River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-02-15
General Intelligence.

According 10 the Portland Oreg0nlan,
the fact is becoming daily more appar-
ent that the days Of San Francisco's
monopoly of the northern trade are end
ed, ana that much OF this trade is rapid
ly concentrating at Portland.
The Supreme court of Vermont has
discharged three persons serving long
sentences, imposed by justice courts, fol
selling LIQUOR, on the ground that the
liquor law was unconstitutional when II
allowed such commitment, not giving
the accused the right of appeal.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
said in his inaugural: 81 shall made it q
rule to grant no pardon except for causes
appearing since the trial and in cases
of manifest injustice"
The New York Herald is gratified to
learn that, though there were only two
places on Tuesday morning when the
ings were altogether decorous, on the
ground that wherever at the capital
there are two senators gathered togeth-
er there is some one who needs to be
PRAYED for. But it notes as bad sign
that of the whole seventy six there were
only two who knew their greatest need
Glass blowing is one of the most diff
fcu't of occupations, and the glass-mak-
ing factories have much more work to
do than they have capacity for. In 1882,
$50, 900, 900 worth of glass was manufac-
tured making gain in fifty years OF
1872 100000.
One Of the elephants sent as. tribute
from Burmah to China killed several
persons in Pekin recently, having APP
parently become mad. The thickness
of his skull and hide making it impossi-
BILE to kill him, his keepers have dis
posed of him in an eminently Chinese
fashion by digging pit for him, in
which he is to be allowed to starve to
death.
The establishments movement is max
ing a progress in England which evil
IDENTITY causes uneasiness, not merely
among the publicans but among the pol
iticians as well. AS foreign wines and
spirits and the excise tax collected on
beer and from brewers and publicans'
licenses constitute very large proper
ton of the British revenues, the receipts
from beer, wines and spirits alone being
coo in all recent budgets, the anxiety OF
English statesmen over the growth OF
the total abstinence movements merely
natural.
The Christian Register has found out
that musical criticism as seen in the
newspapers is often a parade of fine
writing. display of pedantry in the use
of musical technicalities, connection
of unintelligible bosh. The most
dis tressing musical critic is one who IS
always trying to make us believe that
we have been imposed upon and that
we ought to have been colby and critic
ally unreponsive at the music which in
our ignorence we thought qnlte enjoya-
Bile. If the critic does nothing else he
can attack the tempo. That is an un-
failing resource, and it conveys the i'm
preston that the critic knows some
thingabout the piece ofwhich he writes.
The late Artemus Ward, illustrating to
his English readers the practical char
acter of the American mind and its pas
sion for political oratory, tells story of
an execution somewhere in 0hioFwhe1e
the Sheriff, having led the doomed man
on to the scaffold, paused before putting
the rome around his neck and asked him
the customary question whether he had
ANYTHING to say before being swung off
The man.hesitated a moment, probably
to collect his thoughts, when local ora
tor pushed his way rapidly to the front
of the crowd and said: 1T ourill-starred
fellow citizen don't feel inclined to make
a speech and amt in a hurry, should
like to avail myself of the present oc-
casion to make some remarks. on the nee
essity for new tariff"
The New York Tribune says: 1.-THE
local option method seems to be the
plan most favored in the south of deal
ing with the liquor question. Three
states have adopted it-Kentucky, Mis-
sissippi, and South Carolina. In the
former state number of counties have
passed prohibitary acts. The right to
sell LIQUOR has also been refused in the
neighborhood of some colleges and
churches. In Mississippi about fifty diff
ferent localities have forbidden the sale
of intoxicants, while less number have
taken the same course in South Carolina
There has been less agitation of prohibit
ton in the southern than in the north
ern states, but the formerappear, never
theless to be making commendable
progress in dealing with the subject.
Marcus II, Rogers, formerly a Berk-
Shire country editor, is travelling in
Spain, and writes that the ladies of that
country surpass any he has ever seen
for beauty, symmetry an fascinating air
and action. They have eyes and hair
as black as jet, and go without
hats in the street wear
ing bit of b'a k lace on their heads.
Their hair is abundant and dressed with
fine taste, with numerous curls and
''beau- catchers'' over their foreheads,
and, as they have fine forms, generally
spe king, they are certainly superb
creatures. In no other country of Eu
rope or the east has he seen as hand
some ladies as can be seen on Broadway,
but ne thinks that the ladies of Valencia
or Seville can take the premium over
the ladies of New York for good looks.