The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-17

Lodge: q. D. Curtis, Lewis & Clarke: 4. W: sta
pleton, silver Bow; &. Z. Bateman,. Madison;
ter I, K. Collins, Choteau; John F. Mct lintock
Meagher; =. H.. ~Poindexler. beavefhesd; W.
J. Mccormick, Missoula; E Mes riley; Jsfferson'
Chairman Democratic Central Commlt1ee'
G. q. CURTIS, secretary
1t Is estimated that there are now
between 900, QUO and 70O,OC0 people in
Dakota territory. and 0 10000 more
re expected this year.
The interest bearing debt Of the
United States has been reduced to ST.
8,572. 250. The Pacific railroads still
owe the government $42,492,759 for
interest paid on the bonds issued to
them.
Chalmers has been re-nOminated
for Congress by the Republicans OF
the second Mississippi district. "The
butcher OF Fort Pillow" has become a
saint and been canonized since join
ing the great moral party.
The anti-monopolists convention
in Chicago at present writing is not
we'll represented by states. What it
lacks in numbers, however, it makes
up in enthusiasm. General Butler is
M of the planks in its platform.
of the 800 delegates to the Repub-
lican National Convention, the
Northern States will have 5O2, the
Southern States 300, and the Terrific
ries and District of Columbia IS.
Congressman O'Hara, the colored
member of the house of Representa-
tives, is q graduate from Harvard
and a lawyer by profession. He lives
in good style and has a white tutor
for his four children.
The Philadelphia Times says Gen.
Grant is now celebrating the twen>
tieth anniversary of the Wilderness.
This may be a very good joke on the
great soldier, but the country is not
In a frame of mind in respect to Gen
Grants financial affairs to appreciate
1t.
It turns out that Mr.. Michael
Davitt has not quarrelled with Mr..
Parnell, has not deserted the Land
League, is not going to Australia
and has not abandoned Irish politics.
He is going to ill q course of lectures
in Australia, partly on account Of his
health, and that is all the foundation
the recent story has.
As Tilden won't die nor paralyze
sufficiently to suit many Republican
journals they are now endeavoring to
make it appear his ''bar'V is becom-
ing depleted. They say he has re-
Gently unloaded Union Pacific stock
at $S25, 600 which cost him $500, 900
in 1881, thus entailing upon him u
loss of 1915, 600. They seem bound to
break w the old man some way.
In a recent interview Ex-Governor
Hubbard, of Texas, gives a glowing
accounto of that State. He says that
fully one-fourth of the entire cotton
of the United States is raised in
Texas, and in a few years the produc-
ton will be doubled. A lucrative
trade is opening up with Mexico
while manufactures are springing up
on every hand.
The English government is getting
more and more involved in the Cor
don affair. The announcement by
Gen. Gordon of his intention to aban-
don Khartoum ind trust to his own
resources has occasioned so much
feeling in London that q vote of cen
sure on the Ministry is by 70 means
improbable. Certainly no govern
ment was ever in a more d~isgraceful
dilemma.
Mr.. Kellogg. of the State of Lousi-
ana and the Statute of Limitations,
is authority tor the statement that
the Louisiana delegation to Chicago
will be divided between Blaine, Ar:
thur and Logan; that Blaine will get
twenty per cent. of the Southern
vote as it is, and that if Arthur were
not a candidate he would get 50 per
cent. of it. Suppose Blaine should
get more than SO per cent. of it at the
start?
Another journal, owned and edited
by a negro. and especially devoted
to the "rights," present and pros
pectlue, of the colored people, has
just made its appearance in Wash
ington. The new organ rejoices in
the name of Grit. But the resolve of
the colored voters IN conference at
P~ittsburg to cut loose from the Re-
publican party-which wants their
votes without granting them a single
favor in return-is the best colored
display yet of genuine grit.
The House Committee on Judi
ciary has given a black eye to Axtell
of New Mexico. II refused to take
any action in his case, bnt it con-
that from the er parte and
record evidence, Axtell is incompe>
tent to hold his position. This re-
port will doubtless have some infiu.
once upon the executive committee
now has Ayfo1I nndor oonsid.
sration. It looks very much as
Mr.. Dorsey was going to ,
Town the Chief Justice.
The President recently submitted l
o Congress q report of the board of (
managers of the Worlds Industrial q
nd Cotton Exhibition to be held at +
Few Orleans next fall. SUCH exhi- c
ikinno oro oo1o,1ofo1 n IL ~ao f.