The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-04-26
CURRENT NEWS.

:. p. Colt, who received 600 by
Cornelius Eande; bilt's will, is the new
Neglected Attorney General of Rhode
Island.
Jumbo is not with the Temperance ele-
nlent. He seems to be 4 regular hour
bon democrat. He takes his whisky
straight, pint ut time.
Presidents Arthur's reception to the
brilliant affair. II. was assisted by Mrs.
Frelinghuysen anil Miss Folger.
General Butler will address the Low
ell Land League some time this month
or early in May upon the subject Of the
detention Of American citizens in Brit
I,h prisons.
Mr.. I.ongfellow always bore the in
Fiction Of countless visitors with great
patience. IL consider" he used to say,
''tt.at l have entertained great MANY
angels unawares."
Dir. Martin F.. Topper, the poet, whom
the critics ,ersi<tently damn, but whose
PRO erbial Philosophy" the public a.
pcrsistently read, has, like the poet la,,-
rea,te, taken late in life to draIna-writ-
ing.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States urhOlds the rights Of the state
Of Texas to tax telegraph messages with
in its own limits, but denies its right to
tax messages which originate or 20 out
side Of the state, Us that belongs tn inter-
state commerce.
Miss Emma Thursby will return to
the United States in July. She has
been absent two years. singing with
marked SUCCESS. Recently she appeared
before the king AMI queen Of Saxuny nj
MentOne. Her voice has gained great
deal since she left home, and her execu-
ton IL as !aclle rs ever.
The l'anktonnais Indians, at Poplar
River, NJ. r., are rapidly becoming civ
ilizcd. The agent has been furnishing
them farming implements and seeds of
all kinds, and lmyiOg those who worked
fifty cents day ana full ratiOns for cul-
tivnting their own land, and now they
have struck for higher wages.
A paper laid before the Biographical
Society Ut Paris, tells US t'lat from a
scientific point Of view, what it Is to he
dead drunk" 1t seems that this con-
tlitiOn exists when the vital fluid pre-
sents the proportion Of l of alcohol to
l!A5 Of blond. 1t is ut this stage that
most drunknr,)S cease drinking, or We
would have more deaths from alcohol
ism: for when the incbriate CONT n,,cs
to drink until each lND parts OF blood
contains / lart Of alcohol, death inva-
riabIy el,sucs.
People are already getting very much
mixed up as to the identity of senator
Hale and Secretary Chandler. (luecrly
enough, the daughter Of Senator Zaci,
Chandler, ut Michigan, who became
Secretary Chandler some years ago,
married Mr.. Hale, who is now the sell,a-
tor from Maine. while on the other
hand, Il daughter Of the late Senator
Hale, Of New Hampshire, married Mr..
William +. Chandler, who has just
been nominated Secretary Of the Navy.
But there Is no relationship whatever
between the two families Chandler and
the two families Hale.
Garil,allli, bowed down by age and
intirmitics, is described MS having pre-
sentesl pitiable sight on his recent Wis
it to Sicily To attend the celebration of
the "Veslen." The difficulty Of NOV
ing him from the railway coach to the
carriage ut Palermo caused him to I've
placed in the vehicle with his hack to
horses, and 1t was thought best not to
move him around. so he rode to the
villa prepared for him backward and
doubled up, with his head on the knees
Of his wife, who sat opposite. to him.
In sympathy with his sutterings, the
G'.AW persons who had assembled to
greet him attempted no demonstration,
but stood IL, silence, with barred heads,
IA their ill,,stri0us guest passed among
them.