Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-09-26
No. IS
ALL SORTS.


CHICAGO to date has raised her yellow
fever subscriptions to 100000.
The Tennessee Republicans have nomi-
mated E NJ. Wright tor Governor.
RARUs, at the Minneapolis Fair, trotted
three straight heats in 2:151, 2:1544 and 2:1444.
GEN. BR1srow has established law Office
and entered upon his professional practice
in New York.
THE assessed wealth of Colorado, accord
ing to the report of the Assessor just returned
is S45, 5,2O5, gil H.
GEN. JAMES LONGsTREET has been com-
missioned Revenue agent for the district of
Georgia and Florida.
AT Harvard, III. Gen. Steve llurlbut intro
duced Mr.. Blaine as 1.-THE greatest, the best
and the b1avest American in Congress"
The exports of domestic produce and mer-
chandise from the United States in 1878 show
an increase, as compared with 1868, of $411,-
293, 1898.
ARIZONA, evidently has no lack of Congress
sional timber. Four canddates-all inde-
pendent-announce themselves for Delegate
IN the Miner.
REUBEN DAVIS brother of jefferson Da-
Wis, has been nominated for Congress by the
greenback men of the First Congressional
District of Mississippi
KING ALFONSO is to marry another of his
cousins, Christine, sister of the dead Queen
Mercedes. Montpensler evidently intends to
keep the crown in the family.
The Arizona Miner favors the annexation
of several Mexican States, and wants Sonora
and parts Of chihuahua and Sinaloa brought
under the dominion of the old flag.
TuC hoir Of Naor io tiva timac 1iuhtnr than
cork, and firm in New York is making life
preservers of it. A lite buoy weighing two
and a half pounds will sustain two men.
THE number of deaths by the latest Eng
lish coast horror, the sinking OF the Princess
Alice. reaches 70O with the bodies found
packed in the cabin like sardines in box.
''SwlMM1NG for Girls is the title of an arti-
Gle in an exchange. If a young man can't
get girl without swimming for one, there
is going to be an over production of old maids
and old bachelors.
TEE Princess Marie of Prussia will wear
at her coming wedding trail six yards, or
eighteen feet, long. The greater portion Of
it will wait outside the church while the cere-
mony is being performed.
THE Thames seeks to rival the English
channel as a graveyard for victims of whole
Alice, Tuesday strewed its bottom with six
hundred and fifty new corpses.
ASSISTANT City Attorney Holt, of Bridge
port, Conn.,, who is rowing man, has in
vented reflected apparatus, by which the
bow oarsman of boat can obtain view
ahead of $50 feet without changing his posi-
ton.
IT is reported in theatrical circles that Miss
hoe toll nh ho6 fO b0 TO
of New York, protesting against the will of
the late Harry Montague, as she intends con-
testing it by proving that she was his lawful
wife.
THIRTY FIVE years ago London newspa-
per said of Nsraeli Though he sets the
House cheering or laughing for minutes to-
gether, his countenance remains impassive.
He says good thing as it perfectly uncon-
scious of it..
Miss HARRIET HosMER is an inventor as
we'll as a sculptor. She is said to have dis
covered a new motive power, which she will
shortly present to the world. She is now
exhibiting in London her fine statute of the
'Pompeian Sentinel"
In Maine the House members, at last ac-
counts, stand SO Republicans, 81 Greenback-
ers and 81 Democrats. The Republican
Congressman are all returned except Powers,
who is beaten by Murch, Republican Green
hacker, by 700 majority.
ALEXANDER AUSTIN, who suicided at his
residence at San Mateo, California, was the
stock Broker of Flood, of Bonanza fame.
It is reported that Flood and those ass0ciat-
ed with him lost 81, ,OOO, 600 on Sierra Navada,
of which they we're largely short.
THE Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic) sup
ports Butler because it thinks it is desirable
that the politics of Massachusetts should be
shaken up and turned over" and that it is "a
healthy thing, now and then, to support
candidate who belongs to neither party"
JOSEPH BRowER, an American, who emf
grated to Chill some years ago, was recently
murdered in cold blood, together with his
wife and children, by gang of discontented
laborers. In the struggle he, alone and un-
aided, killed thirteen of the villains, but was
obliged to succumb at last.
The opponents of Congressman Gibson
and Ellts, of New Orleans, who fled to Wash
ington on the approach of the yellow fever.
are making much political capital out of this
exhibition of timidity, and it is doubtful if
these gentlemen will be reelected, although
their districts are considered as naturally
Democratic.
A YOUNG man in Paris lit match by
scratching it with his thumb nail A particle
of burning phosphorus lodged under the nail,
and, though instantly quenched, ccmmuni-
Gated poison which extended to the arm
Amputation was advised, but delayed until it
was useless, and the young man died in great
agony twenty-seven hours after the burn
CHARDoH, Ohio, September Mrs.
Charles Morse, during an insane ll]sd her
little daughter and cut her own