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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26

Cocaine, the new auasthetic, Ia
greatly relieved Gen Grants suffers
ings, and as it may be used to produce
local insensibility, without affecting the
general consciousness, its value prom
Uses 10 be exceedingly great. The fact
that it has been employed in Gen.
Grants case has given it especial
prominence in recent discussions, and
in his address before the Woman's
Medical College. os Pennsylvania, Dr.
Keen, the distinguished professor OF
surgery, urged that its discovery ought
TO silence the directors to viviseetion
for without experiments ON animals its
value would still remain unknown.
It will not silence Henry Bergh, OF
course, but the great majority OF
people will not condemn vivisection
if only it is praetised as humanely rs
possible, and never unnecessarily.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26

A writer at Humboldt, Iowa, on the
question cf western farm mortgages.
gives Bradstreets financial journal the
following interesting points: "An
northern Iowa was formerly a spring
wheat country. aud like others had its
prosperous and its disastrous years.
Very many Of the mortgages then made
were foreclosed, and the mortgag 81
went on west All wheat" was fol-
lowed by more corn, timothy, clover.
blue grass-short horns and Poland
chinas were introduced, and after
time it was found that first quality but
ter could be made here. Farm mort
cages multiplied-no that the mort
gageor would buy a self-binder and q
-thresher, but that he might buy
some dividend paying cows, or build q
big barn or a creamery-foreclosures
dropped off. and the lawyer bewailed
the great falling off in business. have
been here in northern Iowa thirty-fiye
vears-have seen this country prosper
Gus and PROSTATE from our crop farm
inq-but have never known a mortgage
foreclosed on a dairy or stock farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
The Iop- Sidcdness of Genius.

IL is an unfortunate truth that ge-
MUS is not domestic, nor, as rule,
amiable. Men who are great in intel
lect are small in emotions; like Rus
sian sunflower, they all run to head,
and what is not flower is litter. Chau-
Ger, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Dick
ems, Bulwer and Carlisle. Brain and
heart always in inverse ratio; eyes al
ways gazing out at the misery of the
world to the neglect of the misery az
their own hearthstOnes. From Socra-
ties, with his aggressive nose in every
stew pot but his own, to Goethe, with
sympathy for every suffering but that
caused by himself, the history of ge-
MUS is the history of woman's suffer-
ing, the husbands triumph and tho
wife's grief-the apotheosis of brains
and the degradation of heart Where
talent flies, love creeps; and genius,
with its head in the sky, has its feet in
the desolation of its own home. II
would seem as if great talents were
destructive of the domestic virtues;
that with man, a perfectly rounded
life were impossible; that what feeds
talent is robbed from the emotions
Willlt SN - Aooh ~ AFi oANNN'
ness. Hero worshippers rather adj
mire this lop-sidedness in their heroes,
and the philosophic Germans, for ex--
ample, have written many erudite
treatises to prove that the develop.
ment of Goethe's genius was due to-
Goethe's immortality; but to simple
people who are not philosophers, and
who have no theory to defend, the
vices of genius are the most inexcusa-
BILE of all vices.
1t is sad fact, that the worlds he
roes are anything but heroic; and il
they are angelic as to thought they are
coarsely clay as to flesh; and it is only
what is left after the grave closes over
them that is deserving of admiration.
Had biography been an art ia Eliza
beth's reign, Shakespeare would doubt
less have been a sufferer; were biogra-
ply not an art in Victoria's reign,
posterity would be grateful.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Arabs Die But do Not Surrender.

London Telegraph: As at Teb and Tamai,
the wounded Arabs refused to be made prison
ers, and great caution had to be exercised in
moving about the field, not only to avoid tbs
covert slabs dealt by the bleeding Arabs, but
rhs rushes and cuts of the fanatics who sham
med death in order that they might the more
surely get a chance Of burying their weapons
in one of us Exploring along this way par
ty of our men came upon six dead and four
wounded Arabs lying under bushy dwarf
mimosa tree The soldiers had an in
terpreter with them, and the Arabs were called
upon to surrender and come out. That they
said they could not do; would the soldiers
therefore come and take them? The four
hands. every good" said our soldiers, put
down your spears, and we will see you are well
treated and DO all we can to cure your wounds. :"
The answer of the four Arabs came fierce and
concise: PUT down our spears, intidel
dogs, By God and the prophet, never.
There was crack OF Martini Henrys. You
can guess the rest 1t was again. as at Teb
and lanai almost impossible to take prls-
onera, and we secured but two of their wound
ed alive The third prisoner Iassisted to bring
in, but he was hardly capture, for the man
gave himself up He had a Remington and
over 90 rounds of ammunition His story was
that he had been one of the Berber Egyptian
garrison, and since the fail of that place had
been forced into the Mahdi's army. He was
glad to escape from them, he declared, and
must say the fellow looked cheerful at being
taken. A trooper Of the Nineteenth conducted
him to Gen. Stewart He was our one un-
wounded prisoner
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Congressional Mediocrity.

Carp's Washington Letter.
Congressman are each paid salaries
of $4,000 year. There are 325 of
them. and about twenty five out of
that number are worth their salaries.
The best could not make more than
half that by the sale of their talents to
the world in any capacity, and if some
of them were forced to live by the
sweat of their brows outside of politics
| imagine that many Of them would go
on a low diet, and not from choice
either. Look over the men OF Your
acquaintance. How many OF them are
worth $4,000 year outside of their
capital?
Pick out 325 men from any part Of
the Union-men whose brain and
muscle alone is worth 50, 900 o year in
the market-and viii show you that
they are of a far higher grade than those
making up this body. How did they
get here? In various ways. Some
bought their seats, it is charged, and
some held them through their friend
ship with great corporations. Some
got them by drinking at barrooms TO
cultivate the slums, and some hvpo-
critically slid into them by praying in
the churches at the same time. Others
hold their places by the favor Of certain
district rings and the handspring which
runs the successful machinery of others
is the sending ont of seeds and the
| Government documents to their farm
| ing constituents. A few of them are
really great men, but these | can count
on my fingers. 4 few more are noble
and upright. and now and then You
will find one who does. because it is for
his country's good. and not because it
will benefit himself. Most of them
swell about and pose as great men. 1
suppose they think they are 50, saving
at election time, when they must drink !,
truckle and bootlick to keep their
greatness uppermost. Congressional
greatnessl Taught
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Tudge naxter Of the Seventh pistriot.

Col l. L. Baxter of Fergus Falls has been
appointed as additional judge of the Seventh
judicial district by Gov. Hubbard Col. Bax-
ter was endorsed by twenty one members Of
the Otter Tall county bar; thirty
eight members of the bar of the dis
trict outside of Otter Tail county; 122 business
Wilhn. kOon, Young Brown and Lochren.
Baxter's principal opponent was Mr.. Mason, a
lawyer of Fergus Falls and Republican
Luther L. Baxter was twenty four years old
when, in 1857, he arrived in Minnesota from
Wisconsin, having spent two years in the Badger
state into which he came from his birthplace In
Vermont He became resident of Scott
county, and Sept 80 1852, was commits
stoned as captain of Company A, Fourth
regiment of infantry Minnesota volun-
teers. He was promoted to the majority of
his regiment during the siege of Corinth, in
April, 1862, and resigned in October of that
year, but not until the fight at Iuka and the
conclusion of the Corinth siege. Return
ing to the practice of his profession, he
soon after the war removed to Chaska, Carver
county, and in 1869 he was elected senator in
the twelfth legislature from the Twenty first
district. He continued as senator through the
thirteenth fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth
legislatures representing tue Thirty-th dis
trict IN the reapportionment and IN the seven
teeHth was q member of the assembly. In the
twenty first and twenty second legislatures he
was againa representative, in the intervening
years having served county attorney. He
twice ran against Judge Macdonald for the hon
orsaof the bench in the Eighth judicial district
but was defeated In 1881 he moved to Mime
apolis, where he lived more than year, and
eighteen months ago, settled in Fergus Falls
Otter Tail county, where ne now resides.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Hamilton at College.

The most distinguished student OF
Kings (Columbia) College, Alexander
Hamilton, matriculated in IVA. At
that time all mems minds were deeply
moved by the great question of the
Revolution. President Cooper sided
with the mother country, talking and
writing with all his power against the
freedom of the colonies. The tide of
Indignation rising higher and higher
against such doctrines, it was finally
determined to hold public meeting
in the open fields just above Dey street
on the 9th of July IVA, for the pur-
pose of protesting against the acts OF
the authorities. Young Hamilton was
urged to address the meeting, and as
he closed IA brilliant and imprisoned
address, the cry of surprise, at is a
collegian, with which his youthful
appearance was received. gave way to
loud expressions of wonder and APP
plause. Young Hamilton presently
crossed swords, or pens, with his col
lege president, who could not believe
at first that so young man could be
so strong pamphleteer. In one of
the periods of the excitement n liberty
mob approached the college with the
purpose of laying violent hands on the
Tory president. AS they drew near
his residence, Hamilton and Robert
Troup, a fellow-student, assembled the
steps, and fearful lest in this moment
of irritation they might commit some
excess, Hamilton, in order TO give the
president time to escape, harangued
the mob with great eloquence and ami
nation son the excessive improperly
of their conduct, and the disgrace they
were bringing on the cause of liberty,
of which they professed to be the
champions. " In the meantime an
other student, who had preceded the
throngs had warned the president Of
his danger just in time TO save him.
ale escaped only half dressed, over
the college fence, reached the shore of
the Hudson and wandered along the
river bank till near morning, when he
found shelter in the house of his
friend, Mr.. Stuyvesant, where he re-
manned for that date and during the
night following he took refuge on
board the Kinglisher, an English ship
of-war, in which soon after he sailed. ~
- HggOpg'S MqGnzi1le
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Linnor in the Army.

Gen. Mcclellan found it difficult to
prevent the sale of liquor TO soldiers,
and finally gave orders that the stock
of any one violating the regulations
should be, summarily destroyed. The
next night the provost guard visited
Springrnan's hotel, on Pennsylvania
avenue, and destroyed nearly $1,000
worth of liquors of varions kinds. The
guard went into the ccller of the estab-
iishment, where most OF the liquor was
stored, and stove in the heads of the
casks and barrels, pouring their con-
tents upon the floor, forming a pool
deep enough 70 float bateau. The
Columbia restaurant, kept by Joseph
Piatz. situated on the square below,
was next overhauled by the guard, and
the liquor found on the premises served
in the same manner. The atmosphere
in the neighborhood of the Springman
house was fragrant with the odor of
whisky, brandy, gin. aud cordials, and
was shifted up by the several old topers
standing near with peculiar satisfac-
tion.-Ben: Pcriey P0Ore.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Beecber is strongly opposed to horse.

Beecher is strongly opposed to horse
racing as at present conducted. He
said: "When I look at the adminstra-
ton Of race courses and see what the eff
fects are on the young and the easily
tempted, no matter how fine the horses
arc, 1 can't afford to waste a whole gen
GRAFTON of young men for the sake of
getting one-tenth of a second off a trot-
ter's time I don't think there is any
harm in Lorse-racing to the horse, in
the first place, bat to the man a good
deal. Newspapers say we ought not to
stand in the way of men that are deyeI-
oping horses, but 1 say it is very poor
economy to feed horses with young
men"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
The census bureau has at las

The census bureau has at last been
closed up, and the officers relieved from
Their duties. 1t has taken the bureau
ever since 1880 to figure up the results
of the census and some volumes have not
yet been printed. The original plan
for tile publication Of tho results Of tho
census contemplated the Issue OF 20
volumes, and TO volumes have been IS
sued up to the present time. Proof
sheets numbering 5000 pages, primer
paIly devoted to the mortality statistics
are now in type The statement Of
these facts is enough to show how the
whole matter has been bungled-for
bungled it is, when it takes five years
to learn the result of a decenniaI census.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
sradstreet on the business Situation.

There were 247 failures in the United States
reported 10 Bradstrests during the week end
ing 2lst, against $50 in the preceding week. 1872,
l. 8 and lis in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
1888 and 1882 respectively About 50 per
cent were those of small traders
whose capital was less than $1,000
Among those reported embarrassed
were Frank Touscy, publisher, New York city;
Cambria County bank, Johnstown, Pa. Muske
gon. Mich. Car and Engine company; Southern
Agricultural works, Atlanta, Ga. H. J. Mullan,
wholesale hardware, New Orleans; w. B. Will
iaus d Son, cotton factors, Charlestown, S. G.
The cold weather checked trade during the
week, and from almost all the larger
cities word is telegraphed that the season
in business circles is backward The
shipments Of dry goods from Boston and New
York are about as heavy as one week ago, but
takiugs are no larger, jobbers in dry goods con
tinue to monopolize the business reported, and
makers agents await the depletion of stocks
in second hands. Collections. In general lines,
which were better during the early part of the
moltH, have fallen away.
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full, no matter how short-lived the
convicts may be. That convicts are
short-lived anyone will admit who
gives the subject any attention, be-
causc under the methods OF treatment
obey could not live long. OF course,
the contractors always reply thas
such statements are false, and dare
the writer to come down where they
are to prove them. That they are
backed by public sentiment goes with
out saying, for if they were not the
leasing system to contractors outside
of prisons would be ended at once.
Legislative committees have visited
prison pens in Alabama, Georgia, and
East Tennessee, and found nothing in
them to condemn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Nellie Grant with Her Father.

The steamship Baltic which brought Mrs
Nellie Grant sartoris, passed Sandy Hook and
came to anchor at the White Star slip, where
she lay until a change of tide Mrs. Sar-
t0ris met her brother with a look of anxiety
on her face, which was quickly dissipat-
ed, however, 10y the favorable news of her
fathers condition which they were able to
give her. The party arrived at the barge Office
and took the elevated road to the gen
erals house Mrs. Sartoris ran up the stoop
with a quick, nervous step, and the door was
opened 6y Col Grant All the curtains We're
pulled down, and lights appeared IN the sec
ond and third stories only. Mrs Grant welcomed
her daughter first, and then the party
fastened mp stairs TO the generals room, where
be had gone to meet her from the library
The general greeted his favorite pleasantly,
and whatever emotion he felt. except that Of
iov. was hidden under his wonderfully calm
face. Mrs Sartoris was overjoyed at finding
her father appearing so well aud bright and
after an hours chat the general wentto bed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26

The woman suffragists found chilling
weather for "the cause" in various
quarters during the legislative sessions.
The Connecticut legislature refused to
allow ladies the humble privilege OF
voting even at school meetings. Leg
islatures of other states had their fun
over propositions for women suffrage
and then dropped them suddenly.
Dakota legislature passed a bill giving
women the right to vote, but it was
vetoed by Gov. Pierce. But the wom-
en- viii up and try again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26

The New York Tribune estimates the
weight of farm products being moved
by the railroads from the far west TO
the eastern states at $4,000, 900 tons.
At 81 per ton, the average charge from
Chicago to New York, the cost of all
this immense transportation is $50, 900,
900. In 1860 the average price was
513 per ton, or $l95, 100000 for the
same freightage, This is yearly saw
ing OF s135, GOO, 600 for the joint benefit
Of producers and consumers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Heavy shipments of oats have recent

Heavy shipments of oats have recent
ly been made to Liverpool from New
York and Boston, and large quantity
is now in transit from Chicago. The
British markets have obtained their
supplies of foreign oats in the past from
Baltic ports, but the chance of war
with Russia has caused England to look
to the United States and Canada for any
prospective deficiency that may be ere
ated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Changed His Mind About Her.

II shall never call on Mrs. Smith
again." said Mrs. Jones. II never
want to see her any more"
"You women are very foolish to
quarrel over trifes," said Mr.. Jones.
'Mrs. Smith is a very pleasant person,
little laxative, perhaps, but on The
whole very estimatble woman. You
shouldn't attach any importance to
what she says What was the trouble?"
'.She said you weren't very prompt
in paying your debts.
"Well, by thunderps shouted Jones,
jumping to his feet, II would give $25
if she were a man for just ten minutes. -"
--Ne1c York Star
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Some Of the readers of the New York

Some of the readers of the New York
Graphic have been voting on the com
parative merits of the great men Ameri-
ca has produced. According to the re-
turns Washington leads the list of pub
lie beneflctors, with Lincoln close
second; Franklin comes third, with
about half as many votes as Lincoln
gets. OF writers, Irving is the most
popular, and then come Emerson and
Hawthorne; curiously enough, Cooper
stands fourth in popularity, Webster is
considered the best orator, and then
comes Patrick Henry, leading Clay and
Phillips. Longfellow Of course leads
the poets; it is curious that Poe gets
five times as many votes as Holmes and
seven times as many as Lowell.
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not be acted upon to men who do not
mean to act upon it, and know that,
if they did, the person most eonfonnd-
ed would be the preacher himself
Pail Mall Gazette.
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The New Delaware Senator.

George A. Gray, who viii succeed Mr.. Bay
ard as senator from DELE ware, is forty-five
years old He is lawyer and Is now serving
in lis second term as attorney general of the
state This is the only Office that he has ever
held. aside from once serving as chairman OF
the board Of education Of New Castle. Outside
of Delaware he has twice presented the name
of Mr. Bayard 10 national Democrat con
ventions as a candidate for president the
first time st Cincinnati in 1880 and again at
Chicago last year Politically, Mr. Gray repre-
sents the Bourbon end Of the Democratic party,
as Mr. Lore does the business end Personal
" he will be an acquisition to the senate, lie
is 3 man of fine presence, Of gentle and engaS-
inc manners, of a genial and obliging disposI-
ton. He will be easy going. luxurious, court
IL and honest Within the limits of has polItl-
cal comprehension he viii be fair and just
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26

At Kaikaska, Mich, recently, the thermom-
e;ers registered A deg below.
NJ. W Klein & Co, private bankers OF Johns
town, Pa have failed for $4,000
1t is declared that Senator Leland Stanford is
in failing health and has become a spirituslist
The village Of South Evanston, III, brings a
5000 ejectment suit against Archbishop Fee
han.
Gov. Sherman OF Iowa called out the militia
and took forcible possession of the auditors
Office.
Gen. Hatch telegraphs that Couch still
threatens to invade the Indian Territory, but
ms strength does not exceed 600 should be at
temptit
Mr.. Joslyn is stin acting as assistant secre-
lry to Mr.. Lamar, his successor, Mr.. Clark