The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-05

SAO peOPASs
A would be President maker {
New York dominates Postmaste
General Gresham for tho first plac
on the National Republican ticke
next year. It is not a man to elect
but a straw man to be knocked dow
the Republicans are now looking for
The Detroit Post is Of the opinion
there is nothing in the experience o
government control of telegraphs il
England toinvite it's limitation here
This seems to be the growing opiu'
ion. A healthy competition would
cure all the evils of the system now
complained of.
California values her this years
wheat crop at $50, 600, 900. At the rate
at which this cereal is being produced
in that state it will not be long before
its value will reach that of its i'm.
mense output of gold in 1852 when it
reached the enormour sum of $780,
OOO, 1905. The mines in the golden
state have long since taken a back
seat.
A Washington paper says: "Om-
cials who make pleasure trips at the
public expense on pretense of search-
ing for information that has been in
their respective departments for years
should understand that turn the ras-
Gals out applies to them" In view
of the number of junketers ~circulat-
ing around the country from the sew
eral departments at Washington we
submit if the above is not somewhat
personal.
The German press say the French
treaty with Anam is not valiG be-
cause China is not a party to it.
France did not recognize China as
an interested party, and has taKen
steps to keep that Empire from med
ding with Tonquin affairs. China
will take the hint without inviting
the presence of French war vessels
in her harbor. The fate of Hue
taught her the necessary lesson.
Iowa State Leader: Very evident
ly the Republicans feel the effects of
McDonald's wonderful oratory, for
their papers already are retailing a
lie that he voted to confirm Jay
Gould's supreme judge, Stanley
Matthews. As Matthews was con-
flrmed May IL, 1881, and McDonald's
term expired March 8, 1881, over two
months before, it is needless to brand
it a a rather thin lie. Why don't
tho brethren get US up a real good,
out and out, straight forward, half
respectable lie, that some people may
believe?
The canard that was started in the
wilds of Idaho that President Arthur
was in danger of being captured by
Wyoming cowboys created in the
East the intended eftect-a great SEN
sation among all classes and fears for
his safety in the minds of many. It
was simply a rather rough joke of de-
cidedly Western flavor, and perpe-
trated for the especial benefit of those
in. the East who have drawn their |
ideas of Western civilization from
the stories of the "Wild Bills"
"Long Knives" "Bloody Hands,"
and bad Men from Bodia," found
in the cheap literature of ehe large
cities.
Judging from the following it is ev-
ident that President Willard in dis
pensing invitations to attend the GER
emonies of driving the golden spike
on the Northern Pacific, overlooked
the New York World: "This country
has been badly imposed upon by al
legged limitations of the style of dress
of the English nobility and gentry.
An American who desires to look
like a real English lord will do well
to follow these directions: Let him
get a friend two sizes larger than
himself order three suits of tweed of
different %colors; let the large mar
wear them until they bag. Then let
the small man put on the coat of one
suit, the vest of another, the trousers
of the third, and with a silk bandana
for q necktie, a ruffled ping nat, a red
face and a big stick, he will look as if
he had come over to join the North
ern Pacific excursion"
The bon ton of Saratoga is shocked
by the arrest of a lady moving in the
highest circles OF society of that
fashionable watering place. 1t
cen she was possessed of a mania
for fine dresses, and though having
ample means at her command she
preferred obtaining them upon forged
orders. After using the name of
several well-known wealthy ladies
she imprudently duplicated the
name of one of them whichled to her
The woman keenly feels her
and as the saying goes,
lis utterly overwhelmed with grief" !
OF course there are these who attrib-
ute her fall to "kleptemania," an af-
which seldom attacks those
moving in the lower levels Of society. !
There it is called swindling and the J
perpetrator is punished Is swindler
The case affords the moralist a fruit
III theme for a dissertation upon the Z
owe of display which is turning the +
leads of society bellies in the east r
nd wrecking the fortunes of those t
Tho provide the means for its graft q
cation. Il