Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-05-16
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.
 The Atlantic & Pacific shops at Albu. querque, will be enlarged soon.
 A Quebec jury has declared the sal- vation army public nuisance.
 Santa Fe railroad stockholders have reelected the old board of directors.
 The Mississippi river is rapidly rising and promises to beat its record of 1880 |. The Brazilian chamber of deputies has passed bill for the immediate abolition of slavery.
 Sixty-one thousand four hundred i'm. migrants landed at Castle Garden during the month of April.
 A Pittsburg chemist has discovered a preparation which will petrify a human being inside of a week.
 An explosion of natural gas in Buffalo destroyed St. Paups cathedral and caused $a5o.ooo fire.
 Tobin, the victim of Billy Carson, is not yet dead. Carson claims to have shot him in self defense.
 Zeph Davis, colored, was hanged in Chicago Friday for the murder of Maggie Gangham, in February last.
 Robert G. Hall, an actor, was hanged in Philadelphia on Tuesday for the mur- der of hls mistress about year age.
 Ex-Governor Downey, of California, whose wife was killed in the Tehachapi railroad disaster of 1883, has married a young wife.
 Collectors on the Santa Fe road will be done away with June Ist., and the conductors will perform that work as before at increased salaries.
 w. T. Coleman & Co.,, of San Fran cisco, have assigned. Assets claimsd $4,ooo, ,oo; liabilities $2,ooo, 900. House Vas established in San Francisco.
 L. G. Purdy, a newspaper man. we'll known throughout the west, and at one time editor of the Cleveland Press, died of consumption at Denver on Friday.
 The children of James Walker, of the vinegar bitters fame, have brought suit against R. H. Mcdonald for $343o GOO alleged to be due from the sale of the bitters.
 California land owners have been ex- .ens,vely grating the chestnut on white oak trees this spring, and are sanguine of very profitable returns from their enterprise.
 The dispatches announce the serious illness of Dom Pedro. emperor of Bra gil. He ascended the throne in 1881, and has reigned longer than any sover- eign in the world.
 A Mexican was shot in the head in Albuquerque some time since producing a wound from which his brains oozed out. In this condition he lived two weeks before death ensued.
 The town of Argentine, Kansas, is in trouble. The public records were left in the mayors office. A billy-goat en- tered and ate them up. His owner offers the goat to file away in place of the lost charter and ordinances.
 The thunderboIt express on the Santa Fe route collided with freight train near Fountain exploding car of powder and cOmpltely wrecking the trains, and instantly killing ten persons and wounding many more.
 The number of women who sell news papers on the streets of New York is constantly increasing The newsboys do not hesitate to mob man or haze boy who invades their territory, but they never interfere with these women.
 There are about 3eo ost,iches on diff ferent farms in southern California. Forty-seven are on the Norfolk ranch. forty at Las Felix. one hundred at Ana helm, ore hundred and fifty at Sun Diego, eight at Santa Ana and fifteen scattered.
 A Kentucky newspaper claims the 'n vention of the drink known as Tom and Jerry for Jack Shingler, an eccen- :ric old shoemaker. who originated It l hird of a century ago and named it after Thomas Jefferson and the bi blical prophet Jeremiah.
 John Vice, of Bath county. Kentucky, l poor man with large family, has just been granted a pension of $72 for total blindness With back pay. dating from he time of hls atliction, he gets some- hing over $I+.ooo in lump.
 As an evidence of the progress that modern ideas are making in Japan. 1t IS tated that that country IS now building hirty-four new railroads at cost of ,ver $5o 900, 900, and 1t has hundreds ,f miles of railroad already built.
 The Unlted State fish commissioners :ar had reached Atlanta, Georgia. re- ,ently when singular incident occurred \ change of water was found necessary md artesian water was supplied. Inside # an hour 5000 young fish were dead md nearly 5000, 900 are supposed to be filled.
 The New York Central trains carry on he rear platform of the last car two ,reen flags as "markers." New Workers re laughing over a remark of a track man who declared it was "a moIghty in anious devoice of Mister Depew to atch the Oirish vote"
 In the postofice at Concord, N. H., he postmaster fund pouch the other lay that had been lostfo nineteen years nd which sontained 118 letters for tn at ity. There were three registered letters with money in them and their nonreceipt las upset half dozen offices
 Congressman Hit, of Illinois, is one f the richest representatives at Wash ngton. He is said to have spent $3o.ooc year entertaining when he was secre- ary of the legation at Paris. He is an xpert sternographer, and was at one me clerk of one of the senate commit ees.
 The highest point in San Diego onnty is Mount San Jacinto, in the Iorthern part of the county, and is 10, o87 feet above sea level. The lowest oint In the county-as we'll as in Amer ais on the desert near Dos Palmos, nd is over three hundred feet below the vel of the sea.