Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-30
News Items.

The Louisville and Nashvill" Railroad was recently mortgaged for SlO,OO0,OOO.
 An association for the aid of discharg- ed convicts has just been formed in Chi cagn.
 The ordinance prohibiting smoking in the streets of Boston IS said to be dead lett T.
 Sever sargeants and corpo als have | just been made second heutenants in the regular army.
 It is said that the "whIpping-post | bill" recently passed by the Maryland | Legislature for the special benefit of wife-beaters, has alr' ady produced sal ut;Ty impression upon that class of ruff | fans.
 Chief Justice Daly is the owner of a small box whicn belonged to Columbus. 1 It is of silver and contains his name.and the three caravels that made the liscov- ry of America are worked in the old shioned repousse style of the begin ming of the fifteenth century.
 Eighteen y. ars fl incessant headache were endured Oy Andrew J. Mill T, of Warren. Ky. Surgeons latelykraIsed part of his skull. aud thus .elieved the pressure which had caused the trouble. He was so jubilant over the resu that b" " nt on spec, which caused hIs d.ath.
 IL is admitted by the Land Commis- si ners of Texas that claims have been allowed for nearly S,O00,0OO acres land in excess of the public domain, certifi- cates for 7,5OS,670 acres having been issued to railroad companies and others over and aoove what vacant land there is in the State subject to location.
 The will of the late Deacon Thomas Smith of Hartford, Conn, after bequsath- ing S400,OO0 to his family and relatives, gives S5,OOO to the Hartford Hospital. S3000 to the Widows Society, and Sl0,- 0O0 each to the American Hom. Mis- sionary Society and the. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign MisslOns
 A daughter of the Rev John Deering of Toledo, committed suicide, and 1t was sand that his cruelty prompted the act. A Congregational council was called to try MT. Deering. and to that body he sent his resignation, saving that he was innocent, but that he did not feel equal to the task of personal vindIcation.
 In dispute about the payment fl a gas bill in New To k, where the defen- dant was able to show that his house had been unoccupied for the period the bill covered, Judge Lawrence said that "gas meters are not infallible," and that ''the pow of gas company over its victims may be restricted by questions of fact"
 The sites of Western cities are in some cases determined by men who have special facilities for locating a popula- ton, though plans of that kind have fre- quently miscarried. It has been decided by capitalists connected with the North ern Pacific Railroad that city called Billings shall grow up in Dakota They took tract of prairie land, appropriated about Sl00OOO for public buildings, and secured car shops, stock yards and othei interests enough to insure 10000 inhab- itants within two years.
 A London dentist, ascertaining that a large baboOn in the possession of the l Geological Society at Regents Park had 1 been suffering excTuciating pain from a defective tooth for several weeks, volun- | teered to extract the offending molar. | The principal difficulty lay in the crea- lures unwillingness to take chlOrOfOrm. | As often as a cloth saturated with the | anesthetic was held tO his nose he pro- | ceeded to lick 1t, apparently finding the | flavor especially agreeable. Gradually, | however he became inscnslble, and the | tooth was extracted. moment later he sat up on his haunch' g, and signifed | his relief from pain by beginning to eat