Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-10-02
Tho Cable Monopoly.

Anglo Telegraph Company increasing
Its charges again 10 N dollar per
word. 1t says the burden Is none the
more agreeable because II il imposed by
the mere stroke Of q pom In London;
that he one word monopoly explains all.
and now that the direct cable Is Grip
pied. tho rates 60 up. Tho Anglo
American put Its rates down to crush
competing lines and now II puts It's rates
up again to mako tho public pay for the
operation. One dollar q word is q most
sxorbitant charge for tho service.
Twenty-Five cents is ample, and this
offensive exhibition Of power to levy
s~rtravagant toll ON commercial. financial
and other interests Is strong evidence
for more cables.
Bseeher Returns % BrookIyn.
Nxw YoRK. Oct. B. -Deechor returned
to Plymouth Church yesterday. and met
his congregation at tho weekly prayer
meeting last night. A demonstration
had been planned, but was abandoned
OF Mr.. Beechsr's request.
Negro Troubles in Georgia.
A dispatch from Jonsboro, Georgia.
reports that trouble Is brewing between
the whites and blacks, growing out Of
the conviction and sentence OF George
spisr, q negro, to be hanged for out
raging a white girl. Subsequent to the
conviction, another negro. who had
committed o similar crime was found
dead, and spior's friends claim
that no Is undoubtedly innocent aud
both crimes wero committed by tho
dead negro. On Monday night tue ar
mory Of tho militia company was brok.
en- into and twcnty.ono guns abstracted;
twonty Of them wero afterwards found
hidden In o school house belonging to
colorcd people.
opinions OF Grants speech.
CuIcloo, October "A Washington
special says Grants lengthy speech ct
Des Moines IL construed in but n way
among nearly oil classes Of politicians,
and that 10 that he docs not intend to
return to private life in 1876. Tho
speech was not particularly called for.
a. he has remained silent upon q good
many moro important occasions. He
has also been slowly making his cabinet
over in compliance with the popular
standard. In his " opinion no Is n
Of the few statesmen OF tho age, and no
believes that the entire country rests
upon his shoulders. lilo has latterly.
In conversation with his friends. indi-
Gated an interest in public affairs that
denotes o great change In his mind.
None Of our Presidents In tho
past has over carried tho burdens OF the
Presidential office easier. Hc has been
absent from this city ever since tho mid
dlo OF May this year, and will not return
here until tho middle Of October. Dur
ing his absence he has attended to moth.
ing but tho potty routine OF small mp
pointmonts, and has really had less care
upon his mind than Nh average Treas.
ury clcrk.
An Expensive Mail Service.
In General Towards recent report to
the War Department on our possessions
In Alaska, II Is shown that tho Govern.
mon. now pays $4,000 per snnum for
twelve monthly trips Of a mail steamer
between Port Townsend or Portland,
Oregon. and the port Of sitka In AIMS
ka. This gives tho half.dozen official
individuals OF that place the sale benefit
Of this expenditure on tho part OF the
Government, and is exceeding injustice
To the inhabitants Of Kodak, Bolkoska.
Onalaska, Unga and St. Miehacls, md
which have n thousand times mor
trade than Sitka, and tho first three VIII
lages have twice the population OF tho
town In question. This $4,000 por
annum. now literally wasted, would run
q small revenue steamer, md instead OF
being any drain on tho Treasury, would
result In law. order and protection. 1t
Is also ON unwarranted waste Of public
money. this moving the troops up to
and down from Sitka every two or three
years, with the increased cost OF their
supplies counted in.