The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-07

way company has 2 ,676 men employed along
its lines, an increase of 2,102 during the past
year.
THB Boston Herald says it is decidedly
amusing 10 think Of Senator Conklinga as .'be-
ing in the hands of his friends" His friends
are commonly in his hands-when the latter
are not full of his enemies. To speak of this
autocratic leader in such a way is like saying
that the potter is in the hands of the clay.
THE pedigree of the administration repub-
licans is thus given by an eastern exchange
Halfbreeds, alias Albinoes, alias political Eu-
nuchs, alias Featherheads, alias Sneaks, were
sired by "Public Pap and damned by Conk-
lingites, alias Stalw arts, alias Thourough-
breds. The issue will be a disrupted and
broken down republican party.
MANY people predicted that the enlarge
ment of the Welland canal would destroy the
Erie canal grain trade. This prediction has
not, thus far been fulfilled. Recently a YES
ell drawing only ten feat of water in attempt
ing to pass through got aground repeatedly,
though the official encouragement was that it
would admit of vessels drawing twelve feet
Of water. The Toronto, Canadian papers,
express much dissatisfaction at the result.
REPORTS from the county election inf Vir-
ginia indicate an overwhelming defeat of Ma
homes repudiators. The d~ebt-paying De-
mocracy of the Old Dominion are jubilant.
OF course the repudiators declare that no is
sue was presented in the contest and that they
will run Riddleberger for Governor in the
fall. This is a whistle to keep up the courage
of the motley crew that compose the opposi-
ton. We believe Riddleberger is too shrewd
a man to allow himself to be set up to be hot
down. The terrible scoring that Malone and
his strikers have received at the hands of
Democratic Senators during the past few
weeks has killed the Re-adj lister party in
Virginia as dead as the Capulets.
Parties who have bought policies of in
surance on the lives of individuals may find
something quite suggestive in the following
paragraph taken from the Philadelphia Rec
ord of a recent date. "The Supreme Court
of the United States has decided that the
parties buying policies of insurance upon the
lives of individuals can only claim the amount
of money actually due them out of the policy.
Any excess collected from a company can be
collected in a court of law by the heirs of the
person insured. This decision, recently rem
tered, is a matter full of interest to parties
who are in the speculative life insurance bus
mess. Their little game, it would seem, has
its limitations as a matter of profit. If the
heirs of the deceased persons who live have
been heavily insured do not take advantage
of their opportunities they are not the style
of heir to which the country is accustomed. ,
the sow returns to its wallow and the
dog to its vomit," so does the Inter Mountain
return to its silly charge that Major Maginnis
was instrumental in procuring increased mail
service on the White Sulphur Springs and
Fort Custer mail route. 1t bases its charge
upon the reported conversation between one
Wintermute, assistant postmaster at Fort
Custer, and John E. Furay, special agent of
the postOthce department. The whole mat
ter was ventilated some time ago by a Fort
CuSGeT CORRESPONDENCE OF tle New l OrK 1F3-
bune, and appears in the New York Mail of
a recent date. Now we will wager a ten
penny nail against the intelligence OF
our evening contemporaries fair bet-that
Major Maginnis did not write a letter in
which he said that " he and the democratic
party were going to lose the whole Muscle
shell country unless that mail service was
put back to a daily" We are surprised that
the Inter Mountain is so credulous as to be-
lieve such supreme nonsense.
The other charge that our neighbor makes
that " the MINER travels outside the record
and coVertly attacks our efficient del
egate," we would characterize as a falsehood
if our respect for 'decent journalism" and
charity for our contemporaries simplicity, i'm
becility or obtuseness did not appeal for for
giveness. 1t is hardly necessary to notice it.