Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-09
ALL SORTS.

The Governor OF Arizona offers $500 to
any individual who shall kill highway rob-
ber.
THE total vote of Maine at the late election
was 124, ,274, of which the Democrats po]led
but 18, $50.
THIS is nation with big n And that is
another capital the Confederates would like
to capture.
WHITEHALL Times: 1--WE can not all be
President, but we can educate our sons to
refrain from wiping their noses on their coat
sleeves"
! Professor Hayden and others estimate
that from $4,000 to 65 600 square miles of
Montana's area are underlaid with coal and
that several of the measures are yielding an
excellent quality of fuel.
A FARMERS wife in Vermont was beset by
seven tramps in body, and yet true grit and
len quarts of boiling water cleared her house
of the gang in two minutes by the old-fash-
| ioned clock in the kitchen.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the bullion
shipments from that city are second only to
those from Virginia, Nevada, and that the
mines are in fair way to equal those of the
Comstock in their palmiest days.
! OH1O Democrats profess confidence in sue
cess. The Cincinnati Enquirer claims that
not only will Ewing be elected Governor, but
the Democrats will secure the Legislature by
majority of at least six on joint ballot
THE New York Star gives currency to the
report that Tilden has finally opened his bar
rel in behalf of Ewing, by putting into the
| Democratic pool fifty of the best United
States documents" otherwise $4,000.
The population of Dakota is given by
counties, in the Deadwood Times, at 13O, AIS;
Lawrence county having population of
18, 600 souls, with 10, 900 given both to Yank-
ton and Minnehaha, and 1000 to Grand
Forks county.
The Eureka Consolidated has declared
dividend upon the August product ($230, ,OOW
| of two dollars share, aggregating $500. 1000.
This makes the t0'ty-se0enM dividend which
this mine has paid to it's shareholders, in the
aggregate 81, 1850, ,000-Aining Record, Goth
5nst.
A SOUTHERN man, who had become dis
located in Iowa, has been practising his GUS
tomary diversion of shooting q negro, and is
astonished to find himself arrested and i'm
prisoned on account of it. He says he has
shot no less than eight in Southern States,
and no notice was ever taken of the matter.
The Paris Figaro announces that MIR.
Stewards heirs will buy the Grand Hotel, in
Paria, recently sold at auction for some
50, O00, 900, and transform it into gigantic
bazaar, in which will be sold ''all the pro-
ducts of the Union, from the preserved
peaches of the Shakers to the hams of Gin
cinnati.
THE New York Sun insists that Henry
Gully should be punished for the shooting of
Chisholm. We are surprised at the New
York Sun, says the Inter- Ocean, What will
the Democracy say to such talk? What will
Henry Gully say?. What will Henry Gully
do, indeed, should he happen to meet the
editor of the New York Sun.
In Anna Dickinson's Ragged Register"
we can't swallow what she says about Chica-
60 as q summer resort, Omaha's oriental airs
and cheap hotels; but when she tells that she
and then rode on ticket in preference, and
she a professional lecturer-Anna, it is too
much-send back our picture.
THE Oakland Tribune says the true reason
why Dennis Kearney backed down from his
proposition to burn Grant in ef1gy was, that
when Captain Jack Crawford, the 'Poet
Headquarters and left the following message
for him: "Tell him that if he burns Grant
in ef1gy, or even attempts to perpetrate that
indignity, will make it my individual bust
ness to kill him."
GEORGE G. PERKlNs, Governor elect of
California, declares the Republican party the
fornia, he says, will cast her vote for the Re-
publican candidate in 1880 provided the right
man is nominated for President. His per-
sonsl choice is Blaine for President and
Booth for Vice President. He has a great
admiration for Grant, but does not believe in
! third term. Still, if Grant were nominated
be thinks he would be elected.
The acquittal of Gully is pronounced by
he New York Sun ''telling Republican ar
yument." After reviewing Mrs. Chisholm's
pathetic story the Sam says: 'Sneering at
Ihe bloody shirt will not counteract the ef-
feet of scenes like this, faithfully described.
They rekindle the spirit which raised and
sustained the Union armies in the war, and
politicians who think this spirit will down at
he bidding do not understand its powe r
AT the Republican jubilee in Portland the
,ther night Senator Blaine opened his speech
n this fashion: ''At dinner of the New
England society of New York last December
Governor Van Zandt said that he could give
very brief statementfof what the Puritans
lid. The Dutch settled New York and the
ouritans settled the Dutch. In this election
he Greenbackers settled the Democrats, and
he Republicans settled. the Greenbackers.
If there is voter in New York who can
lot find gubeinstorial candidate to his lik-
ng. it will not be due to . scarcity of men to
lick from. The State almost rivals Califor-
'ia in the number Of parties in the field, there
'eing five tickets, headed az follows: A. B.
;ornell, Republican; Lucius Robinson,
traight Democrat; John Kelly, Tammany;
1arris Lewis. Greenhacker. and John w.