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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
General Grant Writing Again,

Gen. Grants condition continues to improve.
He resumed his work recently. Col Fred
Grant said: 'The general dictated to the
stenographer for nearly an hour enough mat
ter to make twenty-five or twenty three pages
of his book. He is now debating the Apo
mattox campaign and from his dispatches
and other data is enabled to give perfectly
straight and lucid account to the stenegrapher.
He is without doubt looking and feeling better
than at any time since Dec l. We are now
almost certain of his complete restoration to
health He viii remain here until July l, when
he will &C TO Mt McGregor near Saratoga" In
reply to question recently, DR.. Douglass said
he could not affirm that there was an improve
ment in the cancer. The cancerous lump was
not an open sore. The darling pains that have
still continued but were not so frequent nor
so severe as they had been.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Ccndensations
lie Petit journal Of Paris bias dail

lie Petit Journal of Paris has daily
circulation Of 10000
Thirty years ago st. Louis had sixty
.arge steamers in the Cincinnati and
Pittsburg trade, and almost as many
between that point and New Orleans.
Now st. Louis has not a single packet,
and the total arrivals at the levees are
lot over forty week.
A Providence grocer who sold an ar
sicle on credit and forgot who was the
purchaser sent the bill to six different
customers in the hope of finding the
delinquent, four of whom paid the bill,
which they did not owe, without ques-
hon. There are great possibilities sug-
gested in this fact.
Members of congress receive mileage
in going to and from Washington dur
ing the session, or if on committee work
during a recess. The Forty third con
gress abolished mileage and increased
the salary, but later the old order Of
things was restored and the salary again
made So 900 per year.
How hard the times have been in
Paris is most clearly indicated on the
accounts of the theatres These show
that in December and January the re-
ceipts were 100000 francs less than in
The corresponding months of lSS3-S4.
The first English settlement in the
North west was made at Marietta, Ohio,
on the 7th day Of April, l7SS. The
pilgrims landed on the site Of that city
from boat they called the Mayhower,
| In honor of the vessel which brought
their ancestors to Plymouth in 1920.
A movement is being made to provide
! for the appropriate celebration of the
day as a Western Foreiathers' Day
three years hence.
The manufacturers of barbed wire
have agreed to advance the price of it
one eight Of cent on one kind and one
| fourth on another, and the indications
are that there will be another advance
made in April,
Some people are born exceedingly
lucky, as is shown in the case of a man
from Hartford, Conn.,, who about five
years ago, with a few hundred dollars,
went to Kansas City and bought a small
strip of land which afterwards proved
TO be sand bed. He bought a horse
and cart and hired some sEovelers; to-
day his fortune is over quarter of a
million dollars.
Durham and Shorthorns are syno-
nymes-two names meaning the same
Enii,g. These cattle originally were
more Cultivated in She county of Dur
ham than in amy other of England. AS
the breed spread to adjoining counties,
and had very short horns, they were
gradually given this name il order to
distinguish them from another celebra-
ted breed called Longhorns, or Ian
cashire cattle. The unimproved Short
horns, that is, such as are not admitted
to be recorded in the herdbook, are still
called Durham by many, or Yorkshire.
AS the latter is a much larger county
than the former, and adjoining it, many
more of this breed are to be found there.
A. b. Allen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
The Peculiar People Row IN Wash
ington.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The aping of foreign aristocratic fash
ions has turned night into day in Wash
ington, and diverted the hours that
should be devoted to sleep to parties,
balls and all sorts of social dissipation
especially attractive to the would-be
aristocratic class which shoddy wealth
and what the Tribune naively calls
never-neglected Opportunities" haze
drawn to Washington in the past few
wears. There has been special effort
to give Washington social distinction
as a desirable place Of residence, at all
events during the Congressional session.
for the select self-elected classes which
co, nav enormous rents for fine houses,
or bnv lots and build palaces for them
selves. and who can live in city where
questions of "preceden ee" are definitely
settled. and where there are Mrs. Gen
erals" and "Mrs Minister'S" with an
all-night-long parade Of carriages, coach
men. fummery, footmen, cfests, coats
of arms, low neck and back dressing,
late suppers and all the accompanl-
ments Of late hours These induce
ments have drawn to Washington the
peculiar people that are able to pay for
all this snobbery and who have the as
surance to assert their supposed super
iority TO the day laboring, money earn
ing democratic people.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
r1ohborne's Missing witness Found.

Des Moines, Iowa, Special:-The noted
Tichborne case, involving an English baronet-
CIV and an immense estate in England, has
come to have a local interest to Des Moines. Ii
will be remembered that at the close of the
trial Arthur Orion, claiming to be Roger Itch
borne, the heir to the title and property, was
declared an impostor and sentenced to
twelve years imprisonment At that time
it was claimed by Ortons counsel that
the testimony of one man, whose where
abouts they were unable to locate, would
fully establish the identity of his client He
could not be found and Orion was trans ported.
About one year ago his term of Punishment ex-
pired, and he returned to England and again
began the task of proving himself to be Roger
Tichborne. Marshal Hafner of Des MONIES,
among other peace officers, was correspondent
with in relation to the missing witness, and
some four weeks since became satisfied they
had located him in California. In fact, the
marshal discovered another man that per
sonally knew tho witness, and had been assured
by him that he could fully indemnity Orton and
Tichborne. This intelligence Mr. Hafner con-
veyed to London to the parties having the
matter in charge, who Immediately forwarded
to him $500 with which to prosecute
the search for the witness. Ac-
cordingly the marshal sent the clerk of the
police court to the Pacific slope on this errand,
and was recently rewarded by telegram
from him dated at San Francisco, stating that
he had been entirely successful in his mission,
had seen the man and as certained that his evil
denee would be all that was expected Mar
shall Hafner has cabled the report to London
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
La Barge Dies at tho Helm.

JohnB. La Barge, aged seventy yea re-, pilot
and commander of river steamers for half
century, fell dead of heart disease at Bismarck,
Oak, in the pilot house of the steamer Helena,
when the boat was moving from the levee and
about heading up the river for trip to Ben
ton La Barge had sigDalled the engine to be
ready, but gave no other signal When Capt
Barr noticed that La Barge was not at
the wheel, and the Helena was drift
ing toward the steamer Undine, he ran to the
pilot house, found the door blocked, and
climbing in discovered La Barge dead, lying
on the floor against the door. Capt La Barge
had large family, including grandchildren
nearly of age, at st Louis He was in govern
ment employ during the war, and was, with
his brother Joseph, pioneer in taking boats
To Fort Benton
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
r.ra,cot+ ana sberidan AZ peaoe.

Washington Special The reported conflict
between Lieut. Gen Sheridan and the secretary
Of war is denied by both these officials. Gen
Sheridan says that there was no foundation
whatever for the story, and Secretary
Endicott, who is still absent from Washing
ton. also gives it denial by telegraph
1t ls believed that this report originated
from the fact that the Second and Third
regiments of artillery have been ordered to
change stations. The Second regiment has
been located at Washington and Baltimore for
the past twelve years, and its numerous friends
here have been making great exertions to have
the order sending it to the gulf states revoked.
Some Of these friends, it is thought, originated
the story about the controversy. Gen sheridan
said mat there could be no conflict between
him and the secretary growing out OF the is
suance of orders TO the army. Because" said
he. s'if the secretary don't approve my orders
he can reprove or revoke them
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

''The general still improves" said Col Fred
Grant last Friday He dictated for an hour
to- day and will finish up the Appomattox cam
paicn to morrow. lie begins now to be conf
ient that he will recover. He had number
Of the resolutions and other epistles read to
him to. clay which have been lately sent, and
felt much gratifed over one IN particular from
Roanoke, Va, from mass meeting of its citi-
zens The PAIN in his throat is very slight and
only al intervals, and does not affect his speech
or swallowing. The second volume of his book
will be in the hands of the publishers as soon
as all the maps are furnished, which viii be in
/ short time
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

PATRIOTISM runs as high among the
Berlin cabbies as with the Partisan
jehu who declined to take fare from
Victor Hugo. Lately Marshal Won
Moltke drove home from the reichstag
in passing carriage, and on reaching
the house the cabman positively re-
fused to be paid his due, declaring
that tho honor of driving so great a
man was sufficient reward.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Rntkin,s Head off at Last.

Washington Spesial General Gar
land has decided to bring Aleck Botkin's ten
ure of the Montana marshalship to an end
He has notified him that his resignation will be
accepted, and that if he does not resign he will
be dismissed Mr. Garland also told Mr.. Bot
kin that he had examine the charges for which
President Arthur had removed him. and they
would be held sufficient to cause his dismissal
AS a member of the senate Judiciary
committee he had been able to become thor
oughly advised of ms administration of the
masrhai and he was satisfied that the charges
made by Gov Crosby were true Who will
succeed Botkin cannot be told. Kelly of Deer
Lodge is supposed to be in the lead
This is the elimination of controversy
which has been pending nearly year Tn
charges against Marshal Botkin alleged, among
other things, drunkenness and mismanage-
ment of the territorial penitontiary at Deer
Lodge The marshal has all along been stout
ly defended by his friends in Washington
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

SENATOR EvARTs tells his friends in
Washington who express the hope
that his daughters, who used to pre-
side over their parents tea things at
the capital" will be with him next
season, that his daughters are "mar-
ried now and busy with teethings in
their own households"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Htgn-ronea baltimore Scandal.

Baltimore Special High social circles were
again agitated here by the filing of a bill for
divorce by Sallie V. Thompson against her
husband Charles r. Thompson, on the grounds
of adultery with Miss Cora Moore, young
lady well known in Baltimore, who went astray
recently. The plaintiff Is the daughter OF
prominent and wealthiest retired merchants:
She is beautiful woman, and al the time OF
her marriage, eight years, was the recognized
belle in the most aristocratic circles Inc &c,
PENDANT is also highly connected The third
party involved is of good family, but quite ia
prrepossessing in appearance beside being
lame. The evidence OF guilt against Thomp-
son is conclusive The wife has returned 70
her parents home
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

In the early part of the rebellion Ed
win Parke Custis Lewis, recently APP
pointed minister to Portugal, was cap
tured by Capt. Basil T. Bowers. a
union officer. Lewis was a cOnscript
officer in the confederate army, and
Capt. Bowers captured him about a
mile from his home In the valley of
Virginia. His young wife made so
eloquent plea that Capt. Bowers
paroled his prisoner. Since then they
have been good friends. Lewis after
ward went to Winchester, took the
oath of allegiance to the United States,
and saw no more of the confederacy.
His wife, the daughter of Col. Hare. OF
Clark county, Virginia, died and Mr..
Lewis went North and married a
wealthy lady.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Grants Continued Improvement.

New York Special; Theimprovementin Gen.
Grants condition continues Having fully re-
covered from the fatigue caused by the excite
ment and exertion attending his birthday, he
said Thursday morning that he felt better and
stronger that ut any time since his i'm
proyement began. He had good nights
Sleep for about nine hours Though awake
At times. he was not disturbed by one disa-
yreeable sensation. When he got up, he took
his coffee and ate his breakfast with relish He
was bright and cheerful, and walked frequent
lv up and down the hallway adjoining his
room He spent portion of the day in look
ing over the unfinished manuscript of his
book and expressed himself as feeling strong
more than a month ago. The liberated por-
sons of the generals throat, from which
broken down tissues have been sloughed, have
materially improved The cancerous trouble
At the base Of the tongue is not lessened, but
is auiescent Meanwhile the generals system
II improved
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

VICTOR HUGO, writes one of that
poets closest friends, will die as he
has lived-a deist He is familiar
with the idea of death, and often quotes
the words ''Dei voluntas'' with entire
serenity. But his absolute conviction
is that the priest and the dogma are
bad in every possible religion, and
their influence has even been fatal to
humanity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

Between $, zoe and g, 600 Indian troops have
been mobihzed-
Germany viii remain neutral, and doesn't
care TO mediate
James Russell Lowell will sail from Liver
pool for home June 10
No clue to the perpetrators of the admiralty
explosion in London has been obtained
Gen. Middleton decides to wait no longer for
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
PERSONAL MENTION.

James Gordon Bennett says he has drank
nothing stronger than Appollinaris water and
milk for more than a year.
Ex-Gov Conrad Baker died at Indianapolis,
ind, recently. after an illness Of several
months. He was sixty-eight years old
" c Apologize, ticket agent for the Chica-
20. and Milwaukee & ST Paul railroad at Chi
eago. died suddenly a. St Claire Springs,
Mich, from enlargement of the liver.
Berry Sigourney, of well-known Boston
family, has married one of the coryphees in
the ballet of a Boston theater. Mr.. Sigourney
is about thirty years old, and has an income of
nearly $50 900 year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

Mrs. CUSTER has now been eight
years widow, and during the most of
these years she supported herself by
acting as secretary to the Society of
Decorative Art. Her pension then
from the government was only $50
month; but such TODD was raised by
the newspapers and public about this
niggardly way of dealing with brave
officers widow that a short time ago
her pension was doubled. So now she
is enabled by close economy to live
without working, and this she does in
a most charming way. She has a lit
tie flat in a house in East Eighteenth
street, New York, and a prettier or
more attractive apartment it would be
hard to find.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Awards of Government Contracts.

Tho following AWARDS or contracts have
been recommended by Col Charles B. Penrose,
chief commissary of the department of Dako-
ta under his advertisement of March 20. 1885,
for furnishing fresh beef and mutton at forts in
the department: Fort Abraham Lincoln, North
ern Pacific Refrigerator Car company at SO
cents per pound; Fort Pembina, Remi q, Desen-
tes at T. IS cents per pound; Fort Keogh, William
Van Gasken at Z. 50 cents per pound; Fort Mis-
soula, Harding & Co, at 9 cents per pound;
Fort Randall, Gustaye Rieder at cents per
pound Fort Sully S. r. Thompkins at cents
per pound; Fort Totten, S M. Dodd at .. 40
cents per pound; Fort Poplar River, Walter b.
Jordan at 14.62 cents per pound; Fort Shaw,
Nntos u1.nr, s Parl.in at Is cants mound.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

THE ONLY surviving male represen-
tative of Robert Burns is said to be
Robert Burns Hutchinson, a success
full tea planter of Assam, India. His
mother was Sarah, daughter of Gle
neacin Burns. the youngest of the
Doet'S sons
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

PRoF. DoREMUs. it is said, makes
S25, O00a year from chemical analyses
Of patent medicines and other similar
articles. He does all his work with
his left hand, his right arm having
been amputated in youth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

PROF. MoRsE's plan of utilizing the
suns rays IN heating and ventilating
apartments, which is in successful use
at his house in Salem, Mass, and also
at the Boston athen@um, is to be ex-
hibited by him at an early meeting of
the Boston Society of Arts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

HANS MAKARr painted Sarah Bern
hardt's portrait, and made it so life
like as to be altogether unsatisfactory
to her. She refused to accept it, and
he then covered it with yellow tint
that gave it the appearance of skele-
ton ghost in London fog. In this
plight the picture was found among
his effects, and was sold with the rest
of his paintings Sarah did not bid
for IL
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

The following private telegram from Gen
Middleton, dated Fish Greek, April q, has been
received: We must remain here day or two
more The wounded are all doing well Both
aides-de-camp are improving rapidly. We are
driving in the enemy's cattle and ponies and
are feeding on the farmers AL are anxious
To march forward
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
Commissioner Black has issued the following

Commissioner Black has issued the followiu
circular: To advance any one pensionlclainl on
its of order is to retard by much the ADJUSTING
ofthousands of others which preeede i IN orde
Of filing. To prevent the practice of fraudr
lent impositions upon the pension office,
claims VIII be made special, that is, taken Ct
Of their order for expedition, unless such res
sons are shown in writing as viii, in the JUDI
raent of the commissioners, warrant ri
action Mere statements of claimants theI
selves, uneorroborated by disinterested p
sons. viii not be deemed sufficient to warra
such special action
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS says that
the report that he is thinking of start
ing new weekly paper in Washing
tor when he is displaced from his pre-
sent position sis all bosh the worst
kind of bosh."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

Two of the greatest men in France,
Victor Hugo and Ernest Renan, speak
no modern language except their own.
They claim that they have never felt
any inconvenience, as the literary men
of other nations have made it a point
to learn French. Both Renan and
Hugo are masters Of style, and It may
be that their superiority in this respect
is IN some measure due to thefact that
they have spent none Of their energies
on the languages of other countries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
No Fair at Minneapolis in 1885.

The executive committee of the Northwestern
Industrial association held meeting for the
purpose of taking further action on the propo
sition to hold fair at Minneapolis in Septem
Der next After full discussion of the mat
ter, the following resolution was adopted by
the committee:
Resolved, That in view of the muniticent do
nation of Ramsey county to the state fair asso
ciation after the generous support afforded
the same by our state legislature, the North
western Industrial association hereby recon
siders its action taken in January last looking
to the holding of fair during the first week
in September, and announces that no fair Will
be held under its management the present
year-tendenng the state fair management a
hearty and gene rous wish TO a successful issue
of the great fair it has in contemplation the
coming fall.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
G. R. MORSE, Publisher.

LINDSEY MUsE, the veteran door
keeper for the secretary of the navy,
has served IN that capacity for fifty
seven wears.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07

JUDGE THEoPHILUs HARRINGTON
was Vermont supreme court judge
in the days when slavery first existed
in some of the northern states. An
action of trover was brought before
him for a negro slave, the plaintiff
making out his proof of title to the
African legally. The judge told him
his title was defective. "What more
do need to make out a title?'' "A
bill of sale from Almighty God in the
drst place." was the judges reply.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
THE CASUALTY RECORD,

J. G. Brane & Co. ) leather mauufactory,
Woburn, Mass, was burned with its contents
Loss, so, 600; insurance, $4,000
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-15

seems plain that we have in our vineyards
all the known varieties of fungoid disease
that trouble the French vineyards, with
easier means Of Identification and thereby
for determining the true remedies. For in
stance, what is known as black measles in
many places appears to be the true mAdew,
or Itvonosporo iitieold, which can only be
fought according to present experience by
the use of eulphate of iron or sulphate of
copper. uSed Is q wash on the vine in the
winter time and early in the spring as a
powder.
ANOTHER FORMIDABLE FUYGoID DISEASE
Well known in France as antirGcnose, com
prising different varieties OF the same, is
plainly discoverable in our VINEYARDS. 1t
is fought in France by frequent applica-
tons of sulphur and powdered lime. The
use of suiphate Of iron in powdered form
is also recommended These distinctions
in fungoid diseases will probably soon ex-
plain some of the difficulties which have
been experienced in this State where the
use Of sulphur alone, es ordinarily used
against oidittrs, have been unsatisfactory.
Those who have the black measles in their
vineyards would do well TO mark the vines
before the foliage has gone. taking care in
the winter to treat them and those in their
immediate vicinity, with q concentrated
solution of sulphate of iron, applied as @
wash after pruning care being taken also
to destroy by burning all the wood that il
pruned from such vines.