River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-15
Personal Mention.


Cleveland society is enjoying sensa-
ton in a romantic marriage which has
lately occurred. A fashionable young
man met charming young girl at ger
man on Thursday. On Saturday the
love at first sight had resulted in plight
ed troth, and on Monday the marriage
ceremony took place. At present the
couple are taking wedding journey
and are anxiously waiting for time 10
assuage the grief of the eniaged parents.
The autobiography of Thurlow Weed,
edited by his daughter Harriet, and by
his grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes,
and the story of the voyage of the Jean
nette, made up from the ship and Ice
journals of De Long, edited by his wife,
are to be two of the noteworthy hooks
to make their appearance from Boston
in March.
Mr.. Buck, an old gentleman of Susque-
hanna, Pa, says be knew Joseph Smith,
the founder of Mormonism, and remem-
bers the prophets attempt to repeat the
miracle of walking on water, having built
q submerged walk in the river. Some
body cut section of the planking the
the night before, and the impostor bare
" escaped drowning.
A youthful wedding is reported to
have occurred in Fayette county, West
Virginia, last week. Isaac n. Savage, q
lad of fifteen summers, met, wooed, and
won Miss Ellen b. Knox, aged fourteen,
in one and the same evening. The next
morning they started out on foot, and
were married by the roadside, d passing
minister performing the ceremony
Spencer Bulletin.
Mrs. George Harold, the mother Of
David Harold, who was hanged on the
18th of July, 1865, for participation in
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
has just died in Washington. The inn
mediate cause of her death was apo
plexy. She has been an invalid every
since the death OIL her son, having never
fully recovered from the shock which it
occasioned to her nervous system.
Senator elect Cullom, of illinois, says
his lucky number is six and he figures
it thus: Six. years as page in the .lli-
nois legislature; eight years a member
of the Illinois legislature, during four
wears of which he was speaker of the
house, making an average of six for
each; six years governor of the state of
Illinois; six years member OF the
United States SSuate-the last six yet 20
come.
Felix De Iontaine once asked the late
Charles r. Thorne, jr., if he ever felt
nervous on the stage. "On the first
night, invariably" was the reply. "Many
and many..a time I've gone on in q cold
perspiration and with knees shaking SO,
/ thought they would give way. re-
member playing one night at the utmost
disadvantage; wasn't feeling well; house
was light, and didn't care much for the
play. Suddenly | caught the face of a
ten-year old boy in the audience who
was CRYING. That inspired me, for felt
that l had inspired him. | played TO
that. little fellow all the rest of the even
ing, and never more to my satisiac-
ton"
Says the New York World; "Mr
David Dudley Field entered yesterday
upon his 10th year In the evening he
dined with his brother, Mr.. Cyrus w.
Field, at the residence of the latter in
Gramercy Park. and in accordance with
an old custom in the family, his broth
ers, Judge Stephen Field and Mr.. Hem
ry Field were also present. The other
guests we're Mr. Peter Cooper, who eel
ebrated Monday the ninety-second am
niversary of his birth, and DR.. Mark
Hopkins, ex-president of Williams col
lege, who is in his SD year, both Of
whom have been lifelong friends of Mr..
Field and his brothers."