Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-12-19
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December 49, 1873.
ALL SORTS.

PEANUT crunchers will rejoice tolearn that
the crop this year pans out $50, 600 bushels.
The Marquis of Lorne received twenty ad-
dresses from the judiciary, clergy, etc., at
Halifax, and wrote replies to all of them.
The United States Marshal has been in
structed to seize all railroad ties found to
have been cut from the Government lands in
Wyoming.
CHAMBERsBURG, Pa, has decided that the
round dance does not come under the head
of ''moral gymnastics" and it is therefore to
be frowned down.
How HANDY it is for an Eastern para
grapher to have "Western Exchange on
which to cast the exaggeration he dares not
father. Could brutality 60 further !?
THE Bashi Bazouks and Circassians de-
feated the Bulgarian insurgents, in Mink
district, Macedonia, and burned twenty more
villages; only 1000 inhabitants escaped.
AN Irishman announced procession to
take place the next day as follows: ''lf it
rains in the morning the procession will take
place in the afternoon, and if it rains in the
afternoon the procession will take place in
the morning"
THE Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, says:
s'Communism, as defined by the official lam
guage of the International Society, means
abolition of inheritance, the abolition of ma
tionalities, the abolition of religion, the abo-
lition of property.
THE late Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding
bequeathed to his nephews and nieces $1O,-
600 each, and they are forty in number. His
brother, Samuel D. Paulding, has the income
of $40, 900 as long IS he lives. Prize money
made the Admiral rich.
THE London Times has lost it's editor
through the Afghanistan trouble. Mr.. Chen
cry, the editor, thought one way and Mr..
Walter, the proprietor, another. Mr.. Walter
undertook the editing on his own account,
and MIR. Chennery resigned.
On the day of Miss Helen Astor's wedding
to Mr.. James Roosevelt she provided feast
for the patients in Bellevue Hospital. The
fare comprised 900 pounds Of chicken, 10
barrels of vegetables, 20 bushels of fruit, and
great variety of cakes and confectionery.
SCARCELY had John EcMullough, the trage-
dian who was playing ''Virginius" at Syra-
cuse, New York, sounded the words: ''There
is no public virtue left in Syracuse" when
man in the parquet eprang to his feet, ex-
claiming: mo, by jingo. nor in Utica either"
IT is held at the New York State Law De-
partment that when savings bank is robbed,
as the Manhattan was, it is equity for the
Trustees to pay reward out of their individ-
ual funds for the recovery, ''because the rob-
berry is to some extent due to their negli-
gence."
A RUMOR comes from Indianapolis that
William H. English has been induced to with
draw from the contest as candidate for the
United States Senate in Indiana against Mr..
VOORHEES,, the understanding being that he
shall be brought forward in 1880 as the candi-
date for Governor
DURING the last war 594, 900 Russian SOL
ders poured down through ROumania into
Turkey. Of these So, 800 were sent back by
rail wounded and 62, $50 i'll, 81, 900 sick went
home to Odessa by sea, $4,000 are still in
hospital, 81 900 laid their bones in Roumania
and SO, 900 perished in Bulgaria.
Psoneer-Press Indian summer reigns all
along the frozen zone of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad, from the open harbor at Deluth
to the freely flowing Missouri at Bismarck,
while the so-called temperate latitudes of the
Missouri Pacific are swept by storms of hail
and sleet, and smothered with avalanches of
binding snow.
In St. Louis the courts are now busy with
th e case of Foestlin against Barnes, for
breach of promise. Miss Foestlin is Ger
man girl and cannot understand a word of
English. Mr. Barnes is an Englishman and
cannot speak word of German. Miss Foest-
lin declares that Barnes declared his wish to
marry by gestures. Mr.. Barnes replies that
he was only trying to tell her story in pan
tomine.
Neao York Tribune: If the Solid South is
obstructing the right of the blacks to vote, as
it is undoubtedly doing, its present full rep
in Congress is fraud upon the
whole country-just such fraud as the Four
teenth Amendment was designed to prevent.
And Congressman Page proposes, therefore,
to give the Solid South its choice between
losing some of its Congressman and allow
ing the negroes their rights.
JUDGE R1vEs, of the United States District
Court, at Danville, Va, gave an opinion that
trials of colored men by juries from which
colored men are excluded are illegal, because
in violation of the civil rights act. The case
was not that of omission of colored jurors
by chance or by challenge, but by exclusion
of them from the yenire. This exclusion is
also in violation of the law of Virginia. A
motion had been made for the transfer of
these cases to the United States Court, but
had been denied and the persons convicted.
Judge Rives issued the writ of Aa6eas corpus
for each of these convicted persons, and or
dered the clerk to have a venire irrespective
of race or color, summoned for the trial of
these causes at the next term. This is an i'm
portant interruption to the high-handed pro-
ceedings in the South by which the colored
men have no rights which the whites are
bound to respect; but we should suppose
that If there are any rational men in the
South they would be unwilling to destroy the
very principle of trial by jury, as was done
BY this prescription.