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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-11
The School Benefit,

Eighteen dollars and seventy-fve cents were
the net receipts of the school from the school
benefit yesterday afternoon. Twelve dollars
and seventy-five cents additional to the ball
receipts have been collected, which swells the
amount to S2C2.75. This, with the theatrical
receipts, will make a total of $221.5O. In
Helena, we notice that Pinafore has been
musicians follow that example, and, before
the winter is out, enough money can be
raised to supply the school with a good piano,
apparatus, and at least books of reference for
everyday use in the schools.
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From Saturdays Dailv.1

from Saturdays Daily.l
Apples sell in Salt Lake City 1t ST .25 and
$1.50 per 5uBhel.
The thermometer indicated the freezing
point nearly all day yesterday.
Pinafore had a crowded house in Helena.
Let our musical artists profit by that example.
Hendricks and Crandall, who get up a sjob
race" and then walk off with the spoils, are
said to be OH their way to Montana. Look
out for them.
The overland coach is due now at 6 a. M.
1t will depart at II a. m. The Deer Lodge
coach will arrive at 2 p. m, and depart at
s a. IN. Note the change and govern yourself
accordingly.
A gentleman from Deer Lodge says the
goods Of Charles Blum at that place were at
tached this morning by California creditors
to whom he was indebted in the sum Of
28,C30. 1t is said that the property, however,
had been transferred to Sands Bros.
The work of cleaning up the streets by the
cit,' government gives satisfaction to every
one, but there should be an increase of police
force. The men driven out Of Helena by the
vigilance committee find their way to Butte.
More will be here this winter. An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The NeD North Vest has a very sensible
article on the condition of the building used
as a Jail in Butte. 1t says: "To il4carcerate
prisoners there in severe weather is not only
offering an inducement to escape, but is abso-
Lutte inhumanity." 1t recommends that a
suitable room should be procured for the win
ter, and that a Jail be built next spring.
1. 8. Porter, Esq, came in last evening
from Helena. He says the tenn of court is
moving along rather slowly. Most of the
time has been taken up by dilatory motions
in the Fox case. A change of venue in that
case has been refused. 1t will probably take
two weeks to get a jury, sufficiently ignorant
to be eligible in that case, and two weeks
more to try it.
a day or two since the dry goods house of
Chas. Blum, Butte, changed to the proprietor
ship of MesSrS. Sands Bros. Last night the
house was closed Oh an attachment by San
Francisco parties. We are not informed as to
the exact condition of matters, and can there
fore say very little in the premises. Mr.. Nc
Mulphey, the old manager of the house, states,
however, that business will most likely be
resumed in a few days.
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Editor Butte II

Editor Butte Miner.
Believing that an article in last weeks
MINER does injustice to a large number of
your readers, l, as a member of the party
asrieved, beg leave to present the subject as
viewed from a ranchman's standpoint. Ire
fer to the article entitled, 1.-THE Mining and
Farming Interest Not in Conflict" and to the
subject Of the apportionment of taxes.
On the part of farmers, opposition to the
existing discrimination arises, not from any
imagined rivalry between the mining and
farming interests, but from a conviction that,
as the machinery of government is kept in
motion for the protection of all citizens in
person and property, it is eminently proper,
just and necessary to the existence of Repub-
lican institutions shat each and every indus
try represented by property having an assessa-
Bile valuation, should do its part toward de-
1rayiug expenses. The mining and farming
industries are but members of one social Or
galiisin, and, as such, mutually inter-lepend-
ant; but if one pays taxes only on the net
proceeds, why should not the other do like
wise?
That there are other industries, Gas, for in
stance, stock and w~ool-growing,) which are
but remotely dependent upon the miners,
seems never to have occurred to those who
favor the exemption Of this species of prop
city, Or if SO, to have occurred in a very mild
foln. Yours firmly,
For JUSTICE.
BUTTE CITY, Nov. g..
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The Railroad Taking a Rest.

u. B. F. White writes us from the termi-
as follows 1--WE have about made up
mind that we have to winter here
he divide. There has been no iron for
k-laying for the past two weeks and none
side of Omaha yet. In fact, not enough
zach Red-Rock Valley has yet been rolled
factory in Elmira, New York, and it
I'D, with favorable weather, take three to
weeks to lay to Red-Rock if the iron was
here. So winter will undoubtedly find
pill encamped in Pleasant Valley"
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Lapsus Liugua.

A star twinkled here and there in the heav-
ems as the religious editor entered the sanctum
last night, and flooded the room with the mel
low radiance evolved from the gas Jet. The
managing editor, the business manager and
the night editor We're sitting around talking
up the OLeary walking match. They were
all talking about the big walking they could
do as the religious editor took his seat. He
knew they were lying, did this bright young
man, and he leaned back in his velvet cush-
Toned seat and remarked, as he ilnpaled a ma
raudfng roach:
"Tell We what 1 did, boys; l was putting
in my best licks one day, and stretched it over
seven miles inside of an hour"
The rest of the occupants of the room look
ed incredulous and coughed slightly. The
man who does the churches, not to be choked
off in this style, started in again:
swell, I've counted the ties between here
and Housewife inside of a half hour more than
once, and l had twenty minutes to catch the
train at Petroleum Center one day when |
was at Cherrytree, and made her 0. X, and l
knew a man who had a horse that made six
teen miles an hour, and"
Here he began making calculations on the
map, but the business manager slid down the
speaking tube into the counting room, the
managing editor bolted for the door, the night
editor leaned out of the window aud family
called for the police. Then the religious man
took his seat with a grim smile. He had es-
tablished his reputation as the most unmltti-
gated liar i'll the office, and he was happy.
Verify, virtue is its " reward.-Er.
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Local News.
tFrom Fridays Daily.l
A New telegraph Line.

b is evident that a new telegraph line for
lite is a necessity. The old line between
Ter Lodge and Helena is so rotten and in
N poor. condition That it is liable. to be
Mn half the time. Then the arrangement
repairing it is a poor me-. For instance,
Wednesday the line was down at the toll
lie, 10 or IL miles from Helena. A man
In Helena could have gone out and have
ed it in two or three hours. But according
the present arrangement a maj must sc
I'M Deer Lodge over the whole line, 30 Or
miles, and by the time he reaches the place
ere repairs are needed, it is time for him to
urn to Deer Lodge, and so another day
tst be taken. Now, it costs only about $50
500 a mile to construct telegraph lines in
country. The cost of a loop from Boul-
to Butte would be only about $4,000. 1t
uld cost about the same sum for private par
to build a line from Butte to Helena.
he MINER pays a third of that sum every
+ for telegraphing purposes. 1t is safe to
mate that $4,000 would be taken in every
for telegraphing, especially since the
stern Union have reduced their rates to
East, so that from Helena night messages
en- words to any part of the country cost
V 81. 1t is safe to calculate that the
lrly expenses would be less than S 1000.
King a net profit of $4,000 on an Investment
5000. SiXty-siX and two-thlrds per cent
bout as good interest as is paid in this
ntry. We have no doubt that stock enough
ud be taken in Butte and Helena and JEFF
bon, if it was thought best to have an Office
re, to pay for the cost of the line. In re-
d to the figure, the writer has to say that
examination o. works n teleglaphing will
W that the ord mary cost Of a telegraph line
he States is f ON $40 to $50 per mile. But
es cost considerable III the States, while
they can be found on the route, conven-
t. and needing only the cost of cutting and
ling. Besides, arrangements could doubt
be made with the Western Union Com
y for the use of its poles from Boulder to
lena. As the present telegraph line is now
liked, it is a nuisance for business men who
bend OH it. There will be a greater de-
nd for telegraphing next year than this,
ING to the change in the manner Of doing
Finess which the approach Of the railroad
kpels our merchants to make. Here is a
nee for making money if the matter is tax
hold of at once. In a week the merchants
Butte and Helena could be interviewed. a
gram sent for wire, etc, the poles cut and
He'd, the officers Of the Western Union
npany consulted, and by Christmas, if the
pther continues favorable, a good line could
put into operation. Where is the Western
erprise that we have heard so much Of?
us have a little of it.
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Minor Items.
From fridays paily.l


From Fridays Daily,
Miss Hattie Pierce is the name Of the teach
er who took charge of the school-room in the
Good Teriplars' Hall last Monday.
Alex. Cohen has just received a fresh lot of
nice winter apples-Spitzbergens and Wine
Saps. This lot came from California. At the
prices apples sell for now no family can afford
to be without them.
Some miscreant cut the telegraph line ten
miles south from Helena last Wednesday, to
prevent the election news f.om reaching that
burg. If discovered he will probably take up
his residence at Deer Lodge for a time.
The First National Bank of Helena has
surrounded its counters by an iron railing so
as to protect its handsome corps of cashiers
and book-keepers from assaults of the evil
disposed robbers. In addition to burglar
alarms, &c, they keep two crack sportsmcn
who have their shooting irons always at hand.
Mr.. LqngstafE, just in from Philipsblrg, says
the Algonquin Company, under the superin-
tendency Of J. X. Pardee, will start its mill
in about 90 days. The machinery is already
there. Over 40 men will then be employed
in the mine. The ore in the mine looks
well.
Mr.. F. r. Reed, who was engaged to teach
the school department in the lower part of
town, has been taken i'll and cannot perform
the duties of that position. The school board,
however, is making arrangements to supply
a teacher for that room, and the school will
probably open Monday.
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From Sundays Daily
The Pest OEiCe.

We now have a daily mail to and from
Helena. 1t is a great improvement over hay
ing a mail six times a week. But Helena peo-
pie get the benefits Of the service, for the post
office there is open from 7 to 8 every Sunday
evening. Business men in Helena can receive
letters from their Butte correspondents, and
answer them the same evening. We are de-
prived of that privilege, and to i certain extent
our Sunday mail service IS useless. Let our
genial postmaster open the office from s to 8
Sunday evening and receive the thanks of the
people.
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The school Girls, E3aIR.

Fhe ball Wednesday evening was a social
! financial success. The music was all
! could be desired. The young ladies
Ter looked prettier. The supper: in charge
competent ladies, is very highly spoken of.
had a happy time. There was
the right number present to make the
hsion a joyous III Below we give the
bits =
feipts from sale of tickets. .S236.50
ieCclpts. o-.io
he financial success is most gratifying.
suggest that tie money be expended in
4 piano which car be paid for by
ailments. This is the instrument most
(erally used in city schools and will be
serviceable than al organ. The school
IDS and should have philosophical and
!mical apparatus and a library. There is
(ty OF musical talent in town to get up
|afOre. This, With one or two more balls
fng The winter, would do much towards
Herring the schools more efficient. We are
flested to extend the thanks of the young
les to DR.. Beal for his generous offer Of
Ing room and fixtures for the supper; to
Fss. Hale, Mayer and Barnett, for their
stance; to the LIE Petre-Hndson troupe
the music, and also to the good people of
|te, whose magnificent gifts loaded The
per table.
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Suicide.
Especial to the MINFR.I

Especial to the MINER.I
ELENA, November S.-A man who al
q this in the city reported that William
Crimson, who lives at Scratch Gravel, was
ID dead this morning. having committed
lde by shooting himself through the head.
particul
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LIST OF

Remaining in the post office at Butte, and adj
vertised Nov. Sth, 1879
Beard, Alex Lowell. (Corter)
Rutler. ID Lowry, TT
Broy, Bony Leathe, o H
Bulla, John F. Narcotic, Louis
Banta' Sharlle Maxwell, Joan
Boyle, Z l. Miller, Il
Chisholm. T NJ Murphy. J c
Connaf, Mike Morris, John
Corbrielle. Louis Mullen, Denis
Cafferty. Geo Metcalf, Geo
Canada, A Maule, G E2
Olive Mcdonald, H NJ
Cunningham, Nelson, Robl Q
Coftman, James Nicholson, RIB
Cashion, John Nelson. Andrew
Cote, Hubert Polberg. NJ Hansen
downing, Al Porconi, Prof
Delorme, Ambrose Pemli, Geo
Endsley. NJ W Porter, VIM
Geery Eugene2 Ramsdell, Joel W.
Carton, Ii Rajni, NJ
Guy, Charles Ross, David
Gendron, Henry Rhoades, LII
Gilbert, j Rainor, Frank
Graham, Robt Rowan, ThoS
Gilbert, John r Reed, VIM
Garland. VIM Roding, JACQUES
Gitfen, Jacob Shafer. Dan
Harmon. Amos simmons. All
Huffman, Richard Shriver. sc
Heekle, Hy Strong, VIM
Johnson, doe Speaight. ChaS II
Jackson, Geo Stanley, Robt
Jones, Jeddlc = Stuart, ThoS
JohanssOn, H Ward, TT
kane, VIM Worrell, Joe
LusK' samuel Welter. Henry
Yout Aaron
In calling for the above say " Advertised. - and
give date OF list.
w. EGBERr SMITH, Postmaster.
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MARRIED.

CooKE-TALBoT-In this City Saturday even
ing, Nov. Sth, by Rev. j. r. Russell, Mr..
Frederick Cooke and Miss Lou NJ. Talbot.
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Massachusetts, sends "A per cent of her
school population to school New York sends
30 per cent New Jersey, 81 Connecticut
and Rhode Island, So Oregon, GO, and
Louisiana, 20.
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1t cost about SIS to take Virnosche to Deer
Lodge and back. A few more cases Of that
kind would amount to the cost OF a new Jail
at Butte.
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Death Of Am Old Resident.

aial to the MINER.
ELENA, Nov. 6.-Benjamin X. Dittes died
at 11:30 a. M. to- day.
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Remaining in the post office at Butte, and adj
vertised Nov. Sth, 1879
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-14
THE LATE JUDGE DoUGHERTY.

The following extract from the Spring.
field Journals obituary notice, will add a
few items of interest to those already given
by US concerning the early times of Col,
Dougherty:
"Ex-Lieutenant Governor John Dough.
erty, whose death at his home in Jonesboro,
this State, on Sunday last, has already been
announced, was born on Duck Creek, near
Marietta, o., May @, 1906. He was the
son Of Charles Dougherty, a native of Ire.
land, who left that country in 1908, and
Elizabeth Wolf, resident of Lancaster
county, Penn. Charles Dougherty was {
fine classical scholar, having been educated
in Ireland for the priesthood. BENG
obliged TO leave on account of his connec,
ton with a revolutionary uprising, he il
time, became devout Methodist. In 1906
he settled in Cape Girardeau, and soon fell
vicim to fever, leaving three sons and
daughter. Mrs. Dougherty remained
there with her children till 1912, when she
removed to Union county, ILL.,, because Of
the terrible destruction of life and prop.
erty in her locality in Missouri by the
earthquake in 1871 and 1912.
John Dougherty received fair English
education at private school near Jones
Doro, and subsequently became a fair Greek
ana Latin scholar. After leaving school he
worked ayear In the lead mines of Wash
inS'on county, Mo-, and taught school fol
TWO ana half years at Fredcrctown, Mo
lie then studied law with Col. A. p. Field
was admitted TO the bar in 1921. and began
!" pracnce at Joncsboro, becoming rcccg
nized In time as one of the best criminal
lawyers in Southern Illinois,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Of the Cairo Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18th, 1879.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18TH, 1879.
The result in Maine on Monday does not
entirely suit any of the politicians here. 1t
was not all that Republicans expected, and,
certainly, not all that Democrats and
Greenbackers had anticipated, as congress.
men, of that State, had prophesied ma.
jority of 10000 against the Republicans
Senator Blane's dispatch on the night OF
election, like previous dispatches from him
on similar occasions, shows HIM to possess a
| wonderfully clear knowledge Of politica
affairs in the State.
IN the next few years, ciIher th''"$i
congress or through individual effort, some
thing ought TO be done for. the American
shipping interest. We lose half profit on
the enormous amount of grain and other
articles we export, simply because they are
shipped in foreign bottoms. OF the 1850
vessels which passed through the Suez
Canal in 1878, only one was American. The
japanese had eight. If the laws are in
fault they should be changed.
The development of the telephone sys.
TEN in this city is wonderful. In some
neighborhoods nearly all the BUSINESSES done
by telephone. All the principal business
houses employ this agency, and the time
seems to be almost at hand when every one
will order his coal and groceries in the same
way, Like all great discoveries, this is now
used in thousands Of ways not anticipated
at its first introduction.
Secretary Sherman, it is said, has decid.
ed to return to Ohio and again enter the
canvass.
The people Of this District of Columbus
are going out Of the frying pan, and likely
as not, into the fire. One Of the three peo-
pie who are appointed by the President to
make laws and assess taxes for the 100000
people Of the District Is to be removed and
another put in his place, Why will not
President Hayes, Senator Thurman, Senator
Blaine, Senator Bayard, or Senator Conk-
ling put an end to this disgracefully I'M.
just form of government we District pco.
pie live undcrl Any Of them could do so
by calling attention to the fact that we, un.
like any other people in the nation, are gov.
erned wholly by appointed officers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-14

| Geological Reports Of our State, and wili
do the tax payers Of our State favor by
calling the State Gcologist before them as
witness. Working and paying MINES
of bituminous coal are being work
ca in Gallatin, Jackson and Williamson
counties. Iron is in large and paying guam
titles in Hardin, and the Potters cray oil
Pulaski is of the finest quality. Fire clay
is also found and shipped in large quanu-
ties from Jackson county to Chicago ana
elsewhere, The lead mines OF Hardin ana
Pope are now or have been worked TO at
vantage. The spar of Rose Clair is shipped
in large quantities to the manufactures OF
pottery in the United Stafs and England
The timber spoken of is said by dealers to
be the best poplar in the United States
And the hardwood, ash and hickory, are
reported the very best for hubs, spokes and
slaves.
The shipments of fruits-green and dried
are perfectly immense from the southern
counties 1000 statistics) Not until Tax
Payer drew our attention TO it were we
aware Of the marked advantages Of South
ern Illinois, and we find thats they are not
eQualed by any portion OF the State. viii
the Board place before them the map of the
United States and they can but see that the
counties TAX Payer" writes of in Southern
Illinois are in the very lap of commerce.
The marketing of apples (winter) and
potatoes from that part OF the State is car
ried on on large scale from the counties
on the Ohio River, the potatoes being
floated down the Ohio TO Cairo thence TO
Memphis and New Orleans in Aatboats
and steamers. | have just consulted the
commercial reports and find that no par, Of
Illinois has better class Of merchants than
the counties named (see Jonesboyo, Anna,
Vienna, Golconda, Metropolis City,
Elizabcthtown and &lwneetown), and for
capital invested they have less per cent, of
failures than any other portion of our State.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-14
MARK TWAIN on JUVENILE PUGlL-
ISTS


YES, I've had good many lights in my
time, said old John Parky, ,endorly mas-
lpulatinS his disman;led nose, and its
kind Of queer too, ivI when was a boy the
old man was always telling me better. He
was good Old man and hated lighting
When would come home with NY nose
bleeding, OF wiki my face scratched ", he
used 10 call me out in the woods4ed, and in
sorrowiul and discouraged way say 80,
Johnny, you've had another 3ght hey!
How m9ny times have got 70 .tll you how
disgraceful and wicked il is for boys 10
fight3 TWAS only yesterday that | talked
to you an hour about the sin OF lighting,
and here you have been at il again. Who
was il with this timer WIKI Tommy Kel-
ly, hey! Don't you know any better ,han
TO fight a boy thar weighs twenty pounds
more than YOU DO, besides being TWO wears
olderl Amt you got a spark OF sense aboHt
ye! ! can see plainly that YOU are detr'
mined to break your poor fathers heart sy
your reckless conduct. What ais yClr
tingeri Tommy bit il; BRAT the like
| fool. Dldn't We know erongh 10 keep YOU
fre,ore -.e uI ms mouth! Was trying q
jerk his cheek Oft hey! Wont yVu n1ye.
learn TO quit foolin' round boys mouth
with yer fingers. You're bound 70 disgrace
us all by such wrctched behavior You're
determined never to be nobody, Did you
ever hear Of Isaac Watts-that wrote, Let
dogs delight to bark and bite'-stick.
ing his fingers in boys mouth 10 get EN-
Bit, like foo!I I'm clean discouraged
with yc. Why didn't ye 90 for his nose,
the way Jonathan Edwards, apl Georg,
Washington, and Daniel Webster used to
do, when they was boyst Couldn't cause
he had down: That's q purity story to
tell me. 1t does beat all thai you can't
learn how Socrates and William Penn used
to gouge when they was under, after the
hours and hours have spent in telling you
about those great mell 1t seems 70 me
sometimes as il would have d give you
up in despair It is an awful thai to me 10
have a boy that don't pay any ittent!on 70
good example, or 10 what ! gay. What,
You pulled out three or fou haudsful Of
hair! DID he sQuirm any sN6w, if you'd
give me one or TWO in the eye.-but as I've
told you many a time, fighting is poor bus
mess Won't ou-ioryour fathers sake -
won't You promise to try and remember
that: Hin Johnny, how did it--ahem-
which lickedr
"You licked him, sho, Really Wei,
now, l hadn't any idea gov could lick
Tommy Kelly! don't bg,;gve John
Bunyan, at ten years old, could have done
It, johnny, my boy, you can't think how
| hate to have you fighting every day or
two, | would not have him lick You for
five, no, not fortcn dollars Now, sonny,
90 right in and wash up, and tell yoar
mother to put a rag On your finger, And
Johnny, don't let me hear Of you fighting
again@"