River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-03
GENERAL NOTES.

The legislature of Texas went bodily
to San Antonio to celebrate Washington :
birthday.
RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE graduated a
class Of 172 at its thirty-ninth annual COM
mencement, Feb. oath.
THE name of Mckee Rankin appears in
list of twenty bankrupts who were re-
fused discharges by the United States
court at Chicago.
THE exodus from Canada is not d9creas-
ing A special train will next week take
| fifty families from Ottawa, emigrating to
new homes in Dakota.
THE trial of l. NJ Kalloch, for the
murder of Charles DeYoung. now in pro-
gress at San Francisco, attracts great at
tention on the Pacific slope.
A COMPANY has been organized at Red
! Wing, Mimi, to build a railway to Yum
brota, and thence to the Iowa state line.
5. B. Foote is president, and the capital is
| $500, 900
THE Southern Pacific and the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe roads expect to con-
meet their tracts by Tuesday next, and to
start through trains from the Missouri to
the Pacific by March 10.
MATERIAL is going forward for the ex-
tension of the Sioux City and Pacific road
to Fort Niobrara, which will give it the
nearest. terminus to the Black Hills.
THE sub-treasurer at New York has re-
ceived deposits of 1857 900 from banks
which threaten to retire circulation on
| account of the funding BILL
AT the risk of depopulating the state,
the lower house of the Arkansas legisla-
ture resolved to submit to the people a
constitutional amendment to prohibit the
sale of liquor.
MONTREAL reports a marvlous develop
ment in manufacturing tariff. Among
the latest undertaking. are skate fac
tory, a cotton bleacher and corset works,
each being the first of its kind in Canada.
EXODUS agents are distributing railway
tickets gratuituously among negroes in
southern Tennessee, by which inducement
one hundred were run off from Giles
county last week.
AN Albany dispatch announces that
State Senator William II. Robertson will
be named for collector of the port of New
York.
CHARLES IBACH, of indianapolis, is I'M
dergolng terrible suffering from trichinia-
sis. Being employed in packing-house,
he was in the habit of lunching on bits of
pork but partially cooked.
SMALLPOX has become epidemic at
Cuba Ill.,, five new cases being announced
and citizens are leaving the region. On
account of a case in the convent at Streat-
or, H., the city authorities forbade
services at the adjacent church.
PRESIDENT GoNzAREs, of Mexico, has
granted to Samuel Bowman; formerly of
California, fifteen hundred leagues of
land in Sonora, on which to colonize one
| thousand American families. General
Mannel Costas, who is favorable to the
scheme, will command the department in
| which the grant lies.
In the Whitaker court martial Feb
Goth, before large party of wives and
daughters of officers, Lieutenant George
L. Burnett laid down upon an iron bed
stead, and with bands tied himself precise
| lv as he found the colored cadet, afterward
releasing himself easily.
THE liquor question is receiving con-
siderable attention in the southern legis-
latures. General Sam Cary, of Ohio,
will stump South Carolina in behalf of a
prohibitory law. Many local elections in
The latter state have been carried by the
temperance people.
CATTLE-RAIsERs are unanimous in the
belief that the severity of the winter has
had marked effect from the Rio Grande
to the British boundary Some Nebraska
herdsmen predict loss of 20 to 30 per
cent, with still greater damage unless
there shall soon be marked rise in tenn
perature About $1,000 Texas cattle are
wintering in Indian territory.