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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

The prayer meetings of the NJ. E.
Church, every Wednesday evening,
are well attended under the plan of
pastor who appoints a leader and also
one to take charge of the singing
each evening, and distributes printed
slips containing the appointments
among those Interested
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

The dog law was repealed at the
last session of the legislature and
every one who desires the luxury Of a
member of the canine race can enjoy
it without the payment of a two dol
lar fee for the privilege.
Richmond has furnished AZ names
for the Milwaukee reunion, and our
neighboring towns will furnish their
quota, so that draft will be unnec-
essary. 1t is safe to say that the rail.
road fare Will not be over a cent a
mile.-.St. CrOir Republican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01
Hudson & River Falls RaiIway.-Time Table

On and after Tuesday, Dec, ,, 1879, trains win
run follows:
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Hudson, $50 A. NJ.
Rlver Falls, 1855 A. NJ. saltwater, $3.50 g -"
(St. Paul, 1000 /" g
st. Pau 400 p. NJ }
saltwater, 1855 " . River Falls, sos P. NJ.
Hudson, $50 g 'i
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

A supply of choice Early Amber
Cane seed may be found at +. j. Bur
hyte's at 25 cts. per pound. 43-2m
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

The firm of F. B. Bracket & Son has
been dissolved and the harness bust
ness will hereafter be conducted by F.
A. Bracket who snow sole proprietor.
Mr. Bracket has full stock of every
thing pertaining to the business and a
corps of efficient workmen and can be
relied upon for good goods at the low
est rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01
{ ITY LIVERY.
4 GOOD HEARsE FURNISHED

And especial attention given to funerals
Stable in rear Of Commercial House. 23-l
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

| The Sabbath School of the Centen-
airy NJ. E. Church, Minneapolis, re-
Gently visited by some of our citizens,
had an attendance of seven hundred
and ninety-three. including visitors.
The music consisted of piano, bass
viol. three violins, a horn, clarionet,
etc. besides the voices.
J. b. Van Schoonhoven, of Union,
has an excellent stock horse of the
Norman breed. He is of beautiful
dapple brown color, .compactly and
powerfully built, with good style and
heavy bone and of excellent pedigree.
He stands sixteen hands high and
weighs sixteen hundred and fifty
pounds. Horse owners of this section
are invited to examine him.
Gen. Lucius Fairchild. under date of
March 4, writes from Consulate Gen
erals office, Paris, France:
To my Comrades of the Second
Though far away in foreign land,
my heart has been deeply stirred by
the Wisconsin Soldiers Reunion call
for June. / know it will be grand
rally of the boys" far and near.
Though many of us are old and grey,
we are still boys to each other, and
especially when associated, as such
occasions always are, with the memo
ries of the gallant comrades who have
gone before us. | expect TO be happy
in being with you in June, and GER
tainly shall be if public duties admit,
and life is spared
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

Road warrants for sale at the JOUR
NAL office.
A nice line of ladies walking shoes
just received at Boxrud Bros.
|
Our Ellsworth correspondent gives
a solution of the 13-15-14 puzzle this
week.
The friends of S. E. Whitehead
have made up purse to purchase him
a cork leg
+. A. Bracket has rented George
Reed 5 late residence on Cascade and
| will move in soon.
| III. l.. Wadsworth is building an ad-
dition to the rear of his boot & shoe
| store for work shop.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church
meet this afternoon to put down the
carpets recently purchased.
G. L. Bowman is at the Institute al
Fan Claire this week. showing up the
merits of the News Cleaner.
The Polk County Press thinks about
April 10th is as early as navigation
will be resumed on the st. CroiX.
A Mass Temperance meeting is adj
vertised at Brackets Hall on Friday
evening of this week. See program
me.
Ed. Getchell will start for For
Benton, Montana, next Tuesday tt
court the hand of fortune in that fal
off land.
We shall open this week "a lot of al
wool black Cashmeres, which will b,
sold at the low prce of so cents pc
yard. BoXRUD Bros.
Soldier organizations are bein!
formed i'll nearly every county In tn,
State for the purpose of attending tn
Milwaukee reunion.
W. L. Burnett now belongs to tn
class of sporting men, having pun
chased a horse of G. Z. Davis tina
makes his mile inside of 3:15.
A good Kip Boot for 81. IS. } Come
! nj 20, n
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

Ole Bang at his tailor shop over
Burhyte's store keeps on hand a stock
of the finest goods to be found in the
market for gents clothing, and is dali
ly demonstrating his competency as a
first-clasS tailor. Those in want of
clothing can get the full worth of
their money and perfect satisfaction
in all respects at his shop.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-01

Ambrose Cook, Atty for Mortgages.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

Two weeks from tomorrow, the
Kansas City Times Co., will distribute
as premiums ten thousand dollars in
cash among its subscribers. The
Times has made several distributions
and no word of complaint or charge
of any unfairness has ever been utter
ed or made to our knowledge OF
course all do not receive premiums,
but all that are promised never fail Of
distribution to those who hold lucky
numbers. Those who get no premium
really get the value of their money in
an excellent newspaper and hence are
out practically nothing, with & chance
at S., 900 in cash. Send for circulars
containing full particulars.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
urG.

Luxury is a very ambiguous term,
and is so much thing Of circumstance
it changes its hue in every different
aspect. In Ireland, the accompani-
ment Of salt to potato is luxury.
Among the Cossacks, a clean shirt is
more than luNury-it is an etfemi-
macy. ''IfI were rich," said farmer
boy, Il would eat fat pudding, and
ride all day on q gate;'' and small as
his imaginative powers may appear,
the luXuries of many of the great are
not less strange or monotonous
Diogones, who prided himself on cut
ting his coat according to his cloth,
placed his luxuries in ''idlencss and
sunshine" Alexander, who had
something else to do with his time,
probably thought this basking in the
sun a very luxurious extravaganza.
Henry w., OF France, had but one
coach for himself and his Queen ;
whereas in our happier days no repu-
table couple can dispense with q
barouche, cab, and if they be al
their ease, they must add a pony
! phaeton.
/ There is one point on which modern
caprice has passed the bounds of en-
| Ijoyment, and that is in the increase ol
superffuities, which of late years, have
/ become necessaries in a well-furnished
house. We, most of us, remember the
time when one table, a pier glass /;
small detachment of chairs, with two
armed corporals to command them
and the curtains pulled up and dowi
with a cord, mace a decent display il
the best apartment.
Now, a library table that might
dine dozen of guests, with an ink
stand as large as q pastry-cook'
twelfth cake, are just and lawful. Al
ornamental escritoire, ormolu clocks
Chinese beakers, porcelain figures
vases, fiower-pots, stuffed birds
screens, albums, prints, caricatures
novels, souvenirs and follos must b,
allowed to the refinement of the times
Torsos, antiquities and statutes ar,
justified in usurping the elbow-roon
of living men and women.
The general charm of knlck-knacks
is unquestionable, and works Of .sr
afford amusement of the highest orler
but when the Inconvenience exceed
=, n1 a;ty, then the so-called lnNur,
.he u'lifO9V,~- .ssiye.
becomes oppres9H
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

LAppoNIA, Mo, April ), 1880.
EDITOR LEDGER Spring is indeed
here, tire merry birds are singing, the
frogs are hopping, the grass is green
and the flowers are in bloom. Yes,
spring is here, and all ale beginning
life, as il were, anew. With all its
glad songs, its merry making, and
happy hours, that overlooked dreaded
time has also come, general huus,
cleaning Why, we never know
how many goods we have, until they
must all be packed in pile, then
hung on lines and busted from day to
day. After working all day, as tired
as can be, carrying load after load,
all are ready to eXclaim, "blessed are
the poor that have not many house.
hold goods
Our town still continues lively anG
trade is good The corn trade is not
quite so great, owing to farmers be
ing busy blowing. The merchants
are having u big trade. Squire Gil
iiIand started to St. Louis to-day tc
buy large supply of hardware. c.
A. Wilder's store is crowded with new
goods, just arrived from st. Louis
last week. c. A. smith expects .
full assortment of dry goods and gro
cerics this week. Baxter Crawford
at present, is selling goods extremel,
low. Moore & Kennan are having :
big lumber trade. Mr.. Benning ha
completed his house and moved in
Mr.. Johnson is building large liver,
stable, and will keep horses, buggies
&c, TO accommodate the travelin;
public.
Miss Everett has just opened
millinery and dress making establish
ment. She has some beautiful hats
and prices to suit all. A very last,
hat can be bought from one dollar t,
sixteen dollars. The fashionable
should give her call.
What has become of the brick
maker? That is one thing that Lad
donia needs.
Last Sunday, in company with Mis-
Minnie Everett, we drove over t
Wellsville. 1t was delightful da
and the roads splendid. Welisville
lively town, pretty place, and bless
ed with many social people. 1t
almost as nice as Laddonia.
"Going fishing" is in fashion now
and all that have time engage in
until they get the spring fever.
School meeting tomorrow, an
many Il teacher, now waiting in sus
pense, will know their final doom tc
morrow night. ANNA LAURIE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

The most disgusting execution that
probably ever was witnessed in Amer
lea, took place at Washington, D c.,
April 2. James Madison Wyatt Stone,
a mulatto, about thirty-six years old,
was hung for the crime of murder.
The gallows was about twenty feet
The moose was placed around his
neck at 4:10, the knot under left ear.
The signal was given, the drop fell
and the body of the culpri. rolled up
on the ground. At first it was sup
posed the head had slipped through
the moose, but instantly the head,
whicn had been entirely severed from
the body, fell from the moose about
four feet fom the carcass. The
blood spurted from the body and
spattered everything around it. When
the head was picked up by physi-
clan, the lips parted, as if about to
speak. In two minutes all muscular
action ceased, and the decapitated
corpse was removed.
Could stronger argument be of.
fered against this harbarous method
of executing criminals? Strangulatior
on the gallows is regarded as inhu.
man, cruel, savage. Hence, the droI
has been invented to break the neck
/ of the felon and render him at once
unconscious of pain. But such scenes
as this are liable to render the drol
even more disgusting than death b.
the slow torture of strangulation
This is not the first instance in whicl
the head has been practically severed
though it is the first within our knowl
edge where the head has been actual,
jerked off.
Cannot our laws be materiall,
changed? Death by electricity, Il
private, with only witnesses enoug
to testify that the culprit was actuall
killed, should be substituted for th
gibbet, the drop, tie decapitation an
the holiday enjoyment of publ
hanging.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

A novel scene was presented in Ne
vada, one day last week. An old
negro man, wife and three children,
were winding their way back from
Kansas to St. Louis. They had an
old cart, to which they hitched them
selves up as so many horses. The
old man and his grown daughter at
the wheels, and the girl and the boy
in the lead. The cart contained sew
Iarsl hundred pounds of plumber, and
-sA~laad to the aiRR. too feeble to walk.
the wife, she De.ae -nnfess,sioht and
They presented a pitlable sly, p
attracted general attention. G:rfof
Roetter, commercial man from st.
Louis, secured several dollars to as
sist them on their journey.-Ex.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

Make full estimate of all you owe,
and of all that is owing to you. Re-
duce the same to note. AS fast as
YOU collect, pay over to those you
~T5,a,J GIEnu cannot pay renew your
owe. IL y~r>a fis.ta. tho host en-
notes every year, giving enJ 80 s,;
curity you can. Go to business dim
gently and be Industrious. Waste no
idle moments; be very economical in
ali things; discard all pride; he faith
ful in your duty to God, by regular
aud hearty prayer, morning and
night; attend church Sunday, and do
unto all men as you would they should
do unto you.
II you are too needy in circumstan-
ces TO give to the poor, do whatever
else is in your power, cheerfully; but
if you can do so, help the poor and
unfortunate.
Pursue this course diligently for
seven years, apd if you are not happy,
comfortable and independent in your
circumstances, come to me and l will
pay your debts.--Ben Franklin.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
Josh Billings PhilosOpH

The only advantage In ha : ma,
great reputashun il, it enables be pr
to do mutch more good than he other
wize could, but how few thare are who
ever think NV this.
All authors hav their trials and
tribulashun. l hav even had a taste
NV them mlself. l hav been familiarly
called "Daghm Phool," "Kussid
Idiot" and menny other kurious
things; but hav two consolashuns /:
One is: never hav wrote a line for
an upkind or sinister purpose, and
the other IL, | hav allwuzz got a good
stiff price for what l have wrote, and
hav got the money ON band to show
now. Moral: Bully for me!
Suckcess liz what wins. 1t makes
even a phool appear like wize man.
1t IL the genius NV the devil that
makes him terrible; if he had but flu
branes hiz iniquity would be far more
dangerous to himself than others.
Mi Dear Richard, be kerful what
su say, and who hears it. The world
haz both ears wide open to ketch Ell
ny unlucky speech yu may make. and
they never wuz known to forgit sutcl,
things.
Woman IL safety-valve. Withou,
her man would busst himself, and all
creashun besides or would try hard to
do 1t.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
Congressional Discussion.
Mr.. speaker
The gentleman is deep dyed liar
What is the reason?

Mr.. speaker
The gentleman is deep dyed liar
What is the reason?
Sir, / am personally responsible
Mr.. speaker, l rise to question of
privilege
The committee on the revision of
the laws
Sir, Mr.. Speaker, am I to be de-
nounced in this house as
The gentleman misunderstood me.
In calling him liar, 1 meant nothing
personal. 1 say he is a scoundrel.
Mr.. Speaker, 1 accept the gentle
mans apology. l had heretofore con-
sidered him more fool than knave.
| am pleased to learn that he is
equally both. l am personally re-
sponsible for
Allow me, Mr.. speaker, TO call at
tention to piece of shameless iniqui-
ty in this bill which is already fully
known to the thieves and vampires
| who have charge OF it. There is, In
the first section
l would like to pair Off
At this critical juncture the SER
geant- alarms announced that two
women and three babies were waiting
to see two of the members, and after
agreeing that the evening session
should be for debate ON finance only,
the house adjourned.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
Out ofseason, an empty pepper box.

Out ofseason, an empty pepper box.
The latest agony-Toothache at
three a. m.
A CRATE humbug-Turnip disguised
as horse radish.
A profane punster says the tele-
phone is a hello an affair.
The most fashionable ssmorning
wrapper is the milkman.
A man may write well and not be
right well at the same time.
The hen knows the man who robs
her nest. She is always laying for
him.
The season is not so forward as it
seems to be. Spring chickens have
just begun to lay.
A familiar instance of color blind
ness is that of a man taking q
brown silk umbrella and leaving q
green gingham in Its place.
A queer old hen declined an invita-
ton to a gander party recently, for
the reason that the ganders do not be-
long to her set. .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

Horace Greeley wrote 4 terrible
hand, aud Bob White, of the Mexico
LEDGER, writes one. if possible, still
worse. We are not good scribes our
selves, but we guess that Bob Bur-
dette, of the Burlington Hawkeye,
can take the belt, if what he tells
about his own writing be true. Bur-
dette travels good deal and does
much of his writing on the cars. He
says: "When | first got at it the
printers would draw cuts for my copy
and those who got slice of it would
70 around trying to hire cheap boy
20 kick them down stairs and break
their necks. However, there was an
old fellow who thtrsted after it, and
when he got q piece of it he immedi-
atelv put on sub and went out and
got drunk. Under any circumstances
he would have been discharged l do
better now, l had to, because it had
almost broken up the printers tenn
perance union. The patrons of the
cause traced the thing back to me,
and | had to improve my copy. Ii
didn't hurt ne much but it was ter
rible blow on the printers. '-Fultor
Telegraph.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

New York is a political problem,
whose solution is equally difficult to
both Republicans and Democrats.
Both are sensible that its electoral
vote is essential to success. Both claim
it and both are troubled with fear that
it may be finally lost to them. There
Is no mode by which this problem can
be solved at present. Figures cannot
compass it. 1t is beyond the reach of
addition, subtraction or division, and
there is not reliable data for an equa-
tion.
The probable result of the presiden-
tial contest IN New York is matter
Of conjecture. Suppose, for instance,
that the Chicago and Cincinnati con-
ventions shall nominate candidates
entirely acceptable to their constitu-
be wished for, and certainly within
the power of both bodies, which one
would be most likely to carry off the
palm, the Republican or the Demo
| cratic standard bearer? Such an event
would make things lively, but it would
be fair contention, and in our opln.
ion, Democrats might bet upon re-
suits if disposed to do so, with perfect
safety.
To secure the vote of the New Y orl
Democracy, it is not essential to nom
mate citizen of that State. In the
present temper of the dissentient:
there, both sides are more likely t
vote for q Western man than New
Yorker, all of whom are to create
or less extent mixed up in the existin:
quarrel.
Suppose, however, that Grant SHOULD
be nominated at Chicago, and th
anti-third-tcrlners either bring out a
independent candidate Or refrain fror
voting, might not Democratic conten
) ton in New York prove too weak +
admit OF Grants obtaining its electo
raj vote, even if the Democratic nom
+ incc shall not be wholly acceptible t
: the party in New York.
These are the combinations. The
are more perplexing than the -, 1
and - puzzle, and our readers are q
fully able to arrive at conclusions q
we are. We shall abide the result {
the combined wisdom of the party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

Among the many bloody duels on
record rs having been fought by Con-
gressmen was one in which James
jackson, of Georgia, who had been
and who was aftcrward Uuited States
Senator, was the challenged party.
He was Englishman, like the hero of
"Pinafore," by birth, but he went to
Savannah when lad, studied law,
was a leading Mason, and fought gall
lantly in the Revolutionary war. He
killed Lieut.. Gov. Wells in 1880 in a
duel, and was engaged in several af-
fairs of honor, until he finally deter
mined to accept challenge on such
terms as would makeit his last duel.
So he prescribed as the terms that
each party-armed with a double
barreled shotgun loaded with buck
shot, and With hunting-knife-
should row himself in skIff to des-
ignated points on opposite sides of
the Savannah river. When the city
clock struck II, each party should
start and row his sklff to a small is
land in the middle of the river, which
was wooded and covered with under
brush, On arriving at the island each
party was to moor his skiff, stand by
1t for ten minutes, and then go about
on the island until the meeting took
place. The seconds waited on the
main land until about l O O'clock, when
they heard three gun shots and losd
and angry cries. Then all was still.
At daylight, as had been agreed up
Oh, the seconds went to the island
and found jackson lying on the
ground, insensible from the loss OF
blood, and his antagonist lying across
him dead. Jackson recovered, bu,
would never relate his experience
that night, nor was he ever challenged
again. He died in Washington, serv.
!. ing his second term as United States
Senator, March 10, 1906.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

A rather amusing incident is told as
having occurred recently at church
in Connecticut, not many miles from
Fairfield. The clergyman, it would
appear, desired to call the attention
of his congregation to the fact that it
being the last Sunday in the month
ne would administer the rite of bap-
tisu TO the children. Previous TO his
having entered the pulpit he had re-
celved from one of his elders, who, by
the way, was quite deaf, a notice to
the effect that as the children would
be preseHt that afternoon, aud he
had the new Sunday school books
ready for distribution, he would have
them there to sell to all who desired
them. Aftey the sermon, the clergy
man began tie notice of the baptismal
service thus:A s.AlI Of those having
children and desiring to have them
baptised will bring them this AFTER
noon.'' At this point the deaf elder,
hearing the ns9iis "a children, sup
to bis books, aitA aid: ..And,
all those havingsik | tiesir3p.I
them, viii be sue,A = ~
sum q txenty-hs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
FURN IT UREx

| respectfully call the attention of
the public TO the large stock of all
kinds of FURNITURE, now on ex-
hibition i'll nly storeroom. | would
be pleased 10 have the public call and
examine my goods and prices, and /
guarantee satisfaction in every re-
spect.
in addition to the above. | have
engaged in UNDERTAKE Nc, and have
procured Il very fine hcarse, which Is
1T all times ready for funerals.
| have also full line of collins. cas-
krts. etc. which offer as low as they
can he sold. Soliciting II share Of the
public patronage, remain
Respectfully.
WM. iiiNZE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15
She Lost Her Umbrella.

"There!" she cried, in an excited
voice, Il should like to know what's S
become of that umbril. l sot it up
agin the counter when | come in, and
afore | could turn round it's gone
and it was only Monday that l gin
four and six for't!'' "What kind of
an umbrella was 1t, ma'am?'' asked
the polite clerk in his blandest tones,
"A spick and span new gingham,
young man. was the eager response,
with an il'ry handle ont and a.
"Like the one In your hand, ma am,
for instance?" ''Sakes alive!" she
exclaimed. And one might have
thought she saw a serpent rather than
her own ''spick and span gingham,"
with its ''iv'ry handle" clutched fast
in her hand. She colored up like a
druggists window and went off amid
unintelligible excuses. She never felt
so flustered in all her born days, as
she told Jemima Ann when she got
ome.-New York World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-04-15

Mr.. Hockaday has not yet replied
over his own signature. -Ex.
1t is not the wish of Mr.. Hocka-
DAVIS friends that lie should reply
over his own signature. Mr.. Hocka-
day would bemean himself when he
undertook to answer charges brought
against him, which have no founda.
ton and are without proof. Nothing
would please Barclay & Co. better
than to have Hockaday try to refute
their naked accusations. There
would be, then, no end to their ae-
cusatiOns.