The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-24
SEMl-WEEKLY MINER.
SATURDAY, MARCH "A, 1883.

Russia is harvesting her spring
crop of Nihilists.
The beautiful weather experienced
in Montana during this month is in
singular contrast with the snow
storms which have visited the States
from Minnesota to Maine.
Ex-Representative r. P. Flower
of New York, is credited with re
turning to the United States Treas
ury the sum of 1885, SO, the amount
overpaid him on account Of salary
and mileage as a member Of the
Forty-seventh Congress.
Mr.. Hamilton can afford to lose his
salary and mileage as q member OF
the Legislative Council, if a few pet
ty Republican officials and the still
smaller Inter Mountain can afford to
bear the ignominy of swindling him
out of it.
Chief of the Secret Service Brooks
says the number of counterfeiters of
metallic currency has greatly in
creased since the resumption of spe-
Gle payments, but thinks the total
amount of counterfeit money is no
greater. BY what development of
facts the statement can be truthfully
made is not shown.
An exchange says: "People who
send valuable articles wrapped up to
resemble newspapers in order to save
postage, need never be surprised when
they find that no trace of their gifts
cam be found. The ease with which
such things are detected by postal
clerks would astonish most people,
and the articles are sent at once to the
dead letter Office"
The Jenkins who wrote up David
Davis wedding left nothing to the
imagination of the reader. He laid
great stress on the fact that the
berths in the stateroom of the steam
er which took the happy pair to
Wilmington, had been enlarged for
the especial accommodation of the
Senator. What would the world do
without a Jenkins.
The Treasury Department, accord
ing to a recent dispatch, estimates the
reduction of the revenu under the
new tax and tariff law during the
present fiscal year at only ten mil
lion to fifteen million dollars. This
falls far short of being at the rate of
500, DOC, 900 a year, the amount of the
reduction insisted upon by the Demo-
cratic party.
A political resurrection seems pos
sible when men like Sprague, of
Rhode Island, can receive the nomi-
nation for Governor by two political
conventions, but when it is carried
SO far as to propose that the late
Rutherford B. Hayes be nominated
. for Governor Of Ohio it is proposed to
bring to the surface a man so politi-
cally dead that people will become
disguised with the spectacle.
The Boston advertiser gives the
following definition of an interview,
and one. which is correct in ever par
ticular: Gan interview is a modern
invention good-naturedly adopted
by newspapers to enable public men
to put their ideas before the people
without assuming tho responsibility
for them, and in a form to be repudi-
ated as the inaccurate work of the re-
porter in case the views do not
''take."
Benton Record: "The refusal of
Secretary McCutcheon to pay Mr..
Hamilton's salary has placed the
Secretary in no enviable position.
His action is denounced even by Re-
publicans as an "impudent misuse of
authority" and his extreme sensi-
tiveness when the matter is referred
to by the press shows that he is aware
of his own blunder, and would recti-
fy it if he could without making HIM
self still more ridiculous"
In his evidence in the Star route
trial Brady testifies the crookedness
in the service is chargeable wholly TO
the wicked route book clerks whom
he found in the postoffice department
in 1876. Brady says he was green in
the business then and let the clerks
manage the business to suit them
selves. He may state only facts, but
the i%ncredulous public will hardly be
convinced that the unsophisticated
Brady did not prove an apt scholar
of the wicked" clerks.
st. Louis Republican When the
clouds cleared away last November
and the Republican leaders were able
to make a typographical survey of
their wrecked and ruined party they
were quick to announce that the mis- |
fortune was really a blessing in dis
guise. 1t, would set the. Republican
party up straight and strong again
and give the Democracy a free field
for laundering. Now we should like
to know if the Republican party is as
straight or strong as its leaders ex-
pected to find it on the adjournment
of the Forty-seventh Congress.
The Chicago Inter Ocean presumed
largely upon the credulity of its read
ers when it gave publicity to the
following: president Arthur's
critics have failed to observe an in /
cident that was recently told of
him. A New York liquor merchant
recently sent him a case of the finest
whisky to be found. The President
returned it, with q. note from his
private secretary, declining to ac-
cept presents of such a character, |