River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-24
BRIEF ITEMS

The project of instituting mixed
courts with foreign judges is again
under consideration by the Japanese
Government.
The rumor that Sen. Edmunds pro-
posed to resign because of recent do
mestic Affections is authoritatively de-
MED.
The Rev. George o. Barnes, the Ken
lucky mountain evangelist, is now
holding meetings at Indianapolis, Ind.
A negro, Adam A. Harmless by
name, died at Mckinney, Tex, last
week, who is said to have been 120 years
of age.
God Save the Queen" Is being tran
slated for practical use into fourteen
different languages and dialects of
India.
Indiana has Maud Muller who
mows hay all day, and at eventide de-
lights her neighbors by reading Tenny-
son and other poets.
Bishop Lafreche, of Three Rivers,
Can, has forbidden the ladies of his
congregation, under pain of sin, from
wearing curls.
The Philadelphia Times expects to
live long enough to see everybody in
this country sleep in harlmocks during
the summer.
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
arrived at Balmoral on Aug. 19 The
court will stay in Scotland till the end
of November.
Colonel John M. Barlow, United
States Engineer, has been appointed
to succeed the late Gen. Warren. in
charge of the works at Newport, r. l.
A treaty has been concluded between
Spain and Chilli A Spanish frigste will
proceed to Valparaiso to exchange
salutes with the Cnilian forts.
New cotton was picked, ginned, made
into yarn and shipped North, all in the
same day, on July 31st, at factory in
Lexington CoHnty, 5. c.
The official statement shows the
Mexican revenues for the last fiscal
year to have been $27, 500 600, an in
crease of 81 SOC, 600 over the previous
year.
Mr.. Gladstone bluntly calls M. de
Lesseps a private individual, which
must be exceedingly unpleasant to
person so fond of being regarded as a
public man.
W. H. Vanderbilt is in distress. r.
S. Stuart has procured q fiag-stone to
put in front of his Fifth avenue resi-
dence, which is much larger than the
one obtained by Mr.. V.
The veterans of the Mexican War
are to hold National Convention at
Nashville, Tenn, September 18th and
10Th.
THE husband of Agnes Jencks of
Louisiana fame in the presidential cam
paign of 1876, has secured position
in the pension Office, and Agnes may
now revisit the scenes of her triumphs.
Austria has determined to subsidize
a new steam ship line between Trieste
and New York, and Italy line between
Leghorn, New York and Baltimore.
The story that Irving, the English
actor, was to be Vanderbilt's guest dur
ing his visit to this country, is pro-
nounced a fabrication.
Thomas Hughes, the English author,
having accepted County Court Judge
ship in England is considered TO have
retired from active political life.
Professor Boyesen has recently re-
turned to this country from Europe,
after visiting Norway. That country
he believes will soon become repub-
lie.
Gen Geo. B. Mcclellan and family.
the Hon. B H. Bristow and family, and
Judge Stanley Matthews are now at the
Profile House. White Mountains.
Alexander Mitchell, OF Milwaukee,
denies that he has been interested in
any of pork or wheat deals of Chicago
and st. Louis, and says he has never
been in one in his life.
Miss Hattie Hamilton, OF New Orleans
died at Old Point Comfort, Va, on
Wednesday, leaving in New Orleans an
estate worth $3.50 900, much of which is
willed to David Jackson, prominent
salt merchant there.
John w. Garrett, President OF the
| Baltimore railroad, is now at his coun.
try seat, near Baltimore, undergoing a
surgical operation by Professor Allen
Smith, for very painful bone felon
1t is not necessarily dangerous.
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"The Blue.eyed maidea" and "The
Green Cavalier" have lately been set
to music by the accomplished young
| Princess Beatrice.
Attorney General Brewster has &C
cepted the invitation to deliver the an
nual Grafton before the New York
State Bar Association at its convention
in Albany on September 10 h.
Charelton Hunt, nephew of Hon. w
HI. Hunt, ex secretary of the navy
and present minister to Russia, has
been nominated to congress by the
de IN ocrats of the first Louisiana dist
riot.
The King and Queen of Greece have
gone to Russia to attend the chIisten.
ing of the infant child of the Gar, and
will spend the remainder of the sum
mer travelling in Central Europe.
Colonel Hugh ]. Thompson was last
week nominated as the Democratic
candidate for Governor of South Caro-,
lima. He is now State Superintendent o.
Education.