Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-01-13
Etitofial ald niseeIl eIlaneeus iions.

An eloping couple in the South con- ceived an original plan ot eludins the pursuing and angry parent. Instead of embarking on the turbid wave. they sought refuge in graveyard. While the young woman waited on a lonely tomb Stone. the young man secured the minister and took him to the ghss,ly spot, and the twain became ore as the pursuers were securing the surrounding country.
 The Courier copies . lengthy article in its issue this morning from the Pheni1 Gazette. It bears the ear marks of the same author who recently contnbuted an editorial to our contemporary. Great paPefs, like great minds. sometimes ploW through the same groove.
 The St Louis Globe -Dsnocrat thinks that he is very poor arithmetieian vhe calls seventy-six cents dollar The nat ural reply of the silver man to such non- sense istha.i, is only driveling idiot who calls dollar seventy-six cents. -Chron. icle.
 The Richmond Whig is dead At the ripe old age flor a new,paper) of sixty two years, with only two contemporaries in the state of Virginia died of old age and lack of support last week. Its death does not speak well for the progress of Virginia
 Edward Brown. of Clineh county, Georgia, danced himself to death Christ mas night. Beginning at . o'clock in the evening he danced in every set until 5 o'clock the next morning, when he was carried of the floor in dying con- dition.
 The New York World suggests tha President Cleveland should have the design of . rooster on his new seal rather than that of an eagle. The rooster was the blrd that crowed over his election.
 Henry W. Williams, President of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club. has ridden Is,s7s miles since and including 1880 He took to bicycling for his health and has made a we'll man of him.
 Mrs. Gillson of Newbefg, New York. did not like dog kept by her new hus- band, and gave him . week to decide which would he keep. Mir Cillson voted for the dog. and the bride went to the poor-house.
 Henry Shirk, a wealthy farmer living near Marysville, Ohio, went out to find his stock the other evening and was caught by three masked men, who fast ened him to a tree with a log-chain and paddock leaving him there.
 Speaker Carlisle has decided to elim- mate from the house committee list the following named seles:t committees: Pen. sions, bounty and back pay. public health and the tenth census The speaker is cf the opinion that the con- mittees are useless ones.
 The Democrats of the territory are already preparing to organize for the campaign for the coming summer. It would be a wise move if the members of the Republican Territorial Central Com mittee were to follow suit.
 Drunkenness IS diminishing in Eng land, but the use of narcotics is incress- ing. Among the drugs nov very largely is nitro-e'yeerine pat up in the form of tablets, the consumers becoming pass ionately addicted to it.
 The public debt under heeconomieal reform Democratic administration, was $Aooo. .ooo in November and the report for December shows an in- crease of $9.ooo, 900 for that month.
 Congressman Holman favors the ad-. mission of Dakota $ a state. He does not represent the majo ri,y of the demo- cradc congressmen in this respect.
 Cleveland seems to imagine himsel in as great danger from assassins as the Car of Russia. He keep; a body of detectives constantly around him.
 Old Ben Butler is charged with rob- ping the Soldiers Home of $sso,oeo ahiie he was the Democratic governor of Massachusetts.
 Delegate Bean has had bill intro duced in Congress to provide for enl,st- ns two volunteer companies of cavalry rom Arizona and New Mexico te fight he Indians.
 Supreme Court Clerk Mccarthy, . reformer of California, has eft the country with several thousand 1 dollars of other peoples money.
 The seed house of D. M. Ferry, cfI Detroit, Michigan, vas destroyed by 6re ! ecenslv. The loss is $i, ,ooo,ooo
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