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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Do GOld Nuggets GROW:

A startling theory has been advanced by
Mr.. G. Atwood, in a paper read before the
Chemical. Society of England, which Will
make experienced California miners shake
their heads. Mt. Atwood asks 'Do gold
nuggets grow p and answers by assuming
that they do, owing to the accumulation OF
fresh particles of finely precipitated gold. Al
Guayana, Venezuela, large area OF aliuvial
soil has been found to contain gold, and mug
gets up to twenty-ounces have been discover
ed within three feet of the surface. Quite
one-half of these nuggets are covered with q
dark-brown substance, resembling shcate
of iron. By treating such nugget with by:
drochloric acid and caustic soda,it was fouDd
to be diminished considerably in weight.
During this dissolving process, much gold, In
finely divided state, became attached, and
after the treatment the nugget was partly
covered with coating of finely divided gold
of dull color.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
No Smoking I'm Here.

(From the Cincinnati Saturday Night.]
"You can't smoke in here" said John
street conductor to a countryman, who was
pulling away vigorously at five-cent cigar in
q Car half full Of ladies.
The man didn't seem to hear.
Il say" cried the man Of the bell-punch,
in louder key, ''if you want to smoke come
out here on the platform"
''All right" returned the passenger, and
he stepped out ''Din't think it would hurt
nothin," he said apologectically ''seein's
there amt any straws in the car to catch
fire."
"But there are ladies there
'Oh, yes didn't think nothin' bout that,
might get ashes on their gowns and spile
EN-"
ut isn't so much that" explained the con-
ductor, ''hut ladies object to smoke"
"Well, didn't ask any of 'em to smoke,
did l? They needn't object before they're
invited"
'You don't understand. Smoking is dis
agreeable to ladies.
"Best reason in the world why they
shouldn't practice 1t. Catch me smoking If
it was disagreeable to met" And he tram
GULLY puffed away at his five center.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26

[Ogden Freeman, 6th.]


Mr.. Willard, the partner Of Jay Gould in the
Ogden & Portland, Oregon, Railroad, was in
Ogden Monday, and after comforting with his
chief engineer, Col. H. Thielson, instructions
were given by telegraph to put three addi-
tional parties of surveyors in the field to hur-
ry the location OF the road from Walla Walla
via the pass north of the stage road, through
the Blue Mountains, and put on a sufficient
construction force to complete the railway
from Walla Walla to the Grand Ronde
valley in time to transport the fall crops to
the seaboard. Last week the purchases of
the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. s line from
Astoria and Portland to Wallula, and DR..
Bakers railroad from Wallula to Wala WAL
la, we're consummated by Gould & Villerd.
1t is the intention also to construct Is miles
of track across the lava beds of Snake river
Immediately, for the purpose of securing the
trade of Idaho and Eastern Oregon this sea-
son. This road will intersect the Ogden &
Montana road near the mouth of Portneuf
Canyon, and strike directly for the point
where Little and Big Wood rivers make their
confluence with Malad river, and from thence
it will follow the valley of Camas creek
across Camas prairie, thence to Boise City,
This throws the track near to the wonderful
ly rich mines and vast forests of timber of
Alturas and Lemhi counties, Idaho.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Effects Of the Perfume Of Flowers on
Health.

''Contrary to the popular belief" says a
writer in CasseWs Magazine. ''It has been re-
Gently found by al Italian professor that fine
vegetable perfumes exercise positively ben
efcial influence on the atmosphere by con-
verting the oxygen of the air into that pow
erful oxidizing and. therefore, purifying
agent, ozone. The essences found by him to
produce the most ozone are precisely those
which usage has selected as the most lnvigor-
ating, such as cherry, laurel, cloves, lavender,
mint, juniper. lemon, fennel and bergamot
several of which are ingredients in the re-
freshing eau de Cologne Anise, nutmeg,
thyme, narcissus and hyacinth flowers. mign-
onnette, heliotrope and lilies If the valley al
so develop ozone; in fact all flowers possess
sing perfume appear to do so, whereas
those having none do not. This interesting
intelligence will be gratifying to all lovers of
flowers, and the cultivation of these lovely dis
infectants of nature should be promoted in
all marshy or foul places"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
What is it?
lLeadville Eclipse.1

[Leadville Eclipse.]
A new disease Is prevailing in our midst
and we would call on some of the medical
faculty to inform US of its nature and give II
an appropriate name. 1t will be we'll to give
it's notable symptoms as it may assist IN It's
recognition. So far as We are informed,
there has been no fatal case up to this time.
The first symptoms observed by the frlenos
of the patient is that of the head, which Is
carried high, and it seems impossible Tor the
patient to turn either to the right or LETT.
The eyes become fixed, failing to be attract
ed, even by the face of an old friend; the
hands are carried in the pockets; the most
favored beverage-lager beer, discarded ana
champagne and ice substituted; Limburger
cheese, the very name of which formerly
caused the mouth to water. now produces
the most intense disgust and causes the nose
to turn up as though the odor was disagree,
able. The mind. too, seems to wander, and
low mutterings may be heard, such as worth
q million if worth cent, .'buy fire proof
safe, ''open book, Ego home and run TOR
Governor or for the United States Senate, "
..want to kill some one and pay for him. :"
When the dream begins to decline. mutter.
ings such as ''d-n thing has petered out,
the patient ceases to damn the walters at MS
hotel. the stiffness of his neck subsidies, and
he again recognizes his friends. The patient
may then be said to be convalescent.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Can Colorado Desert be Converted Into q
Sea-

In lecture recently delivered in Los An
gelos on the Fremont Wozencraft scheme of
converting the Colorado Desert into sea-,
General Geo. W. StonemaD said: Much has
| been said of late regarding great geological
| basin, lying between the coast range OF
mountains in California and the Colorado
river on the east. This basin is represented
as being 800 miles long, fifty miles wide and
800 feet deep-about the size of Lake Erie.
We are told that Gov. Fremont of Arizona
has just returned from Washington, where
be has been for the purpose of inducing Con-
gress to lend the aid of the Treasury to ena-
BILE some one to fill this basin with water.
The Governor has been, during his checkered
life, engaged in some grand and conspicuous
enterprises, but in this case has evidently laid
his plans before he consulted his figures. Let
us make the calculation for him. To fill such
pond in one year, supposlng the bottom to
be water-tight and evaporation entirely
checked. would require small stream 20
miles wide, twenty feet deep, with current
stream 1000 feet wide, ten feet deep, and
running at the rate of three miles an hour.
would take 200 years. After this lake was
filled it would require river $50 feet wide,
10 feet deep, and running at the rate of five
miles per hour about the size of the Color
ado river at ordinary stages-to compensate
for evaporation at the rate of 18 inches per
year. Arcbimedes, you know, said that he
could move the world, only give him full
crum Fremont says he can make sea, only
give him plenty of greenbacks. The one is
about as impracticable as the other chimerical.
When he makes his estimates he will come
to the conclusion that long ere be can fill bis
basin Vith water, the great Engineer OF the
universe will have filled it with the sands of
the desert, driven down by the ever-prevail-
ing winds of the north. In the meantime 1t
will probably be used for the purposes in
tended by the Almighty-the occupation by
the honed toad, rattlesnake and Southern Pa
cific Railroad.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Lively sketch Club.

The artistic people of St. Louis have a
Sketching Club, which includes in it's men,
bership several wellknown society people,
and which makes sketching excursions into
the country on Sunday. The other Sunday
the party made a trip by rail, and the mem
bers spent their time, going and coming, in
singing Bong, of which the following is one
stanZa:
Who shall kiss her fairy Iips, lips, lips?
Who shall kiss her fairy lips, lips, Eps7
Who shall kiss her fairy lips, lips, hps?
When l am far awsy?
Oh. Johnny Moran,
Ga zip ga zan.
Or Kalamazoo,
In Michigan
B a-a-d man!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Helena, Montana, Thursday, June IS, 1879.
A Round Boy ln u square Hole.

More than half of The papers in this
State find reason for complaining of large
numbers of ''useless young men" existing in
their different communities. There is more
of reason for this state of things than that
times are hard; and that We shall have to
find it in the boyhood of these ''useless ones ;"
Boys, the most valuable and misused portion
of humanity, are too often the victims of
restless, rudderless impulses. Let any one
who has reached middle life look back upon
his school-days and recall his fellows, and
see how many of them he can count who
have been of real use in the world. He can
count dozens who have failed where he can
count two who have made success. When
boy gets out into life-always a difficulty
with parents-there seems to be many
chances to one that he will be placed in some
uncongenial occupation. The grief of the
young fellow whose father puts him as pupil
to a celebrated artist, when, as he said with
tears, ''he wanted to be butcher" is very
real, and repeated every day. The wonder
is not that the boys turn out Indifferent work.
men, but they turn out we'll at all. The truth
is there is too little trouble taken to find out
the impulse of genius, or to consult the fit
ness of the boy. Something appears, and no
matter whether the boy is fitted for it or not,
whether he likes it or not, be is placed there,
and then a round boy is fitted into square
hoe. He becomes dabbler at the business
and master of none. At thirty that boy-a
victim--is looking for something to turn up.
1t is not difficult to see that parents are to
blame for cultivating hoy so as to produce
the many sided and useless drifter, of which
our exchanges complain. Another error is to
educate boy for something ''genteel," to
scorn trade and look upon an artisan or
with contempt Such boys will
always be drifters. Territorial Ente,prIse.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
AN AKIZaDNA HOAX,
The FtOaxers Probably Hanged-A Wild
Goose Chase after Gold.
prescott Miner

prescott Miner.
From I. P. lngersen, one of the party of
fifty-six men who accompanied the Freeman
Hill expedition, about 400 miles north of
Prescott, where these men represented there
existed immensely rich placers of gold, and
in fact where they had picked up several
pounds, but were not allowed to carry it
away by the Indians who live in the reputed
placer districts, we learn the following: The
party, as above stated, consisted of tfty-six
men, with 112 animals, well provisiOned and
equipped for four months trip. They fol-
lowed Freeman and Hill into the reputed
gold country, went around it and through it,
and failed in any instance to find even an in
dcation of the precious metal. The party
went without water in once instance forty
eight hours, lost five animals and came very
near perishing, which they probably would
had they not fallen in with a Navajo Indian,
who piloted them to water and continued to
remain with the explorers for several days,
taking them to water known only to the In
dians. Freeman and Hill finally admitted
that they were unacquainted with the country.
had never found any gold, and alll that they
knew had been told them by some old Mexi-
cans or Indians. The country travelled over
is of sandstone formation, hard to traverse
and is quite picturesque iu scenery and old
ruins, the walls of which are from two to ten
feet high. All of the party started on their
return home at the same time our informant
did but nine, they returning back to have
revenge on their deceivers. Some of the
gold hunters remained in the vicinity of the
San Francisco mountains, where game is
abundant, and we expect soon to see our
market supplied with jerky in lieu of the
gold they promised to bring back. Freeman.
and Hill have probably been hanged.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26

The Paris National publishes wonderful
gastronomic feat performed by two Hayti
negroes, who bet 5000 that they would eat
without stopping for six hours, and won
easily, sitting down to table at noon and
not rising before $3.50. In the long interval
they succeeded in consuming soles al gra-
tin, 12 lamb outlets, joint of roast veal
weighing eight pounds, 8 kilogrammes OF as
paragus, and an omolet of 10 eggs, besides q
Dutch cheese. 10 pounds of bread and 10
bottles of wine
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
WHERE IS YOUR BOYTO.NIGHT

Life is teoming with idle snares,
The gates of sin are wide,
The rosy fingers of plea ure wave
And DeckOn the young inside.
Man of the world with open purse,
Seek ng your own delight,
Pause, ere reason is wholly gone
Where is your boy Tonight?
Sirens are singing on every hand,
Luring the ear of youth;
Gilded tal>ehood with silver notes
DrOWneth the vO Ce OF truth.
Dainty lady in cost y robes,
Your parlors CLEAN with light,
Fate and beauty your senses steep
Where Is your boy tonight?
Tempting whispers of royal spoil
Flatter the youthful soul
Eagerly en' ering into life,
X etive of al control.
Needs IRE many, and duty stern
Crowd on the weary sight;
Father, buried in business cares.
Where is your boy to-nigt?
Pitfalls lurk in the flowery way,
Vice has a golden gate;
Who shall guide the unwarv feet
Into the highway straight?
Patient worker and willing hand
Keeping the home hearth bright:
Tired m. ther with tender eyes,
Where is your boy tonight?
Turn his feet from the evil paths,
Ere they have euter, d in;
Keep him unspotred VIII le yet he may,
Earth is stained with sin.
Ere he has learned to follow wrong,
Teach hlm to love the right;
Watch. ere wat. hing is wholly vain
Where is your boy tonight?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
Utility VS.. Beauty.

De big sunhower m y rise above
De mode tater vine,
And brag abuut its sunday clothes,
An pat TN airs SO fine;
But when de winter howls around,
An de snow dies at de doah,
De big sunflower, oh! whar am he
DE tater has de f1Oah!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26

|. THE Galveston Neaos sorrowfully an
nounces that immigration to Texas has al
most ceased, and real estate has within the
last two years deprecated fully eight per
cent.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
WITH WHITE HANDS.

Years she went about the world,
Lovely eyes and smiling face,
Dressed and scented. gemmed and curled-
Always queen by right of grace.
All the time there was grave
Meath the warm Italian Sky,
BY the AdriatiC's wave;
She alone, of all, knew why.
He whose dust lay lonely there
Far ON friends and native land,
Worked to win name to wear
Fill she let him kiss her hand.
Love and longing, pain and pride,
Passion first and coldness next;
When she went away he died,
Being frail, intense and veXed.
But the snow above her heart
Melted suddenly one day,
And, awakeni' g with start,
She wrote, "Oh, forgive, pray,
"All my coldness. all my pride;
l, unwillingly, am true.
When my lips said mo-! lied;
have never loved but your
Weeks she waited; then there came
Tardiy from that tar land
A brief Litter to her name
Not his signet, nor his hand
Just to cay that he was dead;
His light went out suddenly.
Brok. My. she bowed her head;
''All is said and done for mel"
Then, remembering life as 'twere,
Just burden at her feet,
Heavily she stopped her there,
Loathing What had been 80 sweet.
And to- night there is feast:
am promised, must 60.
Might l see his grave at least!
But the world would scOrn me SO.
'!Well, it may be that some dav,
VIII I'm wrlDkled. hent and old,
When my hair ls thin and gray,
None will think but / am cold.
u may do then as plea e,
Cross the sea and seek his grave,
Linger near it at my ease
l, that slew where COu save!'
Oh, she was so fair that night
Soft fiu-hed cheeks and sweetest eyes,
Shoulders 80 diviLely white,
And voice of low replies!
But the while she bent her head
In The watz's rapturous wave,
She was think ng, "he is dead!"
And, What flowers grow on his grave?"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-22
IDLE THREATS.

Some mean-spirited character, whose
inclinations are as dark and contempt
ible as the dirty paper upon which he
wrote his anonymous threat, sent a
document under the crack of this
journals doorway last night, tell
ing of desperate deeds to be
done unless the demands of him
self and his rascally followers are
complied with. A request to print
the document is disrespectfully de-
clined for several reasons, only one Of
which is necessary to be given, and
that is, nothing emanating from per-
sonswho concoct their schemes during
the shades CT night, and then are too
despicable to sign it with their names
deserve either consideration or venti-
lation. The penitentiary is too pala-
tial an abode for such specimens OIL
humanity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-22
A RILED CONGRESSMAN.
Mr.. Daggett Charged Extra Baggage "
on His Other Shirt.--Hls Dire
Design Of Revenge.

Virginia New Chronicle.l
There is now no doubt as to how
Congressman Daggett stands on the
railroad question. He is sound.
Conversing with a Chronicle reporter
the other day he said:
The railroad people are the pret-
test kind of gougers. They begin to
show their hand at Omaha. In the
first place, the fare from Omaha to
San Francisco is hundred dollars
and fifty cents, and everybody who
buys ticket stops to grOwl and ask
what that fifty cents is for. They are
told that the half-dellar is simply the
profit made on each passenger. |
guess the hundred dollars comes
nearer the profit than the half-dollar.
Then they grab your trunk and
shove it behind a grating to be
weighed You can't see the scales at
all, and you have no idea about the
weight until man sings out eight
dollars and thirty cents over weight,
and you have to pungle the money or
your trunk don't go. Now my trunk
was so small an affair that | could
throw it over my shoulder with one
hand, but they ran up the weight to
26O pounds. Probably it did weigh
that much when 200 pound baggage
master was sitting on it.
Well, | paid because | hadn't but
two minutes to fight; and at Ogden
the baggage villain still pursued me,
land | paid some more extra weight,
1t weighed more at Ogden probably
because a heavier man sat on it, or
else the rarifed atmosphere affected
the scales. Then coming over the
mountains there were some extra
lcharges for ropes. But I'll get even
I'm get even.
" You see | am entitled as a mem.
| Der of congress to 600 volumes Of
| Agricultural Reports, 200 Surveyor
Generals Report, 500 Patent Office
Reports, and several thousand Other
heavy volumes of equally exciting
character.
Reporter-Are these reports ever
read?
Mr.. Daggett, NJ. Cob, yes ; the
printers who set EN- up are obliged to
read 'em. Well, these are sent on to
my address, free, and the railroad
people have to carry 'em for nothing
under their postal contract with the
United States government-the big
gest government on earth, sir, Then
LII give one copy of the agricultural
romance to Farmer Treadway, and a
copy of the geological fiction to Pro-
iessOr Stewart. All the rest l need
myself.
Reporter-For what purpose?
DR.. Daggett, NJ. C.-Why, you see.
I'll put my frank on 'em and ship EN-
to Zach Chandler in Wisconsin, and
he'll frank EN- and send em back,
and I'll frank 'em again and redirect
EN- to him and these books two tons
of 'em, by God will 60 back and
forth over that blasted road free until
the next session Of congress, when I'll
get hold Of some more and start them
along, too. | propose to keep them in
motion until they wear out, and then
I'll sue the id company for dam
ages. Oh, III sicken 'em on the extra
weight dodge. Don't yeV forget it,
Every morning the Congressman goes
down to the depot and pokes about
among the freight for his books. They
have not yet arrived, but he expects
them every day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-22
MATRIMONY AND MURDER.
A Younger Son Kills His Mothers
Husband Just as the Linking
Words are Pronounced.
The Younger Son is Afterward Killed
and the Elder Brother Beats
Out His Mothers Brains.
Little Rock Gazette. l7th.l

Little Rock Gazette. l7th.l
A horrible tragedy has Just been per-
petrated near Wittsburg, st. Francis
county. A few miles from Wittsburg
there lived widow named Hammett.
The woman was engaged in farming,
and though she had two grown sons,
was compelled to employ a young man
to superintend farm labors. Mrs.
Hammett was about forty years of age.
The man was a mere boy, but an at
tachment soon sprang up between
them, which did not stop at friend
ships station, but ran into the depot
of a matrimonial proposition. Mrs.
Hammett accepted the young man S
love, and the wedding day was fixed.
The two sons, hearing of the matrimo-
nial arrangements that had been made
between their mother and the strip
ling, called on the maternal relative,
and tried to dissuade her from enter
ing into such an obligation with a
mere boy.
The widow had acted from an emo
tional impulse, and refused to accept
of her sons counsel. The sons made
threats. telling their mother that the
marriage would be disastrous, but the
widow affirmed that she loved the
young man, and would marry him at
all hazards. The sons went away. and,
at the proper time, the young man
appeared, matrimonially attired. The
minister came and friends were assem- =
bled. The deep hush incident to thou
art man and wife had scarcely been
pronounced when a fash at the win
dow, followed by a loud report, terri
fed the women and astOnished the
men. Another fash, another report,
and the newly-made husband sank
upon the floor. The widows younger
son was the perpetrator. He fed, but
was captured. Next day the young
husband died, and shortly after the
widows younger son, in attempting to
escape, was shot and killed and re-
port says that shortly afterward the
elder brother went to his mother
house and beat her brains out with q
club.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-22

spouse. Her bust of Blanca Ca
pello" was the sensational piece Of
sculpture in the salon of 1861. Nine.
de Colonna-C Castiglione was a thorough
Bohemian. The duchesse was roman
tic and willful, abounding in crochets
and oddities, but without any evil
propensities. The breath of scandal
never reached her, and she was allowed
to live out her life in her own way.
In Paris she gave the most charming
receptions in her studio, where were
to be found Berryor, the Due de
Luynes, Guizot, Theirs, the Gallieras,
Princess Mathilde, Prince Napoleon,
and many celebrated foreigners. Her
connection with the Tornolias brought
her into relation with the financial
world, and as she was extremely gene
rous enabled her to be a useful pat
roness to struggling artists. The
name she entered her works in the
salon under was Marcello, and she
was often SO called by her artistic
companions. Her sculpture was never
pronounced great, but was frequently
described as " delicious"