The Arizona champion., 1886-07-31
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gress does not adjourn because 1t is afraid to go home. e.--Alta Califor- mia. r..
 John Roach, the great steamship builder, is said to be dying from despondency at the loss of his for tune.
 The Panama Canal scheme has collapsed, and all the money thus far spent on it, SI5o, 1000, 900, is as good as lost.
 Lloyd Tevis, the many times mil. lionaire of San Francisco, is spoken of as the probable successor of Mir. Manning as Secretary of the Treas ury.
 The electric motor for street cars has been tried in Philadelphia and is a perfect success. The cost of opera. ting is one-half less than that of horse power.
 The jury in the Dilke-Crawford case, in England, found Sir Charles and Mrs. Crawford guilty of adultery and gave MT. Crawford an absolute divorce.
 A boot-black last week jumped from the center span of the Brooklyn bridge and was picked up uninjured. He has already been offered Sroo week by dime museum to exhibit himself.
 Col. Fred. Grant says there is not a particle of truth in the reports that his sister Nellie is living unhappily with her husband in England, or that his mother has recently undergone an operation for cancer in Cincin- natti.
 On July aIst, at Nashville, Tenn, Frank Mcdonald, aged IS and Essie O'Neil, aged E, were married under tree in the suburbs by magistrate. The parents of both objected to the match without avail.
 The hop crop in the east is fail ure, only about one-third ofthe usual yield being expected. Its an ill wind blows nobody good. The first bale of hops from California sold in New York at 50 Cts. a pound.
 A small war has been going on at Bayou Boutte, La, between the whites and negroes as to right of the latter to pick green moss in that section, in which already three men have been killed and several wounded.
 It is we'll authenticated that near Rowland Flat in Sierra County, Cal. !, nugget of gold, weighing rsS pounds and valued at $ss,ooo, was found by a company of eleven Chinese miners, who had recently purchased the claim for $500.
 An I8-year-old boy travelled from Fort Wayne to Pittsburg, distance ot 3ao miles, on the truck of an ex- press train which made only two stops. He said he wanted to go to Washington to see his sick mother. but had no money, so he stole ride. Such feat has seldom, if ever, been accomplished before.
 Willie Sells, aged ra years, who murdered his father, mother, sisters and brothers, in fact the whole family, with an ax, was convicted at Osage Mission, Kansas, July 18th, of mur- der in the first degree. He is consi- dered too young to be hanged and will probably be sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
 At Hutchinson, Minn.. this week several persons died from eating poi soned butchers meat. The butcher who sold the meat denied that 1t was poisoned, and to prove his assertion gave some of it to his two children, who died immediately. The people are indignant that he should have tried such an experiment, and excite ment runs high.
 There have been terrible sutferings and many deaths from cold and star. vation on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. The season has been very backward, and on July Iath the mercury stood at eighteen degrees below zero. The Canadian govern ment has sent steamer with provl- sions for the relief of the destitut e farmers and fishermen, but it will arrive too late to effect much good.
 Near Greensburg, Ky, a fend in human shape named Bishop, 70 years old, was married by minister of the gospel to a little girl named Bella Boston, exactly ' years, 4 months and IS days of age. His only object seems fo have heen to satisfy his