The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20
MINER AGENTS.

ndut, is supposed to have lerished in the
ush .,. /, foot of Mount Tan,alpais.
Dispatches received to day report a foot
race in Birmingham, England, half mile
dash, made in the unprecedentedly quick
time Of 1904.
4 great sensation was caused at Bristol.
England, by the discovery that a cargo of
three hundred tons of human bones were re-
Gently landed there.
Plethysmograph is the latest thing. 1T is a
device which has been recently invented to
measure the mind DR.. Mosso, Of Turin, is
the inventor. Its revelat ions are based on
the fact that thought creates nervous action,
which consumes in its performance a certain
quantity of blood, and that quantity may be
ensured.
The Tasty people living in the southern
portion Of Europe, along the shores OF the
Black Sea, have bred a new disease, an ac-
count ofthe ravages OF which is contained in
the dispatches to day. The disease is report
ed to b. spreading, and may III lime reach
this country. 1t is particularly fatal among
children under fifteen years of age.
keene says if lie wspaper accounts are 10 be
believed he has lost his entire fortune ten
times over within the last three months. In
a late transaction III the Hamilton and St.
Joe railroad it is stated he lost a million and
a half. keeue says hr didn't have a dol
lars interest either way. Some of those east.
ern newspaper reporters fight shy OF tie
truth and escape it with remarkable exact
ness.
The land league does not appear to have
disbauded upon the passage OF the land bill.
Ii. fact they repudiate that act as a set 'ement
of the trouble in Ireland, and declare it rad
ically inefficient. To-day's dispatches bring
lis a synopsis of resolutions that will be sub
mitted ny the executive committee to the
national land league, among which are, the
right Of self government, the extension Of the
franchise to l~aborers, and a termination of
alien rule.
Ire0uois won another victory for American
horses in the St. Leger handicap race, yes
terday. To make the thing more binding,
his rider pulled him up at the start, putting
four horses ahead of him, and at the head Of
the second division three other horses had
passed him. The wonderful speed and en-
durance of lroquols manifested itself in the
las half mile Of the race, passing the seven
horses ahead Of him at full running speed,
and winning easily by a length.
Attorney General MacVeagh's dispatch of
the 18th inst. to Minister Lowell states that
the trouble with the Presidents right lung is
not increasing, and that while it cannot be
reported that he has gained anything, he has
probably lost nothing. The sun and essence
of the voluminous dispatches that burden
the wires have at no time led TO any other
conclusion than that the President was a very
sick man. Every circumstance upon which
the kind wishes of the country might hang a
hope has been fully detailed but the mass
of them do not seem to lave brought US to
a point where it can be definitely stated that
convalesceuce has begun.
The proceedings of the national land
league reported in to-day's dispatches, show
a large attendance ard unGOunded enthusi
asm, and that the men who are engaged il
the movement are terribly in earnest
Among the resolutions adopted was one af
frming the rights of self government. Par
nell advocated leaving the land of the coun-
try in a state of nature rather than having Il
improved and enhanced in value by tenant
under the system of landlOrdisn, and b
voiced the sentiments of the determined mel
composing the association when he proclaim
ed ~non-intercourse with england in commeI
cial matters, but that they should buy i
America what they could not provide at home
even if the cost should be greater.
The authorities at Washi neton seem to b
afraid to give the star route cases to a jury {
the District OF Columbia. There may be
difficulty in obtaining proof; but the MOI
reasonable explanation seems to be in til
difficulty in obtaining a jury that will find
true bill upon evidence that brings conviC
ton to the mind Of the entire country. tt
first jury contained a few Of the star roui
silent partners aud that may be the troub
with the present one. The humorous write
who said that he felt an uncomfortable desil
to steal something as he approached Wasl
ington, was not altogether tacetious. A trii
IF public ROBBERS in the home of their frienC
will be about as ~effectual as trying a Mormo
by a Mormon jury.
The death of Mr.. Sidney Lanier the We
known poet and scholar took plac' at Lynn
NJ ~ on tho Sth inst Mr. Lamar was hnT
at Macon, Georgia, in 1912, his father being
leading lawyer of that town. From his earl
childhood he was the victim of a painful an