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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
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Why she Was Not n Marrying Girl.
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hey were seated together, side by
side, on 81 sofa, i'll the most approved
lover fashion-his arm encircling her
taper waist, etc.
Lizzie" he said, "you must have
read my heart ere this; You must
know how dearly love you"
"Yes Fred, you have certainly been
very attentive" said Lizzie.
"But Lizzie, darling, do you love me?"
Will you be my wife ?"
"Your wife, Fred OF all things,
no. No, indeed, nor any one else's.
"Lizzie, what do you mean?"
Gust what | say, Fred. I've two
married sisters"
Certainly, and Mrs. Hopkins and
Mrs. Skinner have very good husbands,
] believe"
$50 people say, but | wouldn't like
to stand in either Mays or Nell's shoes;
that's all"
''Lizzie, YOU astonish me-"
"Look here, Fred; I've had over
twenty-five sleigh-rides this Winter,
thanks to you and my other gentlemen
friends"
Fred WINGED little here, whether at
the remembrance of that unpaid livery
bill or the idea of Lizzie sleighing with
her other gentleman friends, cannot
positively answer.
"How many do you think my sisters
have had? Not the sign of one, either
of them. Such pretty girls as May and
Nellie were too, and SO much attention
as they used to have"
"Now, Lizzie"
II am fond of going to the theatre
occasionally as well as lecture or con-
cert sometimes, and shouldn't like tiff
l proposed attending any such enter
tainment to be invariably told that
times were hard and my husband
couldn't afford it, and then to have
him sneak off alone"
Lizzie, Lizzie"
"And then, if once in dogs age he
did condescend to 60 with me any
where in the evening, | shouldn't like
to be left to pick my way along the
slippery places at the risk of breaking
my neck, he walking along uncon-
sciously by my side. I'm of depen-
dent, clinging nature, and | need the
protection of strong arm"
'Lizzie, this is all nonsense"
"Pm the youngest Of the family,
and know it would break my heart to
have my husband vent all his ill-tem-
per which he conceals from the world
on my defenseless head"
"But, Lizzie, promise you that L"
go yes, Fred; / know what you are
going to say-that you will be different;
but Mary and Nell have told me time
and again that no better husband than
theirs ever lived. No, Fred; as lover
you are just perfect. and l shall hate
awfully to give you up. Still, if you
are bent on marrying, there arc plenty
of girls who hay e no married sisters, or
who are not wise enough to profit by
their example if they have. And don't
fret about me, for I've no doubt l can
find sorne one to fill your place"
But before Lizzie had concluded
Fred made for the door, muttering
something "unmentionable to ears po-
lite"
"There !" exclaimed Lizzie as the
door closed with bang. 81 knew he
was no better than the rest. That's
the way John and Aleck swear and
slam doors when things don't go just
right. He'd make bear of hus-
band but I'm sorry he came to the
point so soon, for he was just splendid
beau"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

SECRETARY LINCOLN has appointed
Thomas B. Lynch to the position of a
messenger in the war department.
Lynch's career has been somewhat re-
markable. In 1860 he enlisted with
Colonel Keogh, the late secretary of the
national republican committee, and
the two became fast friends. After
the war Lynch drifted northward and
took part in the Fenian raids. He was
captured in Canada and sentenced to
death. The queen COMMITTED his SEN
tence and he went to prison. He
spent five years in prison making
shoes. and was released. An outcast.
he wandered, penniless and starving,
over several states of the Union, aud
finally drifted into Washington. Meet
ing Colonel Keogh in That city the other
day, the two went to Secretary Lincoln,
and the colonel told the story OF his
friends adventures. with the result as
stated above.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
FOREIGN.

THE Greeks, with great ceremony, un
yelled statue of Lord Byron at Misso
longhi.
The police of Berlin prohibited meet.
ing at which Hssenclever, a socialist, was
to speak, and arrested the latter.
A BERLIN journal made sensation by
the announcement that Bismarck has
grown weary of the ehancellorship, and
thinks the majority ought to assume the
succession.
THE London journals credit yarn that
the king OF AshanIee had two hundred
young girls killed in order to use ther
blood in making mortar to repair one oil
the state buildings.
AFTER a cabinet council at Paris, Pre-
mier Ferry and colleagues handed their
designations is the president. Gambetts
has taken steps to form a new ministry,
which will doubtless be announced soon.
VIscoUNT MoNcK defends the decision
of the land commission in the matter OF
rents on the Crawford estate in ireland,
stating that the testimony showed the ex-
istence of every evil against which the
land act is aimed.
In the case of Arthur LEROY, of Lon
don, who murdered Mr.. Gold in railway
carriage, the jurors consulted but ten
minutes to agree on verdict OF guilty,
and the Judge passed sentence of death.
The British colonial office has inform
ed the Canadian government that Minis
ter West will enter into negotiations with
the United States toward an international
copyright law.
The English people manifest the deep
est interest in the case of LEROY, who is
on trial at Maidstone for the murder of
Mr.. Gold in railway compartment of
which they were the sole occupants. The
Judge, believing that one witness vas
committing perjury. augrily ordered him
to leave the box.
IRISH landlords are alarmed over the
rentals fixed by the land commission, and
fear the practical eon6seation of their
property. A mass-meeting of the tenants
of Sir John Ennis, at Athlone, resolved to
demand an abatement of rents or appeal
TO the land court.
WITH view to prevent any misnnder-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
Female Slavery.

FROM the Buffalo courier.
Paul Boyton, in his trip down the
Missouri, has run across q curious mat
rimonial custom that the Government
should look into. One night he was en-
tertained by rancher named George
Mince. A comely squaw presided
over his household, and three pretty
halfbreed children called him father.
To his guest he confessed the fact that
he had bought this woman at Sliding
Rock Agency for horse. He pur-
chased her as a substitute for his In
dian wife, whom he had bought several
years ago, married. overworked and
maltreated until she ran away. The
squaw is kept hard at work, and the
husband or master does not allow her
to sit at the same table with him, and
beats her whenever he pleases. What
Mince has done is common thing
among his neighbors. "This system
of female slavery" says Boyton, SIS
much more extensive than the public
generally suppose. Scores of white
men are accommodating wealth from
the physical labor of these poor women
and their children" Captain Boyton
says that few days ago white wood
cutter bought 12-year-old Indian girl
for $50 at the Berthold Agency, and it
was regarded as an ordinary business
transaction. AS all halfbreed Indian
children are entitled to rations and
clothing from the Indian Agencies, the
importance of this immoral slavery
question, as mere matter of govern
mental economy. is selfevidept. This
is phase of the Indian question which
is kept in the background, but it is a
fruitful source of evil and misery which
needs immediate attention.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

WHEN the reciprocity treaty was con-
cluded with the Sandwich Islands, some
years ago, the Pacific states expected
to derive great advantage from the ad-
mission of the Sandwich Islands sugar
free of duty. But the islanders put up
prices so that these expectations have
not been realized. Now the California
papers are calling for the abrogation of
the treaty at the earliest practicable
period. 1t is also asserted that the
treaty has had the additional effect of
introducing virtual slavery on the
Sandwich Island sugar estates, the la
borers being imported from Europe and
China, and held in a degraded eondi-
ton to hard, servile work till their con-
tracts are fulfilled. 1t is estimated
that the profits of the monopoly built
up by the treaty amount to over 81
100000 a year, and this at the cost of
the people of the Pacific coast and the
serious injury of the fruit-oanning bust
ness, one of the most important inter
ests in California.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
GENERAL NOTES

CONFEDERATE bonds have fallen to 12s
3d. per 81 900 in the London market.
THE German guests, in charge of Walker
Blaine, have gone to Utica to visit the
grave of Baron Won Steuben.
A FINE portrait of the late Chief Justice
Ryan has been placed in the circuit court
room at Milwaukee by James G. Jenkins
HANLAN, the oarsnan, accompanied by
Plaisted and a friend will leave Toronto
soon for San Francisco, where five exhi
billions are TO be given.
J. n. DUBOIS, an extensive hide and
wool dealer, of Kansas City, has mysteri
ously abandoned his business, and his
creditors are costing alarmed.
In st. Paul, General Johnston, demo.
cratic candidate for governor, ran ahead
of his ticket. Minneapolis elected the
entire republican ticket.
GOVERNOR PILLsBURY, on learning that
Judge Cox had gone to ST. Peter to hold
court, served him with notice thrt he wa;
disqualified by the impeachment proceed.
ings.
f. S. Stokes offers to match the Cali
fornia horse Sweetheart against the Ken
lucky horse Phil Thompson, for $4,000 a
side. the race to be trotted in New York
or Chicago next July.
PETER G. SHANNON, the chief Justice OF
Dakota, states that the charges filed
against his conduct emanate from the In
dian land rings in that territory who seek
to destroy his chances for future sena-
torship.
HAVING failed to register, President
Arthur did not vote in New York, but
General Grant and Roscoe Conkling
walked through the Nintl congressional
district in the interest of Tom Murphy,
In letter to Cyrus w. Field, Mrs.
Garfield expresses the thanks of herself
and children for the magnificent pecu-
mary testimonial to the memory of the
president made by the American public.
coupled with the hope that it will be used
in a way worthy of the illustrious dead.
AFTER securing large tracts of coal
lands, some gentlemen of McKeesport,
Pa, have organized company to manu-
facture gas near the mouth of their mine
and transport it through pipes to all the
large cities of the Atlantic coast, erecting
pumps about twenty-three miles apart.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THE manufacture of glucose (corn
syrup) has become a very important
interest in this country of late years.
There are now twenty immense glucose
factories in this country. Already a
capital of over 100000 is invested in
the business. The daily consumption
of corn for the manufacture of glucose
is about $4,000 bushels, and the annual
amount about 100000. All these
factories have sprung up in the last
twelve wears.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
Nebraska.

OMAHA, Nov. 9.-Returns come in
very slowly. A light vote is generally
polled. The state ticket comprised a
judge of the supreme court and two
university regents. No special imp
portance was attached to that part Ct
the ticket, as the state is largely repub-
lican and the republican candidate is
absolutely certain to be elected Con-
siderable interest was generally mani
tested over county officers. Douglas
county elected straight republican
ticket, the majority ranging from 200
to 800, the first time a straight ticket
has been elected for several years.
Hall county went republican for the
first time in its history.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
Damagiuga KeDutatton.

The reputation, originally good, of many pro-
prietary articles, is in some instances damaged by
that most egregieus Of all business follies, fam
boyant advertising. The public soon becomes
disguised with an article concerning which state
ments are made with the evident design of hood.
winking it. and is nauseated rather than imposed
upon by wreckless claims to impossible merits. II
has ever been the aim of the proprietors of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to make the published
allegations relating TO it conform with reason and
proven facts. That then have succeeded in this
lsudable design is shown by the fact that their
Experience without the aid of bombast, has DEM
onstrated that it is tonic of the first order, a
safe and thorough remedy for and preventive of
malarial diseases salutary anti-spasmodic and
remedy for debility and a capital corrective of
disorders of the stomach liver and bowels.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

REPORTS from New York are to the
effect that an entirely new system of
railroads from ocean to ocean will be
in operation within two years, and that
already the better part of the great
chain is completed. The termini will
be New York and San Francisco. The
roads form ing the route will be the
New York, West Shore & Buffalo, the
New York, Buffalo & Chicago, the Chi
cage, Milwaukee & st. Paul, the North
ern Pacific, and the Oregon Navigation
Company's line. The system will be
in direct opposition to the Vanderbilt
lines and the Union Pacific railroad,
and it is claimed for it that ii will run
through part of the county that sup
plies the greatest amount of travel and
freight business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THREE distinguished senators and
two members of the cabinet were re-
Gently together at Washington looking
over list of questions used by ex-
Secretary Schurz at competitive ex-
animation for appointments to the
lowest grade OF clerks. They all can
didly admitted that they couldn't an
swer halfthe questions, and pronounced
the test a follv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THERE has been a ridiculous muss at
the Michigan State Agricultural college
in regard to some watermelons. A
party of students were caught in the
garden of Mr.. Hiscock, and compro-
mised,the theft for 50. A demand fol
the reAlrn of the money was complied
with, xhen the faculty insisted that it
should be paid back to the melon-gl ow-
er, and suspended several lads for re-
fusing to do so. BY vote of So to 80
the class resolved to leave the institu-
ton, but have not carried out their
threat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
Twelve Years or Silence.

Cincinnati Tlmes-Star: In this coun-
ty. near Alexander, about twelve years
ago, a young man named John Afford
began to show evidences of mental de-
rangement. His father is an old, re-
spectacle citizen, and there is quite a
numerous family of brothers and sisters,
and well known throughout the upper
end of the county. He was at the
time unmarried, and about 80 years of
age. He was rather good looking, tall
and erect, and probably six feet high,
and there was no apparent cause for
mis- arrangement. Some time after,
during the fall of 1869, he was duly adj
judged lunatic and taken to the luna
tic asylum at Lexington, where he re-
manned a few months, and was sent
home by the authorities of the asylum
as harmless, but incurable. He re-
manned with his father awhile, and was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THE murder of Colonel Smith, the
clerk of the federal courts at Omaha, is
believed to have been an act of revenge
ON the part of some saloon keeper
whose business was destroyed by the
enforcement of the high license liquor
law. Large rewards have been offered
for the arrest of the assassin, to which
the Liquor Dealers Association Of
Omaha subscribed literally, as an ex-
preston of their feelings in the matter.
The murder will cause the law to be
enforced more vigorously than ever,
and Colonel Smith will be held in.sacred
memory as a martyr to the temperance
cause.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THE assets of the wrecked Mechan-
les National Bank of Newark, N. j.. as
reported by the government examiner,
amount to $2,035, 252' 9S, and the iabil-
tiles 81, 549, 253.43. The actual def
cheney is s2,441 ,OO0.45, which is to be
made up by assessment on stockhold-
ers partly. The examiner estimates
after making allowances for all prob
able losses, that depositors will receive
from 80 to 60 per cent, and that stock
holders will lose an amount equal te
their stock additional Receiver Ere
linghuysen says it will take many days
to complete his examination, as the at
fairs of the bank are in most compli
Gated condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

VANDERBILT has weakened somewhat
on his scheme of fast transportation to
and from Chicago The eastward train
is to be quickened but one hour, and
the westward express viii only attempt
to equal the time made by the Penn
sylvania flyer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
A Remarkable Garden.
Christian Union.

The finest specimen of carpet gar
dening in this country may be seen in
the grounds of John Hoey, at Long
Branch. To those who have never
seen it, it viii prove genuine surprise,
as being unlike anything they ever
have imagined in the way of garden
ing. The bed. which is about p feet
wide by 50 feet long, is surrounded on
all sides by walk, and has for bor-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

THREE Boston clergymen and broth
er of Gliteau have been formally sum
moned as witnesses on the trial OF the
assassin. Isaac N. Arnold, of Chicago,
has written TO M. Scoville approving
his course in the defense.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

cattle this year will reach more than
$4,000, perhaps $4,000.
This is but one ranch. There are a
number of others on the Arkansas be-
tween Pueblo and the state line that
are but less in extent. This shows how
rapidly the best lands in the Arkansas
valley are passing into the hands of a
very few men. As it isnow, a halfdoz.
en- men own the bulk of the bottom
lands, and through these control most
of the grazing lands for miles on either
side of the river, from Pueblo 10 Kan
sae - Gll1-rea Deraes. Rtarilhicnal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

MILWAUKEE,. Nov. 10.-Flour Dull and neg
lected. Wheat-Weak and irregular; closed
unsettled but higher; No. 2 hard, nominal
Ne. 2, 1.26; 1.26 for seller November; l.27s
for seller December; 12s& for seller January
l.29A for seller February; l.3OA for seller
March; 1.3I,< for seller April; No. 3, 1.12; No
4 and rejected nominal. Corn-Dull and lower
No. 2, go. 0ats--A trife frmer; No. 2, 42H
Rye Dull and heavy; No. /, SO. Barley
firm and quiet No. g. 96A996K.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
A Ranch Of One Hundred Thousand
Acres, Stretching for Twenty-Five

A Ranch OF One Hundred Thousand
Acres, Stretching for Twenty-Five
Miles
Thinking that something of interest
might be written concerning repre-
sentative cattle ranch in the Arkansas
valley, your correspondent accepted an
invitation extended him by the largest
Individual cattle-owner, now living in
Bent county, to visit his thoroughbred
breeding ranch, at Prowers' Station,
twenty-seven miles east of West Las
Animas. A large stone barn, corrals, a
windmill, neat stone house, a newer
house of the same material, not yet
finished, both surrounded by regular
IMPLANTED grove of young cottonwoods,
these were the home Improvements on
one of the largest cattle ranches in the
state.
These two ranches, and several 9TH
ers, owned by the same gentleman, all
making up river frontage of eighteen
miles, and including a number of very
productive meadows, are situated on
the south side of the Arkansas, and are
all under fence. Directly opposite
these, beginning at Fort Lyon, and
reaching down the river a distance Of
twenty-five miles, and extending back
far enough to include an expanse OF
$4,000 acres, is another pasture under
fences, the titles for which are in the
same name. Here, then, are forty
miles of water front and hundred
thousand acres of pasture under fence,
all owned by one man. The fencing
on these ranches viii sum up over one
hundred miles. Northward to and
even beyond the Kansas Pacific, and
southwark to the Cimaraon and beyond
into the panhandle of Texas, Craze his
cattle, more than twelve thousand in
number. Already this autumn he has
shipped eleven hundred fat steers,
whose average weight has not been less
than twelve hundred pounds, and he
win vet ship from five to seven hun
dred more quite as good. His sales of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

The government examiner went
through the bursted bank at Newark,
and reports assets of $2035, 252 9S, and
liabilities of s4,446, 25343. Sharehold-
ers will lose an amount equal to their
stock, and depositors may recover so
per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

SITTING BULL and eighty of his i'm
mediate followers are guarded at Fort
Randall by colored soldiers of the 18th
infantry. Miss Fletcher, of Boston,
after investigating the condition of the
prisoners, has sent home an appeal for
clothing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

A number of Kansas retail mer-
chants have signed an agreement to
buy no goods through drummers. 'In
some respects the system Is convent
ence," they say in circular sent to
Chicago and st. Louis firms; 'fbut your
agents occupy too much of our time
and are too little disposed to take no
for sn answer. We find that they
force themselves and their goods upon
us, and have decided to make a stand
against them"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
Ten Questions and Answers.

What has brought about this wonder
full prosperity which our country now
enjoys? Farming.
What has brought our government
bonds back from Europe2 Farming.
What has brought interest down so
low that every legitimate enterprise
may work on borrowed capital and
grow rich? Farming.
What Of all the professions would
You recommend to the rising genera
ton? Farming.
What fosters commerce and stimu-
lates manufactures? Farming.
What has caused the present boom
in railroad building? Farming.
What has dispersed our army of
tramps? Farming.
What business, if wisely conducted,
viii return something more than a liy-
ing every year? Farming.
What business is conducive to long
life, and of all others is least connected
with crime, vice, etc? Farming
What business, either directly or in
directly, is "the power behind the
throne" of all other industries under
the sun? Farming.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

The treasury department has in store
about 100000 in confederate bonds
and $4,000 in notes, besides a large
quantity of certificates of Indebtedness
issued by the rebel government rang
ing from $50 to $500, 900 in amount.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17
MORSE @ WILKINSON, Probrst0rs.

IT is thought that only two lives were
lost by the wreck of the steamer War
Eagle at Keokuk. The steamer was
valued at $4,000. The bridge was
damaged to the extent of $50, 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-17

WILLIAM KUHL, who was in custody
on the charge of being the desperate
Lon Williams, has been released at
Menominee. The effort to prove him
to be Williams utterly failed.