River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-02
GENERAL NOTES.

WILLARD Is the monarch of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, having bought ont
President Billings.
CHICAGO Land Leaguers at their last
meeting resolved to Boycott" all Irish
men who did not join the league.
FIVE hundred children have been taken
from the public schools at Atlanta, Ga,
on account of the>presence of mysterious
disease.
OvER-PRoDUCTIoN and high wages have
caused the window-gla manufacturers of
Pittsburg to resolve to close their works
for the summer.
FARMERS in central Illinois report win
ter wheat suffering from the chinch-bug
and Hessian fly. Thousands OF acres are
being plowed up to plant to plant corn.
AT mass meeting of citizens al Bodie,
Col, it is resolved that no Chainamen
should be allowed to work on the railroad
now being constructed to Mono lake.
Mr.. CoNKLING said to friend that $40
600 was the extent of his fortune; that he
could make 100000 per annum in the
practice of law, and would not turn his
hand over for reelection.
UNDER the Thurman act the govern
ment claims s., $50, 900 as overdue from the
Central Pacific roads. Auditor French is
HOW III OdlAlOl MA SpCOldA tOul vi
vestigatior, and not until his return will
the attorney general enjoin the July divi-
dend of the company.
THE manufacture of oleomargarine and
other olea ginous substitutes for butter haR
been made illegal by the Illinois Legisla-
ture, fine of not less than $25 nor more
than $500 being the penalty.
THhRE were only twenty-three miles of
railway in operation in the United States
in 1880; in 1879 there were Sc, 497. Dur
ing the year ending with March last, 6,l13
miles were constructed.
CHICAGO is surprised by the simultane-
Gus visit of Isaac S. Kalloch and Henry
Ward Beecher, pair who have won in
ternational fame in the pulpit and at the
bar of Justice.
A CONTROLLING interest in the New
York Erenjng Post, of which journal Will
lam Cullen Bryant was for so many years
the leading spirit. has been purchased by
Carl Schurz and +. l.. Godkin, and the
former will assume editorial control.
Rev. A. G. EBERHART, the former chap
lain of the 18th Iowa infantry, expired at
Waterloo, from congestion of the brain.
He had five sons in the ranks of the U ion
army. About two years ago he received
arrears ofpension to the amount of 81 975.
CAPTAIN GNEwUCH, of the tug Williams.
of Manistee, Mich, has received the gold
medal awarded him by congress for saving
the lives of twenty-forr persons in Like
Michigan. Accompanying the token was
highly eulogistic letter from Secretary
Window.
CAREFUL investigation in Missouri
shows that the reports of damage to wheat
by the chinch-bug have been greatly ex-
aggerated In the counties of Webster
and Green no person could be found who
had seen one of the pests.
In the illinois Legislature, during this
session, / .135 bills were presented, and,
thus far, only twenty-seven of them have
become laws. Not much to show for five
months work. But the industrious law
makers have four or five DAYS longer to get
in few more new statutes.
SEvENTY-FIvE republican negroes of
North Carolina, after two days of wrang
ling in a state convention, appointed
committee of twenty-five to wait on Presi-
dent Garfield and demand absolute control
of the state. Judge Tourgee is credited
with instigating the movement.
On a train which reached leveland
with twelve hundred immigrates was found
a woman on whom smallpox was fully de-
veloped. She was locked up until the pest
house man could be sent for, but escaped
into the business quarter before she could
be again secured.
Tin the case of Mcdonald Lyon, of Chi
cago, who committed suicide at Denver
the coroner's jury found that he took an
overdose of morphine. His travelling COM
panion, Mrs Ducat, is in the hands of
nurse, and is closely watched to prevent
her from destroying herself
TEMPERANCE people in Reading. Pa,
seem to have Incorporate modes of ex-
pressing their views. At meeting held
there several ministers made violent
speeches against Mr.. Lauer, brewer.
When the Rev. j. n. Spear undertook to
defend Lauer, ''the person in charge OF
the meeting" collared Mr.. Spear and
elected him from the hall.
CANADA has no law for steamboat in
spection, and other Canadian steamboat
horrors of last season, and the Victoria
now, are directly due to that fact. 1t has
been since proved that the Wabuno was
unseaworthy, and her master (who was also
the owner was not a navigator, not even
a sailor The Victoria was an egg-shell
of a craft, and is not even noticed in the
Hull Register" book that contains the
names of all seaworthy crafts on the lakes,
American or Canadian