The Arizona sentinel., 1883-09-15
qountp 0fltial paper.
DRlFT-WOOD.

Tombstone wants gas-with two daily newspapers. Humph!
 Frank James, the notorious Missouri bandit, has been acquitted.
 Dr. Robt. Gum, of St. Joseph, Mo, cied at Tucson on Monday last
 Gen. W. T. Sherman has finished his tour of inspection in California.
 Mary Anderson, an American actress, has snubbed the Prince of Wales.
 The Phoenicians claim to have the smallpox narrowed down to two cases. Russia is afflicted with cattle plugue. Stock is dying st the rate of 25OOO0 per year.
 Capt Eads expect to have his ship rail way built across the Isthmus in four years.
 Af1nd hass been started in. Prescott for the defense of O'Donnell, who killed Carey.
 Acouncil of Catholic prelatss assem- bled at Baltimore on Wednesday, in se- cret session.
 The Egyptian scourge is beginning to decrease. The mortality is rapidly diminishing.
 A man in Utah was blown up the other day while fishing with giant powder. It served him right.
 Heavy floods have.visited Texas lately, doing considerable damage to railroads and other property. Guavmas is afflicted with either tonto or yellow fever. There is no telling ', definitely which it is.
 4 riot recently occurred at Canton, China, caused by foreign sailors killing '. Chinaman in fracas.
 Monday was obserbed az the thirty third anniversary of the admission of California into the union.
 It is authoritatively stated in Boston that Governor, B. F. Butler will be a <. candidate for re election.
 Lieut.. Col. Montgomery Bryant, re- gently tried by Court Martial in San Francisco, has been acquitted.
 The new postal notes are now ready for the public, and the new two cents letter stamps will soon be ready. It has been decided that Slade and Mitchell must fight on Oct. 23d, either party failing to appear to forfeit.
 There has been some more shooting at ;. LoFasburg. This time desperado shot |, cyprian, it is thought she will die.
 Twenty-seren thousand three hundred and eighteen deaths have occurred from cholera since its outbreak in Egypt. }Reporrs from many places in the Mis- sissippi valley show that crops have been severely damaged by early frosts.
 A boat modelled after the old Maid of the Mist has been successfully steered through the Niagara whirlpool rapids. Prescott has had little pistol practice between two gamblers which resulted in one of them getting bullet in h:s arm. A Mexican was sent to the land of Aahana from Deming, while scuffling with compadre as to the possession of a pistol.
 Los Angeles is preparing to have a grand celebration in honor of the ami versary of Mexican Independence, the 18th of this month.
 King. Alfonso of Spain, has gone call ing upon the head people of Austria, hn1lO Lu0 SJOhA O1 IS visiting the Prussians The boys are having high old time over there.
 A postal money order treaty between the United States and the Hawaiian government was signed on tho 11th, inst by Post-master-General Gresham and, the Hawaiian Minister. It goes into effect on January lst.
 The President las issued proclama- tion announcing that the Worlds Indus trial Cotton Centennial Exhibition will be opened on the first Monday in Decem- Der, 1884, al New Orleans, and will cOnti- nue open until the 31st of May, 1885.
 A duel was fought at New Orleans the other day between two Creoles. One was a deputy dispenser of soda-water, and his antagonist claimed that he was served with dirty glass. As the soda water man came. off victor it is presum-