The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-27
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n Tanners motto =" Hold Fast
III General Sherman has returned from Mani
0ba and is on his way east.
- In Indiana over twenty thousand greenback
1.aepublicans are already pledged to Weaver
ae greenback candidate for president.
= New York has a free ice water fountain
hitch a philanthropic citizen has established
ia postoffice square. The drinking saloons
i the neighborhood already show a falling
fin receipts, since the fountain entered into
,mpetition.
About seven years ago the New York
lines, the great Republican organ, in its re-
ew of the Credit Mobilier business, de-
4 ribbed Garfield as a "distressing figure"
letter be a distressing figure" than to cut
, figure at all, the fate to befall General
.srield in the November election.
The democrats of the various towns
throughout the country would do well to
rm democratic clubs, and to enter into and
th,ep up a correspondence with the Butte
ieab which being Of greatest numerical
CFength, as we'll as first in seniority may be
garded as the principal one in the county.
J its present rate of growth this club will
I've a membership Of five hundred within
70 weeks. In union-.and dlscipline-there
81 strength, in matters political.
The republicans have committed an I'M
ohrdonable blunder in sending broadcast over
sue land their illuminated posters with wood
TITS of Carrie d and Arthur. Garfield is all
,ht but with any judge of character from
3 countenance, one glance at that "physiog'
\ Arthur's is enough to neutrallze the effect
- eleven dissertations on the bloody shirt
Mi rec sermons on our relations toward the
1ition (big ny and whole reams upon reams
y political editorials. Fancy the moral pro-
sss to be made by a Nation having in the
n a man whose character is indeXed by
Iilch a countenance as that Of Arthur.
hThe New York authorities have revoked
lie license of certain excursion steamers, con-
ted of having repeatedly been guilty of
uameful overlooking during pleasure excur-
Hi ms TO ~favorite resorts. Such steamers will
~ allowed to resume business only when
Fir owners give bonds to abide tie decision
the law they have violated. Steamers, I'M
,ftunatelv, are not constructed of elastic ma
5ial like our mountain stage coaches. Who
.er heard of a coach in which there was not
lndant room tor a dozen passengers, even
.H er the vehicle was loaded inside and out
III express freight.
Washington's little Ratchet seems to have
"a ,oopdod 90 IN p6aritapoa 70 sherman 30
) Treasury, who is still making vigorous
!, of it in chopping away the underpinning
the treasury subordinates who failed to
" tail for the Sherman kite at the Chicago
II, lvention. He Is removing officers every
ere and replacing them with men who
Irked for him during and before the con-
lticn. This is probably the Sherman idea
I maintaining harmony within the party.
1 ne n. Y. Times and several other influential
2 ublican papers are severe in their denun-
7 ions of Sherman's petty spitefulness.
i, he present census is to include a complete
imeratien of all the Indian tribes of the
tied States. For some time after the col
sstion of America by the whites the In
rs rapidly decreased in numbers as they
Sc driven further and further into the in
1 nor by the aggressive advance of the pale
MS. The belief in the speedy and certain
I inction of the Indians established in early
Us still obtains acceptance, although the
1a,y officers, plainsmen and others best ac-
Il Hinted with the Indians and Indian life,
X united in the opinion that during the past
u : decades our red brethren of the plains
Il me been increasing. In tho state Of abso-
rn savagery and barbarism they faded away
ihore the approach of the white man.; but
h aaly, becoming semi civilized, they have
i ught themselves into harmony with their
Il Surroundings to such an extent as to render
4444Gident that the Indians, tanned and civil
a !, will form a portion OF our population as
uinct and permanent as the colored people
ohe south.