The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-02
EDITORIAL T

nigh winds and rain showers to-day and to-
morrow.
All the faculties of the residents of the
Eastern states are now being devoted TO try
ing to keep cool.
Five American expeditions are hunting the
North Pole, says an exchange. What will
they do with it when they find it?
An eastern journal thinks the President
will be well enough in a week or two for the
disappointed Federal office seekers to abuse.
The sOld Guard is the name the stalwarts
have now adopted. Il is now in order for the
balfbrecds to style themselves the swelling
TONS
Accounts from Russia az, ee that the whole
power OF the government is still employed in
the task Of keeping the Car from being
blown up.
Germany and Austria have promised to re-
main neutral if Faance attack Tripoli. The
French may possess themselves of that terri
DRY unless England inIerferes.
Our dispatches state that the organization
of telegraph companies with millions of capt.
tai at their mma is now becoming fash
ionable. It's a fashion, how ever, that few can
follow.
Conk is dead,'' shout the New York half
breed journals, and there are " none so poor
that now will do him reverence When
'Conk.' dies a political DEATH says a stall
wart, " the republican party will have lost its
head and there will be little left worth saw
ing.'
At Clyde, Ohio, on the 22nd inst, the sew
enteenth anniversary of the death in battle Of
General j. B. MCPHERSON was commemorated
by the unwilling of a bronze statue of the helo
by ex-Pres,dent R. B. Hayes, in the presence
of twenty-one posts Of the G. A. r. and 49,
600 spectators.
The State Department at Washington has
received intelligence from the United States
Minister to China that the two treaties be-
tween the United States and China had been
ratified at Pekin on the 10Th inst. This was
expected. The Chinese Barkis has been
willin'" all the time.
Among the many names of distinguished
men mentioned as possible successors of the
ate Justice Clifford of the Supreme Bench, is
that of Mr.. Roscoe Conkling. That gentle
man having orce refused the position of
Chief Justice it is not likely he will now &C
cept that of Associate Justice.
1t is rumored that Carl Schurz will succeed
White. as American minister to Germany.
Over thirty years ago the irrepressible Carl
fed from Berlin as a revolutionist. His re-
turn TO that city now, bearing his creden-
tials from the most powerful republic on the
Slobe, would be a lesson on the rights of man
that Bismarck and the Kaiser could not fail
to learn. Let Schurz be sent to Germany.
"Poor's Railroad Manuel" which is an &C.
copied authority on both sides of the Allan
tic. shows an increase Of Is per cent. in both
the gross and the net railway earnings of
1880 over 1870. and an increase during the
past ten years in freight earnings of Is per
cent, and that freight charges have dimin-
ished for the same period of time SO per
cent. These, when compared together, show
how the demands of agriculture, trade and
and the growth of the railway
systems have kept company at an even pace.
When politicians fail to reach the goal of
their ambition by every known means of
conveyance, they fall back and wait for the
"whirliglg of time" to take them up. 1t is
now charged that Lord Roscoe is waiting for
that periodically appearing machine to
tumble him into the Presidential chair.
Won't some friend whisper in the ear of the
'great resigner" that the people propose to
dispense with the services of republican pres
idents after the 4th of March, 1885. 1t may
save him the pain of disappointment.
In speaking of the coal regions of the Pu-
get Sound, the San Francisco Chronicle says
that it is not yet certain that anth. acite coal
has been found in these new northern mines.
Reports of such discoveries have from time
to time appeared in the newspapers of some
of the Sound towns, but they need confirma-
ton. As to the bituminous region, it is prac-
tically everywhere, from the Cascade Mount.
aims to the sea. 1t is a source of future wealth
and stable prosperity to San Francisco and
that country; worth probably more than all
the mines of precious metals.
The question Of deep water terminus for
the Southern Pacific of California continues
to attract attention. TIL Galveston Ne,cs
says it has information from a reliable source
in New York that Galveston might be select
ed as the terminus of this important road, if
deep water could be secured there through
the expenditure of $4,000 0 or 81, 1000, 900.
The Latest information from the source TO-
ferred to indicates that the m utter is under
adyisrment, Colonel Huntington being en-
gagged in informing himself as to the practical
bility of the scheme as an engineering prob
en-. Or.