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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
LATEST EVENTS.


Mrs Gov WILLIAMS, of Indiana, died
on the Goth of June.
Mr.. AND Mrs WooDFoRD, of Battle
Creek, Mich, rec emily divorced, have
been remarked.
A SEVERE hail-storm at Pleasant Hill,
Ind, did great damage to fruit and GER
eals on the Bird inst.
THE people ofTexas are said to be indig
nant at the acquittal of Jim Currie, the
murderer of Ben Porter.
SECRETARY SCHURZ proposes to spend his
vacation in visiting the different Indian
tribes on the Pacific Coast.
ELEVEN iron furnaces in the Hooking
Valley have suspended operations on ac-
count of the high price of labor.
CONGRESSMAN DE la MATYR was mar
red on the Bird inst, to a widow at Friend
ship, n y. They were engaged in youth,
but quarreled and sepurted.
A BMLIFF while serving ejectment
was shot No arrests have been made.
IT turns out that minister of Calais,
Me, who was supposed to have drowned
himself, has fled to Canada, owning to IL
nancial difficulties.
AN agent of Rufus Hatch telegraphs
from Minnesota to several commission
firms in Chicago. that the spring wheat
crop of the northwest is badly damaged.
BLAKE BURTON, who some time ago left
Leadville with two companions for the
Gunnison country is 4 captive in the Ute
camp. The Indians killed his partners.
A ST. PAUL negro fell off building, a
distance of thirty feet, to the pavement,
striking squarely on his head. He will be
around all right in a day or two.
GEN. SHERIDAN has received reports of
Indian depredations on the Bismarck and
Fort Keogh mail route, and has made
detail to patrol the line.
On the Both of June, at New York, DIR.
FL. y. Tanner, of Minneapolis, began his
feat of fasting forty consecutive days, UNI
der the supervision of committee of six
physicians.
A LETTER from Constantinople relative
to the famine in Asia Minor states that
the British consuls and American mission
aries have done great deal to alleviate
the suffering there.
CHAIRMAN ATKINS, of the committee on
appropriations, in closing his annual sum-
mary of the years work, says the total es-
Inmates of revenue for the fiscal year 1881
amount to 1888, 100000 and that the esti-
mated expenditures are within 50, 9O2, $50.
81 of this amount.
A YOUNG man was given front seat in
Columbus, O., church last Sabbath on ac-
count of alleged deafness. Soon after the
collection had been taken up the fellow
was seen to transfer the cash in the box,
which had been left near him, to his own
pocket. A deacon attempted to arrest
him, but he broke away and fled, the
pastor and congregation following. He was
finally run down and the money secured.
An undertaken, at Grand Rapids, Mich,
who was directed by the superintendent of
the poor. to give deceased paHper Chris
tian burial, sold the corpse to doctor,
and, going through a mock funeral cere-
mony, received in addition the usual sum
from the county The chief of police dis
covered the swindle, few days ago, and
kindly informed the undertaken of it. The
latter has now gone on summer tour,
holding the boss policeman in grateful re-
membrane.
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it was not to be supposed that a mar
riage under such circumstances could
continue with any degree of happiness
to either party. As natural result,
only three weeks of married life had
elapsed when the wife quietly separated
from her husband, and after some de-
lay, caused by the rules of the Catholic
church (of which she was member,
forbidding enforcement, and some
negotiations for a dispensation, she filed
her application for a divorce, which in
due time was granted.
In the meantime Mr.. English had
himself entered regularly into theatri-
cal life as a manager, having previous
ly had some slight experience in that
direction, and his family making the
personal acquaintance of Miss Fox, and
finding her a modest, retiring, and we'll
behaved lady, concluded that to be an
actress was not necessarily so very
dreadful after all, and Withdrew all OPP
position to the union.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

CLAIMS for pensions pending before
the department have increased i'll the
last fourteen months ut the rate of5,OOO
u month. These unsettled claims are
now more than double the number at
the date of the passage of the arrears of
ofpensions act in January, 1879. There
are now pending in the office at least
280,000 claims. During the six months
preceding the Passage of the arrears
act, that IL, from July l, 1873, to Jan
nary /. 1879. the number of claims
filed per month did not exceed go in
yalids' and widows claim together.
During the seventeen months since the
passage Of the act this average has been
at least s 500 per month. 1t is impos-
sible with the present facilities of she
pension bureau to dispose Of more than
, 500 of these claims that are now ac-
cumulating at the rate of s, 1000 or 5000.
1t would take, commissioner Bentley
says, many years to dispose of the cases
now pending.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
Earth Eating i'm Japan.
Enelish MECHANIC.

1t is rather surprising to find that
some of the Japanese are addicted to the
eating of earth, DIR. Love has lately pub
lished an analysis Of 4 clay which Is
eaten to a considerable extent by the
Amos; it occurs in a bed several feet
thick in the valley of Tsietonai leat-earth
Valley, on the north coast of Yesso. 1t
is light in color and of fine structure.
The people mix with the clay fragments
of the leaf of some plant for the arc
matte principle it contains. They eat
the earth because they think ii contains
some beneficial substance, not because
it is necessity with them. They have
meat in abundance and vegetable food.
The clay is eaten in the form of soup.
Several pounds are boiled with lilly
roots in small quantity of water, and
afterward strained The Amos pro
nounce the soup very paitable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

A STRANGE story of the hardships of
Russian captivity is related by a Ger
man engineer named Neumeyer He
was busily engaged in suprintending the
construction of new railroad in the
south of Russia, when, ON Dee. 10 last
he saw himself suddenly surrounded by
a body of police, and made prisoner.
On being SHOWN photograph portrait,
he innocen,lv exclaimed: Where have
YOU got this picture from? have never
had my picture taken" This extraor-
binary resemblance of his to Louis Hart
mann, or rather Wolkoff-the alleged
author of the Moscow attempt on the
emperor's life-and scar on his right
hand, brought poor Neumeyer into a
serious prediCament. He was put IN
chains. taken to Moscow, submitted to
wearisome investigation, then dragged
across country on foot to Warsaw, with
no nourishment other than bread and
cabbage on journey of forty-four days
After spending about six weeks more IN
prison on bread and water, surrounded
by low set ofcriminals awaiting their
transportation to Siberia, he succeeded
in forwarding letter to the governor
general of Polade, whose brother had
formerly employed Neumeyer on his
estates in Esthoma. Thanks 10 Count
Kotzebue's intercession, Count Loris
Melikoffallowed the poor victim to re
turn to Germany in pennileSs con-
dition, covered with vermin and wear
ing the same clothes in which he had
been seized, and which had not been
washed.
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Making Lumber Out Of Straw.
Trenton Gazette.

The versatile ingenuity of a western
inventor, who doubtless foresees the
time in the far distant future when the
forests shall cease to clothe the hills and
dads. and the demand for lumber shall
prove vastly in excess Of the supply,
has succeeded in devising a substitute for
the product Of the virgin or the cult
waited soil His plan is to use the fra
gile vegetable, straw, and by peculiar
process to compress it into substance
as hard and indestructable as oak lum-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

Der. 1t is claimed that this process
converts wheat straw into timber winch
is susceptible of as fine a polish ard
finish as mahogany and black walnut
at cost not in excess OF the
best clear pine. The straw is first
manufactured by the ordinary paper
mill process into straw board, and suffi
eient number Of sheets are taken to
make the required timber. They are
soaked and softened in a chemical so
tuition which is, ofcourse, the inventors
secret After the fiber of the paste
board IL sufficiently saturated, the pile
of sheets is pressed between series of
rollers, which consolidates them SO that
when dry the whole is n hard stick. II
is also claimed that the process renders
this wood substitute impervious to water
and the chemicals used are such rs 10
make ii tire-proof But the the sanguine
.inventer has only made samples thus
far.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
No Fun in Being a Princess.

The position of the Princess of Wales
is too exalted a one to permit much
social enjoyment, yet has not the SPLEEN
did potentialities of reigning royalty.
The Princess, too, Is peculiarly unosten-
tstious, and evidently finds the magnifi-
cent loniiness of her position an actual
trial, To be young and beautiful, and
idolized, and yet to be shut out from
most forms ofsocial amusement, can be
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
An Electrical Girl.

A CRpadian village possesses a curl
osity ia:the form of an electrical girl.
| This ,tpsnsel, once strong and fieshy,
suddcGIt became strangely ill lost her
flesh aie1 was conned to befid. Having
in hragh been of "a silent disposition
she bee Sme in disease subject to occa-
sionat conditions of intellectual excite
ment III which she talked with great
eioqueure and fuency, followed by alb
solute iaostration Without cause she
recently began to rally, became strong
and lively, moving viyaciously around
the house., and marking the curious re-
establishment of yigor by discharging
from h.. person electric shocks, which
can be :sansmitsed to circle of fifteen
or tweil:' persons. Her hands possess
the qua.iies of a magnet, and any per
son shg4lng hands with her is subject
ed to az ,olent shock
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08


THERE is warlike news from Europe
The mterminable Eastern question
has been again re-opened, first, by the
formidable revolt of Albania against
giving up portion of her territory to
Montenegro. in accordance with the
treaty of Berlin of 1873, and, second,
the refusal of Turkey to respect the de
cision of the recent conference Of the
great powers at Berlin, ceding slice of
Thessaly, in Turkey, to Greece. The
Turkish government, which is required
10y the Great Powers to cnfore the terms
of the treaty Of Berlin rs regards Al
bania and Montenegro, is reported to
be sending troops against the resisting
Albanias, and at the same time war
like preparations are reported to be
making in Austria, the latter's interest
being twofold- first, 10 keep the inhab-
itants of her new possession (Bosnia) in
subsection and secondly, the hope of
making additional territorial acquisi-
tons, in the event of another general
breakup in European Turkey.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

A YOUNG woman of Alden, Iowa, said
she "wished to heaven that she might
die that day" A terrific storm arose
Immediately, with thunder and light
ming, and she imagined that it bore
some relation to her case Fastening
to church, She knelt and prayed; "Oh,
Lord, didn't mean it when | said |
wanted to die. Please don't let the
HI ,,;,,,, h;+ mo -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

The newspapers of Ireland say it is
time that the tide of emigration from
the Emerald Isle to the United States
he arrested, a young laborers, at the
present rate of outflow, viii soon be-
come scarce
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

J. ID. GALIAwAY, a notorious charac-
ter of northern Texas. claiming to be an
Indian herb doctor, died suddenly IN
the negro quarter in Dallas. He had
been married thirteen times; had four
wives living; and had twenty-five sons
in the confederate army, ten of whom
,rern Titled
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

THIS Showing changes the order OF
cities in point of population. Chicago,
passing St Louis by round hundred
thousand, becomes fourth. Boston
changes places with Baltimore, San
Francisco with New Orleans, and Cleve-
land takes precedence of Louisville,
Newark Washington, and Buffalo.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
Milwaukee Mark ct.

MmwAUKEE, July S.-Flour-Quiet UNI
changed. Wheat Opened firm; lc higher: closed
firm; No. | hard LOG; No. /, 90; No 2, 81;
July, 81 August, 49, September, s6i4; No. g.
No. 4, IS; No. 4. IS; rejected, nominal. Corn
Frmer and in fair demand; No. .. 34ls. Oats
Firmer; No. ., Pass. Rye Higher; No, /. n.
Barley-Stronger; No . IS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

THE census shows that several Mas
sachusetts cities besides Boston have
made rapid gains in population. Lo-
well, which in 1870 had Al 600, now has
about $4,000. Lawrence has advanced
in ten years from 28,921 to $500, and
LYNN from 1888 to nearly 10000.
Boston shows an increase of 10000.
The increase in the cities and manu-
featuring towns has not been made at
the expense of the country towns and
villages. which seem to hold their own.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

WILLIAM PENNIx was the jolliest fel
low in Lynn County, Ind. He tiddled
and sang at the country gatherings,
rode recklessly in horse races, and was
seemingly incapable of 4 serious
thought Miss Bundy shared in the
general estimate of his character, and
laughed when he attempted courtship.
He declared that for once he was in
earnest, but she would not listen. The
dead bodies of both were found in the
road a few days ago. Pennix had
proved his sincerity by murder and sui
eide
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

MINISTER ANGEL has been formally
entertained by the Congregationalists
at San Francisco \ college mate of
the Minister made Il pleasant little
speech in which he said that during
his university career Angel was one of
the Seniors who was never ashamed of
recognizing and taking by the hand a
friedman He was the most popular
man NJ Brown
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

IT takes 100000 pounds of chewing
tobacco year to supply the United
States army.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

An Indian dog ut Green Bay, Wis,
can run as fast rs passenger train for
five miles.
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bassadors at Constantinople and Athens,
where it is to be signed by the latter and
tremendously handed to the Turkish and
Greek governments.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

VERMONT had only 126 divorces last
year, against 1877 in 1873.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

TEA is being carefully cultivated in
Florida.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08

AT the end of 1879 France had II, 120
miles Of railroad
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
INNOVATIONS.

PEACHES are plentiful in Maryland.
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AmeSsan girls abroad, Of the Daisy
Miller tS3,e, are said TO fiirt with the
clerks as American consuls and bank
s>rs -
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M HoSnital Needed

No pSlstial hospital needed for Hop Bitlers
patients nor large salsried talented buffers tell
what Hop Bitters sill do or cure, as they tell
their own story by their eel tain and absolute
cures at home--Nste YORK Ind pendent.
THE cattle drive from Texas this
year viii reach nearly million head
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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Irish Agitation.

LONDON, December 9th.-Forster, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, has issued memoran.
dunn to magistrates, pointing out that, under
certain Acts Of Parliament, persons assem-
bling, armed or disguised, or assuming the
name OF any society, to the terror Of her
Majesty's subjects, are guilty of high mis-.
demeanor, rendering them liable to imprison.
ment, as are also those who by threats en-
deavor to compel any person to quit employ
ment, or publish or write anything calculated
to create riot or an unlawful assembly.
All magistrates and constables are bound to
apprehend. oppose and disperse persons en-
gagged IN these practices, ard they can COM
mand all persons to assist them. Any two
magistrates can bind over persons whom they
have reason to suspect of even an intention
to participate in unlawful proceedings, or in
case of refusal to be bound over, they can
commit them to Jail. They can bind over
persons whom they believe can give evidence
relative to such proceedings, and if they re
can commit them to iail,
A Dublin correspondent, commenting on
Forster's memorandum, says: The truth is,
the magistrates, agents and landlords gener-
ally are panic-stricken, and do not venture to
enforce the law. The prosecutions brought
by the Attorney General OF Ballinsloe, and
others in Sligo, have broken down, which has
mad discouraging effect. There is also a
difficulty about treating the Laud League
meetings as unlawful assemblies. The mag
istrates do not feel justified in regarding the
threat /" to Boycott" as coming within the
act, as it does not imply violence.
The Government has ordered accomrnoda-
tons for 150 soldiers to be prepared at Bal
I'M, Ireland, where lady land owner was
recently mobbed and assaulted on the street.
DUBLIN. December 9th.-The League is
conducting the campaign in the North with
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Goschen has left Constantinople for Lon.
don.
A Durham dispatch announces that the
neck of the rebellion on that side has been
broken, and the Pordomez have been entirely
routed.
The French Senatorial Committee on the
Masistracy bill have elected Jules Simon
Chairman. There is possibility of com.
promise in regard to the bill, which may in
duce the Senate to pass it.
The bank of England discount has been
raised from % TO 3.
A st. Johns IN. F.) dispatch states that
the schooner Emma, for Green Bay. is sup
posed to be lost, with all her crew.
The local feeling at st. Johns is very
strong against the expressed Willingness of
the British Government to pay for the For
tune Bay outrage.
After a storm of speeches the Greek Cham
ber voted 30, GOO, 600 drachmas for the Min
listers of War and Marine.
The British Admiralty has abolished fog.
ging in the navy.
Bullion in the Bank of England decreased
nearly S., 600, 600 the past week.
At Arendel, Norway, eighteen houses and
the Postofhce have been burned
The New York Financial Chronicle shows
that the increased earnings for November
from forty lines of railroad over last year was
q per cent, or So 747, ,0O0.
The New York Posts Washington special
says: james r. Keene is negotiating for the
purchase of the celebrated Meem farm in the
Shenandoah valley, Virginia, one of the finest
farms in the South. The price named ia
more than 100000.
An Atchison, KS, dispatch says: The new
Wentworth water.works are success The
test to-day threw stream 125 feet high.
The celebrated English horse Blue Gown,
belonging to James r. Keene, on the way to
this country, died on board the delayed
steamship Victoria.
The Treasury Department yesterday pur.
chased 400, 600 ounces of fine silver for deliv-
cry at the San Francisco and New Orleans
Mints.
At Richmond, Va, last night the tobacco
factory of James Leigh Jones was burned.
Loss, S30 900; partly insured.
A new Antarctic exploring expedition is
about to be undertaken, under command of
Sir Allen Young, who viii leave England for
Cape Town this winter to make preparations.
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A boy Ii years of age, named Beckdalt,
stepson of Thomas Wilson Of Langell val
ley, Oregon, committed suicide one day
last week by shooting himself with pistol.
In the presence of his sister he took . large
navy revolver, and after telling her that he
was going to kill himself, placed the muz-
zle against his forehead, and with his
thumbs pressed the trigger, shattering his
skull fearfully. The young lady made an
effort to prevent him, but was too late, No
cause for the suicide is given.
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OWLISH PROPHETS
deserves respect who declared ephasay that freak Of insanity must have
firmly believed however, that our location for the public
HOUSE ATTEMPTING THE TASK FIXED IT'S PRICES AND CONDUCTED
A MANNER PUBLIC
this Sacramento remarkable
8 that to-day the movements Of
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No REMEDY FOR KIDNEY DISEASES here
tofore discovered can be held for one moment
in comparison with Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure.-[C. A. Harvey, D. D.,
Washington, ID. CT II. G. Kirk & Co.,
agents, Sacramento.
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BERTAUD's IyYALLIBLB ISJEcroS. - The famous
French remedy for gonorrhGa, gleet, ETC. n. .:
Hammer, Sacramento, agent for Pacific coast sent
c. o. D. to any address.
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HAMMERS GLYcgRoLH TAR. The most psrfecs
cough extant Hundreds can testify to us sooo
effects
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HAMMERS CAscARA SAsRApA BiTTERs cures 81
complaints arising from obstructed state OF inc
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REGULATE THE LIVER with Hammers CASfSfa
Saerada Bitters. and health is the result
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MECHANICS STORE.

We desire to impress upon the mind Of the public that we
are offering for sale DRY GOODS at prices that will prove bene
fetal and Of interest to our customers
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FOR RENT.

RANCH ON THE COSTUMES RIVER, sz%
N is miles from Sacramento, containing ~
400 acres will be let whole divided to al.
suit : good house and barns. Apply to A. j. YER
kILYA, 4l0 street. n20d
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HAMMERS cAscARA sAeRAoA Buffers ior hsh''rs
constellation
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Hmsxs's GL5csRolx or rAs, Tor coughs and eo.'l',
TrT it
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AT A BARGAIN.
DENTISTRY.
w. WOOD.

n ENTIST.-(REMovED TO QUINNSHEFA
II Building, corner Fourth and streets. 1HffD
Artificial Teeth inserted on all bases. Improved
Liquid Nitrous Oxide Gas, for the Painless Extrao-
ton OF Teeth n24-u
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HARE sS MoAD.
nRs. BREWER & sOUTHWORTH.

II ENTISTS, NO. COS J STREET, Be GxEA
tween Sixth and Seventh, Sacramento. sl5ff6
nlS-lptf
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PHILADELPHIA, December 9tIl.-The Ma
tional Council of the Union Jeaone Of
America held its annual session today.