Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-03-07
NEWS. NOTES AND coMMeNrs.

M!sSOuiL booty 9Io,o0o.
 New Mexico boasts of the suserior quality Of her spring wheat.
 April 13,h is the day fixed for the ex. cution of Anschlag, in Los Angeles.
 Smallpox continues to spread in Hong Kong. About 25o deaths occurred dur ing January,
 Dakota ard Minnesota have expe- rienced another blizzard almost equal to the January one.
 According to Californian, who has just returned from Sitka, that great town has population of 300 persons.
 Missouri republicans will hold their state convention May 18th to nominate delegates to the Chicago convention. Two Nashville men went to law about a job of work that was worth about 75 cents and spent $7. .ooo before the matter was settled.
 Public Printer Benedict discharged GAP employees in the national printg office from November 1st, 1887 to Feb ruary I7th, 1888.
 A negro who was on trial in New York tn eother day on being asked it he was q man of family replied that he was the father of thirty-two children. The channel of the Congo can be traced for hundred miles out to sea as remarkable submarine valley having a depth of I,432 feet just at the rivers mouth.
 The followers of Dr. McGlynn, in New York, propose to start newspa- per to oppose Henry Georges Standard. The new publication will be called the
 Eagle.
 The Albuquerque Democrat does not want New Mexico admitted as state 1 just yet, and claims that more than two- thirds of the citizens of the territory are opposed to statehood.
 It IS stated that Mrs. General Lew Wallace will publish a book entitled "The Land of the Pueblos." The work will treat principally of prehistoric life in New Mexico and Arizona.
 When man IS ''thrown on a C. Id world to rustic for an honest living" It paltakes seriously of being vocation, rather than an avocation. The latter word is entirely disassociated from hard rustling.
 A French biolgist. M. Levan, offers the theory that obesity is nervous disorder, to be treated by the avoidance of mental and physical fatigue, with a ; dict of eggs, soup, milk, rice and pota. toes.
 The senate committee on public lands has submitted, though not agreed upon, public land bill, fo repeal the timber culture and pre-emption laws, etc. It is similar in general features to the senate bill of last session. Mrs. Lizzie Walker, a widow living at Newman. H., swallowed pin recently during fit of coughing. It lodged in Der throat and it is impossible to re- move it. She IS slowly starving to death and suffers great pain.
 The largest cotton mill in the world is located at kranholm, Russia. The estab- lishment contains s4o,ooo spindles and 2, 200 looms. disposes of force of 6, 300 horse power. and gives employment to 1000 hands.
 A prominent ralr pad official says that fully 500 tramps are all the time plOdding along the railroads lines of the country. They are a const int menace to the safety of travellers as we'll as the property of the companies.
 The largest horse in United States is owned by Mark TEode, of Msttoon III. l He is only three years old. measures nineteen hands high, has gained 25oI pounds in the last three weeks, and is | growing.
 Col. E. Cash, the famous duellst and | frc-eater died at bis house in Chester field county, South Carolina, on the 25th | ut Col Cash in ISSo, in duel killed | Judge Shannon. and for ten days defied the officers to arrest him.
 From the fact that the last national democratic convention that met in St. Louis declared for tariff "only for rev. enue," and on that platform its ticket was licked, an exchange thinks that history is preparing to repeat itself this year.
 Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is one of the most voluble members of the senate. When some one remarked the other day that he thought the senator would tire himself with so much talk, Senator h. gals dryly remarked: "Oh, no Morgan talks to rest himself"
 Governor Adams. of Colorado, has called an irrigation convention to meet at Denver on March IS, 1888, for the pur- pose of devising ways and means for say ing, storing and utilizing the waste waters in Colorado, and to consider the whole subject of irrigation.
 Albert Wallensteinson, son of well- known merchant, of Cincinnati, is charged with forging notes to the amount of SI,S25. His parents could only ac- count for his conduct by the facr that he was soon to wed a wealthy Jewess, of I sA |