The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-08
The Semi Weekly Miner

The Semi Weekly Mine
Crow Dog has again been sentence
to death. He will probably find tt
happy hunting grounds this trip.
Mrs. X. B. Hayes is working
book mark for President Arthur, [
reward him for refusing to travel o
Sunday.
Prof. Vennor is breathing sea al
and figuring on the superstructure G
some new geometrical weather lies
at Orchard Beach.
A London dispatch announces tn
early departure Of the noted Catholi
divine Pere Hyacinth, for Americ
on a lecturing tour.
Three hundred deaf mutes ar
holding a convention in New York
The proceedings are said to be re
markedly orderly and quiet.
Time and fate sometimes bring rar,
compensations. New Orleans pro
poses to give Ben Butler a banquet
when he visits that city.
The fool killer has another job OF
hand. A Frenchman named Balsan
is enroute to the United States, his
object being to repeat the foolhardy
attempt of Capt. Webb to shoot the
falls of Niagara.
The Willard excursionists will gain
sonle idea Of the capabilities of the
Northwest as q food-producer by the
view of 12O self-bindlng reapers cut.
ting the golden grain in a field of
1850 acres, on the Dalrymple farm in
Dakota.
The Commissioners of the Denver
Exposition are amusing themselves
and friends with dancing parties in
the center of the vast area of floor in
the deserted exposition building.
This is like whistling in the church
yard to keep the courage up.
The New Orleans Times.D Democrat
says that of 100 Swedes who settled
at Quincy, Florida, in 1874, every
one has died. A significant instance
of climatic difference is noted in the
fact that for every hundred who came
to the northwest about that time
there are now at least two hundred
incipient Swedish American citi-
Zens.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
are so agitated over the prospect of
Buffers reelection that it is probable
that instead Of sending money tn
Ohio and Virginia, as in the Nation
al campaign, the Massachusetts re-
formers will be passing around the
hat and saying, as Blaine did: "Your
neglect to send money here is imper-
ling the national cause"
A regular boom seems to have
been started regarding Vanderbilt's
charities. Recently we'had the story
of his gift of $4,000 to thirty student
walters at u White mountain hotel.
Now comes an account of his private
b~enefactiOns for the year, which
amounted to fully $500, O0O. The old
man is probably trying to offset some
of his past financial shortcomings.
Bismarck wore her Sunday clothes
yesterday. Public and private resi-
dences were decorated, and the boom
ing little city was in gala attire.
Twenty Thousand strangers thronged
the streets. Wizards party Of four
hundred distinguished guests added
eclat to the occasion, and the corner
stone to the new capitol was laid with
imposing ceremonies. Long may
she prosper as the capital Of uAdivid-
ed Dakota.
Montasians who are not permitted
to witness the driving of the last
spike will find consolation in the
promise of H. L. Bridgman, of
Leslie's illustrated newspaper,
who writes the North western agent
Of that publication that he expects
on the occasion of the laying of the
last rail of the Northern Pacific to
have n of the best artists in the
country to make the sketches for the
paper.
A California school teacher, having
got on a racket with the boys" ran
short O ffunds with which to keep up
he jamboree, and replenished his ex-
,hequer by signing a friends name
20 a note which he succeeded in Ky
oothecating. Upon being arrested
IN a charge IF forgery he admitted
lis guilt, but was discharged from
custody on the ground that the war;
ant under which he was arrested
vas sworn out by an infidel, and was
void.
The Associated Press dispatches
eport active operations in progress
or the building of a railroad from
be south into Yellowstone Park. 1t
an open secret that the Union Pa
ific Company intend to build a
ranch to the Park, and that sur
eys r being made to determine
he most feasible route. Among
ther surveys in progress is that of
he Washable route, and another
.0m Camas Creek, on the Utah &
Jorthern Railway.
MI. Frank James counsel is now /.
ngaged in convincing the gentle .
of the jury that his client is a 4.
Dung person of high moral charac- .
r and of blameless life. Any little :
,centricity in the way of train rob- :
ing which NAV have occurred in }