The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-01-27

NEWS NOTDe.

NEWS MOTIFS.
General Todle6en, Of Russia, h
dangerously i'll.
Red Clowd II on . visit to Professor
Marsh, Of Yale Ca,llege.
Chattanooga has shipped $40. O.Ool
pounds Of dried fruit this season,
Most Of the mechanical toys an
now said to bc made Ia Connecticut.
The Emperor Of llussia gave 4,ON
rOibles to aid the sufferers Of the cir.
Gus fire.
During the last year thirty miles q
day Of raiIrsd were built In thia
country.
A pamphlet attacking ex-Empress
Eugenie, of France, was coz fscate:i
by the Berlin police.
The body of Arthur Paeston,
hanged ut Belair, New Jersey, wa
stolen from the graveyard Saturday.
Reform in the Nevada legislature
takes the shape Of y movement tO dis
pense with the services Of q chap
lain.
1t j. authoratively stated that the
Prince Of Wales and suit will visit
Canada and the United States the
inst week in March.
Among the bills introduced In the
House Monday, was one by Willetts,
Of Michigan, for the further suppress
sion of Ligamy and polygamy.
A company has been formed At
Galveston to 'Iuild an iron pier two
1uileA to deep water, to increase the
wharling facilities. at the c,st Of ST.
NpO,OOO.
The BOnnpartist useml,ers Of the
Chamber of Deputies have issued .
prOtest against I he arrest Of Prince
Napoleon. and demand the appeal OF
the people.
The Cxar was present on Thursday
1t the annual ceremony of the bless
ing "f the waters Of the Neva. which
tOOk place opposite the Winter Pal
aCs'.
The funeral 0f Count Won WiMp-
fen, late AustrO- Hungarian AnsIsss-
xaLOr u France. who committed sui
eide in Paris on the :s)tl, ultin,O. took
place In Gratz Friday.
Oysters are !scoming scarce In
Chesapeake Hay. Until within the
last two or three years two men could
gather fi'ty bushels in = day, but
nOw the quantity does net Often ex-
ceed ten bushels.
The Secretaries Of State and the
Treasury have agreed upon the form
Of the new Chinese regulations,
which will 6e promulgated In cir
cular from the Treasury Department
In . day or two.
The Mutual Press Association and
the American News Exchange, Of
Cincinnati, have been placed on the
pO.t-0lIice fraud list. Money orders
aud registered letters will not be de-
livered to them.
While the German Reischstag was
nsttlering the proposition to lay
tax on b0urse transactions, :3ch0)x,
the Munster Of Finance, declared
that the object Of the motion had the
entire sympathy of the Government.
A battle was fought near Mata-
wana, Mexico, between Mexican
tr,ops, last Saturday, and the Than
tspee Indians, In which eighty Of the
aborigincs and fifty soldiers were
killed outright, and many on both
sides wounded.
The evidence that Sclseller removed
part N his stock the day previous to
ti,e lire aecunlulates. 1t has now
come to light that he even removed
the halls Ofseven billiard tables he
fore the iire. The value of the stock
~tvretetl Is about 81 ,OOO.
The stallion PelubeftOD, with . 2.21l
resUrsi. while being driven 10 the
sleigh last saturday, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts,, became unn,anage-
able. ran into = picket fence, and was
instantly killed. He was owned by
n. L. Nevi,,s, and valued at slO.'h'O.
Officers of the leading Temperance
organizations of the State Of Iowa, In
view Of the decision by the supreme
Court holding the prol,iLitOry cs,nstt-
tutiOnal amendment not In force,
have called state convention Of the
friends Of temperance, tO l,e held ut
Der MOi,,es, February 7tb, I" consult
upon line IL policy to lie pursued In
the future.
A Dublin dispatch says. that
although y wide Lelief <i-tx that the
authorities will not be allie To bring
the Phoenix Park assassi0s to JUS
t;ce. the real fact h that Farrell's
assertion that tile ''Jnmer Circle"
wss 10 compSs.i that its members
were uuk uOwn tn each other, and
Therefore the idea that they. could not
he i.leutitied wa~ only to0 we'll
founded.
The assessment tolls Of the several
counties last year fOotesl up To au A.
xrexste Of S33, III ,3I3l2; mn increase
.! nearly nine and y half million
over the presiding year. When We
take into account that Oslr mines sr-
,,esr IN this statement only ut their
Government value, and that . con-
siderable portion Of "ur property hab-
itu.lly escapes taxation. We ought to
Lcgin to feel pretty rich.
The twenty-One pessOns recently
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