The Arizona sentinel., 1884-02-09

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 An eastern paper says that Con- gressman John Finerty is con- templating a constitutional amendment providing that here after the 4th of July shall occur on the 17th of Mlrch. Bi' the Holy St. Patrick!-Ex.
 The celebrated Fitz-Joh n Por- ter bill has at last passed the House of Representatives at Washington. The vote was 184 to 78. The Senate is vet to be heard from, and as the bitterest enemy of the bill, Gen. Logan, is member of that body lively fight may ensue.
 Daily ropurts come from Gen. tral and Northern Arizona of new discoveries in mines, of both gold and silver. Some of the re- ports say the finds are fabulously rich. If one-half of what is ru- mored is true, then Northern and Central Arizona are on the verge of an important mining boom.- Star.
 A suit has been entered in the United States Circuit Court at Pittsburg by William Longbrige against the Westinghouse Ar Brake Company. to restrain the latter from further arrangements of a number of patents claimed by Longbrige. These are the most valuable used by the defen- dant company. The suit involves millions.
 The United States Government has purchase the Newfoundland sealing steamer Beer for the projected Greedy relief expedi- tion. The vessel is said to be twin sister of the lost Proteus, whose unfitness for Arctic explo- ration was so severely commen- ted on at the time of her loss. It is to be hoped that the Bear may not share the fate of her unfortu- nate counterpart.-Ex.
 A case of extraordinary cruelty to wife was heard a couple of weeks ago at Dundee. A young man named Hutchisen, a baker, went home drunk and quarreled with his wife, threatening her life, and ill using her until he was tired. He then pushed her out of the window of the build ing, which was 30 feet night, and kept her clinging ts the FOOT for an hour, when the police for. ced an entrance to the house and rescued the woman is an exhaus- ted condition. She had only recently been married. The prisoner was sentenced to two months hard labor.
 The inconsistency of the demo- cratic party in Congress was shown on the 29th ult., by the vote on the two resolutions of investigation-one in the House calling for an investigation of charges against Boynton-a sim pie private matter, every demo- crat voting for it-and the other in the Senate where the demo- cratic members, after listening without reply to the scathing re- marks of Sherman and Malone, voted unanimously against call ing for an investigation of the bloody massacre at DanviIIe, Va, during the recent election by = friends of the democratic party, and of the shameful action of the Danville grand jury in refusing to indict the perpetrators. In the one case the reputation of a reporter, who had every oppor- tunity to defend himself else- where, must be protected by con- gressional interference; in the other, the murder of American citizens while exercising their prerOgatives of free men. was not considered of sufficient im- portance to require action. For tanately, the democracy is in the minority Tn the Senate, and the resolution passed by strict party yOte.-CitiZen.