River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-12
l3HN ERAL NOTES.

THE government is feeding one thousand
destitute people in and around 9anton.
Born houses Of the Michigan legisla-
ture have uassed bill making it fine
able misdemeanor to get drunk.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN has returned to
New York, having escaped from the Chill
ians and swan out to an English steamer.
OWING TO deadlock in the police board
at TROY. n. Y, the station-houses are
locked and the city is without guardians.
THERE is a report at New York that
Hon Carl Schurz has been rendered the
presidency of the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
TIE switchmen on the several roads in
Chicago have struck, and propose to re-
main idle until the companies accede to
their demand for higher wages.
AT baseball, Chicago beat Cleveland,
6toO; Worcester beat Troy 10 ); De-
troit beat Buffalo, ! to . and Providence
beat Boston, to |.
GTHE saloons at Parsons, Kan. have
closed, the druggists and physicians refuse
to give bonds and all former drinking
places have Grape on the door-knobs.
PROF. LEWIS SWIFT Of Rochester, n Y,
has discovered a bright comet in the con-
stellation of Andromeda, thereby winning
$500 prize Offered by III. II. Warner.
MINING speculation at New York has
suddenly experienced great revival, and
seats in the exchange have risen 10 $1,000.
Events in the stock market also indicate
another vigorous bull campaign.
OXE thousand bakers, out on a strike,
paraded the downtown streets of New
York. The Grand Truak brakemen Mt
Toronto demand an advance of fifteen to
twenty FIVE cents per day.
TuOME, the detaulting cashier OF the
| Panama Canal company, who was report
ed to have fled with $6.000,000, was found
at africa, Peru, in a half-insane condition,
and allowed to go free on restoring fifteen
thousand francs,
CoLoRow, the Ute chief, having been
interviewed denies that he has ordered the
whites into the post at White
river. The Utes declare they will
not fight unless an effort is made Is remove
them, but insist in the most positive
manner that they viii moi leave their
homes.
SITTING BULL is only forty miles from
Fort Buford, but declares that he will not
surrender. 1t is charged that his emissa-
ries are trying to induce tie Young bucks
to leave the agency and Join him.
By the giving way of dixie at East St.
Louis a stream of water almost equal to
the Mississippi is oowing through the
streets, with possibility that it may be-
come the main channel
IN Oregon one has to obtain fye-iol-
lar license to drink whisky straight at a
bar. The saloon-keeper is liable 10 heavy
peualties Il he sells to an unlicensed topper
The newspapers have taken 10 publishing
81 men, which is very diseouraging to the
barkeepers.
IL ball game at Providence, before
fourteen hundred spectators, he nine Of
that city was defeated by the Boston club,
4 to ,. The Worcesters beat the Iroys, 5
10 3 and the Buff4los waxed the Detroits
TO ). The Ceyelands beat the Chicagos,
3 to J.
Colonel A. f. WILLIAMS and nine
other mining capitalists of San Francisco
have equipped a schooner 10 leave for the
silver mountain reported 10 have been dis
covered in Alaska 10y sailors. Some
specimens have assaved from 5000 10
s., 000 per ton.
PROBABLY the most remarkable digest
i've apparatus in North Carolina is that
possessed by John Eaus, a planter in Hen
~ county, who goes regularly to cool
brook. after breakfast ard dinner. and
swallows handful Of gravel habit in
which he has INDUCED tor years, while en-
loving robust health.
The census Of Mississippi which
was take simultaneously with the Federal
census, shows nearly the same population.
The total number of voters in the state is
240. 720, divided as follows Whites.
ll0,ll3; colored, 130.607..