Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-01-23
.rw.. norrs AND COMMENTS.

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 The Bisbee railroad is completed.
 Colorado wants high license law.
 Mrs. Jay Gould died on the 18th inst.
 Congress has appropriated $Soo.ooo for post office site in San Francisco
 David Bennett Hill for president in rSos IS the flag already flung to the breeze by the Amsterdam (New York; Sentinel.
 Two edi,e,s were wounded in French duel recently. This violation ot the rules puts a gory hue on the European situation.
 Minnie Palmer goes about the world with $sso, 900 worth of diamonds. and has special detective to see that they are not purloined.
 A short time ago Fanny Davenport bought the General Grant estate near Chicago for SIS. and last week she sold the property tor $se,ooo.
 General Lew Wallace has just pur- chased building lot Tn Indianapolis so' $Is, 500. He evidently does not expect to live in Washington al present.
 The owners of the Haytien Republic get $I ao, 900 for the seizure and deten- ton of their vessel. They would prob ably like 10 have it seized again.
 The case to test the cons.itutionallty of the Chinese Exclusion act has been advanced on the calendar of he United States Supreme Court. and will be heard soon.
 Congressman W L. Scott announces that he Is lou, of politics forever" The boy who was kicked b, mule was not SO pretty afterwards, but he had more sense
 A sister ot the late Colorow, chief ot the Southern Utes, died the day after her brothers demise. She was old and feeble and could not withstand the sad news of the renegade's departure.
 Jay Gould is said te have a strong antipathy 10 fair-haired men. There IS not single blonde clerk in his immedl- ate employ. and i, IS said that he dislikes to do business with men who have fair hair. E. w. H. Reed, of Hsrredsburg, Ken ,ucky, has trunk which came over m the Mayfower. and has been kept in the family ever since its arrival a67 years ago. It has never made journey by rail.
 Captain William S. Adams. retired shipmas,er, of Plymouth Massachusetts. who died December 3I, bequeathed $is5,ooo to the Boston Marine society and $6o, 1000 to the Boston Pilots society.
 Ellison F. Adams, one of the found- CTS of Oakland, California, died recently and disposed of an estate oi $S.ooo, 900 in a will of twenty lines There will be little opportunity for the lawyers in a will like that.
 Frank Hall, of Waukesha, Wisconsin. enlisted in 1860 and served tnrongh the war. Hearing his wife was dead, he did notreturn 10 Waukeshas till last-xaek. when he found Mrs. Hall still living and an inmate of the almshoIse.
 Ex-Senator Jones writes card to the Detroit Tribune denying that he will be m applicant for office under lhe liar rison administration and proneuncing the statement that he has become citizen of Michigan .'msliciously and libelouSly false"
 Io Howard says ia the New York Press:s"Why no, pu, an end to the denial of ,h...eport that Mss Kate Field Is to lecture on American wine for payP She does talk on thelu and she does re- ceive, in her own words, her incidental expenses. And she earns ail she gets."
 Sig. Blaz, the genial old snowman who generation ago delighted amuse- ment-!ovcis with his fcs,s oi ven.rilo- du,sm and legerdemain, has become hopeless .imbecile through successive strokes of paralysis, and will spend the remnant of his dgkened days in an asylum
 Moses Jacobs. who sells papers in the streets oi Des Moines, iowa, IS probably the richest ne~sboy m the west He IS eighteen years old and has sold newspa. pers for inc last fourteen years, during which time he has acquired $4,ooo worth of real estate fom his savings.
 The Hon. Isnatlus Donneliy i, quoted as saying that he docsn't care sixpence about what anybody says about his book or himself. He says: "I am right, and time will justify me; nine-ten,hs of the graves of the world are filled with una dultera,ed fools."
 The number of convictions for various crimes and misdemeanors in the courts of New York State during the past year reached the startling figure of 93.SI4. About sA, oi these were females. And yet this shows decrease from the