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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
Losses in Swine.

Investigations by the Department Of Agri-
culture, at Washington, according to Mr..
Dodge, the statistician, show losses from
diseases of swine during the past twelve
months of 4, ,0OO, 900 animals Of ali ages, or a
money loss of more than 500, 900, 900. One
fifth of the reported loss occurs in the State
of Illinois. Next in prominence are Missouri,
Iowa and Indiana, which together lose $10,-
100000. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana have nearly as large percentage
in loss in numbers, aggregating in value ST.
500, 1000. The losses are very small in the
country bordering on the great lakes and the
Pacific coast. Of the remaining districts
West Virginia comes nearest exemption, and
Ohio and the Atlantic coast States stand bet
ter than the alluvial districts The apparent
loss is equivalent to third of the sum of the
exports of the pork products last year.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
To Increase the Flow Of MIX.

A writer who says that bis cow gives all
the milk that is wanted in family of eight
persons, and from which were made 200
pounds of butter in the year, gives the fol-
lowing as his treatment: IF you desire to
get large yield of milk, give your COW three
times day, water slightly warmed, slightly
salted, in which bran has been stirred at the
rate of one quart to two gallons of water.
You will find, if you have not found by daily
practice, that your COW will gain twenty five
per cent Immediately under the effect of it,
and will become so attached to this mess tnat
she will drink almost any time and ask for
more. The amount of this drink is an ordi-
nary water pailful each time, morning, noon
and night.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16

Two GAMBLERS were in Lavenworth, Kan,
several years ago, with about $50 in their
pockets. They desired to get money enough
to 90 to California. They went to separate
hotels. One registered as physician, and
advertised remedy for cholera. The other
put up large quantity of yeast powders into
sample packages, with little croton oil in
each, and hired boy to distribute them.
Soon family after family, affected by the
croton oil, felt what they believed were symp-
toms Of cnolera. The sale of the cholera
remedy was enormous. and the gamblers
were enabled to 60 to California. They now
tell the story through the Virginia City En-
ieYprise.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
A Great Singer Of Former Days.

Rubini created an Immense enthusiasm up
on his appearance in 1881. The facination
of his voice was irresistible. Even his
brother artists would linger at the wings
while he was singing, 10th to lose single
note.
He made his debut at the Theatre Romano,
his native town, in wOman's part, when he
was twelve years old. He was afterwards
engaged to play the violin in the theatre at
Bergamo and sing in the chorouses. A drama
was about to be produced, but there was no.
body to sing it. Rubini was mentioned, and
q few shillings were offered him to undertake
it, He accepted, and received great applause.
Some time afterward he was engaged as ten
or at Pavio, at 36 shillings month.
Sixteen years afterward he and his wife
were offered an engagement ut $4,000. But
he always cherished that song which first
brought him into public notice, and used to
sing it when he was in the height of his rep
tation. The compass of his voice was mar
velous he could begin on the high B flat
without preparation, and hold on it for con-
siderable time.
At Milan the people flocked in crowds to
hear this wonderful effect, and never failed
to encore it. One night, raising his eyes to
heaven, extending his arms, initiating bis
chest, and opening his mouth, he endeavored
as usual to give forth the wonderful note.
But B flat would not come. Greatly discon-
certed, the tenor brought all the force OF his
splendid lungs into play and gave it forth
with immense vigor. But he could feel that
he had in some way injured himself. He
went through the performance, however, as
brilliantly as ever. When it was over he
sent for surgeon, who very soon discovered
that he had broken his collar bone-it had
been unable to resist the tention of his lungs.
''Can man 60 on singing with broken
clavicle p he inquired. ''Certainly," replied
the doctor; land if you take care not to lift
any weight, you will experience no disagree
able effects" And he did go on singing
BeL0r0Cl0.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
A COOL HOUSE.

As the warm weather is coming on it may
not be out of the way to say u word or two
about cool houses. We all appreciate cool
house on hot day as well as warm house
on cold day. But how to keep house cool
on hot day is not so generally understood
as appreciated. We shall not go into dis
cussion of architectural construction to tell
how house should be built and partitioned
to secure proper circulation of air and per-
feet ventilation, at this time, though these are
important questions in building houses in
California, but shall simply suggest a few
ideas about the management of the house in
hot weather, to keep it as cool as possible. In
the first place our nights in California are al
ways comparatively cool, however hot the
days. This fact, if properly taken advantage
of, will enable US to keep comparatively cool
houses during the hottest days. Many people
upon going to bed are very careful to close
up every door and window, and upon getting
up in the morning are equally careful to
throw them all open. Thus they effectually
shut out the cool air and manage to keep
their houses very uncomfortably warm day
and night. If directly the opposite course
be pursued that is, to open all the doors and
windows upon going to bed and close them
upon getting up-most any house can be kept
comfortably cool in the warmest California
weather. If those who have been following
the former course will change and adopt the
latter, they will be surprised to find what a
cool house they have. The same principle
holds good as to any particular room in the
house. The working rooms, as for instance
the kitchen and dining room, have to be
opened frequently, but the sitting room and
parlor, which are generally used much in the
fore part of the day may in this way be kept
comfortable for occupation in the afternoon
when the heat is the most intense and oppres-
sive. If the curtains to the windows of the
sitting room and parlor be kept closed also
during: the forenoon it will assist in keeping
the heat out, and render their occupation
later in the day more agreeable. Cellars
where milk is kept and butter made should
always be managed in this way. A. little per-
causion in this direction will add to the guam
tity and quality of the butter made materially.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
Fable.

The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. A
certain Man had Goose that laid him q
Golden Egg every day worth about Two Dol
lars. After while the Goose could not find
much to eat and the Egg kept getting smaller
till at last it was only worth Ninety Cents
''Good for nothing Goose" said the man. 81
will kill you and cut you open, and get the
Egg you have in your belly" He did so,
and, to his great sorrow and disappointment,
found nothing.
Moral.-Let the goose go on laying.-Nec
York World
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
SacrilegiOus Contents of Steeple.

All along North Main street people were
looking this morning at some sight aloft.
Far up in the air, on the spire of the Fourth
Congregational Church, at a height of nearly
200 feet from the pavement, two men were
seen-looking rather small up there-at the
very top of the spire, and one OF them on
ladder above the top. They were taking
down the weather vane preparatory to paint
ing the spire and church, which sorely needs
it, not having been painted for eighteen years.
One of the men, painter, by the name OF
Bullock, is said to be nearly or quite sixty
years old, and is moreover lame man; yet
not one person in ten Thousand, at half his
years, would be willing to 60 to that dizzy
height, above the highest buildings, and
stand alone in the air, supported by nothing
but ladder, and his feet resting on one OF
the upper rounds of that. The Fourth Church
was erected in 1848 and 1849, and was not
finished before the close of the latter year.
When the spire approached its completion,
and the ornamental finals or hollow balls be-
low the weather vane were in process of con-
struction, certain residents of North Main
street contributed quart bottle of fine old
rum and pack of playing cards, which were
placed, without the knowledge of the Church
Committee, in the hollow swell beneath the
vane The bottle of liquor was duly marked
with the date Q848,) but probably without
the names of the contributors; and under
these ungodly devices the religious services
have been carried on for nearly thirty years
without the knowledge or suspicion of the
odd situation of things aloft up in the steeple.
Hartford, Conn, Times, June 22d.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16

Scene in the trial of gambling house case
IN Washington, ID. G., police court; "What
ispoker" !. asked the court; ''agame of cards?
Yes answered several LAWYERS at once
only wanted to know as matter of proof !"
remarked the court, with smile at the en-.
hghtened lawyers, and the case proceeded
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
The Strike.

PAY us our wages,
Or go back to stages"
"Pooh! pooh now! Pish! pish!
Well call the milish."
Zip! pingw sings the lead,
''There's somebody dead"
[-COurier- Journal.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16

The Ha,okeye says that Turkish mothers
now put their babies to sleep by singing the
tender little sorg:-
''I've letter from the czar,
Baby mine baby mine
And he says he'll lift our ha'r,
Baby mine, baby mine;
He has crossed the Danube,
He Is coming after me,
And We'll see what we shall see,
Baby mine'
This, saws the Graphic, is evidently from
the pen of DR.. Clevelandoff- CoXeski. And
Russian mothers hush their little ones by
chanting:-
"Oh! the sultan humps himself,
Baby mine, baby mine;
Oh! he cannot count his Wealf,
Baby mine;
He is proof to shot and shell,
And we cannot, very well,
Take COnstantinOpUel,
Baby miner
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16

A MISSOURI paper has pathetic account
Of man pursued through seven States by
remorse and guilty conscience.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-16
OWNING UP.

." N1NU UVs
Truth is I'm getting gray,
And things 90 'gainst the grain;
feel exceeding out, someway,
Like roosters in the rain.
Am forty ?-Just about.
Lived high? Yes. put it so;
But not enough to get the gout
Or let my liver know.
You'd say held my own
Better than most OF men;
Still, if at twenty had k''0,c's,
I'd managed different then.
Ifee, as have said,
A sort of vague defeat
Az if Id march d and fought and bled
Against the side that beat.
Alack for that disease
No doctors diagnose;
I'd make feature of their fees
To find the old repOse.
Repose. that's it; repose
From illness il-defned-
You smiIe Well. to heart that knows,
One needn't be SO blind
With cramps in the career
While peace to pieces few;
serious Summer fore twas sere,
My Fail fast falling through.
A hut upon the jut
OF New Hampshire hill,
Would tell you that my need is but
An Anti-School-house pill!
Two names are on its door,
A brown-eyed girls and mine;
We wrote them some time after four
Perhaps nearer next day nine.
Not yet too old to feel
To one conceit l cling
Once put the shoulder to Loves Wheel
It proves no hunlrus thing.
Tn we'll along to learn,
But still 60 to schools;
Convinced the closer discern,
A bon is born a fool!
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

EFFECTS OF THE ILLINOIS SILVER
BILL.-The bill passed by the Illinois
Legislature making United States mint
silver coin legal-tender in that State, If
approved by the Governor, will take
effect on the LIST ofJuly next. The Chica-
go Tribune says:
"This makes the silver coin a legal-ten-
der in the payment of all debts contract
ed in Illinois. All mortgages and trust
debts may be paid in silver; all notes pay
able at banks, all bank checks, all depos-
Its in saving banks, all private debts, all
taxes due to the State and to municipal
corporations within the State, and all
other forms ofindebtedness, may be paid
in silver without reference to the amount
unless the contract shall otherwise
specify"
This makes subsidiary silver coin, or
token currency, the money of account in
that State. OF these coins two halves,
| four quarters or ten dimes to-day have a
gold value of-or the bullion in them is
| worth, as nearly as possible-eighty-six
cents. The paper dollar, that is, the
United States legal-tender note for one
| dollar and the national bank note re-
| deemable in United States legal-tender
notes, have each a gold value of 93i cents.
1t is well suggested. therefore, that mer-
chants will do well to make special con-
tracts dealing with any one in trade in
the State of Illinois, otherwise more than
the legitimate profits of the transaction
may be lost by the conversion of the cur
| rency which they receive into money
used elsewhere. The administration is
showing In some quarters a disposition
to take issue with the States as to the re-
mouetizing of silver. The Secretary of
the Treasury has ordered the looking up
of the authority vested in Congress to
exercise exclusive control of the regula.
tions of values. The opinion is main
tanned in Washington that States have nc
rights whatever in the premises except
in conformity with United States laws
and that any attempts to force the accept
ance of subsidiary coin as a legal tender
in amount in excess of five dollars, as
authorized by the act of Congress, will
result in conflict between the federal and
State governments, and will be subject
to judicial decision, which, it is believed
will fully sustain the views entertained
by the Treasury Department This will
open a pretty big fight, and one which is
likely to extend beyond party lines.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29
May 80. IS77.E

THAT TELL-TALE BooK.-We pub
lished yesterday an account Of little
book that had been found by an investi-
eating committee of the South Carolina
Legislature. 1t contains an account of
the Republican Printing Company, show
ing the amounts of money paid in bribes
for services rendered by the members of
the House and Senate in securing the
passage through the General Assembly
Of an appropriation Of $225, 900 for pub
lie printing in the session of 1884.
The whole amount paid in such bribes
aggregate about sirty thousand dollars.
OF this amount Treasurer Cardoza is
credited with having received $17,s66;
ex-Gov. Moses $10,304; Senators Nash,
Whittemore and Owens, 5000 each;
Tim Hurley, a Hayes elector, 1880, and
E. w. M. Mackey, late Republican speak
er of the House, $1,s00. Chamberlain's
name does not appear as one of the re-
cipients of any portion of this money ;
but doubtless he knew all about the mat
ter. He has just sold his residence in
Columbia, and has taken, or is about to
take farewell leave of that city and of
South Carolina. Whittemore is said to
be missing, and we should not be sur
prised if others whose names appear in
this tell-tale book will soon be found to-
have jumped the State. The Republi-
cans of this State who have been so de-
voted to the cause of the late carpet-bag
government of South Carolina will please
note the fact that Chamberlain, their po-
litical saint, no longer desires a residence
with a people he is not able to rob,
through the assistance of Federal SOL
diers. No honorable man would have
held the positions under Grant which
the commanders at Columbia and New
Orleans held; and the Army of the Re-
public should be reconstructed if there is
no other way to get rid of them.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

MACKEY AND HIS ASSOCIATES RULED
OUr.-In the South Carolina House of
Delegates on Saturday the committee on
privileges and elections in the same body
reported adversely upon the claim of the
entire Charleston delegation-seventeen
members including Speaker Mackey-to
seats in the General Assembly. The
ground of the report is that there was so
much fraud and intimidation in that
county as to vitiate the election. The
evidence upon this point was almost
wholly derived from the report of the
Congressional subcommittee which visit
ed Charleston last fall.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY, published
by j: G. McCurdy & Co., Philadelphia,
is Grand Combination History of the
World; being made up of three distinct
books:
1st. Ancient History. Eastern Ma
tions. Greece, Rome, &c,
I'd. Middle Ages. Latin. Slavonic,
and German Empires. Crusades. Eu.
opean, Asiatlc and African Institutions,
&c.
Sd. Modern History Reformation.
Western Discoveries. History of Mod
ern Nations to the present. including the
Inauguration of President Hayes, and
Turkish Difficulties.
The authors idea In his Book is to
bring together the men, measures, and
exents which have exerted a controlling
influence upon the destinies of the world
and detail facts in proportion to the rel
alive importance.
The Work concludes with a Chronolo.
logical and Alphabetical Index and Pro-
nouncing Dictionary, which assists the
memory and renders accessible the nu
merous facts with which the Volume il
loaded. 1t is most valuable work, and
may be obtained from the publisher OF
their agents by addressing as above.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

MISSISSIPPI LAW ENFoRCERs.-while
the Meridian Mercury thinks the Chisolm
tragedy may be pa sed over, the Jackson
(Mlss') Times notes that at the last session
OF the Legislature more than a dozen mil
itary organizations were incorporated and
placed as minute-men under the immedi.
ate command of the Governor, for the
suppression of riots, &c, and it wants to
Know why some of them have not been
called out in Kemper county if the sheriff
IN unable to make any arrests for the re.
cent 'arharouH mas acre in the Jail. The
meii'han paper is the only journal in the
South that we have yet seen that does no,
d mand that the murdcrers be brought to
Jnstice.-Bdttimore sun
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

THE United States, according to re-
cent statistics, leads the world in its
means Of speedy communication between
remote sections, its lines of railway ex-
ceeding those of Russia, Turkey, Germa-
ny, Austria, Great Britain, France and
Italy combined, the total mileage of the
United States being nearly $4,000 miles,
against 76,620 miles in the countries
named. Yet Russia has more than dou.
BILE the population of the United States,
Germany about two millions greater, and
Great Britain, France aud Austria sever
ally about two millions less than this
country.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGE.-The Re-
publican newspapers, among them the
Republican of this city, that are lukewarm
in their support of Hayes, have been try
ing to make political capital out of the re-
cent member of James Laws, a negro, in
Louisiana, and thereby prejudice the pub
lie unfavorably to the administration of
Gov. Nichols. We therefore call at
tention to the opinions of the New York
Herald upon the matter, given below:
"a colored man named James Laws
has been shot in East Feliciana, greatly
to the evident delight of Mr. Packard.
who, the New Orleans Republican re-
ports, has sent an account of the case to
General Butler for campaign use' We
were In hopes that the killing of negroes
for campaign use' had come to an end.
and we do not, in fact, believe that the
case OF poor Laws will be worth a cent
Tor political purposes, The country has
got little tired of the Campaign use' of
the black man, and it has not forgotten
Ine notorious Eliza Pinkston fraud, nor
The hundreds of other and similar frauds
by which its sympathies were worked
noon in a shameless way by men like
Packard. Governor Nichols will, we
have no doubt, see that Justice is done
upon the murderers of Laws. If he does
he will do great deal more than Pack
ard and Kellogg ever did in Louisiana.
Tor under Kellogg,s rule the negro was
slain entirely for Campaign purposes.'~
Some of the republican statesmen are
spolhng for good old-fashioned negro
massacre in some Southern State, and
their impatience because the killing does
not come off ia very dicpaal Af-l. -
not be well for Mr.. Packard to write a
letter appealing to the Southern whites to
delay no longer; and expressing his opin-
ION that unless some negroes are speedily
them in" w "''
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

The Official measurement of the boat
in which Thomas Grape and his wife, of
New Bedford, Mass, propose to cross the
Atlantic makes the length 1856 feet !;
breadth, 6.4 feet; depth, 3.16 feet; ton
mage, 1852. Her draught of water is only
thirteen inches. Her owner has great
confidence in her sea-going ability. The
adventures sailed ON the 2Sth of NAV.
and expect to arrive in England about
the 9th of July, taking the track of the
ocean steamships.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29
REPUBLICAN MISRU.E.

1t is terrible to think of the distress
and poverty which the Republican lead
ers have brought the people of this coun-
try. The following, from the Notre Dame
(Ind.) Scholastic, is, fair sample of the
distress all over the countrya q
There have been, probably, no less
than 800 poor, hungry wanders who visit
ed Notre Dame during the past year, and
who received such refreshment ard
ciothing as their immediate wants called
for. The great and apparently increas-
ing number of these s'tramps" is simply
appalling. Why do not our Legislators
take the matter in hand and make some
provision by witch they will be enabled
to earn their living? Ifthis matter is not
attended to in time, worse evils will un-
doubtedly be the result. The State Legis-
latures should take some concerted action
in the matter, and petition Congress to
legislate upon it. There are abundance
Of waste lands In the United States where
these young and old able-bodied men
could be colonized and made means of
great good to themselves and the COM
munity at large. We venture to say that
every 500 Of public money spent for such
purposes would save triple the amount in
State prisons and work houses as well as
relieve the public nuisance and the coun-
of lasting disgrace. Talk about pauper-
ism in the old Catholic countries Of Eu-
rope! We havs here 10 to one the num-
Der of paupers to be found in any Of them.
1t is high time effective steps were taken
to stop these species of compulsory vaga-
bondism, entailed by the want Of labor
throughout the older settled portions Of
the country, East and W est.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29

The Auditor of Virginia has contract
ed for 5000 of the new liquor registers
provided for by the lasC Legislature, and
which are designed to facilitate the col
lection Of the tax on drinks sold in sa :
looms. The dial plate will be made of
porcelain and register 1,000,00 drinks, a
number sufficiently large, it is thought,
to prevent dishonest bar-tenders from
running out the register and fixing a
number at will.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29
HOW RUSSIA CHRLSTLANIzES THE

LONDON, May 29.-The Tines Berlin
dispatch reports that Krysinski, one of
the leaders of the Polish rebellion of
1858, has been sentenced to death and
shot at Warsaw. While Krysinski was
residing in Paris he petitioned the Gar
for pardon and was invited to return
Upon his arrival he was arraigned for
rebellion and condemned to exile in ST.
IBERIA. After his condemnation Krysinski
fed, was captared once more, arraigned
and shot.
The daily gazette., 1877-05-29
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