The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-30
The Queen has signed the Land bill.

covered a gigantic conspiracy Tor iainperifi
with the army.
There are a great many people who woul
like to see Guitteau out of Jail. and yet the
wouldn't express much friendship for him.
No news concerning the President was re
ceived yesterday. We fear the next dispatcI
from Washington will convey the sad tiding
of his death.
1t is computed that the United Kingdom
has now 1900 mi'As of railroad, represent
ing over S25O,O0O a mile, and aggl ~egatins
$500, 200, 200.
The main exhibition building at Philadel
phia, which cost 81 ,6OO, 900, was sold recently
for S97, 900. Rath er a s%tupenduous exhibition
ST unremunerative capital.
The Supreme Court of California has de-.
'ided that growing grain is personal property,
and that an attachment upon it will hold
sood as against a subsequent mortgage.
A carefully kept journal of the details of
the treatment of the Presidents case will be
published hereafter. 1t will, no doubt, be
looked for with interest by the medical pro-
tession.
The New York World now comes to us in
an entirely new dress and type presenting i'll
every department the appearance of a model
newspaper. In the ability displayed in its
editorial and news columns it stands at the
head Of New York journals.
Senator Beck, the gifted son of Kentucky
saws If the preSidaut chaIl die ho will fo,-nr
the election of a conservative Republican as
President pro TEN. Of the Senate, in order to
take away all temptation of killing Arthur,
and also to show that the parties can forget
the spoils at a time OF national calamity.
Queen Victoria has no sympathy for the
''strons- minded of her sex, but she is full
of compassion for the mothers of her king
dom. The.kind, sensible old lady refuses to
contribute a nickel for the advancement of
women out of their sphere, but stands ready
TO give every mother of triplets a five pound
note.
A Michigan farmer, who is evidently well
versed in political economy, explains the
cause of the prosperity of the Northwest,
when he said, 1--WE raise what we eat. and
more, too But our neighb " over the way
says he has been doing that for the last week
and so far has failed to see any signs of pros
perity in his enterprise.
From data in the hands of the Agricultural
Department it will be shown that the falling of
in the crop O Spring wheat will not be as large
as generally anticipated, and that the decrease
in corn in the West will be less than expected,
but in the South that crop will be an unusu-
ally small one. The tobacco crop will also
how a decrease in yield.
The question that has been a~gitating the
Eastern press for several weeks concerning
Vice President Arthur's right to exercise the
functions of the Executive, will soon pass
beyond the point Of controversy. If any re-
lance may be placed upon orr dispatches.
Mr.. Arthur will be soon called upon to fill
the Presidential chair.
Tn Russian police do not deny that Hart
is in the United States, but say that
his story of the Moscow railroad explosion is
grossly inaccurate. He and his associates
did not dig a mine from the cellar of their
house under the track, but placed the dyna-
in a broken c~ulvert, and it was fired by
a lever as the train passed over.
General Noyes, late Minister to France,
says that there is not much heard now of the
DeLesseps' canal scheme in1 Paris. He
the large bankers and capitalists do not
own the stock but they made large sums of
money in negotiating tie loan. The General
thinks that it will be impossible to build the
canal until the United States will agree to it.
The Cornell crew again assert that they
can prove that Shinkel, their stroke, was
bribed to lose the race d. Vienna, and they
will publish the proofs on their return to the
United States. If such is the case, Shinkel
should be publicly ducked in the duck pond
near the Cornell University, as one who has
brought dishonor upon the faculty of that
famous institution of ''boat learning"
In answer to the question why the L. 4 n.
railroad company does not enter the same
proceedings to obtain the right of way over
the disputed ground between Butte and Sill
yer Bow that they did to obtain the right of
way over the ranches at the Divide, we may
state that under the charter of the road they
cannot condemn land, owned by private par
ties. on a branch road. The road from Silver
Bow to this city, if constructed, would be a
branch of the main line and therefore the
is shut out from resorting to the
,,s,,.t nrnoaadiuus ,,utlined nv the law gov,
erning such cases.
The rmladelphi" Times, a journal most de-
cidediy hostile to the corporations that con-
troll the main lines of railroad throughout the