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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
Maiden Rock.

Mrs. Barton is quite sick.
j. M. Keith, the patent right man,
is in town.
George Clifford has returned to tie
Rock again.
Heavily loaded teams are crossing
the lake at this point.
DR.. Hutchinson is in Chicago. at
tending medical lectures.
q. E. Rice has gone to Winona coun-
ty, Minnesota, on business.
The sociable held at the church on
Friday evening was "a success.
Warren Walsingham has sold his in
terest in the store to Mr.. STAN.
S. A. Green and Mrs. McVean recent
ly took in the sights st. Paul.
Mr.. Langan, of the River Falls Mar
BILE Works, was in town few days
ago.
A nice monument from the River
Falls Marble Works has been erected
in our cemetery, to the memory of
John O'Brien.
Persons advertising oyster suppers
and dances on the black board will
hereafter please give their own names
and oblige innocent parties.
1t was young man from Lake City,
employed by Seeley & Buck, at Mil
bank, Dakota, who died, and not VIM.
Thomas as reported in last week S
| JOURNAL.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
airer falls Journal.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.


Hon. David Atwood. the venerable
editor of the Wisconsin State Journal,
was at Washington last week and in
the course of hopeful editorial let
ter took occasion to make the follow
ing observations:
The result of the recent election
has had decided effect upon the
members of both political partlf s.
The defeated party Is anxious to make
amends 80 as to regain the favor of
thu people, and the successful party
feels the responsibility thai devolves
upon it, ami is careful in its action.
Both causes are ,lculated to work
out favorable results. Republicans
are by no means cast down or dis
cOuraged. They know their cause is
Just and must prevail; and such will
be the case if its representatives do
their full duty in the little time that
is left of the present session of con-
gress, and there is every reason to be-
lieve they will do so. There is one
favorable symptom; the terms ''stal-
wart'' aud half breed" seem tn have
been abandoned, and person has
good standing politically if he is a
loyal republican, without regard to
factions. This is one of the good re-
suits from the late election. 1t has
taught republicans that there must be
union, if they would have success, and
this is Il very important lesson, and
will do much towards restoring the
party to the confidence of the people
in the country. and to insure its tri-
umph in 1884.
The Albany Express. stalwart to the
core, does not coincide with the lamb
like views expressed by the sanguine
General Atwood. 1t shows its teeth
in the following vigorous and uncom
promising paragraph:
The half-breeds are not dealing
with people who permit both cheeks
To be smitten without returning the
blow. There is no use of being hyp0-
critical about this thing,--it would
not be manly to attempt II. The halt
breeds hate the stdlwarts with a most
bitter hatred, and some seventy or
seyenty-five thousand of them com
bined with Democrats in this State
this year to defeat the republican
ticket. The stalwarts, we take it.,
reciptocate the feeling, and would at
any time in the future prefer demo
cratic TO half-hreed success. And
there are enough of them to make
themselves felt. y this. OF course,
is nuts" to our democratic friends.
and we congratulate them upon their
temporary good Torture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
LOCHL CORRESPONDENCE



The sleighing still remains.
Wood is getting cheap.
Eggs are selling for thirty cents per
dozen.
Frank Young is here again,
Saturday was the busiest day of the
year.
A. T. Carroll, of River Falls, was in
the city, on business. last Thursday.
The streets were full of teams, last
Saturday. Broad street was literally
full of wood teams.
II. c. Walker is down here spending
the winter with his family.
Oscar Clements and LawtOn Barnes,
Of st. Paul, spent Christmas with their
relatives in this city.
The ice became so poor on the lake,
last week. that crossing on it had to
be suspended. Only foot passengers
could cross. by means of skiff. The
ice on the lake ia also considered dan
gerouS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

A MILWAUKEE, dispatch of the Goth
inst. in relation to the absorption by
the Northwestern of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway
says that so far as the interests of
the people of the north and west are
concerned. it is believed by many that
the change will be productive of high
rates of transportion and general
increase i'll passenger rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

Sleighing never was better.

Sleighing never was letter.
Taxes are coming in slowly, so our
treasurer says.
John Copley is expected home to-
morrow night.
Several dances in this vicinity
Chris m IS night.
The West sisters are spending their
vacation at home.
The sermon at the Valley last Sab
bath was excellent.
Viii Beers was over from Mortified
to spend Christmas.
A family--name unknown--is living
on the Jim Dale place.
All the teachers in Clifton are en-
Toying school vacation.
Clinton is enjoying a furlough, by
reason of a crushed hand.
G. L. Bowman will break bread in
Clifton the latter part of the week.
Several of our bold huntsmen attend
ed the turkey shoot at the Falls, on
Monday.
Several from Clifton attended the
Christmas tree at Prescott, last Satur-
day night.
There will be sociable ut E. F.
Whites, tonight. A good time is ex-
pected by ali.
The people in this vicinity gathered
at Levi Cadwell's for an old fashioned
dinner. presumably on Christmas.
Ed.
One of our four.horse teamsters,
John Hardy, had runaway and a lit
tie smash-up, last week, while hauling
slaves.
About four-fifths of the rising male
generation of this town carry the
blood thirsty pop sequestered in the
rear pocket of the unmentionables.
Sewing machine agents are pretty
thick just at present. After meeting
several on the road last Saturday, we
discovered two in the office of our
worthy treasurer, holding him SPELL
bound with theiG eloquence while they
displayed the excellent points of their
machine. Cheeky fellows, those
agents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
FILLING PERKINS.

It is on record in this State that q
Michigan editor was once engaged to
fight duel. The affair occurred about
twenty-five years ago. and was brought
about by the journalist making several
vicious attacks upon the honor and hon.
esty of member of the Legislature.
The Scion first tried the usual way OF
getting even, by buying horsewhip and
hunting the editor, but when he had
found him he was knocked down and
rolled in the mud. He then sent q
formal challenge, and, as the editor
opened the letter, he turned to his two
compositors and said
Boys, how much matter have you
got up for the first page?"
"Three columns" replied the fore
man, after measuring up on the galleys.
"And We need five. You'll have it all
up by noon tomorrow, and by Wednes-
day night all the inside will be up. Then
I'll wet down the paper and make up,
and while you are working off the out
side I'll run out and shoot Old Perkins,
who has set me q challenge"
He sent formal acceptance, named
rifles as weapons. appointed the rendez-
vous within thirty rods of the office, and
then began to scratch out copy. When
the hour arrived he was making up the
forms, having got little behind the
programme, and by and by his second
came in at the back door and said /:
"We've been waiting for You all of
twenty minutes.
"But I'm busy"
"This is no time to be busy. Perkins
is all ready"
Hang the luck r growled the editor
as he filed out column and flung down
his rule. "That's just like Perkins-he
wants to throw our publication day.
Come on-l'n fill him upl"
The editor seized his gun, and hatless
and coatless he set out on lope for the
spot. Perkins saw him coming in that
fashion, and his knees weakened and his
chin dropped, and, though the editor
yelled for him to mold on q minute, he
bolted over fence and didn't come out
of the woods until he was six miles away.
Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

TIE Cincinnati Enquirer says that
when the people put the Democratic
party in power they mean to have
Democratic oflice-holders and clerk,
frem top to bottom. and adds: 1--WE
do not seek to belittle the elements
of principle and patriotism, but it is
a fact which sophistry may as well
let alone, that the great incentive to
party zeal is the hope of official re.
ward. The Enquirer is not in favor
of Civil Service Reform" as that
term is popularity understood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

A Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year.
Willie Gray has gone to the pinery
to work this winter.
Another recent arrival at George
Booths. This time it S a boy.
Miss Henrietta Teare is visiting
friends in Waukesha, this State.
w. J. Morrow lost his most valua-
lie horse, recently. Cause unknown.
Will Caldwell will give his scholars
i two weeks vacation during the holt
days.
Mrs. Charles Nick and children are
visiting at her fathers, Joseph Bar
rett's.
Thomas Davis gave the young folks
of the neighborhood a party, recently.
A good time is reported.
George Braekin is down from Tray
erse county. Minnesota. He is not
very deeply in love with that country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1882.
Congress is beginning to excite the
alarm of its friends. 1t has caught
the American contagion of what Mr..
Spencer calls ''overwoTk. For TIVE
consecutive weeks there has been NJ
adjournment The annals of Congress
furnish no similar instance. Still, the
reader need not fear that his Repre-
sentative in Congress will not survive
b., intense application to civil service
reform. tax reduction, and appropria-
tion bills. Congressman have died
and worms have eaten them, but not
from .soyprwork." Nv Washington ma
laria," which is polite synonym for
gluttuny and drunk mess, has claimed
more victims by half than the MolOch
OF legislative woIk. The American
Statesman, as II rule, is not Il narrow
chested. knock-kneed, pot -bellied spec
linen. Those who win in political
races have need of physical stamina,
hence the cadaverous, cOnsumptive,
AMI dyspeptie specimens who reach
this goal are comparatively few. But
whether they come fresh from the
Sierras, the c0tton-fields, the blue
Crl.s-region. or the manufacturing or
mining towns. the great objection
that they and their beloved country
have TO contend with is their fresh
ness. Most members of Congress are
500 fresh" Mr. Kelley. of Pennsyl-
vani4. vulgarly called ''pig-iron, " and
apprnprIately called, on account of the
length of his service 1.-The father of
tue huuse,'' is uOt too oresni ueither
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
Pay your taxes.

Pay your taxes.
Slelghing WAS never better.
A new boarder at B. PetersOn's.
Miss Gustava Bonsnes has returned
from ST. Paul.
Nels T. Tufte will start for the PIN
cry, next week.
Daniel l.. Bergen. of Menomonie, is
looking up old acqGaintances here.
T. ii. Rund is back from Minnesota
and visiting relatives and friends in
this vicinity.
Mr.. n. Kohl and o. Sbeldrew are
getting out timber for their mill-dam
and saw-mill at FL Paso.
Uncle P. Gasman had Family
Christmas Tree which WAS heavily
loaded with gifts that were distributed
among bis resstsves.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
RoBBISG An EDITOR.

An editor heard fellow in his room,
and, rousing up, asked, WHO is
there?s
The burglar made no reply, but kept
Ell searching.
What do you wants" shouted the
editor.
Money" responded the burglar.
Well, hold on" said the editor,
an get up and help you; I've been
looking for that for the last twenty
years"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

Another little girl at A. J. Mum
ford's.
Tie Chri stmas tree was grind
success.
K W. Lewis is snon to become a
citizen of this place again.
The Norwegians had religious SER
vices here on Christmas day.
The repairs on the old boilers in the
factory are completed, and work will
be resumed again in a few days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

IT is charged that Attorney General
Brewster allows political influence to
clog the wheels of iustIc in his de
partment. One of the Sherman family
swindled the Government and was al.
lowed to escape punishment, and 9th
ers highly connected who have proven
dishonest officials have also been let
down easy. And so it goes. Many OF
the high functionaries who assume an
air of injured innocence at being sus
pected of doing anything crooked are
the ones whose records will not bear
a close scrutiny.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

IT is said that the oleomargarine fac
tories of New York have a producing
capacity of 100000 pounds; the
dairy butter factories of 111,000,000
pounds. Must delicious creamery but
ter be supplanted by this uncertain
uixturs9
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

PARIS has 100000 inhabitants, Ly-
ons 376 900, Marseilles 100000, Lille
$4,000, Toulouse 10000, Havre 1885,
600, Rheims $4,000, Anglers $4,000, Niz-
"a $4,000, Dion $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

"IF you viii smoke, the best sppG-
ance for that purpose is clean clay
pipe, and never give pipe more than
two or three sra0kipgss' says ps&pcis
smoker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

a ROCHESTER, New Yo k, bank failed
last week because its President used
$3.50 900 of the bank funds for spec
ultting in oil and stocks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

THE Pullman Palace Car Company
has gone into the manufacture OF
freight cars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

Hon. j. G. BLAINE now occupies his
new palatial Washington residence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

GEN. GRANT recently wined and dined
a Japanese Prince.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

Fonnd and taken up by me, the under
signed, on lard Awned by me a, on which
live. or section 10, township %, range rs.
being tine town n Union, on or about the 18th
day of December, 1882, one vearlIiig heiter.
dark red color, end Of tail white.
S. N. LANE.
Union, Dec. ed, 1882.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

RATsIS curing promises soon to be-
come leading industry in Southern
California.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
stray rotice.

Store in room occupied by Post
Office, 13
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19
Remarkable Coincidence.

1t is a matter of journalistic record, That
some years since, u schooner set sail from
Baltimore, having on board q crew Of
thirteen men By q most singular freak
of nature the entire crew was attacked by
a skin disease, which manifested itself in
large liberated sores on the arms and
hands, wholly incapacitating the men from
duty. The result was that the vessel was
towed back to the city where the men
were placed in the hospital. Moral Had
Swayne's Ointment for skin diseases been
used in the first place, the crew would
have recovered in from IL to "a bours.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19
An Astrologist on Horoscopes.

The hatiyitics Of the Queens children
all show some individuality and charac-
ter. The second son, Prince Alfred, as
he was formerly distinguished, was born
at Windsor, August G., 1914, at 1850 %
ascending. The most notable position
at his birth was the close conjunction OF
the sun and Mars in the sign Leo. This
denotes n great liability TO feyers and
violent accidents. The Prince Of Wales,
who with many faults is yet remarkable
for his bon homie, and for the strong
personal regard i'm which he "a held BY
his immediate friends and the people in
his domestic establishments. Tho IA
voritc epithct applied to the heir appa-
rent is the word %joyial, and the cores
pondcnts tell us much Of his affable hob
nobbing with actors, literary men and
others. The Prince of Wales vas born
with Jupiter rising-hencc jovial is a
very correct word. All these words, de-
scriptive briefly, succinctly and graphi-
cally of character, are relies OF the for
mcr general belief in astrolOgy. From
this doctrine we have our words satur-
nine, mercurial. martial, etc. IL is Gu
rious, indeed, to what extent we may
trace in this direction the old doctrine
Of planetary influence, even in the most
of our proverbs and common phrases.
He may thank his stars" ''his lucky
stars" etc, are examples in everyday
Use, and Shakespeare is notably fond Of
such expressions. He speaks Of tho
''star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet;
of the happy Christmas time. when no
planet strikes" Of 1.-The moon coming
nearer the earth than is her wont ana
making men mad" and in fifty other
places of the belief in occult influence.
The same is found in the other old poets.
The unfortunate Princess Alice had
AZ interesting horoscope. She vas born
a. Venus was rising and possessed many
amiablc and attractive qualities, and
was n of the most popular members
of the family. The Sun vas in conjunc-
ton with Mercury and approximately in
parallel with Jupiter. Her mental fac
ultics were very bright, and it was said
that while yet in her teens she was n
of the most highly accomplished young
ladies of Great Britain, particularly fond
of books and art, and with o mind Of
wider sphere in many ways than usual.
The Sun was the hyleg, or life-giver, at
her birth, and was afflicted by the seq
quidatc aspect of Mars, the same evil
planet also affecting the Moon by square
aspect. The Sun was in the sign Tau
rus, which rules the throat, and tho UNI
fortunate lady contracted that terrible
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19
Teach the Boys.

In riding with our little boy, re.
Gently, we passed a brewery, and the
occasion was improved to tell him
how such a place makes drunkard S
of the men who work in it, and
drunkards of the men who drink the
beer made in it. We told him how
such a place robbed little children of
food and clothes, and made mothers
weep, grow ill, and die; that it took
the grain out of the mouths of the
poor, made men so crazy that they
often killed each other, sometimes
their own wives and children, and
ruined the souls of makers, sellers,
and drinkers. That boy will never
forget what a brewery does to people.
We mothers have ob~ject-lessons
enough, if we only use them. We
use slime upon line" with our girls,
but let our boys learn the world for
themselves. We don't begin early
enough. Satan has the garden all
grown to weeds sometimes, before we
deem it late enough to SOW the
flower seeds. The "street" educates
them while they are out nights.
They are not cont nights''if parents
do their duty. Said a prisoner: 81
had a good home education; it was
my street education that ruined me.
use to slip out of the house and 60
off with the boys in the street. In
the street / learned to lounge; in
the street i learned to swear; in the
street l learned to smoke; in the
street l learned to gamble; in the
street l learned to pilfer.A Oh, sir,
it is in the street the devil turks to
work the ruin Of the young!'
Sarah Wesley taught her boys to love
the Gospel, and they preached that
Gospel. The mother of Samuel J.
Mills began her work early, talking
and praying with him while in COL
lege as we'll, and the American Board
Of Foreign Missions was the result.
II is hard to erase a mothers writings
from a boys heart. 1t is easy for
Satan to make his mark on a page
where there is no writing. S. X. B.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19


1t is a fact well established by the
experience of dairymen, that COWS
which are regularly fed with grain
while they are at pasture, even if the
pasture is fresh and plenty, will give
more milk and make more butter
or cheese than COWS equally good, but
living on grass only; yet, if a liberal
ration of meal is given to the COWS
living OH the fresh grass, the first
effect is to cause them to shrink in
their milk; and if the COWS which
have become accustomed to have
meal with their grass have the meal
suddenly taken away, they will also
shrink, the pasture in both cases
being equally fresh and plenty. The
loss of milk in neither case can be
charged to the iaferiorty of the feed,
since the changes in feed are the
reverse of each other, while the
effects are alike. The effect is due
to a change in the action of the
stomach, to adapt it's character to
the digestion Of an established food.
The food may change suddenly, but
the action of the stomach can only
change slowly, and hence defective
digestion follows. This change in
the quality of the gastric agencies
is much more rapid and marked in
young than in old or middle-aged
animals. Calves and infants often
show such a sensitiveness in regard
to the action of their stomachs that
they are made sick simply by a
change Of milk from one COW to
that of another, which differs from
the first but slightly. Though such
differences are less marked in adult
animals, they must not be overlooked
in making changes offood. Changes
from hay to grass especially need to
be guarded aud gradual, or serious
disturbances may follow.-National
Livestock Journal, Chicago.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19

No man should buy good stock of
any kind unless he has good pastures,
and fairly comfortable shelter for
winter. He buys, of course, with
two objects in view: Ist, To replace
the common with the improved, for
the qualification that accrues from
this; ably, That the profits may be
enhanced. Neither object car be
attained unless the animals be we'll
kept on abundant grass in summer,
and given such feed and protection
in winter as will maintain, quite
nearly, the summer condition. This
is as easy to do with good, healthy
thoroughbreds Of any breed as with
the dairy COW kept in such manner
as will guarantee that she yields a
profit.
1t is too commonly the case at
sales, that the animals of breeding
age that are fat, outsell the regular
breeders and large mixers that are
thin. Men sometimes are badly
deceived by preferring the animal
that gives evidence of being appar-
emily an easy fattener, to one that
shows evidences of being a regular
breeder. 1t should be borne in
mind that it is easier to put flesh
upon a thin animal, if bred with a
view to flesh, than to get progeny
from a shy breeder, rendered so by
being made overfat through high
feeding, or inheriting a strongly
fixed tendency to Aeshiness, accumu-
lating this from ordinary feed; in
other words, from grass alone.--Na-
tional livestock Journal, Chicago.