Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-08
No. 33


THERE are 1j,S S19 tarmS III Virginia, oA
which AZ, ,028 are under 100 acres.
NEARLY every college in the Northern
States now admits colOred Students
In New York city there are licensed 1.600
double trucks, $500 SINGLE ditto, and 1900
carts.
BISHOP HAVEN estimates the wealth OF the
Methodist Episcopal denomination as at Least
81 ,O00, 100000.
IT is estimated that there are over SOO tons
of old rubber shoes manufactured into car
springs in Boston annually.
SFNATON SHARON, of Nevada, is the largest
| real estate owner in San Francisco, his prop
| erty being worth ut least $1,O00,OO0.
THERE have just been seventy-fiyc new ma
tjonal banks authorized since the last report
of the Comptroller, dated October 80, 1874.
| COLONEL. MosBY, Of guerrilla notoriety, go:t
knocked down for insulting man on tram
from Washington to Alexandria, the other
day. , ,
| THE viii of the late Thomas II. Selby, OF
San Francisco, has been filed. Ills cstate'
which is valued at $3.50, 900, he leaves to his
wife and children.
| It's little singular that Col. Wheeler, who
opened the mint in Charlotte, n. G., i'll 1885,
| (fOrty years ago. should he there now, IA
1875, to close it up.
4 NEW YoRx paper slys that trip to
Europe has become so cheap rs to be pcbeian;
| and people of superior clay are beginning 70
hesitate about the plopr.ety Of going there
Ir Is estimated that about one hundred and
thirty millions of dollars worth Of dutiablc
goods are annually smuggled into the country
by American tourists returnin. from foreign
parts.
TIE city of New York has Il civil service
of about 13, 600 persons, or one man drawing
pay to every three paying taxes. 1t takes
$13, Coz, 600 to run the city government an
nual]y.
When boy falls and pccls his nose, the
first thing he does is to get up and yell. When
girl tumbles and hurts herself badly, the
first thing she does is to get up and look at
her dress.
| TnE members Of the Fifth Maryland H"gi
ment arc aUOul equally olvlucd-Federal and
Confederate. Several of the privates were
field officers in one or other OF the armies
during the late war.
SENATOR JONES, while in Chicago the other
day, bought for cash two whole blocks 144
lots in all of unimproyed residence property
within easy approach from the busiest and
most valuable part OF the city.
TO cure felon take tablespoonful OF fine
salt, q tablespoonful of black pepper, table
}spoonful of vinegar and the yolk of an egg,
simmer together and bind on. Renew twice
a day. A never failing remedy.
No MAN has reached so high position On
the New York Tribune staff as Thos. Weeks
who scaled its two hundred and fifty-scven
feet to adjust the vane. Vain men always
aspire to places they cannot keep.
BISHOP SIMPSON, Of Philadelphia, has been
detailed by the board Of bishops Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church to preside over tho
mission conference of Germany and Switzer-
hand, which meets at Hilbron, on July 18th.
THE assessment of personal property in San
Francisco foots up total OF S14S,637, 7e5,
which is an increase over last years assess
ment of e43, ,O47, 1885, The value OF the real
estate in the same city is estimated at $162,
OOO,O
CApTA1n BRACKETr of New York, has now
in charge dress of lace supposed to have
been the property of the Empress Eugene.
It is valued ut Sc. COO and weighs but eight
ounces. 1t took seven women twenty years
to make it.
| Ex-Governor Carney, Of Kansas, is engag-
ed in the shoe trade in st. Louis. Tic is a
whole -sOuled sort Of man, and il is pleasant
to know that he has prospered SO that if he
should peg out any moment, his heirs would
be well heeled
TIE largest wine producer in Alameda
county, California, is j. G. Palmer, Of Mission
San Jose. His vineyard is one of the finest
/ AS regards quality-in the State. 1t is es-
timated that it will yield sixty thousand gal
Ions this year.
The San Francisco Ntars Letter referred
to an NJ. D. Of that city as quack. "A libel
suit followed, and the doctor was not only
beaten, but will probably 60 the State Prison
for perjury in attempting to swear himself
into respectabi)ity.
| GOVERNOR TILDEN' s reform warfare does
not come quite up to its sounding manifesto.
The Albany journal says that nearly three
mcnths have passed by since the canal mes
sage and nobody has been prosecuted and not
IN officer has been touched.
1--WE read in de good book" says colored
Baptist brother down South, ''of John de
Baptist-nebber of John de Methodist And
that. saws Charleston correspondent of the
New York Observer, is the reason most OF
the colored Southern people are Baptists.
THERE is family at work in the cotton
mill in Brunswick, Me-, which consists of
father and mother and twenty-fcur children,
all the children large enough being. at work.
The woman is the fourtl. wife. A brother of
the husband, living with his fifth wife in
Montreal. has twenty-five children.
"0REENHORN LUCK" is legend in the
mines. An incident Illustrative of it's mean
ing occurred in Nevada county, California,
recently. A young man from the East, in
poor health. thought he would exercise his
muscles by digging little. They sent him
to Deadman's Flat, as the nearestp place where
a pick and pan could be used. He went there
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