Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-06-11
Gen. >herman in the Chair.

l NCAs Nt4tl uislH Aal Aut udiEs
 Those who would learn how to run a
 political causus had better take note O.
 Gen. Shernan's style of presiding and
 conducting the machine at the army re-
 union. Here 1t IS:
 This meeting will come to order. Alb. l yesl nOdding to an officer about to rise l, | Gen HlckenlOOper moves the appoint ment of a committee on credentials
 taking paper from his left vest pOcke !. The committee will consist of Gen. Kick enlOOper, Col A, ana Major B. We
 must be speedy, in arranging these de
 tails.
 "Gen. Smith-did I see Gen Smith
 rIse?" A voice. Hes gone out for @
 m ment. Well, never mind; it's all
 the same. Gen Smith moves the ap-
 pOintment of a committee on resolu-
 tlOus, and 1t wIll consist of taking list
 from his light vest pocket G n. SO-and-
 So looks blank That's not the com
 mlttee either. The list just read Is an
 other committee, and will be moved
 later. Here's the right one reads it
 You, see, gentlemen, We get our younl
 staff officers, who have nothing else t
 do, to fix up these things in advance"
 A voice, "MOvs to adjourn" The Chair: "Oh, no use to putting that mo. tion. We must fix these preliminaries first. l have three more committee prepared here"
 And so on, in cheerful disregard Oi parliamentary practice, the General an nounced the details fixed up III advanc, puts motions prearranged, ignores i'm promptu motions, and runs the cOnven- ton till 1t gets along" and then allow other voices to be heard. And it l. amusing to him thus to play caucu- ChsirmaD.-fSt. Louis Globe Democrat
 DanenhOwer and Alexis.
 Lieutenant Danenhower, who Is a, last safe at home again, saw many w,u- derful things in the Arctic, but his as- tOnlshment did not wholly cease ou leaving Siberia. At the interview" h. says, which l had with the emperor and empress at Galchina, was very mucI at the Out-of-the-way cOrnei of the palace in which they appeared {, be slowed away" This American sailor | does not appear to have been aoashe. by the imperial grandeur winch he thus 1 found. He substituted the word "sir' | for ''y our highness," 1t appears, iu talk | ing with the Grand Duke Alexis, givini | as reason that he thought the forma appeilatIon was unnecessary betveeI 1 naval men on such an occasion" It wa | after these palace interviews that Lieut. l DanenhOwer expressed the opinion that | the most intelligent men he had met iu | Russia were the exiles of Siberia.
 Two years ago at mine operated b, | William Utter, at Camp Seco. near Nil. l lon. water came in and work stopped | To keep the large irOu-bound and iron | Dailed bucket used to hoist rock from | frying up and falling to pieces it Wa | let down into the water. Next seasui when It was dawn up, To, a miraclel II | was copper-b und and copper-bailcd | From this has sprung quite an indus;r ] and the mIne has been sustaining itself | rom ore water ever since. T a vater | contains an acid which has the prupert, | )f taking into solution the particles col | ron thrust into it, and 1t also has coppei l m solution which is let Cr, particle b, Gs the iron IS picked up. it j. 1 ! simple c emical exchange, and this nine may make another profit stlll if it will get another chemical m the water which will make the acid lay down Ih, ron, which as a black flood, the water 'arries down into the Stanislaus river. The copper industry consists in taking | bundles of scrap iron and old tin to tn, nine, where 1t is all thrust into vats of water caught up. in which the metals are oon changed tO copper, the residue ol he iron taking the form of black stream nd flowing away. To make sure oi making the water swap all its copper for ron, which it IS glad to do without boot, me vat IS placed below another dowr, he bank to the river, and when water scapes 1t has eaten its full of iron and stt pay Tor its meal III genuine copper ,xchange.