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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Tombstone Items.
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 Mir. Benjamin, of the IngersOll Min ing company, left for his home in San Francisco yesterday.
 E. B. Gage, superintendent of the Grand Central, has gone upon an in- spection of the mines of the Black Range.
 NIT. John P. Cum returned last eve nmg from Washington, looking and feel ing well. Mr. Cum will now devote himself to his postal and editorial du- ties with q renewed vigor, after his va cation.
 MT. G. W. Buford, Of this city, who is a relative of Clay Buford, whose death was chronicled yesterday morning. has been informed that the Indians came to Mir. Buford's ranch m Aravipa, and kill ed him at his home. No doubt the au- thentic state of the facts will be made known in a few days.
 On Friday last N. Cobb, a workman on the Huachuca Water cOmpany's res ervoir, had a narrow escape of his life. He was working on a steep incline of a seamy rock and was loosening a large block above him with a pick, when # suddenly gave way and came down up- on him, knocking him backwards sev- eral feet down the incline and over its edge down perpendicular depth of at least ten feet, where he struck upon his back, the rock falling on top of him. By the greatest good luck he escaped with only one cut and several severe bruises about the trunk and limbs.
 Nugget.
 Virgil Earp Is convalescing very slow ly, but the physicians say that he will be able to be about in a few weeks.
 Mir. J. Powers, agent and correspond- ent of the New York Mining Record and San Francisco Stock Exchange, will vis- it Empire district on Monday to inspect the mines in the interest of Eastern par ties. He is a graphic writer.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Bits of MiddOIn.

That which is well done is twice done.
 4 blithe heart make, blooming ,isage.
 Non- but a wise man can employ leisure Gcii.
 Hypocnsy is the homage vice pays 10 virtue
 Better one would in tune than tao al terward.
 The greatest wealth Is oontentmeni with a little.
 Forget other peoples faulis by remem- bering your own.
 He that sweils m prosperity IS sure to shrink m adversity.
 He who says what he likes, often hears what he does not like.
 Some men and women talk by the yard, and thlnk by the inch.
 The touChstone by which men try us Is often their own vanity.
 IL Is a good thing to learn cauu'n by the misfouunes of others. \ secret is too little for one. enough for two, and too much for three.
 Many men employ their hrst years SO as to make their last miserable.
 Many an honest man stands m need of help that has not the courage to ask IL.
 Love beareth all things, beheveih all things, hcpeth all things, endureih all things.
 What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.
 Economy IS half the battle of life; II IS not half so hard 10 earn money aS to spend il we'll
 Rage spent on the vanqalShed often brings a return shaft, against which skill IS powerless.
 Give me the money that has been spent in way, and will purchase every foot of land upon the-.Soe.
 As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of lntelli- gence must direct the man of labor.
 He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know IS but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.
 It is another's fault if he be ungrateful; but it is our if we do not give. To ind one thankful man we will oblige many that are not SO. III MNllCl tllu liilAO 1AC AliC AASeAN AN9N bAia dens of life, and the unhappiest of all lfmortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
 A brain is a very hungry thing indeed, and he who possesses Il must constantly feed it by reading or thinking, or it will shrivel up or fall asleep. When;a man is honest simply because it is policy to be so he IS already saving up money with which to buy his ticket to the PenHentiary.
 A hot-;empered man IS like loaded gun with a hair trigger. You don't want to go near il, for the slightest touch will make It go of and kill some one.
 That which Is good enough to be done cannot be done too soon; and if Il Is neglected to be done too early, il will frequently happen that Il wlll not be done at all.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

There is one good thing about the blind man which shows that for every misfortune there Is to be found cOm- pensation and that good thing is that he cannot see any reason why he should not be happy.
 What your daughter wants, said an over candid music teacher to a million aire whose education was not equal to his fortune, "is capacity" Indeed r' was the astonished reply, well, then, I'll order one immediately, no matter what 1t costs"
 That class of Americans who think they are not all they should be until they assume English manners and GUS toms generally and succeed in acquiring everything that Is distinctively English except possibly the English grammar.
 Charles Lamb wrote to Miss Words worth about a mutual friend who was somewhat given to hbation. "He IS gO- ing to turn sober, but his clock has not struck the time yet. Meanwhile he pours down goblet after goblet, the sec ond to see where the first has gone, the third to see that no harm happens to the second, fourth to say there IS another COhluBs anu d HUI Np say lt lH lot bttit v that he is the last"
 The New York Sun defends the word trousers and sneers at the word "pantaloons.T We don't see as Il makes any difference which name you call 'em, about their baggIng al the knees, which IS the main point.
 Those Princeton College students must have worked like heroes 10 grease four miles of railroad track. If they wanted exercise why did they not saw up few cords of wood for some poor widow: Phil. News.
 There is no difference whatever be tween dress rehearsal of a popular comic opera and public performance of the work. Both become tIresome on account of numerous repetitions of the principal airs, the promter demanding this in one case and the audience m the other.-Phil. News.
 Speaker Keller and his wife are Pres byterians. They grew mp as children to- gether. The oldest of their three boys is 20. Their only daughter and young est child IS &. He was a school teacher at the age of 19 years.
 Clara Louise Kellogg had a cold and couldn't sing in Rochester Monday night A Democrat reporter called at her hotel to inquire after her health, and was pleasantly entertained. ''l hear you have been vaccinated, and are suffering from that as well'7 said the reporter "Oh. yes, I have been vaocinated, but not on my arm, you know. l am quite lame. We should infer from this that Miss Kellogg has been vaccinated on the bottom Of her foot.
 General Robert TOOmbs has given 10 the Atlanta Constitution his opinion on two important subjects When asked what he thought of the new party move nent in Georgia, he said, sententiously, Il have the greatest contempt for II. He then took from between his lips an unlighted cigar, the butt of which he had been chewing, and remarked: Young man, have been chewing the ends of cigars for ,wenty-seven years and have never yet lighted one" Do you wish these facts laid before the public "I don't said the General.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Dos CabezaS Small Change.
IGold Motel


 It seems to be the impression among the miners at Silver camp, that in the course of a month or two there will be at least two hundred men at work there.
 1Ir Driscoll, an old prospector, struck 1t rich this week. His mine ls a recent location and Is situated just north of the Juniper. The specimen shown ms was literally filed with gold.
 A about eleven o'clock last Wednes- day evening there was heard a series of unearthly screams in the vicinity of the Gold Note office. The sound resemble woman's shriek, and 1t Is supposed that 1t was made by a panther, or what Is known as the mountain lion. There being considerable snow in the moun- tains, it is thought the animal was driven down into the valley on this account.
 According to the certificate of Chas. B. Eaton, assayer, who made assays of two specimens of rock from the Nina Chiquita mine, at Silver camp. the fol- lowing results were reached: First spec linen, gold, S:435j silver, and S23.2OS in gold Total value, S23, 3,75l.5j. Second specimen. silver. S77I.9S silver, and S32.59 gold. Total. Ssl0.5L No. showed no gold to tue naked eye, Mir. Eaton. who has recently visited the mine gives 1t as his opinion that nearly all of the ore-and the vein varies from eight to ten inches-will go mp into the thou sands. Not a very bad outlook for the owners. MessIs Fitch and Lynch.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Cheetah Hunt at BarOda.

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 It may be doubted whether the killing IS pleasure to anything but the cheetah- There ls the minimum of excitement Tn the shortest space of time and all IS over. The cheetah, when the hood IS removed from his cat-like eyes, appears dazed and puzzled, doubtless by the sudden light. It IS necessary sometimes for the attendant to take hls not very in- telleetual head by the chops and direct it towards the browsing deer. Then he seems to wake up and lets himself down very gingerly from the car so as not to oyei-exert hi nself and feels his way for wards for twenty or thirty yards Then he trots and then advances, as Mir. Glad stone would say, by leaps and bounds. He fixes his now eager eyes on an un- fortunate antelope, which makes frantic efforts to escape by bounding into the air. When the cheetah comes gp with bis terrified victim, he does not, as IS generally supposed, strike him to the earth with side blow of his paw; that manRuvre would involve a useless ex- penditure of energy. He simply con tinues his bounds, only taking care to place his forepaws upon the antelope E back or side instead of upon the ground, The weight brings the antelope down; he naturally turns his bead to look at his assailant and exposes his throat and neck. The cheetah drives his sharp in- cissors into the vital spot and buries his teeth, nose and all in the palpitating flesh and drinks ID the blood in an ec stasy of pleasure. His eyes gleam, his whole body remains mOtiOnless above the quivering form fast sinking into venisOn. An attendant runs up with a bowl and a knife, likewise pair of blinkers and rope. The blinkers are slipped over the lurid eyes of the en- tranced cheetah and the rope is slipped round his kneck. The knife k applied to the deer's throat and the bowl receives the remainder of his blood. The cheetah's nose is put into the warm liquid and thus consoled he permits him self to be slowly led back to his bullock ghRrry.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
4 Gigantic English Dictionary.

London Times, January -l-
 At the dictionary evening" of the Pathological SOcIety last week, Dr. Murray gave an interesting resume of the work for the new dictionary, for the preparation of which the society had asked the cooperation of the English speaking world. Of the million addi- tional quotations asked in May, 1879, 9000O0 had actually been received from upwards of 500 volunteer readers m Great Britain, America and the colonies. The Royal, Linnean, Geological Astro- nomical and other learned societies had lent their aid in the investigation of the history of scientific terms in order to contribute to the completeness of the work. All the important books of all ages had now been read, or were in readers hands, for the sake of illustrat- i've quotations. About thirty competent scholars were at work as sub-editOrs, arranging and preparing these and draft ing the articles. The delegates of the Clarendon Press, in view of the import ance Of the work. had determined upon large extension of its limits, which will now much exceed those of Littre. It IS anticipated that first part will appear during the present year. Dr. Murray brought before the meeting many in- stances of the new light which the dic- tionary, from its historical method, will throw upon the origin and career of English words.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Russian Universities.


 The closing of the kharkOf University. due to the disorders of its students, H. lustrates the close relations that exist between the educational system of Rus sia and the government. Emper, r Nicholas regarded the universities mere ly as training grounds for the civil ser vice; he allowed just SD many students to be educated as there were posts to he filled. and for all other purposes he held that knowledge was not only dangerous, but etfeminate. Alexander IT.. coming to the throne with huge schemes of re- form in his head, threw the colleges open to all and founded scholarships for poor students. His hberality bore good fruit; a new class of magistrates and judges came into existence; culture made Is way ever into the army. But tares sprang up with the wheat. With knowledge came discontent. The uni- versailles grew to be hot-beds of revOlu- tion, and Admiral PutiatIn, whose views of education were obtained on ship board, was set to the work Of reducing them to order. He raised the fees, sup pressed the fund for poor students, aud introduced rigorous discipline. Police attacked rcbelhOus students m St. Pe tersburg; peasants were melted against them in Moscow. They were proclaimed as enemies of the Czar, foes of public order. From this state of siege they only began tO emerge when the present Emperor came to the throne. and their existence Is still precarioUs.
 Barnum is worth S3,OO0OOO, and can afford to sport baby elephant.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Facts and FancieS.

It was Chile day when Blaine got left.
 Rubinstein doesn't like America. Pity him
 The deaf mute's mottO-Dnmb yivimus yivaums.
 word to the unwise Is as good as a nod to blind LOrse-N. O. Pie.
 Electric cOrsets" are advertised as something new. But corsets that had something t. do with sparks have long been known.
 When we consider that 750 umbrellas were left in the Manhattan Elevated Railway cars last year we begin to ap- preciate the extent of human fOrgetful- ness.
 At charity ball in Tennessee three men were stabbed and two others shot That was charity to the doctor and un- dertaker.
 "Where are our girls?H anxiOusly in- quires a religious exchange. We don't know. We can't keep track of all the girls in creation.
 A Baltimore doctor says that women who wear high-heeled shoes destroy the shape of their calves. There We'll bet you the girls won't appear Tn high heeled shoes and be open to an unpleas- ant suspicion
 James G. Blaine, as the protector of a universal peace congress, presents a most unique spectacle. He is one of the sort of men who will have peace If he has to fight for it.
 If Kring, the St. Louis murderer, had allowed them Co hang him when first convicted, he would have saved seven years of jail life and S2,0OO in cash. But, somehow, man can never be made to see that 1t Is for his advantantage to be hanged. Mep are SO Obstinat-.
 Bloomington, IllirOis, furnishes g girl who took $500 cash and sold out her lover an hour before they were to be married. It isn't every man who has the luck to have q fool with S5OO come along just in time to save him from marrying a heartless wretch
 Gen. Tom Thumb left his measure at a clothing store recently for twelve suits of wool underwear, to be made by the American Hosiery Company, in Hart ford, Conn. He takes the same measure as child six years old.
 Henry Rape, one of the oldest citizens of Griffin, Ga-, has never eaten fish. His mother never did, and out of five brothers hone of them ever swallowed a mOuthful of fish, notwithstanding they all have been particularly fond of seining and angling for the fnny tribe.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Popular Science.

The fire-proof car of the future may be of iron, or papier-mache, or leather, or a combination of two or all of these materials.
 It Is acknowledged that one electric light in Boston has the same effect as five policemen "in uplifting the moral condition" of the people.
 J. \. Best, of Denver. Col, has pat ented a car-coupler which can be oper- ated from the top of the cars, avoiding the danger that meets every brakeman who has to step between them.
 A Philadelphia surgeon has succeeded in supplying upper and lower eyelids to a miner whose face was horribly burned by an explosion. The upper lids were supplied by skin from the mans fore finger, and the lower lids by piece cut from his arm.
 NJ. Miliet, brother of the late dis tinguished artist, IS the originator of an idea for using thin panels of natural woods for the covers of books-veneers, such as have been used for furniture and wall decoration. These veneers are cut SO thin that over one hundred are needed to make pile an inch high.
 The Pullman cars on the Brighton Railway, England, are lighted by cleo tricity supplied by secondary batteries. The lights can be turned out when not needed, and the effect is said to be very fine. Two men are required to look af- ter the batteries, making an item of ex- pense which of itself exceeds the cost of lighting the same cars by gas.
 Some of the New York physicians are discussing the question whether ice from the surface of an impure body of water is itself impure and containing the germs of disease. There is a popular impression that the freezing of water puriiles it; but the scientific men who are giving attention to the subject gen orally dissent from that theory.
 Large heads are found in the cold regions and smaller ones Tn warm re- gions. Men with large heads endure cold better than those with small ones. More vitality is required to sustain life in cold climates than in warm ones, hence nature gave larger heads at the North. The Lapps have the largest heads in Europe in proportion to their size: NOrwegians next; then come the Sweedes, Danes, Germans, French, Italians Arabs have the smallest of all men in Europe.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
show it IT.


 Ny friend, If yOu own mine and waEt to dispose of it, for anything like a re- spectable figure, open # mp. IOu may be as poor as an Arizona editor, but II you have health and strength you have the capital which nature gave you, and which you can always apply. Don't you forget the pertinent fact that because you have discovered ledge and sunk a "pot hole on 1t that 1t IS a mine. By no manner of means. Unless 1t shows extraordinary richness 1t IS a proposition of very indefinite value; and even a mer- chant, looking at the matter from a busi- ness point of view, might object to ad- vance a sack of four and take 1t as col lateral. But if you should use a little muscle and go down S0 or l00 feet, you might strike something that would en- able you to patronize two-bit saloons, go to "Hurrup," and move in the very high est circles for the rest of your days.
 Remember that you've got to eat grub while Ill camp, and that a little exercise polishing the head of a drill, will give you a good appetite. But above all things, remember that you can hardly give away prospect in the Eastern mar htA- IT stu luiuh ou nave kot q iulut open it up, and our word for 1t, if you can show a fair property. with reason able development, you will not have to wait long for buyer.
 Therefore, we advise our mining friends to give up the insane Idea which some of them possess, of selling their prospects for thousands of dollars. You can't do 1t; and you might hang on to them until you see the century out, be- fore you will find any man who will give you a small fortune for n coyote hole. We have had some experiences in that line ourselves. and reliable data from the mining centers of the East enables us to assert as sample facts, what we have here written So, boys, pitch in; develop you mine an1 muscle at the same time, and in the good days coming, when the ''solid man" from the Easr comes to look at your claim, you can show him a mine and not gopher hole.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
CaIifnrnia Notes.

The stock and crop outlook iu Men docino county is better this year than last
 The Ventura Free Press thinks that there IS abundance { tune vet for the rains to make splendid crops.
 The recent cold weather and north winds in the southern counties killed a large number of bees. The recent rains in the lower counties has greatly stimulated the price for sheep.
 The cultivation of clover in the coast counties has, 1t IS said, been successful
 In Plumas county geese cover the plains and are a nuisance tO the farmers. | There has not been so many since lS6l, the year of tue drought.
 The orchards around Hesldsburg, SO- nOma county, are reported to have yielded an income last year of 500 to SJO0 an acre.
 San BernardlnO county oranges, says the Index, are now bringing from $40 to SJO per 1000. while we notice oranges from other localities only bring from SD to S3O.
 The Fresno ExpOsitOr says: The pres ent prospects are that 5000 to 5OO0 acres of vineyard will be planted in this county this season.
 The Riverside Press says that the lem Ons in Southern California are as good those imported. The lemon trees are only four years old, and each tree pro- duces over l,6O0 lemons.
 in San Diego county. says the UniOn the grass Is growing beautifully, and in a number of localities 1t k already long enough for cattle to feed upon. Sheep and cattle are beginning to look better since they have been able to feed upon new and tender grass.
 The Los Angeles Herald says the losses of sheep already in the three counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardii O and San Diego are variOusly estimated at from 40,00O to 100000 head. In DOT tiOns of San Bernardino county whole fOcks have been annihilated tO the last hoOf
 G. c. Briggs, of Davisville, YOlo cOun- ty, the largest raisin producer in tEe State, has purchased 400 acres in the Washington Irrigated Colony, in Fresno county.
 Miller x Lux have on their various ranches 95,OlO head of cattle, and 10000 head of sheep. To take care of these fiOcks 800 men are employed Work will be begun at once on the railroad from ave,Arizona,to Bakers field, Kern county. Seven hundred Chi namen will be put Co work.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26

ACCORDING 10 the recent calculations of Mir C. II Darwin. the earth and the moon must have formed only one body some 54,ooo,ooo years or more ago. and at a time when this body was rotating al the rate of about one revolution in i've hours the mass now forming the moon became separated from it. Thus was the moon born; and Professor Ball, in hIs exposiiions of Darwin's views, concludes that ID tune the wound on the earth be- came entirely healed, leaving no scar 10 testify 10 the mighty catastrophe. To this final conclusion Mir. O. Fisher now offers an amendment. He believes that the scars yet exist, and those scars are the ocean basins. When the moons mass was thrown from the earth, the liquid interior must have risen to i'll the hole, and portions of the granite crust must have been borne toward the cavity. The hole only partially filled up, and the crust became broken into the fragments which now form the continents.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Phoenix Items.
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F. N. Slankard, whose illness We noted few days ago, is still lying very low.
 Al the residence of James Shaw last evening, Judge Richards united in we'd lock Miss Caroline Grumble and Mir. Riley Bennett, both of this city.
 We are informed that ireightng from Mancopa IS light. Only few months ago enough teams could not be secured to transport the vast amounts of merchan- disc, machinery, etc, in the warehouses there. Nov il is plenty ofteams and li,- 'le freight