Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-18
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 Electric lights are being put in the City Hall in Boston.
 High taxes are pushing many families out of Tennessee into Texas.
 Theodore 5. Paxton, the Utica million | aire, former stage driver, left SS3,lsN to local societies.
 Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, ad- heres to his opinion that Roscoe COnk- ling Is by no means politically dead.
 It cost nearly half-million dollars to pave and repair the roadways in the city of New York during the season just ended.
 The Hessian fly has made sad havoc in the wheat fields of southwestern Michigan and many fields are half de- stroyed.
 The Boston Herald says: There are 3M,0JO voters in Massachusetts, and the Constitution has been amended by 3D. 245 of them.
 It has been clearly demonstrated, % the Meridian Mercury says, |" that the whippinE-pOst Is an actual necessity In dealing with Mississippi negroes"
 At Unionton, Pa, the jury has brought in a verdict of murder in the second de- gree against Pat Dolan, the Mollie Ma gIire, for killing Maurice Healy.
 4 St. Louis prayer-meeting was bro ken up by deputy sheriff, who levied on the church furniture for debt, after allowing just one more hymn and one mlre prayer, if not too long"
 Speaker Keller Vas with the west all
 
 He voted for the Bland bill November olution January 2S, 1873.
 Magnificent forests have lately been discovered 4n thdfp hdfp tRieH tERiie sh6tSaideT of the Rocky mountains.
 Tie famous Hot Springs at Las Veaas. New Mexico, will soon be ready for the public patronage, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad having talk -n hold of the development of this valuable property.
 A good many people are anxious c. Fnpw what diplomatic mission abroad w. W. Astor will be called upon to i'll. No doubt their curiosity will soon be satisfied and gratifed as well.-lN. I. Mail, 9th instant.
 The Nashville Banner says that when the taxes are all paid for this aud last year there will be about S3,40GG0O in the Tennessee State Treasury, making it nearly If not quite S5,OOO,000.
 The New York Times, in speaking of the way the mob of depositors in Kansas treated the President of the bank. says: " Lynch law must be stopped, but tthe same time let something be done to check bank robbery"
 The Directors of the Board of Trade of Louisville, Kentucky, are urging upon the business men of the city the use of cents ln making change, and several prominent business firms having already adopted the system, 1t promises to be- 1 come general
 Shirlie Lieber caused a social commo- ton Tn Baltimore, years ago, r-heu she l quilted home of luxury to become d | circus rider. She is now equally an ob- | iect Cf interest in Detroit, where she has | been sentenced to seven years imprison- | ment Tor shooting a companion.
 The Legislature of Louisiana is hold | ing a special session to provide adequate | reyenue. Government McEnery insists | upon an assessment roll of S30U,G00.0O0 | Tor the State, when taxation to the con- | ,tltutional limit will be more than am- pie to meet expenses.
 The testimony touching the recent dis ister In Minneapolis shows that the agency which led to the destruction of he four Touring mills was precisely the same as that which occasiOned the loss 'f the great Washburn mill four years lgo- namely, carbon, or mill dust.
 The Rock Island freight train collided with a train on the Hannibal division Monday afternoon, near Kansas City. Both engines were wrecked. One an- Ineer was killed, and the other en- lneer and one brakeman seriously, and fireman fatally, injured
 Sheriff Russell, of Blanco countv. Texas, has in custody James Radcliffe nd sons-Joseph and George arrested n Polk county, charged with the theft 'f several hundred cattle in 1874 They lave killed two men over the affair in and Indian Territory.
 One of the festivals that may come to Is by closer relations with Mexico is hat of St. Guadalupe, beginning De ember Sth and continuing sixteen days. ] iusic. dancing illuminations, games. ullfights and other foolishnCss occupy he time during this festival. The Pu- 1 bio Indians take part in the celebra- ion and dance a war dance. An apartment house, capable Of ac- forty families, has just cen completed at Brooklyn at an ex- ( ense of SjN,G00. It is an immense and families will be able to T ve m most luxurious style It Is lodel m every respect, containing ele- ators, steam and all sanitary improve tents. The cost of running 1t will be ( 10000 per year, and the rental will V Tobably amount to S45.00O. The London Times says the trial of t -ulteau astOnisheS and shocks English a ,aders. Lawyers declare that no such O of judicial incapacity has ever cen seen. They consider the examina- q on of the prisoner touching his own b sanity as a Scandalous innovation. It c a good deal easier for Englishmen to l ltlcise the trial than 1t would be for d em to point out how, under our con- ltutlOn and laws, 1t could beconducted fierently. The Court has a remarka- ai y difficult person to deal with.-Bos- a, n Journal |,