Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-05-22
No. 26
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL IIEmSs
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal intimates that
General Schenck will be candidate for
United Senator.
GEORGE WELLS, the rich farmer of Grundy
county; Iowa, pays 81 ,050 school tax, and he
has'nt got child about his house and never
had.
! THERE is firm in St. Louis now building
a machine which is designed to cut and take
up grain, and at the same time plow and seed
the ground.
THE James Fisk, jr., monument, to be
erected at Bratteborough, VT, will be seven
| feet broad at the base, twenty-six feet high,
and very rich in detail.
A passenger on an Ohio railroad, aroused
from serene slumber by the footing of
whistle, exclaimed pctulantly: "The train
has caught up with those cattle again!"
The Fort Dodge Qowa) lNesssnger nomi-
mates Governor G. c. Carpenter for re-elec-
ton, and says that it but utters the sentiments
of the Republicans of Northwestern Iowa.
THE Chicago Ecening Journal and St. Paul
Press, among the most excellent newspapers
of the West, have recently enlarged and inn
proved in appearance by new typographi-
cal dress.
| a WESTERN art critic describes one of the
models for the Farragut statue as ''the fore
man of a fire company tied to chimney
and calling to the b'hoys not to let Dix take
their water"
FATHER HYACINTHE's S lectures at Geneva
are creating so much excitement that thirty
thousand persons applied for tickets to hear
one address, while the capacity of the hall
was only 5000.
THE Minnesota Legislature is considering
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societies for the administration of discipline
in such manner as to affect the business
standing or social position of the respondent.
AT the present time not a single box of tin
is manufactured in the United States, al
though it is claimed that there are large de-
posts of this valuable metal in New Hamp-
shire, Missouri, and the Lake Superior re-
gions.
STOKES is not now permitted to exercise in
the Tombs yard, as he has done for two
hours every day since the granting of the
stay of proceedings. His only exercise now
is in pacing the lonely corridors of the city
prison.
Wu1TELAw REID, editor of the New York
nings has $4,000 on the Times; Croly had
S., 900 on the World; Hudson had $4,000
on the Herald, and was retired on pension
of $4,000.
The Washington Ch1onicye says that the
impression which seems to be entertained in
some quarters, that the repeal of the frank
ing privilege carries with it the freedom of
exchanges among newspapers, is a mistake.
Free exchanges are not affected.
THE sort of leader required to head the
Democratic party is thus stated by the Louis
vile Courier Journal: ''We need bril-
liantly educated ruffian-a heroic, statesman
like, high-minded and honest blackguard-a
blatherskite with courage and real genius for
public business.
A CHINAMAN was summoned as a witness
in New York the other day, and, to ascertain
his views on the nature of an oath, the judge
asked him what would be his punishment if
he should swear to lies. 81 shall never re-
turn to China, but always remain in New
York." was the reply, and he was at once
sworn.
1T is estimated that there are at the present
time 5000 different manufactures in Maine
giving employment to over AZ, 600 persons, the
aggregate products amounting to some $780,
O00, 900 yearly. Since 1850 Maine has more
than trebled the number of her manufactur-
ing establishments and the nature of their
products
The story is told of August Belmont, the
eminent banker, that his private secretary re-
fused to work for 81, 500 year and be sworn
at by the financier in his sudden fits of anger.
Belmont thereupon increased the young mans
pay to $4,000, and indulged in profanity at
the clerks expense at his own sweet will
thereafter.
A LOUISIANA paper asks, in distressed
tone, ''If we can't raise cotton, in heavens
name what can we raise? At this distance
we may not be able to give an intelligent ans
wer, but we venture the opinion that, if other
parts of the State are to be judged by Grant
Parish, Louisiana beats any portion of the
South for raising wool.