River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-18
GENERAL NOTES.


FOURTEEN thousand emigrants left Liv-
erpool in October, chiefly for New York.
LORD Colin CAMPBELL is soon TO wed
Miss Blood, beautiful Irish girl, of dis
tinguished family.
DoN CAMERON daughter. Miss Eliza is
to marry William III. Bradley, at Washing
ton on Nov. II.
CREDITORS of n b. Harwood & Co., of
Minneapolis. have filed claims to the
amount of $552, $500.
JOHN SHERMAN definitely announces
himself a candidate for the Ohio senator
ship.
THE obelisk is moving through the
streets of New York at the rate of five
hundred feet daily.
ROBERT GREEN, a laundryman, is the
first negro to serve as luryman IN the
criminal courts of New York
KANSAS has the banner republican dis
trict, having elected John A. Anderson to
congress by about 10000 majority.
L. F. BERTRAND, a leading citizen of
Rockford, has become grandfather to his
children by marrying his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Crandall
CORRESPONDENTS who have spent some
time in the endeavor to interview Gen.
Malone, class him as an Independent re-
publican.
CALIFORNIA has not forgotten the Brod-
erick duel. Judge Terry, as a candidate
on the democratic electoral ticket, has
been defeated by scratchers.
MEXICAN newspapers make strong de-
mands that our government shall help to
pay the rewards offered for the capture of
Victoria and his band, and aid in relieving
those reduced to want by the raid.
DELEGATES representing fifty thousand
golfers of Wales have called a conference
of all trades to memorabilia the British
government in regard to the hardships of
foreign tariffs.
THE latest aspirants to the Indiana sem
atorship are President Burgess, of Butler
University, Gen. A. d. Streight, Con-
gresham Tom Brown, Hon. John Coburn,
and J. NJ. Shackleford.
OK high authority, it is asserted tins:
Grant desires the secretaryship of war, and
will probably be rendered the position.
Blaine claims the credit Of Garfeld's NOM
nation, and puts forward Lugene Hale for
cabinet honors.
DENNIS KEARNEY has gone back to his
draw. He announced, recently, at the
San Francisco sand-lots that he had lost
friends and business by championing the
cause Of the people, who had turned and
stoned him to death.
New YORK report ers obtained from
Beecher glowing tribute to lngersolps
courage and brilliancy. Pope Bob, on be-
ing interviewed, expressed the opinion that
the Plymouth pastor had liberal Jed the
English-speaking races of the earth.
john SHEPHERD, farmer near Peoria,
has faithfully kept an oath made in 1860
not to cut his hair or shave until the cleo
tion of democratic president. His whis-
kers reach nearly to his waist, and his hair
Is kept in braids. He evidently accepted
the finding of the electoral commission as
cheerfully as did Hayes
THE latest returns indicate the election
of Johnson, (eolored), republican, in the
first Arkansas district, to congress by 1000
majority over Poindexter Dunn, demo-
crat. johnson is a barber, residing at
Augusta, Ark His candidacy was an
nounced but one week prior to the election
ALLISON, scout sent to the camp of Sit
ting Bull. in British territory, has return
ed to Fort Buford The savage chieftain
has about nine hundred warriors, who are
nearly out of food and ammunition. He
asks General Terry to wait until Nov. 20
for the return of Major Walsh, who had
offered meditation.
AN arrangement has been completed be-
tween Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians
whereby the Chicago Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad company receives the right
of way from the mouth of American Crow
Greek westward through the Sioux rcser
walton to the Cheyenne river. The right
of way is $50 miles long and two hundred
feet wide; $40 per mile is paid and four
dollars per acre for station ground not ex"
ceeding one hundred and sixty acres per
station. Five dollars per acre is paid for
a town site on the west side of the Mis-
souri, river at the mouth of American
Crow Creek
In the annual report of General Pope,
commanding the department of the Mis-
souri,, he thinks there is little probability
of trouble with the Utes, the barrenness
of their lands keeping away the whites,
but regards the death of Ouray as pub
lie misfortune The Navaioes are the
most formidable, mastering two thousand
fighters The general hopes for an early
decision upon the right of white men to
settle in Indian territory. Col. Hatch
and major Morrow receive commentator
for their efforts in the campaign against
the southern Apaches.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
company have finished the Milestone
branch to thirty miles from Millback
Junction, the Hastings division to the
Jim River; the Sioux Falls branch to Dell
Rapids; the Southern Minnesota branch
to Vermillion River; and the Mitchell
branch is completed to within twenty-five
miles of the Missouri River. The James
vile and Beloit branch is finished; the
Albany branch nearly completed; the
Monroe branch is we'll under way; and the
Minneapolis and Benton cutoff Will be
finished soon.