Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-08
No. "a


GENERAL ITEMS.
THE New York elevated railroad carries
! 5000 passengers daily:
THE anti-secret society organization in New
York does its business with closed doors.
| 1T is thought that the Legislature will be
ready'to adjourn on Saturday next, May 3rd.
MAoREADY, the well-known English actor,
died in London on Tuesday, the Goth ult-, at
the age of 80 years.
The Pittsburg man who invented those
self-breaking lamp chimneys has made over
$500, 900 out of them.
GEN. GARFIELD, of Ohio, has declined to
receive the $1,000 back pay secured to him
by the increased salary bill.
THE services in an Ohio church few Sun
days ago were suspended while a young lady
horsewhipped a male member of the congre-
CATION.
ARKANSAS newspaper correspondents in the
Legislature make assertions and back 'em up
by saying five got six bullets which says
it's So"
Moss AGATE necklaces are fashionable in
Denver, and the polished shell of four-inch
mud-turtle adorns the shirt-bosoms of the
male swells.
States and Great Britain will be three thou
sand and sixty nautical miles in length, and
will cost Fl, ,211 ZOO.
KATE FIELD denies that she is threatened
with deafness, and wants to know who
started that story. Kate has never been
threatened with dumbness, either.
11R JOSEPH ARCH, the we'll known leader
of the agricultural laborers in England, is to
be put up as a candidate for the borough of
Woodstock at the next general election to the
Parliament.
Mr. JOHN JACOB AsroR has presented to
Trinity Church, New York, pair of gold
candlesticks nine feet high, with branches
for fifty-seven lights on each. They are
valued at 81 900 apiece.
The telegram bearing the single word
"SavedI" which Mr.. B. B. Richmond sent
from Halifax to his brother in Detroit, has
been framed by his partners and hung up in
the counting room of the firm. .
A SELFISH California minister recently re-
fused to perform the marriage ceremony for
couple where the bride was his own alb
seconded wife. And that aggravating woman
said that he was ''just as mean as he always
used to be-"
Mr. A. d. Williams, of Richmond, has
become the wealthiest man in Virginia by the
simple process of investing 81, 900 a few years
ago in 40, 900 acres Of land, which has since
turned out to be immensely rich in coal.
A NOTABLE bell which now adorns the
steeple of a Baptist church in California en-
joys the unique distinction of having rung
the knells of twenty -one murderers and sum-
moned twice as many vigilance committees
to their duties as guardians of the peace.
THE Seligmans, famous as fnanciers in
America and Europe, have gathered up the
trihing sum of fifty million dollars, which is
to be the capital of their new bank in San
Francisco. They begin on this small scale
so as to have room to grow on the Pacific.
The aged but astute Illinois farmer keeps
no barometer, nor does he put his trust in
the groundhog, but he knows when spring
approaches by seeing his sons, who have ar
rived at manhood, prepare to leave home
after winter Of "sponging" on the old
man.
AN unfortunate Kentucky editor thus ad-
dresses his delinquent subscribers: ''Frlends,
we are penniless Jobs tArkey was mil
lionaire compared with our present depressed
treasury To-day, if salt was ten cents a
barrel, we could not buy enough to pickle
jay Bird
They don't like to take United States scrip
in Canada. Afraid it isn't good. Canadian
scrip they dote upon. That is perfectly good.
The United States Government is paying off
its debt at the rate of $10O, ZOO, 600 a year,,
while the Canadian government is increasing
its debt about So 900, 900 a year.
A ooRoNER's jury in Vermont, impannellad
to ascertain the cause of the death of a nOtO-
rious drunkard, brought in verdict of
''death by hanging-around rum shop"
In California coroner'ss jury, under similar
rendered a more courteous
verdict: Accidental death while unpackihg
glass"
PRESIDENT GRANT recently appointed Mrs.
l.. A. Cary Postmaster at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Writing to Gen. Garfield concerning the ap-
pointrnent, he says: cit is of class of
appointments / am glad to make, where it
can be done; that is, it is giving soldiers
widow an opportunity of supporting herself
and orphan children" -fY
The Contra Costa (Cal.) Farmers Club, at -
heir last meeting, passed resolutions in favor
Of building a narrow gauge railroad from
Walnut creek to tide-water at Oakland, and
the county of Contra Costa to
rive a subsidy of 5000, 900, on condition that
t is extended from Walnut creek to Martinez,
md from Walnut creek to Limerick.
THERE is a queer genius in the Modoc tribe
known as Scarefaced Charlie, and who is as
rue rifle shot as Leathesstocking, and as
impossible to hit as streak of lightning.
In the thick of battle he i to be found in the
front, turning double someTsaults, and shoot
ng between his feet at each revolution, and
generally with fatal effect. <-7.- =
A Missouri judge few days ago admins.
cred the following consolation to criminal
whom he was sentencing to death IF i
.uilty, you richly deserve the fate which n