River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-09

Mgr. Di Rende, papal nuncio at Paris, has
been appointed cardinal protector Of English
speaking Catholics at Rome He will DO the
medium of appeal TO the holy see by English
speaking Catholics instead of the episcopate
The recent failure of Bartle Goldsmith, the
London solicitor, for 81, 100000, has involved
his mother and sisters in complete financial
ruin. The Imperial bank is heavy loser.
Extravagant habits and speculation III mining
shares caused Goldsmiths downfall
About SO, 100000 has been expended in
four months on Lesseps' Panama Canal, and
only !. COO 600 ont of the 102, 900 600 meters TO
be excavsted had been dug March 81, 1884
At this rate the canal can, perhaps, be COM
pleted in, say eighty years, at cost Of about
81, 0O0,00O,0O0
The Mexican government believes in Ead's
ship railway scheme sufficiently to guarantee
per cent for fifteen years on SIS, 000.000 of
stock and the free importation of coal for the
use OF the railway and the ships. The railway
will cost s50,W0,0OO, and the distance across
Tehuantepec Is l32 miles.
Miss Georgia A Hunt was married in the
church of the Epiphany in Washington, TO
Mr. W A Murphy, a Newark, n j., manufac-
turer The bride is daughter of Col T. b.
Hunt of the army Miss Hunt was born in
Minnesota while her father, then in active ser
vice, was stationed at Fort Smelling.
Tracklaying on the Canadian Pacific rail
road, at the gap, says the Montreal Herald,
was proceeding at the rate of two and half
miles dav, when the work was suspended IN
order to push forward the troops by sleighs.
Work was resumed a few days ago, and track
LAYING will be finished hy the 10 or II inst.
Lord Mayor John O'Connor is in another di-
lemma about the civic flag of Dublin. The
lord mayor being strong nationalist, at first
declared in public speech that if the prince
of Wales came to Dublin the flag would be
lowered from the mansion house, his lOrdshlp' s
official residence. Then he SAID the flag would
be officially flown, and now the flag has been
stolen.
Hostilties between Guatemala and the allied
republics have been suspended and an arnis-
tee of one months duration is announced
The legislative assembly of Guatemala has an
nulled the decree promulgated by President
Barrios on Feb %, in which a union of the
Central American republics was proclaimed
and Barrios was announced as dictator and
supreme military chieftain of all Central
America. The gOld-hilted sword of President
Barrios was found on the battlefield of Chal-
chuaaipa broken. According to the latest in
teIigence received here, President Barrios is
dead. No particulars have been received
A judgment Of tho court of review at Quebec,
composed of Judges Casault, Caron and Bour-
gers and three Roman Catholics, has just
disposed of dangerous pretension" on
the part of the ecclesiastical authorities.
The case was that of one Francois l.
Henreux, whose second marriage with g
widow named Pagan had been ecclesias
tically annulled on the ground Of spiritual
affinity" from which an episcopal dispense
ton had not been previously obtained Hen
reux applied TO the superior court to civilly
confirm this annullment but Judge NOW CHIEF
iustice) Stuart decided the suit in favor of the
wife, ruling that the civil code did not recog-
nize such cause of uulity spiritual affinity
The court of review has just unanimously
affirmed this decision.