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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
Lost Annnrfnnify

A Clevelander who had putin two
weeks at the Flats, came down on the
boat on his way home. Among his
traps he had something in a box which
claimed considerable attention, and q
man finally approached him and said
81 see you caught one"
eyes"
"GoIng to take him homer"
Eyes"
WAS it the largest one you saw up
there?"
"Oh, no; this is only a young one. "
Going to tame him, | presume"
"Well, / guess So"
''Did he bite your"
"Bite me? Why, they never bite.
You know what sort of bird this is,
don't your"
'Of course | do. That's a st. Clair
Flats mosquito, isn't it?"
1t was a splendid opportunity, and
the temptation was great; but the Buck
eye was truthful nan, and he sighed
heavily as he replied:
"N-no, sir. That is a st. Clair Flats
mud-hen. l didn't see 'skeeter over
half as large as this. Detroit Free
Press
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Advice to a Young Man.

(Burdette IN burlington Hawkeye.)
James G. Fair is worth $40, 900, 600
And the wholde 100000 of it my
dear boy, can't make him as happy as
you are with the dew of youth in your
heart, when you hold the hand of the
girl you love, and walk with her in a
path that is only wide enough for one,
while the rustling branches whisper
ing above your head so happy you can
not speak with anything but your eyes.
If you envy him, Telemachus, if you
with your brown hands and your bright
young face, with the down just shading
your lip, with not gray hair IN your
head or a gnawing care in your heart,
with the morning sun shining upon
your upturned face, with the velvet
turf under your feet and the blue
heavens above your head, with the
blood coursing through your veins like
wine with fifty or sixty years of life be-
fore you, with mirage after mirage of
bright dreams and beautiful illus
ions and pleasant vanities making the
landscape beautiful about you; if you
envy this man his forty-two millions Of
dollars, and his spectacles, and his gray
hair and his wrinkles. and his old heart,
you are fool, my boy; and you are
scattering ashes on the roses that grow
in the morning. There is lightness in
your step my son, and color in your
blood, and dreams in your heart, and
all the love and beauty and freshness
of the sunrise, the $42,000,O00 cannot
buy, and don't you forget it. You don't
want 100000 anyhow, Telemachus,
100000 are plenty, that will keep
both of us. And if you want couple
of millions, why, go ahead and get it..
Seest thou a man delinquent in his
business? He shall stand before kings,
he shall not stand before mean men"
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TEIEGRAPHIC-
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

GEORGE X. CHITTENDEN, an old resident
of Chicago, who acquired national rep
utation from his connection with the De
Golyer paving contract in Washington,
died from cancer of the back.
CAPTAIN HowGATE has left Washington
leaving his family without a dollar, and,
as nothing has been heard from him, it is
believed that he has fled the country with
his mistress.
THE presidents swollen gland is exceed
ingly painful, and the morning dressings
are quite tedious. He will not be given
solid food until his jaws are in condition
to properly masticate it. DIR. Hamilton
says the blood has not been poisoned.
Prayers for the sufferer are offered at the
central noon prayer-meeting in London.
PAYMAsTER-G GENERAL CUTTER, of the
United States Navy, having reached the
age of 81, retires from active service.
Secretary Hunt will appoint some one to
act in his place until the President is suf-
ficiently recovered to determine on sue
cessor to Cutters position
Mr.. GUITEAU continues to be favored
with menaces which, however impotent
in the working of real bodily harm to
him, can not be- conducive to his self
complacency and repose of mind. A
postal-card from Iowa gives him this ditty
for his consolatien
I'VE wish we were thy night-eap strings;
Around thy neck we'd glide,
And in an ecstasy of bliss
We'd choke thee till thee died.
In the Christiancy divorce case al
Washington. druggist named Ambrose
Falliot testified that the senator, soon af-
ter his marriage. admitted that he had
cd al l. -
wife, and desired medicine to relieve her.
Mrs. Christiancy, on being visited at that
slime, corroborated her husbands state
ment, and took the prescription proposed
by the druggist.
COLONEL CoRKHILL, district attorney al
Washington, has been summoned home
from Cape May. He says secret orga-
nizatiOn has plotted to take Guiteau from
jail and infiict upon him torture which
will be warning TO assassins. Even the
Jail guards await an excuse to shoot the
fend, who has had scarcely any sleeI
since the first relapse of the president.
1T has been decided to remove the pres
ident from the white house at the earliest
possible date, and the Tallapoosa will be
kept in readiness for a brief trip to the
sea. Guiteau has written to district attor
ney Corkhill, announcing his regret thai
he was not able to kill the president while
in church, thus securing his death without
suffering.
SECRETARY BLAINE is the only member
of the Cabinet who has seen the President
since the day after he was shot, and that
was when it became necessary to secure
the Presidents signature to an extraditior
document. The President asked him tC
Al. 4 L.. L..
been reduced. This the Secretary did. He
is quoted as having said that the President
reminded him of an Andersonville prison
er. He became convinced that he could
not recover, and is of the same opinion
still.
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A Genrgia Tornado

A special from Augusta, Ga, says
A terrific hurricane visited Savannah
on Saturday night. The velocity oil
the wind was about eighty miles per
hour. Early in the evening the signal
service Office was unroofed and the in
struments destroyed A portion of the
roof of the Morning NeaoS Office was
blown off and the building flooded.
The city exchange was badly damaged.
A number of firms in the bay lost
heavily by damage to goods. About
fifty private dwellings were more or
less injured. The sheds on the new
wharf of the Baltimore steamship line
were blown entirely down. Several
flour and rye mills were unroofed, and
the contents flooded A large portion
of the city is under water. The Cen
trail railroad wharves are badly dam
aged. The public parks are shorn
of their finest trees, and other
wise injured. The destruction of shade
trees is very great. The Georgia in
Urinary was wrecked, and the patients
barely escaped. A number were bruis-
ed by the falling brick and plaster.
The pilot boat Maid of the Mist came
in collision with a schooner and sank.
Several other tug boats were injured.
The steamer City of Bridges had a hole
punched in her side. A house was
swept down the river, and three of the
occupants, Mrs. Stokes and her two
children, were drowned. Mr. Stokes
barely escaped.
PORT ROYAL, Aug. SIT seems that
on account of the storm the ferry
could not convey the passengers across
the river, and they gathered in the fer
ry-house awaiting an abatement of the
storm, when the house was carried
away by the high tide. Seven bodies
were recovered to-day. The number
actually drowned is uncertain, but it is
rumored will vary from twenty to for
ty. One washer and one dredge of the
Coosawa mining company in the
Coosawa river, were sunk. No lives
were lost. Considerable damage was
done to the wharves and lighters of the
company.
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THE condition of affairs in what is
known as Egypt" in southern Illinois,
is exceedingly distressing. For an area
extending one hundred miles north
from Cairo, and from the Indiana state
line west to the Mississippi river, a rich
and fertile farming country has been
literally deprived of many of its usual
products. The long drouth dried up
the fields and the streams. The wheat
was almost total failure, and the corn
has failed to mature, the young plants
dying before beine half-grown. The
root crops are exceedingly meager.
The pastures are dried up. The cattle
are suffering for want of food and wa
ter. The unfortunate people are in a
sad plight, and many of them viii soon
need help from outside to keep from
starvation. Already they are selling
off their last horses and cattle, and
have but little left. Never before has
outhern Illinois been affected as now.
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Theodore Tilton. was married in Ger
many, II July, to John Il. Gardin, OF
| Charleston, S. c., and the young couple
will make their home An Chicago this fall.
THE India-rubber warehouse of P. b.
Cowhill & Co., in Broad street, London, a
wineystore in Cheapside, and seven other
buildings, containing property valued at
81 100000. were burned to the ground.
CONSUL GRINSEL, at Bremen, reports to
the department of the state that during
the past six months ,290, 600 bushels OF
Indian corn were imported into Germany,
and that its use is growing. The duty il
six cents per hundred pounds.
A PAMPHLET on the actual condition OF
Russia urging some kind of popular adj.
ministration. has been published by Count
Baschkoff and General Jacdonef.
COUNT JoURDIEL, of Vienna, descend.
ant of one of the Oldest houses of the
French nobility. stole a carriage and
horses at Spa, sold them, and fled the
| country.
The queens speech on the propagation
OF parliament expresses the hope that
complete self-government in the Trans.
vaal will contribute to the tranquility oil
South Africa, and that the Irish land bill
/ may Will
the care bestowed upon it.
| ATHENS is suffering from the heat and
from torrid winds, which seem to come
from African deserts. Deaths from typhoid
are at the rate of ten daily, and many
families are escaping TO the adjacent coun-
try and islands for GOODNESS and health's
sake.
BRADLAUGH has issued manifesto to
the English people in the shape of an adj
dress to his Northampton constituents
| He announces his intention to go to the
house of commons again next session, and
he asks the English people to protect him
against unlawful violence.
THE Irish electors of Berwick, Sunder-
land, Durham, and Newcastle have, acting
on Parnell's advice, agreed to vote against
the liberal candidate for North Durham
which will probably insure the success Of
Elliot, the Tory candidate, who was de.
feated at the general election by Col
Joicey, now deceased.
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CHICAGO, Sept. g. Flour Quiet and firm
Wheat Unsettled; fuctuating very heavy and
rapidly. No. red winter, l.3l No. Q Chicago
spring, l.2lGl.23 for seller cash. 1.26Ho
I.26h for seller October; l.2Ss01.2s% for
seller November; 1.29& for seller December;
l.2l for seller the year. sales for October are as
follows: L26X, I.271i, 127, 1.27K, 1863
1914, 1858, 1859. 1868, 1861, 1869
1859 sales, 1I9a.1.23K for seller September;
1.27 Aal.291k for seller November; 1.2sa1 80 4
for seller December; No. Chicago spring, 1.l6;
rejected. S0a90. Corn-Unsettled and gener-
ally lower 81 for seller cash; 6326a6Szs for sell
Ter October 641s for seller November; 612s
for seller year; rejected, 5SA. 0ats-Uuset-
tied; generally higher; 81 for seller cash; 36% for
seller September; 3S1a for seller October; 393S
for seller November; 3694 for seller the year
Rye--Tteady and unchanged. Barley Steady
and unchanged Flax Seed-Fairly active and
a shade higher; 1.33a1 "a for seller cash. SO 4
for seller September 1873 for seller October
Pork-Fairly active and a shade higher; ls.0Od
1906 for seller cash; 1795alS.O0 for seller Sep.
tsmber; 1926 for seller October; 1S.1Oa1S 35 for
seller November; 1S.S0al8S5 for seller the year.
Lard-Strong and higher; ll.65 for seller cash
ll.47k for seller September; 1l.62h@ll.65 fol-
seller October; 1l.75d11 go for seller December
HAS for seller the year. The "Drover's Jour
nap reports: Hogs-Receipts, 10000; ship
ments 5000; generally steady and unchanged
mixed packing, 5.9096.9O light, 6.sOa6.7O
choice heavy, 6.50a6.75 culls and grassers
4.5Oo6.lO; quality good; packers buy freely. Cat
tie Receipts, $500; shipments, 3,OOO good, ac-
tive and strong; exports, 6.2O96.75; ten cars al
6.5Oa675; good to choice shipping, 5.6Oa6.OO
common to fair, 4 OOa5.1ji native butchers
3.25a395; stockers and feeders, 2.9Oa3.75. Tex
ans S.0Oa425; half-breeds and natives a GOA
4 60
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THE new metal Of which it is pro-
posed to construct pipes in which to
L.. ~ ,,..~,,,t, ,.;,.er, I'D - ---,---i
scribed as very light-only about one
sixth the weight of iron-and, being
composed almost entirely of pure car
bon, is indestructible, whether in the
air or under ground; it does not rust or
change by exposure, and is not affected
by heat or frost. The most important
characteristic claimed for it, however,
in connection with underground wires,
is its being a perfect insulator The
pipes of this metal need not, it is stat
ed. be buried very deep in the ground,
as they may be of semi-elastic char
acter, adjusting themselves to the slight
upheaval and depression of the ground
through the action of frost.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
A LOVE SONG.

o lassie, wilt thou gang with me
Adovn the meadows greenl
The pretty thrush sings merrily
The hlac-leaves between;
The ox-eyed daisy noddeth low
Among the grasses wet;
The soft wind sigheih sweet and slow
Although thy locks Of jet.
And wherefore should gang with thee
Adown the meadows green,
Zen though thy thrush sing merrily
The lilac-leayes betweenl
Low mods the modest daisy-A0wer,
The soft wind bl lweth free,
But, at this early matin hour,
Why should gang with theel
The ivy swingeth on the wall
With sunlight glints between;
o lassie, thou so fair and tall
Come down the meadows green.
And by yon brook grow violets blue,
Like unto thy sweet eyes,
o come and hear my love SO true
The love that never dies
Yea, laddie, an that be the why,
/ fain would gang along
For true, true love doth never die,
But yearly waxeth strong.
o winds, and fiow'rs, and iyy-vine,
How sweet We be to-day!
o yellow sun, how bright you shine!
Come laddie let's away
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Torn by His Own Hounds.

UsWeg0 IN. y Times.
The following facts, though not as
definite with reference to date and To-
cation as we could wish, have come to
our knowledge in relation to Hon.
Sidney T. Holmes, formerly of Madi-
son county, who represented this dis
trict in congress for the term, includ-
ing the years 1865 and 1866. Judge
Holmes, after the expiration of his
congressional term became the bust
ness partner of Hon. Roscoe Conkling
in Utica. A few years ago he located
west, though in what state has escaped
our recollection. Among his peculi-
arities was his fondness for hunting,
and for this purpose he kept fine
scented, he followed in the chase. Some
weeks since his dogs, for some cause,
engaged in furious fight among them
selves. The judge hearing the noise
went among them to stop the fighting,
when they turned upon him SO terribly
that it was expected he could never
recover from his wounds. While the
brutes were tearing him with their mad
and appai emily blind fury, they seemed
suddenly 10 discern whom it was they
were rending, and they commenced to
lick his wound, running around and
jumping at and over him, whining
piteously and manifesting all the de-
votion for him that it was possible for
dumb animals to do. The Judge, after
his rescue in the terrible condition in
which he was left, refused to have any
punishment whatever administered to
the dogs, maintaining that they were
in no sense blamable. The judge has
been county judge of Madison county,
representative in congress, and a
member of the prominent law firm of
Conkling, Lord & Holmes of Utica, and
has many friends in Central New York
who will be deeply interested in hear
ing more particularly about the singu-
lar accident from which ne is suffer
ing.
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A NEW FASHION PLATE.
The Members of the Cabinet as Tall
EhnuaUs,taG


Ors' Dummies.
A New York firm has just got out q
new fashion plate, which can be seen in
a tailor window. opposite the Treasury
Department, in which the President
and his cabinet pose as dummies, on
which to hang the latest STYLES. The
President in a dress suit makes the
center figure, and looks as thousands
have seen him in real life. He is shak-
ing hands with Mr.. Hunt, Secretary of
the Navy, who is dressed in genteel
undress suit, and looks as we have
.often seen him on the avenue OF an
afternoon. Secretary Blaine is at the
left of the picture, in an impossible
overcoat, which would do justice to a
Vennor. Dir Lincoln is way over to
the right, looking for all the world like
a Harvard senior just about TO start for
Boston TO mash something, while near
him is Attorney General McVeagh,
with his hair parted in the middle, in a
double breasted sack, looking Just too
sweet for anything. There is the Post
master General James. in a stylish sim
gle-breasted sack, looking like one of
the 5eltrlesse d'Oree who may be seen
coming out of Chris Connor's in Union
Square, and who can play billiards in
five different languages. There is the
Secretary OF the Interior, dressed in
suit of clothes that would insure his
being snubbed in any town of his own
state of Iowa, in which far-away coun-
try the wearing of fashionable garments
is considered proof positive Of incipient
softening of the brain. The granger
Secretary, arrayed in such raiment,
would no, be known by himself or his
best friends The only sitting figure is
that of the Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Window, who looks like a we'll
preserved bachelor of 80 years who in
herited fortune from his grandfather,
and who has never wasted the gray
matter of his brain on any more inn
portant subjects than polo, driving a
tally-ho, or leading in the German. He
is represented in the picture as if he
had Just dropped into the club, and,
after taking an attitude, seems to say,
ssJust look at those pants" Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one
of these. - WASHINGTON Republic.
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Fruit Stains.

In the season of fruits, the napkins
used at table, and often the handker-
chiefs and other articles, will become
stained. Those who have access to a
good drugstore can procure bottle
CT Javelle water If the stains are wet
with this before the articles are put in
to the wash, they will be completely
removed. Those who cannot get Ja-
velle water can make a solution OF
chloride of lime. Four ounces of the
chloride of lime is to be put into a
quart of water, in a bottle, and after
thorough shaking allow the dregs to
settle. The clear liquid will remove
the stains as readily as Javelle water.
but in using this, one precauGon must
be observed. Be careful to thoroughly
rinse the article to which this solution
has been applied, in clear water before
bringing it in contact with soap. When
Jayelle water is used, this precaution
is not necessary; but with the chloride
of lime liquid it is, or the articles will
become very harsh and stiff.
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Save Seed Corn.


A correspondent of the Hamilton
Freeman gives some good advice on this
subject as follows: GAS the Western
and Middle States lose annually several
bushels of corn by planting worthless
seed, and az the proper time to gather
the seed is being discussed through the
agricultural papers, many contending
that husking time is the time to select
the seed. But / must differ with those
who recommend gathering seed corn
after we have had our heavy Tor corn
killing) fall frosts. A sure way to have
good seed corn is to go into your corn
field when the husk begins to rIpen on
the earliest ears, and select the ripest
and fairest ears, and by pursuing this
course, improvement in quality and
time of ripening will be the result. If
it is picked before the cob is dry it
should not be piled up in heap to heat
and spoil. Corn that has been heated
will not terminate. Leave few husks
to each ear, and either tie or braid
them together and hang them in the
loft of your barn, or other outbuildings,
or make a scaflold and lay small sticks
or lath to hold the corn, and don't lay
too close, so that the air has good cir
culation through and about your seed
corn. Your loft must be well ventlat-
ed, and the ventilation should be LETT
open until the corn is thoroughly dried.
AS soon as the corn is out Of the milk
it will grow, if well taken care of, as
know by experimenting with large Ohio
and Missouri corn. If it is not thor
oughly ripe it will answer just as well,
and the kernel viii decay sooner, and
birds and squirrels will not bother it as
long; but don't stow your seed very
close overhead to your grain bins or
hay-mow, as grain and hay are liable
to heat, and thus spoil your seed unless
your ventilation is very good. / have
gone into my corniield and gathered
my seed between the LIST and Goth of
September for the last eleven years,
and have never had a poor stand Of
corn in that time, and have this year
also had good stand Of corn, whilst
most of my neighbors have either had
to replant or have a poor stand. 1t
pays to look well after your seed corn,
and plant less crib corn. Gather your
seed early; plant early; tend early and
late, and with fair season your chances
to get a good crop are excellent. Save
the seed early and take care of it we'll"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

A RECENT European publication con-
corning the Jews estimates their num-
Der throughout the world at about g.
100000. Only 10000 of the race are
to be found in Asia, 100000 in Africa,
100000 in America and 10000 in Aus
tralia. The great majority of the race
more than 100000 live in Europe.
Roumania contains far larger num-
Der of Jews, in proportion to its popu-
lation, than any other European coun-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

THE German government will not
discourage emigration by placing tax
on food. Tie laborer in that country
is paid little enough, and to place tax
upon -four, and wheat, and corn is but
taking so much from his wages to pour
into an already Overlooking treasury.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

The ex-confederateso of Chattanooga
and vicinity are preparing to give the
society of the union army Of the Cum
berland cordial reception on the oc-
casion of the latter's annual reunion,
which will occur in that city September
q and %. The ex-confederates want
to Join the union soldiers in final bur-
ial of thr hafchet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

THE mayor of Raleigh, n. c., de-
termined to enforce the statute pro-
hibiting swearing in the streets of that
city. He commenced by timing a
small negro boy S. and costs, and there
the reform ended. The boy is in jail
waiting for some one to pay his fine.
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Protecting the Villain.

WAsHINGToS, Aug. District At
torney Corkhill said tonight that Gui-
teau would be well guarded and pro-
tected from any hands except those of
the law. He said nobody but officials
will be permitted to see Guiteau until
he shall be arraigned for trial The
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

THE greenbackers of Massachusetts
have nominated Israel w. Andrews, of
Danvers, for governor, and DIR. George
Dutton, of Springfield, for lieutenant
governor. Among the resolutions was
one declaring suffrage the right of all
citizens, regardless of race, color, sex,
or taxes