The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-05
EDITORIAL T

Spokane Falls, w. L., on the ZoGn UT. Inc
good work goes bravely on.
1t is stated that the Duke of Argyle, who
has been suffering severely of late fro n govt,
is much worse, and his recovery is considered
doubtful.
An Albany dispatch to the New York
Times says: ''Some of the Conkling men
seem to have obtained information that
Conkling and Plat are about to withdraw
from the CONTEST Has the millennium ar
rived?
The lion and the lamb have lain down to
sether. General Grant met the President at
Long Branch recently, and, it is said, greeted
him most cordially. Seaside air, champagne
and cigars wonderfully mollify the human
passions.
Ex-Governor Seymour is reported as saying
to a newspaper correspondent of the contest
at Albany: 81 see in it a conflict between
elements whose struggles foretell the early
dismembernen of the republican party"
The mass of hat party see the same thing.
The emigration from Sweden this year is
expected to reach 7 5000. The Scandinavisns
are a healthy, finely physically formed race
and are u desirable acquisition to the popula-
ton of this country. Nearly all of these
people will become producers of agricultural
products.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, under date
went to the Winter Palace yesterday and de-
manded an aulience with the Princess of
Montenegro. Being refused he stabbed the
officer on duty. The russian officer then
shot the Montenegrin dead.
Griscom, the fool faster, weighed on the
18th ult., 1922 pounds. His respiration, ID;
pulse, SO; and temperature, 49, His mind
dwell, constantly on the time when his fast
shall have been finished, and he shall indulge
in green peas, spring lamb and other forbid
den luxuries.
Recent New York political market reports
indicate republican legislators were fiat and
quotations merely nominal. Assemblymen re
main as at last advices $1,000 with a down.
ward tendency. Only one transaction in seh-
ators reported. Ssalwarls stiff. Ha'fbreeds
depressed.
A second comet has appeared and is visible
in some portions of the east. The stranger is
puzzling the astronomers. Some Of our sd-
cants in the Rocky mountains say there is
nothing remarkable about this. They profess
to be able to see a half dozen or more of these
erratic visitors by looking through the bottom
of a common lumber. =
A cure for hydrophobia is reported to have
been found in Tonquin-the hoang-nan. 1t
is said to he a poison something like strych-
nine and the patients system thus becomes
the battle ground between the poison and
virus. These become neutralized by contact
and the sufferer lives. There is no question
in regard to its efficacy in hydrophobia. but
we have no use for it in Montana.
Custodian Pitney has thrown himself back
on his dignity and don't propose TO be made
\ scapegoat for the sins of others any longer.
He will not attempt to prove that the bench
Is used about the department needed over
coats and candles to make them comfortable,
but will doubtless show who was really re-
sponsible for tie purchase of such luxuries
LET no guilty man escape"
The New York World says ''the admins
eration is bound to have purity in politics
even if 1t costs $4,000 to purify one assembly
man and a marshalship to purify one state
SENATOR Cleaning the Augean stable of re-
publican politics with greenbacks and offices
is a slow, expensive and unsatisfactory meth
cd. Before it is half done the great corpora
tons in the east will be bankrupted and tn,
patronage OF the president exhausted.
A letter recently addressed to the Empero
of Russia and all high officials, assuring then
that they had not benn sentences
to death by the revolutionists, and which i
supposed to have emanaGpd from the leader
of the .Black Division" concludes as fol
lows: The executive committee deem j
quit u necessary al present t" repeat it
criminal enterprises. rs The measures ut tn
new Ministry are last driving the cuunlry int
revolution"
The trial of the star route c0rSplrators Ina
been postponed until next September and tn
inference is that their conviction will be il
definitely postponed. 1t is hardly probab'
that tagging justice will ever overtake an
seize upon the fellows who have been quicl
ened and strengthened by the generous pot
tions of government pap to which they hay
so long helped themselves. The penitentiaI
will be dou otless cheated of its prey. but IL
verdict of the people will nevertheless col
sign them to oblivion tor Garfield said al
no guilty mar escape"
The situation at Washington may be brief
stated, thus: Garfield is at Long Branch, no
nobbing with Grant. Vice President Arth'
Ia nlauinn tail to the Gonklino kite at lAlban