Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-11
Nens Notes.

News NOtes.
 l Secretary Folger refuses to listen to Oifice-seekers.
 In New York City the Michigan Re lief Fund now amounts to Sl3S,734.
 The extra session of the Louisiana Legislature was convened Tuesday.
 More than one thousand horses are suffering from "pink-eye" at Pittsburg, Pa. Several animals have died.
 In London, Saturday, African Bank shares were weak, on account of report cd heavy failures at Cape Colony.
 The Russian Fete of the Order of St. George will this year be held at Cat china, the Emperor's residence.
 The body of Herman Anderson, an l emplOye on ranch, was found hanging to a tree near Deadwood Saturday. During November Chicago packers slaughtered 64O,0OO hogs, against 935,000 for the corresponding period last year.
 4 Tunis despatch states that Roustan, the French Minister, has started for ! Paris, and it Is believed he will not re- turn.
 ! 4 passenger and a freight train came in collision on the New York and New England road at East Thompson, Conn.,, Saturday.
 Willie Johnson, aged r., and Johnnie Lutbach, aged :, were drowned in ] pond, at Lyons, Pennsylvania, Sunday, while skating
 \ debt of S22,000,0O0 hangs over the District of Columbia, which the United ! States at large are asked to pay tO re- l heve the District Government.
 Ten European steamships left the port | of New York on the 2Sth ultimo. Six ] carried passengers, while four carried nothing but freight.
 The New York elevated railway com panies calculate that they can save S50,- GOO year by supplying themselves with water instead of taking Croton. A farm of 200 acres at Bemis Heights, l the scenes of the battles of Saratoga. which asslred the independence of ] America, was sold the other day for Sl0,- GOO.
 l The Virginia Legislature meets De- | cember Ith, and the election for Senator takes place December 20th. The Read iuster majority on the joint ballot is | twenty-six.
 After New Years no child under l twelve can be employed in any manu- | featuring establishment in New Hamp- shire, except during the regular school ! vacstiOns.
 | The NovOe Nremya and Vredemoste [ of St. Petersburg condemn as utterly | grOundless the rumOrs of impending f..l.. L. Al ! Administration.
 The Receiver of Taxes of Philadelphia : is paid S25,OO0 per annum. He has the appointment of q Receiver of Delin- 1 quent Taxes, whose emoluments last year was SiOl0O0.
 An eel got into the water pipe of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, at Stamford, Conn, the other day, and the vast m8uufactOry was obliged to shut down.
 Grain, Rising x O., manufacturers of boots and shoes Sumner street, Boston, are reported to have failed. Their lia- bilities are estimated at from SJO,0O0 to S2B,OOu.
 \ Humboldt county hunter. between September l, 1879, and October 9, 1881, killed lsl bears, = partners, l5l wild cats, l43 foxes, 3Gl coons, 9 coyotes and l5 bald eagles.
 Edison has bought more land and buildings at East Newark, N J., and ex- poets to be able to turn out 10000 elec- tric lights a day so soon as his machinery is ready for work.
 IL is reported that arrangements have l been made to relieve the creditors of the Mechanics National Bank of New | ark, N. J., by partial payment and the l revival of the bank.
 A despatch from the City of Mexico ! says an attempt tas made Saturday to | murder the Governor, Manuel LerdO. | The wOuld-be assassin was instigated by | political enemies.
 Advices from Yokohama say tlss fine T British bark Forward ism Hiogo on October SiI'iil- for Portland, is ashore at Sendai Bay, and will probably become a total wreck. The crew were saved.
 HuEtiugtOn's Chesapeake and Ohio road has agreed to build to Louisville. provided it Is given the right of way for entrance and exit in such parts Of the city as its engineer may think best.
 The New Orleans Democrat of the
  sick of the absurd Hawaiian treaty, whose only effect has been to enrich an already wealthy ring in San Francisco.
 Secretary Blaine will shortly give farewell state banquet tO the members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washing ton at the Arlington Hotel. The Presi- dent and Cabinet will be among the guests.
 Advices from Detroit state that a jury has acquitted Mrs. Barnard, who has been on trial for the murder of the wife of Rev. E. Curtis by setting fire to the latter's clothes. The case has been very mysterious. \ commission is sitting iu New York tO take testimony in regard to the Broadway underground railroad scheme. Architect Mullet thinks the plan IS fraught with danger and would cost S2,O00,000 per mile. Theodore 5. Paxton. the stage driver who recently died at Utica, \. r., left SS3GOO to a number of sOcie- ties, including local Masonic lodges, the American Bible Society and the Home Missions.
 If Guiteau had shot his washerwoman most people by this time wOJ,.i,t agree that he was insi-T-Ie, but there IS a wide nublnc- impression that a man sane enough tO pick ont a President tO shoot Is sane enough to hang.-Philadelph Press.
 James Bradley, of Louisville, who has been rated at SjNW)O has been ruined bv speculation in Texas-Pacific, and is believed tO have lost his reason. The city banks hold Sl650OO of his paper, but claim to be secured by collateral.
 Mrs. Garfield will soon receive from the Women's Silk Culture Association the first silk dress every part.Of which from egg tO finished fabric has been pro- duced in this country. The silk has just been reeled by the members of the As sociation, and Is said to be eqzal to the best Italian silk.
 What IS said to be the largest mort gage ever recorded in the United States was filed with the Recorder of Hamilton county, Ohio, on the 25th ultimo. It was for SlS,000OO0 The mortgage is to the Mercantile Trust Company of New York, and is by the Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western Railroad Company.
 4 twenty-six hour race between Row ell, Of England, and Dobler, of Chicago, began at Chicago Tuesday evening. The friends of each are equally confident The first five miles were accumulated in thirty-four minutes and fifty-fOur sec onds, with no appTeciable distance be- tween them at any time during their trOt.
 Cincinnati is not a church-going place. The Gazette observes: There are a great many people, intelligent and agreeable