Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-08
No. IS
ALL SOkl'S.

o4 JiuJaAAo.
The accounts of The last Paris Exposition.
show deficit of about s5, ,OUO, QUO.
CoTrON has gone up couple of cents
pound since the negroes began to hee from
the Southern PharaOhs.
Life is but span. Marriage is double
team. Youth welded 10 old age is u tandem.
A cross old bachelor is single and all sulky.
A club has been formed in San Francisco,
the members OF which sign pledge tina, they
Will neither directly or Indirectly patronlze
The Chinese.
TnR st. Paul P;oneer-P Press says that the
Committee on Pacific railroads has u nlaj ~
i,y of one In favor Of granting the Norlnern
Pacific Charter.
One hundred English farmers 60 into bank
ruptcy every week on account Ut The import
alton into England of American beef, says q
hig III English authority.
MYMoK GOULD, one of the party who bore
the wounded Genera! Scott from the field of
Lundy's Lane, died at Orange, Ohio, the
other day, aged eigh'y-ive.
Opium smoking finds little toleration in
Japan. A man was recently sentenced to ten
years hard labor in Yokohama for violation
of the law against the practice.
"How shall we train our girls?' asks an
exchange. Train 'em with about twenty-five
yards OF black silk, if you want to please
your girls. A silk velvet train would also
make 'em happy.
Mrs. lUoRET1A Mort regards the emigra-
ton of the negroes with disfavor and regret,
while assured that it is attributable to the
frightful wrongs that the blacks are suffer-
ing in the South.
Whoff fr,,i
resemble riding on jackass Innocent-look-
ing Freshman-Give it up. s. o.-A beauti-
full pear. /. L. F.-All right; come outside
and I'll try it.-Harvard Herald.
QUEEN V1oToR1A has managed the estates
year she realized an income of $220, 900 from
them. At the beginning of her reign they
yielded about fourth of this sum.
THE Pope has declined to accept the resig-
nation of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, On account of his long service to the
church, and has instructed him to select
coad jutOr with the right of succession to the
see.
THR last Democratic Administration, in
1S6O-61, found it difficult to borrow money
for the Government at per cent. interest.
The present Republican Administration finds
it difficult to supply the popular demand for
osr 4 per cents.
EDISON still declares that his electric ligh
is q complete success, and that he expects to
make the whole thing public within two
months. 50 little has been said of the inven-
ton recently that public sentiment was grad
ualy settling to the belief that it was imprac-
ticabie.
A PHnApElPH1A dispatch says: A news
paper man said yesterday: IL see Blaiue
mentioned as possible candidate. l have it
direct from that gentleman that in the event
of Grants name being proposed before the
National convention, Blaine will withdraw in
his favor"
Adelaide Nelson, it is said, has excited the
sympathy and admiration OF the Londoners
by actually faintiDg on the stage at the prop
er time 1t will be necessary tor her to get
robbed and wear q ]. on the end of her name
to be entitled to sympathy when she returns
to America.
Says the Sioux City Journal: "Too much
shirt-collar and too little young man, is the
girls verdict Of the average beau of the per-
jod." Re,or,s the Omaha Neaos: "Too lit
tie collar and too much yOnng woman, is the
young mans verdict on the average belle OF
the period"
The Norriasovn Herald says of the rich
young lady whe has fallen in love with and
married New Ysrk street car-driver: From
lhe bride and the halter he went to the altar
and the bridal and the only train and switch
to eeeupy bis mind hereafter are those be-
longing to his wife. She takes him for wheel
or whoa, 40 IL were.
The ether day mob rode into Fayetteville,
Ark, and ri1d1ed newspaper office with
buckshot. The pr0v0cation is unknown to
us. but no deubs the last issue of the paper
said somthing about "winter lingering in the
lap of spring, supplemented with the "hard-
" ever" joke.-Norristow Herald.
Fred Douglas, after inquiry and reflection,
concludes that the exodus of negroes 10 Kan.
sas will not prove beneficial to them, and he
says that in Kansas they will have to suffer
The severe cold winters. which will kill them
off faster than the rifle clubs of the South.
The intimidations and brutality, Mr.. Douglas
SAYS, will In time be remedied, especially in
The Gulf States, and the negro will be looked
upon with greater favor.
THE increase in population in the past ten
Years has been much greater in the Northern
Ihan in the Southern States, and the new ap-
based on the census of 1880,
viii give larger representation in Congress
10 Republican than 10 Democratic States.
The estimated gain in the Electoral College
is: Northern States, 46; Southern States, 2
The Western and Northwestern States
The largest percentage OF gain.
A LIST of all the members who
both Houees ct Congress since
constitution went into force
hundred and fOur were bo'
State, five hundred aud
a, four hundred and
,husetts. and three