Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-03-27
ALL SORTS.


TIE Norristown Herald assures as that
Captain Boynton is not Democrat because
he takes to water too natula ally.
BARNEY DoRAN the jan,or of New York
public school, is 106 years of age, and is still
able to dance, sing and attend to his regular
duties and carry around the ''combination.'
A BILL introduced in the Rhode Island
Senate requires all ballots in national, State,
and town elections to be Of clear white paper,
and that they must be inclosed in envelop
before being voted.
THE Democratic administration in Texas
runs the State into debt $500, 900 annually,
and the Democratic Legislature of Louisiana
has appropriated $500, 900 more than its in
come for this year.
Mr. Russell, elected as Greenbacker to
Congress in North Carolina, is a precocious
person. He was rebel captain at II years
of age, and was member of the State Leg
islature at 10. He is now 33 years of age
TIE Lieutenant. Governor of Colorado is
worth $5, 600, 900, owns mines, is president
of bank and proprietor of large whole
sale store. A few years ago he Was poor
stone-cutter in Augusta, Me-, but he took MIR.
Greeley's advice.
THE Texas s,Age robbers waste neither
time, men nor sentiment. Two men to
coach are now regarded as sufficient. One
covers the passengers with handful OF SIX
shooting arrangements, while his ''pard' IN,
vestigates their pockets and examines the
mail bags. The passengers are so meek that
stage-robbing has lost its old charm, and
many of the banditti think of going into some
business of more exciting nature.
TIE Solid South is the Office winner under
the new regime at Washington. The Senate,
like the House, has been bodily captured by
the Brigadiers. With only two or three
notable exceptions they have the Committee
chairmanships, and now the differing of the
Senate commences with the significant choice
of Confederates for the first places The
Democracy of to-day would cut sorry fig
| ure with the followers of the late Confederacr
| left out. Thousands of the Northern breth-
| rem are already either outraged or disguised,
and thousands more of them will sicken of
the alliance soon enough. With the DEM
| Ocracy it is Southern master and Northern
serf, and this will be carried out to the end
of the brief chapter.
New LIFE is given to the subject of the
| Dead Sea by the fact that an enterprising citi-
zen of Marseilles has just obtained conces-
| sion to manufacture chlorate of potash from
its waters. This article is largely used for
manufacture of Eliminates and fertilizers.
and heretofore the supply has been drawn
from Germany. Its present price is 13O
francs per ton, and there is little profit at
that 1t is estimated that it can be manufac-
tured from the Dead Sea and delivered in
England at 80 francs per ton and still pay
handsome profits. Other valuable salts will
be produced, and business is ready for the
new railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem, which
will be pushed on to Jericho. Soon the To-
comotive and factory whistle will he making
the echoes above the buried cities of the plain
A MINISTER of Madison, Wisconsin, has
undergone change of faith, and in singu-
lar manner. Two weeks ago he was Bap-
tist of the most orthodox kind; to-day he is
Unitarian of the pronounced type. During
one OF his visits as Baptist minister, he was
thrown from wagon, struck on his head
and suffered a fracture of the skull. After
few days he recovered his general health.
but singular to relate, his friends were sur
prised to find that his Baptist belief had been
completely destroyed. Such physiological
alterations are rare, and where they have
been placed on record, the sufferers generally
lost all the religion they ever had These
cases force the question to what extent indi-
viduals should be held personally responsible,
in scriptural sense for their belief, If
these beliefs depend upon the brain structure,
can men help their beliefs, and if they can
not, should they be punished for holding
opinions they cannot help entertaining? Is
belief voluntary or involuntary, would be
capital topic for lyceums