The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-22
Miscellaneous Dispatches.


| The Lenten Pastoral.
DUBLIN, March 14.-The following is the
reference TO the land league in Arch Bishop
McCabe's Lenten Pastoral.
| Let no body accuse us of want Of sympa-
thy with the great question of justice which
now appeals to parliament for settlement
The cause is just and holy, and carries with
it the blessings Of religion, and among the
terrible mistakes made formerly for ruling
this unhappy land there is none. perhaps,
which will exceed in folly that which will be
now committed if the vital question of the
tenure OF land-holding is not settled now and
forever on just principles to all. So con-
WINGED are we that full and honest set le-
ment OF this angry controversy is essential to
the temporal happiness, moral and religious
interests of our countrymen that if the sac
rlf1ce of blood could lend to the consurnmation
| OF this grand act of justice We would make
the sacrifice. Whilst we bless the end now
aimed al, we must again proclaim that some
OF the means employed in the struggle can
| not receive the sanction of religion.
The modesty of her daughters was the
ancient glory OF Ireland but all this is now
| to be abandoned, and our daughters are sum-
moned under the flimsy pretext of charity to
| take Their stand IN he noisy arena of public
life. The pretext of charity is merely assum-
ed, for already we have the holy associations
for the poor and afflicted, and even the harsh
laws now coming IN force have mercfully
| provided for the families Of those falling un-
| der their power.
New YORK, March 14.-The Worlds Lon
| don statements frcm Chicago and New York
contradlcting reports of hog cholera appear
in all papers, but the mischief has been done,
and It will be slow work to undo it.. Every
local in the mt hac Nod
alarming stories about American pork and
cautioned the public not to touch it. The
| result is that the sale of American bacon has
| almost ceased in the districts where 1t was
once la gely consumed. Inquiries have been
made Of several wholesale dealers in London,
and they assert that the scare has frightened
away nearly all their customers.
The PoU MAI Gazette of to-day, says
"Had the Americans been more prompt
| with their contradiction it would not have
| affected so seriously the foreign market.
for their pork.'' Stories are now being crcll-
lated as TO the danger of the eating Of Ameri
can canned meats. 1t is alleged that diseased
animals are put up and the statement is sup
ported by quotation from the Maine Farm
eT, saying that carcasses are shipped from
| Portland which are not fit for dogs to eat.
| The bad condition in which some of these
goods arrived lend plausbility TO such asser
tlors but, OF course, this pleconcerted attack
on American meats is the WORK of a clique OF
spectators and of English dealers who are
anxious to kill off Amer lean competition.
| CHICAGO, March 13.-George Mcbride, j
hostler in the employ Of VIM. B. Simpson
was shot aud killed by a well known thief
named Harry Gilmore, in front of the Wabasl
avenue pavilion to day. Simpson had beer
on a spree, and Mcbride was away from h s
home to hunt him up, and found him in the
pavilion in the company of Gilmore. Nc.
Bride tried to get his employer away but Gil,
more intertered and called Mcbride names
whereupon Mcbride invited him outside tc
settle the matter with fists. When they
started out Gilmore was handed pistol BY
the bar tender, and when Simpson saw The
pistol in Gilmore's hand he tried to stop the
fight and Mcbride said he had no intention
of fighting unarned with Gilmore. The lat
ter sad he would not let his adversary off Sc
ca lily and levene the pistol over Simpson.
shoulder sent a ball through McBride's TEN
pie, killing him instantly. Simpson, The
owners of the saloon and the bartender WERE
arrested, but Gilmore escaped.
CHICAGO, Mar. 12.--In the criminal court
Judge Moran to-day, in sentencing Ed. p
Powers, who pleaded guilty to the murder o
1ee Non, an inoiiensve Chinese laundry
man, to 20 years in the penetentiary, tool
occasion to deliver speech on the practice
of carrying concealed weapons which is al
most universally the practice among the
more depraved and brutal of the population
of this city and intimated that persons comins
before him would find no leniency for offence
in which that violation of the law was in
vOlved.