River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-08
In A NUT SHELL.

The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald
announces the engagement of Senator
Jones, of Florida. to young lady of
that city.
Mr.. Bookwalter, late democratic can
didate for governor of Ohio, has justly
distinguished himself by riding bicy-
Gle from Springfield to Dayton.
d o. Mills, the California capitalist,
whose daughter is the wife of Whitelaw
Reid, of the New York 1iibnne, is said
to be dying of Bright's disease.
The sad news has been received from
India that Rev. Nh. Carlson, one of the
missionaries of the Lutheran church i'll
that country, has become insane.
"No other topic now will draw the
muititudes together in Japan like dis
cussions on Christianity" says Mis-
sienary DeForest, the popular Yale
student of ten years ago.
Prof. Blackburn, who for thirteen
years was Prof. of Ecclesiastical History
in Chicago Theological Seminary, has
accepted call to the Central Presbyte-
rian Church, Cincinnati.
1t is said that boys and girls who
have walked a distance of eighty miles
to attend the Telugu Baptist Schools in
India have been regrotfully turned
away for lack of accommodation.
DIR. and Mrs. S. T. Bell, of Galesburg,
ILL.,, celebrated their fiftieth marriage
anniversary last Monday evening. Mr..
Powell and wife, of Chicago, were
among those present, Mrs. Powell be-
ing daughter of the aged couple.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is in New
York undergoing medical treatment by
DIR. Lewis A. Sayre. An effort will be
made to secure more liberal pension
for her from the next congress, as she
is said to be at present in straitened
circumstances.
The duello is still recognized as ''the
code of honor" in Mexico. General
Carricata, chic Of staff to General Car
to, and Senator Urraa, member of Con-
gress from the district OF Alamos, fought
duel with swords few miles outside
the city OF Mexico. 1t is reported that
Senior Urraa was MORALLY wounded.
The cause Of the difficulty is unknown.
Earl Fitzwiliam, Lord Lieutenant of
the West Riding of Yorkshire, England,
the other day sent for the whole Of his
tenants to Wentworth Woodhouse, his
Yorkshire residence, and informed
them that the whole of last half years
rent, now due and payable in few
days would be RENTED, none being re-
CURED to pay any rent for their farms
durinu tho mast half year
Mr.. Wilfrid Blunt, the husband of
Lady Anne Blunt, Byron's grand
daughter and writer herself, is the
author of "The Love Poems of Pro-
teus," the little book so enthusiastically
praised by Lord Lvtton in the current
number of the Nineteenth Century.
Mrs. Collins, of Troy, N. Y. lies in
bed suffering great agony from blood
poisoning Last week she were pair
of new shoes, and received an abrasion
on her heel. The scarlet-dyed stock
ings communicated blood-poisoning,
and her foot and leg swelled rapidly,
and she will probably die.
Hon. d. G. Smith, of Pekin, ILL.,, mem
Der of congress for the thirteenth Hi
nois district, made his return trip from
Europe in company with Petroleum V.
Nasby, James Redpath and ]. p.
O'Connor, NJ. p, the Irish agitator.
Mr.. Smith will leave for Washinton
soon after Thanksgiving.
The death of Judge Sylvester En-
mons occurred at Besrdstown, ILL.,, on
the 10Th, in his 74th year. Emmons
was the founder Of a newspaper at
Nauvoo, in 1913, which was mobbed
and destroyed by the Mormons after
the first iss' g. He held several inn
portant places Of trust in his lifetime,
and was man greatly respected in the
community.
May Fiske, an actress, and late of
British blonde fame, has been trying
for several days to obtain license to
lecture in Detroit, which Mayor
Thompson, of that city, refused, on the
grounds of immortality and her previ-
GUS reputation. She claims, however,
to have been converted, and is desir-
GUS of exposing to the public the "wiles
of the blondes" The mayor remain
ing obstinate, she applied to the com
mon council, but that viriuous though
hard-hearted body refused even to re-
ceive her petition.