Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-11


 rect election of senators. It has be- n tn r,y years since the constitution Was la ameI del.
 Ex-Vice-P President Adlai K. Steven s n 1. to be the orator at the unveIl- ing of the monument to the signers Of the Mecklenburg declaration of inde- pendence, in Charlotte, North Caro- lina, May 20.
 Henry K. Sienk'ewiez, the famous author of Quo Vadis," was once one of the promoters an Uptopian colony near Los Angeles, Cal. Helena Mo jeska was also interested in this scheme. The colony was a failure.
 The eXportatlon of horses, mules, canned goods and munitions of war from the United States to the British army has been unprecedently large ill the past three months, and this move ment will be likely to be kept up until the war ends.
 Rev. James Needham, perhaps the | oldest preacher in the United States, was photographed at Mount Airy, N | C., recently. MT. Needham will be | loo Ners o.d at his next birthday, in May. He has never quit preach ins.
 The first American vessel on Lake Erie was the Washington, built near Ere, Pa. as early AS lI97. In the next year tle Jemima was put t,- | get her three miles below Rochester, and was the fret ofour vessels to blow the waters oi Lake Ontario.
 Il. finiay Acker. of Phila ielphia, appeabred before the congressional p Sial comm ssion recently as a repre- ,entative of the national board of trade. He advocated the reduction of letter postage to one cent, and the es. tablishment of q cheap parcel post.
 The brewers are preparing to make an effort to induce congress to remove the war tax from beer. It is notable | that the masses never complain of any particular form of taxation. They help 10 pay all of them directly or in- directly, yet they don't say word.
 American shops turned out 2,473 locomotives during 1s90-the largest number they have ever manufactured in one year, and 59S more than were made in 1898. More than p per cent of the number, or 534, were made for Railway companies ill other countries.
 This country is est mated to have 2l, ,45S, 294 children of school age, of wnum 70 per cent are in the common schools. In 1870 the school attend ce was but 6l4 per cent. The aver ;e school year has been heightened
 leven days in the last quarter of a century.
 A company has been incorporated der the laws of New Jersey to com piete the Panama canal and to buy and operate railroads and ships. The syndicate is thought to he a humbug. organIzed only as stumbling block in the way of the Nicaragua canal
 Nearly three million acres of land in this country were devoted last year to the cultivation of potatoes, with the result that crop of 242 million bushels has been or is being harvested. This IS the largest potato crop since 1896, and one of the largest in the country 's history.
 Director Merriam of the census. es- inmates that more than half million enumerators will be required to count the people this year, and 2,500 clerks ] at least to tabulate their reports and l put value to the country. Besides | these a couple of thousand special agents will be employed.
 Late advices from Manila state that l Aguinaldo's wife, together with her ! sisters and eighteen Filipinos, in- cluding three insurgent officers, sur iVhucfCu to bHJ'E NiaFCh . odOtdlioh of Third infantry. At the same time three American prisoners were recap tured.
 The war in South Africa will be now sharp and continuous till it is finished. The British have immense armies in the field, and they can, in the end, destroy the plucky little republics. The sympathy of the world goes out to the Boers, and if good wishes could help them, they would be victorious.
 Dr. Henry Norris, of Philadelphia, a grandson of Robert Morris, the "financier of the revolutioD," protests against the reported plan to petition congress for a return of the money ad- vanced to the government by Robert Morris during the struggle for inde- pcndence.
 The state department has instructed the United States consular agent at Lorenzo Marques to investigate the 1 facts connected with the recent seiz- ure of American flour by British war ships of the coast of Portuguese East | r-. NJ .t. l. T