The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-31

c. CURTIS. secretary.
General Butler to all partle
"Come along with your nomina
tions."
John Sherman's boom seems t
have landed in an area Of low la
rometer.
MI. Arthur has been reviewing
the bicycle riders in Washington
Are they another division of bushes
men?
Diogenes might have gone home
discouraged had he wandered
through Wall street in search of VIVA
he desired to see.
Senator Cameron, OF Pennsylvania
is again In his seat in the Senate.
Arthur needs all bis friends around
him now.
The Oregon Senators are earnestly
in favor of forfel,ing n. P. land
lying contiguous to unfinished po1-
tions of the road in their State.
If there is any man who really de-
serves to be nominated for the Prcsi-
dency that man is ex-senator Nc
Donald, of Indiana. He has been
married three times and still lives.
The opinion prevails in the United
States Senate that efforts are being
made by private corporations to
gobble up everything valuable in the
National Park in the shape of fran
chises, etc. The Senate is three
thirds right.
The political mathematician have
resumed work and Blaine is again
figured in the nomination for the
Presidency by q large majority. The
secretaries and tellers of the Chicago
convention will do the last and most |
accurate figuring next Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Ex-senator Sharon Is still making
some disgusting disclosures concern.
ing his relations with Miss Hill.
Tie San Francisco a%ristocrat may
never have married his Althea and
may be a wlckedly prosecuted man
but by his own testimony he has
been a very, very naughty one
Morning Journal: Admirers of
Blaine are endeavoring to give his
boom another boost by announcing
that a favOrite hen of the Plumed
knight has just laid an enormous
egg. At the same time it will be wise
for these well-meaning friends not to
count on the product of that egg un~ +.
til some time after it is Matched.
The lower house of the Massachu- {
sets Republican legislature has just
defeated a resolution providing for {
the submission of a constitutional !
amendment abolishing the poll tax !
as q qualification for suffrage. If that
had happened in Virginia or Georgia,
the Boston papers would have drawn I
. moral from it that would have been G
1T for school recitation.
A majority and minority report
will he submitted in the Senate cons
corning the Danville riot. John
Sherman will prepare neither of d
them. Two reports will also be
submitted In regard to the Copiah, t
Miss, election troubles. Az the f
Senate is Republican the majority t
reports will be adopted in the hopes y
of manufacturing a little Presidential t
election thunder. Il
MI. Kerr, one of the government Il
counsel IN the Star Route prosecu. Il
ton, would like tomeet Kellogg with II
. shot gun. The Louisiana Senator u
shoots best with his mouth and will b
fire it of for Arthur next week at t.
Chicago. Kerr and Bliss lost their a
opportunities to cover themselves il
with glory and fame when they lost a
the Star Route cases, and all talk n
about covering Kellogg or other gov u
ernment swindler with shot guns is d
childish. Kellogg is covered from all ii
harm by the statute of limitation. s
A writer in an Indian newspaper, :.
'ecalling Gen. Gordon's departure y,
rom London to Egypt, says that IL
Earl Granville carried his dressing =,
bag, the Duke of Cambridge got bis ~
icket, and Lord Harrington held the =,
loor as he got into the train" What 81;
'ver may be the degree of veracity in -
his description, the picture is moth. -,
ng to the one that would be present -
I'd if Gordon should return to Lon :.
lon. But while q gripsack and a ~.
ourist's ticket might take him into -
be Soudan, it seem that nothing -.
hort of an army will be able to get II
I'M out. =:
General Butler will probably re- pr
the nomination for the Presi~ 10,
ency at the hands Of the National
Convention which assem- At.
led at Indianapolis yesterday. This it.
I'LL make him the nominee of two 90
|ational conventions. Now if the nv
rec Lovers, Woman S~uffragists, and Ia
temperance people nominate him trs
,e General will not lack more than or.
000, 600 or 5000, 900 votes of an cleo. tn,
on. hv
The influence of John L. Sullivan Gel
extending. The English and ha'
rench ministers of war have issued ert
ders that boxing shall hereafter fa!
q part of the regular training Of 7
q soldiers, and IN all regiments to
for the new system are hol
ing made. The Boston slupper in. lie