Arizona silver belt., 1879-01-10

lualtFfa Nci&aiiiR tHettt3 ObE totis
 each. The wrigls of waser will bs Es25 .00D pounds. The boat vil! D,
 s22 feet in length.
 Trxas seut forsy-three ,lelegatee
 ts the Neu 0rleana comlnerclai con-
 vcatien. and these got aE logger heads, over the resolution passsd by
 that convention favoring subsidy
 to tl.e Texas and Pacific railroad 4 majority presented a protest in
 which they claim that the resolution
 aees not epabody she sentiments of
 the State.
 General Butler caused Gsnersl Phi Sberislasi's face to glow lke a
 boiled lobster in the New York Uui-
 ted States Circuit Court recently 1 Tine former had read from Sheridsn's
 military order and made the comment
 that the order contained entirely too
 aiuch Latin for 8 document emanat- ing from a gentleman educated at West Point. where Latin wasn't
 taught.
 Bridget need not go to family
 prayers against her will This do !mesHc question has been settled in
 an English County Court, where a coek sued her mistress for months wages in lieu of notlee. she having
 been dismissed because she refused to joiu ln the faanily prayers. The Judge ordered the money b be paid, as tlere had been no stipulation that the plaintiff was to attend prayers ; and sue was engaged to cook, not to pray.
 The following is the close of long obiiuary nptice iu the Cinarron News and Press. of inc late Governor of Nsu Mexico. $. 3 Axtel: In sincerity, hypocrisy, falsehood, par tIsanshlp and ineompetency stand oat prominent in all h5s acts. He came to New Mexico with reputation snGrched by snspicion of Mormon procIlvites, and he leaves ;t bankrupt ln character, officially disgraced, and regretted by none but his copar-ners n the ring
 General Sherman and q number of 1 other officers of high rauk. who are ln ao danger of retirement if the Burnside Army bill wIll become a ] law. bat whose power, on the contra ", would be vastly aggrandized by its enactment, are indus riously x ork- 1 ing for 1t, and upIsss subordinate line officers take measures to mapi- fest to Congressman and the public in some way chat they do not agree with these commanding Generals. the Is likely to Oe created ehat nobody in the army will be Injurious ly affected bv this extraordinary biH. I except stafi offcers--a delusion which I very few juniors ln the line can af- | ford, even by silence, to foster.
 Truly, the yicissitudes of life are John S Morton, of Phil adelphia. was man who stood high in the estimation of hls fellow -clu- zens He was President of the Cen -enuial Exhibition. His great grand father was d siguer of the Deciara- ton of Independence, and Mf Mor- lon himself considered prominent as I candidate For Governor of penn- sylsama. He was also President of he Philadelphia Marker Street Rail- way Company Batall these hon6rs lid not prevent him from yielding to .emptation lie forget stock certi- icages to the amount of million of iollars on that Company, vas de- .ected in the crlmc, convicted of 1t, and goes to the State Prison for ten years as a punishment For the offence. The way of tue ransgressor is lard
 4 Paris correspondent, m writing # persons who became distinguished ,r noteworthy during tue French Rev 'Igtiou of 178s, says the youngest laughter of the lawyer who defended Charlotte Corday, in 1793, died re- ,ently ln a garrett ln Darinstadt, in sbjeet poverty After Charlotte Cor iay had assasslrare1 Murat, none Of .he Paris lawyers had courage enough 70 defend her. M Lux, ala9yer og i Aayence, volunteered to defend her .nd dld with great ability. His courageous act. however, cost hiln is life. He vas guilloaned shortly liter the execution of his fair client. 1e left Ewo dangsssrs. the eldest of Fhom drowned hsgself ils sae Rhane 'n account Of uureeiprocated aHec- iou in l5O7. The youngest mar lch 2 merchant of Hayre, whc soon liter became bankrupt, and who also committed suicide. Tue widow lived lyer thargy' hvU years au gagyet herself by literary teil