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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
The Wives of Literary Men.

al like the society of clever men,
said lady of fashion in my hearing the
other day." writes Austin Brown in
London Belgravia; "'literary men and
that sort, you know; but their wives are
horrid.' This is, no doubt, comforting
to literary mon and others whom it may
concern That the private support and
helpmeet should be the public drag
and marlplot is, no doubt, pity, but
that in some cases it is so many strug
Cling and ambitious man has reason to
know. am not going to constitute So
ciety in these few paragraphs. | don't
quite see my way to it. But | have Of
ten thought Of this question. What is
to be done with clever mems wives? /
have met good many of them seen
at home and abroad come to certain
conclusions about them generally. If
YOU marry a woman, depend upon it
she will take her place by your side in
stead of at your footstool, When you
rise she will rise. But If YOU
You marry a mere drudge pink-and
white mother, with her head wholly in
the kitchen and heart wholly in the
nursery-why, by and by, when the
pink-and- white is Witty brown, and
she comes up to town with half a dozen
children under twelve, and untidv
gloves, can you be surprised at Lady
Swellington, who likes your good stories,
saying, with little fear of contradiction
Your wife is horridr The fact is her
ladyship is in the right; You have been
to blame, with your prospects and am
bition for marrying mere drudge:
and the good-hearted Polly is to blame,
poor soul, for being simply herself IL,
on the other hand presentable wife is
not presented, il is her husbands own
fault. With a brilliant wife YOU can
always force the hand of the upper ten. /"
if you think it worth forcing Yor can
always make her way as well as your
own, and in society no man can be
called thoroughly successful lwho does
not, sooner or later, obtain the usual
forms of social acceptance
for his wife as well as himself The
sooner it is understood that peoples lit
tie games are TO a great extent in their
own hands, the sooner they will get
what they want or reconcile themselves,
i ithout undignified grumbling, 10 fail
IRE Husbands are more sensible about
this than their wives They will not.
as rule force the partner Of their joys
upon circles which il not calculated to
adorn A tacit sense of the fitness Of
things should rule clever mems wives as
well as clever men and if this were SO,
there would he less grumbling at home.
less rudeness abroad, aud few questions
in the Swellington boudoir Of how to
treat the female Turniptop, or what to
do with women who stand upon rights
which really do not belong to them"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
General COMBINATIONS.

There is professional highwayman
IN the vicinity of Denver who has a
great deal Of fun with the people he
robs. Apious man on his way to church
on Sunday evening he robbed of his
contribution, and then made him dance
Jig aud sing tune. Catching no
toriously wicked wretch he made him
go down on his knees and repeat the
Lords prayer
Asan exact matter Of fact, almost any
body's nose is one-sided Photograph
ers, to whom this condition is made
strikingly apparent in the camera, say
that perfect nose is one of the rarities.
1t often happens that they have to re-
sort to some derice to prevent the
defect from showing in the picture.
As the nose in a photograph is conisd-
erably larger in proportion than the
other parts of the face, its pecullar1tIes
viii show for all they are worth.
The Iowa State University has been
turning ont lawyers after an eight or
nine months term of study, but the
Legislature has Just passed a law which
requires as a condition to admission to
the bar two years study IN the office of
a practicing attorney or in some repu-
table law sbhod, followed by an exami-
natiod by the members of the Supreme
Court.
At the wells of the Caucasian petro-
leum bearing strata the oil sells at s
cents per barrel of forty gallons. Rus
sian petroleum is becoming a rather
formidable rival to the product of our
mineral oil bearing region in the mar
kets of the east In the small explored
district of the Russian oil region there
are already at least 400 wells, and there
are indications Of vast untapped sup
ply.
Little social clubs and societies have
become as thick as mushrooms in New
York. There is the Homer club, the
Browning club, the Elizabethan club,
the reading club and hundreds of others,
all of which are quiet little societies new
Ell heard of in print, but which number
some of the best people in their ranks,
and are very significant as showing the
tendency toward intellectual pursuits i'll
social life.
The Camden girls have worked the
crazy quilt racket on the young men so
hard that it is difficult to get enough of
them together for dance. No matter
where one of them is caught he is asked
for his necktie to use in crazy quilt.
The poor fellows haven't the nerve to
say no, SO away goes the newest scarf,
which is good enough for the haber
dasher. The absence of scarf is re-
garded as prima facie evidence that the
young man has had tussle with a crazy
quilter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

The active part taken by General
Grant and many other Union soldiers
in behalf of the project for home for
disabled Confederate soldiers Is one of
the many tokens that the animosities
naturally engendercd by the causeless
rebellion against the government are ut
terlv fading away Soldiers are not
apt to boar grudgss and those who
fought on opposite sides respect courage
and make allowance for convictions
thatwere antagouistic. The Union men
do not bear i'll will towards the
southern masses. They know that
these masses were deceived and dra-
gooned by a set of able and unserupu-
lous leaders, and that they were hurried
into the maelstrom of evil strife
ere they had time to reflect on
the meaning Of such an event.
In short. there is no disposition nova
days to visit unsparing condemnation
on the whole southern people; they
have been bitterly punished for their
folly. and the MANNED and mutiiated
men who were blindly ledinto the snare
will be assisted to a place of refuge by
the men who conquered them on the
battlefield. While neither the United
States nor any state can vote pensions
to confederate soldiers whatever, yet IN
dividuals feel that they are bound tore
lieye distress without sacrificing in any
way the convictions which led them aid
in putting down the rebellion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
DR.. Orestes Brownson on Trans
cendentatism.
From \. y. Times.

The absurdity of the position is ad-
mirably set off by DIR. Brownson in the
picture Of Mr.. Alcott as seer: "The
true sage never looks abroad, but closes
the temperatures of the mind, shuts his eyes,
stops his ears, holds his nose, opens the
internal aperture through which he
looks into the profound abyss of the
soul itself. Look not, say then, upon
this delusive, this vain show. which
men call the world, but into the great
soul which conceals all things in itself,
even the infinite and eternal God Il
am G cd; / am greater than God. God
is one Of my ideas. therefore contain
God. Greater is the container than the
contained. Therefore am greater than
God" Mr.. Emmerson is not presented
in so Iudicrous light but is shown to
be disciple of the same school He
teaches expressly that the soul is the
source and measure oftruth; that a man
is never to look abroad, but to consult
in all cases only his own soul, the ten
denotes of his own nature, and in all
his judgments of truth and goodness to
listen to himself and to take himself as
their rule and standard.
DIR. Brownson gathers up the
transcendental doctrines into the
three following propositions: Man is
the measure OF goodness and truth; re-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

ligion is fact or principal of human
nature; all religious Institutions, which
have been or are, have their principal or
cause in human nature" He dismisses
the subject with scant appreciation of
its results for one who had been among
its enthusiastic advocates: "Transcen-
dentaIism is the last stage this side of
nowhere, and wheI reached we must
hold up or fly off into vacuity.' There
is no doubt that, when tested from DR..
Brownson's point of view, transcenden-
talism had but little to offer in the way
of positive thinking, and yet it was a
necessary phase of American thought
and experience, and had strong and VI
tai grasp of much spiritual truth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
Burning of a Great Mill.

Shortly after 6p. M, Thursday, Sycamore
Mill No /, in the northern part of Fall River
Mass caught fire in the basement The help hat
Just left The flames climbed the elevator
shaft through the tower to the stories above,
and the whole interior of the mill was soon q
mass of flames The roof finally fell carrying
the remaining floors to the basement Then
the south half of the east wall fell with tire
mendous crash into the huge furnace of flame
The mill is a total loss, which will amount tC
about s600000 The MILL was built in 1873
The insurance is 100000, distributed among
fourteen mutual companies The corporation
has capital of S7500O0 and ran two mills
The mill destroyed ran about 10000 spindles
and 10, 900 looms, and furnished employment
to about 500 hands. with a weekly pay roll Of
$1,000 The Sycamore was one of the ter
mills struck by spinners twelve weeks ago
and was one which efforts of the strikers were
mainly directed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

Thousands of people in South Caro-
lima. owing to the drouth which pre-
vailed from last May until December,
are undergoing the pangs ofhunger and
have not the means to purchase food.
Ii is said that men, women, and little
children are undergoing unparalleled
privations. and facing death with a stole
ism that should command both sym
pathv and admiration from the Christian
people. They have made no cutlery,
sent out no appeal to the public; but
have suffered ON in silence, being too
proud TO beg and too honest to steal.
There are people with large plantations
who are so hedged in that bread is bare
" attainable. So long as they had any
thing to spare whites and blacks helped
each other, but now that supplies are
wholly exhausted all are sharing the
general calamity The Marion Index,
of the 9Th inst. saws that in no year
since the war have provisions been so
scarce and that hundreds IN Marion
county are literally without bread. just
what II true of this county is equally
true of others.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
Personal Points.

Ex-Gov Marcus L. Ward died at Newark, N.
j., aged seventy two years.
DR. Willard Parker, Sr., of New York died
Friday, the 35th He was eighty three years
old and had been practicing physician over
fifty years.
Isaac Henderson Of New York has bought
the Philadelphia North American, for some
thing like $50 900, for his son-in-law, Watson
Il. Sperry, now of the Washington News
Silyan Oven and Kate Radd were married at
Lebanon, Pa, last week, he eighty and she
eightv-four Sixty years ago they were lovers
and duarreled Forty years later his wife and
her husband having died, they agreed to marry,
but quarreled and waited twenty years more.
Harold Goodwin, son of Parke Goodwin, one of
the editors and stockholders of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, is soon to be married
to Miss MarqUand, the daughter of Henry Mar
quand Miss Marquand is an heiress, aud her
slice of the Marquand estate will be something
between 81 000,0O and 81, 100000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

The Quinologist announces that the
numerous cinchona gardens commenced
five or six years ago in Java will soon be
gin to yield. and bark may be expected
to take prominent position in the list
of exports from that island In 1881 the
number of new trees in the nurseries
was 736. 500, and in 1882, 1.205 500.
The trees in the plantations numbered
3 2O7, $50 in 1881. and 2. 099. 400 in 1882.
There are nine varieties in all. The led
gerianas have proved successful, and
contain from 9to 11zper cent, OF al
kaloid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
REPUBLICAN DELEGATES.
rHr NIIMBER THUS rAg ErEcrED

Thrtv-o one states and four territories, in
Guiding the District of Columbia, have elected
delegates to the Republican national conven-
ton. OF these the lists are complete in sew
enteen states and the territories named. In
the subjoined table those classed scattering
include Hawley (Connecticutl, Gresham Gin
diana), and Fairchild Wisconsin,. The classi-
fication is the result of careful comparison of
estimates from all sources, the intention be
ing to give as fair an idea as possible of the
status of the delegates There are but few
contesting delegations. One of them is from
the Fifth Minnesota district
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
A Threatened Judge.

London Gable: Judge Denman, of the court
of the queens bench, who presided at the
O'Donnell trial, has heeeived letter in which
the writer says that his damaging statement to
the jury as the total lack of intentions to shool
on Cary's part, and his determined efforts tG
secure O'Donnells conviction, will cost him his
life, and that he had better prepare to meet
death at any moment On receipt the judge
communicated with the police, who advised
that detectives be detailedto guard him, which
has been done. The detectives mingle with
the crowd in the court room where the judge
presides and closely scrutinize all corners.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
How He Does Tt.

Sharp Clerk There is beautiful
piece of goods, miss 1t will make up
cry handsome, and am sure will be-
come either you or your sister.
Lady Purchaser (blushing - Why
ahem-so it is. Yes, / think can trust
to your Judgment. Suppose you cut
me off 30 yards
AS they are leaving the store Why,
mama, why didn't You tell him | was
Hush. Do be still, Maud.
You chatter so continually.
Sharp CLERK Ito man at lace counter
Did you see me work her? Twenty
per cent on that; its that stuff left over
from last spring.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
About the Big Guns.

The development of cannon during
the last 30 years has been truly wonder
full. Improvement has followed i'm
provement in such rapid succession that
few minds have been able to keep pace
with the advance, and none have had
time to properly examine the collateral
questions connected with the subject.
The object in view in all these improve
ments has been to increase the effective
work resident in the projectile at the
moment of impact; the resident effect.
i've work assumed being the energy OF
motion, or kinetic energy of the prolec-
tile. AS this is half the product Of the
mass into the square of the velocity, the
task of inventors has been to increase the
value of the factors which enter into it.
Consequently the mass has been In
creased from the old 42-pound shot,
which was considered a
heavy projectile 30 years
ago, to the monster weighing ton,
which may well be considered the max
imum possible The other factor, the
velocity, has also been increased, and
although the increase has been relative
ly less, it has nevertheless been consid-
cradle; and the product of the two is
enormous. The result is undoubtedly
satisfactory, SO far as power Is con-
cerned, but it has been attained at a
very great cost. Modern cannon of the
first class are very expensive machines.
They might very properly, like some
of their ancestors, be labeled Ultima
ratio regum, " for none but kings can af
ford to own them. And not only are
they expensive to buy, but costly to
keep, and perfectly ruinous to use. Ii
cannon be essential to military outfit,
then war can be waged only by the
wealthy, and poverty and oppression
are the surest foundations for throne.
British United Service.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
The Criminal Calendar.

Amos Brackenstross was killed by burglars
near Berne, Ind.
NJ. S. Robin 'on, Chicago commission mer-
chant, was arrested
Rear Aa.,.iral Nichols daughter was relieved
of her diamonds at Washington.
William Bird was found guilty of horse steal
ing at Miles City, and sentenced to five years
William Austin, insane, of Allenco, Ky,
threw his two Young children in the fire and
cremated them.
At Miles City Mont, W. A Garland, treasur-
err of Custer county under the old regime, was
found guilty, as charged in the Indictment and
fined s600
Bows in Portland, Me, tied one of their num-
Der to the railway track and left him He was
discovered and released just before the arrival
of a fast train
Mrs Mary Freeman. prominentin Blooming
ton. H.. society circles was sentenced TO thirty
days in the county jail and to pay a fine of sl5O
for shopliftinS
Thomas T. Richards of Socorro, n Mex, was
shot and killed at Murrysville, Mont, by Wal
Ter Mcdonald, in dispute resulting from
game of cards.
Deacon Cameron Of Baltimore has eloped
with the pretty wife Of his neighoor, John
Barr. leaving wife and two children, while
Mrs Barr leaves three children.
The body of F. A. Msthey of Needham, :
watch maker doing business in Boston, wa5
found in Charles river, near Needham bridge.
It is a suspected case of murder and ROBBERY
AT swainsborc, Ga, J. C, Coleman, merch-
ant and J. F. Myers. editor Of the ItemizSr,
rosorted to arms to settle difficulty. ThiK-
teen shots were fired and Coleman was shQs
in the abdomen
Thomas G. Boughton, superintendent of tee
First Methodist church Sunday School atJacS-
son. Mich, secretary Of the Y. NJ c. A aud {
defeated candidate for alderman, has bcaJ
found to be defsulter in the amount Of sl7,
COO
AT Huntsville, Ala, the trial of Frank Jsll~s
for completely in the Muscle SHOALS robbery l.
1881 was concluded on Friday, the 25th with
verdict of mot guilty The court house EF19
packed and the verdict greeted with rounf
cheers James was immediately arrested VI
the sheriff of Cooper county, Missouri
Mrs. Ferrel, wife Of a wealthy farmer of New
man. Ca. ran of with Budd Jenkins and tho
couple we're arrested in sleeper near Marlet-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

Frank Clark. an ex-conyict of the
state prison, committed bold robbery al
the Winona Jail Sunday night, the 18th.
He was sentenced at the0ctober term, in
1852, to eighteen months in the state
prison, for stealing two COWS from Mr..
s. Bates of the town of Hillsdale, and
selling them to parties at Minnesota
CITY. After his release he went to Wi
mona. and sheriff Bogart afforded him d
temporary home Sunday night he
stole from Deputy Sheriff Henzel a
gold watch, revolver and 81 in cash and
made his escape A reward of SO i
offered for his arrest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

ia, when they were brought back to Atlanta.
The wife confessed, and the husband agreed
to take her back upon Jenkins signing an
agreement before notary to exile himself to
Florida for the balance of his natnrallife.
In the trial at Long Island city Of the negro
murderer, Rugg, a confession made by Rugg,
Feb II to his jailer was read. In il he cons
seses to having ehoked Mrs. and Miss Maybee'
to death at Oyster Bay, and having beaten Mr..
Maybee. The confession is signed by Rugg.
This was the strongest evidence offered by the
prosecution. The jury found Rugg guilty of
the murder of Mrs Maybee and daughter.
motion for new trial was denied. He VIII
be hanged
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

The vicious old theory that young
man must SOW his wild oats before set
Ting down to the steady business of life
seems to be falling into disrepute. The
Pail Mall Gazette says of a performance
of The School for Scandal" I'm thas
comedy Sir Oliver Surface compares
the youth who is free from follies and
vices to young tree choked by the
parasitic ivy, and expresses his prefer
ence for the man who has had his fling.
This sentiment was couchedin language
and delivered in a manner which rarely
fails to call down house, but there
was almost blank silence on Saturday,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

A liquor bill has been introduced into
the Senate by Senator Ingalls, of Kan
sas, that seems to be double-e edged
measure, it proposes to so change the
present laws with respect to the special
tax imposed by the general government
on the manufacture and sale of intox-
icating liquors. as to provide that col
Iectors OF internal revenue shall be pro-
hibited from receiving such special taxes
or granting permits or licenses for car
rying ON the business of wholesale or re
tail liquor dealers or brewers IN any
state or municipality in which the car
rving on of such business is contrary to
state or municipal laws, and that the
payment Of any tax imposed by internal
revenue laws for carrying on such bus
mess shall not be held to exempt any
person from any penalty imposed by
state laws for carving ON the same.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

Texas has cattle queen as well as
cattle kings. A man named Rabbi, liv-
ing near Corpus Christi, who by good
management had accumulated herd oil
40 900 cattle, died and left all to his
better half, who had been his hc1pmeet
in every sense of the word, and thor
ough1y understood the business. Wild
ow Rabb, says a correspondent, was
not only thrifty, but was pious, and be-
longed to the Methodist persuasion. A
Young preacher by the name of Rogers
came along, under whose ministratlons
she grew in grace, and the result was a
matrimonial one. although the odds IN
age were in favor of the parson by some
hing like twenty three years. She had
10 children and lie had seven. but she
Sools the motherless BARNS under her
wings, and the alliance has turned ont
in every way successfully. Rogers had
not long been married to the widow and
cattle when he acquired bad case of
bronchitis and was compelled togve up
preaching. Such cases are frequent.
But the widow gave him notice that she
yc3 eompetant to run the ranch, and
has kept the cattle in her own name,
Rogers knowing no more about them
then any of the neighbors
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01

A murderer was executed at White
Plains. y. Y. last week He insisted
on having his picture taken the day be-
fore his execution, and posed for an
artist in front of his cell, expressing
great anxiety that the likeness and po-
sition should be good, as the pictures
would not be finished in time for him to
see them. He spent his last day on
earth eating fried oysters, smoking
cigarettes, receiving flowers and seeing
all the visitors who called at the jail.
As Hundreds of women are said to
have visited him, he was naturally kept
busy and had very little time to attend
the reading of the death warrant or to
trouble himself about his parents. The
authorities are much to blame for allow
ing this sort of nonsense, which would
not be tolerated anywhere but IN the
United States. 1t is wrong and mis-
chievous to a degree that can scarcely
be conceived by those who have had
but little experience ofcriminal life and
characters.