Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-12
No. 20
GENERAL ITEMS.

GEO. ELIOT will not give readings in Amer
ica, as has been announced.
GusrAvUs DoRE is camping out alone in
Scotland, making free use eff his pencil.
THE little Alta (Utah) Independent has
been remorselessly killed by Sheriff's pro-
cess.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has received
q massive gold chain from St. Louis adj
mirers.
EDWARD PALMER has been appointed to
the Grand River Indian Agency in place of
Conn0r, suspended.
''WHo sent the first postal card!" will puz-
zle future generations as deeply as the con-
undrum about William Patterson.
SENATOR CARPENTER is reported to have
said that he believed his colleague, Mr.. Howe,
would be appointed Chief Justice.
JACK CARTER, who has been confined in
Sing Sing for nearly thirty years, on his re-
lease sat down on a stone and wept.
TEE London Illustrated Reciew asserts that
Lord Byron's secret was that he had wife
when he was married to Miss Millbank
SETH GREEN has made shad so plenty in
the Hudson that the residents of the river
towns are shingling their houses with them.
1t is expected that the new cotton crop will
be the most valuable ever raised in the United
States and will realize not less than $3.50, ,000,-
000
Two crippled soldiers, one from the rebel
and the other from the Federal army, have
formed partnership for running hand
organ in New York.
The newest drink that has been intro
duced, is the "Modoc Punch, warranted to
put you in your little lava bed with sudden
ness that will be- surprising
He who is good to himself is wise, and
he who is good to others is generous; but he
who is neither kind to himself OR others is
the veriest knave imaginable.
The West is great country. A Min
nesota farmer lost gimlet three years ago.
The other day he cut down a tree near his
barn, and found three-quarter- inch augur.
A New HAMPSHIRE lady, ninety-six years
old, is now teething and suffering from
whooping cough. She expects to touch par,
however, unless the cholera infantum attacks
her.
A CALCULATION has been made by West
ern statistician that half million dollars
worth of property burns up every day in the
United States, or $500, 600, 900 worth per an
mum. .,.
Love JOHN WENTWORTH had his pocket
picket of $50 the other day, and as it was
done while he was standing up, he has ar
rested several hook and ladder companies on
suspicion.
THE Scandinavians ask to be represented
on the next Republican State ticket in Mime
sofa, and the St. Paul Press comedies the
justice of their claim and the advisablity of
complying with it.
TIE editor of the oldest newspaper in Du-
luth talks of purchasing for his own use
shirts that button in the back, and if the
town patronizes him literally hereafter he
will wear socks the year round.
A WOMAN in Burlington, Iowa, is six feet
seven and half inches high, good-looking
and rich, and yet none of the marriagable
young men can muster up courage to propose
to her, as she is still growing.
There is general ignorance of the law
upon the subject of sending merchandise
through the mails. Merchandise is limited
to twelve ounces in weight, and must be
wrapped so rs to permit examination.
NUMEROUS invalid New Workers are going
this summer to the Hot Springs of Arkansas,
ffty-five miles southwest of Little Rock, to
test the efficiency of the baths upon neuralgia,
rheumatism, general debility, liver complaint;
and like diseases.
The people of Lemhi valley, Idaho, are
anxious to have the land in that valley sur
veyed. The valley is settled up and down
the river each way from Fort Lemhi for 20
miles, and contains enough good farming land
for fair sized county.
IT is estimated that the Americans who
have gone and are going abroad this year will
spend in Europe not less than $75, 900
gold, very little, if any, Of which will ever
return to this country. No wonder, with
this thing constantly going on, that money is
tight in Wall street.
A BALTIMORE telegraph operator recently
sued friend for twenty-five cents, the
amount he had paid for telegram sent at
his request He won the suit, and the amount
and costs aggregated $1.95, but the friend
appealed, and has finally given bonds in the
sum of fifty cents.
-Jefferson's advice to his daughters was
to avoid breaking with disagreeable people
as long they could with honor. Sacrifices
and suppressions of feeling for such an OBJ
ject, he thought, cost much less pain than
open separation. The effort of self-control
was soon forgotten, but an open breach
haunts the peace of every day.
AT spiritual seance in Philadelphia, the
other night, the spirit of Fulton was called
up. Instead of talking of steamboats, and
lhings, as everybody thought he would, he
could only be induced to say, over and over,
Tom, they give to eat of nothing but cold
wafiies up here, and if it keeps on, / shall
break 0abriel's head with his own trumpet"
Molly Strong, of Newton, Michigan, dug
! well forty feet deep, last summer, and re-
:eiyed $3.50 from her father therefor. Then
j lot of fellows went after Molly, and wanted
q marry her. Int aha MN arelY Kicked them