Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-08
News Items.

An SSl diamond was found last week near Placervllle.
 X floral display brought 22,397 visitors one day Co the Cincinnati Exposition. An English real estate company IS ne-
 gotisting for 10000 acres of land in
 Arkansas.
 They are blasting for silver at Miner
 al Wells, Jack county, Texas, and coal is said tO be abundant near by-
 The spontaneous combustion of lime
 caused the recent destruction Of the
 gas works at Bridgeport, Ohio, causing
 a loss of S2U,OOO.
 At Elyria. Ohio, the other day, near
 ly a peck of young salmon, two inches
 in length, fell from the clouds in a
 single door yard.
 The Pittsburg Southern Road, run
 ming from that city Co Washington. Pa., has been purchased by the Baltimore
 and Ohio for S25OOO0.
 The Young Mems Christian Associa-
 tiou of Washington, has secured Cham berlain's Club House for S35,Ol0, and ] will remodel 1t for their own use.
 The United States Court at Fort ! Smith released Oklahoma Payne and | hIs followers, who had been brought | round by rail from Fort Reno by Lieut.. ! Taylor.
 | A boy in Taunton, fourteen years old, was sent Q poll-tax bill, and, feeling ! that the assessors had made a man of him, decided to act like one, and proud ly paid it.
 The friends of John B. Davis, presi- .fa ny of Richmond, Va, have executed pa- pers covering Lis indebtedness and se- curing depusItUrs m full.
 Chicago butchers are erecting on wharf at New York, twO-stOry reirig- orator. eighty feet long and twenty feet wide, ln which tO store dressed beef slaughtered ou the P-aries. A seven-year old coiored boy fell into a tn ty-tOOt well in Marion county, Ky, and then, without assistance, climbed up the sides Go the top, Wet, but not much injured.
 Mir. Haas, of Springfield, Tenn, Is the happy father Of tweuty-Oue children, l twenty of whom are girls. His resi- 1 deuce Is known as the Sunday night | headquarters Of the young mems club"
 Two walters at tue Union Depot res tauraut at St. Louis, quarreled the | other day, when one threw plate at ! the o,her, sevrrIng his ear from his | head as cleanly as If 1t had been done | with a knife.
 The fish pond in Boston Park, St. | Louis, was stocked last spring with | tSeuty carp, and now there are three | thousand of them. \ carp should be . two or three years old before 1t becomes . food.
 The clerk of the Circuit Attorney of the Criminal Court of St. Louis is ae- cused of ObstructIug the payment of . witnesses fees that he may the better be enabled Co buy mp claims at fifty cents on the dollar.
 Half a ton Of the silver three-cent pieces which originated under Buch- anan's administration started Saturday week from Boston for the Philadelphia Mint, where they will be remOdeled and take any shape but that.
 George Rathsack, of Manitowoc. Wis, a native ot Poland, deliberately split open hIs wife's head because she would not give him money Co purchase liquor. He then took Slj from her and led.
 
 Six leading milliners ot New York ar rived home by the steamship France. A hlut having been received by cable, the customs detectives found on the person of one woman silks and laces valued at ]. .22J francs, while another carried dut1 able goods to the amount of 3,G0O francs.
 Mir Hoffman and Miss Barr were married m the Gothic chapel, which is a chamber ID the Mammoth Cave. ItI everybody concerned excepting the bride, who was compelled tO wear an unbecoming flannel suit, because the drpplngs of the cave would have ruined the handsome bridal dress that had been made for her.
 \ dispute i5 in progress between Portsmouth and Newcastle, N. H., con- corning the ownership of Pest Island. ] in the harbor. Portsmouth Is m possession and has occupied the island for a smallpox hospital for many years. Newcastle threatens Co sell the property for back taxes and prosecute the ci y for maintaining @ nuisance.
 Maurice Welsh, of Norwich. Conn.,, earns his living by manual labor, and is SD willing Co do SO that he voluntarily gave up his pension of S4 a month. He wrote tO the pension agent that his wound received m the war had ceased sO troubl him, and that he could not couscientI0usly receive any more help from the Government. An agent was sent to find out whether Welsh was sane. He was.