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

Venner, the weather fiend, is predicting
very cold and stormy weather for the remain
der OF September and the early part of Octo-
Der.
Upon the receipt at New York of news
from the Maine election a presidential pool
box was opened in the parlors of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel by all assembly of capitalists,
politicians and business men who happened
to be present. One hundred thousand dollars
worth of pools were sold within a few min
utes, and when the average was struck it was
found that Hancock for first choice brought
$3.50 to $50 on Garfield.
Experience gained Oh our Pacific railroads
demonstrates the fact that the shaking and
j~olting inseparable from a long passage by
rail always reduces a large percentage of tea
to the form of powder, which is not recog-
nized in the market as a merchantable article.
1t is as line as gunpowder, but for all that it
is not received as g%unpowder tea, and the
more of this pulverized tea that is found at
the end of the journey, the more serious the
loss sustained by the importer. With the
COUJVltUiOH VI llC INN tliuA AN ~ "
China and Japan will TAX that route to New
York.
As we expected, the nomination of Sanders
"a narrow minded, bigoted political fanatic
has had its logical effect in the way of driv-
ing back into the ranks democrats who for
any reason either were or fancied themselves
to be disafected toward the nominee Of their
own party. After the little excitement at
tending our primary at Butte there were a
few democrats who felt like standing aloof
and allowing the ticket to pull through as
best it might without further assistance from
them than their votes. But the choice of
Sanders as nominee of the opposite party
was just a little too much, and to-day some
of the most energetic workers on our side of
the house are to be found among the men
who once declared they were going "to lay
back and take it easy during the campaign.
The Southern Intellig:acer, published at
Richmond, Va, and until quite lately a re-
publican paper, has come out in support of
Hancock and English. In an article explain
ing the change the editor says the republicans
are neither neutrals nor towards, but simply
powerless against the odds that stand ready
to overwhelm them, and that whoever says
there is the least chance Of carrying the state
for Garfield is a fool, or else is playing upon
the credulity of the people. How many
papers have turned aud torsaken their old re-
publican ways, to support Hancock? If a
list Of such papers could be prepared it would
furnish a most striking commentary Oh the
political sentiment of the hour as well as a
most valuable indication of the result Of
November's election. Now and then is re-
ported the change of a democratic sheet to
the support of Garfield but for one CONVEX
sion of this description there are at least ten
Of the oppos lite to be noted. And it will not
be forgotten that among the latter are three
highly influential German papers published
in the doubtful state Of Ohio.
The clearing house showing given in to-
days dispatches indicates a very healthy
growth of trade in all the principal marts of
The Union during the past twelve months.
More particularly is thisthe case with New Or
leans, whose gain over the corresponding
week of last year is no less than G7 per cent.
But then there are reasons to believe that the
clearing house has fallen into the hands of
rebel brigaders, and that the statements pub
llsheG are base fabricaLiOns, intended to cover
census frauds in the south. The same author
ity, or one equally unreliable, would
have us believe that this year the
cotton crop will be fully a fourth more than
a good average, and that the negroes are all
at work, and not only that but are actually
contented and we'll satisfied with the wages
received from their former owners. Such
are the stories the rebel brigadiers would
have us believe, whereas we know full we'll
on the authority of Jim Blaine and others
equally veracious that the southern negroes
have all taken refuge in the swamps or are
hiding in the cane brakes to escape, if posi-
BILE, the bloodhounds of their pursuers. Deer
and other large game having become extinct
in the far south the sport of niger s~talkinghas
become very popular in lieu of those formerly
followed. Packs of well-trained bloodhounds,
kept OIL every we'll regulated plantation, are
used only in this sport of niger stalking, in
to which they enter with the relish of the
genuine hunting dog. When brought on the
ground three or four Niger babies are always
fed to them, that they may enter with keen
zest on the sports of the day. 1t is in harm
less recreations OF this nature that our south
ern fellow citizens find a much needed relax
alton from the arduous lahors of the poker
table or race course.