The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-22

The legislature Will appropriate $ooo ioF
4 paylng the funeral expenses of the late Hon.
Oscar A. Seiman.
Complaint may be made that Silver Bow
county is a very small one-rather too small,
but it must be borne in mind that all valua-
BILE articles are done up in small packages.
The bill making it Unable offense for the
keepers of gambling houses and saloons to
permit boys stopping therein has become a
law, Parties interested should make a note
of this and govern themselves accordingly.
Al Senator Conkling arrived at Mentor on the
afternoon of the 10Th inst. and was very
warmly received by Garfield. After several
! hours of confidential talk Conkllng took the
midnight train east. Is the great 'stalwart"
letting down, or is he merely ''stooping to
conquer"
Mr.. HAYS introduced a bill in the council
for an act to apportion the members of the
legislative assembly. This becomes a very
important matter to Silver Bow county.
q Without a new apportionment the new coun-
ty would virtually be without any representa-
@ ton.
The republican legislators at Harri sburg
are endeavoring to arrive at some agreement
on the senatorial question. The opposing re-
D publican factions have thus far obstinately
adhered to their respective candidates, while
the democrats have complacently voted right
along for Wallace, giving him their regular SO
votes.
If the bill concerning electors pass the
house-and 1t is safe to say it will-one must
be a resident of the territory six months to
entitle him to a vote therein. The present
time is three months. Citizens, or those who
Il have declared their intentions to become such
and have resided SIX months in the territory,
are voters in all municipal corporations at
/ their elections.
General Grant has been heard from on the
: prospects of the international exposition to
be held at New York in 1883. He says it
. will be a great success, and that the subscrlb-
! ers will receive back their investment with
interest, and that the attendance will be lar
ger than at the Centennial. That settles the
matter.
In his report on civil service Senator Pen
dleton enunciates the principle that while the
\ political party IN power has the right to fill
J the higher official places with persons who
represent its principles and policy, and who
will conduct the several departments in the
I interests of its party, yet all subordinates
Il should be selected with sole reference as to
character and fitness. He favors COMPETE
Il tive examinations and hopes the spoils system
Y will not prevail.
That division animal which the senior edi-
tor of the Ne,c North Vest has been so care
Z fully herding at Helena for the last six weeks,
broke loose the other day. The last that was
heard of the dangerous beast, it had crossed
/ the range where the first standard parallel,
1 etc., etc., and was making lightning Roadway
Y through the SHOWS up German gulch and
= thence on to the west line of the county.
" Our ruptured contemporary should regain
z the keeping of the troublesome brute before
3 it makes Its lair among the hills between
\ New Chicago and the beautiful little valley
X town. It's a dangerous animal to run at
e large.
Only fourteen more days and we loose Mr..
! Hayes. The Washington Republic in review
7 ing the fact says: "The papers will doubt
less be glad to announce on Friday, the 4th
Y of March, that he threw himself down on his
cot about midnight and slept apparently
soundly until dawn; that lie ate a hearty
breakfast and seemed more than usually fas-
tidious about its preparations; that he display
ed wonderful nerve-they always do at the
last-and declined to make any confession to
the clergyman; as his cap was pulled on and
he was about to step off the Baltimore and
Ohio platform, he wrung the hand of the ex-
ecutioner, Mr.. Garfield, and whispered you
will find the key to the wine cellar at the
bottom of Babcock lake. Take care of Mad
!, Wells, Bill Kellogg and Stanley Matthews.
Remember, if the Louisiana matter gets out
the party's gone up. You can trust Carl
Shurz and Mr.. Roders with anything you
don't want. Let my miserable fate be a
warning to you. Good bye"
I Speaking about subsidies the Chicago Tri.
i bune says 'Having taxed and protected ship
! building out of existence, the statesmen OF
A the subsidy school are now imploriny con.
gress to levy taxes on the public for ship
building. There has been introduced in the
legislature of Missouri a series of res ~olutions
in the form of a memorial to congress, that in
! the distribution of subsidies those depending
upon agricultural products be not overlook.
\ ed. and that provision be made to pay 10 cts,
for each and every hog raised as a bounty tc
increase the profits of farming, and encourage
and aid all who may engage in so great a ma
tional Industry, and that the poor laborer may
thereby get cheaper bacon. There is nothing
like equality before the law. The farm wag.
on which performs the transportation to and