The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-21
NOTES.

Last October the Northern Pacific Railroad
company sold 314, 40 acres of land.
Four hundred and ninety tons of dynamite
were used in boring the St. Gothard tunnel.
Phelps, the anti Masonic candidate for con-
gress, received two votes in the great state of
Michigan.
On the 9th inst the treasury department
purchased 400, 900 OF. of fine silver for coinage
into standard dollars.
The Oldest member for the next house of
representatives is VIM. D. Kelley, of Penn
\ sylvania. He has already served ten terms.
The manufacture of barsed wire fencing has
increased wonderfully In the last three years.
1t is estimated there will be 5O,000,O 900 pounds
manufactured this year.
Is is reported that San Francisco capitalists
have subscribed one million dollars to the
y Panama canal stock. Californians are deep
ly interested i'll the success of the scheme.
The first successful cotton spinning mill in
the United States was started by Samuel
Slater so years ago, and now there are an
naally produced $500, 900, 900 worth of cot
ton goods.
Texas has doubled its population within
the last ten years. No other state in the
union has attracted the attention that Texas
has. 1t is large enough to make four states
the size of New York. 1t is predicted that
in a few years the political power will be
transferred to the great southwest.
1t is charged that mismanagement and
criminal negligence are the cause OF those
terrible accidents hat have recently occurred
at the Stellarton coal mines, Nova Scotia.
I Within the last three years A miners have
lost their lives there. An investigation of
the cause of these repeated disasters is de-
+ manded.
The funding bill now before congress pro-
vides for the issue of $4,000 900 600 in 3 per
cent. interest notes, redeemable at the pleas
ure of the government after one year and due
ten years after date. The bill further provides
that no more of these notes shall be redeemed
!. in ally one year than can be met by the sink
4 ing fund provided for their purchase.
We are now receiving very exciting new
from Ireland. Thu English government has
ordered a ship of war to Gibralter with in
structions to convey the 9th regiment sta
toned there, to Queenstown, Ireland. The
Coldstream guards are already on the ground.
! This movement on the part of the English
government bodies no good to Ireland. As
may be seen by our dispatches, the Queen
prompted by Beaconsfield, Is strongly in favor
of coercIye measures being taken to quell the
i agitation in Ireland, while Gladstone appears
inclined to stand by his previously expressed
!. resolution to exhaust the resources of the
law before he resorts to armed force. A col
lision of the English troops and the excited
land-leaguers may at any time occur that will
7 precipitate that unfortunate country into the
horrors Of a bloody war.
] We present this morning the second of TWO
very interesting letters from our esteemed
correspondent democrat" We ask our
4readers to give these letters their careful at
<~tention and consideration. "Democrat"
Stturns oyer'' and unbares the modus operandi
by which Butte has been manacled hand and
to0t anu snorn VI tnat poiltlcal power anu
influence in our county conventions to which
she was justly entitled. In referring to the
disposition of the county printing, '.Demo-
Ecratn makes an exposition, that to say the
Beast Of it, places a prominent democrat OF
his county in an unenviable light. Wehope
We shall hear again from .Democrat." This
county printing business is becoming very
e interesting. As the Nes North Vest, in refer
ring to it in its last issue, saw ft to sandw ich
bsseless charge against one of the propriet-
brs OF the MINER between other as equally
~<rcundiess matter, We shall at our earliest
o~nyenience pay it some attention.