Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-23
ALL SORTS.


dead.
SITTING BULLS refrain: 'Myheart is in
the Lo lands"
THE Duke of Edinburg is to be appointed
Admiral at the Halifax station.
The French government proposes to pardon
ali Communists except 400 ring leaders,
Dufaure, President of the French minis
try, favors entrus,ing the great military CON-
mands to generals who are favorable to the
republic.
The Governing Committee of the New
York Mining Exchange have decided to
waive the six months notice which the Stock
Exchange claimed they should give before
placing mining stocks on the regular list
The Phoebe Record tells how Justice of
the Peace at Potato Valley, Eastern Utah, on
the 18th of last month, tried man for MUIR
der with an improvised jury of six, found
him guilty and sentenced him to be hanged.
PATTI is now getting $4,000 night for
singing in bad Italian and broken French.
This is what sickens the soul of a university
Professor of Latin and Greek, who is trying
to raise family of seven on 81, 100 a year.
MR. JOHN B. COUGH, in lecture in Eng
land, referring to the question whether alcho-
hol was food or a medicine, remarked that
in his opinion it was I" very much like sitting
down on q hornets nest-stimulating but not
nourishing.'
THE newest motor is an invention of
Geneva Uls.) man-Mr. J. B. Atwater-and
consists of Il street car operated by quick
silver. He claims three-horse power from
the use of 800 pounds of the mercury and no
loss by wearage. A test will soon be made
at the car machine shops in Aurora llli-
nois.
COMMODORE PARKER has informed the ca
diets in the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md, that hereafter they will be allowed to
smoke. He said that he had concluded,
against the opinion of many persons for
whom he entertained the highest respect, to
grant the privilege, but that smoking was an
expensive habit, and he urged those who did
not use tobacco not to contract the habit.
Neao York Tribune: The Southern poll
ticians are said to be pretty generally dissatis-
fled with Senator Lamar unfortunate attempt
to answer Blaine. They think he ought to
have kept quiet, acting on the well-under-
stood principle that any answer would hurt
him more than it would Blaine. They say
no Southern member has emerged from a
collision with Mr.. Edmunds except in badly
demOraliZed condition, and they are right.
Mr.. Lamar won't get caught again.
THE New York Sun says that Mrs Dion Bou-
cicault (Agnes Robertson) has not visited this
country with any professional object, nor is
it probable she will perform here during her
stay She possesses an estate in New York,
and another in Chicago, settled upon her in
1860 by Mr.. Boucicault, which it is her inten-
tion to dispose of, and shift into other securi-
ties. These estates, valued at one time at
500, 1000, have dwindled in value to one-half
that amount.
AS the circumstances attending the recent
burning alive of two men by some Nebraska
cattle herders come slowly to light the crime
assumes more horrible phases. A correspon-
dent of one of the Lincoln papers who Wis
tied the scene and gathered fuller particulars,
states that Ketchum, one of the victims, was
first stripped and then pieces of his skin cut
away with knives, his clothes saturated with
kerosene and placed upon him again. The
unfortunate man was then suspended by the
neck and a torch applied to his apparel.
Mitchell, the other victim, who was sixty
years old, was chained to Ketchum's arm,
also covered with kerosine and burned alive
were accused of murder and stealing, and
had surrendered themselves in order to stand
trial. 1t is now thought they were entirely
innocent of the crimes of which they were
accused
THERE is scarcely any hazing at Harvard
this year, so far as an outsider can observe;
but student writes to the Springfield Repu6-
|ican that plenty of it is done by certain Sc
cret societies. 1.-The limitations are devllish,"
be says; leach member is branded on the
arm so as to be identified, and cases have oc-
cured where arms have been seriously
burned by the brander being in a beastly
state of intoxication. Each member is obliged
10 take plunge into the Charles river by
night, and if he declines on account of his
health, he is dealt with all the more severely
n some other way. Resistance is out of the
question, and case occurred not long since
where man was felled to the floor for refus-
ng to obey orders. To conclude, the new
member was obliged do drink an exceedingly
strong bumper of liquor, and as soon as this
1rink with friends, who wish to congratulate
him, but whose real object is to intoxicate
During all these limitations the members are
masked, so that those who commit the atroc-
ties can never be detected"
Suferings Of the English Poor.
In illustration of the sufferings endured
" the poor at Manchester, England. on ac-
count of the hard times, it is related that a
butcher missed large bunch of flights
rom which the heart and liver had been de-
ached, and which he had seen hanging out
# his window a moment before. Going to
he door he observed a scarecrow of fellow
making off with it. He quickly followed him,
and picking up policeman as
le went along, they went into the mans house
'nly to find him and his wife and children
caring asunder and ravenously dev0uring the
aw material that had just been stolen! The
uichaf's heart was touched. and instead Of