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

LIEUTENANT GoRRINGE, who brought
the obelisk to New York, has invented
snow -melter for use in the streets of that
city.
A VACCINE farm has been established at
the southern line of Chicago by physi-
clan from San Francisco. who commenced
business with two hundred heifers.
THE Garfield Scent postage-stamp will
be issued March /, and is pronounced the
truest likeness Of the murdered president.
A COLLECTOR of letters in the New York
postoffice pursued his avocation quietly
for month while nursing his daughter
through a case of smallpox.
SOME Ohio ladies residing in Washing
ton have prepared an elegant fre-screen
for the mother of President Garfield.
MORMON missionaries are actively at
work in Union county, Tennessee, where
they have secured a number of negro con-
verts.
AT dinner party given in Baltimore
by Robert Garrett, there were present
James G. Blaine, Thomas F. Bayard and
F. B. Gowen.
THE woman suffragists of Boston in
vited the members of the legislature to
reception at a private residence. and five
honorables out of 280 responded in per-
son.
THE mayor of Halifax imposed fine
of $400 upon Captain Richie, OF the
steamship Peruvian, for allowing steer
age passengers to land while there was
smallpox aboard the vessel.
THE British authorities in the north
west territory have ordered thirty mount
ed police from Fort Walsh to Fort Nc
Leod, to quiet trouble between the ranch
men and Blackfeet. The Indians are
gathering about Fort Walsh to demand
more food.
ANNIE HOWARD of Boston. so years of
age, who died at the insane hospital from
voluntary starvation, left a handbook
calling for $4,000 She gave ten years of
her life to the care of an insane brother,
and when he was forcibly taken 10 Taun-
ton she lost her reason.
THE corn famine, which for months has
prevailed in southern Illinois, has given
the farmers a lesson of which they will
take advantage this spring. A Vandalia
dispatch says that most of the farmers in
that vicinity drive to town 10 purchase
corn for feed.
COLONEL HATCH, commanding at Gus
ter, Montana, telegraphs that the Grow
chiefs complain of the cutting of ties fo-
the Northern Pacific on their reservation.
General Manager Haupt states that no
one connected with the road had authority
to infringe on the rights of the Indians.
| ALL parties interested have decided
| that it is best to extend the Atlantic and
Pacific road to San Francisco, to prevent
| the route from being taken by some other
company. 1t is also understood that the
| Union Pacific shall extend its Utah sys-
tenn to connection with the Atlantic and
| Pacific, receiving n pro rata percentage
| of the through business.
| COLLECTOR SPAULDIEG, of The Chicago
custom house, has made a large number
of changes. Albinus II. Wright and Jno.
| A. Fitch were appointed deputy collectors
and John b. Nordheim bond clerk.
Among those decapitated are G. ID. Austin
add John Stillwell, both Of whom are said
to be relatsve II ex-President Hayes.
George Barron has established himself as
custom-house broker, disputing the mo-
nopoly of Sheldon d Co.
| A FEUD of long standing took A. M.
Soteldo and his brother to the editorial
rooms of the National Republican,, at
| Washington, to settle accounts with Clar-
| ence Barton. Charles Soteldo inflicted
| tive flesh wounds on Barton. but his third
shot struck his brother in the region of
the spine, and it is believed that he can
not recover. Barton and Charles Soteldo
| fought to the head of the stairs and fell
| down them together.