Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-12-11

Omciai raper 0I 1AvapAl county
 WEDNESDAY,. DEC |, II, 1889.
 Blood oranges are becoming favori.es with California orange raisera
 Judge w. w. Porter has returned. to Phesix and will engage in. the pratice oi
 law.
 The Monongahela he,el one ot the old landmarks of Pittsburg. Penn. was destroyed by lire last week.
 It IS now stated that the deficiency of N. F. Silcett. sergeant as,arms in the house ot representatives. amount to
 $7S,ooo.
 The English press does not seem to regard Jefferson Davis a great man. while the south is bathed in tears over bis demise.
 In their evidence in rebuttal the prosecution in the Wham robbery case is knocking the wind clear out of the
 defsndants' ahbi theory.
 IL Fred Smith were ts prosecute all the papers that published the item allee- ing that be was several thousand dol lars short. he would find employment for the next few years.
 II the witnesses fer the defense in the Wham robbery case are to believed, i, vas fellow named aAlibi" that robbed the paymaster last May. The same fellow is also suspected of having killed Df. Cronin.
 "Old Man AdamsH and party ef Catifernians are exploring the eastern part of Arizona and western portion of New Mexico in qusst of the Adams Lost mine. said to be tabu!susly rich in gold Adams. the discsverer. was driven from it by Indians.
 The offices in Chiaa are held by the educated class. who pass . competitive examination; and Chiaa is the worst governed country on the globe. The farce of civil service examinations in this country is being thoroughly shown up. -Ex.
 Arailroad dog. whe travels steadily with his master in the cob on the Denver & Rio Grande locomotive. is said to be highly valuable in many ways, He can scent cattle on the track when they cannot be seen, and drives them of when they are indisposed toget oG-Ex
 A soothing syrup" in use ln Quebec has been analysed. and found ts contain nearly forty per cent of the liquid extract of opium. A number of children had been so eHectually "soethed" by it that they awoke only onhe other side of the pearly gates, be6ors attention was called to fs deadly character.
 Amelia B. Edwards says no one need think that the field of Egyptian explora- tion is limited; it is practically unlim- tied. Authorities are of the opinion that tn a.seo years nenly seo.oo.ooo mum mies were emtsmbcd, and that hundreds | ot theusands of buried cities and tenn pies ren,in to be discovered.
 That disappointed ex-Gsvsrnor A. P. K Saford. Us at last found an Arizona newspaper that will publish bis criti- cism of Governor Welfley and other ter rit6ria' officials. The people of Ari- zona, do not desire any criticisms from non-residenis and especially from persistent and over jealous. disappointed and disgusted office seekers. and advice from ex-Gsvernor Saf,rd. or any other non resident of the territory should be rebuked in unmsasured termS-Mohave Miner.
 The ballot box thieves at Plummers- vile. Ark. have been acquitted. It was for his activeness in pushing the prose cution of these persons that Hon. John C. Clayton xas murdered. Since his death, his brother. General Powell C. Clayton, has been pushing the presecu- lion. The St Louis Republic and other democratic papers see m the failure of he prosecution rebuke to the latter gentleman. Persons of straight tntel isent vision see in this failure only the of punishing crime in Ar ,ansss which have been committed in he interest of the dsmocracy.-Den- 5er Times. Oakland. California. has . police judge named Laidlaw, who recently to the weakness of hu- nan nature by imbibing more extract of blue grass than became one of his off rial character. On opening of court he next morning he very gray ely re- marked to the clerk ts enter up charge of druskenness against him, which be- ing done he allowed himself to ge on his ,wn rsccgnizance for few hours, when ,e arraigned himself before the bar # justice pleaded guilty and sentenced himself te pay fine of $50. In pass ng sentence he delivered lecture to himself. stating that if the offense was 'epeaated he would resign the office A correspondent writing from St. Johns te the Albuquerque Citizens says bat on the opening of court there eature of the empanelling the grand " ury was challenge to the Mormens 'he had been summoned. This was