The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-18

| f. NotiHCdtIOil has Ueon received al the POSG-
office Department that the Republic of Ven
ezuela has become a member of the universal
postal union, to date from the first of next
January.
New YORK, Nov. lO.--Governor-elect Cor
nell and others have prepared to call meet
! ing OF the National Republican Committee
to be held at Washington December 17.h, to
| take appropriate action upon the death of
Hon. z. Chandler, and to consider the time
and place for the next National Convention.
Up TO one O'Clock this afternoon the offers
Of q per cent. bonds at the Sub-Treasury for
| sale to the government at not more than LOG,
the limit fixed by Secretary Sherman,
amounted to S7,l70,OO0. The Cashier said
some OF these offers were from persons out
| of the city.
Ali hope for the missing ones of the steam
ship Champion IS not yet abandoned. There
was large quantity of food and boxes float
| ing about, and some of the men at least
might be able to hold ON and be picked up
by passing vessels.
The United States Sub-TIeasury has pur-
chased the full amount of $10,O00,00O author
| lied by Secretary Sherman's circular, and has
paid out therefor $4,50O,00O up to three
O'Clock the remainder will be paid to-mor-
row. 1t is understood that the Secretary of
the Treasury will soon issue another call for
all additional $10,000,O0O.
NEW York, Nov. 11.--The official canvass
occurs throughout the State to-day; meal-
while the Democrats claim the election of
| their Licut-Governor and one or two other
State officers, while the Republicans claim
| the entire State ticket except one. All doubt
will probably be dispelled to-day.
| Ell PAso, Texas, Nova desperate fight
| took place yesterday at Candeloria Mountain,
fifty miles south Of here in the State of Chi
| huahua, Mexico between a large band of In
dians, about 200, and party of so men from
Cariza, New Mexico, 32 of whom were killed
and Is escaped wounded. The Indians were
| the same party Major Morrow was after.
They came from the Florida Mountains by
Germans Lake to the Candeloria Mountains,
where the party after them was ambushed by
the Indians behind rocks. The fight lasted
all day.
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-The chief Chinese
residents had a meeting tonight, and decided
to advise the Chinese Six Companies that
Wung Chin Foo, who is lecturing here on the
decline of Confucius, is a bad man who was
driven from China for his crimes, and that he
should properly be returned to China and re-
ceive the full penalty of the law. Mr.. Foo,
who is extremely we'll educated and talented,
has written letter to the papers confessing
| that his intrIgues in Chinese official circles
| caused him to leave the Celest tial Empire. and
stating that he has but little fear of extradi-
ton, as he is a naturaliZed citizen of the
United States.
New YORK, November 10.-The Uerd1Gs
Washington special correspondent saws it is
understood that Sherman will urgently re-
commend in his annual report the repeal of
the law making it mandatory upon the Treas
ury Department to coin standard dollars. He
will show that not one fourth of the amount
already coined has gone into circulation.
Its accumulation is not only becoming a
| source of annoyance TO the Treasury but the
currency Is being locked up in most unsats-
factory manner by the provisions of the law
requiring monthly coinage OF not less than
two millions of standard silver dollars be-
| sides it is a useless tax on the capacity of the
miut. The discontinuance of the coinage of
silver would enable the Mint at Philadelphia
to com the large amount of gold which has
accumulated this fall.
General Raum reports that there would
have been an alarming falling off in the rev.
enues this year except for the increase of re-
cepts from the taxation of whiskey, and gives
facts and figures to strengthen the statement.
Nearly one hundred vessels, many of them
being coasters, left their anchorage off Staten
Island yesterday to go to sea.
Representative Buckner, chairman Of the
Committee on Banking and Currency, is in
town to investigate the affairs OF the national
banks doing business here. The World made
him sharp lecture, concluding thus: "New
York is not provincial, but is the metropol-
itan State; she is the most powerful State in
this Union her feet can not be swept from
under her, either by cries of the ''Solid
South,' or by the waving of the ''bloody
shir,'' or by the Western patent medicine
clamor for "a new way to pay old debts" No
man will be President without the vote of
New York in 1880, and no man will get that
vote, be he Democratic or Republican, who
| lacks a ''sold'' record for ''honest money!
and temper which will make New York
feel assured that he cannot be cajoled or bull
lied by communists or debt shirkers. If the
Democratic party of New York had suspected
Governor Robinson of sympathizing with the
views which Duckner is reported to have eX-
pressed in this city, about Is minutes would
have sufficed to count his ballots one week
ago tonight
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.---An examination
of the bark Lady Octavia shows that she was
only slightly damaged by collision with the
steamer Champion.
NEW York, Nov. 11.-The boat which
Courtney intended to row against Hanian, but
which was sawed into the night before is on
exhibition at a Broadway store.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11.-Advices from Moth
Martin, Arkansas, says that a tornado passed
through part Of Crawford county last Satur-
day, destr' 'ying nearly everything in its
course, and killing several persons.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1.-THE distribu-
ton of the estate of w. S. OBrien, deceased,
amounting to nine millions of dollars, which
was to have taken place OH the Goth of August
last, sby a decision of the Probate court,
rendered yesterday, has been indefinitely
postponed. The estate was defendant in
four of the suits brought by John II. Burke
against j. c. Flood and others, amounting to
$3S,944. Burke filed his opposition to dis
tribntion, together with copies of complaints
in all actions pending, and which was demur-