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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
A GEORGIA ALLIGATOR STORY.
Saturday Night Adventures of Lone
HOrseman.
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On Saturday night last Mr.. w. l..
Renfroe left Dublin late after supper,
and, having some twelve miles to drive,
he did not reach home till 2 o'clock
Sunday morning. Mr.. Renfroe's house
is about half a mile beyond Rocky
creek-a stream which is known to be
infested with alligators. He had cross
ed the creek and was near the house,
where he had a dozen young pigs con-
fined in a pen. The moon was in the
zenith, and the night was almost as
bright as day. Suddenly his horse re-
ceived ponderous blow On the shout
der from the tail of an alligator, knock-
ing the animal entirely out of the road.
The alligator did not follow up the
fight, but nov stood on the defensive in
thu satening attitude, however, with
his huge mouth stretched open wide
enough to take in the end of barrel.
Mr.. Renfroe took rail from the fence
and rammed it into the monsters
throat. AS quick as light the alligator
closed on the rail, and hurled Mr.. Rem
froe against the fence, hurting him bad
ly, and swapping the rail like chalk
pipe-stem. He then called to his fami-
ly to send him his gun, pistol and ak.
While waiting for his weapons he
amused himself by pitching fence-rails
into the alligator's mouth. He broke
a dozen as easily as he did the first.
When his weapons came ne shot the
alligator twelve times with Smith &
Wesson pistol and four times with a
shot gun, and then buried an ak in his
head in eight places. After all this,
life was not extinct for twelve hours af-
terward. All the pistol balls, however,
did not enter. Fully half of them
glanced harmlessly from the tough
hide, and went singing away through
space. When the monster began to
feel that his foes were getting the best
of him, in the agony of pain and de-
spair, he beloved out, making the
earth tremble. He was brought to
town, and put on exhibition here Sun
day afternoon, and was big show. He
was pronounced by all to be the largest
alligator they had ever seen. He was
over ten feet long, and extraordinarily
large for his length, it being decided
that he would weigh fully 800 pounds.
1t was discovered that he broke nis tail
when be struck the horse, and that was
probably the reason he stopped offens-
i've operations. The horse was injured
lit may be permanently - in the
shoulder, which received the blow.
Mr.. Renfroe is entitled to the credit of
an unusual degree of courage for the
manner in which he ridded the COM
munity of SO undesirable neighbor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
The Swiss way.

In the Canton of Geneva, Switzer-
land, every country school-master is
required to know something of agricul-
ture and natural history, to the end
that he may instruct his pupils therein.
Every village has its night school, in
which lads and young men who have
attended the communal school the re-
quired term-until the completion of
their thirteenth year-may obtain fur
Their instruction in matters relating to
their calling; and, during the winter,
lectures are given in the village school
roooms-sometimes in the village
churches-by Professors from the Uni
versity, on agricultural chemistry and
Kindred subjects.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Congressional Junketing.
Milwaukee Erening Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE, Evening W iscohsln
MADEIRA, nine gallons and two dozen
cases, SIS; twenty-four gallons of sher-
ry, s72; thirty gallons of brandy, $3.50;
FIVE gallons of port wine, $50; two
cases and seventy-two gallons of whis-
ky, 1896; $50 cases of champaign, 3d.
900; forty cases of claret, $500; three
cases of Burgundy, s45; five cases of
Rhine wine, s65; seven cases of Sau-
terne, $40; five barrels of bottled beer,
s62; five cases of Apoilinaris, $62; two
barrels of Bass ale, $40; three bottles
Of American bitters, SO; two jugs of
Curacao, IS: three cases of Congress
water, SIS: two cases of gin, S25; five
gallons of rum, $45: three barrels of
ginger ale, $52; cigars and cigarettes,
81, 1865
The above is-wbat? The stock in
some new wholesale liquor house? The
invoice of several consolidated sample
rooms? No; it is the itemized account
of liquor consumed by less than 200
people congressional committee and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Impure School House Wells.
New i ork Herald.

The school authorities in two or
three of the small towns and villages
in the annexed district were happily
inspired to make an analysis of the
water of the wells connected with the
institutions of which they have charge.
AS might have been expected, they
found it to be impure, the fruitful
source of disease, it may be, death.
The lesson should not be lost upon
school authorities all over the country.
Thousands of little ones perish annual
ly and their untimely taking off is
falsely and ignorantly set down to the
credit of Providence, when in reality
is due to the almost criminal neglect
of the almost ordinary sanitary pre-
cautions. A large proportion of the
wells in the country and nearly all in
.the.smaller towns are so many reser-
voirs of poisson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, June l6.-Flour quiet and un-
changed. Wheat Dull and lower; 1.3O9I.3l
for seller cash; 1.3l for seller June; 1927 a
for seller July; LIl% for seller August; No.
3 Chicago spring LOG; rejected, 74977; regular
unsettled and lower: 1.I4X@L1o for seller
July; 1.O6H for seller August. COMMUNIST tied
and higher; 69}s a69% for seller cash; 6971 a
69h for seller June; 7Oh@1On for seller July;
70zs g7l for seller August; 7O7l for seller Sep
TENDER; 69I for seller October; rejected, 6sh.
0ats-Firm; 50H for seller cash; 49A 9496 for
seller June; AK for seller July; 352< for seller
August; 81 Z for seller September 931s for seller
the year. Rye Quiet; SO. Barley-Dull and
nominal. Flax seed-Weal;; merchantable, LBS
@L27 Pork-Higher; 2G.9OQ2O95 for seller
cash and June; 2O.sO92O.95 fer seller july
2O.l7H for seller August; 2L2Od2L26k bid
for seller September. 2I.25@2l.35 for seller
October: Is. 50GlS SIS for seller the year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Escaped

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 16.-Bugbee
Owens, shopman, arrested several
days ago for swindling parties out of
$4,000, escaped from the officers early
this morning. Since his arrest he has
been in the custody of officers while
trying to get bail. While his guardians
were engaged in little game of poker,
he walked to the window of his room
in the third story of the First National
bank building, and sid down the water
pipe to the ground, since which time
ne has failed TO materialize
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

GUuEAU is now closeted with his spir-
;tual adviser once and square meal
three times day. Instead Of being
broken down and as gaunt as coyote,
as has been reported, he is as sleek
and fat as stall fed steer. The death
watch doesn't seem to affect his appe-
tite very materially. He will doubtless
be in good condi ton for exhibition by
the 40th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

SCARCELY day elapses but that
telegram is received about the troub-
lous situation in Egypt and the prob
able armed interference of England,
France, Germany, Italy, and Austria.
All these complications grow out of the
bad financial condition of Egypt. She
is largely indebted to bondholders in
England and in France. The govern
ments of these two countries naturally
desire that their citizens should not be
swindled out of then just dues. There
fore they induced the khedive to APP
point an English and French commits
sion to supervise the revenues of the
country, so that they should be honest
" administered, and after defraying
legitimate expenses, leave as much as
possible to pay the foreign bondholders.
The khedive assented to this commits
sion, but it gave him so much trouble
to be thus tied down in his expendi-
lures that he has been continually
breaking in upon what the commits
sioners think ought to be considered the
reserve funds. He has been maintain
ing a larger army than the commission
deemed necessary, and he has been ex-
pending more for personal pleasures.
In trying to stop this, English and
French fleets have been ordered to
Alexandria, but as this did not seem to
have the desired effect. The great
powers have obtained an order from
the sultan at Constantinoplef to compel
the khedive to respect the action of
the joint commission.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
THE army worm is destroying the barley
fields in o hio and Kentucky.

THE army worm is destroying the barley
fields in o hio and X entucky.
Four men were killed by the explosion
of gas in the New Stanton mine at Will
kesbarre, Pa.
EMANUAL MARX, banker of Texas,
died in a railway coach while travelling
from Syracuse to New York.
TIE cotton seed oil mills on Hutchin-
son island, opposite Savannah, valued at
$4,000, were destroyed by fire.
THIRTEEN of the principal business
houses of lie Mars, Iowa, were burned
the loss being estimated at SO 900.
THE postoffice ard several stores at
South Braintree, Mass, were destroyed
by fire, yesterday, the loss aggregrating
100000.
The wife of William E. Robinson, prin-
cipal of a public school in Detroit, was
found dead in her bath tub, from heart
disease.
6 DURING fierce hail-storm which swept
over Kentucky, the O. f. G. distillery at
Frankfort was set on fire by lightning and
totally destroyed, causing loss of $50, 600.
Two colored employees were seriously in
jured by falling walls.
THE steamship Pers, which sailed from
Montreal May 81 with two hundred head
of cattle, struck an iceberg and found
cred off Cape Race. Thirty of the crew
were picked up by the steamship Lake
Manitoba. but it is feared that ten lives
have been lost.
FIVE weavers commenced duty in the
Harmony mills at Cohoes, N. Y, and
were threatened with death by three
thousand strikers. President Jarrett, of
the Amalgamated association, has decided
to apply to all western points the principle
upon which work was resumed at Cincin-
natl.
In Chicago, June 18th, year-old
child, named M innie f. Trasham, was
playing about the railway tracks on State
street, when she was run down by grip
car driven by Albert E. Chapman. Her
left leg was subsequently amputated.
Lieutenant Hayes caused the drivers ar
rest for criminal carelessness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
How Opium Is Packed For Smuggling.

The box of opium found on the sea-
beach near Olema proves to be
double tin box about eighteen inches
square, covered with heavy sail duck,
perfectly sewed together, then painted
with white lead, and after this had
dried upon the cloth, painted black.
This could not have been done in San
Francisco for the purpose of reshipping
to the Sandwich Islands. This perfect
ly watertight arrangement shows that
these boxes were to be thrown over
board, either in the bay or where they
would be washed ashore. 1t might be
at the wharf to be picked up under the
piling, along the city front, for then
there would be no necessity for windy
night, muffled oars, or city policemen.
This well covered box contained sixteen
balls about the size of cocoanut, of
apparently crude opium. But the Pc
culiarity of it was that it was not what
it seemed. Crude opium resembles
putty or cheese in texture, and these
balls, though covered with poppy leaves
and hardened shell about one-half an
inch thick, were filled, as a military
shell, with opium ready for smoking.
If the opium was crude it pays 81 per
pound duty; for smoking, So per pound.
But even the opium of the crust spok-
en- of, is prohibited by law from impor-
ta.ion, because it does not contain nine
per cent. of morphine. The profit OF
smuggling opium is 80 great that every
device is used to get it ashore.-Sdn
Francisco Examiner
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

PRESIDENT JARRETT, of the steel and
iron amalgamated association of Pitts
burgh, is at Cincinnati. After hearing
all sides he decided with equity that
the strikers in the iron mills at Circin-
natl are wrong, and must resume work
at old prices, inaslnuch as they made
contracts with manufacturers last Oc-
tober to work at certain scale, and
the time of that contract has not ex-
PRED. At Pittsburgh both sides are
very obstinate, and at present there is
no appearance of compromise. AT
Cleveland the situation is considerably
changed, because the rolling-mills have
employed sufficient number of nom
union workmen to continue operations.
Now, it is positively stated that the
mill owners have become so independ-
ent by the accession of this fresh labor
that it may be considered that the
union men have permanently closed
themselves out of employment in
Cleveland.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Conarmatioas.

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The senate
confirmed Calvin H. Upham, postmas-
ter at Ripon, Wisconsin, and the also
the following nominations to be men,
bers of tariff commissions Jno. I.
Hayes, Massachusetts,, chairman; H.
w. Oliver, Jr, Pennsylvania; Austin
NJ. Garland, Illinois; Jacob Amber,
Ohio; Rob't p Porter, District of CO.
lumbia; John W. H. Underwood, Geor-
gia; Duncan F. Kenner, Louisiana;
Alex r. Boteler. West Virginia; VIM.
H. Mcmahon, N:w York.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
There is Trouble in Store

For those who neglect to rectify Irregularities of
the stomach, liver and bowels, which they fool
ishly imagine will come right Of themselves"
bused by the development of some seriols chronic
malady, traceable to what they were pleased to
consider trifing disorder of the above named
associate organs. Such elimination is easily
avoided A course Of Hostetters Stomach Bit
tiers invariably has tho effect of renewing the Sc
cretive action Of torpid liver, restoring healthy
digestion and assimilation, and rendering the
habit Of body perfectly regular. The activity of
these al-important functions being restored and
the entire system toned and regulated by this in
comparable corrective and invigorant no danger
to the general health is to be apprehended from
causes which, if not eradicated in time, will as
suredly undermine it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
FOREIGN

Two HUNDRED and sixty-three ''sus-
pects' are still immured in the Irish pris-
ons.
THE liberal ma iorities in the Belgium
chamber and senate were increased by the
elections
A NUMBER of houses and bridges were
destroyed and several persons drowned by
a food at Xerscez, Hungary.
THE German parliament adopted a res
olution declaring that any further meas
ure. burdeuing and harassing the tobacco
trade was inadmissible.
As the lord lieutenant of Ireland was
riding in Dublin he wassstepped~ by-AHaa-
Parnell. He remarked that he was un-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

IN the remarkable proposition now
pending before congress to authorize
the construction under government di-
rection and patronage of fleet of steel
merchant ships which in case of nee
essity shall be converted into ships OF
war, the seer of the New York Times
processes to see the return after many
days of the bread cast upon the waters
by that famed ship-builder and subsidy
hunter, John Roach. The proposed
"interconvertible steamships" which
are to constitute Roach's long dream
ed-of "militia of the seas viii be built
ofcourse, by this same ingenious Roach
who desires primarily the profits of ex-
tensive ship-building, and incidentally,
his country's good. In pointing such
suspicion against the irrepressible
Roach, that seer of the Times is prob
ably not for wrong.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

The Utah commission appointments
still hang fire, congress having failed to
take any action on Senator Teller's
recommendation that the better pro-
visions for providing the funds should
be made. The president is awaiting
congressional action before making the
appointments. If only $1,000 is to be
paid the commissioners he will prob
ably appoint 5000 men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

DOYLE, the alleged counterfeit bond
depository, proposes to prove that the
bonds he held were genuine, and the
investigation now in progress at the
treasury department is to ascertain
how the plate was obtained. In the
meantime Doyle is posing as an in
iured innocent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

IT is reported tn at 5000 people in
Patrick county, Va, are in an actual
state of restitution on account of last
years drouth. The county is very
isolated mountain section, and starva-
ton is staring the people in the face,
some having already succumbed<o the
paDgs of hunger, while others have
had nothing TO eat for days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

Policy, although by no means wiped
out, is very far from being what it was
two years ago. when nearly eight hun
dred offices fourished in New York.
Now there are not more than two hun
bred offices. A feature of the lttery
business now is that three or four hun
bred men, and some women, ale going
about town constantly peddling tickets
among their friends and acquaintance.
They penetrate into stores, factories,
meetings, lodge-rooms - everywhere,
indeed, that there is hope of finding
purchasers. Many Of these persons
also write policy slips, which are re-
written for them by some regular Office,
that pays them a small percentage for
their trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
Killed.

SPRNGFIELD H., June ga miner
at the Riverton mines, seven miles east
of this city, was killed this morning, by
an explosion of powder He was carry
ing an open keg of powder in his arms,
when a spark from the lamp in his cap
fell into it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

Among the words which Mr.. Skeat,
author of the new chronological Die
tionary," cannot find the origin Of is
"pblecat." This shows the folly of
writing on a subject before consulting
all authorities that are in print. If Mr..
Skeat had read the works of the late
lamented American etymologist, Arte-
mus Ward, he would have learned that
the animal with the alleged mysterious
name is so called because it is a variety
of cat that must be killed with pole
if the killer has any regard for his
clothing; further, that the proper
length for the pole, except when the
cat Is to windward, is three hundred
and sixtY-fye feet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

THE straightout Republicans in Vir-
GINA are threatening to repudiate the
coalition that is being fostered by the
administration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

THE condemned Guiteau has selected
his spiritual adviser. Rev. DIR. w. w.
Hicks, Presbyterian clergyman OF
Washington is the unfortunate man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

THE tariff commission is already
wreck. Wheeler and Phelps having
declined. Porter is the only man who
is sure to stick to the last.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

The Gar has just made present of
some horses to King William. Four
of them are said to be the very identi-
cal ones that drew the carriage of the
late Car when he was assassinated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

Senator Brown of Geogia, gave one
fourth of the SO 900 recently raised
for building parsonage for the Second
Babtist Church, Atlanta.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22
BY formal resolution adopted in their

BY formal resolution adopted in their
convention at st. Paul the doctor of
the American Medical Association
voted that hereafter they would not
call themselves nor consent to be call
ed by others, "allopathists, or any
other pathists'; put would Danish such
terms from the vocabulary and he
called only doctors" "Allopathy" be
it known, is term invented by Hahne-
mann to designate ordinary medical
practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
On account of its origin therefore
and naturally, the term is offensive
to the men OF the regular school.
Even the doctors however, will find
it difficult to kill off a good word by
resolution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

CABRERA, or Cabrera, literally Goat
Island" the solitary and renowned seat
of the great captain, Giuseppe Carl
baldi, belongs to Italy. 1t is two miles
distant from the northea asst coast of
Sardinia, six miles long, averages two
miles in width, and is said to abound
in wild rabbits, while fish in great va
riety are plentiful in the surrounding
waters. 1t is sterile, rocky, and
frowning isle, which, previously to the
present century, was rarely visited ex-
cept by excursionists in pursuit of wild
sport. There are not more than twenty
settlers, all told, on the desolate island.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

A pretty girl in Sweden turned up
her nose at her poor but deserving
lover and it froze in that position. Now
she doesn't know whether to retire from
the world or hire out to stand in some
body's ball % q hat-rack.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

A PROMINENT clergyman of New
York state, who was in Italy at the
time time of Garibaldi's first great tri-
umphs in Naples, sought an interview
with the patriot at Turin, where was
sitting the parliament to which he had
just been elected. ITO my JOY" he
said, 81 was granted an interview on
the ground of being an American. He
was in an upper room, before the door
of which and on the stairway leading
to it were red-shirted soldiers, some of
his faithful body-guar1. Conducted
into the room by his son, Menotti, my
eye at once fell upon the hero lying in
bed, who slowly raised himself upon
one arm, and extended the hand of
the other to me. The red shirt and
the red handkerchief, binding back
the long, brown hair from his broad,
high forehead, recalled the familiar
pictures OF him exhibited at that time
everywhere in Italy. But what a
noble facel Every line and curve and
expression revealing the character of
the great unselfish soul behind it. The
conversation was brief, and chiefly
upon the greatly disturbed state of our
c untry, and the threatening ci'il war.
He said: 4 love the union. ! do hope
there will be no war; bet il there is,
were few years younger | would
join the union army
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

The Teras Christian Advocate says THAI
thousands of good men are spoiled by
marrying the wrong woman. The wo-
man who marries thousands of good
men must be very wrong, and no WON
der the good men are spoiled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-22

By law which passed on November
1, 1881, and became operative on May
LIST, OF the present year, it is forbidden
throughout Holland to retail spirituous
liquors of any kind to any person
holding any public appointment or to
any other person not holding license
under the provision of the statute.
During the first four months of the
present year, before the law went into
operation, the revenues from spirit
uous liquors showed a decrease of l per
cent, though during the preceding
ten years it has shown an average IN
crease of per cent. per annum. This
anticipatory effect of the the law is
considered surprising.