The Arizona champion., 1885-10-10
GENERAL NEWS.

| VI NOhSSAOi Si lHtSiildt iSSSuue lt Sl Louis.
 The suspension of W. Heath & Co. bankers of New York city, is an nounced.
 ! The trial of Ferdinand Ward, the bank swindler, is fixed for the roth O this month.
 Heavy and damaging rains are stil reported from the interior and vallies of Mexico, at Leon.
 Goldsmith Maid is dead. Her agt was aS years and the best time she ever made was 2.I4.
 The grand jury at Sweetwater coun- ty. Wyoming, found no indictments against the Rock Spring rioters.
 One hundred and seventy.two new cases of cholera and fitty.slx deaths are reported from Palermo last week.
 The street car drivers are on strike in St. Louis, and consequently the personal traffic of the city is paraly, zed.
 J. L. Curry, of Virginia, has been appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister to Spain, vice, Foster, re- signed.
 On Wednesday last the Treasury department purchased s9o, 1000 ounces of silver for coinage into standard dollars.
 Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, Is gradually growing nearer to the end of a noble and useful life. His death Is looked for at any moment.
 A collision between the special trains bearing John Robinson's circus resulted in the death of seven persons and the wounding of about thirty.
 L. Bradford Prince, ex-Chief Jus tice of New Mexico, has gone to New York to stump the State for the Re. publicans in the forthcoming election.
 The democratic convention in Massachusetts has nominated Freder- ick O. Prince for Governor and H. fl. Gilmore for Lieutenant Governor.
 Commissioner Atkins, of the Indian Bureau, IS about to visit the San Car los agency and investigate the condi- tiou of affairs that led to the Geroni- mo outbreak.
 The first snowfall of the season has been reported from Sheboygan, Wis. A fierce snow storm was raging there on Tuesday last with the thermometer below freezing point.
 Mir. Geo. P. Chalender, who re. tires from the 4. & P. road, has been elected president Uf the Albuquerque Boundary and Machine company, of which he will assume the active man. agemen,.
 At meeting held in New York it was decided to send fifty representa-. tive men from that city and Brooklyn to aid the Hon. Charles Stewart Par nell in his efforts to secure the return of home rulers to the British Parlia- ment in the coming elections.
 When the Senate meets there will be about six hundred post masters to be submitted for confirmation. There are a,5s5 presidential postmasters in the country and at the rate in which appointments have been made to this date it will take more than two years 10 make changes in these officials.
 Thaddeus Stevens Brown, of Co., lumbia, Pennsylvania, was named af. ter the great Southerner, whea he was born in 1864. Mir. Stevens, as an acknowledgements of the compli- ment. placed $500 in bank for the child, the money to become his when he attained his majority. A few days young Brown drew out over Sa,ooo. principal and interest.
 The "reminiscences of General Grant by his friend Geo. w. Childs are 10 be published in pamphlet form, such is the demand for them. They first appeared in the Philadel- phia Ledger. Mir. Childs was per haps the closest and most kind and indulgen: friend General Grant had in ,he world. The friendship was wholly unmixed with any political 
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