River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-04-27

resignation, to accept the same position
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul.
AMONG the receipts of cattle at the
Chicago yards the other day. were ten
carloads from Winnemucca, New, which
brought six cents per pound.
A DELEGATION from New Albany, called
upon James G. Blaine and asked him to
deliver an Grafton on decoration day, He
replied that he expected to be in Eu-
rope before that time:
THE Garfield monument fund commit
tee at Cleveland, received a $3.50 contrib
ution from ex-President Hayes. and has
information that 81 200 will be soon sent
from Paris.
TwENTY-oNE counties in Kansas report
crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was
never 80 promising. and cattle and sheep
passed through the winter we'll.
Four special trains on the Grand Trunk
road left Montreal, the other day. for
Manitoba. One family consisted of
man, wife, nine SONS. and thirteen daHgh-
tiers.
ELIJAH BUELL., an octogenarian, who
has the finest residence and grounds in
Lyons. Iowa, was the first man to take
schooner load of merchandise into the
harbor OF Chicago.
APTRR the lat of May a person using
profane language in the state of New
York may be arrested, taken directly be-
fore magistrate. and, if convicted, sent
to Jail for ten days. 1t is summary pro-
cess, and the law will doubtless have ire
strainiDg influence ON corner-loafers and
drivers oil overloaded wagons.
THE United States steamship Iroquis.
Il n - -
California. will De dispatched to the relief
of the officers and crew of the Arctic
steamship Rodgers, which was wrecked
off the Siberian coast.
THE aurora borealis was very brilliant
the other evening, and the atmosphere
was 30 deeply charged with electricity that
telegraph wires between Chicago and
| the Atlantic coast were operated without
batteries,
ABOUT thirteen thousand Mormons
gathered in the tabernacle at Salt Lake TO
hear President Taylor outline the situa-
ton. He declared the Edmunds law I'M
| constitutio nal. but said the Saints would
| submit to its provisions while fighting
them in the courts.
| Such is the stagpation in ocean freights
that oil-cake is taken from New York TO
IlyeTpOOl LOT Two SnllllDRS SlApSHCe per
ton, and halfpenny is bid ana a penny
| asked for grain by steamer: and wheat has
been received at Baltimore for the cost of
loading and discharging.
| / UNDER the presidency of Hon. Edward
| L. Moves, party of Cincinnatians have
organized to secure Shakspearean dra-
matte festival of one week, next fall, with
Booth, Barrett, Mccullough, and others
in the cast. A guarantee fund Of $40, 600
was subscribed. and John Simpkinson
went to New York to make the necessary
| arrangements.
THE pardons issued by Gov. Crittenden
TO Robert and Charles Ford. reached St,
Joseph at noon on the 18th inst. and the
boys shook hands with everybody and
passed out of Jail. At the door Sheriff
Trigg, of Ray county, arrested Robert for
the murder of Wood Hite, near Rich
mond. 1t was arranged that the trip
should be made by way of Kansas City.
and the prisoner was attended by his faith
er and brother and guarded by officers.
Sheriff Thomas of st. Joseph, has slept in
his clothes for two weeks.