River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-23
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
INDIANA reports 1877 coal mines in oper-
ton, giving employment TO $3.50 men.
Az earthquake shock and the eruption
of volcano are reported from Washing
ton. territory
THE workingmen of Lyme, Mass, elect
cd Henry G. Lowering mayor, by plua-
ality of 299.
An investigation of alledged violations
of the Thanking privilege has been set on
/ foot in congress.
/ THE Brooklyn tabernacle is in financial
straits, and the pastor, the Rev. DE Witt
! Talmage, threatens strike for cash.
! SIMMONS Brothers, of London, have
taken a contract to construct and lay two
| new cables across the Atlantic. at cost
! not exceeding G., 100000
| Two servant girls of Cincinnati, named
| Mary and Rosa Stegemann, have been be-
queathed $4,000 by their aunt, Mrs.
| Joseph Ruhe. of Philadelphia.
| THE cable announces the death of Sen.
| Buoncompagni, an Italian scientist and
| author, and of Earl Crawford, a British
! Peer who dabbled in letters.
Two cases of smallpox having develop
! ed among steamship load of Italian
emigrants arriving at New Yor, the ves-
! sci has been quarantined, and $50 persons
! have undergone vaccination.
GEN. ORD having been retired, Gen.
Anger will take the department of Texas
Colonel Miles will be promoted TO brig
adler general, and placed in command at
West Point.
THOMAS ALLEN admits that he is nego-
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Iron Mountain road, which would place
in the hands of the latter control of the
commerce of St. Louis.
SENATOR BAYARD Indignantly denies
having made against boutwell,. Conkling,
and others the charge of ext0rting large
sum from an importer and dividing it
among themselves.
Born houses of the Vermont legislature
have passed bill declaring nuisance
any place where liquor is sold or given
awav, or gambling is allowed, and its
keeper can be fined and imprisoned.
GEN. WILLIAM b. HAZEN has been ap-
pointed chief signal officer of the army
This promotion advances Gen. McCook to
the colony of the 9th infantry.
RICH gold discoveries are reported from
| Alaska. Just now superabundance Of
snow and cold weather interferes with
mining operations, but big rush of for
tune-seekers is expected as soon as things
thaw out.
A ST. LOUIS newspaper says that Secre-
| tary SchurZ will return to journalistic
work after the 4th of March. From the
same source it is learned that Mr.. Schurz
is writing book which will shortly be
published by the Appletons.
THE Alabama q Great Southern rail
road company are about to tunnel Look
out Mountain in order to connect their
road, which has its present terminus at
! Wauhatchie, with Chattanooga about five
miles distant.
IT is stated that there are six democratic
Senators, including Bayard, Butler,
Hampton, and Pendleton, who will vote
against the reopening of the Kellogg case.
If this report turns out true, and it If
probable that it will, Senator kellogg will
retain his seat.
EDISON is still working hard and hope
fully on the electric light. He claims to
have proved that its subdivision is not an
impossibility, and asserts that his inven-
ton will soon be perfected. The cost OF
lighting the city of New York by his
method will, he says, be something like
100000.
If we may believe philosopher who
writes in the New York Sal, spot on the
sun is now visible to the unassisted eye
a little to the right of and below the center
of the suns disk BY the aid of smoked
or colored glass, or, better still, an opera
glass, the spot may be more readily seen.
A COMPANY Of Wisconsin republican
capitalists have purchased the Milwaukee
Daily Ne,cs for $4,000, and will publish a
new morning paper on the associated press
franchise so secured. Horace Rublee OF
Madison, exMinister to Switzerland, W i'll
be editorin-chief of the new organ.
A BILL appropriating 100000 for the
improvement of the Mississippi River was
reported to the house on the 10Th inst. Ii
was the original intention to ask for So
000,000, but, in view of the evident i'm
possibility of obtaining such sum, the
com mittee on Mississippi Levess decided
to reduce it to minimum.
A CONFERENCE of the hackers of Cover
nor Foster Tor the Ohso senatorship was
held at Columbus on Sunday, among those
present being three members of the house
from Hamilton county, which has hereto
fore been considered solid for Sherman. II
is claimed thai forty-two republican pa
pers in Ohio have declared COR Foster
JAY GOULD, last year, invested $350,00O
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on the Hudson river. At an early hour
on the 18th inst. flames utterly destroyed
the conservatory, a Moorish structure,
four hundred and eighty feety long, filled
with the most rare and valuable plants.
The pecuniary loss is $l50000 which is
uninsured
THE health of the United States Senator
Lamar, of Mississippi, is entirely restored
His continued absence from Washington
is caused by the ill-health of his wife,
whom he has recently taken to San An
tonic, Tex lie will shortly be in Wash
ington. In the meantime he is paired
off, with Senator Blaine on all political
questions that may come to a vote in the
senate during his absence.
PRESIDENT GONZALES. of Mexico, has
completed his cabinet which is believed
to be a pro cressive and liberal one. Gen.
Oiaz, the late president, becomes minister
Of pu bile works in order to push some i'm
pi0vcments in the internal affairs of the
country. 1t it believed that he will have
great influence with President Gonzales,
and it is well, for his own administration
has been successful, progressive, and in
tclligent.
+. w. THoMALEN, a clerk in the Chica-
go internal revenue office, disappeared in
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counts were being investigated. He
proves defaulter to the amount of s.,
1860. Two deputy marshals are in
search of him, and efforts have been made
to capture him at Detroit. He has a wife
and four children at Lake View.
A COMMITTEE of New York bankers and
merchants have gone TO Washington to
induce Secretary Sherman to anticipate
the January interest and redemptions,
amounting to 929,000,000, for the purpose
of relieving the stringency in money.
Strong presentations will alse be made
to induce him to advance money on the
English gold and bullion deposited by
bankers in the assay office.
A Fort LEAvESwoRTH, Kansas, special
of Dec. 18th says the raiders are still en-
camped north of the Indian Territory line
and the troops are almost abreast of them
in Indian Territory. Payne himself has
been deposed. Major Randall with a
company of cavalry will join Mason to-
day, near Hunnwell, where the raiders are
encamped. One cavalry company occu
pied O'Klahama. and are scouting that
section to pick up any small parties COM
ing from that direction OF Texas or Arkan-