Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-04-30

are chickens m that land wiih tails tom eleven to thirteen feet long and they are prounder than the pcacooks.
 The largest uee in tae world accord ing 10 statistics lately published by the Italian government. ia a monster chest uut standing at ,he foot of Mount .Eina. The circumference of the main trunk at sixty seet from the ground is sIs feet
 The southern people have commenced their attempts to p'evah upon the gov sramenl to pay them for the damage sus' tained during the war Of the rsbe ion. Mir. Enioe. of Tennessee, introduced q bill 10 pay certain persons m the south ,he,sum ol $SsSt9S for supplies elairAsd to have been furnished te the Union army.--ES
 Dt. Hagendorn aud twe companions, psr' Wisconsin. have been sen. teaeed to two years esca m the peEaea-- ,iary for wholesale theft oi chickens, ten thousand fowls having been traced up to the trio. When Dr. Hsgendorn's prem. ises near ,he city limits were searched they found several hundred chickens and evidence to show that several hun- dred others had been killed thsre.
 From August, 1888, te IanuarY 1898, thsre were treated at the fssteuE insti- ute 10 Paris Sso cases og persons bitten by raoid animals. wi,h but enc death. Under ,he cid method of treatment, ur without any treatment, .he mortality, in this number would have been Iso deaths. Such results show ,he great ness of PAs1eur's work and she efficacy Of preventive inoculatien against dis ease.
 The IouRNA, MINER oongratulates the administration on is excellent appoint ment of an assissisiant treasurer os the ] United States at San Francisco. the sp- pointee being Colonel John P Jackson, formerly editor of the Evening Post. 1 Colonel Jackson Was an army comrade of President Harrison and fellow student also In q law office m thelr earlier years.
 He is republican oi the uneompromis' ing stamp and an honest and aAle man. |.
 A Little Rock. Arkansas, telegram says The Clayton BEecklnridge inyes- ;iga,ion committee examined about ses- enty@hve wiinRsses to-day, nearly all Of
 whom were negroes. The latter testise- that they cast straight republican tickets containing the name ot John N. Clay ton as a candidate for congress. In this state a number IS written on a 8 ticket couespondeuing 70 the number in the poll book, SC that it IS easy ,o as- certain the ticket cast by each voter. In nearly al cases wherea negro unable to read had cast h.s vote the ballot pre- duoed was straight democratic one. ! Colonel N. s Smth, manager of a lumber company near PineWlle, Ken lucky. on Saturday shot and killed Flank Phillips Philips, when he hrst mel Smith seme weeks ago, charged him with being | he man who, during the war [,
 had Phillips father sssess7d and sent 10 prsou This Smi, and appar. entity satisfied .,@ Tat night, however, Phillips soagh, cut Smiths q1srters and shot hiln while in bed, in Aichns a would which is painful but not dangerous. When Smith recovered be eot fom Governor Fleming, of West Vreinis, areQuisi;ion CD Governor Fauik- ner for Philips arrest Uader author i,y of Governor Baokner, Smith waa at tempting to arrest Philips when the iat- ter was killed.
 Work has sgain been resumed on the railEoad to the summit of Pikes Peak and will be completed within two months. The frst train will climb 10 the summit Of the peak on juiY 4th, Of this year. The read is beiag built on tke Abt system, uader the direct supervision Of Mir W. Hilderoraud, the American representative of Mir Apt The length ef the road is 46. $ feet, CT almost ex- aotIy eight and three-quarteFs miles. The altitude .. Manltou station is 6.6oo teet, and the summit I4 zoo feet above the sea level the total ascent beiog 1000 feet, or an average oi $40 feet per mile. The maximum grade IS twenty fire per cent Oger twenty lwo pei cent of the line has g'ade of from twenty l two 70 twenty-five per cent. Tho grad iug is already competed and now only awaits the laying oi the iron 10 put t In shape to commence operations.
 As an evidence that blood counts only ter what it IS worth in this coun- tfy l. IS cned that the head water aS the Grand Pacific hotel ID Boston is a baron. who in Beriin eight years aso was a daShjug lieutenant oi the Zei,hen HuSsar, the present emperor's favoriie regiment 4 count formerly an equeriY te one Of the German royal princes, and son of an eN-Gs,man ambassador. is now agent Tor 8 firm in New York sbst manufactures a particular brand of whisky another count, member of one Of the most powerful families in Germany IS driving street car in Philadelphia while still another count IS engaged as a money tsker in a vsri- sty show in St. Louis The brother of an English ba~onet and heir-presump- tive to his ancient haronetcy is working ID 3 Florida saw mil, brother of well known English dlplomatist is porter in Tallahassee hotel and the heir of an earldom, who was employed in the mailing department Of the New York Sun, has just died in abieot poy- euy. Besides these there arc almost