Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-02-20
No. IA
ALL SORTS.

against Turkey.
BISHOP FOLEY, of Chicago, is in a critical
condition from pneumonia
REPORTS of yellow fever cases at Memphis
are pronounced without foundation.
THE Russian army in the Balkan peninsu-
la suffers much from spotted typhus.
PRESIDENT HAYES declares he has no idea
of calling an extra session of the Senate.
ILLINOIS is about to pay its militia $sO,000
for their services in the labor riots OF 1877.
THE New Orleans mint has been resusci-
tated after suspended animation of nineteen
years.
BAYARD TAYLoR's letters from distinguished
men fill fifteen packing boxes, and are stored
away at Cedarcroft, his country place.
GEN. GREEN CLAY SMITH, late Greenback
candidate for President of the United States,
is going to keep hotel at Frankfort, Ky.
KANSAS gained 115, 191 in population from
March, 1877, to March, 1878, and in the
nine months since has gained 10000 to 1OO.-
600 more.
THE New York Tribune thinks that Ran
dali stock for the Speakership is not so good
as it might be, and hence he does not favor
an extra session Of Congress.
The cathedral in Boston occupies over 46,
600 square feet-more than an acre Of land
and takes more space than those of Strasburg,
Posen, Salisbury, Vienna, Venice, and Dub
lin
THE wife of Rev. Jesse Corning died in
Augusta, Ca, aged sixty-three. She crossed
the plains on mule when her husband went
to California and established the first Metho-
dist Church on the Pacific coast
THE Colorado Legislature has unanimous
" adopted, and Governor Pitkin has signed,
a memorial to Congress protesting against
the change in system of land surveys, pro-
posed by the National Academy of Science.
EPHRAM KEYsER, the young Jewish sculp-
tor of Baltimore, who two years ago won
the Meyerbeer Roman scholarship at Berlin,
writes from Rome to say that he will send
his Page. in bronze, to the approaching exhi-
bition of the Society of American Artists.
Now, Michigan, give US Zach. We have
got Conkling, Carpenter, Logan and ingalls,,
and we want Chandler, that sturdy old Ro-
man, to complete the group and make the
minority in the next Senate rather stronger
than minority of milk and water Republi-
cans would be.
THE Denver Tribune says: Before 1880
Colorado will have at least 800, 900 inhabit-
ants, if not more, and thus throug h the Lead
vile excitement, backed by our real advan-
tages, will the State be peopled faster than
ever before. 1t is for this reason that we are
glad the excitement is so universal.
THE San Francisco Chronicle says that the
Hoodlum fraternity in that city dates from
1862, and now comprises some 600 members,
composed chiefly of half-grown boys. All
are not criminals, but the leaders are as a
hnxyo ,0or nf Y0OCC
words and signals, and a slang dialect, which
acquire its term.
THE baby carriage is condemned by the
Berlin physicians in cases where the little ones
sit facing their nurses and are pushed back
ward. The natural desire of the eye is to
draw nearer to what it sees, and the practice
of reversing this normal order of things and
causing surrounding objects to recede is liable
to affect lnjuriously the development of both
sight and brain.
In the United States Circuit Court, Police
man Louis Morris was called to answer an in
dictment charging him with having stuffed
the ballot box at the late Congressional elec-
ton. Defendent entered general demurrer,
alleging that under the statutes of the United
States stuffing ballot box is not penal Of
fence. Demurrer was sustained and the
prisoner discharged.
A RAILWAY commission was established in
Minnesota last year, and among the duties
imposed upon it was that of examining every
railway bridge in the State. But Minnesota
is State of many streams, and when the
arithmetic man got to work he figured up
16, 600 railroad bridges In Minnesota, so that
to examine them all would give the commits
sion fifty a day, all the year round. They
think it is too much work for the money,
and want the law amended.
THE defeat of q column of British troops
in Africa need not excite any very profound
regret. The history of the English in that
continent has been an unbroken record of ag-
gression and wrong. They have annexed
vast regions to which they had not the pre-
text of right, and treated the nations and
people of other nationalities who went there
with great insolence.. Witness their course
in the matter of the Diamond Fields. That
they should suffer some punishment for these
outrages must be regarded as very great
PENNSYLVANIA is to be represented in the
national statuary hall at Washington by stat
ues of Gen. Muhlenberg and Robert Fulton.
The statue of Fulton is to be executed by
Howard Roberts, of Philadelphia, who has
undertaken to make it unlike the other statues
in the collection. They are all standing fig
ures. about life size, with the exception of
Mead's Ethan Allen, which is heroic. ROB-
erts will make Fulton of heroic SIZE, and in
= sitting posture, without coat, and wearing
The long waistcoat and knee-breeches Of the
period, rather than the costume
Of the time at which the steamboat was in