The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
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Recent experiences with marine boilers
prove that steel is greatly inferior TO iron as a
material for boiler construction.
The ungodly New York reporter says that
since his return from Leadvllle Talmage
winds up his prayers by exclaiming " keno
in the place where the amen ought to come
A few days ago a Norwegian ship loaded
with Baltic ice arrived at the port of New
York. The ice, in large blue cubes, clear as
crystal, was sold at a handsome profit for a
dollar a ton less than the price charged by
the New York dealers for a greatly inferior
article. This probably marks the beginning
of an extensive trade.
The half of that divided placard, surren-
dered so gracefully by Maud S. as described
by to-day's dispatches, must be restored. A
dispatch from Chicago, dated the 10th inst,
says: ''Maud S., in her attempt to beat st.
Julien's time to-day, failed, making 2:114."
But if she failed to beat the record of the
California chief the little beauty at least scor-
ed down equal to it which calls for a Sec
ond partition of the placard divided at
Rochester between St. Julien and Maud S.,
when each scored 2:11a.
Blaine is already in training for the presi-
Dental candidacy of 1884, and as for Grant,
it seems almost as if he had never left the
field. The chances are that the two rivals
will stand face to face again in the next Ma
tional Republican Convention; that is if the
republican party lives long enough to hold
another convention. But we need not feel
surprised if the republican party dissolve and
fade away like the baseless fabric of a night
mare Immediately after the defeat inevitably
in store for it in November.
We have heard but little of Edison, lately,
but he has by no means abandoned his ex-
periments on the electric light. About the
first of next month he will have III position
All eight hundred horse power engine, recent,
ly made to order for him by a Philadelphia
firm and with the motive power to be fur
nished by this engine he expects to light
eight hundred lamps already in place. He
appears to have the utmost faith in his ability
to divide the electric current, since he keeps
constantly employed forty-tiye men, who turn
out each day seven hundred lamps and fix.
lures, of pattern similar to tho. TO be used
in the October trial.
One of the dangers besetting the daily life
of the deep lode miner is forcibly called to
mind in the dispatch describing the latest
fatality on the Comstock. Wire cables are
stronger and safer than any other species OF
hosting cable, but nevertheless they hang a
devoted head. IT a cage attached to a wire
cable meets with any obstruction in descend
ing the shaft, so that further progress down
ward is arrested, the great weight ofthe cable
prevents any indication of the accident from
being perceptible to those on the surface
The engineer continuing to pay out, the
heavy flexible cable descends on the cage,
arranging itself in fatal coils, and crushing tc
death the men who may be upon it at the
time. In the case mentioned to-day the cage
fell 300 feet. If it had a clear fall into the
stump the miners might all have escaped witt
their lives, but the terrible cable coiling dow1
upon them like all immense boa constructor
was a danger from which there was no es
cape, and out of the ten men on the cage Mint
were killed.
According to the Independent, when Sand
ers made his speech accepting the nomina
ton conferred by the Republican Territoria
Convention, he paid his compliments to tn
democrats by describing the party as compose'
in the main of horse-thieves, robbers an
and other criminals, the whole party bein
so degraded, in fact, that none of its mem
bers even possess '.eXterior respectabllity.
This is Sanders description of the democrati
party of Montana, and since the people of TIL
territory are democratic by a large majority
it follows that, according to his views, takel
from the toploftlcal standpoint of a dlsrepu
table black republican, it is essentially a de
scription of the people of Montana. Sander
election would be an endorsement by Nor
tanians Of the opinion he has pronounced o.
them. His election would be a certificate Il
character issued by the people to themselves
and drawn in the terms quoted above. Ant
/ TO make matters all the worse, as pointed oil
by the Independent, what would be though
of the harder characters of Montana If Sal
ders is the representative of the virtue, trutl
: ~fulness, sobriety, and especially the honest
: of Montanians? "If this is a specimen
r the Montana lamb, smooth as a chipmuI
C and innocent as q dove, what the deuce can
! Montana goat be like. ?"