The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-12
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mogul' got there.

SHAt IL enters ihtO u ContioNeisy WIN ~ yin
bus eentl men.
Over $51 600, 600 in cash passed through
lie money-arder branch Of the postoffice de-
pariment last year.
Says the Quincy (Ill.) Herald: eff the ell.
Tire couniry belongs to a few national banks
IN New York, probably the people had better
flnd out what the bankers want for it and buy
the country from them"
They have a Zulu princess, a Zulu baby
and several Zulu warriors in one of the New
York museums who are attracting a large
humble of visitors. Major Tot, a young
gentleman 16 years Of age, and weighing but
10 pounds is also one of the attractions there.
1t is reported that NJ. De Lesseps will go to
the Isthmus of Panama in June next. 1t is
claimed that the activity with which he is
now pushing his Isthmian canal should call
forth an expression flom congress that the
canal, if completed, must be under American
control.
VOORHEES, and Malone, of the United SEN
ate, recently exchanged the usual compli-
nehts of the season, which has become a dis
tinguishing feature in Heightened Washing
ton society. Coffee with the necessary pistol
accompaniment has not, We believe, been
called for.
A statement is going the rounds of the
press that Mrs. Henry Ingram, of Battle
Creek, Michigan, has neither eaten nor drank
anything since last October. When she feels
hungry she takes a beef tea bath, and is
pores of her skin. Next.
The Whitaker trial is dragging its slow
length along without attracting the special
attention of the country. From the publish
ed proceedings which are occasionally seen in
eastern journals it appears ex-Gov. Chamber
lain, Whi,taker's counsel, is eiideavoring TO
prove that the cadet did not slit his own ears.
MIR. Marcial Martinez, the recently APP
pointed minister from Chill to the United
States, SAYS that since the Tacna campaign
Chill has lost 5000 lives and spent $30,00O,-
600, aud that these sacrifices must be repre-
scented in some way by indemnity or terrific
1ieAi 4iGiS SSi tAAHt = - A'HSN A'NH
aportion of her domain.
Mr.. Edison says that the elecric light will
not tan the complexion. Others who claim
to be as fully advised upon the subject say it
will tan. A writer in a New York paper
states that a gas jet of 40 candle power will
tan. The question is exciting some consider.
able Interest among scientists who,it appears,
Gannet agree in their conclusions.
The Inter Mountain, in referring to the
circular letter that was distributed on the
morning of the election attacking Mr.. Lou j.
Smith, says sit fails to see anything in it out,
side of a fair and legitimate electioneering
method, unless it may be lack of opportunity
for a reply" The latter clause of the above
sentence alone saves the Inter Mountain
from the just contempt of all honorabl' men.
The election Of Mr.. Marchesseau to the
Office of county commissioner places the ad-
ministration OF the municipal affairs of Sill
yer Bow county in the hands of a democratic
board. The people have thus given addition
al evidence of their confidence in the ability
ehN AhheSi'by VI IN IN i"NN
have chosen from it's ranks the men TO fill tue
most important offices in the county. 1t is a
victory of which the democracy may well feel
proud. With democrats to manage the bust
ness of the virgin county, with a democrat TO
guard its treasure, and with a democrat to
preside in its court of justice, our people are
confident that their interests will be guarded
and their rights secured. In every point Of
view the recent election was a triumph CT
democratic principles.
There is a paper published in London
called the Freiehest. This paper is controlled
by socialists. Its editor has recently been ar
rested for libeling the late Gar and exciting
Instruction in Russia, and the paper sup
pressed. This very unusual proceeding Oh
She part of the English government is &C
counted for in view of the revolutionary con-
dition of Ireland. In referring to this matter
the San Francisco Chronicle says: "With
nations and governments, as with individuals,
"a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
Eedition and murder have a much uglier look
to English statesmen when seen near by
than when they only affect their %neighbors.
Tie British government has now an appre-
citation of the feeling of foreign cabinets,
and q still greater motive for suppressing
re~yolulionism in a desire for reciprocity"
Our esteemed contemporary, the Int,
Mountain, affects "sorrow and pity" in being
obliged to refer 10 language the MINEI
felt called upon to use m defending som o.
the democratic candidates from tn,
unjust attacks which 1t and its republican
friends made upon them. The MINER ha
no apology to make for the language it used
On the CONT AIRY 1t regrets that the vocabu
larry OF the English language does not contain