The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-01
NOTES.

A Blaine train loaded with {" workers" en-
gagged in the interest of Names tavorite son,
left Portland, Me-, on the 9th, for Chicago.
New York when it was proposed to instruct
the delegates to Cincinnati to support Mr..
Tilden the motion was tabled by a two thirds
vote.
At. Montreal, +. O., u body Of armed cit
Gems is reinforcing the police in preventing
the strikers from Offering violence TO the
laborers refusing 10 join the strike.
The long continued drought IS threatening
the destruction Of crops throughout the East
ern States. Tie same complaint is heard
from England. where the wheat crop, so
promising a short time age, is considered an
almost hopeless failure.
Mining !nen who have been inspecting
properties in Montana. say the outlook is
good there, but pros ectors and miners are
holding for prices that are far beyond the
true value of their prospects. This practice
will not help the boom in our nelghborins
Terrltory.--S. L. Tribune.
Tribal disturbances at Bassora troops on
their way to Ilhaoen wire cut at Samava
proposed solution of the Albanian diflicu ty -
md so mehr. OF such are our foreign dis
patches. Our readers will not feel aggrieved
at the the rejection of such news 10 make
room for interesting literary selections.
\ dreadful famine is prevailing in certain
districts of Asiatic Turkey. The forces of
famine and disease have formed an alliance
against the unfortunate people, who are dying
at such a rate that whole villages are depop-
uiated, The rccourse to canibalism has given
rise :, a disease resembling the plague, fatal
in almost every instance.
The adjournment Of Congress las been
postponed until the 18th of June. The coull-
try may col slider itself in good luck if it oc-
ours then. A pretty commentary on Rspub-
lican goyerumeE Mt is the uudeniable fact that a
feeling of relief, Of release from a sense of
impending danger some kind, is universally
experience. upon the adjournment Of Cen
sress.
If the administrative machinery Of Russia
~ S'i"S "iN' a. Nft'S i>SS'ioh'S wa
Presidents message . its publication by en-
terprising newspapers before its official APP
pearance would not be likely to happen.
This has sometimes occurred in the case of
our Presidents, and notably President john
son, the distribution Of his message on printed
slips through the house before its appearance
in official form being one of the forms of
l;c,ne,,,t pInurn) tia, -,..,,;- h. a., .l..-
radical Congress of u. In Russia "a news
paper has been suspended for a month, its
offence being the publishing Of the sentence
passed on certain Nihilists previous to its ap-
p~earance in the official gazette.
Talk about Spring poetry, why, even that
prosy institution, the telegraph, has become
affected. A few more days of sunshine and
we shall be receiving market quotations in
couplets the bullion report in sonnets, and,
most interesting Of all, news from Afshanis-
tan in jinsling rhymes. One of yesterdays
Washington dispatches runs as follows:-
" The weather is the very hottest ever known
here in May,
Which makes members doubly anxious to ad-
journ Congress and get away"
II Will NC VIZ liidt tiiclt lSStl tAlTd ltlnIl
of feet, but the lines refer to Congress and
Congressional feet are apt to he of generous
length. For a beginning, though, we con-
slider the lines decidedly good. Further
illusions from the press report poIc are await
ed with interest.
Upwards of five thousand persons assembled
at the Central Music Hall, Chicago, on the
evening Of the tweDty-sixth in a grent anti
Grant demonstration. Speeches were made
showing the shameless trickery, the wanton
departure from traditional Republican usages
by means of which the majority were de-
franded of their rights and the great State of
Illinois apparently carried for Grant. The
meeting was very enthusiastic. Resolutions
were passed affirming the right of the Con-
gressional districts to elect their delegates to
the National Convention, and their determi
nation to avail themselves of that right. Toe
late, gentlemen; too late. From its first dis
tinct appearance in the Pennsylvania State
convention. or from the primaries of New
York State, called at six hours notice-fron
that time until the meeting of the Colorado
Republican State convention the Grant move
ment has been a skillful piece of chicane, al
utter disregard of popular rights. The leor
ard could divest himself of his spots, or th
Ethiopian change his skin more readily thai
could such a faction accept as ITS ~actuatin
impulses a respect for the rights of others,
regard for fair play and honorable dealing.