The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-16
RUTHERFORD B. Fl
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NOTES.
Benton has a board of trade. Mr.. T. E.
Collins, of the bank Of northern Montana, is
the president.
Truth, q newspaper published i'll New
York, says there were 10000 illegal votes cast
in the city of New York at the last election.
This may be so, but where did they come
from?
1t now appears that Mr.. Whaiey, democrat,
was elected to the house from Meagller ceun-
ty, instead of jacob Powers, republican, as
was first reported. Mr.. Nhaley is d gentle
man of fine attainnents and will make Il use
full legislator.
The republicans claim the California legis-
lature by a majority of ore OH joint ballot.
The lower house is a tie. The official count
may change the situation. Much interest is
conferred IN the result as a United States SEN
ator. to succeed Booth, will be elected this
winter.
There are 81 men and firms in San Fran
cisco that are each assessed on sums varying
from $1,000 900 to over $l9,000,000. Leland
Stanford heads the list of millionaires. Six
teen of its citizens each pay taxes on sums
ranging from one-haif million to one million
dollars.
Our San Francisco exchanges report "A
cases of small pox in that city for a portion of
last week. The disease is said to be mild in
form, yet active measures are being taken to
head it off. In view of the possibility of this
dread disease reaching Montana, parents
should attend to the vaccination Of their chill
dren without delay.
San Francisco has S4,206 youths under II
years of age, a decrease of 3,S9S since last
year. L. has SJ67, 1872 to the credit of It's
school fund, and school property, including
school sites, buildings, apparatus, etc.. to the
amount of S3,073, 900. The average wages
received by CSC teachers is 500 each. The
cost of educating it's children is $2G "a per
capita annually.
A recent invention bids fair to displace the
unsightly and inconyenient telegraph poles
bow in use. 1t c~ontemplates the laying of terra
Gotta, underground, through which may be
drawn by an arrangement for that purpose,
telephone, telegraph or other electric wires,
when this shall be done we are fully prepared
to bid a lasting farewell to the unreliable
wire on the more unreliable pole.
Nordensk old, the Norwegian, is preparing
to build a vessel at the mouth of the Lena
river, from which point he will start out on
another voyage of discovery in the Arctic
seas. He thinks that by building mis- vessel
at tho plann mainland ba pln On overland
through Siberia and gain much valuable time,
which would otherwise be lost by taking a
vessel from a more southern latitude.
The revision of the New Testament by the
American Bible revision committee has been
completed and he result of their labor sent
to England. The American ~rcvisers have
been laboring upon the work for eight years.
For this they receive no pay. The revision
will be passed Upon by the British committee
som time this month, and the work be pre-
scented in book form in February 1881. The
Old Testament will be published two or three
years after.
If the New York Buiittin is correct We
may expect a complete revolution in oul
financial system after the meeting Of tbs
next congress. Yet We can2hardly believe
that the republican party will commit such
blunder as to demonetize silver, or even re
fuse to continue the present appropriation:
for its coinage. The argumentthat the re
publican party would not interfere with tht
present financial policy had much to do il
the election of Gal field. But should the futur,
policy of the government be truly foreshad
owed by the Bulletin, the silver mining camp
Of Montana may '.hang their harps upon the
willows"
The human race is fond of tie sweet thing
Of this earth. The annual sugar productioI
of the world is about 100000 tons, sbou
three-fourths of which is the product of sugar
cane and the balance of sugar-beet. Of tni
vast amount the United States produces onl
/. $4,000 tons. The rest is produced in th
West Indies, East India and other tropics
countries. In Great Britain the per capt.
consumption Of sugar is about "a pounds al
aaslly. In the United States each maj
woman and child uses about 38 pounds
year. We pay $50 per cent. more for su
sugar than Great Britain pays. This is OWN
te the imposition of a high protective tart
upon that article.