Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-13

One ot the Bryan electors in Kan sas-W. Il. Linton-is reported to be disqualified by reason of bis having been @ des-rtsr from the Union army. which he entered as a substitute.
 Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Com pauv has made arrangements to start O new express company. It will be called the Manhattan e1- press company, and will be backed by tbe ahove railroad company.
 The republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee arS all men of wisdom and eXpeIi- euee and csu be trusted to prepare q tariff bill that will be in accord ancs with the republican platform and the expressed wishes of ma jority of the American voters.
 Almost the entire adult popula- ton of she town of Manchester, Connecticut, are sad to have be- como victims of the cocaine habit, owing to the sale of preparation containing that drug by a local druggist.
 A gentleman named Loud Is par ticulSrly anxious Co pass new pos tGl bill, by which he figures that he will save SS,OOO,OOO to the govern meut annually. Opponents of the bill claim that it will effect a saving O! only about S2OO0.OO0. One of the special features of the bill is to take away the privilege now en- joyed by small newspapers Of send ing sample copies free ai posiass
 The telegraph tells of a wedding T Kentucky of William Sexton a d los to Mrs. William Croft aged l l the ceremony being witnessed " one thousand people, relatives and friends Of the couple. MT. Sexton had been a widower for sixty years and Mrs. Croft a widow for the same period. The ceremony was performed in a log house Sexton helped 10 build ninety years ago, and after the wedding the couple drove away iu a carriage eighty three years old.
 IL is said that "i: Is an i'll wind which blows no cue any good" IL is a regular cyclone twister that blows all the good things into the yard of ones neighbor, without dropping something into his own. Just see what the agitation, to refuse pay ment of those so-called r. & 4. C. bonds has done for Lawyers Hern- don < Norris dropped a great big 5000 fee right down on their front door steps, with an additional SS,UO0 one looming up in the distance.
 ElsaSLere in this issue will be found s synopsis of a very able farewell address delivered by Hon. Morris Goldwa,er last night on re- tiring from the office of mayor. The address deals quite exhaustively and very iute.ligent.y with the ques- tions affecting the welfare of the city, embodving financial and other data of the greatest interest to every taz payer, and making some wise suggestions and recommendations for the future. Nr Goldwater has served the city for two years, in lhe responsible. s0mewha, onerous and thankless position of mayor. His term of office has been marked by conscientious performance of duty, as he has conceived it and he retiTes with 5 consciousness of duty we'll performed The perplexities aud annoysuc-s of thi, posisiOn are great, tle remuneration nothing. One very important thing has been scsompI shed under his administra- ton VI ich should be appreciated by eve. y tax payer and that Is the rsdact.o on of the rate of taxation from sl.OO to 75 cents on the hun drsd and this without impairing the efficiency of the city govern