The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-04
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

lima and Georgia.
A late frost has greatly damaged the
peach buds of the north and the tobacco
plants of the south. @
There will be a total eclipse of the
sun next Sunday, but it can not be no.
ticed on this side of the earth.
The wife of General Mckenzie died
at her home in Santa Fe on the 9th ult.
Her age was sixty-eight years.
The striking cowboys on the panhan-
die of Texas have burned the ranges of
Gunter & Monson and Sanborn.
A few turns of the impression screws
on thepress of the Lake Valley Herald
would make that paper and the Kings
ton Tribune readable.
One of the sources of amusement
and profit at the Tewksbury almshouse
in Massachusetts, was the tanning of
human skins for various doctors and
students.
The president has appointed r. D.
Randolph Keim, Of Pennsylvania, as
chief examiner. and w. w. White OF
Atlanta, Ga. as clerk of the civil service
commission.
The Albuquerque Review is authority
for the statement that there IS no cash
in the territorial treasury and that as
consequence the price of county war
rants is declining.
A second cyclone visited Mississippi
on the 25th Of April, doing much dam
age in Simpson and adjoining counties.
Ten persons were killed at Harrison
vile, and seven at Morton.
A dispatch from El Paso says that
the quantity of machinerypassing into
Mexico from the United States is enor-
nous. Chicago is shipping large guam
titles to chihuahua and Parral.
Some miscreanS tore up rail from
the track of the Santa Fe road near
Otero, last week, and wrecked freight
tram. A reward of $500 is offered for
the apprehension of the criminal.
A new project called the Mineral
Belt railroad, is being organized to put
line Of communication from st. John
OF some adjacent point in Arizona or
New Mexico, south to Globe, Arizona.
The latest returns from the Wessen,
Mississippi cyclone, mentioned last
week, show eighty-three persons killed
and three hundred wounded, very many
dangerously. The destruction of prop
erty is unprecedented.
Wife-beaters are being punished in
return, at several points. On the 25th
ult., Con Sullivan, residing Denver
was fined 800 and costs for this offense.
and at Annapolis, Nd, VIM. Pack was
given twenty lashes.
General Logan is the subject of half
the original reading matter IN the ter
ritorial dailies just now. In the light
Of this circumstance 1t is sad news to
the readers that the general expects to
spend most of the summer in New
Mexico.
The Ration Comet seems to have an
uncompromising grudge against the
Spanish language, and never loses an
opportunity of butchering it. A Span
ish dictionary frequently consulted
would go far toward concealing the ig-
norance, now so apparent in the Comet
sanctum.
Prof. A. F. Bandalier, who has been
engaged in investigating the antiqui-
ties afforded by this southern country,
for several years past, got down into
our sister republic recently, and, so it
reported, was captured and in turn in
vestigated by JUS scientific and lnquir-
ing followers. in a fashion from which
he will hardly recover.
Attorney-General Brewster asks the
Judge in the star route trials to allow
him to take part in the closing argu-
ments in those cases. The attorney
general evidently has something to say.
This request also brings a CLEAN of
hope to patient and long suffering
public that there is likely to be an end
to this business sometime.
Holding office seems TO be corrupting
to youth. Mayor Nevins of Adrain,
Mich, who successfully escaped with
$4,000 dishonesty acquired funds, was
theyoungest mayor in the United States
and now the youngest magistrate of
Denver, Justice Crotty. is held under
arrest with seven charges against him,
six for embezzlement and one for lar
ceny.
The lands comprising the Otoe and
Missouri Indian reserss l5h in Kansas
and Nebraska cor y9lJyging about $4,000
acres, will be sold t5ltte highest bidder
in tsacts of not more tnan one hundred
and sixty acres, at Beatrice, Nebraska,
on the Slst of May. Each purchaser
must make permanent settlement upon
the land within ninety days from date
of sale,