The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-02-22
PAST AND PASSING EVENTS.


 The Idaho Legislature has adjourned. It vas importuned 10 subsidize q railroad, but iidn't.
 "Capt. Jack" aShack Nasty Jim " and ! ' Scar Faced Charlie" will soon be done ip" in ten cent novels.
 The best New Mexico four sells there at s5 the hundred pounds.
 At Peoria, illinois, February :, man named McNulty was executed for the murder Jf his wife.
 President Grant is after polygamy with a sharp stick, and it will be strange il he does not succeed in har(e)ming it in an altogether different way from that m which BHglaam and his prophets have harmed 1t. Laws will be passed, the enforcement of which will be certain death to the institution, and should those laws be resisted, these will be bayonets and bullets on hand to settle the hash of Ill hankerers after more than one wife.
 San Francisco had E,t'S earthquake fer breakfast on the 3d inst. Damage slight.
 The citizens of Norfolk, Va, have recently celebrated the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Wish somebody would give us of Arizona cause for celebrating the completion of q railroad through the Territory.
 Mexico is colning to the front. A tele- graph line has been completed frUm Mazailan tO Durango; and q company of Mexican cap- ualists propose to construct telegraph has from the City of Mexico to some point CD the northern frontier. Good evidence that matter IS constantly in motion.
 President Grant thinks some of withdraw ing soldiers from the Southern States and posting them around Utah, the ruler of which is next "sick man"
 Pennsylvania State Senate has passed a lnl hy If fn | "A structing its Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote against the purchase and control of telegraphs by the Government. Per Contra, the Legislature of New York has voted the other way.
 Congress has passed the Postothce appro- priatlon bill, minus S2,5OOO00. Congress has always acted niggardly with this department.
 NIT. Scott Is going to start paper, "The Mining L,ie, in Silver City, Grant county, New Mexico.
 Gen. Fremont and other Americans have recently been indicted in Paris, France, for alleged swindling schemes, in connection with the old Memphis and Fl Paso railroad company. Boss Tweed thanks God that he is not a Congressman, since rascalty so glarngly evil has been fastened upon so many "piousn congressman and senators, in con nection with Credit Mobilier and other swindling transactions. Well, Tweed isn't to blame fof not being worse than he is.
 The local of the New Mexican has been taking observations of Dr. Stallos big brl. liant, which weighs SSi carats, and looks very much like \ ruby. The stunn was found in northern Arizona.
 The military academy appropriation bill has passed the House. Tue clause which gave the Secretary of War discretionary powers to substitute other studies for Span sh was struck out.
 James Ord, father of Gen. F.. o. c. Ord. U. $. Army, died, recently, at Omaha, Ne braska. He was anative of London. but re- ceIved his education in this country, and served in both army and navy.
 HIgh~a aymen are active around Los Ange- les, California. Two of them recently stopped and went through a man.
 Los Angeles people have petitioned Con- gress Tor the appointment of a committee, shose duty it shall be to examine and report upon the feasibility of turning a portion oi ihc water of the Colorado river into the Cal | iornia desert, with view, they say, of re- claiming said desert and of reducing the | of large extent of country. ! rbis is all very fine, but we of Arizona ob- | ect, on the ground that people who will | 'oon settle in the fertile bottoms of the Col. | ,rsdo, will need all it's spare water for irriga | ling them. To us, the project of divertIng he waters of the Colorado river from it's | present channel, and letting i. loose itself in l ] pitiess desert, looks very much like cheme to benefit Southern California coast | owns, al the expense of citizens of this Ter 1tory.
 The following good news for the Modoc | nurderers was tclegraphed from Washington | ID the 9th ins':
 The Secretary of War has ordered such disposition of he united States forces operating sgsnst the Modoc cDiiy d Captain Jack and suspend turther hostile peraisoos against the Indians unti the Commission eny appointed to confer with the Indaus arrive and the esult of their mission is known.
 General F. K <. Canby In temporary command of the .ilitary Division of the Pacific ia directed to the sass Connssiooers and to aeooapany them lava ed General Canby is now ia Portland.
 Good judges of Indian character do not ike this action of the government; thinking hat the Modocs and other bad Indians will interpret it as another proof of their prow- ss, and of fear on the part of the whites
 Late news from Mexico states that the ebei general, Lozado, was recently defeated n battle, ami was fleeing before the federal 'rces. The fight took place at point be- ween Maxatan and Guadalaiara,
 Mrs. Wood, daughter of the late Gen. sylor, having for some time past, been in estitute circumstances, Congress has voted CT pension of $5o per month.
 The fortiiicatioh bill has passed. The Jenna Exposition bill has passed the House. We see 1t stated that 1.-Two hundred formons have been ordered to found settle 'ent in Arizono, near her border"
 Arizonans will welcome, aid and assist ! hem, fl they but mind their own business. California hogs are suffering from epsinootic. The Washington correspondent of the San rancisco Alta California has this to say of nr delegate in Congress and his casa at the apital; The residence Of Governor Mccormick, delegate from riEona rendezyOas fur his California friends who e. em him as ms many good qualities merit No pubic iaraeter in Washington has better reputation than he earnesness and zeal ia attending to matters f the ibie welfare and his influence consequently far great than that of many who entitled 10 vote well seat iH Congress.
 A late copy of the Daily Los Angeles Ex- ress of Los Angeles, California, says that a arty Of eight or ten ArizoDans eft for the District recently.