The weekly miner., 1880-08-03
EDITORIAL NDFEy.
J. L. DICKEY.

Seventeen quill drivers are just now hard
at work en- as many different biographies Of
Garfield.
General Grant has accepted the office of
president of the San Pedro Mining Company
of New Mexico.
What is to become of Jim Blaine, now that
she Grant crowd have assumed control III the
republican camp?
The Chicago Inter Seem has q religious
column. Strange, that SO Intelligent paper
as the /. o. should select literary matter pos
sessing not the slightest interest for its local
]. readers.
Gen. Merritt, collector of the port Of New
York, is about to resign that office, owing to
= bargain by which the federal patronage OF
the state of New York is to pass lnto the con-
troll of Conkling and his sub-bosses.
The special agent sent by the census bu-
reau to make a new enumeration for ST.
Louis pronounces the official enumeration
correct and satisfactory. Between its returns
and those of the letter carriers difference
of only two per cent. is found.
In Algeria an enterprising individual has
gene into the business Of breeding liens to
supply menageries, Zoolo- -cal gardens, etc.,
with specimens of the desert king. 1t is said
rhat in Africa the lion is being exterminated
as surely and swiftly as the buffalo in America.
Will Herman, formerly editor ct the Oko-
Iona States. has taken off his rebel mask and
10 IaH he aH # Ip
Chicago Tribune. kernan's last, and proba-
bly, his Iveiest, experience in Mississippi,
was a horsswhipping administered by Col.
Harper, proprietor Of the States.
The Independent processes ignorance Of the
existence of such an institution as the "ma-
chine" This reminds us Of one of Parton's
contributions to the Atlantic, in which he
seriously undertook to prove that there was
no such thing as the Congressional Lobby
shat the lobby and its influence was myth
The friends of General Grant are having
30e medals struck, for distribution among the
Old Guard who stuck faithfully to Grant and
rallied to his support even in the panic of ths
thirty-sixth ballot at Chicago. The task 0
nursing the Grant movement to keep it aliv'
until 1884 is taken in hand, it is PLAIN to see
If we are to believe the French papers,
5 letter which had lam in one of the mysterou
recesses of a postoffice was recently delivered
the person to whom it was written happening
10 be still alive and we'll. If this stoIy
we'll founded il affords another illustration O
the adoption Of American institutions by Tor
eign countries. The excellencies of th
Montana mail service have evidently led to it
introduction into France.
The campaign from the republican sid
will open the first week in August, when LII
gan in Illinois and Blaine in Maine will TAX
the field. They will be quickly followed b
the democrats, who are at this time in inf
nitsly better rendition for conducting can
paign than at ANY time since the election {
Buchanan. Whatever else may be said
Tilden, he at least deserves the credit of ha,
ing restored discipline aud organization i
the ranks of his party. La '75 the dcmocra
ic party, without recognized leadership, Wa
little better than mob so far as its r1uiI
nent for efficient campaign work was col
eerned. Te-day it is much to be doubte
whether in point of organization, comman
OF resources, and skill IN their employme
the democrats are not fully match for the
oppenents. La zeal, enthusiasm and hop
fulncss they are immeasurabiy stronger.