Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-11-14
ALL SORTS.

JOAQUIN MILLER wishes he had been born
in Italy.
JOSH BILLINGS has one of the finest turnouts
| to be seen in Central Park.
THERE are $4,000 Chinese in San Fran
cisco. Only 1900 are women.
Mr.. A. T. STEWART never had portrait or
even photograph taken of himself.
REV. DR.. Ingram, of Scotland, is the oldest
clergyman in the world. His age is 1O3.
JOHN SAVAGE. the poet, is reported to be
roaming around Pennsylvania mountains.
PROF. Swine has friendship for Mr.. Law
renee Barrett and goes to the theater to see
him act.
The friends of Canon Farrar rush to the
front to deny that he has had photograph
taken in the attitude of prayer.
A PARIS reporter, describing duel, says:
''The witnesses placed the two adversaries at
an equal distance from each other"
VICTOR Hugo declares solemnly that trip
along the Rhine is rendered intolerable by
importunate and continued demands on your
purse.
MRS. MoLLoY, of Indiana, has inaugerated
of meetings in London, and is enthusiastically
received.
AN Irishman, showing off before stay-at-
home countryman, boasted that when he lived
at Dundee he could always get cup of Tay
for nothing.
The second son of the Crown Prince of
Germany is about to start on voyage around
the world on board German corvette. He
will probably come to America.
THERE are seventy-five vessels in port at
Charleston, s. c., some fifty of which are
square rigged vessels employed in the foreign
trade. Seven of them fly American colors.
OBITUARY notice from Louisville paper:
''Her disease was paralysis, and she fell into
the arms of her blessed Redeemer with ease.
Jackson and Vicksburg papers please copy"
Mr.. GEO. P. LATHRoP, the newly appointed
editor of the Boston Courier, has just been
toasted at complimentary dinner given in
his honor by the proprietors of that journal.
Mr.. GEO. RIDDLE, the actor, is graduate
of Harvard, and has been appointed Professor
of ElocutioD, the position held by the late
Stacy Baxter, who was drowned at Cape
May.
Two centenarians, Mrs. Phoebe Hazard, of
Montpelier, Vt., and Mrs. Trueland, of
Lowell, VT, aged one hundred and one hun
dred and two years respectively, have just
died.
THE Buffalo Eapress proposes this conun-
drum: 'Can country be very hard up
which consumes Sc, ,0OO, 900 gallons of whisky,
10000, 900 barrels of beer, and 1900, 600, 900
cigars in single year.
The Iliff estate will ship 700 cars, or II, 900
head, of beef cattle from Colorado this sea-
son. From this one Item alone some idea of
the magnitude of the Western cattle trade
may be drawn.
JEFF DAVIS, JR., the only surviving son of
the 81 on. Jefferson Davis, died at o'clock,
October 10th, at the residence of his brother
in-law, Addison Hayes, five miles east of the
city of Memphis
LADY Burdett- Coutts, the richest woman in
spends much of her time in nursing
an old companion, who, after many years
faithful attendance on the baroness, has be-
come very ill and blind.
FABER SELLERS, druggist at Pottstown,
Pa, fell suddenly from his chair one day last
week and died instantly, just as in the same
store his partner, DR.. Van Buskirk, had fall
en- and died four years before.
At Pittsburg, Richard Edwards and wife
celebrate their golden wedding; Mrs. CHS
lett, their daughter, and her husband cele-
brated their silver wedding, and Geo. B. Ed
wards, their son, and his wife celebrated their
crystal wedding, all the same evening.
A w1DowER, when showing a friend the
;inerary urn in which reposed the mortal re-
n aims of his dead departed, let it fall. It
broke and scattered the ashes over the carpet.
He ran for servant, and when she appeared,
laid to her: 'Jane, sweep up your mistress"
THURLow WEED, interviewed on the sub
ect of the cipher kilograms, said he regarded
be disclosures as the elimination of a long
eries of frauds, by means of which results
# elections in New York had been changed.
dr. Tilden, he thought, had simply extended
he system from the State to the nation.
THE Canadians have lost their admirable
'overnor-general, Lord Dufferin and are ina
tate of Loyalty sanguine, but humanity doubt
ul, expectation as to whether his royalty es-
'oused successor will prove as satisfactory
q all respects. By coincidence, the same
lay that Lord Dufferin sails. the new conser-
alive ministry comes into Office.
T1LDEN's affairs all 60 awry. The accu-
nulated ills OF q miserly, misspent life over
vhelm him in his unpatied old age. The
United States authorities are bent on convict
ng him of defrauding the revenue; the Z
Democratic committee Of his own State.
9hich he has 90 long controlled, reject all
rgans of his party turn and rend him with
cornful severity. He feels the chill of
ocial death, with neither chick nor child to
hare his griefs or soothe his bitter sorrows.
he shadow of his great crime against the
onor of his country darkens the pages of
istory and consigns his name to immortal
1famy. The catastrophe has overtaken
im The retributive forces of the world,
ke the embodied Fates of the old mythol-
gy, appear with stony. fearless eyes in SOL
mn chorus and chant the tragic story of