The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-22
The Semi Weekly Miner

The Semi Weekly Miner
Gladstone attends prayers with a
policeman at his side. Oh! those
terrible F~enians."
The Keely motor is still distul bling
the equanimity Of the unfortunate
stockholders. Like the Democratic
party it won't 60.
Senator Edmund.' friends are pre-
ferring the claims of that gentleman
to the Presidency. 1t is supposed
'Barkis is willin'."
The Washington monument is
now 40 feet high-hardly above the
moral ~pestilence breeding social at
mosphere of the wicked city.
An exchange rises to remark that
for a retired statesman and budding
historian Mr.. Blaine takes a great
deal of interest in current politics.
Civil service reform goes on b:iskly
In the United States Senate. All the
Democratic employees have been
turned out to make room for Republi.
cans.
Speaker Carlisle is holding the
chairmanships of the several COM
mites as Christmas presents for GER
tain Congressman. The list will not
be read until next Monday.
The Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Com.
mittee has received 100000 of the
$4,000 needed to put the statue in
shape. It should be draped in morn
ing until the remainder of the fund
be raised.
Congressman O'Neill has the repu-
tation of being the champion bill
singer in Congress. 1t is now thought
he will accomplish the feat of intro
ducing one Thousand bills In one
thousand hours.
The report that the False Prophet
had lost his army seems to be prema-
ture. It is now said he is at the head
of his usual number of followers, and
Is likely to give the Egyptians an
other full measure of trouble.
1t is said King Alfonso is going to
visit England and Bismarck will 70
10 Rome. Democratic France should !
keep here eyes open. All this hob
nobbing of the Kings and Princes of
Europe is not in the interests of Re-
publics.
An enthusiastic admirer wants Il
monument erected to the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. AS Beecher is alive
and, can find time to attend to it's
erection the idea is feasible. He will
never get ont if he leaves it to others
TO attend to.
1t is stated Mr.. Blaine announces
he Is not a candidate for the Presi-
dency, and that he would not have
the candidacy under any circum-
stances. The fall elections destroyed
the appetite of many leading Repnb.
licans for the Office.
John Bull has detailed q special
corps Of police to guard public build
ings in London. The fear that tn
hanging ofO'Donnell will be terribly
avenged is producing an amazingly
large crop Of precautionary measures
against those ''terrible Fenians."
The selection of Chicago as the
1'i""n f"" h~ia;-~ a. "--% 1s~r~Lli-
can National Convention is regarded
by some as a victory for General Lo-
gan. This may be true, but the Re-
publicans will not dare to nominate
the Illinois aspirant to the Presi-
dency.
The story that Speaker Carlisle
once challenged a man to fight aduel 1
some years ago who simply tried to ,
get a business settlement out of him, =
comes too late TO operate against the ;
statesman. The opposi- +
ton made a mistake in not setting .
their lying factory at work before he y
was elected to the Speakership. r
1t is said there are 1l,O0O retail a
liquor dealers in New York City and 8
that they boast of being able to con- +
troll 100000 votes. The vote in that y
city for Carr, Republican candidate h
Tor Secretary Of State at the last cleo
lion, is now accounted for. Carr is v
IN avowed anti-temperance man G.
while his late opponent Maynard f
8 an ~unassuming, undemoustrative O.
emperance reformer. Y
The experiment of placing tele- 8
'raph and telephone wires under II
in Washington city is said to al
'e entirely successful, and all the 1t
that have been applied are en- 10 10
irely satisfactory. There are no q
'reaks, no interferences, and no in
erruptions, and the lines werk more
moothly than over-ground ones.
uspended in mid-air they present
n unsightly appearance, are always 81
the way, and are often the cause til
t serious disasters. VI
eli!
Referring to Sabin, the new Chair. -,
IAN Of the National Republican ~,
ommittee, the Philadelphia Press 81.
'ys: "H;s remarks on taking the an
indicate that his selection was :.