River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-04-13
ENERAI NOTES.

TIE farmers of Long Island held a meet
ing and passed resolutions warning fox
hunters from New York not to trespass on
their lands.
HANLAN has been notified by cable that
the people of Winnipeg have contributed
$4,000 for a regatta in July on the Red
river.
A PARROT believed to be 72 years of age
recently closed its career at Naperville,
Ill. 1t was brought from South America
in 1852 by Michael Hines.
THE Massachusetts legislature has pass
ed bill giving women the right to prac-
tice as attorneys, and it will be approved
by the governor.
undertaken to establish a cheap and de-
cent clearinghouse down town for poor
women.
THE graves Of the confederate dead at
New Orleans were decorated the other day,
wreath being sent by the Grand Army
of the Republic.
THE general conference of the anti-po-
lygamous Mormon church is in session at
Independence, Mo-. Joseph Smith presid-
ing. There are already two hundred del
egates in attendance.
GENERAL GRANT reported himself I'M
able to attend the Irish indignation meet
ing in New York, but informed the COM
mittee that were he president he would
certainly demand an immediate trial for
American citizens charged with violating
the laws in foreign lands.
Gov. TRITLE, of Arizona, has oganized
posse of thirty men, under command of
deputy marshal, to protect life and prop
erty, and will ask a congressional appro-
priation of $4,000.
SUCH is the stagpation in ocean freights
that oil-cake is taken from New York to
Liverpool for two shillings sixpence per
ton, and halfpenny is bid and penny
asked for grain by steamer: and wheat has
been received at Baltimore for the cost of
loading and diseharging.
SERGEANT MASON has been secured as
salesman at $500 per year, by an enter
prising clothing house of Chicago, his term
to commence thirty days after his liberia
tion. The contract was signed at the AL
bany penitentiary few days since.
CART. KLINE, of the 18th infantry. over
took the Canadian half-breeds near Medi-
cine lodge, March IA, and drove them
over Milk river They carried away the
buffalo robes stored By Sheriff Healy.
THE suicide of c. J. Vanderbilt, who
had no share in the family enterprises,
caused Wall street to be flooded with tele-
grams ordering the sale of stock, and there
was for some time a lively stampede.
Western Union tumbled to 623 and Lake
Shore fell to ia.
The matinee performances at the New
York theaters for the actors fund were
attended by $4,000 people, the total re-
ceipts in that city being 1873, 900, with
Brooklyn to hear from. AT the grand
opera house Clara Morris read cable
gram from James Gordon Bennett sub
scribing $4,000.
STEPHEN A. HURLBUT, minister to Peru,
died at Lima, Peru, of heart disease. He
was native of Charleston, and served as
adiutant of a South Carolina regiment in
the war with the Seminole Indians. He
removed to Belvidere, ILL.,, in 1915, where
he practiced law, and was several times
elected to the legislature. In May, 1861,
he was commissioned brigadier general,
He took part in the battles of Shiloh and
Corinth, and succeeded General Banks in
command at New Orleans He was min
lister to the United States of Colombia dur
ing Grants administration. and was then
elected to congress He was appointed
minister at Lima by President Garfield,
but was about to return on leave of absence
to appear before the congressional investi-
cation.
IndICestiom's Martyrs.