The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03
9sufte Meeefp Miner.
TUESDAY, AUGUST, 8, 1880.
NOTES.

Ism. In the United states, under the plea q
religious libsrtyD Mormon tramps ar
Allowed to roam the country ever preaching
their thinly-veiled doctrines of immoralit'
almost al the very Preside. But iii Germany
ander Bismarck's gentle sway, it is different
Mormon missionaries have been expelled
from Deutschland, with the warning not t,
return.
DIR. Tanner has tasted himself into fame
if no, into fortune. The New ok paper:
have lately been allotiEs him nearly a colum,
each per day. while across the Atlantic the
Journals Of London aud Berlin, especially Of
the later city devote almost as much attell.
tien to his experiment. An e~nterprisins
manager of Gotham offered TO pay the Doctor
one hundred dollars per day it lie would con
sent to finish up the fast for the last ten da,
on the stage of his theatre: but the offer was
declined.
Nineteen HUNDRED and fory-two Landlords
own two-thirts of all the land of Ireland. OF
these LIFT are OF the class known as abseli-
tees. Ahseuleeism has long been the curse
of Ireland, wlo,~ revenues in the form of
rents are sent abroad, not only to he spent
outside the country, thus rs, abllshiEg a
constant drain Oh its financial vitality, but
spent by ,nen but little Interested in Irr lands
welfare. and in ways not calculated to have
any effect in promoting the prosperity Of the
Irish people.
Bullion, an ably conducted mining journal
Of New York. opposes CARRIED because he is
10 m0nometzl'st, and AS Such the enc my OF the
Hserves support from every silver miner. Its
i00rtc is mol SD much the gathering and dis
termination of mining Ii t-lIigence, as t. 9 pre-
s-ntation Of carefully prepared and ably
written editorial, bearing on mining and
mining legislation, and Iab"rillg for the rem
Statement, the worIt over, of silver to its old
rank As an essential lily precious metal whose
chief function it Is 10 furnish material for
the manufacture of coin tn be- used tor all
purposes of trade between civilized nations.
Iu France the Bonapartis,s have a leader
fI1 tUt pcFStiii W 'lIlllCf lClCT. WHO re-
Gently attained. on lls eighteenth birthday,
shis majority for dynastic purposes. Prince
Victor is the eldest son If Princr Napoleon,
5and the one designated by the late Prince I'm
speriaI as his Successor to the imperial throne
taf France. The slado~y beqlest of Il nom
Existing throne may well remind us that We
llaye in this country Il noodle who las on
fnore than one occasion limited at hopes and
aspirations reaching towards the imperial
Chrome of the United States. This modestly
.spiring individual is generally Known AS
/ Colenel Fred.
Il Germany is thinking about taking the back
rack in respect to The p~olItic'- religious poll
" of the state. Some yeaIs ago, during the
contest between the Empire ard the Vatican,
l be government Of the Kaiser adopted GER
Y ain radical measures, such as the establish
lnent of civil marriages, etc which are found
I'm trial to be more active and more speedily
Operative than their authors intended. The
ate alarming spread of irrel,ginn and infdel-
fly throughout the empire is said to be a re-
\ ult Of those measures, and now the govern
Gnent is thinking seriously Of abolishing civil
marriages. and in other respects making a re-
Iurn towards the old order of things. Bat
Germany is not the only country in which
he I" liberal ~ movement in religion has late
been advancing with giant strides.
IN Tanners fasting match occasions mention
NY the HAgerstown Mail of a somewhat sim
lar attempt made a short time ago by = re-
sigious monomaniac of Maryland. John b.
il French, = religious enthusiast, allowed his
snlnd to dwell upon the great mystery of life;
upon the aw~e-inspiring questions, "Wher-
Ii id l come from, and whittier am | going?"
aantil reason became unsettled. In the de-
~tnentia following he fAncied he received the
command to tas, forty days and forty nights,
rhich he at once proceeded to do. The fast
n forty days was maintained unbroken. but
t the end of that time his digestive apparatus,
Il having become entirely torpid, refused to act
md he could not assiRilaie his food. For
Y leven days longer he fingered, sinking per-
e ,ibly and steadily all the while, hut it was
not until the last shred Of living tissue wal
consumed by the internal fires of starvation
Y hat he finally died.
A committee of labor leaguers interviewed
Hancock \ few days ago to learn his views on
he question now agifated by the labor re.
CORNERS. Their spokesman said hat both
Democrats and republicans were represented
u their organization, and that in September
hey would hold a convention to decide as tc
which of the two parties was deserving of the
abor par'y's support. The object of the
"a eaguers he DECLARED to b. the enforcement
ii the eight, hour law the establishment O
system of arbitration between employer.
and workmen 10 prevent strikes, and the en-
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