The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-18

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vs., O99, 1856 COG.
n Over $4,000 had been subscribed to the
company UP to the 4th inst.
John Sherman has received the nomination
for the United States senate at the hands OF
the republicans in the Ohio legislature. His
ELECTION is assured.
II The Deadwood Times says that the Home
stake Company will buildtwo 2eo-stamp mills
tnext spring. The yield from their mines
NOW is $3.50, 900 a month.
Vice-President Wheeler declares there is
mot the least doubt about the republicans
thaving control of the new senate that will
inject aft er the 4th of March next.
Gen. Miller (rep.), of California, will be
the successor of Booth in the United States
Senate. and j. G. Fair (dem.) will succeed
Sharon from Nevada-so our dispatches say.
According to the annual report of Wells,
Fargo & Co, the production Of the precious
metals west ofthe Missouri river for the year
1850, shows an aggregate of gold S33,522 lo2 =;
lsf silver, S30,0 05 1854; of lead, S5,752,590 !:
of copper, SegS, 900. Total, $50, III 1925. Col
Dorado leads in the mineral productions, and
Nevada shows a total falling Off of over &c.
100000.
lit The Obelisk, Of which SO much has been
tlately said and written, was uncased and
I shown to the thousands who visited Central
rPark during the holidays. Il is now nearly
i'm place, being less than 400 feet from its
site on New Years day. When elevated
upon the foundation prepa ed for it, this work
lof the ancients will be one of the principal
lattractio,.s offered to the visitors of the great
eastern metropolis.
The Denver Republican says: "United
States Senator Iugalls, Of Kansas, is tall, thin
and cadaverous. He wears a flaming scarlet
'neck-tie, heavy brimmed spectacles, and is
the father of eleven children. And he is
said to be very literary. In fact, lie has a
Ia great reputation as a literary man. But,
cafter all, what that is really literary hasthere
ihver been discovered about him, except his
fhin figure and his spectacles.
III
sad mistake when he undertook TO bluff Mr..
/ Payard and challenge the truth Of history.
\ The prospect now is that before The 4th of
March the senator from New York, the goy-
Il ernor Of New York and yice-prasident eject
y from New York will be made to cut a sorry
Y Figure in this Phelps, Dodge & Co. business.
sl,f the Assistant Democrats cannot elect
i ipeaker of the assembly Or United States sen-
L ltor, they can enjoy the spectacle Of the trio
lbove named put to The rack
ttt Denver Republican :'Gen. Joseph Johnston
" a member Of the house military committee,
10 which has been referred the bill placing
" pen. Grant on the retired list Of the army,
fifth the rank and pay of a general, and upon
whose action the fate of that bill will chiefly
aepend. Gen. Johnston is said to be in favor
1&If it. This certainly presents a strange
5.dnomaly. The man who crushed a rebellion
ars dependent upon one of the men who SUI
,lendered TO him for a position in the army of
is country. Such a thing could be i'll no
ioLnef country besides this
N In regard to quasi democratic or independ-
LIT newspapers, the Saratoga SuA says "The
Experience of the democratic party with so
I Pulled independent newspapers has been very
Unfortunate. The New York Sun, for i'll
IA janice, assumed to he the friend and support
@ of Hancock, but, doubtless, did a thousand
flames more to accomplish his defeat than. it
4 lid to secure his election. Anewspaper NAV
4 ae independent Of politics and be a good and
respectable journal but a newspaper which
Iiaims to be Independent in politics is as a
! lille for sale to the highest bidder, and so
picks to make merchandise of both OF all po-
ftical organizations, without enough of in
sipendence' to save it from public CEN
tmpt."
Sfi Exclusive Of Alaska there have been sur
Eyed in the United States 732, 557, 105 acres
II public lands, leaving an estimated area vet
! be surveyed Of l,062, 231, 727 acres-equal
q an area of asmost two and ene-half times
5ieater than the state Of Texas. Allowing
Ais land to be cut up into farms of 100 acres
sch it would furnish homes for G,63S, 942
81 lmIlies. But as the land is not all arabic
d susceptible of tillage, it is probable that
ls pt more than one-third of that number of
y 4Inilies could find honlesteads upon our pub
&c domain. Even at this low estimate it will
I'D seen that there is room in the United
oates in which the ov~ercrowded population
y our large eastern cities and in foreign
a~untries can settle and make homes.
"a Mr.. Henry Bergh says "a great deal has
zen said about improving criminals. Let
! tell you how | would improve them. l
rpnld abolish all the penitentiaries in the
II nd, and save the expense of running them.
4E their place | would have whipping posts