River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-08
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ing that was planted three years ago.
Silk farms are being cultivated at Alb
erdeen and Corintb, Miss, and there is
talk of starting one at Meridian.
The army-worm reported at one time
as doing some damage in north Texas,
is said to have disappeared.
The strawberry crop il failure in
many parts of Mississippi. owing to
rain washing the poles out of blossoms.
The work of pushing the construct
ion of the Sabine pass and Texas North
ern railway is progressing.
Carp-raising is being extensively en-
gagged in in Calaveros and Butte coun-
ties, California.
Two minors have been divorced at
Tiffin, o. They comencs life early IN
that city.
President Hinsdale, of Hiram Col
lege. General Garfeld's great friend,
has been elected School superintendent
of Cleveland.
Princess Louise exhibits in the Gros-
veRor Gallery, London, a life-size, three
quarter length portrait of lady, paint
ed by her.
A stalk of cotton that HAD attained
an attitude of two feet, and contained
seventeen forms and a bloom, was ex-
hibited in Bryan, Tex, the other day
The Salmon Canning Company, of
CORTLAND, Cal, shipped east, one day
last week, twenty-three tons of canned
salmon.
Four dozen carrier-pigeons were
taken from Cleveland to Mount Victory,
Hardin county, o., ana released, on
Tuesday. After taking observations,
they all struck bee line for home.
Several West Tennessee exchanges
are complaining of the ravages of the
army and cut worms. They are doing
a great deal Of damage to the growing
wheat crops.
F.C. Kidd, of Danyille, Va, upon
receiving the news of the death at Peters
burg of Miss Nellie Farley, to whom he
was engaged, became raving maniac.
Williams and Defiance county COM
missioners, in Ohio, are considering the
construction of joint ditch forty-tive
miles in lentgh, which will cost 100000.
There has been immense damage
done by frosts to grapes in parts OF Cal.
ifornia. Single vineyards have suffered
to the extent of 5000 to $4,000.
The Eagle and Phoenix company, of
Columbus, Ga, will build granite dam
across the Chattahoochee, one thous-
and feet long and eighteen feet high.
Two white men have visited the
mountain of burning coal, on the Nava-
10 Reservation, AT. They are the first
white men who ever saw it. They say
it seems to have been burning for sew
eral hundred years.
One of the monarchs of the forest was
felled one day last week, two miles from
Caico, Cal. measured eight feet and
half in diameter at the stump. Fifty
pounds of delicious honey was found in
the tree.
Anthony Justis, an aged citizen of
Lonaconing, Md, died few days since
of lock-jaw, resulting from fall on his
face few days previous. He was in
his 6Sth year, and leaves a large grown
up family.
| At meeting of the Dallas board of
trade, the other day, it was determined
to erect the North Texas cotton and
wooden mills, with capital stock OF
100000. A committee on subscrlp-
tions was appointed.
Rev. John B. Morgan, rector of the
Holy Prinity Church in Paris, the
American Episcopal Church In that
city, raised $500, 900 during his recent
visit in this country, which will pay for
his new church now building.
The rumor of the engagement be-
Tween Princess Beatrice and the eldest
son of the Landgrave of Hesse, is
denied.
Miss Lille G. Darst, who edits a
weekly paper at Circleville, o., has
been chosen an alternate delegate TO
the Republican State Convention.
Sara Bernhardt and her husband, M.
Damala, appeared in the play of Ca
mile" at Paris theater, the other day,
and both were given an enthusiastic
reception.
General John G. Fremont, who is
now living in New York, is still 1.-the
erect, though in his SEVENTEEN year,
but his hair and beard are very gray,
and his face is wrinkled with age.
Eugene Goddard, the French aeron-
aut, accomplished recently at Berlin
! his seth balloon ascent. 1t is estim-
ated that this celebrated aeronout his
travelled over 1000 leagues in the air.
A St. Louis dry-goods firm recently
offered prize of $25 for the best essay
on Chow to Wait on Customer" The
man who wrote the essay that took the
| prize is said to be the most uncivil
| clerk that ever stood behind counter.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist
Church, will address the literary socie-
ties of Cornell College, Mount Vernon,
Iowa, during the coming Commence
ment week-June %. Bishop Hurst
will deliver the baccalaureate address
June %.
The shipment from the mines of the
Cumberland coal region for the week
ending Saturday, May 20, 1882, were
5, 459 tons, and the total shipment for
the year to that date is 5Se, 243 tons,
decrease of 19S.044 tons rs compared
with the corresponding period of 1881.
The foreign imports at San Francisco
III "A pT1i were Nblu0u DIV v X AO1 WV f" Nv
crease of $4,000 as compared with
the same month last year, OF this to-
tai SIG, 800 was in specie, chiefly from
Mexico, and 1892, 800 was in merchant
ize imported in bonded cars.
DR.. John Lord is delivering before
the senior class of Dartmouth college a
course of lectures on "The Progress of
Civilization in Europe"
The Cincinnati musical festival was
not a pecuniary success. Receipts,
So, 900; expenses, $4,000. Vennor,
Tice, ct al, are in measure RESPONSE
BILE for this.
Mr.. George William Curtis will give
an address before the alumni of Brown
university, Providence, r. l., during
commencement week.
William III. Vanderbilt recently paid
$4,000 for a blue-white diamond
weighing fifteen carats. 1t is pro-
nounced the finest stone of its size
aver hrouoht tn America.