, and its geograph-
ictl relations to the British isles. On the
map the route from Liverpool to Port Nelson
is traced, and placed at 1906 miles, and in
his Introductory report Lieut.. Col. Dennis,
surveyor general, contends that by such a
communication, should the same be found
feasible, assuming railroad to be IN
operation westerly up the valley OF
the Nelson river, immigrants may be placed
on land at Prince Albert settlement, on the
OdShdlCuGNdD. LUOIS C4tdliSs Wit1AL
few hours of as short time as they can be
set down in London in Ontario, by the pres
ent lines of travel either through Montrea
or New York. From the occurrence OF this
passage in the report has emanated the Iu-
NOR that the government intends to con-
struct the railroad refel,s- 70. 1t may be
mentioned in this connection that the pro-
posed road frum Port Nelson will join the
Canada Pacific railroad at or near Prince
Albert, which settlement is situated almost
centrally IN the great fertile belt; and if the
bay is nayigable for four months in the year,
Canada, it is claimed, will be enabled, on ac
count of the shortness of the ronte, to defy
competition IN carrying through freight for
that time. Whatever may be the future of
the scheme, it is probable that the govern
ment will ask parliament to vote sum suf-
fciently large to equip a steamer to finally
decide the question of the possible naviga-
ton of tbs bay during the coming summer.
A gentleman well acquainted with the Hud-
son bay dis riot, says that there IS harbor
at the mouth of Churchill river. further
north than Port Nelson, which has the
double advantage of being free from ice
some weeks earlier thsn Port Nelson, and
which lessons the length of tbs sea voyage
while il does not make material increase
IN the length Of the rosd,
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Mr.. ]. Hewlett, Of Syracuse, n. Y
writes from Europe:
After feeding the horses and resting
a little while, we drove about eight miles
farther on to one of the best stock and
dairy farms in Holland They used the
very same stable at the farm that they
did 10 the fourteenth century. They
have little rings IN tie ceiling with cords
passing through them, by which the COVE
tails are held up TO keep them from get
ting dirty. The stable was carpeted and
hal plants and flowers in it. The floor
of the stables was of small bricks AT
the back OF the stalls was a trough Of
masonry about IS inches wide anu .
inches deep, with ditch or reservoir of
water at one end As soon as the trench
was dir;ied they turned on the water,
and all the manure, etc, was carried out
to a covered vat, whence il could be re-
moved 20 the fields or wherever they
wanted it moved TO. The cows were MS
clean, II not cleaner than your horses. All
the fastening they have is little cord
around their necks. and they are 50 gen
tie ana quiet that they 90 not require
anything stronger.
They use brass milk pals instead OF
wood or tin ones. We saw the way they
make the round cheeses that are sent 10
America They have wooden molds in
tie shape of two hemisphercs or half
balls These are hollow aud fit together.
The cheese curd is first roughly pressed
into shape and then placed IN the mods
The lower half OF the mold is stationary,
while the upper part is fastened to
kind vi screw working in beam over
head, The upper half is screwed down
tight, and The cheese is left for week.
At the end Of week it is screwed down
tighter aud left another week. At the
end OF a 4liird week the chees is expos
ed TO fine air aud the curing begins. 1t
taxes three months for q cheese TO be
cured, and year before it is fit fer the
market. Everything was as sweet and
neat az any parlor ] was ever III,
The stables and stalls for the horses
were covered with mating. You have
no idea how clean every hing was, with
out seeing how it is done
They use the same kind Of cburns, the
same kind Of cheese presses, and the
same kiud o pals, etc, that they did
SO years ago. They think it is showing
disrespect TO their ancestors to make anv
improvement in the implements that
their fJ.etathers us,d
inqered the price Of the cattle, and
found rhst the cows cost from geo "a $50
guilderS and he bulls from 300 to 4j0
guides, or in our mo9ey COWS from $50
to $40. and bulls from Sl20 TO sI8c, or
5000 each.
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Large Wooden NH Failure.

BosToS, Feb. 3.-The announcement of the
failure Of d. H. sayles, DanviIle, and s. u
and t d. Sayles, Versailles, Conn, creates D
sensation among the wool merchants of thif
city. These concerns, in reality one, haze
been in existence twenty-five years, and were
the largest individual manufacturers of woolen
goods in the country. The mills ut Mechanics.
vile were the finest in the State, and run Hf-
teen to sixteen sets of machinery. The mJl4
at Danville contained ten on twelve Sets
and those az Versailles fifteen sets.
making an aggregate of about forty set of n4aA
chinery which were employed exclusively IL
the manufacture OF cashmere. The product Of
the three mills amounted to one and olle1
half OF two al iliOns of dollars in value per hnf
mum. and these goods we're consigned TO the
house of law. Hartman g. Co.. New York. Tho
capital invested in mill property Is esii.
mated at between $4,000 and 81 900 90
the entire village of Mechanjcsville being
owned by the firm of II. G. & T. ID. Sayles,
The failure falls heavily upon the wool mar
chants Of this city, who were creditors of the
two firms to the extent of $3.50 600 or S4D0 60.
The suspended firms were the largest purchAs-
ers of wool who came into this market, aHd
scarcely single house has escaped the blois
1t is estimated that three-fourths Of the loss w
this failure will fall upon Boston merchants,
although it is, impossible to state the exteAt
of the liabilities. The failure is attributed 90.
a depreciation in the value of wooden gOOSs
and inability of the concern TO obtain ASSIST
ance from local banking houses upon which
they have formerly relied.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
GRIMES IND OK, arNzLs.

In Atlanta, Ga, Sunday night, Feb. 2
bar-room.
A Methodist preacher hailing from the
North. named, Knox, has been arrested at
Columbia, Tenn, on a charge of having at
tempted an outrage on the person of Mrs.
Leetz.
Ex-county Engineer, Samuel P Bowles
was arrested in Cincinnati Feb LIST for forging
and raising Hamilton county bonds for con-
struction of avenues and bridges, to the
amount of $4,000
An unsuccessful attempt few nights
ago wat made to rob the safe of the treasury
of Gallia county, Ohio. The thieves seem to
have been frightened away before accom-
plishing their object. There were $4,000 in
the safe at the time.
A negro employed on the farm of ]. A.
Stokes, near Helena, Ark, attempted to out
rage Mrs. Stokes in the absence of her hus-
band. Her cries brought her husband and
brother, and the fellow ran before accom-
plishing his purpose. He was pursued and
shot, dying few hours later in the Helena
all,
tAlStS at
Winchester, Ind, over a fight which occurred
there Jan. IS between ]. NJ Carver, teacher
in the public school, andseveral male scholars
Carver was whipping a small boy when sew
eral boys assaulted him with clubs, some OF
them drawing knives. The boys were ex-
PEELED by Superintendent Butler, but were
Immediately reilstated by the school board
Whereupon Butler and Carver rendered their
resignation.
The lockout at the Ashland, KY, iron
works and the Furness mines still continues
A large body of miners are on guard at the
iron works to prevent those who wish to
resume work from doing So Over thousand
employees are thus thrown out of work, caus-
ing great distress among them, many of the
families being in need of the necessaries OF
life, the husbands and fathers having been out
of work throughout the strike, which has
xisted the past six months.
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Sitting Bull is back again over tbs
border. This noted Indian politiciaE
when invited to return and behave him
self, about year ago, treated the Com
missioners with contumely and derision
He SAID that the Americans were Liars
and cheats, and that he would hereafter
be proud and happy to live under thu
protection of his Great Mother" as he
affectionately called the Queen of Eng
land. 1t was painfully evident at the
time that the Canadian authorities looked
with disfavor upon this self-invltei guest
But it was great relief to our people
that Sitting Bull was determined to stag
in Canada. The news that this prodigal
son has returned will not only be unwel-
come to his elder brother, but to hi:
Great Father in Washington, and as the
fatted calf was killed by the prodigal be
fore he went away, it is not likely thaJ
there will be any merry-making over hi.
cturn.
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ested persons who represent that anarchy.
lawlessness and violence reign supreme in
the Indian Territory, yet, as made by a
judicial officer of high reputation, who must
necessarily be well Uniformed as to the con-
dition of affairs there, and who can have no
motive to misrepresent it, they deserve gen.
eral attention. One fact, which is a matter
of record, is especially significant. Only
one-fifth of the murders and other crimes
are committed by Indians, though the latter
outnumber the whites ten to one. Another
fact which is equally significant is that
property and life are more secure in the In
dian Territory than they are in Arkansas
and Texas.
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a simple Test OF the Quality of Drinking

Nothing is more important, from
sanitary point of view, than the purity OF
the water used for cooking purposes or
for satisfying thirst. Should it contain
an undue proportion of organic matter,
It might be the means of giving rise TO
most serious diseases. often of fatal
character Ii is very common mistake,
but nevertheless a very serious one. to
regard riear water as pnre water; for clear
and clean are not synonymous. OF counsel
the question as to the fitness or unfitn"
of soll water for domestic use can only 49,
determined absolutely by careful chem
icai analysis. Bot since few persons wish
to incur the trouble and expense OF a
chemical analysis, simple method by
winch any one may test the quality of
the water he uses may not come amiss.
AS il we'll known, the sense OF taste and
smell vary greatly in different individuals,
one utterly failing TO detect the foul con
dition of water which would be very
evident to person of finer organization.
Some waters, moreover of very dangerous
quality, will fail TO give any indication
by taste or smell. But if the causes of
bad taste or smell exist in the water, the
deleterous effects on the health viii re-
main the same whether they are rec.
ognizcd or not. Heirch's test for this
purpose credited by the Re0ue Indus
trjdle o Prot. Reynolds, oil Dublin,) is
very useful, and so simple that any one
can use it, Fill perfectly. clean pint
bottle three fourths full of the water TO be
tested and dissolve therein half a tea
spoonful of the purest sugar (osf or
granuated sugar will do, cork the bottle
and set 1t in warm place for two days.
If, in twenty-four to forty eight hours, the
water becomes cloudy or milky, il is un-
fit for cooking or drinking purposes. If
it remain perfectly clear it Is safe to use,
Cloudiness, when it occurs, is due, occord-
ing to FARMLAND, to fungoid fermenta-
ton, which takes place in the presence OF
sugar, and to traces of phosphoric acid
occasionally met with in waters con
taminated by sewage. Scientific Amer
icaa, ,gUDDIeHeht.
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There is no nation in Europe So All
vanced in its methods of teaching agri-
culture as italy, and in no nation is Sc
much enthusiasm manifested and Sc
much practical good accomplished. Italy
possesses at the present time two higb
schools Of agriculture at Milan, at
another at Portici; three special schools
"a school of forestry at Vallambaoso, i
school of horticulture at Naples, and .
school of vinicuIture at COnegliano; tive
veterinary schools, at Milan and Naples
and 81 secondary schools, varying in i'm
portance and organization, but which
may be compared broadly to the Frencl
agricultural colleges of Gngon and Mont.
pellier. These establishments are large
ly subsidized, either by the state or by
the province where they are situated
Journal Of Chemistry.
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The Mecca of Connecticut Baptist
churches is a cluster of large ROCKS near
the Second Baptist church at North
Stonington, where the early settlers used
to worship, and among the eminent
preachers who occupied the natural pull
pit of "Meeting Rocks" as they are
called, were George Whitefeld ana Gil
bert Tennett, the great Separatist.
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Bishop Simpson discusses IN his third
Yale lecture the personal habits of the
minister. He says that in some places
congregations are unwilling to receive a
minister who uses tobacco, and that many
families almost dread the visits Of such
ministers. lest their growing sons should
be led to form the habit from the exam
pie of the minister.
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Bishop Simpson aays that while he was
a student his practice was to go To bed at
Q and rise at 4, but that he sometimes
oversight ten minutes. A fellow student
was in the habit of retiring at II and
rising between and to devote himself
to study. But the bishop says that
although this young man was diligent
and faithful, he did not see, to get wide
awake all day.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

The citizens of Alaska have shown an
example to older Territories, and to some
older States, in giving murderer fair
trial by jury, and then carrying out the
sentence of the Lynch court in a decent
manner.
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A bill has passed Congress to prevent
exorbitant charges within State lines for
local freights, and providing that in the
case of through roads the rates shall be
uniform. 1t is sad that significant cir
cumstance in connection with the bill is
that it has met with no opposition from
the railroad interests. which, its promo
tiers think, would be greatly Injured
should it become law.
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The proposed reapportlonment of In
diana will give the Democrats nine Con-
gressional districts, six secure and the
others having Democratic majorities OF
446, sri and 928, and the Republicans
four, with majorities ranging from 1884
ND 20 6.249.
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CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Highway Robbery Near Furmington---
Gen. NcDonald;s Chattel Mortgage to
the Syl observation-disclosures Criminal Notes
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

the Sy1 observation-disclosures Criminal Notes
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
PENNINGTON, Mimi, Feb. IA bold high
way robbery was perpetrated near this village
Saturday night. Mr.. Alonzo Aldrich, an old
resident of the county, living some two miles
out of the village. had been in during t9e af
ternoon making some purchases. Mr. Atirieh
accompanied by man and boy, whose
name your correspondent did not learn,
left to return home in the seven
ing. When about half mile FROM his
house, and when passing through piFca of
timber, the team was stopped by two men. who
sprang from pile of brush just in the edge of
the timber. As the team came to halt, enc of
the men. pointing his pistol at the occupants
of the wagon, gave the stereotyped highway
mans order, Throw up your hands, wish the
addition, land sit quiet" 1t is hardly tieces-
sary to say the order was complied with, where
upon the other robber, till then standing 1t the
horses heads, jumped into the wagon and sys-
t9matically went through the various pockets
of the three victims, getting some IS FROM air.
Aldrich. 50 from his man companion; and
nothing from the boy. The robbers cOffined
their search exclusively to money. nothing else
having been taken. Having satisfied hiSnself
that he had got all The money, the robller in
the wagon jumped ont, and telling Mr.. A:drich
to drive on, both the robbers disappeared in
the timber. Mr.. Aldrich has no suspicS9p of
the identity OF the robbers, and SO lar No. clue
has been obtained on this point.
SUICIDE IN RICE COUNTY.
DUNDAs, Mimi, Feb. 3.-Qdite an excitement
was caused in this village by the intelligence
that George Rolph, of Bridgewater, haE snot
himself this afternoon. Deceased had sbeen
suffering from mental depression, and w&s I'M
proving under late medical care in healts and
spirits, and spoke of going to see the doctor a
few moments before the fatal transaction oc-
CURED. He leaves a wife and family.
M'DoNAI.D's DEFENSE.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. Sin the preliminary ex-
animation of Gen. Mcdonald to-day he made a
general denial of the charge of resisting the
officers. Two notes aggregating about $ll, 600,
in favor of Mrs. LaMotte, and secured by-chat-
tel mortgage on the homestead, We're putin as
evidence. The money was borrowed from. Mrs
LaMotte and used by Mcdonald for his defense
in the whisky trials.
SHOOTING.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 3. AT Newport, KY, yes
terday, Charles Bending, who had just beSn re-
leased from term of imprisonment for theft
went to the house of Chris. Carpenter, ,slsere
his wife was employed as domestic. Snd
threatened to kill Carpenter for harboripg his
wife, whereupon Carpenter drew a revOlvef and
shot Bending twice, infiicting serious wound
in the hip.
POSTPONED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The trial of Mrs. Jenaie
R. Smith and Cove Bennett for the murder of
the husband of Mrs. Smith in Jersey City has
been postponed, they objectipg to the manner
of selecting the jury.
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A prayer meeting was in progress 10
the church 10 Mount Vernon, Ind, and a
political procession, mistaking the lighted
ediHc for the hail in which a mass-meeJ
inc was to be held, marched 10 with baG-
ners flying, to the music Of full bans,
and gave three cheers for lis candidate
The clergyman invited the politicians 70
remain Nior their souls sake but they
dec lined