River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-18

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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
MORSE d WILKINSON. Pr0brietOys.
NEWS NOTES.
A LARGE school of sharks has APP
peared in the Hudson river at New
York, and can daily be seen from the
ferry-boats.
WEAVER is "whooping up" the
greenback cause in Kansas this hot
weather. He has held dozen meet
ings in the state already, and is booked
for dozen more addresses.
FIFTY delegates to the Methodist
ecumenicaI conference sailed from New
York by the City of Berlin. The cab
in table was loaded with floral tributes
THE suit brought by General Butler
to stop the sale of the Sprague estate
has caused the closing of all its facto-
ries. The temporary injunction for.
bids payments to operatives or expend
itures for the preservation of property,
thus throwing ten thousand men out o.
employment.
DR.. TANNER has located at Erie, Pa
He is preparing proposition to the
medical faculty Of New York to fast
for three months. He declares that il
the air in his room be strongly charged
with electricity he can obtain the mega
tive element from the disintegration Of
his tissue. and fast for ninety-fve days
SECRETARY of war, Robert Lincoln
has asked General w. S. Hancock
late democratic candidate for presi
dent, to command the troops on the
occasion at the celebration of the cen
tennial anniversary of the battle o.
Yorktown, and the general has signi
fed his willingness so to do. Admira
David ID. Porter will command the wal
vessels which will participate i'll the
celebration, by order of Secretary
Hunt.
If we are to believe the Paris CORES
pondent Of the London Economist, th'
reports of rich harvests in France have
not only been exaggerated but are un
true. This corresp ondent claims tina
the yield will be less than last year
which was below the average, and tina
the expectation of breadstuffs into
France must be as large as ordinary
France expects to absorb the surplus
Of Russia.
REV. EDWARD CROWLEY; the New
York shepherd" who starved the
children committed to his care, anC
vino suffered a years Imprisonment
for his crime, has written a long lettel
for publication, in which he reviews thu
testimony brought before the eccleslas
tical court; and claims that much othel
testimony useful to him was withheld
by his enemies. He appeals to the pub
lie for money to enable him to print al
the testimony in the case.
A CURIOUS story comes from England
to the effect that the action Of the In
ternational Medical Congress, in refus
ing to acknowledge the right of women
to practice medicine and surgery, was
caused by the action Of Queen Victoria
who, it is claimed, threatened, through
Sir William Jenner, to withdraw hel
patronage from the congress If woman
practitioners were admitted. This /:
very unlike the the Queen, who hai
always encouraged the advancement
of women in art and science.
THE iron clad prohibitory law which
Kansas has engrafted into the constl
tuition doesn't work very well. ltwa'
predicted that it would lead the cltl
zens of Puritan New England cOmunl
ties to flock there in great numbers
Nothing of the sort has happened
Moreover, a convention has been helC
to protest against it and secure its re
peal, and, worse than all, prohibition
doesn't prohibit, as is shown by thu
issue of large number of United
States licenses to liquor sellers.
Now and then, in states which ex
empt church property from taxation
the legislature discusses the prophet!
of imposing a tax. New Hampshire
has varied the proceedings a little thu
summer. There a law is in force tax
ing the possessions of religious bodies
provided they are worth over $4,000
An effort has just been made to re
peal this act, so that rich churche
would 90 free as well as poor ones, bu
the house voted it down last week, II
to 80.
YELLow-FEvER is prevailing IN tn
West Indies and along the gulf coas
of Mexico. 1t appears to be worse
Vera Cruz. where it is epidemic, ant
so fatal as to practically place an EN-
barge on travel. In Cuba the dlseas
has been gradually on the increase 70
some months at Havana, and now
is reported at the Sagua Grande Can