Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-27
From Thursday's DaiIy.l LATEST BY MAIL.
Califnrnia is shInning barley Lo Chicag


 San Bernardno, Cal, is promised two daily ncwspapcrs-;he Guardian and the Ar gus. We doubt if both can live and pay cx- pcuscs. still we hope for tho best
 The Los Angeles Express reports the fail urc of the house of A. Portugal O., of its city. Liabilities, about Sj0,OO0. Principal creditor, Dinkelspeil Co.,, of San Francisco, who had taken possession of the business.
 Coy Sailord, of thi, Territory, has been calling on tho San BernardinO Guardian, which paper speaks of him m the highest terms.
 Senator Jones, of Nevada, has introduced \ bill to authorize the coinage of twenty-cent pieces. We never will get out of the old twelve and a half cent bit system until we crowd the twenty-five cent coinage out. They stand squarcIy in the way ot the suc- cess of our decimal system.
 Mrs J. E. McCrum, residing at 55 Parsons street, Kalamazoo, according t0 the telegraph, during Saturday night, became the mother of rair of twins SD small that they are a marvel of humanity, putting to shame all stories of Liliputiaus ever heard of. One IS | h iatI 'btita bh't "''a NNy gether, t,Jee pou,.ds dHd Jour oaacesI They arc perfect and seem to be well. Their bed is paper box lined with cotton, and they are dressed in dolls clothes, The mother and children were doing we'll at last accounts. These are the smallest living children we ever heard of They partake of food natu- rally, and their cries are as diminutlve as very young kittens. Quite number of peo- ple have called to see the little wonders. Mrs McCrum is the mother of several chil- dren. all of good size, ard some of them 10 and Is years old. MT McCrum the father of the twins. is a we'll known tcamster here. Should the tiny beings live, they will produce a sensation of unlimited proportions. Those who have seen them deecrlbe them as the ''greatest" sight they ever saw. Their hands are about the size of the bowl of teaspoon, aud their bodies less than six inchss long. They arc not exactly of size, the boy being a little the largest.
 passenger train was thrown from the track on the North Western Railroad, near Harvard, Illinois, on the night of the 4th itst About forty persons were injured, five fatally. The accident was caused by bro ken rail. The train was thrown down an embankment twenty feet high. The cars took fire from the stoves, and the entire train consisting of two coaches, a sleeping, bag gage aud an express car, was burned.
 Allentown, Pa, Feb. l6.-A freight train on the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad be- tween one and two o'clock this morning ran into slide near the track and eighteen cars were piled upon one another; freight of all descriptions was strewn along the road and k,,r ad tntp tha rfv train hand aa far as could be ascertained escaped injury. The body of the engineer, Daniel Spanner, was found under the engine considerably | burned; the fireman and brakeman were badly scalded and burned, and three others are reported killed. The stove in the caboose set fire to the freight and nine cars were burned.
 An Omaha (Nebraska) dispatch of Febru- ary 10, is as follows:
 | On the 4th inst, two hundred Indians at- tackled the railroad station at Antelope, Ne braska, and forced the railroad employees into their quarters. No one was hurt. A short time afterward they ran off seven horses from Potter Station. General Dudley, command. ing at Sydney, sent squad of soldiers after the Indians. These Indians are supposed to be Cheyennes, and belong to the same party that attacked and wounded King, trapper on the Platte river, last Friday. Gen Dud. ley of Sydney Barracks, reports the above te the department commander and gives i, as bis opinion that the Indians are getting more dissatisfied with their treatment and the restraint imposed upon them, and pre- diets that early in the spring the prairie will be swarming with small parties of the vari ous tribes.
 Jo Voshay, a well,known prospector, is according to the San Bernardino Guardian searching the mountains between Ehrenberg and the Needles, in this Territory, for rich rock, which, from former success, he expect, to find in abundance.
 A general order from the War department directs that officers serving in the quarter. masters department be instructed tha, amounts withheld for other departments to cover charges against creditors of the gov ernment, on making payments to such cred itors, will be disposed of in the same manner as amounts refunded-t. C., placed at once in the nearest United States depository to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States on account of the department for which the charge is rnade-and the original certificate of deposit will be forwarded to the Quarter. master General, accompanied by a statement of the reasons for making the deduction, tho names of any officer thereby relieved of re, sponsibility, and, generally, any information required by existing orders. The amour, deposited will be drawn from the appropria- tion from which the account is paid.
 Mail stages have, of late, been behind time in Southern California, in consequence of rain storms.
 The recent race between the steamships Vasco de Cana and tho Japan, from Hong kong to San Francisco, was won by the "vas. co" which made the trip of 5000 miles in 3l days beating her rival l2 hours and 2l