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Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
TeIexraphIc Drevities.

John Bright, in the course of a re- cent debate defending the emigration clauses of the bill, said il the great fleet assembled at Cork or at Galway, offered free passage to the whole pop ulation of Ireland, it was prooa ble that all, certainly that half, would md their way 10 the United States, which opened their doors to every body. He should be sorry 10 see them go, but though emigration would be a hardship 10 the parents, it meant the deliyeraGce of the children from poverty and suffering
 The Chicago nterOcean's Wash iugton sperIal says; Commodore Shuleldt leaves Friday for China. He takes Instructions from the State De- pertinent as Attache of Legation ID 1 China, and goes Ostensibly 10 carry back the ratified Chinese Treaty. What he really goes for and what he is really expected to accomplish even tually, is the opening uf the ports oi COrca 10 the world.
 The terms of the Russian ukase ] lessening peasants rents Is now hn- ally settled. The Ukase will apply tO ! ;, 1OO, GOO peasants, who will be re- l lieyed of q considerable portion of their annual payments on account oi | land, while all accumulated arrears
 will be remitLed. All proprietors who have not arranged for selling 2 holdings 10 peasants will be compel 1 led tO do so by 1885.
 It now appears that ex-Sultan
 Abdul Aziz bddfa&saf &if in M the mnEdlerb q IGl bs. 6.
 cause he is insane. The Sultan, de-
 spite the reports 10 the contrary, is determined to bring all other perpe- trators of the crime to justice.
 In regard 70 rumors in New York
 railroad circles, mentioned few days | since, there has been no confirmation, nor have any of them taken any defn- ite shape, although there is no reason to doubt but that sooner or later some of them will be an accomplished fact. | The parties mostly interested are very
 retiCent, yet enough has been made | known 10 cause considerable excite ment in railroad circles. Prominent officials of the Atchisou, Topka and | CoANa 4 lAOdh AdNC EOGG lO AhGCb | officials of the Southern Pacific re-
 garding through freight, and the re- suit of their conference is awaited.
 IL is now known that the Pacific Mail have bought the steamers City of Para
 and City of Rio Janeiro, and they will be placed on the line during the sum-
 mer on the Atlantic side and after ward On the Pacific. Whether the purchase of these vessels had any connection with rumors of railroad changes; or whether they were bought because they are actually needed by the company, remains 10 ee seen. It Is stated that the Crescent City has been condemned, and that the Aca. pulco must have much needed re- pairs, and that the purchased vessels will take their place. On the other hand, 1t is said the vessels were bought to be in readiness 10 use as cheap freight route by the Union Pacific against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe if there should be any competition iD overland freight.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
A Plucky PedsEogue
IPost.I

The old man approached the new schOOlmester with bulldog glare in his eye. You got after my boy yes terdsy because he left live hornet glued to your chair" "I did. " !" You licked him SO bs thought the world was coming to an end" '' That wss the impression l intended to con- Vey tO him." {" I'm his father. and I've come to let you know what I think of your proceedings. Then they clinched. Hair and blood flew in the air, likewise hested language and dust and fragments of garments Then it quieted down little, and the old man ImplOred him to let up, stop choking and take his teeth from his ear. '' What do you think about me warming your boys" asked the teach CT. [" think you did just right, and when l go home I'll givs him 6 tan ming that'll teach hIm 10 come to me with bis complaints and stories that the schoolmaster can't fight" They parted, and the schoolmaster mur- mured ' l dId right 10 tackle the son Of the worst fighting man in the district first. None of the others will poster me"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15

THERE is landlsdy in Cleveland Ohio, who does not intend to lose the pecuniary reward of her Inequalities. A few days ago young man among her boarders became delinquent. Ap- peals in ordinary form tor settlement were useless. So one morning before sunrise she entered his room and fun moned hIm from dreamland by a gentle pat on the cheek. Then she demanded the money due her He demurred. Again she asked for pay ment with the same result. Her third appeal was kind but firm, but met with no success. Then she abandon cd words for action, and gathering up his entire worldly possessions-cl cloth ing, gripsack and all-deliberately seated herself by his bedside and in stituted a search through his pockets and other receptables, while he looked on in helpless dismay. Find ing a plethOric purse she apprOpri- ated what was due her, returned him his goods and left him to renew hls slumbers or to mediate upon the vi- cissitudes of deadheading in board ing-house.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
AIexican Pyramids.

On his return from his tour Of anti ouarian research in Southern Mexico, NJ. Charney reported the discovery or a ruined Toltec city in TabaScO, near the Gulf coast, city which covers a wIde area and must have been in its day place of considerable lmpor- tance. The long forgotten town IS surrounded and dotted over with small hills and the builders had utll- ized these natural elevations by erect Inr thereOn number of temples, nvramids and palsces, and had con nected their sites by bridges. The largest of the pyramids is 300 feel in height aud second is fully 300. Ma ture had more 10 do with these mon uments than art, as the builders had l merely shaped the hlllOcks into pyr- amldal form and afterwards faced them with stone, and steps were also cut in the sides, paved with mix | ture of cement and pebbles. From a careful study Of the remains ot this city NJ. Charney is inclined tO think Ina. it was founded between l150-llSO and that it was ID perfect state Of preservation at the time that COrieZ invaded Mexico. This opinion WAS
 strengthened by conversation with
 two well informed SpsnlaIds, whom
 the explorer encountered in San Juan Bautista, who declared that there
 were to be found in ancient Spanish
 records statements to the effect that this city Was not destroyed until after
 the town of Vera Cruz was laid out.
 N. Charney IS satisfied from indi-
 tions he observed that there are re-
 mains of at least two other Toltec
 cities further up the adjacent noun
 tains, but further investigation is
 postponed for the present.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
The Pima Agency,
LPheriy Gszette.l ]

Pl5ulX Gazette
 Rev. Wm. Meyer and wife and MT. c. II. F. Herritt returned lasi even ing from a weeks trip to the Pima villages. From MT. Meyer we glesn the following facts concerning the Pima Indians and the manner in which the agency is carrrd on The Pima agency is sltuateI about S5 miles from PheniK, and the reservs. tion extends from sbot seventeen miles below Florence 10 Ee mouth of the Gila river. On thi reservation there are about <, 800 PiIas and some 500 Maricopss. Farmig ls carried on by them quite exieuively, so far as their mode of culturds concerned, they using the primitivwooden blow for the turning of thesoll, and the
 two rocks for their millg and grind. In some portions of tk reservation
 great difficulty Is eXpeRnced in get
 ting wa1er on the land, rwirg, prob
 ably to it's sinking. In consequence of this, heir crops VII rot be heavy.
 A new house for the gent IS being built. and the one pT occupied by him vii be used al schoolroom.
 The Indians are at Iresent under charge, religiUusly, the Presbyte-
 rian church, they havig been granted
 that permission about year ago. NIT. C. H. Cook takes sat interest in them. and has translad several chap
 ters of he Bible intthe Pima lan- guage. breaches to thu on the Sab bath, and looks afr theIr moral
 training with tathe love. Mir.
 Armstrong, the Specl Agent for the Interior DepartmentArrived at the agency recently anduspended NIT. Ludlam, the agent, 8 Ludlam took his departure for the lst or Monday. Everything about thsgency Is con ducted with strict cOOTmity to law and order; police, ppointed from among the Pimas, reserve order. ! Punishment is intlid on evil dOers bv A sentence of hi labor on the agency. with iron felry attached. A short time ago Dme MeXicans made complaint tn there were a band of horses beloing to them on | the reservation. Poe were sent out, l who succeeded in giering up some l ' thirty head. TheyTere purchased | | from the Papagos, VI stole them Tn ! Sonora. After the ixicans proved | thclr property theyere allowed to ! ! take them. No mOhOrses will be | bought by the PimTom the Papa EOS, The houses ofe Pimas resem- , ble very much theictures of the huts in the cold polregions. They | are low, oval huts, cred with mud,
 with an opening ate bottom sutti- clently large for pon 10 crawl in. Schools will soon established at different points one reservation, ! when "I.o' will ham opportunity
 to emerge into a fuIate oi ciyili7a- tion. So mote il be. |
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
THE CITIZEN.
Legislatures.

The most unpopular political body in the United States is probably State Legislature. The partisan en- thusrssm of a campaign being over, and inc thousand and one impossible pledges of the successful candidates being relegsted to the shades of obliy- Ion, they meet in accordance with law and usage and proceed to neglect nuhIic business and look after private nerouisites in manner highly enter taipiug to any one but the unfortunate taxpayer.
 The late body of wisdom which ad- iourped its extra session at Sacra- . >raento yesterday in a very preclpitate, scbeolboy manner, did not cover it. self with any surplus glory. The session was perverted into sort Of mercenary gathering, in which pub- he matters were a secondary consid- e-ation. Like our own lllustrlous late Territorial Legislature, they voted to themselves q considerable amount of ext--psy and emoluments, and passed a blll making an appropriation for the same over the Governors veto. The session had been called to complete some necessary legislation, neglected al the regular session, and the work is now left ID almost as incomplete a state as before.
 Not only in California has the State Legislature been hoisted upon the toe of public opinion, but iD 6 majority of the States in the Union, and 1t really seems that each succeeding session is worse than the former one. How much of the fault of this is at tributable to the incOugruOus char acter and availability of candidates selected, or 10 errors in our political system, is an open question; but cer- tain il is that with the intense odium attached to the position Is legislator very few of the best element of OuI people will seek or accept the office h their official dules the good and wise suffer equally with the inferior element that foatsin on some popular wave.
 Good, true and intelligent men oI philosophical attachments are proper persons to enact wise and judiciouc laws; men who esteem their hOnol and good name above the dross O. pecuniary gain, and who shrink iron contact with rings, schemes and job bery. Such linen are 10 bt found in almost every commu nity. and they should be urged t' sacrifice the personal comforts of pri vate life for the public veal, until tn, acquired prefix of "Honorable" shal carry with il the full significance O the word.
 Not only should this apply to legls lative candidates, but to all publi' 1---- .L- I--~. ir,-7orta-,t [. the most exalted, and when il is ac cemplished the beauties of our sys tem of government, as intended o- its wise projectors, will be recognizes and initiated throughout the civilized world
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
What Is Arizona Good For :?

Many people make great mistake when they suppose that Arizona IS good for nothing except for mining The agricultural land, II is true, Is comparatively small, yet We have enough good land, if We had the right kind of men to take hold and put 1t into cultivation, Jo raise all the grain necessary for the needs of the Ter tory. There are millions of acres ot fine grazing lands in Arizona, ii we only had water for the stock to drink. We have no doubt this difficulty will be overcome iu tune. By sinking wells and opening up water channels in the mountains and foothills, which may be done in almost any Of the higher ranges of mountains, plenty oi good water may be obtained. Al comparatively little cost the water so obtained may Ge conducted to the low lands in pipes and watering troughs placed at convenient distances, and thus reclaim some of the finest graz ing lands to be found in the West Colorado is represented to posses: over 800, u00 head Of cattle, besides thousands of sheep and horses. Ari' zona, perhaps, does not possess more Il, . ,l,-3 ,s many coffTa az Colo rado, but the day is not far distap when she will lead that State ir th' number of cattle produced. AIizoni possesses many advantages over tha Stale m stock iraising. Most of GU vrssses are perennial; we have no SC were cold weather or driving storms which are so trying 10 stock; We neve have 10 feed during the winter season as they do there; we have Teiiabl pasiurage, and will never have t drive stock in search of new feed, a they do in all northern attitudes, ant California. While we possess tn finest silver and copper mines to b found in the world, We should nc overlook our agricultural and stocI lands, which are by no means limited as many suppose. As was the cas in California in early days, we are az to overlook these interests in our anX ietY to realize quickly from mines but lhe time is coming when Arizon will export millions of dollars wort of live stock.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
DOS CABEZAS' MINES.
How They are MisrePresented-Go
 Ledges and Fine Prospects.
Dos CABEzAs, May II, 1881.

Dos CABEZAs, May Il, 1881.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: In the CITIZEN of the Sth I see a very timely and sensi- ble article under the head ot Bad Practice" This bad practice has been carried to a greater extent toward Dos Cabezas' mines and miners than any other mines or miners in the Ter ritory. We have large, well defined lodges that can be traced for miles, and will pay from the grass roots down. This is no idle talk, but a we'll authenticated fact by working lest. The Silver Cave, Juniper, Ga lena Chief and the Detroit have all paid, and are now paying, from the grass roots, and are proving rlch-r as depth is attained. Also, Osborn & Co. have a two and d half foot gold ledge that will work $35 per ton from he grass roots down 10 the bottom OI A 4O-fuot shaft. But in the face Of all these facts men of money and inhu- ence for money gives men infiuenceI to cratify a personal spite or to attain other end, have and continue to ms represent the mines and miners of this district. They have kept capital out of this district by persistently representing tkat there were no mine: in this district that would pay tc work. rhe above facts your core spondeut is willing aud able 10 prove If called upon. And to you gentle men of capital that wish to invest ID mines, we invite you to come and sec for yourselves. We have plenty oI flat,ering prospects, as well as othel districts, and others have as good prospects as we have, but none better The truth is that there are good mines m almost every range of mountains in southern Arizona. Gentlemen come and see Us and our mines. We insure you a hearty welcome and feast of bacon and beans whilst you are among Us. OLD llAEk'
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
An Immortal Longing

Great hearled Robert Collyer says
 'The very first person 1 want to see when l gn to heaven-you may call me a heretic if you like-is not Christ or the Heavenly Father il is that li,- tie daughter with her little sweet blue eyes and beautiful blonde locks that was taken from my wife and my self in 1858. believe as I believe I nm standing here, that the greatest joy of life hereafter is that 1t will be home over agsin-hOme better, brighter and more blissful than we have here on earth" Thousands of hearts will say amen to the sentiments of those words.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
MORMON DIGNITARIEs.
| Reminiscence-The settlements m Arizona Prosperity ana Industry Locking After tEe Faithful.

MT. \. F. Mcdonald, fresIdent oi the Mormon settlement Of central and southein Arlzona, arrived in Tucson Thursday accompanied by MessTs. Il. W. Brizee, DavId P. Kimball and C. J. Robinson. of Mesaville, Mormon settlement on Salt River. They left this morning for St. David settlement, on the Sln Pedro, eight miles from Benson, to look after the spiritual and temporal wants of the faithful at that plac. and to hold Sunday ser vices.
 NIT. Brizee favored the CITIZEN of fee with a pleasant call Friday before leaving, and gave some remin- fssnces of his fist visit here, In De- cember, l84G. He was one of a party If five hundred enlisted in Council. Bluffs to proceed to San Diego, three huudr-u uf whom took the Southern Arizona route under command Oi Col. ! Cooke. Their march through the des ! erts and wastes of Arizona was one ol continual hardship aud deprivation. | When Tucson was reached the Mex ! icau authorities forbade their entrance | into the pueblo under pam of pitched | battle. But stimulated with intense thirst and imbued with the daring
 bravery ot irontiersmen, tbey cared | ittle for the threats, and boldly marched into the city upon the heels of the native troops who discTeet.y | evacuated upon their approach. al | that time the ancient and honorable l pueblo was city of magnificent dis 1 tances, and its present importance was
 not foreshadowed by any apparent re- l sources. and it seemed doomed tO for
 ever remain an obscure, owsy and | insignifi, ant mud village. The pres
 ent visit or Mir. Brizee has awakened
 vIvId remembrance of his former
 one, and the comparison of the pres-
 ent city with the place of thirty five
 years ago is strikInglg suggestive of the characteristic energy and enter
 prize of the progressive element oi
 tho American people.
 Mesa city, or MesaYille, Mr. Brizee
 states, is q flourishing Mormon settle
 meut on the mesa CT table land, near
 Salt river, and contains about seventy five familes-about three hundred people. The lands are irrigated by water taken from the Salt
 river, through Q canal which cost about S25, GOO. Fruits of all kinds
 grow we'll and yield abundant crops.
 The grape is being extensively cults
 vated and more than 100000 vine-
 were planted this season. The dry
 warm climate is said to be particular,
 ly favorable for viniculture, and 1t IS
 thought very superior raisins can Dc !. produced, The settlement shows evI- dence of extreme thritt-a certain re- , suit of systemalized and intelligent l, industry.
 Jonesville, distant about three mlle' from Mesaville, Is a more recent set tlement, and contains ebout seventy , five families. As in the older settle ment, the desert is being made tI
 blossom as the rose.
 NIT. Mcdonald and party, on theil
 return from St. David will be pleased to give the people of Tucson a dis
 course on the subject of their faith
 with view uf disahusing the public , mInd of many absurd prejudice; against MormOuism.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15

We are informed that c genuine mining boom has set in at Alexandra. The Prince and Black Warrior mines are taking out large quantities of rich ore, which is being reduced at the Bradshaw Basin mill. The Tuscan bia ledge, three miles from Alexan- dra, is producing large amount of first class ore, yielding S5OO0 to the ton. The owners, Messrs. Nee, Co burn and Dill, have some nineteen men a, work, clea Ing away timber, etc, for the erection of 20- stamp quartz mill PheniX Gazette.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
The Modern Athenisn.

Spare, nervous. thin of face, rest less eyed, quick and energetic of speech, is the modern Aihenian. The groups of men who seat themselves toward evening at the little tables which fill the streets before the prin- cipal cafes, as they talk politics over their little cups of black coffee or their glasses of water and wine, gesticulate with that energy of action In conver- sation which marks the passionate son of the south. Often the Athenian csrrIes in his hand a string of beads, not for religious purposes, but that he may relieve himself ot excessive electricity by shifting them through hIs fingers as he bargains and talks q safety valve and a reassuri1g pro- cess akin 10 the Yankees whiting. He is keenly sensitive to every word you utter, quick to take your mean ing, and polite as Frenchman in ready deference 10 your expressed opinion; but none the less he holds firmly to hIs own belief unless you have convinced his reason. This he may not tell you. He may leave you to infer that you have won him over, and thus be has sometimes laid him. self open to the charge of duplicity and deceit where he meant only 10 be credited with politeness.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
Behind the Scenes.

! week ago last Sunday sudden seizure, never well defined in nature,
 but from the first regarded as fatal, prostrated Harry Spriggs, the variety actor, and ever since he fingered
 painfully till death relieved him.
 Not very long ago he married a girl of seventeen named Allie Shepherd, a serio-comic vocalist. also engaged at COnley's-she, it appears, being his third wife. Upon her salary de
 pended the livelihood not only Of her stricken spouse, but his four-year-oI daughter as well, and night after night the young wife left home and husband, and on the boards and in the glare of ghastly foot-hghts rung her lightest, merriest songs to those
 who little thought, as she smiled an1 twirled and kissed her hand, what a sad vision of despairing, suffering and swift coming death rested ever pIes- ent with her, making her laugh a mOckery and her smiles akin 10 tears.
 The little one, with precOcity and thoughtfulness far beyond her years,
 played day after day alone, and sal istied her baby wants as best she could, for " Mamma must help poor, sick papa, and there was no ore else
 to lend a helping hand. Not that
 kindness was wanting. A fellow boarder named Sherburn night after night sat with the sick man and gave him brOtherly care, while the wife
 was earning the competence that
 kept beggary away. At last the end came and the actor died. Then, and not till then, the wife gave way. The strain had been too great. and as thIs is written she lies within the very portals of the door her husband so
 lately entered, while the little daugh- ter, all unkHowing in her bereave-
 ment, tells her plying friends that
 Papa's there in the box, but you
 mustn't take him away
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15

HAGGIN & TEvIs are going to build a narrow gauge railroad to the Hemestake mine che hundred miles in length. That is the way they will do things here after while. We ex- pect to see narrow-gsuge railroads built to all Of the important miniIa. districts around Tucson before the eX piration of five years. The cost of such roads Is comparatively light, while they ale amply sufficient to supply the needs of inning camp, and at the same time can be made to pay good interest on the money in vested.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
Gotta Released.
IAlta1

Clodimiro COta, the Mexican ref ugee, was yesterday released on bail in the sum of S1O00 by Judge HofT- man. Wm. ". Johnston and John Sullivan are Lis sureties. His bond is conditioned for his appearance in the United States Circuit Court on the first day of the February term and at such times thereafter ss he may be summoned to appear.