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The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Gen, Sheridan.


The name of Gen. George A. Sheridan
Is mentioned in connection with the
clerkship of the national house of repre-
sentatives. He is one Of the spellbinders
and as stump orator is in more demand
than any republican speaker who is not
an office holder. He was a fedora! Office
holder in Louisiana during Grants ad-
mlnistration, and was register of deeds
in the District of Columbia. He was
willing to take the same place again or to
go to Montreal as Consul General under
President Harrison, but did not get the
invitation. The General served in CON
gress the shortest space of time Of any
man on record. He ran in q Louisiana
district and was counted out. He con
tested the seat. The decision dragged
along for nearly two years. 1t was finally
decided in his favor at midnight before
the expiration of congress, and he was
thus really in congress but twelve hours.
But he got his two years pay.
This story about Sheridan's congress
sional career is told. 1t was the same
congress in which the late Alexander
Mitchell Of Milwaukee was member.
Mitchell was the Scotch-Irishman who
built the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad and left fortune of fifteen
or twenty millions. He was a striking,
looking man. Sheridan was walking up
Broadway one afternoon with ex-Gover-
nor Charles Foster of Ohio, who had
been member of the same house
Mitchell passed them and bowed. "Who's
that?" asked Sheridan of Foster. Alex
ander Mitchell of Milwaukee," was the
reply. "Ah, yes: remember now," said
Sheridan, with twinkle in his eye. ave
served in congress together.
If Sheridan gets the coveted clerkship
and makes Colonel Tom Ochiltree his
first assistant, the two best story tellers
on the continent will be corralled behind
the same desk.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
The Railroads,

Paul Shuttle, land agent of the North
ern Pacific railroad, is authority for the
statement that as soon as work can be
commenced his road will commence the
construction of a branch line from Koo-
tenai station in idaho to Bonner's Ferry.
thus tapping the great water way.
Large corps of surveyors are in the
Kootenai country at work for the Mani
toba. Late arrivals say that the line will
go by way of Flathead lake down the
Kootenai river to Bonner's Ferry, from
that point to Spokane Falls.
1t is thought the Missoula road has
been abandoned.-Butte Miner, Dec. s.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
With a Firm Step.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-John Theodore
Wild alias Green Wald, twice convicted
for murder of Lyman Weeks at his resi-
dence in Brooklyn, was hanged this
morning. His neck was broken and he
was pronounced dead in two minutes.
He went with a firm step to the gallows,
declared that he was innocent and wished
this inscription put on his tomb stone,
murdered, December 6, 1884," He
made will declaring his innocence and
giving his effects to Mr.. Brigham, pri-
yate detective. Green Wald was a burg
lar and shot Weeks while robbing his
house.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Leedom Still in a Box.

WASHINGTON Dec. 6.-The committee
charged with investigating the accounts
OF the office of the sergeant-at-arms met
'nis morning. The committee went into
second session at the end of half an
hour. Word was sent to Leedom that the
committee desired his presence. Leedom.
accompanied by Ex-congressman Phil
thompson, whom he has retained as
counsel, responded to the summons, but
thompson was denied admission. Lee
oom has made rather searching exami-
nation OF the books and places the amount
of the deficiency at $71 800.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07

In washington 33U miles of track have been laid
this year.
There are several projects for Montana, one of
which will probably reach success, for lines to run
from some point on the Union Pacific north
through Central Wyoming to some point on the
Northern Pacific near Billings Montana. 1t is
fact not often realized that there is no railway
connection between these two trans-continental
lines for distance of nearly 800 miles-from the
Missouri river west to the Utah & Northern rail-
way in Idaho.
Most Of the work in Montana is being carried on
by the Northern Pacific. The ST. Baul, Mnneap-
oils d Manitoba company, their only important
competitor in this state, is not doing much in the
way Of extensions at present. One Of the most
important lines to the Montana mining districts
is the Northern Pacific cutoff from the main line
direct to Butte on which tracklaying is nearly
completed. The detour via Helena, for traffic
passing from the Butte district to the east over
the Northern Pacific, will be avoided by this line;
and coal from the mining regions lying just north
of the Yellowstone park will be brought to the
Butte and Anaconda smelters much more cheaply
| than in the past
A long and important line which is under con-
sideration for next seasons work is to extend
from Billings northwest to Ft. Benton, and thence
to the mines and railway Of the Northwestern
Coal Navigation company at Lethbrtdge Alberta
The southern half has already been surve, ed by
the Northern Pacific company and doubtless the
whole line, If built will be under its control
The Manitoba company's plans to extend from
Great Falls west to Missoula are believed to be
perfected and that the Union Pacific westward
from Garrison, paralleling the Northern Pacific
to Missoula, appears to be among the projects of
some promise. While the railroad construction
OF Montana during 1889 will not be large, the
groundwork is laid for a genuine railroBd boom
next year.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Richmond Doas uo,or

RICHMOND, Dec. 6.-The legislature in
Joint session appointed committee to
prepare resolutions appropriate to the
memory of Jefferson Davis. The flags in
the state capital are at half mast.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07

Try some of that nut soft coal Good
rich is delivering for $4O0 per ton. Of
fees at yard and Rocky Mountain Tele
graph Co. n2O-2w
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07

Orders for coal and wood left at the
Rocky Mountain Telegraph office will re-
ceive prompt attention. n13 20.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Railroad Building,

The Independent of yesterday contains
the following account of railroad building
in the northwest:
Statistics show that construction is most active
in the new states of Montana and Washington.
The summary of work completed, under way and
projected in Montana is as follows
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07

Bar Silver.
New YORK, Dec. 6.-Bar silver 944.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Stanley

ZANZIBAR, Dec. 6.-Stanley arrived
here TODAY,
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-12-07
Gents Furnishing Goods,
NeckWear, Hats and Caps,
Boots, Shoes,
Gloves, Etc. Etc.,
Is Unexeelled in Quality, Quantity and
Prices.

Your order, If you do not purchase per-
sonally, will be filed expeditiously and
carefully.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

velous, and no man in the departing ut
could come near her in thir line. Yet
she received less pay than euy of the
men. One of the male clerks fell i'll
and his wife took his place as his SUBJ
stitute He fingered tn for year and
a half, during which time she did his
work and drew his pay in his name as
his substitute Then he died Her
work had been satisfactory, and she
was appointed as his successor. The
work of the position continued the
same. but from the moment that she
drew her pay in her own name, and
not as his substitute, the salary was
cut down one-half.
1t is unfortunate that the massing of
men in the West and Of women in the
East should make it impossible for
many women to marry. 1t is still moro
unfortunate that many married women
should be forced to become bread win
ners, owing to the death of their hus-
bands, or to their unwillingness or ina
bility to provide for the family But
since multitude of women are obliged
to earn bread for themselves, and often
for others dependent upon them, no
artificial disadvantages ought to be i'm
posed upon their labor. They should
be allowed to do any kind of work they
can do well, and should be paid for it
at it's fair value, whatever that may be-
The gifted sculptor should not lose the
reward of her genius because OF her
sex, nor should tho school-teacher,
clerk or saleswoman have to deduct a
discount from her salary merely be-
cause she is a woman.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
a Protective Policy.

John Fitzgerald, in an article On the
labor question, published in the New
York Mail and Express, says that there
are 500, 900 women in New York City
working for very little wages and un-
der very difficult and obnoxious condi-
tions." That it is now lone of the aims
OF the leaders of organized labor to put
women on level with men in wages
when the woman does mans work. :"
This, he says,
is policy of self-protection. In some of the
trades, notably the printers, women have de-
veloped as much deXterity as men. Manifestly
the men can not keep the women out and log
ically they can not afford to have women work
ing for less than they work for, for that would
bring down wages. So they did something bet
ter. They brought the women into the fold
1t has not been very many years
since in the printers and other trades
not only declined to admit women to
their unions. on the ground that such
action would be disastrous, but refused
to work in offices and shops where wom-
en- received as much wages as men
for the same amount of work. The
workingmen are learning as they 60,
and some of these days they will reach
point where they will see that it is
also "a policy OF self-protection" to put
women on level with men in the mat
ter of suffrage. -Woman's Journal,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
INEQUALITY IN WAGES.
A Disadvantage Under Which Working
Women Are Compelled to Labor.

A Disadvantage Under Which Working
Women Are Compelled to Labor.
There is no doubt that much of the
poorly paid work of women is poor
work and does not deserve good wages,
says Alice Stone Blackwell, in Northern
Christian Advocate. Parents do not
yet realize that every girl as well as
every boy ought to learn some trade by
which she can earn living in case Of
need. Hence a multitude of women
find themselves thrown on the world
without the knowledge how to do one
thing well, and they have to take the
low pay which is all that their amateur
work is worth. Unskilled labor can
not expect the same pay as skilled la
Dor. 1t is not this Of which the advo-
Gates OF equal rights complain. Our
plea is Equal pay for equal work, !"
not Equal pay for inferior work. !"
And women do not generally get equal
pay with men in those cases where they
render equal or even superior work.
The most common example of un-
equal pay for equal work is the pay
given to teachers. An experienced
and successful woman, who has made
teaching her life-work, receives less
pay than young and inexperienced
man who takes it up temporarily as a
stepping g-stone to the bar or the pulpit
1t is idle to say that the difference here
is owing to the quality of the work
done. The inequality in pay exists
even where the woman may be in ev-
erybody's opinion the better teacher.
The Government sets the example.
In the departments at Washington the
women clerks get about half the pay
that is required by men clerks for the
same amount and kind of labor. A few
days ago Senator told me that he had
been all through the departments and
had been struck by this inequality.
''Do the women do as good work as the
menp" he asked. He was assured that
they did. In the Treasury Department
one woman was pointed out to him
who was an expert in the detection Of
counterfeit bills. Her skill was mar
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
NOTES FROM WOMAN'S FIELD

LITTLE Rock, Ark, has a woman
suffrage society which holds regular
meetings of interest.
THE California Legislat ire has passed
a bill permitting women to vote for
school trustees A bill giving full
municipal suffrage to women was de-
feated in the Senate by a close vote, 15
to 1S.-Woman Journal.
SIR HENRY PARKEs, Premier of New
South Wales, has boldly declared him
self in favor of women having the suf-
frage and promises to give effect to his
opinion in his new electoral bill. He
believes it will have decidedly elevat-
ing tendency.
SHAME on the man who says the po-
sition of women is as it should be, and
yet pretends to be Christian, and
never raises his voice to take up the
keynote of the golden rule, without
which all ologies, creeds and isms are
quicl5sands! s!-Southern Journal.
The chairman Of the Hartford Equal
Rights Club made a point that was
true. if rather wicked, when she re-
marked at recent meeting: 1t is said
that the ballot would make men of us.
| don't think it would; it doesn't seem
to have that effect on the male sex"
WYOMING TERRITORY will not 60
back on woman suffrage. The Suf-
frage Committee Of the Constitutional
Convention has reported in favor Of
universal suffrage, and proposition to
submit the woman's suffrage article to
separate vote of the people was de-
feated by 80 to 5.
The Chicago ladies who have organ
lied in the Interests Of a woman's de-
partment Of the World Fair are bend
ing all their energies ito help the men
folks secure this fair" If they sue
ceed, they propose to ''begin with the
Sandwich Islands, and encircle the
world in collecting an exhibit of wom-
ans work.
Miss NORA BRECKINRIDGF, a very
bright and intelligent young colored
girl of Des Moines, Iowa, has passed
the required examination and been
granted a county certificate to teach in
the public schools. She is the first
colored girl who has ever been granted
a certificate in Polk County, and the
colored people are very proud Of her
success.
ENGLISH advocates of woman's pub
lie work are making much of the fact
that certain antiquarian has discov-
cred evidences that women held offices
in the seventeenth and eighteenth GEN.
turies. According to the Derbyshire
County records there were at that time
several women constables and church
wardens. and one woman held the Of
fce Of magistrate.
WHEN the city of Seattle was burned
IL petition for woman suffrage, with
25, 900 names. was destroyed An affi-
davit as to the number of signatures
mas been laid before the constitutional
convention The women of Washing
ton Territory and the men there who
believe in equal rights are using their
best endesvors 10 have given back 10
women the right TO vote.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
A. nresent there IS no theme more

A
prolific. nor one that seems to possess
more interest for the people at large,
than that of economy. Now, economy
Is an excellent thing when we are thor
,uph in our comprehension of the
word; and we may be sure. until we
ire, we shall be able to practice it.
Economy is one thing and meanness is
lutte another. Some people seem
blessed in being born economists. With
them it never seems any trouble to
spend money judiciously, and they
manage so carefully that nothing ever
roes to waste or is lost The posses
sion of this rare gift is truly fortunate,
vet economy may be cultivated until it
becomes a second nature.
In practicing economy it is neces-
,ary to exercise good judgment, and
avery house-keeper should know
where to economic judiciously. The
purchasing of inferior articles OF
clothing is really, in the end, great
extravaganza, as it requires as much
time to make such clothing. and a
good quality Of almost any thing will
.ast three times as long as cheap ma
;erial, while it will always look better.
But the worst place to be oversaving
is in the kitchen and dining-room, and
the temptation to do so is now very
great, for it is common thing to see
in household and other papers recipes
for twenty-five cent dinners, directions
for feeding large family on very
small amount, with numerous other
economical suggestions that make
many housewives feel they are ex-
travagant in spending so much for the
family's living. Sensible people
should know that good, nourishing
food is necessary to the health Of the
body, as we'll as to the development OF
the mind of growing children, and
that where it is not supplied sickness,
i'll humor and train Of lesser evils
follow. louisville Courier-J ournal.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

FATHER ION a steamer)-''I don't know
what to do with that boy. He aggravates
me terribly. He needs severe chastising,
but this is no place to do it." Mother
equally oppressed Take him up on deck,
Henry. heard the captain say just nov
that there was spanking breeze on"
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

A PECULIAR industry has sprung up near
Albany, N. Y, since 1888, thatof supplying
crushed stone for asphalt and macadamized
roads The quarry from which the stone is
taken is operated night and day. One thou
sand tons of rock day are crushed and 251
cars are used in tran sporting the fragments
of rock to all parts of the country.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
LIsTEN-a song of rejoicing.
Hearts that were heavy are glad.

IUVh
There's help and there's health to be haas
Take courage, weak ones respondent,
And drive hack the foe that vou fear
With the weapon that never will fail you.
o, be Of good cheer.
for when you suffer from any of the weak
nesses, irregularities" and functional
derangements,n peculiar to your sex, by
the use of DR.. PIercs's Favorite Prescrip-
ton you can put the enemy of ill-health and
happiness to rout. 1t is the only medicine
for women, sold by druggists, under pos
tive guarantee of satisfaction in every case,
or money refunded. See bottle-Wrapper.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

Who is DR.. A. T. Shallenberger? He is a
prominent physician of Rochester, Penna,
who graduated at Jefferson Medical Col
lege in 1876 In 1S47 he announced the the
ory that all Malarial disease was caused by
living germs in the blood and demonstrated
its correctness by his Antidote for Malaria,
which cured when all else failed. The
microscope now reveals these germs, and
Physicians accept the fact. If you have
Malaria in your system, get the medicine
and be well.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

SooT falls down chimney before storm,
because the air at that time contains more
moisture. SCOT is microscopic, that is, it alb
serbs the moisture from the air, and, be-
coming heavier, detaches itself from the
sides of the chimney.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

substance that is three hundred times as
sweet as sugar It is not known what that
substance is, but it is supposed to be about
eighteen years old and 10 have foadness
for ice-cream.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

A SWEDISH boy fell out of window and
was badly hurt, but with clenched lips he
kept back the cry of pain. The King,
prophesied that that boy would make a man
for an emergency. And so he did, for he
became the famous General Bauer.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

IT is said that hundreds of colored men liv-
ing in North Carolina, owing to the low
wages they receive, are thinking Of emf
grating to Western, Northwestern and
Southwestern States. Since last fall, it is
reported, at least 5000 colored men have
emigrated from the State.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

IT is said that the great oil fields of New
York and Pennsylvania are rapidly becom-
ing exhausted. The supply has fallen from
100000 10 43, 200 barrels per day. Search is
being mado for new fields.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

FIGHT your own battles. Hoe your own
row Ask no favors of any one, and you'll
succeed thousand times better than one
who is always beseeching some ones in
fuence and patronage
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

SWELL, Uncle Cicero, what makes you
look so glum!" well, sab, to tell you the
trufe, my ole woman has begun to make
buckwheat cakes and she hasn't got into the
swing of it yet, sah."
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

For all arrangements of the liver, stom-
ach and bowels take DR.. Pierce's Pellets.
One dose
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.

Mild, equabe climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
in the world. Full information free. Address
Oregon immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

A CHURCH wedding, where the groom was
eighty and the bride thirty five years old,
astonished quiet Connecticut village re-
Gently.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

WHY don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pillsa They are positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis
ordered liver. Only one pill dose.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

BE moderate in your pleasures, that your
relish for them may continue. Always to
indulge our appetites is to extinguish 'hem.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

No Opium il. Piso's Cure for Consumption
Cures where other remedies fail 25c.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

THE late e. P. Rec found no difficulty In
writing $50, 900 worth year
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

-CHEwERs' paralysis IS the latest form
of professional neurosis recorded IN medl
calliterature.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

For any case Of nervousness, sleepless-
ness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia,
relief is sure in Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

COLONEL JoHN CocKERTLL Is paid $4,000 O
year by the New York World.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

IT is death to any person in Siam to men
ton the Kings name. This is custom
that many other tribes rjgidly adhere TO.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

MANY initiate 'sTansilI's Punch" SC Cigar.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26
Nothing More Obvious.

Attorney (chagrined) i confess,
your honor, this juror seems to meet
all the legal requirements. AID as our
peremptory challenges are now ex-
hausted we shall be reluctantly com
PEELED to accept
Defendant leans over and whispers
something in attorneys ear.
Attorney Ito juror)-One moment,
sir. Have you not. within the last
six months. paid off $4,000 of old debts,
dollar for dollar, that were outlawed
years ago and that you were not legal
ly bound topay?
juror have.
Attorney (triumphantly) - ] chal-
lenge'him for cause, your honor. He
is insane.-Chicago Tribune. E
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

On the Free List no Longer
Citizen-"Hello. Jake! Still in the
fruit business. are you? Those
peaches look" Jake-(menacing-
ly)-''Keep your dirty hands off'n
them peaches. If you want any you
buy EN-. You're not p'.seeeman
now.".-Chicago Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

How MT THROAT Hurts Why don't you
use Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tarl
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-26

MAYO W. HAzELTINE receives s175 a week
from the New York Sun.