The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-28
NOTES.

"oStiy LHHllSu anu AulericauS. ritl'ctllnt
come very seldom. A Waterloo veteran wi
was seventeen years old on the day of Il
battle, serves as guide to strangers.
A scheme of African exploration is undo
consideration at Portugal. 1t is propose
that two expeditions shall start simultant
ously from the Portuguese possessions Oh tn
east and west coasts of Africa, and, afte
founding scientific and commercial station
along their route, meet in the interior. 1t
probable that, roughly speaking, the line G
the Zambese would DC generally followed
but it is not very clear how the money for 81
!. gigantic an enterprise is to be provided.
As usual the dispatches to-day are conflict
ing in regard to the Maine election. II
those who are familiar with the management
of the Press Association it is re reasonably cleal
that Plaisted has a decisive majority, tor by
reference to our kilograms it will be seen that
the contest is regarded as "~close.' If there
was the barest possibility of a republican
/. victory, however small, the dispatches would
be full of Maine election news, and the Davi;
majority would never be conceded until the
last moment to be anything less than 5000.
The statement of the Associated Press agent
that the result is doubtful may be safely re-
will be the next governor of the Pine Tree
state.
One ward of New York city has a Han.
cock club with a membership OF over three
"A hpnlroI AVID p,,n, ..l,a;l e ,n~ -l
iicans, or at least of men who always voted
the republican ticket previous to the nomina-
tion of Hancock. The club owes its forma-
ton TO a casual remark made one day to the
gentleman who is now its president, Dr.. G.
II. Mitchell. Happening to state his inten-
lion to vote for Hancock, the democratic
nominee, he was informed that the city ward
which he lived contained many more re-
epublicans of the same way of thinking, and
hat he should do something towards their
organization. The suggestion was acted
Upon and the result is the "Republican Han
book English club
Il Southern claims and ssrebel debt are the
Prizes by which the stalwart organs would ter
~ the people of the north into a further sup
port of the party of misrule and sectionalism.
This is what the Couriey-Journal, the repre-
tentative paper of the south, has to say on the
Subject of southern claims:
The south wants nothing but exemption
'om the thralldom of the vanquished. Tear
ON us the badge OF disgrace, which the re-
ubllcalls insist upon placing upon us all
Hf'lpe out The stains with which they seek to
ishonor us-and We, on our part, do solemn
~ agree to %relinquish the very name Of hope,
> any losses sustained by, or in. the war of
property real or personal, niggers, cotton, cot
,apn tax, houses. lands, cattle, fences, pigs,
oultrv and skillets. We want nothing ex-
"A 'pt an equal show and, if ever we do, let
NleTe be a solid north.
The editor of the Benton Record has come
n grief, Finding his editorial labors some
hat onerous, and possessing only a guile
Ess bachelors acquaintance with the sex,
@ Record mar rashly employed a lady edi-
r to tighten (D his labors. Result-the
chelor editor, at the expiration of the first
E8eek finds himself IN more trouble THAI lie
d ever experienced IN the whole of his pre-
aading life. The only sympathy he meets
tn is from his married friends, who take
scasion to drop into the sanctum about a
n zen times a day each and console him by
4 marking, Eyer might have knowed better,
II fool. Why didn't yer ask us for some ad-
ne on that pint before takin' on yerself such
sEAful chances? Let the present 'sperlance
r. ach yer some good horse sense for the fu-
se."
Late eastern papers fully describe the i'm
Il 'ssion created throughout the east by the
:eipt of the election news fiom Maine, and
II find this impression to be far more pro-
Ftllnd, and the result to be accepted as much
're decisive than indicated by the press dis
Tches. 1t was more especially in the gov
lment departments at Washington, among
e clerks who have been assessed to the verge
$fstarvation in the interests of the republi-
party, that the news from the PM Tree
he was accepted as the knell sounding that
$Hty's overthrow. Previous to the election
u, contest in Maine was looked forward to
1.-THE department clerks as a reliable indica-
IN of their continuance in office but no
Ener was the contest decided than a mark
sAschange was to be observed. Gloom sue
fHded hopefulness, and clerks vino had pre-
8asssusly been enthusiastic republicans were
I'm going about eagerly assuring democrats
Sssst they had never done anything against
party.
Fully to appreciate The Importance of tile
q ublican overthrow in Maine We must re-
5hnber the course taken in the state CAM
Ign by Weaver, the gree nback presidential
#fRdidate. Weaver has shown himself to be
nan of o~'erweening vanity and of very
}dbr judgment. In Maine his party had
aede a fusion with the democrats, but this
ion lie repudiated so far as he was person.
So concerned by refusing 10 particinate with