River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-29
Personal Paragraphs.

| Mrs. Lowell, Vile OF Minister LOweI,
had sufficiently recovered from her long
illness contracted at Madrid to be pre-
scented at tn lrawing-room on Tuesday.
| The queen, who had offered to receive
her privately il she were unable other
wi @ to attend, greeted her cordially,
and afterwards sent for Mr.. Lowell to
express to him her pleasure at seeing
| his wife at court.
Early this spring General w. 7. Sher-
man and party of friends will take a
trip acrosIthe continent to San Francisco,
| where they will embark for cruise OF a
month or two along the coast of Califor-
| mia, Oregon and Mexico.
The king of the Sandwich Islands
| locks himself in when he gets drunk,
and the Norristown Herald says of his
prudential practice: cit would be well
| if some Americans were to initiate his
example, instead of going out in the
highways and offering to lick all creation
and occupying both sides of the streets
at one time"
The latest on "my wife's mother y
from French paper, possesses pecul-
iarlv French SAVIOR "G-has been mar
rings, enters and embraces her son-in-
law Then, taking him by the hand, she
says: 81 wish you everything you de-
sire" You are very hard upon your
SELF replied c..
Miss Sarah Brown, daughter of cold
John Brown" has been appointed to q
position in the United States Mint at
San Francisco. John Brown, the oldest
son, man of sixty, strong and vigorous,
| lives at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie. With
him resides Owen Brown, a younger son,
who was with his father when the latter
made his attack on Harper's Ferry. A
daughter, named Ruth Thompson, lives
near by, and another son Jason, resides
at Akron, o. Mrs. Brown lives
in California.
Major Edward D.. Muhlenberg, late Of
the Fourth Artillery, United States
Army, died Saturday, at Lancaster, Pa.
at the age of fifty-one. He was gradu-
ate of Yale College and civil engineer
of eminence, having held important
posts on the Reading Railroad, the Cam
| den & Atlantic railroad and the Dom
Pedro railroad of Brazil. When the
war of the Rebellion broke out he was
| Artillery He took part in Sherman's
march to the sea, had two horses shot
| from under him at Charlottesville, and
was brevetted for gallantry in that en-
gagement. He was the acting chief OF
the right wing of the army on the third
day OF the battle of Gettysburg.
Ten of the members of The United
States Senate are named John, and
ten James. William and George and
Henry come next. with four representa-
tives each. Thomas and Joseph and
Charles have three each, and Benjamin
and Samuel two apiece, And there are
thirty names which occur but once,
ranging from Augustus, Eugene and Or
vile to Eli, Isham and Zebulon, with
Philetus and Omar and long string of
family names, like Warmers, Wade
Hampton's and Wilkinson's Calls.
Alexander III. Stevens was devout
Presbyterian, and there was just touch
of Scotch superstition in his blood,
which made him believer in omens.
He used to tell of this strange incident
connected with his departure from
Washington, March 6, 1859: AS the
steamer was going down the Potomac he
looked back, and while gazing on the re.
ceding dome of the capitol. some friends,
who saw his meditative mood, APP
preached and said, ''You must be look
ing up there and thinking of your re-
election to congress" In reply tothis he
said, "No; / am taking last look at
that dome, for ] never expect to see it
or be in Washington again until | come
as prisoner of war; The steamer sped
down the stream, and soon distance and
the shadows of night had hid the dome
of the capitol from his view When
next he visite Washington and gazed
on that dome he was indeed, a pardone
prisoner of war, who had just been re-
leased from Fort Warren.