The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-19
The SEMI Weekly Miner

AAO OAdSSOW uSuAIuIttTS Wei
taken to Edinburg for trial yester.
day.
The firmness and GOODNESS OF
O'Donnell during his last hours on
earth produced a very favorable lm-
preston upon all who saw him.
In the death of Congressman Has.
kell, of Kansas, the Republican par
ty has lost one of its brightest mem
bers and the nation one of its mcst
promising statesmen.
Binns, the successor of Marwood,
II credited with doing q ~workmanlike
job in hanging O'Donnell. The Eng
lish hangman cen to be a person of
no little consequence in Great Brit
ain.
The German Crown Prince is now
at Rome, the guest of the sovereign.
The object of his visit is, in the Ian
guage of the Mayor OF that city, to
draw closer the bonds between Ger
many and Italy.
Baron Nordenskjold. one of the
most successful of Arctic explorers,
contemplates a trip to the South Pole
In 1885. As there is no law to pre-
vent a man making a fool of himself
the Baron will be permitted to en-
no ro In tho mathematician
1t may ase the minds of several
Republican journals to learn that
Speaker Carlisle was a Unionist dur
ing the late civil war, and that he
takes the iron-clad oath which such
Republicans rs Malone, heidelberg
er, Mosby. Chalmers and Akermann
cannot.
1t will hardly do for the Republi-
cans to raise the cry that Ex-Gov-
ernor Hendricks is in poor health
and that he has gone to Europe for
medical treatment. They have
played out that game on Tilden. Mr..
Hendricks was here in Butte last
summer and bore every evidence of
being in possession of robust health
and undated mental vigor.
Belknap! The nalne sounds ia
miliar. But why he should revive
unpleasant remembrances of him
self by asking the Republicans to
send him to Congress from the First
Congressional district of Iowa, is a
mystery. It would seem he should
continue to court that retirement to
which a much disguised people long
since consigned him.
Why Carl Schurz retired from the
New York Evening Post is the con-
undrum which is puzzling a few
Eastern journals. He says he re-
tired because he disagreed with
the position of the paper upon the
telepraphers' strike during his alb
sence at the spike-driving ceremonies
in Montana. His explanation should
be sufficient considering it is no ones
business why he retired.
Mr.. Carlisle says he stands upon
the following plank in the Ohio
platform on the tariff question: "We
favor tariff for revenue, limited to
the necessities of the Government
economically administered, and so
adjusted in its application as to pre-
vent unequal burdens, encourage
productive industries at home, and
afford just compensation for labor,
but not to create or foster mcnopo-
lies"
Mr.. Vanderbilt recently gave a
grand ball at his princely palace.
No one finds fault with the great
millionaire for spending his money
this way, but New York papers find
fault because the city Police were de-
tailed to watch his diamonds and
silverware. They think Mr.. Van
dervilt should have hired his own de-
tectives and paid them for their SER
vices. The newspapers are, as usual,
right.
Marquis Tseng has been instructed
by his home government to form
treaties with European powers for
the maintenance of order and COM
merce. It seems that China is dis
posed to exhaust all the resources of
diplomacy before proceeding to ex-
treme measures with France. The
latter nation, however, is going
ahead with preparations for war, and
has now made arrangements to in
her land forces in Tonquin to
10000 men.
Senator john A. Logan is candid
II not discreet. In speaking, of his
choice for Speaker as between Car
Isle and Randall, he said: II am
for Randall for political reasons.
Carllsle's election will solidify the
Democratic party on the tariff ques-
ton. Randall, g election will break
1t in half. Randall's election means
interminable war between the reve-
nue. reformers and the tariff men,"
That is about the size of it, and Mr..
John A. Logan didn't know the fact
than the Democratic House of
of Representatives. Republicans
cannot deny the fact that the cleo
ton of Carlisle was a severe blow to
their prospects next year.
Morning Journal: When the Re ,
publican National Committee meets
Washington to select a place for
The meeting of the Presidential con-
vention next year, there will be at
least one member of it who will be
onspicuous by his absence-Stephen
w. Dorsey. In calling the roll of
he States his name will come second
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