The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20
MINER AGENTS.

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Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, in an inter-
view published on the 9Th, takes the position
That Congress alone can declare the disability
of the President, and authorize the Vice
to act.
The wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa, at
tempted suicide by drowning at Perry, New
York, on the 5th. She had been attending a
water cure establishment at Silver LAX, and
is supposed to he partially insane.
The reported massacre of General Carr aud
his entire command, near Fort Apache, on the
LIST int, turns out to have been a gross exag-
geration. The Indians attacked General
.Carr's troops and compelled them to retreat,
but inflicted a loss of only seven killed and
two wounded.
Tie n. Y. Herald has been publishing the
opinions of prominent men ~ the subject Of
the inability of The President, and the right
of Arthur to act. Among others interviewed
e x-President Hayes does not think it advis-
able under the circumstances to have General
Arthur act during the disability of Garfield.
Guitteau was forty years oh on the 9th
inst. He had the assurance TO call the atten-
ton of his guards to the fact t! at sometimes
people received presents on suc1 occasions.
.Guitteau didn't get any, bu. one OF his
watchers thought a spider Ia his dumping
would be about the proper thing for hun.
He was u~niustly denied even that small favor.
On August 81 Ayoob khau issued a procla
nation declaring that he had abandoned his
intention Of fighting the Alneer, and was
shout to fight the English. To this end he
all persons having weapons belonging
to the nme!t to consider them their
own on condition OF their joining his STANDARD
Immediately. The hea,hen of Afshanistan
evidently cannot be trusted.
The county and municipal cleo ION that
has just taken place at San Francisco was
remarkable. The Stock Exchange
says Of it: w shall be glad when this
election is over. 1t has been, without excnp.
ton, the nasliesl local campaign on record.
1t has been a malicious, bitter and mud
fight, in which all around lying has
been carried to an unprecedented extent"
Senator Jones SAYS that Vice. President
Arthur would refuse to serve as President in
case President Garfield requested hin to
IS 1rve, as The mere fact OF the President being
able to make the request, would drprove the
Inability required by the constitution. Re
thinks Mr., Garfield should call Congress to
Gether so IL 1t it may devise means for reliev-
ing the public business of all embarrassment
while the President continues i'll.
James g.. Fair manages to keep out of the
poor house on she little sum of S42, 0OO, 600.
Flood keeps the woIt fIom the door by shak-
ing in his face the receipt for taxes paid on
s3G, 100000. Mackey manages to keep his
wife in pin-money and himself from the
panss Of hunger on $4,000, 900 and Charlie
Croker endures life supported by the same
of this worlds goods.
One of the speakers of the late Malone
Convention in Virginia gave the essence of
the Regulators platform when he said
We want 10 pay all we morally owe, and we
owe only what we are able to pay.'
Here is political ethics for you. If applied
10 the business relations Of men it wonld
shorten their obligations atnazingly. The Old
Dominion will repudiate the Regulators
The Central Pa t2, IN seeking an eastern
independent Of the Union Pa fife.
IS reported to have found a direct an feasible
cue through Yankton to Chicago. A
Chicag1 Times special from Yank:on saws
hat Rev. Mr.. Hinman has just returned from
aking the census of the Indian tribes, and
le states that lie met at Smiths Pass, Wyo.
ming, a party of Central Pacific surveyors.
Who reported having found IA practicable
pass for their extension from Ogden to Yank-
The Boston Economist having pulled up an
Arizona mine, the Eastland. in which lis
were interested, by saying that at
80 feet the mine was in 5000 ore, and at 800
eet in $3.50 ore, the SAP Francisco Stock Er-
hange makes this sensible observation !: ave
especially submit that by the constant pub.
Of such paragraphs as the above the
ditors of the Economist are doing their mine
more harm in public estimation than good"
n this latitude newspaper mine putting not
My fails to help tue mine in public ostima-
ion, but it stamps as a fraud the newspaper
which inficts puffs Oh its readers, who buy it
or news.
The New York World says: The papelt
it is a Republican paper, too, which has
lade war most vigorously on the Star route
Dbbers confesses its apprehension that it VII
e impossible to bring them to justice. And
ur esteemed Republican contemporaries that
ave disDlaVel so much enterprise and fa.