Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-12-14

DTuHKenneSS IS an excuse TOT crime in Mexico, as is demonstrated in the trial of Jesus (the bad men are all Je- sus in MexicO) Grijalva who, in Altar, killed policeman and wounded a woman by shooting them with pistol. This was his only excuse, as the as- saults were entirely unprovoked. The district court sentenced him to death, but the supreme court cOmmuted his sentence to ten years imprisonment. So says "La Constitucion," the official paper of Sonora.
 The "Mexican Company of Lands and Colonization, Limited" denounced eleven mines lately, in the Suaqui Grande district, Sonora. They will put large force on at once to develop them.
 Adelina Patti will sing in the Grand National Theatre in the City of Mexi- co, on the 10th and 18th of January
 MEXICO AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
 Mexico, once the most bigoted and priest-ridden of nations, is fast be- coming very independent in its relig- ious ideas, or rather in its ideas of re- liglon. Previous to the era of inde- pendence, 1821-1S24, Mexico was rul- ed not so much by Spanish viceroys and their satellites as by the Roman Catholic church and its so-called fathers" With the enlightenment and education obtained through inde- pendence, the sway of power, which had become tyrannical, gradually weak ened, until the people rising in their might, executed that coup de main, which challenged the admiration of the world. and broke the chain which had hitherto held them in slavery. The power of the church has gradual ly become nulliLy. until to-day prob ably not over five per cent of the male population pay any attention to it whatever. It is curious sight, in vis- iting Roman Catholic church in al most any part of Mexico, to see almost the entire congregation composed of women and children and the residue Indians or males of the lower order. This is more severely felt by the church through the paucity of the offerings than in any other way, for instead of having their coffers full to overfowing as in days of yore, they now obtain but bare support. The writer of this can remember since the feast of San Francisco alone, at MagdAlena, brought to the coffers of Padre Moline of Magdalena, from tento fifteen thous- and dollars per year, and this ranch owning, cattle growing, lawyer priest rolled in wealth. But all this is past, and although the religion itself, as a religion, still commands respect, yet the power of the church and it's padres has departed forever. Imagine one of the principal journals in northern Mexico daring to pen the following a hundred years ago: "Infamous pro ceedings of the Cura of this port." ;" (Guaymas). It then goes on to state where Spanish Gall bad men are either Spaniards or "Yankees" in Mex ico) priest had brutally kicked poor, blind beggar woman out of his church, injuring her very badly. It says "From the lips of the unfortunate blind woman we have heard this pain full narration, which we have put in print, so that the authorities may know of the infamous conduct of this Spanish "fraile," Simon Valencia who like those of the greater part of his species, is 8 great credit to "the little brown jug"
 EXCURSION TO THE CITY OF MEXICO.
 On the 16th instant an excursion train will leave the port of Guaymas for Mexico, via the Sonora Central, the New Mexico X Arizona, the South ern Pacific and Mexican Central rail roads. A Pullman palace car will ac- company the train the entire distance