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

IN a private trial on the Columbus
track Maud S. trotted mile in 2:16.
DIsTRICT-ATToRNEY WooDFoRD, of New
York, has appointed as his assistants son
of Postmaster General James and nephew
of Roscoe Conkling.
IT is probable that not over $4,000. ard
certainly not over 100000 persons, own
the entire debt of the country.
YALE COLLEGE has I0S instructors,
1,037 students, and 10000 volumes in the
Libraries.
THE Bradford oil district is alive with
excitement over two rich strikes across
the line in New York, flowing 100 to $50
barrels per day.
A RABBI at indianapolis has levied on
the cemetery of the Children of Jacob con-
gregation, and will advertise it for sale on
a Judgment for salary.
A FLOCK of carrier-pigeons owned in
boston have been lessening the record.
One of the number flew from Schenectady,
\. Y, to Boston in four hours seventeen
minutes and fifteen seconds.
IN consequence of the abandonment of
his German newspaper partnership in St.
| Louis by Carl Schurz, the business man
ager Of the concern has been forced to re-
tire from the enterprise.
| HENRY Willard and his associates have
! filed at Portland articles of incorporation
of the Oregon Transcontinental company,
with capital of $50.000,000.
TWELVE indictments were presented by
the grand jury at Albany, seven of which
were sealed. but the names Of the offend
ers can not be learned.
JOHN G. SAKE, the wit, is becoming
confirmed hypochondrac, partly from
want of exercise and partly from brooding
| over the loss of his children.
THIS year the emigration from Sweden
to America will reach 10000, which is
! about one-sixtieth of the entire popula-
ton.
Four prominent liquor dealers of Oma-
ha. two of whom are members of the CITY
| council, have been indicted for violating
the high license law.
Our of s87 100000 in foreign gold coin
received at New York from August to
May not one piece was British. The ar
rivals were mainly French 20-franc pieces
and German 20-mark pieces, although
japanese yens were well represented.
TOBACCO cultivation in the United
States, for 1880, is placed at AS, l07, 5S3
pOunuS. Inc aNeEaRe YItIu per acre is
shown to be 731 pounds, varying from
1859 pounds in Massachusetts, to AL
pounds in North Carolina.
GENERAL BEUREGARD, the vicious horse
which recently killed two grooms in New
York, and has lately been in danger of
starvation because no one dared to attend
him, was shot in his stall as an unsafe
beast.
GEORGE H. SPENCER, of st. Paul, who was
appointed agent of the Grow Greek Indians
on the recommendation of Bishop Hare,
speaks the Sioux language, was nearly
murdered in the outbreak OF 1862, and
was rendered penniless by Indian plumber
ers on the site of 0rtonville.
john GYUMBER, the Hungarian who
has so greatly puzzled the authorities at
the poor-house at Reading, Pa, after alb
sJlute silence for one hundred and thirty
i've days found voice to express his thanks
for flower which was given him.
Ex-ALDERMAN CLANCY. of Ottawa, Ont,
entertained thousands of people by an ex-
hibition of his flying machine, on which
he has been at work for thirty years. 1t
has wings and is worked by a crank, and
he kept steadily in the air for a quarter Of
a mile at an average height of twelve feet.
THE running meeting of the Chicago
driving park opened with fine prospects.
Nearly three thousand persons attended,
and all the arrangements proved admira-
BILE. Lizzie s. won the mile dash, Let