Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-12-20
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December 20, 1877.
No. (
ALL SORTS.

| THROCKMORToN, Of Texas, is the new
| Chairman of the Pacific Railroads Committee.
MR. THEslGER, who has been appointedl TIN
lord justiceship in England, left law pracA'
tice worth between $50, 900 and $75, 900 a
| year in order to 20 upon the bench.
! A PENNSYLVANIA judge has decided that s.,
partner cannot recover back goods of the firm i.
which his co-parlner has disposed of for his
individual benefit, us Il sale by the partner is
in law sale by the firm.
| THE deleterious effects of tobacco are EN-!
phasized by the death at Knoxville of the old
| English sailor, Thomas Grimaldi, who, by its
constant use from his early youth. cut short
| his life at the premature age of 1OG years.
WArrERsoN says: ''President Hayes is
ready, affable and what is known in the South
as good mixer But his coming did not,
| could not and should not, from the nature of
the case, make one single Republican out of
one single Democrat"
THE daughter of Senator Withers, of Vir-
| ginis, who was recently married, lis six feet
| tall, 10 years old, of remarkable beauty and
intelligence, and a strong advocate of wo-
mans rights" Her husband is wealthy
| Boston widower, aged 80.
The following is a genuine ''cxcuse ,"
brought 10 an Adrian (Mich) school teacher
''Miss-please Excuse minnie for She was
helping me She is great help to me thou
Small she may be would miss hur if the
| lord should Call hur at any time & oblige
| Mrs. B."
SECRETARY EvARTs has twelve sons and
daughters, and he attributes the great sue
| cess which has attended his farming opera
| tions in New Hampshire to the fact that the
| sons hoe all the corn and fatten the hogs and
the daughters milk all the COWS and make the
butter.
THE Philadelphia NORTH american looks
upon the struggle in the Senate in spirit of
cheerfulness, explained by the following:
| ''With the possession of both branches of
| Congress, the Democrats ought to be as hap
| by as Old Eccles with nice little place in
Jersey and a comfortable annuity. Hethought
he could drink himself to death in two years,
and 1880 will probably find the Democratic
party quite as near permanent dissolution
NAL GEN. HANCOCK has been beaten in
suit. the result of which is of general impor-
tance to hotel-keepers. The action was
brought to recover the value of three thous-
and dollars worth of jewelry stolen from him
while living at hotel in New York City.
Having made contract for board it was heM
that he was not guest but a boarder which
released the hotel proprietor from all respon-
sibility.
Those who believe that competition is the
life of trade will be glad to hear that Nature
has gone into the refining business -Four
miles from Millerstown, Penn, has been
tapped a well of refined oil, of a greenish
tint but as clear as though passed through a
retort. From the brightness of the flame
and the results of the tests, one would sup
pose that it was the best artiticially refined
oil. Nature will have to have her per centage
in the next oil pool.
"A Michigan paper recently published the
following clipping: lit doesn't look well to
see deacon of the church coming out of a
saloon wiping his mouth with the sleeve of
his coat tail, with foreign substance cling
ing to his upper lip, and sort of YUM!
YUM! expression depicted on his counten-
ance' And then certain Farwell deacon
thought he had been bit and terrible church
row took place, the deacon charging the pas
tor with writing the article.
THERE is much method in the Montenegrin
madness of invading Turkish territory.
While the Russians are giving the Turks full
employment in another quarter, the Monte
negrins are making bold attempt to round
out their territory SO as to take in two seaport
towns They have usually been penned up
in their little mountain territory. without
means of reaching other nations. The Mon
tenegrins may have some ambition to become
maritime power, and it may be in the plan
of Russia, Austria, and Germany to allow
them to hold whatever they capture.
THE Washington Erening Star on the oc-
casion of its 25th anniversary, publishes an
obituary list showing that not less than 9S4
journals have been started in the District of
Columbia, of which there remain but IL sur
vivors OF all kinds, daily, weekly, and semi
occasionally. The Republican, which started
in 1862, is the only daily Washington journal
excepting the Star, that can boast longer
existence than nine years and the Sunday
Chr0nicle is the only weekly which dates SO
far hack as 1860. Washington seems, there
fore. Justly entitled to its reputation of being
the most unhealthy city in the United States
for journalistic enterprises.
A STORY concerning Meissonier is gleefully
told in Paris. The manager of New York
theatre took it into his head that he would
like to have a drop-curtain painted by the
great artist So off he trudged to Meissomer's
studio, and asked his terms. 'Hew large is
the curtain to be?'' asked Meissonier, quite
seriously. ''Fifteen metres by eighteen"
answered the manager. Meissoniere began
10 reckon, and then, paper in hand, he ex-
planned that as his pictures bring him 20, 600
francs per twenty centimetres, or $4,000
francs per metre, the curtain would cost
Just 81, 600, 900 francs that is to say, some
thing over 81, ,0O0, ,OOO ''But, added the pain
ter. ''tbe price would not be our greatest
difficulty. But it would be time. l take
three months to paint twenty-five centimetres-
of canvas. You see, therefore, that my age
would not suffice to paint your curtain, which
would take me over 200 years to complete!'.
The American declared he could not wait 80