River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-14

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The New York Spirit of the Times
says st. Julien will trot against his own
time (2:l1i), Mt Prospect Park, Brook
lyn, October II.
Rev. w r. Brooks, Of West Haven,
Conn, has been appointed president of
the collegiate institute at Austin, Texas.
General Patterson, Of Philadelphia,
and Gen. 10 Lane, Of Oregon, are the
only surviving generals of the Mexican
war
There was a small boy had some powder
And in trying to make it 90 louder
He succeeded So well
That his friends couldn't tell
His remains from dish of clam ehuwler.
Lawyers and doctors increase and
multiply in England, but there is Il
woful lack of preachers, plenty of cur
acies being vacant.
The reason why the poets always
speak of October as sober is because
sober is the only word they can find to
rhyme with October.
A Cincinnati dyer recently went in
sane from political excitement We
suppose the more he red the madder
he got.
A dispatch from Alexandria reports
that the rise in the Nile is quite up to
the average, and the prospects of the
crops are very satisfactory.
The st. Louis Cotton Exchange offer
a premium of $1,000 % the largest
shipper of cotton from Texas to that
market this season.
1t is reported in the Methodist cir
Giles of New York that the Rev. DIR.
Curry has been offered the editorship
of the independent, at ii salary Of $1,000
year.
Over in England, where Billy Flor
ence is playing The Almighty Dollar,"
they really believe that Bardwell Slote is
a genuine American congressman.
Mrs Fairchild, wife Of our minister
to Spain, who, with her daughter, spent
the summer i'll Germany, recently
passed through Paris on her way to
join her husband in Madrid
The will of the late II. NJ. Sp clifford,
contestant of the seat Of Senator Kel-
logg, of Louisiana shows that he owned
$154,00 in United States bonds
The Marquis of Lorne, governor gen
eral of the dominion of Canada, has
been paying II flying visit to Niagara
Falls, and to the Welland canal i'm
provement.
Professor Francis L. Patton, prcsi-
dent of the Chicago Theological Semin-
airy, has accepted the professorship in
the Princeton Theological Seminary
which was endowed by a. r. Stewart.
Marie Rose, the celebrated prima
DONNA sailed from Liverpool last week
for New York to fill her professional
engagement with Mr. Strakosch. She
is accompanied by her husband, Mr..
Henry Mapleson.
Among the things exhibited at the
Cincinnati Exposition is a knitted bed
quilt of white cotton, with pictures of
the presidents and Of the goddess of
liberty worked into it.
Annie Louise Cary had most en-
thusiastic reception III her native city,
Portland, on Tuesday evening, when
she appeared in concert. She sang
Home, Sweet Home"
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard, to
show his appreciation Of the efforts of
the firemen when his Newport villa was
burned sent check for $500 to the
Newport Fireman's Relief Association
The Rev. A. A. Hoskin, who has
been deposed by the Methodists for
heterodoxy, was denied permission to
perform a marriage ceremony in his
former church at Milwaukee.
Kansas cattle raisers in order to him
der competition, had law passed forbid
ding the passage through the state of
herds from Texas, but United States
court has decided the act unconstitu-
tional
Albert Gray of Dallas, Texas, had
lately been converted to Christianity,
and, therefore when William Young
swore profanely in his presence, he was
sreadfully shocked. He drew revolv-
err, implored the blasphener to stop and
then shot him dead.
A modern novel has this thrilling
passage: "With one hand he held her
beautiful golden head above the chill
ing wave, and with the other called
loudly for assistance
President Walker Of the Toledo Pro-
duce Exchange sent his unruly son to
reform school. The boy felt the dis
grace keenly, and, on being released,
committed suicide.
Joseph NJ. DUEL, the recently APP
pointed Clerk of the United States
Circuit Court in New York in place of
John |. Davenport, studied law in Sen
ator Conkling's office, and was admit
ted to the bar at Syracuse
Our consul at Hong Kong reports
that during the quarter ending June
30th 1880, emigrants numbering 5000
left Hong Kong for the United States,
of whom seven were females and forty
four boys.
The report Of the Illinois State Board
of Agriculture indicates that, notwith-
standing the August drouth and the
early September frosts, the aggregate
corn crop of that state will not fall
below the average.
The new commander of Russian
guards the Grand Duke Vladimir IS
the second living son Of the Car He
was born in 1917, and married in 1874
the Duchess Marie, daughter Of the
Grand Duke of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
He is not a particularly clever prince,
but he is very amiable, and has none
of the vices which rendered his uncle
Nicholas spOdious.
Mr.. Jesse Grant, who was recently
married to Miss Chapman, il gradu
ate of Cornell Is in his 23rd year, and
is member of the New York Stock
Board He is fine looking and nearly
six feet tall Miss Chapman is a petite
person, with light brown hair and large
light brown eyes, and her father is not
cd for his bold and large operations in
real estate. Mr.. and Mrs. Grant are
now in Chicago.
Professor Malcolm MeVicar, PHI. D.,
LII. D., at present Principal Of the
Potslam Normal and Farming school,
New York, has been elected as Princi-
pal of the Michigan State Normal
school, to succeed Professor Estabrook,
lately resigned. He enters upon his
duties about November list. Professor
MoNicar has the reputation OF being
successful educator His salary viii be
s, 900.
A young Japanese lady of sixteen,
Miss AIinei Yabu, daughter of an Off
cial in the Emperor's household, has