River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-04

Miss Emily A. smith, assistant state
Entomologist of Illinois, was duly
elected foreign member of the En-
genealogical Society of London on Sep
TENDER LIST.
One of the murderers of DIR. Parsons,
the American missionary, has been
condemned at Constantinople to death,
and the other two to fifteen years penal
servitude.
A Sacramento tCal.) bride recently
whipped her father because he induced
her husband to drink in bar-room.
1t was very effective temperance
lecture
Charles l.. Perkins, ESD, of New
York, is reported seriously i'll. He is
one of the receivers of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
Miss Belle Mackenzie that was, Mrs.
Archer now, with her husband, is play
ing in New York, and the two COM
bined receive Il salary of $50 per week.
Mr.. Leonard Grover, Il well-known
Marylander, theatrical manager and
author, has leased the Broad Street
Theatre, Philadelphia, for term of
years.
There was grand wedding in Port
land, Maine, recently-that of Mr..
Sweetser and the beautiful Miss Alice
Anderson, the daughter of Gen. Ander-
son.
Mrs. Amanda Newsome, of Marion
county, Georgia, lady 64 years of age,
has Just completed a quilt containing
Al, Of
two pieces.
Mr.. Murray the celebrated London
publisher, will shortly publish the Earl
of Dufferin's speeches and addresses
delivered in Canada and in the House
of Lords.
A young lady in New York is under
treatment for lameness caused by
wearing French heels. She is in great
pain and it is feared is permanently
disabled
When Miss Alice Liddell-the origi
nal 'Alice in Wonde rland"- mar
ried the other day, she wore among her
ornaments horseshoe of pearls, the
gift of Prince Leopold.
Senior Ponies Pererra de Milo, the
ex-Prime Minister of Portugal, has
negotiated the marriage of the heir APP
parent to the thone of Portugal with a
Russian princess.
Senior Zamacona is not going to
France as the first Mexican minister
since the Macmillan tragedy, but will
return to Washington, with his family,
at the close of the present month.
Frank Venable, son of Professor
Charles S. Eenable, LID, of the Uni
versity of Virginia, Charlottesville. Va,
has accepted the position of professor
of Chemistry in the University of North
Carolina.
NJ. Emile Girardin recommends
Young Frenchmen to let Greek and
Latin alone and to study English and
Spanish, because they are the languages
of the future.
Elisa, the famous circus rider, and n
friend of the Empress of Austria, is at
last on the road to fame. Her dia-
monds and quantity of jewelry have
been stolen from her apartments by a
chambermaid.
Mr.. John w Langley, of Baltimore,
well known in insurance circles, is in
Winchester, Va, and, il is feared, hope
lessly paralyzed. He is with friends,
and all is done for him that love and
affection can suggest.
The colored people of Georgia are
prosperous. They own 81, 1919 acres of
land; have good public schools; Il fine
college at Atlanta, and twO-thlrds of
them vote the democratic ticket.
Mr.. John II. Steele, Mexican vol
unteer, died at his residence in Augusta
county, Va, on the nig5t of Oct. 9th,
aged 6S years. He was a member of
the company of Captain Kenton Har-
per.
General William Malone, of Virgin
la, was in Baltimore recently. He re-
ceived attention from several friends,
and dined at the Athen@um club with
Edwin Fitzgerald, Esq, and few
others.
Lady Haberson recomends the adop
ton of trousers for walking dress, or,
as she calls them, 'skirts" divided
above the knee and made full down to
the ankles, where they might be finish
ed with band or founce.
Bishop Simpson has returned to
Philadelphia after and absence of four
months, and is greatly improved in
health Owing to his sudden illness in
San Francisco, he relinquished his
cherished plan of visiting China and
Japan.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, the son-in-
law of Horace Greeley, and family have
resumed domestic life at Chappaqua.
The Greeley estate is not at present
salable, except at heavy loss, but 1t
affords a snug country home.
A y enjoyable reunion of the Tai
bot family was held in Boston, last
week, at 'the residence of Mr.. b. ].
Pope Members of the family were
present from half a dozen states, in
Guiding California. DR. l. I. Talbot,
who was preparing genealogy, re-
ported progress.
Mrs. W. c. Ralston, of San Francisco
has been awarded the guardianship of
FER child rem by consent of J. A.
Ralston, who is given five days to file
an account of his guardianship
The death is announced from Lon
don of Harry Beckett, formerly the
leading comedian at Wallack's theatre,
New York. Beckett first came to tins
country in 1865, with Lydia Thomp-
son, and her troupe. He died Satur-
day, the Esd inst
Mr.. Vanderbilt has presented Cap
tain Stone with a silver vase holding
relief portrait in gold of the peerless
mare, Maud 5. Blair, the trainer, is
remembered by watch, aud even the
groom had $500 thrust upon him.
Captain Stone viii exhibit the mare at
the Chester Park meeting at Cincinnati
this week
A Pennsylvania politician who had
suddenly become very wealthy, recent
ly attended dinner party at which
there was the usual fillet Of beef with
mushrooms. While engaged upon
the beef he whispered to his neighbor:
do you eat the clothes-pin heads,
too?p
One Of the prettiest compliments