Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

Mr.. BLAINE and his family intend to
spend the summer at their home in
Augusta, Me.
gen. MITE" and Miss Edwards, the
midgets, are to be married at Manches-
ter, England, on May r.
Mr.. STAPLES, a wealthy citizenof
Westport, Conn, has given that town
$4,000 free school building.
BELvINA B. LOCKWOOD, the female
lawyer, daily appears on the avenues in
Washington, riding tricycle..
THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher began
the thirty-seventh year of his pastorate
over Plymouth church recently.
NEW YORK Times: According to all
reports the business of the professional
"boOmer" in the Northwest is taken out
of his hands. The country booms itself
WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, of Port
land, Maine, is writing memorial vol
ume of his father, the late Justice Cliff
ford, of the United States Supreme Court.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY is writing book,
England Under Gladstone. Mr.. Nc
Carthy eXcels as a writer of cOntempo-
rary history. His History of Our Own
Times has netted him $50, 900, it is said.
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat The
Louisville C0wier-Jownal says "The
Democratic party to-day is in disgrace" :"
True, but the Courier-Jomnal is about
twenty-five years behind the time with
the news.
THE Duke of Buccleuch, who has Just
died, had for sixty-fve years been in
acres of land situated in seven Scotch
and five English counties, the rent rolls
of which amounted to 81 100000.
Miss FARwELL, of Chicago, is to be
married with a rOse-diamond ring which
has been in the family of The bride
groom, Mr.. Reginald Dekoven, for three
hundred years. This is kind of second
hand goods to which the ladies never
object.
MISSIONER has just received from
Queen Victoria, for exhibition with his
other works in his coming show, LA
Rixe," or The Brawl," which Napoleon
H. bought in 1855 for $4,000 francs and
gave to Prince Albert, and which now is
valued at twenty times the original cost
CHICAGO Times That unsepulchered
cadaver, that body of historic putretac-
ton without bowels, that agglomeration
of "ringed, streaked, and speckled' pol
iticians, calling themselves the Demo
cratic party, have once more performed
upon themselves the interesting cere-
monv of biSen hnwalmpDt
THERE are now eight ocean cables in
use, which have cost S64 100000. 1t
will take considerable business to pay
interest on such capital 1t shows
what people are willing to pay in these
latter days for late news. 1t is getting
to be one of the most costly and valua-
bic commodities in the market.
We have the prospect very bright for
cheaper and more copious continental
telegraphic communication. The Ben
nett -Mackey cable has been laid success
fully, and even before it is ready for
business we hear of another cable to be
laid by Danish company, which is to
take in the Farce islands, Iceland, Green
land, etc.
4 FRIEND of Mr.. Blaine's said few
days ago that the man from Maine would
make the largest amount of money out
of his book that had ever been made by
an American author. The whole edition
of the first volume 100000 copies, was
used up Immediately; and the publishers
are now printing a second edition of like
amount. 1t is estimated that Blaine,
who refused a cash offer of 100000 for
his copyright from New England house,
will, by his royalties, get $500, 900 out of
the work.
THE Supreme Court Of Virginia has
decided as unconstitutional the laws
passed by the last legislature, by which
it was supposed they had Ousted every
Republican register Of election and Sc
cured the control of the ballot box and
the count. 1t causes dismal howlings in
the ranks of the terrified Democracy,
and there is immediate demand for an
extra session of the legislature. 1t hap
pens that the governor has no sympathy
with the Democratic troubles, and will
hardly forward their request for an extra
session.
CONGRESSMAN PERRY BELMONT says
that he will soon report on the resolution
favoring a renewal of reciprocity with
Canada. He seems to have caught the
idea that these reel prOcity treaties aim
at the same thing that the revenue re-
formers seek But how much more SEN
sible it is to have our trade with various
countries regulated according to the
>f hot do nd hu la
uniform standard. And how much
more prudent and business like to secure
commercial advantages in consideration
for those given, than it is to rush for
ward preci pitately, only thinking of
one feature of the case.
THE Democratic brethren are ire
mediably divided. "The party is in dis
grace" shouts Henry Watterson, who
clamors for free trade. ''To suppose"
xclaims the indignant Kentuckian,
"that the party itself will for a
moment submit to the dictatiOn and con-
troll of handful of Bashi Bazouks is
sheer idiocy. The caucus may not be
able to control Messrs, Eaton, Converse
and Randall, but an appeal lies from
them to the national convention, and
from the convention TO the people.
Party discipline as far as this Congress
is concerned has been destroyed. In
subordination and insurrection have for
moment triumphed, but only for a
moment. The people are in advance of
their leaders, as they will soon discover.
The fruits of our last victory have been
frittered away, but the national conven-
tion must reorganize the party, punish
deserters and order towards to the rear"
Wait for the July love feast of the
Democracy.
WE are glad to learn that the Mexican