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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
The Rn.Sian Hnnyman.

There Is Onebut state.eXecutiOneri in tI. .t vast Russian realm. and he IS a pirGoneC malefactOr named FrOlOh, who. in the pIe-NIhl!IstIc days, when tue abolition of capital punishment was still maintained ln MuscOvy, committed three successive murders and was condemned tO penal servItude for life. When, however. rev iUt-ollry successes rendered the service of an imperial haugmau indispensable to the Ministry of Justice FroloH voluu. teeled for the position on condition that an namnesty for ms past mIsdeeds be grant ed hIm. Ills OfIe. was accepted. and for some tune past he has been a busy man. For every function he receives 40 silver ruJies-about S3O-from tue Russian ex cnequer; but that official fee by no means represents the total emOluments he de uves from the practices of his handlcrafr for he Is permitted tO trade upon the supersuuons still current m Russian so- cIety respecting the luck conferred upon gsmesters by the possession Of morsel oi -he rope with which human being has been strangled, either by tue hand O; justice or by his own.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
Down a shaft.

An Austin, Nevada dispatch says that
 about noon on Sunday two young men
 named Austin Parrot and Fred Shiugie,
 started ont for a walk, terminating at
 the King Alfred mine, on Lander Hili.
 Whilst standing at the edge 0f this abandoned shaft looking down. the ground caved in, precipitatiug them downward into the mouth of the shaft. ShIngie had fOrethOugGt enough to grasp timber on the opposite side of the shaft, thereby saving himself, but Parrott fell to 2G0 station. striking on a pile of timber which stopped his possible descent to the distance of SDJ Iuudrel feet. Young Shing.e returned -o town and gave the alarm, when a party at once proceeded to the scene, and ut0u descending the shaft found Parrotf. lylng on the timbeTs in all Iusensl bic con dltlOn- As the rescuers were rais ng Par rOtt from the mouth of the shaft. Charles Currelly stepped on a timber upon the edge of the shaft Go assist, when tbe gre und again caved, and CurrelIv WAS shot down the shaft from which Pa-rott had just been taken. The rescue-s agaiD descended, and found Currelly with bis head badly mashed, and both ankles DrOkeu.
 Young Parrott is seuously bruised. but has a chance of recovery. Els es- cape is due to the fact that larre body of earth caved Under hrm. and. q .sceud- ing in advance, broke his fall. Poor Currelly who went to rescue Parrott. was less fortunate, and bis body bss been taken ID charge by the Odd Fellows. ta be buried. Currelly was a na-ive of Canada West. and was President If the Miners Union at that place. which office be was filing for the second consecutive term.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
EnucArIoN AND CRIME


 More than one-half of the fund raised by taxation is consumed in the prosecu- tion of criminals. A single murder case sometimes costs the people more in ac- tn .l money than would be the cost of thorough common school education for every child in the county where the murder was perpetrated. The homely proverb, "An ounce of prevention IS worth a pound of cure," applies well here. The more education advances the less liability there is to iniraction of the law. This principle is too well es- tablished to need argument. The time has long passed when education was thought dangerous training of people, enabling them to commit crime the more skilfully. The culture of the pres ent century repudiates the proposition that national education is s national curse
 The rank and file of mankind in civil ized lands are daily growing wiser and better under the humanIzing influence of letters. People read the telegraphic reports of misdeeds, and say that they never heard of so much crime in former days; that the world is surely becoming more vicious, whereas the fact is that the telegraphic intercommunication of all lands IS only now throwing its calci- um light upon human misdoings, which in olden days were known of only in the immediate loeal neighborhoOd of their perpetration. As Ajax Telamonides prayed for light and defed the Fates as to all else, so do we pray for general diff fusion of education, willing to grapple with the problems of social and political affairs, relying upon their speedy solu- tiOn, if only "oi polloi" are rescued from the slough of ignorance.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
New Mexico News.

The fremen Of A buquerque had their ball on the l7th. The Review says it was a great success.
 The A. and P railroad are attempting to reclaim the desert portion of its grant by sinking Rrtesian wells.
 The name of A. $. Merriman, of Chi cago, has been sent to the Senate to sue ceed John Sherman, Jr., as United States marshall
 Fort Selden, on the A., T. and s. F., is to be made, so it is said, the headquar- ters of this military district. Ten com panies will be stationed at the post.
 It is stated that all the land along the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, west from Albuquerque to the eastern border of Arizona, gill be surveyed this year.
 Frank D. Allen, the young man who shot and killed West WhitOn at Paschal, in SJ,0O0 bail to await the action of the grand lury.
 Monday morning last, severe wind store swept over, Las Vegas and did con siderable injury. The cOrnice of the store of Jaffa Bros. was blown down, burying two men in the debris.
 On Wednesday Hon. John A. Miller made bet of SlO0 with F.. Shepherd and councilman l.. D. Millert that the railroad would be running into Silver City in twelve months from the time of making the bet.-Southwest.
 The promoters of the proposed Texas, Santa Fe and Northern Railroad will. 1t Is said, commerce to grade the road within the next 90 days. The road will run from Espanola to Santa Fe. thence tJ the CerrillOs mines and coal beds, thence to Bernalillo and Albuquerque, and on south. The business men of Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties, it Is said, will subscribe S20,O00, and it Is e,- pected that these counties will each vote the company Sl00,000 n aid of the en- terurise.
 The SOcorro Sun gives the following as the history of the Socorro 2 ant: Alter the reconquest of New MexicO by the Spaniards, through the influence of the missionary priests the crown of Spain conceded one league Of land, where the town of SocOrro now stands, to a tribe of Pueblo Indians. These Indians sub sequently abandoned the grant and it remained without any claimants until lS45, when one Manuel Trujillo secured from the Mexican governor, on the plea of the grant to the Indians aforesaid, the 900.0OU acres now claimed.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
The Romance of Wood Engraving.

Like printing, the infancy of wooden grav1ng is shrouded ID well-nigh uI Iath- omable mystery. The first woCdcut now known tO the world appeared about l423, and nobody has tine slightest idea who cut the block. The only existing iua pres sion was found pasted inside Oi the cover of a urdnuscupt In the hhrary of a SuabIan convent, aud IS now m Eal SDencer's famous collection But &C., eordiug to Papll oa a French woo eT- grGver, and writer OJ tue subject, there were some blocks even olcer than thls. They were cut, 50 hIs recount runs, by the twins, Alexandra Alberlc CJinlO and Isabella Cuuio. The maiden k des- crIbed as beng surprisingly beautiful, talented and accOmp ished; at l3 sue un- derstood Latin and geometry, wrote cx- cellent verse. played upon several ln- struments. and had begun tO desi-n and paint with delCacy aud taste; Wll!e her brother. the chIvalrlc AiberIc, was ui quite ravIshIng beausy, and one Ci the most charming yOutIs ID tOurteeIth century m Italy. At If he commanded squadron of horse in the wars, and dls- played extraordinary valor. Alter dis tinguishiug himself by defeating 2UO of tue foe he returned tO his amlI bic sister, and in conjunction with her designed and executued eight wonderful wood blocks, illustrating the progress oi Alex ander. On the completion of this re- ID trki b q series he Ouce more ventured ou the field of battle. being accompanied by the passionate lover of his beautiful sister. This brave action, however, proved fatal, for he was killed, and hls friend dangerously wounded while de- lending him in the midst .If his enemy. This 80 affected the twin sister that she resolved never tO marry and piuIug away in the approved styIe of medieval romance, died at the interesting age Oi twenty. This IS a pretty aud effective story. The only fault about It IS ouly that 1t isn't true. Papil.on, the author of it, had an exaberant imagination, and the latter day authorities ascrIhe It to that peculiarly rather than to sober his- tory. Al all events here has been nIre little squabhle about 1t between various writers Oo the art of wood engraving; and as nobody bat Papillou ever saw the pictures, nor ever heard of them until he published his "lrai;e de Ia Gravure,' and as his proofs are of the most shudOwy kind, 1t Is generally believed in these dull days that the whole story Is TO- mantle myth of the Middle Ages. Lon don Graphic.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
THE HIGH SCHOOL.

If no portion of community which supports a high school was benefited by it except those persons who actually avail themselves of its privileges, there might be some pertinency in the sug- gestion of the Springfield Union, that a high school in which only ten per cent. Of the children are ever entered, and from whose rolls many of these drop out before the end of the first year, may be costing too much. But the whole com munlty Is richer and more prosperous, and its general tone is improved, by the better education of a few. We'll con- ducted high schools are worth all they cost, even tO those who do not directly use them Prov. (R. I.) Press.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
knoMledye ina Nutshell.


 A cubIt Is two feet.
 A palm Is three inches.
 A great cubit Is eleven feet.
 There are 2,7j9 languages. A span is ten and one-half inches. A days journey is thirty two and one ! lalr mIles. ! Two persons die every second. Sound moves seven hundf feI and forty three miles per hour. A storm blows thirty-s;x miles per hour.
 Coarse salt eighty-fve pounds per bushel.
 The average Of human life is thirty-one years
 An acre contains 4,S4O square yards. Slow rivers How five miles per hour. 4 frkin of butter weighs ffty-six pounds.
 A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour.
 A bullet moves 1000 miles per hour. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. The first iluciter match was made in lsz3.
 Gold was discovered in California in lS4S.
 Electricity moves 22S,OOO miles per hour.
 The first horse railroad was built in lS25.
 4 moderate wind blows seven ID les per hour.
 The first steamboat piled the Hudson in l,J7.
 Iue hrst printing press in the United States was introduced m 1920. Iue hrst steam engine Was brought from England m lSJ3.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
Northern Arizona.
Albu,ueroue Jggn,r

[ @llhu'iAfItiAf "I4iAal.
 The building of the Atlantic and
 Pacific railroad Is opening up the north. | ern half Of Arizona in a wonderfully | rapid way. What yeHr ago WAS almost
 an unknown and undiscovered counfr,
 L. most of our readers. k now attracting | the attention oi people from ail paits Oi the East. IL ls veli-sunwu hat ArizoaI
 Is wonderfully rich In mineral wealth. ] and last year its productions amOuuted
 to about Sl2,OOO,O03. A great portion of this came 1t Is true, from Tombstone aud
 the other camps in the southern part of
 the Territory, but this k by no means
 an indication that the northern part og
 the Territory IS not equally rich m
 minerals. lt IS pretty weii-kUown that
 in the vicinity Of Prescott there areuum- bers of districts in which considerable development has been done, hut which has not yet been made iully productive. because of their remoteutss fIom ral- roads. Northwest of Prescott Is the famous Mineral Park and V allanai min ing country. where there are some won derfully rich mines.
 The mines of Northern Arizona are not the only source of wealth: for as an agricultural and stock country it is in  many respectS far supe rior to the south ern part. In the San Frauci,co noun talns there k an abundance of magui- ticent timber that will soon le brought into the market and made to contribute to the wealth of the southwest. Snow falls to a great depth in the San Fran cisco mountains during winter and logging can be carried on with @ small cost preparatory to the spring and sum mer work. This country VII soon be brought within reach of tIe e outsiIe world, and already, as We have said, it i~ beginning tO feel the influence of new life as the enterprise and energy of the East approaches #. For Albuquerque ! the development of northern Arizona 1 means large increase Iu trade, and ! in wealth and population :. The day k not far distant when the demands of this increase will be m1de . upon Albuquerque merchants. and ticyi must be prepared to meet them, or tle ! golden opportunity will pass ant grasped | by other cities.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
News Items.

The St. Louis Mint bill will be favora-
 ply reported.
 Dick Hudson is prspar |, to stock the line between Deminc and Silver City.
 The rains in Tennessee have uncovered l bonanza in the form of bed of coal on ;he side of Cumberland Mountain.
 Miss Emma, daughter of fex-Postmaster General Key, was thrown from buggy
 1t Chattanooga on the 18th and fatally injured.
 The distribution of free soup to the poor ID Boston ceased on Tuesiav Now
 he very poor must look out, and look very sharp, for themselves.
 The Government will nave to feed 20.- 100 persons in Arkansas for more than -wo months. This fact alone shows bow 'Itensiye Is the calamity that has fallen lpon The southwest
 Frederick A. Palmer, Newark's ex- Auditor. who was convicted of eml ezzl-
 ng above S2OO,NOb Of city money and ol 'orging papers, was last week sentenced
 twenty years in the State Pris, n.
 The Park Association of N. Y. Is con- sidering the feasibility of buying I,2OO i'N tl AdHAA Au " telClltaltT fDulLN, ar Sl l,666,G6 per acre-making S2,0O0000- Tor the extension of the public parks of the city.
 The Railroad Gazette of the l7th re- ports total of 2l4 miles of new railroad constructed, making S23 miles thns far epOrted for lSS2, against 427 miles re- Iorted at the corresponding time last ear, 753 miles in 1880, and 20i miles in S7q.
 Jersey City is in ferment over a leg slative joh accomplished by the Penn wlvania Railroa Company and the HU- 'oken Land and Improvement Company deprive the citizens of the entire con 'rol of theIr water front, millions be- | ng involved ID the transaction.
 An Enclishman named C. D. Owens, | .ew days ago nearly killed young lady | 4 Tampa, Fla, with knife. The eiti- | ;ens took him from the jail and lyDched | um m full view of the United States | }ourt. The Mayor and Sheriff had pro ested, and Lieutenant Davis had order d out the garrison, but too late
 The Southern papers take unfavorable Jews ot the crop prospects, especially in egard to the extensive region now over lowed with water. The winter thcugh mild has been excessively wet, nd farming operations are backward n exception, the prospects for the sugar rOp in Louisiana are all that could be esired.
 A considerable engineering feat was in Philadelphia on Thurs ay week when a new stand-pipe, an iron ipe lying along the ground, l56 feet six lches long and five feet in diameter, 'eIghlng eighteen tons, WAS raised to an bright position and secured to the base asting m the ground on which 1t rests, nd with which the main connects. The crossing Of the Texas border by +encral W. T. Sherman into Mexico, at , iaredo, the other day, was made tue oc- lsIOn of demonstration that may be aCarded as significant The bands on : le Mexican side played See the Con- , nering Hero Comes" and Hail Colum- , Ia. and the Mexicaus shouted and leered like wild men when the General 'ok the hands of the Mexican officers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
WHAT TIE PUPIL sHouLn KNOW

A child of decent mental powers ought to be able, at fourteen or fifteen years of age: l. To read well, and spell the words he uses. 9 To write a neat and legible hand. 4. To know considerable geog. raphy, and considerable history of the world and it's eminent men, especially of his own country. 1. To speak correct English, and to write readily a well-ex- pressed letter of business or friendship. ,. To solve accurately plain business problems. 6. To draw simple objects. '. To know how to care for hls body, and keep it in health. S. He ought to know clearly the great principles to be followed to render people happy, honor able, and useful. g. He ought to have a stock of accurate general information. and to be interested in newspapers.- N. Y. School Journal.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
Yuma Items. C-..H

We regre, to announce the serious i'll ness of Mrs. C. W. Rail,on, wife of our R K. agent.
 Mir C. ". Harrison, assistant in the R K. office in Yuma, has been appointed lgen, at Gi!la Bend. He lei, on Sur- lay.
 The lumber has arrived in San Fran cisco for the completion Of the steamer Gilla and she will be finished soon.
 The greater part of the material has heen hauled into the hill, for ,he new K. K. water woEks. Work has already be- gun on the first reservoir, near the old tank.
 Bishop Reed preached three sermons m Yuma last Saturday, two al the Court house and one al the hotel This was ! he hrst protestan service held here ID a long time
 The Emigrant train on. Saturday moin- ing brought into town the dead body of q German named Joe Hooker An inquest was held at lhe Court house. resulting In hnding that the man committed suicide. by placing his head on the rails SO thai The tram should run over him. His head was horribly mashed, the brans being entirely gone and one side of ihe lower Jaw mashed away. An examna,ion ol he body also disclosed two knife cuts on he leit breast. The man was evidently -razy.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
Patti and | CT Lover.

Alasi even Patti must fade. Perhaps
 If the little gypsy-for gypsy she is in
 look, feature and taste-had the least suspicion of herat, 50 that now and then a fellow could forget her artifice and "fall in love" with the woman, she might last longer. As it is, although she can't in the face of dates deny her forty years of travail in this world of sin. she really appears to be but twenty eight or thirty, and doubtless has five years of success and five more of great popularity besides. 1 studied her face carefully the other evening, and though she was on duty, think l obtained a very fair picture. You see, she has lit- orally tO fight the world uf fashion and nf art Tn this NIcolini matter. I dare say she Is very fond of him, and he Is a gallant-bearing chap, of whom many women have been fond, but he has had his day, and I'll bet a hat if there was iess opposition on the part O. people who really have no business to meddle m 1t at all. PattI would soon turn him the cold shoulder. As it is, constant lighting has hardened a nature never very soft or yielding, and there IS a dash and defiance in her cOal-hlack eyes which seems to say: "If you don't like it l don't care. What are you gong to do about itY'-New York Correspondeuce Philadelphia Times.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
TIE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The common school system, as now in force, can be regarded as a permanent factor in the social culture of the State. There are those, without doubt, who de- sire change Tn some of its features, but no one wishes its overthrow. The children of the commonwealth must be taught, and this is simply impossible without some system, under the guid- ance and guardianship of the law. And, in Government like ours, such guard lanship cannot, in reference tD those who are to receive its benefits, make or allow any distinctions of high or low, rich or poor, bond or free. The possible blessings of the system must be common to all. Connected with the system there are, it is true. problems of great difficulty and as yet unsolved, growing out of the relations of Church and State, but those difficulties are not of such a character as to warrant any radical attempts to give up the present system and try another, nor do We believe that there are very many within the State who seriously entertain thought of this lnnd.-Hou. F. F. Higbee, State Superintendent of Penn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02

ACCORDING to an article reproduce i'y the Fronterizo, from the Panam
 Chronicle, the Republic of Chili had b. fore the war of 1879, an area of 5s7,OO hlcmeters square, not including Pata sonIa, and a population of 2,l55029, O whom but half million can read; 400. 000 read and write, the rest being igno rant Of Rny education whatever. Tb, population includes 26,OOO foreigners. zoo of them being from the Argentin, Republic; 7,OO0 Germans: 5.OGO English 4,0o0 French; 5000, the balance. beinp made up ol Spanish, Italians and Amer jeans. Gt has 1925 kilometers of rail- road, 9dl of which are the property O. the State. The number Of agricultur- ists, according to the census of 1875. numbered 17l.9S3, and the amount O, wheat raised the same year was 36I. 372, 726 litres.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02

 HE Russians have cheerful way o'
 manifcsting their love for their sovereign
 ruler An unambitious Car they vii grimly elevate with dynamite. or with P friendly bullet relieve weary royalty oi the cares Of state. They are now circu stlng humorous placards jocosely de elaring that Alexander III is condemned to death, definitely and without appeal. It IS hardly possible that he will even be permitted to file bill of exceptions ip the case, in which respect Guiteau CD. joys an advantage. The announcement Is said by q late cablegram to have pro duced a gloomy effect, quite contrary tc the intention of the sportive Nihilists. The royal prisoner is quite unhappy over the prospect of enacting the role of an embalmed monarch.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02

A MAN named William NJ. Haines
 said to have been aresident of Yuma and
 on a tour through the east. shot and kil- led Alex. (. Swingate of Langton, on the Ohio and Mississippi train, near Mendo- 'a, Ind, on March c7th. The assassin then jumped from the train, while going forty miles an hour, landed safely. walk cd half mile 10 the creek, stripped an5 jumped in, drowning himself Som. money and whisky was found on his per son His valise had a dagger and gamb iers cards He had been a trouble some passenger, and was ejected from :; sleeper. The firing was unproyoked. and resulted in the instant death oi Swingate, highly esteemed Christian gentleman. l; would seem from the cir that sudden change from the use of Colorado river water to Indiana whisky IS dangerous experiment, and he Yuma tourists should be cautioned igains the exciting compound.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
WHAT IS TEACHTNG-

Teaching, in its proper sense, is the process of arousing and directing the mental activities in such a way as will lead to the requirement of knowledg. and mental culture. The efficiency of the teaching is properly measured. therefore, not by what IS merely pre- sented to the pupils, but by the effect it produc,s on the activities of their minds.-by what it leads the pupils actually to acquire. Hence the teachinC should be adapted to the different degrees of activity and strength of which the mental faculties may be capable in the natural order, or successive stages of intellectual growth. W. W. Waterman, Supt. of Taunton, Mass.