Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-07-18
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| tied wreaths on the tomb of Lafayette.
JUDGE BOWMAN, of Utah. is quite seriously
| i'll, and the July term of Court is in conse-
| quence postponed
PRESIDENT HAYES and his family will move
to the Soldiers Home, near Washington,
about the 18th of July.
COL JOHN w. FoRNEY thinks the Ameri-
can commissioners to the Paris show are q
lot of pestiferous insects.
The most vigorous waltzer at a recent
Deadwood dance excused himself at half-past
II because he had stage coach to rob at H.
A VALUABLE diamond has been found at
Myrtle creek, Oregon. 1t was washed from
the gravel and is said to be the finest ever
found in Oregon.
AN article now going the rounds is probabl Y
more read by the better sex than any article
that has appeared for ten years. 1t is entitled
''For Men Only"
THE Chicago Post, recently wholly conduct
ed by women folks, has just been purchased
and merged into the Neacs, the sprightly
penny paper of the city.
A YANKEE genius has invented an anchor
which is to be carried in buggy and thrown
out when the horse runs away. 1t never fails
to bring his head to the wind
THERE is said to be living in Harrison
County, Texas, man fifty years of age who
never spoke word to anybody in his life,
except his mother and sister.
THE offense of Lieut.. E. p. Eckerson,
Seventh Cavalry, dismissed from the service,
| was drunkenness and conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman.
GLOVER is trying to squirm out of his
SANDERS against Director Linderman by
charging them upon his ''eXperts." Who
was responsible for the ''experts"?
FosrRR's district in Ohio was so gerre-
wandered as to give the Democrats an ex-
cess of G,000 votes. Foster, nothing daunted,
is going to work to beat that ma jority.
AN Eastern editor throws up the sponge
with the remark that it doesn't pay to run
paper in town where business men read al
lnanacs and pick their teeth with the tail end
of herring.
REPUBLICAN delegations went to the Hin
s'For President in 1880, U. s. Grant, The
mention of his name in the hall called forth
the most enthusiastic cheers.
THE students and graduates of Columbia
college have arranged for grand reception
Of the victorious crew at henley upon their
return home CongratulatorY dispatches
have been sent to the crew.
New York Star: People who dread a
mob outbreak in New York will perhaps be
somewhat reassured on learning that rifle
practice at Creedmoor has probably trebled
the efficiency Of our National Guards.
THERE is deep disgust in the California
community over the result of the Louisville
race, especially over the slow time. Much
money changed hands there at the odds of
hundred to seventy five on the horse.
LARGE quantities of coarse straw wrapping
paper are shipped from New York to Cuba
and Europe to be used in the manufacture of
cigars 1t is there saturated with tobacco
juice and passes for leaf tobacco.
JOHN KELLY and the leading Tammany
politicians have engaged quarters at Long
Branch, where the political programme for
the fall campaign will be matured and the
Tammany slate Of candidates made out.
Jokes on the diminutive proportions Of the
Commonwealth of Rhode Island are frequent,
but none of them are better than what Vol
taire said of Geneva: ''When I shake my
wig powder the whole republic"
THE President signed the bill creating the
Utah and Northern Railway Company cor
poration in the Territories of Utah, Idaho,
and Montana, and granting the right of way
to said company through the public lands.
A STYLISH American lady has married
Worth, the man mantua-maker of Paris.
Beauty known as Worth is good, and the
girl must be happy who can have all the
dresses she wants and be measured by her
own Worth.
The trout fishing at Lake Tahoe is very
fine at present. The trout follow visitors up
and down along the. shores, opening their
mouths, snlackiIg their lips, and making all
l.: Jo of ~ hot fhoVy nt
thrown to them.
THE President has appointed Maximillian
F. BonZana coiner of the mint at New
Orleans, Joseph Albrecht assayer, and Sam1
Weeks, melter and reiner; John G. White.
of Illinois, Secretary of Legation of the
United States to Brazil.
MIR. LoNaFELLow has been invited by the
Historical Society of st. Louis to either at
tend or send few stanzas to the celebration
of the 2O5th anniversary of the exploration
of the Mississippi River by Fathers Marquette
and Joliet. It occurs July II.
DIR. JAMES G. AVER, the celebrated patent
medicine propr ietor, died at private asylum
in Massachusetts on Wednesday nightof last
week, of softening of the brain. Aver was
about 60 years of age. His estate is probably
worth from $15. 000, 900 to $20, 900.
"A young lady in Vassar College, at an
evening party, found it apropos to use the ex-
Jordan is hard road to travel,
and thinking that too vulgar, substituted the
"Perambulating progression IN
pedestrian excursion along the famed thor.
Oughfare of fortune cast up by the banks OF
the sparkling river of Palestine, is, indeed,
attended with q heterogeneous conglomera-
ton of unforeseen difficulties.