Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-02-03

and signed by the President providing for the performance of the duties of President in case of the removal, death or inability of both the President and the Vice President authorizes cabinet officers to exercise those functions in the following order: Secretary Of state, secretary of the treasury, secretary of war. secretary of the interior, postmaster general and the attorney general Any member of the cabinet who may not be an American born will Of course, be disqualified for the Presidency.
 The new surveyor general of Utah says that the land transactions of that territory are honeycsmbed with fraud. He finds that about fifty per cent. of the entries by Mormons are..fraudulent. while he claims alss that the railroads have stolen state lands by wholesale and the gentilss are not far behind the Mor- mons in fraudulent entries.
 A Texas clergyman, about to be ap- pointed chaplain of the penitentiary, preached farewell sermon to his con- grega,ion, who had treated him rather badly. He selected the following text q go to prepare place for you, so that where am ye may be also"
 Alfred Peacock, ef Colorado City Texas. has sold 5000 head of one ane wo-year-old heifers at $Io per head, te be delivered at point fifty miles west O Tescosa, Texas, in May next. Steers ol the same age, in that section, bring S more,
 lay Gould is in constan. fear ol assassination and employs number o detectives for his prote ction. He neve travels on his own railroads without frs sending ''feelers" ahead to see tha everything is safe.
 The young women of Csnnecticu town have organized "The Tongue Guard" Each members drops penn! in box every time she says a wore against anybody. The money is given ts the poor.
 A burglar a: Connersville, Indians passed himself oif on the postmaster O the townas postofdce inspector. learned the combination of the safe and stole three hundred dollars from 1t on th' following night.
 The court stenographer of the Nintf Judicial District wrote I,746 words in Marian, New York, recently in five minutes, under pubic test.
 The word "jugwump" has been added to the luminous language of American politics. l.. is Georgia word and signifies . man who publicly tavors prohibition, while he privately patronizes a demijohn.
 A young man at McPherson, Kansas, got . wheat beard in this throat last summer and last week it was taken from his neck. having worked its way through.
 Mrs. Grant has received . check fer $75o, oco from the publishers of her hus- bands book as her share of the sale of the first volume of the work.
 A bill has been introduced in the New York Assembly to prohibit inspectors of elections from interfering with voters on account of their sex.
 "Dead from exposure, was the ver- dict of e Helena, Montana Territory, jury on the body of horse-thief who had been hanged by vigilantes.
 Governor Stoneman has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and con- victisn of the murder of Jesse C. Wick ersham, of Cloverdale.
 Congress has passed bill appropriat- ing Ssoo, 900 for a monument to Gen eral Grant.
 Two hundred and two lions have been killed in Algeria during the last twelve years.
 Little Greece has lowered her back and will disarm according to request.
 Trouble is again brewing on the Isthmus of Panama