The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
The Semi Weekly Miner


1t is said the cities of the Uaitet
States owe 81, ZOO, 900 more than the!
did ten years ago. The fact suggest
the thought that the time is near a
hand when they will be compelled
to pay as they go.
Jay Gould denies Dorsey's story
that he (Gould) gave a large sum tt
the Garfield campaign fund on con
dition that Garfield should appoint
Stanley Matthews to the Supreme
Bench of the United States. Here
is a question of veracity between the
two gentlemen, with the odds large.
ly in favor of Gould telling the
truth.
It may please Butte epicures to
learn that examinations of all the
oyster beds along the north and south
shores of Long Island, show the crop
will be uncommonly large, and that
the oysters will be of better quality
than for many seasons past. Oysters
which have been taken up appear to
have grown twice as much as those
inspected at this time last year, and
they are plump and solid.
The Federation of Trades and La
Dor Unions and the Amalgamatisd
Association of Iron and Steel Work
ers cannot, it seems, unite On account
Of the position of each on the tariff
question. The latter favors a high
tariff, while members of the Fedora
ton are not united on the subject.
An agreement to disagree is the REM
sdy proposed for the union of the two
associations.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press is of
the opinion that "The time is COM
ing when the differences between
capital and labor will be fewer, when
arbitration will be the recognized
agency by which they will be CON-
posed, and when the folly and sacri-
flee involved in strikes will be so
clearly understood that the laborer
will resist any proposal leading to
that direction" That time may
come, but society will have been re-
organized and the relations between
capital and labor have undergone a |
great change before it comes to pass.
The Chicago Inter Ocean charac-
terizes the story which some para
grapher has started during the alb
sence of General Logan and Secre-
tary Lincoln that David Davis Is be-
coming the popular Presidential can
didate among Illinois Republicans as
a hot weather joke. 1t is a joke, how
ever, that even the frcsts of the en-
suing winter may not destroy, in
which case it would not appear so
funny to the Inter Ocean. Illinois
Republicans may do worse than to
insist upon the nomination of Judge
Davis.
A correspondent of a London pa
per has been visiting Chicago and
sums up his information of the mar
velleusly prosperous city in the fol-
lowing style: LAS a matter of fact,
the city is hideous, and, even were it
the finest ever designed and COM
pleted by an architect, the telegraph
posts in the principal streets. carry
ing wires by the dozen, would render
it distasteful to any ~ having the
slightest eye for architectural effect.
The Chicago people think the sight
of killing pigs one of the finest in
the world, and the visitor is taken to
see it as the greatest of treats" If
Chicago can stand this criticism she
has nothing to fear from st. Louis
and her other rivals. She is now put
to a crucial test.
The Salt Lake Herald says: Seen
eral Sheridan has had the temerity
to name a camp Hampton, in honor
of the South Carolina Senator. Has
General Sheridan forgotten that
Wade Hampton was a southern brig
adler? 1t will never do to have loyal
soldiers honoring rebels in this man.
ner. Comr to think of it, Sheridan
can afford to be generous. Hei is fixed
for life, and is not dependent upon
party or voters for his office" Can't
the Herald see the point? Is not the
naming of a camp in honor of the old
rebel evidence that the "bloody
chasm" is bridged over in the Presi-
mind? 1t will not injure Ar
thur in his canvass for the Republic
can nomination for the Presidency
next year for the South to know he .
has thus markedly noticed one Of her
sons.
If brigandage were carried on in i
after the Italian manner, &
here might be a good haul for either
red or white rascals just now in the
Presidents party. Great care, it is {
has been used to guard against
surprise from the bands of robbers r
md struggling Indians and wild ami {
nails which infest these regions" q
life and purses are here referred to i
s in danger; the peril of being held t
or ransom, in the style of Calabria /
r Macedonia. is not dreamed of. At a
er all, even the bagging of this party n
y a body OF bold horsemen would be b
mainly q personal discomfort. The
wheels Of Government would still 70
ound ever were MI. Arthur seized l
y a troop of treech-clouted savages,
nd the army would draw its menth-
= pay with unfailing ardor even if y
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