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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AN incendiary fire at Boston destroyed
the hay shed Of the Boston and Maine
road.
HAYMARKET block, in Boston, with the
goods of its tenants, was damaged 100000
by fire.
Four negro laborers on the Alabama
and Great Southern road were covered by
a landslide and killed.
The first case of sunstroke for 1881 oc-
Cured at Erie, Pa, where Mrs. Culhare
received fatal in iuries,
KARL MINK, German hailing from
Mansfield, o., hanged himself to fence
in South Pittsburg with a handkerchief.
A LOSS of $4,000 arose from the de-
struction by fire of mill of the latin
Paper Company. at South Toledo. o.
THE glass-works at Rock Island were
destroyed by fire, causing loss of 1926 900
and throwing 150 men out of employment.
| A. N. DEvoE, formerly private secreta-
ry to Governor Robinson. of New York,
killed himself at St. Joseph, Mo-, with
morphine.
THE paper-mill at Niagara Falls was
burned on Wednesday night, just as it had
started up with new machinery. The loss
is 1926, 200.
| WHILE two hundred miners were in the
[ pit of the Union coal shaft, at La Sale,
Ill the engine broke, leaving a large
number imprisoned until it can be re-
paired.
| TURKEY has Internationally accepted
the solution Of the frontier question ar
ranged by the powers and will send four
commissioners to confer with the ambas-
sailors.
On the West Point railroad, in Georgia.
Tom Miller amused the passengers on an
excursion train by swinging himself from
the platform, when mile-post dashed out
his brains.
A FREIGHT train on the Green Bay and
| Minnesota road came upon a burning
bridge at Elm Lake, Wis, too late to save
itself, and ten loaded cars were piled upon
the locomotive and consumed. Anton
Seims, the engineer, was seriously in jured.
1t is thought that the bridge was fired by
an incendiary.
! THE loss by the burning of the Alden
fruit preserving factory at Palmyra,
Mich, is $12 900; insurance, 81 400. The
factory was operated by an association of
farmers living in Palmyra. Last season
the association paid out more than $20, 900
for labor and material, consuming some
10000 bushels of apples.
A FATAL accident befell Christopher
Batterman, at Pesolum, Ill. AS the Hi
nois Central freight train No. "a, jerks,
conductor, came into the station a team
was frightened, and started to run away
Ms. Batterman sprang aside to escape the
team, and was struck by the engine and
knocked against a car on another track.
His neck was broken and he died almost
| instantly.
ROBERT YOUNG, Ben Stoinberg, and
David Calvert. all local merchants, of
Charleston, ILL.,, were returning from fish
ing. While driving along the bank Of
| Emmbarras river, two miles distant, their
spirited horses became frightened, sud
denly iumped sidewise, upset the outfit
and rolled down tie steep decline forty
feet into the stream, but came out on the
other side unchanged. The occupants
were spilled out along down the bank.
Calvert and Stoi..berg escaped slightly
bruised, but sadly dilapidated. Young,
however, is seriously hurt in the back,
knee, and breast.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
A Relic of Chickam uga.

In window on Fourth street there
is battle relic OF more than ordinary
interest. 1t tells graphic story of the
bloody field of Chickamauga, and
speaks eloquently of Colonel William
G. Jones, who lost his life in that great
struggle. Behind the line Of battle of
'he Thirty-sixth Ohio, which he COM
manded, stood two slender cedar trees.
The regiment lay down in front of the
hurricane of fire which swept in from
the enemy. Colonel Jones stood be-
hind them, and went from point TO
point speaking words of encourage
ment and command to his men. One
of the trees, a mere sapling, was lop-
ped off four times by the cannon-shot
Of the Confederates as they discovered
that their range was too high, and low
cred their line of fire. The other,
some nine inches in thickness, was lit
orally filled with bullets. as well as
shattered by shell. Under that storm of
fire it was a wonder that any one lived
to tell the tale, not that Colonel Jones
fell, CALAMITY doing mis- duty to his men
and his country. Two months later
Captain j. M. Turner, of the Thirty
sixth, who served in the fight, returned
with his company to the spot to bury
the dead. The sad duty performed,
he brought away piece of the smaller
tree and a section of the other, about
two feet six inches in length. There
can be counted in it thirty-two bullets,
and besides, marks Of shell-work. Cap
tain Turner has had it handsomely
mounted on a pedestal of cannon balls,
and surmounted with the acorn en-
blem of the army of the Cumberland.
Upon this III turn will be placed a fine
bust of General George H. Thomas
Cincinnati Commercial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
Marketing Honey

According to the Bee World this is
one OF the most important subjects
presented to those who have large
aplaries, and perhaps the least under
stood. In the first rlace saws the
writer, by way ofadvice you. must aim
at quality instead of quantity. and
oulld up a home market which you
you can rely upon yearly, to take all
mat you can produce-sell at home for
what you can get at the principal
markets, and deduct if necessary.
rather than ship to distant parties. BY
little energy and perseverance,. YOU
can induce the grocers in most Of the
towns IN your vicinity, to engage in the
sale of honey. If they will not buy.
get them to sell on commission. At
hrst, also, sell to as many of your neigh
bors and friends as possible, and,',san
cases endeavor to give satisfaQi : -,
DO not use any old barrels : Kegs
because they are cheap, but u clean
new barrels and kegs, as they Il bet
ter and are cheaper in the end.
should you prefer to sell comb honey
put it in uniform nice packages so that
1t will attract attention by its neat an
pearance.
The great fault with most beginners
is that they raise bees instead of honey
until they get a large apiary, when they
suddenly turn theft attention to getting
honey, and should they be successful.
they will find themselves with q large
amount of honey and no market. be-
cause the market is undeveloped.
They are then completely at the
mercy of the honey merchants. who
Will endeavor to get the honey at their
own price.
lfbeginers will act upon the hints
mere thrown out, and build up a home
market simultaneously, with the ir~
creased amount of their productions
until the demand is greater than the
supply, all will be benefited and none
have cause for complaint.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
Thirty Thousand Forgotten.

On last Sunday morning Judge Tan
HERSHEY, of this city and Denver, start
ed for New York on an errand which
entails a story of perhaps the most re-
markable Observation-Disclosures on re-
cord.
In the early days Of the camp the
Judge was one Of those who struck it
rich, and his fortune could not have
amounted in good hard dollars to less
than $4,000. In those days the Judge
had extensive business relations i'll the
East, and for the convenience Of stor-
ing papers and cash rented safe deposit
boxes in New York, Chicago, and St,
Louis, and later on at Denver. Dur
ing the last year, when the tide Of for
tune had turned somewhat against him,
the Judge in endeavoring to balance
his funds, was utterly unable to account
for large sum of money. The more
he figured the more deeply intricate
the problem became, and he finally
gave up in dispair, crediting $4,000
vaguly to profit and losses.
Last fall, happening into the office of
the Safe Deposit Company at Denver,
he was informed that he was delinquent
for three years rent on one of the
boxes.
"But," said the clerk 1--WE have You
credited with $3.50 Oh our books"
Judge Tankersley had forgotten all
about the matter, but paying for the
box had it opened, in the vain hope of
finding some money inside. The box
ever suggested to him that he might
lxyh loft Io e III
Eastern boxes, and for the express pur-
pose of examining them he went to
New York, Chicago, and st. Louis.
Three of the boxes were broken open
as the combinations has been lost, and
all were empty. Disappointed, he re-
turned homeand thought no more ofthe
matter, until last week he was locking
over some old papers and found a re-
ceipt for the rent of a safe-deposit box
in the Marine Bank of New York City.
Examining the paper carefully he was
astounded to see, Endorsed in his own
hand across the corned, the line:
Deposited in this box $4,000, which
| desire to be paid 20 my wife in the
event of my DEATH"
The astonished Judge stopped and
considered. He could not recOllect
ever having been in the Marine Bank or
depositing that sum of money any
where. There, however, was his mem
olanda, in black and white, and he was
SO strongly impressed by it that he de-
clGed to go at once to New York. Ac-
cordingly, on last Saturday he started.
fully convinced that he would find the
cash. The outcome, of course, has not
yet been chronicled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
An Awful Position.

DeQuincy's Vision of Sudden Death
was verified in all its CHASTITY horror not
long ago by four men in Oregon. Start
ing out in a canoe to make certain ex-
plorations on the John Day river, they
were suddenly enveloped in dense
fog, and so carried resistlessly and
helplessly to the very brink of a catar-
act, where, by miracle of chance,
their boat struck on sunken rock, and
hung there swaying with the current.
For the moment they were saved, or
rather, life and agony were prolonged
little while, for escape to either shore
was impossible. And even this brief
respite was only cruel mockery, for
they had scarcely time to look about
them and take in the full extent OF
their peril and the hopelessness Of their
situation, when they beheld an i'm
mense ice foe bearing directly down
upon them from the rear. If it struck
them thew were lost beyond a perad-
venture. 1t did strike them, and hurled
them. boat and all, over the precipice
into the seething waters below, where
they came to, right side up, boat and
men alike uninjured. Certainly there
are few more remarkable escapes "out
of the jaws of death" on record than
this.-New York Graphic.
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Miseries of Moving Day.
-ACOA 1SC W.
New York Star.


With early dawn yesterday the an.
nual Nav moving horror began, anu a.
different periods of the day tnlrd %
the population of New York was nome,
less. When a man was encounters :.
rushing along the highway with his nal
brushed the wrong way, a hall pouno
of stove nolish smeared over his face,
and the soft end of dust brush pro
trnding from the tail pocket OF his coat,
the cool. calculating observer mdght
safely conclude that the man was nee
inc from some scene Of domestic DESC
lafion to a place where they sold the
largest glass of beer for five cents. IL
was day when the average man LOT
got his corn salve, pulled his coat on On
the wrong way and kicked ms I'D,
around the house because his wife had
utilized his suspenders as band Tor a
bad Saratoga trunk: and it was also a
dav which was prolific in examples OF
the unreasonable superiority Of the
female sex.
For scenes suggestive of the humor-
ous side of life, it wasn't necessary TO
search. They were plentiful IN every
direction. For instance, take the case
of Mr.. Tompkins and family OF West
Twenty-second street, who were aWak-
ened at an early hour from refresh
ING slumber by loud ringing at the
doorbell. Mr.. Tompkins raised the
window of his boudoir and .poked. MS
nightcapped head into the fresh ALI OF
the morning. An undertaker.s wagon
was in the street, and a melancholy
man stood on the doorstep. :.
"Mercy on u.s." cried Mr.. Tompklns,
shuddering at the thought" has any
BODY died during the night?"
"Whats that?" cried the terror
stricken Mrs. Tompkins, springing out
of bed and secreting a carpet-tack IN
the ball of her foot. .,
The screams of his wife, coupled with
the weird gesticulations of the man on
the doorstep, caused Mr.. Tompkins to
demand in stentorian tones what was
wanted.
'I'll move you for 81 So" replied the
undertaken.
The disappearance of Mr.. Tompkins
for shotgun and the rapid departure
of an undertaker's wagon were two
things which occurred simultaneously.
On East Fourteenth street, just be-
low Second avenue, two outgoing and
incoming families met at the door.
you'll not get in here" cried the
man from the inside, who carried an
old sofa under one arm and ten feet of
stow epipe under the other, "until [ get
out !"
"And you'll not get out" replied the
other, whose attention was divided be-
tween an old-style looking glass and a
life-size portrait of General George
Washington, "until l get in p
In the collision which followed, the
air was filled with fragments of sofa,
glass, stovepipe and "The Father of His
Country" while the eye of one tenant
and the nose of the other were suggest
i've of first-class railway smash-up.
The only truly happy men were the
carmen. Time had Injured them to
scenes of this character, and amid all
the whirl and hustle they were calm
and collected. With the excited "mas
ter" of the house who would pitch the
portrait of his wife's "sainted mother
out of the second-story window, and
then carefully lug a scuttle of coal
down two flights Of stairs, these expe-
rienced persons were in singular con-
traSt
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. May IA .--Flour-Steady and I'M
changed Wheat-Fair demand at lower rates;
No. 2 Chicago spring, 1.O1H for seller cash
and May; 1.027s@1.03 for seller June and
July; Ok for seller August; No. 3 Chicago
spring, 92a961a' rejected, 71@Sl. Corn-Act
but lower; AZ for seller cash; 4lA@41% for sell
Ter May; H11@4l14 for seller June: Al Afor sell
Ter July; 42k for seller August. Oats-Fair
demand at lower rates: Blk for seller cash; Blk
@37zs for seller May; 37's for seller June;
362f for seller July; 2Sa for seller August.
Rye Easier, 1.16@1.17. Barley-Easer. Pork
Dull, weak and lower, unsettled; 16 so for sell
Ter cash 1915 for seller June; 1850 for seller
July and August. Lard-Active, but lower,
very weak; 1910 for seller cash and June;
1O.424s for seller July; 1O.42h@1O.45 for seller
August. The "Drover's Journal reports:
Hogs-Recepts, 20 900; shipments, 1900; steady,
fairly active, except in light; which weak and
easicr mixed packing, 59096.O0; light, 5.25
a6.OO; chiefly $50; some fancy, 6.07; choice
heavy, 6.1O@6.35. Cattle-Receipts $500; ship
ments, 1900; weak slow, 10@15c lower common
to fair, 5.25a5.60: good to extra, 5.S5@6.5O;
butchers, steady and fairly active, 2.S5a5.2O
mainly 3.5Oa4.OO; corn fed Texans, 4.75@50O;
stockers and feeders, plenty, 10aI5c lower; COM
mon to fair, 3.5O@4.00; good to choice, 1850
4.73. Sheep-Receipts, 1,O0O shipments, 400;
slow and weak; clipped, 3.25a5.lO; fair to gsod
wooded, 5.25a6121a.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19

chief speaker at the monetary conference,
recently. He declared that, while the
laws of various countries had deprecated
the value of silver,gold was not sufficiently
abundant to be adopted by all civilized
nations as single standard.
ALEXANDER JONAS, German journalist
Of New York, was recently arrested in
Dresden on suspicion of being socialistic
agent, and his private papers were retain
ed for nine days. He has applied to Min
lister White for redress, and the matter has
been submitted to the foreign office at
Berlin.
The Orangemen of Montreal lately
erected in Mount Royal cemetery monu-
ment to Hackett, who was killed in the
riots three years ago, and put thereon an
inscription that The met his death at the
hands of an Infatuated Irish Catholic
mob" The trustees of the cemetery, all
of whom are Protestants, asked that the
words be erased, and caused it to be done
after the refusal of the Orange committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19

SOME time ago the newspapers re-
ported that Prof. Proctor said that the
appearance of a comet this year would
give grounds for serious approximations
of the destination of the earth. The
other day Prof. Swift, of Rochester, dis
covered new comet. But Prof. Proc
tor has just been married, and, with
his new wife, was in Chicago last week.
Now he thinks the comet is of no &C
count. He told Chicago reporter that
he considered the situation of the earth
perfectly safe, and that the perihelia OF
the planets, Mother Symptoms prophecy
and the comet did not alarm him in
the least.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
GapeS i'm Poultry.

The editor of the Lancaster Eo,,o..
tells us that In recent conversation
with an experienced chicken grower
he was informed that the grower had
been very successful in conaue,ino tn at
precarious disease in his yonng
fowls by the application of air-slaked
lime. AS soon as manifestation of
gapes in his fowls appears, the grower
confines his chickens in box one at
a time, sufficiently large to contain the
bird, and places coarse piece of cotton
or linen cloth over the top. Unon this
he places the pulverized lime. and tans
the screen sufficiently to cause the l;me
to fall through. This lime dnst the
fowl lnhales, which causes it to snaaza
and In short time the cause Of tho
gapes is thrown out in the form nf
a shiny mass of worms, which had ac-
cumulated in the wind pipe and sroal IS
air vessels. This remedS he cons,Jars
superior to any he hag ever tr;od aSa
he seldom fails to effect q .narfaot o' "n,u
He has abjured allgthose ~ aob. cure;
m mean by which iis attempted to dis.
lodge the entozoEns with ipstr u N e u,ss
made MAJ OF whalebone, hogs brist is'e, ~
fine wire, alleging that neon1a Sues a.a OF
as certain tW push the o aana are aulIe
~ J down the throat of the fowls sc
to draw them out. WIG 'o"is' as
o,,, Young ing J, ladies are forming archery
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
BUTCHERING BUFFALO.
Hundred Thousand Killed East
Winter In the Yellowstone
Country.
Sioux City Journal.

Sioux City Journal.
Tt is estimated by competent author.
;t;es that 100, 900 buffalo hides will 10
shinned out of the Yellowstone conn.
trv this season. Two firms alone Arc
negotiating for the transportation of
$4,000 hides each. When to this is ad-
ded the imm ense amount of skins and
furs of other kinds, deer, elk, antelope
beaver, etc. some idea may be formed
IF the extent of the Yellowstone peL
and fur trade.
Most of our citizens saw the big load
Of Buffalo hides that the C. X. Peck
brought down last season, a load that
hid everything about the boat below
the hurricane deck roof. There We're
ten thousand hides on that load and
thew were all brought out of the Vel,
Iowstone on one trip, and transferred
to the G. K. Peck. How such load
could have been piled on the little
Terry not even the men on the boat
appear to know. 1t hid every part of
the boat, barring only the pilot house
and the smoke stacks, But such a
load will not be attempted again. For
such boats as ply the Yellowstone there
are at least fifteen full loads of Buffalo
skins and other pelts. Reckoning one
thousand hides to three carloads, and
adding to this fifty cars for Tic other
peIts, it will take at least three hun
dred and fifty box-cars to carry this
stupendous bulk of pelts east to mar
ket. These figures are not guesses,
but estimates made by men whose bus
mess it is to know about the amount of
hides and furs awaiting shipment.
Nothing like it has ever been known
in the history of the fur trade. Last
season the output of buffalo hides was
about the average, and last year only
about thirty thousand hides came out
of the Yellowstone country, or less than
a third of what is there now awaiting
shipment.
The past severe winter has caused
the buffalo to bunch themselves in
few valleys where there was pasturage,
and there the slaughter went on all
winter. There was no sport about it,
simply shooting down the famine-tam-
ed animals as cattle might be shot
down in barn-yard.
To the credit of the Indians it can
be said that they killed no more than
they could save the meat from The
greater part Of the slaughter was done
by white hunters, or butchers rather,
who followed the business of killing and
skinning buffalo by the month, leaving
The carcasses to rot. When the buf-
faloes are all killed off, as they bid fair
to be in very few years at this rate,
then everybody will wonder that the
government did not do something to
preserve this, the noblest of animal
game, or at least prevent the killing of
the buffalo for the hides alone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19

ONE of the most valuable relics of the
late rebellion that is to be found in this
part of the country, hangs behind the
desk of Captain J. III. Burnell, in Mer-
rillan, Wis. 1t is flag that was cap
tured by Company d of the Second
Wisconsin Cavalry, of which Mr.. Bur-
nell was Captain, at Woodville, Miss,
October, 1864, from the Crescent City
Battery, under Captain Holmes. The
flag is of fine silk. The crescent and
stars are beautifully worked in white
beads. Upon the end and lower side
of the flag is a heavy gilt fringe. 1t is
one of the handsomest, if not the hand
soonest of all the captured rebel flags
of the war, and was a present to this
favorite battery from the ladies of New
Orleans in the year 1861, in the early
part of the war.
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The Revised Testament

The latest news from over the water
is that the orthodox Professionals of Eng
land are very suspicious of the new
revised testament. The report has tGN
abroad here that the revisionist have
oeen so greatly influenced by their i'm
tercourse with their brother Professionals
OF this country. The result is that, II
tendency has arisen among the EngliAh
theologians to deny the divinity of our
Savior. All through the alterations the
tendency is said to be visible. The
changes IN the Lords prayer are re-
garded with anxiety and suspicion. 1t
is objected that the word shafles'' !;
everywhere substituted for the wo
"hell." tits said that,Sthe publiaat
OF the amended bibla md b ayerj
will give rise q the most bite
t eSSsssy' 'as lI's1 2 rs !
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19

CHINAMEN pray to the evil spirit
quite as much as to the good one, for
the reason that it is still matter OF
doubt whose hands they will fall into,
and it is well to be on good terms with
both parties. Not only do the disci-
pies of Confucius act upon this safe
practice, but when one of them is con-
verted to Christianity, he does not seem
disposed to neglect any of the chances.
Recently Christianized Chinaman was
murdered in New York, when he was
accorded two funerals-one according
to Christian worship, and the other at
the grave according to the Celestial
programme.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19

MARY ANDERSON has written d letter
denying that there is a financial mis-
understanding between herself and her
stepfather, and gives the old gentleman
a good character Still, there are la
dies in Louisville who assert that Mary
told them, with the tears chasing each
other over her beautiful cheeks, that
the story as originally published was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
GENERAL NOTES.

The bears in the provision trade gave
the bulls another tight squeeze.
THE Wisconsin state treasury has dur
ing the past month disbursed $3.50 as
bounty on wolves.
The senate Of Pennsylvania has adopt
ed resolution looking to the transfer OF
the dust of William Penn from an Eng
iish churchyard to Philadelphia.
THE legislature of Michigan has passed
the amendment to the new liquor-tax bill,