The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-31
NOTES.

the Salt Lake Tribune, has removed with his
family to Washington Territory with the in
tention of making his home there.
Truth, the newest and spiciest Of New
York dailies, is a very pious paper, SO pious
that its Sunday edition is not mailed on the
Sabbath, but instead is held over a day and
mailed in company with its ungodly secular
twin of Monday.
1t is conceded that the nomination of JAS
Z. English for goverdor of Connecticut has
made the state safe for the democrats, so far
as the electoral ticket and the state admins
tration are concerned. The struggle now
centres upon scouting the United States SEN
atorship, with strong chances Of a democratic
victory.
We surrender our editorial columns to the
liberal extracts from the Sherman-llancock
correspondence to be found in to-day's dis
patches. The manly utterances of our pres
icential nominee will take precedence in
interest to even our local campaign. We re-
greet that our limited space compels us to
defer comment until our next issue.
The Independent denies that any pledge
was ever given, binding Major Masinnis not
to enter upon another candidacy in case he
received the nomination for his third term.
Well, if no such pledge was given, then a
forgery to that effect is eNtant, and we would
advise criminal proceedings to be instituted
against its perpetrator, that's all.
"Germany has definitely abandoned the
intention to acquire and ~colonize the Samoan
Islands," So says a Berlin dispatch of the
81; a dispatch whose information will not be
unwelcome to Americans. The people Of
Samoan have shown a decided preference for
an American protectorate, and American in
terests require the establishment Of a naval,
or at least, a coaling station, under the
American flag, in that part Of the Pacific.
The best time ever recorded was made on
the 9th inst, by St. Julien on the Hartford
track, when he reduced his Rochester score of
2:1ls by a half second, passing under the
string in the unprecedented time of 2:1144.
This seems almos. miraculous, but we are
far from believing that we have yet reached
the limit TO which scientific training and
Intelligent study of equine physiology will
ultimately attain in reducing the score of our
trotting stock. 1t is altogether likely that a
few years will see recorded such scores as
rs, 2:G or even 2 minutes Straight, without
even the fractional addition of a broken
second.
A pleasant scene is depicted in our dis
patches of to-day, which describes the recent
interview between Gen. Hancock with his old
companions in arms. The reunion was doubt
less an enjoyable one to all interested, still a
tinge of sadness must have been mingled
with the general joy. The Mexican veterans
upon meeting again after the lapse of thirty
odd years the superb, dashing young officer,
the object of universal admiration in the days
Of the Rio Grande campaign, must have been
painfully struck by the evidence of times re-
morseless march, as portrayed i'll its inroads
upon the person of their ideal of soldieriy
grace and manly courage.
1t is said that while IN Venice Mr.. Eliot
Cross threw himself into the Grand Canal
near the Bridge OF Sighs--in O fit Of dementia
or else of dependency. This does not offer
a very e%nticins precedent for the enterprising
American youth, Mr.. Ashmead Bartlitt, aged
thirty years, who, if the published programme
vas carried out, was united in marriage a
few days ago to the Baroness Burdett-C outs,
the celebrated English bankeress, and a
ulEljlr 1naitnp Hf Siytu-Sty NINA This
marriage, if 1t has taken place, was surely a
love match, or the part of the ancient bride,
at least, inasmucll as the lady forfeited all
estate yielding half a million of dollars a
year by marrying an alien, IA sacrifice wlicl
may serve to fix the value of one Of the lords
of creation in the estimation Of ii ~love-sick
woman.
James Z. English, recently nominated fol
governor by the democrats of Connecticut, is
the man whom the majority of western people
at first believed to have been nominated fol
| vice-president at Cincinnati, when the tickle
'Hancock and English" was flashed over tn,
wires. When the mistake was discovere,
and 1t was found that it was English of In
diana who was the vice-presidential nominee
the republican papers suavely remarked tina
with their usual blundering" the democrat
had failed to nominate the strongest mar
adding some very complimentary reference
to English of Connecticut by way of furnish
ing a contrast with the short comings G
English of HoosierdOm But now that tn
English Of their choice has been nominate
for governor of a stale they had some fair
hopes of carrying, it is amusing to note tn
squirmings and twlstings of some of the II
publican organs in their efforts to Iepudiat
the nice things they said of the Connecticl
English, about Two months age. They woul
Ekn to take il all hack hut can not for lle