The Arizona champion., 1885-09-19
General News Column.

Out no water.
 Emory A. Storrs, the~celebrated lawyer of Chicago, died recently. A Phil. Sheridan Post, G, A. R. is organizing at Phenix. It has [, charter members.
 The stairs in the White House have been braced up. Office seekers light, ing with a dull and sicken!ng thud about half way down evidently sprung them.
 A large number of cases of yellow fever are said to exist at Guaymas. Mexico. Citizens are leaving there and coming to Arizona to avoid the danger of the epidemic.
 Several snakes were killed in St. Louis hotel last week, and in the flu. ture the proprietor will compel guests from Kentucky to lock up their boots in the safe before retiring.
 The Detroit Free Press is authority for the statement that the highest Ii censes imposed on the liquor traffic are imposed in Democratic States by Democratic Legisla lures.
 The yacht Puritan, an American craft, beat the Genesta yacht, Brit lsh cruiser. in the race for the silver cup. The race was off Sandy Hook and 1t was of a national interest. A Michigan woman has coughed for nineteen years. Recently she fell down stairs and coughed up shirt button. Relief followed. She expects to be completely cured as soon as she can raise the shirt.
 And now comes tle report, said to be direct from Gov. Tritle, that work on the copper mines and smelter at Jerome, will soon start up again, and be run with a full force of men. This will be good news to miners and people generally.
 It is said the two buttons habitually attached to the rear of mems coats are relic oi the time when swords were worn and were used to support the sword belt. They are of about as much use now as prayer book to a member of an Arizona legislature.
 A Mexican shot into a saloon at Bisbee, in Cochise county, in the midst of crowd of men around a faro table, and wounded several, one probably fatal. He then went to an other saloon and shot through the window, injuring several others. He was afterwards found in cabin. ne 1T by, was taken out and hanged to a tree until he was dead.
 The daughter of Lucky Baldwin, the Calilarnia millionaire, passed through on the south-bound train on her way to the Pacific coast. She was adorned with Mother Hubbard and numerous diamonds whose bril- liancy almost equalled the fash of her bold black eyes. She is the di. vorced wife of Bud Doble, the we'll known driver of fast trotters, and has managed to catch on to an insipid dude with his hair parted in the mid dle, who was with her when she passed through Albuquerque. He bore the same relation 10 her that charming little pet dog would-such a darling, you know.-Albupuerque Journal.
 Iowa ranks the highest of all the states in the number of cattle to the square mile. She has 2,oI4, 4S4 per head, or 35.c head per square mile. Ohio has I,oI7,S2o head, or 24.S head per square mile. Pennsylvania has S75,90+ head, or I9.3 head per square mile. New York has S77.I6I head or IS head per square mile. Texas has the surprising number of 4a54923 head, or I99 head per square mile. Tn IS is the lowest ratio per square mile, although the largest number of cattle of any state in the union-about as many as all France possesses. For all the States and Territories the cattle population 4a,- 547.3o7 head, or 8 head per square mile.
 N. w. Aver x Sons American Newspaper Annual for 1885 is to hand, and is a valuable work. It con. tains a list of all newspapers in the United States and Canada, giving size, character, circulation and adver-