Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-07-15
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Mr.. j. w. MACKEY is reported to have of
fered to buy the French crown jewels.
THE New Orleans Pscayune says that
Denis Kearney's party is opposed to convic,
: labor.
n MRS. Chester A. Arthur is a Southerner.
o She was Miss Herndon, of Fredericksburg,
e Virginia
On motion of Gladstone, Bradlaugh was
permitted to affirm and take his seat in the
British House of Commons on the 1st inst
THE New York Truth says that General
Hancock's wife is Unitarian, but was edu-
Gated at the convent of the Sacred Heart at
st. Louis.
THE population of Leadyille is about 35,-
= 600, or 1000 more than Denver, hence the
growl of the Denver journals against the
enumerators
BLONDIN threatens to return and cross di-
rectly over Niagara Falls at height of 100
feet above the cataract, and nearly 200 feet
above the bed of the river.
MINNESOTA gets $4,000 of the $780, 900
appropriated by Congress for the survey of
the public lands, and just appo1tioned by the
commissioner of the General Land Office.
AT meeting of the Republican National
Committee in New York on the 2d instant,
Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, was chosen
chairman, and Stephen W. Dorsey, of Arkan-
sas, secretary,
THE Campbellite sect to which General
Garfield belongs has $4,000 members in the
United States. 1t is said that nine United
States Senators and a good many Represent
atives are members of it.
JUDGE RICHARD D. RICE, of Augusta, Me-,
has become violently insane. He formerly
was one of the ablest Judges on the bench
of the Supreme Court, from which he retired
to engage in railway enterprises.
REV. SAMUEL RoBBN Ms BROWN, a Yale
graduate of 1882, and one of the earliest
missionaries to China and Japan, who helped
send the first Chinese boys to this country to
be educated, died June Goth, at Monson,
aged-70. ~--.-a-s....
A THRIFTY widow of Ohio lately turned an
honest penny by marrying her hired man, to
ing the account, after which she sued for
divorce, and got rid Of him for $50. By the
double transaction she cleared $3.50.
TWELVE miles was the distance King Cete-
wayo used to walk every morning tor exer-
else in the days of his power. On his return
his attendants washed him and rubbed him
down with a species of soft stone. Then he
ascended his throne and spent all day in try
ing the cases brought to him for adjudica-
ton. He always tried to be just This pic
ture of barbarian monarch does not seem
to be so dreadfully barbaric, after all.
Pioneer Press: Don Cameron is going to
sulk in his tent. through the coming cam
paign. He has written letter explicitly de-
clining the chairmanship of the Republican
National Committee His plea is private
business and physical disability, but these
would not have been obstacles if Grant had
been nominated. 1t does not matter much.
The Republicans can carry Pennsylvania
without Cameron, and some Ohio man can
be found to manage the national campaign.
THE Washington Republic says: Many
of the daily papers make the mistake OF
placing Gems. Hancock, Grant, Mcclellan,
Burnside, Franklin, Fitz-John Porter and
Grant was No. 81 in the class of 1S43, Nc
Cellan was No. 2 in the class of 1916, Burn
side was No, IS in the class of 1847, Frank
lin was No. in Grants class, and Porter No.
8 in the class of 1916. The class of Gen.
Hancock was very small one, numbering
only twenty five cadets. The new Presiden-
tial candidate stood No. Is in the class of
1914. +.
A German paper relates that at Biberrich,
quite crowd gathered to witness
Inc novel spectacle of drunken driver being
taken home by his horse. The man was 80
intoxicated that he could scarcely stand, but
The faithful animal pushed him onward with
It's head Now and then the driver attemp-
ed to turn into side streets, but the horse
seized him by the coat with his teeth and
had great deal of trouble with its master,
out finally got him home safe. 1t is said that
his valuable animal had acted the good Sam
lritan for his master repeatdly before.
SALT LAKE Tribune: ''The beautiful and
accomplished daughter OF General Hancock
vas just about to enter society when she died
IN Governors Island. She was the pride of
ler parents hearts, and they lived in their
thoughts of her. Only the other day General
Hancock said he had no wish or chance to
,e candidate, and that all he had been liv-
ng for was gone. Mrs. Hancock, whom the
General married in st. Louis, was recently
old that she would be the next lady OF the
White House, and she replied that her heart
vas not in the White House but in her daugh-
er's grave. The General is quite broken
earted over his loss.
THE Rev. Aleck Carraway is one of the
most eloquent of North Carolina's colored
reachers. His exhoTtations at camp meet
ngs are wonderfully effective, and he is able
0 move his audiences at will. But when, on
eing convicted Of stealing pair of trousers
+ Charlotte, he made the greatest oratorical
fort of his life to convince the magistrate
be devil alone was responsible for the crime,
q found that he had a hard hearer to move.
You say you were possessed by the devil
7hen you took the pants ?" the Justice said.
Yes, sah," was the reply; ''it want me, but
e debble dat was in me-" "Weil, then, to
unish that devil, viii send you to Jail for
hree months"