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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-17
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ties ordered the ,menagerie to quit the
town without delay. riH-i1

ABOUT four years ago the premises Of
Mr. GIBBONS, corn dealer, near Alton,
in England, were broken into, and a
cash box containing fl55 pounds stolen,
butno trace of the thief was discovered.
Mr. Gibbons received "a package from
Australia, which was found to contain
: hejopg-missing cash box. In it was a
letter saving that the robber had COM
mitted the fobPery phaer the pressure
eiu~misfsItnns..--,Mithut The aid Of The
money he had made his way to Australia
whereby good use Of the surplus and by
honest industry, he mad made for him
self competency. The boy contained
tle original amount stolen, with inter
est, at The rate Of fifteen per cent. and
1 the writer who gaveil name OF address,
asked TO be forgiven, and requested ID al
the receipt of the package might be
acknowledged in the Melbourne Argus
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
Helena, Montana, Thursday, October 16, 1879.

| mercy OF the flames, which were being famed
by good stiff breeze. An attempt was made
to get water from the Boulder ditch, which
runs almost directly over that portion OF the
town where the fire was tiercest, but the water
had either been Shut off or woald not flow q
| sufficiently strong current to throw the water
to the burning buildings. Otherwise much
| property would have been saved. Dozens of
families who We're living in upper stories Of
business blocks barely escaped with their
lives, in their night clothes. The flames
spread with lightning rapdity, and everyt
tling was abandoned to be swallowed up by
the greedy element. Lower Sherman stree
was Inhabited principally by the demi monde,
whose houses were furnished elegantly, but
not a thing was saved except what the crea-
lures of sin wore on their backs when they
emerged from their burning palaces. In one
of these houses was the dead body of young
Chicago girl, who had died the day previous,
for whose funeral extensive arrangements
were being made, and which was rescued
with great difficulty by heroic undertaken
and taken to the outskirts of the city. The
fire, after passing down Sherman street,
crossed through Lee to Main, down Main to
Gold and Wall, and back on the hillside,
three squares, taking everything in its track.
In the other direction it extended up Sher-
man street distance of two blocks, where it
was checked by the blowing up of few
small frame buildings, thus saving the fash
ionable residences in lnglesle and Cleveland
The fire passed over an area of twenty-five
acres, sweeping dOwna total of about one $50
business houses and seventy-fve residences.
and entailing a loss of nearly So, 600, 900.
The estimate is formed by men who are well
posted as to the value of property and goods
destroyed Upon all this there was probably
not over 500, 900 insurance. The granarles
were filled with thousands of bushels of this
years grain crop, and many merchants had
received most of their fall and winter stocks,
which were very heavy this year, all of which
were destroyed. All the newspaper Offices,
telegraph offices, Masonic. Odd Fellows and
knights of Pythias halls were destroyed.
The Daily Pioneer, which was recently pur-
chased in the interest of the Homestake COM
pany for 1000 is a total loss. The Daily
Times saved a small portion of its body type
and forms, but lost all else. The telegraph
company lost about $500. All the battery
tools and instruments saved. One set total
loss. The government signal Office and
United States military telegraph station in
this city lost nearly all of the meteorological
but saved the records. The
Pioneer has ordered complete outfit for an
eight-column daily paper, including power
press. Immediately on the breaking out of
the fire, the telegraph Office was placed in the
grocery of r. D. Kelly. outside of the limit
of the fire, and two operators have been kept |
busy night and day with the immense rush of
commercial and press messages during the
terrible confagration.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
SENATOR BLAINE.
Incidents Showing his Remark able
Memory for Names and Faces.
Correspondence from Ohio. ]


''Blaine was entering the dlning-room DR..
Werlich, of Martins Ferry, stepped up and
said: Mr.. Blaine Blaine turned immedi-
ately and replied: why, Israel Werlich,
sure as I'm alive. I'm glad to see you, old
friend He had not seen Werlich since 1914,
or heard of him.
''Again, another old man asked him: Don't
you remember me?' 'Why, yes, said Blaine,
calling his name, L saw you thirty-ive years
ago at Caldwell's mills.
"'No,' was the reply, 4 never was there !;
you are mistaken.
"'No, I'm not, said Blaine and named
the day, as many years ago, and an incident
of the day.
''The old man frightened up and said {:
We'll, I'll be doggoned, but you're right. l
was there, and I've never been there since"
"'Nor either said Blaine.
''The editor of a weekly paper in eastern
Ohio was presented to him. How do you do,
Mr.. --?' asked Mr.. Blaine, cordially shak-
ing his hand. you are editor of the --,
believe, remember meeting you during the
last campaign, when was speaking in Ohio.
You had just taken your cousin in with you
then. Is he still with you?'
''This is the incident, as the newspaper
man told it to me. and he added: 4 had butts
minutes talk with Blaine when saw him
first''
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
Chinese Wall.

An American engineer, who, being engag-
ed in the construction OF railroad in China,
has had unusually favorable opportunities for
examining the Great Wall built to obstruct
the incursions of the Tartars, gives the fol-
lowing account of this wonderful work: The
wall is 1, ,72S miles long, IS feet wide at the
bottom, and Is feet thick at the top. The
foundation throughout is of solid granite, the
remainder of compact masonry. At intervals
of between 200 and 800 yards towers rise up,
25 or 30 feet high, and "a feet in diameter.
On the top of the wall and on each side of it
are masonry parapets to enable the defenders
to pass unseen from one tower another. The
wall itself is carried from point to point in a
perfectly straight line, across valleys and hills
without the slightest regard to the configura-
ton of the ground, sometimes plunging down
into abysses thousand feet deep. Brooks
and smaller rivers are bridged over by the
wall, while on the banks of larger streams
strong flanking towers are placed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16

WE believe that the American race horse
is an animal superior to his English progeni-
tor for any distance in our own or similar
climate. The transportation of American
thoroughbreds to England for competition
with English horses, under English rules, and
in new and trying climate, is to our disad-
vantage. 1t is noteworthy that no English
man has yet ventured to import racers to
America to compete with ours on the turf.
They are imported as breeders only. If Mr..
Lorillard or Mr.. Sandford or some OF the
large breeders in Kentucky are wise they will
fling down the glove to English turfmen by
challenging them to come over to America
with some of their best ''cracks" and tackle
us as we have so long been tackling them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
The Inventors of the GuillOtine and Bow.
lie Knife.

It is rather hard luck to have ones name
inseparably attached for all time to an instru-
ment for killing human beings. This was
the misfortune of DR.. Joseph Ignace Guillo-
tine, who really had no share in the inven-
ton of the dreadful machine which figures so
repulsively in French revolutionary annals.
And now it turns out that Col. James Bowie,
the hero of the Alamo, after whom bowie
knifes were called, was mild, pleasant, and
by no means homicidal person, who mere
ly invented convenient and useful knife for
hunting, and never had a serious, ''personal
difficulty" in his life. Others found his knife
handy thing in personal encounters, and
brought it into fashion for such emer-
gences. So says Col. Bowie's old friend, the
Hon. George NJ. Patrick, of Texas, who is
reported in the Galveston Neacs to have de-
scribed Col. Bowie as a brave soldier, and
not by any means hot-tempered bully.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
Great Enterprises.
TAmerican Socialist

The present time is fruitful in schemes Of
| great magnitude. There are already pro
| jected.
A new suspension bridge over Niagara
river.
A new Atlantic cable in addition to that now
in process of construction.
A ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien
A ship-canal across the same strip Of land,
separating two oceans.
A railroad over the Desert of Sahara, con-
| Meeting Algeria and Soudan.
canal, which, conveying the waters of
the Mediterranean into the sands of Africa,
shall make great inland sea and fertillze
arid wastes
The establishment, of water cOmmunica-
ton between the Black and Caspian Seas.
Add to these enterprises, most of which
seem likely to be undertaken in the near
future.
Edsons scheme for utilizing the suns
heat.
Edison's scheme for utilizing electricity.
The various plans of geographical dis
covery.
The solution of the mysteries of Central
Africa, and the civilization of its savages.
The destruction of the worlds plague
The emancipation of every slave.
Universal education.
The adjustment Sf the relation of labor
and capital
The solution of the population question.
The discovery and adoption of the final
form of society.
And we need not fear that the worlds
great thinkers and doers will get out of work
and have to go tramping for long time to
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
We're the Apostles Married Men:
baltimore GaZette,1

Some of the highly cultivated Boston
people who have theory that entirely too
much attention is paid to woman in this day
of civilization, are coming to the front with
some puzzling facts. They want to know
whether any of the twelve Apostles ever
married or whether there is any record in the
Bible or elsewhere of any of their children.
If there was Mrs. Matthew, Mark, Luke or
John, nobody ever heard of her. They point
to the fact that Christ had brothers and sis
ters but no wife or daughter; there IS no
woman in the Trinity. Women were not
permitted to speak in the early Christian
Churches. The Bible takes no more account
of women generally than the Koran or any
other Oriental book. The ancient Greeks
were the only people who gave women in
those days partnership in the affairs of life
and they were Pagans and idolaters. This
is really horrifyiDg, and the ladies should
call an Indignation meeting in every city in
the land. They might establish the fact that
one of the Apostles was married man, for
we are told that one of the relatives of Simon
Peters wife was sick of fever on certain
occasion.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
How u Texas Lawyer Won Jury.
[Daalas Herald.]

[Dallas Herald
Ex-Gov. j. W. Throckmorton certainly un
derstands all the arts of an old Texan. In
his speech defending Ed. Bomar, at Gaines.
vile, after having spoken about an hour be
said:
,,Gentlemen of the Jury-It is said by the
prosecution that because the deceased was in
his shirt sleeves when killed, he had no pis-
tol."
Here Mr.. Throckmorton pulled off his coat
and stood before the jury in his shirt sleeves.
"You would say" continued Mr.. Throck-
morton, THAT am not armed because am
in my shirt sleeves. Look!'do you see my
arms?" cried he, holding up his hands.
No signs of arms could be seen.
Mr. Throckmorton then drew pistol from
under his left arm, another from under his
right, one from each boot, and huge bowie
knife from the back of his neck, placing
them upon the table.
''You see gentlemen. though in my shirt
sleeves, could be well armed"
This was a clincher and it carried the point,
entirely destroying the:argument of the pros
eCutiOn,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
TIIRlLEISG ADVENTURE,
A Remarkable Boat Ride Through Big
Horn Canyon.

Two adventurous miners recently took q
ride through Big Horn Canyon in the Yellow
| stone, never before traversed by man. Had
they been able graphically to describe their
| adventure they would have told tale sell
dom equaled in thrilling incidents. Wishing
to save 2OO; miles travel around the noun
tanS they concluded to try the canyon. With
some tools they had in their mining camp
they built frai craft at the bottom OF the
| canyon, having previously taken down their
material Of red cedar. The boat was made
II feet long, three feet wide and upon trial
was found TO carry it's cargo of freight and
passengers admirably. So on the morning
Of the 23d of July they united it and pushed
out into the current. The rush of the river,
which before starting Was almost deafening,
was terrible as the boat started on its journey
through this unknown gorge. To go back
was impossible; to climb the solid limestone
walls which rose 500 feet above their heads,
where narrow streak of light lighted up
their course was not to be entertained as a
means of escape; through they must go,
trusting to their ability to avoid rocks, and to
the strength of their craft to run the rapids,
which they met at every bend Of the canyon.
The loudest halo was heard as whisper.
GrOttoes, caverns, unknown recesses of na-
ture were passed by these naVlgatOrs. In
places hocks Of mountain sheep, startled by
the appearance of the curiosity rushing by
below them, would run along ledge of
rocks, jump from crag to crag, where foot
ing for man would be impossible, and dis
appear. Evening coming on they attempted
to tie up for the night. They worked the boat
close to shore, jumped out and away went
the craft carrying the guns and provisions.
With starvation behind them and hardly
foothold before them their chances for keep
ing on were doubtful, when they luckily
found two logs, which they lashed together
with their belts, and again trusting to the
river, aid still more dangerous rocks, they
set out to search for their boat, which they
found two miles below, where it had stopped
in an eddy: On the afternoon of the third,
day, while wondering how much longer the
Big Horn Canyon could possibly be, they
suddenly shot out into the beautiful Big
Horn Valley, with Fort G. F. Smith On their
right.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16

A former resident of Zululand describes
the assegai as between spear and an arrow,
about five feet long, made of tough wood,
and tipped with an iron arrow point; being
slender. though strong and heavy, several
can be carried by each man. It is thrown
like javelin, and the Zulus are said to be
very expert in throwing it, and it is used
hand to hand in close encounters. He says
the mealie resembles or Indian corn. Tho
kraal is village of from 20 to 100 huts,
made of mud. grass, stick, ect, and its COM
plement seems to be great cattle pen. The
Zulu industry appears to be largely pastoral,
and does not run to towns or settled habita-
tions. Hence there are no great collections
of property to be destroyed, nor strategic
points to be occupied.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
An Old Bell.

In the belfry of the Episcopal church at
Ellicottsvile, N Y, there is a bell which was
cast in Moscow in 1903, and was one of a
chime for the cathedral which was burned
during Napoleon's Russian campaign.
Along with other old metal this bell was
brought to New York by sea captin, as
ballast for his vessel. Eventually it was
carried to Troy, and became the property of
a well-known bell founder of that city. It
was there discovered by member of the
Ellicottsvile parish, who purhased and gave
it to the church. Its condition is sound and
its tone still good.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
HOW we Squander Our Vital Riches.

The genius of our civilization IN its phys
Illogical aspect Is to make spendthritts OF US
all Of our vital riches. 1t includes no such
aim as race improvement. True, some youth
full culture of head and heart is supposed to
reach after that object. But it does not. 1t
looks only to immediate success in social dis
tinctiOns, or to winning competitive struggles,
not to the more remote objects OF our I'M
provement as race. Indeed, the instances
in which physical degeneration, by the pre-
vailing injudicious and highly priced culture,
is not thereby begun, are altogether excep-
.tional. Compare the highly educated son
with his father, and a perceptible dimlnutlon
in the grade of constitutional stamina is
nearly always manifest. Continue the pro-
cess for generation or two, and progress
sive deterioration will ensue until there are
only sickly boys to grow up into invalid man.
hood. Very few ever think of, and yet fewer
ever seek after, the accumulation OF vital
riches. Only when brought to suffering and
poverty of this kind is the mind aroused to
any interest in this subject. Prior to the In
ception of disease, thoughtless squandering
of vital reserve is what our social practices
systematically encourage; and when as a de-
bility, disease and untimely death ensue,
these are not regarded as the evidences OF
fatal flaw in the existing system OF clvil'za-
tion, but as matters of provision which alone
concern providence and the doctors. The
constitutional vigor, thus SO blindly spent,
renders frequent demands upon the highest
resources of the healing art urgently neces-
sary. And it must be confessed that in pro-
longing the life of defective blood there are
displayed q skill and care never before
equalled.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
THE DEADWOOD FIRE.
Some of the Scenes Which We're to be
Witnessed

The special dispatch sent from Deadwood
to the Chicago Times concerning the great
fire at that place last Friday, contains some
points not touched upon by the Associated
Press reports, as follows:
Scores of fine brick buildings, just erected,
and which were OF the most handsome and
costly designs, are now a smoldering pile of
ashes. Two thousand people are walking
the streets tonight homeless, and many of
them utterly destitute. Some of them are peo-
good circumstances, but whose all consisted
in town property, which has now turned into
smoke and ashes. The fire originated in a
small frame shanty, known as the Empire
Bakery, on Sherman street. and which was
situated in the middle of a block of the worst
fire traps in the city, constructed Of highly
inflammable material, which, when once ig-
nited burns like so much chaff. The same
place has on several occasions been the cause
of great alarm among the property holders,
from the fact of a fire breaking out in the
back room three different times in the past
year. This time the fire was caused by
drunken baker upsetting coal-oil lamp.
When the building was once ablaze all efforts
to extinguish it were of no avail. The flames
pierced every crack in the old hovel, igniting
buildings on each side, and following one
another When the flames reach the hard
ware store of Jensen & Bliss, three doors
from the scene of its origin, eight kegs of
blasting powder exploded with terrific force,
seeming to tear the heavens asunder and
shake the mountains from their strong foot
ings. The blast blew sparks for great dis
tance on every side, igniting every building
within their reach. AT this time it seemed as
though the gulch and hillsides were one solid
sheet of fire. The fire departments were
promptly on the spot, at the first sound of the
alarm, but the flames soon swallowed up the
entire hook and ladder apparatus, hose and
hose carriage This left everything at the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
LOVES SPELLS.

Ny love wa lOvelier than the dawn,
And fairer than the rose;
Shed d gold n hair and deep blue eyes,
And slightly turned up nose;
l loved the bangs upon her brow,
The rufflcs on her gown;
Oh, madly did dote on her,
TIL she went out of town.
My hOrrid business held me fast;
l could not leave my home.
Beside the gentle, ,guigling brook
With her loved to roam.
Yet bade cruel fortune grim
Her direst woes to wreak,
For vel knew my love would write
A letter every week.
Oh, wrntched day when came the post!
Her letter proved no prize,
She never crossed a single t,
And did not dot her is;
But worse, far worse, than all of that
Her shame how can IL
Though faircr than all NasSar glr.S,
My darling could not speli
Such trifles as a dot or cross
You easily pass by,
You even do not groan much DER
Belitting Of the /!
But when she writes l-u-v, love,
1t takes away your breath,
And it doesn't cheer your heart to read,
''My deer, i'm yurs Ill deth"
You can forgive purchased braid,
A tooth or two thars false,
Ard love her if she walk awry,
Or stumble in the waltz;
But when she writes of l-u-v,
And thinks yOu are deer"
The wheels that run the love machine
Seem somehow out of gear.
I wrote unto my darling love
That we at once must part.
Although feared the loss of her
Would burst my throbblng heart,
And yet | frankly said to Ter,
Il could not bear for life
Such disregard of Websters rules,
Such spelling in WIFE
If I'd been born in Olden days.
When every one spelled queer,
might have borne such Ignorance
In one held so dear
But a. this world is now made up,
Why, this know quite well,
III find, b fore take wife,
A woman who can spell.
Arthur Lot in PUCK
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
A DREADFUL story is reported from France

A DREADFUL story is reported from France.
A young sportsman went shooting. In
wood he met charming young girl, the
daughter of neighboring farmer. Falling
into conversation with her he set his gun up
against tree, and sat down himself on
knoll with the fair enchantress. The girls
father going by that way saw the loving
couple, crept softly through the wood behind
them, seized the lovers gun-and- disap-
peared with it, Moral: lover and shot
gun cannot both remain in one place. Z.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16
new YORK NOTES.

Returned Fashionables and What They
Are Doing--A WOman's iament.-
Theatrical--Some of the Best
Plays, Etc.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-09-23

mention as . rumor. / don't know any
thing about.
At this point one OF the bands on the
accompanying schooners struck up Q
pot-pourri from "Pinafore," and Sena-
tor Cole called attention to the fact.
General Grant-I have heard o great
deal OF this ''Pinafors" and would like
TO hear IL. I never happened to be in q
place. however. where 1t was being
played.
General Mcdowell entered into q com.
%plimentary notice OF II. and pending this
the interview was cut short by the entire
party moving forward OF the wheel.
house to observe myriad craft, all laden
with human beings. and the approaches
to the city, which the General regarded
with interest. Throughout all the In.
tsrvisv the General. though dieniAsd,
appeared unconcernsd at the brilliant
scene around him. though his obssrvant
eyes apparently gathered In every point.
In conversation with the party he was
rather shy than otherwise. and appeared
to view everything from q thoroughly
practical standpoint.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-09-23
IHonorlnu Grant.

Eureka presented q gala appearance
yesterday, many Of the business places
being decorated with flags. and all the
engine houses making Q liberal display
Of bunting. II was q time when our
citizens, irrespective Of party, united In
houoring o man who has won q place in
the heart Of the nation second only 10
Washington. A telegram from San
Francisco. dated Of half.past 8 O'Clock,
announced that the City Of Toxic was
within thirty miles Of the city, and for
almost an hour after the ringing Of bells
and booming Of anvils was almost deaf.
ening. II was IN unusual sight for
phlegmatio Eureka. and shows the hold
Grant has upon the affections OF the pso-
pls.-Elrsha Sentinel, Sept. 81.