Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-08-07
No. 38


NEBRASKA has population Of 3S6, 400, or
nearly one hundred times greater than it was
twenty-five years ago.
II is stated that Cardinal Ledochowsky has
asked the Emperor of Germany to allow him
to return to the See of Posen.
A RUMoR is current in Brooklyn that Rev.
Talmage will not return to the tabernacle,
but remain abroad permanently.
THIs year, for the first time since 1860, the
Fourth of July was celebrated at Charleston,
South Carolina, by national salute.
PHILADELPHIA Chronicle Herald: Upon
the adjournment of Congress, Aleck Steph-
ems, it is said, crawled into an envelope and
franked himself home
| A NEW steamer, the largest the Pacific
coast has seen, is to be built at once for the
Orego~ Railway and Navigation Company.
1t wi I completed by February.
AN Iuaho correspondent describes the new
mining section as "a region set up on edge,
with ridge pole and two sides to choose
from: And that country hasn't yet been in
| vaded by reformer!
LONDON dispatch says the Odessa Cham
Der of Commerce manifests much concern at
the extra facilities offered the United States
for exporting wheat, by deepening of the
mouth of the Mississippi,
MRS. Polk, the venerable widow of Presi-
dent Polk, thinks that the dust of all the dead
Presidents should be removed to Washington,
where, if gathered in one place, she thinks
suitable memorial to them could be erected.
PROFESSOR HAYDEN says that New York is
to be the great mining stock market Of the
world. He expects that next fal; there will
hn ,InSr ~ >:<l,
will attract visitors from every part of Eu-
rope.
THE public debt of Brazil in 1870 was
$19S 600, 600. 1t is now $440, 100000, and
the government is much embarrassed in the
attempt to pay interest upon it. War. public
improvements railroad subsidies and bad ad-
ministration are at the bottom of the trouble.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON, of New York, is
the champion vetoist, One hundred and
twenty-four bills passed by the last Legisla-
ture failed to receive approval. Among
these are the tramp bill, the ballot bill, the
codes of criminal procedure and the penal
code.
THE public credit of the United States, says
the London Times, is about the same as that
OF France. Both countries can borrow in
the market at somewhat less than four per
holder of American bonds feels himself in
any danger. +.,
MAI. GEN. WOOLs monument, now being
made, is said to be the largest stone shaft Of
the kind which the world has seen for 5000
years. Cleopatra's Needle is only nine feet
longer. For the credit of the American eagle
ten feet ought to be added to Gen. WoOl's
monument.
The Boston Adosrtiser says that the regis
tration of women in that city under the school
voting law is going on very slowly, and there
needs to be revival of interest during the
next six weeks if the new constituency is to
nave any material influence in the choice of
school officers.
In his address at Springfield, Massachusetts,
Ex-Governor Chamberlain, ,ot South Carolina,
aid: "Peace is our aim and prayer; but
he peace we seek is the peace of The De-
:laration of Independence, the peace of free
lom, the peace of justice, the peace of free
md honest ballot, peace under equal laws, for
II men, for black as well as white, at the
North and at the South"
HENRY BEssEMER, the English inventor,
as taken out 100 patents, almost as many as
Gibson, and one of them, his process for
making steel, ranks as one of the most bril-
ant inventions of the century. 1t converts
ig- Iron into steel in few minutes. and has
pduced the price of steel rails per ton from
200 to $30 Ten times as much steel is used
q the world now as was used prior to 1856.
Of the late Judge Olin, of New York, it is
elated that his sympathies were often
rought into play in the Probate Court which
e has held several years past. 1t was in
MS court, in dispute concerning q child,
1at he gave his decision in favor of the
,other. whereupon the little boy jumped
yer on the desk, and hugging him around
,e neck, with tears of joy exclaimed. ''You
re the best Judge ever saw" and then the
udge's eyes filled up.