The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-29
NEWS NOTES.

Gen Bob Toombs says that a perfectly Ill
corruptlble man who would not suit the
higher class of Republicans; hence Garfield
was put up.
The negroes in Montgomery, Ala, believed
themselves sold out when Garfield was nomi-
mated. They wanted the old man or nobody.
They have formed an anti-dueling associa-
ton at Camden, S. c., with Judge Kershaw
as president.
All experience goes to show that people are
far more liable to contract diseases or CON-
taeious fevers Oh an empty stomach than ON
full stomach.
Senator Sharon is thin, pale, almost yellow,
haggard and ashamed looking, but he is all
right on the main chance. He is a very sue
cessful business man, and has far-seeing
eye, like Jay Gould. He is about the size Of
Gould and not unlike him in his methods.
The Northern Pacific company has accepted
from the contractors the completed third
quarter of the first contract beyond the Mis-
souri,, making 95 miles of finished road.
Track-laying on the remaining portion Of the
first contract is proceeding at rate of over
one mile day.
The captain of Canadian Cricket club.
playing in England, has been arrested as
deserter from the British army.
An Oakland (Cal.) mother is happy in the
PcsoSooi"l
There is fund in Texas of 100000 de-
| rived from the sale of public lands, and set
| apart for the building Of State University.
| In the past eight years the number Of mar
riages in Germany has greatly fallen of.
Military service and emigration are doubtless
| the causes.
New York City has 5000 miles of telegraph
| and telephone wires.
| To be or not to be-tO scratch or not to
scratch, just now agtates some of the great
reformers.
Newark, N. j., last year manufactured s1O,-
600 kegs of beer.
Aboat sixty feet long, supposed to be a
Vikings ship of 1000 years ago, has been
found in mound near Sandefiord, Norway.
The true woman question: Why did you
stay out until this unseemly hour?
Kate Field says CASTELAR, has no chin. Kate
will never be taken for CASTELAR,.
You often hear OF a man being in advance
of his age, but you never heard of woman
being in the same predicament.
"Why is the letter d like ring?" asked
young lady Of her lover, who was as dull as
the generality of his sex in such situation.
"Because.' added the damsel with a modest
look i'll her eye, because ace can't be red
without it,
The population Of Ireland, which has been
generally increasing since the beginning of
the century, is nov rapidly. falling OFF by
emigration.
General Gibbon, the old commander of the
famous Iron Brigade, of Wisconsin, attended
with his wife the recent soldiers meeting at
Milwaukee,. Mrs. Gbbon, who had accom-
panied her husband throughout his campaign
!, ing and who was almost worshipped by the
command, rode with him in the procession.
. The widest cheers greeted Gen. Grant and
. Gen. Gihbon, but when the old soldiers
g caught sight CT Mrs. Gibbon there was =
, greater uproar, and they pressed forward,
, cage" even to touch the hem of her dress,
many Of them brcoking into tears and sobs.
Norway Is the only European country in
r which suicide is not increasing, and this is
probably due to its very severe laws against
: drunkenness.
1 General Sherman was cheered more Justify
at the Milwaukee soldiers reunion than Gen.
. Grant. The latter IS said to have noticed
the distinction.
The Gar is the only crowned widowcI
- and Victoria the only crowned widow among
;. the European poteniates. Alfonso and Chris
= tine Of SPAN, are the youngest welded
i couple; William and Augusta, Of Germany
- the eldest.
G For the first time in two hundred years
r the old Turquoise mine in Chalcuta noun
d tain, New Mexico, has been reopened. Ii
v 1850 the work was suspended on the mine
d the cause being the cavng in of the shaft ane
d the subsequent death of one hundred Indians
d who were hard at work below. An attemp
n made by the Spanish to force the Indians Il
II begin again and reopen the shaft led to a re
It bclli"n, and probably was one Of tile cause
which forced the Indians to an uprising, ant
ID the subsequent exclusion OF their rulers from
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