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Clerical HulnOr.

The Louisville C0arier-JOurna correspoh.
ent at Saratoga writes as follows: "Te
most genial people one meets at Saratoga de
the clergymen who come here for recreatio,
They have many amusing anecdotes whic
they enjoy getting of at their own expens
or that of their colleagues. Among the dis
tinguished divines who are now here arc
Bishop Whipple, of Minneapolis, Rev. DR..
Cuyler, of New York, Drs. Sc,enck, Potter,
and Charles Robinson.
Goa the piazza at the United States a mer-
ry group was seen the other day. The laugh
ter was louder than usually breaks upon the
stiff conventional propriety which reigns
among the fashionable cliques who ccntenp-
tuously survey one another. II was a group
OF clergymen, and one was telling a racy
story which he had just heard. The Arch
bishop of Canterbury had a dread of paraly-
sis, and made it a subjec. of prayer that he
might escape the calamity. A grand concert
Was given in London, and a distinguished
Duke and Duchess invited the Archbishop to
accompany them and take a seat in their pri-
WV" AHS ]AShoiSioP otSuHiEu d SCdt
between the Duke and Duchess. Before, the
evening was over the Duchess manifested
great uneasiness. She would bound from her
seat and her manner was distrait.
"The Duke gave her reproving glance S,
and by his manner let her understand that
her behavior bordered on the indecorous.
The attention of the husband and wife was
now directed to the Archbishop, who meekly
folded his hands upon his breast, and said
1t has come! At last it has come! o Lord,
give me patience to bear it, Bear what,
your lordship? p inquired the Duke. .Paraly.
SIS said the Archbishop; Il have feared it
II prayed against it, But said the Duke
don't you think you are mistaken? l see
nothing unusual in your looks. Il cannot be
Mistaken said the Archbishop, for l have
been pinching my leg vigorously all the even
ing, and l have no sensation in it, sOh,'
cried the Duchess, it is my leg that you AVE
been pinching, and l did not know what to
make of it, The telling of this absurd story
created such merriment among the reverends
that for some time they forgot all the all
ments which had necessitated a visit to Sara
toga."
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Madison County.
Madisonian, 16th.l

1t is said that Jack Langrishe, whom all
" old-timeis " remember with pleasure, is in
tending to visit Montana this season with a
dramatic company.
There has been a good deal of complaint
o account of delay in the transit of mails
between Butte and this city. In order, if
possible, to discover which would be the
speedier route, postmaster Smith, of Butte,
addressed two postal cards, one by the Silver
Bow way, which left Butte at 2:SO p. m., and
the other by the Boulder way, (which left al
6 a. m. of the same day, both of which
reached Virginia City by the same mail, show
ing that there is practically no advantage as
to route. -. ......
Messrs. Trout and Rose have discovered
and are working a lode at the head of Hungry
Hollow, a tributary Of Alder gulch, which
has a 30-lnch crevice of ore which prospects
largely in free gold. A piece of the rock
which we saw pounded up in Pfout's store
last Wednesday, yielded considerably over a
dollar a pound.
Parties in from the Madison inform us that
the biackleg has been playing havoc with the
cattle on the range, and a large number have
fallen victims to the disease. 1t has also
made its appearance in other localities, kill
ing many head of young stock. Nnmberless
remedies for it have been published but so
far none seem to be effectual in preventing
its ravages.
Chas. Hineman brought up from Silver
Star a large lot of bullion, saved from the
Aurora lode, at that place. He says the dis
trict Is looming up finely, and that the ma
jority of the mines are looking better than
ever.
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Notice to Co-0wner.

ITO ALFRED E. BRIGGS: You are hereby
Il notified that the undersigned has in ac-
cordance with the requirements of law, per-
formed labor and nude improvements of the
value Of 300 In representing for the year ending
April II, 1879, the &c Diadem" lode claim, situ-
ated in Summit Valley Mining District, Deer
Lodge county, Montana Territory and in devel-
opments made on said lode Or claim, to-wit, for
the year ending April II, 1873, fifteen (Sl5.OO)
dollars, and for the year ending April II, 1873,
the sum OF $33.
And you are hereby notified that unless You
contribute or cause to be contributed your pro-
amounting as Aforesaid to the sum Of S57 .33 y
together with interest and costs within ninety
days from the publication or service of this
notice all your right, title, interest and CLAIM in
and to the above mentioned quartz lode or
claim will become the property of the UNDER
signed co-Owner who has made the above de-
scribed expenditures and improvements for you.
d-9-9Od e. f. BELCHER.
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THE WEST SIDE DAILY.

The Butte Daily MINER puts in a daily ap-
pearance at the Record office, aud is the most
valued of all our exchanges, because Contain
ing q larger complement of fresh local aid
general news than any other paper published
in the Territory. We count the Daily MINER
as one OF the permanent newspaper eiitur-
prises of ADMINISTRATOR Record, 18Th.
The highly complimentary mention made
of our new daily by so many of our contenl-
poraries-notices OF which the above may be
taken as a sample to represent dozens of
others-encourages us to commend the dairy
MINER to the " est Side people as deserving
of their support. In the field of daily jour-
nalism the MINER considers itself the repre-
sentative Of the West Side, as in other matters
it will always be found the advocate of West
Side interests. The past course Of this paper
offers most convincing proof that its manage
mint has never been Influenced by the petty,
contemplate local jealousy which, in years
gone by, has done SO much toward retarding
the growth OF our Territory, by bringing
about a division of effort into channels where
the effect of such efforts Tended to counteract,
to neutralize each other, instead of being as
they ought to have been, mutually assisting.
The MINER has never been characterized by
narrow-mindedness Of this description, and
at this late day il is scarcely necessary to say
it Dever will be. On the eve of Montana's
real Development. this journal will not fail to
manifest a liberality Of opinion, a breadth Of
sentiment commensurate with our rapidly
widening Territorial horizon. IL will ever
be Its ambition fairly to represent the liberal
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At Virginia city, Nevada, a man has en-,
tered a criminal prosecution against his son,
aged ten years, charging the little fellow with
the theft of a tao-oollar and a half gold
Jail for the longest possible term, believing
that the lesson afforded by the imprisonment
will turn the little culprit from the error of
his ways. Possibly it may, but when the
boy is committed to the care of the .jailer if
the father could at the same time be commit
ted to the care of a committee composed of
all the mothers in Virginia city there is not
the slightest doubt that the experience would
cure him ofthe error of his ways in prosecut-
ing a child.
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The Lewis & Thompson Combination Co.
have gone to Jefferson City to play this even
ing. They propose to return and give enter.
tainments during the week.
d Messrs. Rumley, Jack and Kleinschmidt
leave us tomorrow, "wednesday, for the
Silver City.
The Missouri is said to be quite low. The
Helena is expected in Wednesday and the
Key West on Friday.
Hunting and fishing excursions are album
dant just now. Messrs. Davidson, Shober, A.
Hershteld, McQuaid, of the Independent,
Kinna, De Witt and Gilbert are among repre-
sentatives of Helena in the various parties.
Banks. Board of Trade, papers, law and Cos
pei are all represented. CID.
HELENA, Aug. 10, 1879.
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The Zulu Warrior.

The Zulu warrior possesses advantages over
the British soldier which any who have knowl-
etge of his habits and country cannot call in
question. He knows every inch of ground he
desires to hold, its pathways, natural defenses
and positions of weakness. He can travel
with a rapidity Oh foot That would out-dis-
lance the race for any gwen point the mount
ed rider, who would be compelled to travel
h' a more circuitouS route; he can run like
a buck and leap like a goat. Moreover, he
,an sustain himself for a length of time upon
the handful of mealies he carries ia his bag
of Skin. injured to heat and cold, he fears
no dysentery or fever, and if such overtake
t,im during his march, lie carries around his
neck subtle remedies cleaned from the roots
and herbs that cover the hills of his much-to>
be-iesired and really beautiful country. He
is here to-day and fifty miles away by sun
down on the next. He has no coInmissariat
stores nor CONVOY of wagons to hamper him,
neither has he red tape to bind him. He car
RES nothing but what he requires, and, if he
challenges the Issue of battle, he will fire his
W musket, Martini-Henry, or fowling-
piece often with an accuracy OF aim that
would do credit to Wimbledon marksmen,
then discard it for his ever ready and terrible
assegai. have seen Zulus throw this weapon
with a precision that might appear incredible,
and an effect that to any beholder must prove
astonishing. | have witnessed them at their
kraals indulging in competitions, when a reed
has been split again and again at thirty or
forty yards distance, and once in my own
.N,A, - rs,,.t ,~,,- H-a.-
srgai into the air, and at the third attempt, to
split the cork in the neck of a bottle upon
which it descended at some distance from
where he stOOd.-EG.
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and out-ofthe-way situation its citizens
nevertheless appear to be satisfied with it as a
place of abode, for we find them making
preparations indicating an intention OF per-
manent settlement. An American church,
the first in the Territory, has lately been or
ganized by Dr.. Lydestry, Of the Presbyterian
Board of Missions, who was only a little in
advance of his Catholic ~co-workers in the
same field. An industrial school is also
going up. Notwithstanding all those prom
ising reports it remains that the greater part
of onr northern possession must forever con-
sist of an impenetrable wilderness the inhos-
pitable home of Jack Frost. The influence
of the, Japan current, the Gulf Stream of the
Pacific, is perceptible onlv near the coast.
Owing to this current the western coast of the
Territory enjoys a mild and curlously uniform
climate, but in the interior, east of the first
mountain range, grim winter holds almost
uninterrupted sway.
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mIssoULA cotrx.
From the MissouAk.l

sAO ALI A1oO t4vHs
Ed, Miller came out fromhis .Windfal
mine last week to help in gaAring in the
grain from his ranch below toA. He reports
tn. best season for water in theAines he has
known for years.
Rev. w. A. Hall and wife pied through
town last Thursday on their wako Granger.
vile, near Walla Walla. We rhet to lose
from our midst people who haveken SO use.
full and devoted to the best welle Of thei,
fellows, and wish them a plea4it journey
and location in their new field. ~.
Whenever Mgr. Seghers has tpeared in
this part Of his diocese, he has bel met and
cordially welcomed by people of i sorts and
conditions. At Fienchtown the Anily car,
riage Of I. J. Demers was placed his dis
posal, and the people received himIith illu.
limitations and balloon assensionsl On bis
way to the Bitter Root Mission he ,krried in
Missonla Monday hight, and was thtecipien,
OF numerous calls and a serenade.
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The streets are full of dust and so are our
mouths. The mercury fell yesterday and
brought cooling breezes whistling through
the ~trees-es, only we do not have many trees,
but dom spoil the poetry.
w. A. Clark, the ~well-known banker of
Butte, has been paying Helena a welcome
visit.
The Supreme Court dissolved its bonds to-
day and took off its robes for a while. Five
attorneys have been admitted to practice
Judge Blake will return to Virginia Tuesday
morning. The Judge made a short stay at
his home, having come directly from Boston,
where he has been rusticating far away from
the din and tumult of Montana.
Robt. g.. Hamilton, an old resident Of Hell
ena, is just in from California.
John Murphy is out on the streets with his
eyes in good condition, though he is obliged
to shade them from the glare of a Montana
sun. (By the way, it is not best to trust your
private correspondents too much. There is
many a gay deceiver.)
The Butte stages continue to be filled to
overlooking. The lively travel suggests that
a Butte and Helena narrow guage might be
built this fall. CID.
HELENA, August Is, 1879.
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ALASKA.

After long waiting the people of Alaska
appear to have given up the idea that Uncle
Sam is going to provide them with a govern
ment ready made as in the case of the other
Territories. In vain they petitioned boot
lessly they got up a bogus Indian scare now
and then. Uncle Sam turned a deaf ear to
the eloquent pleadings waited southwark by
balmy breezes on their way from the north
pole, and not even a carpet Dagger was to be
spared to preside as governor over Mr.. Sew
ards famous purchase. But the Alaskans
are not to be discouraged. Having called in
vain on Hercules they at length put their own
shoulder to the wheel by organizing a gov
eminent of their own to consist of a chief
magistrate and five select men. AS thus
constituted the homemade government of
the Alaskans has a wide range of power,
being authorized "to try civil and military
cases, attend to municipal affairs and take
charge of the estates of persons deceased"
U. s. Collector, Ball was the first Chief Mag
istrate elected under this charter. No test of
American citizenship is required; "white
manhood " being the only suffrage qualifca-
lion, under which suffrage clause a Russian
priest is member Of the first board of select
men. In Alaska mining is meeting with
encouraging success and prospecting active.
II 10 thought the treasure yield Of the Terri
DRY will begin al q very early day TO attract
the attention Of the outside world. Besides
|its mineral wealth there are leagues and
Leagues II matchlsss timber lands the day Of
whose market value is drawing nearer and
EEneaxsr, with the exirsvagant waste attending
i be numbering trade in every portion Of civil
lied America. Ulattractive = place as Alaska
nay seem on account Of its slh-polar climate
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The Accident to Mrs. FreemI,,,

Editor Butte MINER:
Mrs. Leigh r. Freeman was ~acclentally
shot yesterday morning near Aldrdice's,
about fifty miles south of this place on the
COrinne road.
She was riding in a spring wagon With her
children, when Il shotgun loaded viii bird
shot, which was also in the same wagd, wa
discharged. No one knows how, as i one
was touching it at the time. The cdtents
took effect near the lady's knee, inflichg a
very serious wound.
Mrs. Freeman arrived here at 8 o'cloclyes.
terday evening, and leaves here this moAing
on her way to Butte City, NJ. T., wherether
husband resides. GROOM.
WATSON, M. T., August 10th, 1879.
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Just as we were beginning to consider our
selves sighted in the failure of the Yelloec-
stone Journal to hail us with an X signal,
Nos Vol. l of that paper comes to hand,
much to our satisfaction. The Journal is a
32-column folio, nicely printed, and, as far
as can be judged from a single p well
edited. Its pages are brim full of news con-
corning Eastern Montana and Miles city, its
place of publication. To those DESTROYS of
learning all bout that portion of Montana
the Journal will be indispensable. The
MINER will make daily calls at the sanctum
of our welcomely received contemporary.
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LONDON, Aug. 20.-England is the only
power not inv ted to send officers to witness
the. great Russian military m%anouyres, COM
mencing on the 18th insta"t.
The Russian Government is on the point of
signing a contract with American firms for the
construction of a number of cruisers, at an
aggregate cost of 10000 roubles.
Va PEsTH, August 20.-Count Karoley will
probably succeed Andrassy as Austro- Hunga-
rian Premier. 1t is stated that Count Deszell,
the present Hungarian Minister of Finance,
will be elected leader of the Deak party,
Count Andrassy having informed his friends
that he does not intend to participate in poll
tics for some years.
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FOREIGN.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-The Times Phila-
delphia special gives a careful review of the
political situation as affected by the Grant
movement for the next Presidency. Very
little signs OF such an extreTe opposition as
was set on foot by Schurz and other at the
New York conference in '76. as yet. Bris-
lows friends will not lead such a movement.
The chief anxiety of intelligent Republicans
now is to prevent the nomination being in
considerably carried by a boom, and this
anxiety is widespread. There are no party
men of prominence willing to be classified as
determined not to vote for Grant should he
be duly made the, candidate. Of all those
who were against the machine in '76 there
seems to be few or none with harness on.
Some OF them are favoring Washburne quiz
city as on the whole the strongest and most
satisfactory elector possible, and it may be
added that there are at least two Republican
papers in this city quite eager to herald his
nomination., while Others are adding their
might to the movement in favor of Sherman,
because they think it more available than any,
thing else now in view to pierce the Grant
boom. There is no longer any doubt but
that the Maine canvass is looking well for the
Republicans. Even the Herald admits it,
which only a few weeks ago was predicting q
worse defeat for the Republicans than last
year. The canvass on the Republican side Is
the most thorough and complete that Maine
ever knew; gains are constantly being made,
and at some towns every Republican that had
strayed into the Greenback camp last year has
returned to his old political faith, and will
vote the entire Republican ticket.
PARIS, August 20.-DeLesseps, promoter
of the Panama Canal scheme, is preparing for
his journey to the United States. His wife
will accompany him.
Count de ChambOrd, the Legitimate pre-
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IEEHME WE4H
minded people of Montana entire, and t.
keep itself free from the dominating influence
of any merely local ambition of any nature
whatever. Still, it must be remembered
there will most certainly be occasions, a
Montana continues to grow in population ant
Importance, when the East and the Yves
Sides will be brought into friendly rivalry il
contending for the possession Ofsome wished
for prize !; occasions when fortune must in
cline either toward the East or toward tn.
West in the bestowal of its favors. In al
such occasions the MINER will be found to bt
the uncompromising advocate of the Yves
Side, and hence it looks to the West Side peo
pie for their support, hence it claims theil
patronage as something due to themselves IN
properly providing for the future advocacy
and defense of theil interests.
We were somewhat d'tfident at first in
claiming for the DAILY MINER the support
of any except the people of our " town as
we did not know how the new paper would
compare with the other Territorial dailies.
Being new to the business of daily Journal
ism we embarked in it with some misglvings.
But all such doubts have been iispelled.
We submit our Daily to the examination of
the most critical West-Sider and ask him to
institute a rigorous comparison between it
and either of the Helena sheets. Does it not
give as late and as full dispatches? Is not
its local news fully as interesting and of fully
as much Importance as that of either of the
Capital ca dalies? Finally, is not ITS tone
quite as independent ? is it nos, in a degree
at least equal to its competitors, free from the
besetting sin of Montana journalism to-wit:
thh fear of speaking out, of expressing its
opinions when there is a possibility OF incur
ring the displeasurr of wealth or influence in
so doing? We ask our West Side friends to
institute a comparison between our Daily
and its rivals OH the above, or on any other
points they may choose to select. If their
verdict be recorded against US we make no
claim upon their patronage. On the other
if their decision be in our favor, if they
admit hat We furnish them with as reliable
and as readable a newspaper as is is
from either of the Helena offices
hen we ask them to give their support to the
that will be found supporting their in
erests whenever the need of such support is
Throughout the eastern and northeast
,rn portions of Montana we cannot compete
With the Helena papers in offering the latest
,ews of the world, but in the southern and
western sections of our Territory we nave a
little the best of them. Accordingly when
he people of Madison, Beaverhead, Deer
lodge and Missoula counties arc called upon,
$ they soon will be, III the interests of the
)aily MINER, we hope their response will be
L once satisfactory and encouraging. If not
included il the term "West Sidc,' the
hove mentioned counties are at least more
allied in sympathy to Butte and its
'rtunes than they are to Helena.
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And now comes another despatch saying
that Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is not dead .;
died. Well, how the former lady will blush,
to be sure, when she reads all the pretty obit-
uaries written on her ''untimely demise'' by
the grief-stricken american press.
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HELENA NOTES.
Reported for the MINER.

The countenance of Billy Jack, of Butte,
smiles on us again.
Jno. w. Eddy, the poet, who took a trip
down the Missouri in boat last spring, re-
turned Saturday with his bride, the former
Miss Harvey of Clancy.
Rev. CT. Smith contemplates a visit to
Missoula in a few days.
Prof. Swallow, of Missouri, gives a lecture
this evening OH Darwinism, at the Presbyter-
ian church. ~E .
The first Sunday stage to Butte started out
this morning. The coaches of both lines 60
out and come in crowded, and it IS a fair
question whether cheap rates would not ben
eft stage companies as well as the public.
Heavy fires in the woods beyond Prickly
Pear valley are Observed. They have been
very destructive thus far and rain is earnestly
desired.
John Ming is renewing and remodeling the
house lately occupied by Col. Wheeler, on
the West Side, and intends to have one of the
finest residences in town.
President Wickes, of the Montana Co., has
has been spending some days in Helena. The
general impression is that the Montana
Works, after much m~ismanagement, has been
placed on a prosperous and profitable basis.
Helena merchants are evidently laying in
larger stocks than usual. Freight trains fill
the streets, and a large amount of freight is
reported at the terminus awaiting transporta-
ton.
The river at Renton is said to be very low.
CID
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From Des Moines, Iowa, is reported a con.
templated strike of all the coal miners of that
State. The strike will take place in October,
and will be participated in by $4,000 men.
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A London despatch of the 18th says cholera
has broken out among the British troops re-
Gently arrived at that place from Herat, and
that in consequence something like a panic
has taken place, many cases of desertion be-
ing reported.