The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-02
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.-The municipal cleo
ton to-day for members of the first branch of
the CITY council resulted in the election Is
democrats, one republican and one tic. The
aggregate democratic majority is s,l31.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 27.-A friend of jeff.
Davis writes to the editor of the Courier
Journal denying that he ever uttered senti.
ments full Of disloyalty and vindictiveness
such as were recently attributed to him by
a writer to a paper in Maine, and somewhat
widely republished.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 27.-Brigham Young, a
grandson of the prophe!, wound up a drunken
spree by taking a fatal dose Of morphine. lie
left one wife and two children. lie was 10
years old.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 27.-Fifty thousand per-
SONS urned out to see Gen. Grant. After re-
viewing the procession of the Euys in Blue
Grant presided at a mass meeting III a tent,
5000 people being present. lie attempted
to speak, but was unable to do SO for some
time on account of the general enthusiasm
and consequent confusion. He finally got a
hearing and spoke for some time. Conkllils
afterwards addressed the meeting III a Two
hours speech.
HISsDALE, n. H., Oct. "A rotary
bleacher and boiler in Robcrtson's paper mil
burst this morning, killing one man ana ~
! turing several. The mill is completely iii
ruins; loss, $4,000.
Ioynoy. Oct. 29.-Tlerc have been sPri-
Gus floods at Banbury, Bonrnemontli, Ches-
ter. Coleshill, Derby aEd Darlington, causing
| much damage to crops and other property.
The telegraph wires in Edinburs are blown
down, and the new pier works at Ha'tepool
are seriously damaged. Thousands Of acres
of land in various paris of Leicrstersslre are
inundated.
Tie ships Marcy, Shields ana Trawlers arc
! missing, and it is feared their crews NUMBER
inr in all ~ men, have been lost. N'!l'er"hs
vessels have been wrecked during the stniih
Oh various parts of the ceast.whh loss OF ihe'
New YoHK, Oct. 29,-Ames VIII" ~'cstlllen
Yesterday in the forged Chinese letter CASE \
! ihe generally acknoW lodged CHEF OF expert
here in cllirography and alEnr"'@li> upL,Sh
man. His Identification OF tue a'i'Seu var
field letter. as in the hand writing OF ln'', !:
! complete although be pointed out 'o'''os,'
oyiheuce of such Inconsistencies III 'ht
characters AS proven. that the writer WAS Try
ING 10 simulate sone other EA'"' ina. 'aI
did not and could not write thai M"'tH
letter. Ames is equally confident upon liz
evidence furnished by the written character
themselves taking into a''''n'' '''a,'
illiterate blunders which are ''nn''' y
Philips manuerip' and ne'': 'o'''" III ''
fields.
CINCINNATI, o.. Oct. -o.-li"iiH "a'r,'
son has written t" Ill" rnlNt','''' ;"
chamber Of commerce thai lrt' Ill" II" ',' ,
I,ttor which the Courier journal lr''ili
published. ard which cam" from ii ',''',
: natl merchant, declaring i!'a' tn n''iE"a "
Of Cincinnati did ia, care t"l S"niht'H '''''
or wish for the acquaintance Of S"Iihr'
men. Had he seen u he would 81 VA,
printed it. because il" did r"t '"ll''' VI r.
, flected The views Of the husi""'~ "''" "a y"
, %cimnati. lie wouli NJ. l"''"s',' T. >. 's
!, the name Of the writer, A. II "'''" ''"l"'
his business, if rot his htr.