River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-26
PERSONS AND THINGS.

ford. Connecticut, to take effect July /,
1888
Mr.. Walker Blaine, the son of the
Maine statesman, has this week been
admitted TO practice before the United
States supreme court.
President Arthur, on leaving Boston,
was presented with baton made from
wood which grew at Laniel Webster s
birthplace in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Miles, the wife of General Miles,
and sister of Mrs. Cameron, the wife
of the senator, has taken ex-Secretary
Hunts house in Washington for the
winter.
President Arthur still retains a lively
interest in his college society, the Psi
Epsilon. He recently gave the Union
college chapter 800 to aid in the erect
ton Of chapter house.
DR.. Norvin Green was reelected
president of Western Union at the sug-
gestion of certain English stockhold-
ers. He has stipulated that his duties
should hereafter be made lighter.
Major William Baily, father of Gen.
eral S. M. Baily, state treasurer Of
Pennsylvania, died at his home in
Uniontown, Pa, on Thursday morning
very suddenly. He was seventy two
years old.
Oscar Wilde says he didn't pay 500
to settle a suit at Moncton, N. b.,
brought to recover alleged damages
for his failure to lecture according to
contract. He has given bonds, and
viii contest the suit.
Francis and George Darwin, the sons
of the great naturalist, are about to
move to the vicinity of Cambridge,
England, where they will establish a
large factory for making philosophical
instruments.
Father Ryan, the southern poet
priest, is lecturing in the south for the
benefit of the society of the army OF
Tennessee, in their endeavor to raise
monument to the memory of their
fallen comrades.
United States Minister Levi p. Nor
ton and his accomplished wife are es-
tablished in their superb hotel in Paris
for the winter, and are now opening
the diplomatic season by series OF
large dinner parties.
Hon. Ben Butterworth, the defeated
republican candidate for congress in
Cincinnati, was one of the first to write
letter to John III. Follett, his success
ful competitor, congratulating him on
his election.
Mr.. knight, the new lord-mayor of
London, began business In life as q
warehouse porter in the city of which
he is now chief magistrate.
Gen. Grant and wife are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Childs at their
country seat "Wootton,?' near Bryn
Mwar, near Philadelphia.
Kelley, the inventor, asserts that he
is now working night and day to COM
plete his meter He saya theniaehine
win be perfected III very short time.
Henry M. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, who was in London last week,
considers the work undertaken on the
Congo for the king of the Belgians, as
practically finished.
s3Christing NeIsen, the singer, who said
farewell to an s;jmmense body of adj
iisirefs IN an. Albert Hall concert in
London sailed Saturday onsthe Gallia
for Am erica. 50
Henry George, the writer on political
economy, whose Progress and Pow
ertyD created such a stir, and who late
ly made complaints to the president on
account of his ill-treatment in Ireland,
returned to New York.
1t is said by an intimate friend of ex-
Senator Sargent, our minister to Ger
many, that he does not like living in
Berlin, and that both he and Mrs. Sar-
gent have q strong distaste for the for
malities of foreign diplomatic life.
A dispatch from Pueblo, COL, says:
.sGov. Crittenden, of Missouri, and par
ty left here on the east bound train at
s o'clock. Before arriving at La Junta
the governors wife was robbed ofabout
$1,000 in money and jewelry, in the
sleeping cal"
First Vice President j. N. McCul-
Tough, of the Pennsylvania railroad, is
said to be worth $2,500,000. That por-
ton of his fortune which is not in
cash and United States bonds is in
vested in railroad bonds and first-class
real estate.
The remains of the late Miss Adelaide
Phillipps, which have been embalmed
at Carlsbad, are expected to reach this
country in few days, and are to be
inferred in the Marshfield bury ground,
a few rods to the south of the Webster
tomb.
Miss Norton mile. Nordica), the
young American prima donna, is meet
ing with great and increasing success
at the Grand Opera House, Paris. And
in private life, her womanly sweetness
and pure sympathy have made her
exceedingly popular.
The late ex. Cox. Washburn's home
stead in La Crosse, Wis, consisting of
full square in the heart of the city,
with brick house, stables, etc., has been
sold by the executors of his will to
Mr.. John HI. Weston, wealthy lum-
herman, who formerly owned it.
Again comes the story that the long
missing Charley Ross is about to be re-
stored to his home and parents. James
Logan, detective, says that the miss
ing boy is so near Philadelphia that at
"a hours notice he can be returned to
his home. The detective claims to
have met and conversed with the boy
in a Roman Catholic educational insti-
tuition. Charley was stolen July i,
1874, and is now, if alive, about Is
years old.
Oscar Wilde was arrested the other
day at St. Johns, N. B., for breach OF
contract with the Young Mems Chris
tan Association, and paid 800 to set
tie the case. Oscar considered it as
"two too" many cipbers, but yielded
to the pressure of circumstances. The
question is whether the fellow ought
not to be arrested, prosecuted and sup
pressed as fraud upon general prin-
ciples.
A Joint debate was held in the Opera
House at Omaha, between Miss Susan
B. Anthony and Mr.. Edward Rose
water, editor of the Bee of that city,
upon the woman suffrage question, to
a crowded house. Miss Anthony
argued that Acknowledgement is degra-
dation, political, social, and industrial.
Mr.. Rose9ater argued that there is no
inherent right to the ballot, and that
women IN Nebraska have already all
the personal and property rights they
could ask. The debate lasted three
hours. and the audience applauded
and Kissed profusely.
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