The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-12-13

> Vbe foSt'Omce App50Ps)aSSo0 Bill
} a0ounts 10 ~, OK, 00O.
England Il gradually Withdrawing
her troops from Egypt.
The C..ic.go police are slill saiding
the gambling houses Il that city.
Zinc works are to Be established in
1t. Losis and other points in the
west.
Zen Butler calls himself " the Re.
poblican Governor Of 4assaehu-
} setts."
Russia hes reclaimed over l,7tO,.
O0O acres AZ marsh land within hel
borders.
senator Logan will press hin bill
allowing Chinese 10 pass through the
country.
Diamond mines are reported to
have been discovered In the AT4en-
tine Republic.
Brigadier-(;eneral Pope has bcen
nominated by the President to be
Major General.
A Paris paper thinks Egypt b too
big . n:orsel to be swallowed whole,
even hy England.
Bonner, Of New York, h in the
blue Srass region III Kentucky,
searching for fast trotting stock.
Nn. Langtry's sister will sson
come fros, England and remain with
her during the rest Ut her American
tour.
Passenger trairs on tie Texas Pa |
ciljc road are protected by force Of !
Rangers from Fort Worth to Ell
PAs0.
The House Committee on Postal
Affairs will make favorable report
on the bill to reduce letter postage to
Two cents.
senator Hosr will lind = sturdy
enemy to bis reelection to the Sen
ate irom Massachusetts In the person
Of Hen Butler.
The death h announced from the
western coast Of Africa Of King
On,0rn. He leaves 7O0 widows. O
his 85 children y are still alive. His
eldest con hes AOO wives.
An ostrich farm Is to be started In
California. twenty-five ostriches
Passed through Omaha ON the Sth
Inst. to stock 1t. They were shipped
from Cape Town, Africa.
Congressman Waite has intro
duced ball In the House providing
that no more silver be bought or dol
lars colned until the supply ON hand
he reduced below Ga, OOO, 0OO.
Paris b being submerged by the
rising VI the seine, thus closing the
outlet OF drains and sewers. Rats,
driven from their xubterranean hid
ing places, are becoming an intoler-
able nuisance to the people.
IN the csses Of Harry Hill aud the
llana&en Of the Atlantic Garden,
whose sacred concert " wasstoppetl
~ Sunday the 3r', inst, by the pr
lice, the courts hOl.! such concerts
are forbidden Ly the penal code. |,
SO extensive l,as bcen tie en,igra- 4
ton ftOm the mountain dis;ricts Of
Hungary 20 America that the Hum !.
Earian Government has requested :
Austria to stop all e'niyrants who
IRE mt provided with passports. q
The Qualification Of Sir Thomas !,
More aud Bishop Frazer has been
ut the Vatican. Cardinal 7
took the initiative in the b
natter, aud has had the Englirh 4,
state archives consulted for infor- ="
nation to he used rs evidence. u
The passage Of = bill to extend the Il
'onded period Of whi*key in behalf I.
4 the Western Expert Association 81 :,
stll he urged In Congress. The S
members If the Association say II
hey can get this they will not ask y At
etluction in tax for the present. u
"t;ath" writes, that .auntering In n,
d the opera at st. Louis one evening W
X found Ill empty seat near Mrs. .,
len. sherman. She asked him who ~
e WAS for for President, aud then 4.
nsw cred herself by saying, There a.
re Nv" men hope won't get II; one tn
them h Grant and The other Sher-
ian." n'caning her husband. 81
A company is Icing organized 1t Ct
'oronto. Canada, to build q railway w
long the cs'se Of the Niagara River ~
Om Horseshoe Falls to Qucenston Ii
nd also = railway fron' The etlg. Of
'e river through u tunnel to the top ~
a high blu6 in the rear NJ the Mt ~ "
'''m, and to own u park ut N;agara hi hi
ais and tluee nst"n. co
The Western Union Telegraph aO
Omisany at u recent meeting PASSED nm
'e following resolutions: Ds
Ecatsretl. That the impuiation that wc
Metals OF other persons connected
ith this company have the privi- tel
Re Of inspecting messages passing Of
'er i:s wires or through its olIices
without Foundation in fact. A;
RtsOkr.d, That any officer. clerk or n"
her esnph,ye handling messages .,.'
no shall report Or divul9e the con. an,
nts of such messages to any officer smI
the company, or other pers0u shall
promptly dismissed from the SER =!
~ II the company AMI prosecuted ue'
der the law making It q penal of. C-
nee TO divulge the contents Of mes. nv
ges so''
We
A Little Rock, Ark, special under the
te Of the eth inst. says the case of 1
lie Stokes. on trial for the murder trja
Naitn',a Stephens, was given to ~!
E jury ct noon. Two hours later ~
e jury appeared and rendered q mi
rdtct Of not guilty. Immediately Il
~ Stokes was surrounded by her q p
nnSel and frion6s w.hr >~>>n.s>x, sale