River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-07-27
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ney of Congress"
Only five of New York's theaters re-
main open for the summer.
There are four female lawyers in Cal
ifornia to one in Massachusetts,.
| Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, is rated at 100000 now.
! DIR. w. B. Carpenter, the well, known
English Psychologist, viii soon visit this
country.
Senator Hill, Of Georgia, is now re-
ported growing stronger and stronger
every day.
James Gordon Bennett is Ell route
for Alexandria in his steam yatch
Namouna.
! President Arthur and Seth Green
are booked for a fishing excursion next
month.
Gen. Grants admirers in Japan have
arranged for him an album containing
portraits of ancient worthless, etc.
| Judah p. Benjamin, ''the brains of
the Rebel Government" is still enjoy
ing lucrative law practice in En-
| gland.
| Hanlan, the oarsman, and Capt.
Boyton, the swimmer, will start on
an exhibition tour of the world next
September.
Jay Hubbell is native of Michigan,
and has income of $4,000 a year
as part owner of the celebrated Calumet
Copper Mine.
Queen Victoria has given her sub
jects to understand that her birthday
is on the Oath of May, and not on every
other day of that month.
In Floyd county, Tenn, last week,
four brothers named Burnett married
four sisters named Berry.
John L. Hayes, of Boston, presi-
dent of the Tariff Commission, gradu-
ated from Dartmouth, and read law at
Harvard.
There were married recently at Cleve-
land, O., Mr.. Means, three feet and
half high, to Miss Harrison, three feet
high.
Mr.. Edward Stabler was appointed
| Postmaster of Sandy Springs, Ind,
fifty years ago by President Andrew
Jackson, and still holds the Office.
Huntington's portrait of Mrs. Hayes,
painted for the temperance women,
has been hung on the wall of the green
parlor of the Executive Mansion.
| General Kolpakavski, General who
has risen from the ranks by sheer and
reckless daring in Central Asia, is said
to be the coming man in the Russian
army.
Harry Garfield, son of the Presi-
dent, will spend the Summer in the
White Mountains, while his brother
James will pass his vocation at Men,
tor, 0.
Minister Morton has lavished $4,000
on charitable institutions since he has
been resident of Paris.
Georgia has q Blain Club, the son
of Elias Club, an admirer of the
"Plumed Knight from the Pine Tree
State"
1t is said that Tom Thumb mas be-
come terrible unsteady for such little
fellow. He can loose at poker just
like man six foot high.
The Cincinnati Gasetee remarks: "Cy-
clones never go to Chicago. Henry
Watterson says the reason why is that
she does her own blowing"
Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator,
sailed Wednesday form New York fer
Antwerp, and will proceed thence to
Paris to see the treasurer of the Land
League, Patrick Egan.
Charles W. Stickney, who was. ac-
quilted of the murder of Campau and
Mrs. Devereaux in Denver, COL, is in
Loadon, Eng, living with his sister,
I'd H. he
trial and imprisonment.
Miss Halle, daughter of Senator Dan
Voorhees,, of Indiana, sailed on Wednes-
day from New York for Europe, ac-
companied by Governor Voorhees, and
family, of New Orleans.
Bishop Foster, of Boston, of the
| Methodist Church accompanied by
few personal friends and Missionaries,
will leave New York next month for
India by way of Bulgaria and the Suez
Canal.
The Rt.-Rev. Richard Gilmour,
Bishop Of the Catholic Diocese of
Cleveland, o., left that city yesterday
for Rome At New York he will be
Joined by the Bishops of Detroit and
Cincinnati.
Ex-Rev. w. III. III. Murray ("Adiren-
dack") lectured to a crowded house at
San Antonio, Texas, last Sunday even
| pg week ago. He writes to his
friends "that he is walking upright be-
fore God"
Vera Sassulitch, the assassination of the
Russian Chief of Police, looks like a
Quakeress. She lives at Geneva on o
pension edits Nihilist sheet, dresses
shabbily, and is apparently too timid to
open her mouth.
John Bright is Quaker, and his
resignation from Gladstone's cabinent
is said to have been due to his anti
belligerent ideas which were shocked
by the bombardment of Alexandria.
The funeral of Mrs. Anna Bedle, the
oldest inhabitant of Monmouth County,
N. j., last week, was attended by
seventy-tw of her defendants, includ-
ing three great-great-grandchildren.
Lieut.. Commander Gorringe. who
superintendent the removal of the
obelisk from Egypt to New York, says
the bombardmento of Alexandria by the
British is simply brutal and without the
shower of an excuse.
Now that Rev. G. O.Barnes, the revi-
valist, has started the Governor of Ken
lucky and his associates in the State
Government heavenward, the good
krethern of that State are raising the
question as to his sanity.
Rufus Hatch says: II was one of a
corps of engineers that did the first
days work that was ever done on a
railroad in Wisconsin. / held on to the
hind end OF the chain and stopped
it at the 100 foot stake. That is the way
/ commenced engineering"
There must be great rejoicing in
heaven over Miss Jane johnson. She
has been in Jail at Leeds, England, 240
times, besides making numerous visits,
more or less prolonged, to various 9th
er PRISONS. Now, a: the ripe age of "a,
she is not merely converted from the
error OF her ways, but is preaching at
Hull.