Helena weekly herald., 1880-05-20
No. 27
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
IT is said that Mr. Joseph Seligman's
private fortune amounted to $4,000
MRS E. CADY STANTON has retired from the
platform. Now, Susan B., it's your turn.
THE Mayor of Louisville has appointed to
city Office the brother of man who tried
to kill him.
THE Atlanta Constitution says that Joaquin
Miller's new wife can make good husband
of him if she begins right. She wants to
shut down on his poetry the first thing.
THE American war vessels in the Mediter-
ranean are ridiculed by the Italian press,
which claims that the Duilio could chase
them all through the Straits of Gibralter, or
sink them at short notice.
"A prominent merchant of Sacramento
worked half an hour on the following propo-
sition and failed to give the answer: If four
men build q stone wall in nine days, how
long will it take five men to build like wall
in six days?
The Republican County Convention which
met at Omaha on the 1st inst. elected a solid
delegation for Blaine. The State Convention
will be held at Columbus on the 10Th inst.
Blaine will undoubtedly receive Nebraskas
delegation unanimously.
SALT LAKE Tribune: 1t is reported that
Gen. Hancock will supercede Schofeld at
West Point. The latter has become so OBJ
noxious that the Government has determined
to dispense with his services at the military
school and will assign him to duty in the
West
THE postal revenues for the coming year
will undoubtedly be much greater than the
estimates. The amount of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards issued to
postmasters during the nine months ending
March 31st last, was $23, ,979. 1886, an increase
of over fourteen per cent.
PHILADELPHIA ISnses:: 1t is believed in
Easton that Hidetake Taro Yegawa, popu-
lar young japanese who graduated at Lafay-
cite College recently, has been beheaded
Yegawa was ordered home by the Japanese
government at the end of his sophomore
year, but he refused to 60.
PROFESSOR Waldo, of Yale College, has
made mathematical table, of which. should
| it get into general use, it would be hard to
say how much brain force it could not save.
Its object is to economize time in division
| and multiplication, and he estimates that be-
tween 40 and 70 per cent can be saved.
IT is computed that the sum total of the
| cost of the last war between Germany and
France was $2,50O,OOO. A French econo-
mist does not share the opinion expressed in
some quarters that Germany did not profit
much by the war. After pointing to many
| things which the indemnity has enabled Ger
many to accomplish, he says that there is
fund of $500, 600, 600 unaccounted for, which
he presumes has gone into the famous war
fund.
TEXAS has just completed marketing one
million bales of Gotten as her crop OF 1879,
or one-fifth of the total crop of the Southern
States. For this she has received between
S55. 900. 900 and $50, O,000,O 900. Aside from
this she has sold $15, 100000 worth of cattle,
sheep, wool and hides, making grand total
of $75, ,OOO, 900 for one crop alone every dol
lar of which has been Rent there from other
States and from Europe.
MANY musicians have tried to prove that
language is not adequte to describe music.
They have said that elegant adjectives can
not convey any idea of the emotions that
strings of violin or strings of piano pro-
duce. None the less are musicians anxious
to have their performances described in the
newspapers; and none the less are the auto
biographies of great composers filled with
the most absurd of adjectives.
SPEAKING of the emigrsnts now arriving
in New York by the thousands daily, the
Post says: ''These emigrants are for the
most part of the better class, good, indus
trious farmers or skilled artisans. The form
er class are in most cases already provided
with tickets to point in the Western States,
| while the latter eagerly accept work at their
trades in any part Of the country. The de-
mand for female help at the employment
| bureau is largely in excess OF the supply,
and the manager is daily besieged by large
number of house. keepers to procure help.
sufficient number of women to supply de-
mand before next August.
GEN. HRINTzELMAN, who died in WASH
ington, was born in Pennsylvania in 1919,
and graduated at West Point in 1926. He
distinguished himself during the Mexican
war and was afterwards engaged in the sup
preston of Indian hostilities in Southern
California where he established Fort Yuma.
He commanded the third division of the
Army of the Potomac under Mcdonald, and
distinguished himself at Bulls Run, where
he was severely wounded. He led the right
wing of Pope's army at the second battle OF
Bulls Run, and subsequently took command
of the Notifications about Washington.
Joe Boris, negro desperate, has been
the terror of sections of Wyoming and Colo
RADIO for years. Arrested q year or two ago,
he knocked the Sheriff down, and escaped
by swimming the Missouri river. A few days
ago Captain Hawley, of the Rocky Mountain
Detective Association, met the negro in the
streets of Denver, and walking straight up to
him and holding out his hand, said, "How
are you, Bolts ?" They clasped hands, and
Hawley reached for the negro's revolver,
which was in his pocket. The next instant
he reeled back from q terrific left-hander
from Bolts. who ran up the street. The Cap
tain shot six times, and put bullet through
| the fugitive's body. But after that the negro