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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25

brooklyn Eagle.
A gorgeous bridal chamber has just been
completed for the reception of bride who
has never known the want of money, and
by whom one hundred dollars is spent with
as little thought as many people would
tender ten-cent piece. The walls are COW
cred with heavy white satin, tufted with
gold buttons, and mirrors are interjected here
and there The ceiling is painted in the
most artistic manner, and the curtains are OF
white silk, embroidered in gold and rich col
orings in floral designs. The curtains are
mounted ON gilt poles, and, when drawn
back, disclose lace drop curtains that cost six
hundred dollars window. The portiers are
of white silk plush, with dado embroidery
matching the curtains. The furniture is
treated with the same material as the cur
tains, and what little of the framework is to
be seen is found to be heavily gilded
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May IS, 1882.
The Natural Sequence.

The contemplate figure cut by young Bel
mont IN his attempt to bully ex-Secretary
Blaine in the recent Shipherd investigation,
impresses the New York Tribune with the
idea that such scenes as this in the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs of the House may not
unreasonably by expected to follow:
Dramatis Persona.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State.
The Hon. Deronda Schoenberg.
The Hon. D. S.-What was your motive IN
joining gang of counterfeiters last year IN
Texas? i
The Secretary.-I never was in Texas in
my life.
The Hon. D. S.-That is pure evasion. l
asked what was your motive in going into
the counterfeiting business there, and ex-
pect an answer ,.
The Secretary--Your insinuation is in
famous. l never was in the counterteitlng
business anywhere. appeal to the commit
tee against this outrage.
The Chairman-We can have no alterca-
tion The witness will answer the questions
put to him.
The Hon. d. ST. will make my question
simpler Did you go to counterteiting for
the fun of it, or for profit?
The Secretary-You lying little scoundrel,
what do you mean by repeating that accusa-
ton?
The Chairm:g.-The witness will answer
the question.
The Hon. D. S-Once more I ask you, did
you counterfeit for the fun fit?
The Secretary.-NO!
The Hon. D. S-Ah! very well! Now we
begin to understand each other Then you
did it for profit. How much did you make
by it?
The Secretary.-Ill teach you (raises his
cane.
The Chairman-No violence will be per-
mitted here Answer the question.
The Secretary.-I can only repeat that |
have never been in Texas; that never had
anything to do with any counterfelters any
where; that the entire insinuation of that
fellow is infamous and absurd; and that
don't think much of committee which will
permit such performance.
The Hon. D. S.-Since the witness has ad-
mitted substantially all charged, l have no
more questions to ask.
The Secretary.-Is your descent from An
anias and Sapphira direct or collateral'
The Hon D. ST will not discuss that
matter in the newspapers. will give you
my answer in private.
The Secretary is led out IN an apoplectlc
condition. Mr.. Schoenberg puts his feet on
the desk and whistles softly,
"Where, now, are the Hebrew children n
Slow curtain.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25

Early in the year 1SS0-81, circular was
sent to the parents or guardians Of the 82S
undergraduates of Harvard asking if they
held daily family prayers in their households.
The number of replies received was 741, of
which 211, or two-sevenths aswered yes, and
$50, or five-sevenths, answered no. Nine
persons who answered yes expressed the de-
sire, nevertheless, that attendance at college
prayers should be voluntary, and thiry-six
of those who answed no expressed the de-
sire that attendance should be compulsory.
Some of the negative replies stated that the
practice had been discontinued, and gave
reasons for the discontinuance The object
of the inquiry was to ascertain how much
support morning prayers at college had in
the habits of the families from which the
students came. Aft 9A2.3 !s7
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Agriculture for Girls.
Herald Of Health.

Herald Of Health.
France has an agricultural school for girls.
One of the chief is near Rouen, which is said
to have begun with capital of one franc by
sister of charity and two little discharged
prisoner girls, and to be now worth $1OO, 900.
This establishment has 300 girls from eight
to eighteen years of age. The farm, entirely
cultivated by them, is over 400 acres in ex-
tent The staff of teachers consists of twen-
ty-fiye sisters. More than one medal Of the
French agricultural society has been awarded
to this establishment at Darnetel, and the
pupils are in great demand all over Nor
mandy on account of their skill. They 60
out as stewards, gardeners, farm managers
dairywomen and laundresses. Each girl has
on leaving, small sum of money, earned i in
spare hours. If they want a home they can
always return to Darnetel. 1'a'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
A Nondescript American Town.

i
Ysleta, Texas, is one of the most interest
ing towns in the world. The inhabitants
consist of Indians, Mexicans, and forty white
men, and sixteen black men. There are half
and ouarter-breed Indians, and half and
ouarter-breed Mexicans, and the women are
from perfect daises down to the real hard
cases. There are few white men here who
have married into both Indian and Mexican
families, who are rich and walk around at
their leisure, drink their Ell Paso wine and
eat grapes. Every acre of land is in cultiva-
ton or subject to cultivation by irrigation.
The Rio Grande River is one mile wide at
this place. There are all kinds of summer,
fall and winter peaches, apples and appricots.
The houses are built of adobes, nicely plas-
tered, and are as comfortable as brick houses.
The town is as quiet and peaceable as any
place anywhere.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Phenomenal Optics and of Vision

M. Treve, the author, mentions the fact
that the flame of q lamp appears brighter,
and that a vertical shaft, o post or mast is
seen more distinctly through vertical than
through a horizontal slit, while house, q
landscape, or the disk of the sun or moon is
seen more clearly through a horizontal slit.
He finds similar differences in photographs
according as the light passes from the object
to the plate through vertical or horizon
tai SLIT and ascribes the results to the action
of diffused light. Hf4t tas5 }'i 4
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Helping q Boy.

Translated from the Omnibus: A boy sits
with cloth-covered hand-cart at the foot OF
hill. A walking-goer comes along, at
whose approach the boy to weep begins.
Man-"Young one, why howlest thou
then?"
Boy-"I can with the cart not the hill up
come"
Man (good humoredly)-"Well, then, see
here! Pushes the cart until the hill up)
So, there, himself of the sweat drying)
Say once, what hast thou then, really, upon
thy cart?" ;,
Boy-"My big brother sleeps thereupon." !"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Judge Black Before the Supreme Court.

Judge BLACK BelOfe the SupEtWc NOutt'
The following joke is related at the ex-
pense of Judge Jerry Black while he was ar
guing the McGarrahan case before the
Supreme Court, in Washington, some years
ago:
One day. while speaking on some motion,
Black discovered at the close OF two hours
oration, that the entire bench, including the
Chief Justice, was sound asleep. Much In
censed he gathered up his papers and left
the room Meeting the Chief Justice at a
dinner table at Secretary Fish's that evening
Black angrily commenced on the occurrence.
"Why, my dear Judge" said Mr.. Chase,
with a surprised expression, Il thought you
would be the last man on earth to object to
such q thing. The fact was that all the
Justices were so fatigued from the Presi-
dents reception last night, that this morning
we consulted together and agreed to hear
you on some motion or other, so that we
could all enjoy good, square nap. We sup
posed that you had been on the bench tor
so long that you'd know how it was your
SELF"
THE devil you did ?" said the old, flat
bottomed legal luminary.
'Yes, but you needn't alarm yourself, my
dear Black. The shorthand reporter made
full memorandum of your remarks"
did, ?" snapped the Judge. Why he
was asleep, too"
"The devil he was," exclaimed the Chief
Justice, much vexed. Il always did trust
that fellow. In that case, my dear Judge,
we will have to rely on the Janitor."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
Intensely Legal.

Sheriff Strait, of Pueblo, Colorado, resur-
rects the following antique and original bit
OF legal advertising and is going to use it as
O model for his own official literature:
SAo4n nf
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
!
To all the world. greeting :

TO all the world, greetlng:
Know ye that John S and Polly M
is hereby entitled to go together and do as
other folks does anywhere inside of Coppers
precinct, and when my commission comes l
am to marry 'em good, and date 'em back to
kiver accidents.
OMB.
Justice of the Peace.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25
VENDORS FORECAST.
An Assortment of Cold, Wet Weather
for 1892.

First-A season that will well merit the
designation of cool to cold and wet, general
ly. Not that there will not be terms of sum-
mer warmth and even intense heat for peri
ods, but rather that these last will appear in
the retrospect as of comparative lnSlgnlh-
canoe, or as the exceptions to the general
rule.
Secoud-The season will be marked by
not only great precipitation, but by mug
giness of atmosphere, generally caused by
the reeking condition of the earth and the
long continuance of clouded sky. This will
result in periods of extreme sultriness and
heavy weather, during which the thunder
and hail-storms will occur. In other words,
the summer will be the reverse of clear and
dry.
Third-There is q likelihood Of June and
August frosts in Northern, Western and
Southern sections, and general cold wave
may occur toward midsummer.
Fourth-The autumn months will contln-
ue meist September will probably give rains
and floods in Western Canada and western
and southern sections of the United States
October will be much the same, with early
cold and snow-falls. November will begin
the winter of 1882 -63-a winter likely to be
memorable on account Of its exceptionally
heavy snow-falls and very cold weather ovel
the Northern Hemisphere. That "a cold
and wet summer is invariably followed by q
cold and stormy winter" is truth now sc
well proven and borne out by the testimony
of past records that we can not likely put II
aside; and if we have good and sufficient
grounds for predicting tie former as we
most assuredly have at this tiIne-it is but
right that we should warn the people of the
latter in good season.
Fifth and last-The approaching season
will probably be the first OF couple OF we
summers, and, as 1892 is so is 1883 likely tt
be. HENRY u. NENNOR.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
LETTER FROM LOUISA C. H

correspondence ofthc Alexandria Gazette
LOUISA, Va, Dec 20, 1SS2.-.A chapter Of
accidents occurred here Il few weeks since
five in number and all in one day. Mr..
John Nelson, who was thrown out of II saw
mill wagon and seriously injured, is report
ed TO be in precarious condition. The
cause of the accident is attributed TO LIQUOR.
but any man who ever rode in heavy,
jostling saw mill wagon would be Slow TO
cast all the blame on whskey, ;ur sober
man would be doing we'll TO keep his coui.
hbrum on one Of these wagons, mules in
full trot, as was the case when Mr., Nelson
Eel out. Whiskey is often the cause OF terrible
cslamities, but it is not a'pdys the cause.
This is cold rainy morning and the leadeu
skies indicate snow. In fact I believe a few
fakes have already fallen.
Corn is selling here at 8 per barrel aud the
probability is that it will go up after Christmas.
Why. don't known for large corn crops was har
vested this year. Eggs are scarce and prices
ranging from 20 cents up believe
The children are to have treesa the Baptist and
Disciples churches this Christmas
Mr.. Compton, the minister who takes Mr.
Pritchells place at the Methodist church has ar
rived and his congregation express themselves
much pleased with him. E. L. B.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
T0.pAY,s TELEGRAPHrC NEWS.

Policeman Lanktree has been arrested III
San Francisco for burglary.
Advices from Dublin state the distress in
that locality is growing worse daily.
Twenty-Five persons wcrekilledby the fall
Of the cage in the Hadenburg mine Weducs
day.
Oac hundred and ninety-seven business
failures are reported for the week ending to-
day.
y collision occurred on the New York and
New Haven Railroad this MOI ming. No one
WAS killed, buta number hurt.
One hundred and fifty huts were destroy
ed by fire at the village OF Empire, on the
Panama Railroad, recently. Loss 100000.
The Governor of Tennessee has issued a
certificate Of election 10 G. G. Dibrell as
Congressman for the sd district of that
State
Mr. Ei2gar: member OF the British Parlia-
ment is to be prosecuted for his recent speech
in which he designated the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland as 4 blood-thirsty English peer
\ dispatch from Memphis says ex-Gover-
nor Benjamin c. Humphreys died sudden
~ on Wednesday at his residence, in LIE
Flore county, Miss. The deceased was a
general in the late war.
The execution of Overdank at Trieste
causes great excitement in Rome. A de-
monstration was made last night in front of
the Austrian embassy in that city which the
military dispersed.
Russia becomes more eXasperated daily
by hearing Of the murdcrcrs of her sub
jec;s on the frontier by Cinnamon. 1t is
thought trouble is brewing between the two
countries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
The Markets..

BALT!MoRE, Dec 22.-va Gs derd :; do con.
solldated Gl"l; do second series =: past due
coupons 62; do new 10-1O's 43a, bid to.
day. Cotton dull and lower; middings 1OA
Flour quiet and steady; Howard street and West.
ern super So l3a3 60; do extra SD 75a4 so
do family 81 6oa5 10; City Mills super So 50s
%; do extra 81 25a5 So do Rio Brands IS so
patapsco family So %: dosupcrlat;ve patent s. 90
"hcat-southcrn quiet and steady Western
steady. firm and quiet; Southern red 1O3a1O9
do amber lO0a115; No Maryland 1O9a1O9l.
No ? Western winter red spot 10G7sa1O7; De,
cemher lOGSs4a1O71i January 1O7k bid Feb.
ruary 09tal092l March 1111.a111a,. Corn
Southern steady Western easier, closing firm
Southern white 52a65; do yellow 5;5at55 Western
mixed spot 6laG5 for fresh: new G4ha645a wear
6iaG4 y; January 6l1saG12s February 60a,a
u March Go7sa61; steamer 81 bid Oats very
dull and lower: Southern 45a49: Western white
47a4S; do mixed 45a46; Penua 45a49. RIVE
dull at 64aG5. Hay quiet and steady; prime to
choice Pennsylvania and Maryland S14a15
Coffee firm; Rio carCocs ordinary to fair 7I,aeL
sugar steady: soft s7s Whiskey quiet at
81 19a1 1885,. 40' 60
NEW YORK. Dee. 22.-Stocks dull and weak
lotion dull; nplands 10 SIG; Orleans 1Ola.
Flour dull aud heavy. Wheat heavy and laaa.c
lower. Corn heavy and 14a1c lower.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
ALEXANDRIA, VA

In ALL the annual reports ofrai!road pres
idents ever written, there can be found no
truer or wiser words than the following,
which are taken from the report of Mr. Bar
bour, President of the Virginia Midland
Railway, which was printed in Wednesday, s
GAZETTE After all the best elements of
railroad transportation are derived from
local traffic which it Is wise policy on the
part of ali railroad companies to encourage
and foster" IF railroads would pursue
that policy they would not only be real
blessings to the country through which they
pass but would so increase local travel and
local transportation that they would not, as
they are now be so anxious to obtain through
business that they lose money in order to
obtain it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

The week just closing has been without spcca,
interest in strictly business point OF view The
holidays have come and for the noacc pleasure
holds sway to the exclusion of the weightcr care.
Of life The receipts ofproduce dave fallen OF
farmers sending but little in, just now Caual
navigation has been suspended and the coal trade
for 1882 is over. Navigation the river too ha;
been seriously impeded, but is again open and a
steamers are all running, with occasional arrival,
aid departures of sailing vessels. MOaey mltlcrs
are quiet and rates of interest as last week. US
bonds are steady. Nirsinias are ab"u. s.-.lly Il.
Baltimore at 81 fuT co;aols. and ~. nr No,
One lot of 5000 e"nios WAS pu! ont 1t 80
80 f. Most of the sales OF railroad bonds ana
stocks showed 4 distinct Improvement, the market
closing firm
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
NEWS OF THE DAY

General Stone has resigned his commits.
sion in the Egyptian army and will return to
America.
a lire IN Buffalo, y. y. yesterday destroy
| ell the Commercial idrrHiser building and
other property, involving loss OF $500 900.
Germany is taking measures TO strength
| en- her outposts on the Russian frontier. and
the undertaking of railroads leading in
that direction is talked of
The Russian minister al foreign affairs
| thinks it impraticable to attempt the pro
posed removal of the bodies Of De Long and
companions at present
Fifteen Families OF Russian refugees, sent
by re!let associations to different parts of
Dakota territory, are reported destitute and
threatened with starvation or freezing to
death, unless relieved.
The governors Of the thirteen original
states are to be invited to attend the New
burg. \. y. celebration next October. and
escorted, if possible, by military guard
wearing tho Continental uniform.
The lighthouse board has decided to cs
taoiish light at Drum Point, entrance of
the Patuxent. Congress appropriated So5,-
900 for range lights there but for the present
no rear range light will be erected.
nc SticOl illOll Oh the eve OF EOrelat hers
Day ~ the Congregational Club, in Boston
last night. was more largely attended than
ever before. some $50 persons being present,
including nearly all the prominent clergy,
men OF the denomination in Boston.
A storage mail-car en- route from New
York for Chicago h the New York Central
Railroad, was burned near Schenectady, \.
T., yesterday. 1t contained three pouches
OF foreign mails for San Francisco, two
pouches OF foreign letters for Chicago, and
about zoo sacks of mail matter for Various
points in the West.
General Chalmers, in his opening speech at
Oxford. Miss, Wednesday, in prosecuting
the Lafayette county board of election COM
mssloners for failure to erase certain names
OF parties alleged not to be legal voters an
nounced that he had been regularly retain
ed by the government to assist the District
attorney in prosecuting such cases 1t is
claimed the grand jury, just discharged, did
not contain supporter of Colonel Manning,
and that the petit juries are similarly made
up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Christopher McIver, ore of the Old
est citizens Of Lyrchburg, died Wednesday
The Baptists OF Winchester are movin4
TOR the erection Of a new church building.
MIR, Edward Harvey Rhodes, an old ant
well-know merchant OF Richmond, dat
yesterday.
Tobias Pulliam,aa old citizen ofSpostvlva
MA, died on Monday night. Mr.. 7. was
over GO years of age.
The Court of Appeals Yesterday closed M
ITS business and adjourned. The new court
Will meet January 9th.
A number Of German laborers were 70.
Gently taken from New York to suffolk
and were promptly engaged as farm hands
lie will Of the late Judge Ould, of Rich.
mond, dispoScs OF his estate amongst his
wife and children
Governor Cameron has refused to pardon
Lee hhodcs sent to the penitcntiary from
Aloemaric county, for completely in the
murder OF Mr. Massey and his wife
Judge George l.. Christian took leave of
the Hustings Court of Richmond Wednes-
DAY, the December term having expired
and his successor having been chosen to en-.
ter upon the duties January |.
A. NJ. Faulcener, an aged citizen Of
Orange county, was found dead in the woods
near his residence last Monday morninr
lie was last seen on Saturday, and it is sun.
posed he was murdered, as his head was
badly bruised when found.
Governor Cameron has pardoned Messrs,
Smith and Meredith, the students of the
richmond Medical College, and Chris Baker
and Cesar Roane (colored, the parties con.
Vlcted OF the charges in connection with the
recent grave robberies in that city. The
whole medical faculty united in petitionins
for the pardons.
The statement that Mr.. Witt, the Com
monwealth's Attorney for Richmond, had
entered en- nolle prosequi in the case of
watkins, the Malone member of the House
OF delegates from Alppomattox. who was in
the penitentia,y, is mistake. Watkins
mas been IN hiding ever since the indictment
was brought in against him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
obtain it.

IT WOULD seem from the annual report of
the President of the V. NJ r. W.. that the
consolidation of that road with the Rich
mond and Danville R. r., has not resulted as
advantageously to the business of theformer
rs to that Oft the latter as during the year
the V. M. X. w. delivered to the r. & d. K.
K. l47l loaded cars, all of which passed over
the entire length of the latter road
while the r. & D. only delivered to the V.
NJ. 80 such cars, not more than 20 Of which
came further north than Lynchburg. The
coalition was after the order of that be-
tween the Mahoneites and the republicans,
one party doing all the work and the other
reapingal the benefits
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22

If STATE SENATOR BAILEY, a leading Ma
honeite, would cat bushe of dirt, as he
said he would, to obtain State Circuit
judgeshp, how many bushels would he eat
to obtain the L. S. judgeship for tho west
ern district of Virginia, for which he is now
an applicant. But Mr.. Bailey should not
set his heart too much on the judseship re-
ferred to, for if nominated for it the Senate
could hardly confirm him, if, as would un-
doubtedly be the case, his letter confessing
his officiating proe!ivity were read i'm ex-
ecutive session.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22
Mothers! Mothers Notber.,I,

Are you disturbed at night and broken of YOUR
rest by sick child offering and crying with the
excruciating pain of cutting teeth? If SO 90 at
once and get q bottle Of Mrs WINSLOW'S So0TH.
ING SYRUP. 1t will relieve the poor little snf.
terer Observation-Disclosures upon it there is no
mistake about it. There is not mother on earth
VINO mas ever used II, who will not tell you at
once that II Will regulate the bowels, and give
rest to the mother, and relief and health TO the
child operating like magic 1t is perfectly safe to
use ia all cases, and pleasant to the taste and is
tilc prescription OF one of the Oldest aud best f
male physicians and nurses in the United States
Sold everywhere. % cents bottle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-22

HARMONY Of political action does not
seem to exists among the Lewis family, for
whereas the ex-senator. ex-A1arshal and
present 1t. Governor speaks contemptuous-
ly OF Malone, his son, the L. $ Attorney
for the western district of the State, ubeys
the Generals orders in reference to the
mock proceedings in connection with the
recent election as implicitly as does the
Generals other district attorney, Capt
Wise.