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Volume xi.
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January 18, 1877.
No.
THE WEEKLY HERALD
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNINO.
FISK BROS.,
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THE MINUET.
[Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, St Nicholas, Jannary.]
Grandma told me all about it,
Told me. so I couldn't doubt it,
How she danced—my grandma danced !—
Long ago.
How she held her pretty head,
llow lier dainty skirt she spread.
How she turned her little toes—
Smiling little human rose!—
Long age
Grandma's hair was bright and sunny;
Dimpled cheeks,loo—ah, how tunny!
Really quite a pretty girl,
Long ago.
Bless her! why, she wears a cap,
Grandma does, and takes a nap
Every single day ; and yet
Grandma danced the minuet
Long ago.
Now she sits there, rocking, rocking,
Ahvavs knitting grandpa's stocking—
(Every girl was taught to knit,
Long ago.)
Yet lier tigure is so neat.
And lier way so staid and sweet,
I can almost see her now
Bending to lier partner's bow,
Long ago.
Grandma says our modern jumping,
Hopping, rushing, whirling, bumping,
Would have shocked the gentle folk
Long ago.
No—they moved with stately grace,
Everything iu proper place,
Gliding slowly forward, then
Slowly courtseyine' back again,
Long ago.
Modern ways are quite alarming,
Grandma says; but boys were charming—
Girls and boys, I mean, of course—
Long ago.
Bravely, modest, grandly shy—
What if all of us should try
Just to feel like those who met
In the graceful minuet
Long ago?
With tiie minuet in fashion.
Who could fly into a passion?
All would wear the calm they wore
Long ago.
In time to come, if I, perchance,
Should tell my grandchild of our dance,
I should really like to say,
" We did it, dear, in some such way,
Long ago.
A Literary Curiosity.
What strange infatuation rules mankind,—
Chatterton.
What different spheres to human bliss as
signed.—Rogers.
To loftier things your finer pulses burn,—
Sprague.
If man would but his finer nature learn;—
Dana.
What several ways men to their calling
have,—Ben. Johnson.
And grasp at life though sinking to the
gr a ve.—Falconer.
Ask what is human life ! the sage replies,
—Cooper.
Wealth, pomp, and honor, are but empty
toys ;—Ferguson.
We trudge, we travel, but from pain to
pain,—Quarles.
Weak, timid landsmen on life's stormy
main ;—Burns.
We only toil who are the first of things,—
Tennyson.
From labor health, from health content
ment springs;—Beattie.
Fame runs before us as the morning star,
—Dryden.
How little do we know that which we are ;
Byron.
Let none then here his certain knowledge
boast—Pomfret.
Of fieeting joys too certain to be lost ;-Wal
ler.
For over all there hangs a cloud of fear,—
Hood.
All is but change and separation here.—
Steel.
Du. Soiiliemann continues to make new
discoveries. In the tomb recently opened at
Myceuæ he found a large golden mask and
an enormous breastplate of gold. He also
found the body of a man, wonderfully pre-
served, especially the face. The head was
round, the eyes large, and the mouth con-
tained thirty-two fine teeth. There is, how-
ever a difficulty about preserving the remains.
There were also found fifteen bronze swords
with great golden hilts—a mass of immense
golden buttons splendidly engraved ornamen-
ted the sheaths of the swords ; also two great
golden goblets and a great quantity of other
objects in gold, articles in earthenware, a
carved wooden box, several articles in chased
crystals, ten large cooking utensils of bronze
but no traces of anything in iron or glass.
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A scientific paper tries to show that the
dark spots on the moon are simply great
grazing pastures. We have a poor opinion
of the man who explores in that direction for
stock ranges. Montana and not the moon is
the place to look for the succulent bunch-
grass upon which sleek cattle feed and fatten
and chew the cud of plenty in solid satis-
faction the year round.
Sliver as an Ilnllmlteu Legsi Tender.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
Most of the enthusiastic supporters of the
Bland Silver bill were ardent triends of that
measure because they believed that silver was
bound to become cheaper than greenbacks,
and expected, when the bill became a law, to
be able to pay off their creditors in a debased
currency. The learned and enlightened
Franklin Landers did not, indeed present this
view of the matter in advocating his bill. On
the contrary, he enlarged on the happy effect
which the "double standard" would have in
preventing fluctuations iu silver. But all the
same—his followers wanted silver as an un-
limited legal tender because they thought it
would be "cheap money." M. Cernuschi is
one of the stanchest and most consistent ad-
vocates of the double standard, and yet be
admits that it would be disastrous for the
United States to set up silver as an unlimited
legal tender unless a majority of the great
commercial nations would co-operate in the
movement. He evidently perceives that such
individual and isolated action on our part
would simply cause the nations having com-
mercial transactions with us to send silver
here to exchange for goods which could be
sold in other countries for gold. There is a
prodigious amount of available silver which
would promptly respond to such an invita-
tion. In England, Germany and France
there is not less than $200,000,000 of silver
ready to be precipitated upon us tbe^moment
we declare it a legal tender alternative with
gold. At present the discussion of the theo-
retical advantages of the double standard iu
Congress is utterly unprofitable, because we
can do nothing in this matter alone. England,
Germany, Holland and the fecandanavian
countries have virtually abandoned the silver
standard, and we cannot set ourselves up
against the whole world.
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Terrible Destitution in Brooklyn.
The suffering among the poor in Brooklyn
this winter is likely to be very great. Mayor
Schtoeder is of the opinion that, including
the relief that will be needed for those left
destitute by the great fire, there will be needed
from $300,000 to $400,000 to keep the peo-
ple from actual starvation. Large numbers
of men are out of employment and have
pawned or sold everything that they could
spare, and must be dependent iu a great
measure upon the generosity of their more
favored townsmen. In the course of his re-
marks Mayor Scbroeder says that he knows
of one widow, with four little children, who
live in a tenement house with not enough
clothes to cover their nakedness and with
hardly any furniture. Yesterday there was
not a morsel of anything to eat in the bouse.
"A man that I helped last winter," continues
the mayor, "writes a letter to me saying that
he had to send his children to school without
any f ood yesterday. He says that his family,
consisting of four children, himself and his
wife, must perish unless something is done
for them."
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John Randolph'» Impudence.
The current talk concerning the disquali
fication of electors recalls the manner in
which John Randolph asserted his right to
a seat in Congress to which he was not eli
gible. W hen he was elected for his first
term, he was under the age of twenty-five,
and Henry Clay knew the fact. When he
made his appearance in the House _ he was
interrogated by Mr. Clay as to his years. The
gentleman from Roanoke, haughty and im
patient then as in later years, simply
answered : " I refer you to my constituents
for a reply." The impudence of the man
closed the mouths of all the members. Mr.
Clay did hot push his inquiry, and John Ran
dolph held his seat undisturbed.
Mr. Conway, in his London letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial , relates an annecdote
of Richard Grant White. Mr. White was re
ceived in England warmly by all ranks of
society, by scholars, artists, musicians, but
Conway leaves receptions and toastings for
this: "He visited his friend Julian Haw
thorne, who lives at Twickenham on the
Thames, which even American readers will
remember as the site of Pope's villa ; and
while there, having his violoncello, he used
to go into the nursery and play for the little
Hawthornes, to their great delight. When
he went away one of them asked her mother
if he would ever come again. Mrs. Haw
thorne said she hoped he would. 'Oh, that's
nice,' wa 9 the reply, 'for he's better than the
organ man ; he makes the music and you
don't have to give him a penny*—rather a
doubtful compliment in return for lhe lofty
musician's good nature. But Giant White
fiddling to the grandchildren of Nathaniel
Hawthorne is not a bad picture./
Tiie merry jingle of the sleigh bells, the
sparkle of the crystal snow in the lambent
light of the moon, and the confiding creature
that nestles closely to him beneath the buffalo
robes, tenderly clasping.his left hand in fyers
while his right holds the reins, constitute the
winter night's poem that is floating through
the doting lover's soul, and leave him in
doubt whether to let go long enough to get
his handkerchief out, or draw his coat sleeve
across his nose.
A new counterfeit $1,000 greenback has
come into the possession of the Treasury
detectives. The note was discovered recently
and the plate upon which it was printed is
said to have been in existence for two or three
years, and is believed to be the work of the
notorious Tom Ballard, now undergoing a 30
years' sentence of imprisonment for counter
feiting. The counterfeit an excellent one*
Boston Joke : The following conversation
took place recently in a hotel: "Waiter?
'Yes, sir." "What's this?" 'Ttsbean soup,
sir." "No matter what it has been, the
question is—what is it now?"
[New York Letter to Washington Capital.1
One tigure among the mourners attracted
the attention of all who knew Claude Bur-
roughs. Scarcely more than a week ago
this actor, dressed in the height of fashion,
might have been seen any pleasant afternoon
on Broadway or the avenue in the company
of a young lady to whom he was understood
to be engaged. She, too, was always attired
iu the extreme of fashion and in the pictur-
esque dress which it is the privilege and the
pleasure of the elegantes of the period to array
themselves, and looked half like some Wat-
teau shepherdess who had stepped from
some Dresden bit iu which she hail been im-
prisoned to seek her mate, like another Gala-
thea. Her tete rousse was crowned by a
coquettish hat, her petite form was clothed in
a dress that fitted to perfection, and her
dainty boots went tic-a-toc as she walked on
by the side of ber companion. Who would
have recognized in the suffering girl, veiled
in crape and bowed down with grief at the
solemn services of Sunday, the animated
belle, all life and gayety, who was wont to
turn all heads as she passed ! The watchers
who sat all Saturday night beside the coffins
of Murdoch and Burroughs as they laid in
state in Irving Hall, opened in the wee sraa'
hours the casket that contained all that was
left of the latter to place in it some flowers
from the tribute of the poor bereaved father.
And then some kind soul who knew the ro-
mance of the dead actor's life, and remem-
bered it, plucked a few violets from a simple
cross that bore the words, "Dear Claude,"
and put the flowers gently with the poor
disfigured body.
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Great Men's Drinks.
[Pall Mall Gazette.}
Frederick the Great, like a good many
other persons, had a particular affection for
Tokay. Napoleon preferred Chambertin,
but liked black coffee better. Peter the
Great thought Maderia the best of wines, but
regarded brandy as superior to all other
drinks. Marshal Richelieu held Medoc in
the highest honor, and Rubens had the
strange taste to esteem Marsala the finest of
wines. John Bart, whom the French per
sist in imagining to have been a great admiral
drank contusion to the English in bumpers
of Beaune. Rabelais thought that "the divine
bottle" never looked more admirable than
when filled with Chablis. Marshal Saxe had
a decided predilection for champagne, while
the severity of Cromwell's countenance is
said to have occasionally relaxed at the sight
of a pipe of Malmsey. The Emperor Charles
V., would plan his champagnes and devise
more stringent laws for the repression of
heresy over a flagon of good Alicante wine.
His rival, Francis 1, consoled himself for
the loss of everything but honor with a cup of
Xeres. or as we should say, a glass of sherry.
Henry IY., whether a Catholic or a Protes
tant, was faithful to the vintage of Suresnes.
In more recent times the genius of Goethe was
often fired with a bottle of Johannisberg.
Humboldt studied and wrote unpleasant
things about his friends under the gentle in
fluence of Sauteme. Talleyrand often owed
an hour of good nature to Chateau-Margaux.
Wasbington journalism.
[From the Washington Telegram.^
The new Democratic daily will not make
its appearance till Wednesday morning. The
name originally determined upon. The Con-
stitutional Union , is regarded as too heavy,
and will be curtailed to simply The Union,
Simultaneously with the advent of the new
Democratic daily may be expected the demise
of The Chronicle , the administration organ.
Its indebtedness exceeds $50,000, and for
some time past strikes have been of frequent
occurrence in the composing room. Recently
the news and city editor deserted the paper,
and since that time it has been run by boys.
The Chronicle is a joint stock company, and
has been peculiarly managed. About two
years ago a dividend of $20,000 was declared
on a nominal capital stock of $100,000 and
paid the stockholders, while at the same time
the liabilities of the concern were fully $30,-
000. Every piece of machinery in the
building is mortgaged, and a large number of
judgments, varying from $25 to $1,500 have
been filed against the company. Ex-Senator
Harlan still holds some stock in the company,
but has had no hand in the management of
the paper for over a year.
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El vine in Ice for u Year.
The Newark Advertiser has this story :
Fish are cold-blooded creatures, as every one
knows, but the proprietor of the Fourteenth
Ward House, on Murray street, has a sample
of the piscatorial tribe which for coolness is
equaled only in scientific annals. He is of
diminutive size, a minnow in fact, and was
brought to the establishment embedded in a
block of ice, some two inches below tbe sur
face. He had evidently been frozen in when
ihe ice w as formed last winter, and has been
firing a comfortable though inactive existence
ever since. That he was alive, has been alive,
and is alive at present, is demonstrated by
the fact that when removed from his icy
home yesterday morning and placed in water
he paddled off comfortably and easily, evi
dently enjoying a release from his long im
prisonment. The little fellow has been liv
ing a fife of suspended animation for nearly
a year at least, but though it has retarded his
growth, he is evidently in a healthy condi
tion. ^ | m _
A memento of the Granger movement in
Ilfinois came into court at Springfield in that
State, last week, in the shape of a verdict for
$1,250 damages against the Toledo, Wabash
and Western Railroad Company for charging
more than the legal rate. This is the first
verdict that has ever been obtained in the
State against a railroad company for violation
of the "Granger" law,
[From the Worcester Press.]
All who have had the privilege of being
drawn on a jury must be familiar with thi9
quaint old Norman-French expression, used
by the Sheriff or his representative when
opening court. But few have been lucky
enough to listen to such an exordium as
came upon the astonished ears of the Mans
fields and O'Connors of Muskingum from the
lips of a compatriot of Bismarck.
William Ruth is Sheriff of Muskingum
county, O. He is also of the Teutonic per
suasion. When he was ignorant of his du
ties and greatly troubled about the way of
opening Court he confided his troubles to
Congressman Southard and several young
members of the bar, and they coached him
in his duties, giving him to understand that
he was a higher official than the Court itself,
and that Judge Frazier, of the Common Pleas
was in the habit of interfering with the Sheriff
in a manner that no well-regulated Sheriff
ought to tolerate. "Py shiminy, ish dot so !"
said the functionary. "Yell, yust vait till I
opens de gourt, and he find dot Bill Root is
not Pense Lloyd by a chug full."
When the Court came on Sheriff Ruth veri
fied his prediction. For weeks he had been
practising his opening speech, and Judge
Frazier turned to him with a look of judicial
dignity and said : •
"Mr. Sheriff, open the Court."
Mr. Ruth struck an attitude and began :
"O yez, hear ye eberybody und der peoples
in sheneral dat der honorable Gourt of Com
mon foesäions, in und fer der honorable poddy
of Muskingum county, ish now in pleas, nnd
dat its doors are open for to hear der gom
plaints of all der yeomanry und gommon und
take gognizance of all misdemeanors und -
"Hold on there! Hold on there, Mr.
Sheriff ! What is the meaning of all this rig
marole?" exclaimed Judge Frazier.
"Shudge, shust hold a little on," returned
the Sheriff. "I'm Bill Root, der Sheriff of
dis gounty, und I know my business to trans
act in dis gourt, und any gauses to present
for its honorable gonsideration will now ap
proach und dat same make known, unci may
God Almighty haf mercy on your souls, und
all off mit your hats way quick ?"
By the time the Sheriff concluded even
Judge Frazier was roaring with laughter. It
took the Constable half an hour to restore
order. The first case was called, and the
Judge said :
"Mr. Sheriff, call Peter Jones, John Smith
and Sa»-a White three times at the door."
Advancing to the door and opening it about
three inches, he pitched his voice to the
highest key and began :
"Peter Shones, Shon Smit, Sara Vite, Sara
Shores, Peter Vite, Sohr. Smit, come into
Court mit your dree dimes. Your honor, dey
gone hom."
Judge Frazier. That will never do. Call
them three times—one at a time.
Sheriff Ruth. Mr. Shudge, shoost look
here. Dat is when you make foolish mit me.
You say call dree times vonce, and den you
say call dem vonce dree times, und you say
dat ish worsh and worsh. If you yant Peter
Shones und Shon Smit ùnd Sara Vite vonce
dree dimes or dree dimes vonce, you better
call dem yourself. I not dot kind of foolish
ness.
Sheriff Ruth retired to Fred Ditner's and
refreshed himself with sundry glasses of
lager, while the Constable called the wit
nesses. _ ^ ^ | ^ _
A Smart Young Man and a Smarter
Falber.
[From the Virginia, Nev., Evening Chronicle ]
Some weeas ago a young scapegrace in
this city, who had left his parental roof in
New York under a cloud iu 1865, concluded
to put up a job on tbe old gentleman and
make a raise. He accordingly telegraphed
to his father in New York :
Mr. -: Your son Walter was killed in
the Con. Virginia this morning by a falling
cage. What shall we do with his remains ?
M. L. BARKER.
Almost immediately a telegraphic order
came for $150 and the laconic reply : " Bury
them."
The fictitious M. L. Barker froze to the
$150 and went on a royal spree, and a few
weeks afterward wrote to his father over his
real name as follows :
Dear Fatiier: I have just learned that an
infamous scoundrel named Barker sent you a
fictitious account of my death and swindled
you out of $150. He also borrowed $85
from me and left the country. I write to in
form you that I am yet alive, and long to see
tbe old parental roof again. I am in some
what reduced circumstances: the accumu
lation of the last five years having been lost
—a disastrous stock operation—and if you
would spare me $200 I will be ever thankful
for your favor. Give my love to all.
Your affectionate son, WALTER.
A few days later the young man received
the following :
My Dear Son : I have buried you once,
ond an end of it.
I decline having any more transactions
with a corpse. _ ____
Yours in the flesh, FATHFR.
The old man evidently knew whereof he
spoke. ^ | | m _
Christmas morning they stood before the
altar and the music of their marriage bells
was sweeter to them than the music of the
spheres. Christmas morning, four years
later, a bald-headed man jumped out of bed,
half distracted, and wanted to know why his
wife was such an infernal fool as to put a
Christmas h orn in t hat^boy's stocking .
To elect a United States Senator, the
Nicholls' Rump Legislature has a method of
its own to secure a quorum. The White
League is utilized to capture unwary mem
bers from the regular Legislative body and
hustle them unceremoneously into Nicholls
side show. Further seizures are interrupted,
and the regular Legislature preserves its
quorum.
AEE SORTS.
A fair count—Vassar has 385 girls.
Swear not at all, except to swear off.
Senator Conkling can repeat whole
poems from memory.
"A tripping down Broadway" is usually
followed by a trip-up.
Freemen's writes—Signatures to the De
claration of Independence.
A Maryland jury declared that a man had
come to his death " by an unknown wagon."
A young lady who took to tight lacing
some years ago says she is gradually waisting
away.
Mrs. Secretary Fisii is not the only fash
ionable woman in America who is wearing
her last year's bonnet.
The Boston Bulletin, suggests "Mated and
Cremated " as an appropriate head for the
" Marriage and Death " column of the
future.
We hope the ladies will so much regard
the public weal as to discard the "pull
back" for the next forty days. It impedes
leg-islation.
Mr. Darwin's last book seems to be an
able book, but the author does not satisfac
torily explain the connecting link between a
bay horse and a bay window.
The time i9 here when the man who scat
ters the contents of his ash barrel on the
sidewalk is more charitable than he who
shares his greenbacks with the poor.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has bought the chimes
which rung in Machinery Hall at the Cen
tennial Exhibition. She intends the bells for
the Episcopal church at Garden City, New
Jersey.
The Toledo Blade says : "The battle
field of Tippecanoe has been closed." It's
about time. We believe the line of de fence
was marked out there by Gen. Harrison
nearly half a century ago.
President Smith of Dartmouth College
tendered his resignation to the Board of Trus
tees last Friday. The board declined to ac
cept it, and voted him a vacation. President
Smith is about 72 years of age, and has pre
sided over the college for nearly 13 years.
A Boston Boy ou liens.
Hans is curious animals. They don't have
no nose, nor no teeth, nor no ears. They
swallow their wittles whole and chaw it up
in their crops inside of 'em. The outside of
hens is generally put inter piliers and made
inter feather dusters. The inside of a hen is
sometimes filled up with marbles and shirt
buttons and sich. A hen is very much smal
ler than a good many other animals, but
they'll dig up more tomato plants than any
thing that ain't a hen. Hens is very useful
to lay eggs for plum-pudding. Bet yer fife I
line plum-pudding. Skinny Bates eat so
much plum-pudding once that it set him into
the collery. Hens has got wings and can fly
when they are skart. I cut my Uncle Wil
liam's hen's neck off with a hatchet and it
skart her to death. Hens sometimes makes
very fine spring chickens.
Tbe Boy and tbe bot Cbestn ut».
A small urchin just large enough to wear
pants, and probably with his first pants on
with pockets, stepped up to a street stand
and purchesed five cents worth of hot roast
ed chestnuts. The chestnut-vender, pitying
his tender years, assisted his customer to
empty the measure into his little pocket.
Soon the nuts began to feel warm—they be
came uncomfortable—they burned, and the
little fellow could stand it no longer, and
commenced to dance up and down with pain.
The chestnut-vender tried to extract the nuts,
but his band was too large to get into the
pockets. The cries and antics of the sufferer
increased. The Italian became excited, and
with commendable ingenuity, seized him by
the heel and shook him, head down, until the
chestnuts rolled on the sidewalk. With tears
of joy the boy went iu search of his mother.
—Hudson Republican.
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River nnd Harbor Expenditures.
Washington, January 12.-The President's
message to the House concerning the river
and harbor expenditures, closes with the
report of the Secretary of War, which recalls
the President's message on the subject last
August, declaring that no money should be
spent on any work not purely national, etc.
This principle governed the action of the
chief engineer, who asked the engineers in
charge of the various works what works
could be postponed for the present. Their
answers indicated that about $4,500,000 would
be required. This was not a great saving,
and consequently the Secretary, under orders
of the Presdent. directed tbe chief engineer,
who was well able t<> judge <>t the require
ments, to make allotments from the appro
priations aggregating not over $2,000,000,
taking care that no new works should be
begun and none continued not purely national
in character. The $2,000,000 proved too
little, aDd the President, after a long inter
view, authorized the chief engineer to in
crease the amount to $2,237,000, to which
sum there have been small additions since,
and there may be a few more yet. The Sec
retary defends the President's action, which
is authorized in the bill itself which was not
mandatory, and he used his discretion to
meet the condition of the treasury.
Deatn of an Act res».
New York, January 11 .—Lucille Western,
the well-known actress, died here to-night.