Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-11-07
ALL SORTS.


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Snow fell in Missouri last week, the
earliest in sixteen years.
GARFIELD says that Foster will be the next
Governor of Ohio.
ARAPAHoE county, Colorado, has almost
doubled its wealth in the past year.
THE Union Pacific railroad pays taxes on
over s., 500, 600 Ith of property in Wyom-
ing.
Weston, the pedestrian, now in London,
has gone into BANKRUPTCY, with liabilities
stated at $5, 200.
PARIS has $4,000 houses, London 400, 600
more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and New
York combined.
''TBERE wasn't q saloon keeper in the State
who didn't ache to trust him." was 9 tribute
to dead Nevada man.
THOMAS ROBSON was killed at Georgetown,
Colorado, on Saturday, in the Baxter mine,
by bucket of ore falling on him.
SECRETARY McCrary has rented the hand
somely furnished house of Paymaster Wat
mough, of the navy in Washington.
IT is no wonder the ivy clings so tightly to
the rocky wall. 1t probably makes holes to
climb by. 1t has ten drills, you remember.
THE bell-punch is panning out nobly in
Virginia. The returns indicate revenue from
this source of nearly $850,000 for the past
year.
against the signal-man in the COroner's in
vestigation of the recent English railway
disaster.
In discussion on cremation at a London
clubs member is credited with the argument:
q 1ivyinr ,hvyo ohC,71
our dead?'
THE set of large pearls that Mrs. Florence
wears when playing in the mighty Dollar"
was given her, it is said, by Jim Mackey, the
bonanza millionaire.
THE granite eagle over the main entrance
to the New York post-ottice is the handiwork
of Mr.. Thomas h. Murch, who lately defeat
ed Hale for congress.
Graphic: We insist that during all that
time in which the cipher dispatches went to
under the influence of chloroform.
CoLMAR, in Holstein, is said to be one of
the healthiest places in the world. Among
its ], 400 inhabitants, there have been ten
diamond weddings in the last few years.
EVANGELIST HAMMOND, looking more port
ly and cheerful than ever, has finished his
labors in the West for the present, and now
gOest to his home in Vernon, Conn, for
rest.
The whole of the money question, as the
Manchester Times looks at it, is contained in
Bob 1ngersolls sentence: ''If government
can create money, why should it collect
taxes?'
DEMOCRATIC Congressman assembled at
Washington openly declare that the cipher
disclosures are conclusive, and that Tilden
should be disavowed and denounced by the
Democracy.
GEN. GIDEON J. Pillow, of Mexican war
celebrity, and Brigadier- General in the Con-
federate service, died on the morning of the
9th inst, at his place at the mouth of the st.
Francis river.
THE Kansas Pacific Company, ignoring the
action of Secretary Schurz, sold 5000 acres
of land during September, all of which is
in the category described by the
famous decision.
Mr.. TuDEN's Michigan agent has been
ordered by the court to show cause why the
stolen books should not be brought back.
With the cipher dispatches interpreted and
The stolen books, the old man has q good deal
Of trouble on his mind.
THE Arizona Mimer mentions the fact that
The pine trees are dying IN all directions The
tops begin to turn yellow, which gradually
aescends, sometimes half way and sometimes
10 the ground. The phenomenon is accounted
for in the two exceedingly dry seasons that
Immediately preceded this.
SAYS the London Iruth: s'Those who are
best able to pronounce an impartial judgment
)n Cyprus, it's assumed merits and actual de
merits, are of the opinion that we shall speed
ly have to abandon it. The island is, indeed,
he most pestilential in the Levant."
The aggregate amount of coin now in the
FAULTS or under the control of the United
States Treasury is equal to more than two
birds of the entire amount of legal tenders
low outstanding. With one hundred mil.
ions of legal tenders in actual control of the
Treasury and this large coin balance, it is
evident that everything is ready for resump-
ion on the first of January next.
The disappearance of old faces from the
lext Congress will be marked. Already
Banks, Butler, Burchard, Banning, Eemes,
eden, Foster, Chapman, Freeman, of Tepp-
ylvania; Eugene Hale, Carter HArffsdn,
3endec, HaItridge, Philips, Durham, Say
er, Southard, Robbins, Martin 1. Eownsend
nd Walker, of Virginia, have decided from
hoice, or otherwise, not to appear in the
ext Congress.
CHARLEY FOSTER Gas everybody calls him)
f Ohio, has been formally announced by
be Chairman of the Republican State Com
oittee as the coming candidate for Governor.
lie came out of the late contest only beaten
y about one thousand, in district every
ounty of which was claimed by the Demo-
rats, and, in fact, represented by Demo-
rats in the present State legislature dis
net set down on the gerrymander slate last
7inter as good for anywhere from $500 to
900 majority.