Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-04-01

"A Dakota girl has Il aIrled Chlnaman.
He had some difficulty in explaining the state
of his heart, but she finally got his cue.
SOME of the high-toned, would be- e-fashion-
able people of Fifth avenue, New York, are
giving receptions at which only French was
spoken.
GEN HOOPS ten orphans have gone to live
in Texas, under charge of Mrs. E. Fl. Her
men, to whom they were committed by the
General
THE New York World exclaims: The de-
mand for Irish 'agitators' in this country is
entirely filled in the person of MIR. Denis
Kearney.
THE Chicago Weekly, conducted by c. H.
Harris (Carl PretzeD has at it's masthead
Blaine for President and Harrison for Vice
President.
A CONNECTICUT woman bet new hat
against bonnet that she could jump further
than any church deacon in Norwich, and she
beat the best man by seven inches
A NEVADA editor wrote of dead orator:
'Death has turned off his gas" If he had
written it in sarcasm he would haye put it:
''The king of terrors has stopped his wind
mill"
THE sleigh in which Robert Morris accom-
panied his guests Gen. and Mrs. Washing
ton, Gen. Lee, and others, on pleasant winter
rides, is now owned and still used by Mr.. Fox,
of Foxburg, Pennsylvania.
1T is estimated by the census supervisors
of Nebraska that the population of that State
will possibly foot up $50, 600 this year. In
1870 it was 122,993. This would increase
her Congressional representation from one to
four.
A SCHOOL teacher in Iowa had the debt of
the world all nicely figured up to cent, when
q Chicago man went and got trusted for
Goldfish, and forgot whether it came to II or
% cents. 1t was awful mean on the school
master.
THE commission recently appointed by the
President to examine and test the fineness of
the coins of 1879, have completed their work,
and have reported that the coming is fully up
to the standard required by law both as to
weight and fineness.
MAJOR SAINT A. D. BALCoMBE, of Omaha,
has been nominated for United States Mar
shall of Nebraska, and Senator Saunders tel
egraphs him that he will be confirmed. Maj.
Balcombe formerly possessed considerable
wealth, but has met with misfortunes which
have excited much sympathy in his behalf
throughout Nebraska, and his appointment
to lucrative office is generally approved.
CHARLES DEYoUNG, interviewed by the
Chicago Times: Politically, he claimed that
California; first choice was Blaine, and Grant
the second, though he admitted that Grant
would probably be as strong on the Pacific
Coast as Blaine AS for Sherman, he didn't
think he had any chance of getting a single
delegate west of the Rockies. Unless the
Democratic party unite with the workingmen,
he says they will have no chance at all in the
Presidential election in California.
THE pretty daughter of ex-Secretary Nc
Culloch, now in New York, rides out in
pony phaton with queer looking wooden
case beside her, which contains fancy inlaid
banjo. Miss McCulloch is called the best
banjo player outside of the profession, and it
is she who has set the fashion which now
keeps half the sWeet-sixteens" in New
York city drumming and strumming out of
their school hours Miss Doremus, daughter
of Professor Doremus, the analytical chem
ist, is the next best banjoist in the city.
A quaint story of Andrew Jackson is told
by writer in the Nashcille Banner. He
was visiting Kentucky town where among
the gentlemen presented to him was Major
Lewis, who desired to impress Jackson and
his admirers with his own independence.
Taking digni6ed attitude, he said: "Well,
General, l have all my life been voting
against you" Jackson courteously:bowed to
him and said, good humoredly: "Well, Ma
jor Lewis. have all my life been fighting
the battles of my country in order that you
might enjoy that privilege"
GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK says in talk,
that no reason exists why the plan OF ex-
changing reservation for lands in the sew
eral Territories lately agreed upon with the
Utes, should not be adopted with other tribes
of Indians at once. He believes that it could
be applied to all reservation Indians in Ore
gon and Washington Territory, and that
similar compact between the Government and
the tribes in the Indian Territory will soon
open that great region to settlement BY white
men.
The Omaha Bee says: Special Agent J.
B. Furay has received information from Hell
ena, Montana, that four packages of corro-
sive sublimate had been smuggled through
the mails to that point by firm OF st. Paul
druggists. From the letter it appears that
last week, while Postmaster Crounse and his
assistant, Mr.. Moffit, were emptying the east
ern mail bags, four packages dropped on the
table. and one rolling on the floor, burst, send
ing out shower of white crystals. SuppOs-
ing it to be saltpetre or alum the postmaster
paid no attention to the fact, except in plac-
ing the package on the table. Shortly after
ward both he and his assistant were taken
sick. and the strange packages were taken to
a chemist for analysis, and it was discovered
that they contained eleven pounds of corro-
sive sublimate. A druggist of Helena told
the postmaster that'it was q very common
thing to order such goods from St. Paul, be-
cause, while in Chicago. Philadelphia and
Omaha they cannot be got into the maila, IN
St. Paul it is very easy matter to smuEgle
them through. The mail was handled and
rehandled many times on its passage from st.
Paul to Helena,