Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-25
News Notes.

year.
 General Keller is the first Speaker of the House from Ohio. Pennsyivania has had three.
 There is difficulty in getting any one to bury those who die from small pox at Pittston, Penn.
 The bark \. NJ. Haven, from Philadel- phia, to Portland, Me, is supposed to be lost. She carried eleven men.
 The Northern Pacific round house was burned at Bismarck, D. T., Tuesday night Loss, S5J,OO0; insured.
 The funeral of Dr. Isaac !. Hayes, the distinguished Arctic traveller, was held at Westchester, Penn, Tuesday.
 Mrs. Helen Campbell says tue cooking school in the south, contrary to all eX- pectations, IS a marked success
 Senator Vests bill for Mississippi and Missouri river improvements contem- places the expenditure of SlOOO2VOo-
 The will of the late Colonel Forney was admitted to probate in Philadelphia, Tuesday. There are no public beluests.
 \ herd of l1,G0O sheep has just reach | ed Nebraska from Washington Tern tory. They have been on the road two years.
 It is stated that Judge Devens will lc appointed 10 succeed Chief Justice Gray as head of the Supreme Court of Mass achusetts.
 The first train througl to Butte, M. T., on the Utah and Northern railroad, left | Ogden Tuesday evening" and will make ! the run in 24 hours.
 The amount of interest and dividends due in New York December lst footed up Sl5 996,03j, exclusive of interest on | United States bonds
 The late General Judson Fitzpatrick gave birth in the campaign of 1876 to the programme "a bloody shirt campaign with plenty of money"
 All the jurymen in the case of Gui- teau, accompanied by deputy marshal and bailiifs, attended the funeral Tues- day of the wife of juror Hobbs.
 It is difficult to conceive that any man could stoop SO low as to bet on the Gui- | teau verdict, and yet we are told such a lining is being done in Washington. General and Mrs. Grant will be at | Washington about the lstof January, as guests of the President, and will be at the White House a month or more.
 Chas G. Leland, of Albany. Y. r., has been selected as manager of the new hotel to be opened in London, under the name of the American Palace Hotel.
 The Light-house Board of the United | States lights longer coast and g'yes It more light, to say nothing of its river | lights, tEan any other two countries.
 Mir. Scranton, of Pennsylvania, has obtained judgment against q newspa- per for S3333 damages for calling him a thie. when he was running for Congress.
 The Philadelphia Times has been guilty of high treason to immemorial | custom. It "boiled down" the Presi- dents Message to two and half col umns.
 4 fire in West Bay City, Michigan, l burned the Shepard and A!pin block, the Fisher and Harrington block and | the Neddes block. Loss, SS0O0D; insuI- ance, S35,000.
 John C. Hurst, of Philadelphia, form erly wholesale druggist, and arrested at the instance of his son Samuel, upon tine | charge of embedding nearly Sl5,ob, has disappeared.
 Captain William Vandccroit, a noted ex-confederate officer, was shot and killed at CT -leston, W. Va, Monday night, by Henry Legge, during quarrel. Legse IS in jail.
 President Arthur does not propose to shake hands with miscellaneous crowds of people. No stranger is permitted to see him now until he has told his busl- ness to the private spc-ptarV
 Sir Edward J. Reed, the English en- gineer, one of the first authorities in the world on such question, has written letter Tn which he expresses a favarable opinion Of the Eads ship railway.
 Michael Mooney, who murdered Union Pacific agent Hickley at Franklin, Ida hc, on the Utah and Northern railroad, about three months ago, has been sen- fenced to be hanged January 20.
 In New York, in the suit of Robert L. Cutting, ir., receiver of the Bankers and Brokers Association, against John Bop per, the former President, judgment for S576,900 was entered against the latter. Edwin F. Christie, the father of negro minstrelsv, left an estate of about S2n,- OOO. By continued litigation it has teen reduced to S3j,000, which has recently been awarded to the heirs of the widow.
 George C. Sickles, aged 92, father of Gen. D. E. Sickles, will be married to Mrs. Mary Sheridan Sawyer, aged 40, on the 2lst instant. He Is said to be worth Sl2,0000OO. General Sickles is an only son.
 Party feeling was allowed at Pittsfield, Illinois, to enter into a murder trial SO far that a Republican procession cele- br,ted the prisoners aequittal, while a Democratic procession hanged judge and jury in efiigy.
 Tie Rugby colony. the Chattanooga Times insists, can aBc will be made a great success, and 1t speaks confidently of the Cumberland plateau IS a magnifi- cent region for gardening, orcharding and vine culture.
 President Arthur is at just the point in his administration where q good ap- pointment or two will set public in his favor and close criticism on his admin istration for months to come.-I Phila- 1 delphia Press.
 Lorenzo BrentanO of Chicago Is sta toned at Washington as correspondent of journals in Leipsic, Vienna and Frankfort. One of his employers has | directed him to send full description of the hanging of Guiteau.
 The New Orleans Picayune has been studying Guiteau's case psychologically, but not exactly as an expert. It arrives at the conclusion that Guiteau firmly believes that the jury will be convicted and hanged.
 James Graves, crank, aged G0 years, shot dead Tuesday evening, in the pub lie street Of Newark, N. J., Eddie SOden, aged l3. When Graves was taken to the station-hOuse he said he guessed the boy would not bother him again.
 Congressman Atkins Dem), of Ten nessee, says: "The success of the Read- Juster movement in Virginia has sadly demOraliZed the Democratic party in Tennessee. Thousands of State Credit Democrats are now Tn favor Of repudia- tion or of scaling the debt
 In South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi the Demo cratic papers are all mournfully admit ting that Mahone's victory in Virginia has already set in motion forces which the BOuTbons cannot resist, and which will end the Bourbon sway.
 Opponents of vaccination have a nut to crack in the news that comes from Spring Hill, Minnesota, where there is a settlement of German Catholics, no one of whom had been vaccinated, and among whom 195 cases of smallpox were reported within period of three weeks.
 Cincinnati has had serious accident by line of an electric light getting on telephone wire and sending III dis cbargp which melted down the telp-