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

COuIlto " tIO lilo't' VI ISuiS S''N - :
some OF his supporters.
The army-worm is besiesing the outlying
provinces Of the kingdom of New Jerse.".
We may expect shortly to hear of its appear
ance in the United States.
So Garfield is u Welshman, is be? In view
of his Credit Mobilier record We must admit
that the old rhyme "Taliy was a Welshman,'
etc, is not altogether without significance.
When President Hayes removed Chester
A.. Arthur from the collectolship Of the New
York custom house, the reason assigned was
ssthat the office might be honestly admins
tered"
An anti Chinese agitation is under way IN
Australia, where it is proposed to restrict the
Monaghan invasion by the imposition OF a
heavy poll tax. In Melbourne alone are
10000 Chinese who are said to send out OF
the country $75O,OO0 every year.
One of the census enumerators "down
SOUTH is a young coiored man who lost both
arms near the shoulder BIZ being run over by
a locomotive when a child. he writes by
holding the pencil between his teeth. ana
takes the full complement Of two hundred
names per day.
About the first Of September President
HAYES will set out for California where he
will endeavor to arrive in time to attend the
State fair, to be held 1T Sacramento. From
California he will proceed to Oregon. on a
tour designed to take in the principal points
Of interest on the Pacific coast.
At Nicksburg, Miss. the firm of Montsom-
cry g. Sons W a plantation for which they
paid $4,000, and have others under lease,
upon which they employ 1,oo0 hands. The
members OF tie firm are not only colorcd
men. but they were one" owned as slaves by
brother Of JEFF. Davis. "Oh the b. tie b.
shirt, long, long may l. wave" etc.
The Cincinnati Cotvcution contains l3S
delegates. Under the two-thIrds rule 492
votes will be necessary 10 & choice. The en-
forcement of this rulc tends to prevent any
thing like a nomination in a wave Of excite
ment. such as that of Chicago where, as it is
now beginning u leak out. nine-tcnths OF the
delegates were heartily ashamed Of their
work in less thar three hours after the nomi-
nation was made.
Following is the resolution adopted by the
New York delegation upon receipt OF Ill
denis letter Of withdrawal:
Resolred, That with a sense CT proiou. I'D
gratitude for his great ~rerFices to the country
and to The democratic party aHd with unqualt-
fled admiration of lis character and abilities,
his delegation las received with deep regret
the impressive deciinatlon Gy Governor Til
den to be a candidate for denomination and
reelection to III, presidency OF the United
States"
The newspapers supporting Grant previous
TO the Chicago .fi0sc0 still tiercely resent any
slight or insult offered their defeated chief-
tain. Speaking Ct Tilden, the New York
Tribune recently said, The fist step OF the
democracy must be to throw overheard their
:Old man Of the sea as The republicans have
done. Let Tild4n follow Grant" For this
the Inter Ocean assails the Tribune with all
ardor which must have for impulse something
more than t'> sentimental regard felt for
defeated candidate. Sucl! exhibitions are
apt to make us Link there must be some
truth in the rumoIS connecting Grants name
with the campaign OF 1884.
There are. or were at the last count, ? ,l9G
newspapers and periodicals i'll the United
States. OF these 424 are devoted to religious
cultural. The remainder are either "gsneral
newspapers" or else the publications Of sacred
or learned societies. tracts. Journals, etc. SIX
hundred and fifty-seven newspapers, daily or
weekly, are published in the United States in
foreign languages, Of which the German
tsnly So and the Scandinsrians rs. Among
ithe minor Municipalities the Welsh language,
considering the number of Our Welsh popu-
~tlation, is sal | to be more literally represented
stban any other.
In England a town i. not considered equal
Pto the task of supporting even one weekly
newspaper until it has q population Of twenty
five thousand whereas in the ln!ted States
fevery hamlet of two thousand souls boasts its
4.jeurnai." The disproportion is not alto
gether due to a difference in the reading
.astes and habits of the two nations, although
hat undoubtedly has something to do with
NJ. Britsin's limited size, her excellent pos
al service ana network of railways, all tend
DO give the great metropolitan Journals rapid
access 10 even the smaller country villages,
s.nd by their formidable opposition the exist
snce of newspapers of the class common in
Bhis country is rendered impossible.
The latest political mares nest reported
rom Washington. is the reputed discovery in
8she Confederate Archives OF a colonel's coin
Snlssion filed out in the name of Thomas F.