Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-01-03
McCunn, Mrs F Farilio Rojas Pike, ] M uana Montenegro Swensen, Miss B Call for Advertised Lctters'
 GEO. E. MowRY,
 Postmaster
A false estimate of others tends to

A false estimate of others tends to overrate ourselves. Convenience is too often disguised
 in the garb of devotion.
 We may discern honest people by their lack of affeciation.
 Every religion of fear Is sustained by an imaginary hell.
 The esta e of the Queen of Servia will be sold to pay her debts.
 A Maryland hen lays eggs that
 weigh four ounces each.
 l. is said that the Zuni Indiana in~ vented the cigarette.
 There are 10,O0O saloons in Phi a. delph1a.
 McEnery has been re~nominated for governor of Louisiana.
 Another Chinese steel corvette has been launched at Kiel.
 Commissioner Price has issued an or,ler prohibiting dancing among Indians
 4 Boston house adverilses shoes ''fcr elopemenis They don't squeak.
 Bismarck says Of Gladstone: He is a cald-blooded maa with q healthy mind.
 Massachusetts ladies, mceiing at social calls, talk politics almost ex- clusively.
 General Butler never uses the word editor without saying ".ed> nosed editor.''
 Capt. Elizabeth Clark, of the s3al- vaiion Army, has been reques ted to leave Switzerland
 A judgment Of s4,5GO has been rendered against Gen. Longs rect for money lost h option dealing.
 San Francisco merchants say th Northern Pacific railroad has taken away much of their trade.
 The total expenses of the United States courts, for the past fiscal year were, in rouid numbers, $3,000o00
 Henry F. Gillig says that 13o oOo Am erican tourists have visited Eu- rope this year.
 New York City has passed an or- iinance requiring electric wires to be placed under ground after May 1, 1884.
 The Canadian minister of finance 1 is considering reduction ia duties on wheat from 15 to 711 cents per sushel.
 Professor Paul Passey, of Paris. 1 says the United States is the dullest l country he ever visited. He proba~ never met the cowboys of Arizona
 A movement is on foot among the Baptists of Manitoba 10 separate rom the Canadian church and unite with the American Bap.ists.
 A company of Dunkards, of Stauu- on, Va, purchased, for s162,000, hirty>two thousand acres of land in Great Bend, Kansas, for the purpose f establishing a colony.
 Judge Traux, Of New York, has cfused to admit to citizenship 8 )hinaman who had taken out his irst papers before the passage of the law.
 Marquis Tseng, the Chinese min ster to F ance, is described as a enial little gentleman of singular and gentlenes~ Of manner, 7hich conceals sterner stuff His mile, it was chlldlike and b bland." There are 1909 railway trains .arting from London, and ? 300 oming into the city every day-and f the whole number 1,75O are de oted te suburDan traffic within lirty miles of the city,
 They have a muddle in Virginia yer the elections to fill vacancies in le state senate caused by senators ccepting federal offices. The legis> ature refuses 10 recognize the writs sued by the governor. The Supre Court of the United tates has decided that the district )urt of Dakota had no jurisdiction the case of the Indian Crow Dog, jed and sentenced to death for the under of Spotted Tail, and that hls nprisonment is illegal. Secretary Frelin nghuysen has sent letter tc Commander Cheyne, of I oronto, saying that the scheme to = ach the north pole by balloon is E .ened impractlcable. (No opinion given as to whether the moon is F ade of green cheese.) -