The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-01


 Bank of Arizona, where he has taken q ieast 1 for year.
 l A berder in the employ of Francisco Romero had his feet SO badly frozen about | ; weeks since that he is about to lose few oI
 his toes. He was left by Romero destitute I therefore became county charge, and now eats adufs-' with Charlie Yates, the con- tractor for doctoring and feeding the in-
 digent of the County.
 1 VIEws-Messrs Rothrock and Mitchell,
 the photographers, are taking a series of
 outdoor pictures of scenes in and about Prescott. A set of these views sent away | to friends will tell better than a whole
 volume of letters how this country appears.
 Call at the photograph gallery. over Yates
 hospital, on CofIez street, and seq for your self.
 THE PORTE. Having been asked for
 used in the dispatches of late. we prefer to
 let Webster's Dictionary t1li That we'll woried book says Porte. h. The Govern ment of the Turkish Empire, officially called the Su5lims Poste, from the gate (portl of the Sultan's palace, where justice was administercd.n
 By reference to our Mineral Park, letter, it will be seen that two experienced typos have arrived ID the country with two print ing presses, type, paper and other material, having inc object iii view of starting a newspaper.
 We wish them luck in their ambition, and only hope that they may find field in which to operate.-Won if this is not another scheme gotten up for the purpose of sending some Radical to Congress.
 X petition is being circulated by Benja- min Morgan, Esq, which is receiving the signatures of the citizens generally, asking that the Governor commute the sentence of Lewis from that of hanging to imprison- ment for life.
 This seems to us to be about right, as inn prisonment for life time is much more se- we're, sn the main, than hanging; and it is our belief that the prisoner deserves punish ment for his great crime, and that none greater can be inflicted than that of whole life of prison confinement. It will take a pretty good prison to hold him, how ever.
 AN IMPORTANT SALE.-Gideon Brooke, this morning sold and transferred to James Patterson. the property on Goodwin street known as the Plaza Stables, for the sum of sS,000. This is considered good bargain for the buyer
 The condition of Mr. Brooke's health made it necessary for him to give up business for the present, which is the probable reason for his parting with the property at so low a figure. Mir. Patterson's active business habits will infuse new life into the business, and although it has always been we'll pat ronized, we shall expect to see an increase of patronage under the new management.
 When times get good again, people will hardly know what to do with all their mon ey. At the rate things are going now, there will be no life insurance companies left to take any of it for policies, no banks in which to deposit it for safe keeping, SO called, and no stock brokers left to lose it for them. They will have to keep it and grow rich Tn spite of themselves, and the danger is that we shall become a nation of bloated bondholders and aristocratic capitalists. This l: agloomy outlook.-Los Angeles Star.
 THE CALIFORNIA RIoT AcT.-The follow ing embraces the main features of the law recently passed by the California Legislature and signed by the Governor to suppress and riot:
 All persons who in the presence or hear ing of twenty or more persons shall utter any language with intent to incite riot in l the present or in the future, or any act or acts of criminal violence against persons or or who shall suggest or advise or | encourage, any act or acts of criminal yio- | lence against any person or persons or or shall advise or encourage forci5le to any of the laws of this State. | shall be deemed guilty of felony. and on i thereof shall be punished by i'm prisonment in the State Prison or in the County Jail not exceeding two years. or by fine not exceeding 5000, or both.
 Rev. T. R.. Curtis, on Sunday morning. preached an entertaining and instructive dis course, in his church on West Gurley street whether they have any reputation of their own worth preserving, or whether they are simply nonentities in all except the physical power 10 put in circulation evil re- ports concerning their betters, were treated IS they deserved to be, as enimies to society. religion and individual character, embody- ing in his sermon the sentiment of the great poet, viz that islander is the foulest whelp ,f sin,' and consequently the slanderer is he most loathsomes repugnant and detes- able of all creatures
 The speakers language was choice, refined md suited to the spirit he sought to nculcate in the minds his hearers.
 Tine Salt River Herald office, loaded on he team of Mr. Parker. young gentleman rom that valley, and sailed out for its desti lation, at Phrnix, this afternoon.
 Mir. McClintock, the managing man of he outfit, wilt leave tor Phoenix, to-mer- 'ow. having accepted an invitation to take seat in the buggy of Hon. l.. A. Stevens. vho, like Joseph's bretheren, goes down nto that country occasionally, to buy corn. He says they have not yet acquired the labit of slipping the money back Into he sacks, as Joseph did in Egypt; never he less. he will introduce Nc. as a sort of Benjamin; so that in case anything of the lind should hereafter occur, they can hold i'm as hostage, etc.
 FRIED TO BREAK JArI--John Davis, sem eneed to imprisonment for six months in be county jail, and ten dollars fine, for ob- , aiming horse from Bowers ranch. under alse pretences, is confined in a cell adioin- ng that of Lewis, the wife-murderer. This loon, when Sheriff Bowers returned from unch, Lewis called to him and said he be- ieved Davis was crazy. Bowers went into he cell and found Davis with lothipg on ut pair of drawers, and muddy from <~ e <0k.. .e--