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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

religious duty consists in counting beads,
could be G. d with such monotony
and silene The man Of energy and
thought We ID snink il cruel punishment
to be forced to undergo the ordeal OF
intellectual stagnation amid a people
whose ignorance and Incidence fill their
minds with egotism, obstinacy and self
Importance. 1t is a common thing for
Egyptians who have been educated by
order of the government in the best col
leges in Europe to come back to East
ern life and Immediately throw away
their books, abandon intercourse with
intelligent foreigners, shut themselves
in harem among ignorant women, and
there end their existence. This is prob
ably what they mean when they say that
in their education of mind they do not
neglect the heart. An Eastern man
will sit for hours inhaling the perfume
of sweet flower and enjoying the music
Of fountain (murmuring at the time
chapter in the Koran, without stopping
to understand its meaning) and the
beautiful objects of nature which Allah
has spread before him. He enjoys, to-
day, but never thinks of preserving OBJ
jects which please him in sculpture or
painting, however dear to him, for the
sake of the pleasure they might give in
the future. This their writer's call life
rich In sensations"
Gen. Loring speaks of the extreme
cleanliness of the Egyptian women, part
of whose religion it is to battle and per-
fume themselves every day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Personal Points.

Mr.. f. c. Barnett, renominated by the Georgia
democrats for secretary Of state, is ninety
years old, and has held his present office since
1872
John Leisemang died at Philadelphia BE
was a well known engineer, president of several
coal companies and presidential elector on
the Republican ticket
H. b. Norton of Dallas, Tex, attracts consid-
cradle attention at Waukesha, Wis, having al
lowed his hair and beard to remain uncut in
keeping with vow to never shave or cut his
hair until Henry Clay was elected president
Commander Schely, OF the Greedy relief ex-
petition stated privately that the remains of the
late Edward Israel OF Kalamazoo, meteorological
of the Lady Franklin bay expedition, were in
tact. The relatives did rot allow them TO be
exhumed.
John G. Calhoun, nephew of the great multi
fer, was married four years ago to young
lady in st Louis whom he left after few
months, she going to the Sisters of Charity.
Now John has returned to his wife and re
unification has occurred.
The marriage of Francis Stout of New York
to Miss Emily Meredith Read, daughter of Gen.
j. Meredith Read, ex minister to Greece, at the
residence of the latter, was an exceptionally
brilliant affair. Both parties have distin-
guished ancestry and high station.
/ Gen Leroy Pope Walker, dead at Nashville,
was first secretary of war in the Jefferson Davis
Confederate cabinet, aud gave the order foI
firing on Fort Sumter He was president of
the constitutional convention Of 1875 which
framed the present state constitution of Albania.
Mrs Kate Smuskey of Belle PLANE, N. Y, lie
lying at deaths door, having, according to her
fathers solemn assertion, abstained from food
for 100 dogs. She occasionally takes little
water in her mouth, but does not swollow it as
it causes commissions. She is terribly enact
ated She recognizes her callers and carries
on conversation with them, and is perfectly
conscious Her body is in constant motion, so
much so that the bed upon which she lies has
to be supported for fear that it will fall to
pieces by the constant vibration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
The nrutilated Arctic Dead

New York Special: The secretary of the
navy and the secretary of war have been in
consultation at the navy yard, Brooklyn, with
Commander Schley, concerning the Greedy re-
lief expedition. From them the following
statement relative to the recent reports Of the
treatment of bodies of the dead of the Greedy
polar expedition is derived From revelations
made by exposing some of the bodies, infer
ences have been. drawn that incisions have
been made in all bodies, and that portions of
the flesh have been used either for food or for
bait for catching shrimps. The following au-
thentic extract from Commander Schley's re-
port now being prepared for the secretary of
the navy, shows portion of the remains to
have been so treated; but that of those Of Lieut.
Lockwood, Sergeant Israel, Sergeant Linn,
Private Schneider, Sergeant Cross and the
Eskimo Christensen, were absolutely whole
and untouched Extract: SIN preparing the
bodies of the dead for transportation at St
Johns, it was found that the bodies of six of
them Lieut. Kislingbury, Sergeant Jewell,
Private Whistler, Private Henry, Private Ellis
and Sergeant Ralston) had been cut and the
fieshy parts removed to greater or less extent.
All the other bodies were intact"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Gen. Shapes First Case.

From the Pittsburgh Times.
"I lost my first case to miserable
little pettifogging LAWYER named Johnny
Wood, said Gen. Sharpe at Chicago
during the convention to a group of
Arthur men, who had lost interest in
the proceedings and were gathered in
his room for the comfort of being to-
gether. II was graduate of Harvard
Law School, and had a good deal of con-
ceit, besides a perfectly good case.
When my senior warned me that
would have to meet Johnny Wood /
laughed at him. The suit was before a
Justice of the peace. He made out our
case. and Woods client, the plaintiff,
made out none worth speaking of at all.
When Johnny Wood arose to speak he
rebc arsed the evidence impartially, and
then, taking up book read the law
such law as had never heard of, but
which fitted his case to nicely. When
he got through I said, "Mr. Wood, will
YOU allow me to see that statute,
please?"
"Certainly, sir, he replied, handing
the book closed.
"Ah, thank you; but what is it on2"
"'What page?" he cried indignant? ?.
Don't expect me to coach you, young
man. Find your own law, you. ]
found mine.
"Of course, / couldn't find it, but
Johnny had the laugh and the court
with him, and 1 lost my case, according
to law which that scoundrel Wood had
made up out of his head just as he had
spun it out"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
The Criminal Calendar.

Nicholas Good, a well-known resident of Oil
City, forty years of age, shot himself in tho re-
of the heart
A colored man of Madison, Ind, who married
white girl has been sent to the penitentiary
for miscegenation.
Edward Conkling, aged seventy years, has
been arrested at Hannibal Mo-, for ravishing
an eleven year-old girl
Albert NJ Ham, travelling salesman for
John UIlrich a wholesale grocer, committed
sicide at Decatur, ILL.,, by shooting himself
through the heart
Inquiry into the history of Green McCul-
Tough, who was hanged by vigilantes in Texas
on the night of the 18th inst, reveals a record
of series of eight bloody murders in which
Mccullough has figured as getting the drop"
on his victims.
A Bonneville, No, special says Frank James
has arrived here to stand trial on charge of
completely in the Otterville train robbery on
the Missouri Pacific in 1876. The case will be
called shortly. tits said the defense Will move
fora continuance
Threesuicides occurred in St Louis, Tuesday
morning. ]. S. Jones, Kansas City dry goods
clerk, took morphine and died at the Everett
house. Edward Croker aged seventy three,
ly Frank Bliss entered Tony Faust's saloon,
poured two ounces of morphine into glass of
water and drank ii, dying in an hour
Thomas Murphy, a mechanic employed at
the Smith MiddlinS purifier, at Jackson, Mich,
lately in bad health, became excited recently at
thinking there were burglars in the house,
and attacked his wife with slender pointed
pair of shears He stabbed her five times
One wound through the throat severed the arte-
ries, and the unfortunate woman bled to death
in ten minutes.
The body of man with bullet through the
abdomen was found at Little Falls, n. j., under
the bridge paper in his pocket shows his
name to be Samuel Lasner and states that he Is
fleeing from murderers A pistol, one chamber
empty, was found in the top of neighbornS
tree Murder is suspected, as there were indi-
cations of scuffie and the body was dragging
In the vicinity. Lasner is Jewish rabbi, and
Judging from the contents of his pocket, be-
longing to Chicago.
At Brattleboro Vt, Miss Ella Ames a very
lovely young woman, employed in Bunting's
large shoe factory, as forewoman, attempted
to commit suicide by taking poison but was
saved by the stomach pump. She admitted
that William Bunting, her employer, had led
her astray shortly after she entered his facto-
nv, and that by threats he had forced her to
submit to his desires ever since. When he
heard she was about to be married, he made
threats against her which she says drove her to
ment as Bunting is a man of family and one
of the leading manufacturers of New England.
Miss Ames has hitherto bore good reputa-
ton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

A dispatch from st. Petersburg
states that the Russian government
has issued circular to the principals
of the schools in Russia, holding them
responsible for any revolutionary tend
encies their scholars may have. and en-
joining them to maintain strict super
vision over their pupils in order to dis
sipate the slightest flavor of nihilistic
sentiments" by nihilistic sentiments"
is meant anything that impairs public
acquiescence in the present form of des-
potic government that prevails in
Russia, or anything that favors gov
eminent "of the people, by the people
and for the people," such as we have
IN the United States, or even a consti-
tutional monarchy. And yet there are
snobbish aristocrats in the United
States who never tire of extolling the
mild and benefcent reign of the "czar
of all the Russias.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Ship of War Sunk by a Coal scow.

The United States junketing steamer ITALIA
poosa, with 40 men and officers, bound for
Newport to take ON board Secretary Chandler,
at IL O'Clock Thursday night, and during
thick fog three miles east of Oak Bluffs,
Martha's Vineyard, vas struck in the bow
by the schooner James Lowell of Bath,
Capt Reed, from Baltimore for Portland,
with a cargo of coal She was crushed and
sank in five minutes, in ten fathoms of water.
AS she went down her whistle was blown
as a signal of distress, and steamers in the
neighborhood took off officers and crew. Touch
ing the collision, Capt. Read says: ut was the
most careless piece of work / ever saw. The
night was clear and the lights of the Lowell
were burning all right, and were perfectly WIS.,
IDLE long distance
There is difficulty in obtaining the story of
the steamer; her executive officers, to whom
the reporters are referred, declining to make
any statement
Later advces from Cottage City report four
persons drowned from the Tallapoosa, as fol
lows: DR. Clarence i. Black, surgeon; William
ODonnell seaman, of Boston; William Jones,
tine eolored saloon boy. Lieut.. Everett strongly
denies the statement that the Tallapoosa had
acquired an unfavorable reputation in mari
time circles, and says: 81 never heard her
called Old Calamity, and / have always con-
sidered hes loputation very good She never
had any serious accidents, the accident with
the schooner year or two ago being excusa-
bic" The Tallapeosa has been principally
devoted to the iunketing excursions of Wash
ington officials, and is no great loss
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
A Partisan Bird Cnarmer.

The London Pail Mall Gazette thus
states the singular powers of Partisan
bird-charmer:
Paris has found new sensation in
bird charmer, who has been astonishing
the boulevardiers with his powers. A
bet was made between him and a NJ.
Loizey, a gentleman who was very
skeptical in such matters. The condi-
tions were that M. Loizey should furnish
a dozen birds, which were to be at the
disposal of the charmer for fifteen min
utes At the end of that time NJ Picard
was to open the cage which contained
them and each bird was TO alight upon
a certain arbutus, brought upon the
ground by him and placed at a distance
of 100 metres from the point where they
were liberated. For each bird which
did not obey the charm within quarter
of an hour NJ. Picard was to pay M.
Loizey fifty francs, and for each bird
which did NJ Loizey was TO pay NJ.
Picard the same sum. When the time
for the test arrived so large and so curl
GUS a crowd had gathered on the
Champs de Mars that it was impossible
10 maintain the needful space of 100
metres around the spot where the cage
was placed. Forty metres was all the
distance that could be secured. The
results, therefore, were not accepted as
determining the bet, and another trial
will be made. The birds, however
released under these conditions flew,
one by one, to the arbutus and perched
ON its branches, to the great astonish-
ment of the spectators. M. Picard's
charm consists, it is believed. in inn
ORIGINATING these branches with color
less and mysterious liquid, the secret OF
which is as yet his own.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

GIr. John Thomson, bank president
Of New York, gave the following excel
lent advice in q paper read before the
late Bankers convention at Saratoga !:
Bank officers should manage their bank
and live on their salaries. Depositors
and stockholders forfeit all sympathy if
they tolerate a specializing official to
stay one hour in charge of their assets.
Turn the Spectator out or get out your
self. Figurehead directors should also
go or be held individually liable" 1t is
much to be regretted that his words of
wisdom are not more likely to be gen
orally needed by the persons whom
they concern. Recent exposures ofras-
eality growing out of speculations by
bank officers show that Mr.. Thompson's
advice did not come bit too soon, but
on the contrary, good deal to late.
But it Is never to late to mend, and it
remains for stockholders and depositcrs
to inaugurate the mending process at
the earliest opportunity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

1t is said that enc day in this month
wheat in Chicago reached the lowest
point known in the United States for
years, 70 cents per bushel. 1t was
down the same day to 81. OF in Liverpool,
the lowest point ever known there in
the memory of man. If the lowe st
point is reached at Liverpool ever known
in the memory of man, corresponding
low prices are to be expected in other
grain markets of the world. The Liv-
erpool market is overstocked, the pros
pect for good harvest throughout Eu-
rope was never better, and the increase
in the product of India has been enor-
nous. There seems be no present rem
edy for this disagreable fact by pro-
ducers, save withholding wheat from
the market, and that is attended with
risk. But the future can be made
brighter by diversifying the products of
the farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

The agricultural departments latest
estimate of the wheat crop to the first
of the present month is given as 1885,
600, 900 bushels The average is esti-
mated at 81, 900, 900 to SO ,OOO,O 900. At
Ii bushels to the acre this would give
crop of 494, 900, 900. But in reality the
highest average of late years was IN
1879, which was IS .08 bushels; while the
lowest was 1910 bushels in 1881. Last
year the average was III bushels. If
the average this year be 124 bushels, it
would make the crop of 1884 5,OO0,-
00L or 485, 600, 600 bushels, which would
be fair crop. The trouble, however,
is that the crop is not so. remunerative
TO the farmer by nearly 800, 0O0, 900 as
that of last year on account of low prices,
and it is this last fact that promises to I'M
faVorabiy affect the business and gener-
al industries of the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Record of Casualties.

Mrs. p Jameson of Rock Island, was trampled
by herd of frightened cattle, receiving fatal
injuries.
Near Albion, N Y, seven boys, Fred Taylor,
Willie Taylor Judson Bum, Edward Swain,
NJ. Garrett and VIII Ford, were drowned by a
boat capsizing.
AT Tawas, Mich, the forest fires which orig
mated on the plank road and crossed over to
the East Tawas road have done great damage
to the crops, burning standing grain, and hay
in stacks, baking potatoes in the ground and
burning farm fences of several miles IN ex-
tent
E. NJ Lewis, president of the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank of Philadelphia, was stricken
with paralysis Wednesday night and is con-
sidered beyond recovery. Mr.. Lewis was the
assignee in bankruptcy of the Jay Cooke estate,
and in 1881 was appointed one of the directors
of the Reading railroad.
An deliberately carved Italian marble col
umn to Gov. E. d. Morgan at Cedar Hill ceme-
terry Hartford, Conn, was ruined by fire. The
temporary house built around the shaft to pro-
tect the carvers at work was burned, and the
heat was sufficient to ruin the stone. The
loss will be upward of SIS, 600. st. Gaudens
was the designer of the mausoleum, and the
carving was being done after the stone was set
in place.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

An eastern paper which usually con
dennis every form of mob law, even for
the most heinous crimes, is moved to
say that the Staying of several Mormon
elders in Lewis county, Tennesese,
should be warning to the polygaplists
of Utah that the propagation of their
odious doctrines will not be patiently
allowed in any part of this country
How long will it be before men will
learn that murder will not diminish the
number or influence of any religious
sect? 1t matters not whether a
Church" be right or wrong, Christian
or unchristian, it is still true that those
who kill its apostles are by so dong in
creasing the influence of the creed
they abhor. The "blood of the martyrs
is the seed of the Church" is as true of
Mormonism as of any other creed. The
prosecutions at Kirkland and Nauvoo
were the acts which made it possible
for the Mormons to obtain majority
in Utah, and thence to dispatch
apostles" all over the United States
and Europe. At Salt AXE City relics
of the "martyred" Smiths, such as the
cap worn by Hiram, are treasured to
keep zeal alive. Every murder is a
text to preach upon, wire more to the
net spread to catch silly women. Ii
people at the present day wish TO put
down Mormonism by the strong hand
instead of by the action of time and ju-
dicious laws, they must make clean
work-kilI ALI, leave not soul alive,
even as the Israelihes did to the Cana
antics. Even then. with such treat
ment. Mormons will still rise from
the ashes of the slain, and these in turn,
viii glory in martyrdom.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
New South Wales.

New South Wales has an area of 308,
900 square miles, and in 1882 had ST.
1853 inhabitants and 1,315 miles of rail-
way, whose average cost was 912, 16l
per mile. Their gross earnings are In
1882 were 81 sos SOL; their net earn
ings a764, 229, which is equivalent to
81, AT. 6 gross and e612. IL shillings net
per mile, e235 more net than earnings
of railroads In the United States. The
net earnings were l-6 per cent. on the
capital expended, an eminently satisfac-
tory result, as the interest paid ny the
Government is less than that. TIL
Government has authorized the expen-
diture of ELL 100000 more for railroad
construction, of which ca, 900, 900 was
negotiated last year. This is the only
Australian colony that has adopted the
English and American standard gauge
of four feet eight and one-half inches.
A connection of the Victorian railroad
is almost completed, and one with
Queensland, the colony next north, is
In progress.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
POOR FELLOW.
1 few straw folds of satin and lace

few stray folds of satin and lace
Fell lightly over your knee,
And she sat by your side, a marvel Of grace,
That every one turned to see.
She graciously gave you her hand to hold,
She smiled on You while you spoke.
She listened TO all the stories you told,
Andlaughed at your poorest joke
She danced with you, fiattered you every way
The men were all jealous that night;
You were only card in my lady's play
The tool of a woman's spitel
Twas / she wanted to vex and tease;
You answered her purpose well:
But for her sake and minetand yours, If you
pleased
This isn't story to tell
London Society.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28

ST PAUI4-W Wheat, No. hard, -; No =, zoe.
Corn No. . SIC. No 3 4Sc.
Oats. No. mixed. 2Sc No. 3 white, PIC !;
Barley No. 2. SOC. No 3 extra, 45c : No. J,
4ec
Rye. No. 9, sic
Baled Hay, wild, 500; timothy s12,0U
Eggs, 13(dl3c.
MILWAUKEE Wheat, No. ., 7Sc
Corn No. =. rejected, 4&050c.
Oats. No 2 white, new, SAC; old, SIC.
Rye No Lee.
Barley. No q old soc
Mess Pork, Sl550
Lard sZ40
Butter. choice creamery 2Aa22c; fair &c
good, l7Gfi9c; best DAIRY, 149l5c
Eggs, 151S(Gl4e.
CmcAao-wheat, No Chicsgo spring,
5S67SAc
Corn. 5OslG5lszc
Oats. PAS (d35c.
Rye. SIC
Barley. 65c-
Flax Seed, s1.35.
Pork. SIS 50tGslaoQ
Lard, sZ40aSI45.
Butter, creamery, .I7@1s71c; dairy, 14tal4]lo
Eggs, 1Sa14c
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
WOE rs MEI

Though wewere parted, as though he had die
She said, could bear the worst
Ii he had only loved me at the last,
As he loved me at the first
But woe is me- said the hapless maiden,
That ever lover came,
Since he who lit IN my heart the fire
Has failed to tend the flame.
All why did he pour in my LIES poor cup
A nectar so divine,
II he had no heart 10 I'll it up
With draught so pure and fine?
OH If he we're either true or false,
My torment might have end;
He has, been for lover too unkind--
Too loving for friend
And there is not soul in all the world
So wretehed as mine must be;
For cannot live on his love, she said,
Nor die of his cruelty.
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