The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-21
NEWS NOTES.

Herr Wagner has an income of
5000 pounds from his musical copy
rights.
Lord Frederick Cavendish's grave
in England is visited by hundreds of
people every day.
The President appointed 200 post
masters in February, twenty of whom
were ladies.
The Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatives has decided to extermin-
ate the English sparrow.
William Lloyd Garrison is to have
bronze statue nine feet high in one
of the public squares of Boston.
Nearly one hundred million gallons
of wine were made in France last
year from raisens.
Senator Fair denies he intends to
resign, and pronounces the rumer to
that effect idle talk.
Last winter Iowa was prohibi-
ton State; but Notwithstanding the
prohibitory law eleven drunkards
troze to death.
The New York Legislature has do
mated to Ex-Governor Horatio Sey-
mour the chair which be used at the
State capitol when Governor.
Mrs. Garfield, it is said, looks ten
years older than yyhen her husband
was killed, and there is sprinkling
of white in her hair.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction in New Jersey has issued
all order forbidding corporal punish
mept in the schools Of that State.
Trenton, New Jersey, has two
tongued baby, and it is said the peo-
pie fear it will grow up to he wo-
man. This is a libel on the fair sex.
A bill passed the Arkansas Senate
changing the name of Dorsey county
to DeSoto county. It was named for
ex-senator Dorsey during the recon-
struction era.
A spring in st. Tammany Parish,
La, pours forth clear, cold water all
day, but at sunset it suddenly goes
dry, discharging no water until the
sun rises.
A Hamburg dispatch says the law
forbidding the importation of pork
has not yet been sanctioned. If sane
toned at all, it comes into force thirty
days after publication.
The storm in New England and
Canada, it is said, would have attract
ed but little attention, had it not been
for the great interest created by the
predictions of Virgins.
A terrible explosion in or near the
Government buildings in London is
ascribed to an attempt by the Invir-
cibles to blow up the House of Com
mons. No lives were lost.
A wealthy citizen of Louisville,
KY, has secured location Oh Third
street and made contract with the
author of the Passion Play to pro-
duce it there for three months in a
mammoth summer pavilion.
Gerald McKenna, of the New York
Herald. has fallen heir to hand
some fortune in Ireland. His good
luck not only brings him a good
round sum of cash, but considerable
landed estate.
Salmi Morse, having been dis
charged for presenting the Passion
Play without license on the ground
that the presentation was not public
one and therefore required no license,
is making arrangements for another
private rehearsal of the play.
Dorsey denies that he ever played
cards with J. B. Bissell. He says
there is determination to insist
that there was check given to ~
B. B." He says his check-book run
ming back for ten years does not
show any account in the name of -
b. B."
An Olympia, wv. T.) dispatch
under date of the 11th inst says
John Slocum, u Squoxon Siwash
Indian, came to life yesterday after
burial. He says he interviewed the
Great Spirit, who told him that Wig
gins was fraud. To-day he preach
ed toa great concourse of siwashes
at this place and told them the Grea
Spirit had ordered him to assure
them that no Virgins storm would
injure them.
Bayard, started life as a counter
jumper; Beck. as a farm hand; Con
ger, as q lumber hand; Davis, o
West Virginia, as brakeman
Dawes, as n school teacher; Fair, a
bartender; Farley, as a coacl
driver; German, as a Senate page
Jones, of Florida, as a carpenter
McDill, as a department clerk
Morrill,, as country storekeeper
Plumb, rs printers devil Sawyer
asa laborer; sherman as a surveyor
and Vest, as a reporter.
The question whether the Treasur,
Department can legally withhold tn
pay of members of Congress who ar
indebted to the Government is exci'
ing considerable attention. Th
hrst comptroller of the treasury al
sumes that it can, and so informe
the treasurer in the case of Repre-
sentative Ochiltree. The solicitor
the treasury is inclined to doubt tn
legality of such decision. He ha
an interview with Secretary Folge
recently and made a point that
might be considered wrong as a ma
ter of public policy to withhold tn
salary OF "a representative of the pei
PIE as tending tO interfere with li