Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-05-20

hsilSn SspastiSas arc hBetioS Ou purchasing all the California win cries.
 Flagstaff was selected, at the recent ele -tion, as the county seat of Coconino county.
 Graham county elected two republi- cans as delegates to the constitutional contention.
 Latest returns indicate that the dem ocrais will have majority in the con- stitutional convention.
 The sheriff of Pinal county. it i. re- ported, is to be investigated for alleged shortage in his accounts.
 J. de Earth Shorb, of San Gabriel,
 Cafhornia, is grubbing up fifty acres of vines on his place and will plant the lSnd to figs
 Out of 4 svotes polled at Flagstaii at the recent election, there were ST straight republican tickets and 3r straight democratic ones
 Australia has drafted new cons,itu- ton in which her form of ofgovermest is materially changed. Aus,r alia is a pro- gressise country.
 Henry M. Stanley says an acre of blnana plants in the forests of Africa will produce twenty-five times as much food as al acre of wheat in England.
 A Nebraska druggist has just been convicted oi manslaughier and sentenced 10. the penitentiary for having made a fatal mistake in putting up corrosive sublimate instead of calomel for Miss Carrle EasleS which resulted in her death.
 An effort will be made by residents of Williams and other citizens in that vicin. fly, and west of the place, to be reunl- ted to Yayapai county at the next session of the legislature. They do not seem to be satisfied with Coconino.
 ''Hard time parties" are being given in some parts of Nebraska. The invita-. tions are sent out in funny rhytnes. writ. ten on coarse brown paper and enclosed in brilliant yellow envelopes. They in- yite the receivers 10 be present in "rags and tattefs, and tatters and rags"
 The California Worlds Fair commis- sionefs will pay bonus of $500 for the best plan for building for the state exhibit at Chicago. The building mus, represent some of the state charac- tesistics, and must not cover an area of more than 6o, 900 square. feet or more than 7s,ooo. Its costs must not exceed ; $ioo,ooo. Eich plan must also be ac- compsnied by an approximate estimate of cost.
 1 A St. Louis man insured his life for the benefit of his xife. The good lady ; died first and he finally married again. and after living years with his second wife. died and followed the first. The old assurance was claimed by the sec : end wife, but sbe courts decide that it was the estate of the frs, wife, and gave Il to her children.
 Secretary Foster has ne ambition to die tn harness. IL IS said that be called bis aides around him on taking ihe office and said to them: "Yon may de ali the work you want to; you may : even work yourselves sick devising new duties and cares---in fact, the harder you work the better for me but want il plainly understood that don't . intend to kill myself while l am here"
 The defauiting treasurer of the state of Missouri has been acquitted. In the judges charge 10 the jury be made use Of the following remarkable instruction: "Before you can convict the defendant you must believe beyond reasonable doubt from the evidence in the case, that be converted the public money to to bis own use, with the intent at tbe time of converting 10 retain said money and deprive the state of it," Such a charge to jury would release satan frog the bottomless pit-Ex.
 One of the daily papers of Rome pub. fishes in every issue the following edi- torisl notice: "For report of fight or a fire in which one or more human lives were lost we pay lire and so cents; for report of a suicide, lire; for re port oi an attempt at suicide, so cents; for a report of an accident at which a person suffered bodily harm, 50 cents; for reports of murder, highway rob- bery, burglary and other happenings of this kind, we pay according to the inn portsnce of the event. but in no case less than $ fires" Another grip theory has appeared. f According 10 this, the disease IS caused by an excess of carbonic acid in the air. The spring foliage drinks up this acid and the grip microbe having nothing to feed upon, departs. Then too the thirsty i; souls around the city will drink up all c the carbonic acid gas made in the soda and the grip will be DO where |, during the coming summer. When the |, leaves have gone and the season for "hot i, Scotcha commences again must We fall victims 10 the dread disorder?-Ex. IT Even the mugwump.democratic Har- per's Weekly is forced to concede that t has thus far been doing injustice to V NIT. Harrison, as witness the following il from its last issue: Those who v ,xa 1;.nosad kr> nta.. ,.... , |,