The Arizona champion., 1888-05-26

The State Department has been ro,ided that Portugal has imposed m additional duty on cereals Ald d3ur of 5 10 So par cent.
 The new Exclusion Treaty which has been sent 10 China for rl'ifica- rion, it is believed, will meet with no delay in its acceptance.
 Jefferson Davis has been invited to speak at the laying ot a corner stone of a Confederate monument at Jackson, Miss, thrs month.
 The Sunday law is being strictly enforced at Las Cruces and store keepers ale being fined for keep ing their stores open on Sun day.
 There is to be a hospital for the cure of hydrophobla estabi>hcd at San Antonio, Tex by Dr. SP1ho, who has beeu to Paris and studied the methods of the celebrated Pasteur.
 Herr Most and an English anor- chiSt will resume publication of the "Alarm," the organ ol anar- chy, which recently suspended al Chicago. It will be removed lo New York.
 The latest "victim of tobacco" is a sad case, indeed. He Is sev. enty years old, has smoked for sixty years, and last week he mar. red woman four years his senior. Tobacco smoking affected his brain.
 Scully's lilly, Hypocrite, was found, on the night of the 25 ,h at Louisville. to have been poisoned. Physicians have been at york ever snce, but it is doubtful if she can be saved. There Is much talk over the affair.
 After four months deliberation the Boston athletic club has finally decided to offer Jake Kilrain, the position of instructor ih boxing to the club. The salary of the place IS S5,coo year, and there were over one hundred applicants.
 The recent purchase ot bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury has saved the government more than three and a half millions of dollars basIng the estimate upon the inter- est that would have been paid if the bonds had been allowed to run to maturity.
 An ammonia tank exploded re- gently in Cincinnati, filing the air with the fumes of the drug, thereby aspbyxiatlng nearly all the small birds and animals in the neighborhood, together with horse, which responded to the alarm of fire sent ou,.
 "Happy Jack" who tried to run over an engine lately, is fast recovering. Ills ear, which only hung to his head by the merest shred of skin, seems'.to be reattach ing itself in good shape, so that on recovering he will not even be dis figured. d.-GaIlup Register.
 It is stated at army headquarters Tn Washington that reports regard ing the illness Of Lieutenant Gen. eraI Sheridan are very much exag- gerated. He seemed to be suffer. Ing from fatigue or overwork, and Monday last he decided to remain at home and rest for few days, but has not been confined to his bed.
 An inhuman wretch by the name of Greenwood, shot and killed his daughter Mrs. Lem Bryant, at Curtis, Neb., Thursday morning The lady had given birth to a child few minutes before. She had been seduced by Bryant before her marriage, and her father was enraged at her shame. She was Y years of age. Greenwood will be lynched, if captured.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says: NewMexico journalists are proud ot Mrs. Flora EIlice Stevens, of Cha. ma, Rio Arriba county. She IS graceful writer, a practical printer and a model wife. A few days ago she presented her husband a | son, and the old man has already | dedicated as the future publisher of the Northwest New Mexican.
 The Emperor of Brazil appears | to be stricken with paralysis. He | has lost power of speech and his breathing is labored. Oxygen was was forced into his lungs and | caffeine was injected into his skin | with the result that ne became less inert and partially conscious, but there is little hope of his recovery. Prince Augustus of Coburg, Don Pedro's son-in-law, and Dr. Char. cot, of Paris, have been summon .d to the emperor's bedside, and he last sacrament has been admin. stered to him.
 The Gallup Register has the fol- | owing spicy item in its Wingate correspondence: During an alter. 'ation Tuesday evening Thomas Baisley bit off a piece of John Rogers left ear. Sergeant May ,ame to Rogers rescue, when Baisley drew a knife and resisted ,rreSt. Wherrunon May nromntly