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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-28
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FISH OR CUT BAIT.
An Open Letter to w. I. Lip
pincOtt.
BUTTE, NJ. T., April Is. 1883.

BUTTE, NJ. T., April 25, 1888.
W. l. Lippincott, attorney at Law(7).
SIR-The fact that 1 was an aspi-
rant to the City Attorneyship has
been notorious for ten days last past,
and this letter is prompted, not by
chagrin or disappointment at not re-
ceiving the nomination, but solely
by q desire to put the matter of record
through the mediun,ship of an ire
fragatle statement of fact. Last
week, on ascertaining that you
also had an aspiration in that
behalf, I determined to seek
you and ascertain for myself.
Inasnluch az the sin mant!ing
shades of friendly night were several
hours afar my search was confined
to streets, other than Park, and
soon found you in a Main street
saloon suffering from q combined at
tack of ''valiey tan" and incOhereDt
monologue. Upon asking whether
you sought the nomination you re-
Piled with artistic affectation of can
dor mo; and should I receive it, I'll
decline for l don't think Judge
Laspeyre. can be beaten' You then
said that you would assist me in the
behalf indicated, and asked that I as
sist you in obtaining a delegateship
from the first ward to the end that
you be enabled to do what you
could in my behalf to which
I replied that my promise
would be worthless in that I could
not deliver the goods; that was not
slate maker of the party. Let me
parenthetically add that your request
was so suggestive OF the wren aspir-
ing to deliberate with the eagles that
1 found it difficult to restrain my
risibles. You then reassured me of
your loyalty, whereat I relaxed nv
and instructed my friends
to do likewise. AS necessary cor
ollary you was of the delegation of
six from the First Ward, and the
primary, whereof you-by permission
of my friends was chairman, adopt
ed a resolution instructing the dele
cation to cast it's vote for me
in convention. Instead of acting
truthfully, honorably, and as ever
becomes a professional gentleman
you began from the turn loose" to
crimp the cookies for yourself and
succeeded in baking them by two
votes. Regarding the action of the
convention, as an entirety, I make
40 plant, and shall support the tick
ct; but to be stabbed in the back by
such little caattering daw as YOUR
self; such an insignificant profession
Al tyro, legal sciolist and chip-monk.
IS what stirs my ire. I therefore |
post, brand and denounce |
you as anything and everything but |
gentleman, an adventurer and |
professional tramp, primordially and
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a Negro Murderer.

GALVESTON, April Pa News'
Houston special says: An atrocious
crime was committed nine miles from
here at Reckhouse gully. \ negro
boy, named Adams, aged l2 years. be-
ing under the impression that the
boys of the neighborhood were going
to fog him, while playing with Cuny
Nelson, aged II. whom he suspected
as one of the party, tied a rope around
Nelson's waist, and mounting /, horse,
tied the other end to the pommel Of
the saddle, rode rapidly away, drag
ging Nelson through the prairie until
dead. He took the train for Houston.
where he was captured.
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A Shocking Murder.

LAMpAsUs, Texas. April 20 DR..
A. G. sich was murdered last hight
b~ parties unknown. He and MRS.
Rich were asleep when the door was
unfastened, and some parties entered
the room and shot Rich through the
head, jerked him out OF bed and fired
twice. killing him instantly: Rich
came from Georgia several years
ago, and has been married only two
wears. His wife is almost bereft OF
her senses over the terrible tragedy
she witnessed.
VIENNA, April 25.-Helen N ar
covitch, who attempted TO shoot hlng
Milan. has been sentenced to death.
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TERRITORIAL NEWS.
As Narrated by Our Montana
Exchanges.

Throughout Montana the season is
much farther advanced than in Da,
kota or Minnesota.
Judge Wade will open the Gallatin
county term of court at Bozeman on
Friday. June 1st.
Maud Stevenson, of Helena, has
been adjudged insane and sent to the
Warm Springs Asylum. :.
Already large travel to the Vel
lowstone Park has set in. The prcs-
pect of railroad. communication is
booming the Upper Yellowstone.
The Keystone colony from Penn
sylvania has arrived ut Miles City.
A large emigration from Pennsylva-
MIA awaits their favorable report upon
the resources of Montana.
Nick Kessler, of Lewis and Clark
county, is friend of education. He
is building at his own expense a neat
and substantial brick school house in
his school district.
Prof. Yaeger's residence in Helena
caught fire last Monday. The flames
were extinguished without great
damage, but in trying to put out the
fire Mrs. Yaeger fell and was serious
ly injured. &
A party is being organized at Fort
Ellis under government orders to
survey a road from Billings up the
valley Of the Clarke's Fork to the
Cla1ke's Fork mines and the Nation
al Park.
Treasurer Williams, Of Missoula,
states that the license of some of the
saloon men who have gambling de-
vices in connection will amount to
$500 per quarter. Under the new
law seventy-five per cent Of this goes
to the county.
Barnum has sent word along the
line of the Northern Pacific that as
soon as it is completed his aggregated
wonder show will bowl along to the
cities of The sunset land. Dan Cos
tello is also coming and will pitch
his tent in Eastern Montana some
time soon.
The Husbandmun wants an in
crease of the judiciary force of Mon
tana. It says that for a number of
years Meagher county has had cause
for complaint, in that, litigants were
not able to get tria! of their causes,
and now that Judge Conger is sus-
pended they seem entirely cut off.
The Custer county grand jury re-
turned indictments against J. B.
Hubbeil and Dan Robertson, of the
old board of county commissioners,
and George E. Sti|lwell, for refusing
to deliver up certain property to the
provisional board. They were ar
rested and bail fixed at $500 each
which was promptly given and the
parties released.
1t is reported from Fort Custer that
Crazy Head, the fighting chief of the
Sioux, has an attack of "bad heart"
and in obedience to his impulses he,
with a band of disaffected Indians,
has retired off the reservation and
into the Big Horn mountains. The
officer at Fort Custer
has repeatedly commanded his re-
turn but has not been obeyed. A
force is now on the way to summon
him again to the reservation, aud if |
he does not comply, means will be
taken to compel obedience.
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Hayes for Postmaster.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Off.
GERS OF the postoffice department
deny the statement that communi.
cation has been received urging the
appointment of ex-President Hayes as
postmaster Of Fremont, Ohio. Mr.,
krebs. who was appointed postmas-
ter at Fremont by Mr.. Hayes, was
recently found to be between $1,000
and So. 600 short in his accounts: but
he has made all Of it good and still
holds the position. 1t is proba bic,
however, that new appointment
will be made.
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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
The Apaches Capture a Dis
tinguished American.
The Irish Convention at Phil
adelphia.
Sullivan, the Pugilist, at
Deaths Door.
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC.
Chicago Exercised.

CHICAGO, April 25.-The contem-
plated appointment of inspectors foI
this city continues to provoke con.
siderable newspaper discussion. 1t
is alleged that efforts are being made
at Washington to secure the appoint
ment sOf New York man who is
declared to be in the direct interest of
an Eastern house. It is asserted that
for the last two years one or two Chi
cago houses have led those of any
other city in the extent of their
importations, and that originally
their shipments came by way of New
York. But owing to q suppressed
extra official interference there in the
apparent interest of New York trade,
latterly cohsignmepts have come via
San Francisco. It is further asserted
that metropolitan influences have
placed an inspector in charge there
not favorable to Chicago merch ants.
and that New York firms are seek
ing to locate agents in this city for
the same purpose.
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New York Notes.

NEW YORK, April 25.-Judge Bar
rett, in Supreme Court. refused to
admit "Owney'' Geoghegan to bail
pending an appeal. He holds that
Geoghegan was righteously convict
ed for allowing minors to frequent
his notorious resort.
Edwin P. Raynor, of the firm OF
Raynor & Cussick, was shot and
killed to-day by falling down stairs.
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"Oh, Freddie!"

Just as Mrs. Langtry, in the char
acter of Rosalind. had pronounced
the words Of the epilogue, II would
kiss as many of you as had boards
that pleased me, compilations that
like me-" and was exhibiting her
most comprehensive smile to a Cleve-
land audience, a gallery gamin
shouted, "Oh, Freddie!" with gusto
which spoiled the effect, but sent the
people home in good nature.
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A Lover Leaps into Eternity.

KNOXVILLE, April 24.-W. B.
Haley, son Of Judge Haley, COM
mitted suicide at the residence of the
young lady who had refused to mar
ry him. It was the second attempt
to take his life for the same cause.
The deceased was 20 years old and a
lawyer.
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Egan's Views on the Irish Situa-
tiOn

PHILADELPHIA. April Pix
treasurer Egan, OF the irish Land
League, says the dynamite party
will have a very slight following
in the convention. Referring to the
movement in the mother country,
Egan said: 'It depends in large
measure or the support Of the Irish
element in America. There is 10
doubt that 50 long as the present dis
affection is kept alive by the support
of 100000 Irish Americans in
America, all the ingenuity of the En-
glish government will lie taxed to de-
wise measures to cope with the forces
in America. and Ireland will be cor
respondingly hopeful of ultimate sue
cess"
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The Lexington Foundry, Machine
Shops al d Boiler Works offer for
sale, in perfect order, the following:
One 35-horse power boilerand engine;
one 4O-horse power boiler and en-
gine; one 15-horse power portable
boiler and engine; two CO. horse power
boiler, complete; our own manufac-
ture. FUTILE 4 Co.
22aprtf
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Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-The Hill
investigation is again postponed.
Robinson's place on the commission
being yet unsupplied.
Kerr continued his argument In
the star route trial.
Upon the recommendation of the
Civil Service Commission the Presi-
dent appointed Randolph u. B.
Klein, OF Pennsylvania, Chief Exam
iner OF, the Commission, and w. w.
White, of Atlanta, Ga, Clerk OF the
Commission.
The sale of State lands in Kansas
and. Nebraska occurs on May 31st,
as the day f1rst appointed Is Decora-
ton day.
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NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT
It's a walk over.
Jinpincott is q dead duck.

It's walk over.
Lippincott is dead duck.
"No Cornishman need apply" il
what the Republican convention
again said yesterday.
Dolman's speech: "Thank you,
gentlemen, but I shall vote for my
old friend, J. Ross Clark"
The Republican convention made
q great mistake in nominating Lip
pincott for City Attorney. Mr.. E.
: Thompson would have made a
better race by 300 votes.
According to English experts dy-
Mantle is safer to transport than
novder. 1t is also not near as dam
cerous in its effects as the Democratic
ticket is to the prospects Of the Re-
publican nominees.
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Boston, April 25.-Late last night
John Sullivan had hemorrhage of the
lungs. Sullivan has been leading a
fast life of late, and his heavy drink
ing has at last brought him down.
1t was while visiting friend that he
was attacked, and after losing a large
quantity of blood he became insensi-
ble and did not regain consciousness
until to-day. The last rites of the
church were administered to him by
Rev. Father Patterson early this a.
m. His friends fear that he may
never recover from the attack.
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oonstitutionally devoid of brains,
probity or honor; a professional nine
spot devoid of the conyeniences for
thinking, and lacking nought save
instinct of being an ass. A crop
cared carrion eating cur and craven.
A coward1y poltro0n and pictures
que'y d--d liar. 1 am responsible
for what I have said and can be
found at my Office during business
hours. e. s. THOMPSON.
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Miscellaneous,

NEW YORK, April 25.-The body Of
delegates to the Irish convention in
Philadelphia began to assemble at the
depot us early as & o'clock this morn.
ing. The body steadily increased un.
til I o'clock, at which hour several
special trains chartered for the occa.
sion were boarded by the delegates
and started for Philadelphia
New ORLEANS, April 24.-Marks
Bros. & Co., commission merchants
of this city and Matamoras, have sus-
pended. Liabilities. probably $780,
600. Their available assets ara be-
lieved to be small.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Pres
ident has appointed James kirkpat-
rick postmaster at Dillon, NJ. T.
LONDON, April 24.-The Times
says it is understood that the evil
denee against Peter Tyner, r'No. l.
from Independent witnesses, as well
as iEfoi mers, is such rs to justify de-
cisiye action by the government in
asking for his extradition.
BERLIN, April 25.-The National
Ze2tU7ly says Clo pOSlLlOn OF Sargent,
United States Minister, is considered
by diplomatic circles to have been
shaken III consequence Of his letter
to the American secretary of state on
the subject Of the importation of
FORK into Germany.
DUBLIN, April 25.-Increased pre-
cautions have been taken because Of
letter threatening to blow up the
public buildings.
ATLANTA, April 24.-The election
for governor passed off quietly. The
vote was light, as there was no oppo-
sition. Henry d. Mcdaniel, the DEM
ocratic nominee, was elected. He
will probably be inaugurated the 18th
of May.
NORFOLK. April 24.-Lucy Houl-
sey, a negress, is arrested for whip
ping a sisters orphan child, seven
years old. to death. The child was
nogged with cowhide and burned
Oh the stove. Her husband is also
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Heman Clark aud the Winston
brothers employ sixteen hundred
horses in grading on the Northern
Pacific.
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Money and Stock Market.

NEW YoRK, April 25.--Money to
5; Prime Paper 81 to +; Sterling Elk.
dull, 4.S2l; Demand 3.
Governments, unchanged or lower;
States, dull; railroads, firm; stocks
very dull. The result to-day shows
very little change except in few
cases. Stock sales, l3S, 600.
Mining stocks dull. Navaj 10
strong. S.S5 and $50; Alice, 3.25 and
3.2o; Horn Silver, 2.59; Sierra Grand,
LIS: Hail & Anderson Cou.. "a to
50: sales, to day, is, ,972 shares.
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RALEIGH, n. c., april 25.-Frost
did much damage to tobacco plants.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
Civil Service i'm the House.


The Democrats in Congress seem to have
made up their minds to kill off Republican
reform enthusiasm by thrusting their
medicine down their own thrOats. If they
are not surfeited and made sick at the
stomach by the strangling which Mr.. Kas-
son and his reform colleagues received in
the House on the 4th, their hypocrisy will
develop more GOODNESS and consequent
danger to the country than we had sup
posed. The passage of the PendletOn Sem
ate bill through the House instantane-
Ously, upon motion of Mr.. Cox, of New
York, was reply to the taunt of Demo-
cratic opposition by Mr.. KassOn, which
that gentleman neither expected nor was
prepared for. His carefully prepared
speech, which was to startle the
country with its fearful revelations of
Democratic conspiracy to invade the sa-
cred precincts of the capital and ruthless
ly eXpel the patriotic preservers of liberty
and the Union, was ''squelched'-the
whole kettle of fish was turned over and
left fluttering in the ashes and smoke of
their own consuming; while the Demo-
cratic phalanx passed on like a storm over
the wreck and ruins of the Radical for
lOrn hope of political reaction.
1t will be regarded as a memorable de-
feat of the Republicansatt their own game,
for whatever claims they may present to
such reform of the civil service as the bill
affords, it originated and was pressed
through the Senate by a Democrat, and
was precipitated without amendment
through the House by the Democrats.
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There is naturally considerable conjec-
ture and wide difference of opinion as to
the effect of Gambetta's death upon
France and Europe. To the view OF some
his loss seems irreparabIe, while with
others. who believe in the manifest
destiny of nations, his departure Degets
regret for the loss of great man who has
so long filed such a large space in the
field of public vision. but does not cause
them to despair of his place being filled.
Internationally, Gambetta was a pow
erful factor in the constitution of the
present political system of France, and
was potent with the masses whose loyalty
to that system is so necessary for its
maintenance. But whether that system
is to be perfected or shall perish, the
causes that will bring about either effect
were i'm operation ere Gambetta died, ana
while, had he lived, he might have played
a great part in developing the Republic or
retarded its fall, the logic of events would
have asserted itself.
France has learned much in recent
vears-much that is anything but calcula-
etd to add to her patriotic pride. The dis
cOvery she made when the German was at
her doors of her weakness in defense, has
found its parallel in the Tunisian cam
paign. France is not in a position to
wage a profitable war, and the
gospel now preached is pretty
much peace at any price. Vengeance
upon the German may continue
a treasured notion of the ardent among
the French, but the empire over the Rhine
must relax much of its vigilance or lose
much of its strength ere the experiment
of French revenge can be tried with hope
Of success. Whatever may transpire in
France itself, she is not likely TO disturb
Europe by aggression in any quarter.
The probable effect in France Of Gam
betta's departure will be an effort to draw
together the heterogeneous fragments that
pass under the name of Republicans. In
times of uncertainty men are conserva-
tive, and conservatism will hold sway in
France for some time to come. The true
Republican idea, as found here, can never
develop in France. Whatever is in store
for her in the near future, it may be
assumed that it will not be permanent.
She has ever been IN advance of Europe,
whether typifying in her social organism
the refinement of despOtism or the acme
of license.
Whether Gambetta's mantle fall on the
shoulders of Clemenceau or one wOrthier
to wear it, he may be compelled to throw it
aside ere he is familiar with its use.
But whatever the crisis that may arise
in the future of France a man will come
forth to meet it who may strike coming
generations as did Mirabeau past, or as
he that died but yesterday did, the present.
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Colossal Conceit.


Self-reliance is said to be the anchor Of
genius. There is, however, a bogus self
reliance best described as pig-headedness.
Senator Logan is largely endowed with
this quality. So thoroughly does he be-
lieve himself to be right that he has not
apparently so much as examined the later
statements bearing upon the FitZ John
Porter case. Like the town clerk of a
village, he imagines himself to be not only
the whole village, but the rest of the
world which he has never visited also.
Yet Senator Logan needs all his egOtism
to blind him to the righteousness of his
position. He laughs at General Grant as
military authority and critic. He fatty
tells us that the Union officers on the one
side and the Confederate Generals ON the
other knew nothing at all about the battle
of August 80, 1862. He, John Logan, of
Illinois, who was not present, knows more
about it than all those who fought there.
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NEUROLOGY.
The Great Dead of the Past Year.
R.rIfi,llnaso .O,,ra

6UCttHdOfe CUTt.
The neurology of 1882 includes the fol-
lowing distinguished names: Charles r..
Darwin, greatest Of the modern men of
science; Garibaldi, the last heroic figure
in Italian history.
In the English Church, Dr. TAFT, Arch
bishop of Canterbury; DIR. PUsey, DR..
Newman's associate in the tractarian
movement; the Dean of Carlisle; Dean
Wellesley, the Queens chaplain. In the
Roman Church, Bishop Lynch. In the
American Episcopal Church, DR.. A. Il.
living and DR.. John Cotton Smith. In the
Unitarian Church, Orville Dewey and Dr.
Henry w. Bellows. In the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Bishops Scott, Wight
man and Paine.
American literature, its two great lead
ers, Longfellow and Emerson; George p.
Marsh, Henry James and Richard III.
Dana, Jr. Science, John w. Draper and
Henry Draper; Jos. Z. Sheffield, founder
of the Sheffield Scientific School. Art,
Thomas LeClear. Law, TheOphilus Par
sons.
English literature, Dante Gabriel Bo-
setti, Anthony TrollOpe, John Brown, Jas.
Rice, Geo. Rose, VIM. Harrison Aims
worth. Science, PrOfs. JevOns and Bal
four, each the victim of an accident.
Law, Sir John Holker and Sir Richard
Malins.
Continental literature, science and art,
BerthOld Auerbach, Bruno, Bauer, Fried
rich Woehler, Joachim Raft, Charles Blanc,
Francois NJ. Pascal, Emil PlantamOur,
Joseph Decaisne and Johann GotfrIed
Kinkel.
Generals Skobeleff and Kaufman, in
Russia; Generals Casey and Ducrot, in
France; General Valmaseda in Spain;
Generals John G.. Barnard, Silas Casey,
G. X. Warren, Sydney Burbank, and Rear
Admirals Beaumont. Rodgers, McDOugal,
Strong, Poor and Scott, in the United
States; Sir William Palliser, Samuel
Remington and Manser, the German gum
smith.
Sidi MOhammed-el-Sadok, Bey of Tunis;
President Guardia, of Costa Rica; ex-
President Burgers, of the Transvaal Re-
public; Figueras, Spanish statesman;
Louis Blanc and Ferdinand Herold;
LAMA, leader of the Italian right; Baron
Manteuffel, Sir Hugh Allan.
Thurlow Weed, Benjamin H. Hill, c. c.
Clay, Alexander H. Bullock, William
DennisOn, Milton S. Latham, c. G. Wash
burn, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Horace May
nard, Clarkson n. Potter, Godloye S. Orth,
Edwin Stoughton, Henry Highland Gar
net, John d. Defrees, James S. Pike,
Henry G. Murphy, Webster Wagner, Ar
temus Hale.
John &. Hamilton, WilliamR. Garrison,
Jesse Hoyt, Robert l.. Stuart, Trenor w.
Park, Frederick De Poster, George Law,
Elijah Ward.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Fanny Parnell,
Adelaide Phillips, Mrs. Caroline Richings-
Bernard, Mrs. Daniel Webster:
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Cage Them.

Never since the memorable escape of
the Guyuscutas has there been such a
panic in an audience as took place last
week when the slayers of Jesse James
made for the crowd of spectators. If we
really take pleasure in seeing noted ruff
fans on exhibition, they should be placed
in strong cages, as beasts of prey are in
the menageries, and placards should be
posted in conspicuous places warning the
multitude not to trifie with the desper-
adocs foaIiuUc