Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-08-18
News. Notes and Comments.

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 The Albuquerque Journal has sen; war correspondent to the front.
 The pope is reported to be seriousl. i'll, and his life is despaired of
 The average of the mail which come. to the White House is four bags day
 The drouthwi,h its attendant low wa'e troubles has made navigatian very dItti- cult on the Upper Mississippi
 Snow fell a, Rome New York Angus sd
 Greedy, Colorado. has six a,sesiar wells.
 The Mexicsns do not believe the United States will fight.
 The tax rate in New York City is Ss.ss on the SIoe.
 The president has ordered General Fitz John Porter placed On the retired list.
 W. W. Corcoran, the Washington banker, is 8, years old, and has gwen more than S.. s.ooo. 900 for charity.
 The thickness of the earth's crust and ,ha, sf boarding house pie have at ias' become ,he subject of scientific inve'- sigation-
 It is said that Armour, ot Chicago paid S,o,ooo for a seat in 'he New York Produce Exchange which he nevsr occupies.
 The American employees Of the Mexi- can Central railroad are uneasy, and general exodus of railroad men IS expect ed from that country.
 Faty-four drays were required to carry the bulk of papers required for the exposition number Of Cincinnatrs illustrated newspaper. the Illustrated News.
 Secretary Manning's estimate of the revenue for the current fiscal year Is S,6s,s.s,.s,; and the appropriations made by congress for the same period amounted :o $sS3,6SI,sS7.
 The Giobe-DemocIz,ic says s. Louis IS under confederate rule, and trusts the meeting of the Grand Army oi the Republic there next year w:ll have a good effect
 Speculation lin Chicago runs Prlnc'- pally to grains and provisions. Dab bling in stocks never did obtain to any great extent there.
 The Albuquerque Journal thinks fha, Secretary Bsyard should resign as the longer he remains in ;he department or state, the more apparent his weak ness becomes.
 Itis joke on Uncle George Hearst that his own paper. the Examiner, was one of the most persistent journals in calling for an extra sesicn of the ieslsIA- eure'
 The story that prin.ef in q country cfice;n New York hanged himself with the office towel Is denied, on the grounds tha, the towel mighs serve to stab himself with, bu; as rope, never.
 Joaquin Miller has assummed .he editorship of the Golden Fla. a magazine published m San Francisco. It's the same magazine in which Bret Har'e made bis debut
 eFarmers cf Clark county, Missouri. are experiencing a scare or account ef the appearance of q nalady among cattle { aa, is generally attended with fatal results It IS thought to be Texas fever
 Runners arecurren. ;n Washington ,ha, the treasury department will issue three monthly bond calls for $rs,ooe,o GOO each, beginning ~i;h the first ot the pres-- eni month. as consequence sf ;he agitation m congress about deb, pay ment and the reduction of .he surplus.
 Prince Lichtens,ein, a petty German ruler. recently bought Krupp gun but. found that he could not discharge is without sending missiles into some sihe, princes domain. He therefore had :: turned into a ,nonunlen, and SC: tt up ii the public square oi h;s capital.
 Captain Wallace W. Hall, until recently high officer in the sec,r: ser vice of the Cn::ed States, was shot and instantly killed 2, his home IF Chicago on the nth instant The fa:al shot WAS fired from his own revolver while en- gagged n a struggle for its possession with his wife, during quarrel.
 The city Of providence, Rhode Island, is advertising for million dollar loan to increase its supply of water. The Boston Advertise. very properly concludes from this ,ha: Rhode Islands prohIbasoTy law is being enforced The body oi the la;e F. H. Rogers consul al Vera Cruz. wi. shortly oe dispatched from ;hai place ;o bis friends 10 Nebraska Under ,he laws of NeNi- 1 co five years mus; eiapse before the body of 2 person dying ot courageous disease can be 6Islntered. Rogers died of yellow fever in August 1881. A remarkable man is Captain John !! Grant of New Orleans He IS % years o,dand claims so have shaken hands with |