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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-16
FOREIGN.

CHERIF PASTA, president of the Egyp-
tian council, has rendered his resignation.
FRANCE has ordered large supply OF
repeating rifles from the Austrian factory
at Sleyer.
By advice of her physician, Queen Vic
toria will next month go incognito to
Mentone.
In the theater at Genoa. while playing
Camille" Sarah Bernhard tainted and
spit blood, when the audience retired.
In the Prussian landtag one of the new
members from Schleswig forfeited his seat
by declining to take the oath required.
THE police of Dublin are irquiring into
the source of letter addressed to Secre-
tary Forster, containing damp substance
which exploded on becoming dry.
JOHN ROACH reports the receipt of a
proposition to establish 9 mammoth ship
yard in France, and will soon dispatch a
confidential agent to Paris to negotiate.
THE spanish government has resolved to
prohibit the proposed pilgrimage to Rome
if it assume any other form than relig-
ious demonstration.
THE Rothschilas of London and Paris
gave e5 600 each to the fund for the relief
of Russian Jews, and the corporation of
London subscribed $500. The lord mayors
fund amounts to fl9,OOO.
CABLEGRAMs announce the death of
Berthold Auerbach, the German novelist,
and of Hippolyte Cogniard, the French
theatrical manager.
THE new premier of Egypt paid visit
to the consuls general to state that the
government will respect all foreign obli-
cations. Six hundred officers called on
the khediye, and expressed qualification
at the appointment of cabinet.
The authorities at Belgrade took pos
session of the banking Office of NJ. Bontoux
and appropriated money found tn erein to
pay laborers on the Servian railway. The
latter enterprise is to be continued by the
Banque de Paris
GEN. IGNATTEFF, in receiving the jew
ish delegates, said he hoped before many
months the western frontier would be
opened to the Jews. The murder of a
Jewish family near Novidyor was com
mitted by peasants without the smallest
provocation.
THE Bank of France shows large in
crease in gold reserves. Louis Archard,
an East India merchant of London, has
failed for 100000. Five per cent. is the
new rate of the Bank of Belgium for dis
counts.
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Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

LIEUT.. DANEHowER and the other in
valid members of the jeanette survivors
in Siberia have been ordered home by the
secretary of the navy.
GEORGE SCoyILLE has left Washington
for Chicago. He will not prepare Tn
appeal papers in the Guiteau case before
March. Guards watch the assassin night
and day.
Mr. BLAINE has the originals of all dis
patches from the state department sent out
during his time. but left behind authenti.
Gated copies. He is heartily in favor of
an investigation into the affairs of the
Peruvian company.
REPRESENTATIVE robson has bill be-
fore the house 10 give a subsidy of $780,
600 per year to a line of A merican mail
steamships. The measure was devised
solely in the interest of the projected line
from Long Island to Milford Haven.
THE house committee on com merce lis
tened to a lengthy argument on the i'm
proyement of the Mississippi river by
George L. Wright, of st. Louis. The
committee intends to recommend the APP
preparation of about 80, 900 600 for rivers
and harbors, exclusive of the father of
waters.
SECRETARY Hunt has selected Lieuten-
ant Giles b. HARDER and Master w. III.
Scheuize, of the navy, to proceed TO Sibe-
ria and assist Lieutenant Eisenhower in
his search for the survivors OF the jean
nelte. Harder was protege of President
Garfield, and is now in command of the
torpedo-boat Alarm. at the Washington
navy yard.
In the senate Mr.. Garland introduced
an act for the erection Of public buildings
at Hot Springs Mr.. ingalls, called up
his resolutson, declaring that the pension
law ought not to be repealed. He stated
that the rolls of the war department
showed 620.545 pensionable cases, and
only $50 364 pensions had been granted by
reason of death or disabilities.
THE president sent a special message 10
congress, transmitting letters from Secre-
tary Kirkwood and the acting governor OF
Arizona in regard to lawlessness in that
territory, and urges the amendment OF
the posse comitatus act to permit the use
of troops in assisting the civil authorities.
The senate committee on territories will
probably report in favor of this change.
In the house, Mr.. Randall gave notice
of an amendment to the tariff commission
bill, making the body consist Of two sena-
tors, three represe natives, and four ex-
perts. Mr.. Lacey reported bill to estab-
lish a postal-savings depository. The
Sherman funding bill was taken from the
speakers table, and referred to the ways
and means committee.
CUSTODIAN PITNEY went before the treas
ury investigation and asked to be inform
Ell of the nature of the testimony given by
Upton and Lamphere. He thsn declared
that John Sherman and his wife knew
that employees of the treasury were paid
from the contingent fund for work done
tor the ex-secretary, and produced incrim-
mating notes purporting to have been
written by the Shermans. The commit
tee has decided to recall Upton and Lam
phere, and confront them with Pitney.
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Prescribing for Child by Telephone.

A short time ago physician at North
Adams, Mass, was called by telephone
about l o'clock at night. The call
came from Briggsville, about two miles
away. A child there was suffering
with the Group, and in a critical con-
dition. The night was dark and
stormy, and the doctor found nothing
pleasant in the contemplation of the trip
which he was asked to make. When
preparing to go out in the darkness and
rain his mind conceived bright
thought, which was Immediately follow
ed by action. He called the Briggsvilie
house in which the little sufferer lay,
and requested the parents to bring it to
the telephone transmitter. This was
done. The child coughed its croupy
cough, and the doctor listened intently
to every sound which came from his
patient. He prescribed remedy and
one Of the members of the family pre-
pared and administered it. The relief
was immediate and the recovery
rapid. The doctor waited at the tele-
phone until he heard OF the favorable
results of his prescription, and then
sought again the repose of his couch,
pronouncing blessings on the inventor
of the telephone.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


AN explosion in the Kickham mill, at
Doctortown, Ca, killed one man and
scalded ak others.
BY the fall of an elevator in a factory
at Newark. N. j., two men were fatally
injured and two others seriously hurt.
THE FIRE which broke out in barrel
factory at Jersey City caused loss Of
100000. A fireman was seriously in
iured.
SMALLPOX is reported to be rapidly in
creasing in Cincinnati and abatiDg In
Pittsburg and New York.
THE wife and child of Nelson Decker
were drowned by breaking through the
ice on Crooked lake, Barry county, Mich
igan.
Two men were blown TO pieces by an
explosion of giant powder near Newburgh,
n. Y. and one man was killed and seven
wounded in brewery at st. Louis.
By an overflow from the Tennessee riv-
er, ten miles of the track of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and ST. Louis road have
for the past fifteen days been submerged
to the depth of six feet.
A COLLISION on the Pennsylvania road
caused the death Of three citizens of Al
toOna-Engineer David Coulter. CondHc-
tor Stonebreaker, and Fireman Kennedy.
THE First Methodist church at Racine.
Wis, which cost $45, 600. was destroyed by
fire. There is insurance to the amount
Of $15, 900. The walls are standing, but
are in imminent danger of toppling over.
CHIcAaoANs who have watched the
operations of the cable-cars have wonder
ed that some Of the hordes of BOYS who
infest the route were not killed. The first
casualty came the other evening. when
Benjamin r. McLeary, the engineer who
carelessly cut the cable, fell under a grip
car, his head being nearly severed from
the trunk.
Mrs. MosHER of Bainbridge. Mich.
was terribly mutilated about the face by
the explosion of Michigan Central rail
way torpedo, which had found its way
into her home and been used for while
as plaything by her children.
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Tapping the Treasury.
UNPRECEDENTED RAIDS ON THE NATIONAL
EXCHEQUER.


EXCHEQUER.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.-Somehow or
other congressman seem to think there
is no limit to the government funds.
Eighty bills have already been intro
duced in this congress for appropriate
ing money for public buildings 10 vari-
Gus portions Of the United States, the
cost of which if passed will exceed $685.
100000
The following is the list of the bills,
with the amount of each appropriation
ask for:
Alabama Mobile, sl5 600; Huntsville, $751;
California Los Angeles $4,000; San Fran
cisd 500 000 Sacramento, 500 900.
Colorado Denver amount not fixed in the
bill
District of Columbia-HalI of records, $780,
900.
Florda--Key West $3.50 ,0OO Pensacola, $780,
900; Jacksonville, 800, 600
Georgia Macon, -; Augusta, 5000 900; Sa-
yannah, -.
Territory Of Idaho-Bo City. $50 ,000
Illinois-Rock Island, 100000; Peoria, $780,
900; Quincy, S250,O00
Indana-Terre Haute, $4,000; Fort Wayne
$4,000 New Albany, $4,000; Richmond,
$50 600.
Iowa-Council Bluffs, 800 600
Kentueky--Frankfort 800 900, Msysville, -;
Louisville, $3.50 600; Greensboro, $4,000
Kansas--Leavenworth, 800, 900.
Louisiana Baton Rouge, 800 600; Monroe,
100000; Shreveport, 900.
Michigan-Marquette, $500 600; jackson, SI5-
600; Detroit, S750,0OO.
Minnesota-M Minneapolis, $4,000.
Missouri--Hannibal, $4,000; ST. Joseph, Sl25,-
000
Mississippi--oxford, $4,000; visksburg $685.
000 Natehez, $4,000.
Nevada-Carson City, $780, 0e
New Hampshire $3.50 900.
New York-Brooklyn, 100000; Rochester,
$500 900; Poughkeepsie, $4,000; Syracuse,
100000; Buffalo, two bills, one by Nir. Crowley
for $3.50 900, and one by Mr.. Scoville for $780,
600.
North Carolina-G reensburg. $4,000; Ashe
vile, $3.50 0OO Charlotte, $4,000; Statewide.
$4,000.
Ohio Columbus; site, $4,000; building,
Ss00,000.
0regon-Portland, $50 000
Observation-Disclosures SIS 600 York, $75,-
600; Erie, $500 600; Williamsport. $3.50 900 !;
Scranton, $500, 000 Reading $4,000.
South Csrolina-Greenyilie $50, 600.
Tennessee-Jackson, $50, 900; Chattanooga
100000.
Texas-Tyler, 800 600; Galveston, $500 900 ::
Waco. 5000 000 Houston, $500, 600 Jefferson
$50 0O0 Brownsville, 100000 San Antonio
$50 900 Dallas and Graham: $3.50 900.
Observation-Disclosures $4,000; Lynchburg,
$1,000 Norfolk, $4,000.
Washington Territory Port Townsend s27,-
600
West Virginia Clarksburg $4,000.
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MHaraGArHn says.

AN INTERESTING TALK WITH COLONEL
CoRKHILL ON THE GUITEAU TRIAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Cath" has
been interviewing people at the court
house.
"Mr. Corkhill, how came the counsel
from the outside to be brought into the
case?"
cit happened in this way" said Mr..
Corkhill. "The Attorney-G General, Mr..
MacVeagh, seemed to behave as if he
wanted to reflect upon me in this trial,
and / therefore went to President
Arthur, who asked me if | wanted as
sistant counsel. had told Mr.. Mac
Veagh that if Mr. Scoville only appear
ed for the prisoner would want no as
sistance; but heard that Colonel Cook,
of this District, an expert criminal law
yer at hanging juries, had been retained.
therefore desired to recommend to
the President, Mr.. Totten, son-in-law
of Postmaster-G General Howe. He had
resided here long while, knows the
District laws, and has the confidence of
the people. 1t appears that the day
after / spoke to the President he
brought up the prosecution of Guiteau
in the Cabinet meeting, and asked Mr..
MacVeagh if ne had arranged for the
trial as became the Government. Mr..
MacVeagh replied that he had not par
ticularly done so. The President then
expressed himself with Indignation, as
understand, and said he wanted the
case tried properly. He asked the
Attorney General if he was going to try
it. MacVeagh replied that it was
against any precedent in the Attorney
Generals office for the Attorney-Gen
eral to appear in local criminal trial,
and that he regarded it as beneath his
dignity as a Cabinet Minister. The
President then said it must be tried
effectively, and he named John K.
Porter, of New York, as one of the
LAWYERS. Blaine, the Secretary of State,
stood up and suggested that there would
be required lawyer acquainted with
the laws and public temperament of
the District of G lumoia, and gave the
name of Walter d. Davidge. This is
the way the two lawyers came into this
case"
elbow was the jury arranged? ?"
"rhat was even a more important
question than getting counsel-to find
a conscientious and intelligent jury.
Under Colonel Cook, to whom | have
referred, the juries in this district have
been manipulated through the mar
shal's office for several years, and have
become standing disgrace. Cook did
not labor to acquit anybody, but to
hang the jury. That was the basis of
his practice and reputation here.
Mr.. Sayles ]. Bowen, q local lawyer of
the negroes, attained very great :nfiu-
ence in selecting these juries. CoLse-
quently we mad juries Overwhelmingly
negro sometimes eight, nine, or ten
men in the box blacks. They were ig-
norant. open to purchase, and the peo-
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Live Animals Thrown Into a Crater.

lilo Letter IN the san Il raDciscO OHrbulcle-
The boast of the missionaries and
their friends as to the work accomplish
ed by them in Outstanding the Kama
kas received q rude rebuff about the
end of October last. Ancient Hawaiian
history attributes the periodical out
bursts of the volcano Kilauea to the
power exercised by mythical female
the goddess Pele. From time imme-
mortal it has been the custom whenever
a volcanic eruption took place for some
notable chief or chieftainess to pro-
coed to the mouth of the crater, and
to throw various articles of food or
drink into the burning mass as q spe-
cies of offering. The eruption of 1856
passed over without any such offering
being made; but the avalanche of lava
which threatened to destroy the town
of Hilo during last fall, having assumed
gigantic proportions, the neighbors
clamored for repetition of the old
custom. Notwithstanding the remon-
strances of the missionaries and the re-
ligious advisers Of the present royal
family, the Princess Ruth--a sister o
the ha-accompanled by
number of Kanaka chiefs-came from
Honolulu and assembled to the crater.
In the burning, seething mass of lava
two or. three dozen fowls were thrown,
a couple of goats and pigs inundated,
some garlands of flowers, and dozen
bottles of whisky, rum and Hollan gin,
served to wash the solid matter down
the Unsuitable NAV of Pele. Strange
to say, the day after the performance,
which wound up with hnla-hula, the
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A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
among the letters recently sent to Quit
eau was one from Marietta, ILL.,, which
contained the following message;
i" Here, send you some smallpox. 1t
is worse than the sentence of Judge
Cox. Rub yourself with the scab, and
it will surely stop your gab." In the
center of the sheet was pasted some
thing that looked like black wafer.
The letter was Immediately burned.
Mr.. Scoville says he has received four
similar letters, and has requested the
Postmaster General to have all his let
tiers in the future examined and funai-
gated. On the receipt of the first letter,
Scoville lad himself vaceinated, ard
Guiteau was vaccinated also.
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Ben. Butler Braces UP.
HE WILL wIGGLE GUITEAU THROUGH

HE WILL WIGGLE GUITEAU THROUGH.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Several years
since Gen. B. +. Butler defended a po-
liceman here named O'Brien, who was
charged with the murder of man
named Cunningham, at picnic at
Green Springs Pavilion, near George
town. O'Brien was convicted and SEN
fenced to be executed, but President
Grant committed his sentence to I'M
prisonment for life. During the argu-
ment of the question for a new trial,
which was refused, Gen. Butler said he
did not intend that his client (OBrien)
should be hung unless he was hanged
legally, and to do it the prisoner
should be hung IL chains. He claimed
that the Maryland law, which is in force
here in regard to hangings, came from
the old English law, and that it was
never changed in regard to the use of
chains, though custom had grown up
which allowed the use of rope for ex-
ecution. The Communication of the SEN
tence postponed the question for the
time. 1t is understood that one of the
reasons for Gen. Buffers visit to this
city at this time, is to call attention to
the law in regard to executions, and to
suggest to Mr.. Scoville that he insist it
be carried out in Guiteau's case to the
letter. 1t is understood that Gen.
Butler still maintains that an execu-
ton under the laws in this district is
not legal unless chains are used.
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Pile were getting disguised with the adj
ministration of justice. When / was
appointed district attorney, / went to
the marshal, Mr.. Fred. Douglas, and
said to him that he must stop this bust
ness of making preponderent negro
juries. Said l 10 him: "There are
10000 people in this city and 10000
in the District of Columbia. and not
over $4,000 negroes in all. Their pro-
portion of juries ought not to be over
one-fifth. There are even less than
thirty thousand men of all colors in
telligent enough Tor jury purposes. If
you do not change the system of pick
ing these names | will be compelled
to stand up in the court and refuse
to try any case. You see," said
Mt. Gorkhill, "juries were selected from
list of five hundred names and put
into box by five commissioners of
juries, who were appointed. These
commissioners of juries were RESPONSE
BILE for putting in any improper names.
MIR. Douglass having agreed with my
views, | went to George Riggs, the late
sonal favor to serve as commissioner of
juries. He was sickly, and did not
want to do it; but he yielded as citi-
zen 10 my argument that it was neces-
sary for the respect of the city of Wash
ington. He and several ether good
men, adopting his leadership, made the
selection Of five hundred names from
the directory Of Washington, from
which we drew this jury. They took
one person from every business house
in Washington. No unknown or sus-
picions names were put in. Mr.. Riggs
died soon after completing this import
ant work, but the jury which convicted
Guiteau is the product of that labor"
What do you say of the jury, Mr.
Corkhill?'
at was model jury. By respecta~
BILE process you can get better jury in
Washington than out of any of the cit
ies-better than New York, Cincinnati
or Chicago. The resident element here
is of better traditions, and many of
them are sons OF descendants of old
government clerks, auditors in the de-
partments, naval officers, district law
yers, or skilled laborers in the navy
yard. They understand something of
the government and of law from their
surroundings. This jury, without any
suggestion, knew how to stand when
they were polled, and when they gave
their verdict. 1t was something re-
markable to see the military discipline
they had"
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THE Sherman refunding bill, as it
passed the senate, was considerably
modified. 1t provides for funding only
100000 of the 81 per cent. bonds, at s
per cent. The original bin provided
that the new bonds should run for FIVE
years. As passed, the new bonds are
TO be payable at the pleasure of the
government, with the proviso that
none of them shall be redeemed until
all bonds bearing higher rate of in
terest, and subject to call, have been
called and redeemed. They can be
obtained by the deposit of money, or
of continued bonds, and will be for
sale at the treasury, sub-treasury, and
the postal money order offices. To IN
duce persons TO take them promptly,
the s per cents last sold will be the
first called in. The bill viii so to the
house and doubtless will there be sub
iected to further notifications.
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO Feb 10.-Flour-Dnil and unchanged
Wheat Unsettled and generally lower; No. 2,
Chicago spring, l.27Q1,27K for seller cash;
1.27k for seller February. 1.27K for seller
March, l.2SA for seller April; l3l;sfor seller
May; No. Chicago spring, l.10al.11; rejected,
75as2. Sales, No. 2 Chicago spring. L25Kg
l27s for 3eIIer February; I.255S a i.25K for sell
Ter March; l.2634g .2s% for seller April; l.2sH
aI.s1% for seller May. Corn Dull, weak and
lower; 81 for seller cash; 81 for seller February
57LG57sS for seller March; 62x a62A for sell
Ter May; 02H for seller June sales, 55,< G57H
for seller March; 61K9629l for seller May and
June; rejected, 81. 0ats-Dull and frmer
shade lower; 40 4 for seller cash; 39KG40 for
seller February; 4O9E for seller March, 40ss a
40sl for seller April; 4Sh 043H for seller
May; 43K for seller June for seller April; 42sxa
for seller March; 40 4e3<; sales, 391S q 40Z for
43E for seller May. Rye-Dull and lower;
at 81. Barley--Dull and lower; at loo. Flax
Seed Steady and unchanged. Dressed hogs
Strong and higher; at 7.70G7.75. Pork-Un.
settled and lower, ls.26als.75 for seller cash
1O.26a 1875 for seller February; 1926 for seller
March; 1s.456ls47H for seller April; 1859
1s67K for seller May: sales ls.OO0ls29K
for seller March; ls.2Oa 49, so for seller April;
iS45al S62K for seller May. Lard Unsettled
ard lower; closed better, 1l.iOG1l.15 for seller
cash; lll5a l1.I9H for seller March; 11.:Oa
I1.32Jz for seller April ll.3OahIl45 for seller
Nav
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s.,wnu1.e 1nrxet.

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 10. - Flour In fair de
mand; steady. Wheat Firm; No. hard, nom
inal No. 2, l.27K l.27s4 for seller February;
L2s14 for seller March; 1.291 for seller April;
I.SO for seller May; 1872 for seller the year; No.
3, LII. No. T. nominal; rejected, nominal.
Corn-Dull and neglected. No. 2, 5s. Oats
Neglected; No. 2, 39hG4O. Rye-Dull and
lower; No. j, SIS. Barley--Lower; No. 2, 80
for seller cash. 80 for seller February. Provis-
ions-Lower. Mess Pork-ls.l0 for seller cash.
1910 for seller February 1880 for seller March.
Lard Prime steam, lilo for seller cash; lilo
for seller February; Ills for seller March.
Live Hogs-Weak at 6.O0@6.65. Receipts
Flour, $3.50; wheat, 24O5O: barley, 10000;
Shipments Flour, 1875; wheat, none; barley
$780,
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COnkIing and Tilden,
4 PROSPECTIVE RACE ON THE

A PROSPECTIVE RACE ON THE TAPIs.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IA prominent
New York politician said to-day that if
Mr.. Conkling would run for governor of
that state he would be the nominee of
the republican party next fall, and he
would surely be elected; and then if he
could get Tilden 70 run on the demo-
cratic ticket it would make lively can
vass, and would help the congressional
elections, which usually go by default.
to q greater or less extent, in the off
years. He said his friends had no as
surance that Mr.. Conkling would accept
the nomination, but it would be tender
ed him, and the utmost efforts would
be made to induce him to accept it and
make the canvass.
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FROM now until the day of his execu-
ton Guiteau will be kept under close
guard in his cell. He will not be per
mitted to see anybody except his I'M
mediate relatives and the Jail officers.
His counsel will next month ask the
"court in banc"-that is the tribunal of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, to which Judge Cox belongs,
consisting of Chief Justice Cartier and
five associate Judges-for reversal of
the verdict of the late trial and new
hearing. There is no probability of the
request being granted.