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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11
The President ana the british Admiral

At Newport R L, on Friday, President Ar
thur returned call made Sunday by Admiral
Commerell of the British flagship, Northamp-
ton Captain Digby and staff received the
president and conducted him to the saloon,
ell wife and daughter After being enter
tanned there the president was escorted to sew
eral parts of the ship and had explained the
workings of the heavy guns. AT 5 the yards
were again manned and the American flag run
up to the peak-a signal for salute OF twenty
one guns on the presidents departure AS the
salute was being fired the American squadron
steamed into the harbor. The Tennessee also
fired a salute of two guns
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11
lieutenant Greedy Defended In Washing
ton.
An officer Of the Greedy relief expedition said

An oficer OF the Greedy reilef expedltion SAID:
The criticisms upon Greely's lack of dis
cipline are unwarranted He is no particular
friend of mine, but am confident that if an in
quiry is had he Will come out ahead. He hal
never said word against Hazen, but he hal
severely criticised Darlington for not examining
the cache of provisions at Payer harbor as dL
rected IL he had done that and left frest
supply instead of the spoiled rations that were
there, tits probable that many more of the party
would have been able to pull through. Greely's
work is remarkable. He brought every man ia
the place he said he would two days befors
the time fixed, where he had every reasons d
except assistance He must have exercise
strict discipline or he never could have done
it Here is an instance of his discipline. Al
Cape Sabine DIR. Pavy and one of the mer
came into his tent and insisted upon an mme-
date division of the supplies on hand freely
promptly refused, and when they further insist
ed he ordered them out of his tent. Weak as he
was he threatened to shoot them on the spot il
they did not obey, and they went Every
officer of the relief expedition has expressed
admiration for Greely's pluck and manage
ment If there is any fight over the matter
you may rest assured that Greedy may hole
his own He is no fool He will undoubtedly
be promoted if there is not strong opposition
in high places. have no idea that the story
about Brainerd is true. He ought to be pro
NOTED for he deserves it if ever man did
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

publican party or Wisconsin, WAS opposed to
the employment of convict labor in the penal
institutions of the state. Both were ignored.
The convention adjourned with three cheers
tor Blaine and Logan.
PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO Pound.
WASHINGTON Special Telegram, Sept S.
Blaine and Logan viii carry Wisconsin by
10000 majority The disaffection of Thad
g. Pound will do the Republicans no harm"
said Wisconsin man who arrived here yes
terday Continuing, he said;
Why Pound has lost what little influence he
once had in the state. His career in congress
neither brilliant nor satisfactory to his con-
stituents, and as a result Of their disappToba-
ton he was elected 70 stay at home the last
time. The feeling was strong against him
that although in his election &c The Forty
seventh congress, he received majority greater
than that at the preceding election he was
thrown aside by his party constituents who
nominated and elected another man as his sue
eessor in the present house, Mr.. Price. oh no,
Pounds apostacv will not hurt the Republicans
on the contrary. quite the reverse. Why in adj
dition to the other Objectionable things about
him he is regarded as "a man with grievance" "
You know what dampening effect that has
upon mankind generally. and his grievance is
not of a kind to excite sympathy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

An Eastern paper, commenting on the
low prices of cereals, extracts comfort
from the following statement: A dol
lar will buy2 to34 pounds more of sugar
than year ago; leather has declined 8
TO 3 cents or 10 to 10 per cent; pig iron
has declined about Is per cent; bar
iron Is per cent; nails 81 pc
cent; steel rails Sc per cent; cot
ton goods to 10 per cent; though
raw cotton is higher than year ago;
common wooden fabrics are 10 to 80 per
cent lower, etc. The only articles Of
great commercial Importance which sell
at relatively higher prices are certain
agricultural prod uctions, such as corn,
livestock and meat. It, therefore, re-
suits that bushel Of wheat should have
at present valuations about as great a
purchasing power as year ago, though
the price IS much lower. It should
purchase more sugar. iron, hardware,
and many other articles than year
ago, but OF some other articles, such as
coffee and cotton goods it viii purchase
less
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Miscellaneous NEWS Notss.

New Brunswick, N. j., celebrated its centen-
NAL on the 18th inst, although George IL
granted it a charter in 1870.
John T. West, the proprietor of the Nicollet
house, Minneapolis, filed a suit against the
Minneapolis Base Ball association to recover
$50 AZ for the board, washing and lodging of
the defendants its agents and employees, from
the 18th of June to the 3lst of August A writ
of attachment was also issued 10 seize on the
building, fence, and other property of the as
sociation for the payment of the bill
Foster, Blackman Co., a heavy Big Rapids,
Mich, lumber firm, also operating at Baldwin
and other points on the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern, have filed ehattel mortgage of So,
034 in favor of the Big Rapids National bank
and one of $50 9SS to the Grand Rapids Nation
al bank; both mortgages to secure commercial
and accommodation paper and cover all lumber,
lath and saw logs at the mills and in the vicin-
ity of Baldwin, also goods at Baldwin.
The big stone tower of the Philadelphia pub
lie buildings, now under process of erection,
will be finished by the end of the season of
1856. and will then be $40 feet high From
that elevation the iron work commences and
goes 95 feet higher, until, to the crown of
William PENIS hat, the height of 535 feet Is
reached The browning piece in the circle
forming the lower part of the tower is single
stone weighing UIlIty-IWo bOLs.
Winnipeg Special: Following is list of
those who have been selected from 200 appli-
cants to form the Manitoba contingent of the
Gordon relief expedition:
A NJ Armstrong, C p Braithwaite, c. L.
Shaw, H. g. Wilson, w. A. Gallagher, G. b.
Haight, W. E. Sharrard, f. A. Munson, c.
Blanchard, N McCallum, II. c. Mark, NJ Nc
Keand w. J. Winters, G. W. Fl. Page f. Rit-
chic, j. 7. Rutledge, X. ]. Ellis, Z. Gromes,
II. G. Wilson, E. B. White, B. Oswald, T. NJ
Jones, T. Pierce, c. F. DAILY, g. A. Bouohette
d. g. McLeaunan, T. Fl Atkinson, g. Menzies,
l. Smith, P. Leonard, T. Colling, T. Regain,
W. A. Mcdonald, p Cadarette, J. Johnston,
A. Mcdonald, Alexander Kennedy,A Connolly,
f. Mckay, r. Stevenson, T. Pratt A Coch-
rane, T. C0rrigal, d. Corrigal, L. Suffer-
1t has been very difficult to obtain the right
class of men, the applicants own statements
having to be relied on in many instances
Those who pass viii assemble atthe Canadian
Pacific railway depot on Saturday next, ready
10 embark II possible each man viii provide
himself with paddle. Tho party viii receive
a complete outfit on arriving at Montreal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

The United States is the richest
country in the world. We have richer
men and more of them. England does
not claim but $40, 900, 000, 900. We
claimed $4,000, 900, 600 of property IN
1880. England has been gathering
wealth for thousands of years, and We
have more money than she has, although
it is but little over hundred years
since we left her here in the wilderness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

The impressive and largely attended
ceremonies in the Mormon temple at
Utah over the bodies of the missionaries
murdered in Tennessee, and the spirit
manifested there, are another evidence
of the folly, to say nothing of the crime,
of bloodshed and violence directed
against Mormonism. 1t is helped rath-
er than hurt by it, strengthened In the
devotion of its present members, and
made more attractive for proselytes by
the sensation of persecution. The day
is past, when any form of faith, however
repugnaut to moral or social order, can
be attacked by violence; and if Chris
tian persuasion and example are power
less to influence Mormonism, there is
nothing but to prevent its offenses
against the laws, and leave it alone I'M
der the protection TO religious freedom
guaranteed by the Constitution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

against England by forming coalition of the
powers, unless her egotistical policy Of coloni-
al extention is abandoned
The secretaries OF the American board OF
foreign missions are informed from Fow Chow,
China, that their missionaries, as well as those
of the American Methodist society, were unin-
jured in the recent bombardment
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CHARLES J. FoLGER DEAD.
Sudden Death of the Secretary of the
Treasury folger at His Home ct Geneva,


NY.
Hon Charles ]. Folger, secretary of the
treasury, died suddenly at his home at Geneva.
n. Y at 4:55 Thursday afternoon. The only per.
sons present were Mrs. Hart, his deceased wife's
sister, DIR. Knapp and his law associates, his
family physician, Dr. A. b. Smith, and his col
ored servant, James DR. Smith and Capt j.
s. Lewis had left him but few minutes previ
ously DR.. Henry Foster who has been there
two or three times as consulting physician, ar.
rived on the 40 train, and was conveyed
to the Folger mansion by DR.. Smith.
Mrs. Ernst, the secretarys sister, ar.
rived by the same train After the three last
named entered, the dying man gasped twice
and all was over. Secretary Folger's two
daughters are in the Adirondacks The elder
is in very feeble health. His son, Capt Charles
w. Folger, is at Alexandria, Va. All had been
written to come TO Geneva, the telegraph moi
being earlier resorted to, as a sudden ternin-
alton was not apprehended The secretary
returned for the last time to Geneva Wednes-
day evening, the 20 ult He called his family
physician the next morning, who gives the fol-
lowing diagnosis of the case:
Great feebleness of the hearts action; con-
gestiou of the middle lobe right lung, and cap
Hilary congestion of the bronchial tubes; torpid
liver; albuminous discharge of urine, showing
disease of the kidneys.
The doctor was informed that the secretary
had had hemorrhage of the lungs three times
of late, before his return. The first was while
out yachting with friends at New York, on
which occasion he discharged about pint
of blood. The secretary rode out daily
until the 29th ult, since which time
he kept his room, but did not wholly
abandon official work. He continued to an
swer approximations and kilograms up to Wed
nesday, and seemed reluctant to give up; vel
he was by no means unconscious of his critical
condition. He entrusted to his personal friend,
Capt Lewis, final messages to his family and
other directions of confidential nature. With
| in few moments after the secretary expired
Judge Folger was appointed secretary of the
treasury by President Arthur on the reor-
| ganization of the cabinet soon after the
death of President Garfield He had served
in that capacity nearly three years AT the
time of his appointment he was chief justice
of the court of appeals of the State of New
York Judge Fofger has filed the high anG
honorable position with fidelity, honesty, and
| efficiency earning the respect of the people
at large and the warmest regard of all in the
department He had good executive ability,
and his thorough knowledge of law and bis
well-trained judicial mind enabled him 70
meet intelligently and successfully many i'm.
portant questions. While strict in requiring
| faithful service of all employees, he was always
| kind and considerate toward his subordinatea
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THE PITH OF THE NEWS
washington News.

The total interest bearing debt of the United
itates is 81. ZIG, so, 400 The total debt, s12.-
q, 20, 600 Decrease during August, SIS, $50,
~
indian Commissioner Price has taken meas
ares for the immediate relief OF the starving
Piegan Indians at Blackfeet agency in Mon
tana.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11

Nine. Patti writes that her appearance Al
Paris IN opera. Oct Is. is contingent upon 4
favorable settlement Of her divorce proceed.
ings against tie Marquis de Caux
The North German Gazette attribubss to Bis
msrck the design TO create a pol 9eal blockade
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WEIGHTS INDIAN VEGETABLEPlLLS
FOR THE
I. " = X
And all Bilious Complaints
Safe to take, being purely vegetable; no grip
Ing. Price IS cts All Druggists.
THE ROYAL ROUTE
Chicago, ST. Paul,
MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA,
Chicago & Northwestern R'ys.

THE SHORTEST AND BEST RoUT
EAST TO CHICAGO. with Dining Cars,
Elegant Day Coaches, and palace Smok-
ing Room Sleepcrs ON all trains from Min
neapolis and st. Paul, through Eau Claire
and Madison, with choice of route via
Milwaukee, THE CHICAGO, ST.
PAUL, MINNEAPoLIS & OMAHA R'Y
also runs through trains southwest from
St. Paul and Minneapolis to Sioux City
and Council Bluffs, with Sleeping Cara
through without change to St Joseph
and Kansas City, and is the short, quick
route from ST. Paul to Des Moines. North
east from st. Paul, through trains are run
to Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield,,
Lake Superior; and from Eau Claire TO
Superior City, where connection is made
for Duluth, But this route to Chicago is
what the Managers take pride in, and be-
cause of the smooth steel rail track, well
balasted road bed, the best Day Coaches,
Sleeping and Dining Cars that money can
procure, courteous and attentive employees
and with trains always on time, it is
rightly named
THE ROYAL ROUTE"
TRY THIS ROUTE WHEN YOU TRAVEL.
GEO. b. MERRICK, Agent, River Falls
f. b. CLARKE, Il. w. TEAsDALE,
Genl Traffic Manager Genl Passenger Agt
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| CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO
1t also operates the best route and the
short line between
ga!..g. N! N.?.al : M.sa..i.ls

Milwaukee, Ia Crosse, Sparta, Madison,
Fort Howard Green Bay), Wis, Winona,
Owatonna Mankato, Mimi, Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, Webster City, Algona. Cln-
ton, Marshalllown, Iowa, Frceport, Elgin,
Rockford, H., are amongst its 500 local
stations on its lines
Among few of the numerous points
of superiority enjoyed by the patrons Of
this road, are its DAY COACHES which
are the finest that human art and inge-
nuity can create; its PALATIAL SLEEP
ING CARS, which are models of comfort
and elegance; its PALACE DRAWING
ROOM CARS. which are unsurpassed by
any; and it's widely celebrated
NORTH WESTERN DINING CARS
the like of which are not run by any
other road anywhere. Ia short, it is as
serted that IT Is TIE BEST EQUIP
PED ROAD IN THE WORLD.
All points Of interest North, Northwest
and West Of Chicago business centres,
summer resorts and noted hunting and
fishing grounds are accessible by the
various branches Of this road
1t owns and controls over 5000 miles Of
road and has over four hundred passen-
ger conductors constantly caring for its
millions of patrons.
Ask your ticket agent for tickets via
this route, AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticket agents sell them. Ii
costs no more to travel ON this route. that
gives iirst-class accommodations, than it
does 10 go by the poorly equipped roads.
For maps, descriptive circulars and
summer resort papers, or other informa-
ton not obtainab,e at your local ticket
Office write to the
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]. !. Z.
60 al go tor the working class. Send
'ENNEE N10 cents for postage, and we
1HEN Ewill mail you free, a royal,
IA EHH 4 Uvaluable box of sample goods
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EkSHA Sew days than you ever
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ness. Capital not required.
We viii start you You can
an work all the time or in spare time only.
The work is universally adapted 10 both sexes,
foumg and old You can easily earn from 30
,ants TO p every evening. That all who work
nay test the business we make this unparallel-
81 offer; to 81 who not well satisfied we viii
end 81 TO pay Tor the trouble of writing us.
*Il particulars, directio-s etc, seut free. For
uncs viii be made by those who give their
Whole time 10 the work. Great success abs0-
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HHuru give the iaDorIng rcopie rne nenenu OF
doubt had bills like those which Cleveland
vetoed come before him for his approval Col
Spooner said the trail Of the serpent was all over
the record of Hendricks, "a voice, The copper
head, too, that he favored the southern cause;
voted the wrong way on the fugitive slave bill,
and in favor OF the enactment of a law by which
Lincoln and others were made liable for damage
done IN the South during the war. The speaker
referred 10 star routes, land grants and, In fact,
al the prominent charges made against the par
" and closed in an eloquent appeal to support
Blaine and Logan.
Ex-Congressnau Charles G. Williams, for
merly of GAINESVILLE, this state, but now of
Dakota, was the third and last speaker:
Mr. Williams said he was passing through on
his way East, and had stayed TO attend the great
rally tie alluded to the tender memories cling
ing around this spot. Here, in 1876 he had
infant Republican party. Here five years ago he
had stood with Caring and Zach Chandler and
Logan, helping to celebrate the twenty nth an
party in Wisconsin. Garfield and Chand-
Ter were dead. but upon the
shoulders of John A. Logan, here to-day in the
fesh had jointly fallen the glorious mantles of
Chandler and Oliver p Morton as the leader OF
Republcanism and advocate of popular rights
in the United States senate. Logan stood like
lion in the central ailse of the senate,
daunted advocate of the peoples cause, an advo-
cate OF soldiers rights and fiercely resisting in
sidious attempts to sugar-eoat the sharp points
of the nations war record. He regarded Senator
Logan as among the foremost American generals,
who were the best in the world, and among the
foremost Americans Equally foremost was
James g. Blaine who has been in the furnace
fire of public debate for quarter Of century.
The Democrats hate him because he is the very
incarnation of Republicanism. quarter of
century ago the Republican banner OF hope had
been reared here. To-day it is the splendid en-
sign Of power and grand achievements Mr..
Williams closed with a stirring appeal for har-
mony and zealousness in the party.
IN THE EVENING
One of the grandest torch light professions
known in the history of the city preceded the
evening exercises. At 7:30 O'Clock various
and numerous delegations, bands from not
only Madison but ali sections of the state met
der command of Hon Phil Cheek of Baraboo
marched out.the southeast gate in the follow
ing order:
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THE ROYAL ROUTE"

GEO. b. MERRlcK, Agent, River Falls
+. b. CLARKE, Il. w. TEAsDALE,
Genl Traffic Manager. Gent Passenger Ag't
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-05
GRADED ROADS.

Col. H. l.. W. Hill, like many
others, is opposed to issuing bonds to
build roads, or for any other purpose.
He thinks well graded roads would be
preferable to pixies, for nine months in
the year. His idea is to let the people
construct their roads higher in the GEN.
ter so that when properly settled they
will drain themselves quickly each
way and not wash out as they now do
under the present system of working
roads. He is in favor of building a
few good iron bridges where most need
ed. He. proposes to give $500, for
every iron bridge the county will build
and thinks many other citizens would
contribute literally for the same pur-
pose if proper effort was made. His
ideas are good, and coming as they do
from a man of his intelligence and ex-
perience are worthy of consideration.
1t is said, "where there is a will there
is way" If we will make a reasona,
BILE effort to improve the condition Of
our public highways and byways, it
can be done and we will never miss
the time and means required. If more
interest and pride were taken in our
needed public improvements, we would
soon begin to feel more pride in i'm.
proving and identifying our homes and
farms. We hope the day is not faI
distant when Warren county, geo.
graphically the center of the State, may
be pointed to by her sister counties as
model of beauty, worthy their imi'
tation.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-05
THE RIOT AT CINCINNATI.

Cincinnati, Ohio, has been the scene
OF perhaps the bloOdiest riot this coun-
try has ever known. The city was be.
seiged by mob from Friday till Mon.
day last, and about 200 people were
killed and wounded. On Saturday
night the courthouse was burned and
a number of valuable books and
records destroyed. The riot grew out
of the failure of the court to convict a
man of murder who bod made con-
fession of his crime. Some shrewd at
torneys got hold of the case, and man
aged, by technicalities, to keep the
confession out of the evidence. The
murderer was convicted of mauslaugh-
ter and sentenced to twenty years in
the penitentiary. A mob went to the
Jail to get the murderer and hang him.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-05
The Turnpike to Smithville.

The Smithville Index of the 9th
ult., reproduces our article in regard to
the turnpike from McMinnville, to
that place, and comments thereon as
follows:
"This sounds like business. We are
highly in favor of turnpike from Nc
Minnville to this place, and think it
would not only be good paying insti-
tuition to the owners, but would be a
great blessing to the people of both
this and Warren county. Now can't
the people of our county lend a help
ing hand to our sister county in this
enterprise? 1t will benefit us as much
or more than it will them, and if we
will only put our shoulder to the wheel
we can get it, for our Warren comfy
friends seem to be in earnest. If we
had good turnpike from this place to
McMinnville we could find a better
market for what we have to sell, as we
could then be more accessible to
railroad, and as it is now the roads are
in such condition for half the year
that a loaded wagon cannot travel
them. There is an abundance of ma
terlal along the route, to build the
pike, as we have four creeks that are
accessible, and gravel would be noitem.
Let us hear from some one else on the
subject. Now we must not do all of it
in talking, but we must work. Talk
alone will not build railroads, turn
pixies, etc. 1t takes work, energy and
VIM"