Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-09
GENERAL ITEMS.


! JOHN HERRING G-Rushville, Ind-his wife
hear the heart-not expected-arrest.
IT is reported that Jay Gould lost only $1,-
000, 900 to 81, SOC, 900 on his last gold seU
FRANK M. PIxLEY has bought Miss Edmo-
MIA Lewis's statuette, ''Love Caught in a
Trap"
1T is apparent to parent that great many
children get on the wrong track because the
switch is misplaced.
ONE Tennessee editor proposes to sue an
other for libel, and to collect $4,000 from
him. Can infatuation further go?
THE main portion of Stanleys Yellow
stone command arrived at Fort Abraham
Lincoln, near Bismarck, on the gath ult.
Mr.. MlToHHLL, a California agriculturist,
has gathered this year 600, 900 bushels of
wheat from little patch of 10000 acres.
PAULINE LUccA has bought a lot on Fifth
avenue, near Central Park, and will erect
residence for herself and her new husband.
N. +. LANaFoRD, of Helena, Bank Exami-
ner for the Pacific States and Territories, is
in Salt Lake City, on business connected
with bis Office
ONE hundred and forty girls, all under thir-
then years of age, picking over rags in a
New York warehouse, struck for higher wages
the other day, made speeches, passed resolu-
tons, and went back to work at the same old
figure.
Tue world is getting to be very much
mixed in religious matters. A Vienna tele.
gram says that 'the Sultan has addressed an
autograph letter to the King of Greece,
thanking him for the gift of the Order of the
Redeemer." This from the head of the Mo-
hamedan faith!
AT the Texas Republican State Convention
recently held at Dallas, one Judge McCown
introduced himself as follows: Il am Judge
McCown, the old he bar of Brazos bottom,
the father Of twenty-four children born in
lawful wedlock, and the grandfather of forty
six grandchildren.
One at least of the influential fire insurance
companies has positively refused to take any
risks in Boston. The Fire Department of
that city is too defective and the style of
architecture is too combustible to satisfy the
cautious underwriters that they can find profit
in investments there.
w. w. GRoEsBEcK, of Rye, New York, is
going over to Ireland this fall on pleasant
little commission to secure the title deeds and
take possession of the Henri estate, valued
at $5, 200, 600, of which his mother (Mac-
Henry is the sole heiress, from John Henri,
a nobleman deceased.
TIE Railroad Conductors Life Insurance
Company reports that only fourteen of the
accommodating fellows were killed during
the last year. OF those who died natural
death, nearly half had lung disease, caused
by the use of irritating language while the
trains we're under way.
The California Acclimatizing Society have
raised this year 49, 600 trout from ova obtain
ed at the East, the fish now being from two
to four inches in length; they had 4O, 900 ma
tive trout hatched in the spring, which are
now from one to two inches long, besides
920, ,OOO Tahoe trout abouttwo inches in length.
SINCE the Inauguration of General Grant,
On the 4th of March, 1869, $3.50, ,00O,O 600 of
he national debt has been paid off. Within
hat time the taxation of the country has been
reduced by Republican Congress one hum
1red and thirty millions. Within that time
he credit of the nation has been improved
md established throughout the world.
A MAN out West named John T. Out, hay
ng been complimented by his wife with
'ouncing twins, boy and girl, named one
Betsey" and the other 81. r." which, re-
marks the paper which is responsible for the
tory, settles the question of the authorship
# ''Betsey and I. r. Out between Miss
Emerson and the other old maid. AT least
his the latest solution of the question Out.
The Chicago Tribune says no confidence
7as placed in the representations of the man
gers of the Graphic balloon that the pro-
osed ascension would be made Experts
'ho were to manage it disagreed, and there
as no probability whatever that any effort
'Ould ever be made to cross the ocean in a
alOOn. The whole matter has been an ad-
ertising dodge, and it is asserted by those
no are informed on the subject that not
2, 900 has been actually paid out for what is
aimed to haYe cost $4,000.
THE London Builder gives the following
of bridge to be constructed over
e Firth of Forth: I he structure will be by
+ the largest bridge in the world. 1t will
; $50 feet in height. and will contain nearly
70 spans. The greatest span in the center
i'll be 1900 feet in width, or nearly a third
mile in extent, dimensions which are
thout parallel for any similar piece of arch
'ctural construction; and the smaller open
gs or spans will be $50 in width, being con-
lerably beyond the average dimensions of
e largest spans in ordinary bridges. 1t will
st at least $4,000, 900.
The Graphic balloon, we are told, did not
o up" OF late we have had reason to sdp-
SO that the Graphsc newspaper event up''
tead. We rejoice to learn our mistake.
e paper purports to be sent to us daily in
change for the HERALD. Yesterday we re-
we'd one number-the first in fortnight
e photograph of the man who makes it.
'inees 70 s'smouge' the Gyap1sc from US is
nted. We, promise. if it is forthcoming,
ind q place for it in the ssRogues Gallery
q printed cut of it, by the new process,
the only daily illustrated paper in the