The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-27
MINER AGENTS.

Mayor Grace. of New York, has issued an
order to aoate the pool rooms in that city.
H. Clay Wilson, charged with the murder
of lam E. Wilcoxen, alias Jim Moon, was
acquitted in Denver on the 18th.
A dispatch of the 10Th from New York
states that the mining stock dealers of that
place look with distrust upon the perma-
nencv of the present boom in the Comstock
stocks.
Senator Lapham, of New York, is a cousin
of that female OF uncertain age, Susan B.
Anthony. Writing to her after his election
be says: "Of the future l hope that our
country will prosper, and that woman will
yet be accorded her rights"
The old Duke of Argyll, the father of
1.orne, and consequently the father-in-l law of
Louise, the Queens daughter, has been get
ting married. His dsughter-in-law and his
grown children refused to atter l the we'd
ding. His bride is a daughter of the Bishop
of Rochester.
A dispatch, Sept. 18th, from Berlin, says
that the Emperor William has sanctioned the
act OF acceptance by the descendants of
Baron Won Steuben of the invii alton to at
tend the Yorktown Centennial celebrate on,
TIL descendants are all officers of the Prus-
sian army.
A dispatch of the 10th, says nat Conkliug
took an active interest IN the primary cleo
lions i'll Utica, carrying them for the stalwart
wing, and it Is definitely stated hat he will
also carry Oneida county. The probabilities
are that before the State convention meets the
tribe of half-breeds in the Sta e of New York
will be extinct.
The question of woman's rights seems to be |
gaining ground. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore
was a delegate to the Republican Convention |
OF Massachusetts,, held on the 21st. The CEN
trail committee voted at first not to seat her. |
but afterwards went back ON it. Mrs. Iivar-
more is a very stout woman.
A dispatch Sept. 18th, from Lieut.. Gree
ley's expedition in search of the lost jean
ette, states that the expedition reached Lady |
r rankin Bay in the SOth parallel one month |
from the tins of leaving St. Johns. No ice |
was encountered until the bay was reached. |
The building for winter quarters was framed
and being covered.
4 large number of the American journal. |
have boldly thu themselves into the
breach in all ate mpt to controvert the alleged
statement of Mr.. John Walter, of the London
Times, that the American press is ''provin-
PiaI - Thara ia pnfbinp pnrt;o,, rly G.-..- |
about these attempts, only that Mr.. Walter
never made any such statement.
\ distinguished visitor will shortly ps,s
through Montana. The Marquis of Lerne,
Governor-General of Canada, who, according
to the n. Y. World, Sept. 18th, is now hunt
ing in the Rocky Mountains. will return to
Calgary, and from there will 20 to Forts
Mcleod, Benton and Helena, Mon, and
thence by the Union Pacific road back 10
The dispatches sent 10 this country from
London are strong OF what they term the
evolutionary and disorganizing utterances of
in the national convention Of the land
eague. These dispatches no doubt refer to
lis recommendation to the farmers to aid in
houses for the l~aborers, that they
nay live in something like decency and
The rumored appointment of Count Her
Bismarck as Minister to Washington has
net with objection on high moral grounds. l
lis little eccentricity with the wife of Prince :
suggests the imprudence of his be-
lg brought into contact with the guileless
reasury girls, and tine high moral tone of
Vashington society might suffer from toler-
ting one who is not altogether what an I
NIGEL should be. {
1t is stated that Queen Victoria will not
eep in a room with carpet on the floor. 1t :
Mould not be infer I'd from this statement
lat she is too poor to indulge in such a lux
ry. There are a good many writers on
anthology who have suggested that carpets
re necessarily filthy and originate the germs /
7 some of our diseases. That may be the :
why a good many people in this region
initiate the example of the Queen. =
The celebrated French a%eronaut, Eugene .
odard, recently went up in a balloon from
Jenna with three reporters. They got into I
thunder storm and, deciding to come down c
quickly as possible, opened the escape pipe. t
he balloon descended so fast that a fall into I
lie Danube seemed inevitable. GODDARD ex- t
aimed ave are one too many" Not one '
7 the reporters took the hint, but COM t
enced throwing out rope and the anchor, t
hich fortunately caught in the brush at the s
ver's bank, and the party regained their !
mposure at a village inn near by. I
The report just published Of the Grand
ecording and Corresponding Secretaries of I
re Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows shows that
present membership is 466, S57, and that /