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Cholera Notes.

New YORK ,Jnly lS-Later-Inves-
tigatlon of alleged cholera proves it
to &c chiIdrens' summer complaint.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Police
sanitary inspectors are investigating
D Cases of reported cholera in a tene-
ment house in Spring street.
LONDON, July 18.-Steamer Saint
Dastar from M~arseilles, arrived in
the Merser to-day. There were two
deaths rom cholera during the voy-
age. The steamer was ordered placed
iu the isolated position. Al, com
m%unicatiOn with the shore is forbid.
den.
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A P1rIFUL STORY.

It is q pitiful story of suffering and
death told by the survivors of the
| Greedy expedition. And what
makes it more heartending lie the
fact that all those noble lives could
have been saved and much of the
suffering averled if some one at
Washington had not bungled. DIR.
Kennett tells how it all happened.
1t is not yet known to what extent
the cause of science has been bene-
flied by the expedition. Lieutenant
Lockwood reached a point about
sixty miles further north than ever
before attained and was stopped by
an open sea. The honor. however,
is a poor recompense for the
sacrifice of eighteen lives to
gain it, among which was the life of
the man who wrested the blue rib
bon from England which had here
tofore worn the laurel.
Although public sentiment is large
ly against the organization of other
Arctic expeditions by the govern
ment, still it cannot be expected that
this will be the last one The spirit
Of adventure, if not the cravings f r
scientific knowledge, will doubtless
instigate the organization of like ex>
but it may be sec down as
certain that should another be sent
every safeguard will be thrown
around it and every precaution taken
TO insure the safe return OF those who
in it. The world is sickened
with the stories of the disasters |
Oef-ll franklin, De Long and
Greeley, and wants no more of them.
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any other nation. NJ @
commerce Of our thrive; ,iat.n,
and nine Territories iysslshtS 1aS
without let or hind ~ Carried
tax or governmental intss,. WITH I.
any kind whatever. It ss,UsrfetsassH
over an area Of thrape' eads i,s
million square miles, aImoaadN
extent to the whole con..e qasSs
Europe. It's profits arc e%'all!asu
day by $4,000, 900 Of A ,ehl'ya
men, and from this enio,leaat
monopoly is created. A1ocy.nea
Alexander Hamilton, when e'r d.,
cussed the same subject in 1 m h
internal competition i,S
place does away with eyeru,ttaa
monopoly and by degrees sGlnsG
prices of articles to the mini
reasonable profit on the cs" n.y.
plOyed. 1t /. impossible t% to
a single monopoly in the pTre
States that has been created 10y
tered by the industrja, vi
tenn which is upheld !, b
Republican party. ComparS%i
our foreign commerce these DIV
exchanges are inconceivablv ~
amount, requiring merely as
strumentality as large a mils%s
railroad as exists to-day in sIN
nations of the world com!!
These internal exchanges sn ass
mated by the statistical buresu y NJ
treasury department to be snn"l
many times as great an amouns
our foreign commerce. Il
this vast field of home 'N
1T once the creation at|
1T ritage Of the Am.,sE|
.,eople that foreign nations arc a,s
ing by every device to enter, "
into this field that the opponsn,.
our present revenue system u's
freely admit the countries Of Eu.a..l
cOun ries into whose internal IVY
WI could not reciprocaIiy s "4;
Countries to which we should ~. ~
rendering every advantage Of ,r'I
from which we should be ."t.
ing nothing in return ' s1,
which would he disastrous fl a ny
mechanics and workingmen Of ", u'
United States. Wages are urdan u
eddy reduced when an irdgs,,ios'
man L. not able by his earnins, y
live in comfort. educate MS chjId,.'
and lay 10y sufficient for the nsess
sites Of old age. The Reduction =
wages is inevitable; CONSEQUENT a,
throwing our home market oppu =, y
The world, would deprive them " y
The power to do this. It WOMB
d Calamity to en-
country if it would produ,.
conflict between the NM,
md the rich and in the sorrow NJ
degradation Of labor would nI,D,
seeds of public danger. The ReuuI,
lean party has steadily aimed +
maintain just relations between lain,
md capital. Guarding witt, carr bs
OF each. A conflict betvaor
he two has always LED ia the ,s1
nd will always lead in the fururpn
lie injury Of b"tn. Labor is indi,.
'ensable to the creation and profits,
lie use OF capital, and capital in
'reases the efficiency aud va;ua NJ
abor. Whoever arrays the op+
galnst the other Is an e.,emy d
10Th. That policy is wisest ana hrs,
Which harmonizes the two On lbs
of absolute justice. The R..
'uhlican party has protected the FREE
abor of America 50 that it's comm,
alton Is larger than is realized il
ny other country.
lat the time of going to press only
bout one half of Mr.. Biaines letter
ad been transmitted over the wires.
he MINER is advised by the Associ>
ted Press agent that the letter is
cry long, necessitating its punli-
alton in two issues Ct the paper.-
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Cleveland and Hendricks clubs
are being formed in Ohio. It is said
. big effort will be made to give the
electoral vote of that state to the
democratic nominees. With the
German vote it can be done, and the
prospects are that vote will be cast
for them.
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possess the qualifications which en-
title men to vote, and who in all
matters of local government have the
right of voting" Women are now
allowed to vote at school elections in
several States, and the signs are IN
mistakable that there is to be a great
conflict over the question whether
there shall be any discrimination of
sex in determining the right Of suf>
frage in any part of the United
States.
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WANTED-MONEY.

The wires were pressed . into ser
vice night before last to advertise thu
fact that the National Republican
| Committee wants money to carry or
the Presidential campaign. and tt
inform those who desire TO con
tribute to the fund to send theil
money to B. F. Jones, chairman Of
the committee. The attention Of
Federal employees is directed to an
act of Congress, providing for the
regulation and improvement of the
civil service. This act forblds the
assessment OF Federal officials for
political purposes, but permits them
to make voluntary contributions to a
political fund. 1t is questionable,
however, whether many Govern
ment employees will take the hint so
delicately conveyed to them by Mr..
Jones. The 'ins" are not particu-
larly in love with Mr.. Blaine. MI.
Arthur was the choice of ninety out
of every one hundred IF them and
had he been the nominee of the
party money would have flowed into
the Golfers of the treasurer of the
committee as water flows into the
sea.
But the case is quite different
with Mr.. Blaine as the nominee.
Very little can be expected from
officials who know that if the
PIumed Knight be successful, his
henchmen, who have stood by him
through thick and thin in
his struggle with Mr.. Arthur, will be
for their POSITIONS
and will probably get them. So Mr..
Jones finds himself dependent upon
the lberality of the Republicans to
make such voluntary contributions
as their means will permit and as
they feel inclined to give"
The committee will doubtless get
what money it wants. No man who
has sustained the Republican party
through its manifold corruptions of
nearly a quarter of century, and
who has a bar'l, however small, at
MS command, car consistently re-
fuse to respond to the call for funds.
Mr.. Blaine is the natural outgrowth
If the system of robbery and extor-
ion which has prevailed under Re-
publican domination, and as there
ire still many in the party whose in
erests lay in the direction of the per-
'etuation of that system money will
'e forthcoming to sustain 1t and to
id its representative in the present
:anvass. The faithful will respond. |
ow that ''soap'' won the cleo
ion for Garfield in 1880, and that
soap" alone can win 1t for blaine in
1884.
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WOMAN

1t Is now evident that the question
of woman suffrage is far from being
decided, and that if it is to be de-
feated its opponents must be more
active than they have thus far shown
themselves. During the recent
session of Congress the House
Judiciary committee presented four
reports as to the extension of the
right of suffrage to women, and al
though the majority report was ad-
verse, the strength of the minority
was significant. Mr.. Dorsheimer,
of New York, who concurred in the
majority report, recommending that
the subject be laid on the table,
made the remarkable explanation
that while he thinks it "'probable
that the interests of society will
soon require that women should
have the right of suffrage" he deems
the present an inopportune time for
submission to the States of a consti-
tutional amendment giving woman
the ballot. It is known that there
are many wise men who, like MI.
Dorsheimer, have not been convinced
that the time is ripe for the change,
yet secretly believe that the welfare
of society generally ard the coLdi-
ton of women especially would be
improved by giving woman the bali
lot The sentiment of the people OF
England concerning this subject is
not without its effect upon the prob
lem in the United States.
1t will be remembered that numer-
GUS petitions wer presented to the
House of Commons q year ago in
favor of woman suffrage, one Of them
bearing the signatures of ITO Liberal
members of Parliament, and IN July |
ia members of the House Of Com.
mons voted for, and only 132 men,
,ers against, the following proposi>
ION "That in the opinion of this
the Parliamentary franchise
be extended to women who
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Mr.. Blaine has found one boiler
from the Democratic party who will
not support Cleveland and he writes
him q letter of thanks which is
heralded all over the country. The
New Haven man will feel mighty
lonesome in the Republican party
after next November.
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FOREIGS

SHANGHAI, July IS. The an.
pealance of the French feet in Chi.
nese waters had the effect of strength
enlng the peace party.
LONDON, July lS.-ihe health Off
GERS here are organizing a service in
the event the cholera makes its sp'
pearance. A hospital tor cholvrs
patients has been formed at Cheas0,
switzerland, and at LUNA, Italy.
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It Is said that during the late re
bellion Mr. Blaine hired a substitute.
The substitute was arr sted before he
left for the front, upon a criminal
charge and imprisoned during the
war. 1t is further said that Mr..
Blaine afterwards put in a bill
against the town for the money
which be laid for the substitute and
recovered it. Aud this is the way
the Plumed Knight fought and bled
for his country.
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Guaranteed.

OTTAWA, July 1S.-The depart
mtnt Ut agriculture has issued in
structiOns to quarantine the stations
of the Dominion and also to the Gus
toms c Electors who are ex>otfici0
quarantine officers. calling attention
10 the necessity for extra vigilance
and careful inspection of all vessels
from Marseilles and TOulun.
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PAUL MORPHY.

Oh uVu44SSOxCA VI SAV OC0Vu "
Paul Morphy, says an exchange, will
carry many readers tack a whole
generation, to the time when Nor
PHYS name rang over four CONT
nents as that of the greatest chess
player the world had ever produced.
And yet MI. Morphy was only Al
years old at the time of his death
not very much older than the great
chess masters of to-day. But his
fame was achieved when he was
only 20, and for twenty years now
he has been but q name in chess
annsls. Such a career is one of the
strangest in history.
1t was in 1857 that Morphy, in the
American Chess Congress, held in
New York, won the championship
of the United States; and the next
year he burst upon Europe like a
meteor. One after another, the most
redoubtable champions of the Old
World, Lowenthal, Harrwi,z and
Andersen, fell before the wonderful
combinations of this new and
brilliant master of strategy. There
was something almost uncanny
about the way in which the soundest
lines of play, and the apparently
most certain combinations melted
away before his unlocked for strokes.
The impression produced uron
spectators was that nothing could
beat this young man of II. He
electrified the chess world, which
had settled down into q belief tha.
plodding calculation. and slow cut
sure machine work, was the highest
form of chess play. He upset all
calculations, and made brilliancy AMI
dash once more popular.
After q brilliant career of three
years In Europe, residing most of the
time at Paris, he returned 10 New
Orleans lust before the war broke out.
That great conflict absorbed mems
minds, and chess was scarcely
thought of. After the wal Morpby
played but little, and for the last ten
years he has manifested an invlncible
repugnance to chess. No persuasion
could induce him to finish a game. |
mind was unsettled, and he
brooded continually over an imap-
mary lawsuit which completely filled
his thoughts. |
There have been many surmises
that the wonderful chess pIav of
fastened his insanity and
to unbalance his mind. We
however, whether that theory
IL tenable. It was the opinion of
most of his friends and some acute
that if he could have been
induced to resume play during the
last few years it might have helped
him back to sanity. But there was
as return for this chess Napoleon !,
rom his Isle of st. Helena. His in
elect remained q prisoner until
leath released it.
His place as a player is settled.
None have dared successfully to dis
'ute it: His strategy was as far
uperior to the slow grinding of the
'teinitz school As Napoleon's was to
be old hard-and fast maxims and
of the German, Austrian and
generals whom he scattered
efore him. Morphy was a genius;
Is q sort of calculating !
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WAYNEsPoRT, Pa. July 18.-Sam
Williams (~colored) was hanged here
at noon for the murder of Glen Bush.
also colored, Oct. ION. The execu.
Q Was private in the Jail yard {.
The crowd outside of 3UO cvlored peo-
pie Was very ORDERLY.
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A Marshslltown, (Iowa), woman
proposes to sell beer in spite of the
prohibition law of that state. Her
case will be made q test one against
the constitutionality of the Law.
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~FrancO.China Mafters.

PARIS, July 1S.-It is officially an.
nOunceu that CHINA has given France
The first measure of satisfaction. The
Chinese Imperial Gazette of the 18th
punished u decree IN accordance
with the terms of the convention of
May IL. In this decree the Emperor
orders the Chinese troops to evacuate
Largson and Quo Bang aud with>
draw to this side of the passes leading
to Yum Nan Kwang Ton and Kwan9
81. Evacuation Will he completed
wIthln u month.
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Suicide.

DENVER. July 17.-Frank E. Evertt,
for a number of years banker in
Golden, Colorado. suicided to-day by
shooting, while insane from chloral
taken for medical purposes. He left
his business in good shape. The de-
ceased formerly lived in Boston.
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Col. Levi Duff, a prominent Inde-
pendent Republican, mas announced
his intention to vote for Cleveland.
The Colonel thinks the Pennsvlvania
Independent Republicans will 60
over to the Democratic party. The
good work goes bravely on.
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that they were enlisted in the Unito1
States army. and therefore fnc0m-
petent as electors, the committee are
still left in doubt as to how and for
whom these incompetent electors
cast their ballots.
Your committee are not willing to
say, in the light of the proofs, that
the apparently large vote at Miles
City and other new towns along the
line of the railway indicate illegal
voting Under the law OF the Terri
tory the voters did not need to be
residents where they voted. 10 all
new countries the voting population
Is large compared. with the entire
population. The rule that one in five
| of the total population is a voter, that
holds good in the older and more
densely populated portions of the
United States, is not q true rule in
the new and sparsely settled regions.
In the latter the male adults are
much more numerous, and the argu~
ment that contestant attempts to
make by showing the total population
and the total vote we regard rs an
unfair one, and refuse to give it the
W0skut uS UCS11C0 VIC 0uOOlOs
Your committee do not find that
fraudulent and illegal votes were
cast for the contestee in Custer,
Dawson and Miss0ula counties. III
our judgment the proofs are entirely
wanting to show that in Custer, Gal
latin and Miss0ula counties men en-
plJyed- in the construction and
operation of the Northern Pacific
railroad were c0erced TO vote for con-
testee by intimidation and threats of
discharge by contractors. sub-con-
tractors, or other employers. In our
judgment no proofs are adduced
establishing this ground of contest.
So far as we may judge from the evil
denoe introduced and the argument
Of counsel, the fifth assignment.
namel/, that the votes cast II the
several counties of the said Terri
tory were not counted, returned, aud
in accordance with law,
has been abandoned by contestant.
do not find anything in the
record tending to sustain this allega.
lion.
The committee are therefore unan-
Im0us in the opinion that the follow
resolution should be reported to
md be adopted by the House:
"Resozved, That Martin Maginnis
vas duly elected a delegate from the
Territory of Montana in the Forty
Congress, aud is entitled to
lis seat as such delegat :"
The resolution was read, as fol-
ows:
Resolved, That Martin Maginnis
vas duly elected as a delegate from
he Territory of Montana III the for
y eighth congress, and is entitled to
lis seat as such Delegate.
Mr.. Ranuey. In this case the COM
nitteo on elections have unanimous
= reported in favor of the sitting
I Know If no reason why
be resolution should not be adopted.
TIE resolution was unanimously
MI Ranney moved to reconsider
he vote just taken ; and also moved
nat the motion to re',Onsider be laid
n the table.
The latter motion was agreed to.
In view of the above report, and in
lstice to a large number of gentle |
len who served as officers of the +.
and for the good name of
1e Territory, we submit the question, :
our Republican contemporaries in
10 Territory should not now revise
,eir comments upon the case and f,
orrect the errors into which they {
ave fallen in discussing it.
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MlSCELLANEOUs.

WASHINGTON July 1S.-The treas
ury department purchased 355, 900
ounces OF silver for delivery at PniIa-
adelphia, New Orleans. and San
Francisco mints.
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It is again positively asserted that
Ben Butler will run for the Presi-
dency. Well, let him run; no one
is holding him.
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Senator HOar. of Massachusetts,,
sticks to it that Blaine cannot carry
New York. Hoar is not always
wrong.
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TICKET

For President:
GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York.
For Vice-P. esident:
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Indiana.
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MI. Blaine's formal letter of ac>
ceptance still hangs fire. Mrs. Lo>
CAMS has been ready for some time.

Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and
Connecticut are now considered rea>
sonably sure for Cleveland and Hen
bricks.
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Austrian officials are after Nor
mon missionaries in that country.
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The unanimous vote of the Central Commit
Tee being against the use of proxies in the con-
tnti0n, 1t recommends t. he several county
mates to the Territorial Convention, and the
q option of the resolution III each county Gun
ventiOn authorizing those Of the delegates or
altsrnates present IN the Territorial = owen
ton to cast the entire vote OF their equity In
said Convention.
A. H. MITCHELL, Chairman.
CHAs. D. CURTIS. Secretary.
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TRRRlTORIAL DEMOCRATIC CON-
VBNTION.

The Territorial Democratic Convention will
mSet ct Deer Dodge. on Thursday. the 25,h da'
Of September, ct II o'clock n The following
are the number Of Delegates apportioned to the
several counties:
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anese facts touching the growth and
consumption of cereals at h,mn anu
US some slight conception of rho give
ness OF the international co,nm me vast
me United States. They snunae e[c a OF
mat in addition to thu ad also
which the American oon aoyantages
protection against 1rei Hpae en1oy IN
soluta fcee enJo1 saFAdvantage of ah.
and with rros Ever q larger ares
population than
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BorKM va. MAoIaga1s.

Ever since the last delegatoria
election several Of our Republican
contemporaries in the Territory have
frequently charged that Major
Maginnis owed his election to fraud.
ballot-box stuffing, ETC., and that lie
was occupying . seat in Congress
which justly belonged to MI. A. G.
Botkin. Among t.ose Republican
~joxrnals which have iterated and
reiterated the charge. in season and
out of season, are the Helena Herald
and the Int, Mountain. These
papers have not confined themselves
to facts in discussing the matter, but
have, by inference, made charges
which, if true, and If prosecuted to
the full extent Of the law, would
send q dozen or more men to the
penitentiary who acted ~ judges in
the election referred, to together with
three thousand men who, it il
alleged, cast illegal and fraudulent
votes in Custer, Dawson and
| Missoula counties.
The MINER has held from the be-
ginning that no evidence had been
adduced to show that illegal votes
were cast for Major Maginnis in the
counties named, and that the charge
VAS unjust, not only 10 the voters,
themselves, but to the gentlemen who
acted as judges at the election. AS
far as Major Maginnis is concerned,
he needs no defense at the hands OF
the MINER. It IT, not assumed he
was q party to the alleged frauds, but
simply q beneficiary Of them. But
with the voters and officers of elec-
ton In the counties above named the
case is quite different. In justice to
them the proceedings in congress in
regard to Mr.. Botkin's contest for
Maginnis' seat should be made
as public as possible, that tho world
may know their entire innocence of
the crimes theoretically charged by
partisan journals, and to the end
that 1T may also learn that elections
in Montana are conducted honestly
and with . proper regard for the
rights of all concerned. Therefore,
The MINER takes pleasure in
space to the follow
ing proceedings in congress
relation to the contested election
case of Botkin %. Maginnis. 1t may
be stated here that Mr.. Ranney is y
and that two other Re