The Arizona champion., 1884-04-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

 set in to this country.
 Fiity-three Philadelphia lawyers are after vacant judgeship.
 There are nearly 10000 directors of companies in Great Britain.
 The New York Legislature has re- jected the cable railway bills.
 The murderers in Cincinnati jail have formed a murderers' association.
 Baltimore is to have musical festival beginning April 30th and lasting four days.
 Counterfeit 25-ccnt pieces, of lead, are exasperatingly plentiful in Boston and vicinity,
 Mrs. Stratton, the mother of the late Gen. Tom Thumb, died at New Haven, March 26th.
 Orange blossoms are shipped north from Jacksonville, Fla, to be used in bridal wreaths.
 The revised version of the Old Testa- ment will be issued complete, it is said, |, in September.
 For the want of anything else to do, Buffalo is preparing fos the celebration of the Fourth of July.
 London has twenty-eight daily papers, or more than double the number pub lshed in San Francisco.
 Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the evan- gelists, have opened their mission in Hammersmith, England
 A New York boy was sent to jail the other day for five days for breaking win dows with bean-shooter.
 Many murders of Christians by Mos- lems and of Moslems by Christians, are reported from various parts of Crete.
 The London Duly News says the report that Mir. Gladstone thinks of re- signing this year is absolutely unfounded.
 George NJ. Rupert, the Treasurer of West Chester, Penn, has been discov- cred to be $l5, 1000 short in his accounts
 From 1884 to 1881 sumptuary s1 cts as to dress were issued at Berlin. The last forbds women without rank to wear silk dresses.
 A Windham, Me, deacon sold two weeks ago for s22 ton of hay which he had been holding over twenty years to get that figure.
 The South has new terror in the per son of tramp who steals children. He does not claim rewards, but seems actu- ated by simple viciousness.
 Col. Amasa Sprague has declined the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island on account of "pressing business
 Raw flesh from one hog in Prussian Saxony, last year, made 403 persons seriously ill, and caused the death of sixty-six of them from trichinosis.
 Col. Rockwell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds in Wash ington, will this season set out l50 ,000 plants, instead of loo, ,000, as heretofore.
 Adam Goldsmiths famous horse Vol unteer is to be exhibited in the National Horse Show. Although thirty years of age, Volunteer is still majestic horse
 The Berlin correspondent of the Bel gian Echo du Pdrlement discredits the statement widely made of late that reduction in German ornaments is probable.
 Two Indians on the Tuscarora reser vation, near Lockport, N. Y., had a quarrel over trivial matter the other day, when they fought duel with axes, one being mortally wounded.
 
 The German Admiralty now thinks that it must alter its coast defences, in asmuch as Krupp's improved monster guns are found to penetrate easily the strongest armor plates.
 The Bishop of Ghent asserted in his Lenten Pastoral that the enemies of the faith have made an internal pact to de- stroy the Christian religion and have even fixed the year for their triumph. The Legislature of New Mexico has passed bill fixing the capital at Santa Fe, and appropriating $200,00 for a building, notwithstanding determined opposition from Las Vegas and Albu- querque.
 In defiance of the prohibitory law of l Kansas, man named Herold opened a |, saloon at Canton. On the third day he | was shot by constable. The next day the women of the place poured his liq- ors into the street.
 The Pope has appointed Right Rev. F. X. Leroy, Archbishop of New Or leans, and Right Rev D. Marnay, Bis hop of Mobile, Archbishop Gibson has convoked the third plenary council of Baltimore for November 9th.
 Belgium was the first country on the continent to construct railways. State ,fetes are now being prepared to cele- brate, on the lst of May, the fiftieth an niversary of the day when the construc- tion of the Belgian railway was first de- creed.
 The Illinois State Labor Association, in session at Chicago, adopted plat form demanding the abolition of the contract system for convicts, the estab- lishment of boards of arbitration, and the enactment of an eight-hour law ex- cept for farm hands.
 The will of Amadias Ruche, who died recently at Allentown, Penn, leav- ing 500, ,000, will be contested by his two sons, to whom he left $5 each, and the residue to his wife. The sons claim that he was of weak mind, and was under undue influence.
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