The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-22
EDITORIAL NOTES..

EDITORIAL NOTES.
World: The cau.e Of Arthur cor
tinues to grow weaker in the Empil
State. His evening organ IN tn
city has passed into strange hand
and there is nothing here now th'
he a depend on but the Custol
House and the tailor who makes b
trousers.
Wyoming legislators want moi
pay and ask Congress to increase i
Wyoming men may object to sacr
1ze their time for the meagre allow
ance doled out them by the Govern
ment but their wives may serve tn
Territory for the amount. Elee
them.
According to our press reports o
yesterday morning the candy know
as "Rock and Rye" is a formidable
rival of the toy pistol in the work o
destroying young life. There is poi
son enough in two pounds of thu
article to kill a man. The making
and selling of such stuff should b
mades a felony by our statutes.
France will demand a heavy in
demnity of China, and in case of its
refusal will occupy Chinese territory,
In the meantime China Is submit
ting a basis of peace to English and
American Ministers at PAkir e"d
a.niug Lnem to intervene in her
behalf. The Tonquin imbrolio, how
ever, will be settled just as
France wants to settle it.
Live Stock Journal: "The many
ladies managing cattle business on
their own account, in Montana, may
like to know that Mrs. York and
daughters ''boss" a cattle ranch of
their own 20 miles from Clifton, Ora
ham county, Arizona. Their dwell
ling is elegantly fitted, and the bunk
house for the cowboys is a model of
comfort"
The City of Mexico is now placed
in direct all rail communication with
the Northern States. The Mexican
reciprocity treaty having been con-
drmed by the United States Senate,
the interchange of the products and
manufactures of both countries will
stimulate commerce between them,
and infuse a life in the sleepy, indo-
lent, old country to which 1t is a
stranger.
Harrington, the British War Sec
rotary, showed his good sense and
Difference to the sentiment of the CIV
ilized world in withdrawing the proc
lamation of Admiral Hewitt Offering |
$1,000 for Osman Digna's head. Eng
land cannot afford to descend to the
level of barbarians In conducting a
war although that war Is waged
against a semi-clvilized people. She
has the power to subdue Osman Digna
without resorting to such questiona-
BILE methods.
The House of Representatives on
Wednesday, made a second attempt
at German resolutions. Tom Ochil-
trees crude attempt seems to have
elected a friendly response from the
Liberal members of the Reichsrsth,
and this has been seized upon as the
occasion of reciprocating the frater-
sentiments expressed by those
lawmakers, and re-echoing
heir desire tor the closest union of
the two nations. This, according to
DIR vernacular, is letting themselves
down easy. ]
The Philadelphia Times celebrated F.,
is ninth anniversary on the 18th +
INST. by issuing a, sextuple sheet,
;wenty-four broad pages. The sue
Jess of this sterling newspaper has q
'een phenomenal, and the editor tells +
lis readers that the Times is to-day +
he most successful and profitable (
ournal in Pennsylvania, with the
lngle exception of the Public Ledger. ,
his success has been honestly won =
y enterprise and fair dealing, and
70 heartily congratulate our
'teemed eastern contemporary on its =,
eserved good fortune.
senator Lamar's compliment to Sec ci
tary FreIiDghuysen's neat and eff. C
ctual allusion to Bismarck's official ci
'nguage as to "the Lasker incident" 81
as notable, considering its origin. ct
His DISPATCH" the Senator is re, OF
'rted as saying, sis courteous, deco pt
Ous, in nowise offensive to the Ger pl
an government or to the German o.
,ople. Alter isolating Bismarck as M
Q only person who has taken of. II
nse in the matter, he very politely 50
.icates that Bismarck's personal lie
elings cannot properly be a matter Or
interest or inquiry to this govern ell,
IN
The Denver Republican has been At
aking a political canvass of Colo &c
with regard to the Republican u
dice for President, and finds that su'
cry county in the State heard from oe
Zcept two) has q preference for VI
aine; thirteen counties have. not I'LL
1T replies, and 1t is supposed that WV
sse are showed in. AS the time apl
holding the Republican Conven> IN
n approaches June 3d. the name aoe
the Blaine statesman pops up in ho'
expected places, which leads to Jay
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