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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-19
The Oregon and TranscOntinentaI
Company.
Mr. Henry Willard has issued circular to
the stockholders of the Oregon and Transcon-

Mr.. Henry Willard has issued circular to
| tinental company, in which he says:
The meeting on September 9th of the ex
ecutive committee having led to the circula-
tion of various unfounded reports for pur-
poses of speculation, 1 deem it my duty to
lay before you statement of the action of
said meeting; A statement of income from
all sources showed an available dividend on
January 1st next Of $4,O61 900, and an addi-
ti0nal estimated income of about S3,O00,OOO,
which would occur during 1888. In view Of
this assured income, representing over % per
cent the committee thought it best to
recommend that the distribution of quarterly
dividends should be commenced in January,
1888, but that the first quarterly dividend
should not exceed l! per cent, cash re esources
for the purpose being in hand the dividend
can of course be increased at any time As
you are fully aware, the success of this COM
pany depends in large measure upon its
control of the Northern Pacific railroad and
Oregon Railway and Transportation compa-
nies. 1t is therefore the policy to increase
our holdings of the stocks of these two cor
porations Accordingly a contract was Ell
tered into some time ago, under which we
acquired $4,000 additional shares of Northern
Pacific preferred stock in exchange for 80 900
shares of the Oregon and Transcontinental
company. Your board have considered it
best to place in the treasury of the company
sufficient additional working capital for the
construction of branch lines in order to rem
der the company Independent of the money
markets. For this purpose further issue of
$1O,OOO,O0O of stock has been authorized.
most of which, however, will remain in the
treasury of the company as an asset for the
present
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-19
AN AUTOGRAPH.

new poem hy Whittier in "Our Continent
! write my name as one
tjM sands by waves O'errun.
or Winter frosted pane
Traces It record vain.
chiivion's blamkness claims
Wiser and better names
iud well my own may pas.
s. fTUH the strand or glass
Wash on, . waves Of time!
Nclt moons the frosty rime,
Welcome the shadow vast,
Iac silence that shall last.
When and all who know
-tud love me vanish so.
" hat harm to them or me
VIII the lost memory be"
II amy words Of mine,
Through right of life divine,
Remain. what matters 1t
Whose hand the message writ"
Why should the "crowner's quest"
III on my worst or best"
Why should the Snowman claim
The poor ghost Of my name"
Yet, a. when dies the sound
IT. specter fingers round
Happy my spent life will
Leave some faint echo still!
A whisper giving breath
OF praise or blame to death,
Soothing or saddening such
A. loved the living much.
Therefore with warnings vain
And fond, | still would fain
\ kindly Judgment seek.
\ tender thought bespeak.
And while my words are read,
Let this at least be said:
'Nhatc er his LIES defeatureS,
lie loved his fellow creatures.
"If of the Laws stone table,
To hold he scarce was able
The first great precept fast,
He Kept for man the last.
"Through mortal lapse and dullness
What lacks the Eternal Fullness,
II ~till our weakness can
Love Him i'll loving man"
Age brought him no Gespairing
OF the worlds future faring;
In human nature still
He found more good than i'll.
To all who dumbly suffered,
His tongue and pen he offered;
His life was not his own,
Nor lived for self alone.
He loved the scholars quiet,
Yet, untempted by it,
OR poets dream of beauty,
lie strove to do his duty.
He meant no wrong 10 ally,
lie sought the good of many,
Yet knew both sin and folly
May God forgive him wholly,'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-19

A mans own conscience is his own
tribunal; and he should care no more for
that phantom opinion" than he should fear
meeting q ghost if he crosses the church
yard at night.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-19
Does the Mississippi Run Up Hill.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Chicago lnter-Ocean.l
The erroneous notion that the Mississippi
river is actually higher at its mouth than at
its source has obtained a much more general
belief among intelligent people than readers
of our Curiosity Shop suppose. This notion
grows out of the fact that the earth is not a
perfect globe, it's diameter at the equator be-
ing little more than twenty miles great
er than the diameter from pole to pole. A
mathematical calculation shows that the
average distance from the center of the earth
to its surface on the parallel of Balize, at the
mouth of the Mississippi, is nearly two miles
greater than the average distance from the
center of the earth to it's surface on the par
allel of Lake Itaska, the source of the Mis-
issippi But it does not follow that the sur
face of the Mississippi at its mouth is two
miles higher than Lake Itaska Actual sur
vey has demonstrated that it is not So but,
on the contrary, that Lake Itasca is .675
feet, or thereabouts, above sea level. The
rapid revolution of the earth on it's axis, at
the rate of about 900 miles per hour, causes
the waters Of the earth to flow from the
poles to the equator, and remain at q general
surface hight of about thioteen miles more
from the center of the earth than the sur
face at either pole. So long as the earth
maintains its present rate of daily revolution
the level Of the Gulf of Mexico is likely to
be kept lower than the source of the Missis-
sippi, but it is easy to understand that
should this diurnal rotation cease, the ocean
would recede from the equator towards the
poles, and not only would the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico rise higher than the source
of the Mississippi, but all North America,
except the portions nearest the equator,
would be submerged. At present the earth's
rotation on lis axis serves az thoroughly eff
fectual centrifugal pump to drain the United
States, and enable Uncle Sam to give every
one of his boys who will cultivate it farm
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-19
Another Illusion DispeIled.
London Telee'raDh. l

Another romantic tradition has been re-
futed by DR.. Otto KuntZes discovery that the
lethal capacities of Pakamaran, the renowned
japanese Death Valley, are as utterly tabu-
lous as the Norwegian kraaken or Richard
Of Gloucester's hump. 1t is no longer per-
mitted to us to believe that the effects of
the subtle poison given off by the Deadly
Upas Tree" have bestrewn the dismal vale
with countless carcases of savage beasts, ser
pents and birds, or that a certain death
awaits any toolhardy traveller attempting to
cross it; for the eminent German explorer
has paid Pakamaran an exhaustive visit, and
reports it to be as healthy as any other part
of the island. In the way of corpses, he did
not see so much as dead fly within its pre-
cincts. He describes it as a small circular
depression in a gorge of the Dleng noun
tains, about seven square metres IN size and
forlorn Of vegetation. It is approached by
two t-paths, winding downwards from the
hills by which it is surrounded. By one of
these paths DR.. Kuntze entered the Death
Valley, despite the entreates of his guides
and servants, one of whom repeatedly strove
to hold him back by force, and, having ira
versed Pakamaran in every direction, quilted
it by the other path The natives had assured
him that he would find the valley choked up
by skeletons, as even the swiftest birds flying
above it would drop down stone dead, slain
by its poisonous exhalations. In vain, how
ever, did he look about for a single bone ;
nor could he detect the least unpleasant odor.
DIR. Kuntze pronounces Pakamaran to be an
imposture, the offspring of ignorance and
superstition Unable to dispute his sentence,
we are bound, not altogether without regret,
to relegate the .death-dealing vale to the
limbo of aynlOlpd mythS
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to remove it to suitable place for inter
ment. The paper that | signed said that
we should have the privilege Of removing
the body whenever we desired to do So.
That contract has been violated by tie re-
moyal of the body to the museum without
my permission. |, for one, care most de-
cidedly AS to everything connected with
his body, his life and his memory care
nothing for the doctors quarrel or the
autopsy" And then again; starvation and
want stare me in the face unless
| can realize something for his eff
fects. The most important part OF
his estate is the copyright to his book, and
the market value of his poor body. Moth
ing but dire necessity induces me to think
of my brothers body as an article of traffic
but, as it has already been desecrated,
now offer what remains of his mutila,ed re-
M iins to the highest bidder for cash.
| Whoever we may be or whatever we may
say or think as to the crime and Its sur
roundings, this womans conduct and eX
pressions are pitiabe in the extreme, and
the spectacle is not likely to he Withdrawn
from the public until she suicides or be-
comes an asylum inmate. Were she more
q woman or had the brother been a dl
ferent criminal the whole country woulC
| have gushed about her.
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MCKINNEY,

SnNVInl H. A.. I-.-VI
AZ =" Wv ''l"'u'
MCKINNEY, July N.-lu the district
court this week, in the casc ofth, Stat, va
LOWS. ch,r,,l o,,, I,sn Wv 80 Vs.
,,, >'',h'' wa" '"o'' VI Wa'Vh' Neruict
was NV guilty. state vs.. Chapman, charged
with murder the case was nollc proscauied
aCCctthc iurv wns orn,nnolioI -, Nal
rcss - NJ ,, '' N"i p','"'''''' NV.,' 'us''
mo osS '" all KINDS is being rapidly dis
fvnSp' ,oh
hari i m Mvi,on ,a eN'ending ms prick
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General Barrels

NEW ORLEANS, July ll.-General Barrois
and party visited the custom-house this
morning, aud at noon were formally re-
ceiyed at the city hall by Mayor Shake
spear and rendered the inequalities Of the
city. In to reply the mayors address OF
welcome, after thanking his honor
for the hospitable reception, General Bar
rois said he had long desired TO visit this
great republic, and now for the first time,
finds himself able to enjoy that privilege.
He said: while here | will take every OPP
portunity to observe and learn your ad-
mired institution and your great
marks OF progress and civilization. and to
profit by them for the benefit of my own
people, and as far as possible encourage
commercial relations with your city"
President Barrois and party attended a
banquet at the Spanish Fort this evening.
rendered by the citizens of New Orleans
Federal, state and city officials are present,
also foreign consus and many prominent
citizens, the Governors staff and pro.
minent military officers. The visitors
leave tomorrow morning in u special car
by the Louisville Il Nashville railroad for
New \ Ork direct
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HER BOUNDARY lines.
The boundary Lines of Dallas County
Heing Determined.

Mr.. j. NJ. Strong, our efficient county
commissioners court, has Co-operated with
the surveyors of Rockwell and Kaufman
coun les, and has settled the east line Of the
county. The line is well marked
throughout its entire length, and each mile
is permanently marked by q bois d. arc
post, eight inches in diameter, firmly
planted and marked. The line between
Dallas and Collin is also similarly estab.
llshed, but continuation of said line west
from the corner of Collin could not be
agreed on by the surveyor from Denton
and the same under statement of fact.
were referred to the commissioner OF the
general land Office This is of great import
ance, as 1t involves Il tract Of territory five
miles long by nearly one-haf mile wide
Last Monday was the day appointed for
running the line between Dallas and
Ellis counties, and the commissioners
court OF Ellis was duly notified
through the county Judge of the
action Of this county On Saturday
last Mr.. Strong received a letter from judge
Iempieton, county judge of Ellis county
saying that he had taken no action in the
premises and refused to cooperate because
all action by the county had been by the
commissioners court and not by the proper
authorlty-"the county court" according
to his dictum.
The Judge may know the law applicable
70 this case. and if so, Commissioners
Watch and our officials certainly are not vi
to snuff. Notwithstanding, Mrs trong has
been instructed to proceed with the work
and he will begin OH next Monday, running
the line between this and Ellis county,
Iarrants surveyor will be ready to cooper.
ate as soon rs the point is reached at which
her interest attaches.
These surveys are being made in differ.
ent counties pursuant to instructions from
Land Commissioner Walsh, in order to def
initely settle their boundary lines, many OF
which, based upon old and Incomplete sur.
veys, are imperfect.
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The Egyptians yesterday had their open.
mg experience with English war-ships and
the facts rs so far known indicate that it
was pretty bitter one The result of the
FIRST days fight in casualties to the Eng
fish from the long line of Egyptian works
and batteries was only forty killed, while on
the other side nearly all the forts were
sienced, four OF them being blown to
pieces and the tower being carried away
from the great Fort Pharos. A number of
the heavy guns in the batteries were dis
mounted and to-day will make quick havoc
and settlement of the Alexandrian defcnces,
if the bombardment should continue.
Eight men.of-war participated in the BON.
bardment and there is scarcely n
city in the world that for any great length
OF time could stand Under such heavy
fire. What the number of the killed and
wounded of the Egyptians is, it will be
hard to determine, but from the heavy de-
struction of Notifications, the running up
of the Geneva red.cross upon the hospital
and the hiding of the population in the eel.
lars OF the city, the loss must have been
extremely large. The Suea canal was
closed by order of A ADMIRAL SEyMouR,undcr
the protest of the French company, and
even possible diplomatic complication.
may arise theretrom between the allies Of u
day beiore-France and England. The
latter is, however, certainly mistress OF the
situation at present and the news grows in
interest and excitement
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MRS sCovMLt,s orEN IrIes.-,

Ole OF the most eccentric and nitio,lo
characters brought to the surface from ,h
scurity by the. terrible tragedy which
cost the country its president and ,he az
sassin his lite, is MRs. Soovulp Gr,rr,,.,.
sister. Her conduct since the comwi..i,,,
Of the crime has been strange md,o1 on1
has exhibited n commingllng of sis,crlr
devotion with the occasional snil, onI
ilightiness that wait upon diseased hr.in
She is equally as was the brother nm 49,.
ample OF what might he termed intellectual
understand the enigma,ical connie,
between reason and the want of I;
not sane and yet not insane. unn.
ever the popuace may contcmn Gu,r,,
no good heart bu, must pity the sister i,
her devotion, the efforts constantly in hor
brothers behalf, the oiSierly affection which
seemed to cling the closer when tho wor,l
lessness and crime of the prisoner were
even most promiscuously displayed. For
him she has quarreled and separated win,
her husband, and is now lriendlcss o,i
pennies, and by her very trouh,oy
drifting farther and faster into IN.
hopelessness and helplessness Of IN.
sanity. Sympathy cannot be denied
the woman however black the man n,,y
have been. She still keeps coming TO ,bS
front, and on each recurring occasion III,
two features We have mentioned-,be al.
ter's love and the failing intellect, are MOI.
prominently displayed. The mos, touch
ing exhibit Of both, ut once betrayinp a,I.c
ton and heartlessncss, has Just been mad,
through an open letter to DR. Hicks wbic,
she has caused to be published. She plead,
In one breath US woman for the assassin
body as a sisters right and in the ma,
offers II for sale. Among otbe
things she says Dear Sir,
\ hear horrible reports as to the al,
q sal my poor brothers body, nm
stood !, waste DO lef, quietly where 4
buried until |: was thought safe for II,
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KILLED ms NEPHEW.


CLhRKtylLLE. Ky, July ll.--John Row
sic yesterday shot and killed his
nephew, John Lamb. Rowsie and Lamb
had quarrelled and the former ordered the
latter to leave his premises, when Lamb
cooked a rifle which ne had in his hands.
Row,Ic. percciving this, Immediately shot
Lamb.
4 Till TAPER ARRESTED.
ELIZABETH, n. j., July ll.-FOr the past
year the cash accounts ofthe National State
bank, in this city, have been occasionally
short in amounts from SO to 800,
suspicion uniustly rested on minor
clerks, who were discharged, but no
clue to the missing money could be found.
Yesterday the paying teller &C
cidentally discovered an ngen-
iOus arrangement attached to the
money drawer whereby George Bennett,
bank janitor, had taken nearly $1,000,
Bennett was arrested and confessed his
guilt.
DIED OF LoCE-JAw.
North EAsroS Mass, July ll.-August
Langern, Il Swedish boy, 10 years old, died
last night of lock-iaw, Thomas
McGrath, aged l. years, is sc.
riously Ill, and John Middleton,
aged II years, was wounded
but not severely All were wounded in the
hand with u toy pistol.
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IruAs has been learned from across the
waters that new evidence has been discov'
cred leading to the detection soon of the
murdcrers of CAvENDIsH and BURKE, A
clue is found every week, but they all seem
to lead the wrong way, and the most sensa'
tonal murder OF the day is involved in as
much mystery as on the day it was COM
mittcd. We still only know that four men
who rode away in a cart did the deed.
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SOME of our readers seemed surprised
yesterday that we should publish the fact
of the bombardment of Alexandria "a day
before hand" The dispatch announcing
the fact was received at little after II mid
night, or, perhaps, n. M, and those re-
ferred to forgot that at that time here ii
was or Il. IN. there-the exact distance
between Dallas and Alexandria not beng
before us. The telegraph has thus slipped
Up one day on old Father Time.
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% sentence ana fix day of execution
probably Eext week.
With the exception ofsome of the western
part of the county the late rains have been
general, and the farmers are much ell
couraged.
There are some ten or twelve new houses
in course of erection in Mckinney. Lum-
Der is down to 81 per 1000, and the de-
mand can scarcely be met.
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New loRE, July 1.-THE stock market
opened irregular, but in the main / higher
than at the close yesterday, the latter for
Pacific Mail, In the early trade a general
decline of to 1 took place, Louisville &
Nashville leading therein, after which the
market became strong and sold toll.
Kansas Il Texas. Peoria, Decatur Il Evans.
vile and Louisville n Nashville, and In.
dianapolis, Bloomington q Western be.
ing conspicuous in the upward movement.
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THE debt of New York city is now nearly
$4,000 600, and Bosron's debt is nearly
$4,000, 600, though she is not more than
one.fourth as large AS New York. These
are nice little sum, for the Taxpayers TO
contemplate
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THE new tariff commission, or al he
New York Mail ana Express calls it, he
Ornamental Commission" met few days
since, and john l.. HAYES, its president,
made speech. In his remarks he is re-
ported Is entering fully into the spirit OF
the creation of the body, and understands
that the present tariff must be let us severe.
ly alone as docency will permit, No scheme
for delaying a great necessary reform, and
one that congress should have at once al.
dressed itself to, was ever so adroitly
planned or successfully accomplished.
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Political.
STATE CONVENTION.

NASHVILLE, TENN, July 1.-THE stat
convention OF the state credit Demos, =,
was organized to-day by the sele, ~ ~,
General Il. +. Chealham permScr, ,hoi.,
man. After the appointGtnt oS Nv y, ,.",,,
committees the convcqiSr aIioprnoj , ,,,iI
) p III, to rccriyc,Hc report u tho commit %';,'
tee ON plaltrm and resolutions md w
"oulhSt'a candidate for governor,
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GENERAL IGNATIErF, late Russian minis
ter of the interior, attributes his TALL to his
enmity to the Jews. If such be the case
he will receive and is entitled to no sympa-
thy from the civilized world. His successor
is instructing the authorities to facilitate
tho Ipvs' rptuin
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TnE people of Augusta, Maine, allowed a
man to starve to death, but placed forty
dollars worth of flowers on his coffin. How
common are similar occurrences to these!
And yet we speak Of the generous and warm
humanity of the times.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-12

IT is reported that about $4,000 have
been SO far contributed to the fund for the
erection of national monument 10 the late
PRk,IpENT GARFIELD.
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Resigned


ST. Lors, July ll.-Gev. MIR. Ralarton,
pastor of the Third Baptist church, whose
Giraffe actions ON the train recently occa
stoned So much scandal has Resigned hi,
pastorate. lie will also leave the ministry,
and it is intimatcd will 30 into business In
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-12

The Paris Figaro gives the follofwig
original recipe for making free tour of the
world Adopt the Jewish religion and 20
to Russia; Thence youwill be elected, and
forwarded by way of Lemberg to America
by the emigration agent. In Americans.
sumo the garb and appearance ola Chiamn,
and you will be dipatched to China. There
i've yourse + out as Russian, aud you will
returned to that country, from which
on may again be expelled as a Jew and re-
urned to Australia. T.. D."
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..,,pu 20 which they Ierire TO oiltr
testimony It is the intention Of the com
missioners TO organize for the hearing of
testimony with a view TO saving time, and
persons desiring TO be heard
will be notified of the
time and place at which the commission
will hear the testimony which they may
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Railroad News


NNVANCh IN RATES,
CHICAGO, July ll,-Commi,Sioncr Mid.
glcy, otS,W railway association, announces
That commencing August LIST, freight rates
,or gram from the Missouri river points will
DC advanced cents per hundred pounds,
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Strikers



Sourn CHICAGO, July IL Everything is
quiet at the Calumet. Iron Hnd Steel COM
pany this morning. althou large crowds
are gathered around the 'epot awaiting
the arrivals o! trains. Preparations
are being made to start up three of the six
teen furnaces with non-uniOn men. OH
GERS OF the company are here and
there is large force of
police on hand. About fifty special po-
licemen have been sworn in. The
union men say that they will not make
any trouble,
THE NEW HANDS,
New YORK, July 1.-The condition of
the ircight-handlers' strike remains about
the same as on yesterday. The
companies declare that they are
dsposing Of freight received almost as fast
as formerly, aud that the new hands are
rapidly becoming skilled ut the work. Ship
ping was lightthis morning. The committee
from different German societies are en-
gagged inyisting different piers persuading
their iellow.countrymen from working
against strikers,
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INDICATIONS.

For the west gulf states-Warmcr and ialrcT
weather. winds mostly southcrly; stationary
pressure.