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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

gW. NJ. LOWE, member of congress
from Alabama, died Saturday at Hunts
vile.
THE Star block at Terrell. Texas, con-
tanning a bank and several stores, was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss aggregating 81 s.
000.
cuse, New York, valued at $4,000, were
burned Saturday.
TIE Trades assembly of Milwaukee
after Sunday session of five hours, nomi-
mated full county ticket, headed by
John BentIy for sheriff.
GEO. YOUNG was killed and Harry
Smith fatally injured by boiler explo-
sion at SheIbyville, Ind.
Two young men blew out the gas in
their room in a Brooklyn hotel, and were
found dead in the morning.
A BARREL containing $4,000 breech-
loading caps exploded at Bridgeport,
Conn. demolishing the building in which
it was located. Nobody was hurt.
AN explosion of gas in the Mill Greek
mine, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, belonging TO
the Delaware u Hudson company, COM
PEELED temporary suspension. Nobody
was hurt.
A COLLISION of passenger trains at
Salem, Kansas. caused the infection Of
serious injuries on several persons and
the destruction of both engines.
HENRY KENEME, a carpenter, who was
at work or the tower of st. Xavier's
church at Cincinnati, was instantly killed
by falling sixty feet to the stone floor.
DR.. JOHN w, PARKER, of Columbia,
| South Carolina, whose humane and skill
full management of the insane asylum
gave him a national reputation, died in
his S0th year,
EDWARD BENNETTo, who for nine years
has been employed in the office of the
manager of the Great Western railway, at
Hamilton, Ont, was instantly killed by
| slipping from a car platform.
FORTY THOUSAND Bostonians were on
the 18th carried over the rival roads to
Lynn at FIVE cents each. The disorderly
conduct of the people made the Lynn
people wish that the war of rates was
over.
A MISPLACED switch near Muskogee, In
dian territory. sent freight-train into a.
a ditch. Engineer Spar was crushed to a
! Jelly, and Fireman Walker had both legs
| severed from his body.
A COMMISSION of experts reports in fa-
vor of removing the vauIled stone ceiling
| in the assembly chamber at Albany and
replacing it with wood. The change will
cost $500, 900, bat is to be7nade.
DR.. JANIS A. MULLEN, prominent
physician of Baltimore, died Sunday from
a disease in the head and neck, caused
| from the wound of poisonous arrow re-
ceived in a fight with Indians some years
ago.
AN engine on the South Park road in
Colorado was taking hat-car down a
steep grade when collision occurred
with mule which stood on the track.
Conductor Bludsoe and two men were in
stantly killed, but the engineer and hra-
man saved themselves BY leaping.
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The Immortal Waltz.

Ten or fifteeuyears ago." the Phila-
delphia Press quotes a dancing-master
as saying, ''the waltz was not quite SO
Objectionable as at present. Dancers
of to-day come into altogether too
close contact. IN the old time agenr
tleman merely touched lady's waist,
at the same tine holding her right
hand in his left. Now he throws his
arm clear around her form, pulls her
closely to him, as though fearful Of
losing her, brings his face into actual
contact with her soft cheek, and, in a
word, hugs her. Such action is alto
gether too familiar, but still custom
and society sanction it, and, instead OF
improvement for the better, we see
year ;s.f f s1--.y years marked advance in
the improprieties in the dance. In
the old days the waltz was compare
lively modest; now it is just the re-
verse, and the waltz is calculated to do
more injury to the young than many
of the vices preached against from the
pulpit, and deeply deplored in private
life"
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CHINESE GENTRY.
a Glass OF society which Influences
the Policy of the Government.
Overland China Nail.


The whole of Chinese society is, as it
were, permeated and leavened with the
influence OF an irresponsible and
wealthy class, the members of which
are difficult to lay hold of, and enjoy
all the power Of Office without its
dangers and its liabilities. Thegentry,
in word, consist of retired officials,
wealthy persons living on their means,
aod the heads or more influential men,
bers of guilds, the largest and most
powerful of which are said to be those
of the opium merchants and bankers.
But the lterati form an even more inn
portant section of the gentry than the
merchants. These men carry all the
weight with them which a widespread
reputation for scholarship and ortho-
doxy has at its command in China.
Often poor, miserably clad, and intense
ly Chauvinist in their opinions, they
are the proudest of the proud, and hate
the foreigner with a hatred born of the
purest intolerance, ignorance and con-
tempt. 1T is said tn at the most pow
erful ally of the gentry is no other than
Pei Shao,li, the chief of the Eunuchs in
attendance uron her maj esty the
western empress. After all it is princi-
pally wealth that has the power in
China. 1t is not often that we hear OF
very wealthy gentry being forced to
disgorge by the official class. He is
not only too valuable member of So
ciety to be dealt with so uncermoni-
ously, but he represents class that no
mandarin dare offend. 1t is the gentry
who rule the mandarins, and the man
darins who rule the people. 1t is the
gentry who turn the course of justice
to suit their own ends, who influence
the policy of government and viceroys,
who influence the passions of the mob
when it suits their purpose, and whose
power is felt even in the councils of the
palace itself.
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"Mill he hite2n

evil he bite?"
The humming of the bees as they
sped from flower TO flower and slipped
the treasures ofpetal and calyx, and
the low murmur of the summer breeze
signing among the locust trees, were
the only sounds that broke the st
Louis silence of a beautiful afternoon
in September. The amber haze of
Indian summer had fallen upon the
land, and from the vivid hues of the
sumac bush to the pale gray of the
abandoned hoopskirt every object that
lay so silently-upon the brown bosom
of the sun.kissed earth was touched
by the hand of autumn. Away to the
westward stretched vista of grain
fields that were laughing in the golden
glory of an abundant harvest, while the
eastern landscape was hecked here and
there by sad-eyed but brindle COW.
"Let us think only of the future,
Rupert" said Beryl Gillhooly to the
strong limbed, all on.account-of Eliza
young man who stood by her side look
ing down into the hazel depths of her
beautiful eyes in wistful, will-the old
man ever.go-to bed expression that sat
so strangely upon the Chicago outlines
of his pure young face. And even
while speaking these words, she turned
her left foot slightly so as to shield him
from the ardent rays of the sun, and
smiled a joyous, happy, you-are first.
choice-in-every-pool smile that told of
deathless passion that enslaved her
soul. "Let us think of the future, she
continued; 90, the bright and happy
future, full of matinee tickets and ice
cream"
"No, no, not that, some other flu
ture," cried Rupurt Mcintosh, a look
of haunting horror coming into his
face. 81 connot free my mind from
this dread suspicion"
At that moment book-agent was
seen ascending the brow of the hill.
He entered the portals of Coastclifi
Castle and went up the front steps. In
little while he came back hurriedly,
and soon a dog was seen at play with
some gents furnishing goods. Ru-
pert kissed Beryl and started over
| town.
"When are you coming back, sweet
hearth" the girl asks.
Next August" are the words that
the zephyrs bear back to her.
"Why do you wait so long, darling?"
Because" he answers in tear
stained tones, "dogs are muzzled in
AuotIst -
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A Tragedy in A Few Words

the veil was lifted off London in
terror at at an inquest held the other
day at Whitechapel disclosing a pict-
ure to which Hogarth or Cruikshank
would have failed to do Justice, and
from which the moral artists of to day,
who shows a husband beating out his
wife's brains with chair or knocking
her down with bottle or a poker,
might fairly takea hint. The victim
in this case was child. The story is
told by relative, who, himself drunk.
still retained some of his wits. On
Tuesday night he came home about
half-past seven. On entering the room
he saw his brother lying on the floor
drunk, and his wife lying on the bed,
with her face toward the wall, and
drunk. The deceased child was lying
at her fathers feet, with her head to-
ward the fender. There was a mug by
the fathers side, but he could not say
what it contained. He woke the mother
up, and told her she ought to be
ashamed to leave the child on the
floor, and he then, at her request,
picked the child up, when he saw
blood flowing from the mouth and dis
covered it was dead. The doctor de-
posed that che accounted for the alb
rasions on the side by the child being
dragged about, and it was quite possible
that the injuries to the head were
caused by some blunt instrument, such
as a poker or fatiron. 1t was also
possible that the child was caught up
by the legs and swung round, and came
into contact with something. His
opinion is that the child was struck
by some blunt instrument" The father
of the child termed it "a crime and
mystery" Unlike many a London
mystery" the solution does not seem
very difficult to discover.
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whom lie welded as can evil thing
and ga loathsome carcass" and at
tributed the poets sorrow and selfde
struction to the influence of thatunion
Capt. Mayne Reid. the veteran story
writer, who is now sixty,two years old
and lives in Fragmene, England, is
hereafter to receive 81 pension from the
the United states of SIS month. He
served as second lieutenant in the New
York Volunteers during the Mexican
war, and was shot at Chapultepec.
His claim was filed about two years
ago, and the affidavit set forth that he
il quite poor, living on small farm,
and in need of pension.
Mr.. Gladstone is still guarded by
special officers, two of them accom-
panying him whenever he walks or
rides out. Hitherto they have carried
only batons, but now they have been
furnished revolvers and twenty rounds
of ammunition each. Mr.. Gladstone
will meet his Scotch constituents early
in October and make one speech,
which will be delivered in Edinburgh.
He and Mrs. Gladstone will be the
guests of Lord and Lady Rosebery at
Dalmeny during their visit to Midlothi-
an.
Mr.. Oliver Ames, who has been NOM
mated for Lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts by the republicans, has
been in the employ of the Ames
Shovel Works at North Easton since
he was fifteen years old, and he has
been the superintendent. His father,
Cakes Ames. died with an indebted
ness of $8000,000. In the time of
panic the son managed the assets,
which were scattered all over the union,
so that he paid dollar for dollar, paid
million dollars in legacies and had a
surplus for the residuary legatees.
Mark bennett, of Kittery, Me-,
voted for governor on the 18th inst. for
the seventy fifth time, never having
missed casting his ballot for candi-
date for that Office since his first vote.
Sixty-two of the votes were for
governor of Main. the first
thirteen having been thrown for
governor of Massachusetts, what is
now Main not having been separated
from that state st that time. Mr..
bennett celebrated his ninety-eighth
birthday on the 9th of August, and is
remarkably hale for q man of bis
wears.
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TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

THE dead letter Office is oyerhowed with
misdirected letters, especially with those
of the different matrimonial agencies.
AN intimate friend of Secretary Folger
states that the treasury chieftain will not
tender his resignation unless elected gov
ernor of New York.
The papers in the possession of the dis
trict attorney relating to the star-route
jury bribery were semitic the attorney
general.
AFTER deduclipg all expenses there will
be net revenue of more than $3O0,OO0
from the business transacted by the mon
ey-order division of the post-ofice the
last fiscal year.
THE Life-saving Service has issued a
pocket-book of instruction to N ariners in
case of ship-wreck to be used III co-operat-
ing with the hfe-saving crews O. shore.
THE president has accepted Fifty miles
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, begin
ming in Idaho and ending in Montana,
which was lately examined and reported
on by Commissioners Blackstone, Fry and
Reed.
WILMoT Fl. WARD, who was arrested
on a charge of conspiracy to steal govern
ment bonds and plates from the bureau OF
printing and engraving, has been released
on bail. Salter is still in jail.
II. H. WELLS is still at work in his law
Office in the Guinton building on the pap
ers relating to the charge of attempted
bribery of the star-route jurors. To re-
porter, he said: 81 have nothing TO say
yet, with marked emphasis on the yet.
SALTBR, one Of the men now in custody
on the charge of being implicated in the
printing bureau conspiracy, is said TO be
the mar against whom charges are pend
ing Philadelphia for degrading var
ious persons by means of false leases.
THE expenses of the marine hospital
services for the past fiscal year were $4l3,-
928, and SO ,l84 patients received relief.
OF the 2,090 pilots and 273 seamen of the
revenue marine service examined for
color blindness. SO of the former and 49
Of the latter were found TO be color blind.
AFTER long investigation By the secret
service buereau, William F. Salter aud
Wilmot H. Ward, of Washington, have
been jailed for conspiring to steal bonds
and plates from the bureau of engraving
in order to bring about this dismissal Of
Colonel Irish, the superintendent.
THE architect on the capitol notes the
following expenditures: On capitol build.
izg, $57, 600; lighting grounds, $4,000
Improvement of grounds, $4,000; exton'
sion of government printing office, $40
600; extension of city hall, $4,000.
The expenses of the marine hospital
service of the past fiscal year were S43r
92S; SO, 1874 patients received relief; 209(
pilots and 273 seamen were examined by
the revenue marine service for color
blindness, and SO of the former and foul
of the latter were found color-blind.
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Fashion Notes.

Terra Gotta and brick red are combin.
ed in millinery. hN
fPinked ruches, called chicorees, are
coming in vogue. Dg d9
Chenille figured goods appear among
late fall importations. a.E toy
Beads will be used again for embloid.
cries of evening dresses.
Jackets almost covered with soutache
embroidery will be worn.
Two Shades Of smalt blue are fire.
quently combined in one hator bon.
net. s t. blDt
Even hats gloves and shoes are
adorned with bead, tinsel and silk en-
broiderses. 4as
Bronze, gilt, old silver, and jet orna-
ments will be much worn on hats and
bonnets.
Silver bands in lace-like patterns came
for felt beaver, blue, gray, and afnet
bonnets.
Dresses of one material bid fair to be
more fashionable this fall than com
posite costumes
The long silk fur lined circular will
be as fashionable next as for the last
three or four winters. ~sf 4
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The Health Of American BOYS.
New York Herald.

There has been some alarm mani
tested by the press over the statement
that nearly nine-tenths of the boys
who recently endeavored to enlist as
apprentices in the navy were rejected
IN the ground that they were physi-
cally unfit for the serv ce. From this it
is argued that the Am erican physique
is degeperating. Our contemporaries
could not have made this mistake had
they seen the boys wi applied, for the
Youngsters were not, as rule, children
who had been reared with ordinary
care. The majority of tnem we're UNI
fortunate enough to besons of drunken
parents or members of families too
poor to buy sufficient food and cloth
ing. Many of them had been picking
ND their own living ard not succeeding
very well, and some were irredeemable
little vagabonds who had run away
from home and added to the careless
habits of roaming animals the vices OF
men. Very few Apprentices to the
academies of Annapolis aud West
Point are rejected on physical grounds,
although the requirements at these IN
stitutions are higher than those of the
naval apprentice system. According
to men who were in the peanut and
short jacket state twenty or thirty
years ago there has been marked
improvement in the physical condition
of American boys; it may not be no.
ticeable in large cities, where the young
have little or no opportunity for .ee
exercise that is so necessary to proper
development; even here, however, boy
invalids are rare in respectable circles
such as contained many of them a
quarter of century ago. Food and
clothing are better and more appropri-
ate than they were in old times, and
the change is working wonders in boys
as well as men.
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MEssRS. LoNSMAN & Co., OF London,
viii issue next November the first
number of their new magazine. The
title is Longman's Magazine. Each
number will consist of from 100 to lbs
pages, and the price will be sixpence.
The firm of Longman has been in
existence $50 years, but has never had
n magazine of its own, although it has
long published the Edinburgh and
Fraser. Like all its brothers, the new
enture starts with grand array OF
ames, and probably win sell great
number of copies at first. The Corn
7iFs first issues were from 10000 to
100000 copies, but the issue is now
only about 10000. The public seems
IN demand novelties in magazines as
in other things. The GentLenad'''s Maya
sins which first issued il 1872 con
trived to maintain in precisely ting
same pattern for about 40 years, but
was then killed by Notes and Queries
and assumed a modern guise, greatly
to the regret of many readers. Black
1roed's owes its success largely to Its be-
ng the leading organ of the Tory party
in Scotland. Its circulation IS not
large, but this is compensated for by
its high price. 1t is to Scotland what
the Quarterly is, politically, to England.
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FOREIGN.

ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
two lines of steamers TO run between
Boston and Antwerp and Rio Janeiro,
Brazil.
In consequence of the failure of the
council to sell bills. business in silver is
completely disorganized.
ENGLISH legal assistance win be useless
to Arab Pasha, as the pleading before the
court-martial win be made in Arabic.
TERRIFIC lightning and rain stroms, ac-
companied by slight shocks of earthquake,
occurred on the Isthmus during the last
days of September.
FATHER SHEERY, recently imprisoned
as ''suspecl" in Ireland, has been pre-
en- ted by his parishioners with testi-
monial valued at 1880.
THE gultan and the khedive are very
bad friends. The sultan has forbiode re-
cruiting in Turkey for the khedive's fu-
ture body-guard.
THE average price of English wheat in
London last week was Is Sd per quarter
cheaper than in the corresponding period
last year.
ING EsTRE hall, the seat of Earl Shrews-
bury, near Stafford, England. was COM
pletely Quilted by fire Saturday, the loss
being 100000.
ALI the Irish priesta. saw those under
the jurisdiction Of Archbishop McCabe,
have been granted permission by their gu
periors to take part in the popular politi-
cal movements for the anelioration of the
condition of the country.
SENIOR YGLEsIs, Peruvian minister of
war under Pierols. has announced his OPP
position TO the provisional government of
Calderon and Montero. The latter has
formed a new cabinet at Areqsipa. Gen,
Patricio Lynch h as increased the export
and import duties on all merchandise 90
per cent.
TIE prisoners awaiting court-martial at
Cairo number lis. Three colonies in the
Egyptian army have been arrested in the
interior for completely in the late mas
sacres. General Allison has been given
command of the army of occupation.
| Thirty-two Europeans have arrived at
| Alexandria to serve in the gendarmerie.
The Swiss authorities make no objection
to the departure of unemployed men for
Egypt.
| A NATIVE journal of Alexandria states
that the army Of Egypt will comprise ten
| thousand men, under Turkish or Circas-
| sian officers, and that no man suspected OF
participation in the revolt will be re-
| tanned. The water supply of Suez has
been restored. One of the chief eunuehs
| of the khedive's palace is charg ed with
offering indignities to Arab Pasha and
other important prisoners. The rebel
| chieftain is sustained by testimony show
| ing that outrages perpetrated during the
campaign were against his will.
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A MONTANA man, who is youched for
by the Helena papers as "of we'll
known veracity," has discovered in the
Yellowstone National Park 4 gorge
where the atmosphere is absolutely a
nonconductor of sound. The gentle
mans first animation of this very
singular condition of things was receiv-
ed on his attempting to call out to his
companions, who was some distance
behind. Although he experienced all
the sensations of uttering lustry yell,
not sound was heard. His horse at
tempted to WINNER, but the deep, dead
stiffness was unbroken. While be was
meditating ON the situation s. panther
Jumped from some bushes near by, and
crouched for a spring. The Helena
man brought his gun to his shoulder
and pulled the trigger. The animal was
badly wounded, and dragged itself into
the bushes; but neither the report OF
the gun nor any other sound was heard.
What place for a sewing society,"
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October Elections.

The result of the elections in Onio
is complete surprise all around. The
democrats elected their entire state
ticket by sweeping majorities, and cap
tured seven congressional districts
from the republicans. Ohio is the
only state of importance that continues
to hold state elections in October, 50
that the result has been looked for with
eagerness by both political parties. 1t
is generally understood that the result
in Ohio has a pronounced effect upon
the November elections. The causes,
therefore, for this unexpected tidal
wave of democracy viii be carefully
looked into, and the effect upen the
elections Of states that vote in Novem-
Der looked for with eagerness by all.
Ohio has not cast her electoral votes
for democratic candidate for presi-
dent in forty years, and should the
elections this last week lead to her en-
rollment among the democratic states
for 1884, it would prove political
revolution indeed, as Murat Halstead
called on it election night.
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The Coolest SnOt

The coolest place on earth is not, as
hitherto been believed by meteorolo-
gists, Yatusk, in Siberia, but Verko-
yansk, in the same region, lying in 67
degrees north latitude, on the river
Yana. Its lowest mean weather tenn
perature is 4S 6.10 degrees below zero
centigrade. This is the cold pole OF
the earth in Asia, the corresponding
pole in America being to the north
ward of the Parry Islands, and the
line joining these two places does not
pass through the north pole itself,
which Is thus, in all probability, out
side the line of greatest cold. On the
other hand, the greatest heat in the
tropics is not az the equator, but some
distance north and south. e