The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
EDITORIAL T

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custom house by voting against him.
Recent advices from Nebraska say that
homesteads and cheap farm lands are being
rapidly taken up>by settlers and capitalists.
The tide of immigration is increasing, and
all industries show a healthy, prosperous
condition., with labor in constant demand.
The left wing of the Republican party in
Virginia, headed by Malone and generally
known as debt repudiato1s, ended their DOW
WOW at Richmond last Friday by nominating
Col. Cameron for Governor, Lewis e. Har-
ris for Lieut.. Governor and Capt. Frank
s. Blair for Attorney General.
The New York grain correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, after a careful survey of
the situation, reaches the conclusion that a
late crop in the United States this summer
and a wet spring in England will produce a
demand for the entire surplus grainsupply in
this country, with a possibility Of high prices
in the summer before the new crop con'sin.
Conkling has looked upon Blaine as his
mortal enemy ever since the latter spoke con-
temptuously Of "his lordly pomposity, his
grandiloquent swell, his majestic overtower-
ing and his turkey gobbler strutting' and de-
.clared he compared with Winter Davis as ia
satyr with Hyperion, Thersites with Her.
cules, mud with marble, a dunghill with a
diamond, a singed cat with a bengal tiger and
a whining puppy with a roaring lion." 1t is
strange some men can't take a joke.
Between the Halfbreeds and the Stalwarts
A. ~ klA,-r ~, - ~raot lo,r,,
of being seduced. Each faction is bestowing
its most endearii!g caresses and henied words
upon the representatives of the so-called dead
party. Joseph's troubles with Potlphar's
wife sinks into insignifcance compared with
that which the prosecuted Democrats are
now suffering from the eager desire of the
Republicans to embrace them. The price of
coats have advanced fifty per cent. in the
Albany market during the past few days.
A contract was recently closed at st. Louis,
for an experimental shipment of 5000 BUSH
els of spring wheat from St. Paul, Mimi, to
Glasgow, Scotland. The wheat will be taken
on ba.ges to New Orleans and from thence to
the point of destination. If this shipment
prove successful others will follow amour Mt
ing, perhaps, to 100000 bushels. A large
lot of sacked -four has recently been shipped
from St. Louis to Liverpool via of the river to
New Orleans at the rate of so cents per hum
dred, owing to the abundance of tunnage at
New Orleans.
Our evening contemporary appears to la
Dor under a mortal fear lest a raIlrC ad
shouli reach Butte sometime during the
present century. In its issue of last evening
nearly a column is devoted 10 quotations,
definitions and nonsense to prove that it
knows nothing whereof it Speaks, in which
endeavor it succeeded admirably. 1t desires
TO stand squarely upon the fence on the rail
road question, but its deep seated prejudice
against the progressive spirit of the aga
betrays itself in every line. The "pop"
of the bull-whacker's whip and the mule
skinner's yell is sweet music in its ears, but
the scream OF the locomotive and the rum
bling of the cars strike its fossilized tympanum
as discordant, u"eartbly sounds.
Ex-Presidens Hayes has blossomed out into
q Half breed of the most approved pattern.
He lately accused Grant of thrice attempting
to ruin the republican party-in the election
of 1876, in the senate on adopting the report
of the electoral commission, and i'll the ap-
pointment of the Potter committee. Conk-
ling. he says. sis a monomaniac on the sub
ject of his own Importance" Should the
stalwart chief achieve the object of his pres
ent ambition, Frauderford b. Hayes will re-
ceive such a blisterlng at the hands of the ex-
senator as will forever destroy his appetite
for criticising his superiors. There is a long
story to be told in connection with the Presi-
DENTAL election of 1876 that no man can bet
ter tell than Roscoe Conkling.
A seeker after light in the matter of Gre
nation propounds the following queries,
through the columns of an eastern paper, to
the clergy and to The scientists of the country.
To the former he asks: " Is there in the Bible
81 in the tenets of the Jewish aud Christian
religions anything adverse to the cremation
of the human dead 2" Of
the latter he wishes to inquire whether " In
the present method of burial IS there, to the
health of the living, any danger which would
be waited by cremation ?" Here is a wide
field for debate in which su~peranuated preach
ers, old wonen and embryo sarants may en-
gage without entering upon the domain of
politics. The parties most deeply interested
in the final decision of the question are
probably the sections drought the country.
The livery stable organ of this city, it
seems, cannot raise its mental vision above a
horse collar. Whisper the word "railroad'
in its ear and, like a bull enraged by the dis
play of a red flag, it rushes madly at every OBJ
iect it sees. The article on 'sThe right of way
which appeared in the MINER of the 9th inst.
has been a target against which it has vainly