River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07
GENERAL NOTES.

THE corpse of Colonel J. n. Ross, of
Holmes, Mass, will be cremated in LIE
Moyne's furnace.
The loss at Fort Pierre by the flood is
estimated at $50 000 The steam ferry
boat Leighton was landed on eight feet of
ice. six hundred feet from the bank of the
river.
A NoBBY Euglishman, calling himself
Sir Charles Ashley, is pulling the police
of St. Louis by his operations among the
jewelers.. pawnbrokers, and loan agents.
FANNY PERRY, a Louisville girl, obtain
ed marriage license and Was married in
the Jail to young man imprisoned for
burglarizing her fathers house.
THE first overland train by the Southern
Pacific route lett San Francisco on the
18th inst The cars composing the train
are all new and of the finest construction.
THE chief engineer of the Mexican gov
eminent. having surveyed the Iehuante-
pee route reports Captain Eads' project
entirely practicable.
A PANIC prevails at Milford, Ind, over
the development of twenty-five cases of
smallpox, communicated from a woman
discharged from the hospital at Fort
Wayne.
THE upper Missouri region is flooded to
a degree never before known. The river
rose ten feet at Yank ton, driving the in
habitants to the hills. AT Nermillion the
water is up to the second story windows.
THE bankrupt list includes Henry Row
land, an Albany ieweler; Sherwood & Co
willow-ware dealers OF Memphis, and Blsh
& Custer, grocers of Marion, Ind.
THE death of the earl of Caithness at
" L Il, l..
as the most scientific member of the peer
age, having perfected steam carriage for
macadam;zed roads and invented an i'm
proved loom and grayitating compass.
THE steamship lines from the German
seaports to New York have recently or
dered an advance of IS on their emigrant
rates, on account of the increased demand.
Miss HATTIE DEUEL., the starving lady
of Iowa City, closed her thirty-fourth day
by sinking spell which babe fair to have
fatal ending, but she soon rallied there
from.
WILLIAM GRANsDEN, of Midland coun-
ty, Michigan, has absconded with $3.50
due to his employees for their winter s
work in the woods.
Mrs. MARY BEMER, an insane woman
of Milwaukee, after escaping from the
ID
knife, cutting a large piece of flesh out of
her throat.
GEN. GRANT and party passed through
St. Louis en- route for Mexico, whittier
he is going in the interest of the Mexican
Southern Railroad company, of which he
is president He expects to soj0urn in
that country some two months.
THE circuit court at Muncie, Ind, on
the conviction of Silas Richardson for
grand larceny, fined him one cent. sem
fenced him to one day in Jail, disiran-
chised him for twenty-four hours, and
made him ineligible to any office of profit
or trust for the same period.
IN the legislature of British Columbia,
on debate in regard TO the Pacific rail-
! way, it was resolved 10 appeal to Queen
! Victoria. One member expressed desire
to put musket in every mans hand to
, tight the Canadian government
FIFTY gentlemen, of Ottawa, Ill, have
gone to Minnesota, where they have pur-
chased farms or expect to locate. They
will make their future home near Camp
Bell and Toutah, in Wilkin county. They
take with them 100 head of horses, some
cattle, farming tools, etc. Among them
are the sons of leading citizens. They
have two special trains on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad. and have
filled thirty cars with their effects.
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Protect Your Health.
Cold and moisture combined have torporising
effect upon bodily organs, and the digestive and
secretve processes apt to be more tardily per-
formed in winter than in the fall. The same is
true, also. of the exeretory functions. The bow
els are often sluggish, and the pores Of the skin
throw off but little waste matter at this season.
The system, th erefore requires opening up lit
tie and also purifying and regulating, and the
safest, surest and most thorough tonic and alter
stive that can he used for these purposes is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. Persons who wish "a
escape the rheumatic twinges the dyspeptic ago
MES the painful disturbances of the bowels the
bilious attacks, and the nervous visitations, SO
common at this tim of the year, will do well to
reinforce their systems with this renowned yeget-
able stomachie and invigorant. 1t improves the
appetite, strengthens the stomach, cheers the
spirits, and renovates the whole physique.
A pension of $4,000 was granted il
1890 by the British Parliament to the
heirs and descendants of William Penn
in consideration of his meritorious ser.
vices, and of the losses which his fam
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