River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-24
GENERAL NOTES.


THE czarowitch ascends the throne as
Alexander Ill
THOMAS CARLYLE bequeathed his Dunn
friesshire estate to the university of Edin-
burg.
THE Indiana senate has passed a bill i'm
posing a 9 per cent. tax on the gross earn
ings of sleeping-car companies.
HoPsoN & SHEPARD, crockery import
ers of Utica, n T.. have made an assign
ment, with liabilities of $43,0 900.
IT is reported that before leaving for
Mexico Gen. Grant will resign the presi-
dency of the worlds fair commission.
LAST week there were 100 deaths in the
city of Chicago, against l94 the week be-
fore. There were eight deaths from small
pox.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among Irish cit
liens of Montreal to induce the Irish ma
tional association to abandon their annual
parade on the 18th of March.
DEADwooD has been organized under the
recent act of incorporation. The mayor
is Daniel Mclaughlin, formerly of
Cheyenne.
THE Milwaukee and St. Paul directors
have declared semi-annual dividend of
81 per cent on both classes of stock, pay
able April 26.
AT the late sale of trotting stock in New
York, Robert Bonner sold Astoria and
Alma for $4,000 and $1,000. Patchen,
with record of 2:1S4 was sold for s., 400.
In the late pigeon-shooting match at
London, Carver beat Scott by a score of -
10 "A, winning the championship cup and
$3.50. Another match has been arranged.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway has filed, at Des Moines, a mort
gage for 81 ,000, 900 in favor of the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust company, of New
York.
In the Illinois house, in a debate on a
temperance bill, the argument was add
vanced that a country drug store ought to
he allowed to sell little whisky to a poor
farmer bitten in the heel b. rattlesnake.
In Conger's old district in Michigan,
there was a long and animated struggle Tor
it's nominations. John T. Rich was nom
mated for congressman by the republicans
on the hirty-frst ballot
SARGEANT BATES, the fag-carrier. is ly-
ing very i'll at his home in Saybrook, Nc
Lean county, Ill. He has a wife and six
children, and is said to have been living
in great poverty for some time past.
IL lNC years anu COSt gUOpsOpo
to remove from Alexandria the obelisk
now erected in Paris and place it in its po-
sition. Only one year and four months
was taken, and S105, 900 the aggregate ex-
pense, to bring across the water the ODE
lisk recently put in position in the city OF
New York. Hero is comparison OF
American with French engineering.
THos HUGHES, clerk of Iowa City, who
died recently, was the founder of a hall
dozen pioneer newspapers in that state
and was president of the earliest state SEN
ate. As soldier Of the Gray beard regi-
ment he spent nearly two years in con
federate prison in Texas.
THE sun shining brightly after the re-
cent heavy snow storm caused entire gangs
of snow-shovelers to retire for treatment as
snow-blind Eighteen men shovelinf
snow on the tracks of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul company, near Osh
kosb, had to be led home. AT other points
the refraction was equally injurious.
BISHOP POTTER has appointed com
mission who will likely decide soor
whether or not the Rev Mr.. Cowley, who
passed a year in the penitentiary fol
cruelty to the children of the Shepherds
Fold, shall have an ecclesiastical trial.