The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-05
NOTES,

The Philadelphia Times says that Garfield's
defeat for the presidency is "next to inevi-
table,"
The Mormons say that the reason why Tai
mage did not like their city was because he
could find no dance houses there.
The Mining and Stock Exchange, organized
in Boston about a month ago, already dis
plays a remarkable vitality and promises to
BE- one of the permanent institutions of the
Hub.
The price of spring chickens will soon take
a tumble. After the November election the
republican papers throughout the country will
have OH hand a stock of "roosters" which
they will be anxious to dispose of at less than
cost.
Late eastern papers state that only twenty
boilers followed Scion Chase when he with
drew from the greenback convention OF
Maine. The press dispatches gave the num-
Der as seventy-two, quite a material differ
ence.
The correspondent of the Chicago Times,
independent, writing lately from Indiana
says: "Pick out ten men at random, and
seven of them will tell you, in all csnder,
ernor in October"
Memories of the war are revived by a re-
cent dispatch which states that the celebrated
Stevens battery was lately sold at auction.
V,l,o h,tto,y , 4i,o+;,r foot oo,.tr,,tod ~ ,
cost of between two and three million dol
lars, was knocked down to the highest bidder
for $4,000.
In 1876 Hayes had a majority of 2,747 over
the united opposition in Ohio. In remem-
bering this fact it may be as we'll also to re-
member that in the state election of the same.
year Garfield, in his candidacy for congress,
ran almost 5000 behind Hayes in his con-
gressional district.
During the past fifty years the wool clip Of
the world has increased 500 per cent. In
1873, the latest year for which full returns
are given, the clip was 1.5S6;O0O, 900 pounds.
Wool, like gold, has a world market, so the
sheep raisers of a country like Montana need
have no fear OF overriding matters by going
into business on an extensive scale.
To measure the full significance of the de-
feat of the republicans in Maine on the popu-
lar vote for governor, it is necessary to re-
member that all open ballot must be voted in
Maine by the employees in the presence Of
their employers, and that the Blaine men
hold ntire control of the countings and re-
turns of these open ballots.-N. Y. World.
Bishop Doggett, who was to have presided
at the conference of the NJ. E. church south,
lalely held at Butte, is still dangerously i'll at
Richmond, Virginia. 1t will be remembered
that his Montana visitation for this year was
prevented by sickness. The venerable prelate
is seventy years of age, and his present indis-
position is the cause of much anxiety to his
friends as we'll as to the church.
A consideration which will not be lost
sight of by the voters of Montana is the fact
that Sanders has always been the head and
front as he is now more particularly the rep
resentative of the "Fisk wing Of the repub-
licans. The republican party of Montana
has for several years been divided into two
wings, the "Potts wing" or the respectables,
and the "Fisk wing" so called because the
Fisk outfit furnish the simon pure type of
said wing. As representative of this faction,
Sanders stands for everything that IS low and
d~isreputable in politics; everything that IS
unfair and dishonest in business. The peo-
pie of Montana do not want as delegate a
nan who would go to Washington as the rep
resentative of an outfit utterly destitute of a
sense of decency or honor in matters pertain
ing to politics and compromised beyond hope
of recovery in their business reputation.
Courier-Journal: The speech of Mr.. Conk-
ling, made in New York, has had much good
effect, and it has forced thinking men to real
iza the dangers which arise from such a cam
paign. It has excited alarm among the con-
sentative men, among the merchants and the
capitalists, among those who recognize the fact
that the reopening OF the southern question
means financial disaster and commercial de-
preston. The New York Herald says:
ave repeat what we said so long ago as the
4th of September: Republican misrepresen-
tatIon of the south is rank folly, and is apt to
do them harm if it is continued. They can
not persuade thoughtful people that a region
is given up ~ lawlessnass which raises this
wear 100000 bales of cotton, besides other
valuable products, or that black ihen are sys
tematicaily robbed, abused and wroneed,
when black labor produces these enormous
crops year after year"