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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
CuriOslties Of Earth.

At the city of Medina, in Italy, and about
four miles around it, wherever the eaftn Is
dug, when the workmen arrive at a distance ,aa cf
OF sixty.three feet they come to .da a BED 6od od
chalk which they bore with an aoger, nve :s
feet deep. They then withdraw from the pit
before the auger is removed, and upon its ex. K
traction the water bursts through the aperture
with great violence and quickly f1h fills the the
newly-made well which continues lu'i Hn% Pnt
what is the most remarkable in this operation
is the layers of earth as we descend. At the
depth Of fourteen feet are found the ruins 9, Of
an ancient city. Under this is found SOFT
oozy earth, made of vegetables anu az .', .wen,
trees with the walnuts still sticking to the
stem, and the leaves and branches in per.
feet state of preservation. At twenty-eigh'
feet deep a soft chalk is found. mixed with 9
vast quantity of shells, and the bed is eleven
feet thick. Under this vegetables are found
again.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
e'urEnu. Method Of Detecting = Thief i'm
India.

The peculiar temperament OF the native
troops in British India, and the most efhca-
cious method of dealing with them, are strlk-
ingly illustrated by story told OF a veteran
English officer who is still living. Shortly
after he had assumed the command OF the
til native Bengal infantry, complaint was
brought to him one evening Of atheft which
had Just been committed in the barracks, to
the perpetrator of which there was not the
slightest clue. The next morning, on parade,
the Colonel passed along the line, giving to
each man in turn a thin strip of bamboo, and
when all were supplied he said with solemn
emphasis: My men, there is thief among
| us, and Brahma has revealed to me how to
detect him. Come forward, one by one, and
give me your bomboo chips and the guilty
man, let him do whatever he may, will have
the longest piece" The soldiers, not little
startled at this mysterious threat, obeyed
| without word but before the first dozen
had filed past, the Colonel suddenly seized
one of them by the throat and shouted, ''You
are the man. The Hindoo fell on his
knees, and whined out confession OF the
theft, while his terrified comrades salaamed
to the ground before the dreaded "sahib = to
whom Braham had given such terrible
power. When they had dispersed, the senior
Major, who had been looking on in silent
amazement, came up and said, "Col. c.,
wish you'd teach me that trick" ''lts very
simple one, my dear fellow" answered the
Colonel, with smile. ''Yoa see, those hits
of bamboo were ali exactly the same length,
to begin With; but the thief, fearing to. get the
| longest piece, bit off the end of his, just as
| expected he would-and that is how knew
him."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08

It must make Dio Lewis mad to be stricken
down in his old age, in Oakland, like
naughty vegetable, when he has been living
for years on oatmeal. His vegetarian mind
can call up no slaughtered cattle, no smoked
cigars and empty bottles to cheer the last
sad hours. There areno vague and staggering
youthful memories, no outraged policemen
and shattered street lamps and unhung gates
around his farinaceous dying bed. No far
off echoes of midnight whoops, no soft and
gentle recallings of black eyes and skinned
elbows and ruined suits Of clothes buoy up
the soul of the talented old cabbage. It IL,
indeed, Q sad end TO . life that has cost no
more than ten cents day.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
Ruuler Oh Amateur COachmen.

There is in New York club called the
Tally-ho Club. 1t is composed OF, can
hardly guess how many members, because
they never invited me to any OF their enter
tainments, but think they have ten, tour,
and six horse teams, coaches, and they drive
them on the high road between two
oalatial hotels, with fine looking man set
up behind the coach with tin horn, or, IN
this case, believe it is brass bugle, for
what? And who are they? They are all
Young men of great wealth, of great literary
culture, all graduates of colleges-all men
who have no other employment on earth but
to spend the income of their inherited wealth.
And all they can find to do is to play coach
men day by day for the fun of the the thing.
They toll not, neither do they spin; they are
men of class that is growing in the coun-
try, and they are, in my judgment, class
That ought to be sQuelched. lApplause.-
They are men that have nothing to do on
earth and do it every day. Every man in
this country should have some regular steady
employment for the good of his feilowmen,
and the more money man has the greater
is his responsibility for the proper employ
ment of that money in some industrial OF
other enterprise for the good of his race: anc
for the men who do not do that, the working
men ought to vote to bring about a law tt
do it. If had my way, if had the powe'
in the city of New York, as once had 10,
a short time, would set that class OF men tt
doing exactly what they have shown they ar
fit for, driving Broadway omnibuses rom
in the morning to at night, SO thai tneJ
should have enough of playing coachmen.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
A ssWISE.. CHOICE.
The Daughter ola Jewish Rabbi Marrtes
Christian SuttOr.
lCincinnati Special.l

cincinnati SpeciaLj
Jewish society here, which was much ex-
ercised recently over the elopement and Clan
destine marriage of Miss Ellen Wise to Mr..
J. H. Maloney, an lrishman and an Eplsco-
palian, is now equally interested in the re-
turn of the newly-married couple and their
reconciliation with the young lady's faml! y.
Miss Wise, it will be remembered, is the
daughter of the Rev. Isaac NJ. Wise, the emil
nent rabbi, editor of the American lsrGeIste,
of this city, and author of ''The Origin OF
Christianity and other religious works.
Miss Wise met with Mr.. Maloney about two
years ago he was introduced at the rabbits
house by young Leo Wise, the rabbits son,
and at once fell in love with Miss Ellen. DR..
Wise forbade the match on account OF the
difference of religion, and requested Mr..
Maloney to discontinue his visits to the house.
Mr.. Maloney did so, but kept up an uninter-
rupted correspondence with the young lady
in the meanwhile, correspondence which
resulted four weeks ago in her leaving her
fathers residence and accompanying hel
lover to the house of Unitarian minister,
| where they were duly married.
On bearing the news DR.. Wise dlsoWneo
| his dauphter. and forbade her ever to- SEE
him again. 1t was the opinion of the friends
of the family, however, that the lrate fathel
| would relent sooner or later, and the resul
has verified this prediction. On Friday even
ing last, the eve of the Jewish Sabbath, Dr
Wise sent for Mrs. Maloney, and, after very
pathetic scene, forgave her for the step en-
had taken, and sent for her husband; Ml
Maloney obeyed the summons, and ne am
his wife passed the evening at the RABBI
house, the reconciliation being made com
plete by the example set by her own 1amlly
Mrs. Maloney is now. of course, welcom
again into Jewish society, the nine days Won
der is at an end, and the awkward posslolil
ties of the future are left to take care
themselves.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
Defaulting Ohio Treasurers'
[Chicago Tribune.]

The Democrats of Ohio are having very
hard luck with their county treasurers. Inc
STARK county treasurer has defaulted and run
awav with $65,OO0. The Democratic treas
,nrer Of Butler county has embezzled $1S5,
0oO The Democratic treasurer of Auglaise
ran off with $39, 600. The Democratic treas
nrer of Aolmes stole $a0, 900. The Demo
cratic treasurer of Ooshocton "mizzled" with
@ol 00O. The Democratic treasurer OF Cler-
mont ..lit out" with $S6, 900. The Demo-
cratic treasurers of Ottawa. Defiance. Van
Wert. Ashland, Crawford, Henry, Licking
Wyandott, Wayne, Allen and Belmont coun'
ties have all proved defaulters.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08

DsxocRAr1c devotion to civil service re-
form begins to be illustrated in the scramble
for the small places in the gift of the Senate,
which it is expected will be at the disposal OF
the Democrats after the 4th of next March:
And, further, the personal devotion OF Henry :,
Watterson, Of the Louisville C0a,5er- s/o,rnM n,
to the interests of the public service IS nlgn!y
apparent In his self-sacrifcing Willingness 70
see the Office of Secretary of the Senate nlieo
with the best available material by accepting
it himself
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
Saved q Subscriber.

Hugh Hastings latest story is that an old
subscriber wrote to him to stop his paper on
account of its hostility to Governor Tilden.
Hugh replied by. letter: my antagonlsm
began in my youth when from the window OF
Erastus Corning'a store in Albany | saw old
Moses Tilden and his son come down town
from Lebanon to sell herbs, and that boy,
Sam, was pointed out to me as the chap VINO
sold Job Gould, the herb doctor, grated turn
ips for horseradish." The subscriber re-
neWed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
SUMNER DAY.

c. E. BROOKS IN HARpER's MAGAZINE FOR AUeUs'
Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadOw-lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter of the jay;
And here and there wandering note,
A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere,
Aiar away below the hil
/ see the noisy mill wheel soS
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash Of foam That roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise
So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy ploughboy at the plough.
NV soul is sleeping, and its dreams
All! sad and sweet that dreaming thrills
For there are other Wales and streams,
And other flocks on other hills
The hills whereon climbed to pull
The golden-rods and weeds OF May,
When all the world was beautiful,
And all my life summer day.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
..THE HOT SEASON.
by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


At last two Fahrenheits blew up.
And killed two children small,
And one barometer shot dead
A tutor with its ball.
Now all day long the locusts sang
Among the leafless trees;
Three new hotels warped inside OGt-
The pumps could only %heeze;
And ripe old wine, that twenty years
Had cobwebbed Ger in vain,
Came spodtieg through the rotten corks
Like Julys best champagne.
The Worcester locomotives did
Their trips in half an hour;
The Lowell cars ran forty miles
Before they checked their power;
Roll birthstone soon became drug.
And locOfocos fell,
All asked for ice, but everywhere
Saltpeter was to sell.
Plump men of mornings ordered tights,
Rut ere the scorching moons,
Their candle moulds had gFoWE 80 loose
AS Cossack pantaloons!
The dogs ran mad-men could not cry
If water they would choose;
A horse fell dead-he only LETT
-Four red hot, rusty shoes!
And ali about the warehouse steps
Were angry men in drovee,
Crashing and eplintering through the ooors '
To smash the patent stoves!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08

Girls" said worthy old lady to her grand
daughters, whenever fellow pops the qqes.
ton. don't blush and stare at your foot just
throw your arms around his neck. look MN
full in the face, and commence talking about
the furniture. Youngfellows are mighty ner-
vous sometimes. lost several good chances
before caught your fond, dear grandfatner
by putting on airs, but / soon learned now
to do il after while
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08

The wheat harvest b generally IN progress
in Minnesota. Reports from the nelos COZ
tinue dismal, but an allowance must De mnae maui
for the disappointment OF the e1'favasan'
exnectations first held.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08
THE TALE OfTHETEkkIB IBLE FIRFI'

! will tel you the tale of the terrible hre:
It eprng- rorn the earth-it il dreadtui ano dltt.
Ir the dark wintry sky,
See the spark upward Iy
See it grow il its frame
See it glow into flame.
See il burning ard blazing;
See it spring into life
How it longs for the lite.
Hear the noise and the rattle
How it sWells, how il grOw>-
Like the crash of 4 battle
Like the crash OF the toes.
See il rushing and rising and roaring,
See it trying to touch a tall star;
II seems in the sky to be soaring
Like flag OF fierce fame from atat
See il turning and burning and hraVlnE--
See il streaming and cleaning and red!
Ali the smoke in the air is now waving
Like d winding-shcet OF duli leau.
Hear it laugh with wild gce each futile endeavor
To quench or to quell itsexuberant torce
1t is flaming and free and fantastic forever,
1t delights and exuts with no pang OF remorse.
With no pain, with but passlon-nlao passioh-l'
quivers
With it's pennon of scarlet the bloodiest hue,
With it's gleamngs streams and it's roaring rivers.
1t daree to do all things that flame dares to do.
How it darts, how it dances and dashes,
Az though it had taken for aim,
To reduce all the world into ashes
And to fling all the stars into fame.
II is clittering and glowing and glaring-
And raging it rings its own knell;
Il il showing its wonderful daring
ti4 turning the sky into he'll.
How it lazlly fingers
With it's swell and it's fell;
With it's fiery fingers
Weirdly waving pail;
With its horrible Kisses
Like the wind in storm:
With its blistering kisses,
On face and on FORM
OF its flashes berett
Only ashes are left
Till its cries tell it's DOOM
And it dies in the gloom.
have told YOU the tale of the terrible Are;
1t has sung ts last song to its luminous Tyre
1t has lived without life it has died without DEATH
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-08

Chicaro is bound to beat St. Louis II It
takes the last cent Its next census report
will probably show q population OF SOO.UOO--
400. GOO down and 500, 900 on time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06
Improving Poor Lands.

The Ansericd0 EMmer for June
contained several contributions from
correspondents, on Improving Poor
Lands without the use of commercial
fertilizers. One of these cOrrespon-
dents writing from Illinois, says:
This is our plan: Just as soon as
we get our wheat off the ground in
July, we ploW and SOW buckwheat.
In September when in full bloom we
ploW it under and SOW in rye, top
dressing the rye with all the manure
we can get. This rye gives us fine
winter pasture that, for calves, colts
or sheep, more than pays all the cost.
We thus save the hay and corn our
neighbors feed, and our young stock
comes out in the spring fat and sleek
because of having kind Of feed
adapted to their age and digestive
powers. Early in May we plow un-
der the rye, if for corn, and we plant.
in proper season manure in the hill
to give the corn start, and by the
time our rye is sufficiently rotted for
plant food, the seeding roots have
absorbed and passed our hill manur-
ing and taken hold of this rich mass
of rotted rJe. The entire expense of
this will not be over $3.50 per acre {;
and these two crops of green manure
WITH equal 50 or 70 loads of good
stable manure. 1t don't matter what
chemistry -ays about 1t; the result
proves it. The blowing and harrow
ing pays good interest of itself.
"rillage iSmanure."
Take another condition:
We want 10 follow corn with wheat.
At the last blowing or laying by"
1--WE use level culture) we sow 2
bushels Of rye just before the plow
(our last ploWing in July or August
sometimes ;; the rye starts with the
August rains, aud does not hurt the
corn in the least, and by the time
the corn is OFT we have carpet of
green rye. This with the stalks
makes grand winter pasture. When
in blossom, plOw it under and sow
Hungarian grass. When 1t is in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

The following article from the New
York Commercial Adrertiser should
serve to dispel the idea which has
lound lodgmentin the minds of some
that the prostration in business OBJ
tains only in our own country. In
fact, the stagnation is world wide.
and involves, as will be seen below,
the country. which is supposed to
come nearer than any other to ex-
emption:
The Stagnation that is so generally
felt all over this country is not con-
fined to the United States alone. The
British trade returns for May afford
no more pleasant reading for Eng.
!. .lisk men than ca sthRses for, lausanne
month here to our own people. The
expected Improvement, there as here,
Is still further postponed. What with
European uncertainties, the famine
IN China, which cuts England out of
market, the Lancashire strikes and
competition from America, there is
no gleam of promise in the British
commercial sky. The exports for
May, as collated by the Journal of
commerce, show a decline of I! per
cent from those for May last year. In
cottonS it is 16.5; in linens, 40; in
hardware, 1914; in iron and steel,I2.1,
The total decrease in export values is
equal to about 81, 800, ,0OO-a large sum
at a time of depression already ex-
treme in the English markets. In
imports there is decrease of 1OI per
cent, against an IS per cent. increase
In the previous May. Raw cotton
gains 26.--not welcome addition
when the country is overstocked
with prints and the trade is demoral
lied. The rush of American bacon
to England has several times been
referred to as Unprecedented. The
increase in this article for May was
no less than 1876, while that of cheese
was IL, and of butter 15.4. In wheat
we note a decline of Ill, and in flour
OF 4l.5. Nowhere in the returns is
there any sign Of recovery, and John
Bull is despondent. Says the Times
everywhere prices are weak, and
IN many cases the positive decline is
very heavy. 1t was the Same Iost
year and the year before-always
glutted markets, falling prices"-a
state Of things (Which only our enor-
nous wealth and the strength of our
credit Institutions have prevented
from ending long ago in open disas-
ter"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

BAD MANAGEMENT.-A Demo-
cratic House and an uuroofed Patent
Office 90 well together. y private
business firm would have commence
ed repairs within ten days after being
burned out. The Patent Office build
ing lost half its roof by the great fire
of September u, 1877. AS late as
June 1878, not one dollar
had been given to replace it. The
wise statesmen OF Democracy have
had their eyes so close to Investigate
ing committees that this unroufed
building has not been seen. Enough
money has been wasted on fruitless
investigations to have rebuilt the
structure. This neglect to repair a
public building, while starving men
have been looking for the work it
would have afforded, may be good
Democratic policy, but it is bad bus
mess management. If it takes a
Democratic majority nine months to
conclude that a roof is needed on the
Patent Office how long will it take
to rebuild public confidence? Come
gentlemen of the owl line, cipher
this out at your leisure. - Washington
ReDubHcdn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

The weather in Scotland continues
of the most extraordinary descrip-
ton for June. Rain falls almost in
cessantly, accompanied by a cold
eastery wind. A thunder storm.
with snow and hail, passed over For
far and adjacent counties on June IL.
1t was Of exceptional violence at
Lundie, near Dundee. A meal mill
situated in hollow ground, was al
most blocked up with snow and sew.
eral cart loads were removed before
an entrance could be effected, Dwell.
ling houses and fields were flooded
to a depth of over two feet, and crops
have suffered severely, being covered
by debris washed from the hills. Not
for very many years has the weather
in June been SO unsettled and un-
SeasOnable.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

COMMUNION REFUSED A HIBER-
NIAN.-At the O'Clock mass, at the
Catholic church at Milford, on the
26th inst, Father Cuddihy refused
communion to Hibernian because
he had been one of the sixty persons
who signed the card calling the pas
tor Of the church a Calumnlator, and
said that he should continue III such
refusal until some public retraction
for the card had been made. IN the
course Of his remarks he called at
tention to the fact that the Bishop
had refused Christian burial to Hi
bcrnian who had died, and he added
that If any Of the Milford Hiber-
mans had been killed by the cars on
their way to the picnic at lIopkin-
ton, week ago last Saturday, as
they came very near being, he would
have felt constrained to have refused
them Christian burial, as they were
engaged in an unlawful act.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

the Senate committee, Democrats as
well as Republicans, says Mr.. He.
witt:
l went at once to New York and
passed the greater part of January II
with Coy. Tilden. He complained
that it was surprise to him, and of
the attitude of the Democratic Sena-
tors iii having committed them
selves to the measure without con-
sulation with him. He objected to
some of the details of the bill, especi-
ally the provision for lot, and said
that he would never consent to sub
iect the Presidency to a game of
chance. lie asked for delay, which
told him was impossible, because
the Senate committee had notified us
that they feltconstrained to make an
immediate report to the Senate, be-
cause Of the brief interval left for
making the electoral count.
| tried hard to get him either to APP
prove or disapprove the measure, but
he neither approved nor did he take
the responsibility Of advising his
friends, under the circumstances, to
oppose and defeat the bill, when he
was poWerles1 to control the subse-
qUent legislation. ! left him with
out having secured either his express
approval or disapproyal Of the meas
ure, but with the conviction resting
on my mind that he did not wish his
friends to be responsible for the de-
feat of the measure. But he was
very urgent for more time.
/ have since been told that he was
sat that time engaged in celebrating
ia plan of procedure upon which he
'sSSSufd BeYYeyred su~seeparyeussns.
did not then tell me this, and had
no knowledge of the fact until long
afterWard.
In reply to another charge 10y Mr..
Wattcrson, Mr.. Hewitt says that he
did not suppress Il single Fact that
was within his knowledge or keep
ing rs to MIR. Tilden'a views.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06
NUMBER ID

blossom, sow hall Il busheI al ssstsl
while Standing chen with MOVING
stpachme cut first erons 1T " NJ 3.
back and stay un the ero1nd s.ffi,e
seeding and spro,itinp II fl.s A,.st
crop makes a heavy growth. wl,isl,ss
in August, or when in bloon, -
blow tlhelar cba;,,;ysrs ,a,,,,,..
All the green growth and mulch. We
fet ne until ready to seed unless a
green gFowth threatens, which we
Keep back with harrow we harrow
and roll thoroughly to further pack
y slle grouid, and drill our wheat. Al
s1ieiu That VIII only bring at best 8 or
W bushels will, with this treatment.
q pm P tn ~ or 25 bushels. All this,
sactDaplisiied with 4 4 e,,tiSS, &,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

Reading 'natter ON every page.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06

This most reluctant Congress has
actually adjourned. Several pious
reflections viii at once suggest them
selvcs.-N Y. T1jme.