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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-12-09
The VILLAGE Dogs

IN Bavaria the Mayor OF little VII.
was ordered by the higher authori-
tie 20 make out list Of the doQs kept
by the inhabitants. lie aid so, and the
list read as follows
The chool teacher -- dog.
The pastor -- q dog
The doctor -- dog.
Myself - a dog.
All Of US together - four dogs -
Sytiaqs,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-12-09

TgE design for the new two-cent postage
stamp, which is 20 be put into circulation
about January j, represents an embossed
head Of George Washington in profile upon
y blue tinted background.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

DEWITT TALMAGE draws q pretty picture
Of the twelve pearly gates to Heaven and
if the entrance be 90 grand the interior
must be grander. But the angel sentinels
that the reverend gentlemen places on
guard will be apt to bar out many who
think they have the right to enter. About
on a par with the words OF Mr.. Talmage is
an article on the minimum Christian"
published in The Methodist Teacher, a
Presbyterian publication. which concludes
az follows: "Thc minimum Christian is
not clear on some points relating to Chris
tan conduct. The circus and dancing, the
theatec and card-playing, give him cons'd-
cradle trouble. He cannot see the harm in
this or that or the other amusemant. lie
says there is nothing in the Bible directly
against it. He does not see but thata man
may be a Christian and 60 to the theater
| or to the ballroom. He knows several peo-
pie who do so, and members
OF the church, too. Why should
not he? In short. the minimum
Christian knows that he cannot serve God
and mammon; he would If he could, and ne
will come just as near to doing so as ne
can: for he thinks it not best to be right
eous overmuch.' He will give to himself
and the world all that he may, and to Goo
and his cause as little as he can, and yet
not lose his soul. He stands so closetot the
dividing line between the people OF God and
the people OF the world that it is hard tc
say on which side OF it he actually is" Ac
cording to both authorities the minimum
Christian" will be in q bad fix when he tries
to pass the gates.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

A NOVEL plan for restricting the sale OF
liquor has been evolved by one Mr.. Cation,
a leading prohibitionists OF Jersey City.
He proposes to limit the number of licenses
to sc many per thousand of inhabitants.
These licenses he proposes to have put up
at auction, fixing a minimum of the bids to
be received at $500 and then let the
licenses so to the highest bidders. There is
to be a distinct understanding that any
| violation OF the terms and ordinances
governing the business will work an immedi-
ate forfeiture of the license. The Chief OF
Police is to see that all saloons are closed
at midnight and closed absolutely on
Sunday. Mr.. Cation says that under
such a system an improvement would soon
be noticeable. The drupkard making bust
ness would certainly fall off, the lowest
dives would be shut up, and the poorer
classes would drink much less. Gin mill
keepers, he thinks, would be more careful
in conducting Their business, would not be
so ready to put up bail for any drunken
loater, and would not have SO much money
to spend in running caucuses and CONTROL
ing local elections. Cations plan has been
presented to several prominent Jersey City
people, who want him to put it in the shape
OF an ordinance and put it before the Alder.
men. The theory is a good one but it
would be hard to have it enacted into a
law in any large city.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

MATTHEWS & WEBB's last circular has
the following rather cherries article upon
copper: Cooper has apparently no
friends and seems to be it's W worst
enemy, for no bearish influences whatever
are at work on the price, and yet it steadily
falls off. 1t is difficult to learn the a
truth about the Lake export sales, but it
is pretty certain to send about 100000
pounds across the water, and has put the
Calumet and Hecla entirely out OF the
market for nearly tao months to come.
Lake has been drifting along at New York
at 1Ok, 10 cents and even $3.50 with
PART. Oxford and Baltimore ranging from
* to 10 cents, Arizona Ingot at 9h, and
Arizona Pig at Sk. The smaller Lake mining
companies confess themselves badly in the
vocative, and the outsiders feel that they
can easily wear the title and be every inch
worthy OF it. The rales OF the week at
New York did not exceed 100000 lbs at
the above rates. At London the fuctua-
tions have been limited to 5 shillings, and
our latest cable quotes Chilli Bars at $50
12s 3d., with Best Selected at f44. The
valued circular of Lewis & Son show the
average English price OF last year to have
been more than "a above current lates,
and shows that one German and two
Australian companies alone, have!ost thus
far this year over 100000 while one of
the Chill companies has made lees than
half the ordinary profit"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

THAT the Office OF President of the United
| States is not a sinecure is proven from the
following facts taken from q recent Wash.
ington dispatch. It is safe to say that the
manual labor involved in the task was
greater than that performed by any three
clerks the same days. The dispatch is as
follows: yesterday was about the busiest
day the President has had since his inau-
guration, devoted almost entirely to the
consideration OF pension cases. During the
day he acted on 11S private pension bills.
After giving each case a thorough personal
examination, thirty bills were vetoed and
lightweight approved, and he also ap-
proved the bill reimbursing Edwin Stevens.
United States Consul at Ningpo, China, for
extraordinary expenses incurred during the
Franco-Chinese war. The bill for the relief
OF Richard T. Wintersmith, late door,
keeper OF the House was allowed to become
a law without the Presidents signature.
The President wrote the veto messages
himself without assistance by dictation or
otherwise. They make about fifty pages Of
closely written foolscap. Indeed, it is
stated that the President has personally
written every message that has been issued
from the White House during his admins
tration."
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

LEAD has Strengthened up in price both
East and West and, Notwithstanding wide
spread complaints OF slack consumption,
the domestic output is SO slight as to cause
a scarcity OF supply that threatens to en-
force renewed importation ere long. At
New York sales were literally made to the
trade up to about 1,4OO tons, of which
over t~hree-quarters were common brands.
at $3.50, and the remainder, Corroding
lead at Sassy and $4.85. At the same
time St. Louis and Chicago both advanced
values and about 800 tons at each place
were sold at Sassy up to $3.50 and even
$4.65. The English market has meanwhile
advanced rapidly, and the London quota
tion to-day is f13, which prevents the pos.
sibiIity OF any importation at less than
$3.50 to $500, duty paid, laid down at
New York. All mail advices from England
point to the extreme improbability of any
farther decline therefor some time to come.
1t is by no means unusual for them to have
stock on hand in Germany, Spain and En-
gland of 10000 tons, and at the present
time it is stated to be less than IL 1000.
We have, therefore, no hesitation in pre-
dieting a price at or above s cents at New
York during the remainder of the year,
barring accidents. The argentiferoas regions
are in luck.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

1t Is stated that some time ago a plan
was discovered on the part OF a number OF
clerks in the Railway Mail Service to es-
tablish a secret order for the purpose of
preventing the discharge Of any OF their
number by the Postoffice Department.
When the scheme became known it resulted
in the discharge OF twenty-six OF the num-
Der at one time, and the chances are that
others will be added to the list. It was
surely a foolish mistake on the part OF q
few young men to imagine they could coerce
the Government into retaining them in
positions. None OF it's officers permit such
organizations to exist. The Railway Mail
Service is one of the most important under
the Government and no clerk who is capa-
BILE and attentive need fear that the tenure
OF his Office will be disturbed SO long as he
is faithful to his duties, and men efficient
have no right to enter into a conspiracy
with the avowed intention OF securing the
retention OF unfit employees. Such conduct
connot be justified and will not be tolerated
on the part OF those who are selected as
public servants.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

The latest newspaper venture In Mon
tana IS the Mining Review. o weekly publ
cation, the initial number OF which has just
reached The MINER. It ia published and
edited by A. N. Williams and VIC Aiming
and In their prospectus, after announcing
that the journal will be exclusively devoted
to mining interests, they say: "Our be-
ginning is a modest one, but the outerop'
pings OF our lode can be plainly traced,
our boundary stakes are firmly
driven, and we shall 60 systematically
to work regularly dropping u stamps on
all mining news worth milling. We shall
prospect for an extension to our property,
and ii indications warrant shall increase
our facilities. This, Of course, will depend
largely upon the support We receive from
the miners OF the Territory, in whose in
terest WI shall labor. Upon them depends
whether the rumblings OF onr new mill
shall be heard to the uttermost egds of the
earth" These sentiments are the correct
ones and we hope the expectations OF the
gentlemen will be fully verified. In matter
and make-ap the paper is a fine specimen
and we wish it the success it deserves.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

SENATOR MALONE, of Virginia, has a new
scheme, which is enlisting considerable at
tention in Washington. He now proposes
to stay in politics, and to that end will run
for Congress from the district in which he
resides. Malone is An active and vigorous
campa'gner, and will leave no stone IN
turned to achieve success. His election or
defeat will simply demonstrate whether the
Democrats have been able to break into
the colored vote or not. II that element
still stick to the old idea, Malone will be
reasonably sure OF election; il they have to
any appreciable extent decided that the
people with whom they we're born and
raised are their best friends, his defeat is
inevitable. Malone is in every sense Of the
word'a disturbing element in politics, and
it is to be hoped that he will be left in the
coming campaign. He can we'll be spared.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

Col. R. G. INGERsoLL who has pro.
nounced opinions upon all subjects and
who is in the main right thus disconrses on
the labor topic:
1.-THE only benefit Of the Knights OF Labor
to w%orkingmen arises from the discussions
that take place. But in this country such
organizations can do no great good. Ths
laboring classes should redress their griev.
ances by the ballot. The poorest man can
vote as often as the rich, and his vote
counts just as much. Let labor organize,
not to boycott. not to strike, but to vote.
The ballot is the weapon to use. The
laborer can beprotected and his hours regu-
lated by legislation. The workingman will
find that without revenge aud without
riot the world can be made better, and the.
capitalist will find that starvation prices
for his laborers win finally starve him. He
will find that he cannot ipjure Others with
out injuring himself. My sympathies are
with the workers. The millionairss can
take oare Of themselves"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

The Board OF Directors of the West Vir.
ginia State Pe%nitentiary recently made a
contract with a tobacco manufacturer OF
Wellsburg in that State which secured him
the labor OF q number OF convicts for the
purpose of manufacturing cheap cigars.
As soon as the fact became known there
was a general and vigorous protest against
the action of the directors, the Governor
taking an active part in the contest. So
great was the excitement that the contract
vas not only annulled but the board
pledged itself to make no more such con-
tracts. The w~orkingmen OF the State who
led the movement and the business men
who aided them are elated owe the VIC
tory. While all will join in congratulating
them, there should have been no occasion
for the contest. The placing OF convict in
competition with honest labor cannot be
justified by any plea or rule. How to
make the prisoner earn his bread is as yet
an unsolved problem, but it should not be
done at the direct expense OF the honest
w~Orkingman.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

Mr.. J. HARRIS ROGERS, who has for some
time past been furnishing information to
the Bell Telephone Company, has now
thrown off the mask and begun q suit
against Mr.. Garland and Others whom he
induced to go into the Pan-Electric enter
prise. Mr.. Rogers demands an accounting
and 100000 from his late associates.
The suit is probably a mere act Of spite,
for IL the allegations Of the Bell Company,
with which Mr.. Rogers now has relations
more or less intimate, are to be believed,
there is no value whatever in the Pan
Electric stock, and Mr.. Rogers simply owns
a fractional share of nothing. Ii. on the
other hand, Mr.. Rodgers had faith IN the
company in which he induced Mr.. Garland
and others to take stock, he would unques-
tionably await the result OF the pending
suit against the Bell Company before SUING
for an accounting or naming a price for his
share in the Pan-Electric enterprise. Mr..
Rogers appears to be a bad lot.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30
Apy1cEs from the ~switchmeus strike .

ADvICEs from the switchmens strike are
not encouraging. 1t is true trains were
run yesterday but they were very heavily
guarded by armed officers of the law and
employees OF the company. The sight OF
the Winchesters had an immediate effe"t
but it can hardly prove lasting. The. feel.
ing On the part OF the strikers is deep and
intense, and SO worked up are they that at
any moment they are liable to repeat the
scenes OF the last strike and meet force with
force. 1t is useless to discuss who is right
and who wrong. There is serious trouble
impending and it should he averted. Now
is the time for c%onciliation and concession.
Surely there are enough fair minded men in
the country to find an impartial board OF
arbitrators to settle the dispute. II either
side objects to submitting it's claim to such
q body, while it does not prove they are in
the wrong it is an intimation that they
cannot be altogether right. Men with legiti-
mate grievances can well afford to appeal
to the sober and disinterested judgment OF
their fellow citizens,
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

THE Indications are that h%encesorth the
great power Of the Roman Catholic Church
will be persistently yielded against all
secret orders This is the settled policy OF
the Church in Europe, and the approval by
the Pope OF the celebrated letter Of the
Cardinal Archbishop Of Canada against
the Knights OF Labor and other orsaniza-
tions whose inner proceedings are secret,
shows that the issue is to be firmly met
here. Throughout the East there is great
speculation as to how this will affect the
Knights Of Labor. Should the Church rig
idly enforce the rules, a large proportion
OF the Irish workingmen would be compelled
to withdraw from the order.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

DENVER boasts of the crankiest or most
model saloon man in the country. Says
the News: 'Col. Jones' saloon, on La
renee street, has been closed w until such
time rs the proprietor fms a sober bar
keeper. Here is a ,ointer for the Saliva
ton Army" The Colonel has q right tc
shut up shop if he wants, but the News hat
no right to try and rope the young men O
the Salvation Army into the saloon bust
ness. Jones' whiskey is too seductive fol
even such good young men to long resist
the temptation. By the way, Butte coule
spare Denver a few sober barkeepers, but
could not guarantee they would remain SO
long, in that wicked town.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

DURING the psst fortnight throughout the
land there have been college commence
ments without end, and each has been at
tended with the usual number Of valedic-
tories and addresses to the graduates.
Among ths latter, one Of the most notable
was that Of Senator Miller, at Union Col
lege, New York. His theme was "The
Duty OF Educated Men in a Republic" and
he treated the topic in q manne worthy Of
it's prominence. After pointing out some
OF the dangers that menace the Republic,
and after referring to Communism and
Anarchy. and suggesting how wisely our
federal system Of government steers be-
tween the two extremes, avoiding the dan
gers of both; he empathized the necessity
Of parties in a free government, and urged
upon the graduates the duty OF aily'ng
themselves to the one or the other OF the
two great parties, one Of which must shape
the policy of the country's government.
PARTIES" said the Senator. "may change
their names. they seldom change their prin-
ciples. I do not propose to go into any
discussion of existing parties, their theori 9
or acts, but to call your attention to the
necessity Of your active participation in
our politics. Principles OF administration
and matters of public interest are only car
ried into execution through the agency OF
political parties. II you are to exert your
proper and. legitimate influence on public
affairs, you can best do 50 through your
connection with a political party. You
should be party men in the best and fullest
sense of the term. Your conscience and in
tellect first approving the principles and
policies of your party. you should work
~zea!ously and honestly for it's triumph"
Evidently having in view on the onehand
Schurz, Curtis and other SO called Indepen--
dents, and on the other Blaine, Robson and
the corruptionists, he continues: III ut
any time d find your party controlled by
d%isreputable methods and with corrupt
men in its management, do not abandon it
and seek to defeat it by going over to the
opposition. You cannot do it without be-
ing untrue to the principles which youhave
espoused. But rather exert all your ener-
eies to correct the methods and to drive
into obscurity the corrupt leaders," His
advice on both points is good and
should be needed. Every man in the
country should take an active part IN poll
tics and be q party In American
politics, organization and discipline are
essential to success.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30

The strike in Troy, New York while there
was not very much said about it in the
press was one of the most disastrous in it's
effects OF any of the recent labor troubles.
There were 1900 men employed in the
foundries idle for four months and $4,000
laundry women idle for five weeks. For a
time it looked as though the city would
be bankrupted, and the owners OF the large
industries ruined. However the strike is
now ended and work has been resumed.
In the contest the laborers appear to have
been worsted but the capitalists have vir'
tualIy agreed to submit to arbitration a
new scale OF prices.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-30
FREAKS OF KING LOUIS.


Wild Eccentricities of Habit and Manner
of the Late Mad Monarch of Bavaria.
MUNICH, June 29.-The medical disclo.
sures just made in the Reichsrath regard
ing the progress OF the late Kings mental
disease are to-day being excitedly discussed
in the streets, beer halls ard drawing rooms
OF Munich.
An immense mass OF medical evidence
had been collected, much of it from per-
sonal observation and documents. Among
other Authorizations the King wal often
troubled by phantoms. He heard strange
voices in the air, and sometimes when his
Cabinet Secretary, DR.. F. de Ziegler, read
reports to him, he used to imagine he was
listening to gross improprieties and would
fly into a fury:
The physici ans testified that the Kings
well.knownP passion for solitude, or failing
that, his preference for the society of me-
mails, must be regarded as symptomatic of
paranea.
At one time King Louis had a harmless
mania for flying machines. At another he
bowed down. and worshipped inanimate
objects-pictnres, statues, trees aud fow-
ers. One of:his ideas was to found a secret
society to watch the Bavarians and find
out what their sentiments were. Had he
had his way he would have carried his imi-
tation Of Louis XIV. to the length OF abol-
ishing the Bavariun constitution. When
be fancied himself unobserved he would
stand before a looking glass making grim
aces at himself, or remain for hours gazing
at some spot and running his hands re-
peatedly through his hair, o%ccasionly start
ing as though he had had q shock fro.n an
electric battery.
In his violent moods he was seized with a
destructive mania and tried tn burn down
his palaces and threatened to put people
to death. He took irrational likes and
dislikes. When he disliked any one he
could not bear to hear his name, or even
the initial letters OF his name. He also
left important State documents waiting
unanswered in the hands of grooms, soul
ions and soldiers, and once be ordered bis
hair-dresser, Max, to form q Ministry.
In evidence the Cabinet secretaries con-
6rmed the previous report that the King
had long suffered pains in the head. to
alleviate which and to get sleep he had for
the last four years taken choral, twice a
week latterly. 1t was also proved that
Lous had been irregular in his eating and
dirty in his habits. A letter to one OF his
ministers was included in Referendary Neu.
mayors report, in which King Louis said:
"All the Joy of my life will have gone out if
l cannot 60 on building. If you cannot
raise twenty million marks sell Bavaria or
exchangeit."