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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

The river is falling quite rapidly.
Some of our people attended the
big show at Hastings Tuesday night.
A moonlight excursion Thursday
evening ON the Mary Barnes is talked
of.
Numerous Methodist brethren and
sisters have gone to Red Rock camp
meeting.
Rev. Haw preached a special sermon
to young ladies last Sunday evening.
Strawberries and green peas are our
special diet.
Picnics seem to be the order of
amusement this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Miller have return
ed from a short visit to Ono.
Mr.. Olive and family have spent two
weeks attending the S. ID. A. camp
meeting at Lake Calhoun.
Miss Tabor is home from the Nor
NAL with her sister, Mrs. S. w. Mer-
rick.
Joel Childs and wife are visiting at
Mrs. Childs'.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
DIAMOND BLUFF.
Business lively.

| business lively.
Improvements progressing.
John Emerson is visiting friends
here.
Acres of gram across the river all
under water.
A great many tons of hay will be
spoiled by the high water.
The Josephine went down the river
with a barge load of wheat
Albert Richardson. fireman on the
Pauline, is visiting here.
Mr.. Hardy has been hired to herd
the cattle during the high water.
L. c. Burke has opened a stock of
dry goods and groceries at the old
stand
Uncle Jake Mead left the island the
fifth time in twenty-seven years, on
account of high water.
Wethern and Niles lost about 300
cords of wood and a. r. Nero 80 cords
during the high water.
A. r. Nero is now excavatinga place
near his residence for the purpose of
building shed for his cattle during
winter.
Some of the steamboat men have
estimated that 5000 cords of wood are
afoat in the Mississippi between here
and st. Louis.
The steamer Pennright ran her raft
into the woods and had to get another
boat TO help her out. The current in
the river is everywhere.
Many. of the boats are lying Idle on
account of high water. They say there
are only three places to which they
can hitch raft between here and st.
Louis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.

Congress adjourned on Wednesday
of last week after a session of over six
months during which time little work
of Importance has been accomplished,
if we except the passage of the appro-
priation bills which could have been
acted upon within period of six weeks
as well rs six months. The 10th Con-
grtss was turned over to the Democrat
ic party upon pledges of reform, "
but such pledges have been entirely
ignored and the time that should have
been devoted to reform" has been
almost wholly occupied il attempts to
create political capital fol- the use of
the Democratic party il the pending
campaign and to efforts to nullify Ma
tional laws which it had not the power
to repeal, the notification of which
would have tended to reverse the re-
suits of the late war in which so much
precious blood and treasure were sac
rificed. Nothing that the Democratic
party through it's representatives in
Congress could do to render nugatory
the principles upon which me Nation
is founded has been left undone, and
it has been frustrated in its repeated
effort to practically disrupt the Nation
only by the vetoeS of a loyal EXecu-
tive who manfully stood by the ''0ld
Flag" The record of the 10th Con-
gress during it's extra as well as regu-
lar session should be thoughtfully
studied by every loyal voter between
now and the November election.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
SPRING VALLEY.

Isaiah Bailey is now happy. A boy.
Alva Matteson is building a new log
barn.
Mrs. Sherman Chapman is seriously
i'll with lung fever.
Our prospects for good crop of
wheat were never better than at pres
ent.
Hans johnson & Co. are building a
bridge on the Eau Gale road opposite
the Chuck Wilcox house.
The town board are doing wise
thing by putting in some good. sub
stantial bridges in places where tenn
porary bridges float away at every
time of high water.
Tic & Preston are putting in new
dam. nearer their mill. They will
have twice the space for waste way
that they had at the old dam which
they think will obviate all danger
from high water. They expect to
have their mill running in two or
three weeks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

REFERRING to the Republican nomi-
nee for Vice President the New York
Times says; 1.-THE Times has had fire.
quent occasion to sustain the integrity
and ability of General Arthur as a
public servant, and to endorse the pol
icy adopted by him rs a political man.
ager. 1t has recognized in him man
eminently worthy of wider sphere
for his abilities and more elevated
platform for the display of certain
sterling qualities of head and heart
which have made him both respected
and beloved. Whatever Republican
enthusiasm may be lacking in this
State for the first name on the ticket
will he awakened by the second, and
the workers of the party, equally with
the more critical class among its yot-
ers, will find in the ticket nominated
at Chicago a stimulus to effort and a
harbinger of victory. .
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from the Hoosier State.


BEFORE and during the Chicago Con-
vention Democratic newspapers and
politicians "whooped 'er for Gener-
al Grant. They wanted him nominal
ed, and have upbraided the Republican
party for its ingratitudein nominating
another. They wanted Grant nomi-
mated because they regarded him as
the weakest candidate the Republicans
could put up, and had he been nomi-
mated his Democratic advocates would
have promptly opened their fire upon
him as they have Garfield. Until the
close Of the campaign there would
have been no end to their cry against
Cesarism, Belknapism and all other
isms so closely identified with Grant s
two terms of Presidency. None of
the Democratic shouters for Grant in
tended to vote for him if nominated
and it is a source of gratif cation TO
Republicans generally that Democrats
failed to dictate the Republican NOM
nations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
THE UNIT RULE.

The benificent work of the Chicago
Convention was not confined to the
nomination of General Garfield. That
body settled for years to come the
question of the application of the
unite rule in Republican National Con-
ventions, and very properly decided
that the chairman of State delega-
ton should not be invested with the
power to cast the vote of such State as
unit in defiance of the wishes of one
or more of the delegates composing
his delegation. This decision removes
the opportunity of State political
boss to control the entire vote of a
State delegation in National conven-
ton for his own ggrandiZement, and
leaves each delegate free to vote in ac-
cordance with his own convictions or
to reflect the sentiment of his district
constituency to which he is directly
case is in harmony with the spirit of
Republicanism, and sustains the popu-
lar notion that each Congressional dis
trict is entitled to voice in the DELHI
erations of National convention, as
under the unit rule nearly half the
districts of a State might be practical
ly denied representation. There is no
more reason why State delegation
virtually chosen by Congressional dis
tricts should vote in a convention as a
unit than there is why State delega-
ton in Congress should vote as unit.
The proposition that because a MAORI
ty of the Wisconsin Congressional del
egatiOn is Republican, Bouck, Bragg,
and Deuster, the Democratic members
of such delegation, should vote with
the Republicans would be regarded as
absurd; yet, it would be no more in
consistent than to have required the
entire Illinois delegation to vote for
the nomination of General Grant in
convention after the Republicans of
nine congressional districts OF that
State had distinctly and most emphat-
ically declared against his nomination.
The Chicago Convention did an excel
lent thing when it sat down heavily
upon the unit rule proposition, and
greatly impaired the calling of State
bosses. The National Committee was
within the next twelve
to prescribe a method or meth
DDS for the election of delegates to the
next Republican National Convention,
in which methods SO prescribed there |
should be nothing to prevent the sew
eral Congressional Districts in the |
United States from selecting their own |
delegates to the National Convention. !
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
TRIMBELIE.

Strawberries.
High water.
Daily mail last week.
The board met last Tuesday.
P. Cooney is improving his farm.
Sociable met at Mrs. Williams last
week.
John Fray, of Big River, is building
a barn for Longer.
The late freshets slightly damaged
the dam ut Haverlandt's mill.
School in the Mann district, three
months term, closes tomorrow.
Bill. Ricter, the lightning grubber,
is plying his vocation in Clifton.
Our town is represented at the /. 0.
G. 7. convention at Maiden Rock.
Sile McIlroy, the Clifton cattle drov-
Ell, was buying stock intown last week.
Contracts to build six bridges in
town were let by the board last week.
B. Casey, L. Dauser and Jas. Grady
are grubbing out and preparing to
break.
Isaac Beardsley is keeping up with
the times by attaching an addition to
his house.
The contract to build the bridge
near VIM. Rounce's was let to II. Pres
ton for Ss43.
The old Lamb place which gained so
| much nOtoriety few years ago is now
deserted and lonely.
Barney Casey has dropped for time
the role of Greenback lecturer and is
| selling books in Saltwater.
Impossible roads caused Mrs. Nc
| Laughlin to have a vacation of one
| week in her school at Utah.
Charity Lodge numbers six school
teachers among its members. The ex-
cellence of the lodge is, of course, a
direct resultant of this fact.
Judging from the late local columns
of the JOURNAL we should say that
| there had been some rain in this coun'
ty during the past few weeks.
Our American citizens of Swedish
| descent who live along the banks OF
the creek are farming under Difficult.
| ties-and water, this summer.
One of our enterprising townsmen
slaughtered two polecats in his cellar
last Sunday night and now his migrate.
full neighbors reward his courage by
denying that they ever knew him.
| Our Templars who parto0k of straw.
berries and ice cream at Jerusalem a
short time ago, report a pleasant time
and tender attentions from the inhab
itants Of the neighborhood bearing the
| biblical name.
The young men of Oak Grove have
| organized base bah club, and meet
for rehearsal on the Sabbath. Trim
belle boys eschew secular sports OF
the before mentioned day and harvest
| the golden moments by memorizinp
their Sunday School lesson; hence the
superior piety of the rising generation
| of this town.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

The roads are in very bad condition.
Crops are looking well and bid fair
for a good yield.
John Reeve win have his steam
mill in operation soon.
The dams are repaired and the mills
are running on full time again.
There will be a Sabbath School con-
cert next Sunday evening at the II. E.
Church.
There are about twelve acres of am
Der cane planted in our town this sea-
son and it Is looking very nicely.
There will be a celebration here on
the 5th of July in L. Gordon's grove.
Everybody and their friends are inyit-
ed.
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LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.
GILMAN.

Peter Haugen lost valuable horse
last week.
u. F. Halls having been taken sick,
has yielded the work of census taking
to Elias Jensen.
The refusal of our town board to
lay road to Rudsill's saw-mill has re-
suited in the taking of an appeal by
Mr.. Rudsill and Mr.. Gullikson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

Republican County Convention will be
held at the Court House in the village Of Ellis
worth on
FRIDAY, JULY I'd, 1880,
to elect five delegates to attend the Republi-
can Convention for the Seventh Compression
al District to be held at Sparta on the It'll
day of July, 1880. The following number oil
Convention
River Falls, H. Spring Lake, .; Gilman, A;
Martel, 6; Clifton, 8; Trimbelle, 8; Oak Grove,
.; Prescott, lst ward l. Cd ward l Sd ward /;
Ellsworth, 6; Union, .; Rock Elm, 4; I'll laso,
l.; Maiden Rock, 6; Isabelle, /; Trenton, /;
Diamond Bluff, .; Salem, /; Hartland, 4.
Dated June 18th, 1885,
+: / / $$TI1sos'' Republican Co. Com.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

ROSCOE CoNKLING says that Garfield
and Arthur will carry New York by
$4,000 majority, which indicates pur-
pose on the part of the ''machine"
folks to join hands with the anti-third
termers in an earnest effort to carry
the Empire State for tie Republican
ticket.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

The paramount issue-that which in
reality oVershadoWs all others-in the
pending campaign is, whether the in
tolerant, bull-dozing and rebellious
South, or the tolerant, justice-advo-
eating and loyal North, shall rule this
great Republic. The North has given
abundant evidence of its just claim for
preponderance, while the South has
been equally lavish in the evidence of
of its own unftness to assume the re-
sponsibilities of so grave a trust.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24
Republican Nominations.
Congregational Conven-
ton.

Republican Convention for the Seventh
Congressional District of Wisconsin, will as
semble at the Court House III Sparta, on
Wednesday, the Seventh day OF July, A. d.
1880. at IL O'clock A. NJ, Tor the purpose of
placing in nomination candidate for Con-
gress. Each County in said District VIII be
entitled to one delegate for each three hum
bred Republican votes, and one delegate for
each fraction OF one hundred or more, as
per gubernatOrial canvass of 1879, to wit:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

THE Democratic Supreme Court of
Indiana has sat down upon the Consti-
tutional Amendments adopted in that
State last April, in consequence of
which the State election Will be held
in October as heretofore. As these
amendments were adopted by large
majority it is thought this decision
will react against the party in whose
interest it was made, though it gives
a temporary advantage at Cincinnati
this week to Presidential aspirants
from the IIoosier State.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

MAIDEN Rock.

MAIDEN ROCK
Strawberries Is cents per quart.
The lake is falling.
The weather is good for corn.
Wheat is looking well at present.
S. S. is improving very materially.
Good Templars' convention here
this week.
Mr.. McVean has had about so acres
grubbed on his farm by the Maiden
Rock Nursery.
The Steamer Pepin blew off her
cylinder heads last Tuesday, but she is
ROW running again.
I. II. Steel is on the war path solic-
lting insurance and selling machinery.
ONo.
We hear of no move to celebrate the
4th around here.
Crops never looked as well at this
time as they do now.
Mr.. 0. Thomas, daughter and sister,
of Vermont, came last Wednesday.
1t seems easier for sold batches' to
get wives than widowers in this vicin-
ity.
Miss Genie Nash was very high
ly spoken of the other night by Good
Templars.
Our store is now in the hands of
Watterson & Amidon. All goods
marked down. Their new stock
will be strictly irst-class in every re-
spect.
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EsDAILE.
June 15.

Our roads are ''about the same"
The village schools close on Friday
next.
Jas. Sleeper has purchased new
horse.
Miss Eva Spafford returned home
last Sunday.
The factory whistle again breaks
the stiffness.
Three unsuccessful fishing expedi.
tions last week.
But for the storms our gardens
''might have been"
One case of diphtheria, and two
cases of neuralgia in town.
No services last Sabbath in conse-
quence of the Camp Meeting at Ono.
The water covers the new road in
places on the island between here and
Red Wing.
Lake PepIn is higher than has been
known for the past six years and is
still rising.
The B. B. G. was somewhat disap-
pointed last Saturday by the nonap-
pearance of the challenging club. Try,
try again.
A basket picnic celebration will be
held in Esdaile on July 5th. Among
the pastimes of the day will be horse
racing, sack, tub and wheel barrow
races. A creased pig, mock fight, a
match game of ball, etc., etc. Good
music and plenty of fun may be ex-
pected.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

0. D. Canoe has moved to Aakansaw.
Teams now make trips to Red Wing.
No 4th of July this year, it is all the
5th.
Its a big boy. Where9 Why at E.
Aldersons.
The people in this locality are all
Gar-felders.
Mrs. Brown, of River Falls, is visit
ing her son here.
See large posters Of the celebration
here the 9Th of July.
A little child of George Olson is
very sick with erysipelas.
Observation-Disclosures being brought
to this place from Ell Paso.
Mrs. Baker is keeping boarding
house in place of Mrs. Butterlield.
Our celebration bids fair to be a
success. A bowery dance is billed.
At the date of this writing, the riv-
er has fallen fit. and is still subsiding.
Mrs. Nash, of Rush River, gave a
temperance lecture here last Monday
evening.
No potatoe bugs are to be seen since
the late storms, which verifies the old
adage, "There is no great loss with
out some small gain.
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VOL. "a
J. w. HAMILTON.
Resident Dentist.
Office over Towards Hardware Store.
BOOT & SHOE STORE.

WADSWORTH & WEIGER Manufacturers
of and dealer in Boots and Shoes, Gloves,
Mttens, Hosiery and every thing usually
kept in first-cass boot and shoe store, at the
lowest possible prices. Custom work spec
iality. Repairing promptly and neatly done.
Shop on Main Street first door south of Cam
eron's bakery, River Falls, Wis 21-35
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Dayton Mills.

This mill contains all the new and
improved machinery for Custom Work.
satisfaction guaranteed. A fair share
of patronage is solicited. Soft
J. NJ. TozER, Lessee.
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Republican County Convention.

BENZ. BRYANT, Chairman.
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ETNA. Hartford.
PHOENIX,
UNDERWRITERS, New York.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-29
REMARKABLE RESCUES.9
A Few Words from Those
Who Have Looked In at
Deaths Door.
What They Saw---How They En-
dured & the Means by Which
They were Saved.
A Startling Array of Testimony
both Sincere and Convincing.
Items OF Interest to Semitic
Thinkers.

Modern miracles have never equaled-
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testimony which follows The proofs OF
its value are the hig standing OF the par
ties, and their desire that others snOuld
know how wonderfully they have been re-
stored. Read the record:
Mr.. Charles s Prentice, of Toledo, Ohio,
affirms: ....t.
81 was treated for Brights disease of the kid
neys By the most eminent physicians in America;
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Roberts, OF Manchester, England; but In spite 81
all. grew worse and desparlngiy waited Siea i9a
Kidney and Liver Cure, thoroughly tried It, and
joyfully declare myself absolutely well, both IN
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Mr.. w. E. Sandford, of Holly, N. Y,
gives the following remarkable experience:
~ was attacked with kidney and bladder diff
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come that for over year could not ne down.
My limbs also became useless, and had to creep
like child. / was operated upon by q council VI
EN- nent surgeons in Syracuse ana also teated IN
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ual labor. and say all suffering from any man
ner of kidney and liver trouble, use warmers
Col. o. j. Ayeren. now Clerk Of the Utah
Supreme Court, and former resident OF
Washington, says:
"Three years ago was broushtto the gates OF
death by kidney disease. was induced by friend
| to try Warmers Safe Kidney and LIVER Cure. In
ten weeks was entirely restored. and verify be-
| lieve 1t to be the btst medicine ever prepared"
Mr.. James s. Prescott, Of Cleveland, o.,
says: ...... ,,.
"Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has
cured me of Bright,s disease after was given mp
to die, and am willing to affirm it on heather
or Christian ground" a
Hundreds Of ether equally hopeless cases
have been miraculously cared by this great
modern remedy. But note this fact: Thou-
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cipient consum ption without realizing it,
and to all such Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure is the only certain hope. 1t
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absol luteiy invaluable. Do not neglect the
opportunity for happiness and health.
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the forehead. But il he misses the mark,
or his gun misses fire, then the fun be-
gins in earnest, and one of the finest
races in the world can be Witnessed
naked Indian and frightened deer at full
speed. If the deer should happen to be
not more than year old, it is of no use
following it, as it will then outrun any
Indian, and run longer without giving
out, but if two or three years old, or
older, good runner will bring it down
in few hours, or certainly within fifty
or sixty miles. (The narrator, jese
Mendivil, here insists that good runner
among the Apaehes can run one hundred
and twenty-five miles in twenty-four
hours, easily.)
The deer starts at full speed, making
long leaps Of from ten to thirty feet. At
first he gains rapidly on the Indian, but
the latter follows, every now and then
uttering frighttul yells, but never for a
moment halting or losing the trail. The
deer, when out Of sight, halts and locks
back, but soon his pursuer comes In
sight, when he bounds on with longer
leaps thar at first; finally he makes for
water, spring or stream, and when he
gets there halts and drinks all he wants.
Now there is no hope for him, for after
he, drinks he can not run so fast or leap
so far. Pretty soon the Indian comes in
sight again, while the tired deer rests
again, but the tired hunter never halts to
drink, not if his mouth. is as dry as ashes,
for by SO doing he not only loses time,
but can not run SO fast afterward.
On he goes, never resting, either on
the hill or ON the mountain. If the deer
takes to the top of the highest mountain,
right on his track the Apache follows.
BY and by the Indian sees blood stain
on rock, where the deer has stumbled
and skinned his knee or struck his nose.
He knows now the race will soon be
ended, and runs faster than at first,
while the deer loses ground every min
ute. When the deer sees the Apache
close upon him he stops suddenly by a
rock or bush and turns. Sometimes as
soon as he stops he drops down fainting,
or even dead from fatigue. If not dead
already when the Indian seizes him by
the head and hind legs he makes but lit
tie resistance and is despatched with the
knife. The hunter now cuts out a tine
piece and eats it, taking not a moments
rest for fear of getting stiff, but puts the
deer on his shoulders. or, if too heavy, O
part of it, placing the rest in a secure
place, and then trOts back to his camp
having travelled perhaps hundred miles
without resting. The next day some
one will take his back track for the bal
ance of the game.