River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-14
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL GRANT says no one has offered
to buy his farm of eight hundred acres in
Missouri.
The family OF Mr. Gomez, who was
killed by the calamity on the Morelos
railroad, in Mexico, has sued the company
for damages.
WORK on the Yorktown centennial mon
ument, which is to cost 100000. will be
begun at once.
DurING the fiscal year Just ended our
minis coined $106, 78S,940, of which $27,-
637 $50 was in silver dollars.
ABOUT six thousand negroes are in at
tendance upon the colored BaptistGcamp-
meeting in progress at Muncie, Ind.
THE Vienna papers assert that the vic
undoubtedly Ignaz Hopf, formerly mayor
of Naffersdorf.
PETER COOPER has decided to open
schools of instruction in type-writing and
photography in Cooper institute. New
York, at a cost of SO, 900.
UNDER the impression that recent great
storms have injured the growing crops
board operators in Chicago have been
purchasing grain freely.
THE shipment of hog products from this
country during the month of May were
IS 100000 lbs less than for the CORE
spending period in in 1880.
TWENTY THREE recruits deserted from a
party obtained in Canada for the north
west mounted police, while in transit
through the United States.
The directors of the De Lesseps canal
company have practically completed the
purchase of the Panama railway for $17,
500 900. and the canal is to follow closely
the line of the track.
One hundred Indiana journals were rep
resented at convention of the Democrat
ic editors of that state at Michigan City.
AT the evening meeting Henry Watterson
delivered an address on The Restored
Democracy"
The success of Director General Kim
bali, of the Atlanta cotton exposition, was
so great that the executive committee
have decided to yield free floor space to
every class of exhibits from every quarter
of the gloDe.
THE Southern Yacht club had an excit-
ing race on Lake Pontchartrain in which
he prize of 81 800, was taken by the Lady
Emma. The yacht Silence was brought
round from New York to enter the con-
test, and her hackers lost about $l1.000
Roscoe CoNKLING, in letter to Attor-
ney General MacVeagh, calls his atten-
tion to the broad distiction between as
sailing the life of an individual and an
attempt to take life OF special value to
the whole people, and suggests rigorous
punishment for assaults on high executive
officers.
HAVING received warning that plot
for escape was about to be carried out, the
taller at Erie, Pa, found that seven prison
ers had armed themselves with iron bolts,
and stanchions wrenched from the win
dows, and accumulated wires, files. and
material for descending through hole in
JAMES MCBRIDE, an inmate of the
Soldiers home at Dayton, o., expressed
Joy at the shooting of President Garfield.
He was marched out of the institution at
the point of the bayonet, and left beyond
the gates. This is the second instance of
exultation reported in a land of fifty mill
lions of people.
In commenting upon the attempted as
sassiDation, a London journal predicts
that a marked change of opinion will take
place IN the United States in regard to
the Nervousness of political murder, and
that the Americans will appreciate their
responsibility in harboring plotters
against the lives of European monarchs.
Two runners from the camp OF sitting
Bull have reached Poplar River agency
and are negotiating for the surrender of
twenty-nine lodges Of hostiles who are en-
camped Just north of the border line.
This would leave Sitting Bull with only
thirteen lodges to cope with the Crees who
are in the field after his scalp.
THE supreme court of Michigan has Just
rendered a decision in case in which
man lent another money wherewith TO
get up corner on wheat The lender
sued to recover the money back. The court
held that combination entered into to
ar.iicially affect the price of any necessity
of life was Illegal, and the loan in this
Csc could not be recovered.
IT seems as difficult to decide who first
saw the comet as who struck Billy Patter-
son. L. W. Thickstun, of Mosertown, Pa,
claims TO have noticed it at ? a. m. of the
22d. an Indianapolis policeman says he
saw it at $50, and O. c. Charlton, of Le-
banon, Ind, at 8 o'clock. Other claim
ants, date unannounced, are L. I. Ed
wards, of Hayerford college, Philadelphia;