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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Gen. Grant and His Sons.
New York Letter.

New York Letter.
Gen. Grant, it is said, has been SO
impressed with the wisdom of keeping
clear of Wall street hereafter that he
assured several friends this summer
hat he will never enter into any bust
ness connections of any kind again and
hat he will never again set foot in
Wall street, no matter what business
may call him there. His son Fred
Grant, who year ago was considered
rising young millionaire, and was liv-
ing in most exquisite style, has given
Up all hopes of making another fortune
and has gone to work to grow winter
roses for the New York market. When
,he crash came last April he had just
bought beautiful house near his faith
er's for seventy thousand dollars, and
lad ppid ten thousand dollars down on
account. This money he lost together
with every dollar invested in the firm.
His sole remaining resource was a small
country place at Morristown, n. j., be-
longing to his wife. In order to fur
lish his city house with winter roses he
SDbHb ldSb year WlltIt Who ~ w
iect, about ten thousand dollars in fit
ting up luxurious green houses upon
his Morristown property. He finds now
that he can grow enough roses in his
1ot houses to make quite a comfortable
income by selling them to Now York
florists, and this is to be his business
ibis winter. He tells his friends that
With reasonable good luck he can
clear three or four thousand dollars in
year and that will he sufficient to en-
able him to live in comfort. Like his
father, he never wants to see Wall
street again, and says that he would
rather grow roses and make bare liv-
ing all his life than go through again
the purgatory of last spring. believe
Gen. Grants other son has gone West
to grow up with the country and forget,
if he can, the brief season of feverish
financial glory which proceeded the ex-
plosion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

filed with the secretary of state by the
Douglass County Timber & Cattle Rail.
way company for the purpose of con.
structing aroad from the Bay of Superb
or in a southeasterly direction, by the
most practicable route to Nebagamain
lake, with branch from point on
said line at or near its crossing Of the
Animicon river, in a southeastern
ly direction to the upper Anim1con
lake. The estimated length is forty
miles. 1t is all in Douglass county.
The capital stock is 100000. The in
corporators are James Bardon, w. HI.
Newton, L. T. johnson, j. A, Bardon,
Vincent Roy, E. S. johnson, of Superb
or.
Miss Marion Merrill, daughter OF
Manager S. S. Merrill of the st. Paul
road. and Grand E. Smith, son of the
late Gov. E. Smith, were married We'd
nesday eve 31st ult. at the Calvary
Presbyterian church, Milwaukee, Rev.
Kiehle, pastor of the church officiating.
The bride was attired in rich costume
of brocaded silk with pearl ornaments
and orange blossoms. She was attend
ed by Miss Mary Ball and Miss Mamie
Bridges of Milwaukee. Grant Fitch was
the grooms best man.
The assault with deadly weapon up
on Mrs. o. Wilson, an old lady, in her
confectionery store by negro threw
the community into fever of ex-
element. Had the assailant been posi-
lively identified there is little doubt
that his neck would have been stretch
ed by the indignant and armed mob OF
200 persons, who searched the city for
the young colored men, Charley Taylor
of Chicago and ID. Vermont of Clinton
Junction, upon whom circumstances
pointed as the guilty ones. The men
were finally arrested, but as the case
was not clear against them the mob
dispersed, and left the prisoners I'D
charge of the officers.
The last rail connecting the two ends
of the Wisconsin division Of the North
ern Pacific railroad, and. completing
the line between Ashland and Super
ior, was laid on the 2Sth inst, at a point
in the heart of the great northern for
est.
In 1886 Wisconsin was organized as
territory, then comprising Iowa, Min
nesota, and part Of Dakota, and was adj
mitted to the Union in May, 1913, then
ranking the oath State in population,
but owing to its wealth and industries,
its growth has been so rapid as to give
it the present rank of 14th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

A feature in journalism that is not
often publicly referred to, is disclosed
by the New York Sun, which says that
its circulation always reaches its lowest
point in the latter part of each presi-
Dental year, touching zero usually in the
month of December, and its editor re-
CARDS the circumstance as somewhat
remarkable. Nothing remarkable
about it; and no doubt the statistics of
majority of the lending daily politi-
cal papers of the large cities would
slow the same result could they be
procured. The falling off in newspa-
per reading at that particular time SIM
ply means that the people of the coun-
try want rest after the worry and ex-
element and clap-trap of a heated cam
paign. They enjoy that sort of thing
while their interest in the result is kept
alive, but after a climax comes reac7
ton and the desire for period of COM
parative repose. After stuffing her
self, however palatable the food may
be, even the mild-eyed COW likes to lie
down and chew her cud for awhile.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

Emigrants are pouring into Califor-
MIA at the rate Of /, 200 to l 800 a week,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
Most of them settle in the southern
part of the state and engage in fruit and
wine-growing. Many of the emigrants
are men of means, who go to the coun-
try in search of health and are led to
devote themselves to congenial business.
The poorer classes go to the northern
counties and engage in agricultural pur-
suits, while about 80 per cent. of the
whole number push up north to Oregon
and Washington Territory. The popu-
lation of California is now about one
million.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

On Friday, December u, the Su-
preme Court Of West Virginia asserted
the absolute constitutional right of the
State Legislature to regulate passenger
and freight charges In spite of any stip-
ulation in the charter of a railroad ;
and on the following day, Saturday,
December -, the Supreme Court of
Ohio denied the right of railroad to
make discriminating rates. Several de-
cisions of this tenor in other States,
taken in connection with some recent
judgments of the Supreme Court of the
United States, are striking indications
that the control of public corporations
is not TO be relInquished by the people
who created them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

The treasury record for the first six months
of the current fiscal year win not compare fav-
orably with corresponding periods OF the past
FIVE years, in so far as the reduction of the pub
tic debt is concerned For the six months just
closed the reduction was something over a
monthly average of s5,000,000, the aggregate
being sci SOL ,S64 For the six months end
ing with December, 1888, the reduction was
$50, OO0, 900, and for the same period in 1882 il
was over sS1, 100000 For the past two months
there was an increase, so called, in the debtof
81. 3SS. 500, the increase for December being
sG41 ,3S5. This increase is caused by the fall
ing off in receipts and the increase of current
liabilities, the result being that the aggregate
liabilities of the government after deducting
the available cash on hand are S64l GOO in ex-
cess of the same liabilities on Dee. l. Notwlth-
standing this apparent increase during Decem-
Der, there is no change in the total of the in
terest- bearing column of the debt, while the
non-inte bearing column, in which are IN
Guided nlatured called bonds, shows a reduc
ton of g. f42 900 since Dec.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

FrenCi architects are preparing plans
for an iron tower for the exposition OF
1889, which is to be 1 900 feet high.
This is nearly twice the height of the
Washington monument, and its con-
struction will be truly marvellous
achievement 1t will be furnished with
an elevator or lift, by which visitors viii
be taken to the top for a small fee. II
will also be used for astronomical and
meteorological observations, for expert.
ments in signalling and other scientific
nurDOSeS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

The messengers appointed by the
electors of the various states to carry
the results of their action to Washing
Son are paid according to the mileage
travelled. The Wisconsin messenger
received as mileage 1927 so; Iowa mes
senger $289,60; Minnesota 1905. 80.
The highest amount was paid the Ore
gon messenger, who travels 3, 116 miles,
and received $776.59; the lowest was
Marvland's messenger whose pay was
only $1,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

Anglophobia in New York is credited
with one good thing-decadence of the
American system of treating all hands
round, which is the direct cause of a
great deal of in temperance Though not
quite abolished, it has gone greatly out
of fash ion. It is not now considered
breech of good fellowship to stand up
at bar and drink at another's expense.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08


The decision of the court at San Fran
cisco in the celebrated Sharon divorce
suit in favor of the plaintiff, Sarah
Althea H1ll-Sharon, giving her decree
of divorce and half of the common prop
erty, was a complete surprise to the
whole country, as it was generally held
that she had failed to make out her case
and that the Judge would decide in
favor of the Nevada millionaire. One
of the chief grounds for the Judges de-
cision that Sarah Althea's account of
her relations with Sharon was mainly
correct was the fact that Sharon took
b err around with him, allowed her to
live in the hotel adjoining his and took
her down to Belmont when his daugh-
ter was married, and although he never
gave her public countenance as his wife,
yet these acts showed he did not regard
her as mistress, and he was no novice
in dealing with women, as he himself
admitted that he had kept women Gs
mistresses for years. In fact, he de-
clared that Sharon probably devised
the marriage contract to entrap Sarah
into living with him and then counting
on buying off her claims. In this way
he Numbered into matrimony, and the
trick would cost him dear. There is
small doubt but that Sharon will appeal
as the property which could be called
common property can not amount to
less than So, 600, 600 OF $4,000, 900. His
total wealth is estimated at SIS, 900, 900,
but this will probably be scaled down
to SO, 600, 900 by actual account.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Shaw, a Colorado surveyor, reports

Shaw, Colorado surveyor, reports
that he and his party of surveyors have
found almost a solid mountain of alum
over mile square, some of the cliffs OF
which rise to an elevation of seven hun
dred feet above the bed of the CHA
River. Most of the alum is in an m
pure state, tasting very strongly OF sui
phuric acid. Some of the cliffs show i'm
mense quantities of almost pure market
ahIa al11rn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
A Years Shoemaking.
Harper's Magazine.

HarpeT's Magazine.
AS the result of one years manufac-
turing, our people required, for 1880,
6,831 ,661 sides of sole leather, 81, 147,-
$50 sides and skins of upper leather, be-
sides leather sold by weight to the
amount of 30, $50, GA, pounds. This sup
ply was sufficient to make 125, AIS 81
pairs of boots and shoes, or little more
than two pairs each for every man,
woman and child in the United States.
One such place as Lynn would perhaps
require for weekly supply the slaughter
of 1000 cattle, 10000 goats, $4,000
sheep the manufacture of $4,000 yards
of cotton cloth, nearly ton of silk
and thread of every kind, two or three
tons of nails and tacks, besides general
supplies of every description which en-
ter into the composition of shoes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
State Statistics.

MADISON, Special Telegram. Jan. 2-Several
biennial reports were submitted to Gov. Rusk
to-day. The secretary of state says that in the
past two years the receipts into the general fund
from which are paid the ordinary expenses of
state government 81, 907, 204; disburse-
ments So, 332, S57; balance, $93S,567. The
secretary estimates expenditures and revenues
for 1886 and 1887 as follows:
Salaries...... $25s. 649lR evenue IL
Interest -. 164,55s censes, fees $945, 500
ce ssitacns n 2ssooo f 1sd s Sp s% 4ss
clerks & ems Total revenue !. 1a4 937
ployes =. 10000 Legislative ex-
Mise'llane's.. 265,59 penses...... 10000
Total expen-
ditures - o49 sos
No necessity exists for levytng state tax for
general purposes the next two years, unless the
coming legislature makes extra appropriations.
The report of the commissioner of insurance
shows that during 1888 tho insurance risks
written in Wisconsin aggregated S16l 637, TAP.
Premiums received amounted to $2,525, $50.
Losses paid foot up 74S, so, 90 per cent OF
the premiums. The state inspector of oils shows
that during the past year 145,529 barrels of oil
were inspected. During this period there has been
within the state almost complete freedom from
any serious accident from the legitimate use OF
Kerosene oil The report OF the commissioner OF
labor statistics shows there are engaged III all
occupations in the state 417,455 persons, OF
whom 3l7, 600 males and 100, 395 females;
1875, 901 persons are engaged in agriculture,
97,404 in professional and personal ser
vices 1880 in trade and transporta-
ton, and S65IO in manufacturing,
mechanical and mining industries. There
are 1,I9S lawyers, 1,715 clergymon. 1,54e
physicians and surgeons, 290 Journalists, S,oSe
teachers, 2,055 civic officers and government
employees s36 teachers OF music, and 264 dent
lists There are in the state 1874 manufactur-
ing establishments with $73 S21 ,So2 capital,
paying $1S,S14, 9I7 wages per year, expanding
annually 1856 700, rs for material 81 % 25j, 4Ss
for products, and employing 4S,255 males over
sixteen years OF age, 6,241 females over sixteen,
and 2,613 children and youths The commits
should not be abolished in Wisconsin, and has
sn elaborate argument in favor of his position
He also urges the public maintenance of manual
training schools. Numerous recommendations
are made relative to the better treatment OF
female operatives and minor workers, and a more
oongenial spirit between employers and en-
ployed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

The states and territories showing the
greatest additions to their mileage are Iowa
and Minnesota each 279 miles, Dakota
900. Pennsylvania 252, Mississippi 246,
Wisconsin pa and Oregon 21S. In the
others the increase runs from to 100
miles The number of lines reported is 1856.
against 237 last year, and the average ex.
tension is only little over 20 miles to each
road
COMPARATIVE TABLE
The following table shows the compare
tive railway mileage for the past ten years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARIZED.
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

Record of the Number of Miles Built In All
the States and Territories miscellaneous
Mention.
Advance sheets of the Railway Age show
The following records of railway construc-
ion for the wear 1854:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
The New England agent at Boston Of


the Washburn mills at Minneapolis, has
advanced his prices for flour % cents
per barrel. and refused large orders al
the advance. This is regarded as strong
evidence that flour has at last touched
bottom, and the same may be said Oh
wheat, for that has felt the ir1pulse Of
the rise In -four.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO
It also operates the best route and the
short line between
ghi.aga md n.fail ! M.ia1ajiis

Milwaukee, La Crosse, Sparta, Madison,
Fort Howard Green Bay, Wis, Nin0na,
Owatonna, Mankato, MINI. Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, Webster City, Algona. Clin-
ton Marshalltown, Iowa, FreepOrt, Elgin,
Rockford, ILL.,, are amongst its 800 local
stations on its lines.
Among few of the numerous points
of superiority enjoyed by the patrons OF
this road are its DAY COACHES which
are the finest that human art and inge-
nuity can create; its PALATIAL SLEEP
ING CARS, which are models Of comfort
and elegance; its PALACE DRAWING
ROOM CARS which are unsurpassed by
any; and its widely celebrated.
NORTH WEST ERN DINING CARS
the like of which are not run by any
other road anywhere. In short, II is as
serted that III Is THE BEST EQUIP
PED ROAD IN THE WORLD.
All points Of interest North, Northwest
and West of Chicago, business centres,
summer resorts and noted hunting and
fishing grounds are accessible by the
various branches of this road.
1T owns and controls over 5000 miles Of
road and has over four hundred passen-
ger conductors constantly caring for It's
millions of patrons,
Ask your ticket agent for tickets via
this route. AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticket agents sell them. 1t
costs no more TO travel on this route, that
gives hrst-class accommodations, than IL
does to go by the poorly equipped roads;
For maps descriptive circulars and
summer resort papers, or other inforna-
ton not obtainabe at your local ticket
office tyrifsa ~ 4ba
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

A wonderful find is reported to have been
made in the Greek colony in London An
enterprising antiquarian claims to have STUN
bled across some statues which are undou lG.
eddy Grecian, and which he believes are S,Vut
years old scientific inquiry is to be made
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
WRIGHTS INDIAN VEGETABLEPlLLa
FOR THE
! ~
And all Bilious Complaints
Safe TO take, being purely vegetable; no grip
ing. Price % cts. All Druggists.
The ROYAL ROUTE
Chicago, st. Paul,
MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA,
-AND-
Chicago & Northwestern R'ys.
THE SHORTEST AND BEST RoUT

THE SHORTEST AND BEST RoUT
EAST TO CHICAGO. with Dining Cars,
Elegant Day Coaches, and palace Smok-
ing Room Seepers on all trains from Min.
neapolis and ST Paul, through Eau Claire
and Madison, with choice Of route via
Milwaukee. THE CHICAGO, ST.
PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS Il OMAHA E'Y
also runs through trains southwest from
St Paul and Minneapolis to Sioux City
and Council Bluffs, with Sleeping Cars
through without change to st. Joseph
and Kansas City, and is the short, quick
route from St Paul to Des Moines. North
east from st, Paul, through trains are run
to Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield,,
Lake Superior; and from Eau Claire to
Superior City, where connection is made
for Duluth, But this route to Chicago is
what the Managers take pride in, and be-
cause of the smooth steel rail track, well
ballasted road bed, the best Day Coaches,
Sleeping and Dining Cars that money can
procure, courteous and attentive employees
and with trains always on time, it is
riuhfly aorpaJ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

GOLD J. s.. !. {. ]. !. {. {.
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I'll Ewill mail you free, n royal,
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ness Capital not required.
We will Start you. You can
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The work is universally adapted to both sexes,
y0ung and old You can easily earn from 80
.9nts to - every evening. That all who work
nay test the business, we make this unparallcl-
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lcud 81 to pay for the trouble Of writing US.
SIiI particulars directions, etc. sent free. Tor
:uues will be made by those who give their
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utely sure Don't delay. Start now. Address
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u Orders by mail promptly attend
ed to, and satisfactionguaranteed.
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cation company through This division is all
right, but tho Dakota and Montana is kept
back
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-15
Pen PARALYSIS.

Many stenographers and persons who
make their living by constant use of
the pen or pencil are afflicted with pen
paralysis; and, although, rs a general
thing, this trouble can be cured by a
few months rest, some oil those writers
afflicted with it never recover. No
body knows the strain of incessant pom
manship upon the muscles and nerves
OF the hand and wrist better, or per-
haps as well. as those who pass
through daily experience of that ma
ture.
Telegraph operators are likewise
afflicted with paralysis of the same
muscles. A Times reporter had a con-
versation recently with a first class
operator, and asked this question:
81 understand that fifst-class tele-
graphers are the only ones who get tel
egraphers' paralysis; why don't the
it?n
Because" replied the Morse man,
"a good operator is paid good salary,
and is consequently kept constantly
working at the board, while a second
or third-ratc man has many resting
spells, which allow him to stretch his
arms. and thus escape paralysis. Many
men who have been working for the
company for years, and were getting
good wages, have been compelled to
give up their lucrative employment by
telegraphers' paralysis. You notice it
first in the muscles of your arm, which
becomes numb after a hard days work,
and within six months after the first
shock the stoutest operator will sue
cumb. This paralysis, however. does
not destroy the use of YOUR arms and
fingers entirely, but while you are able
to lift and handle objects OF any con-
siderable size, you will not be able to
button your coat or suspcnders.
Don't that account for some mis-
takes made in telegraphing?'
Yes, indeed. Many mistakes in
telegraphing, charged at first to defects
in the machinery, have been traced to
paralysis in the operator. because it
soon becomes evident ihat tie operator
has lost his sense OF 10 en- You see,
the slightest pressure Oh the ley over
what is required will produce another
letter than the one ihtcl!,.,i bv lie op-
orator, and SO it soon eu.he, b, az that
what the unfortunate o csatuf ut first
attributes TO overMork iinu44 comes to
be an evident loss If s,if.lI Seness of
touch. This usually os..ss., rom six to
eight years after an of,'.,,lpr has been
working steadily rs Il hrs -t.a,s man.
Hartford ItHttS