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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23

It IS said that the Duke of Argyle
is in a very respondent frame OF
mind over the situation in Parliament.
He saws that Parnell rules Parliament
with imperious power. Parneii IS
able to do this by reason OF the
puncuniary aid he gets from the Irish
IN America. 1t follows, therefore, the
Irish American indirectly holds the
balance Of power in the British Par
lament.
The bill admitting Washington
Territory into statehood passed the
Senate bv majority OF thirty.
Thirteen democrats voted in favor OF
the bill along with the republicans.
The thirteen negative votes were cast
by democrats.
AS there is much beast and some
devil in man, SO is there some angel
and some God in him. The beast
and the devil may be conquered, but
in this life never destroyed.-lS. /.
Coleridge.
President Cleveland is besieged by
anxious missionaries, and recently re-
marked to friend that if the advice
given him was concentrated upon Al
RIGA it would civilize and Christianize
the entire Dark continent.
The Prussian government has order
ed the polish poet, Braszewski, to re-
turn to prison on May 1. The poet
saws that his return will soon be fol
lowed by his death, as he is now in
feeble health.
! Bv vote of 1883 to 6,797 Rhode
Island on the 18th inst adopted ar
amendment to the constitution, pro-
hibiting the manufacture and sale O.
alcoholic liquors IN the State.
The Nebraska City soloon keepers
have all signed an agreement not tt
sell any liquor to any man who Il
known to have signed the temperance
pledge.
The prohibitionists of Oregon me
: in Convention at Salem on the l4tl
, inst. and put in nomination a full
State and Congressional ticket.
Texas editors do not believe il
4 materalized spirits. They say tina
good whisky won't freeze.-[Texa
Siftings.
t A Bank cashier rever goes off un
! til he is loaded, and then he make
no report.
Never borrow trouble. The inter
}. est you have to pay for the accomc
: dation is excessive.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23

The members of the senior class at
Yale have been requested to write an
essay on the question now at issue
between President Cleveland and the
Senate. Until these essays are COM
pleted, nothing further will be done
at Washington.-[B burlington Free
Press.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23

The statement is made that all the
varied machinery Of Great Britain,
now operated by steam power, is capa-
BILE of performing more work, and
hence of creating more products than
could be produced by the labor OF
100000, 900 able bodied men-a great
err number than all the abe-bodied
mon on the earth.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23

There is no landed class in France.
properly so called. There are eight
million peasant proprietors. Entail
and primogenlture are unknown, and
bit of land can be bought and sold
as easily as cow or a family bible
Notwithstanding, eight hundred thou
sand country folk have within the
past FIVE years quilted the greer
fields and homesteads of France il
order to seek adiving IN the grea
towns.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23
DIED:

At her home, near Fremont, Nebraska.
April ID. 1886, of asthma, Mrs. James j.
Mitchell.
She leaves two children, the eldest tour
years of age; the other three months.
Death MAS sudden, and unexpected by
herself or friends. Deceased resided here
several years ago. and had many friends
in this county.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23
SOUTH AMERICAN RIVALS.

An exchange has the following iutelll-
gent article relative to the industrial ana
mechanical progress being made in some
of the States of South America 1t takes
precisely the right view of the case 1t
seems extremely foolish to regard other
wise than with satisfaction ali evidences
Of substantial development in other coun-
tries on the Western continent. That ar
gument is short sighted that declares that
prosperity cannot exist in one place unless
there be corresponding degree OF depres-
sion in another. We should welcome ev-
cry indication of growth in all countries
that are likely to furnish markets for our
surplus products. There is no country on
this hemisphere whose prosperity will not
be an advantage, rather than detriment
to the United States,
Some prophets of evil affect to see dan
gerous rivalry to the business interests OF
the United States springing up in the
South American countries of Uruguay and
the Argentine Republic. The former has
a population of 400, 600, with 70, 1000 square
miles Of Territory 1t is increasing rapid
ly in population and trade, and promises
to come into competition with us at no
distant day ia the production OF bread
stuffs, meats, WOOL etc. Labor is scarce
and high, and the cost Of living low, ex-
cept clothing and imported luxuries. The
Argentine Republic proper has an area OF
about 100000 square miles, besides ter
ritory of indefinite extent In Patagonia
and population Of 100000. Railroads
are being rapidly extended. The Indians
of the great Chaco district in the NORTH
have been subdued, which throws open
large and rich country to settlement; thu
natural resources of soil and climate art
great; the population has increased 10
per cent. during the last fifteen years. Eu
ropean immigration is heavy, and is en-
couraged by bounty, in place of the heat
tax which the United States lays upon lnl
migrants. Both of these countries hav
great navigable river systems, which brin!
their fertile lands within easy reach 0
ocean steamship carriage. Their cattl
ranges come within radius OF 100 mile
of ocean harbors, and large steamers Cal
run from 500 to 1000 up the rivers int
the heart of the grazing country. Al
these circumstances inspire certain elias
OF writers and economists with fears 70
our prominent industries in competitlo
with these advancing peoples.
The difference between bounty to in
migrants there and tax upon them her
is significant. 1t shows that here the del
sity of population and the concomitant d
velopment of our industries has increase
to that extent that we no longer feel tn
need of the forcing process to stimula,
increase of population, while there til
great need is for men to develop the later
possibilities of the soil. These facts ind
cate the relations which will by and b
exist between us and them They al
preparing to become the customers for Il
produc, of our mutured industrial syster
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-04-23

Richmond, Va, is having fight
on the liquor question similar to that
which took place in Atlanta Ga, last
year. There will be an election at
Richmond on the Goth Of April, upon
the question Of prohibiting the sale
of liquors in the city. Excitement is
running higher than at any time since
Lees surrender. The prohibitionists
say that if they can carry Richmond
they will make Virginia prohibition
state.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
A MATTER OF HISTORY.

As a political writer the Inter Mountain
scribe is a most dismal failure. 1t is well
known among well-inforlned men that the
convention which nominated James G.
Blaine for the Presidency in 1854, inserted
plank in it's platform pledging it's party
to the rule or practice OF appointing resi-.
dents OF the Territory to the Federal offices
therein, and it is equally %welIiknown among
well.informed politicians chat that plank
announcing a new tenet, rule, principle,
practice, or whatever it may be called, OF
the party was just as binding upon Presi.
dent Arthur as it would be upon Mr.. Blaine
If that gentleman had been elected. To
assume otherwise would amount to the
assumption that only the candidates OF a
party convention are under obligations to
recognize and obey it's platform.
President Arthur, as q party man, should
have rendered obedience to his party's de-
mand in this respect. But he paid no
attention to it. His first Territorial an
pointment after the adjournment of the
Chicago convention was Pierce Of Chicago,
to be Governor OF Dakota-not Crosby for
Montana as the Inter Mountain had it.
That carpet-bagger and ~"dawdling dandy
was found upon and ran in from the banks
of the Arno afterwards. The late Presi-
dent Arthur and his heads OF the Washing
ton departments snapped their fingers at
the Chicago convention and continued,
during their terms of Office, to saddle the
Territories with broken-down political
hacks from the east, This is O matter of
history,
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
Returns to His Home.

Tomorrow George Lewis, late city editor
of the Inter Mountain, OF this city, returns
to his home in Ketchum, Idaho, where he
will take the position of assistant cashier
in the First National bank of that place.
OF which his father, Hon. 1. I. Lewis, is
president.
For some months George has been con
nected with the city department of the
Inter Mountain, performing the thanklees,
unappreciated work upon a newspaper that
is the most difficult of all. He has done it
well. He has @ the respect and esteem
OF Butte's people, and the confidence, re-
gard and good opinion of his employers.
He goes, Of his own will and at his request
back to the home where father and mother
are, there to begin a new line of life that
promises far greater and better results
than the everlasting wearing and worrying
.drudgery OF a newspaper Office.
He takes with him the respect and high
regard of all who know him, and will; have
with him always the assurance that warm
friends here wish him God speed along his
newly chosen path. This reporter knows
him well. He knows he is an honest man.
and ian honest man is the gentleman OF
nature" He knows he is a good man and
a gentleman, because whoever has a good
mother. like George has, cannot be any
thing but a good man and gentleman.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
A New General Manager.

Mr.J (. Dawson, for SO long agent at Butte
station and who has Just been promoted
to the position of General Manager of the
Montana Union is a man of no small ex.
perience in railroading. The reporter has
accidentally comeinto possession of a COW
at the Daily Free Press, published in Lon.
don, Ontario, January 3Oth last. It gives
a four column account Of a banquet given
in honor OF Mr.. Dawson, then about to
leave for this country, having filled the
post OF superintendent of the Great Vest
ern or Grand Trunk Railway for a long
time. It was given by all the employees.
from superintendent down to caller" and
the large company present, after a most
enjoyable hour or two spent in songs.
toasts and music, united in presenting the
retiring officer with an address of which
any man on earth might be Justly proud.
1t was gotten up in most elaborate style.
and was beautifully and appropriately
illustrated. 1t was full of kind words and
praise of Mr.. Dawson's personal and pro-
tessional qualifications and bearing, and
With it, as q token of their esteem, each
mans contribution Of a small sum wal
presented in the shape of a purse contain.
ing 5000 in gold. The people of Butte and
may well congratulate themselves
and thank Assistant General Traffic Mana.
ger P. p. Shelby that such a man has been
to represent the great moving
agency OF this section as is Mr.. Dawson.
who will o assume the duties of General
Manager here.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
WHAT NIGHTHAWKS SEE.
Star With a Fiery Tail to be Seen BY
Reporters and Night Providers
in Butte,

Those OF The MINERS readers who sleep
late after retiring before 8 or 4 o'clock will
neverknow what they miss. Only the never.
sleeping newsgatherers of the press and
people who urn night into day will see the
wonderfully beautiful comet 0 painting
the northwest sky red. This comet is
visible. body and tail, to the naked eye.
1t ornaments the northwestern portion
OF the sky from about 4 o'clock till day
light appears. The telescopes have for
some time been covering it, but now it is
seen without their aid. 1t is not yet known
what this stranger with a tail OF flame
comes to visit us for. whether it be good or
evil, war, pestilence, famine or fun. But
that it is coming here is beyond a doubt.
1t goes madly dashing through space, APP
parently upsetting numbers OF the myriads
OF shining worlds among which it rushes
and is as clearly defined in it's course as are
the stars of the milky way that are con-
stantly c~leaving their path through foam
cloud sky. It is supposed by star-students
that this is Barnard's comet, predicted by
that scientist some time ago. It will pass
succeed in capturing it if he will sprinkle a
handful OF salt upon it's tail. It now ap-
pears to be a vapory, nebulous mass with
a sort OF electric light in the center, which
grows in size and brightness as the stranger
comes Fastening to earth. No matter
whose it is or what it is, the people on
board are having an excursion that eclipses
all known rates of modern railroad travel,
and should it stop at Earth station, this
reporter will be there to interview the con-
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
WELL DONE, SANTA CLAUS.
A Scathing Rebuke Given by Santa
Claus to Rude Young Men at
a Xmas Distribution.

On Christmas day the reporter met a
gentleman who was present at the NJ. E.
Church at Centerville, Friday evening,
when the gifts were being opened and dis
tributed. The gentleman stated that San
ia Claus was muf1ed in agreatfur %overcoat
and wore long white hair and flowing white
beard and mustache. As the great gift
giver called out names and delivered the
Xmas gifts he suspe tied something and be-
gan to open each package before he called
the name of the person for whom it's con.
tents were intended, and it was well he did
so. Pretty soon he found in one package q
dead kitten, in another a dead puppy, in
others vulgar gifts not to be named in a
respectable newspaper. Santa Claus is a
cunning old fellow. and at first he quietly
put aside these things and said nothing. OF
it. During the festive exercises, however.
he opened q package addressed to a well
known and most reputable young lady of
Ceuterville, and found in it something 30
filthy and ~villainously insulting that he
put aside the character of Santa Claus, the
bringer of good news and gifts, and as
sumed that OF a modern Censor. He told
the audience, as nearly as decency woul
permit, what he had seen during the pack
age-opening in the evening and then
"opened" on the young men-not gentle
men-who had been guilty of sending the
things to young ladies, whom they and
everybody respected, or should respect. He
appealed to all decent people to bear him
out in the tongue-lashing he gave, and
asked these young ;ll-breds how they would
like to have their sisters treated in the
same way. It was a terrific castigation Of
words the old fellow gave, and the large
audience applauded each sentence to the
echo.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
A Christmas Wedding.

Andrew Lehman was married at 2 D.. m.
Christmas day to Miss Lille Martin. The
marriage took place at the residence OF
the BRIDES parents in Centerville, Rev.
Father Vandeven performing the ceremony.
At eight O'Clock the same evening the hap
py couple, accompanied by VIM. McGuigan
and Miss May Martin, groomsman and
bridesmaid on the occasion, left for Deer
Lodge and other places on the Montana
Union for a short wedding tour. On their
return the newly married couple will make
their homei in a new house. above the Clear
Grit mine. where all arrangements have
been perfected for going to housekeeping in
real earnest.
The bride is a California girl, though
more recently from Park City, Utah. In
addition to the charm OF being exceedingly
good looking she has had an excellent edu-
cation and is accomplished in music, etc.
The groom is a man of most exemplary
habits and of whom no higher compliment
need be paid than the bare statement Of
the fact that for four years he has held the
responsible position Of hoisting engineer at
the Lexington,
Perpetual harmony their bed attend,
And Venus still the well Unmatched pair befriend!
Nav she, when Time has sunk him into years,
Love her old man, and cherish his while hairs,
Nor he perceive her charms through age decay,
But think each happy sun his bridal day."
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
DEATH OF GENERAL LOGAN.

Another distinguished name has been
added to the list of iIlustrious men who
have passed to the other shore within the
past twelve months. General John A,
Logan is dead. No one but his physicians
and members of his family knew the very
dangerous character of his disease and
they, it seems, kept the fact from the
a most grievous surprise to all. General
Logan wal the highest type OF the Western
man. Energetic, positive, self-reliant and
courageous, he worked his way, without
the advantage Of a generous education,
from the humber walks of life to a place
beside the more distinguished men of the
age, where he carved a name which will sur
vive as long as the language in which his
deeds will be sung.
The warrior-statesman was born in ILL
mis- in 1926, and consequently was 6Oyears
OF age at the time OF his death. When tho
late rebellion broke out he offered his ser.
vices to the Governor of his State, and
when Lee surrendered he was a Major Gen.
eral in the Union army. In 1871 he was
elected to the Senate of the United States
from the State OF Illinois, reelected in
1879, and again elected within the past
year. His candidacy for the Vice-Presi- !
dency is familiar to all. 1t was in the SEN (
ate where he became distinguished as a
ready debater, a cogent reasoner and a
fluent speaker. These qualities, added to
his fine presence and courteous bearing. I
made him popular with the masses and (
soon gave him a place among the foremost
men OF the day. Had he lived General Lo-
gan would doubtless have been the Repub- +
candidate for the Presidency in 1888.
In his death a bereaved family has lost a
kind husband and father; his native State
her most distinguished son, and the Nation
a warrior and a statesman. Peace to his
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
A SAD
A Daughter, YEARLY Walking Bare.
Headed Through the Storm, Begs
for Her Father Who is
Gambling.

"Oh, I want my father! I know he is in
there! Please send him out to me-" were
the words that fell upon the reporters ear
yesterday afternoon before the night came
down, and while the pitiless snow fell gently
but cruelty upon all who were out. Trained
to catch every incident like this, the re-
porter quietly stepped nigh the speaker,
who proved to be a young woman of mod
est mien and saddened face, over which
tears flowed, despite the poor things ef-
forts to control and keep them back. She
was young, fair land very ladylike in ap.
pearance. and was standing before the
outer coor of a well known house where
crowds OF men had gathered to swallow the
red wine that hides the devil at the bot.
tom of the glass" aud to gamble off their
means of living. She was appealing to a.
half-dozen men who had just come out
the saloon, and, in piteous tones, begged
that they would "send father to me, f.r
know he is in there"
Themen in whom there still fingered some
OF the better feelings of our nature. sof-
tened their tone of voice and, in their
rudely kind way, told the weeping oma
they did no know her father. For an in.
she stood as if transfxed, then. with
great moan, as il the deepest fountain of
her feelings was broken up, she turned awav
and amid a flood of tears that fairly del.
uged her fair face, she slowly and SADLY
moved of and YEARLY plodded thrcuph the
heart!ess storm to the home where ga
gambling had brought misery. and
perhaps want. None but her other Father
can measure the wretchedness that pocr
suffered last night,
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
That "New Railroad Offce.v

The MINER is in receipt of a note from a
person in Anaconda, who sees fit to lecture
the reporter for his ignorance about who is
the Mr.. Tuttle, whom the St. Louis Globe
Democrat reported as appointed General
Passenger Traffic Manager OF the Union
Pacific system.
The reporter OF The MINER knows that
he is not wise, and therefore pleads guilty
to the correspondents charge of dense ig-
torrance He regrets it and wishes he were
wise like some other people, but, in justice
to his informant, he states that he (the in
formant) is surely a ''well informed" rail-
road man, at least in the opinion of the
chiefs of a great railroad system. who con-
fde in and promote him; and he is, withal,
a gentleman who has compassion upon re-
porters who are ignorant, as every true
gentleman will have.
The MINER now informs the world, upon
the authority OF the Anaconda swell in
formed" gentleman, that Mr.. Tuttle is one
OF the best railroad passenger men in the
country; that he has been appointed Cen
eral Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pa
cific Road, with offic at Montreal, and that
there is mo foundation for his reported
connection with the Union Pacific" the
Globe-D Democrat to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
TAXED WHISKY.

The decision Of the Supreme Court OF
Ohio in sustaining the constitutionality OF
the Dow law has worked a revolution in
whisky selling in that State. When the
constitution OF Ohio was drawn, SAYS al
exchange, it wal provided that the manu-
facture and sale OF liquor should never be
licensed. Standing alone this clause of the
organic law had the appearance OF a Wig
orous temperance measure, but as the Leg
islature did not put itself to the trouble
OF enacting any laws on the subject the
state enjoyed the luxury OF free whisky.
No licenses being lawful. n man with CAPT.
tai enough to buy q keg of beer was able to
set up a saloon, and for that reason the
number OF low dives in the State has al
been very large.
Within the last six years the exertions of
the temperance workers in Ohio have been
devoted to the passage OF laws taxing sa-
loon-keepers. First came the Pond law
and then the Scott lsw, both being knocked
out by the Supreme Court as contrary to
the Constitution in that they amounted to
measures licensing the sale OF liquor. At
length the Dow law was passed, and a su.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29

preme Court, partly elected on the issue,
has just decided that, as it is nothing but q
taxing law and confers no license in the
proper acceptation Of the word, it is consti-
tutional. The saloons which had held
back about the payment Of the tax are
o coming up with their cash, and most
Of the municipalities OF the State are find
ing the money very convenient to meet
current expenses with. In one city the
saloon payments enable the treasurer to
pay the school teachers. and in another
the police and fireman are made
happy by the knowledge that the
golden stream from the gin mills will en-
able the treasurer to hand them two
months wages before New Year.
Party necessity no less than financial
straits impelled the Republicans OF Ohio to
make this question OF taxing saloons q
leading ont. The Prohibitionists were
becoming dangerously active and, unless
something could be done to remove the
stigma of free whisky from the state, it
seemed likely that it would be a matter of
a short time before the popular indigna-
ton would rise to such a pitch as to sweep
away both of the old parties in the whirl-
wind OF temperance wrath. Opposed by
most OF the radical Prohibitionists, the
Republicans have carried out this taxing
measure, and it is 10Y a law to be enforced
throughout the state. While the difference
between taxing saloons and licensing them
will not be appaIent at once to the averap e
person, the strategy OF the Republicans in
carrying through this measure in the lace
of temperance and saloon opposition can
not but be admired. They have disarmed
the Prohibitionists to eome extent, and by
doing away with the cry of free whisky
they have detached thousands of voters
from the temperance party who are not
now and, perhaps, never will be Prohibi-