Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-03-06
OVER THE WIRES.
The Tramps.


 WASHINGTON. March 2.-The coin age at the hints, for FeoruaIy' amounts to S, ,55S, 900, Of winch S2'- ROT 900 was in silver dollars.
 Parliament.
 UoNDoN. March 2.-In the House of Lords last night the protection bill was read the third tune without dis
 Tn inc House of Commons the de- hate on the second reading of the arms hill commenced. Mccarthy, Home Ruler. moved its rejection.
 Panama Canal.
 PARIS. March 2.-De Lesseps says inc Panama canal will certainly DC finished by 1887. al the estimated cost of 572 900, 900 francs. The work VII moi require more :han 5000 to 1O.OOO vorkmen in the most busy portion O. inc work, who will be recruited from the colored population of the Wes! Indies.
 SAN FRANCISCO, February S.-ln the Kalloch trial today Cahlmer was recalled and testified that two police officers, Anthony and Burdick, had threatened him with the penitentiary if he gave the evidence he was ex' pected to give, that Charles De Young fired the first shot.
 Reed was recalled, and denied hav' ing stated to Abe Gentry at the time of the tragedy that De Young had fred al Kalloch.
 Con Mooney was recalled. but noth- ing further elicited from him. A Terrible Storm.
 CHICAGO, March S.-The worst storm of the season begun yesterday and still continues throughout Wis cousin, Iowa and Illinois, inlerdlct- ing the traffic of cities and blockading the already almost impossible rail- roads. Trains on nearly all the roads have been suspended until the storm ceases, of which there is no prospect.
 News via New York.
 NEW YORK, March S.-:The Prssi' dent has vetoed the funding bill.
 The Worlds City of Mexico special says: The Mormons, who perhaps anticipate difficulties with the new regime about 10 be inaugurated ct home, are here again, endeavoring to procure lands for large colony of the saints. So far the Mexican Gov rrnmeut ha. taken no action in the matter, but may when Congress as- sembles.
 The pedestrians at 10 o'clock: Panchot scored 364 miles, beating by one mile the best record ever made that of Powell in November last.
 The Cabinet Fixed.
 WA.HrNoroN, March 3.-The Cab met is fixed. Blaine, Secretary of State; Windom. Secretary of the Treasury; Lincoln, Secretary of War; Morton, Secretary of the Navy Kirk wood, Secretary of the Interior; Will liam H. Hunt, of the Court of Claims from La, Postmaster-G General. AL lison this evening declined an inter- view. The only question about his getting the Treasury from the first has been the antsgonism of the Grant people to Blaine and Allison getting the two best places,
 Garfield told friend that all winter he had cherished a desire to link the name of Lincoln with his administra- ton.
 The new Cabinet represents all the elements warning at the Chicago Con- ventioB.
 No Cabinet Position for the Pacific
 Coast.
 WASHINGTON, February S.-Senator. elect Miller, Senator John P. Jones and Representatives Page and Pach- eco, called on General Garfield today and urged the claims of the Pacific Coast 10 a representation ln the Cab inet. The name of ex Senator Sar- gent was prominently suggested, but it is understood. that in the course of the conversation, Messrs. Jones, Mil Ter and Pacheco expressed their high regard for Representative Horace Davis, and said ID effect that his sp- pointment 10 a cabinet position would be acceptable if the Presidentelect from any reason considered him the most eligible. General Garfield made DO decision or definite response to the remarks of the members of the com mitlee, but they came away with the impression that the rival claims of the states and sections east of the Rocky mountains will absorb all the cabinet positions and there is very little chance at present for any appointment from the Pacific Coast.
 San Francisco Markets.
 SAN FRANcIsco, March s.-Wheat active and higher; No. 1, $l.40@ l.4214; No. 9, Sl.S591S7x.
 nafE hinhar. rnOl and nhniC4 41 A0 @l.411f; common, s1.S2h@l.S918; superior, s1.5O@l.60.
 4 Catholic Protest.
 SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.-A dis patch from Victoria, British Columbia says the Catholic Bishops of the Prov ince have petitioned the Legislature protesting against secular education, and asking that the same liberality be pursued toward them in educational matters as is observed toward the Pro- teslant University in Quebec.
 Heavy rains have fallen throughout the country, infiicting heavy damages to roads and bridges.
 The Inaugural Address.
 SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.--Prssi- dent Garfield, in his inaugural, after noting the fact that the centennial of the adoption of the first written Con. sutution of the United States was three days past, proceeded to review briefly the history of the national progress in material prosperity and the experiment of popular govern ment under the constitution as finally o3ied, GeduciDg that tue nation was determined to go on developing the great possibilities of the future, pre- serving what has been gained 10 lib- erty and good government, and lesv- ing behind all controversies concerning matters which have been irrevocably settled. The supremacy of the nation, contested for half century, should be no longer question for debate, but was forever settled. Referring to the eniranchisement of the black, he en- larged on the benefits to be derived from if There rpuld ha m middle