Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-01-16
No. 9
ALL SORTS.

The London market for bar silver is at a
complete standstill.
Ice for the first time in years stops naviga-
ton on the Georgia rivers.
| SENATOR SHARON for the first time in two
years occupies his seat in the Senate
Secretary Sherman has called for another
$50, 600, 900 Of the 5:2O's of 65, cOnsols of
49,
WHAT more fit than that the Shooting Star
should hear the fallen Angel back to Amer
| ica?
THE distress among the English working
| classes is assuming widespread and alarming
| features.
Ten dollar bills on the Consolidated bank
of Canada are in circulation. This bank has
no bills of that denomination.
DAVIS bill, appropriating $250,00O for a
national museum building, fre-proof, is ap-
proved by the Senate committee.
Strakosh denies the etory that Adeina Patti
is in danger of having limb amputated,
because of fracture OF the knee cap.
The plague which besets the Russian
troops in Astrachan on their road home from
Turkey has revived with renewed violence.
THE Alliance calls Moody "a spiritual Her.
cules," and says that ''he cleansed, If not
stables, many homes and hearts in Chicago"
Both of Senator Sargent's daughters have
studied medicine. One has graduated and
commenced practice in the Freeman's Hos
pital
Clark Hubbard, wife and two children
en- route west from Sherman, Texas,
were frozen to death near Pilot Point on the
night of the 9TH inst.
Delegate Cannon and other Mormons now
in Washington are said to be much exercised
by the recent Supreme Court decision against
po)ygamous marriage.
During the first five working days of the
new year $28, ,0O0, 900 of the 4 per cent. bonds
were SODA fact unprecedented in the his
tory of funding operations.
A brother of W. s. O'Brien is registered
with his wife and daughter at Baldwin's
Hotel, San Francisco. They are on hand for
part of the dead millionaires estate.
POPE LEO XIII is engaged in drawing up
scheme of cooperation between all the Eu-
ropeoan Powers, with view to the repres-
sion of Socialistic and International tenden-
cies.
EASTERN military men object to the army
bill on the ground that it takes power from
the Secretary of War and makes the General
of the Army practically military dictator In
all army matters.
In the United States Supreme Court, Mon
day, unanimous decision in the Utah Poly
gamy case was rendered, affirming the con-
stitutionality of the law of Congress .prohibi-
ting plural marriages.
Troy Dye, murderer of Tullis, in Sacra-
mento county, California, admitted his guilt.
The plea made by the attorney in the prison.
er's behalf was weak mind, which was in
fluenced by Lawton, his accomplice, who is
still at large.
Efforts are making in New York to organ
ize there bullion club. Its promoters state
that its purpose is to collect and disseminate
reliable information relative to American
mining for the precious metals and all COL
lateral subjects.
TOWNSEND, the noted interviewing cores
pondent, just arrived at Washington from
the West, expresses the opinion that ''Grant
will be nominated with whirl for the Presi-
dency, with a Southern man for the second
place." The Democrats, he thinks, will he
obliged to take up with Thurman and Bayard.