Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-10-01
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ciety.
A srEcrLAR drama, founded or Wcbs' RS
Dictionary, unabridged is III course of pre-
paration.
IT is said that John Morrisscy is ready 10
bet SjjO, 900 that kcd Clonl can beat the Maid.
, Time, 2.12.
NEARLY two hundred newspapers have
failed in Germany since the beginning OF the
present year
THE Empress OF Austria is said to be the
handsomcst princess and ore Of the hand
soonest women of Europe.
TIE Japanese census shows only three
thousand criminals in population Of over
thirty three million souls.
THE Ecclesiastical Committee Of New York
has dissolved the relation Of Rev. Tunis Titus
Kcndrick with the Methodist church.
ALL through the German Empire they are
taking statistics of the complexion. color of
| the hair and eyes of the children in the
schools.
WILLIAM TRAvERs, the head Of the Sara
toga Racing Association, is the son-in-law of
Hon. Reyerdy Johnson, and is said to be
very rich.
HENRY WARD BEEcuEp receives 500
apiece for his weekly articles in the New
York Ltdger-his annual salary aggrcyating
$4,000 year.
A CHICAGO Times reporter, when stopped
by highwayman who demanded his money
or his life, promptly inquired if the robber
would take car-tickets.
Two ENGLISH ladies were suspected of
completely in Bazine's escape, and the gen
d'armes have since ingeniouSly nsulcd every
English lady in France.
AMONG the patents recently granted is one
to Mr. Uri Behrends, for improvement in
cigars, incidentally prepared fer the cure of
catarrh, throat disease, coughs, etc.
JUSTINE DURur has just died al Paris, aged
! forty-three. She was remarkable only tor
her appetite. She ate every day six pounds
of bread and pound and half of meat.
TUE Marquis of Ripon has resigned the
position of Grand Master Of the Order of
| Free Masons in England, and will be sue
ceeded 81, interim by the Prince of Wales.
| D. w. PERLEY, we'll known law
yer of San Francisco, died in that city on
September 9Th. lie was the second of Judge
Terry in the duel of the latter with L. s.
Senator Broderick.
| THE talk in fashionable circles is that Miss
! Bristow, daughter of the Secretary of the
Treasury, viii be the belle of Washington
| this coming winter. She is only Is years old
and very beautiful.
The Ohio State journal of the 9Th says:
| ''Whitelaw Reid, editor of the 1Tibune, is
said to he dangerously ill of congestion of the
brain. This news will be received with very
deep and general regret.
Mrs. RoMMAaDO PACHECc, wife of the
Lieutenant Governor of California, has trans
lated French play. with the view of having
it introduced on the stage and printed for cir
culation among her friends.
J. F. WlLCoxsoN, proprietor of the Eagle
brewery, Virginia City, Nevada, was shot
and killed on the 9Th inst. by an old man
known as "O1d Jimmy" There was no
provocation for tine murder.
JOHN MoRRlssEY wants the Democracy to
send him to Congress again. OF course the
present attitude of affairs in the South re-
quires the cooperation of such Democrats
from the North as this prize-ring plug-ugly.
IT is stated in the report of prison asso-
| Citations lately issued, that of IA, ,596 prison.
ers confined in the penitentiaries of thirty
States in 1867, seventy-seven per cent, or
| over 1O, 600 of the number had Fever learned
trade.
AT Los Angeles, California, short time
u
pronounced him sane. 1t then proceeded to
try him on charge of an attempt to COM
NIT murder and acquitted him on the ground
of insanity.
SOME German wn:kmen have written to
Bismarck that for every bullet shot at him
which misses him they will kill Roman
Catholic bishop; for every one that hits him,
two bishops; while if he is killed, they will
kill the Pope.
TIE Cincinnati Gazette says: ''No one
now looks to a New York journal for leader
ship in public policy, or for any rational dis
cussion of great questions public or NUM-
cipal; or if any do, it is not to be found
in the newspapers.
The biggest book of the age, in a single
volume, is Whitaker's Reference Catalogue
Of Current Literature, in 8, 200 pages octave.
It contains titles and prices of all English
publications now in print, or about $4,000
full titles, with topical index.
THE Seligmans, New York bankers, and
agents of the Rothschilds, who snap up
$179, ,0OO, 900 of United States five per cent.
bonds before lunch time, were, thirty years
ago, house painters in Philadelphia, receiving
624 cents per day for their labor.
We are now told how we can reach the
gold regions in the Black Hills. Somewhere
in the neighborhood of 800 will carry one
through. But we would advise the miner to
take $500 along. He will need the other
hundred to get back on, and likewise to buya
wig
IT is stated as q singular fact that three
grand-daughters of Charles Carroll. of Car
rollton, one of the signers of the Declaration
of Indenendcnce married into the British