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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The White House is being cleaned.
The receptlon-rooms, chandeliers,
pictures, carpets, and furniture gen.
orally are being renovated for the
Fall and Winter campaign. Presi-
dent Arthur's last season in the
White House cannot fail to be a
memorable one. He closes a career
of remarkable brilliance with the
greatest eclat. His cultured man.
ners and courtly grace have done
much to spread abroad the fame OF
our Republican court. His successor
Grover Cleveland will sustain its
reputation and add new lustre to the
fame 1t has acquired.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
II ISSUE.

The Independent Republicans Of
Massachusetts, in their powerful ad-
dress to the men of their own state
use the following meaning words:
''By the nomination Of James G..
Blaine the Republican party has
thrown down the gauntlet of corrupt
and partisan government. The
Democratic party answers the chal-
lenge. It seandidate is the aeknewl-
edged champion of reform and po-
litical honesty. The issue is thus
joined. The leaders are representa-
tive men, the foremost of their kind,
and we cannot for an instant hesitate
in our choice or doubt what the true
interests of our country demand"
The New York Herald says:
"This is the whole issue and the
only issue-whether the next Presi-
dent of the United States shall be a
man charged with public corruption
or a man with incorruptible char
actor and proved fidelity to public
trust"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Mr.. Hendricks recent letter to a
gentleman in Dubuque, Iowa, in
which he refers to the Cleveland
scandal, is replete with sound sense.
There are few who will dispute Mr..
Hendricks conclusion that the
scandal will have NJ weight or ought
to have weight with the people. The
fact that Mr.. Cleveland has stood the
test of two bitter political campaigns
and each time has received q home
vote largely in excess OF his party's
strength clearly shows the esteem in
which he is held by his neighbors
and intimate associates. Mr.. Hen.
bricks feels confident the Democratic
ticket will be elected. The people of
the country seem to entertain the
same opinion.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
CLEAR THE NATIONAL PARK

There must be something radically
wrong In the management of the Ma
tional Park when 1t provokes such
criticism as the following which
comes to us in an exchange. "Had
our first parent Adam, been an
American citizen there cannot be q
doubt that he would have turned the
Garden of Eden into q public park.
1t he did not cover 1t with hotels, res
taurants, swings, wooden elephants
and mechanical COWS, it would
simply be beause there was q scarcity
of people. The Yellowstone Park is
our American Garden of Eden. Al
ready it is swarming with persons
who have gone these to engage in
business. Nature, unfortunately has
no show in this country. The Vale
of Cashmere would be transformed
into a picnic ground and that of
Avoca into q bowling ALLEY. There
is no well defined division between
dollars and poetry. Still, the yell
should be cleared.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

lions when they should be iaken a ~.
INV friend speedily and entlrei isteiv
covered. I never was 80 comP10s ~,
ia the dark about the nature Of anY :
illness, and I am so still. l fancy !
hear now the short. sharp, concerted
tones of the doctor, doggedly uslns
bis power Of exasperating my ankle es
ty.u So far so good, but here pie
in the audi aHeram Pastems
for the "village doctor' referrea
to turned out to be 3 hlgnly
respectable physician Of Brattde,
borough, VT, and this is bis version
Of the story as published in q news
paper at the time: Il am not tanec
" to be held up to the derlsion OF
England and America. It's rue l
didn't tell her, although she almost
pestered the life out Of me to be IN,
formed. l bore it all and equivocated
and evaded, and all from motives OF
feelings. II she has been so very
much concerned to know, and Is YET
in the dark, 1 will enlighten her
darkness-her friend was in the f1rst
stage of delirium tremens."
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
A Terrible Accident.

DENVER, August 29.-The II
o'clock last night train, belonging to
the Anglo American circus, Miles
Orion proprietor, left Fort Collins for
3ordov via. Greeley, Salt Lake and
the Pacific road. Forty n inutes later
when near Greeley the sleeping car
in which seventy-five men employed
as r~oustatouts of the circus were
asleep caught fire and was wholly
consumed. Ten men persisted, two
seriously and five slightly burned.
The fire was communicated from an
open torch with which the car is
lighted to a quantity CT gasoline
which was being carried in the same
car, causing an explosion. 1t is inn
possible to learn the names of those
present. It is believed the employees
OF the circus are entirely responsible
for the accident.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

st. John, like Butler, will enter the
Presidential contest with the nomi-
nation of two distinct patty organi-
cations. AS the standard bearer of
the Prohibltionists he will make an
unrelenting war upon whiskey, and
as the champion of the American
Party he will turn his lance against
the foreign element of our popula-
ton. He evidently thinks there is a
deep sympathy existing between
Prohibitionists and Know Nothings,
and that by accepting a nomination
from both parties, he will kill two
birds with one stone-stop the manu-
facture and sale of beer and rnn
whiskey and beer drinkers out of the
country,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Japan is q veritable paradise for
lovers of scenery, flowers and noble
men. Coronets are manufactured in
that celestial land like waf1es. The
master of the rolls has his hands full
at all times. The Japanese govern
ment has just issued orders for the
creation of a new batch of peers
Damios, dukes, marquises and Wis
counts of the latest pattern, with cor
onets to match will be turned out as
fast as the court tailor can get them
ready. Now is the American girls
chance. Noblemen can be had cheap
and Japan is the spot where they
hang up their crowns to dry.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

EvANsv!LLE, Ind, August 90
At y O'Clock this morning the most
destructive hurricane ever here broke
upon Evansville, doing damage of
not less than a quarter of a million of
dollars in the city and vicinity.
Houses were blown down and roofs
carried away. Three or four steamers
were badly injured. Thousands of
shade trees were torn up by the roots.
1T is Impossible at this hour to give
the amount of damage done. IT will
probably not fall short of the figures
given. The steamers Joseph TROOPS
and Silver Thorn were badly dam
aged, the former almost wrecked,
Several churches suffered severely:
one new school house.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The pigtails have taken Canada.
They have not exactly turned the
Dominion into a big laundry, but
they have spread themselves in q
Mongolian manner over the land
In British Columbia they are swarm
ing, $4,000 of them having taken up
their residence in that province The
British Columbians are indignant.
They have called upon the lremier,
Sir John Macdonald, to deliver them
from this great affection, but with
out avail. All they want Ia q law
upon the United States plan. Sir
John will not move in the matter,
and so the war goes on. British
Columbia is disguised and threatens
to cast off the yoke that binds her to
the Dominion. She proposes to pc
tition the home government to take
her once more under its protection.
Meanwhile All Sin keeps coming.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The latest soul-harrowing story
about Cleveland 8 ,that while he was
sheriff he at one time bought a comb
and brush for some prisoners, and
had it charged to the county. A few
more such horrible tales about the
Democratic standard bearer will pro-
woke the people to rise up as one
man and join editor Dana in de-
handing his withdrawal from the
Presidential ticket.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
TWO OPINIONS.

MI. Charles A. Dana of the New
York Sun has certainly lost his tenn
per and consequently his judgment.
1t seems he can no longer see any
good in the intrepid and incorru Ut
able Governor of New York, nor can
he longer see anything bad in one of
tile most notorious old scamp s, per
sonal and political, which this
country has produced since General
B. F. Butler was born. On the 18th
of September, 1S7S-less than six
years ago-the Sun said of the Mas
sachusetts hippopotamus these very
words:
among all CONSPICUOUS Republic
cans IN the country, not one has gone
further than he in hostility to the De-
mocracy, or in defense ami justIfica-
ton of Republican atrocities.n
And here is what the Sun said of
Grover Cleveland October 10Th, 1882
only two years ago:
PLENTY of Republicans in Buffalo
who know Mr.. Cleveland's caree
will vote for him for governor. Any
Republican outside of Buffalo can do
the same thing, with perfect conf
dence that he will administer the
great trusts of the Office with un-
dinchtng courage, unswerving integ-
rity, and unfaltering vigilance"
And here again only a month ago,
July 18th, it said of the scandal
about MI. Cleveland: "But the &C.
cusations against Mr.. Cleveland are
first produced on the eve of a Presi>
Dental election, just after he had
been nominated. They have never
been things of public %notoriety, but
of private scandal. If they we're true
it Is fair to infer that they would
haze been produced and established
long ago. Moreover, there is now
no time TO inquire after them and to
determine whether they are true or
false. Accordingly they must be dis
missed as so much gossip. They can
not be taken INTO estimation in uscer-
tanning Mr.: Neveland's fitness for
the o6scefor which he is a candidate.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Referring to Cleveland's letter of
acceptance the New York Herald
observes: Governor Cleveland's
straightforward, succinct acceptance
of the Democratic nomination is un-
fortunately not satisfactory to either
the Blaine organs or the Butler
organs. They say the Governors
note is "spiritless" and ''ineffec-
tual; that it Is 'unstatesmanlike;;"
it is "soft and sweet, but indefinite;;''
it is mildly lnoffensive;" it is elab-
crate in "platitudes," and SO on.
Well, if it Is 80 poor a document one
might suppose there was in that fact
some comfort for his opponents, and
we should expect them to rejoice
over it. On the contrary, they are
green with discomfort,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
The Last Gasp.

Gen. Sheridan tells q very inter-
esting story about the last campaign
against Lee and the incident OF the
surrender. It will be remembered
| that he headed off Lee at Appomat-
| tox courthouse, and captured eleven
trains of supplies which were wait
| ing for him there. When Lee found
| out that he had no stores or ammuni-
ton for his army, and that his re-
treat was cut off, he sent q flag of
truce, which Custer received and
conducted to Sheridan. The two
armies laid on their arms waiting for
Grant, who was on his way to the
front.
In the meantime Sheridan and
some of his staff started to ride over
towards Appomattox courthouse,
when they were fired upon by a regi-
melt of rebels, half concealed among
some underbrush. The general and
his party waved their hats towards
the place where the shots came from,
and made all sorts of demonstrations
to silence the unexpected and mys-
FERROUS attack, but to no purpose.
Finally the Confederate officer who
brought the flag and Major Allen, of
Sheridau's staff, rode to e what the
matter was.
They found q South Carolina regi-
ment, whose colonel, in a grandil-
oQuent tone, informed them that the
war wasn't over, and that he and
his regiment did not recognize the
authority of Gen. Lee to make terms
of peace. "Be Gawd, sir" exclaimed
the gallant Johnny, "South Caro-
linians never surrender!"
The two officers rode back to Gen.
Sheridan, whe, with his party, had
retired under cover and reported to
him the situation. The General
called Custer and told him there was
one regiment over in the bush who
hadn't got enough of it, and it would
be well for him to go over there and
''snuf it out" Custer ordered his
bugler to sound. "Forward," and at
the head of q regiment dashed across
the interval which lay between the
two armies, which were drawn up
in long lines and stood at rest. It
was a beautiful Sunday mornings
perfect spring day-and the sight of
that regiment, with Custer's long
tawny hair as their banner, dashing
at full gallop across the field, evoked
a cheer from both armies.
Meantime Sheridan had reached
the court house, where he met Gen.
Gordon, recently senator from
Georgia, and Gen. Wilcox, who had
been his classmate at West Point,
but whom he had not seen for many
years. Wilcox has since been q
doorkeeper of the United States SEM
ate.
While this party was sitting on
the steps of the court house, chatting
familiarity owe the situation, heavy
was heard in the distance.
Gordon looked up in anxiety and
alarm and asked one of his aids to
ride over in that direction and find
out what it meant. "Never you
mind, general, said Sheridan. Its
all right, I know what it means.
is owe there with a South
who never surrenders.n
insisted upon sending the |
officer to stop the fight, but before he
got there the doughty colonel had
presented Custer with q very much
battered sword. It was the last gasp
the army of Northern Virginia.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
BLAnNn's D1rHnsA

The Nothing record Of
james g.. Blaine ID alarming his gar
tisans and they are now endeavor-
ng to excuse it, frst BY pleading the
Baby Act and next bv the wicked
partner" dodge. In 1856 when Blaine
belonged to q party sworn by q fear
full oath never to vote for q man of
foreign birth, a Roman Catholic, or
a citizen who had married . Catho-
lie wife, his defenders say he was
only IL young man of twenty-four.
When he became part proprietor
and associate editor of . Dark Lam
tern organ and wrote articles de-
nouncing the influence Of foreign
born citizens, who were "smuggled
into citizenship" as an evil calcu-
lated to make the United States
"worse than Botany Bay" these
same defenders declare it was all
the fault of his wicked partner" .
"politician and editor who strongly
sympathized with American IDEAS"
But his defenders fail to inform
inquirers whether it was Mr.. Blaine's
extreme youth or his wicked part
ner that caused him to enthusiast
tically approve, If indeed he did not
originally draft, the following law of
the State of Maine, enacted in 1856:
No court created by the authority
of this State, however extended its
Jurisdiction or by whatever name
designated, MOI any functi0nary pr
tanning to said court, snail hereafter
hold or exercise any jurisdiction in
the administration of the laws of
Congress commonly known as the
naturalization laws.
Nor shall any court take cogni-
Zance of any application Ofany alien
to be admitted to become . citizen,
to make any record of any grant or
issue any certificate or other dOcu- /
ment or paper whereby any alien
zen of the United States.
This infamous law, as reasonable
as the Notification ordinance of
Carolina, was suffered to re-
main upon the statute books of that
state until repealed by a Democratic
Blaine was twenty-six
years of age when this law was en-
acted, largely through his efforts.
He was old enough to comprehend
fully the length and breadth of its
meaning and to pass judgment upon
it's merits. He was too old to be
used as putty by a wicked partner"
md too headstrong and ambitious to
Do led by anyone. Pleading the
Baby Act, Or the wicked partner"
lodge will not help MI. Blaine in his
dilemma. He made his Know Moth
ing record when he was thoroughly
live to the intentions of that int0l-
rant party and he will be COM
YELLED to stand bv it.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
A Steamer Sunk.

CHICAGO, August z9.-The dailv
News, Evansville, Indiana special
Gays the steamer Belmont, a trans
fer boat which leaves here at eight
O'Clock every morning., was sunk by
q storm about three mics this side of
Henderson, Kentucky, sinking her
barge and cars to the bottom. It is
reported there were over thirty peo-
pie on board and only three are re i.
ported saved. A newsboy named
Pang, the cook and the pilot WI =,
swan ashore. This Information ia
received from q man who came m
by land. ALI the wires are doNn
and most of the boats are crippled so
az to be unable to 90 to the scene IF
the wreck.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

"The laboring classes constitute the
main part of the population. They
should be protected in their efforts
peaceably to protect their rights
when endangered by aggregated cap.
ital; and al statutes on this subject
should recognize the care of the state
for honest toll and be framed with q
view of improving the condition of
the wOrkingman.-U evel0nd's letter
of QcceDtHnce.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

New York World: MI. Blaine has
two afternoon organs in this city
the Mail and Express and the Com
merci~l advertiser. Both are in
trouble with their printers, and both
are paying rat" wages. The Zri-
duue, the leading Blaine organ of the
country, is being "boycotted" by la
boring men because it refuses to
recognize the Printers Union, and
the Philadelphia Press - an other
prominent Blaine organ-is known
as q frat" concern.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

An Augusta report says that Blaine
believes Governor Cleveland's letter
stands a chance of failing perfectly
dead from its weakness." Then it
differs from Blaine's letter in one M
portant particular. Any person fool
ish enough 10 read that remarkable
and long-winded document would be
likely to fall perfectly dead from
weakness.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

DR.. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of
animal Industry, fears that pleuro
pneumonia among cattle will show
Itself among the herds of the west
through the importation of Jersey
stock. Cattle men of Montana are
vitality interested in preserving their
herds from contact with cattle inn
ported from infected districts of the
ooc{
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

In nineteen years we have reduced
our national debt SO per cent nearly.
1t stood at So, 756;431, ST. in 1865, and
on July l, 1884, stood at S 1,45O,o50,~
O95
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The New Xork Herald, generally
very correct in its political predlo-
tions. in a table giving the result of
the forthcoming Presidential elec-
ion, places PIT electoral votes to the
credit of Clevelend and 1874 to Blaine.
That is about the size of it.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The total exports of petroleum
from the United States during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1884, were
5l3, 760, O92 gallons, valued at $47, 103,-
248, an increase of 7,738, 476 gallons
and 81, 100, 1859 IS compared with the
preceding year.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The Republican party, says Gen.
Butler, when it started out, twas
emphatically the party of the people.
It had In it substantially neither a
monopolist nor q capitalist" What
splendid use it has made of it's time.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

They arrest, try and punish de-
fauiting bank managers in France.
In this country those gentry go to
Canada and live in sumptuous style
upon the money they stole from I'M
suspect ng depositors.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
Division.

PETERSBURG, Va, August o.
AS anticipated, two Republican con-
g~ressional conventions are being held
here to-day to nominate candidates.
for Congress from the Fourth Con
g~ressional District of Virginia. The
convention was called to order at tho
courthouse at noon, but before that
hour the anti-Brady faction bolted
and retired to the Academy OF Mn>fc
Both conventions have effected "
temporary organization. Two san-
arete congressional nominations ~
to be made. @lo
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The English government sees in
the hardy Canadian voyagers the
right kind of material to accompany
an expedition up the Nile to relieve
General Gordon. It has made call
for 600 of them.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The main shaft. of the Washing
ton monument at the national capi-
tai has now attained the height of
500 feet, and preparations for erect
ing the roof will be commenced.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Thomas Jefferson, the father of
Democracy, was in favor of one Pres
idential term. Governor Cleveland
stands on the same sound principle.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Admiral .Courbet says is was a
GLORIOUS victory" still he was not
able to take the forts on Min River.
Some one besides Chinese are behind
those Krupp guns.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

France and Germany have shaken
hands across the bloody chasm and
formed an alliance to assist each
other in the acquisition of colonies.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

The appearance of cholera upon
the Pacific Coast of Mexico may well
excite alarm in that country. It is
it's first appearance in America.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30
DRIVEN TO FRENz7

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me 10y 10y" eAarts to %extricate themselves from th L,n We
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osaort;ons. CRYING dirt and lime will not answer. Th S&
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1ast' If an evil drug" is the secret of the prepara6~
Dr.. Charles A. Pauly, a we'll known physician Of ri
cinnati, said to a repo rter of the Commercial Gazette: af
MONA is a drug of gr eat and sometimes dangerous pn n.y.
ats ne in the subsistence of mankind, in any of itssiH1
is dangerous and improper" The Royal Baking Pay
contains Ammonia, and its manufacturers DdRE Va,
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and the impurity and Ammonia in the Royal Baking p,
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PARIS, August 29.-French neux.
papers are exultant over the s,,oo.t-
Of Admiral Coulbett in Destroying he
defenses along the river Min hat.,e sne
Foo Chow and the sea. ~9'"een
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-30

Every house wife can try the s.I1o 7al' q p ~.
other brand of Baking Powder v placing the ~ cay
top do wn, ON q hot sCOye till heated. ISemovath
cover, and if there, she will smell AMMON1
TIA EETS OEN. After which she can cIhanmn.
for Prices, that has nothing base in it, N-s It