River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-09

first vice president, Mrs. Waite, wife Of
the chief justice.
| Bronson Howard. author of the
| Bankers Daughter, Saratoga, and
other popular plays, was married Ucto-
Der 9th to Miss Alice Maud Culver
well, daughter of London physician.
Mr.. Howard is resident Of Detroit,
and his parents live there, but he has
been in England for the past eighteen
| months.
The Yale alumni of Boston and
vicinity held their third dinner at
Ioung's Hotel last Thursday night, and
decided to have four dinners next year.
| There are about 200 alumni around
Boston, of whom forty were present
The Boston Post remarks: 'Viee
President elect Arthur has two pretty
daughters. We hasten to state that
we never said word against the old
man during the campaign"
4 New York florist recently charter
ed car TO send apiece of decorative
work to Cleveland wedding. TWAS
a bower of matched straw, fifteen feet
high, and studded with roses and
trimmed with wreathes,
Mr.. III. c. Chisolm, son of the muir
dered Judge Chisolm, of Mississippi
has just been married to Miss Middle
ton, of Harrisburg, PA. Mr.. Chisoln3
is employed in the state executive de
partment in that city.
The ball at the second Inauguration
o. General Grant cost upwards of SIC,
600, and the receipts were less than
SO, 00O-a warning to the Washington
committees having charge Of the com
ing inaugural ceremonies.
Hazel Kirke" reached its 300th
consecutive performance recently
at the Madison Square Theater, NeN
York. A unique and beautiful
souvenir, commemorative of the occa-
sion, was distributed among the au~
dience.
Erhard Zapf, the German who made
himself CONSPICUOUS at San Francisco,
Cal, some time ago, by frsntically
claiming to be the only true and gem
uine husband of Lolita, the actress.
was yesterday locked up in that city as
a lunatic
Edwin Booth has cabled from Lon
don remonstrance against the rep
resentation of the Passion Play" in
the theater bearing his name at New
York. He says, 'the subject (the
cruciiction of Christi is not a proper
one for the playhouse"
DIR. Thomas Wood, one of the most
prominent surgeons of Cincinnati, yes
terday died of blood-poisoning, occa-
stoned by operating, while his hands
We're chapped, upon some of the vie
TINS of the late disaster upon the Ham
ilton and Dayton Railway.
The Emperor William greatly ad
mires Adelina PATHS talents. and when
ever she appears in Berlin is careful to
be in his box much earlier than usual,
hurrying TO town even from some
neighboring hunting resort to enjoy his
favorite music.
During his year in office, the late
Lord Mayor of London, Sir Francis
Wyatt Truscott, entertained no less
than 1900 people, mostly persons of
distinction, at the various public ban
quets, dejeuners and reunions at which
it is his duty to preside.
Mr.. James Bowen, Il, and Miss Cas-
sic Cassell IS, were married in Wash
ingtoR the other day. Fifty years ago
they were lovers, but the brides pa
rents broke up the engagement because
they were too young. Father time has
removed that objection
The legal profession is To be more
largely represented than any other in
the next New York state assembly
There will be twenty-eight farmers and
four editors to thirty-four lawyers.
What hard time those editors will
have in the midst ofsuch crowd.
Miss Katharine Newell Burch,
daughter of Col. John C. Burch, the sec
rotary of the United States senate, will
he married soon to Mr. Leslie Warner,
of Nashville, Tenn. The bride is said to
be one Oft handsomest of Washing
ton young ladies.
- the performance of the pirates
of t,uzance," few evenings since, in
WASHINGTON, General Garfield, Mrs.
Garfield, Colonel Corbin, Congressman
Townsend, and Senator William Pitt
Kellogg occupied one box, while Sena-
tor Blaine and General Sherman occu-
pied box opposite.
The beautiful Lady Dudley has just
arrived in Paris. Lady Dudley is one
of the most beautiful women in Great
Britain. She is 80 years old---the age
preferred by Balzac-her eyes are blue,
her features adorably delicate, and her
figure as ethereal as that of Il sylph.
She takes gloves at 81 and boots at A..
LEMUEL MCGEE, on his way to work
in Vicksburg, said to his companions:
"Im dry, and | amt got cent; but
I'm going to have some whlskey If !
die for it." He led them into Samuel
Hawthorne's saloon, where they haH
the drinks, and McGee announced that
he couldn't pay. Then he did "die for
for it." Hawthorne killed him at once
with pistol.
A LADY says engagements are very
unsatisfactory sort of affairs, for if you
are not very polite and attentive the
gentleman thinks YOU do not care for
him, and you are afraid to be polite
for fear the engagement might some
times be broken Ofi,when you would be
sorry to think you had wasted so
much sweetness on some other wOman's
husband.
Jim Lyon, who was killed i'll bar
room fight at Willard, Neb., was found
to be clad in a complete though pene-
trable suit of armor Shields for his
back and front were made Of heavy
leather, padded with an inch Of cotton
batting, and suspended under his cloth
ing by straps over his shoulders. This
protection had long given him the
courage to figure as a bully.
Wayne Co., (ohi0) Democrat.
Mr.. VIM. f. Snyder of West Lebanon,
Ohio saws. For same time mast I had