Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-19
NEWS. NOTES AND coNNEMIs. Bismarck has the neuralgia.

John Bright's health is improving.
 Vice President-elect Mo,ton is visiting General Harrison.
 "Old Hutch" the Chicago grain spec ulator, is seriously Ill.
 A famine is threatened among the East African colonists.
 A bill has been introduced in congress for the annexation of Canada.
 Luke Venus is the name of an appl cant for divorce in Chicago court.
 Congressman Ma,tin. of Texas, w;s fined $s for assaul:ing reporter.
 Wind fifty miles an hour, thermometer at zero, is what New York is expe,ienc- ing.
 Judge Edge,ton. of Indiana, chairman of the civil service commission, has r.- signed.
 Colorow, chief af the Ute Indians. d,ed on Saturday, of pneumonia, aged 70 years.
 Eleven hundred new houses, costing Sc, COG, 1000, is Duluth's building record for 1888.
 The Dublin authorities have seized and destroyed . thousand volumes of Zola's works.
 Another heavy storm is reported along the Atlantic coast, dring great damage to shipping.
 Senator Mitchell, # Oregon, is talked of as having the inside track ftr a cabinet position.
 Word has been received from Africa indicating that Stanley. the explorer, IS held captive there
 At the recent municipal election in Boston an anti Catholic ticket was elected as school committee.
 The bursting of water main in Cleveland, Ohio, caused a loss of $5o.ooo damages to property.
 An attempt was made on the 10th instant to destroy Shuffeld x Co.'S dis tillery in Chicago by dynamite.
 There are over 1as,ooo children un. der five years of age in the tenement houses of the city of New York.
 During target practice oa board of a French iron clad a gun exploded and an officer and five men were killed.
 A gentleman living in Cummings. Georgia. aged So years, told his pest master that he never w,ute nor received a letter during his whole life.
 St Louis will have ore political dis tinction in the FIty-6rst congress. It is the only large city in the union which will have a solid republican delegation.
 Elisha Atkins, one of the original promoters oi the Union Pacific railroad and for a long time its first vice presi- dent, died recently at Boston. aged 75 years.
 Thirty persons have been bitten by mad wolves near villages in the neigh of Pesth. The majority of hem have already died after suffering great pain.
 The river and harbor bill has been completed by the committee and vill be reported to the house early next week. It apprepriates in round numbers SI 3, s,ooo.ooo.
 The people ~ Maricopa county recog- ,ize only one issue. and that is the and protection of every in- crest calculated to advance the Salt iver valley.-Gazeste.
 An Indianapolis druggist has discov- :red a poison 90 powerful that quan- ity Of its vapor will kill every living hing on an acre of ground. It is ,ice thing to hunt rabbits with.
 It was an educational campaign and learned something but Grover md the people of Texas. Even "Bin' springer got new idea or '"t. and s lewlrsd hot to admit Dakota.-Ex
 Mrx John Clinch. of New Mexico. ,racticed with a revolver until she :euld hit dime at ten paces. and then scksd heiself up in cleset while one med thief spent t~o hours rsbbing the l 'ouse. A fifteen-year-old girl in San Francisco ,as learned the horse-shoeing trade. nd she can hammer a shoe on a nule's foot with the best of lem. She makes SI8 per week and deesnt want Q many.
 A New Yosk lawyer agreed to tell hs truth fer four years if Harrison was leued. He has been obliged to give ? his law practice. II this rule should revail in Arizona ruin would ssare the rofessioo in the face -Ex
 The Kansas leeislaanre vanss to Iake 1t . misdemeanos fog . sleeping- ls post9 to receive pesquisisss from assengess Why not make t penal 6ense tor Pullman to hire possers tos ]