Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-06-20
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EUROPE has three singers named Alboni,
Albani and Albini.
| In the Interior Department are 495 honor
ably discharged Union soldiers, and 100
permanently disabled soldiers.
THE richest women on the Pacific coast are
Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. McDonough, their
combined wealth being estimated at $13,
0O0, 900.
BARRETT, the actor, refused to give reci-
tation for the benefit of clergyman at De-
troit He said his profession owed nothing
to the clergy.
| THE original correspondence between Goe-
the and Schiller, embracing about 100 letters
| from both these poets, was sold to Gotta, in
Stuttgart, for 1000 thalers.
The Commissioner of the Porte reports
| that the Mohammedan insurgents number
| 10000. They are we'll armed and impregna-
bly, located. They refuse to disarm.
THE court journal cries "fraud" at Presi-
dent Hayes, and yet lauds another who is un-
mistakeably fraud, whom the ''fraud reap
points to the Governorship of Montana.
THERE are 1000 rooms in the Vatican,
| which is not a palace, but city compressed.
An army sc, 600 strong could be lodged in it
its actual inhabitants number but a few hun
dreds.
THE proposal to tax the larger salaries of
Methodist ministers one per cent. for the re-
lief of the ministers who receive small sala-
ries is growing in favor. 1t was adopted at
the recent session of the New England Con-
ference.
EDWIN BOOTH has never set foot in Wash
ington since his brother assassinated Presi-
dent Lincoln, and he is understood to have
taken a solemn oath never to visit the capital
city. Accordingly, Washington play
are compelled to visit Baltimore to see him.
AT Charleston, West Virginia, June 4th,
several hundred miners captured the steamer
Modock, proceeded to Blacksbury, stopped
all the mines there, returning on the Chessa-
peake and Ohio train, refusing to pay their
fare. The mob was very violent and abusive.
The twelfth corps of the army of the Po-
tomac have organized an association. The
twentieth corps voted to meet with the Army
OF the Potomac next year. The fifth corps
passed vote Of thanks to President Hayes
for reopening the case of General Fitz John
Porter.
TASTES differ. Sothern's s'Cr. Ira
gedlan, Wn1Cn uoaif,i.ss.a 2T-,, x~.-- -, +.--
proved a flat failure in London, and is with
drawn from the Haymarket Theater after a
weeks trial, and IA Celebrated Case" the
strongest dramatic hit in the United States
this season, does not draw over there.
A FRENCH scientific authority says that the
ordinary rate of mans walking is four feet
per second; of good horse in harness,
twelve; of reindeer in sledge on the ice,
twenty-six of an English race horse, forty
three; of hare, eighty-eight; of a good
sailing ship, fourteen, and of the wind,
eighty-two.
THE Pope has directed Cardinal Franchi to
dispatch urgent instructions to the Catholic
clergy of Germany to use every effort to pre-
vent the spreading of socialism. His holi-
ness also hao along conference on the SUBJ
iect with Cardinal Ledochowsk, archbishop
of Posen, to obtain exact information re-
specting the socialist party in Germany.
The Richmond (Va.) State, one of the
most intelligent and frank of Southern news
PAPERS. saws of the Democrats who have un-
dertaken the Presidential investigation:
every likely these Congressman believe they
have their party with them in this attempt:
but they are vastly mistaken as to the large,
not dominant. party of the South
CENTRAL CITY, Colorado, believes in train
ing up its boys the way they should 60, and
begins early in teaching them to ''run with
the machine" That place has fire COM
pany composed entirely of boys from ten to
thirteen years of age, and the way those
Youngsters wrestle with fire is a lesson to
older hands. This cold water brigade is
named the ''Young America"
PROVIDENCE provides. The woodward
which Providence, Rhode Island, provided
for tramps is still successfully kept up. and
offers splendid example for other cities to
20 and do likewise. The tramp earns his
meal with saw. Fewer free meals are given
and fewer tramps are seen around Provl-
dence than around any other place OF like
size in the Union.
GENERAL DAVIS, writing from Paris, says
that the United States will excel all the world
ut the Exposition in such articles as these:
Agricultural implements and machinery,
saws, tacks and nails, watches, dentists IN
struments and artificial teeth, bolts, tools' TIN
and wooden-ware, reed organs, oil-cloth,
screws. firearms, locks and door fastenings,
augurs and bits, and many other articles.
HERE is q chance for inventors: A year
ago last winter the Legislature OF Wisconsin
passed law offering bounty OF $lO,VOO tor
the invention Of q steam road wagon capable
of hauling heavy load on q country road at
the rate Of four miles an hour. Commissions
appointing commissioners to examine and
test the machines and award the profered
bounty. LA T. to@4> fa4'
y DAVENPORT, Iowa, threatens to start a
new industry. A factory there produces
sugar and syrup from ordinary. corn stalks,
cut green. The sYyup can be produced mucn
cheaper than any now; in the market; and
the Iowans are said to be exceedingly fond Of
IL because it has slight whisky flavor. This
is no doubt slander on the good people OF
that State, still That sortu Y hxvur must De