Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-12-14
WEDNESDAY. DEC. Ii, 1892

Jay Gould's funeral took place in New York on Monday, Dec. 5th.
 The official count in California gives Cleveland plurality of l52
 Congressman Harter, of Ohio, has introduced bill to repeal the bounty on sugar.
 President Harrison it is said will settle in New York at the close of his term of office.
 The steamship La Gssgogne sail ed for Havre the other day with Sl,eo0oo0 in gold.
 A bill has been introduced in the United States senate repeating the law for the purchase of silver.
 The office of the Philadelphia Ledger, Geo, ". Ghild's paper, was destroyed by fire, Loss S256,OW.
 The snubbing of. Speaker Crisp, by Cieveland's friends st that New York banquet, was. not case of "didnt-know- he-was-loaded."
 Giis Bend wants a newspaper. 1t is given out also that the formation of new county, with Gila Bend as the county seat. would be accepts ble to the people of the town.
 Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, widow of Diamond Je" Reynolds, in carry ing out a we'll known wish of her husband. has presented the Chicago university the sum of S25e,0O0.
 The six-shooter, as an arbitrator of disputes. must go. A vigorous enforcefnent of the law will do much towards bringing about this much desired end.
 A telegram from Chicago says that three safes in one of the big office buildings near tine police headquar- ters were blown open and robbed Fri day night. There is no clew to the per petrators. The robbers secured S1,5O0. ~.
 Governor Flower of New York, and his sister, Mrs. Schley, have been indicted by the grand jury for maintaining nuisances at Long ls- Ian. The Govrrnor and others own large blocks of property, principally swamp land and cesspools.
 An Indiana paper has invented new word-snollygoster. It says that a snollygoster is man who wants an office that he cannot get, and that he could not fill if he got it. How many snollygosters are there in Arizona just nowi
 In the town of Artegan, Mexico, on the 26th. a bull fight resulted in the death of several men and wound ing many others. The bulls, four in number, became frantic with rage, rushed against the barricade, raging it to the ground and horned and trampled men and women to death.
 The Call asserts that W. K. Hearst has ordered the sale of all his real estate in California, and that he will probably sell the Ex- aminer. He is to make his future home in southern Europe, probably in Italy. He will build a beautiful marble villa. At present Hearst is floating up the Nile. :i
 The St. Johns Herald thinks it is not likely that President-elect Cleveland will reappoint any of those who held office under his former administration. This is cold comfort to the numerous former appointees of his who are seeking the places formerly held by them.
 Capt Smith. in charge of schooner, was arrested in San Diego on the arrival of his vessel there. on the charge of having mur- dered young George Neale, by throwing him from the schooner Lou White, at sea. He confessed that he did throw the boy out of the vessel. His only excuse is that the boy wanted to run the schooner and it made him mad.
 In contrast with the promises made by Mark Smith during the campaign a telegram from Wash ington says that the democrats pro- pose letting the bills admitting Arizona and New Mexico go over uptil next session, and not make a fight with the senate to pass the bills this- session. Another evil dence that the democratic party is a party of false pretenses.
 NJ. B. Curtis, better known as ''Sam'l of Posen,n who is charged with killing a San Francisco police man, is having a rough time to get tried. At his first trial the jury dis agreed and after numerous delays and postponments of his case an- other jury was impaneled recently and the second trial commenced. It had not progressed far until one of the jurymea died and the entire jury was discharged and another trial will have to be commenced de novo.
 A New York telegram says that Senator Hill has been offered the position of general counsel for the Equitable Life Insurance Society, at an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars, and 1t is believed l that he will accep, it. From pe- cuniary standpoint the position Is l