The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-25
OUR MAN IN TIE COUNTRY.

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ETC., Etc.
From our Travelling Correspondent.
On THE ROAD, Oct. Is, 1884.
In my last letter would have said
something relative to Jefferson
county politics had it not been of toe
lengthy proportions without it. The
county, from centre to circumference.
is one seething and boiling cauldron
of political agitation. A SORE head
or two can be found in almost any
precinct. whose claim to position
has not ieen properly heralded at
some time or other. Everybody ex-
poets his friends and himself elected
to the bet offices within the gift of
a generous and donating public.
Pol t'cs, truly make strange bedfel-
|. vs.! Ills now the dude swell in
quires earnestly after the welfare of
the colored mans family. He even
condescends to take an occasional
smile with the Irish citizen, tips his
hat to the Italian when they meet in
some out of the way place, and calls
swei glass lager when he comes in
contact with the German. But,
mark you, this is before election.
"W hen this cruel war Is over" the
curtains DROP. and the transtorma-
ton is complete. Instead of the
pleasant, affable fellow you voted for.
you meet Mr.. -, who always looks
the other way when you pass. He
don't know you, and, the fact that
the edges of your button holes have
been demolished by his constant
lingering them does not concern him.
I am informed, by various parties,
that ut no time, within the recollec-
ton of the earliest settlers, did the
political fires of Jefferson county
burn so brightly, nor were they fed
with 80 much political fuel as during
this present campaign. The final re-
suit or outcome can hardly be esti-
mated, although it would seem, from
from the general aspect of affairs.
that the Democratic candidates will
have an easy victory.
Spending few days in Helena, at
the capital of our Territory, I, of
course, had quite an opportunity of
seeing things. On the night the re-
turns from Ohio were received, Main
street presented q novel appearance.
Electric lights shone out in their
splendor upon the corpulent poll
ticians as we'll as upon those who
feas. at an occasional lunch counter.
Everybody was more or less elated,
as the news would vary; and many,
indeed, were the ''smiles" doomed
down an almost endless throat, either
for joy or sorrow; and long ere the
midnight hour arrived an occasional
one would he so overcome by the
electric light that he'd stagger, and
finally land kerthump on the curb
stone crossing. Certainly Helena Is
q Chicago on a small scale. 1t boasts
ofits fine churches, elegant residences,
and costly business houses. It also
can indeed. lay claim to being q
miniature "New York by gaslight."
Its rank of aristocratic preference is
more than counterbalanced by the
copious profusion of places "that are
dark and tricks that are vain" We
find the high. h.toned, well appointed
and neatly kept gentlemen's resort
on the same thoroughfares with the
free show business. In the latter
you find q trio of notables perched
upon a dilapidated and rickety plat
form. Something that probably
served as a patent henro0st in ancient
times is pounded upon for q weekly
stipend by genius Of less than
ordinary musical talent, while at his
immediate right a bow, with about
four hairs in it, is drawn with that
magic and delicate touch which would
even throw Satan's lowest angels
into Mysteries; but the chief attrac-
ton upon this platform is something
encased in suit of tights, the color
of which magnifying glass of huge
could not well discern.
It looks like Barnum's "What is It."
This "What ia It" can shout, whistle
and make futile effort at vocalism
the like of which probably never be-
fore grated upon the ear of man. In
with this musical(?) trio
q gentleman Of color, upon whose
nasal protuberance the seeds of many
q glass have generously sprouted,
chips in now and then gutteral
sound in anticipation Of catching
stray glass of beer. There are OF er
of this kind elsewhere in
t ne city, but suffice it to say that
Helena has an abundance to spare.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
under the charge of our former we'll
and highly esteemed towns
man, Rev. J. Jay Garvin, has, dur
ing the past year, undergone many
and valuable improvements. Its in
terror has been entirely repainted,
and frescoed. 1t is "just as
cozy as it can be-" The parsonage
building is, at this writing, hoisted
and blocked in midair, that another
story of brick upon good cellar be
built under it. The financial status
Of he church speaks volumes in favor
of its eloquent divine.
The Cosmopolitan, the leading ho-