Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24
News Items.

A new school house was needed at Streator, H., but as the town treasury was empty Mayor Plumb built fine one at cost, to himself of S40,OOO.
 The city of Davenport, Iowa, IS sued for damages by a man whose daughter was taken to a pest house under the mistaken belIef that she had smallpox. She died of the rough treatment.
 A young negro law student has just been refused admission to the Massa- chusetts Bar, not on account of his color nor for failure to pass the eIami- nation, but because he had written a blackmailing letter.
 There are no taxes in Newcastle, Del. for the support of the local government and schools, William Penn having en- dowed the town with land which now rents for enough to pay all the munich pal expenses.
 There are nine hundred inmates of the Georgia Insane Asylum, and phy- sician connected with the institution says four-fifths of them are insane from the effects of liquor drank by them selves or their parents.
 Dallas city, Texas, Is building five public school houses at cost of $5,OOO each. San Antonio IS erecting a high school at a cost of S34,0O0. COrsicana has just built two school houses at 8 cost of Sl2,0OO each.
 A horse thief arrested at Greensburg, Pa, astonished the jail officials by point ing out to them from his cell window, an underground stable, the headquar- ters of gang of livestock thieves of which he was once a member.
 Recently a boy fell into a creek at Oxford, Ind, and went home in wet clothes. His angry mother said she Taking this remark to heart, he returned to the stream and drowned himself.
 The Sanitary Engineer reports that the water works of Chicago have cost, to December 3l, 1881, including the maintenance and interest on bonded debt, SlS,996, ,504, and that the total in- come from water rents has been Sl2,137,- OSO.
 In consequence of the constant in- quirles regarding missing young men from good families in the East, the au- thOrities of Leadville, Col, have intro the practice of embalming the bodies brought to the city Morgue, so as to facilitate Identification.
 Mir. Porter, of the Census Bureau, says the census report will cost S5,OO0,OO0. The work was begun in 1879, and will be unfinished in 1883, after five years of solid work. It will be the most com plete work of the kind ever done. The English census cost only S1OO,OOO.
 Subscription lists have been opened throughout the State of Georgia for a fund of S30,OO0 for erecting monument to the memory of the late Senator Hill. Contributions are limited m amount to from one cent to Sl0 the aim being to make the movement thoroughly pOpu- lar one.
 The Governor of the District of Mexi- co has issued a circular reminding print CTS and publishers of the law which makes 1t obligatory for them to insert the name of the editor or author at the end of every article published with the understanding that the infractOrs Ofthis law will suffer the penalty of one months imprisonment or Q fine of from SlO to $lOO.
 Emory Thomas sent to Mary Brown, at Jackson, Mich, silk for dress as a present. He wished to marry her, and she was inclined to consent; but when she learned that the silk was part of the booty of burglary, she became the principal witness against the woOer, and he was sent to prison for seven years. But they have become reconciled and few days ago the prison chaplain joined them in wedlOek.
 The right of a railroad company to prescribe the exact manner m which passenger shall pay his fare Is to be tested in a Buffalo lawsuit. A nan boarded train on the Michigan South ern Line without purchasing a tlcket and was elected by the conductor, al- though he rendered the price of the ride in money. He is rich enough and angry enough to push his sult fer damages to a decisive conclusion.
 The meaDest man that has turned up for some time is Pierce Jacobs, of BOs- ton, alleged agent of the Eastern Msnu- featuring Company, who IS held in Sl 900 for swindling servant girl out oA uA EAf- 1G fAtAtAN- ed to Mary Mc(iarridge, whose coni- dence he had won, that his business was very paying. and she now holds his worthless receipts for s1.l5O loaned him.
 The stump of a pine iagpole raised in Elmira by the Whigs during the "Tippecanoe-and-Tyler too" campaign forty-tvo years ago, was dug up the other day, and the sight of it recalled to many of the old inhabitants the stirring scenes amid which it was dedicated. A grand iollifcstion meeting was held on the day on which the flag was hoisted, and the enthusiasm lasted until late into the night. But the first rays of the morning sun kissed not the glorious banner of the Wings, but a red flannel petticoat which the enemy had hoisted in its place.