River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-26
GENERAL NOTES.

ROBERT LINCOLN has promised to deliver
the address on Decoration day at Roches-
ter, n. Y.
ANNIE MYRTLE, a young miss OF Racine,
died from the effects of skipping a rope
over one hundred times conseentively.
Bob EDWARDS, a famous horse-thief of
New Mexico, was killed at Rattlesnake
Springs by deputy Sheriff Mckinney.
A PARTY OF Scotch farmers will make
tour in the west this summer, with view
of learning our agricultural facilities.
THE claim made by the Maryland Agri-
cultural Societv against Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher is for $4,000.
THE Illinois house passed bill to pay
the 9th regiment 81, 075 for services during
the railway riots of 1877.
FRANCIS PERINTo, a well-known half
breed OF Fargo. Dakota, is about to bring
suit to recover the site of the city from its
present holders.
THE switchmen employed in the yards
Of the Chicago a;lroads, after a strike of
two weeks, have returned to work on the
terms offered by the companies.
JAMES W. POWELL. of Owingsville, KY,
who suffered from dreadful malady for
more than year, claims to have been re
stored to complete health by prayer.
THE marquis of Lorne is said to have
declared his intention to retire from the
governor seneralship of Canada after his
journey to Manitoba.
WATERTowN, n. Y, is suffering from
the dreaded army-worm, which is destroy
iEg al kinds of vegetation ana ravaging
the whole northern part of the state.
L.
waukee and St. Paul railroad ran into
herd of cattle near Genoa, ILL.,, ditching
the engine and cars and killing four
cows.
THE cattle disease which so startled
herdsmen along the Missouri river, has
evidently spent its force. 1t is believed
that not over two hundred animals have
perished from it,
THE break in the levee at Alsatia, La,
has created a river mile wide, with a
current of eight miles per hour. The
water is TWENTY-FIVE inches deep at points
along the Vicksburg and Shreveport rail
road.
GENERAL GRANT and Senator Chaffee
have arrived at the quarantine station be-
low New Orleans, where they will be
forced to spend three days for having sail
FOLLOWING the advice of DR.. Tanner,
respected citizen OF Erie, Pa, Professor J.
S. Thomson, has tasted since May 3. He
is somewhat feverish, but thinks a pro-
longed abstinence from food will prove
highly beneficial.
JOHN WALRUFF, brewer, of Lawrence,
Kan, will try in the United States SUI
preme Court the constitutionality of the
new prohibition law of the State. He has
the financial backing of the National
Brewers Association.
So rapid is the progress of the Northern
Pacific road that it is expected that by the
end of the year the track-layers will reach
Pompey's Pillar, on the Yellowstone.
Fourteen surveying parties are in the field
on the Rocky mountain division.
HOWARD CARROLL, a New York Jour
nalist, was married to a daughter of Hon.
John H. Starin, of Fultonville, n. Y.
Presents were received from President
Garfield, Vice President Arthur, and ex
Senators Conkling and Plat.
Gov. PILLsBURY, of Minnesota. has is
sued an order that applications for par
dons must be accompanied by a recon-
mendation from the Judge and prosecuting
attorney who tried the prisoner as well as
the iui ors who convicted him.
\ MRS. MORGAN. of New York. has sued
her physician for $25 600 damages, on ac-
count of injury to her physical condition.
resulting from the improper administra-
ton of nux vomica. The evidence in the
case is of sensational and prurient char
acter.
TIE London Standard severely criticises
the revised version of the New Testament.
1t is claimed that the revisers "have so re-
vised the noblest book in the English Ian
guage as to deprive it of much of its beau
ty, and they have destroyed many of its
historical associations"
A CONVENTION of representative colored
men of North Carolina was held at Ra-
| leigh, at which the white republicans were
denounced, and strong resolutions were
passed asking recognition from the adj
ministration. A committee was appoint
ed to carry the resolution on to Wash
| ington.
THE committee of the New York Legis-
| lature which has been investigating as to
! the terminal facilities in New York City,
report that they are utterly inadequate to
the demands OF commerce, and should be
increased, but fails to point out the ways
and means by which that increase is to be
effected.
THE pedestrian contest in Chicago
wound up with one thousand or more per-
sons in attendance Hartman scored $50
miles. Tracy 523, Krohne 500, Struckel
| 1853. Faber $50, and Campana 375. Harri-
man has won 81 000. Tracey $3.50, Krohne
$500, Struckel 5000, Faber 800, and Cam
pana ridicule and blisters.
DURING the FIST four days of this week
9 200 immigrants have arrived at Castle
Garden, and 41.611 have arrived so far this
month. 1t is expected that the arrivals
for the entire month will exceed 10000,
and may exceed the arrivals during the
entire year of 1915, when they reached
$4,000 The arrivals thus far this year
are more than double those If the year
1877.
UNDER the general tariff laws which
will be applied in the case of English goods
imported into France after the expiration
of the commercial treaty between England
and that country a few months hence,
British textile fabrics will have to pay
double the present duty, aud in some
cases treble, while the general increase on
all kinds of goods will average from 40 10
80 per cent. This will be bad for the
British manufacturer.
YIN. DEa hkGAhD INC CdDlc-
railroad, and sued the California compa-
MES for infringement Of patent. The case
was finally compromised On agreement
that the companies should not extend the
use of the cables for street car purposes
away from the Pacific coast. The rights
of Gen. Beauregard are recognized by the
Chicago companies, and he will be paid
ROYALTY for the use of his invention in
that city.
PHILADELPHIA has long been notorious
TOR its fraudulent medical colleges, but the
Record of that city few months ago took
them in hand and ran down some of the
swindlers The exposure attracted atten-
ton all over the country, and it might
have been expected would have deferred
people elsewhere from trying the same
game 1t appears, however, from the dis
closures made that bogus concern was
just getting well under way in Milwau-
kee.
Some time ago a paragraph went
the round OF the papers saying that
Boston Corbet, the man who shot Wiki
es Booth, now lives on little farm In
a state of extreme poverty not far from
Al. I,