Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05

lu Congress.
 A S2,5O0.O0O shipment of gold wa;
 made from London to New Yorl
 January 20.
 Mrs. General Grant celebrated hel
 seyentieth birthday the other day.
 She IS in excellent health.
 It is fortunate that the fate of the
 republican party does not depend
 upon the united action of republi
 can Senators.
 A recent telegram from New York
 says there is no hope for Mrs. May
 brick being released from the Eng
 fish prison.
 Republicans in Congress, beng
 now provided with a Cannon in both
 House and Senate, are ready for the
 battle to open.
 \ Pittsburg lawyer has died of
 spinal disease, caused by bending over at an angle of forty-fve degrees
 while riding a wheel.
 The death of H ,n. Theodore Run yon, United States Ambassador to
 Germany, gives MT. Cleveland an other Sl7, 500 position to dispose of A Los Angeles paper says that
 when a Phenix man comes to that
 city for a blow out, he locates him
 self in a hotel where there are in candesceut lights.
 Bismarck didn't respond very cor dially to the bouquets the Emperor has been throwing at him, when he came out flat footed against the Emperor's foreign policy.
 Prince Battenburg, who had never received anything but abuse from the English press, would have died happy if he cculd have know all the good things that same IT, ss would say of him.
 Senator Baker has introduced an amendment to the silver bill now before the Senate providing hat any person who takes silver or ,old to the mint to be coined shall lake an equally valuable amount of the other metal, and have both cOi4ed. The amendment sets forth that its purpose is to secure the parity of the two metals.
 Judge James H. Mulligan, United States Consul to Samoa, who re- turned to his home at Lexington, Kentucky, last week, was given a banquet on "Wednesday night. Al the banquet he made an address, the most remarkable part of which was the following: "When I was away off on that little sPeck of land on the Pacific Ocean and looked across the vast stretch of sea to the storms that were agitating this country, I could see no democrats and no republicans. It was America. The English, the Germans and all the others are against America, no matter what the diplomats may say. feel that I have learned more in the east two years than 1 have ever learned before. l have borne my | part in the battle of politics, have l spoken bitter words, but when 1 l stood under that mighty crag on that far away speck in the ocean, and helped to lay him to rest whom I had learned to love and who | believe had learned to love me, Robert Louis Stevenson, felt that if l ever got back home, I wolld | never speak al unkind word to a fellow countryman, but would do all I could i O bind up any wounds that I may have caused.'
 Our contemporary continues to expose to view its "scare crow" on the bill for leasing university lands. IL says: The people would like to know what these university lands are to be leased for, if not for the timber that is on them" The uni 7ersity lands do not all contain tim per. The law does not compel the easing of the timber lands, but Inder it the agricultural lands can De leased. Our contemporary urges hat there is no clause in the bill ,aying that the timber shall not be ut" It might just as we'll argue hat there is no clause in the oil Iaying that the timber SHALL BE CUT, proposition which our contem- ,orary apparently assumes. From he stand point taken by it, a ! an vho leases a building, conveys by he lease, the right for the lessee to lemolish the building at his pleas Ire, unless it is specifically stated hat the buil ipg shall not be torn town.
 Our contemporary seems to have ,ecome somewhat muddled on the Ionroe doctrine. It says: "Our ,enators and Congressman who are Q eager to interfere in far eastern which in no way co: .ern hem, should remember the Monroe .octrine - transatlantic fellows hould keep hands of the western ( emisphere and western hemispl ere elbows should keep hands of the ther side of the world. It is a very . GOT rule which fails to work both [ -avs" Tho Monroa doctri an |