The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-15

The French military hospitals at Malseilles
are full and another will be built in the
course of the year. That Tunisian war is
playing sad havoc with the French army.
The climate, it is said, is more fatal than the
enemy's bullets.
In the burning of the state capitol building
of Texas that state suffered a loss that cannet
be estimated in dollars and cents. The de-
s,ructisn Of the archives Of the Republic is
irreparable and WILDE regretted by the whole
world.
The Mining and Engineering Journal says:
1.-THE time is rapidly approaching when
Eastern cities, aud notably New York, will
be crowded with gentlemen connected with
the mining industries of the West" This is
not true 80 far IS Butte m~ine-owners ara con-
cerned. The mines here can find purchasers
nearer home.
Since Minnesota has adopted the r~eadjust-
ment principles Of Malone and Window is
known to stand by the action Of his State, it
S in order now for the Republican party to
urge the nomination of Malone and Window
As ito candidates for President and Vice
President in 1884. The repudi ton boom
has struck that party of ''grand moral ideas"
The Benton Record in . short notice Of Mr..
Chauucey I. Filley, the probably new Post
MASTER General, says, 81 is = Stalwart Of
Stalwart's, with q fine old besmirched reputa-
ton reaching back to the days Of Grant" The
people are seriously threatened with q rein
statement Of the Grant regime. Belknap,
Mcdonald and others Of that ilk will TO-
come to the surface again.
1t is decided to erect a new building to cost
$780, 900 on The site OF the old tenement house
which recently fell Town in New York City
and buried so many beneath its ruins Is it
not now about time to pull down the many
old man-traps, called tenement houses, in that
city, and erect safe building. in their places?
But moneybags, as . rule, only lock the sta
BILE after the horse is stolen.
The naval board has recommended that
forty-one new war We ssels be built. There
must be just forty-one men who want q gov
eminent contract who n be supplied IN
any other direction. Since the AdmiEistra-
ton has taken a hand in adjustment it would
be quite as well to adjust these forty-one i'm
pecunious gentlemen into postoaces in Vir-
ginia and save the government as many mil
lions of dollars,
The Hartford Post says: CAT Atlanta the
other day the governors present were weighed
and they were all reasonably solid men, the
record Of States being Is follows: Pennsyl-
vania, 24s; Kentucky, 233a; North Caro-
lima, 2O2 Connecticut, 1851; Georgia, 17e."
To which the New York Mail adds: off
our governor had been there New York
would have crowded closely on Kentucky.
And those whose jobs he has vetoed would
certify that he weighs a ton"
1t is stated that the most noteworthy exhib-
it made at the Atlanta Exposition is that OF
the Woman's National Silk Association. Co
coons as fair in quality as those from Italy are
shown from nineteen states and reeled silk
from twelve states. The prosecution OF this
industry is one for which ladies are peculiar
ly adapted, and its encouragement by then
reflects an honor that ~elevates the sex in the
estimation of sll.
Owing to the great press OF teiegraphic mat
ter a large portion OF editorial is crowded out
We have only space TO congratulate Demo
Gratis upon the decided and gratifying gain
which their political comrades have made il
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Penn
sylvania and Wisconsin. Ali lovers of the /
country will join the honest democracy Of
Virginia in depreeating lie consummatiol
ofthe foul plot which has cast dishonor upor
the name OF the mother Of Presidents.