Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
ALL SORTS.

CHARLES FROZEN ADAMS is-tbe latest way
of putting it.
Don CAMERON pledges PENNSYLVANIA ma
jority of 10000 tor Garfield.
1t is said that the deepest gorge in the world
has been discovered in Colorado.
THE Population of Cheyenne. as returned
by the census enumerator, is 8, ,412.
THE Republican party has renewed its
youth, and presents a more solid and united
front than it has since 1850.
Hoe & Co. are said to have paid 80, 600, 900
to the widow of William Bullock, inventor of
the printing presses for bis patents.
THE Pilgrim mine at Sawlooth City, Idaho,
was sold last winter for $50, and could not
be bought now for less than 100000.
1t is reported that Gen. Ord will be given a
years furlough and then be put upon the re-
tired list, General Schotield succeeding him
in Texas.
| THE Tanner experiment to show how long
man can 60 hungry and not die, is being
| watched with great interest by the Demo-
cratic party.
THERE will be about 800, 600 tons of surplus
| wheat for export this year from California,
| or about 200, 900 tons more than during the
| last harvest year.
Keene, the Chicago stock gambler, has lost
81 800, 600 out Of total capital of $14, ,0O0,-
| 600, in his stock and grain operations during
the last twelve months.
| There are $4,000 dentists in the United
States, and $5OO,OO0 worth of gold is put into
| the teeth of Americans annually, and 3,00O,-
900 false teeth are made every year.
Bob Ingersoll says the Democratic nomi-
nees are not good enough to get any Repub-
lican votes, nor bad enough to excite great
enthusiasm in the Democratic party.
An Indiana farmer says that labor has not
been so scarce and high h-priced in 65 years,
| in his harvest fields at SO day as proof.
The property embraced by Ocean Grove,
| Asbury Park, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake and
| part of Sea Girt was worth, in 1869, $751;
300, and is now worth good deal over $3,-
100000.
MICHIGAN has 1886, ,191 acres under wheat
The crop is an average one. and the yield is
estimated at from 10000, 900 to 5,00O,0O0
bushels.
Hon. THADDEus c. POUNDS, NJ. c., says
Wisconsin will roll up an old time Repub-
lican majority for Garfield. Twenty thou
sand is the figure he thinks the State will
show in November.
SALT LAKE Tribune The census of Utah
is now complete and shows population of
143, 69O-one-6fth of whom are white and
free, while the other four -fifths are slaves of
the Mormon church.
'Think twice before you speak once"
That is q good enough rule for some people;
but there are folks who can think of SO much
meaner things to say the second time trying
that we prefer to hear their first inspiration
on the subject.
The rev leaden roof that is being placed
or the cupola of st. Peters at Rome will be
complete in two years. This roof was begun
seventeen years ago. 1t is divided into six
teen sections. each of which requires mil
lion pounds of lead.
ENGLAND pays her distinguished soldiers
for their services. Major General Sir Garnet
Wolsely received in South Africa salary of
$50, 900, in addition to staff allowance OF
S1O.O "unattached pay" of SIS 25 day
and $40 day as field allowance.
KANSAS is envious of being the banner
State of the Republicans in this campaign
and proposes to roll up ma iority that will
serve as landmark in future years. 1t will
be an honest majority, too, and not gained
by bulldozing and counting out the oppOsi-
ton.
THE Democratic Convention of 1868 pro-
nounced the reconstruction acts ''ulconstltu-
tional, revolutionary and void.'' Hancock
was candidate before that convention. The
last convention, which nominated him,
''pledged itself anew" to the doctrines and
traditions of the party.
1t is said by Democrats that they have ad-
vised Hancock not to resign his position OF
Major General, not because they fear he will
be defeated, but because they do not want
President Hayes 10 appoint his successor. 1t
is believed that Hayes would name General
Miles to the place If he had On opportunity.
THE mammoth steamer Great Eastern,
whose visit to this country some years ago
excited such lively curiosity, is about to re-
visit American waters. This time she will
be employed in conveying beef from Calves
ton to England. Her capacity is 900 head
voyages in the year.
THE smallest lovers on earth were united
at the altar at Odessa, three weeks ago. The
Marquis" native of Kiel, is thirty years
old, and weighs only nineteen pounds, while
his fairy-like consort, q young lady, born in
Neumunster some two and twenty years ago,
just turn the scales at thirteen pounds. At a
first glance this tiny pair, it is said, might be
taken for couple of scarcely weaned babies,
dressed up for joke in the gsrb of adults
A LIBEEAL-MINDED Israelite wrote recently
the following letter to the head of Jesuit
establishment in France: 81, son of Is
rael, free-thinker and republican, offer
you the hospitalities of my house from the
day of the execution of the DEGREES of the
goth of March, in token of my protest against
those DEGREES, which are repugnant to the sa-
cred principles of repubhcanism."