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ages.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
IN FUTURES.

They have level-headeo judges on
the bench of the Georgia Supreme
Court. Quite re GENTLY the court de.
livered a decision which called forth
the following opinions concerning
gambling in futures: "If this is not
speculation or chance wagering and
betting between parties, then We are
unable to understand the transaction.
Betting on a game of faro, brag or
poker, cannot be more hazardous,
dangerous or uncertain. Indeed, it
may be said, these animals are tame,
gentle and submissive compared to
this monster. The law has driven
them to ths,SIens: theS have heen
out.awst, WINE this feracious beast
has been allowed to stalk abo. t in
open midday with gilded signs and
flaming advertisement to lure the I'M
happy victim to its embraces of death
and destruction. The business of
selling and buying cotton futures has
grown in spite of persistent oppo
sition from the pulpit, legislative
halls and the bench to enormous
proportions. Now and then bucket
shops have received rebuffs, when
they sought to enforce their contracts
directly, but they have managed to
avoid this to a considerable extent by
taking negotiable notes and trans
ferring them to innocent holders, in
whose hands they were supposed to
lie good.
The Supreme Court strikes a
crushing blow against the entire
system, holding that the whole bust
ness is a vast gambling scheme, and
that all contracts or notes based or
futures or gaming contracts are absc-
lately void, and that they are not
good even in the hands of innocent
purchasers. II i, a pity New York
City cannot import a few judges
fiom Georgia. If their opinion
should obtain ia that stock gambling
city, there would be fewer suicides,
fewer desolated homes. fewer mil
lionaires, fewer assignments aud
fewer wrecks of humanity.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Boston Trash,

Boston, Jan. s.-Mrs. Hardy.
Spiritualist. was in 1869 married to
John Hardy. Subsequently by
mutual consent and by payment by
Hardy of $1,000, he procured a di-
vorce in Utah. She then married
Ezra Perkins. and shortly afterwards
dying bequeatbed half her personal
property to her husband. A suit was
brought by Hardy involving the
point who was her legal husband ut
the time Of the WON MS
death. Perkins having also
died leaving $500, 900. The Supreme
Court decided the Utah divorce Tile.
gal, and that Hardy was the legal
husband of the the testa,rix at the
time of her decease, and entitled to
half of her p rsonal estate, not hay
ing consented IN writing to her will.
Hardy is not p legatee of the will,
and Ezra G. Perkins, it is found, is
the person meant by the word ''hus-
band" Hardy married again sew
eral years ago, and is now living
here.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
THOSE RS.

Postmaster General Gresham must
be an extremely credulous gentleman
TO say the least Circulars calling up
on the recipients to state what they
W. u!d or could contribute to the Re-
publican campaign fund We're recent
~ circulated in the p~ostottice depart
ment. The Postmaster General pro-
nounced their circulation a violation
of law and began al investigation OF
the matter. He traced their di,tri-
tuition to one Captain Walch, who
stated be had received the circulars
from a stranger and was ignorent of
their contents. This explanation sat
isfied the credulous head of the de-
partment and he dropped the
matter. It would seem to a
person at this distance that
an officer of the Post Office De
partment who would receive froma an
entire strangerseveral hundred circu-
lars and, without knowing their con-
tents, distribute the same among the
employees of the department, is 10
tally unit to fill his position. Anda
superior officer who would drop all
investigation of a fragrant violation
of the civil service law upon such an
explanation as given him by Captain
Walch cannot feel much interested
in the strict enforcement OF the law,
or is too unsophisticated to deal with
his subordinates. The matter will
become a subject for Congressional
investigation when it will be learned
whether it is the practice of the de-
parlment to permit its officers to dis
tribute among employees calls for as
for political purposes.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
THE DEBRIS
CASE.

The farmers of Sacramento Valley
California, have gained the first VIC
tory in their suit with the hydraulic
miners of the foot hill counties OF
that State. The suit was instituted
for the purpose of determining the
right of miners to fill the channels OF
saountain streams with debris from
their claims to the detriluent OF
farms lying in the valleys below. The
case will be appealed and will prop
ably go to the Supreme Court OF the
United States. If the decision of the
lower court be sustained the effect
will be to lessen materially the gold
output of the State which now
amounts to about $40, 900, 900 annu-
ally. The great gravel deposits in
the foothills yield nearly all
the gold produced by the State.
These to be probably worked re-
quire the use of an immense body of
water. Some OF the claims in the
Blue Granite district use several
thousand inches of water forced
through eight inch %nozzles. This
great amount of water playing upon
banks uf earth two hundred feet in
depth, carry with it sediment, or
"slickens" as it is there termed,
which being deposited in the rivers,
fill their channels aud cause over
flows, during the season of high wa
ter, which have worked ~incalculable
damage to farms lying upon the
banks of such streams. Judge Saw
yer's decision stops vhis work aud un
less miners employ some means by
which the debris from their claims
shall be retained near their grounds,
gold mining in California will be in
significant compared with former
years.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
The Fire.

BELLEvILLE, Jan. 8.-The inquest
proceeded ali day and will be contin-
ued tomorrow. The testimony has
been Of a somewhat conflicting char.
acter. but shows pretty cleary the fire
department is entirely inadequate to
cope with such fire and is sadly de-
ficient in the necessary Appliances
Sister Ellen Theresa testified this at
ternoon there We're seventy-one per-
sons in the convent at the time Of the
fire, thirty-seven of whom escaped,
leaving th%irty-four missing, This
cannot be verified, however, as all
records are burned, but the sisters
will attempt to recall from
memory the names of those present
and by comparing rates try to reach
the actual number. This testimony
created considerable sensation and
every effort will be made to ascertain
the facts in the case.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

A recent New York telegram says
General Grant is very much inter-
ested in the political canvass of next
year, and it IS probable he will take
quite an active part. 1t can be said
officially that he is not in any sense
a candidate, and that he will under
no circumstances permit his name to
be used in the Convention. He will
not support President Arthur. He
is strongly opposed to his renomina-
ton, and does not think he could be
elected if nominated. He is at pres
ent inclined to be very friendly to
General Logan. Their difference on
the Fl z John Porter question mas
never resulted in any personal feel
ing between them. Grant is yery
grateful for the gallant fight Logan
made for him at the last Chicago
Convention, and will do what he can
to repay him.
Logan is the only available candi-
date of the Stalwart triumviratc that
helped Garfield out of the woods.
Conkling is out Of politics for the
present. and Cameron is physically
unable to go through a campaign.
Besides, events have TRANSFERRED since
that famous meeting at Mentor
which have rendered the nomina-
ton of either Conkling or Cameron
out of the question. OF the Stalwarts
Logan has the inside track for the
Rel ublican nomination and. unless
Arthur develops more strength
than is now apparent, he will re-
ceive it.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

The action of France in again pro-
hibiting the importation of Ameri-
can pork will likely lead to ~retalia-
tory measures upon the part of Con-
gress. Should that body interdict
the importation of French wines and
brandies, as proposed by Congress-
man Calkins, France may possibly
be led to reconsider her action. And
should Congress place an embargo
upon the introduction of German
knit goods into American markets
Bismarck would. probably, view the
American hog with more favor. This
attack by France and Germany upon
one Of the principal products of the
country, calls for retaliatory meas
ures upon the part of our Govern
ment.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Railroad Matters.

New YORK, Jan. SIT is under
derst cd the Oregon TranscontineD-
tai Company practically has COM
pieted all arrangement by which the
bulk of the Oregon Railway aud
Navigation and Northern Pacific
stock will be deposited in the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company for
one year. The arrangement includes
a loan OF SIS .00O,n 6 for one year on
the pledge Of 81, 800 shares Of Oregon
Railway and Navigation, 5l,5oo
shares Of Northern Pacific preferred,
and 81, 800 shares of Northern Pacific
common stocks, to be lodged with
the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany. Eight million dollars to De
used to take up an equal amount of
the company's bills payable, a OF,
mission payable to lenders at the end
of the year, bu. no stock bonus al
lowed.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
EGYPTIAN Matters.

CAIRO, Jan. 8-The text of the let
ter sent to the Khedive by the Egyp
tan minister is received. It says:
The Queens Government has de
handed the abandonment of Soudan
W. have 10 right to take steps since
Soudan is in possession of the Porte
and entrusted to our charge. The
Queens Government states Egypt
should follow its counsel without dis
cussion. This declaration violates
the organic rescript of August 18th,
1873. That the Khedive's Govern
ment with and through his ministers
was to resign because we are pre-
vented governing in accordance with
the constitution.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

One effect Of the publication Of the
Huntington Cotton letters will be
seen in the introduction of a bill into
the House providing for the forfeit
ure of the Texas Pacific land grant.
This grant covers $1,000, 900 acres,
and if restored to the public domain
would furnish SO, $50 families home
steads of 100 acres each. It is
thought by some that a bill declar-
ing this grant forfeited will pass the
House. but be defeated in the Serate.
While there may be some reason for
this assumption it may we'll be
doubted whethera Republican Senate,
in the face OF a Presidential election,
would dare place itself on the record
a. opposing such a bill. 1t would be
q dangerous proceeding on the part
of that body.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
A Comn Factory Burns.

NEW YORK, jap. 8.-A %five-story
coffin factory, l9lf and 1893 Christie
street, caughddre early this morning
and was desdoyqF ID. As the London
Theatre, Bowery almost adioins the
rear of the flal y, reports spread
that another lh| acre was burning.
The factory slsu rs between tall ten
ements and abuk in the rear on an
alley cutting in from Rowery and
Rivington. 1t is inhabited by a
dense population. Denizens of alley
were threatened by the %to!teriDg
walls of the burning factory, and
were hustled out by the police. Los:
said to be 100000.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

New YORK, Jan. SIT is under
stood that the Oregon Il Trans
continental company has practically
completed an arrangement by which
the bulk of the holdings of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation and Northern
Pacific stock will tie deposited in the
Farmers Loan & Trust company for
one year. The arrangement includes
a loan Of S1S,OOO,W0 for one year on
a pledge Of 9l5, shares of Oregon
Railway & N%avigaIionn, Sis shares
of Northern Pacific, preferred, and
9l5 shares Of Northern Pacific, COM
mon stocks, to be lodged with the
Farmers Loan Il Trust company 4;
SS,UO.OO to be used to take up an
equal amount OF the company's bills
payable. A commission is to be pay
able to the tenders at the end of the
year, but no stock bonus is allowed.
VIENNA, Jan. 8.-A large MURDER
OF w%orkingmen paraded the streets
singing and shouting. The cavalry,
infantry and police were kept in read
mess for an emergency. 1t is ru-
mored the socialists had resolved to
wreck a certain newspaper Office.
LONDON, Jan. ga Rome cores
pendent says: The conversation OF
pope and crown prince of Germany
consisted Of two parts, One remains
absolutely secret. The other will be
published at a proper time. The pope
Informed the cardinals that he CON
signed to secret archives a detailed
account Of the conversation.
MCKEEsPoRT, Pa, San. S.-Work
was resumed today 10y tile National
Rolling Mill and Forge company, the
workmen accepting a reduction OF
l2b to 25 per cent. The National
TUBE works will resume tomorrow
at a reduction.
CLEVELAND, Jan. S.-A fire this
morning destroyed the opera house
block at Meadviiie, Pennsylvania.
Loss 100000.
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-The woman's
suffrage state executive committee
denounce Senator Edmuni's PROPOSE
ton to d~isfranchise the women of
Utah as a gross wrong to ~non-polyga.
miss and to polygamyst by COM
pulsion, and a. Il punishment with
out trial of those who believe in DO
lygamy. The New YORK senators
and representatives are called upon
resist the proposition.
New YORK, Jan. S.-A fve-story
coffin factory, at 1911 aud 1913 Christie
street, caught fire Early this morning
and was DESTROYED. AS the London
theatre and the Bowery almost aGjo,n
the rear of the factory, reports spread
that another theatre was burning.
The factory stands between tall tene-
ments and abuts in the rear on an
alley cutting in from the Bowery and
Remington streets, which are inhab-
tied by d dense population. The dem
liens of the alley being threatened by
the %tottering walls II the burning
factory, We're hustled out by the
police. The loss is said to be 5000
goo.
LONDON, Jan. g. Two thousand
steel workers refuse to work at the
reduced wages.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. S.-A fire
this morning destroyed the Orera
block, Meadville, Pa. Loss,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

The friends of Payne succeeded in
organizing both branches of the Ohio
Legislature in his interest. This fac.
may be regarded as settling the cues
ton Of the Ohio Senator. hip in
Payne's favor. In this connection it
may be stated a recent dispatch saws:
1.-The rumor that u combination has
been formed by Pendleton, Ward
and Converse to beat Henry b.
Payne for the ~Senatorship has teen
confirmed. The new combination
will throw their united strength in
favor of Allen G. Thurman for the
S~enatorship in case it becomes appar-
ent that Payne will defeat Pendle-
ton. This is rather an admission. on
the part of Pendleton, of Payne's
superior strength, and in the nature
OF q preparation to let himself down
gracefully at any point in the fight
In which it becomes evident that his
defeat is inevitable"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Sabin's Loss.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 8.-Mid-
night-Information is just received
from Saltwater that the prison yards
of the State penitentiary are burn
ing. The yards include an immense
building ofthe Northwestern Manu-
featuring Company, and car works.
owned principally by d. NJ. Sabin.
Saltwater authorities t~elegraphed
here for fire engines. A special train
containing three engines has just
arrived,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Traditions Of Interest
JEWELLERS in Single
Blecsedness.
Humanity is Frail and Pinef
Therefore, tor Some
One Upon Whom
to Lean.
An Innate Modesty Whid
Keeps Back the Flow
of Soul.

There are a great many traditions
sayings and customs BELONGING -
Leap Year which possess a oeculia,
and pleasant interest to that part q.
the human family, regardless of st,
who may be yet living in
"sINGLE BLEssEDNESS."
Humanity at its best is not opl,
restless and inherently discontente5
but it is frail, and hence it is but nstr.
raj that it should long for some or
upon whom to lean. If ''single
blessedness" be as a matter of fact.
what the phrase implies, then may it
not become a duty to share that hap
piness with another? But if, per
chance, it be not 50 blessed, it is but
natural that we should be willing to
make almost any kind of a change.
and particularly if We are sure we
cannot be cheated. Usually, how
ever, there is an innate modesty
which keeps Lack the flow of soul
when the pressure of matrimonial
longings come, and hence il was, no
doubt, that
LEAP YEAR
came to the rescue. This is leap
year, and so far as heard from the
ladies have the right of way, and
they should make good use of ii,
though many al old batcbelor be the
gamer.
"There is a story handed down in
Irish history to the effect that any
gentleman who shall refuse
''PROPOSAL'
during leap year and reject it, stall
present the lady with a black silk
dress for his stubborness. This story
Is not out Of date nor imperative
but is part Of the lea NON scyip{d Of
Silver Bow County, and don't forget
it ladies, for we haven't. We have
lust received q new invoice OF black
silks and we invite you TO inspect
'em when the exigency shall arise.
Very respectfully,
SANDS & BOYCE.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
FRANK PAGE INTERVIEWED.

Mr.. Frank Page, ex-Congressman
from California. courted an interview
with a newspaper reporter at Chicag"
and the wires have been pressed into
service to give its substance to the
world. Page assumed the role OF a
very much injured individual. He
contends Huntington did him ~ipjust-
ice in his lie. tiers which the former
wrote in connection with the Cotton
matter and which have been recent
ly published. His assertion that he
never voted in the interest Of the
Central Pacific, except in one in
stance, will be received with aston
ishment in California, where it is
generally supposed he belonged.
body and soul, to that corporation.
The fact is, Page is sore over his UNI
expected defeat in the last Con-
pressional election in that State and
is disposed to be "A little hard upon
his old masters, to whose lukewarm-
ness towards him he ascfibes it.
While Page is in an explanatory
mood he should inform his constitu-
ents how it happened he went to
a very poor man and left it
= millionaire. AS a rule Congress-
men save little or nothing from their
but Page left drivers seat
IN a.jerkey running from Placerville
o Shingle Springs, where he made a
,are living, by p%racticing strict
economy. and after serving a few
erms in Congress he blossoms out a
,ery wealthy man. Of curse it
would not be intimated he Yves in
he pay OF any corporation, but the
'elief is general he was. but the
DOL of the Central Pacific,
nd devoted himself wholly
0 its interests while he was in Con-
.ress and when, like a lemon, he was
queezed dry ard could be of ho
use to it he a dropped.
his is about the size Of it, and as
,ng as MI. Page, now a private citi-
en-, persists in counting interviews
nd substituting the wires to inform
be world Of his opinions under the
IMPRESSION it looks upon him as a
just so long will the world
his past course in Congress.
he people are indulgent towards a
efeated aspirant for Office but when
lev once shelve him they want him
stay until he is called. Mr.. Page
as not vet received that call.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Snow Storm in the East.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 8. - Western
pennsylvania was visited to-day by
tue heaviest snow Storm of the wear.
1t has been showing steadily sin, e
one this morning and twelve to-
night. The signal Office reports the
fall two feet. The streets are block
AIDED and street cars are run
ming with difficulty, and it is
thought by many that travel will be
entirely suspended. Trains on all
the roads are from one to eight hours
late. A number of fat rooted houses
are in danger of falling on account of
the weight of the snow.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

MI. Buckner, chairman ofthe Com
mittee on Banking, has introduced a
bill providing that no bank notes of
less denomination than ten dollars
shall he issued. The same bill should
prohibit the coiAing of twenty dollar
pieces and provide for the issuance OF
silver certificates of the denOmina-
ton of one and two dollars.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Police Court,

In the Police Court yesterday All
Lee arrested with All Sin, charged
with SHINING against the law, in pro-
vlding for the blasts of winter
by stealing wood from the lee-ward
side OF a Mclean mans wood pile.
was convicted, and his penalty fixed
at twenty days in the county Jail and
a fine of S25 and costs. All Sin will
nave a hearing to-day. John Haight
and George Mooney were assessed
hve and costs for disturbing the
peace and quietude of Park street.
Halght was committed and Mooney
gave notice of appeal. Charles Bach
elder, another dissurber of the peace
was also assessed five and costs,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Trouble With the Achenese.

LONDON, Jan. 8.-The government
OF Dutch East India Sent troops to
the west coast of Achen to compel
the Rajah to surrender. A crew of
twenty-five men in the steamer Nj.
sero were wrecked there in Nove1u-
Der last, and the vessel plundered
AMI destroyed by the Achenese.
There were two Italians. two Ger
mans, two Norwegians and one
American. The British gunboat
Pegasus, sent to their relief in De-
cember, was unable to communicate
with the Rajah, and the British :ou-
sui, Kennedy, reported if the Pegasus
had fired upon the tribe the prisoners
would have been massacred.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

BERLIN, Jan. 9.-The friends of
Herr Lasker, of this city, express the
wish the body be inferred at Berlin
Lasker's will made in $50, bequeaths
his property to his brothers and sis.
tiers.
LONDON, Jan. 8.-Two thousand
steel workers refuse work at a reduc-
ton of wages.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
A Secret Conversation.

LONDON, Jan. 8.-A Rome CORE
spondent says: The conversation be-
tween the Pope and the Crown
Prince of Germany consisted of two
parts. One will remain absolutely a
secret; the other will be pu olished at
the proper time. the Pope informed
the Cardinals he consigned to the
secret archives a detailed account of
the conversation tina. the church
may have a statement of much inn
portance.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
Combinations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S-Postmas-
ters-B-nnett A. Price, c. lusa, Cal ;
Nj. p Freeman, Tucson, A. L. Re
ceivers of Public Money-James
Hradep of Indiana, Walla Walia, w.
T.; Arthur Shaw, Lewiston, l. r.;
Charles F. Gardner, SACRAMENTO; L.
}. Sherwood, Maysville. Cal; J. d.
Hyde, Register Of Land Office, vi
salia, Gal ; John G. Bradley, Register
Of Land Office, Marysville, Cal; and
David Walker, Bedie, Cal.
The President nominated Chief
Engineer Charles H. Lorlng Chief
OF Bureau of Steam Engineering of
the Navy Department.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09

The Chicago News says: If Denis
Kearney Is sincere IN his ambition to
see the Chinese annihiIated he
should at once enlist in the French
army. We think we can safely
spare Mr.. Kearney for a while. He
has seen this country through its
teething period, and We are willing
togive him a vacation.