The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-01
The Semi Weekly Miner

The Semi Weekly Mine
According to the last census tn
country has "a, 1893 divines and 64,l;
lawyers-about one to 500 lnhabi
ants.
Grants administration was co,
spicuous for its whisky rings, Haye
for It's star route rings, and Arthur
promises to cap both for its pensio
rings.
It is said $50, O0O, 900 were spent /
picking this years cotton crop.
this be so the cultivation of the art
Gle still ranks rs the prime industr
Of the country.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprsgue will b
present at the inaugural ceremonie
at Columbus on the 18th of January
1t was with her father, Salmon T
Chase, that Judge Hoadly studies
and afterwards practiced law.
A strong liquor prohibition feeling
is being developed in South Carolina
and an effort will be made at the mex
meeting of the legislature of the stat
to pass a prohibitive law. The new
South is responding to Northern in
fluence.
A New York financial journal
strikes the Canadian Pacific under
the belt after the following fashion:
slave you $4,000 that you don't
know what to do with, that you have
no use for and would as lief throw
away as not? Well, invest it in Can
adian Pacific at about $50 and In
half a year there won't be enough of
that l 10000 left to buy you a shoe
tring."
The system Of protection received
rough handling in the conference Of
glass manufacturers which closed at
Pittsbnrg not long ago. One of the
NEST prominent representatives of
that industry was bold enough to de-
clare that he had come to the conclu-
sion that the protective tariff does
not protect and that the revival in
the iron and glass trade cannot be
hoped for until ell tariff restrictions
are removed. This is the opinion of
many other manufacturers, but num-
bers of them are not candid enough
to express their views. That the
truth Is spreading,an M spreading rap
Idly, Is evidenced in the fact that
right in the hotbed of protection such
views ore expressed.
Morning Journal. A deep gloom
has settled down upon Washington
since the announcement by the three
candidates for the speakership that
they would conduct their campaign
on strictly temperance principles.
Such thing is almost unprecedented.
back in the "ifties," when
Sherman was a candidate for
that high Office, he dispensed lot OF
cheap Ohio wine. He was poor at
the time and apologized to his friends
that he could not offer them any.
better. He was beaten, OF
Mr.. Colfax ran a cold water
canvass also, but he too, was poor,
The Credit-M obiller bonanza not hav-
ing been then uncovered. Mr.. Cox,
Mr.. Carlisle and MI. Randall can
plead no such excuse. Why not pass
around some pure, fresh milk?
2 MI. John Kelly's newspaper, the
stas', has discovered the way by
which the Government may be
vrested from the hands of the Re-
publican party. As the Star has not
patented the discovery we may be
permitted to publish it. This is it:
The way to do this is, first of all, to
'ut Mr.. Kelly at the head ofthe next
Presidential ticket. New York is
he great doubtful State. The can. ]
lidate who does not carry it cannot
elected. Mr.. Kelly would sweep
he city and 60 to Harlem Bridge 4
With sixty or seventy thousand ma .
ority. What other Democrat could !
10 so?" AS MI. Kelly has a follow I
ng of only about 1900 in the State Z
t New York, the assertion that he q
ould go to Harlem Bridge with six I
? or seventy thousand majority I
FUNDS Munchausenish to say the Q
asst. a
The acute Cincinnati ENQUIRER rises y
say that ''Mr. Tilden is a giant of
'emocracy." If report be true it is
right. Here are some of his v
,puted achievements within the past Q
70 or three years: The killing of q
eneral Hancock for the Presidency; o
le killing of Governor Cleveland In a
ew York; the killing Of General U
utter in Massachusetts,; the killing q
General Malone in Virginia. He u
now said to be engaged in killing u
Il. Cox and Mr.. Carlisle for the Il
'eahership. Here are three eener- u
8 and one governor killed in three u
,ars, and two congressman about 10 N
killed. Who but a giant could &C. "
mplish SO much slaughter in so p
ort a time? And yet there are
ose who have been led to believe tt
Is same man Tilden has one foot in re-
e grave, and the other tottering ra
er its Drink; that his days are num- A
red and his palsied hands will soon bt
folded over his breast in eternal ca
It. "What fools these mortals be-" m
won't lie and hence, as an CT
change says, no matter how the ~
may calculate upon the "a
outlook, the facts remain ou
disputed and ~unalterable that the III