Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-22
Helena, Montana, Thursday, November -, 1877
No.. I
ALL SORTS.

WEIGH is ~.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION was the sixteenth of
seventeen children. He was born June 13,
1903.
TIE President has appointed John ..
Smith, of Ohio, to be Consul General at
Montreal.
mo, ma am," said grocer to al applicant
for credit, II wouldn't even trust my own
feelings
The Wisconsin Republicans estimate their
majority at nearly double that given Presi-
dent Hayes.
BEWARE of theGevil fish, If he once reaches
out for you with one of those lhirty-flye loot
feelers, you'll feel him.
AT Shreveport, Louisiana, the Republicans
elected their candidates for Mayor and Ad-
ministrators by 600 majority.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON is lying seriously i'll
of congestion of the brain at the residence of
Mrs. Gen. Chatfeld, Elizabeth, N. J.
A SAN FRANCISCO artist has just succeeded
in getting picture of the race-hcrse Occl-
dent on full run. 1t must be in fast colors,
then.
SEvEN-ElGHrHs of the entire population of
America are in debt to each other. Well, in
deed, may our people be called the sturdy
owemanry.
THE employees of the Omaha Smelling
Works, numbering 100 men, are on strike
against heightened hours of work without in
crease of pay.
FERNANDO WooD is the best poker player
in Congress- He can bet $1,000 on I.
pair of mines without the least indication
that he is blufing.
iof
Joseph sent to West Point as professor of
Indian tactics, and to teach the cadets how
to fight the aborigines.
THE subject of Mr.. Beechers sermon Sun
day was, make not haste to be rich" No;
faster than $40O night.
THE Republican Deputies, while giving the
French government no pretext for difficulty,
have determined to accept no cabinet con-
trary to parliamentary rules.
THE President of Bolivia kicked one of his
Cabinet recently with tropical ardor, for
saying at public dinner that the Executive
had disgraced the national flag.
g. w. SMALLEY's London letter to the
New York Tribune says that Minister Pierre
pont will return home with the good wishes
of the people, and eulogistic farewells OF the
press.
JAPAN is making extraordinary progress in
educational matters. Nearly hundred Amer
ican and English teachers are in the employ
of the government, and last year 5000 new
schools were established.
CoL CHAs. G. GREEN, for many years ed
itor of the Boston Post, celebrated his golden
wedding the other day. Among the presents
was a heliotyped fac simile in miniature OF
the first issue OF the Post, framed in gold.
ALEXANDER MoAL1srER left his home at
St. Stephens, n. B., fourteen years ago, and
his friends at last gave him up as dead, but
he returned the other day to say that he was
o New Zealand farmer, and worth $7O,O 900 or
$S0,000.
ELECTRIC candles are the sensation in Paris.
They emit no heat or smoke whatever, While
in brilliancy they hold the same relation to gas
and oil lamps as sun to moonlight, and they
cost only One-ffteenth as much as gas. 1t is
hailed as one of the greatest discoveries OF
the century.
New YORK Tribune: ''Mr. Prisidint,
said delegate in the ''lndepenpent" Demo
cratic Senate Convention on Wednesday ev-
ening. 81 think we should adjourn until Sat-
urday night There are as minny as fifteen
diligates here in this convention who are
absint."
WASHINGTON is uncomfortab]y crowded
with statesmen who expect to be the next
candidate for the Presidency, apd there are
plenty more scattered about the country III
governors chairs and judges benches. This
great and glorious republic will never 60 to
ruin because of the modesty of its sons.
AN old farmer, one of Judge Poland's
early associates, recently called upon him at
Lyndon, VT, and was invited to take dinner
at the hotel. When the old man took his
seat at the table one of the walters laid bill
of fare before him, but he promptly handed
it back, saying, "Judge Poland settles my
BILL"
The entry OF noted desperate into Lou
| isvile the other day, in custody of an officer,
| is said by local paper to have been scarcely
less conspicuous than the visit of the Presi-
dent and the occasion of quite as much ex-
citement as the advent of Barnum's circus.
| a desperate in custody is very rare sight
in Kentucky.
| THIS is the kind of conciliatory advice the
Raleigh Neus feels moved to give: eff the
colored people or North Carolina want to get
along we'll they must quit politics. The less
they shall have in future to do with politics
and politicians the better for them in men,
tai, moral and material point of view.
The charge that John Welch, the new
Minister to England, is Cuban ave-hoider.
is denied. 1t is explained that the creditors
lean once held by Mr. Welch's firm or a Gu
ban plantation was secured by recording the
title in their name. The firm subsequently
sold out their claim, and If it still stands in
their name, as possible, it is because the plan
tation is on the border of the insurrectionary
district. and the present owners have failed
to change the record in order to secure them