The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Stalwartism must 60. Gui,teau's pistol did
more to seal its fate than all the arguments Of
the halfbreeds could have done in a lifetime.
And now it is stated that Griscom, the
it possible that all of the calamities must
follow in the train Of the comet?
From January 1st of the present year to
j n 3Oth, the earnings of %forty-three rail-
roads in the United States amounted to the
enormous sum of $lO2, III, 800, a gain of
nearly SIP, 900 900 as compared with the cor
respondi g period last year.
The Colorado Editorial Association has
been in session for several days past at Den
yer. 1t held its final meeting on the 18th
inst. On account of the extremely warm
weather the proposed excursion to Santa Fe
was postponed until next September.
A match was shot about the 18th inst. at
the Gun Club grounds, Noting Hill, between
Mr.. Stuart Wortley, a member of the Hurl-
ingLon Gun Club, and DR.. Carver, for flOO
to $500, at 100 pigeons each, thirty yards rise.
The committee of the Gun Club will give a
handsome cup to the WHINE of the match.
The relations of the late Thomas K. Pugh
are not fully convinced that he was murder
ed by the Apaches. They appear to think he
was foully dealt with by parties disguised as
Apaches for some motive not yet discovered.
Mr.. William H. Pugh, the uncle of the muir
dered man, will go to Ell Paso and investigate
the dark points connected with the trag-
edy.
The bulletins of the Presidents physicians
indicate that he may now be considered out
of danger. His pulse and temperature are
about normal and his appetite good. No I'M
favorable symptom has yet appeared, and
Judging from the favorable progress he has
made, none can be reasonably apprehended;
therefore his rapid and complete recovery
may be confidently looked for.
The Albany Legislature on the 18th inst.
made Mr.. Sessions, who is under indictment
for bribery, one of the Conference Commit
tee of the Senate on the bill to tax brokers'
sales. The only suggestive thing about his
appointment ut is, that the bill is known among
the New York capitalists as a bill to black
mail brokers. The Legislature appeared to
comprehend .t,.e eternal fitness of things
and placed Sessions on the committee.
While the excitement at Albany is at its
highest, Conkling, it is said, Is at New York
looking up laws concernii G tunnels. 1t is
evident the broken down stalwart is hunting
IN one in which to crawl and hide himself.
As every avenue leading to the goal of his
overweening ambition appears to be blocked,
it would seem that a tunnel is a proper place
in which the once idolized Roscoe may pass a
few years in seclusion.
Fifty prominent New York Socialists re-
Gently met in that city and sent one Carl
Seely as a delegate to represent the Socialists
of the United States in the "In;ernational
Congress of London" What that Congress
proposes to do may be learned in the call ad-
dressed to the "Revolutionists of the whole
world,'' in which they are counseled to put
aside all petty differences and to unite upon
one common platform-the revolution.
According to the New York Commercial
Bulletins dispatch, the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company has paid into the treasury
$144,O 900 in s.ttlement of the claim of the
government against that company to Decem-
Der 81, 1880. This amount, added to the
transportation furnished the government dur
ing the year, makes up the sum of 25 per
cent. of the company's net earnings required
to I've paid into the Sinking Fund under Sec
ton 4 of the Thurman act. This is one of
the points that has been in controversy be-
tween the government and the Central Pacific
Company, and Mr.. Huntington paid the
S144, 900 arrears under protest.
1t is infinitely to the credit of the MINER
that it disavows having charged that the
President and his medical advisers were EN-
Gagged in a conspiracy of shamming to create
sympathy with the people. A GOOD many
people thought that that was what the MINER
intended to say upon the subject, aud now
they are puzzled to know what that half col
umn Of trash was about ii 1t was not intend
ed to convey that imp~ression.-Inter Noun
tain, July IL.
A ssgood many people thought" no such a
thing, They knew that that shalt column OF
trash, was to show to what extent astalwa art
republican journal would 60 to villify the
head of the half breed party. Can the "puta.
tive" Inter Mountain see it?
The deep, honestly sincere and genuine
sympathy for the President expressed by the
Southern papers has demonstrated that thai
section is ssolid" in %denouncing the murder
GUS att empt of the miscreant Guitteau upor
his life. In speaking of it the New Orleans
Picayune voices the sentiments Of the South
ern people in the following language:
"The hand that would strike the assassin
blow at the chief magistrate Of this Republic