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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02

A GERMAN chemist has inverted a process which is intended to render the woolens, cottons and cheap silks ser vice similar to that which electro-plat- ing renders to common metals. This singular process is thus described: Silk waste, ravelings and a.milar valueless refuse are placed in a clear solution of caustic soda or potash, by which they are rapidly dissolved. The solution is theu diluted by the addition of distilled water, more or less as the plating is to be heavy or light. The cotton or linen fabrics are then placed in a bath of this hquid, in which they are said rapidly to become coated with the silk, when they are taken out and dried. This process is repeated a number of times, the bath being diluted each time. Finally the goods are left for two hours in a strong bath Of sulphuuc acid, in which they ars kept in constant motion, after which they are thoroughly rinsed with water, pressed hot, beaten and stretched, to bring out the lustre and gloss, just as all silk goods are said to be treated. By this process it is claimed that not only cotton and woolen, but-what is apparently much more likely-dull, lustreless, low-priced silks can be treated with solution of better and more lustrous silk, and be rendered scarcely distnguishable from the best goods. The precipitated silk is sad to to adhere firmly.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
EXHIB T.

IT Is necessary that Pima county be well and properly represented iu the coming Denver Exposition, otherwise it will, with all it's richness and immensity Of its mineral deposits, make but an in- different showing, and wil contrast un- favorably even with the poorer counties, the display of whose products Las been systematic and thorough. This the peo- pie of Pima county and through them the citizens Of Tucson cannot well affa I'd, for however ill our display of minerals may be it will, by the unknowing, be ac- cepted as our best, inasmuch as visi- tors will not be persuaded that the citi- zens of Tucson and Pima county gener- ally, have upon such an important occa- sion been SO dead to theIr own interest as to make but partial exhibit when it could, but for the indifference Of its peo- pie, have made a larger and better show ing than any county in the Territory. We must, or at least ought. to do our best for as such it will be &C., cepted whether We w1ll or not. All other States and Territories, even to far off Maine, will by the display of their minerals, do much to attract capital in their direction. For Arizona situated as she Is, to do otherwise would be to acknowledge that she had nothing to exhibit and would be given the go by accordingly. For all counties in the Territory to be, with the exception of Pima, well represented would be worse for the county because of the contrast, than If Arizona had no representation at alL We cannot advantageously enter the lists on a partial showing. A full ex- hibir must be made or it IS better that nothing be done
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02

THE Democratic newspapers iu sIiesih- ing of the military record of General Sloneman, fail to give that gentleman credit for his last great exploit. His tory states that Stoneman ''in the mean time, attempting to do much, failed in nearly all things. At the las- moment, before leaving, he obtained Sherman's consent to 90 farther, and after striking the railway at Loveioys, sweeping southward, capture Macon, the capital 1f Georgia. He had gone but a short distance when he cut loose from Giiard's cavalry, and, in disobedierce to Sherman's orders. omitted to operate with McCooL, aad with his own com mana. about three thousand n number, be pressed directly on Macon. There he was met so stoutly by the con- tederates under Wheeler, that he not only abandoned all thoughts of captur- ing Macon, but he turned hastily back, impelled by the urgent business Of try ing to escape. He divided his columns into three. and two of them escaped, but Stoneman with about one thousand
 strong, was surrendered by the active Georriaus and seven hundred of them taken prisoners. Wheelr had only aboutfv hundred men, but deceived | bis antagonist with a show of superior force. Stoneman's unfortunate expedl ] tion cost Sherman one-third ot hls
 cavalry. without any compensating ad ! vantage With such a leade-, the De nocratic party is marching ingloriou ] defeat.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
NO. 24.
4 MarYIand Fire-Eater.
IPreston Letter Co the Wilmington Nsws.I J

Preston Letter Co the Wilmington NsSs-l Nathan COker IS of pure African lien age, black as ebony and of stalwart frame
 he IS now somewhere between sixty and seventy years of age and has resided all
 hts life Tn the lower part of TuekahOe
 Neck, Md Hehas no knOledge of books cannot even repeat the alphabet-but
 Is much above mediOerity in point of general intelligence and good, hard, cOrn-ield common sense as compared with his race When quite young he conceived the idea of becoming fire proof and before he was twenty-five he was a veritable fire-king. How he ac- quired the power to perform the feats of placing his hands and arms In vessel of boiling water and keeping them there for ten minutes, licking a red hot shovel. holding in his mouth molten lead and even swallowing 1t, as well as many others more daring, without apparent ln- jury no one knows nor has he ever re vealed the secret. In fact it Is doI.h;- ful if he can himself explain the my sfery but he can and does handle bars Oi iron glowing With white heat, eat glowing tbaiesal made from hickory or oak wood,
 ak barefoOted on q red hot bar Of iron sixteen feet long with perfect eOOlnesS and deliberation. These facts are at tesJeo Uy many respectable witnesses. He used to delight in frightening the ignorant and supsrstitiOus country peo- pie, to whom he was unknown, whenever be could find a crowd gathered around tEe stove in a village or country store, by stalking Tn, opening the stove dCor and running bis hand down in the fire and deliberately taking live coal in his fingers and eoOly place 1t in hispipe and walk off
 He was at one time on exhibition and his strange feats created considerable excitement, but owing to bis dislike of notoriety and hIs lack of education he soon retired from the stage. Hls power of resisting the effects of fire IS singular. and has never, so far as know, been ex- plained, though he has been examined by a number of scientific men. Many of the colOred people, and in fact not few of the whites, who had been taught by the crude theOlOgians of fifty wears ago to believe in personal devil with horns. tail and cloven foot, whose klng- dom was the bOttomless pit and who Oc- cassiOnally treated his refractory sub iects to doses of molten lead, firmly be- lieved, and perhaps some of them slH believe, that Nathan was a sort of a bre- vet devil himself
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
A Great Scheme.

"Gentlemen," said the prOjectOr to the group. as he lit fresh cigar, since ths President has signed the Chinese bill, and no more cheap labor can be i'm ported in the usual way, have a scheme to propose by which we can all make blg pile of money. Don't laugh-we can make it in stock which you know good deal abOut-Sierra Nevada. CThe person addressed thought be did unfortunately It's selling about S4 a share now; by my scheme we can make It go up to 3OO, sure. They are now working the mine down to the fourteen thousand cross-cut level on the north east winze as you all know. Now. what We want to do first is to get John Pondir to give us enough Sutro to control the tunnel; then we own enough stocks among us to hyposhecate with Meeker < Co. to raise money to buy up Sierra Nevada at present prices. That will give us control of the mine, the pump ing apparatus, and the tunnel; to draw off what is pumped mp. Now don't you see all We have to do IS to sink the mlne a little deeper and we shall strike China Here you are-pump up China men at ten dollars ahead. There's no law against bringing them into the country that waY-have a monopoly of the whole business. Twenty thousand Chinamen per day at ten dollars each is SS5 yea.llFSSeost alStof of pumping s.SUn0;Il1 5Iln6i clear profit over seventy milhons foi =
 This must send up Sierra Nevada to 300, and it is the only thing that ever wilL'-Wall Street Daily News.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
Inl. rcIerrnnhic NeWs.

NEW ORLEANS, June 2I.-Henry Forbes. seaman of the steamer Marc Auruelia, from Havsna, admitted to the hospital Sunday. is now pronounced a clear case of yellow lever.
 AUBURN. June 27.--George B. Stevens committed suicide last night by eating morphine. The deceased was Promin- ent pioneer. but lately business failures and extrayagant habits rendered him penniless. He was in Arizona recently.
 NEw YoRK. June 27.-Hatrick Eagan, at Paris, telegraphs t, Patrick Ford thatlard leaguers, through a company with large capital, propose to the British and Irish tenantry and English and Scotch farmers to take their places. This dispatch says it means war to the death.
 SAN FKAScIsco, June 27.-James Me Coy, an experienced Virginia City miner, with some associates, has taken mp a gold quartz claim within the city limits, near the Industrial School. The lode is claimed to be over six hundred feet wide a traceable for two miles. A tUnnel has been begun, and the assays Of rock run from traces of gold and silver to over twelve dollars per ton.
 LoNDQy, June 27.-It is reported here that Greek money lenders were murder cd ln Cairo Sunday. An English dele gate was ordered to withdraw from the commission appointed to inquire into the ]. cent riots. The Captain of the U. $. steamer Galena served a notice on all American residents tha. the Galena Is ready to receive them. and that those who remain in Egypt do SD at their own risk.
 BOWIE June 27.-On Sunday night two miners in Tevis district, twelve miles from Bowie station got into a wraugle while under the influence of liquor, resulting in the death oi one of them. The name os the murdered man IS James IT. NcGowan, aged 45, and native Of Ireland The name of the shooter is John Frey. The act occurred about midnight and there were no wit nesses. After the shooting, Frey went to some neigh0oring miners ana stated that he had killed one of three men who attempted to rob his cabin; that he shot the man near his cabin door with a car bine. In the morning the body of Me Gowan was found beside the cabin in a sitting position with a wound from side to side through his heart.
 Deputy Sheriff Breckenridge accom- panied by Coroner Mathews, arrived at Bowie on Monday, when the officer at once proceeded to the ecamp and arrested Frey. An inquest was held yesterday at the Campbell House, and the prisoner was immediately afterwards conveyed Co the Tombstone jail. The conjecture Is that the killing resulted from whiskey; that the deceased was shot while sitting in the position as when found, and that the men where friends when sober.
 One ot McGowau's boots and his pipe were found in Frey's cabin. Frey has the reputation of being quarrelsome, and McGowan of having bean a peaceable man whether drunk or sober.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
Manufacturing Birds.
IFro-n the Chicaro Tibune. ]

Take a stick of wood one inch square
 and eighteen inches long and point
 one end. Slit the other end three ol
 four inches and insert piece of stif cardboard SIX inches wide and a foot long. This will represent the body and tail of the bird. Fasten on both
 sides near the pointed end a taperlng stick two feet long, with the outer ends slightly elevated, and fasten tO these
 and the body piece of cardboard ten
 inches wide and two feet long. Have
 the tail vertical instead of horizontal,
 as in the bird. Round of the outer rear corners of the wings for three or four
 inches. The imitation O. the natural
 bird is now complete. There IS no need
 of exactness, as the ar you are tO tTy 1t
 in will be an unknown quantity, and It
 may just suit the shape you make. An
 indispensable part IS now to be added
 which is to preserve equilibrium, and IS
 not used by the natural bird. A taper ing stick, say one and a half inches wide, three-eights Of an inch thick at the top, three-eighths of an inch square at the other end and e-ssi1 teen inches long, is used. This piece ls to be securely fastened by a small bolt through the UPpsr end IT. nust os capable of adjustment by allowing the lower end to swing front and back through, say forty degrees. To the lower end IS fastened 8 muslin bag which will hold two pounds Ot shot Expose the eiigy to breeze of from three to twenty miles an hour, from as high a situation as It IS possible for you to obtain, by holding it by the pendent
 stick near the body. Adjust the
 weighted stick forward or back, and add or abstract shot until the efligy has a tendency to spring from your hand against the current of air, when 1t may be released at a moment of greatest steadiness of breeze | have made success, but have never pet sue ceeled in getting one Co travel beyond the limits of vision. They have pro- ceeded directly against the breeze for five hundred ards, and Obliquely, up or down, or tJ right or left, within these limits, when they would lose theIr balance and come down. Sometimes almost any kind of one that was pre- scented Co the air would float creIitably while at other none would succeed. The pendant weight for maintaining eQuIii- brium. though the best ever devised, is far too sluggish for perfect work. The momentum of this weight presents the best results, for if a succession Of puiIs upon the same wind should occur quickly together the weight should swing far enough in obedience tO the impulse gwen to Capsize the eifigy. Such a succession Of putis is sure Go occur sooner or later at each trial.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
Drunkenness no Excuse for Crime.
 frNevy YorL- TribnDa

The court of appeals has recently pass ed upon the question whether drunken ness can be pleaded az 8 defence to a charge of murder. It was claimed by the counsel for a condemned murderer, that his client was victim of an appe- tite for drlnk, which was a disease that destroyed his will power and rendered him legally irresponsible. as in the case of insanity. A new trial was therefore asked, because the court below had re- fused to charge the jury that the accused was not responsible if the crime had been committed when he was the victim of such disease. or if committed while he was drunk. The couit of appeals refuses t0 recognize drunkenness, as any cause for crime. It holds that not even frenzy or mental alienation caused by drink can exempt person accused of murder from criminal responsibility. If man voluntarily gets drunk and commits crime while in that condition he must answer for the cOnseCuences of his acts. This Is obviously a sensible view, though not a new one, in criminal jurisprudence. It would be parody on the administra- ton of justice if the vice of getting drunk were accepted as an excuse for committing a crime.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
rar-r1rs ON rHEPLATroRM.

IHr eastern press makes the following significant comments on the Democratic platform adopted by the late San Jose convention:
 The New York Herald says: "There s at least one state in the Union vasr.tae Democrats have got something alalI ou to. That state IS California. Thee they have fastened themselves to tas 9i.taiIs of the Chinamen, winch, tle. expect, will drag them into power The Democrats, cu7i us to say, are ai- Ways il somebody's wool. They had ta.r hands in the kinky curls of the poor negro for a quarter of century. u-al taeg were finally compelled to let go, They will fare no better with the lLllmau, and modern Democracy is unhappy unless it is on the back of the support of au infericr race, which, in the s--, always contrIves 70 get on top.
 The THuune editoriaIly says: The Democrats 1i California, in Convention assl5.el, have sent out a platform winch re commend to the whole party ia-uatouai use. IL reads as fl it had been written by Deuis Kearney. The larger r1-t of it is devoted to the Chi l-. ar5 upon that once promising issue, taa u-terances are stirring enough talaEe thewildest Chnese-hater in the country dance with joy. The architects a.t-a platform were evidently South s-ers. California was the refuge which many Southerers sought at the close of '-e war; where they all joined the Dem cratic party, and were at once given high places in its cHunsels. They ba,-ay theirantecedents in thisplatform by deaauucing the men who, under a humanitarian cloak, are endeavOring to thTart their efforts in behalf of the Tllte ID in California. This tho --,t iutimation we have had that le tlinmen were eudan gering the NUue uEut of the white man tC rule th.s country. Starting or lls ancient Democratic principle, th' platform comes at once to its work h leuouuces the Chinese now in Cali l9nla as an "uamasked curse ap -ea.st0 the Democracy of the countr so7 deIvereuce and demands that tn llLt Democratic Convention shall de Clare for self preservation, and shal Hedge the party, in cise it obtains pow rt9reneve every Mongolan from th .'-t-y We trust that the word "rC Rove lsuot used in the Guiteau sens .s, We are not sure abort it. The COT 5e--ol which adopted the decl3ratio 7-sa r5d-hot condition. The nation Democracy will probably accept {. suggestion and push the e1termiuatio
 alk info tle platform. It wonld fit ] -l'-raiiy with the present collection l-1e.I-es, winch stands: Stuffed Ball, Boxes. Poiygamy; Free Rum;' Fr, Trade, Abolition of National Bank: N-inese determination. That
 'laa5d and homogeneous. Thereis n e''1g.e masked curse m the whole liT -ae-e Is. however, really nothing in Il
 5N platform. The creature has be' ''lalIg as an 'Uumasked curse fer q
 -sl tSeuty-fve years, and has be- "5a'ei as such by the people"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
"~"e-o a.rpcruV
Novel Operation Tor Relieving ASsssss of the
 L-ver

Novel Operation Tor Relieving A5sssss Of the
 Liver.
 In Cincinnati, recently, a surgical operation of special interest took place. The patient was Mir. Hawry, a stone mason, aged &, and his ailmeut was an abscess of the liver. The ,perators were Drs. Orr and Judklns. Dr. Orr said: The heart, crowded away from its place, was performing its duties with great diff hculty, and the right lung was so com pressed as to render 1t useless for breath ing purposes. With an irregular heart and but one available lung, the man was drawing necessarily short Dreaths with a whistlmg sound. Death by sufTOcatiOn was not far oil. IL would probably oc- cur within - hours time, as the abscess was growing with rapidlty that would soon end the working of the remaining lung. A seconl danger, and equally as probable, was bursting of the abscess with result to overflow the abdominal cavity and terminate life in two OF three hours As a last measure it was deter mined to perform the operation of hept- OtOmy after the methS u of Lawson IaIt, of england, which was tG fas.en the wall of the abscess to the anterior wall ot the abdomen by silver wlres and then let out the contents through a glass drainage ] tube, tue exterior end 0f WhIcL would be | kept under water.
 The patient was etheriZed; e series of | inCislons were made, till the crown Otthe | liver was brought to view.
 "How are you feeling, my many "All right, doctor
 "We'l be through sOOu,' was said to him in an encouraging voice.
 Taking hold of the wire with an ln- | strumeut for greater hrmress, he care fully and deeply pushed it at an angle through the flesh ar the lower end and to one side of the iucisious, dritly bring | ing 1t again through the surface at the opposite end of the IncIslon. Here 1t
 was that life hung Tn the balance. The
 smooth wire had entered the wall of the | abscess, passed through the contents a httle way, and again through the abscess wall, and out of the surface of the abdO-
 men. The sack now held snugly mp to | the anterior wall Of the abdomen, was | still holding its mass. On the the other | side of the incision the second silver wire was then placed with equal succesa It
 was a triumph. The visible apex of t5e
 abscess was cut and the pus began its | outflow. Ite surrounding edges of the
 opening being firmly held up against the
 abdomen, made passage of the matter
 into the abdominal cavity an impOssi- | bility. No hemorrhage had followed the
 cut by the knife, and now one gallon of
 matter was passed through the tube.
 The patient underwent remarkable | change. The noisy breathing ceased as
 the right lung, relieved of its weight, be- | gan to act, and the man was taking in large draughts of air at each inhalation Respiration had fallen from iS to 23 tC 1 the minute. But, queerest of all, was a fiuttering noticed on the surface of the abdomen. That, said the doctor, "i: the heart working its way back to itt
 proper position" The surgical feat va,
 accomplished, and death had beer
 worsted for a time at least.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
Prescott Items.
T T V ~ WI
 IMlner.l


 It has been suggested that His Honor Chief Justice c. G. French be invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration. Rec ogniziug his great oratorieal ability and learning we, however, do not think 1t would be d ing iustice to that gentle man to ask of him such an arduous duty. when it is taken into considera- tion that he has to be St. John on that day.
 The Miners choice thus far for Dele gate IS Hon. Levi Bashford. We have watched closely for many years his busi- ness qualification, his integrity, his moral character, his energy, success and disposition to do all in his power for the Territory. Above all others he would represent us most intelligently, fairly and industriously. Where IS there a man who says to the contrary
 Another fine 12-passenger coach be- longing to James Stewart came m last evening. and m front of this wagon was attached four bright bay hores, all ol which are for use in conveying passen' ] gers and |. $. mail to and from tue At lantic and Pacific railrad. The coaches to be used will suTpass any heretofore | seen in, thIs section of Arizona.