Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-12-30


 rics of the arid regions provides for the loan of money not exceeding 2,500,O0O in one year, nor exceed ing $l0,OO0,O00 in all, to a single State, the money to be advanced by the United States at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum.
 John Fitzgerald, of Nebraska, has been awarded judgment against Jay Gould, Russell Sage and others for $475,000. The suit grew out of a partnership arrangement between the parties in railroad building, in which, Fitzgerald asserts, Gould and partners drew the pay and left him "out in the cold"
 General Schofeld says that l0,OC0 soldiers from the regular army can be furnished on short notice in the event of trouble with Chile. Ten times that number of volunteers could be secured within week after call was made for them. The JouRNAL-MINER predicts that there will however be no occasion for either.
 Grand Duke Sergius has been given peremptory leave of absence for a year from Russia by his broth CT, the Czar. The Grand Duke was governor of Moscow, and claims to have interested himself in prevent ing the official stealing of aid sent to the starving peasants, and to thus have engendered the enmity of high officials. The Czar, it is said, suspects him of plotting against his authority.
 The papers now are full of reme- dies for la grippe. The best thing for one to do when he feels that this disease has taken a grip on him is to take treatment of good physician, and take care of himself. Any at tempt to wear out the disease gen orally proves unsuccessful and the patient generally years out in the attempt. Tonic doses of quinine are said to be good preventives of the disease as it keeps the system in order to repel it.
 Democratic papers have com menced publishing the interviews Mark Smith manages to have with newspaper correspondents. If there is anything that MT. Smith can de, and do we'll, it is talk. His next best qualification as congressman is his adeptness at fishing. Arizona has every reason to be proud of these two accomplishments of her dele gate, as the only congressional suc- cesses ever achieved by him has been on one of these two lines, par ticularly. the fishing line.
 ANew York man sat with his fold ed arms on a window-sill of the second story of a building, appa- rently looking at some object, for two days. He was in plain view, and within a short distance of an elevated railroad, and employees of the latter wondered at his vigil, as he could be seen at early morn and late at night. Aphysician travelling on the road had his attention called to the old man, when at a single glance he noticed that he was dead. An investigation led to the discov- cry that he had been troubled with asthma and with blanket thrown around his shoulders had come to the window for fresh air, and while sitting in that position had sudden ly died, and remained there for two days.
 Newspaper business seems pretty dull in Phenix just now particularly, in the news line. When the space is not occupied in the three papers, referring to each other in uncompli- mentary terms, they work up big sensational item one day, with glar- ing headlines, and then with larger headlines the day following explain how it was all mistake. Two in stances of this kind have occurred during the past week. In one of them doctor was charged with the seduction and ruin of sixteen year-old girl, and in the next issue it was told how it was all mistake, that the couple were happily mar ried, and congratulations were ex- tended. The other item in question elaborated on the crookedness of a loan agent in one issue, and in the following told what nice gentle man he was.