The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-08

take up his residence at the Wnite 1ouse
SO says a recent dispatch. No objection:
have been urged against his doing so.
General Swain IS about to commence the
examination of the papers in the VIII, .takel
c~ourt-martial case. 1t is thought that as he
is comparatively a young man he will live to
accomplish his task.
An English writer predicts that the United
States will have a population of 100000
at the census Of 1890. This is putting the
figures higher than they have been placed by
the most sanguine statistician.
The Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.) says: at
is to be regretted that Secretary Window did
not, before. leaving office, discover that leak
in his confidential department which was
corrected with stock speculations in Wall
street.
The "boss" mine in the West is situated in
Colorado. Its marvellous outputs is men,
toned in our dispatches this morning. When
the Rocky Mountains are thoroughly pros
pected scores of such mines will be unearthsd,
and Montana will produce her share of them.
1t took the Star route ring four years and a
half to capture So, 00e, 900 from the govern
ment. 1t will not take that number of weeks
to apply upon it a sufficient quantity of reg
ulatlon white wash to enable its members to
appear before the world ia the role of perse-
cuted saints.
Late advices state the Land league has
changed front in combating the English au-
thoritie.. 1t now advises tenant farmers to
send in their claims to the Land commits
sion with the view to swamp it in business.
If proper a~ttentieu is paid to each case there
has been already a sufficient number serk in
to keep the Commission employed fsI the
next two or three years.
The Nevada Il Oregon Railway Company
recently held a meeting for the election of
directors. A fight occurred, in which SEQ
vile, the secretary of the road, was killed,
and others were wounded. At the examina-
ton all the participants were discharged ex-
cept James McMeechan, who was held to an
swer to the charge Of manslaughter. Late
advices state that the Grand Jury ignored all
charges against all parties concerned. In the
absence of particulars the public is left to in
fer that the shooting was one Of those lively
little pleasantries in which our sage brush
neighbors occasionally indulge to while away
the tagging hours.
Notwithstanding Attorney-G eneral Nc
Veagh's evident disinclination ito prosecute
the Star route cases, it is understood to
l.. H. D,oe;1, W., nlan NOT In acpant his rnS.
ignation until those cases shall have been dis
posed of. Meanwhile Mr.. McVeagh may be
master of his time without fear of Presiden-
tia. Interference. When the time shall ar
rive for trial, he will have the right to con-
duct the prosecution should he choose to do
so. Should he choose otherwise, he will be
pla ced in the attitude of Sinking his duty
ana his disclaimer will not, in the least, al
feet the popular verdict upon this point.
Speaking of the resignation of General
Walker the Phiia. Record, uses the following
complimentary language: THE regret at
the retirement of General Francis A. Walk
err from the Census Bureau, will be more
genera perhaps, than wou d be occasioned
by the resignation Of almost any other public
officer, for the reason not only that he has
most faithfully and efficiently discharged the
duties of his position, but that be
has utterly avoided anything savoring of
partisanship in their discharge. Il is of men
like General Walker that the ideal civil SER
vice, so far as it can be ever practically real
zed, must be composed.'
Our English cousins are becoming some
what exercised over the recent performances
of American horses on British soil. The
Field, which may be considered the
highest authority on the subject treated, says:
The American inuasion has become a ques-
ton calling for serious consideration, for not
only have the American horses this year
swept the turf of its most valuable prizes, ex-
cept the Two Thousand, in which they should
have been victorious, but there is the prospect
of another highly successful season before
them. The form of American horses has
been so long sustained that all idea that her
representatives are chance animals must be
dismissed, while they have more than the one
swallow to rely upon for their summer of
success, as they nave SENT US over many ALI
mails of merit, and the cry is still they
GOMEZ The reason for this gu eriority has
often been discussed in the columns of the
Field; but the more We see and learn, the
more clear does it become that our system Of
breeding is utterly rotten and that speedy and
vigorous steps must be taken to change from
the devious path of failure into the straight
road leading to success"
The New York Commercial Bulletin gives
the following for the imports aud expor's o.
the United SAFES far ei,Lt H!on'hs ending
August SIS as returned BY ihe Bureau #