Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01
No. "a
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
CALIFORNIA is importing onions from Chi
cago at a cost of $17 80 per 1C0 pounds.
WITHIN the past year eight Mormon girls
have married colored men in Salt Lake.
Mr. r. L. GoDK1N, of the Nation. has been
lecturing in Boston on ''Some of the Reme-
dies for Socialism,
REV. s. HALL You've, a Presbyterian mis-
sionary in Alaska, says the natives are not
savages, but are of superior intellect and anx-
ious to be taught.
FOURTEEN million of the twenty-seven
million inhabitants of Italy can neither read
nor write. The Democratic party could carry
Italy every time.
Col. MAPLEsoN, of ''Her Magesty's Opera"
has leased the Academy of Music, New York,
for the ensuing three years, and will give two
seasons each year, commencing in October
and February.
IT is now thought that Rev. DR.. Budding
ton, of Brooklyn, will wholly recover his
health. The cancer which was removed
from his face early in the winter shows no
signs of returning.
SENATOR Kellogg says the emigration fever
has reached the Louisiana sugar parishes,
and that the negroes are leaving in such num-
bers as to excite the most serious apprehen-
sions regarding the sugar crop.
The population of cities is sometimes esti-
mated by the number of votes cast. The
three principal Western cities have all had
elections this spring, and here are the total
votes: Chicago, 57,00O:. Cincinnati, 49,
1868; St Louis, $4,000
THE other day lady, trying to explain the
mysteries OF geography to Matte, rosebud
of Carson valley, told her that the earth on
which we live was rouno, and then asked,
"W hat do you live on, Matte 2" Scrub"
said the child. The gravity of that school
was disturbed for moment.
GENERAL MITE and Lucia Sarate, the two
midgets who were on exhibition in Chicago
short time since are to be married. The
General weighs nine pounds and Lucia trit1e
less than five pounds. As Rip would say,
''Here's their goot healths, und their iamllles'
und may they live long and prosper
Bob INaERsoLL is reported as offering to
give 81, 600 a: once and half his income for
the next five years, if necessary, in aid OF the
colored refugees; and Zach Chandler as say
ing that he will give homes and employment
to 100 of them on his property in Michigan,
welcomed and well employed in that State.
THE holders of 10-40s are now being called
upon to shell out The 'bloated bondhold-
ers" are suffering. This is what the lnt1a-
tionists have been demanding, but this is not
the way it was proposed to punish them. Ii
is not reputation or forced depreciation that
troubles the bondholders, but the high credit
of the government which has made easy the
~ 81 Ioh%o Of
THE Chicago Times suggests: ''The best
disposition that could be made OF Cannon
and his aw-defying Territorial organization,
would be to legislate him out OF ottioe,S and 1t
out of existence. A partition of the Territory
between the States of Colorado and Nevada
would at least relieve Congress from the
presence of persons of the Cannon sort, and
put the people under government based on.
civilized IDEAS"
THE Atlanta Constitution comes out in fav-
Or of the Blaine amendment to the army ap-
bill making it penal otfense,
punishable with fine and imprisonment, tor
my person to appear armed with deadly
weapon of any description within mile OF
my polling place at any special or general
election for Congressional representatives.
The Constitution hopes that some such
amendment will be passed and the law strictly
enforced.
WATrRRsoN rises equal to the occasion
md exclaims in the Courier. Journal: ''Surely
f Kentuckians ever expect to get their State
,ut of rut, and send her spinning along the
inging grooves of progress by bringing lmml-
rants and capitalists within her borders, the
aw must be made supreme. The revolver
must become recognized as a mark of re-
,roach and shame, like the indellible brand
ixed on the brow of the murderer Cain. He
Who bears weapons habitually must have
tigma set upon him."
A YOUNG lady was sitting with gallant
captain in q charmingly decorated recess.
IN her knee was a diminutive niece, placed
here p0ur les c0neen0nces. In the ADJOINING
DOM. with the door open, were the rest OF
he company. Says the little niece, in Jeal-
,us and very audible voice, 'Auntie, kiss me
co." Any one can imagine what had just
"You should say twice, Ethel,
lear; two is not grammar" was the imme-
late rejoinder, Clever girl, that
THE New York Tribune says: The poor
Democratic party is in hot water again. Inc
Id feud between the East on one slde, anu
he South and West on the other, between
and softmoney, has broken out
nee more, ana the vest anu 0Ou'n au" ooA'
money have carried the day. The House or
representatives has decided, through the
nion of these elements, to allow the Com
nittee on Banking and Currency, Coinage,
Weights and Measures, and Ways and Means,
o report at any time, and to allow ma]orty
o fix day for the consideration OF pubic
ill. This ends all hope of a brief extra
easion. and removes the last barrier to
,eneral leeislation. Already the plans of the
nfIationists and silver lunatics are forming.
nal Eastern Democrats nervously await the
|eluee. If Republicans considered such
49, G-o.s :. ,,er+;ao, mint Of view