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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09

ROsroN, August 8.-The demo-
Gratis to night opened the campaign
by a double ratification meeting.
When the doors We're opened at
Faneuil Hall aud fremont Temple.
hundreds OF persons We're in waiting,
and quickly filled the interior Of both
halls. At the hall Congressman Col
Inns presided. The first speak. r was
JOS. G.. Abbott. He was followed by
Thomas G. Jordan, who delivered an
address which arraigned Blaine D.
F. Pillsbury followed IN the same
strain. The last important speaker
was F. Prince, of the national demo-
cratic committee. At the Temple
meeting VIM. CASTOR presided. Ed
ward Avery, Judge Redmond, JAS.
Quiz cy, Jr., and Horatio J. Swa,ezy
made the addresses Of the evening.
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World: The Blaineites are driven
to the miserable expedient of appeal
ing to religions and nafionalities.
Blaine's bid for the Irish Catholicn
vote is notorious. Now the Albany
Evening" Journal says that "the Re-
publican party has no more earnest
and united support from any rcl,g-
ious denomination than from the
Methodist" adding that the Metho-
dists ''have nothing for which to
thank Governor Cleveland" and
that they viii, all vote against him
because he promptly vetoed" a bill
to keep hucksters "away at least two
miles from camp-meeting grounds.
Next!
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A Decision.

WASHINGTON, August 8. - The
acting Secretary of the Interior has
declined to grant the motion OF RObt.
Corrick for a reconsideration Of the
decision refusing to order a survey Of
Arsenal Island, opposite st. Louis.
The original d. cision was based upon
statements by Uuittd States engin-
eers that Arsenal Island was a drift
ting island, but C"rrick now pro-
duces aft 'lavits from two civil en-
gineers of st Louis declaring the
Island has been fixed or anchored.
In bis decision the Secretary says:
This department would not order a
survey of land of commercial value
and Importance as arsenal land upon
mere exparte aud contradictory
a~tfidavits and statements without the
tul est investigation, during which
all parties interested might he heard,
nor especially at the solicitation OF
private persons, 81 long as the gen>
eral government is ca rying on its
work of Improvement and while it is
uncertain to what extent land may
be required for public services.
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e RepuOllcan camp.

Germany Is not satisfied win Eng
land. Bismarck has Instructed the
German minister at the English
court to PROFOUND some hard conun-
drums to Earl Granville, while the
German press attacks England's
Egyptian policy and charge that
power with attempts to excite hate
between Germany and France.
These facts taken into consideration
with the advice proffered to the
French Government by a leading
Paris journal a few days ago that
France would better subserve her
interests by cutting loose from Eng
land and looking to Germany for
friendship, lead to the conclusion
that. two, at least, of the great conti>
mental powers are dis , osed to pre-
vent England settling the Egyptian
difficulty upon her own terms. The
mutual hugglng and kissing by the
crowned heads of Germany and
Austria a couple of days ago may
mean that the latter ma. ion will be
taken into the alliance to be formed
by Germany and France.
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An investigation into the condition

An investigation into the condition
and management of the New Orleans
postoffice reveals the corrupt methods
by which Southern Republicans con-
duct the affairs of Federal Off ;es in
the South. The party of great moral
ideas has q true representative in the
New Orleans postoffice. The report
OF the investigation, which appears
in the MINER dispatches of night be-
fore last, recommends the abolish
ment ofcertain s%inecures in the office.
but says nothing about the removal
of the postmaster. 1t would occur
to the average reader that that gen.
tleman has already held the Office too
long for the good of the service.
Turn the rascals out.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09

Governor Crosby has Issued a pro>
c!amation forbidding the importation
of Texas cattle into Montana. This
was done to prevent the introduction
of Texas fever among the herds Of
the Territory. The officials of the
Northern Pacific promise that none
shall be transported over their road
and suggest that an inspector be ap-
pointed by the Governor and sta
toned at Glendive or some point
further east. In view of the i'm
portant interests at stake this action
of the Governor was taken none too
soon, aud will meet the hearty ap-
proval of all, and the promptness
with which the Northern Pacific CO.
operates with him in quarantining
against the fatal cattle scourge is
equally commendable.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09

According to MI. Blaine's princi.
pal organ, the New York Tribune,
we shall have a vigorous Italian
policy in the event Of his election.
Now why should Germany. Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark, and
Austria, and Spain, and Portugal be
omitted in all this policy business ?
Why ignore all these nationalities
in the mosaic of vi population /?
Why not include them all and bring
our navy and standing army up to a
point in strength and proportions to
meet them all upon the broad ocean
or the tented field? What a glorious
nation this would then be! To be
sure u government bonds would
depreciate in value, war prices would
rule, the treasury vaults would be
open to swindling government con-
tractors, the rich would become
richer and the poor would become
poorer, but then We would be . ma
ton with a vigorous foreign pol
Wouldn't that be glory
enough for one generation of men to
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Disposition Of the Bodies OF
the Arctic Dead.
Spread of tho Cattle Plague
in the East.
Jay Eye See Attempts to
Beat His Own Record.
Roach's Ship Yard Injured
by Fire.
Democratic Ratification Meet
ing in Boston.
The Dead Arctic Explorers.

NEW YORK. August The Cree
ly expedition ships, the Bear. Thetls
aud Alert, arrived at noon off Gov
/ ernor's. Island. Secretary Lincoln,
Generals Sheridan, Hancock and
other army and naval officers with
troops received the bodies from the
vessels, the forts firing a funeral
salute. The following is a list Of the
dead and and places OF burial: Lieut..
James A. Lockwood, Annapolis;
Lieut.. Fred F. KisliDgbury, Roches-
ter, N. Y; Sergeant Israel, KaIsma-
zoo, Mich; Sergeant David Chals-
ton, Howard, Knox county, Ohio;
Sergeant David Linn, Philadelphia;
Sergeant Wm. Cross, Washington;
Corporal Joseph Ellison. Poitsville,
Pa; Private VIM. Whistler, Delhi,
Indiana; Private William A. Ellis,
Clyde, New York. After the bodies
We're landed they were escorted by
troops to the hospital where they
will lay in state under a guard OF
honor until removed by friends. To-
morrow morning Rev. Goodwin,
chal lain OF Governors Island will
read the burial sci vices overt the dead
and deliver 8 sermon. The bodies OF
Sergeants Henry and Schneider will
be sent to Cyprus Hill to await orders
from Germany for interment in the
government plot. The other bodies
ha We been claimed by relations.
About four O'clock this afternoon
the bodies of all except Henry and
Schneider We're replaced in wooden
cases and conveyed to the barge Office.
whence they will be taken to rail
roads which will bear them to their
final resting places. Private Henry
will be buried tomorrow morning ~
Cypress in the G.. A. r. plat.
Private Schneider's tody will remain
ut the island for a few days, as it is
thought his relatives in Chemnitz,
Germany, may claim it.
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MISCELLANEOUS

CAIRO, August S.-The Nile has
risen SIX feet in three days.
BOSTON, August 8.-The alleged
counterfeit fifty pound bank of Eng
land notes passed here proved 10 be
genuine.
new HAVEN. August S.-The fire
at Charles Island las night was not
Jay Gould S club house but an old
unnccupied hotel building. Loss
trif1ing.
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Down the Mississippi.
Joaquin Miller.

Ships must sail. and soon, too.
from Chicago to Liverpool by wav of
New Orleans. Let me tell YOU whv.
Lord Lorne explained to me on
his own map while l was his guest
at Quebec last summer, thai the far
northwest would find an outlet to
Europe from Winnipeg by way of
Hudson's DAY. inthe event nothing
better offered in the near future
Do you SEE? The vast northwest
is tuli-is ready to flow over. If she
does not find expansion down the
great river 1t will tie found up the
great bay. Of course it is to be
expected that New York, as we'll as
many of the great railroads., will
attempt to laugh at the honest demand
of the great heart of middle Am+r-
lea, and finally stubbornly fight
against this grandest work that has
ever been marked out On the map of
u country. But, for ali that, it is
going to become a law and fact.
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RrrrALo.rA August S.-Jay Eyeoee'
in an attempt to beat MS OWL l1c onJ
took the word on the first trial en- =
made the mile in 2:lO4 wltnou' "
skip or break.
The third day of the Buffalo meet
ING. taking all in all, was very lnter-
esfinp. furnishing an UNLOCKED i"t
amount of sport, with DO little amount
of disappointment to knowing ores.
Seven heats were necessary to declde
the 2:2S class. The directors having
obtained an injunction againsG tne
police interfering with pool se',1Ls,
these people sold as usual. .
great event of the day vas the
ATTEMPT of Jay Eye See to lower DIS
best record of 2:1O, and his fine per-
fn,maDce, making q mile in 2:loz'
the fastest ever trotted over the
Buffalo track and equal to Maud b.s
hest time a. n siX-v-ar old, when II Is
considered the track was not In the
best possible condition., being rated
hard. and the cold air aud light breeze
which was against him. Mr.. Case
declined giving his wonder anotner
trial. The little horse was in the
best possible condition, and after
rgging a slow heat in 2:24a, Bithers
nodded, and with bis wonder as
steady as a clock, be took the word.
With Firebrand some distance in the
rear and coming very fast they
reached the quarter pole in 33i. Down
the back stretch the hor-e flew,
reaching the half in 1:Q53, and swung
t. the three quarters il 1888. Hun
dreds crowded On the track to e the
w nder come home shaking his
.amy little head. He shot down the
reaching the wire in 2:104
The announcement of the time Was
received with cheers, although great
disappointment was felt. No po' Is
sold Oh the horse beating his
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Driving Park Races.

CHICAGO, August 8.-First race
Mile and one-eighth, for three-year-
Odds; Tom Moore won; Springer.
second. and Conkling uavorite)
third. Time, 1:5S.
Second race-Midsummer handi-
cap, mile and a quarter; Berlin won:
habeiie, second, and Sullivan, third.
Time, Pill.
Ihlrd raceomile heats, all ages;
h'ooa won; Bonnie Australian, Sec
ond. Best time, 1:43a.
Fourth race -Thlee-fourths of a
mile, all ages; McBowling won; Nora
NJ, second, and Avery third. Time,
l:l6}.
Fifth race Three>fourths of a mile
sweepstakes; Mary Hamilton won:
Allie, second. Time, 1:l54.
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Assignment.

PITTsBURG, August 5-Holmes,
J"ff-rty q Co., the Oldest and one of
the largest firms dealing in live stock
In this city, made individual and
.lrm assignments to-day, to Ira F.
Brainerd and Julius V-tter f,r the
henttit OF their cr- ditors. Their lia>
bllltles are about .1DO, 900. with assets
enough to pay dollar for dollar. The
was caused by complication s
growing out Of The Pennsylvania bank
suspension.
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Texas Fever.

LANCASTER, Pa, August 8.-Sey-
eral cases of Texas fever and nlenr,
pneumonia are discovered among the
cattle of this county. The State
authorities had the infested herds
luarantined.
DENVER, Colo, August S.-Abont
twenty young cattle of a herd of ono
hundred and fifty being pa,tured
nine miles from this city died Of
Texas fever in the last Two davs
Fifty others are sick. The disease 60
communicated from a herd r@ecentin
brought from Texas placed in an aG'
joining pasture. All Necessary s,ons
TO prevent a spread of the disease NE
being taken. "'e
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09

Will some orotectionist explain the
depression in the iron business in
Pittsburg? Our dipatches say the
business is more depressed at present
than it has been for s. number of
years. What is the matter? Where
does the difficulty lay? Is not that
interest fully protected by a "war"
tariff: The people must have this
matter satisfactorily explained to
them before next November or thew
will forget to vote the Republican
ticket.
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ORLEANS EXPOSITION.

From the reports of the managers
of the Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Exposition at New Orlea0s, it ap-
pears the details of the preliminary
work necessary for so great an enter
prise are attended to in the most
thorough manner. Ever since the
inception of the plan, the work has
been pushed with vigor and good
judgment. A thorough organization,
in which each committee, and each
man in the committee, knows what
he has to do, has enabled tue man
agement to accomplish wonders In
the way Of forwarding the prepara-
lions for the great event. Commits
sioners to the principal foreign gov
ernments have been appointed, who
will transmit to the director Of the
ex Dosition the latest Information as
to the plans OF foreign exhibitors. A
specia, commissioner to English
manufacturers will arrange for ex-
| hiblts of the leading industries of the
old country. Commissioners from
| the several states and territories of
the Union are IN constant commune
cation with the board of manage
ment, and many Of them have visited
New Orleans and attended in person
to the arrangements for their several
state exhibits. Special efforts are
making throughout the Southern
States to have the show Of products
from the great cotton belt as extern
sive and complete as possible, and to
secure a large attendance at the fair
from those states.
The latest organized bureau is one
of Information and Accommodation.
This bureau will obtain information
of all lodging and boarding places IN
the city, outside of the regular hotels,
and after examination will approve
such as are suitable. TO this end a
complete canvass of the city will be
made, and the bureau will then he In
e position to insure to visitors lodg-
ing and board in comfortable
quarters at reasonable prices. Re-
vised bulletins will be Issued daily, ]
with the accommodations available
and the prices at which they will be ]
furnished, so that the whole city will ,
oe a vast hotel under one system of 6
management, and no difficulty will {
Do found by strangers in acquiring
quarters. &
Such a bureau will aid greatly in t
occurring the ucces of the Expo L
ition. No department could be C
more useful to visitors. and the /
will be largely increased a
" the knowledge that guess will be G
uitably taken care of. The man. T
gers are evidently resolved to do a
IN their power to insure p
uccess, and they r as efficient in s
tanning and execution as they are II
ealops in purpose. tt
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Inc Assault on Lizzie Bradlex,

f1risBURG, August Twenty
hFe mel arrested tor robbery and as.
sault on Lizzie Bradley, had a hear
ing to-day, and all but six We're re-
leased, the evidence not being sutfi-
Gent to hold them. Halton, Grimes.
Penn, McAlli-ter, Arson and Morev
were committed to Jail for trial,
Alex Brown could not be found to-
gay, and 1t is thought by the police
u nave been spirited away by friends
OH prisoners, us he started for the
city this morning to attend the hear.
dng, Miss Bradley has nearly re-
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MORE TATTOO MARKS.

Now that Ex-Governor Plaisted
has fastened the authorship of the
infamous "Madigan Circular upon
Blaine, the tattooed candidate will
in future be as we'll known as Maids
gan Blaine as he was hitherto known
as Mulligan Blaine. He won the
title of Mulligan Blaine by obtaining
letters by false promises, which
proved his corruption and were in
Mulligan's possession. The title of
Madigan Blaine is gained by the Re-
| publican candidates. authorship of a
political circular which grossly
libelled the Catholics of the United
States and made a political warfare
on MI. Madigan. then a candidate
for Congress against Ex-Governor
Plalsted, because he protested the
Catholic religion.
Gen. Plaisi ed Was to be benefited
by the circular, but he repudiated it
a. COWAluAy 0uO AApOIttACs
Recently an attempt was made to
shift the responsibility OF the author
ship of the offensive circular on ex-
Governor Plaisted. Since the publ
cation Of Blaine's Know-Nothing
record and the "Madigan Circular"
this attempt has been renewed. Cen
eral Plaisted now sets the authorship
finally at rest by the publication of
editorial in his own newspaper,
in which he says;
We are prepared to say that our
of the Journal knows that
the infamous Madigan circulars
were printed in his Kennebec Jour-
nal Office from the manuscript: copy
Of Mr.. RIaine's own hand, and that
hey were distributed from Mi.
BlaiDe's own house in that city by
him as Chairman of the Republican
State Committee at the time.
And in the face Of these facts there
ire Republican journals which pro.
ess to believe Mr. Blaine Will receive
he Irish-especially the Irish Catho-
ic-vOte. We cannot see the grounds
Ipon which they predicate the as
umption unless they believe the
are fools. Blaine was the head
nd front of the Know-Notbing party
. Maine during the years "a aud {
IS and until be found a home in the ,
republican party, to which nearly A.,
the Nothing finally :
rifted. This is a matter of record
nd history and intelligent Irishmen
now it.. They further know that it
the Democratic party which sue {
essfully fought that Native Ameri-
anism go rampant in the country a
uring the years named. and that /
ley owe their political freedom to t
re Democracy of the country. In +
lew Of these truths there will be t
'und but few Irishmen, who have t
cted with the Democratic party, O
'und wandering after ta.tooed gods y
the Republican camp.
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A report comes from Foo Chow
that peace is certain, and that the
disagreement in the settlement be-
tween France and China is left to the
arbitration of the American Minister
Another report from Canton states
that torpedoes are being laid in aud
barriers erected to the approaches of
that harbor. So it seems that while
the willy Chinese are holding out the
olive branch in one hand they are
preparing for wal with the other.
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Chicago may we'll be alarmed con-
corning its supremacy as a cattle
market. Western stockmen do not
are to ship their beeves to q city
where the ordinary precautions are
not taken to prevent the importation
of plague stricken cattle. If Chicago
wishes to maintain her position as
the chief mart for Western and
Southwestern beef and stock cattle
she must see to it that those infected
with contagious diseases, or coming
from infected districts, are kept out
Of her stock yards.
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New York Notes.

NEW YORK August S.-The as.
s,stant United States treasurer is in.
stfucted to substitute United ST..
np;ss 1or gold certificates where nos.
s.ole IN paying clearing house Ial.
Commodore Garrjson,s ,nv.,
sso%s "a l1ab nn1 $l,471,1>s, nominal
"'1e'S el''os''92S, actual S. 974, SIS.
meet his wife. 'ooay TO
wa .sniy sweeney, 20 years Of apa
was arrested at Hunters Po;n "se,
a : year old girl. I'vna ,pr
Ing is threatened. ~ Lynch
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Fever at Panama.

PANAMi VIA CALVES TON. A..
S-!he Star and Heruld %renn,tsas
demic a malignant and pepn,oiN'
fever at San Carlos, 50 mijts t sNa'
Panama Nine deaths occurred ', TI
inha bitants are panic stricken tls
believed the epidemic is due IA Ia
tense malarial poisoning. panLa'
is very sicklv, from 10 to Is fnn "aus
occurring daily. The heat Is juts1s1s
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Injunction Grant.a

NEW YORK, August 8-rh.,
ers' & M-rchants' Teleor%e 6aht
obtained an injunction in tSapa O.
against the Internat;onal & ELS. - 't
Telegraph Co., Iestrainino Iasen
ants from attempting to emf, W. uelvhI.
ment of a note for 81 900, ana psa
selling, pledging or parting Will lt'
mortgage bonds Of the BanIsu ~
Merchants company, held
collateral. 1t is claimed the ds, \
ants company failed to ful6TN44
agreement to purchase Inns ~
plaintiff. Wy
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Secret Try Lincoln will do a very
graceful act in promoting the sur
vivors Of the unfortunate Greedy ex-
petition. The refusal of Lieutenant
Greedy to accept promotion over the
heads of his seniors in the service ia
characteristic of the modesty and
sterling integrity of the man.
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Texas Fever.

LEMARs, Ia, August 8.-A sma,,
bunch of Kansas cattle u,,Icad.o h h'oa
a short time ago have shown SWIM.
Toms of Texas fever. and five hars
d'ed. When unloade1 the inftcted
cattle We're placed among asnlallb herd
"1 native cattle. Fifteen of 1h, latter
have since dicd, and fifteen mere ora
i'll. The disease is confined 70 thss0
and there are no fears OF it spreading
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Or. Mintie.

The celebrated specialist of San Fran
cisco. will be in Butte City on the
14th OF August, for y few days. The
doctor is a thoroughly educated med
ical gentleman, and is known all over
the Pacific coast as having performed
remarkable cures in his line of prac-
tice. This will be a rare opportunity
to consult the great specialist right in
our own midst. See advertisement
on third page.
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The decrease in fatal cholera cases
in the south of France seems to
have been only temporary. The re-
turn to MarseiIles of the early fugi-
tives from that city seems to ha,e
put new activity into the scourge
ami the d5ath rate is rapidly reach
ing its former figures.
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Libel Suit,

SAN FRANCISCO, August s.-A
libel suit for fifty Thousand dollars
was Instituted to>day against the Alta
by Sarah A. Snaron, plaintiff in The
Sharon divorce case. The alleged
cause is the publication of William
NJ. NELSON'S statement, accusing her
OF ! 'rgery. Of what is known as the
My Dear Wife" letters.
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Cattle

DEsMoINEs, Ia, August S.-Not,o.
mas been gwen The state board NJ
health of all outbreak of fatal cst,Ia
disease at LeMars, seventeen h.sd
having died within tweDtv.f"u.
n'urs. The State veterinary surgeon
has been sent to investigate. No da'
tails vet. '"'
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Postmaster Merchants Explanation,

NEW ORLEANS, August S.-Post-
master Merchant prepared to-day
and forwa fded to the Postmaster
General a full statement concerning
the charges and statements made by
the committee appointed blythe Post
master General to examine into the
conduct and cnnGi,inn of the New
Orieaus postotfice. He admits the ill.,
s~ui1lciency of force, but claims it to be
"f material that he has been com
PEELED 10 app int to a great extent for
political reasons.