River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-15
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

resume the practice of law.
Nathaniel P. Willis daughter, Miss
Lillian, is to be married to b. A. Bolt,
of Boston.
Denver has a servant-girl famine,
and 500 girls could find pisces at once.
Mr. George Hearst. the new Call
1"rnla Senator, is said to have an in
come of $4,000 a day.
Oscar Wilde's mother has completed
what Is regarded as an important col
lection of Irish legends.
One of the most extensive chicken
farmers IN Pennsylvania is named
Hatch. His first name is Hennery.
North Carolina, formerly called South
virginia, was once sold to the Kings
agent Tor house and goo
A Philadelphia horseman estimates
the trade value of the bride bits in the
country at more than S6,J00,000
1t is rumored that Congressman
Scott, of the Erie (Pa.) district. is ne
gotiating for the purchase of the Wash
ington Post.
President Cleveland was invited to
name female triplets born at Cam
bridge City, Ind. He declined, bat
sent check for $50.
The dairymen ask congress to i'm
pose an internal revenue tax of 10
cents pound on all bogus butter of
whatever name. They contend it costs
20 cents pound TO make good butter.
while butterine costs half as much.
4 writer in the Boston Transcript
says Fred Douglass manner toward
his white wife has tender Difference
that IS beautiful sentiment of unspo-
ken devotion. -
BQbyhOod. in It's April number. offers
so for the best short article G.500
words or morel on CRYING spells re-
ceived By June l.
A stirring story of life on Prince Ell
ward Island, by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Is one of the good things in the April
number of Harper MagaeiRe.
John kerlin, trustee of Princeton
Township and postmaster at Seafiel,
Ind. has taken a trip TO Canada. 4
shortage of about $4,000 exists in the
township treasury.
1t is said that but for Secretary
Manning's sudden illness Secretary
Lamar would, before this have rendered
his resignation to President Cleveland.
The Washington calico ball in aid of
the Garfield Hospital is set for Easter
Monday, to be held at the Chinese
Legation.
Miss Louise Oe Koven is the
wealthieSt heiress in Chicago, her
fortune being estimated nj nearly 500
100000 She is engaged TO young
+ New Yorker.
/ Lord Cairns engagement token to
his iiancie. Miss Adele Grant, consists
of three rings-a hoop of diamonds,
ruby set in diamonds ard sapphire.
James IL. Lindsay, said to be a scion
of the well-known house of that name
in Berkshire, England. is driving a
street car IN Buffalo.
/ F. s. Murphy, a lawyer of Gales
burg, IN. has been disbarred ..oecause
of conduct unbcco&ing an attorney"
rs unprofessiOnal conduct appears to
consist of bringing an action against 4
Judge Of the State Supreme Court for
alternating the affections of a wife from
her husband.
Mrs. Hendricks. widow Of the Wee
President, has gon, 20 California for
a six weeks visit.
Ex-senator Barnur ST Connecticut
/ is eonvalescing in orida.
The domestic no sehould of Queen
Victoria numbers ABOUT one thousand
persons.
/ Sunset Cox has sent a cable message
from Turkey TO say that he does not
want any more salary.
The 10Th anniversary of the first
settlement of Woodstock, Conu., viii
be celebrated on Aug. 3.
Five thousand persons witnessed the
execution. Friday, at Lexington, No.
of Jeif Wilson, whose feet touched the
ground when the drop fell. nece>s Ia
ting a hurried shortening of the rope
He assembled the gallows with a smile
OF his countenance. and spoke for sew
enteen minutes.
The receipts of Edwin Booths two
weeks engagement in Philadelphia
amounted to $40, $40. His most popular
I impersonation was Hamlet which drew
$500. Next came Richard with
. 81 800
Phillip u. Armour, the Chicago mill
lOnaire, Is at work IN his Office from
G.45 a. m. to 6 p. m. six days in the
week, and goes 10 bed at 9 p. N.
Asked how he succeeded In business,
he said recently, Il always made it a
principle when the Almighty wasn't on
my side TO get on his. -
Mrs. Hancock, widow of Gen. Han
cock, was once St. Louis belle, and
is still a very prepossessing woman in
manner and appearance. OF late
years she has dressed always in black.
aud has been seen little in society,
although she has entertained great
deal in a quiet way III her island home.
She has been her husbands constant
companion, and her desolatiOn. now
that she is left childless and a widow,
is almost beyond endurance.
ii. NJ. Hoxie, the manager of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, whose name
has become so familiar of late in con
Hection with the railway strike in the
Southwest, was himself a poor boy in
Iowa. and, in early life, was hostler in
a hotel near DeS Moiues.