River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-22
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Baltimore and Pennsylvania roads
are selling s. tickets from Chicago to
Philadelphia, baltimore, and Washington.
Ii is reported that General Grant clear
ed 49, 900 by the sale OF a tract OF swamp
land ia California to the Atlantic and Pa
cifc railroad.
10 MRS. BURKE, of Omaha, made 81 900 at
the Nebraska stale tair by riding ten
miles in 20 minutes and "a seconds. She
used four horses, and made six changes.
LIEUT.. JOHN g. BoURKR has forwarded
TO Gen. Sheridan a thrilling description of
a snake dance among the Mosqui Indians,
which he is doubtless the first white man
to witness.
The obsequies of Archbishop Henri
took place at Milwaukee recently. All the
Catholic institutions were draped in
mourning. Archbishop Feehan and Bish-
ops Spalding. Ireland. Hennessey and Nc
Mullen were in attendance.
JAMES WRITTEN, of Wilmington, ILL.,,
has sold / $50 acres of coal land in Grundv
county to the Chicago, Milwaukee Il St.
Paul road, for 800 an acre. An adjoin-
ing tract of 100 acres brought $l10 per
acre.
THE Northern Pacific road has sos
miles of track in operation, and reports a
balance in the treasury Of 1865, 129. The
capital stock is now $9l, 312.5S8. To COM
plete the line between Lake Superior and
the Pacific coast 816 miles of track are re-
quired.
The customs authorities in New York
grew suspicious OF two wrought-iron
shafts, weighing about seven hundred
pounds each. and discovered that they
contained dies for screw-cutting. valued at
s., 900, on which the duty is 40 per cent.
ad vnlorum.
GENERAL CARR is believed to have had
with him in the massacre FIVE officers and
sixty-three men of the 9th cavalry.
There are ten thousand Indians on the
San Carlos reservation, and as many more
in the Navajo tribe, located sixty miles
northward.
A STEER from Texas, after some advent
ures in Eight avenue, New York, walked
into dry goods store and made for the
rear door The concern was locked up
until the arrival of the rolice. In going
out, the animal, ran his rorns through a
plate glass window. He was tied to tele-
graph pole and shot by the blue coats.
MURAT HAIsTEAD's last joke was played
on the millionaires of Cincinnati, who are
said to have subscribed only $17 to the
fund for Mrs Garfield. Two Cincinnati
lads, Victor and Edward Abraham, secured
$l5 in 10-cent contributors, and Mr.. Hal
stead Endorsed the amount to Cyrus w.
Field.
THE presidents bed has been so placed
that he can kill time by watching the
surf. The surgeons believe that the bullet
is encysted, and can ultimately be re-
moved without danger. Secretary Win
dom was summoned for brief interview.
and Postmaster General James and Secre-
tary Hunt have been invited into the sick
chamber. The presidents stomach retains
a healthy tone.
AMBROSE +. BURNSIDE, senator from
Rhode Island. expired of spasms of the
heart, at Bristol, on the 18th inst. He
was born at Liberty, Ind, in 1924, and
graduated at West Point in 1877. He was
a lieutenant of artillery in the Mexican
war, and in 1860 became treasurer of the
Illinois Central railroad company. He
was colonel of the First Rhode Island
regiment at the battle of Bull Run,
served at Antietam as a major general,
and superseded Nc lellan in comma nd OF
the army OF the Potomac, just before the
defeat at Fredericksburg. lie served
three terms as governor of Rhode Island,
and was sent to the senate in 1879.