Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-15
No. 26
ALL SORTS.


STOKES. who shot and killed Jim Fisk,
will hereafter live in Caljf,rnia.
A TEXAS exchange complains of lack of
trees in that State. The New York Herald
wickedly asks Haven't you enough to
lynch people oD?'
TWENTY-FIVE years ago men were migrat-
ing from all parts Of the South to Kansas,
with the aim of making it slave State Now
negroes are f1eeirg thiher 10 find real free
dom.
A FACTORY in Hanover, Germany, makes
glass in close imitation of marble, and the
tables, floor, tiles, etc, which it turns out are
preferable to marble on account of superior
hardness.
COMPLAINT is made in Leadvile that the
whisky is nothing but snow water scented
with vitriol. When eight hundred gallons
can be drawn from one barrel it is time for
even dairyman to blush.
In November Of the present year will oc-
cur the eighteenth centenary of the destruc
ton of POmpeii and dIIerculaneum. Arrange
ments are being made in Italy to celebrate
the event in becoming manner.
By the 18th Of June Captain Eads will have
of the Mississippi He has plan for lower
ing the bed of the rive: from the Gulf to
Cairo, which will make high levees unneces-
sary.
MECHANICS get $50 day, and common
keepers get 500, 900 year, and extra zeal as
a manager brings $75, 1000. The paper dollar
is worth three cents in gold. A loaf OF bread
costs $3.
TEXAS does not desire any trade with the
outside world at large. The Legislature has
just adopted resolution taxing commercial
travellers from other States 500 per year, in
addition to $40 for each county visited on
business.
The Southern Pacific railroad which is now
completed from San Francisco nine hundred
miles INTO the heart of Arizona, exceeds in
length the Central Pacific which is only eight
hundred and eighty-th miles from San
Francisco to Ogden.
DAVID A. WELLS, writing to the Tribune
about the proposed change in the tax law,
holds that it would be best to release all per-
sonal property, to tax banks and all moneyed
institutions and real estate, including that be-
longing to railroads. .......
A N1CHIG AN editor ran for Mayor this year.
Here is what he says of the result: "Al
right. The people have remarked somewhat
EN- phatically to the editor of the Saginawian
Squat We squat. No stomach ache here
The least said, the soonest mended."
A MEMBER of the Assembly of New York
has introduced bill designed to check the
walking mania. He proposes to fine and
imprison any halloween in the State who
shall rent his building for use in connection
with walking match where money is charged
for admission. l..-,.&. ,...,.. ..
SENATOR BOoTH, the Washington gossips
say, has been captured by demure little
widow, with 3 sweet young face and pre-
maturely white hair, to the doors of whose
modest lodging g-house fate led the Senator in
search of ''rooms to let." A quiet wedding
in early autumn will be the result.
THR plan Of relief now proposed for Ach- .
bishop Purcell is to get three thousand
wealthy Catholics to subscribe each $1,OOO,
payable in instalments of 500 year. This
would make total subscrition OF $3,OOO,OOO,
and the whole amount of the dcDt would be
wiped out in ten years. Archbishop Williams.
of Boston, and Bishop Fitzgerald, of Arkan-
sas, have each subscribed $1,000. .~
THR Pennsylvania railroad company refuse
to renew leases to Oon-keepers in the
vicinity of the depot at Jersey city, because
the corporation cannot afford to allow its
EMPLOYEES to drink. The bar-rooms have
rented at from s., 600 to IS. 900 each per an
mum. The bar-room in Taylor's hotel, across
the street from the depot, is said to do the
largest business In the United States.
IF is said that Nm astonishing number of the
male clerks in the departments at Washing
ton are entirely dependent on their places tor
q living. A member of the cabinet lately re-
marked that IN ease of change OF admins
tration from Republican to Democratic the
turning out of seven thousand clerks would
fill Washington with paupers. Among the
clerks are sixty.ene alumni of Yale, thirty
five of Prineetovn and thirty of Dartmouth.
besides large but unascertalned NUMBER
from other colleges. .. .........
EFFORTS are making in Ireland to revive
the study of the Irish language. A society
at Dublin two years ago to en-
courage such study, has just published re-
port, which says that an interest IN the move
ment amounting to enthusiasm has been
excited among 1rishmen residing IN England,
Scotland and America. The demand Tor the
text books of the society Is unabated. The
First Irish Book has gone through thirteen
editions. while the second Irish Book is in its
twelfth thousand
SnoKRRs who are partial to an Imported"
weed may be interested in knowing how they
become such, - we have it from one VINO
knows whereof he speaks. A very proml-
nent New York importing house manufac-
tures' cigars which they sell as American
made at 60 per thousand. The same brand
is cent by sailing vessels to . small Cuban
port taken thence to, Havana, and from there
imported I'd, New York and Sold duty paid,
as regular Hayanas, at go per thousand, net
tjnx . handsome profit on the gullibility OF