The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-01
The Semi Weekly Miner

The Semi Weekly Miner
BUTTE CITY, MARCHl Z. 1884.
Congress will vote q resolution 9
thanks to Great Britain for the gift Q
the Arctic steamer Alert.
Anew York exchange says: Dds
tireuished physicians pronounc
roller skating unhealthy" The.
are so only when first put on.
Maine has one retail liquor deale
to every 500 of the populai - II
Maine that Is called prohibition. II
Montana it would be regarded as in
temperance.
The question is now asked
"Where was Logan when the wa
broke out" He was probably
where Moses was when the ligh
went out,
Newspapers will hive to be eau
tious about receiving lottery adver
tisements If the Senate bill denying
the mails to papers publishing them
shall pass Congress.
The House bill for the relief o.
Fitz John Porter has been reported
favorably to the Senate by the Re
publican chairman Of the Republi.
can Committee on Military Affairs.
That settles it. Now let Logan
howl.
Taxing a country to increase it's
property is like the old medical plan
of bleeding a patieat to cure him of
any part of disease. 1t will go out of
fashion under a clearer knowledge of
the laws of political economy, says
the Boston Herald.
President Arthur's alleged neutral
position on the question Of his own
candidacy tor denomination does not
meet with favorable comments. The
opinion has been expressed that he
should either enter the rae boldly
or retire from the track altogether.
The pleuro-pneumonia bill has been
50 amended and revamped in the
House that If it pass in its present
shape 1t will be worthless. A motion
to strike out the ~enacting clause
would have carried by a change Of
three votes. This fact shows the
little interest the House takes in the
fate of the measure.
World: Gresham was made Post
master General. Gresham displayed
good executive ability, and having a
sterling reputation as a man of strict
integrity began to be talked about for
the Presidency. 1t is now said that a
United States Circuit Judgeship is at
his refusal and that it will probably
be accepted. Good-by, w. @.
Morning Journal: If Mr.. Sargent
Is recalled the Hon. Thomas P.Ochil-
tree should be sent az our repre-
sentative to Berlin. He is hand
some, gifted. accomplished, a soldier,
. jurist and a statesman. His eye is
blue as the blue in the banner, and
the reddest of sunsets pales before the
hues of his fiery flowing locks. We
shall never have peaceI with Ger
many until Ochiltree Is made Min
lister.
The fact that certain papers bear
Ing upon Star Route matters and the
case of Governor Murray, which the
General sent to the Spring
or Investigating Committee, have
been stolen from the committee.
room, will not tend to benefit parties
in them. There is some
thing 'rotten in Denmark" when it
Ii found necessary to steal papers IN
the hands of an investigating COM
mittee.
Comparing the call of of the Dem
ocratic committee for the meeting of
he convention with that of the Re-
publican, the difference is SO striking
to scarcely require any special
to be called to it. While
he Democrats appeal to the citizens
'avorlng a pure, economical and con-
government, the Repub-
leans revamped the old war issues
md appealed to prejudices. The
party lives in the present,
he Republican party in the past.
And progress must win.
World, Esd inst: Here IA a chance
or John Sherman. Last Friday
light three colored persons were bru-
ally murdered at Avondale, Ohio,
heir house burned down and their
'odies taken to the Ohio Medical
where they were found with
he evidences of violent death upon
hem. If this is not a political mas
acre induced by the Democratic
ictory in the State last October, to
'hich the colored voters are supposed
D have contributed, it is at least
not creditable to the Northern sys.
IN of civilization" Investigate it,
ohm!
Truth, in commenting upon the
liefer-B oynton affair pertinentIy OBJ
.rves: 1t is surprising that the re-
'tions of an Ohio Congressman and !
Washington newspaper gatherer l
an Ohio newspaper should be so I
lagni6ed as to become an affair of Z
ational Importance. Outside of his :
wn district nobody cares a fig for I
congressman Keifer. Out of the
hole fifty millions of inhabitants of !
lis favored land as many as 40, $685. !
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