The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-22
The Semi Weekly Miner.

The Semi Weekly Miner.
Fair we dher to-day.
The West Side racing meet this
week promises to be a success.
Another beautiful day for the races
The weather clerk is smiling or
Butte.
The trade dollar ha, found q rest,
ing place somewhere. Nothing NOR
Is heard about it.
Wendell Phillips declares Massa
ohusetts Republicans must co.
Phillips is solid for Butler.
A short platform: "Resolved thai
the Republican patty wants the Of
fees" The rest is understood.
The postal note is not popular al
present in some sections. Time and
usage will d"uotless make 1t more &C
ceDtable to the people.
1t may now be definitely stated
that Assistant Secretary New will
not rush madIy into private life; In
other words, he will not resign.
The iron horse and steam annibi-
lates distance. New York City sun
day morning papers were received
at this office u little after moo yes
terday.
Minnesota papers state it rs a fact
that m, election campaign is actually
' in progress in that State. From the
little noise made over it, it is evident
ly a "still hunt" campaign on both
sides.
The nom nation of Leon Abbot 70
Governor by the New jersey Demo-
cratic Convention seems to give gen.
eral satisfaction In that State. His
nomination is regarded as equivalent
to an election,
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
Judge HoadIy will Curry Ohio by
$4,000 majority. Pretty large figures
to give him when it is considered that
Foster carried the State in the last
gubernatorial election by $500 ma
jority.
An Eastern journal advises tramps
to travel to the Northwest in search
of the golden spike. AS there are
only two men in Montana who &C.
knowl. dye being at Its driving, We
would advise the searchers to bring
their guides along with them.
An exchange thinks Ohio Repub-
licans had better hesitate before exc
cutting a scalp dance upon the pros
trate form of the distinguished DEM
Ocratic candidate tor Governor.
There is a lurking possibility that
Judge Hoadly may be playing pos
sum-.
The New York World says that
since his return to the White House
President Arthur frequently takes
his blanket and goes out and sleeps
on the. back porch. Several times in
his sleep he has been heard to cry
out: go it, Vest! You've got a
splendid bite!"
The war department has decided
not to send a relief expedition this
winter to the Grrely party, uut will
wait until spring. In the meantime,
if the party has plenty of provisions,
and its vessel is not crushed in an ice
rack, spring may find it alive, but
the chances are decidedly against the
recovery of the ill-starred seamen.
Wisconsin is again excited ever
the discovery Of gold within its kor-
ders. These discoveries are made
with the regularity of the seasons,
and are about as stable in their char
acter. This time the find is made in
the vicinity of Wausau, and land
there is held at fabulous prices. The
fools are not all dead yet.
1t is said that Senator Malone Is
very snappy of late. 1t is not the
frosty weather that worries the sena-
tor, but the fact that the coupons of
Virginia bonds are held to be a legal
tender for taxes. If the people of
Virginia a pay her tax-gatherers
with her own notes the state has
been readjusted to very little pur-
pose.
Mr.. Vandervoort throws down the
gauntlet to Postmaster General
Gresham and dares him to combat.
Although he eonfesses he absented
himself from his Office $50 days dur
ing the past year, he defiantly says:
II will fight to the bitter end, and
will be reelected right here in my
old position or nowhere" Now is
the time for MI. Gresham to show
the stiffness of his backbone.
While the Senate sub. Committee
on Education and Labor is investi.
labor troubles and hearing
testimony concerning the best means
to remedy them, it is suggested that
some healthy, thoughtful tramp 60
before it and tell what he knows
about the sweet Influences which de-
ter some people from working for a
This would seem to be a joy
Gus opening for Dennis Kearney.
Tn Canadian Pacific makes but
little fuss I'VE its enterprise and
seems to be well off in money mat
|ers. 1t obtained from the govern
ment some 1875 miles of roal beyond
Port arthur and Winnipeg for moth
ing. 1t also secured a money subsidy
If $25, 600, 900 and no end of land.
The stock pass a regular dividend,
yet it is selling about twenty points
below the Northern Pacific preferred.
The Inter Ocean says: Exon
gresham Murch, of Maine, having