River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-01
FOREIGN.

FoTHERELL, of Dublin, will be appoint
ed solicitor of the land court.
THE Emperor William is Frustrated by
cold, and may be prevented from attend
ing the autumn maneuvers.
AsIATIc cholera is daily sweeping away
from one hundred to three hundred ma
tives of Bangkok, Siam.
BISMARCK, after flying visit to his es-
tate at Schonhausen, has gone to Varzin
to remain until January.
THE French military commission to
participate in the Yorktown centennial
comprises General Boulonger, Colonel
Borsan, and three minor officers.
THE continued rains in Ireland have
greatly damaged the grain crops, and APP
prehensions are felt regarding the har-
vest.
BARON Won RADowITz is to succeed
Count Won Hatzfeldt as German ambassa-
dor to Constantinople.
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs was banqueted at
the London Conservative club by Mr..
PulestOn, NJ. 2.
THE emperor of Austria has given 90
900 forms toward the rebuilding of the
theatre recently burned at Prague.
IT is said that the deanery of Westmin.
ster has been accepted by Rev. George G.
Bradley, for some time honorary chaplain
to the queen.
A LANDLORD with large estates in the
south of Ireland has offered his tenants a
permanent reduction of % per ceat. in rents
rather than deal with the land court.
THE Irish Land league reports receipts
of 81 ,315 for the week. The sum of ESQ
was granted the Whelan brothers, who
were acquitted of the charge of numbering
Boyd
THE English journals declare that few
days more of wet weather will render the
harvest prospects desperate. Immense
damage has already been done all over the
United Kingdom.
THE heat in Tunis is so excessive that
the French hospitals are crowded with
soldiers. The troops of the bey have come
TO a halt because of strike by the Arab
temperatures.
janice CARD thinks two-thirds of the
wheat land of England will yield an aver
age crop, while the other third will fall
10 per cent below. Barley is the best
crop of the year, but oats are extremely
deficient.
PARHELL moved in the house of COM
mons for the release of Michael Davitt,
characterIZing his arrest as the most con-
temptible act ever committed by any gov
eminent The motion was defeated by
81 to 10.
MINISTER WHITE has, within the past
two years, forwarded from Germany to
Cornell university many antique works of
art, and the alumni are arranging to give
him dinner on his return next month.
AN agricultural journal of London states
that during the past week the harvest in
England has been ieopardized by the
weather, and there has been an advance
in the price of wheat both in Great Brit
ain and on the continent.
THREE-FoURTBs OF the town of Yule,
British Colu bia, IS a smoldering ruin,
the loss being estimated at 100000 to
! 100000. The flames started in room in
a hotel occupied by an intoxicated man,
who evidently paid the penalty by his
| life.
| ELECTIONS for members of the french
| chamber of deputies were held Sunday,
with large vote and perfect order. The
supposition that the new members would
incline more strongly toward free trade is
dissipated. Returns from 80 districts
show the election of As republicans and
one conservative, and six second ballots
are necessary. The result in Belleville is
/ considered signal defeat for Gambetta.