The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-14

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aud Tor the transaction of such other bushes
a. may come before the committee.
The following named gentlemen c~onstitut
Lodge; c. D. Curtis, Lewis & Clarke: q. w. Sta
pleton, Silver Bow; r. P. Bateman, Madison
.. w: tanghorne, Gallstin; J; B. Hrbbell, ca.
f ss. = :: Collins 3 p f PoIndsSt conn B (; Mst asnsof v
A. II, MITCHEtL,
Chairman Democratic Central Committee.
CT CURTIS, Secretarv.
By the way. has anybody e 9
copy of Blaine's new book yet?
Baker Pasha says the Egyptian
soldier on retreat is the fleetest Pc
destriaa in the world.
The failure of GRAFT & Ward will
retire General Grant from the list OF
possible Presidential candidates.
1t is said the Democrats of Ken
lucky will present the name of John
G. Carlisle for the Presidential NOM
ination.
1t is now thought the failure of
Grant & Ward is not much under
s 5000, 600. The old General has met
his Waterloo at last.
Our Republican friends need not be
Over anxious about the starting of
the Democratic Presidential train.
1t viii be heard soon enough and
then-clear the track.
An enthusiastic admirer of the
head of the "old ticket" being asked
concerning his preference for Presi-
dental candidates, answered my
first choice is s. J. Tilden. alive; my
second choice is s. J. Tilden, dead.'
And that is about the way a majority
of Democrats feel.
Kellogg wants to he whitewashed
by House committee. Now that
the witnesses for the prosecution are
away from Washington Kellogg
would like to get his own story before
q political committee and receive q
daub of kalsomine. The House ought
to investigate the Government for its
c%onnivance at Kellogg's escape and
leave Kellogg alone.
Gladstone meets the question Of
increased Irish strength under the
franchise bill like a statesman when
he says that England is strong
enough in wealth and population to
be equally strong in right and just
Ice, recognizing that no beneficent
union between the two countries
can exist which is not based on
equal rights.
It is often said that ours Is a gov
eminent by lawyers, but Professor
Brewer, of Yale College, calls atten.
ton to the fact that fifteen of our
twenty-one Presidents were farmers
or the sons of farmers, and he thinks
1t mot too much to say that uD to the
present time the men educated in
childhood or youth on farms have
had the leading part in making this
nation what 1t is." '
Secretary Frelinghuysen has made ,
the wonderful discovery that the /.
United States produce more than we .
consume, and therefore have q for :
eign market tor our products. For a .
Jerseyman this is a great concession. '
He knows that if we desire the mar :
kets of other countries to be opened .
to US we must open our markets to :.
them. Whittier is Mr. Frelinghuysen y
drifting in his old age? ;.
The New York board of health G
claims to have discovered that certain v
firms have for years been putting up al
on the market unroasted and un. Ii
coffee colored with poisonous d
material, and that pickles procured
various dealers contained so
much copper Al to be injurious to the
health of the consumer. Food adul.
GRAFTON is the most contemplate of T,
IT,
Chairman Mitchell has issued q A
all for a meeting Of the Territorial #
Central Committee, to al
70 held in Deer Lodge City, We'd he
June 4th. The object of the #
Meeting is to select two delegates 10
nd alternates to the National m
Convention to he held 70
t Chicago, July sth. The call is in tn
armony with the practice of the A,
of Montana in the W,
Of delegates to National fin,
Dnventions. fo,
The New York Zribune's revised att
'ble gives Blaine $40 votes in the lal
the Philadelphia Press To
ives him 357; the New York Sun, be,
10; the New York Times, $40; the
Times, 29S. The Phila. of
Press gives Arthur 2S2 votes; rex
70 New York Sun, 29s: and the New az
ork Times, 2s7. The other candi- ito
ltes, Edmunds, Logan, Sherman, ca,
resham and Hawley, gre given by ".
Philadelphia Times an aggregate he
tie of 185, and 50 votes are classed dis
uncertain. du,
General Grant has not been for in
nate of late. Four years ago he ma
Is beaten for the Presidency. du'
hich ulpped his political ambition vii
veral months ago he met an acci.' to
mt which caused him protracted hal
ysical suffering, and now he en- me
unters . financial reverse of the
ost serious nature. Any other TV
IN but General Grant would be
lshed under the series of disasters, I
t we doubt whether his p~roverbial the
perturbability will be disturbed 1T
erehv. and we sincerely hone that 600