River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

"hNNA "Nht an operatiou loi intcfual
abscess.
There is shortage in the onion crop
OF the country, and higher prices are in
Dictated.
BY order of the Georgia courts OBJ
stinate prisoners are hereafter 10 be-
whipped on the bare back.
Minister S. S. Cox and wife and Hen
ry Watterson and wife sailed from
Paris fer the United States.
Tie forfeited Atlantic & Pacific land
or ant in New Mx2ico viii be thrown
open to settlers ina few days.
Bonnets made of small natural white
flowers. and therefore good tor one
occasion only" are in high fashion for
bridesmaids.
The health authorities of New York
| and Boston are keeping close watch
over the shipments of Chicago dressed
beef at present.
Children and fools always tell the
truth, says an old adage. Maybe this
Is one OF the reasons why politician
Is rarely considered fool. HdU-
ca Ne1OS.
Buffalo Bill will visit Europe next
| year. lie thinks the American tours
OF Salvini and Henry Irving call for 4
fitting return.
Atlanta's City Fathers have weaken
ed on prohibition. The CITY Council
/ has passed a resolution permitting
breweries to deliver beer at private
residences.
/
Capt. HEM, the yachtsman, is out
OF pocket some $4,000 by his expert
ments with Galatea, whereas he ex-
pec;ed TO carry home a comfortable
little nest-egg.
San Francisco Alta: We have never
believed in the too rapid payment of
the National debt, but the generation
which spilled the blood has nearly paid
for the War.
The privilege of marrying a second
time IS nowadays almost as frequently
denied parent by his children as the
privilege of The children to marry the
first time Is denied by the parents.
Parnell and his mother and sister in
tend to spend the winter in the south
OF France. They will probably visit
Rome, and not return to England be-
fore the reopening of Parliament.
Miss Ethel-Haye you and George
had quarrel, Clara? Miss Clara-No,
indeed. 1t is getting too near Christ
mas for me to quarrel with George,
dear fellow New York Sun.
John Weltrier of Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, thinks that he has dis
covered the secret ofperpetual motion,
and has made application for patert
ON the machine that is to 90 forever.
A well-known military man OF
Nashua. N. H., is heaping Goals of fire
on a neighbours head. Looking out
early one morning at his corniield ne de-
tected this neighbor skulking off with
his arms full of embczzled corn. lie
The Rev. Z. G. Hay of Potts
vile, Pa, goes to his appointments
among the hills of Schuylkill County
on a bicycle-the first instance IN
which that vehicle has been used for
the transportation of hay.
Nicolas Smith, Horace Greely's son
in-law, is soon to marry again. The
object of the handsome Colonel's affec.
tions is said to DC a lovely and wealthy
heiress of the Blue-Grass region OF
Kentucky and relative of Gen. CerrC
Gordo Williams.
"Send me another copy of the Bee
is the soul-stirring order of an old sub
seribcr, who incloses the collateral il
payment for the same. Then he goes
on TO say: u take one copy now, bu
there's so little in il l need another. .
Richmond Bee.
At Canton, China, a woman charged
with poisoning her husband and three
relatives was cut up into exactly 1000
pieces. 1t has been shown that sh,
was innocent of the otlense, but the
people clamored for her death, which
the Ficeroy finally ordered.
Frances Margaret Walpole died il
London, Sept. 26, aged 90. She was
on the maternal side, the granddaugh.
ter of the great Lord Give, and pat.
ernally of Sir Thomas Walpole, brother
of Horace. She died a spinster, though
belle in her youth.
said nothing about the matter, but or.
dered his hired man every morning to
leave on the front doorstep of this
neighbor six ears of corn, and this has
been done regularly. The vegetable
is good, but rs every body sees the corn
it Is not enjoyed as much as it might
be.
Every time Mark Twain has g
new baby BON in his home he
celebrates the event by erecting
stone watering-trough fol
horses somewhere on the road leading
to his summer home at Elmira, and
troughs are now scattered all along
the road, with more to come.
Between Aug. % and Sept. ), inclu
sive, 3,348 new cases of cholera were
reported in japan, the deaths number
, ing SAP. Over 90 per cent of those
attacked died. The wells of Toxic
were examined and 740 out of LII
were condemned as unfit for drinking
purposes.
J The gross earnings Of the Illinoi;
Central Railroad Company Exclusive
of the Iowa lines) for September
amounted to S926,02 against %93f,.
229 for the corresponding month last
year, decrease of SS,20l. The gros,
; earnings of the Iowa lines for Septem
! Der were $l83591, against Sl67, 2S6
! an increase of S15, 305.
/, As Mrs. Cle7eland, attended by hel
/, mother and her cousin Miss Emma Fol
!, som, of Philadelphia, on her way from
. Buffalo to Washington, paused al
! Wilkesbarre. Pa, the party was met
p by over a thoullnd persons, the major
! ity being woman, who were anxious tC
! see the Presidnt's wife, and many o1
1 whom shook hands with her.
An old log house at City Point, Va.
g known as Gen Grants headquarters
D being the place where Gen. Grant IS
! sued his last oder declaring peace anC
: terms of Gen Lees surrender, has
: been bought md is to be removed to
? New York Gin by Capt. Halleek, whC
will transfer by sale or gift to The
2 Grant Monument Association, to be re-
erected in Rierside Park, near Gen
= Grant, tomb
t Sir Reginald Hanson has been eject
| ed lord mayor of London. lie was
e born May 81, $40. and married May
t 10, 1866, to Constance Hallett. third
) daughter of Charles Bentley Bingiey
] Esq. He was knighted in 1882, having
= been alderman and sheriff OF London
: and Middlesex He is knight comman-
der of the Couronne de Chene OF the
Netherlands. aud NJ. A. of TrixitY col
lege, Cambridge.
The Journal gave, on Monday.- q
word of fiftv-tyo letters which a BOS-