Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-06
THE COST AND WEAR OF At
uAyTuC CABLES.


rTEE COST AND WEAR OF At
I.AyTIC CABLES.
An electrician recently estimated the
duration Of an Atlantic cable at ten years.
Bat there is one working between France
and England which has been in use twenty
i've years. The failures Of two Of the
Eve cables laid across the Atlantic were
owing 10 imperfect construction. The
cost Of an Atlantic cable may be roughly
put down at 8 100000. The present cap
itl Of the Anglo American Company is
about SIS, 000. 600, TO represent which it
has three cables, together worth, when new,
about SIS, 900, 600. The total receipts Of
this company, from July LIST to December
Slst, 1878, amounted to $4, 537, 800; and the
total expenses Of the half year., including
income tax and the ordinary repair OF
cables amounted to s279, 900. The duplex
system Of telegraphy, invented by Mr.. j.
r. Stearns, is now in use upon one of the
company's cables. By this system the
company has got ninety per cent. additional
work out Of the cable, at a cost Of $1,000 a
year. paid the patentee as q royalty.
TIE most original gentleman in the
country Is Ebenezer feathers, of New
Hampshire. Mr.. feathers became dissatis-
Aed with his name some time ago. 1t
seemed to lack the clements Of euphony
necessary 10 his classically attuned ear.
He sent . petition to the Legislature Of his
State, asking that his name be changed
from Ebenezer feathers to Rutherford d.
Hayes. The prayer wa granted and Mr..
feathers now r~ejcices in a title both poeti-
csl and aristocratic. 1t may strike some
persons as strange that Mr.. feathers
should have selected such q name when he
must know the risk that he runs, and when
such names IS Uriah Heep, Pecksniff and
Claude Duval were spread before him. OF
eourse there's no accounting for tastes.
SENATOR PowNINo, Of the Reno Journal,
Il fair enough to do justice to the Demo-
cratic majority in Congress. He says /:
LUG DNtIOCA OtuubOlS uCscIN We uOuOT-
able mention for agreeing to retain Captain
Brassett, Assistant D~oorkeeper, and the
venerable William John, well known as
keeper Of the main door Of the Senate
Chamber both Of whom have been in SER
vice forty years or more, and also Alma
Smith, Superintendent Of the Document
Room, together with two of the Acting
Assistant Doorkeepers, who are crippled
Union soldiers.
TIE Providence Press. Republican, says.
The great duty Of the country is to pay its
debts, and to amass o fortune against q
rainy day. We can well afford to leave
politics alone, and to come to purely eco-
nomio work. We need not fear Congress;
neither need we fear the politicians; but we
must fear poverty, bankruptcy, and un-
profitable business enterprises. We can
Afford to laugh At the Republican and DEM
oeratic partisans, and turn u best atten-
ton TO private enterprises. America just
Q docs not hinge on political questions,
Dus w sno 6AsvO PAopA0no VI PoAiticai
economy.
JuDoE LYNCH. like other judges. some
times make mistakes. Unlike other judges,
his mistakes do not admit Of r~ectifcation.
We learn from the New Orleans Picayune
shat = prisoner was lately taken from Jail
In Texas by masked men and hung. 1t
was subsequently discovered that the mob
which did the hanging was composed of
the prisoners old associates in crime, who
killed him to prevent him from turning
States evidence.
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Inc stalwart Republicans are crying
revolution " because the Democrats tack
on . repeal Of the Supervisors act to an
Appropriation bill. When the Republicans
amended this act 80 Is to apply it to all
Congressional Districts, and did it by at
tsching it to IN Appropriation bill, they
saw no revolution in it. Evidently, sauce
for the goose Il not sauce for the gander.
How silly the talk Of . ''solid South
In IN offensive sense. when Randall, in
csucus, got nearly one-half Of the South
srn Democratic votes, as against Black
burn, : Southern man ; while Adams, q
Union soldier, was nominated for Clerk by
Southern votes, over Caldwell, an ex-Con-
iedsrate.
TIE young Prince Louis Napoleon is
said TO be smitten with the Princess Bea-
trice. Of England. Queen Victoria is said
TO DO favorable to the match, as she is a
arm friend Of the ex-Empress Eugene,
and i fond Of the Prince Imperial. Prob
ably when Louis gets back from South
Africa the affair will be contaminated.
- So
SENATOR INGALLS,, Of Kansas. escaped
conviction for bribery before the Legisla-
turs Of his State; but forty members Of
that body. said to be mostly Republicans.
have forwarded to the United States SEN
ate. in charge Of Mr.. Clarke, Speaker of
the Kansas House, a memorial, praying for
an investigation.
FoR some months railroad building has
been almost st > standstill in the United
States. but from present indications not
less than $4,000 miles will be laid in the
South and West during the coming SUM
NOR.
TIE Stock Exchange calls the new Con-