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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
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The Springfield Republican gives the history Uf the first Gerrymanjer as fol- lows:
 "In 1911, when party feeling ran higL and voters in tue State were very evenly divided, the Republican-Democrats for the first time in a number of years elected the Governor and majority Of both branches of the General Court, and to preserve their power they rear ranged the Senatorial districts and made them of irregular shape so as to give themselves a majority in as many as possible Nothing of the kind had ever been done before The move excited bitter opposition among the Federalists, and Elbridge Gerry, then Governor and for years leading Democrat, came in for a great share of the Remuneration. One district vas made of line of towns on the westerly and nOrtherly side of Essex county, forming something like an irregular letter F. The Boston Sentinel was the leading Federalist paper, and Russell, its editor, tO show plainly what was being done, took a map of the cOuu- try, culOred the towns on 1t iucludet in the peculiar district and hung it up in bis office. One day Gilbert Stuart hap pened to see it and, saving that it re- uPoOled some mOustrOus animal, took a ',ss3i and, with a few strokes. indicated
 -. -- -'elisAf "tii-1 taa4r g1 1sls... ,sf rf..ff sNcncw distTiCt lOO's~5 r-s-s S0tue AiGu of strange dragon. There" said he, "that will do for a salamander." "Sala- mander" exclaimed Russ, [, "call 1t a Gerry -manderw And SO the new pro seeding found a name"
 The result was that the Feieralists got but II of the 4O Senators, while they had majority on their State ticket.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
NO. 12.
Erasmus RugylesOn.

bufAAu!t1u haNAcJt- Erasmus T. Ruggleston, young man ! or SaxOn lineage, worked On a farm
 out here m Yellow Springs township.
 He was not rich, out he was industrious
 and just too pretty for anything. So
 was the daughter of the farmer for | whom he worked. She was wealthier
 than Erasmus, but she was not proud. When the chores were done in the win | ter evenings, she went with him to sing | ing school. and she walked by his side to- church. She loved him. She had rather sit at her easement in the gloara- ing and hear him hOller "pOO-OO-eyF' in long drawn. mellow cadence, at the hour of tue feeding of the swine, than hear Campanini sing "MaccarOni del Vermicelll," from HandOrgzhanni in Venezuela And he-he was clean gone on her. Mashed past all surgery. When they fOOliShly let the old man into their plans for each others happiness and half the farm, the wrathful agricultur- ist said that if he heard one more word of such nonsense, just another word, he would lay that farm waste with physical havoc, and blight it's winter wheat with the salt tears of his only child. and that was the kind of father-in-law he vas inclined to be.
 Naturally, the young people deter mined to fly. Their plans were laid: the night was set. So was the ladder. At its foot waited the ardent Erasmus Rug glesOn, gazing at the window for the ap- peaTancs of his love. Presently the window opened softly, and a face he loved appeared.
 |" "RasmusF
 ss ssElOrenearf
 'Yes, dearest. Shall I drop my things right dOwny"
 'Yes, love; I will catch them. Let the bundle fall
 The gittering starlight of the clear March night fell On Erasmus, glad and upturned face. So did trunk, four feet high, four feet wide, and about eight feet lOag. It weighed ObOut 200 pounds. It contained a few things" that no woman could be expected to travel without, and Florence had spent three weeks packing that trunk for her elupment.
 Erasmus RugglesOn did not scream. He did not muan. He couldn't. He had no show. Florence came down the ladder, having first, with naidenly sense Of prOpriety, requested her lover to turn his back and look at tine barn. He may have heard her, but be didn't look at the barn. He was busily engaged in looking at the bottom Of the trunk, and thinking how like alfcreation he would yell if be got his mOu-h outdoors again.
 Florence reached the foot of the lad der. Did yOu get my trunk, Eras- mus?" she said, looking around for him.
 "Oh, yes" said a hoarse mocking voice at her elbow. "Oh, yes, he got it Got 1t bad, too"
 She turned, knew her papa, shrieked once. twice, again, and once more for the boys, and tainted away.
 Il never worried about it a minute" the heartless old man told his neighbors the next day, though I knOwed well enough what was gOin' on all the time. I've been married twice, an I've married off four daughters and two sons, an if I iOn't know what baggage a woman car ries when she travels by this time, I'm too old tO learn"
 And, Erasmus RagglesOn! The jury brought in a verdict that he came to his ieath by habitual drunkenness, and the papers didn't talk about else for the next SIX weeks.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

A number of Israehtes of Matamoros wanted tO hold religious service in com pBny with some fellow believers in Brownsville, Texas. and crossed to the latter place with one of the parchm -nt scrolls on which the books of Moses are written in Hebrew, and which are al- ways used for reading aloud at Syna- gOgue service. At the custom house on the river they found to their surprise that they could hot pass without going through the fOrmahty of getting the scroll registered, a thing necessary to do as a rule with articles which 1t k the in- tention to bring back. The Mexican guards exclaimIng that they were afraid tO touch the Jewish Go/, would not go near 1t. They showed marked anxi- ety to get Til of 1t as soon as possible, and hurried its custOdians of, and when 1t was returned the following week they again gave It a wIde berth.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

sesses the best of advantages. It is easy of access from the mountains, the grades almost uniformally pitching this way. The roadss are generally good; wood k cheap, and water can be had vii ont limIt. II the proper means were taken, sufficient money could be raised for getting the necessary works under way, so it would, we think, he ad- visible for the Board of Trade to take action in the rnstter, and get tho project under way.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

HoN. G. II. OURY has introduced into the House of Representatives a bill to provide the means Of obtaining the con. sent of the five civilized tribes of In- dIans nUw occupying the Indian Terri tory, to the settlement vf the IndIan tribes Of Arizona Territory upon the lands heretofore ceded oy said civilized tribes to the Government Of the United States. The bill was referred to the committee on Indian Affairs.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

The Jessie Benton Consolidated Min ing Company have ordered the machin- cry for a complete tive-stamp mill, to be erected on their mill-site m the Owl Heads distrlct. The machinery Is now on the way and will soon be here. The mine has been splendidly developed and the ore bodies so exposed as tO make extraction easy and rapid. The ore is free-milling and very high grade, aver aging from two Co thr. e hundred dollars per ton by mill-runs. It Is also plentiful, d fact amply demonstrated by the show ing in the levels and drifts, which are all m re. There are many tons of ore on the dump, and the mlll will be kept run ming steadily night and day from the hour of its completion. The affairs of the Jessie Benton have been well and wisely manage an l strictly with view 10 leg timre p 'rations. A working capital su iic en y large to cover the ex- Ieuse Of puttIn- ths property on a divi- dend basis, was set aside at the start, and the stock made non-assessable. The necessary building have all been com pleted and nothing remains to be done now except to set up the mill on the ar rival of the machinery. This work, un- der the direction of superintendent Mer- ritl, will be speedily accomplished, and immediately thereafter the Jessie Benton will commence her egular contributions tO the bullion output and dividends of Pinal county.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
THE upuse pso-pr77 ov vsr oo.sr

THE MINING PROzPECT or TaE COAST
 As the result of a caTeful review of existing circumstances the San Fran
 cisco Report makes the fullowing state
 ment concerning the mining outlook of the Pacific eiast. It says that ihuugh
 matters are not looking particularly bright as regards tue C0mstuck, there
 are strong indications that the State O. California will enjoy a prosperous min ing season this year. Mining will be ear ried on more extensively than ever be- fore in the counties of Placer, Fl D0rrdo, Amador, Nevada, Mono. !uyo and Shasta, and recent developments in nearly all these counties give promise of largely increased yield of the precious metals for 1882. There IS a renewed iu- quiry for small gold quartz mines situated in the State aEd a large addi- tional amount of capital will be invested in inning in this State thi, year. Our exchanges from the mining counties speak in iubilant terms of the outlook and visitors from those counties state that the prospect was never better than at present.
 Exclusive of the COmstock-aud for that lode We have not given up hope the outlook Is also good for Nevada mines. Candelaria is destined to be- busy district this summer, and through out all of Esmeralda country there are good prospects. Eureka district also holds forth good prospects and many of the smaller districts are looking well. l. is, however, in this State that We look for the greatest activity in mining mat ters and the largest increase in the pro- luct."
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

THE monument to Major Andre whose hfe paid forfeit for hs negotiations with the traitor Benedict Arnold, recently erected through the influence of Cyrus W. Field. at Tarrytovn, New York, has been caught in the ui hgnifed act of turning double somsrsault, impelled by dynamite. It has not yet transpired whether ample apologies will be de- handed by England for this lack Of re- spect to the memory of an illustrious British subject, or that troops are being mobilized for possible war conse- Quence.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

From 1873 up to the present time there has been invested m the Maine mines, in lands, machinery and working, S975.- 0DO; and there has been received for ores about SS1,D0A CFhis statement includes only the gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc minesl S6O,O0J ofthis money came from outside the State and gone to hene- it labOrers, faners, mechanics, railroad and steamboat lines. The inhabitants of the State have put in S3T5,OOO and have received s63l,OJ0 m return;a pretty good dividend tO the State of Maine.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

appropriation, full and clear authority to remove all county officials who are dere'ict in their duty, or SD discharge 1t as to increase disorder and foster ana chy.
 Governor Tritle has entered upon the discharge oi the iu.ies or the office m der trying circumstances and his posi- tion is anything butan enviable one. We are satisfied that he is equal to the emergency and he will have, in his earn est efforts tD secure good local govern me 1t and the peace and security Of the Ter ory, the hearty co-oi eratiou O; all good citIzans.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
WhinDiug Had Rsys.

Lord Justice Cotton. an English Judge held in high respect. has lately pointed out that the committinGof mere boys for trial at the aSsiyes with all the Darapher- nalia ot grand Jury, judge, etc, Is an ab- surdity, and that they ought to receIve instead a sound birching by magistrates' order as all boys of the higher class do at public schools and then be discharged The Home Secretary IS to introduce a bIll tO facilitate this mode of punish ment. r. is coltended that a boy who has odce been in jail carries the stigma through life, and often becomes a hard ended miserea,t, while fine is useless, as he cannot pay one.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
POSTAL SERVICE.

The connection of railway service be- tween points on the Mississippi river south of Memphis was made with the California Southern Railway in the month of December last at Fl Paso m Texas, and the correspondence from the Southern States with the Pacific coast should be made by the most direct route, hut by some strange direlectlon in the Postoffice Department, the mails are sent around by the Northern rail ways, some Of them going as far North as Kansas City, Denver and Ogden.
 It is scarcely fair to the people that their correspondence should be thus delayed by any favoritism 10 railroad companies. The larger portion of the mails from the States on the Southern Mississippi are sent up to Kansas City and down again by the 4. T. & $. F.. Railroad to Deming, New Mexico, where the junction of the Southern Pacific o. CUTS. This seems very roundabout way of sending the mails, and is prob
 
 ably roundabout way of conducting the public business.
 This roundAboutism consuming at leass three days of time without any sd- vantage except to the Railroad company carrying the mails, and in this as well as everything else there should be fair com petition. and a due regard for the rights Of tbe people.
 In fact some of the mail for Arizona from the Southern States comes around by California. causing m inexcusable de- lay. Take the Mississippi River for the eastern line, it requires at least twelve days for a mail to reach Tucson by the present route when the most direct route from all points south of Cairo would lead through Fort Worth and El Psso, Texas, and bring us'a mail in four or five days. Unless there are some reasons not apparent to common sense and far serrice this evil should have a prompt remedy at the postofiee department
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

HE press of the country is paying altogether too much attention to the sayings and doings Of Thomas NJ. NichoL Nosoriety is just what heseeks. Like Chilean he has q mania for public notoriety, and the attacks of the press simply gratIfy his morbid desires in this direction. His carcass is not worth the ammunition wasted CD him. -
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

TIE Leadville Mining Index says: There are DO compulsory assessments on Leadville mines. If their stocks do not all pay dividends, it costs nothing to hold them, and stockholders arc not continually confronted with the choice of evils-the alternative of selling out Et a loss, or going down deeper into their pockets We submit the following, ia connection with the above, to those favoring mines upon the assessment plan: Since its inception the Union Consolidated mine has lev1sd S1,l60,0C0 ID assessments and added S1,l44,546.s9 70 the circulating medium of the world. the latter am Iunt being the gold value of the bullion produced.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

HE Prescott Democrat comes out in favor Of delegate Oury's reelection. If the delegate IS 10 be a democrat no man could be more satisfactory than our Pres co coniemPoray's candidate, but we hope 70 see some able republican Ill that in- Portan' position for the coming term and for some time thereafter.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
s5,759,NN,OO

THE total annual consumption of qui- nine throughout the world IS given al e2o,oOo pounds, uf which one-quarter Is used in the United States alone. In ISSo we imported 6Oo,Ooo ounces Of quinine. In 1881 the ImPortaiious were one nuarfer larger
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

GUTEAU, as compared with other hawkerS of photographs, has the ad- vantage of being a murderer; for a nor bid American public delights in doing honor To men who are guilty of blood shed. Many a parent who would forbid the reading of flash rOmances III his sit tIue-rJOm. wlll vet clutch eagerly for the details and the souvenirs Oftbis wretched fool m the Washington jail. That Gui- teau Is making S5O a day in selling photographs aud autographs IS not es- pecially surprising, but 1t Is nevertheless most unfavorable comment on the taste of those who pay him Inter- Ocean
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

OscAE WILDE catholicism extends even to California anned fruits. Its magnificent clusters of luscious grapes are also said to afford him peculiar q - hght-when crushe,., decanted and given proper age.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
A Beautiful Plan to Save the Cou.try.

Let northern people go south in the winter, and southern people go north in the summer, and let the young of both sections fall in love with each other and do a little marrying. and then northern and southern grandmOthers go travelling back and forth Co visit the babies that will naturally come upon the scene; that will naturally end all sectional ill-fesl- ing.-Milwaukee Sun.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

X WELL, known mlnmg engineer, for meTly Ii this Stdie, now experimenting a mme in Sonora, Mexico, writes us as follows: Mines iu Sonora are plentiful and rich. bat thus far have seen no placer gold tepo-us m this part of tho country equal to the Chaudier; no gold quart, Taure capable of large returns than NovIa Scotia veins; and, under local drawbacks, here, no better chances for legitimate mn.n- than can be found in New England and the Provinces. - Naunc Mining Journal.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
An Accident All Arouud.

! A most rrdiculOus scene occurred at a | church Iu Newcastle few Sundays ago ! NpOIceman was passing the church as | .. gentleman came out. The man jOk- ingls accOsted the policeman and sald ! be was wanted inside. The stupid | policeman thought there was some ! trouble in the church, and went in. The sexton, seeing policeman, said, "COmt | right in here," and he took him tJ a pew and waved his hands as much as
 Co say, Help yourself" There was another mau Iu the pew, a deacon with
 Q sinister expression, us the DO iceman
 thought, and he supposed he was the
 man they wanted arrested, SD he tapped the deacon on tue arm, and told him to eume along. The deacon turned
 pale and edged along as though
 Co g-t away, when the policeman
 look him by the collar and Ierked
 lIm out in the aisle. The deacon stru--
 gled, thinking the policeman crazy, ana
 tired to get away, but he was dragged along. Many of the congregation thought the deac n had been doin- something wrUn-, and some of them got behInd the deacon and helped the off cer to fire him out. The policeman saw the man who told him he was wanted in the church and asked blm what the cEurge was against the deacon, and he didn't know: 60 the sexton was appealed l tO, and he dIdu't know. The policeman was asked what be arrested the man for, l and he didn't know, and after a whilt l the matter was explained, and the pOlIce- | man, who had Go arrest somebody, took | tue man into custody who told him he l was wanted iD the church, and he was fined five dollars and costs. He says he | will never try to convert a policeman l again, and the policeman says he will | never 20 into church again If they get | to knocking each other down with hy mt |
 SOME idea of the greatness of the | work done in the bank of England may 1 be fJTmed from the facts that there | are no less than 236, ,5C0 accounts open l Tn the public funds; that tine number of | bank notes issued during last year was | lj,2JO,OOO, representing sum Of l ej3s, UUtO0, and that there was q | similar number cancelled An accurate 1 register of every operation IS kept, 80 l that any note paii into the bank within l the last five years can be produced 1 within d minute, with information as tO | the clanuei through which it had found | its way back to the bank, and this not | withstandIng that the register repre- | sentei 71,UUU0 of notes slowed away | in 14,J1O boxes
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

Nicodemus is a negro colony of 367 families in Graham county, Kansas. There are two churches, two schools and several stores, but the remarkable fact about NIcodemuS IS the entire absence If money. All the trading is done vita the produce of the farms
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

CLARENCE K SG, the eminent geolOgist, has formed e S2.jD,OO syndicate to reopen the famed Somorerete mines of Old Mexico. These mines, situated naar the boundary line of the States of Du- rango and Sacatecas, were wonderfully rich when worked years ago. MT. King proposes sinking a shaft l.O11 feet deep, the works for which have been ordered n New York at a cost of S2j0,OO0.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

\ CORRESPONDENT asks our opinion IS to the cause Of the decline m Christi ani,y. We are not acquainted with the property, but probably is decline is caused by the ~atering Of stock, flllowin. blind leads and too much contcntiur among stockholders, as to who will sup ern,end The work Ruby Hill (Ney.l M-ntn- NeHs
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

THE Sunday law just now being en. forced m California, was approved by the Governor on the Doth of March. 1862 2- mere than twenty years ago. Quite a Rip Van Winkle affair.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

THE act authorizing the punishment at the whipping-post of Eife-beaters has passed both branches of the Maryland Legislature, and only awaits the sigma ture of the Governor t0 become a law.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

Robert Garside of Lower Kirkland Valley, got an invoice of 5O0 young carp by railroad, a few days since, and had the good luck to get home with 475 of them alive.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
Tur RlcunnrL l-n.snIilatnl NIini

TIE Richmond Consolidated Mining Company, an English corporation whose mine k at Ruby HIll, Nevada, has re- gently paid at London its usual quarterly dividend of S2J0 per share, aEgregatir z Sl3J,OJ0, and making a total t0 date oT S3.637.000, equai tO S6TS7i5 per share. The mine adjOins the Eureka Con, an American Company which has not paid dividend since last year, and winch only produced SG0,OOO in January.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
SOLON M. ALLIS.

CIvu EvEISEEI AND l. S. DEPUTY MINERAL
 SURVEYOR AND NOTARY PUBLIC. HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO CORNER | 1f Pen iIu-t0n and Meyer streets Iopo rrsph'cal NaI.s a speciality All business en- trlfl-i Co hIu will be attended to wIth prompt re-- and 4i-Issfrn-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

NEVADA has about 100000 acres cf ,alt land and could supply the whole earth if necessary. Besides this she has Itout [. 100000 acres of soda and brin- tone deposits, sufficient 10 run Hldes for the next 10000 years.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

A FEW years ago the late Don Nanrel Otero, of Nalencla county. New NeNi O, buried s25,ouo in gold on one ofhis Dlsr e ard was never able 10 find the eXac. spot.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

A GREAT blast, which has been prepar- ing for nearly a year at the limestone quarry of the Glendou Iron Company, near Elston Pa, was fired recently. Four tunnels, each fifty feet long, were run into the hillside. and at their end two chambers were built at right angles each & feet long Ten tons Of powder were used, and upon i0nitiDg the charge 40,ptu tons Of rock were disl, dged.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
L. D. CHULSON.

-CrNTT SUEvFYoR PIofA CoUSTY. NoTABT PUB-
 II-. NINENG AND GIyII. ESGINEER.
 | ANuS ROADS. DITCHES. MINES. TOWN T. >i,l>. etc. Surveyed. and maps of same made 91 tae most reasonable terms. Odlce-No. Q eoEit Meyer street. Tucson. Arizona. United s,A,e- Deputy Surveyor and Mineral Surveyor io- -as Districts of California and Arizona.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

TIE engines on the Bodie and Mono Lake Railroad are named Mono, Inyo and Tybo. Now let them complete the -xiension and put on the Como. Coso, volo and th-ee or FOmo', observes the Inyo Independent.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

TEE sale of beer in the State Of Nevad for 1871 fell off 5g6 barrels as couparec with the sales of 1870. This was prob- ably owing tC a reduction m the for,e oi mining suPeuntendents on the Comstock - San Francisco Report.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

The greatest de tn Jftle English Coal min s IS 2.SiD feet .lOw the sea level
 The railenes have a combined length Of 3o, sa miles, and ID the mines there are S7s,l5I laborsrs.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09

As may be seen. page 8. Report of tho Director of the Mint for 1s79, rhe pro- luct of Rnssia for 1879 was estimated at S25, o 0OU0 and tat of Australia at bus 523OOOO OO0