The Clifton clarion., 1885-12-16
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1e, 1885.
TERRITORIAL AND GENERAL.

Judge vincent, or New hexlco,
 has been unjustly treated.
 Charles Stewart Parnell and
 Timothy Healy, Nationalists, have
 been elected to Parliament for the
 City of Cork.
 Albert A. Wilson, of Washing ton, has been appointed United
 States Marshal for the District of
 Columbia. He will not be called
 on to act as Grand Chamberlain at the White House.
 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has submitted his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30. He looks to agriculture as the chief means available for civilizing the red man. There are at present in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, 260,000 In dians.
 Lieut.. AIaus, formerly stationed at Whipple, is in pursuit of In dians and hopes to be able to corral band of them. Maus is q dashing and fearless young officer. and if energy, perseverance, and bravery will succeed, he will se cure the scalps of some of the hostiIes. Citizen.
 Capt. Lowell H. Jerome has ar rived in Tucson, and will relieve Capt. H. \. Moore as resident agent of the Treasury Depart ment. Mir. Moore had asked for the change, as he wished to be assigned to a place further east ward. Capt. Jerome has had con siderable experience on the iron tier.
 Hon. E. B. Pomeroy, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions at the public meeting which con sldered the mounted police mat ter, to-day received a telegram from Governor Zulick, as follows: "My official encouragement and sanction is earnestly given, as re- quested. c. Meyer Zulick, Gov ernor."
 The annual report of the Com missioner of the General Land Office gives. among other things, a complete review of Reavls-Peralta fraud, of Arizona, in which the nature of the attempt to gain pos session of a valuable tract of land under fraudulent titles, is pretty fully exposed. The Commissioner shows the utter impossibility of this being properly made grant and dismisses it as unworthy of any notice.
 A store house belonging to the Mohave Indians, situated on the bank of the Colorado river oppo- site Fort ilohave, fell in a few days since, killing one Indian and severely ipiurinS two others. The l accident was caused by piling sev eral tons of mesquite beans and | corn on the roof. The Indian who ! was killed was instantly placed on a couple of cords of wood and burned to ashes. after which the Indians proceeded to burn every thing belonging to him. and to kill his horses, and have a big feast, which is their invariable custom when any of. the tribe dies
 Until within a few years the principal supply of copper for the whole world came from Chilf, Spain, Australia, Africa, and Lake Superior. More recently the i'm mense quantities mined in Arizona, Montana, and California giutted the market to a great extent and reduced the price very largely; yet. although copper fell in price, within a year and half or so it was selling at about f60 ton in London, and it is only within the last three or four months that 1t has gone down as low as G39, and is now f42- The reason for this qeems to have been chiefly in the enormous quantities of copper shipped to Europe from this coun- try. A great anomaly is: although copper is about the lowest in price ever known in New York, yet, l from all accounts, the actual stock ' of copper in America IS exceed ingIy small.-Cnicago Tribune.
 From late British returns 1t is found for the year ending June i, . 1885. that of 6S2, ,S93 cattle born in England 134.941 died of disease. , Of sheep, the number born was 2,699,417, and the number that died was 433,3o1 Of pigs, the born was 1,351,S19. and the mortality amounted to 176, ,360