The Clifton clarion., 1885-01-28
CLARION CLIPPINGS.

HE tombstone Record IS now the official paper of Cochise coun- ty.
 THE Daily Headlight of Dem ing, is paper that deserves lib, eral support at the hands of Dem ing's business men.
 A SPECULATIVE Yankee has rent ed sixteen halls in Washington, in which he will put up 5,0O0 cots for inauguration week.
 SIR STAFFORD NoRTHcoTE advises emigration to the British colonies as remedy for all the evils com plained of by the working people of England.
 SNow blockades were reported last week in many portions of the north and east. Passenger and freight traffic have been seriously interfered with.
 THE Governor of South Carolina has an uncomfortable amount of patroI age. He sent in over six hundred appointments to office on tho last day of the session of the Legislature, including 450 Justices of the Peace.
 THE female juror feature of Wyoming Territory's system is a success in more ways than one. Two of the members of recent jury, after convicting a faro dealer, went and got married. They had met for the first time in the jury box.
 IT is said that the stockmen of the Territory will exercise all their influence to secure the passage of a bill regulating freights and fares. Such a course is q recog- nized duty of every citizen who has the welfare of the Territory at heart.
 GEN. RosEcRANs was authorized by the House Military Affairs Committee last week to report favorably the bill appropriating S200,0G0 to establish a Soldiers ! Home in California, provided the ground for it is donated without cost to the Government.
 THE Executive Committee of the New Mexico Assoclation of Stockmen has issued a call for a convention of local stock associa tions to meet in Santa Fe Febru- ary 25th to take measures to pre- vent the introduction of diseased cattle into this Territory. THERE is still balm in Gilead for our legislature solans, as a Pres colt paper states that the reported murder of Rosa Stein in Cali fornia turns out to be either a mistake or else pure fabrication, as her friends in that city have received a telegram from her stating that she Is alive and well in Calico.
 LONDON Is noted for being pro life in societies having all sorts oi good objects. The latest proposa. in this direction is Society ot Cancellation and Reconciliation It aims at the formation of "hom, dwellings of associated homes,' and its committees will be charged with the duties of peacemakin. | and the promotion of sociabilit, between families.
 THE Phenix Gazette truly ob serves that If the Sierra Bonit; county scheme is successfully carried through the present legis laturc, 1t Is quite probable tha two or three others will follow It is only by increasing the mum Der of counties that we can hop, to make the public offices any thing like adequate to the demand of the 21-calibre statesmen"
 THE Record thinks the appoint ment of John P. Cum as post master at Tombstone, in whicl place he has not had q residenc, for several years, nor in fact il the Territory, is. a striking com mentary on that plank in the Ma tional Republican platform whicl provides that future appointment in the Territories shall be mad from the ranks of bona fide resi- dents.
 IN the Congo conference whicl met in Berlin recently three req sons wore given for the participa ton of America in the delibera tions. First, because Americ; was tho first power to oificiall, recognize the African Information al Association. Second, becaus the population of America in cludes 6,000,000 negroes, who's parent country is Africa, ant third, because Americans mainl, have explored the country. THE name of Arizona was no bestowed through any poeti arrangement of Indian or Spanisl names, but is derived from "Ari dus" and ''zona." Aridus, dry from ''areo," to be dry. Fron this root also comes the wort "arid'' which signifies dry, ex hausted of moisture, parched witt heat; as, for instance, an aric waste. The name, however, is , misnomer so far as the greatc portion of Arizona Territory i, concerned-Arizona Sentinel.
 A GOOD story comes from Pres colt. A man was declared insa D, by the Probate Judge and ordered committed to the Stockton insan, asylum. A dispute arose between fbe OK Sheriff and the Sheriff