The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-13
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

6uc SalliOfHid VoThihSHicHs party.
The army worm has made its appearance
in the hop fields near Sacramento, Cal.
California salmon have been successful.
introduced into the streams of New Zealand
Prior to the publication of his letter o
acceptance, General Hancock will formally
resign his position as major general of thu
United States regular army.
This year the Inferible, the largest man-of
war afloat, will be launched from the British
navy construction yard. This ship will be O.
11,40O tons burden, and is intended to carr,
four sO-ton suns.
The ex-Empress Eugene has departed
from Cape Town, on her return from visiting
the South African battle ground upon which
her son was killed and the hope of French
Imperialism ~extinguished.
Somebody has recently discovered that
steam boilers, when not in use, can be kept
in a good state of preservation simply by
being filed with water. As in the case of SO
many otller discoveries, when the secret was
once discovered, people began asking them
selves how it was that an expedient Involving
such elementary knowledge was not resorted
to long ago.
If there is anything that delights the heart
of the publisher it is the fraud of a telegraph
company that takes his money under pretense
Of supplying him with news, but instead per-
sists in foisting on him political editorials as a
substitute. The Associated Press has set
about it to cultivate the sickly Garfield boom.
4 We all remember how it shouted Blaine be-
fore the invention met, and also what its
Blaine boom amounted to when the conven-
tion actually assembled.
In a letter of recent date our Washington
correspondent writes:
ga correspondent writing from Virginia
Springs, at which Senator Cameron is stop
ping, says the Senator will go thence in about
a month to New England, and that he will
take 40 part in any meeting of the republican
national committee, and will not accept its
craftsmanship. The republicans here, how
5sver, deny this, and aver that Cameron will
accept the craftsmanship, but will not attend
he meeting of the committee"
Subsequent events prove the above rulnor
vas well founded. Senator Cameron will
5ulk Throughout the campaign.
"Still divided" are the republicans in
council assembled, as appears from the pro-
eedings of their national committees last
meeting. All efforts to induce Don Cameron
o accept a second investiture of the Presi-
lency having failed, Governor Marshall Jew
III, of Connecticut, was elected to the posi-
ion, and S. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, Secre-
airy of the national committee. In the first
aeeting under the new officers 1t was hoped
hat harmony would prevail, but the old
VISION, Grant and anti-Grant still remains.
a this meeting one of Conkiing's followers
penly declared that unless the patronage of
he administration in the leading States were
laced at the disposal Of Conkling, Cameron
nd Logan, these worthless would rest on their
ars, and do nothing whatever towards assist
s,g in the campaign. Plainly The admins
ation is placed where it must either exhibit
little of the " backbone we have heard so
iuch of, or else prepare to eat the humblest
{ humble pie.
Inasmuch as the question of employing
isoners confined in the Montana peniten-
ary will likely come up for discussion as
on as Montana becomes a state, in two, or
three years at iurthest, the summing up
esented in the report submitted by the in
@ectorof Canadian penitentiaries may furnish
cd for profitable reflection. The inspector
ges:
list. That prisoners should be taught a
ide by which they can live honestly after
cir discharge. I'd. That their services
uld with great propriety be used to furnish
ticles required by the public service which
8 now purchased from traders. I'd. That
en- so earnestly desire to learn trades that
Emission TO do SO is held out as the reward
/ good conduct. 4th. That the competition
convict with free labor is not noticeable |
cept when a large number of prisoners are
idenly set to produce an article which en-
ges but few free hands. 9Th. That ~convicts
her maintain themselves or should do so
fore conviction, and that therefore their
pductive labor in prison cannot seriously
arrange the labor market. 9Th. That it
in the interest of the whole social body
AZ those of its members who are at fault
Ould be made to reimburse by their labor
expense caused by their punishment.
No doubt now that the nomination of Gar
I'D has caused a widespread detection
ong those who favored Grant. For a time
republicans professed TO ignore such de-
tion; but lately they acknowledge the
u, and although they still manage to put "a
I'd face on matters, now and then We detect
tone of unmistakable dependency ming
9 with what they would wish to have lis
sept as the clarion notes of the challenge.
fore the Cblcogo convention there was 10
re ardent republican than Colonel Forney,
3lisher of Progress, none whose supper
Grant was more earnest, or more hopeful.
] q here present his telegram Of congratula- |