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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
A yefarious Traffic,

The greater part of the opium con-
sumed in China is imported from India,
and the revenue derived from the tarffic
forms an important item in the Indian
revenue account. While India was gov
erned by the East India Company, the
whole of this trade was in the hands OF
private individuals, as the company did
not choose TO engage in business that
was prohibited by the Chinese Govern
ment. But in 1862 China was com
PEELED to legalize the traffic, and, though
allowed to impose duty on the impor-
tation of the drug, England took care
that the duty was not SO high as to
prove prohibitory, and thus injure an
important and growing branch of In
dian trade. The cultivation of opium
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
jeff. Dayis,s Proposed School History.
From the pnrt (iihsnn RereiIle.

From the Fort bibsOn keYellle.
Some weeks ago two little Mississippi
girls, students at the Port Gibson Col
legiate Academy, who were smarting
under the necessity of reciting certain
school histories of the United States
new used in our schools, and 50 full of
SANDER and misrepresentation, con-
ceived the idea that President Davis
could be induced TO write a proper and
truthful history as a benefaction 10 the
school children Of the South, and in
childish simplicity they ventured a
statesman, and to their great JOY and
qualification they received the follow
ing;
My DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS: feel very
sensibly the compliment contained in
your requess that | should write a his
tory of the United States which it
would not pain you to recite. | have
long desired TO see q school history
which would do justice TO our people
and ancestors, and urged the late Dr.
Bledsoe TO undertake the work. He
died without doin so, and / know Of
no living man as well able TO perform
the task. / should much distrust my
own ability, but if my life is spared and
| can get no one Of such views as would
suit you to prepare such a work, i will
remember your request with sincere
desire to grant it, but | can1ot promise
to do so. Many years and bitter trials
leave me but little time or strength for
so important labor. May God bless
you, my dear children, and reward
your patriotic impulses with long li6'
and happiness. Very truly your frieyid
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
A RACE FOR LIFE.
Desperate Attempt of a Louisiana
Murderer to Escape from Four Ofh-
GERS.

Desperate Attempt of a louisiana
Murderer to Escape from Four Om-
GERS.
Lake Charles Echo.
Last Tuesday our district court room
was the theater of thrilling scene
from ZEAL life, which five minutes after
wards terminated in a tragedy. At the
opening OF the term the grand jury
indicted Josephus Fairchild for the
murder of a negro named Frank Clout.
Josephls was short but strongly
built negro. The homicide was COM
mitted near Lake Charles, last spring,
and Josephus, after lying out few
days, went to Rapides parish, where
he was arrested by the Sheriff of
Rapides and lodged in Jail at Alexan-
dria. Our sheriff, being informed of
the arrest, sent Deputy Sheriff John 5.
Hawkins to Alexandria, and he soon
returned and lodged JOSEF is in jail at
this place. He was tried by jury and
convicted by an unqualified verdict.
Just before noon ON last Friday, by
order of District Judge Hon. 5. ID.
Read, be was brought into court to re-
ceive sentence of death, his handouts
and shackles having been removed, as
usual when prisoners are to be sem
! fenced. As he sat down in a chair
| everybody could see by the trembling
of the limbs that he was violently agi-
tated, but by supreme effort he con-
| trolled his features so that they pre-
scented no evidence of emotion beyond
an occasional anxious glance at the
open windows near by, He was at
! tended by four deputy sherifis, one Of
whom-Richard Coward-carried
Winchester rifle, the others having
pistols in their hip pockets.
Sentenced, in due form of law, to be
hung by the neck until he was dead, a
deputy sheriff took hold of the prison.
er's eft arm and started to lead him
out of the court room, the other depn-
ties following just behind him. As he
stepped on the first of the three or
four steps leading from the front door
to the ground, Josephus, with single
movement, threw off the grasp on his
arm, and leaped around the southwest
corner of the court house building.
As he sprung across the ditch by the
road side Coward and another deputy
fired almost simultaneously, and Jo-
sephus fell. Instantly rising, however,
he resumed his race for life, running
up the street and past the Jail amid
perfect storm of bullets, several of
! which perforated his shirt within an
inch of his body. As he reached Ryan
street he turned to the right and ran
down that street. AS Mr.. Coward
reached the same corner, and Josephus
had nearly reached the next square,
ball from Mr.. Cowards rifle struck the
fugitive a little back of and over the
left ear, glanced around the skull and
came out at the face. Josephus, of
course, fell headlong, and was taken up
and carried to the jail, where he re-
manned totally unconscious until be-
tween 10 and II o'clock that night,
when he expired
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
High Wages and Mining.

Heofla transcript.
The advance in wages all through
the Mississippi valley and east is likely
to prove injurious to Western mining
interests. As is generally known, a
large share of the mineral found in Col
orado and south of it is of a low grade
order. This can be worked to rea-
sonable profit when the wages of the
workingmen are not over $3.50 or SO
per day. But at $3.50 or 81 day the
employer would lose from 80 to 20
cents daily on each man. Wages now
average 81 day in Illinois, and that is
certainly equivalent to So day back
in the mountains of Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona or Montana. Hence,
the question is, whether those who
went west in such large numbers two
or three years ago, with view of bet
tering their fortunes, will not generally
return unless their wages be advanced.
But should the wages be increased,
there would be very little, if any, mar
gin left for the mine owners. Hence 1t
is manifest that thousands would be
forced to suspend work in the event Of
further increase Of wages. And even
as matters are, large numbers will re-
turn during the autumn and winter;
for less than three in five of those who
went west did so with the intention OF
remaining there. We trust that west
ern interests will not suffer by these
prospective changes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
Vice Presidents and Their Predecessors.

1t is not entirely unreasonable that
Vice Presidents, selected as ours have
been, should uniformly reverse the
general policy of their immediate pre-
decessors. Tyler did it; Fillmore did
it; Johnson did it, and Arthur is reason
ably certain to do it. And why? The
answer is simple and logic. Vice Presi-
dents represent nothing. They are
nominated to meet some present and
accidental political necessity, generally
resulting from the nomination of the
Presidential candidate. They, there
fore, represent no great sentiment in
the party, and they become ciphers in
the administration. They gravitate in
to arrangement because they are voice
less; the disappointments of the party
naturally cluster about them until they
become the centeral figure of the OPP
position, and when they succeed to the
power that disregardsd them they fall
into the arms OF those who were not in
sympathy with the elected President.
As long as Vice Presidents are subject
ed to the ordinary laws OF human
nature they will be the natural antag.
onists of the President, his policy and
his friends PHILADELPHIA Times
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE destruction by fire of SO fine an
educational institution as Swarthmore
college, neal Philadelphia, is an event
sincerely to be deplored, and one that
will be seriously felt by that portion of
the society of friends to which it be-
longed The college was named after
the country seat of George Fox, the
apostle and founder of Quakerism. 1t
will be rebuilt at once.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
A Typographical Injury to Charley
Bender.

There are plenty of the cold semina-
ry" boys who will remember Charley
Bender, ten-year old, in knickerbock-
ers, who went from here to California
in 1862 with his brothers, Wilson S. and
'Punch" Bender. Charley is in bust
ness in Reno, Nevada, now, and was
the happiest man in the state until
about two weeks ago, when he fell a
victim to typographical blunder.
Charley hit upon scheme to advertise
his business, and told the editor of the
Reno Gazette to announce that he would
give special premium to the lady ex-
hibiting baby at the fair that most
resembled her. The announcement
appeared among the fair notes, and
read: "Charles T. Bender offers a
special premium to the lady exhibiting
baby that most resembles him.
Charley was out of the city for several
days, and when he came back couldn't
understand why the ladies, with whom
he had always been great favorite,
turned up their noses when they passed
him, and the matter grew absolutely
serious when a very intimate lady
friend to whom he proffered his hand
exclaimed, Don't you dare to shake
hands with me, sir, you vile thing" 1t
was all made as plain as day when
Charley saw the typographical error,
and he is not to be blamed for hunting
up the editor with his revolver.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE ereetion of the American hote
in London has been begun. The build
ing will occupy nearly an acre of ground
on the northern side of Holborn, abut-
ting on Warwick court and Holhorn.
and will contain 400 rooms.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

A sad occurrence took place the
other day at police station in ..Phila-
delphia. Mrs. b. F. DePool, wife of a
wholesale merchant, became greatly
alarmed because her 5-year-old boy
had strayed from home, and fastened
to the nearest police station to see if he
had been picked up. He was found
with about a dozen just like him, and
the mother. pressing her recovered
baby to her breast, sunk to the floor,
and died with him in her arms.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. s Flour Quiet but firm.
Wheat-Active but lower; No. 2, hard nom
inal; No. 2, Lacy; 1867 for seller October
1.3sH for seller November L39X for seller
December; 1.4OA for seller January; l.41%
for seller February; No. 3, 1.2S; No. and
rejected, nominal. Con--Lower; No. 2, g..
oats-Easier; No. 2, As. Rye--Easieri No. l,
l.IOk. Barley--Lower; No. ., 100.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE official autopsy Of the late presi-
dent having been published, the war OF
the roses will now commence. The
medical profession will take sides. one
party demonstrating how badly the case
was managed, and the other side de
Tending the course Of the attending sur
geons. Meantime the majority of peo-
pie will conclude that the practice Of
medicine is, even in this nineteenth cen
tury, still matter of experiment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

SKILL IN TIE WoRKsHoP.-To do good work
the mechanic must have good heath. If long
hours of confinement in close rooms have enfee-
bled his hand or dimmed his sight let him at
once and before some organic trouble appears
take plenty Of Hop Bitters. His system will be
reiuvenated his nerves strengthened, his sight
become clear, and the whole constitution be built
up to higher working condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
An Ark Built in Fear of Another Deluge.
Columbus Enouirer

A few miles below Ohio, Ala, there
is an old negro named Moses, who
claims he had revelation from the
Lord, in which he received information
that the world would again be
destroyed by water. He was so con-
WINGED that the destruction would be
by water that he at once began the
work of building an ark. He has thus
been engaged for several months, and
the result of his labors may be easily
seen from the river. This ark is very
unlike the representations of the one
built by Father Noah, and would doubt
less not withstand any severe gales,
such as might be expected in a cruise
of forty days and nights. This oddly
constructed vessel or house is placed on
a high hill, ready for the rising water.
It is composed of several apartments,
about five feet wide and ten feet long,
which are placed on top of each other.
Each has small portico, and spires
with feathers as ornaments. Approach
ing the dwelling of the negro one has
to pass through very deliberately dec
grated arbor, over the entrance of
which are the words: welcome, Peace,
Rest, and Happiness"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE comments of the London Echo
on the death of President Garfield are
perhaps the most significant of any
yet uttered by the European press. The
Echo says: "Sovereigns and statesmen
of Europe would do we'll to reflect upon
the cosmopolitan sorrow. Were every
one of them swept away tomorrow the
people would not be half so deeply
touched. European sovereigns and
statesmen still maintain their control
over the bodies and possessions of those
whose lives and treasure are lavished
in dynastic aggrandizement, but they
have lost the hearts of the people. In
the hour of her sorrow the great cosmo-
politan Republic commands far more
sympathy beyond its border than the
proudest historic monarch of Continen-
tai Europe could command over its
subjects"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

An exhaustive article in the current
number Of the Inter7tntio nal Magazine
discusses the question as to what
ground there is for Roscoe Conkling's
claim to being great man, and, after
a thorough analysis of his character
and record, shows that he is in no sense
a great man, being merely a shrewd
politician.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

AFTER vast amount of preliminary
vaporing something has really been
done in the star route cases. Warrants
have been issued against Brady and his
immediate pals, upon an information
filed against them in the district court:
This course was taken because an ad-
iournment of the grand jury was secur-
ed in Brady's interest. The gentle
Dorsey's case is not reached by this in
formation, but it is to be brought before
the grand Jury later.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

King Oscar, OF Sweden, who devotes
his leisure to literary pursuits, has fin
ished new drama called ''The Kron-
berg Castle" which viii be published
shortly in Swedish and German.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13


CESAR had his Brutus, Charles L. mad
his Cromwell, and Roscoe Conkling has
his Lowery, who. though he may not be
as illustrious as many of the other per-
sonages who have figured on fame's
immortal camping-ground, is quite as
busy as any of them. Sam" Lowery
has been a thorn in Conklings side for
MANY wears. He has at last succeeded
in carrying his home county against
him. when "Conk" was personally in
the field and peddling tickets in his
own ward. "Sam" is, according to the
Nation, an Ulster Protestant, popular
with the Catholics, and has for many
wears made it his life work, a CORE
spondent of the Sun says, ito white
down the ConklinG Cesar to ordinary
mortal proportions" He has kept at
this steadily for many years,
and would have doubtless accom-
pTshed it before now but that
he has had occasionally, for some
unexplained reason, Ito keep out OF
sight" He never, however, allowed
any of the whiting he had done on the
Cesar to be repaired, or puttiei over,
or anything of that kind, so that when
he resumed operations there never was
anything to be done over again. He
must in fact long ago have damaged
the magnificent torso" more than the
world knew. This whiting, too, is de-
scribed as having been labor of love
with him. He is a 'master of political
intrigue" but does not seek Office, and
will be satisfied with the honor of GUST
ing Mr.. Conkling from seat in the
convention and occupying it himself.
He Is not an orator, but excels in
drastic reports" He certainly seems
from all this to have been made for the
humilition of the great senator"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Copyright laws are SO memorable IN
Great Britaia that no one can sing any
selection from composers works with
ont having loyalty. Even the organ
grinders are subject to the law The
heirs and assigns of Offenbach demand
ROYALTY FROM those who sing any of the
tunes of the great composer until 1880.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THERE have been no train robberies
in Missouri for more than week. BE
ing somewhat illiterate it takes the
boys some time to count the money.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE New York Sun makes the very
sensible suggestion that, since in some
cities and towns subscriptions of small
fixed sums to the Garfield Fund have
been opened among people whose
scanty earnings make even these sums
hard to give, it should be made a point
that nothing like compulsion in secur-
ing subscriptions be reeorted to. 1t is
now certain that the fund for the widow
and family of the dead president will
produce an income amply sufficient for
the luxurious maintenance of those for
whose benefit it was raised, and all ad-
ditions should be purely voluntary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Timothy K. Earle, prohibitory can
didate for lieutenant governor of Mas
sachusetts, and with one exception the
largest manufacturer of card clothing
in the country, died at Worcester, in
that State, Saturday night. He was So
vears old
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
MORSE 6 WILKINSON. PrObnetOrs.

NELSON w. ALDRICH, a congressman
of Rhode Island, has been elected sue
cessor to Gen. Burnside in the U. S.
senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Mrs. Paris, the widow of A. X Par
ris, who was Governor of Maine from
1922 to 1927, is living in Washington
at the great age Of 80 years. H1er tac-
ulties are still keen and activet, and she
delights in "reminiscences Especially
liking to describe the entertainment of
Lafayette upon his last Visit to this
country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

IT is alleged by the Philadelphia
Press that if General Arthur had not
been nominated for Vice President at
Chicago, he, instead Of Tom Platt,
would have been elected United States
Senator by the New York Legislature
in Kernan's place-that Conkling and
Governor Cornell had so agreed. The
same paper says Arthur was at first de-
cidedly averse to the Vice Presidency,
because he preferred the Senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

The recent destructive tornado, or
series of cyclones, began in eastern
Kansas, moved northward and struck
in several localities in Nebraska with
terrific effect, and then moved east
wardly, doing great damage in northern
Iowa, in southern Minnesota and in
portions of Wisconsin. Heavy rains
were an incident of the storm in Wis
consin, where the streams were swollen
out of their banks, and a disastrous
flood is the consequence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13
Heavy Crops of Grapes.
Hartford Times.

This year has proved remarkable
one, in this country. for grapes. No
other summer ever produced, here in
Connecticut, such quantities of this
delicious fruit. A telegram from Marl-
borough, n. Y, shows that the Hudson
river region is as greatly favored in
this resDect as Connecticut.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

In front OF Colonel Thomas Mead's
house, in Greenwich, Conn, stands a
sycamore or ball-wood tree, which is
III years old, having been planted in
1710. 1t is about 80 feet high, and Is
feet from the ground its circumference
is % feet, and its diameter feet. A
hole in the trunk, which is now no big
ger than a mans hand, was not many
years ago large enough for a man to
crawl into, and was once used by chill
dren as sort of playhouse. As the
tree has grown of late years, the aper-
ture has gradually closed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

THE love of some women for their
drunken brutal husbands is past com
prehension. In New York, last week,
a saloon keeper set blood hound on
his wife. the beast tearing the woman's
arms and neck in most horrible man.
ner She is the owner Of a store and
supports her husband, but in spite OF
his abuse it seems she loves him, for
on his arrest she refused to prosecute,
and the brute was set at liberty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

The Ottawa Kan. Republican thus
quotes Mr.. Harvey b. +. Keller, re-
corder of deeds, Gays have long been
convinced Of the merits of St. Jacobs
Oil, and use it n my family for rhuma-
tistn successfully.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Queen Victoria accompanied by the
Prince and Princess of Wales and their
daughters, by the Duke and Dutches of
Edinburg, the Duke aIld Duches Of Con-
naught. Prince Lepdld and the Duke
of Cambridge, was present recently at
a cricket match between the servants
of her Majesty's household and those
of the Prince of Wales from Abergel-
die
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Moorish women dress very gaily in
their homes, but when they appear in
the public streets they are enveloped
in white muslin or calico from head to
foot, and glide along like ghosts. thick,
white wells covering their faces. In
private life they are fond of gorgeous
coloring.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

Alderman John Whitaker Ellis, a
Broad street land agent in London, has
been elected Lord Mayor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-13

The library of the late Judge Clifford,
of the United States Supreme Court Is
valued at $4,000.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-08
A CURIOUS COMMENTARY.

The sentence in London recently of
Herr John Most to sixteen months i'm
prisonment with hard labor was a Curious
commentary IN the present condition of
the English Courts. Freedom OF speech
and Of the press has been the bulwark
of England's prosperity, and it is some
what late in the day to attempt to muz-
zle the latter. Herr Most on leaving the
prisoners desk, exclaimed, 1--WE might
as well be in Russia" and he was not far
wrong, for his conviction and sentence
were totally at variance with all the ac-
cepted ideas of English law and justice.
But the close relations between the royal
families of England and Russia may have
had something to do with the matter,
and it is just possible that Herr Most has
fallen the victim to a desire on the part
Of Judge and jury to propitiate royalty.