Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

OOHNcutlOu aI LOulSNlllc on the l4tl, representatives of seventeen counties present, including several women.
 The Supreme Court of New York has granted an order dissolving the Grant Mining and Manufacturing Company, organized for operations in Michigan.
 The steamship Thingvalla m'Copen- hagen has arrived at New York. This Is thevessel which was reported lost III the recent terrible gales in the German Ocean.
 The four hundred shippers in LOril- lards tobacco factory, New York, who went on a strike last week, have resumed work. The collapse of the strike does not interfere with the firms plans in the Southwest.
 Blaine, it is said by his friends, will remain the representative man of the Garfield wing of the Republican party. They seem to think he will keep well until 1881.
 It is stated that President Arthur in his forthcoming message to Congress, now in course of preparation, will strongly insist upon the need of Civil service reform,
 New Orleans counts on a great in- crease of immigration from Europe when the Southern Pacific Railroad is completed, which, it IS now said, will be within less than year.
 UIn order to improve the sanitary con dition of the White House, Congress will probably decree that the inside walls be torn out and rebuilt. The building is said 10 swarm with yermin.
 The Louisville Courier-Journalt thinks that Guiteau should be tried without de- lay and before he has a chance to go crazy, and be hanged while he has mind enough to know a gall0ws when he sees one,
 The residence of J. FaVcett, of Elmira, N. r., was entered by burglars Monday morning, and $500 worth of silverware taken, being the wedding presents of Mrs. Fawcett, who is daughter of Judge Crockett of California.
 J. W. Fisher, a prominent Board of Trade man. and Jim Keene's broker i'll the great deal of 1879, wss married at Chicago Monday to Miss Annie w. For saithe, and has started for San Francisco, intending to go around the world.
 At Lewiston, Idaho Territory, Satur- day, the jury in the case of the People vs. James W. Stevens, charged with murder for the killing of J. W. Hedrick, member of the Idaho Legislature, in May last, has brought in verdict of not guilty.
 The Baron Steuben, of revolutionary fame, was a bachelor. The gentlemen whose presence at the Yorktown cele- bration have given so much pleasure to the country are the descendants of one the BarOn's brothers.
 The formal separation between Edwin Booth and his wife took place on Friday. The sad event, which IS deeply regretted by the friends of both parties, grow out of certain business transactiOns.- BOs- ton Traveller, l4th instant.
 The Chamber of Deputies of the city of Mexico has approved the contracts made by the Executive for the National Bank and draining the Valley Cf Mexico. The approval of the Senate has not vet been received.
 Twenty valuable oil paintings shipped several days ago from Boston by the managers of the Mechanics Fair to the Pennsylvania Art Club, Philadelphia, are missing, with the railroad car in which they were shipped.
 Nicholas Tenbosch, corn speculator of Liverpool and San Francisco, who has been missing for a couple of weeks, has been found in an insane asylum on Wards Island, where he had been placed by the authorities.
 By the vote of a degenerate Virginian Bayard, the pure and good, sans puer ct sans reproche, has been "hauled down." and a ton of State lard in the shape of David Davis made possible President of the United States-and all on account of the treachery of Billy Mahone.- Richmond State.
 The Marquis of Lorne is understood to declare that his wife, instead of dis liking Canada, is delighted with that re- zion. He is going immediately to Eng land, and the Princess has therefore changed her plans and will not return to her vice-regal dominion until January, when she will come with her husband.
 Missouri is not half settled, even ac- cording tO the low Western ideas of set tlemeDt. An immense proportion of its area consists of wild, virgin land. Mis- souri has an area one-fifth larger than Illinois, more than a half larger than Indiana, more than a half larger than Ohio, nearly a fifth larger than Michi- gan and fifth larger than Iowa.
 The demand of the Mississippi valley people with reference to river improve ment is correctly formulated by Gov ernOr Crittenden, of Missouri, thus: "Giye us six feet of water from St. Paul to St. Louis, eight feet from St. Louis to Cairo, and ten feet from Cairo to New Orleans, with corresponding improve ment of the great tributaries"
 Four or five men left Hanford lately to open up a road to the coal mines in Coast Range Mountains, IS miles north west of Huron. The road will be only half-mile in length, and will be com pleted in about three weeks. Work on the open cut at the mine Is progressing rapidly, and tunnel is also being run.
 William Wheeler, man noted for with pistol shooting. went into saloon at Weiser City, Idaho, lately, where Tom Miles was standing with some friends, who asked him to sing. Wheeler objected to the song, p4CAeu quoLIel ana snot Mlies- The ball struck a rib, glanced round and came out near the spinal column.
 Secretary KirkwoOd has given deci.- ion upon the entry of coal lands near railroads and the proper prices. The Secretary says that the price of the land depends wholly upon the distance from 8 completed railroad at the date of en- try, irrespective of the preferred right of entry, and if at the date of the proof