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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

Artemus Ward once lent money. He thus
rccounts the transaction: A gentleman friend
of mine came to me with tears in his eyes.
said ''why these weeps?" He said he had
u mortgage on his farm, and wanted to be r.
row $500. lent him the money and he went
away. Sometime after he returned with more
tears. He said he must leave me forever. l
vcntured to remind him of the. $500 he bor-
Irowed, He was much cut up; I thought |
would throw off 800. He frightened, shook
my hand, and said ssOld friend l won't al
low you to outdo me in liberality--Ill throw
off the other hundred"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01
Good Time for Newspapers.

The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch says
We have often thought that the days when
newspapers could have been published to
the best advantage have passed. Nothing OF
very extraordinary character ever happens
now; and, as the true journalist turns the
pages of history, and perceives what magni-
ticent chances for sensation articles slipped
by unimproved, because there were no news
papers, he feels an almost irresistible inclina-
ton to groan and weep and tear his hair.
Take Noah's flood, for instance. What
splendid accounts the reporters would have
got off about the launch of the ark! How
they could have spread themselves on the en-
try of the animals into the vessel, giving in
terviews with Ham and Shem, and accounts
of the quarrels between the Kangaroo and
the Gorilla; and how they would have rushed
around, after the flood, to collect the list of
insurunces? Then there was Daniel. When
he went into the lions den, wouldn't the
editors have got down their encyclopedias
and put obituary notices of him in type; and
wouldn't they have howled the next morning
when they found him alive and we'll, and all
their trouble wasted? What splendid arti-
Gle his adventures in the den would have
made, given with woodcut of Daniel, as he
sat there predding the lions with his alpaca
umbrella! What is the use of having free
press, if we cannot have sensations of such
kind? And then think of David and Co.
Hath! Wouldn't war correspondent of one
of our dailies have gone crazy with delight
oyer that combat, and have written forty
columns about it? And wouldn't the New
York Herald have rushed out its old ground
plan of Boston, and have called it q map of
the locality, and muddled the brains of its
readers? And when Nero fddled at the
burning of Rome, imagine how the reporters
would have depicted the terrors of that con-
fagratien, and figured up the losses and
praised the fire department.! And how the
editors would have gone for Nero, and
shaken him up and denounced him! These
chances are all gone. The newspapers came
too late; and now there is nothing left for
us but commonplaces and politics, so that
sometimes we hate to draw our salary.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01
A White Buffalo.

The Denver Times of April I'd has the fol-
lowing: J. T. Morgan, about week ago,
while out hunting on the head of the Re-
publican, killed white buffalo, the hide of
which he brought to Denver and is having it
stuffed and mounted by Rudolph Borcherdt,
taxidermist. This is the first instance of a
white buffalo having been killed by a white
man, so far as we have heard, though the
Indians have occasionally found one. Morgan
has been constantly engaged in hunting for
falo he ever saw or even heard of during
that time. The buffalo is a yearling, and
perfectly white. no colored spots appearing
upon him. Morgan has been offered $500
for it since he arrived here.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

The San Francisco High School Girls
"Society for the Suppression of Slang" is
defunct. A Chronicle reporter asked one of
the late members what was the cause of the
society's i'll success, and she said: swell,
some of the girls take no pride in cultivating
those graces of conversation which 90 highly
adorn the character of our sex. They-they
somehow or other, they would slop over
every once in while, you bet and so the
rest of US got our backs up and just let the
thing peter out. You know how it is your
self, suppose?" The reporter groaned in-
wardly and said he guessed he'd skedaddle.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

THE New York G,upAic, in recent arti-
Gle on the morality of New York, refutes the
constant assertion that that city is the worst
place in the world. 1t says: 1.-THE press is
omnipotent. Every crime is reported. Every
burglary and brutality is described in the
most striking colors and sensational styles,
and our blood curdles and our flesh creeps as
we read the tales often written out with a
circumstantiality Of detail and vividness OF
description which shows that they belong
quite as much to fiction as to fact, and are
printed to sell the paper and the reader too
= 1t is the bad side of a city that gets
reported in the papers, and people arc too
apt to forget that there, is any other. The
statistics Of crime are appalling, but the
moralities are not mathematical and refuse
to be n,arshalled in tables and tolled off by
the hundred or thousand. The vices are reg
istered and reported, but the virtues make no
demonstrations. tssa,g t,.f@sssegis ) ss
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

AT the age of sixty-fve Nine. Marie Tag
lioni, probably the greatest dan 'use that
ever lived, returns to London for tho purpose
of giving dancing lessons Losing much OF
her property by the late French war, and de-
sirous Of giving her son, who is French Of
ficer, as large fortune as she gave her
daughter on marrying, kind-hearted Nine.
Taglioni cheerfully goes to work, after years
OF peaceful seclusion on the banks OF the
Como. In perfect health, active as many
woman of forty, with an exceedingly pretty
1oot, the great ex-danscuse goes through the
moderan dances with grace unknown to the
drawlng-room. ''Ah! Idon't know where
ne manners are nowadays" she exclaims,
WIN W sigh. 8 Nobody knows how to bow.
t but the American young ladies please me
pest, she adds; ''they have great facility in
learning and are naturally graceful" dI
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01
MIR. A. II. Stewards Illness.
From the New York Herald of April 12.

A rumor was circulated late last evening
that MIR. A. Il. Stewart, who has been ailing
and confined to his bed since the Oath ultimo,
had grown considerably worse. A Herald
reporter called on DR.. White, his attending
physician, at half-past 10 o'clock last night to
learn the true particulars of his condition.
The doctor, who is MIR. Stewards family ply
sician, seemed somewhat reluctant to state
the nature of Mr.. Stewards disease, and
waived our interview on the subject in very
courteous manner by saying that he had just
returned from Stewards bedside, and found
that gentleman convalescent. During the
past two weeks he had not left his bed. Yes
terday he was able to sit up for Il short time,
and appeared in better and more cheerful
spirits. Only his physician, with one or two
personal friends-Judge Hilton and his part
ner, MIR. Libby-are permitted to see him.
The nature of the disease DR.. White thought
better to be kept secret, as it seemed to be the
wish of his patient.
From other reliable sources which prudence
prevents us to mention, the writer learned
that Mr.. Stewart spent yesterday in very
critical condition. Although he succeeded in
sitting up short time, his appearance was
ease of the kidneys" His nourishment, pre-
scribed by the attending physicians, consists
of chicken broth, faxseed tea and other nom
stimulants. He has endured very severe pain
during his illness, and Yesterday his physi-
clans had persuaded him to submit to
necessary but painful process in order to re-
move somewhat the great intensity of his
pain. He is 70 years of age, yet most patient
and heroic in his illness. A few days more
will probably decide the question of his con-
valescence or relapse and decline.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

Yesterday was the time for the meeting of
the Montana Legislature, which body it is un-
derstood will furnish the means to construct
and equip a railway from this city to Helena.
The rich Territory on our northern border
J Utah and the % men now nc pude deliberatins at Vr-
ginia City are to determine whether Montana
is to plunge into wealth immeasurable, to fill
up with magnificent population, or else fade
back from public notice Their grit and
judgment are holding the scales which we
hope to see turn to the better side. Give us
the railroad, gentlemen of the North, and you
are safe CoaTnne Reporter, 18th.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01
Marital Responsibility.

The independent legal attitude in which
! the laws of the several States have placed
husband and wife during the past ten years
such, for instance, as making wives sole
traders. the holders of seperate estates etc.
has realized to husbands bountiful COM
pensation for the marital authority of which
they have been shorn. According to late
decision of the Supreme Court OF Illinois, a
husband cannot be held financially response
ble for the SANDERS uttered by his wife. The
case in question was one in which Janet
Robson had sued one John Martin for SLAM
derous words used respecting her by Marga-
ret Martin, Johns wife, and the case had
come to the Supreme Court on appeal. The
decision was that the husband was not liable
The court held that a liability which has for
it's consideration rights conferred should no
longer exist when the consideration has
failed If the relations of husband and wife
have so changed as to deprive him OF all
rights to her property and to the control OF
her person and her time, every principle OF
right would be violated by holding him still
responsible for her conduct. So long as the
husband was entitled to the property OF the
wife and to her industry, SO long as ne had
power to direct and control her, and thus
prevent her from the commission OF tort,
there was some reason for his liability The
reason has now ceased. The ancient land
marks are gone The maxims and authority
and adjudications of the past have faded
away The unity of husband and wife has
been severed. They are now distinct per-
sons, and may have separate legal estates,
contracts, debts and injuries. The chains of
the past have been broken by the progression
of the present, and the wife can now enter
upon the stern conflicts of life untrammeled
She no longer clings to and depends upon
him in the contests of the forum, to outvie
him in the healing art, and climb with him
the steps of fame. And as her brains and
hands and tongue are her own, in the judg-
ment of the court, she alone should be held
responsible for any ISLANDERS she may utter.
Of the justice of this decision there can be
NO reasonable question. Wives must now
guard their tong CUES unless they have the
money to pay for the reckless use of it,
Ier1it0,Sdl Enterprise.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

The seven wonders of the world are among
the traditions of childhood, and yet ninety
nine persons out of hundred cannot name
them. They are the pyramids; the temple,
the wall, and hanging gardens of Babylon ;
the Chryselephantine statute of Jupeter
Olympus, the most renowned work of Phid-
as; the temple of Diana at Ephesus, which
was 220 years in building, and which was
425 feet in length, 220 feet in breadth, and
supported by 1877 marble columns of the
Ionic order, GO feet high; the Mausoleum
at Halicarnassus erected to the memory of
Mausolus, King IF Carea, by his wife, Ar
temesia, B. G. 1858; the Pharos at Alexan-
dria, lighthouse erected by Ptolemy So
ter, at the entrance of the harbor of Alcxan-
dria $50 feet high, and seen at the distance
of 100 miles, and lastly, the Colossus at
Rhodes, brazen image of Apollo, 1O5 Gre
clan feet in height.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

A RURAL parodist has just seen g Beautiful
Snow" and it has affected him thusly:
go! the snore, the beautiful snore
Filling her chamber from ceiling to floor!
Over the coverlet under the sheet,
From her dimpled chin to her pretty feet!
Moaning,
GrOaning
Filling the air.
Beautiful snore! it raises your hair;
Now floating aloft like bee in June;
Now sunk to the wall of q cracked bassoon!
Now fute-like, subsidng. then rising again,
IL the beautiful snorc of Elizabeth Jane"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

IT is said that some of the bright young
men of Albany, who 60 to see the girls, have
adopted q new and novel method of getting
kisses. They assert, on the authority Of
scientific writers, that the conclusion pro-
duced by kiss will cause the flame of the
lamp to flicker, and easily induce the girls to
experiment in the interest of science. The
first kiss or two the parties watch the flame
to see if it f1ickcrs, bat soon become so in
terested in the experiment as to let it flicker
If it wants to.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

A TEXAN benefactor Of his kind who stole
three accortleons has been sent to jail insteasi
of receiving vote Of thanks. atBlei
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

GOVERNOR BENNETT of Idaho has made
requisition ON the War Department for 500
breech-loading Springfield rifle muskets, with
accourterments, ETC., and $4,000 metallic
cartridges. all Of which is accepted and will
arrive in, Boise City by May LIST. ..sAl 4
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-01

Nor finding Indiana parishioners amenable
to reason. clergyman there has been trying
the effect of sermon in rhyme.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
A Neglected Cemetery.

In the cemetery attached to the Rock
Island, Illinois, Arsenal lie the remains
OF 1000 Confederate dead. who died
there while prisoners Of war. The sdi'
tor of the Rock Island Args lately
visited this forlorn spot, and says that
the fences which once enclosed the
ground and the headbosrds which iden-
tilted the occupants OF the trenches
have been removed, and that the graves
have been leveled even with the earth.
Only Elk Of the graves have survived
this obliterating process, and these have
marble slabs, which have been erected
there by grieving parents. OF these six
three are tenanted BY brothers OF the
name OF Mcdaniel, who all died on the
island, and the slabs proclaim them the
Sons Of Fielding and Lucinda Mcdaniel.
The editor refers TO the vandalism OF
taking away the ferce, the head boards
and leveling these graves. and says that
cattle belonging TO United States Off
Gers, which run on the island, trample
over the graves, and the place wears q
neglected and forlorD look-a look OF
spilefulness towards the helpless dead"
There is q commsndant st the Rock
Island Arsenal who could probably
rectify this iLbumanity, il he bu. chose
10 do 20.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
Humors OF Prohibition.

A lady but lately settled in Con cord,
n. H.-relates the Patriot Of that city
went into a drug store and innocently
asked for a pint OF alcohol to be used in
a spirit lamp. Have you prescrip-
tionY asked the clerk politely. "A
whatY' asked the lady in surprise. "A
prescription from a physician ex-
claimed the clerk, I'VE are not allowed
to sell alcohol unless it is ordered by a
physician" Not even slcobol2' said
the astonished customer. "Well, that
is strange. was not aware that any one
ever drank pure alcohol as beverage
"Very true. ! think myself
that such a regulation is ri-
diculous but we must obey
it. am sorry if you are inconvenien.
ced, but cannot sell you any alcohol
unless you bring prescription" The
lady left the drug store, and when last
seen, in the middle Of the afternoon,
was circulating around looking for q
physician who would be willing to Ger.
tify that her spirit lamp was seriously
ill-with some disease or other pecu.
liar to lamps at this season Of the year
and that its case was one requiring
treatment with stlmulsnts.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
Greasing the Glasses.

Three thirsty young men entered q
saloon in St. Paul, and advancing dis
rectly to the lunch table, where each,
after disposiug Of his regular amount OF
provisions, secured piece Of fat meat,
and concealed the same in his hand.
Then the three young men seated them
selves and called for lager beer. The
gorgeous bar tender, with flourish OF
bis paper cuffs and large green studs in
the air, deposited three glasses filled
with foam. A touch ef the fat meat
upon the top of each glass instantly re-
duced its contents to q small remnant
Of beer with Just q film Of foam on the
top, and before the bar tender had re-
tired a pace his attention was called to
the small measure given. With q
pleasing, Indifferent smile, he conveyed
the glasses again to the faucet and filled
them full of beer. Each glass had been
rubbed around its inner edge
with the grease, and the foam would
not stand. There was puzzled look
about the drawers face as he replaced
the new.flled glasses, which look passed
slowly off as glass after glass OF foam
was served to other customers. The
Young men called for more beer, and
again he had to draw twice to fill their
glasses. Then he drew another glass
for himself, and as he gazed first upon
the light froth in his glass and then up
on the solid beer in theirs, the more his
amazement grew. While his glass was
still before him, one OF the young men
managed to grease it and then invited
him to fill up and join them in a part
ing glass. He drew accordingly,and the
four glasses were alike-holdiug no
foam, but clear beer. There was q wild
look in his eye and fading OF color
from the cheeks OF that expert beer
drawer as he rushed to his stand, seized
another glass and drew into it piled
up mass Of foam. The loud laugh OF
the young men he noticed not-hls
mind was all distraugh with the myste'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12

From letter in the Petersburg Ap.
peal: "Tbe people OF Richmond bold
Henry A. Wise in high esteem and love
him ior his brilliant and patriotic rec
ords as Virginisn. Two of his nepb.
ew. are among the most trusted lesders
OF the Conservative party in this city
aud his con one OF the most promising
lawyers and a general favorite. did
woman service for the Conservative
party 10 the Walker campaign; but
honestly believe that The political infu-
ence OF Governor Vice in Richmond
since 1870 (uhen he advised Cslhoon
to resist the EIlyson municipal govern
ment) has not bad the weight Of Q ies'
ther. The Conservatives would not lose
fifty votes BY bis candidacy, while with
Gilmore or Lyons ss independent ean-
didates they would not lose . tingle
ballot. These are facts
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
MEMPHIS.
shooting Anfay.

MEMPHIS, June ia special from
jackson, Mississippi. to the Appeal
says: Jsckson's streets have again re-
vibrated to the musical crack Of revol-
vers, and a drayman's mule is dead
The vell-knowu C. S. Bell has been
drinking exceedingly lately, aud Is evi-
dently not in his right mind. de dis,
played a pistol on the street to>day, and
leyeled it q Deputy Sheriff Steel;
Steel started to disarm him. when Bell
fred, and killed the mule. He then ran
and Steel followed. when Bell again
fred, Steel then returned the tre and
Bell fred again aud then fell to the
ground. Bell walked TO the jail. This
is the third scene which endsd IN a
shooting afiray in the last thirty days,
A painter named jackson committed
suicide here this morning. by taking
laudnum.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
The Model American school House
az Vienna

A correspondent Of the Chicago Tib
uns, writing from Vienna, gives the fol-
lowing account OF the manner in which
the construction Of the model Amer
ican school house has been managed at
the exposition:
"The American echool house is in
bad way. Congress made an appro-
priation of 5000 for the construction
Of model building Of this kind. Some
time last fall Mr.. Philbrick. superin.
tendent of the public schools of Boston,
wrote General Van Buren that he
would erect and finish q model Amer
lean school house for 5000. General
Van Buren replied that he could have
it constructed cheaper. 1t now appears
from q memorandum found at head
quarters that the contract was let to
Colonel Lyman Bridges, OF Chicago. for
$40, 900. The structure is only about
half completed. but its total cost, fn-
ished and furnished, could hardly exc
ceed $1,000, for Instead Of being .
model American school house. it is .
very shabby affair indeed. 1t
is planned by Q German who
probably never saw the inside OF
q school house either il Europe or
America. Work upon it has ceased,
and Mr.. Schultz has decided to tear it
down. it is so much inferior to the Swiss
and Belgian school houses, and 90
sbamefully libelous to the school sys-
tenn OF America. There being no ac-
count of moneys expended, it is impos-
sible 10 tell how much has already
been thrown away on this building, but
it is certain that enough has gone into
the pockets OF somebody to have built
O halt dozen OF the kind. The fraud
is the more glaring when it 10 known
that the windows and doors were Q
gratuitous contribution from q New
York firm. and that the seats, books,
charts--in fact all that was required
for furnishing it, was generously loaned
by the city of Boston"
One OF the correspondents OF the New
York Tribune speaks in q similar man
ner of the school house enterprise, and
adds:
ut appears, therefore, that the Uni
ted States are making ss fine show
at Vienna architecturally as morally.
and in both respects our citizens are
represented without regard TO expense"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
Address BY whitelaw Reid
CHICAGO.
Man Found Dead

CHICAGO, June 1.-THE dead body o.
young man about twenty three years.
was found about one o'clock last even.
ing lying in front Of a stand near Ran-
dolph & Deleplaine's, on the left
hand side, between Sixth and Seventh
streets. On the body was discovered q
small pistol wound. His vest was open
and uninjured, but his white shirt and
flesh were schorched with powder and
bloody. In the pockets of the dead
man were found five cents in coin, q
small pecket comb and small pistol
cartridges and a handkerchief, but
nothing whatever by which he could be
identified.
This morning the workmen engaged
in excavatiug on the grounds OF the
Chicago & Platte Bar Mill Company, on
the corner of Washington and Archer
streets, struck Q human skull about
three feet below the surface. The re-
mains were collected and placed in a
barrel TO await the action Of the coro-
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-12
Frea Delivery systeIn.

After July 1st, 1873, by direction oi
the Postmaster General, the free delive-
ry system will commence at the follow
ing places: Atlanta, Georgia. five
carriers; Charleston. South Carolina,
seven carriers; Elizabeth. New Jersey,
six carriers; Mobile, Alabama, eight
carriers; Paterson, New jersey, eight
carriers; Poughkeepsle, New York, :,
four carriers; Savannah, Georgia, siI
carriers. The list will be further in-
creased when the report Of the Special
Agent Smith is received. 1t is the de-
sign of the Postmaster General to apply
the free delivery system to the cities
which have reached the population Of
10000 since the taking OF the ninth
census. These postal facilities will not
be accorded at the same time as at the
cities in the above list, but as soon
thereafter 40 practicable.