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Dickens and the Queen.

Apropos of the silly rumor that the
Queen had commanded a dramatic
performance at Windsor, story went
round the country papers to the effect
that when Dickens and his friends were
requested to act 'The Frozen Deep"
at the Castle, he declined, because he
found that the ladies of his family
could not be received as guests by the
Queen on the occasion of the perform
ance. The real truth was, when Sir
Charles Phipps wrote to intimate the
Queens earnest desire to witness per-
formance of the piece, Dickens con-
suited with all of his company before
sending an answer, and they unani-
mously agreed with the view which he
had taken from the first be-that the
invitation should be declined, and there
were many excellent reasons to justly
this course. 1t was in answer to sec
snd letter from Sir Charles Phipps that
Dickens suggested that, although he
and his friends could not see their way
to go to Windsor, yet there could be no
reason why the Queen should not at
tend a special performance in London.
The hint was eagerly taken, and the
performance was given at the gallery
of Illustrations. It was successful in
every way, and Dickens afterward de-
clared that they never had better au-
dience, for Prince Albert wept bitterly,
and the Queen and King Leopold sob
bed themselves speeches.. After the
play message was sent "behind" re-
auesting that Dickeos and Wilkie Col
ms would wait upon her Majesty.
However, they declined to come forth
in their costumes, but the next day
they both received letters expressing
the qualification of the royal party at
the play and its performance, with q
request that copy of the play might
be sent to Windsor; so it was written
out on gilt edge paper, bound in scar
let morocco, and forwarded to the cas-
tie, where, no doubt, it is still to be
found in the library. Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
A FOrger.
NOT sKILLFUL AND IS TAKEN IN.

NOT sKILLFUL AND Is TAKEN IN.
DETROIT, Feb. 3.--A young man
named H. G. Classen attempted to get
check cashed at the American National
bank, raised from $40 to $500. The
check was a genuine one, originally
given by prominent business house.
The teller discovered the forgery, which
was not very skillfully done, and de-
tanned the young man while he sent for
policeman, who arrived in time to
overhaul Classen after he had left the
bank, suspecting the measures taken
for his arrest He resisted arrest siren
uously but was overpowered. Letters
were found on his person from officers
Of the st Louis railway, Southern Pa
cific railway and the Gilman, Clinton
& Springfield railway, dated from 1874
to 1877, recommending the bearer,
who had worked for them, as yard
master, freight conductor and brake
man. Classen refuses to say anything
A guess at his age is %, but he is prob
ably older.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
Arrest Of Gamblers.
A NOCTURNAL DESCENT BY POLICE UPON
DEN IN DAVENPORT, IOWA.

A NOCTURNAL DESCENT BY POLICE UPON
A DEN IN DAVENPORT, IOWA.
DAVENPORT, Ia, Feb. 3.-About 2
O'Clock this morning the night police
descended upon private gambling
house and arrested eight young men
who were quarreling over some
mistake in the handling of the
cards. The gamblers outfits-cards,
chips and money-were confiscat-
ed, and the double quartette marched
to the lookup. Pressure was brought to
bear upon the police magistrate, and he
was routed out to hold court at 3 o'clock.
The party paid in fines and costs $50,
and were released. Five Of the eight
men we're travelling agents Of Chicago
wholesale houses, and left the city on
early trains. The chief of police has
ordered that there be no more noctur-
nal arrangements and sentencing of
prisoners.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

see him dulled, nerveless, his brighter
self effaced, his intellect Pickering like
dying light, his business faculties
dwindling, slovenly in mind as well as
person, inaccurate in statements and
careless as to line, and we say. "Chlo-
rail-"
These are, in our merry England, be-
ings who are as wholly under the DOM
nations of morphia as ever was Chinese
under that of opium. Women have
yielded by degrees to its fatal fascina-
ton until at last they prick the skin a
dozen times day with the tiny syringe
that has such terrible results.
The operation is almost painless; the
immediate effects pleasant. A delic-
ious languor superyenes. Happy
thoughts. bright imaginings fill the
mind Some see beautiful visions;
others feel only a pervading comfort
and we'll being. But at the very height
of the enchantment, the influence of
the morphia begins to subside. The
sensation of comfort gives place to one
of discomfort, irritation, even pain.
And the end? The punishment is ter
rible indeed. By degrees the mind be-
COm6S uaTk6n6u. MUCOUS nalIuc1na-
tions seize upon it. Self-control is lost.
Imbecility overtakes the weak. Man
ness threatens the strong. These are
the personal consequences.
There are others to be bequeathed to
sons and daughters and to later gener-
ations. These can be gussed at. The
new vice has not reigned sufficiently
long for the world to have seen them
exemplifed; but dark array of pos
sibilities suggests itself but too readily.
The heritage of insanity, of inebriettyi
of imbecility, will in future days be
traced back to those tiny tubes which
hold but drop or two, and to which
men once looked as to blessed means
of relieving pain, forgetting that bless
ings and curses go hand in hand in a
crooked world. Dipsomania has now
powerful rival, speedier in its results
than its own revolving process, and
eventually as degrading. The name
of the latter-born sister-fend is Nor
phiomania.-Lo London Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

SIX stores and factories at Atlanta, Ga.
were burned to the ground.
AN embankment in new railway cut
in Cleveland, o., caved in, fatally injur-
ing two men.
WHILE attempting to cross the river at
New Westminster, B. c.. in canoe, four
men were drowned by the ice-cakes.
THOMAS G. SHEARER, secretary of the
wharf company at Galveston, shot him
self dead in his dining room.
THERE are three cases of small pox at
Waukegan, ILL.,, and pest-house is to be
erected on the lake front. Mrs. Frank
Long died of the disease.
In 1881 there were S22 deaths from small
pox in Chicago, 1879 in Philapelphia,
Asa in New York, and IA in Pittsburg,
which had the greatest mortality in pro-
portion to population.
THE nail-mill at Belleville, H., was al
most totally destroyed by the explosion of
four boilers. Jacob Roedesheimer was
fatally injured, and several others hurt to
a serious degree. The damage is 1900.
Two hundred workmen are deprived of
employment.
Four men were fatally burned by the
overturning of ladle of molten metal in
foundry at Burlington, VT
The court house at Havana, ILL.,, erect
ed thirty wears ago, was destroyed by fire,
the other night, but all the records were
saved.
THE mansion at Tallahassee, Fla, occu-
pied for many years by Princess Murat,
and since her death owned by Governor
Bloxham. has been destroyed by fire.
A BREAK of one hundred feet is report
ed in the 0'Brien levee, at Tropical
Bend, La, flooding the country for six
miles back.
A rREIGHT train on the Gonnellsville
road plunged into rock-slide near Cum
berland, Ind, demolishing every car En-
eineer Taffle was fatally scalded, and two
brakemen were badly inisred.
THE Tennessee river at JohnsoHville,
has reached the highest point known dur
ing the present flood The town has vir-
tuaIlv been destroyed, and the railroad
bridge is threatened. East of Knoxville,
the tallest peak of the Buffalo mountains.
having been undermined by the constant
rains, fell from a height of three hundred
feet, alarming citizens for distance of
thirty miles.
FREIGHr trains on the Lake Shore road
collided near Sturgis, Mich, through the
negligence of the telegraph operator at
Burr Oak, wTecking both engines and fif-
teen cars of goods.
Two young men, Andrew Gunderson, a
Scandinavian. end Fred Matter. Ger
man, IL and 81 years old respectively.
while skating across the head of Lake
Pepin, fell into an air-hole and were
drowned. Two small boys who saw them
state that they had hold of each others
hands while going through tine ice. They
were found at depth of twenty feet,
about forty yards from the shore. There
home is in Isabella. Pierce county, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

NEITHER the president of the United
States nor the president Of the Senate
having a wife, Mrs. Kiefer, the wife of
the speaker of the house, is the first
lady in the land, and has the privilege
of entering drawing-room before any
other. She is tall, with hazel eyes and
dark hair, and of simple western man
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

THE anti-polygamy bill reported by
Senator Edmunds from the Judiciary
committee strikes out from the should
er in every direction. 1t is sweeping
enough, surely, and the presumption
is that. from the legal standpoint, 1t IS
built on strong foundations, and meant
TO stand against all bubbles. 1t pro-
vides for the punishment OF men IN
the territories who marry more tnan
one woman, or who live with more
than one woman as wife; for the pun
ishment of women who marry men
who already have wives; prevents po-
lygamists from serving on jurles; dis-
franchises all polygamists, both men
and women, and puts Utah for election
purposes under the rule of commits
sion appointed by the resident.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

So far since the opening of this ses-
sion of Congress, 1000 bills have been
introduced in the House alone, to say
nothing of the several hundred bills in
troduced in the Senate. 1t is not an
encouraging fact that great proper
ton of these measures are personal
claims and asked for subsidies, which
are backed by pertinacious Hobbies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

THE following is from a Washington
letter: THE Mormon church has for
wears kept an accurate record in detail
of the private life-especially at Wash
ington-of every senator and repre-
sentative, and it is this record, l am
sorry to say, which has given the Nor.
mons such tremendous and fatal power
at Washington for a quarter of CEN
tury.n When Uncle Sam takes the
Mormons by the scruff of the neck
they will understand that black-sheep
congressman are net running the
country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

The postoffice department has been
advised that the Canadian authorities
are again evading the postal treaty with
the United States, this time with refer
ence to postage on newspapers. A cor
respondence will begin Immediately
looking to fairer Interpretation Of the
existing treaty in order to prevent any
further misunderstanding
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

AN autograph letter of George Wash
ington's, taking strong ground against
slavery in this country, and expressing
a fervent hope that it would soon be
blotted out, is said to have been found
among the papers of the late E. w.
Stoughton. With it were other origi-
nal and unpublished letters OF Wash
inofop
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
The Demon of Choral

A woman who would have shudder-
ed at the idea of drinking too much
wine, thinks little of taking repeated
doses of chlorai--the small, innocent
looking vial so constantly in demand
that is thought nothing of. And yet
the brandy bottle may be safer of the
two. We see a woman lolling languid-
ly in her carriage, in her box at the
opera, or even at her own table, with a
filmy, dazed look in her eyes. an absent
manner, and half-unconsious way OF
listening and replying to those about
her. We at once account for it: "Chlor-
ALL
We see a man who was once the in
carnation Of life and energy, brisk in
business, intellectual, cultivated. We
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

The facts show that the jury in the
Guiteau case were not influenced either
by the charge of Judge Cox or by the
eloquent speech of Judge Porter. II
neither had been submitted the jury
would have voted unanimously
.sGuiIty as Charged
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

LIEUTENANT HAYES, who lost his life
with General Custer at the time of that
fearful massacre, left two orphan sis
tiers, who are now in Washington in
destitute circumstances. They have
been making underclothing for ten
cents apiece in order to buy bread.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

STATIsTIcIANs estimate that the popu-
lation of this country has increased
over one million since the taking of the
census in 1880, making our population
upward of 100000. 1t is believed
that in 1890 it will approximate sixty
millions
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
Crooked Assignee.

ST. PAUL, Feb. "a sensation was
created in Miles City by @. w. Savage,
a member Of the firm of A. Ramsey,
Nininger & Co, who recently filed an
assignment with liabilities Of $3.50, 900,
who asks for the arrest of the assignee,
Harding, on the ground of misappropri-
ating the funds. A warrant has been
issued.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

ABOUT a thousand million dollars of
our national debt have been paid since
the war ended. France has now near
ly treble our debt, and Great Britain
more than double. Even Spain has a
bigger debt than that which remains of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

THE woman, Blanche Douglas, it is
said, will tell the whole story of cir
cumstances and events that led up to
the death of Jennie Cramer. What
she has said sheds new light on the
case to the confusion of both prosecu-
ton and defense, and makes the
sad story of the poor girls fate more
pitiful and distressing. In dispelling
the mystery that has hung about the
case, she presents the Malleys in worse
light than they have yet appeared.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
A Queer Case.
WHAT CAME OF THE ARREST OF a POSTAL
route AGENT IN IOWA.


DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 3.-Postal.
Route-Agent Van Horne, on the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad, was ar
rested on an order of a judge holding
court at Nevada, Story county. he be
ing wanted as witness Van Horne
protested, as there was no other postal
clerk on the train, and he had no
knowledge of the case before the court.
He was forced to 90, however, being
seized and taken off the car. The result
was the closing of the postal-car, and
all the through mail from Chicago, and
all the way mail and connecting routes
being brought here in confused order.
Special MailAgent Toll left here this
morning to attend to that judge, who
fined Van Horne $50 for contempt of
court
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
Furious Flames.

CONSUMING A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH
OF PROPERTY AND SEVERAL LIVES IN
NEW YoRY.
New York, Jan. 31.-A disastrous
fire broke out in the five story building
Nos. 81 to 80, about 10 a. M, caused by
An explosion. The building was occu-
pied principally by the Scientific Anaeri-
can. Mum & Co., patent agents, the
New England Rubber Packing Co., and
Cook & Nash, hotel and restaurant.
The loss will be heavy and it is report
ed that six lives have been lost. The
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

SCARLET FEVER is an epidemic at
New York, and it has assumed alarm
ing proportions, there being III deaths
from the disease last week. There is
also an increase in the number of
small-pox cases.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

The result of the Guiteau trial recalls
to the Graphic an old story of the
Irish bar. Judge Porter was on the
bench, and a prisoner was brought be-
fore him accused of having committed
some offense while under the influence
of too much poteen. The sentence was
severe, and the judge, in passing it con-
cluded go now, my man. Take
warning from this, and curse whisky all
the rest of your days" 81 will, your
honor and III curse Porther, too"
was the placid response. The prisoner
in Washington is doubtless in this
frame of mind at present.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

II was the wife Of President James
Madison, who gave young woman the
excellent advice: "Give your appear
ance careful and serious thought III
your dressing-room, and forget 1t else
where y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

An undergraduate, under examina-
ton at London, was missi0g question
after question. At last the examiner
got irritated. and said. declare, I've
got dog at home that could answer
the questions that have been given to
YOU" Have you really, sir y said the
undergraduate, blandly. May | ask
if you would sell him y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

Froud says "We cannot live on
probabilities" The probability is that
we can not but they are the first thing
man goes for after taking up his
paper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

Mr.. ScovILLE has appeared in the
criminal court at Washington, and filed
papers on which he bases his motion
for trial. F. III. Snyder and j. w.
Guiteau made affidavits that newspa-
per was found in the room occupied by
the jurors, on which five of them had
written their names. Mr.. Scoville
makes the points that the verdict was
an uncertain one; that the trial was
unlawfully extended into the Decem-
Der term of court, and that the court
had no jurisdiction of the cause. Mr..
Corkhill remarked to a party of gen.
tlemen that Guiteau will be executed
not later than June so.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

President GARFIELD was shot on the
I'd of July, and died eleven weeks and
two days afterward, on the 10Th of Sep
TENDER, The trial of Guiteau began
ON the 14th of November, or eight
weeks after the presidents death, and
the verdict was given on the 25th inst,
or ten weeks and two days after the
opening of the trial. 1t was twenty
nine weeks and four days from the day
of shooting to the day of conviction
and it was eighteen weeks and two
days after Gen. Garfeld's death that
Guiteau was found guilty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
CRIME

Rev. III. o. HOFFMAN. pastor of the
First NJ. E. Church, of Bloomington. ILL.,,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

THE village of Johnsonyille, Tenn,
has been nearly destroyed by the over
flow fthe Tennessee river.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

Thar poor bedridder, invalid wife. sister,
mother. or daughter, can be made the picture Of
health by a few bottles of Hop Bitters. VII yoa
let them suffer when so easily cured.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The following
is the public debt statement for the
month ending January 81, 1882:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

In the stone floor of the Grafton, w.
Va, court house vestibule is the word
"Justice," in large letters. An old res
ident who had just lost suit was
walking out of the building sadly, and
with eyes cast down. Seeing the let
tiers in the floor, he halted, uncovered
his head, and spoke: Justice, ! knew
YOU were dead, but / didn't know where
you were buried until now"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

The St. Louis mo. Post-Dispatch at
the close of long article says In fact
st. Jacobs OH is pushing all other RENE
dies out of the field, and, excellent
though some of the liniments, former
" offered are. the efficacy Of st. Jacobs
Oil is magical in cases of sciatica, rheu-
matism, pleurisy, neuralgia, nervous
headache, lumbago and scores Of other
disorders; while in the case of sprains.
burns or injuries it is an absolute pana-
cea, and for general use is better than
the advice of many physicians. "a
word to the wise is sufficient"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09
ailments that seem Trif,inr

Are often but the prelude to complication Of
obstinate maladies Among the former are it
Of indigestion loss Of appetite biliousness and in
activity Of the bowels. It is highly unsafe to dis
regard any of these symptoms Of bodily derange-
ment. They should be attended to at once, ere
they become chronic and involve the general
health. The above complaints may be easily sub
dued with Hostetters Stomach Bitters, Rheu-
matism and fever and ague, both maiadies for
which the above is a reliable specific, yield most
readily to it in their incipieney. The testimony
as to its preventive efficacy, and terrifying inhu-
ence upon the system is particularly satisfactory
and conclusive. Nervous ailments are among the
maladits for which prompt relief is obtained by
the use Of this sterling medicine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

A man in Omaha blew on lung
tester, and broke it all to smithereens.
And the owner of the machine gazed at
him sadly and said: "If I'd known you
were Chicago drummer, I'd have seen
you in hades before I'd let you at that
machine!'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-09

One young woman stood upon the
sill of fourth story window until the
firemen arranged large piece of can.
vas which they held at the ends and
sides. When all was ready, size threw
her hands straight over her head and
jumped. She fell on the canvas and
escane injury.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-06-16
sEEBS


No ere sowing. dailr sozing.
Countless seeas q good or III;
Scattered on the level low.ands.
Cast upon Tho rfaay hill.
Seeds Tia; siai. ID sich. hrosa burrows,
Sofs with beuYen's gracious rain;
Seeds thss rest upon tie bosom
OF che dry, anyiehliag plain.
Seeds ths. fan aulJ nc s,illaess
OF The lonely uoaRsaia glen;
Ses,is cast coz il crowded plaoes,
Troddea under io9; q men;
Seeds by lille hearts forgotten.
Flaog ~ random or the air;
Seeds by faithful souls remembered.
SoSn in tears. aud loye, aud prayer.
Seeds that lie rnchange5, eng icl.enei
Lirsless on the ,eemiug mold;
Seeds tkat 1--we and grow and flourish.
Whsn the soues's hand ia cold;
BY whisper SOW we blessings,
BY breath re scatter strife;
Ia cur worGs a1d looks and actions.
Lie tbe seeds OF death and life.
Thou who suowest ali our weakness,
Leave ne nog 10 soy alone.
BID thy angel guard The fursowa,
When the precious grain Is sown;
Til the fields are crowned with glory,
Filled with mellow. ripened cas-;
Filled With frui! Of life eternal,
E.om the seeds sc sowed ia tears.