The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-20

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| NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 16.-Arrivina
st the grounds the procession moved
TO the Exposition buildings, at one
o'clock DR.. Talmage advanced to the
front Of the stage and made the open
ing prayer. He invoked the Divine
blessing upon the officers. directors
and managers OF the Exposition. He
said: May this day mark the begin
ming Of . new dispensatiOn Of pros
perity aud brotherhood. May there
come from the influences of this Ex-
position, from these fields of industry,
results which shall give the people
more complete apparel and better
food, more comfortable shelter and
more thorough educational advatages.
May 1t result in spreading out golden
sails to our paralyzed shipping, in
starting the plow and opening the
doors OF stOrehouses, and may there
come to this whole land in
oraased prosperity from this gath.
eIihg together, from day to
day and month to month of
the people ct all the states and
counlries. We praythat past feeling
OF sectional dlscord may disappear
and the south, north, east and west
| may become the four parts of a great
| national harmony, may 1T be the
| unidcation Of North and South
| America"
! DR.. Talmage then invoked the
blessing of God On the manufacture
ing, industrial, educational and re-
forrpat0ry institutions of the world.
Councer,s military band, of Cincin=
natl, then gave the Grand Exhibition
when the applause which greeted
kim and the repeated cheers of the
people had subsided, made short
eloquent speech, surrendering the
exhibition into the hands Of its
management.
After the Mexican band had rem
dered some selections, President
Richardson, of the exposition asso-
clation, delivered his address, which
was wired to Washington.
Washington Notes.--Rarlkeris Reputa-
tiQn.
/ WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-A number
Of witnesses were examined to-day
by the subcommittee investigating
the alleged irreeularities in the first
comptrollers Office, relative to the
reputation of ]. J. Barker for truth
and veracity. E. w. Ayers, a corre-
spOndent for the Kansas City Times
said he would not believe HIM under
oath. He said he had volunteered to
give his testimony, against Senator
ingalls,, in the investigation of that
gentleman's election to the senate
several years ago, which proved a lie
from beginning to end. Ayers con-
tinued, "a great many people from
Kansas come here, and want to
know where that liar Barker is. The
papers have denounced him as the
greatest universal and mastodonic |
liar Of the age; What do you
think of me?" Mr.. Ayers asked Of
Barker, II think you are the grand
est liar of the age" Ex-Governor
Crawford of Kansas, said that for ten |
years past he had always spoken of !
him in unfav0rable terms, and he con.
sidered his reputation for truth, ver-
acity, honesty ana integrity to be
bad, and he would not believe him
under oath. Barker produced letter |
written by Ex-Governor Crawford to |
the Secretary of the Interior, in which
he states that the said Barker was an
for Pension Examiner and
that he was good lawyer and he
thought he would do the work salts
factoriiy. "Why did you write that
letter if you knew mJ reputation to
be bad ?" asked Barker. II said in
that letter that you were good law
yer. I did not say you had q good |
reputation. I wrote the letter at
your own pleading, and because of
your family, and because I thought
you were trying to reform and be-
come an honest man, instead of q
thief" "Do you know me to be
thief?" "You know your reputation
in Kansas, One man said you ought
to be in prison." Irving, q messen-
ger in the House of Representatives.
said one of the prominent Kansas
members had pronounced Barker to +
be lone of the d-dest rascals out of
jail" ', illness testified that Barker's
was bad.