Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-12-13
No. 4
ALL SORTS.

OF tne JOre1gn missions, choosing raller 10
remain an editor.
TEN-1NCn gauge railroads are in operation
and building in Massachusetts. They are 8
demonstrated success.
MAJOR SNIFFlN, late Assistant Private Sec
retary to the President, is in San Francisco,
en- route to Arizona, where he is assigned to
paymaster duty.
THE fate of Erzeroum is soon to be decided,
and with the overwhelming force that the
Russians have brought against it the result is
scarcely matter of speculation.
WYoMNG's Delegate, MIR. Corbitt, has intro
duced in the House bill for constitutional
amendment giving each Territory and the
District of Columbia member of Congress.
A VISITOR to Mr.. Gladstone's home, Ha-
warden, saw written on tree which was
marked out for telling:
''All the same death-clm and birch,
Down they must come, like the Irish church"
DR.. HOLLAND has become convert to free
trade in the modified form of a revenue tariff
system, and in the leading editorial article in
Scri6ner's Monthly for December he sets forth
the reasons for the faith that is now in him.
An 1rishman passing up street one day.
Just missed the heel of mule that kicked At
quite so familiar rach!n' out your paw, Ill
let you know when I want to shake hands
wild ye, moind that"
A LITTLE girl whose spapa was recently
under the influence of Moody and Sankey,
wanted a second tart at supper, and was re-
fused it. "Papa," she said abruptly, why
do you sing Feed me till want no lnorey
She got the tart.
A FLYING trip may now be Hsade to Pales-
tine for $780, 1t is now more common to go
there than it was fifty years ago to visit Nj
agara Falls In some places a preacher is
hardly considered respectable until he has
''done" the Holy Land.
AMERICAN citizens of English descent ought
to look out for the London Gazette just now,
for the Bank of England intends to publish
in that dreary paper list of the names of
the original holders of stock of the bank
upon which dividends have remained unclaim-
has reached &c, SOC, ,956, or nearly $18, 600, 900
and the bank seems to be anxious to get rid
of this burden.
THE State of Kentucky, the stronghold of
sour-maeh, has been fairly swept by the Muir
phyites. Two-thirds of the population of
Frankfort have joined the movement. In
Cynthiana 365 signed the pledge in three
nights, among them prominent distiller.
Out of total population of 80 in the village
of Bridgeport, &C are Murphyites. Out of an
audience of 1923, Benson station, 101 signed
the pledge.
THE millennium has come," said lion to
q lamb ''suppose you come out of the fold
and let US lie down together, as it has often
been foretold we should!" 'Been to dinner
to day p inquired the lamb. ''Not a bite of
anything since breakfast" was the reply. Il
mistrust a millennium" said the lamb,
(which consists in our lying down together.
However, you may go over yonder sunny
hill and lie down until l come
INTERESTING statistics are given by the
Lexington, Ky., Gazette thus '.'Three old,
long. and lean drinkers of this city Joined
the Murphy movement just one month ago,
and were weighed day or two ago. One,
the longest and leanest, had gained exactly
ten pounds, the others eight and half
pounds each. The first figured up his ac-
count with the temperance cause about thus
Cash saved, $75; flesh gained, ($5 per
pound), $50; in feeling, $500; to his family,
$40. 600; total, $1O,625.
FRANK FOsGATE, convicted recently in the
United States district court at Yankton, D.
T., of robbing the mails while driving stage
On the Fort Sully and Randall route last sea-
son, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge
to four years. hard labor in the De-
roit, Mich, penitentiary. Fosgate was cap
ured several weeks ago by Special Agent
Fury in Western Nebraska, and confessed
lis crime, and said he had obtained about
8, 900 by his operations.
Four hundred years have rolled away since
Columbus discovered America,
md while two full sets of his bones have
,een discovered in different places in foreign
ands, not single skull or bone of the old
navigator has been found in the land he dis
covered. What sort of enterprise is this?
Where is all our boasted Yankee ingenuity?
las it all been expended on Cardiff giants
nd other stone monsters? Let us have
hange and some of Chris American bones.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT is large, burly,
With red, bushy sde-whiskers, and is English
q appearance Cornelius J. Vanderbilt his
ontesting brother, is tall and thin, with heavy
rown whiskers. Judge jeremiah Black,
hief counsel for the contestants, is very
arge,, with flush face, large head, which
uns from a low forehead up to point. Scott
ord is large, with very long iron-gray hair
nd whiskers. Henry L. Clinton is tall, an
ular, and very nervous, and full of details
nd technicalihes.
The wife of Pennsylvania clergyman
hen dying recently called him to her bedside
nd said: "Don't grow morbid when I am
one. Go into society, be cheerful, and let
0 regard for my memory check you when
ou see fit to marry again. 1t is my wish;
le children must be cared for; you will
eed helper in your work. You can not
We alone, your temperament is all against it;
1ly choose cheerful woman, and teach
er to love our children. Don't answer me,
I'd don't be governed by what the world says
thinks"