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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

A CHANGE should be made m the method of sending indigent sick persons to the hospital. Now it is done upon the order Of a member of the Board of Supervisors. They are all estImable gentlemen, but they are not medical e1- perts and We are satisfied are quite as frequently influenced by their kindly sympathies as by the merits of the case. As result many are committed to the hospital wLo should not be, who are not worthy of public charity, whose dis eases are ths results Of their own de praved vices. Cases that do not need hospital care and nursing should not be sent there and made Q county charge. The hospital is for worthy persons, who have met with accidents or have con- tracted diseases iu the ordinary way and are unable to properly take care ofthem- selves. In our humble judgment the proper person to pass upon the admis- sion of patient to the hospital IS some competcut physician IT left to such authority many unworthy subjects and those who do not need hospital care and only take advantage of it for 6 free | lodging while securing medical treat ment at public expense to cure them oi | diseases contracted through vice and immortality, would be kept out. The ad mission of such cases to the hospita brings it into disrepnte and tends tC make 1t disgrace to go there for treat
 ment. We call the attention Of the ID coming Board to this matter. They caI relieve themselves of considerable an noyance by transferring this duty t' o4er and better qualified hands bl
 placing the hospital us fs, ap 01nnissioI | Is concerned n the hands oi the physi
 elan.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
Victims of Oil Speculation


 The victims of the oil panic were found
 in every station of life. Day laborers, clerks, merchants, contractors, lawyers, bankers and oil producers had invested their savings, large and snali, and were mercilessly ruined. The eases of cashier Gilbert, of Buffalo, Producer Richard son, of Bolivar, \. r., and John Ford, of
 Pittsburg. Pa, the latter of whom be- came a raviug maniac, have been made public. Doubtless many more cases of dedication, suicide and flight will come to lIght in due time, but these extreme
 cases do not represent all the sorrow and ruin brought by the panic. Others are bankrupt and in debt, but stil more
 badly crippled financially. One old
 Warren county farmer put S2,5G0, the savings of lifetime. and $500 of bO- rowed money in oil, and lost all. \ wealthy Crawford widow well up in years contributed Sl5.WD. A NenEnGo County belle and heiress lost her jewels and most of her wardrobe in the shui1le, and a poor shop girl m a town of the same county put her all-S200-in the whirlpool. and in her desperate cuCeavoT to save t sank an equal amount Of her employers money. She has fled tO 9 house Of ill-fame in Dayton, O., and al though her employer knows her where abouts he refrains from prosecution. She l had been highly respected. A Clarion county lawyer and banker pooled issues on 3OOOO0 barrels at Si.20, but when the l drop came margined it down tO D cents
 and are still carrying it. 4 deluded far mer's son near Edenburg In that county nort rlpad his GOuse toits full value and
 with the proceeds and several years l earnings marCined oil at Sl.2j and lost | 1t all. Instances like those VII go on
 multiplying for weeks, and yet the hall | will never he told.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

Ix oar issue of the 18th ws published a letter from Line City in which certain charges were made against a .are Justice of the Pace ID that precinct. We have since heard from the person alluded to who Is DOW hving at Lordsburg. H' denies the truth of any of the charges and says that the only possible pretexi for the attack probably aross from th' fact that he borrowed a rife at Lint City for the purpose of the protection o himself and party during the journe- into New Mexico and was by acclden prevented from being able to return l exactly within the time agreed by hIn when borrowing took place. We ar informed by most excellent authorit in this city that the gentleman agsin' whom the charges were made IS of ti1 standing, high principle and from most excellent family. Among tho' endorsing him here IS prominent ge- tleman who has known him from bc hood. He is, we are informed, worti Of much esteem, though, like sll men [ -.--.... s...li. i,Is.s.Iity, I.s rsay have p,- sonal enemies.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24


 MR. WATTEEsoN, the chiyalric editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, with some lenders of the Democracy in the West, 1t IS said have arranged the Dem ocrat:c ticket for 1881 4-ex-Senator Nc Donald, ot Indiana, for President, and Governor Cleveland, of New York, for Vice President. And it is said that MT. Cleveland has committed the blunder of agreeing to the arrangement without consulting John Kelly. Ii IS evident m advance that thIs ticket cannot succeed. No Democratic ticket can succeed un- less John Kelly has something to say about it's make up. The sooner the men who are strutting about as managers Of the Democratic party learn this the bet ter. New York is the pivotal State for Democracy. With John Kelly and Tam many left out in the cold the kepubll. cans would have walk over. If Cleve- land proposes to set up for himself, as he IS pretty certain to do, then look out breakers, for John Kelly will at once ! don his war paint.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
sonal enemi,

IT is stated that a more harmonioD feeling is growing up among Pennsyl vania Republicans. One of the lndica tions of this is the fact that Simon ant Don Cameron are in frequent and ap pareutly friendly consultation with Sen ator Mitchell, the leading Independent The combined Republican vote of tn, State had a majority of about 10000 a the late election. If all elements can b, harmonized, the State is sure for tn, Rapubl!can nominees ID 1884
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
FOREIGN.

PARIS. Dec. 20.-Gambetta still snf- fers from q slight inflammation of the bowels. His illness has caused great sensation.
 LONDON, De-. 22.-On news reaching the Prince of Wales that Gambetta had relapse he telegraph enqUiring as 10 fhe real condition of the sufferer. A re- ply was forwarded that Gambetta's wound had thoroughly healed and a careful examination had satisfied the nhysicians that the condition of the pa tent was satisfactory.
 DUBLIN, Dec. 22-The signs of dis tress among the small farmers and h. borers are becoming more visible. In some districts the Government is being pressed to establish relief works
 DoRTMuxD, Dec. 22.-Twenty-five per. sons werp killed by the falling of a cage in the Har1enburC mine Wednesday The cage fell 1900 feet.
 CAIRO, Dec. 22-Gsn. Stone Pssha late Chief oi Staff of the Egyptian army has resigned his commission and intends to return 10 America.
 LONDON, Dec. 22.-The government has decided to prosecute Beggar, mem her of Parliament for Cavan, for hi rent speech Wat ateTford. in which h' denounced Earl Spencer and Lo'C Loutierand as blood-thirsty EnCllsl peers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
RreVIte

Jail birds have mo wings, b-. .... <. when they get a good chance. A sweet task-tryiug Co -pre-i r.s honey of humor on iife'- da..y rrai \ beer loving Britcu tnrE. .- America IS the 'ome h0f the hoI-a-
 Arabi Pasha after cut.ar gp Ia EeEl- will now become Damascus ...e. l. means Tolado quiet life.
 Health Journals assert tl-, a ra ought to lie on tho right side. -.. spirit of the immortal Ge.--c -..... rise in silent protest against tals .rg.u-- agemeut of falsehuod.
 The new doll baby which v,grs creeps and sings will net ha bought ar the man who has live one H, aH-.- There can sometimes be tOo Uuog D. good thing-even m cherups. Perhaps. after all. there Is tou ma. freedom In this country. Our youths raise what they are pleased tu call u .E'- taches, upon the sii htest rruvHC-. and society k pOwerless C. prevent .-. outrage. Lowell Citizen.
 4 travelling doctor has removed near ly iU0 feet of tape worm from two down. east citizens, and it isthouclt tLa, t- mess will now brighten mp lu that ". calty and things E1 along more .-.. ly.-N. !. Com. Adv.
 Sarony is said to have given .i.- Langtry SG,O3l for tHe privilege O. tographin- her. IT h- uses t.e ." fashioned instruments of toHu-' "- holding a victims head steady tHe n-'. is none too high.-FLil. News. \ Chicago Diviue-Rev. N-. la-... -is accused by Rev. De Wlt- La.r of having felOuiOu-iy arp-up-.-e4 ... of his lectures. Chicago is general. regarded as a pretty tough -.at.. H.. We did suppose that one oi t.r h.. aforesaid's lectures would be -a." tr.- where.
 The gratitude of all colauue-s .. electricity is duc Co Professor LG-- Cleveland He has invented cor.-F- ance by means Of which one llet ra. the article IE his p0cke. and tl-- .a chew whenever be feels hungry.
 "IOu have driven horses Erea, aO.. haven't you, George, deary' sad a E-.,- giriy voice from the depths or a - sealskIn sacque last night. 'Ja, .t-. replied George, cEirpIug Go -i- 'r.il... | tiatter myself that l can handle horse as well as the next ol.. you think you cou!d drlve vlt- .-. h1ui with out any danger uf CD. .. running away came softly tlruu-. ... night air. An hour later ua r0- George driving with one hand al. . looked very dangerous, but rot .aa. c.. horse wouii run away; oh, lc, -l.'s.. the changer" vas of difersIt I1a. Koch Post -EEgress
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

THE Utah and Colorado smelters are taking deep interest in the tariff quss- ton. The proposition to take off the tariff in lead effects their interests very materially. The lead ores cf those regions while carrying silver rely for a portion of their value upon the lead pro duced. These western industries should be protected. Ii Is quite apparent that the protective system effects the west as well as the east ID fact as mar ufactur- iur enterprises have been opening the protection sentiment has been gradually working it's way westward until Eow some Of the strongest advocates of pro tertipu are in tue west and south where twenty years ago no sentiment would sustain it. We hope that the smelters of Utah and Colorado will be able to make a successful fight.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 24, lsS-
NEEDS IhrNEpIArE ACTION.

Some time since the CITIZEN alludeo Co the importance Of the construction of good wagon road from thls ci'! | north to Riverside on the Glls river. The business men Of that section desire l to come here with their trade And with simply the natural road many do come. This trade Is important and Tucson should cultivate 1t. The mines in tbe vicinity of Riverside and in the Mineral Creek country are the most p-cnising in the Territory. From what we have learned of this country we are satisfied that its interests are permanent and that Tucson has now. If she takes the necessary steps, the opportunity to secure tue control of the trade Of thls section.
 In addition to this, by the fifteenth ol January it is expected to have the road from Riverside to Globe completed so that stages and freight teams can get through over that route With a good road from ;.lis city to Riverside direct connection would be made with Globe and rucsou would secure 8 large DOT tiol. Of that traGe.
 The road from this city to Riverside masses through Pima and FluaI eoun- t;4s The Board Of Supervisors oi thIs ,op-tv should expend little money m improving the road around the ooiot of the Santa Catalina mountains. The sfhrr place at winch work seould b,. Hone IS in Pinal county. Here we ale informed by competent judges that 5000 iudieiously expended would make first clasl road. This money gan not be obtained from any public source, and It is for tue business men Of Tucson, fl they have .bs necessary enterprise, to go down into their pockets and furnish the com They could not make a more profitable investment. If the Tucson Board of Trade had not been still-Oorn 1t would find in this enterprise a field for action; but as that has been consigned to its peaee among the relics for which thls city Is noted, We hope some of our eu- tsrprlsing business men will take hold of it and see that the money IS raised and the work done.
 f Tucson Is to grow and become a large city we must reach out m every direction for trade. With the large cap ital we have invested here, DO rival need be feared if the way to reach trade IS ouen. Some action should be taken ID tbe matter at once and if possible se- cure the improvement of this road by the tine the road from Globe to River. side IS open.
 We have talked with the business men of those sections and we know that tbev desire to come to Tucson by dl rect route. Many do come here nov and trade, but they feel that they ar' laboring under a disadvantage on ac count Of the roundabout way they haV' so ship their goods. Many are deterreC from coming entirely oq that account Wien so slight an outlay on the par O, our business men will open up suci aa important feIi of trade there shoul' be no hesitation, aud the movemen should be Inaugura'ed at once.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
No UAe ;o Hurry.

AftAA''AA Af" . ANr7s
 1 had often read of the slow speed made by Southern railroad trains, but noticed nothing unusal until reaching NacOn. The train pulled out at fifteen miles an hour, slowed down tU twelve and the waits were long and tedious. Some of the crowd didn't seem tO care # we never got there. but the drummer for Philadelphia house took ou ter ribly. He was blasting away when the conductor came along and inquired what ailed him.
 Why, I'll be left" hotly exclaimed the drummer.
 Let's see? lou go to Thomasyille?
 "Ies, SIT.
 "Yor change cars ac Smithvine?"
 "I ought to, kU. the train will be gone"
 Not a bit of it. That train is two hours behind time
 "Well, I'd rather wait in SmithyIlle.'
 You couldn't wait in that town two hours, without being asked to drink some of the worst whisky ever made and If you refused you'd have to fight
 "I could go to the hotel
 Then you'd have to walk a mile in the sand No bus comes down uEhl our train whistles
 T might drum up a customer.
 "You couldn't drum nothing. The last Nothsrn drummer in SmithvIlle had to fly for his life.
 Couldn't 1 wait on the platform"
 "NO, sir. There IS no platform to wait on. and if there vas, you'd be suspected of wanting to start turpen- tine fire"
 Well, it's awful slow
 "What of it? The other train IS still slower; no dinner can be had until We get there. there is nothing tO see; the depot won't be open, you can't sell q paper of pins in the town. you can't get on to Thomasvilie; no one iu the town plays poker; you can: iad 3 decent cigar there, and from what I know of Smithvllle l can assure you that tt has at least thIr.y citizens who would take a pop at you on general principles within six minutes Of your landing there"
 Soon after our speed vas reduced to ten miles an hour, but the drummer had nothing more tO say.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
Rename. nf Arithmefle.

The following story about Mohammed Ali and the camels is not new, but it is interesting:
 A Persian died, leaving seventeen camels to be divided among his three sons in the following portions; the cid tst Co have half, the second thIrd, and the youngest a ninth. Of course camels can't be divided into fractions, SO in des- pair, the brothers submitted their diff culty Co Mol ammed Ali.
 "I'll lend you another camel tO make eighteen, and now divide them your selves The consequence was, each brother got from one-eighth to one-hali of a camel more than he was entitled tC and Ali received his camel back again, the a 'dest brother g"---rr nine camels <. '. second -ix and tue tulrd two.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
The Young Poet and the Advertising
Burlington HaWkeye.


 \ timid, but really rather pretty young man came stepping softly into the Hawkeye sanctum yesterday afternoon, when nobody WIS in but the advertising solicitor, who was writing a half-colGm puff of Slab < HeadstOne's new marble shop. The young man took off his hat and said: "Ciood morning. and tue Gd- vertising man suarled. "What Is pnetry Eorth?' asked tLe tiulId but pretty young man.
 "Forty cents 6 line, said the aiveTtis- ing man promptly and rather teuderly, @and you can't do better anywhere ln AmeTica. The advantages We offer ioI the publication of poetry are unsurpass- ed on either side Ofthe Mississippi. OuI circulation, stunding in five figures the l first year has steadily increased thTee times an hour ever since, and poc:rs published in this paper ls placed in tht ! hands of l50,OOO families before night How much have youF'
 "Perhaps," said the .imid young ma- | fairly reelIng with delight, ''Its htti, too long
 | "Makes no difference said the ad man, beaming upon hIm kindly; "wel put 1t all in if we have to issUe 8 snp | plemeut. And everything over 3,cO. | lnes goes at thirty-five cents" | The tImid man looked disappointed
 ''It isn't so much thon,' he sand, 'whel It is very ionC:'
 "Never," replied the ad. man. magma 1 HimouSly. 'NeveT; less room, nor pay; th1t is the way you nake you living Have you Eo, your copy pi-' ! yOu2'
 "Yes, sir, replied tine young man joy fully; "won!d you like to read 1t sir, O shall 1 read it?'
 "No, dou't care bread j; just HOW Sit down aud we'll count it.|.
 So they sat down and counted ii.
 My heart, my heart in throbbinl numbers tells" read the ad. man "HeErt medicine. yoau2 man:' b asked. in the patrOuiziug way Ct a ma who knows everything.
 "No, sir, replied the youug man ] amazed tones, while the ad. nan req and counted away for dear Eie. "N sir; rhapsody, SIT.
 "Oh, yes, yes, of course" said the a, man ID reassuring tones. "Hundre nine. hund ten, huni leven-c1ursi hund fOurtsen-haln't done much l rhapsodies since HelmbOld failed hund tweuty-three- good thing, thougl we took a gross of 'em last sprrng O Pad and Lotions column-hund for '-tv and l wore one myself two weeks all 1t made-hund fift-two-new man z me. One hundred and sixty-eIght !Ine sir, and we'll throw in a fuur-line hea and wont count the odd ialf line S65 20; call it Gn even SGj, cash dow Just step to the business office ard ' give you receipt"
 We don't know what happened mm' dIately after that. We only knorw whe the foOtman opened tho door of the ca | rage to let us ont at the marble steps , the Hawkeye office, the ad. man wa leaning on the heavy bronze bainstrad, gazing wonder -jy at the figure Of young man ": -g unsteadl!y dow the street, hO.. huttering manl script in one hand and in the oth, ciasping his pa!lId brow.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

Gazette: Articles of incorporation of the Arizona Canal Company were filed with the County Recorder to-day. The company consists of M. W. kales, ". A. Hancock and Clark Churchill, and the capital stock wlll be sjO0t0o. divided into 1000 shares. with 8 par value of SJ0O each. The principal office of the company will be at Pheniz. Ii ths canal is constructed it will carry enongh water to irrlrate all the land ID this valley, and will furnish the water for culfivatiug the thousands of acres lying north Cf PLenix, now So desert. The country has a natural fall Co the south, and all land this side of the canal can be then brought under cultivation. Success to the enterprise. It IS now only a want, but iu a few years VIII be a necessity. as our present water facili- ties ore Zoo limited for our grovira z valley.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
A Very Long Siecp.

An Egyptian desert snall was received at the British Museum OF March 25, lS46. The animal was not known to he alive, ga it had withdrawn into its shell, and tHe specimen was accordingly gun ned, mouth downward, on a tablet duiy labeled and dated. and left tO its fate. Instead of starving, this content ed Casterpool simply went to sleep in a quIet way, and never woke up again for four years. The tablet was then placed iu tepid water and the shell lOOsened, when the dormant small suddenly resus- ciated himself began walking about the basin. and finally sat for his portrait, which may De seen of life size in Mr. Woodvard's Manual of the Mollusca.' 70 Now, during those four years the snail had never eaten mouthful of any food, yet he was quite as well and houriShing at the end of the period as Ee had been at Is beginning.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
Suicide,. CrankS;

Or, the curiosites ot self murder. A record of the oddities, romances and absurdiries of self slaughter m Europe or America, is the latest uf the 0ublica- tIons ot Rickard k. Fox. "Police Gazette" Publishing House, New York The work presents in a condensed and graphic form some of the most careful, astounding and valuable information on this gloomy subject ever given from the press. The chapters on the Crfrln of suicide. suicide ss a crime, and the statistics, causes and met Ods oi suicides are real essays, pregnant with invaluable facts and well worthy Of preservation as contributions to o2r literature. The book i- lsvIsh'y and appropriately Illustrated.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
PannIns baDIr,.

Let me out ] want to get my baby out of pawn" said a colored woman locked mp in the Fifth Precinct Station last night on a charge Of drunkenness. She had one child iu her arms, and when naked sbo1t the method of pawn ing a child. said: Well, take them to a woman n who lends money Ca chil- dren, and she advances me Co much on them, and whsn I gets the money go to thIs woman and pays her what she loans me, and then I pay fifteen cents day for keeping the baby" She refused C. tell where the pawn office was situated but kept up a constant howl that she wanted to get her baby ont of pawn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

OUR ol1 friend, Dick Rule, has pur- chased Joyce's stock in the Tombstone Epitaph. About the price paid nothing is known, unless the following squlb in the local columns of the paper tells the story:
 We think it takes a good newspaper tO be worth forty head of cows, if they did come from Sonora.
 We hope that Dick will ind his trade profitable one, and we wish the Epi- taPh under its new management abuud- ant success
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

A MEETING was held in Denver last Tuesday evening to protest against any change in the tariff on lead and copper. Colonel Rabbit, ex-Governor Hoyt and Professor Bailey were appointed a con- mittee 10 attend the miners meeting to be held in Washington early in January. Arlzons copper men should take action in this matter and have representatives at the Wasbi7gton convention.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

TCcsON can not afford to let the op- Pcrtunity slip to secure connection with the 4. T. 6 :. F and its railway sYs- tenn. The investment of Sl00,0a0 we think won d secure the building of the road from Calahasas into this city and 1t would be the best mouement Tucson has eyer made
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

THB Committee on Foreign Core spondence of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Mexico lat its session in Albu- querlue, made a special report recom- mending the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Arizona, which was unani- mously adopted. The Grand Lodge of Arizona Is being very kindly received into the sisterhood Of Grand Lodges, and though last and probably least, it is still power for good in Territory that has bright and promising future.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

Gov. ST. JOIN of Kansas attributes his defeat when seeking reelection to the combined effort of the liquor dealers of the State against him. He states that they organized 300 liquor leagues, which took En active part in the cam paigu. In plain English, rum did it"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

ANY one who sees the freight teams going ont on the Gunsight road will be :a- roughly convinced that the invest neut Of money in the building of roads -o draw trade to this city is profitable. The road Co the Columbia Copper camp a-d tn Riverside would pay big divi- deuds in increased business for our mer- slrDta
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24

WHILE we are enjoying the compara- tive comforts Of a mild winter the inhab- itants Of the frozen north are buffetiug Uilh the winds and the storms office and snow. Arizona has many attractions of which climate is not the least import ant