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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
A LONG PRAYER.
How Session of the Virginia Con'en.
ton Of 1850 Was Opened.
Charlottesville IVA } Chronicle

ChaIlotteSNlAe IVA SkFohicle'
We find the following ia AKentucky
paper without credit, and do net know
where it originated. As Gov. fletcher
is given as authority for the facts stated,
we presume there is no foundation for
the ancdote, which will be read with III
tereSt by everybody vino remembers
Mr.. Soutball:
"Gov. Letcher the other day gave an
anecdote on the convention of 1860
that must so into print. When Mr..
Janney, the president of our conven-
ton, was absent, Mr.. Valentine Southail
of Albermarl, was always put in the
cnar. lie was indlgeStively thin and
irritable. Janney had been indisposed
! for q week, and the Charlottesville dys.
peptic presided. During this time there
was no opening the session with prayer.
! Several delegates complained Of the
omission. Southall said sharply that il
was not his business to hunt up preach
ers; that was the business of the ser
gesnt alarms. This officer was Nat
THOMSON character. Nat defended
himself by alleging that Mr.. Janney
always attended to getting the parsons,
but if Mr., Southall thought that the SER
geant ought TO have preacher on hand
he would try to get one. That evening
Nat strolled down Main street in search
of g certain 'parsing,' an old acquaint-
anca of Nat. The preacher was of
duty, and was serving tables by some
secular pursuit in Richmond. He was
of the hardshell persuasion, Nat found
him, and told him ofthe need of a man
like HIM to lead in prayer for the con-
veution next day. The minister was
tickled at the request, but limited that
his Sunday suit was rather rusty. Nat
concluded to lend him the proper gar.
ments. The hard shell was ut Mats
room next morning, and was duly ar
RACED in clever clerical clothes. Nat
remarked on the route, that the cOnven-
ton had been without any worship for
a week, and it was expected that the
lost devotions should be made up that
morning. The hard shell brother even in
his shortest invocations, never could
reach amen under half an hour, and
this suggestion of the sergeant fell in
with the inclinations If the windy, and,
as he loved to call himself, Wrestling
Jacob Mr.. Southall's gayel tapped TO
| order exactly at II. AS soon as the par
oO@t iAau siuCh tle ISSuIdI HOtS anu
was beginning to weld his sentences with
telTor, Nat quietly slipped from the
! hail, locked the door ard went down to
Z&telle's for lunch. He spent an
| hour at the restaurant, and slowly re-
turning to the capital, and finding the
hardshell in full swing, he went down
to Rockets and dined with Dick Has.
kins, sauntered back about o'clock
and still had a quarter of an hour to
sun himself on the capitol steps before
the. swelling tones of the parson began
to taper to the lower key of the couclu-
sion. Nat unbolted the door as the
prayer ended. 1t had lasted three hours
AMI a quarter. The convention was far
FROM a devotional frame OF mind when
theregular business began. Mr.. Southsll
never insisted upon that sergeant-at.
arms furnishing ministers any more. >
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
GENERAL NOTES.

THAD 3. GIBSON, of Nashville, Tenn,
a steamboat man well known on the Ohio
river, is dead, says telegram of Feb.
%.
NICHOLAS POTTGIEsER, proprietor OF
the American House, at ST. Paul, died
Saturday night of heart disease, says a
dispatch of the 23rd.
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE, a retired merchant
of Philadelphia, says dispatch of Feb.
26th, has given 500 to the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts.
THE democratic state central commit
tee, of Illinois, issued call, on Feb.
Goth, for the state convention to meet at
Springfield, May 10.
THE Florida state fair during the week
ending Feb. 2Sth, was a grand success.
Many northerners were present; the dis
play of tropical fruits and plants was
very fine.
GEN. ADAMS, arrived at Fort Leaven
worth Feb. 27th, With Chief Douglass,
and leaving his prisoners there in Gus
tody, proceeded on his way TO Washing
ton.
ONE thousand employees of the Har-
mony mills at Cohoes, n. Y, struck for
an advance of ten per cent. in their
wages, Feb. 9th. They also struck for
one hour instead of thirty minutes for
dinner.
THE republicans state committee OF
Rhode Island issued call Feb. Goth, for
a state convention to meet March Is, TO
elect delegates to the Chicago convent ION
THE opening of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad was celebrated on the 23rd
of Feb, in grand style. The pioneer
freight train consisted of one hundred
cars. The first passenger train will be
run on the Sth of March.
NEW YORK city was greatly excited
over a statement made in newspaper,
on Feb. 23rd, that the bodies of paupers
who died at Bellevue hospital are all
given over for dissecting purposes.
THE democratic state central commit
tee, of Iowa, met at Des Moines, Feb.
25th, and issued call for a state conven-
ton to select delegates for the national
convention, to meet at Burlington, April
It'll
TIE steamer City of Washington, ar
rived at New York from Havana, Feb
Gath, having scored the fastest trip ever
made between those two ports, her time
being three DAYS and thirteen hours.
The new iron steamer Columbia, 3S2
feet long, 361s feet beam, and 32 feet
depth of hold, built for the Oregon
Steamship company, was launched at
Reaches yard, yesterday morning, says
a Philadelphia special of F b. Goth.
THE Virginia senate, by vote OF - to
It, says dispatch OF Feb 25rd, passed
the debt bill agreed upon by the resdJus-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
JOHN {. ROBINSON.
Death OF the One Man Who Could Real
iiy Decipher Horace Greeley's ChIrG-
&faphy.
New York sun

New York sun.
Mr.. John c. Robinson, know as the
Lightning Proof Reader, was found dead
IN bed at his residence in Williamsburg
yesterday morning Mr.. Robinson was
bosn in this city forty years ago. He
attended school in the Seventh Ward,
ana entered John A. Gray's printing es-
taslishment in Cliff street as u copy
bog" when thirteen years old. In 1854
he;entered the Tribune proof-room. In
deeiphering manuscripts he was mar
vcS He read Richard Hildreth's Hor-
ACES Greeley's, Count Pulaski's, CERT
| Sn9 this and other grabbed manuscripts
| almost at a glance. When Greeley him.
self was unable to decipher one Of his
own written sentences, he referred 1t to
Mr.. Robinson, who looked at it steadily
for minute VI more and mado out its
meaning. In the municipal canvass of
1866 letter from Mr.. Greeley, written
under the Springler House heading, was
sent to the night editor of the Tribune.
1t enclosed an editorial article in the
same handwriting favoring the election
of well known Republican politician,
who was running on All independent
ticket. 1t was the night before election.
Tbs article was put in type. In assort-
ing the copy before reading the proof
the manuscript fell under the eyes Of
Mr., Robinson. Something about il
attracted his attention. He examined
it as paying teller would examine a
doubtful bill. That's not the old mans
handwriting" he said, and was 50 con.
fdent that it was forgery that he called
the editors attention to it, and the arti-
Gle was suppressed. So skillful was the
forgery that on the following day Mr..
Greeley said that, had he not known
different, he would have taken it to be
his own handwriting.
Mr.. R)tinsons rapidil in reading a
pToof-sheet aloud was unparalleled, and
his enunciation was perfect. Timed by
the writer, he has pronounced COG words
in minute. This is ut the rate Of
Al, go per hour. The words were pro-
nounced in monotonous tone Of voice
without accent, and came from his lips
as though sent from the wheels of
machine. Long before the death OF
Mr.. Greeley, Mr.. Robinson was given
charge of the Tribune proof-room. He
left that journal in 1875, and accepted
similar position on the Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
The Truth of History.

The story is going the rounds that
when Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, was
waited upon at Springfield, H., by D
committee from Washington to ascer-
tain whether he would accept presi-
Dental nomination, be was found play
ing match-game of baseball. In
many of its features the story is apo
chryphal, but there is this foundation
in the gossip of the town. A commit
tee, which sought Mr.. Lincoln ont u
solicit his views regarding either the
nomination or his purposes in that re-
gard, did find him engaged in a game
Of hand ball, of which ne was very fond,
and, it is said, contesting with Dave
Hickey, also an expert (now streat-
car conductor), for the local champion
ship. When the news of his nomina-
ton reached him, Mr.. Lincoln was sit
ting by the telegraph editor Of The
STATE Journal, reading the dispatches as
they came in, and the chair in which
he sat Is still carefully preserved in that
office,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
Published February 2. 1870. J
III A ~ III %

AN ACT to amend section four thousand one hun-
d. ed and ffty-three OF the revised statutes. re-
latIng TO evidence.
The people of the state OF Wisconsin,, represented
In senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section !. Section four thousand one hundred
ana ffty-tree OF the revised statutes Of the state
of Wisconsin is hereby amended by adding after
The word railroads" in the seventh line OF said
section the words '0T military rca 1s SO that SAID
section, when amended, shall read as follows;
Every patent which has been heretofore executed
and delivered by the commissioners OF school and
university lands, which shall hereafter be exec
cutea anddeltyered by the commissioners OF public
lands, purporting to convey any land OF any de-
seription. and every deed or patent wnlch spail
the governor, purp0rting to convey any lands
granted TO the state by the United States to aid III
the construction OF railroads or military roads OF
any swamp or oyerhOwed lands, shall be received
as presumpttve evidence Of the facts therein
stated, and that the grantee named therein be-
came vested thereby at the date thereof with
an absolute title in fee to the lands therein de-
Section This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage aud publication.
Approved February is, 1850.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

IT il said on what Is claimed to be
good authority, that new line to con-
uect st. Paul with Lake Michigan, to be
known as the Wisconsin & Minnesota
road. is to he built from Colby on the
Wisconsin Central road to Chippewa
Falls. TO connect with the Chippewa
Falls & Western. The distance to be
built is ffty-three miles, through 8
dense growth of hard and pine timber,
with a rich and productive soil. The
Wisconsin and Minnesota company Is
the only one that is to be known in the
enterprise. and the only one that will
do any work on the new line. Tney are
now preparing plans apd getting ready
for business with the opening of spring.
and the expectation is to have trains
running by October 10. Already, man,
ufacturers of car and wagon stock are
prospecting on the new line, preparing
IN take advantage of the immense tlelds
of hard timber which win be opened.
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The report of the Canadian depart
ment of the interior shows that it cost
Canada $4,000 for the government
aud maintenance Of Indians in the year
ending June, 1879. This does not IN
clude a special grant of 100000 on sc
count &C the decrease of buffalo and
conseq uent destitution among the tribes
last year. The service of the depart
ment Df marine and fisheries of the Do
minion cost 1852 .67S las; year. The
value of fisheries during the same pc
Rod was about $13, 100000. The NUM-
Der of shipping casualties in Canadian
waters Sos; loss, g, 800, 900; lives lost,
0SI
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

Some Colorado white folks don't like
negroes. They had bali at little
town out there recently, and the floor
manager swore that no negroes should
come in; if they did, he would shoot
them. One of the hard cases of the
neighborhood blackened up his face for
a Joke, and vent to the ball. The sur
geong about there are now engaged IN
lead mining is, they are digging
the lead out of the man who went to
the ball as "nigger."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
THE DEMOCRATIC CALL.

The executive committee of the ma.
tional democratic committee issued the
following call for national convention
on the 25th of February:
The national democratic committee having
met in the city of Washington on the 23d of Feb
ruary, 1880, has appointed Tuesday, the 22d Of
June next, at noon rs the time, and chosen the
city of Cincinnati as the place Of holding the ma
tiOnal democratic convention, Each state is en-
titled to representation therein equa Ito double
tho number of its senators and representatives in
congress OF the United States. All democratic
conservative and other citizens of the Uuted
States, irrespective of past associations differ
eBces, who can unite with us in an effort for q
pure, economical aud constitutional government
are cordially invited TO join in sending delegates
to the convention.
At the last national democratic convention held
in the city of St. Louis in 1876, the following res
olutOn was adopted;
"ResOiued That the states be requested to in
struct their delegates 10 the national democratic
convention to be held in $780, whether ii be de-
sirable to continue the two-thirds rule longer in
force in the national convention, and that the
tOnal committee insert such request In the call
for the next convention"
(Signed) VIM. H. BARNUM, Conn.,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
Published February 10. 1851. J

AN ACT empowering commissioners Of United
States courts to admin oatbs and take sEc
T. certify the acknOw ledgment Of deeds and other
fStnstfnments In writing.
The IeopIsof the state of Wisconsin. represented
In the senate ana assembly, DO enact as follows
F2Section l. Commissioners Of the United States
IeiFcujt district courts residing In the state OIL
wisconsin are hereby authorized and empowered
10 administer oaths and take and certify the &C.
knowle gment Of deeds and other instruments ia
writing, iu the same manner and With the same
effect As IL taken adm Mustered By court com.
missioner Of the circuit courts OF this stage pro-
yided, however that before exercising tue poH "a
herein conferred, such court commissioner shall
ie with the clerk OF the circuit court Of the cogl
ty in which he resides. his certificate OF appoint
rient as such court commissioner or duly certl-
tied copy thereof.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be II
force from and after It's passage and publication
Approved February Il 1850
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
THR COALYNTEREST.
Why the Pennsylvania Operators have
Advanced Prices.

Chicago Tribune.
For the first time since the termlna'
ton of the combination of 1878, the an
thracite coal companies are all agreed,
and tomorrow night the mines will be
closed for the rest of the week, and they
will be operated only the first three
DAYS in the week from tomorrow until
the LIST of April. This will be equiva-
lent to three weeks entire suspension,
during which time it is hoped that the
surplus on hand will be got out of tn
way. No other course was possible.
There are at least 10000 loaded coal
cars standing on the track now, and
perhaps $4,000. 1t was impossible for
the carrying companies to find dump
ing-place or to secure sale for any part
of it, and it was, therefore, impossible
for them to furnish cars to workers,
even If there had been any orders to
fill. Besides the amount standing in
cars, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
& Iron company has not less than 1885,
21S tons on the wharf at Port Rich
mond, and of this. 60,554 tons were
stove.coal. The Lehigh Valley COM
pany has quite as much at Perth Am
DOY. lUGIG WAS hO u6IhdIu OF hih AoA
prepared coal, and, do what they could
it was impossible to find storing-p lace
for the amount that they had to
get out in order to give the necessary
amount of larger sizes to accommodate
the furnaces. The movement was
started by the Reading company, and
all other interests have agreed, indivld-
ual operators in the Lehigh region nav
ing come into the agreement for the
first time IN over two years. There was
no compact, only an agreement by all
interesterad. The first result has been
an advance by the Delaware & Hudson.
Although coal had been selling in New
York at from 40 to so cents below the
last circular price, the new rates are 70
cents higher. The Reading Coal &
Iron company has just issued a new
circular advancing prices at Port
Richmond from 10 TO % cents, and re-
ducing the prices to Elizabethport about
in the same proportion.
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Milwaukee Market,

yHwAuKgE, Feb. e. Flour Dull aud uD-
changed Wheat-Opened weak, closed very
dull; No. hard, l.2iA; 2iA for seller Febru-
sry, 1.2lA for seller March; i.2ih for seller
April; No. 3, 90; No 4, 1.o5h; rejected, 90.
Com Easier. at 37as for No. .. oats-Firmer
at }29s for No. .. Rye-Weak At "a for No. !.
Bariey-DuIl and lower at 65s for No 2. Pro
visi9ns-Dull.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The New York Times says that the
Nihilists have evidently undertaken to
carry on the business Of czar- killing IN
serial form. They blow their sovereign
up monthly, and make extra efforts at
assassination with pistol bullets on holi-
DAVIS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

EDISON il in the hands OF a stock
company which pays him an annual
consideration OF $25, 600, and has con
troll of all his inventions. Besides this
he owns a share of the stock, which
brings him considerable income.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

BRET HAErE has been in London on q
flying visit, and has been invited by Sir
Frederick Leighton TO respond to a
toast on Literature" at the Royal
Academy banquet, which will be held
the lst of May.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

AN Englishman writes to the Londo n
Times that there was not one total abb
stainer from strong drink among the
American Episcopal bishops who at
tended the Pan-Anglican congress. He
should be made to prove this or take 1t
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
Fees OF Doctors.

The fee Of doctors is an item that very many
persons are interested in inst AZ present. We be-
lIeye the schedule for visits Is $500 which would
tax man confined to his bed for year and in
need Of daily visit, over 81 900 year for medical
attendance slonei And one single bottle of Hop
BitteEs taken in time would save the 81 900 and
all the years siekness.-P0sE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04
NEWS NUGGETS.

THE late artist Of the capitol in Wash
ington, Constantine Brumidi, was born
in ROME, in 1905.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

OF the successful business men of
Springfield, Mass, Rev. Washington
GLADDEN. has ascertained that 80 per
cent. were either farmers boys or boys
in town who were used to hard work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The City Superintendent of Schools
Of Patterson, n. j., is accused Of taking
a seat by the prettiest girls, cracking
Jokes, and eating peanuts and candles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

OF the States of the Union, four elect
their governors every year, and sixteen
once in two years, two once in three
Years, and sixteen once in four years.
three elect their senates annually, eleven
once in two years, one once in three
years, and twenty-three once in four
NraorS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

Mr.. RUSSELL SAGE, of New York city,
has contributed $4,000 to the Irish re-
lief fund, or four times as much as the
Queen of England
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

DENNIS KEARNEY has stated the So
ciety rumor that Prince j. Gordon Ben
nett is fishing for the hand of Princess
Beatrice, of England.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

"BLowER" Brown has won the Ashley
belt In London, making the best time
on record-553 miles, in SIX days, go-as-
you-please.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

THE New York Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children Ct. n. Y. S.
F.T.P.O. C. I. c. has just issued its
fifth annual report.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

Mrs. COWLEY will not accompany her
husband to prison. she proposes TO
lead the life of singing pilgrim.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The grief of Mrs. George Herbert, of
Roslyn, L. l., was such that she went
insane at her husbands grave, last
week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

MINISTER HENRY w. billiard has
written to friend in Washington that
he intends to return home from Brazil
next summer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

SIR EDWARD THORNTON has served his
government during twelve years in
Washington. His father served thin
tom vears there
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

Mr.. WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT is go
ing to Europe in the course of few
weeks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The place for honest horse-races Is at
Miles City, d. T. The citizens there
hanged man the other day for allow
ING bis horse to be beaten.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The Geographical society at Rome,
has conferred a gold medal on Professor
Nordepskjold, the Swedish Arctic ex-
plorer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has been de-
lighting the inhabitants Of Paris by her
skating.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

SIR GARNET WoIsELEY will, on his re-
turn to England, assume the duties OF
quartermaster- general at Aldershot.
Friends and supporters of Sir Garnet
are incensed at the action of the gov
eminent in accepting his resignation
because of the criticisms of William
Howard Russell of Bull Run fame.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

THE handsome flag which hangs over
the largest window in the east room of
the White House, IS woven in one piece
in heavy silk. Among the stars is the
inscription in French, Popular sub
scription to the Republic of the United
States, offered in memory of Abraham
Lincoln, Lyons, 1860" Until short
time ago il was in the state department.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

THE Boston art museum IS open on
Sunday, and each Sunday is visited 10y
about 500 persons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

They are discharging youngsters
from the Baltimore public schools for
carrying pistols.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-04

The verdict was full for Mr.. Davis, the
first BALLOT standing eleven for acquittal
and one for conviction. This trial lasted
eight days.