River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-03
In A NUTSHELL.

Marshal Ney roses if fine, command
81 apiece in New York city.
Senator Matt Carpenter, of Wiscon-
sin, who has been i'll at Washington, is
convalescent.
Mr.. Sothern continues very i'll, and
the chances of his reappearing on the
stage are slight.
General Grants reception by the
New York legislature at Albany, was an
enthusiastic affair.
1t is said that Whitelaw Reid is now
the controlling proprietor us well as
editor of the New York Tribune.
General Sherman has new little
granddaughter, presented by his
| daughter, Mrs. Thackara, of Boston.
DR.. Tanner, the fasting man, has
turned temperance lecturer for liy-
ing, and is making II tour of New York
state.
Black Spanish lace with large golden
peoples embroidered i'll the design is
one of the new garnitures of women's
| fashions.
Hannibal, Hamlin who boasts that
he never wears an overcoat, is still
confined to his house in Washington
with rheumatism.
Miss DIR. Mosher, the new head of
the Sherborn prison for women. in
Missouri, is giving entire satisfaction
to the commissioners.
Senator Sharon, of Nevada, is ex-
pected to the Pacific coast on or about
the Goth ofMarch. Senator Sharon is
the "boss" absentee.
A Newark IN. j. alderman has been
sentenced to state prison for two
years for criminal malpractice, Some
aldermen do get their dues after all.
General Calixto Iniguez, ex-Presi-
dent of the Cuban Republic, is now a
clerk in a banking establishment in
Madrid, Spain.
General Fitzhugh Lee is to give an
Grafton at the unwilling of "StonewalI'
Jackson's statue at New Orleans next
May.
''Unpleasantly prominent" is the de-
scription which the New York Tribune
gives of women who wear large hats at
the theater
1t is rumored that Gladstone will ac-
cept peerage shortly, and go into the
House of Lords as Lord Liverpool, or
Earl of Hawaiian.
Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana
and wife, have returned to indianapolis
from the Hot Springs, Ark. The gov
ernor's health is fully restored.
General o. O. Howard and family
arrived at New York Wednesday from
San Francisco, and he will at once
formally take command at West Point
Sara Bernhardt viii appear in Lon
don at the close of her American en-
gagement. She will be in st. Louis this
week and in Cincinnati next week.
Cornell University, New York, has
received $4,000 from III. w. Sage,
$40, 900 from John McGraw, 100000
from A. d. White and $4,000 from
Hiram Sibley.
OF the seventy-six United States Sen
ators only thirty-three were born IN
the states which they represent. That
is to say, forty-three are 'carpet-bag-
gers"
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the
banker-poet of New Yorb city, has de-
clined the presidency of the Goethe
Club of that city to which he was re-
Gently unanimously elected.
Walbridge A. Field, the newly APP
pointed Judge of the supreme court of
Massachusetts, is considered one of
the three best scholars ever graduated
from Dartsmouth College.
General Grant does not consider New
York his home, for in the visitors
book at the Fort Orange club the 9th
err day he wrote, "U. S. Grant Galena,
Ill.,"
Some one who knows says that
new drink has been invented and
named the Timothy Harmless We
wonder if its preventive of the hay
fever.
Princess Stephaine. it is said, is ill
and has been ordered to take a course
of steel baths at Spa. 1t is stated that
her marriage with Rudolph of Austria
will not take place until the end of
next summer.
The house built in Washington by
Commodore Decatur, and afterward
occupied by Judah p. Benjamin, is
now in possession of Geneneral Beale,
and General Grant becomes guest in
it while in Washington.
The London Daily Telegraph says the
brilliancy of Booths Iago, its lightness
and humor, is an astonishing contrast
to his oyerated and ultra-accentuated
Othello.
A Washington friend of Senator
Blaine says he is not given up the idea
of the presidency, but has and eye on
1888. At that date he will be still
young man-in his fifty-eight year.
Alexander Stephens says ne never
struck man in his life. 1t is lucky
for .'Aleck" Heis so frail that the re-
coil from his own blow would have
| fioored him.
The London Truth says the marriage
of Baroness Burdett-Coutts with Ash
mead Bartlett will take place one day
next week at her own residence by
special license.
Princess Alexandria, daughter of
| the Princess Alexandria of Mecklen-
| burg-Schwerin, and grand-niece of the
Emperor William, has become a novice
| in the st. Vincent de Paul Nunnery ut
! Prague.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton recent
| ly, in the session of the Woman's suf-
frage Convention at Washington, deliv-
cred a eulogy upon the life, character
and services of the late Lucretia Mott.
The Philadelphia Times says that if
Carl Schurz will put half that he has
seen into the Endymion-like novel
which he is writing, he will make more
| out of it than Lord Beaconstield has
from his book.
When the ladies of Ohio villages de-
sire to have a course of Lectures they
get them up themselves, introduce their
own speakers and pay their own ex-
penses without the aid of their hus-
bands, brothers and fathers.
Schneider, the goddess OF opera
bouffe, who created the "Grand Ouch
ess," has Just sold her elegant mansion
in the Avenue du Bots de Boulogne
for 600, 900 francs, and all Paris is anx-
| ious to know whether the sale is be-
cause of debts or because Schneider
wishes to remove to some other place.
Lord Wentworth, grandson of Byron
was married December 80 to Mary,
Caroline Wortley. The brides white
satin gown was embroidered at the
Royal School of Art Needlework, and
her veil was antique Brussels.
Olive Logan, writing from New En-
gland, says that cold pork and beans
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