Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-12-11
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December II, 1879.
No.. 4
ALL SORTS.

600, 900.
THE Southern States will realize from $40,-
00O, 900 to $5O,O00,0 600 more for their cotton
crop this year than last, because of the ad
vance in the price over last year.
THE London Times says that it costs from
$4,000 to $25, 600 to run as a candidate for
parliament in England, the largest figure be-
ing in contesting the county seats.
THE sum and substance of hygiene, the
science of health, says DR.. Lyon Play fair,
can be put in four words-"Wash and be
clean' Cleanliness is certainly next to god
| illness.
EVERY hotel in Brattleboro, VT, is closed,
and travellers are compelled to find accommo-
dations in private houses. This is in pulsu-
| ance of plan to make the prohibitOry
liquor law unpopular.
"A bridal couple, from Washoe valley, at
| breakfast at Reno conversed as follows:
He-''Shall l skin you pertater, honey p
she-''No. thank you, deary; l have one al
ready skun."
THE Gar has nice little income-a trife
| of $25, 900 day. The Sultan gets $1S, 900
a day, the Emperor of Austria $4,000, the
Emperor of Germany $4,000, the King of
Italy So, 400 and the King OF the Belgians
$1,643.
Two bridal chambers we're engaged by
Drexel, Morgan & Co., on Friday last, for
Gen. Grant and family, on the steamer City
of Alexandria. at New York, which will sail
on the 9th of December for the West Indies
and Mexico.
A GRANDSON of Dom Pedro is to marry
daughter of DR.. Aver, the pill man (see ad-
woman is worth 100000 part of which is
paid to us quarterly for the aforesaid adyer-
tisement. Sun.
EX-SENATOR THOMAS L. CLINGMAN, of
North Carolina, who represented his State
confident that large majority of the people
of the South are discontented, aud would be
willing to 20 into new and liberal organiza-
ton.
By the rise of stocks Gen. Robert G.
Schneck and Jay Cooke have both been made
rich by holding their Northern Pacific. Gen.
Schneck was unable to sell his, and thought it
had ruined him but the stock rise gave him
an independence while he was lying sick of
Bright's disease at Washington.
THERE seems to be some real earnestness
on the part of Georgians to break loose from
Bourbon rule. A Blue Ribbon movement,
led by Gov. Colquitt, has been inaugurated at
Atlanta, with 5000 followers. Should the
temperance revival become general in the
State it would strike terrible hard blow at
the Solid South.
MCMuLEN, of Tenn, wants the White
House expense items scaled down and the
Presidents salary put back to $25, 900. Most
OF the Presidents have gone out of Office pen
niless, and several of them have died little
better off than paupers Mcmillan evidently
wants no distinction made between the White
House and the poor house.
GEORGE IBER, brakeman on the Collins
vile branch of the Canal Railroad, in Con-
nectcut, is regarded as the strongest man in
that State. He can lift a heavy freighting
truck simply by taking hold of the handles,
and is said to have lifted twelve hundred
pounds Since he has been on the road he
las broken three brake chains, and when he
puts on brake two men can with difficulty
loosen it.
MAJOR A. Fl. NIoKERsoN, assistant Ad-
jutant General, the newly-elected President
# the Army and Navy Assembly club, is
we'll known in the West, where he served
many years as aide-de-camp and Adjutant-
General on the staff of Gen. Crook in Indian
ampaigns. He had brilliant record in the
var, where he was repeatedly wounded. His
ervices in the Indian wars won him his
resent position.
The Alta California points out among the
rst fruits of the new California constitution
decrease of $8, 790, 600 in the savings banks
uring the first half of this year reduction
f the capital of the Bank Of California from
5, 000, 900 to s., ,000. 900; a dullness in the
,al estate market unequalled since 1868;
nd grave doubts as to titles and terms in
lany Offices which will obstruct public busi-
ess until the Legislature can pass acts of re-
eff. '....-..
WHILE riding in Union county, Oregon, re-
entity. E. A. McAllister, herdsman, came
cross wildcat. Unslinging his lasso, he
vung the same and caught the beast fairly
ound the neck. Instead of pulling back,
)wever, the wildcat made for horse and
der with powerful leaps. McAllister fed
" his life, with the end of the rope tied to
e pommel of the saddle. He ran at break
,ck speed for mile, and then, looking
'ck, saw that the animal was dragging dead
hind.
DR.. CoLLYER, the chemist of the agrcul-
raj department, referring to the experiments
hich have been made in making sugar from
dad corn and sorgham, said the other day:
# Congress will give me ten acres of ground
experiment on next season, will return
enty tons of raw sorghum sugar fully equal
the best raw can sugar or forfeit my repu-
ion that is, two tons to the acre, and is
nch better result than they reach on the
erage in Louisiana win the sugar cane."
rhe corn crop of Illinois, for example,"
ID DR.. Collyer, ''is worth about $75, 100000
nuslly. If they will devote one.tenth of
. acreage to sorghum, of the variety best
tied to that latitude, they can raise sugar
amount equal to onr whole importation,
lich is about $1OO. O0O, 600 worth. and even
s will only equal 80 per cent. of the most
Vorable of my experiments.