The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-12-29
HERE AND PH1RE.
1t is said that the sale of Christ
mas cards in this country exceeds
100000.


the Niagara river on the 9Th instant
The Prince of Wales has been
reelected Grand Master of the
English Grand Lodge of Freema.
sons.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont calls
the emblem of liberty on the latest
copper cent an "Indian Venus de
Modoc."
South Carolina has no divorce
law. A bill providing for divorce
came up in the State Senate last
week and was defeated.
The James river in Dakota is
said to be the longest river that is
not navigable in the country, i f not
in the world. Its length is given
as 900 miles.
Duluth has nearly double the
amount of wheat in store that either
Milwaukee or St. Louis has-2,1O7,- )
600 bushels. Minneapolis claims
to have 100000 bushels in store.
Kate Kane, the female lawyer of
Milwaukee, who became notorious
by throwing a glass of water in the
judges face, has dropped the legal
profession and gone into the news
paper correspondence business.
Mr.. Fair, of Nevada, is put down
as the wealthiest man in the United
States Senate. His riches aggre-
gate S1S.0OO,OOO; those of Mr.. Mil
Ter, Of California, s4,OOO,OOO; Mr..
Sawyer. of Wisconsin, $7,OO0,900
Mr.. Brown, of Georgia, 100000;
Mr.. Palmer, of Michigan, $780,
600; Mr.. Sabin, of Minnesota, g.
100000, and SO on.
| Five of the principal towns in
South Carolina have just elected
prohibition tickets for municipal
offices. The question has gone out
politics, and prohibition is spread
ing surely and rapidly over the
state. Columbia, Charleston and
Greenville are the only important
towns in which licenses are given
for the sale of spirituous liquors.
At the Eleventh Annual Session
of the National Butter, Cheese and
Egg Association, held in Cincinnati
last week, it was officially stated
that the value of the annual butter
product of the United States was
| 1852, 1000, 900, and of the cheese pro-
duct s36.OOO,OOO, while eggs and
poultry amounted to about the
same. Twenty states were re-
presented in the convention.
The Japanese government Is rep
resented by its foreign minister to
be most anxious to open up the in
terror of Japan to foreign trade, ,stip-
ulating only that foreiners availing
themselves of the privileges granted
shall be under the jurisdiction OF
the japanese courts. This will in
volve a revision of the present treat
les and the abolition of all forcig
legal jurisdiction in the open ports
There is split in the ranks of the
Knights of Labor. Three hundre
and fourteen persons have signt
the roll for a new order, and appll-
cations for thirty-seven charter
have been received. The new In
dependent Order of Knights of La
Dor will help the sick, the orphan
and the widow, but will not giv'
one cent to Pennsylvania dema
gogucs. 1t is intended to bc benr
fit association.
Gen. Bob" Toombs Of Georgia
lives in Il big two story frame house
into the hal of which wagon load
of hay coul.i almost be driven
He is rich, having received for years
q handsome incom, from his law
practice. When he was young, h.
bought large tracts Of land in Tex
as, and it is said that he has cleareI
100000 on portions thereof that h
has sold, while he still vns enough
to clear him two or thre. times a.
much more.
Near Blakely, Ga, yoke of oxe.
ran away while the driver was stand
ing behind them lighting his pipe
Dropping his match, he started in
pursuit Of the runaways. The pine
straw took fire, and the fire spreaI
sweeping all before it. Some farm
ers lost all their fencing and Mr.
Davis, who was sick in bed, los
every building on his place excep;
his dwelling, and that was saved
with much difficulty:
Engineers at Mayence havr
found the re mains of the bridy
that Charlemagne built over the
Rhine near the close of the eight,
century. and have already removed
more than fifty of the piles, fron
Is to Is feet long, on which il
rested. The timber is 50 we'll pre-
served that it is fit for building
purposes, while the iron that ".
riveteA to the piles has only tina
coat of rust to show the lapse OF
more than a thousand years.
| One Jonn Swim, 20 years of az
living at Jefferson, Ohio, has accu
mulated between sl,O)o.00O an
$4,000 by picking up paper an
rags from the streesS. Whel !
young man, he practicel Law for :