Arizona citizen., 1879-12-20
VOTES OF TIE DAY.

A BILL is before the city council of Victoria, British Columbia, prohibit ing the herding together of Chinamen
 SIX thousand tons of steel rails have been purcoased in Germany for the Shenandoah Valley railroad in West Virginia.
 THE Arizonsu learns that Frank Fitch, son of the Hon. Thomas, has taken position on the editorial staff of the Herald.
 THE old Webster mansion at Marsh field, Mass, destroyed by fire, is to be replaced by erother building as simi- lar to 1t as possible.
 THE British National Lifeboat h. stitution has 300 boats and spends about $200,00 annually in rescuing ,on an average, 1000 lives.
 THE latest British emigration returns show that 55,019 persons emigrated in the last quaIter-37, no were English, 6727 Scotch and 12,182 Irish.
 THE Emigration Commissioner of Tennessee will soon sail for Europe in the hope of inducing emigrants to this country to settle in that State.
 FIFTY thousand acres of land in Parker and Palo Pinto counties, Texas. has just been purchased by French capitalist for colonization purposes.
 NJ. EMILE OLIVIER says that Thiers was familiar with all the manifesto tions of the human spirit, except the T'synthetic speculations of philosophy"
 Col. c. SYKES, of San Xavier and Calabasas Companies, goes 10 Arizona next week to look after the interests of these companies.-l Economist, of November 29.
 THE largest shipment of raw silk ever brought to San Francisco was landed last week, amounting to fifteen hundred bales and requiring ten cars for its transportation East.
 J. H. HAMMOND has been relegated from an Indian Inspectors position to private life. Our correspondent, who has seen him since his fall says he has less wag in his coat tail than former ly-[ [Silver Belt.
 THE Philadelphia exhibition dies hard. The Fairmont Park Commis- sioners insist upon removal of the | building, except those intended to be permanent, and the show managers re- sist thier order.
 BATH, the city of Beau Nash and Michael Angelo Bantam, protests against street railroads as uncalled for, injurious, and calculatsd to injure her" The population consists chiefly of superannuated persons.
 ACURIoUs calculation has been made by continental statistician as to the amount drawn by various sovereigns from the civil list. According to this | it appears that the CZar has S25, ,000 per day and the Sultan $1s,O00.
 A PRoEINENT Scotch divine con demns tendency to return in the arrangement and construction of churches and furniture, to the old pop | ish idea" He favors the Grecian style of architecture, and would leave the ! Gothic to the Roman Catholics.
 THERE are today more than two hundred and forty-two thousand gov ernment pensioners. The amount of the years pension to all pensioners to all pensioners is $25, ,493,742; but the actual payment is millions in excess, because the newly admitted cases have arrears of pension due.
 THE old church of San Salvatrove in Venice has reopened this autumn after ten years and eight months spent in restoring it This church contains two works by Titian-the great altar piece of the TranStiguration and an Annunciation, both works of his later years as we'll as several other note worthy pictures of the Venetian school.
 THERE is a man in Kentucky whose first child was a girl. He wanted a boy so bad that for two years he would not acknowledge the sex of the child. He made q prominent man of the Icounty believe that il was boy and named for him. This deception has never been corrected, and today the P. NJ. rejoices that at least one boy bears his name and testities to his greatness.
 THE quantity of silver obtained in 1878 from British mines was 397,4I1 ounces, and most of the precious metal was found in combination with lead. the total value of the silver thus obtain. | ed in the year in question was estimat- ed at eSS, ,296 19s Cd. In the same year the gold found in British mines, some | TOO ounces, was valued at e2845 l5s 2d. Nearly all this British gold was pro- cured in Wales.
 THE number of men drafted into the army and navy of Prussia in the mill tarv year lS7S-9 was SG,489. Of this number there are only 2265 who had | not received common school educa- tion. while TS,6l1 had been educated ! in elementary German schools. and 56l3 in schools for Polish or other non- German speaking children. Disre- garding the small province of Hohen- zolern, the best educated province, judging by the military test. was Schleswig- HClstein, where only 25 per cent were without elementary educa- ton.
 SAMUEL SHOOK got mrrried al Hills horo, Ohio. aud took his bride to the home he had prepared. Two rowdies of the neighborbood, desiring to play what they conceived to be good joke | on the husband, broke into the house that night while he was asleep and car ried of the wife. frightening her into silence by brandishing pistols. They hid her for three days and then return ! her to the anxious MT. Shook. They said they meant no harm, but he re- fuses to regarG the exploit as fun and ! has had them arrested.
 PERSONS apparently in connection with the German government repeat in the German Press that the Russian troops stationed in Poland and Lithua- mia have, within the last few months, been increased to something like half million of men. One-balf of these are stationed in the kingdom of Pc l,,I ;r donE fha of