River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-09-28
GENERAL NOTES.

men will return TO work in few days.
THE Postal Telegraph company has
made contracts for extending ito iines be-
tween New York and Chicago, 10 be COM
pleied before Jan. i.
THE report of the failure of Potter &
Co.. stove manufacturers of Troy, N. Y,
is said to be untrue, as the firm only want
an extension of their paper.
A SOLDIER in garrison at Walla Walla
is said to have receiy ed $780, 900 from the
government for the invention of a new
breech loading cavalry carbine.
AETBR a conference of five hours be-
tween the puddlers and iron manufactur-
ers of Pittsbul Oh, last year scale OF wages
was signed.
THE yellow fever at Pensacola has APP
parently got beyond control of the city.
| Very gloomy reports come from that
place.
A HOTEL that will cost one million dol
| lar is being rapidly built in New York
city.
THE factory of the Cooperative cream
cry company at st, Charles, Illinois, one
of the largest and most complete in the
west was burned, causing loss OF $4,000.
| THE New York World charges that
millions of dollars have been wasted and
stolen in the construction of the famous
| Brooklyn bridge across East river.
| C. C. MILLER, of Leon. Kansas, and
| Lord Crawford, of England, simulta-
neously inform Harvard observatory OF
the discovery of comet close to the sun
and visible in the day time.
TIE estimated farm products of Kan
sas for 1882 will aggregate 1916 100000 or
an average of $3.50 for each of the zoe, OG0
| families in the state. The number of
farms in Kansas is 100000 which gives
81, 760 as the average yield per farm,
| SOMEBODY in Wall street has written a
letter declaring that Jay Gould has retir-
| ed from active manipulation of the mar
ket, as he is worth $100,0G0,00O, and is
about to take the presidency of the West
ern Union telegraph company.
| THE tariff commission was represented
at Nashville only by President Hayes and
four others. w. III. jackson, formerly a
general in the confederate army, but now
aa extensive farmer, asked that the farm
ers he protected agains. protection.
THE case of Mrs. Seymour Rodgers
against the Robert 7. Lee Mining Compa-
nv of Colorado. in which nearly quarter
| interest in the mine is involved, came up
l
Louis. On the application of the plainr-
| if for the appointment of receiver.
Judge McCrary intimated he would not
appoint receiver, but would consider
the question of securing the payment of
the plaintiff g interest in the working
| of the mine.
A MARKED feature of the reunion of the
Army OF the Cumberland at Milwaukee
was the gathering of one hundred mem
beers of the IroD brigade, to whom Gen. Glib
bon read an original poem and Miss Au-
brey presented a silk guidon. Speeches
were made by Generals Bragg and Fair
child. Miss Ransom, Washington art
list, gave the Cum berland veterans an oil
portrait of President Garfield, and Gen.
j. d. Cox delivered an eulogy on the
martyred president.
| A FIvE-DoLLAR note of an Evansville,
Ind, business college currency has been
received by the secret service, which
has been passed as genuine currency.
| Some of this currency has been circulated
| until it had been worn to tatters. A coun-
terfeit silver half-dollar, made of babbet
metal and glass, is also being circulated.
1t ls an excellent imitation.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided that
the Indian police may be furnished with
revolvers for the better enforcement of
their official authority, but the custom of
| supplying them with the best improved
breech-loading fes will be discontinued.
No rifles and no fixed ammunition for
breech-loaders will hereafter be placed in
the hands of any Indians by the depart
ment.
| AT Morristown, Pa, 'on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Henrietta B. Melville, the wife of
| Engineer Melville. was taken from her
home to the state asylum for insane. The
certificate upon which she was deprived
| of her liberty was signed by DIR. Fisher
Longstreetb, of Sharon Hill, and DIR.
Samuel Bartletson, of Clifton. The for
mer has been her attendant. The certif-
cate sets forth that the ex aminers are con-
WINGED from examination that Mrs. Mel
vile is not of sound mind, that she was
brought to that condition through alco-
holism; and that she was proper person
to receive treatment at an asylum for the
insane. The parting between mother and
children was most affecting.
AN attempt is being made by Messrs.
Charles L. Wright q Co., ship to
establish an American steamship line with
new kind of vessel planned and patented
by Captain Sundborg, lately of the Swed
ish navy. The steamers will ply between
New York and the European ports, and
will be controlled entirely by American
capital According 10 the plans as set
forth in the prospectus the new steamers
will have displacement of 1000 tons,
length of $50 feet. They are to have four
decks, two of which will be for saloon
passengers. Each steamer is TO be moved
by two propellers, worked by two COM
pound engines of 500 horse power each.
Capt. Sundborg claims that he will bs
able to obtain speed of at least twenty
miles an hour, and more in good weather.
The time for quick passages to Europe
will be FIVE days.