The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-12
NEWS AND COMMENTS.
Gambetta is dead.

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twenty scholars in attendance.
Ben Butler was inaugurated governor
OF Massachusetts on the 4th inst.
The A. & r. road is within twelve
hours stage ride of Prescott, A. 7.
The new Pullman cars will be pro-
vided with kitchen in which travellers
can prepare tea and coffee.
The Santa Fe railroad has appointed
Judge Henry NJ. Waldo of Santa Fe as
its general solicitor in New Mexico.
The Watchdog of Silver City has
been discontinued and the late editor
has merged his talent with the Daily
Southwest.
Residents of malarial districts will be
gratiled to learn that the duty on qui-,
nine has been reduced to ten per cent.
al valorum.
DR.. Lapham has left Socorro for parts
unknown aud lis bondsmen for the
amount of his recognlzance. Thus ends
the chapter.
Albuquerque is trying to organize a
company whose purpose shall be the
supplying of the city with the Brush
tctric light.
Tie oldest inhabitant cannot recol-
lect so heavy a snow fall in San Fran
cisco as that which dropped upon the
C y last week.
An editor III Wexford, England, was
sentenced to five weeks Imprisonment
for publishing the report Of a meeting
of the Leeds League.
A Mexican at Ell Paso last week took
"a new departure in the wife-beating
industry. lie whipped another mans
wife instead of his own.
The st. Marys Episcopal school at
Knoxville, Illinois, burned on the 4th
Several of the students were injured III
making their escapes from the building
! but no lives were lost.
Aaron Frost, formerly of the Denver
Tribune has accepted the position OF
city editor on the Deming Headlight
We love to chronicle the promotion OF
ambitious and worthy young men.
Albuquerque invites emigration, and
receives strangers with open arms, un
less said strangers have the smallpox
The Review growls because other towns
are sending patients TO their pest house
Thirty convicts and two white guards
were crossing the Tuskeegee river il
North Carolina, ON 1at-boat. BY get
ting too much upon one end they sanl
the craft and all but twelve met wat
cry grave.
w. r. Morley, the chief engineer o
the Mexican Central railroad while at
tempting to draw loaded gun from |
wagon at El PasO, last week, was sho
and killed by the accidental discharg'
Cf the weapon.
Count Won Wempffin, an embassado
at Paris, committed suicide because
coma was omitted from a diplomati
dispatch, 1t is evident that the coun
was not educated for an editor.
If congress takes the tax from tobaC
CO it will require $36OS0,7l6 to refun'
the sum already collected for the stocl
now on hand. 1t is very improbabl
that the tax will be abolished in vieN
of this fact.
White hunters are slaughterlng th
buffalo in the Milk river country, Mon
tana, to such an extent that the govern
ment has found it necessary to send th
military to keep the butchers off tn
Indian reservation.
The overAowing of the river Rhln
has caused great damage to the cOuntr
through which it runs and much suffel
} ing is the result. The waters have r,
ceded and the country is covered wit
wleckage and dead animals.
Santa Fe county has two sets of of
GERS, one bearing The credentials of th
the board of county commissioners an
the other of Judge Axtel. 1t would al
pear that the business should be we
attended to.
The Commercial and Gazette new
papers Of Cincinnati have consolidate
Deacon Smith and Murat Halstead al
both engaged on the new paper. III
institution has begun the issuance of
penny paper called the Journal.
January End. at the presidents rece.
lion, the Hawaiian minister, after b
ing presented to the president, while c
his way to the ante-room, was attackt
; with vertigo and spasms. He was a
tended by doctor, but shortly afte
wards died in one of the ante-rooms
the executive mansion. When the mi
lister was taken sick the music WI
stopped, and after his death was al
nounced the reception ended and h
body was subsequently, removed to h
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