River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-05-24
Personalities.

The young Marquis of Conyngham,
who is one of the greatest landowners in
Ireland, received rapturous reception
on bringing his bride to Slane Castle,
his princely home in Meath, last month.
His wife is an Irish woman.
Prot. Sorokin Of st. Petersburg Medi-
co-Surgical academy says that, judging
by cert in signs he has noticed in sever-
al bodies lately examined, there is a
possibility of cholera appearing in Rus
STA the present year.
A young man appealed to the police
of Westerly, R. l., for protection, on
Monday, against twenty men. who, he
said, were Free Masons from Hoboken,
N. T.. and we e seeking him in order
that they might lynch him for passing
himself off in New York as member of
their order He was thought to be in
sane.
Ex-Congressman Hazelton, Of the
Third Wisconsin District, who was acct
dentally injured shortly before the adj
iournment of congress, must undergo
the amputation of a leg in consequence,
and his physicians doubt if even that
will save his life.
JOHHSOn -. w uItIdhcI3 LliC COAolOd
cadet who acquired notoriely three
years ago in connection with a charge
OF having mutilated his ears while at
West Point, is now filling professors
chair in the Avery Institute at Charles
ton, s. G.
The venerable senior and presiding
bishop ofthe Episcopal church.
DIR. Smith, may be said to have been a
citizen under every president of the
United States. He was I've years old
when General Washington died.
A recent visitor at the asylum for the
blind at South Boston, saw Laura Bridge
man, of whom she says: Ssh is frail
looking lady, now over 80 years of age,
deaf, dumb and blind. She was dressed
with immaculate neatness, and is said to
be very fond of finery. One of the girls
sat by her side and talked into Laura's
hand, making the letters of the deafand
dumb alphabet SO that she could feel
them. 1t is tiresOme way to
converse, but Laura is very happy
to have callers. She crochets and
knits, and sells the articles made, add
ing her autograph, written with PEN
Gil in the angular script they use.'
John Porter. an engine cleaner, fifty
years of age, was pushed through o IA
inch brick wall in a Baltimore railroad
yard on Monday. An engine which had
Just come into the round-hOuse, ran into
another on the same track
just as Porter was passing be-
tween it and the wall. Porter was
caught up by the pilot and crushed
through the opening made in the wall,
and, of course, terribly mangled. His
right arm was crushed almost to jelly,
his right foot crushed, his left leg broken
above the ankle, two ribs on the left
side fractured, and collar bone and
shoulder blade broken. In spite of all
he still lived and was taken to a hospi-
tai, but the physicians can have no hope
of his recovery.
Ex-Postmaster James says that Mont
gomery Blair was the best postmaster
general this country has had, judging by
the results accomplished under his adj
minstration. Blair'S work was over
Swallowed by the war. But it was he
who established the Money Order sys-
tenn and the Registered Letter system.
He got rid of the ola brown paper pack
age and letter bill absurdity and sub
stituted account keeping by stamps.
Next to Montgomery Blair, who was a
very clear.headed man, Mr.. james
would rank Marshall Jewell, who
strangled the straw-bid monster and
placed the department upon an honest
and strictly business basis.