The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-03-19


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 TnE Democracy of Connecticut held their State Convention February 22d, and re-non- ! mated ex-Governor English for Governor.
 THE Democracy of Ohio have erected monument to the memory of Colonel Samuel Medary, who departed this life year or two ago.
 Tnr newspapers praise Mr. Julian, of lndi- ana, for having reported bill in the House of Representative, extending the benefit of the Homestead Act to the children of de- ceased soldiers.
 W. F. STOREY, editor.in. chief of the Chi cago Times, was, on the 25th ultimo, horse whipped by Lydia Thompson and Paulna l Markham, of the Lydia Thompson Burlesque f Troupe The borsewhipping was not a bur lesque. The females warmed" poor Storey, for telling naughty stories about them in his paper.
 WE learn from the Moreno tNew Mexico) Press, that our former fellow citizen, Thos A. Lowthian, has a quartz mill in the Moreno mines, and is also building a saw-mill
 TIE Mormons talk of sending missionaries to San Francisco. Later news from Salt Lake City reports the ll-feeling existing be- tween our troops and the Mormons as grow ing more bitter
 4 DESPATCH of March ?, from Neponset Mass, says: Six bodies have been taken from the ruins of the dye-house The re- mains of two other women nre still in the ruins. The women were in the attic. pick ing over cotton. The only entrance was by a small scuttle.
 I A MYsrio, (Connecticut,) despatch of the , first inst. says: The great fight between Collyer and Edwards came of on Mystic Is-
 land this morning. resulting in the defeat of
 Collyer Forty-one rounds were fought, | lasting forty-five minutes Collyer was knocked out of time, and fearfuly punished
 The Humbolt (Nevsda) Register, of Febru- ary 20, publishes the proceedings of meet ; ing held at that place on the 2ed, to discuss the question of building railroad to the Col , orado river. The speeches made, and resolu-
 tions offered, go to show that our Nevada | friends and neighbors are earnest in the mat | ter. The proposed road is to connect the Union Pacific with the 35th.
 II The contract for the construction oi ths ' first section of the Northern Pacific Railroad
 has been let, and work will soon commence A recent storm on the Plains toro down j forty miles of telegraph. E. f J. R. Toberman, A. A. Boyle and Louis B f Martinez, have been elected to fill vacancies
 in the Los Angeles City Council. ,r From an item in the Call, we learn tha, the cost of stamps used upon tobacco and . cigars, last year, in San Francisco, amounted
 to Sl ,000,000. There are twenty five firm, s engaged in importing cigars and tobacco, fify, N three white firms employed in the manufac . ture of cigars, forty-two Chinese firms ca
 gagged in the same business, and one hundred T n and seventy-fve firms engaged i1 the retai trade. Nine hundred persons are required n to transact the tobacco business, and they al n appear to do well.
 At Peterson, N. J., not long ago, negrc re got the best of white man by selling him a, skinned cat for rabbit
 r At Camp Carling, Wyoming, March frs,
 shooting scrape took place between Lieu ie tenant Mason and A. J. Botsford, clerk il {, the Quartermaster's Department. Mason U, was shot dead, and Botsford was badly woun et ded
 '' The Government of Costa Rica has an
 nulled the contract, made with John c. Ere
 mont and other Americans for the construc " ton of railroad across that country to tn, ,s' Pacific, the terms not having been compliet 's with by Fremont & Co.
 The Chinese were disgusted with His Rova /. Hishness, the Duke of Edinburg. They ex
 pected to see person at least ten feet hich e with three or more eyes, etc, and, of course '' were disappointed. a' ai rs George c. Curry is the name of Nevada,
 champion " "biliardist.n car ,r About the first of January last, a dos perat, bc tsht took place between Sioux and Crow In Il. dians, near the mouth of the Yellowstop, of r'er, of which the telegraph gives the fol =. lowing account: .d "A party of twenty nine Crows came dow, ' loot to steal horses from he Sioux. The, 'd met '~o young Sioux, and killed one, huI