Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
No. 20
ALL SORTS.

THE Town Treasurer Of Eenntbunkport,
Me-, gets $25 year, and gives bonds for
$4,000.
THE New York Herald says it requires
more than $50 men to set The type, make the
platas, and print each is>ue of that journal
daily.
The Supreme Court o! Tennessee has just
decided that the rents and profits of the
estate of married w0mal,, not settled upon
her for her sole benefit and use, are subject
to the debts OF her husband.
SIR JOHN AsrLHy, who made the wager
that Weston could not walk 2,C00 miles over
English roads in a certain time, sent an agent
to watch for deception. Bells Life contains
letter from this agent, who says that Wes-
ton was twice caught riding in wagon.
The year having figure nine in it has
been a succession of events on this coast. In
1849, California was the attraction in 1859,
Washoe; in 1869, White Pine; in 1879,
Leadville, Snake River, Frisco Silver Reef
and Salmon River.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The imitation diamond made of Rhine
ebbes are now used in Paris for many pur-
poses. There are not only diamond buttons,
mounted like solitaire, or in clusters, but
buckles for the shoes and belts in all COnceiv-
able designs. There are also fastenings for
small buckles to fasten the ribbon loops
which are placed down the front of the
dresses and on the lower part of the sleeves.
Earrings, crosses and ornamental pins are
also made of these stones.
JAMES K. Polk was the only man who
was elected from the Speakers chair to the
Presidency, and MIR. Colfax the only speaker
who ever became Vice President ; Mr. Kerr
was the only man who died while speaker of
the House. The ex-Speakers now living are
r. M. T. Hunter, Robert G. Winthrop, N. P.
Banks, Galusha A. Grow Schuyler Colfax,
Theodore NJ. Pomeroy, James G. Blaine and
Samuel j. Randall. Mr.. Winthrop was the
only man who was ever elected Speaker af-
ter serving as Speaker pro tenn.
RESOLUTIONS have been introduced in the
Illinois legislature for the appointment of
committee 70 inquire into and report upon
the annexation of st. Louis to the State of
Illinois. A large majority of the people of
st. Louis are said to favor the scheme, hay
ing reached the conclusion that the rural dis
tricts of Missouri are irretrievably Bourbon,
brutal, unthrifty and half-civilized. At the
same time Kansas City, the smartest town in
Missouri, has sent memorial to the legisla-
that State. Missouri seems given over to
corn-whisky.
THERE are deserted towns in Nevada, but
they are not old ones.. A few years ago the
nearly 5000; of Treasure Hill, 5000; of
Shermantown, 1000; OF Swansea, 5000. All
incorporated, with Mayor. Council, Fire De-
partments, and daily newspapers. Hamilton
has now about 100 inhabitants, most of whom
are merely waiting in dreary inaction for
something to turn up Treasure Hill has
about half as many. Shermantown one
family, and Swansea none. In one canyon
of the Ioiyabe range, near Austin, are five
dead towns without single inhabitant. The
streets and blocks graded on the hillsides are
rapidly falling back into the wilderness.
OF THE forty-three Democratic members
of the Senate, the South furnishes 80, and
the rest of the country 49, In distributing
the chairmanships of 90 regular Senate COM
mittees, the caucus committee gives 20 to the
South and nine to the rest of the country. So
far as the Senate is concerned, therefore, the
South will, in the words of Blackburn, ''be
charged with the shaping of the legislation of
the land" In other words, the nominal Rep
of fourteen millions of peo-
pie will control the legislation Of forty mil
lions; or, to put the case more exactly, the
actual Representatives of a population de-
cidedly less than ten millions of Southern
and half million of blacks in
the South not being represented in the ma
jority of the Senate at all-will shape, for
some years to come, the law-making of the
people of the United States. Political theo-
lists are much addicted to talk about the
brute force of the majority" Would it not
be we'll to have some exhaustive discussion of
IN entirely new phenomenon-the brute force
If the minority?
CONFEDERATE.B BONDS.
An Early Bird Sends Forward One to the