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

COINAGE of the fve-cent nickel pieces
has been suspended, as it is becoming re-
dundant.
THE treasury is prepared to redeem the
outstanding ) per cent of 1881 at the rate
of 10125.
THE naval board of inquiry recommends
that five officers and thirty-fve men be de-
tailed fer the Jeanette expedition.
GOVERNOR MURRAY is going back to
Utah to answer to the Mormons for issu-
ing certificate of election to Delegate
Campbell
STANLEY MATTHEWS has turned his back
upon Washington, which act is regarded
as an abandonment of his contest for con-
frmation.
FRED DOUGLAS is TO be bereft of the
marshaiship of the District of Columbia.
his successor will be Captain Henry. of
Ohio.
No democratic senator intends to vote
for the confirmation of William +. Chan
dler as solicitor general position in
which he would control the deputy mar
shals of the department of justice.
IT is predicted that captain Henry. Of
the postOftce department, who Is a native
of Ohio and personal friend of the presi-
| dent, will be commissioned marshal of the
| District of Columbia.
HUGH ]. JEwETT having declined the
| presidency of the worlds fair commission,
| the executive committee will take no fur
Their action until the transportation com
| panies come forward with the full amount
Of their subscriptions.
In the senate chamber at Washington,
| Mr.. kellogg found handsome boquet on
his desk. while Ben Hill was the recip-
lent of magnificent floral effort, a ship
of state sailing upon a sea of yiolets and
roses, accompanied by laudatorY letter
from ladies of alexandria, Va.
THE report of the treasury department
on trichine will soon be ready for dis
tribution. 1t will show that no country
monstrate the absurdity of the idea that
the American variety is more harmful
than the European
JUSTICE CLIFFORD, of the United States
supreme court, has gone to his home in
Portland, Maine. His recovery is consid-
cred hopeless, and it is believed his resiR-
alton is already written. Ex-Attorney
General Devens will probably succeed
him.
TIE galleries of the senate chamber
were ia mined, March %, in anticipation
Of a sensational debate. Among the au-
d 5 was Mrs. Sprague, for whom a seat
v held by COnkling's colored valet
Malone devoted three hours to the task
of making his position as clear as sunlight
and rounded off eloquently in q few ex-
! tempOraneOus remarks,
SECRETARY BLAINE called the attention
of the commissioners of emigration at
New York to the charge that some unde-
sirable women were to arrive from Switz-
erland The Swiss consul interviewed the
persons alluded to, and found that theii
passage mad been paid by the authorize
of the town they left behind them. The
officials at Bottstein 'sent cablegram tc
deny that they shipped an insane girl at
the expense of the commune.
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Ra sing Camels I'm Nevada.

The Virginia City Enterprise Says
We are informed that the Frenclman
who owns the herd of camels ranging
to the eastward in the valleys bosder-
ing the Carson River will utiliz,. his
"ships Of the desert next summer in
carrying goods from the terminus OF
tire Carson and Colorado railroad into
camps far out in the wilderness. The
camels now number about forty, az but
two or three OF which are natives Of
Nevada. In our deserts these anisnals
find grasses and bitter and prfckly
shrubs and plants suited to their taste,
and probably the same or varieties Of
the same plants that grow in ether
desert regions of the earth. II irsless
trouble. and costs much less to grow
camels in Nevada than to rear cattle
i'm the Atlantic States"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07
FOREIGN

THE latest attempt at assassination in
Russia was directed against the governor
of Baku.
THE Swiss government has commenced
an investigation into the movement of
Russian refugees at Geneva Immediately
precedih the butchery Of the ear.
THE threat comes from Geneva that, if
Sophie Pieofsky is executed, the ear will
petIsh.
UNDER the socialist law, the Berlin po-
lice have issued orders for the expulsion
of eighteen persons.
THE German population in the noun
tain districts of Bohemia are leaving for
the United States in large colonies.
4 REBELLION of considerable import
ance prevails at Herat. and Ayoob Khan
is virtually besieged in the citadel.
A HUGE petard exploded at the door of
a Carmelite church in Madrid. on Satur-
dav. doing considerable damage to the
structure.
THE remains of the murdered car were
deposited in the imperial vault of the
church at the fortress, amid salvos of ar
tillery.
THEITurks are preparing for the de
Tense of Nolo bv placing torpedoes IN the
channel and constructing earthworks at
Tivkeri.
Ara monster land meeting in Tippc-
rarv, Dillon advised the tenants not TO
pay unjust rents except at the point OF the
bayonet.
Four London detectives arrested the
editor of the Freiheit, on charge of melting
rebellion in a foreign state, elected the
compositors, and locked up the office
OK April 6, the anniversary Of Greek
indie endence, tie king viii hold grand
military review and present colors 10 the
garrison of Athens.
OSCAR DE LAFAYETTE, a member of the
French senate, died in Paris recently, aged
to wears. Being n grandson of the mar
quis who aided the American colonies in
achieving their independence, it was the
intention of President Greyy TO send him
to the Yorktown centennial 10 represent
the republic of France.
A LADY obtained private audience
with the pope to warn him that an hour
had been fixed for the assassination of
himself and Cardinal Pecci.
THERE is a rumor from St. Petersburg
that the new car is about to issue ukase
/ looking to concession of the principle OF
popular representation.
A COUNCIL of ministers are now
at convened St. Petersburg, regard
ing representation of the people.
Nearly all the Russian ambassadors are
now in attendance, and there is some
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07
An AnecdOte of Lincoln.

In their early days Abraham Lincoln
and VIM. c. Green We're partners in a
grocery store at New Salem, Nsanard
county, ILL., At the breaking outsof TIE
Black Hawk war they sold theie store
and enlisted for that campaign both
joining the same regiment. Lincoln
and Green continued to be on terms of
warm friendship until the fca'mers
death. Shortly after Lincoln's election
to the Presidency Mr.. Green called
upon him to offer his congratulations
They talked about old times. 'tsreep,
do you remember that fellows who
challenged orr whole regiment for a
wrestle when we were at Rock Island?"
asked Mr. Lincoln, referring t. the
Black Hawk campaign. Eyes, Il re-
member him, said Mr. Green. ';AVhat
was his name?' Don't know; | re-
member the man but not his name"
"Well, you remember l threw him,
don't your" eyes, you did that"
"Well, if ! knew his address | aould
send him commission for a MICS little
office, so as to let him know | bear no
malice" said old Abe, with that pecu-
liar twinkle of his eye which those
who knew him remember SO welS Mr..
Green, who is still among the fiving,
and resides at Tallula, Menard county,
loves 10 tell this little anecdote wien he
meets mutual friends" of the good old
times.
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CRIME.

A GANG of. bogus coin manufacturers
have been arrested near Cadillac, Mich,
and their molds and metals seized.
A MAN named John Doe alias VIM.
Sahe has been arrested for abdueting the
IA year old daughter of a Swiss saloon
keeper in Chicago.
A GENUINE unfortunate is DIR. Elmer
Hause. of Tecumseh, Mich. His fourth
unlucky adventure resulted in stabs in the
breast and back, inflicted by a burglar.
SEVERAL stores have been robbed at
Pierre, Dakota, fifty vigilants, armed with
rifles, picked up all the questionable men
in town. and drove them away with a
warning.
A BURGLAR at Peoria cloroformed Adam
Gable and wife and took watch and
fat pocket-book. A diamond ring on Mrs.
Gables finger fitted too tightly TO be re-
moved.
DANIEL KEIsTLER, stock raiser was
shot dead by renegade Indian at the
mining camp of Ivanpak, in California
Some Indians in the vicinity delivered
the murderer to the authorities, but soon
afterward lie was lynched.
EMMA DRAKE, of Whitehall. Mich, was
on Yesterday disfgured for life by vitrlol
thrown by the wife of Captain Flagstaff,
of the propeller Swallow. The captain
states that his wife has been insane ever
since the loss of her three children.
Four masked men surprised the watch
man at the packing house of q. W. Hlg-
gins 4 Co., at the Union stock-yards,
Chicago, and bound him with a rope.
They drilled the safe and blew the door
off its hinges, obtaining $500 in cash and
about 81 900 in checks.
A YOUNG lady in New York who re
fused TO disclose to two robbers the hid
ing-place of some jewels was stabbed in
the arms and face until insensible, and
has become partial paralytic. One OF
the villains has been captured and identl-
fed.
A PARTY of ten cowboys engaged in a
lark at O'Neil City, Neb., and killed Sher-
if Kearns and seriously wounded his dep
uty because they objected to the breaking
up of an auction. The murderers escaped
TO Neigh, where they threatened to re-
turn and raid the town. The people OF
Holt and Antelope counties are greatly
terrified at the lawlessness.
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A Pretty Child-Bride.

A correspondent in Washington
gushes thus over the wife of Congress-
man Marsh, of Illinois, who is well re-
membered as girl il Chicago social
circles
The prettiest little child-bride, gold
en-haired and azure eyed, chats over
dessert with her big member-oi-con-
gress- husband, Marsh. of Illinois, and
casts perplexed eyes upon hersstep-
son, boy yet in knee breeche's but
already up to his wee mammals Shout
der Such cute little Dora of n
woman, so dainty and delicate, and in
fantile, that would rather watth her
pretty ways than look Mt any IF the
great men in the room. She S. the
daughter of the we'll known MR. Cool
baugh, of Chicago, n distinguished
banker and lawyer, handsome and
grand and trusted, who, q few years
ago, in strange fit of alteration, KILLED
himself on the grave Of his early if'iend,
Stephen \. Douglas, near Chicago
have seen Mr. Coolbaugh often, in
earlier years, have listened to his. clear,
eloquent speeches on more than one
occasion, heard with sadness sof his
melancholy end, and grieved with other
friends over his departure, and here,
like little wood violet sprungs from
the sturdy fallen forest tree, SITS his
tiny daughter, in the pretty glow OF
happy welded love, drawing mE neart
to her by her sweet and gentle gays
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

opposed their courtship, on the glsound
that young Hayes was poor and rgave
evid ence of hardly sufficient ability to
warrant risking their daughters future.
The match was broken off, and ta-day
the lady is married and well-knoYn to
Cleveland people. The other young
lady had received some attention from
young Garfield, and was well disacsed
to reciropcate it. Her parents, now
ever. objected to the intimacy, giving
as the reasons of their oppositiofs the
poverty of Garfield and the any ching
but bright prospects of his future The
most remarkable coincidence OF the
courtship is that both young f,dies
lived in village of not more than 500
inhabitants, and both refused tyeo fu-
ture presidents of the United Stats be-
cause of their poverty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

President BILLINGS, of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, says there has been
no new issue and no increase of the
stock of that company. The whole
issue was provided for in the plan OF
reorganization, and was long since list
ed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The SIS, 100000 stock recently distrib-
uted was held in trust by the treasure
for those to whom the plan oaid IT
should 60. These parties claimed that
that they were entitled to It's delivery
and counsel SO decided, and it was,
therefore, distributed instead of being
longer held in trust.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

CHICAGO, April -Flour--Nominalle un-
changed. Wheat-Activc, but lower; go. ?,
Chicago spring, l.OO4a al O3t. for seles cash;
LOSS a 1.O5A for seller May; l.O6l. for seller
June Corn-Easier; 49,. a45 for seller. cash;
42h for seller May; 427s 942s for selleisJuuc
Oats Irregular SIS GSS'a for seller casss; IS =
Q351s for seller May. 95js for seller June. klye-
Steady and unchanged Barley-Steads and
unchanged Pork-In fair dnmand at loweSrates
l550al 1896 for seller cash; 1868 foiS seller
May; 1913 for seller June. Lard Easier
lO.52k GLOSS for seller cash; l0.60G ,962 y
seller May; 1870 for seller june WHISKY
Steady and unchanged at Los. The 'Dro-
ver's Journal" reports: Hogs Receipts
$500: shipments 5000; demand fair; elarket
firm; mixed packing, $500 $50; light, k'.6Oa
$780, mainly $780, choice heavy, 5.9ea6.S5
Cattle-Receipts, 1890; shipments, 26ta; ac
tive, firm and higher high any time IN tbs, past
two weeks common to fair. shipping, 4.4OsliS 50;
good to choice; 5.o0G $40; exports, 5,60SI6.0O;
canning and butchers, 2OOG3 30; stocxG3's and
feeders, S25 94.6O; yards well cleared. Sheep
Receipts 200; shipments, 1900; cool demand
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

THE Supreme Court Of Washington
county, Rhode Island, refused Mrs.
Sprague's petition for an order requir-
ing Ex-Governor Sprague to furnish the
names and residences OF the persons
with whom she is alleged to have been
on terms of improper intimacy. Elk
Governor Sprague will have dispositions
taken in Paris, Baden-Baden, Califor-
MIA. New Jersey, New York, Illinois
District of Columbia, Massachusetts,
Missouri, and Ohio. The case viii
probablv be tried in June.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

A GENEVA correspondent writes that
two girls, one II, and the other some
what older, both nortoriously bad char
acters, have been sent TO the United
States by the authority of Bottslein,
Switzerland, at the expense Of the vii
lage. They sailed from Havre on the
10th instant, on board the steamer Sue
via. Bottslein is the same village
which recently shipped weak-minded
orphan girl to America.
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Girls Who Refused Future Presidents

The following story is told by a gen
tleman Who is intimate with President
HAYES and President-elect Garfield,
and whose truthfulness is vouched for
Nv the Cleveland tOhio) Herald:
In the little village of Bedford, TWEEN
ty miles distant from Cleveland, there
lived two charming and attractive girls:
To one of these President Hayes had
become On ardent sutton, but the pa
rents Of the young lady had vigorously
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

Four blackmailers recently demand
ed of Mr.. F. C. Sessions, President of
the Commercial Bank of Columbus, o.,
the modest sum 100000 and threat
ened to kill him if he should fail to
comply within ten days. He placed
the matter in the hands of the detect
ives. and the blackmailers disappeared.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

THE war-like symptoms in Greece
and Turkey are continually becoming
more unmistakable. 1t is anticipated
that Greece will make military de-
monstration on the 9th of April, that
being the anniversary of Greek indie
Yaudanca
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT and Samuel
f. Barger have resigned as directors of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
paany. Mr. Barger's place has been
filled by the election of Frederick l..
Amcs, of Boston, but nobody has been
elected to succeed Mr. Vanderbilt. His
resignation was not expected before
the LIST of July, and no steps has been
taken to provide an acceptable substi-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

THE sheriff of Presque Isle county,
Michigan, has asked the governor for
troops to protect him and the Protes-
tants of Rogers City against the Cath
olics, who threaten destruction to ev-
erybody who will not be governed by
the nrinst
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

Mr.. HUGH ]. JEwETer, the president
of the Erie railroad, declines the presi-
dency of the New York Worlds Fair
Commission-the same position which
General Grant recently resigned. In
all probability this does away with the
Worlds Fair.
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orphan gu

THE investigation into the bogus
butter and cheese traffic in New York
city by a committee of the legislature
is developing the general fact that this
species of fraud is even more common
there than it is here in the west. 1t is
this sort ofthing that is gradually under
mining our foreign trade and bringing
disgrace upon American manufacture
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

A PEACH orchard in Chambers county
Alabama, near the Georgia line con-
tains $50 acres, and has yielded $4,000
worth of peaches. 1t is owned and cul-
tivated by Mr. John Parnell, brother
of the Irish agitatOr.
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u,,u,.ul.ae uarl,ef

MILWAUKEE. April 4.--Flour- Quiet AID I'M
changed. Wheat-9pened weak, ise sigher;
closed steady; No. l hard, nominal; No. s nom
inal No. 2 fresh, 1929; e9asfor seller2 April,
LOS for seller May; Loo for seller June;
l.O5A for seller July; No. 3, o. No. /, 81;
rejected, nominal. Con-Neglected, 80. 2,
4Ok. 0ats-F rmer but quiet; 10. ., $50 Rye
-Firmer; No. ], lO1QLOlK. Barley Nom
inrl: No. q qOa90Li.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

A DISPATCH from Nice says 1t Is clear
that the Opera House calamity was the
result ofunpardonable negligence. The
gas pipes behind the scenes had not
been repaired for eleven years, and a
leak which occurred four months ago
was temporarily stopped with cement
the day before the fire. The manager
saws he informed the authorities of the
difficulty ON Wednesday and proposed
to postpone the performance, but he
was ordered to produce the opera ac-
cording to advertisement.
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Profit. $1,000.

"To sum it up. six long years of bed
ridden sickness. costing 500 per year,
total 81 .200-all of this expense was
stopped by three bottles of Hop Bitters,
taken by my wife. She has done her
own homework for year since, with
out the loss of day, and | want every
body to know it, for their benefit. -
N. e. Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

UNITED STATES SENATOR JONES, of
Florida, at St Patrick's Day dinner,
in response to the toast, "The Land of
Our Adoption, said that if any man
should feel proud to respond to the SEN
timent, he was that man, for he had
landed in this country a penniless boy
nj 10 wears of age.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

A RELIGIOUS feud has for some weeks
been developing in the vicinity of Ber-
rien Springs, Mich, in which Ira STEM
i'm took Il prominent part. On Friday
night some miscreant avenged him
self by entering Stenim's stable
and beatirg out with an AK the brains
Of a valuable horse.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

APRELININARY exhibit ofthe wealth,
debt and taxation" of New York state,
just completed by the Census Office,
places the valuation of real estate in
1880 at 1896, 669, S13. and of personal
property at $685., 469, 320-total, s., 679,-
1879 1873.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

WHEN Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
dismissed his congregation last Sunday
evening, he found his wife sitting rigid
ly in her pew, unconscious. She was
hurried home in carriage, and at last
accounts was unable to speak.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

EDWIN BoOTH has won golden opin-
ions from the press OF London. His
engagement at the Princess Theatre
has closed, and during the month of
April he will appear at the Lyceum, in
Mr.. Irving's company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07

SPEAKING of our gigantic crops of
wheat the Anericdp Miller remarks that
few people even in our own country real
ize how inexhaustable our resources are
for wheat growing. The total area of
lands available for wheat culture in the
United States Is not less 100000
acres. Our entire wheat crop of the
past year, phenomena though 1t was
would not supply seed enough to SOW so
vast an area of wheat land.
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NEWS NOTES.

THE London police are on the track
of three American Trishmen, named
Mooney, O'Donnel and Coleman, as
the conspirators who recently attempt
ed to blow up the house of the lord
mayor of that city.
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Published March Is, 1881. ]
CHAPTER %

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred ana ninety o.
The general laws iss entitled an act rea ~ t6 , Sne
division Of towns and aInendaory q section 81 91A
dred and seyenty-one of the revised statutes % iSse
The people OF the state Of Wisconsin rrresehs2 ~
senate and assembly, do enact Is ioi'oNs
Section Section one Of chapter enc huIoLeI i MI :,
ninety, o. the laws Of 1e4g ef 80 -. - sa@toT six
the division OF towns and anne aators % - -
hundred and seyenty-one, = the ietisa ~ ~ s;5
SEXTON one the following, to- VII; ft9t % =, ~
that the provisions Of this section si2iii os 1s - -
formation OF new town from territory taken nom TAG
CT towns or to defaehing territory from one Low
and Ennexing the same another nteh - =
third OF the feehsiders resident Nlillh We -
BE detached in each such town aiter elNls.e -
tains area OF less than thirty sN sS.lols
aforesaid, and r-ai estate valued q lle 1ss
assessment at thirty thousand dollars g htete, 49, AL
OF division. -.
Section , Tits act shah eject ana De IN i0res
from and afser its passage and pEotie&toA.
Approved March II, ISL.
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From a single tree planted in tub
and kept in his dollhouse, c. 5. Hol-
brook, Of Holbrook, Mass, sold in eigh-
teen years no less that s., 800 worth OF
peaches some of them at SO per
dozen, ma y at from S24 to SIS per
dozen, and all al an average OF SIS
dozen. They were sold mostly in the
months of February and March.