The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-22
BUTTE 2seeefn 2Niner.
TUESDAY. JUNE %. 1850.
E~BtEORIAE Il

just been established. Grim set of jokers
those Arizona fellows.
The American Mining Exchange, to deal in
mining stocks exclusively, was opened on the
first Of this month at No. 63 Broadway, New
York. The interest taken by eastern men in
mininr is steadily increasing.
"A general reduction of miners and furnace
mems wages is reported from the coal and
Iron districts of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
done in The excitement following the late re-
vival. and that over-supply threatens evil
effects analogous to those proceeding from
business stagnat,on.
Tilden's catechism, to be found among our
dispatches, might profitably receive q supple
ment in the queries: What more can the
party do for its candidate than elect him
undcr what obligations does the party rest
towards the candidate whom it elected, bat
who, by failing to take his seat, succeeded in
covering a victorious party with defeat?
Mr.. Gladstone, the British premier, is
seventy years old; just the age at which Ho-
ratio Seymour would excuse himself from
public service on the plea of being too far
advanced In years. And must a citizen of
this great and glorious republic surrender to
old Time at an earlier age than the subject of
one of the worn out, effete monarchies of de-
crepit Europe? The idea is ridiculous
The greenback ~luuatics lately in convention
at Chicago nominated James 3. Weaver, Of
Iowa, for the presidency. The party having
got into a s'weaving way may likely ''spend
its money free" but its rag baby money doc
trines will no more fnd acceptance of the
people of the United States than will Mr..
Weaver come within ten rifle shots of having
3 presidential thread incorporated in his wool
and web Of life.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, on the morning
Of the seventh, the day preceding the nomi- s
nation, thus touches on Garfeld's merits, in Q
its review of probable and possible dark a
shorss: n
Garfield may spring into momentary vision p
the galleries may cheer as they behold the e
l6z of the toupenny rockets that indicate his n
syearnings, but his record would be lead, and :
his spinal weakness a Encouragement to the {
Republican party. Il
Yes just so. Now, how edifying it will it
se to see the Inter Ocean swing into line and "
'enthuse'' for Garfield. The old Greek prov IL
rb which says something about the spoken b
word being the master" the l. 0. probably ia
kinks would have furnished a safe guide be- pd
ore the nomination. But it is well to speak II
ne truth, even accidentally. tie
The latest dispatches report quiet restored :"
= Leadville, where something closely resemb- '"
ing martial law was resorted to in opposition
b the strike. As is usual in such cases, the "l
Unavoidable commotion attending the strike -
the signal for all disreputable and desperate Ok
~laracters within lailing distance to rush in "
nd identify themselves as closely as possible -
it'll the movement. The excuses perpetra- Ill
ID by this dangerous element are charged to "N
ie workers whose protest in the first place Je'
as against insufficient pay for honest labor, y
lille the creatures apt to work themselves to LII
ee front in such an e~xigency would not W
fork at any price. We may feel assured that seS
was not the actions of men who had &C NJ
ally worked in the Leadville mines that led ni
the calling out of armed resistance. iof
Richard B. Connolly, the "Slippery Dickn ac,
the Tweed robber ring plundering New ey,
s'rE ten years ago, recently died in France CO,
the age of seventy years. Connolly WIS kn
yer brought to trial for his completely in the an
s frauds, having taken flight from this an,
ihtry before regal PROOF OF his crimes was dol
ablis he'd. For some years subsequent to A,
escape he remained in Egypq, between opi
fich country and the United States no ex- lon
ldition treaty has been established. Lately, Me
ling the intirmities of old age growing up the
him, and trusting to the effect of time in his
ling the resentment felt against him in no,
" York by his fellow-citizens whom he nal
- SnaunS piuhuereo' he sought the gou
siei ciViiiAa'ion Oh FRANCE oat 10 no avail. VIII
I,pery Dick could not slip from the hand of cha
Death. He died in the midst of his ;s :,
EN- wealth, the object of contempt of even the
hnmblest and poorest of his neighbors tbe
p were acquainted with his history. tba
hder the mead OF "Roll OF Honor" the cha
Pr Ocean publishes a list containing the thai
ne of every one of the 306 delegates who in
I'D for Grant ON the last ballot. 1t has stra
% intimated that the Grant men were sbee
FgOing to run much risk Of breaking their won
Is of very short in their struggles to elect IT
field. And no wonder. Garfield was the On;
Ainee of the combined anti Grant faction. ..u;,
\ Grant men never threatened to bolt or .ho
L their party in case the hero of the war nIioi
- -. Du' ,'e n.i-oiah' men resp
onS ""ue . u nAo acqu
necessary organization ready to put a third ;,,r
siidate in the field in case Grant should 800
ae the conventions choice. Remember 81,
those things the Grant men would indeed -.