The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-31
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OF Brlght1S disease OF the kidneys.
From London it is reported that the friend.
of Trickett, the Australian oarsman, are
offering TO wager $4,000 OH their favorite
against Hanlan, the American champion.
General Walker, Superintendent of the
census says as far as he can judge the census
throughout the south has been fairly con
coun should be made.
A sporting paper of New York declares
tina Senator Conkling positively refuses to
catch salmon with a gait. 1t is probable the
senator, in anticipating the cruel manner in
which his party is to be gafled in November,
has had his sympathies so W orked upon that
the very mention Of gatiing is dislasteful.
The Omaha Republican has no faith in the
"impostor" theory, but stoutly maintains that
the old couple recently arrested in Nebraska
were the real Blenders, and that the story they
told was substantially a truthful account of
the Kansas tragedies, the recital of which
sent a thrill of horror through the whole
country some seven years ago.
1t is estimated that in the Congressional re-
appointment to follow the census, the New
England states will lose FIVE congressman,
the middle states three, while the western
states will gain five and the southern, taken
altogether, one. Some southern states will
lose a member each, but those losses will be
overbalanced by gains i'll Texas and Missouri.
The Pacific whalers arriving at San Fran
cisco say there is faint hope OF ever seeing
Bennet's exploring yacht, the Jeanette,
again. The winter in the Arctic regions,
like that experienced along the western slope
of this continent, was of extraordinary sever
ity, even for the high latitudes. The ice in
closing the Jeanette and the lost whaling
feet is described by an old salt as being ..as
high as the foretop." There is but a very
faint probability of any member of the i'm
prisoned fleet ever making his escape.
The Cologne cathedral, founded six hum
dred years ago, but still unfinished, is soon
to be completed according to the designs
of its architect This Is not only the most
modern of Cathedrals, but it is also in all
probability the last one that will ever be
built. The ages when religious enthusiasm
found expression in cathedral buildings have
passed not to return. To-day we would no
more think of laying the foundation of such
Munster than we would of organizing another
crusade for the redemption of the Holy Sepul
chre. As the ideas and the aims of the indi-
vidual change as he advances from one pc, iod
to another oil his journey through life, so
age after age, the ideals of the race undergo
a gradual but certain development.
To-day, Tuesday, the 9th, the democrats
of Beaverhead county will meet in conven-
tion. The fflh-termer, through lis personal
organ, the Independent, has lately been claim
ing Beaverhead as a supporter of the ~live-for-
ever doctrine as applied to our congressional
delegateship. By tomorrow We shall p1oba-
bly, learn whether or not this claim is well
founded. If the Beaverhead Democratic
County Convention instruct for Maginnis we
will frankly admit that we have overestimated
the strength of the anti-ffth term sentiment.
On the other hand, if it instruct aqai1ast the
fifth term, will the machine take warning of
fhe lesson written so plainly on the wall, or
will it close its eyes to the truth and rush
1lindly forward to an unequal contest in
which its overthrow may mean the defeat of
he party.
A good thing now and then crops out in
he campaign. \ short time since, at Cleye-
and, Ohio, a prominent republican was i'll
slulging in some tall talk to a group of DEM
~'crats, and finally wound up all ext,avaoant
uloey of Garfield by Offering to bet I hun
red dollars that he could name the next
President of the United States. The bet was
Promptly taken by one of the democrats. and
be money put up On the spot, wIereupont the
.epubIican anne "Wintield S. Hancock,
Why. "gasps the democrat, there you've been
lowing Garfield foran hour and now You want
bet on Hancock. That amt square," sOh,"
piled the keen republican, "when | blow, |
Cow Garfield, but when l bet. why then
losing one eye) You see | bet on Hancock
sie democrat offered a liberal forfeit for the
ivilege OF Withdrawing his stake, but it was
q go.
When we go to the trouble of ]propounding
%lundrums we always like to have them
swered. A few days ago we asked the In
pendent why a new man in congress may
- be expected to do as well as Maginnis
when inexperienced, and who at the end
Mthe first term claimed a second as recon-
sc for services rendered during tile first.
new man is practically useless during the
how did Maginnis manage to be other {
We than useless? We also asked how the :
ffected portion of the party can be expect +
o "rally' once more to the support of the ,
termer when a written pledge will be c
Il lght forward, q pledge written at the I