The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t is said that English farmers are begin
ing to find they cannot compete with Ameri-
ca in wheat growing, and are about to turn
hei r attention to grazing and dairying.
And now comes ex-senator Chafee and de-
MES positively that be has been invited to
sccep. a place in A,thur's Cabinet, and adds
that he has not seen the President since his
inauguration. Won't some on Introduce
Mr.. ChafTee TO President Arthur?
The bankers have rememseredth TIC agitation
Tor the repeal of tile two cent s'arlp GA bank
checks, and are sending petitions to Congress
Q this end from every part of the county.
The change was recommended by Secretary
Sherman last winter, and discussed at length
in Congress, but with no result.
The Grant street New York cily) disaster
in which so many tenants were killed and
manned, induced the inspectors Of buildings
to examine other tenement houses in the
city. The result is the inspectors have de-
clared there are 10000 unsafe buildings in
he city. New York is rtslly Il city of man
traps.
The New York Mal says o new daily pa
per with a capital of $4,000 IS to be estab-
lished i'll New YORK city at The beginning Of
the year. The paper will support the new
administration, " hich means that half a mil
lion of dollars Gre to be eXpen ed by the
Stalwarts i'll urging the claims Of that fac
ton for political supremacy alter the eNpira-
49, r JS--s I.-. a.
Secretary Blaine retires from public life,
for the present at least, sometime next month.
If we may believe his organ. the kenUebec
Journal. there is 40 Office within the gift Of
his state or the administration thai he will
accept. Mr.. Blaine requires rest from his ar
duoUs labors aud Mr.. Arthur seems to entel-
tain he same opinion. 1t is, however, quite
within the range Of probabilities that the peo-
pie will sgain hear from Mr. Blaine in 1854
jeff. Davis in his book Oh the rise and
Fall OF the Confederate Government" fivcs
the total amount of that governments ueot.
On Oct. l., 1864, il was 81, IA 7, I90, 20S. Of
this amount $3.50, $4,000 WAS an ~in.erest
bearing funded debt. This did not iaclude
the foreign debt, or cotton loan, as it was
called, CT SIT 600, 900, which was provided for
by about 10000 bslss of cotton, collected by
the Confederate Government.
Minnesota is happy. She las redeemed
herself at fifty cents on the dollar, o. in 9TH
err words, she has, tyicgis alive enactment,
agreed to pay fifty cents on the dollar on her
hitherto repudiated bonds. As a readiuster,
Minnesota can teach 4aEone a lesson. The
Virginia repudjator was willing to pay two
thirds of his States Indebtedness, bus after
hearing from the STATE of Window, Ii is not
likely he will be willing to pay more than
one-third. Malone will not permit a North
ern State to rob him Of his hsr EARNED lau-
rels.
The new administration Of Mexico Las
been doing some creditable WORK. The al.
n"ai 5000 900 for the payment Of claims Al
10 xcd TO Cnited States citizens is ready, and
will be sent to Washington. The frs. 81 bs;-
to railroads, have been promptly paid,
while lie fund for this purpose is said to be
Increasing. The tax decresQ oil landed prop
rty to pay the government railroad 0bliga-
ions has been 50 modified as to meet the ap-
,roval Of the people, Yet, at the salue tine, ,
he amount produced from this source viii .
lot be less shan the original estimate. =
In the course of Secretary B!&!nn's 0IosA-
Examination in the Guiteau trial he took &C, {
aston to say that lie had nothing 10 do, per- l
onalfv vCItE thn R0bnrfsna ,u.t.ar. That bs
lutte OF no attention to the conflict in {
he New York legislature over the election of ,
and Plstt's SUCCESSORS, and that :
ae invented thu term '~Stalwart" himself in
1879. IDasmuch az these Statements were
made ia Court and under oath. they are not
cal history, but should foreve set at rest all
ontrary criticisms upon the points noted.
a recent telegram ssysit is rumored that
.nlong the recent schemes to be brought be-
ore Congress is one asking for d subsidy in
id of a line Of steamer to be established
y General Willard ana others ON tie Pacific
II compel ton with the Pacific Mail be-
Ween California aud Panama, and with the
'aciic Navigation company between Pana-
IA, Callao and Valparaiso. Agents Of this
Enterprise, it is said, are now seeking a sub
Idly from the CHILEAN government, and a
effort, il is believed, will be made to
induce the United States government to
in such d guarantee as may insure a
handsome profit 10 the promoters Of the
cheme.
Bradstreat's says Bank OF England notes
re made from pure white linen cutting
lever from rags That have been wcrn. SO
is the paper prepared that even tile
fdips into The pulp made by each in