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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
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The Mauston Star says: "a prOmin-
ent Democrat was heard to say, on
Saturday, that whatever might be said
about Garfield and Hancock personal
ly, and personally he had no objection
to either, it was undeniable that the
Republican party was the party of re-
sumption, that resumption had made
business prosperous, and that he
should therefore vote the Republican
ticket because he did not want to take
the risk of any change in the financial
policy of the government. Which
is one of the best reasons in the world
for voting the Republican ticket.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

IN the Cincinnati convention which
nominated General Hancock, as the
Democratic candidate for President,
Wade Hampton, United States Senator
from South Corolina, pledged to the
nominee of that convention the one
hundred and thirty-eight electoral
votes of the "solid SOUTH and with
that fact before ii the Democratic press
would evince a little discretion if it
should abstain from reiteration of
the charge of 'sectionalism' against
the Republican party.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
OSo
Stacking is about completed.

oIdCklnB is ABOUT completed.
Another initiation at Linwood Lodge
Saturday evening.
l.. Green, of Lake City, paid a flying
visit to Ono last week.
r. w. Harvey has gone to Dunn
county to visit relatives.
Mrs. G. Van Schoonhoven has beer
to Prescott to visit her mother who
has been very i'll.
Miss Nellie McNeal returned to Lake
City to attend school, Jennie Thomas
accompanied her for a short visit.
WANTED. Wives for an old bachelor
and widower. Both good looking; first,
light complexion; second, quite dark.
Age about 80. Address G.. A. G.. and
0. T.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
MAIDEN Rock.

Mrs. P. Getteau is i'll.
Apples are plenty at the nursery.
II. Hall is very low with consump.
ton.
j. II. Caverly is getting ready to go
to Dakota.
l. Tourence's little boy is not ex-
pected to live.
Mrs. J. G. Kelth's parents paid her
a visit last week.
j. Bromlee's new steam thresher is
doing good work.
Whooping cough is quite prevalent
among the little folks.
Mrs. X. Smith intends going to Da-
kota to spend the winter.
Mr.. Murry, of Lockport, N. Y, is
visiting at G. D. Taylor's.
D. Brewer started for the Jim River
country, Dakota, on Monday.
Mr.. Richardson and family, of Mil
waukee, are visiting their relatives in
this place.
Ed. Stevenson's mothef and three
sisters, of Indiana, paid, him brief
visit last week.
Mr.. Beck has taken the. contract of
building bridge 400 #. long across
the slough in Carpenters peadow.
S. P. Fay and wife have commenced
keeping house in |. W. Carpenter s
house The water in the lake is low
and still falling.
Charley Smith and family will leave
here in a few days for their new
home in. Teutah, Mimi, where he in.
tends to engage in the mercantile bus
mess.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
CLIFTON.

Plums and prairie chickens.
Water-melons and moonlight eXcur-
sions.
Buckwheat is in blossom. A good
crop is expected.
Ben. Rissuc, Of Modena, is sojourn-
ing for time in town.
James Ashbaugh is the proprietor
of new team of horses.
Why standeth the tramp idle with
threshing wages at Sl.50?
A. j. West has rented the farm now
occupied by Jas. Campbell.
d. NJ. Townsend and wife, of Trim
belle, were i'll town last week.
The sanctity of the Sabbath is vio-
lated by the gun of the chicken hun
tel.
The emaciated form of school-mas-
ter Bowman was visible in town last
week.
Considerable wheat IS being market
ed Notwithstanding the depression in
prices.
None of the four school districts in
town have engaged teachers for the
winter.
NJ. NJ Swingler has sold his mill
property at Wolf Greek and returned
to the Hollow.
f. F. Judd returns to Aurora next
week. Fred Is one of the faculty in
Prof, Cady's school, -Jennings Sem
mary.
w. II. York, G. F. Miller, James
Cheesbro, Burnett and Thomas, and
Shelton and Dill are operating steam
threshers III town.
Geo. Bascom, who was wounded a
few days ago in the abdomen by the
accidental discharge of a revolver, is
rapidly recovering.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

GSDAlLE.
Miss Anna Larson is expected home
soon.
The saw-mill iy'running on full time
again.
Mrs. S. Johnson is very sick with
erysipelas.
Good butter is now worth Is and
eggs 10 cents.
Ole Loe has returned with a new
team of horses.
S. E. Mcdonald is engaged in copy
ing for X. w. Lewis, register.
Rev. Smith will preach his farewell
sermon here on Sunday, Sept. 5th.
There seems to be a good many rat
tlesnakes in this vicinity this summer.
Geo. Truman is to take three barge
loads of lumber to Red Wing for B. &
NJ.
The farmers harvest is over; now
comes the executive and judicial har-
vest.
William Gillespie and wife. of Pitts
burgh, are spending few days with
relatives here.
Miss Libbie Monro opened a millin-
cry and dressmaking establishment
on Monday of this week.
We have few grass-widowers left
yet. The ex-benedicts move about with
an affecting air that awakens our SYM
pathy.
A party from Suoix City, Iowa, was
in this place this week buying beeves.
They succeeded in getting about Is
head.
We understand that the company
here will soon quit the manufacture
of wagons. but continue to make ma.
terial for them.
As this is presidential year,
would suggest the name of Garfield
to the Spring Valley correspondent
/ for his little boy. For what is
more to be coveted, or of more worth
than a good name
Chas. Tyler, of Bay City. will start
the last of this week for La Crosse with
a barge load of about $4,000 feet OF
oak for Betcher & McDougall. The
load will consist of about As, 900 pieces
mostly drag timber.
The u. L. sociable was quite wei
attended last Wednesday evening a
the house of Mr.. Bowles. The grounds
i about the house We're lighted by I
number Of Chinese lanterns which
caused the surroundings to show of
| to good advantage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

Ex-PosrNAsTER GENERAL KEY is of the
opinion that the .'solid South" will
not survive the approaching election.
he thinks if Hancock is elected there
viii not be officers enough to go around
which will cause break up, and that
should Garfield be elected they will be
entirely disappointed with the pros
pect of success and split up on some
new issue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

a CORRESPONDENT f the National Re-
publican Committee writes Tam not
in favor Of walking into the Demo
cratic trap simply because they have
baited it with a Union General"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

4 COPPER lance head. with socket
for handle, eight inches in length, was
recently found in the town Of Chetek,
this state. The relic is prehistoric.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
Republican Nominations.

GENERAL GARFIELD speaks German
fluently and pleases Germans WHEREBY
er he meets them by conyersing in
their native tongue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

TIE total valuation of real estate
and personal property in the city of
Milwaukee is $50, S57, 1884.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
J. w. HAMILTON,
Resident Dentist.
omce second door south of Post onice.
BOOT & SHOE STORE.

WADS WORTH & WEIGER Manufacturers
OF and dealer in Boots and Shoes, Gloves,
Mittens, Hosiery and every thing usually
kept in a irst-class boot and shoe store, at the
lowest possible prices. Custom work spec
iality. Repairing promptly and neatly done.
Shop on Main Street FIST door south Of CAM
eron's bakery, River Falls. Wis. 2l-35
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0 Policies
wishing
Omcein Holmes Badshaws block
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Business Cards four lines or less, IS
square will be counted the space OF eineh.
Local notices will be charged according 10 ths'r
character. Nothing less than Is cents a line tof
the first insertion, and 10 cents for the second.
All Job Work mustbo paid for on delivery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
Dayton Mills.

This mill contains all the new and
improved machinery for Custom Work.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 4 fair share
of patronage is solicited. soft
j. NJ. TozER, Lessee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
RIVER FALLS ms. AGENCY.
l.. S. ROUNSEVELL, Agent,
Represents Following wen E1,ocn Companies:


ETNA Hartford.
PHOENIX,
UNDERWRITERS, New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
A SculptOr's Beginning.

RANDOLPH ROGERS, the American
sculptor, who designed the bronze door
of the National Capitol, began life as a
bakers boy. He showed his love of art
by shaping figures in dough and in draw
ing caricatures. A correspondent of the
Boston transcript tells how he hap
pened to be sent to Rome to study:
In the year 194S, unassisted by 9TH
ers, he obtained a situation in silk
house in New York. owned by John
Stuart, Jr. Here, when not occupied
with the duties belonging to his employ
ment, he continued to pursue the bent
of his genius. He slept in the store of
his employer, who, going to his room
one DAY after business hours, observed
several pieces of small statuary scat
tered about the apartment, among
which was a beautiful bust of Lord
Byron in marble.
Z" Randolph" asked his employer,
"where did you get theseP" referring
to the works of art around him.
"Oh, l made them," was the reply,
uttered in modest tone of voice.
But how could you do it, and where
did you find the time to accomplish
such resultsP" continued Mr.. Stuart.
"At night, after working hours, sir, ("
was the answer.
GO But surely you didn't execute this
bust of Byron, did youP" said the for
mer, pointing to the beautiful creation
before him.
Yes,' returned Rogers, while an
expression of modest pride passed over
his face.
I" Is it indeed true that you have this
gift in so high degreep" remarked
Mr.. Stuart as he gazed on the face of
the poor clerk.
"All 1 can say" returned Rogers,
6" is that love the art
"But why don't you follow it and be-
come SCULPTOR
"For the simple reason, sir, / have
no money with which to help myself.
Should | take up art as a profession, L
feel that should have to go abroad to
Italy, where art is pursued in manner
to achieve the grandest results. How
can I-poor as am-go to Italy?"
elbow much money would you want
to help you in such courseP" inquired
Stuart.
Hesitating a moment, Rogers said,
al think six hundred dollars would be
sufficient.
You shall have it," said his friend,
with smile, sand if, after you are
gone, you want more, do not hesitate to
ask me for it.
With heart beating with joy, the
future artist threw his arms about the
neck of his benefactor and burst into
tears.
Proceeding at once to Florence, Rogers
placed himself under teaching sculp-
tor of the city, where he remained for a
time. But at length, impatient of great
er results, he opened humble studio
for himself, where he toiled earnestly
and studiously in the art which ere long
should bring him rich returns. At the
expiration of six years the young sculp.
tor sailed for his native land. His resi-.
dence abroad had enabled hip to &C.
complish much, and the future seemed
full of rare promise. Indeed, he had
been very successful, for he was now
able to repay his generous benefactor
c66stdeffaBle ' sum Il of six thousand dol
lars.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12

tionally yelled the future from His crea-
lures. They cannot see into it, because
He wills that they shall not. And five
will but review our past we shall discern
the reason. Shakespeare writes:
80! if this were seen
The happiest-youth viewing his progress
What perils past, what crosses to ensue-
Would shut the book, and sit him down and
die"
Place yourself at the beginning of
your life. knowing what you now know
of its vicissitudes, and the strongest
among you would hesitate to engage in
it's progress. And were you to-day to
behold all that remains, you would
shrink back discouraged and amazed.
God in mercy has rendered such fore
casting impossible, and it is unspeaka-
BILE folly for us to attempt what He has
forbidden. We may, however, rest as
sured that as he has in years gone by
provided deliverance from every peril,
and support for every trial, so will He
in the years to come. In this conf
dence we can leave the morrow to care
for the things of the morrow. What
ever comes, God will be in it; whatever
evils are there, God will be there as
well.
The thought that "He knoweth' is
all-sufficient. He knows all that is be-
fore us. He knows our fraility, our
weakness, and our waywardness; He
knows just what we can bear, what
strain we can endure, what tempta-
tons we can withstand, and He knows
what succorS are needful, what earth-
" friends to raise up and Hvssv-'
emily angels to send down that we
may be delivered in every time of
trouble. The abiding sense of this
wonderful omniscience disperses the
mists of melancholy, and dispels the
gloom of chill, dark foreboding. 1t let's
the brightness of God into to-day and
assures us that it will irradiate the
morrow. | once read of q tribe who
built a temple of glass for the worship
of the sun, and their deity shone through
its transparent walls and filled the
house with his luster. Some uneasy
people regarded the temple as too SIM
Pile, and began to ornament it with
paintings, and at last covered all the
building with Haunting colors. But
when they met for worship their god
was absent; they had excluded the sun
with their foolish daubing To live
continually in the consciousness that
''He knoweth'' is to be housed in
crystalline temple flooded with his
brightness; but, if we smear it with the
dreary pigments borrowed from to-
morrow's possible gloom, we shut out
God from the present as well as from
the future. My brethren, L pray you
darken not this blessed thought of His
omniscience; preserve it clear and dis
tinct; then shall the years come to be
radiant as the day that now is, and even
more lustrously beautiful. From q Re-
cent Sermon By Dr.. George C. Lorimer,
C2sicaQO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
characteristics of the Mound Builders.

IT does not matter if we say that there
are traces of different religious faiths
among them. The rude Totem worship
may have prevailed among the Mound
Builders OF Wisconsin, and the Animism
of the lower or less advanced kind en-
bodied itself in their works. The more
advanced sun-worship may have pre-
vailed among the southern races, as
was shown to the explorers through
their territory, or the elaborate system
of ancestor worship, or Montezuma-like
king worship, may have existed among
the tribes on the Ohio River. Yet re-
ligion was the one thing which is most
apparent in all the structures. The
emplematic animal mounds, the lofty
pyramids, the complicated circles, walls
and systems of earthworks, all show
that it was religion which ruled the
people. Surely the fortified places east
of the Allegheny Mountains give no
such traces; the rock fortresses and
pueblos of the western nations reveal no
such system, and scarcely do even the
accounts of some of the Aztecs exhibit
any more strength to the religious be-
lief. Religion was the great popularity
of the Mound Builders. There are
many elaborate and strange systems of
works which can be explained on no
other supposition. There are traces of
it brought out more and more from the
inscribed stones and engraved shells
which have been discovered.
At times these earthworks assume
geometrical figures, as if the builders
understood the symbolism of the circle,
and square, and triangle, and sought to
combine them in one and again, the
most striking resemblance to the orna-
ments worn upon the person is appar-
ent, as if they sought to place on the
breast of nature the significant emblems
or the sacred representations which
their priestly rulers were accustomed to
wear.
The resemblance of some of their
earthworks to the sacred stones and
symbols which have been discovered
has impressed many student of their
relics; and the wonderful mystery ac-
cording to which their works are at
tended also shows that religious sys-
tenn which we do not understand was
the motive with which they were
erected.
There are especial evidences in the
grand and mysterious system of SYM
bolism which prevailed among this
strange people. The people on the
continent, except those who have been
advanced far in culture, have shown so
much religious symbolism. The Egyp-
tians have their elaborate system, the
Hindoos have theirs, and the Persians
theirs, and the Mexicans theirs; but no.
where among so rude, uncivilized and
uneducated people do we find so much
that is significant. Without alphabet
or literature, without history, or con-
nection with other nations, this people,
in the center of the American continent,
had among them a system which was
expressive and profound.
The great work of the antiquarian is
so to study their structures and their
relics as to determine something in ref
erence to the religion which prevailed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
The Great and Precious Promises.

DOES your spirit faint? They are a
dropping honeycomb, better than Jona-
than's. Dip your pilgrim staff into
their richness, and put your hand to
your mouth, like him, and your faint
ness shall pass away. Are you thirsty?
They are the flowing stream of the wa
ter of life, of which you may drink by
the way, and lift up the head. Are you
overcome by the sultry burden of the
dayP They are as the shadow of
cloud to bring down the heat; as the
cool shadow of great rock in weary
land. Have your steps well-nigh Slip
ped? They are staff nyour hand, on
top of which, betimes, like Jacob, you
may lean and worship God. Are you
sad? There are no such songs to be-
guile the road, and to bear you on with
gladness of heart, as when one goeth
with pipe, to come into the mountain
OF the Lord. Put but a promise under
your head by night, and were your pill
low stone, like that at Bethel, you
shall have Jacobs vision. The thirstiest
wilderness will become an Elm, with
palm-trees and wells of water. Gun
'aaragltdm Geikie, ID.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
Choice Thoughts.

GoD expects fruit from every tree
planted in His vineyard.
In the path of duty, God promises
His special protection; He will keep us
safe, and bless us.
MAKE the best use of what you have,
and then you may look to the Lord with
confidence for more.
WHAT unthankfulness it is to forget
our consultations and to look only upon
matter of grievance; to think so much
upon two or three crosses as to forget a
hundred blessings. SibbeS.
IT is seldom wise to enter into dis
cussion with a skeptical man on the
doctrines of religion. The best thing
is to have such a life back Of your words
that you can say, "Come and see for
yourself whether religion is not bless
ed thing to have. "-Goldep Rule.
Mediate long, mediate humbly on
what it is to have Creator, and COM
fort will come at last. If broad day.
light should never be yours on this side
the grave, He will hold your feet in the
twilight that they shall not stumble,
and at last, with all the more love, and
all the more speed as well, He will fold
you to His bosom, who is Himself the
Light Eternal.-F. w. Faber.
SELF-LOvE leads us to do certain
things because we choose them for our
selves, although we would not do them
at another's bidding, or from mere
obedience. If things are our own orig
mating, we like them, but not when
they come through other people. Self
is for ever seeking self, self-will and
self-love; but if we were perfect in the
love of God, we should prefer to obey,
because in obedience there is more of
God and less of Sells. Francis de
Sales
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12

among them. The beauty of location
in which their religious structures are
found, the wonderful correspondence
between the very forms which they as
sumo and the land the landscape itself,
impress us with the thought that nature
worship, in its highest perfection, pre-
vailed among this mysterious people;
but it remains still problem what the
system was, and how far it resembled
those known to history, and described
and classified by authors familiar with
the native tribes of the same and other
localities on the continent. By three
things, however, art, agriculture and
religion, the Mound Builders may be
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. antiquarian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12

Mr.. ROBERT j. LIVINGSTON, of New
York city, has for several years past
given prize to each of three newsboys
who save the largest sums. The first
OF the successful competitors saved $15,
the next $3.50, the next $12.15. The
Newsboys' Lodging-House in Duane
Street has savings-bank for the boys,
one hundred and thirty-six of whom save
an aggregate of $23253. An institu-
ton of kindred character to the News
boys Lodging House is under construc-
ton up town. 1t is to be built at the
sole expense of Miss Catherine Wolfe,
lady as conspicuous for the munifcence
OF her charities as she is for the I'M
Sostentations manner in which they are
bestowed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
The Typical American.

OWING to the immense accession of
fresh blood from Europe, it is not easy
to understand what will be the ultimate
chronological type of the North Ameri-
can continent. Where, however, the
English strain has been kept pure, as
it has in most parts of the New England
States, there is obviously q change for
the worse. The abstinence from alco-
holic drinks in these regions is neces-
sity. An eminent American physiolo-
gist says: "We can not bear alcohol as
the English can, or as our fathers could
quarter of century ago" The East.
ern Americans are also more sensitive
to cold than Europeans, their teeth de-
cay more rapidly, and they are even
more than their English pregenitors liza
BILE to pulmonary disease, notwithstand-
ing the dryness of the climate. There
is something, however, in that climate
which tends to weaken the nervous sys-
tenn. Even the phlegmatic German is
Americanized in constitution, and be.
comes liable to nervous exhaustion in
the second or third generation. The
frequently recurring periods of politi-
cal excitement may not be without their
effect in adding to the widely prevailing
nervous debility. Perhaps when the
soil is more extensively settled, and the
climate ameliorated by cultivation, the
Americans may become mop healthy,
mentally and physically. 1t is said, in
deed, that in New York the people are
beginning to fatten, and that at recent
Charity Ball in that city stoutness was
the rule and attenuation the exception.
Perhaps the guests belonged to some
of the numerous rings, political and
commercial, which abound in the EN-.
pire City, and had fattened on corrup-
tion.-Iron
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
Religious.
PRAYER.

Be not afraid to pray-to pray is right.
Pray, if thou canst with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak, or sick with long de-
lay;
Pray in the darkness if there be no light
Far is the time, remote from human sight,
When war and discord on the earth shall
cease;
Yet every prayer for universal peace
Avails the blessed time to expedite.
Whate'er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven,
Though it be what thou canst not hope to see:
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven
Forbid the spirit SO on earth to be;
But if for any wish thou canst not pray,
Then pray to God to cast that wish away:
-(,OlsriGIe.