The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-17

AZ Lyons, TTalcc, d ypuiS PhJSS'"h
emulating the exploit Of DR.. Tanner tried to
fast fifteen days, but abandoned the expert
ment at the end of a week.
The Oheram,nergrau Passion Play is pro-
duced only once every ten years. For all
that the play has been presented "A times.
1t was first brought ont in 1910.
The members of the Republican Territorial
committee are called to assemble at HeleEa,
Aug. IS, to name the time and place of hold
ing the Territorial Republican convention.
The Greenback State Convention of Mich
igan met at Lansing on the 18th inst. Three
hundred delegates were in attendance. They
concluded their labors by nominating a full
state ticket headed by Davis Woodman for
governor.
The State Credit, or debt-paying demo-
Gratis of Tennessee have nominated for gov
ernor John V. Wright, a straight out demo-
crat. The 1epudialionists, under which title
is included the rag tag and boblail of half a
dozen parties, republicans, greenbackers,
labor Ietorners, etc, have nominated 5. F.
Wilson for the same office.
The total nunber of steamships engaged
in the worlds ocean carry ing trade, last year.
was $500. representing a capacity of 6,0O0,-
600 tons. One-half of this gross tonnage is
credited to Great Britain, and only one-tcnth
to The United States which, however, ranks
naxt to Britain in the list of powers graded
according to their steam commercial marine.
France ranks third, Germany fourth.
The wolk of extolling the merits OF place
as a field for the profitable employment of
capital, OF one III which labor finds steady
and good wages, IS usually left to the press,
and by the press, in the W. 81. at least. this
duty is fully attended to. a change from
this order Of things is reported from Chicago,
where The Master Mechanics and Builders
Association recently adopted a resolution i'll
wiling bricklaycrs and laborcrs from other
places to seek work at the Lake City. Wages
for bricklayers are 300, for hod-rarriers
81. Is, at Chicago, and The labor supply is said
to be short by about 80 men in those two
branches alone.
The Sun, in a pithy article reproduced else
where, pretty eflectually disposes of the
trained-stateslnan plea made for their canui-
date by the Gledit Mobilier party. Garfield
is no more Of a statesman than are the thou
sand and one other commonplace individuals
who have entered congress only to be herded
this way and that according as the hreezes of
) party might happen to blow. Granting that
; Garfield has become ali adept in The methods
=. OF parliamentary procedure, in what respect
does that add to his breadth of view, or lessen
the extreme narrow mindedness which has
caused him to be reckoucd among the
ultra p~artisans Of his party?
The Herald says: 1.-THE great moral and
religious forces Of the country are repnbli-
car, There is something to back up this
assertion. bareflcr.! as it looks at first sight.
Ii"'e is u cli4'ie Of poIitico-religi"nists ia
this country who are trying by their cry Of
'G0d nthc Constitution" etc, to excite sucl,
a t-cii Y as will bring about IL Jaletai urion
OF church and state in this land Of liberty.
and it IS III the republican party that those
s%cllelnors find the Instrument best adapted! to
their purposes. We have no 0emo:ratic
bishops such as Bishop 'Gii.' Haven rim
ming about the country an,l degrading the
pulpit to i level with the "stump"m his
noisy 9ialangnes in support Of Hancock no
religious body like The Y. NJ. I. A.. under the
leadership of the unctuous Gee. II. Stualt,
backed by that SHAVE lypoctle SCHUYLER Col
fax, who, By the way, has r.vrr crasc! TO b,
an associate in llc best Of standing
We lave no such combinations a, this
working III the interest of the democratic
Noihli!r". The republican party. in It's
I religions bearing, corresponds very closely
with III" Tory party Of England, and Il
few more years Of lis gsccndtnrv. with
its drift towards cent? aiizitinn, would be
sufficient to draft into service .:tlle church.;
as = corner stone Of the strong row
er1nn"nt which republicans are so anx-
lon> 10 give us. III the present
campaign GartirlL's ':picly =" has been otien-
s!veiy thrust in our faces at every possible
opportunity by newspapers whose policy
seems to be to favor the mixing up of religion
in politics But in politics meA Of the VOID
observe the same caution that guides them in
business transactions. The business man has
learned bY costly experience To doubt the i'll
tegrity Of the loud moutired professor of
religion" whose piety is displayed as an
advertisement that all the world NAV
read. and it is the same in politics.
The more a man figures AS Il sancsimonious
character, too good for anything. the more
apt arr W. to find his record tainted with
sucil transactions as the De GnIyrr pavement
. l.Fil.- ar tho hlrk J,.y oral. 4 (r.tnr.t
Hancock be elected president next November
his election will be the overthrow and luin
ri those enemies of freedom who are trying TO