Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-12-27
No. E
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December II, 1877
ALL SORTS.

MEN quietly smoking their pipes care but
little for cigarmaker strikes.
THE mutilated currency exchanged for new
is sues averages 100000 a week.
The Indiana State Democratic Convention
has been called to meet at Indianapolis Feb
ruary Goth.
MARY KYLE DALLAS, the story writer, has
been made priHci pal of a public school at Mi
anus, Conn.
TIE output of the precious metals for the
g gregates $700,000.
THE Burlington Hdackeye says thatthe spec
tacle of fat man in a helmet hat IS what
makes men murderers.
A CABLE dispatch of the 10Th reports the
death of Countess Milfore, wife of King
Victor Emanuel, at Turin.
THE highest prices paid in the Egyptian
market for young Nubian women is SOU,
and for fair Circassians $4,000.
THE proprietor of one of the street news
paper stands at Boston, is said to have accu-
mulated over $5O,O0O in the business,
Mr.. EUsrls, Senator from Louisiana, is il
man tall, large, and broad-shouldered, with a
red face and black hair dashed with gray.
EX-SENATOR BOUTWELL, has nearly COM
pleied his revision of the United States Stat
utes The book will be printed in January.
SENATOR BLAINE has gone to the Arkan-
sas Hot Springs to try the effects Of the baths
in eliminating the malarial poison from his
system.
THE President contemplates appointing
southern man to the judgeshp of the Court
of Claims in place of Judge Peck, soon
to be retired.
PRESIDENT HAYES has offered Packard
foreign mission, which he is disinclined to
accept, desiring the New Orleans Collector
ship instead.
The last scheme to make Mr.. Tilden Pres
ident is the most melancholy failure OF all.
Absolutely nobody has the audacity to say
kind word of it.
MISSISSIPPI Democrats are offering Senator
Bruce ''persuasive overtures' to ''get out OF
the Senate" They want Solid South Con-
servative in his place.
BEECHER and Talmage met on the cars and
examined each other in arithmetic. Beecher
broke down at nine times.:six, and Talmage
at twelve times seven.
GAvAzz1, who is engaged in the attempt to
Protestantize Italy, is described by an Italian
reporter as being 'brave, interchangeable, and
Jealous as Luther himself"
THE United States Treasury has $50, ,000,-
600 of gold coin in its vaults. The January
interest account will considerably reduce this
amount
Or the 100000 voters in Kentucky, 10000
cannot read. and over 40, 600 of the men who
cannot read are whites. Well may the Louis
Vile Courier-Jou,mal remark, ''The great
need of the Commonwealth is a good CON-
mon school system"
Mr.. LAMAK's novel idea of converting the
Solid South to sound financial views by means
of unlimited doses OF reconciliation would
be more popular if the number OF CONVEX
sions already secured in that way didn't
stand so close to zero.
A RHODE ISLAND banker writes to the
Treasurer of the United States, as follows:
''Do you pay the silver Congressman OF IN
silver? BY the eternal, would. 1t would
bring them to their senses to receive, say
$4OO monthly, in trade dollars or halves.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says the summoning
OF Parliament probably means no more than
warning to other powers that England does
not propose to allow the Eastern question TO
be settled by three Emperors, and that she
must have some voice in the disposal OF her
own future.
GEN. JOE JOHNSTON is credited with the
statement that both sides were greatly demor-
allied after the first Bull Run battle, and that
he now believes it would have been better
for the South if the North had won the bat
tie. for in that event the war would have
probably ended there.
If the rapscallions on either side OF the
Rio Grande are made to behave themselves,
there will be no trouble between the Govern
ments of the United States and Mexico. Each
government ought to devote itself PRINCIPALLY
to whaling the common rascals VINO are try-
ing TO involve the two countries IN war.
A YOUTHFUL couple drove into Kansas City
the other day from Lenexa, Kan, and got
married. They had only 81 to fee the justice,
but 81 went. The young man was Ephraim
s. Pabbs, and the girl Honoria Lucy Ellis.
They rode to town on load of hay, and
trusted to luck to sell it to pay wedding ex-
penses. They sold it just at dark and went
home rejoicing.
ELlHu BuRRlTT, ''the learned blacksmith, y
has recently called attention to the fact that
much of the labor trouble arises from the fact
that so many young men abandon the farms,
where they might become capitalists-though
perhaps on small scale-to get employment
in stores and factories. He tells of one in
stance where young heir to a farm of 500
acres turned his back upon home to become
a workman in factory at low wages. 1nde-
pendence, even at the expense of hard hands,
a bronze face and wearied muscles, is prefer
able to wages the amount and continuance
of which are largely dependent upon the ca
price or selfishness of another.