The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
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In November the Democrats will win b.
Maine strength.
General Sigel has taken the stump in Indi
ana, in support of Hancock and English.
Maine chance, but little good it has done him
Since her return to England the Princes
Louise finds that she likes Canada a grea
deal better than she thought she did wher
living there with her husband, the Marquis
Of Lorne, Governor General of Canada. She
IS soon to return to America, TO remain indet.
initely.
The shipping statistics of Buffalo show that
the grain receipts at that port during the
month of August were 100000 bushels
more than for the corresponding month OF
any previous year, an indication of the great
harvest that has been gathered in the west
this year.
A brief dispatch received last evening says
the republicans of Maine claim the governor
GIN oooh u " IiC ISisldtuIC. ~ il w
be observed though that the dispatch is with
out date. and that our press report of the
18th made the same claim. If 1t should
prove to be true i, will be the very first in
stance in which the Associated Press dis
patches in their first report failed to do the
republicans considerably more than justice.
The Maine election came off yesterday, the
18th. The republicans have been claiming
the state by a majority of 1000, but the mag
nificent margin will likely become small by
degrees and beautifully less before the votes
are all counted. The telegraph indicates a
republican triumph, but we have only to re-
member what the press dispatches were in
the Blaine campaign, preceding the republic
can presidential nomination, to understand
how thoroughly unreliable and untruthful is
the republicanized wire.
In a letter recently received from Washing
ton the writer says: general Grant has re-
fused the presidency of the San Pedro Mining
Company, the dispatches this morning say.
For some time past there has been a story
here, said to come from the General and Mrs.
Grant, that he would make his home in this
city. He prefers it to any other, and, if lie is
able to live without future employment, l
have no doubt he will do so. Washington
owes much to him more than to any other
president since WashiDgton-and would give
him a cordial welcome. He owns several
pieces of property here.
Something new unuer the sun IS to be
found in the United States election map, pub
lished by the Map Co., 1875 kearney street,
San Francisco. This map, Twelve square
feet, shows twenty-three charts of the United
States, representing as many presidential
elections. Each party, IN any particular
election, is assigned A color of its own,
SO that a glance at the chart of that election
is sufficient to show which states
were carried by the one party
and which by the other. Tabulated lists
show how many electoral votes any state had
in any given election, and how cast. Taken
altogether the map ~cantains a vast deal of
useful information condensed within a very
small space, and offered in a form most con-
venient for reference.
To.day, Sept. 18th, General Garfield will be
on exhibition, together with the prize pig and
plowman, at the Indiana state fair. General
Grant, it has been announced, will preside as
master of the ceremonies, while Garfield will
crate in his usual style OF mixed metaphor.
Conkling, whose participation in the cam-
paign has been postponed from one date to
another, was finally billed to appear among
the rest of the attractions at indianapolis and
make his first speech in the campaign. As
soon as he learned, though, that Garfield was
to be there, the Duke of New York peremto-
rily refused ito put himself on exhibition"
to use his own words, so the gospel according
to the magnificent Roscoe will not be ex-
pounded yet awhile. Conkling has not spok-
Ell to Hayes since his inauguration, while he
has not allowed himself to get even within
sight of Garfield since his nomination. The
bosses were SAID some time ago to have be-
come reconciled to the situation, but if they
have, the present performances OF Conklinc
and Cameron are difficult of explanation. By
the way, what has become OF Cameron ?
What assistance is he rendering towards re-
the desperate fortunes of the Repub-
And now the match between Ulysses Grant
Jr. and Miss jennie Flood, the bonanza prln-
cess, is broken of, after the dear old lady,
Grundy, has been in ecstacies for
months past in anticipation of the coming
event, and while the upper circles of shoddy
and petroleum society were still suffering
from the trepidation brought Upon dellcately
strung nerves by the announcement of any
thing so important as the engagement. But