The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-02-08
PAST AND PASSING EVENTS.
Foreign and Domestic.

DEATH OF EDWARD BURNER LYTToN Edward Bulwer Iytton,, tho eminent nov elist and historian, died at his residence in lingland os the 18th ult, in the sixty-eighth year sf bis age.
 SPECIAL MAIL SERVICE Has been secured between Los Angeles and Tipton.
 THE GREAT SNOW STORM, Subsidcd January 2i, at which date thc streets of Chicago were psled with -nUw and the railroads l.a.ling to the city were still nearly completely blockaded. The sam. re yost coacs from Toronto, Canada.
 TO BE HANGED
 Foster, the car hook nurtFerer of New York, has been sentenced to be hanged on March 7th.
 APPALLING DISASTER.
 The cmigrant vessel North Fleet, while anchored in the English Channel, Jan. 222, ca route for Australia, with 4l2 passengers, was run into by an unknown vessel and cut to the waters edge. She sank immediately The Captain of the North Fleet, unable to control the panic stricken eniigrsnts, at last resorted to force and fired on them. It is
 
 large nuJnteFs woul have been rcsczed. TlIec hundred and fifteen, including the aapau, were drowned. The steainer passed on without offering any as,istance-
 ANOTHER OCEAN CABLE
 From Madrid, Spain, we learn tkst de- cree has been granted for laying a cabtr be- tween Spain and Cuba.
 AMEs AND CoLFAx Had a hot discussion, January 2f, in the Credit MObuer examination. Ames says he can prove that Collax owned stock and re- ccivcd dividends before his election as Vice President, and tells COliax he cannot swear hard enough to extricate himself
 JOHN P. JONES Has been elected United States Senator from Nevada. He addressed tEc convention, and denied that he owed his election to any cor poration or monopoly.
 AN OLD POLITICIAN DEAD.
 Hon. William Cassidy, of the Albany Argus, died in that city, January 5.
 RAILROADS AND LAND GRANTS. It is said that Thomas A. Scott has been deliberatug with leading COngressmen rela- tive to relinqrJshment of the land grants of the Northern and UnieH Pacific railroads to the Government, upon condition that the United States guarantee the bonds of those roads. It is intimatcd that the trade will soon be proposed in the house. It seems evident tlSs the Southern r.ciec Railroad Company cannot construct their road with out n similar guarantee.
 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS. The House of Representatives has adopted Q report declaring that neither De Large nor Bowen are entitled to seats as representa- tlycs from South Carolina.
 The House Committee on Appropriations have agreed to allow nearly S2.0OO,OO0 for the continuance uf the court house and post office buildings at New York S2,0O0, ,OUO for Chjcago and Sl ,onO,0l0 for St. Louis. Congressman Rrooisa, of New York, is very ill at Washington.
 Roscoe Conklng has been reelected L. S. Senator from New York. Simon Cameron has been reelected from Pennsylvania. January 22, six feet of water was depos- ited in the streets of Port Deposit, Ml and the inhabitants had deposited themselves on the hills.
 General Gordon has been elecied 10 the United States Senate from Georgia.
 lioratio Seymour has been chosen prcsi- dent of the Prison Reform Congress. Scna- tor Wilson and Speaker IAaiEs are among the ce-pFesldents.
 A bill mas been introduced into the Nevada legislature, miking an appropriatELn of S25,- OVo to be paid as bonus to the first wonlsn and paper mills erected in the State.