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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
Practical CIrfI serTIee .t U,,bIurton

A member of the House from Massa-
 chusetts, nov serving his first term, said
 to the Boston Herald correspondent re-
 gently: "I came here full of civil service
 reform notions. My opinion of the con-
 dition of affairs in the departments was
 formed upon the current talk about poli-
 tlcAl strikers being provided for at the
 public expense, and really thought that
 we had at Washington the most expen-
 sive and inefficient administration of
 public business in the world. Pretty
 soon after l entered upon my duties as
 Representative l had occasion to 20 to
 the departments to make inquiries sometimes on business for my constitu-
 entE, and at others to obtain information for myself. was Rt once sgreeably sur prised to find that there was little diff culty in obtaining what was Tn search of. The men I met were alert, ann6us to satisfy me, and intelligent upon the subject Tn hand. Tit pertained to their duties, they gave ready replies. fit was they were not called upon to know, they knew where to direct me. In some cases 1 entered into q discussion of the merits of the question I was inquir- ing about. l found that I was often bene- iited by the ideas of a clerk. 1 found that they were en rapport with the busi- ness and politics Of the day. They were neither indifferent tine-serVers, nor were they simple drudges. Their inter est ln their native districts had been kept alive, and they had not lost their identity ss citizens by becoming clerks ID the departments. Nor do 1 think l vas much better treated because l was known to be a member of Congress, for have remarked upon the subject to others, not members, and have rarely found a man whose experience was oth- erwlse than pleasant when brought into contact with the employees here. The prtclsiOn of the information obtained upon any subject was very satisfactory, being m marked contrast with my exps- rIence in getting details from manuiac- l turing firms or corporation Otiicials | Were l called upon to make a speech ID 1 my district on our civil service as have l observed 1t in Washington, I would l scarcely dare to say as much in its favor l As I would feel like saying. My con 'tituents would say had gone over to | tho bosses. The experience of this | member is not exceptional. Certainly | there is now little of that "insolence in | office" which is cause of complaint in l other countries. We have no bureau Drkcy, as in France and .GeEmany. In point of manners our public servants | iavorably with those of any country,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
uThe Infiuepce of a Great Example.

One communion Sunday an old Ken lucky soldier, who had fought under General Jackson at New Orleans, and knew well what manner of man he had been in his fighting days, attended the Hermitage church and saw the aged warrior kneel rtYersnily before the sl- tar He was trHnsfIed with RstOnish- ment. After the service was over he was observed to be unusually silent and thoughtful, and upon being questioned. related vhAt he had seen. He oOnclud- cd his narrative thus:
 "When saw the man who had fought Rrmles, parties, Cabinets, and had nev- or fought without cOnquering, get down on his knees in that Church, said to myself, Well, when General Jackson kneels, tell you, boys, I think il about time for me tO knock under"
 Four weeks after he joined the church and lived and died 6 pIous sad exsn- plsry msn.-lSL Louis Republican.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
Chinese Tea.


 Very considerable attention is being attracted in Chinese quarters to the present condition of the tea trade, and those who know most about the subject will be the least surprised to hear that for several reasons 1t IS not regarded as perfectly satisfactory. In the first place, whereas China long enjoyed a monopoly Of the trade in this article, she has now 70 cope with more than one en .erprising competitor. India has for some years competed with her on not unequal terms m the London market, am unless the present signs are totally indicating, CeylOn will shortly bs in position tO challenge the superiority of Orange PekOe or Flowery CongOu. In the United States Chinese ten has also been busted tO a great extent by that of JapAn. Many say that China hRs seen the worst ID the matter, and that the foreign demand for her tea iE not likely to decline any further. This belief may or may not prove Co be well founded, but the Chinese are evIncing wisdom in not showing themEelves indifferent to this tendency. It iB easier to note the evil than tO assign the cause or to fir the remedy. Several circumstances have contributed tO the decline of Chinese tea in popular favor. Over competition among Chinese planters and merchants appears to have resulted in deteriors- tion of the quality of the tea itself. What are called best "crops" are dis tinctly inferior to what they were ten yearI ago, and the main cause of khis falling off seems to be the over haste shown in dispatching tea from the fields to the market. The principal object with the Chinese and the English rner- chant in China appears to be not to send the best tea so much as the earliest tea on to the market If persisted in this must prove asuicidal policy. There are. no doubt, several reasons. It must also | be borne in mind that tea IS a heavily | taxed article, and one also out of which | many different persons have to derive 0 | profit before it reaches the cup of the The Chinese government | derives by the export duty about 31fd | from each pound.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
EngIand,s Crime in Egypt

lN1don vanity falr, Su-g h.
 It IS not right" that has in this case
 been prosecuted by force; for there IS no right to prevent the Egyptians from
 repairing and arming forts Tn Egypt
 The English nation had received no injury, nor was it threatened with any: there has been no declaration Of war by the sovereign either with or without the assent of Parliament; nor any equivalent public act whatever by any competent
 public person or body whatever. There is and has been in short no war at all; and it follows that there has been and IS therefore no right Tn any British sub iect to break the law Thou shalt not lall." And this law having been never tbelcss broken we have Vatels and Blackstone's authority for declaring that what has taken place is, by the lsS of England. not war, but brigsndage and murder. Every Egyptian who has been killed st Alexandria hRs been simply murdered, and for every man thus murdered the blood-guilEness lies as truly at the door of every member of the present Cabinet as though they had clubbed him to de9th in a London street. Murder too, it IS of particularly odious kind--dehberste, cold-hlOoded and wrought by the very strong on the very weak. The most powerful armor-clad fleet in the world has been dealing forth for one whole day and part of another death and destruction, not against equal foes, but against so-called "enemy" whose smooth-bOres scarcely reach and could never seriously iniure 1t. We are far from saying that either Sir Beau champ Seymour or those under his com mRnd are free from blsme-nO man is free from blame who engages in an un- just war, much less in sn act of brigan- dage-but the chief, the overwhelming responsibility lies upon those who, sit ting at this end of the wire, sent forth orders for tho commission of what is nothing less than crime In that crime every man is sn sccompliee who does not lift up his voice against 1t. ! And we, for our part, protest against it, and denOunce 1t ss a most wicked and bloody act. What answer the members | of the so-c8lled Conservative party can make to their oOnscIences for their com | plicity in, or for their applause of this act, ve know not For us who believed that the power and the repute of Eng land are equally bound up with her re- solution to enforce her own right. and to respect those of others, we liberate our soul by protesting with all the en- ergy of which VIC are capable against an act which will forever sully her good name.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

OUR twilight neighbOr of this date has 8 column and half of interviews with prominent mining and business men. on the treatment of Americans in Sonora, all of which goes to prove that its former bitter Announcement of the people in that State was false from beginning to end, and without the least shadow of truth. Had the editor of that journal taken half the pains to arrive at the truth in the first instance instead of listening to the stories fur nished by native Americans of foreign birth" who have no correct ideas of good treatment in any country, it would not have been compelled to make such humiliAting retrsctiOns.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1ss
nrN1Na 1rr1nAr1oN N N1Ioo.


 A great deal is said about the Mexican government being hostile to Amencans investing in mining property m that countrv II is charged that as soon as thsv develop a valuable property they are involved in litigation. These state nents undoubtedly deter much capital from going to heuco. Our observa- t;on is that the holders of valuable min ing property in Arizona are subjected to yexstious litigation. In fact, it would be hard to name a valuable mining prop erty in any of the mining regions Of this country that has not had more or less legal trouble, and ID many instances the righttul owners have been defrsuded or frozen out. If ve stop to consider the matter, We will see that jumping old claims and blackmsiling are not pecu- liar to Mexico, but to all mining sections, and are not more common in Mexico than in the United States. We must not allow race prejudice to at- tribute these matters to other than the right cause. We do not apprehend that mining litigation in Sonora arises from any different causes than in Arizona and should not be charged to the hostility of the Mexican Government or people. As well might we charge the suit brought against the Total Wreck, the Grand Central, the Peck mine and a score of others, we might mention, to the hostility of Arizonians to Eastern capitalists. It is absurd. If mine is valuable and there is flaw in the title, be the mine in Arizona, Nevada, Cali fornia, Colorado, Utah, Dakota or Mexico, some one will find 1t out and take advantage of it. The lesson cap itslists should learn from it is to be sure and get good title. A good title and a compliance with the law will hold prop erty in Mexico as well as in the United States.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THz Tombssons Epitsph says: Let ters are constantly being received from sll over the United States seeking infor- nation of the grazing resources of that section of Arizona" It is with pleasure we note the good effect of the Presi- dents proclamation suppressing cowboy larlsssness in COchise county, and all the more SO as the acknowledgement comes from the paper that made the biggest fuss about the proclamation. The good effect of deolded action on the part of Republican administration is BOW acknowledged by all parties m Tombstone. Strange. that Democrats can't see three months ahead
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THE Independent gets off the follow ing unkind remark in relation to the Dem-oowboy organ at Tombstone: "The opinions of 6 newspaper which are bought and paid for by clique or cor porstion, can have but little weight with thinking men" We hope none of Tucson's old line Democrats will be un- generous enough to widen the applica- tion so az to take our esteemed morn ing contemporary.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
Phenix Items.
TH.raldl

Our little Spanish paper. the TecOlo- tito, is gaining it's reputation very fast, and is now threatened with a libel suit by San Francisco journal. Ls Publics-
 We are of the opinion thst. cut of re- spect to those who drlnk water from the big ditch, bathers ought so abstain from throwing then Eoiled garments into ths water. Almost any morning one can ind an endless variety of bifurcated garments, underwear, .pet-sOmething, either in the ditch or on the bank. some of which might stay there a year before they would get clean. Desist, We beg of you. desist.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
LORDSBCRG.
A kieh New DiseOyery Made.

LOEDsBC RG, Augusf 2, I'S--
 To-day has been remarkable one for this place. Two parties well known hied themselves away on visiting tour to Liedendorf, but strangely they tar ried long enough on the way Co make two nice discoveries. consequently the tour of pleasure was abaudoned, takil. the form of worldly matters Tom Mos, was one of the fortunate 6iscoverers The rock IS the richest your co-respoud- ent has ever seen. Howe, the saloon man, formerly of YavspHI county, Is n this fix, and wth present appearances lt is big thing. In my next the name Of the camp will be given, but at this stage of the game it would be ridiculous Co ask questions. IRISH LORD.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THESE metropolitan papers well bear watching. You can hardly pick up one that you do not find it denouncing one fraud while it is praising up some equally bad bilk. IL looks to man up 8 tree ss though a majority of them talked for money. It is the local jour nals that can be relied for information in relation to mining property. They are right on the ground and do not have to take any ones say SO.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

TIE Star, ostrich fashion, IS trying to conceal its head to avoid the just in- dignstIon of the community which 1t has so basely betrayed in this Yavapsi census matter. But like the ostrich 1t leaves exposed another and @ more prominent portion of its body to which the toe of public indignation can he most appropriately and effectively ap- rnlia1
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

IT is refreshing to find among the journals of the Atlantic sesbosrd, one paper of prominence winch IS not con- trolled by the bankers and mono-metsl- ists. The New York Graphic takes strong grounds in favor of silver as tLe coadiutor of gold in the commerce of the world.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

DELEGATE OURT, following the in structions of the Star whose proprietor renouinsted him and fixed the platform for him to stand on, telegraphed that it was 'toO late" to relieve the Territory of 8 monstrous fraud.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

There are two sides to every question, but the Republicans always get on the wrong side-Apologlst.
 THE Democracy has been on all sides of every question and has played the political harlot until the people have no confidence in the putrid reminiscence.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

TOMBSTONE is divided of into four wards, for the convenience of 8 better and more effective system in governing the city as all enlightened cities should be, but Tucson, with more than twice the population of Tombstone continues to go it on the "herd system" and on election days voters are compelled to flock together at the same voting pre- cinct like SO many sheep.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

HUGHRs intructions to Bsrret: sThese Prescott people are the most generous and. hospitsble people ever met. Barret, let up on that Ysvapsi fraud business" This is the secret of the Stars weakness on the Yavapsi census frauda.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The Dosoris mine, says the Prescott Courier at 8 depth of l90 feet below the earth's scalp, shows four feet of ore which yields at the rate of sl,000 per ton, silver. These are facts, vouched for by Mr. Francis, ths Fore man, Superintendent P. A. Craigue and Mr. Greenvell. of the Blue Dick mine. This mine is about twelve miles south of Prescott
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The list of delegates elected to the GubernstOrial convention in Kan.as shows at present a large majority against the renOminstion of St. John. There are many elsmsnts combined ir the attempt to defeat him. Among these are the dissatisfied Republicans, the Germans and the railroads. If he BuccssdE in getting ( renomination against such odds it will be the greatest political triumph achieved in the recent history of Kansas,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

Tho House Committee on Printing agreed to report fsvorabIy bill provid- lng that the Public Printer shall pay no greater price for composition than sixty cents per thousand ems and fifty cents per hour. for time work to printers. pressmerL stereOtypers sni book binders.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

Mir. Stuart Chamberlain is & mind reader in London, who has sstonished the LoId Mayor by telling him correct ly the number of an unseen bank note. aud suSprised the Baron De Worms. Mir. Berestord-Hope and other persons by dl- vining their thoughts Spiritualists need not rejoice st, tbis, since the exist- shce Of such 6 power of divining, though t might explain many of their mani festatlonS ey. no means would favor the Spirituahsts notion that they re- oelye communication from dissmbodied souls. Mr. Stuart Chamberlain is Iub- stantial flesh and blood. like the Baron De Worms and the Lord Mayor.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
anme c.nnci.nnelnsa tslln- ..

Some cOncieneeless fellow states that q pet lawn out ID Idaho likes sugar and bacon, and wants cup of coffee every morning. WhereupOn the Lomsville Courisr-tourBsl expresses itself to the effect that little deer tale like this is much nicer than the artiqua.ed srake stories vs get.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

TIE Star thinks that the fact that Arizona is 8 grazing country accounts for the number of grass widows. We should say that grass widowers were more plenty.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The pastcr of St. Chrysostom's Pro- testant Episcopal church, in Philadel- phis, uDtil lately possessed a silver dollar which, for two years, has served as shining witness and detective of lmposture. During that time he offered the com to ll3 starving men who had tried Tn vhin to obtain work, according to their own glib walls, if they would remove heap of gravel from his back yard. One and all declined the job, though it would not have taken more than an hour. The 1l4th bezgsr &C., cepted the offer and received the dollar, although he did little more than level the heap by kicking the sand around the yard.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

Senator VOorheeI's speech in favor of protection to home industries is giving the Democratic editors IL 1ch trouble. They dare not read him out of the party md they are compelled to go through much tWiEting and winding in order to reconcile his position with the party doctrine of free trade.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

ADyIoEs from Kansas indicate that Governor St. John will be renominsted. This is victory for the ultra temperance wing of the party.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

MESQUITE is not timber within the meaning of the law. This will msteri- ally affect several cases pending in this Territory.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THs President has vetoed that piece ofpure eItrsvagsnoe known as the hlV- CT and Hsrbor bill.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THE Prescott Courier refuses to ac- cept the apologist's dictstion on the railroad question.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

TIE veto of the River and Hsrbor bill deprlves the Democracy of large amount of campaign thunder.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The disciples of Esoulsnius in Tomb stone are having a set to over the wounded man Lewis Kirsen9sr. One doctor made diagnosis of the osss and hays that he is right, and the others are saying that he is not ..-.f .. ..
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

4 Cncinnaii reporter has observed that eight out. of every ten men who staod ct bar and drink rest most of their weight On one leg. This is very useful thing 10 know.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The steamer Colorado has been drawn above the bridge and the work of dis mantling begun. This leaves only the Gils and Mohsve for duty, ss the Coco pab was relieved of her machinery about Q year ago.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

THE Tombstone pspsrs are filed with political announcements The offices in Coohise county are fat takes
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

Joseph Ssysrs, an inmate of the Gen trL prison at Toronto, was, Q 'eT da!s ago, given twenty-five lsshes on sLs bare back for an attempt 10 outrage young girl.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

CONGRESS refuses to set day fer sd- journment.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

An electric railway is to be one of the attrections and conveDionces os Fair mount Park, Philadelphia, soon.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

REPrsLIcAN enterprise is what is needed to develop Arizona
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

How harmonious (?) the Demo- racy is.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

CoxGREss will adjourn next Monday sine die.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The American v1nes which have been Bet out In France in place of those which the phylOxers has destroyed are said to be causing much dissppoiu tment by their susceptibility to mildew, disease which they brought with them, and which has been hitherto unknown iR France. IL is said tO have worked havoc already in the southwestern part of the country, and to be spreading everywhere among French vineyards. It IS impossible to say how much truth there Is in this statement. There are many conflicting reports about the French vineyards as eyer were circu- lated about Delaware peach crop.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06

The situation in Tennessee is summed up by correspondent of The Louisville Commercial He thinks that there is no prospect, no hope of the solution of the Democratic difficulties. The truth is now recognized that they are hope lessly divided. As result all the old Wings who have acted with that party since the war are joining the Repub- licsns, and even Democrats all over the State. disgusted with Democracy, are boldly declaring their intention 10 vote for Hawkins. The attention of the National Republican Executive Com mittee has been invited to Tennessee. and influential speakers are promised for the canvass, but whether they come or not the party will win"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-31
why We Eat Oysters Raw.

DIR. VIM. Roberts, In lecture on the di-
gestivc ferments, writes Our practice In re-
gard To the oyster ID quite exceptional, and
furnishes striking example Of the general
correctness Of the popular Judgment on d.
etetic questions. The oyster Is almost the
only animal substance which We eat habitn-
ally and by preference In the raw aud un-
cooked state and ii Is interesting to know
that there Is sound physiological reasen at
the bottom OF this preference. The fawn-
colored mass which constitutes the dainty Of
the oyster ID its liver, and this Is little less
than heap Of glycogen. Associated with
the qIycoRen, but withheld from actual con-
tact with 1t during life, Is lis appropriate di-
ccstive ferment---the hspatic diastasc. The
mere crushing of the dainty between the
teeth brings these bodies together, and The
glycogen Is It once digested, without Other
help. by its own diastase. The oyster In the
uncooked state, or merely warmed, Is, u
fact, sslf.dlgeslive. But tho advantage O
this provision b wholly lost BY cooking fo'
the heat employed Immediately destroys th'
sssoclated ferment, and : cooked oyster b.
to b digestsd, like my ether food, by ~
caters own digestive powers