Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-09-12
Helena, Montana, Thursday, September II, 1873.
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
GEN. HOOD, with his three pairs of twins,
is summering at Georgia watering place.
THE Black Hills are in favor of Judge Be-
mutt for Congressional Delegate from Dakota
SOME chap predicts that in the course of
two or three generations American women
will be taller than the men.
THE grape crop, not only of Los Angeles
county, but of the whole of California, is un-
precedentedly small this year.
ANDERSON, the Sacramento murderer, con-
tinues to confess, and makes himself and Dye
out wholesale murderers of the most tiendish
class.
Robert Collyer, who is abroad, thinks there
are 5000, 900 Americans in Europe this sum-
mer. They are met everywhere in the old
countries
For Delegate in Dakota the Republicans
have nominated Judge Bennett, OF Yankton,
and the Democrats, Bartlett Tripp, of the
same town.
PROF. DARWIN has been elected a cores
ponding member of the French Institute by
twenty-six votes out of total number OF
forty-three.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL says of Dennis Kear-
ney think him foul mouthed blackguard,
and the less notice taken of him the better
off society will be.
*MARR1ED-At the residence of the brides
father, Fauquier county, Virginia, Charles
Sing, son of Hong Wah Sing, of Canton,
China, and Ida V. Wilburn.
THE Nevada bank has $50, ,O00, 900 locked
up in government bonds. This looks as if
the Bonanza kings had more faith in Uncle
Sam than in the Comstock lode.
MRS. H1CKs-LORD occasionally rides in
Central Park, but her husband, the aged Mr..
Thomas Lord, is now bed-ridden, and it takes
three servants to put him in carriage.
THE requisition of the Governor of South
Carolina upon the Governor of Massachusetts
for the surrender of the person of Hiram
Kempton, has been refused by Gov. Rice.
DURING the past month $3.50 900 have been
coined at the Carson Mint. This is light
work. as the Mint has heretofore been COIN
ing from $500, 900 to $500, 900 per month.
GENERAL GARFIELD has served sixteen
years in Congress, and is good for two more.
Joshua r. Giddings represented the district
for twenty years, and Elisha Whittlesey for
sixteen.
BOUTWELL, wants to succeed Butler in Con-
gress. So does Carroll D. Wright. And
Butler says, snake me governor, and l don't
care what jackass is sent to Congress to bray
in my place."
PRESIDENT WRIGHT says some two hun.
dred additional miles of the Northern Pacific
from Bismarck to the Yellowstone, are to be
put under contract to be constructed within
year from next spring.
The report of the Portland board of trade
indicates that the exports of wool from Ore
gon this year, instead of 100000 pounds
will be less than 1,O0O, 900, in consequence of
the Indian trouble in Eastern Oregon.
AFTER twenty-five years of unbroken SER
vice as the Washington correspondent of
the Springfield Republican. D. w. Bartlett re-
signs that post to become American Secretary
of the Chinese Legation at Washington.
Col. BAKER, of Texas, Commissioner to
the Paris Exhibition, says there are only four
new things on exhibition-the phOnograph,
telephone, microphone, from the United
States, and swimming doll-baby, French
invention.
In England last year one railway passenger
in 4,377, ,727 was killed and one in 428, 924
was injured. Of the 1926 passengers killed
all but eleven lost their lives by getting on or
off moving trains or falling between trains
and platforms
THIS is the way an Eastern exchange puts it;
t'Can any more striking proof be given OF the
absurd legislation of the last Congress than
the fact that dollar of 420 grains is at dis
count of ten per cent. and the legal tender
dollar of 4124 grains is at par?"
EAGLE CITY, Iowa, reports the meanest
man to date-the farmer so busy harvesting
that he could not stop an hour to attend his
wife's funeral, after the neighbors had pre-
pared her burial. A wife could be got
any time, he said, but harvest only came
once year.
At Glenhausen, Hesse, has just died cen
tenarian indeed, q peasant in very humble
circumstances who had fought at Wilhelm
stahl under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick.
He was 148 years old, and left two sons, very
old men, sixteen grandsons, and forty-eight
great-grandsoHs.
CAPTAIN Ericsson has invented new tor
petio boat called the Destroyer. The tor
pedoes used will be sixteen feet in length or
thereabouts, and two feet in diameter They
will be shot out of tube forty feet long oy
pressure of air of 250 pounds to the square
inch, and the firing to be done under water.
OVER eighty per cent. of the public debt
is now held at home and the quality OF the
subscriptions to the four per cents: show the
breadth and depth of the appreciation OF this
form of investment. The bulk of the SUD-
scriptions is for bonds of denominations OF
$50, 800 and $500, showing that they are
the savings of people in moderate clrcum-
stances.
THE total number of exhibitors at the
Paris exhibition is 53.0O5. Among them
will be distributed $4,000 recompenses.
These comprise 2,6OO gold medals. g. 400 sil-
| YER, 10000 bronze and 10. 500 honorable men
tions. A good share of the prizes will come
| to the United States-a much larger proper