Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
Local Intelligence.
Cold nights are bad for flies.

Cold nights are bad for flies.
 The political boom boometh gaily.
 Socially the town is very dull at pre-. sent.
 The Indian scare throughout the Territory Is over
 The Devils Cash mine is situated il the Tyndall district.
 There IS logic in bullion shipments but still more in dividends.
 The present discount on Mexican siI yer is about eight per cent.
 The Calabasas hotel will be formally opened on the 9th of October coming.
 Within the past six months Geo. Ros. kruge has surveyed thirty-si1 mines for patents.
 The Royal Arch Masons of Tombstone are talking of organizing chapter at that place.
 It Is said that the grading of the 4. T. < $. F. railroad has been commenced between Deming and Benson, from the Benson end.
 Tucson laid eggs are scarce in the market and readily command six bits per dozen. California eggs are worth sixty cents per dozen.
 The Black Jack copper mine located at Bisbee, has been bonded to Horace Jones of that place for SS0,0O0. The bond runs thirty days.
 
 Mir. F. L. Wetmore Is the happy pos sessor of live rattlesnake from the Canyon de Gro. It IS about three feet long and has ten rattles.
 Mr H. NJ. Howe an experienced min ing man, has succeed Mir. John R. Tyler, us superintendent of the Pima Copper Mining and Smelling Company.
 Barnyard chanticleers are generally supposed to crow only at break of day, but the Tucson roosters are exceptions as they crow the whole night through.
 Rev. MT Hendley of the Episcopal -hurch will arrive here next week. He mas already sent books, etc, with ad- vices for all to be in readiness for work when he arrives.
 The following bullion was shipped from Contention during the week end ing September 10th: Head Centre Mill, two bars; Grand Central Mill, five bars; Contention Mill, ten bars:
 The freighting business over the Southern Pacific Railroad must be in- creasIng very fast If one may judge any thing by the number of extras and the extraordinary length of trains now be- ing run over the road.
 Geo. B. Shepard, late Deputy Sheriff of Pima county, has been appointed Deputy U. 5. Collector of Customs at Calabasas. The appointment Is a good one. Mir. Shepard entered upon his duties on Saturday last.
 A magnificent specimen of lead and silver from mine In the Canyon del Gro, owned by J. c. Jackson, Is being exhibited at the Palace Hotel. It weighs probably hundred pounds and however tempting it may look no efforts are made to pack 1t away.
 The Democratic county convention of Maricopa county has nominated A. D. Lemon for the Council; J. F. HolcOmb and 5. r. Webb for the Assembly; l.. II. Orme for Sheriff; A. c. Baker for Dis trict Attorney; T. Greenhaw for Pro- bate Judge; N. Osborne for Recorder, and q. F. He'nper for Treasurer.
 The emi-Tropic says: We notice by q dispatch from Tucson that Benjamin Virgin was accidentally killed at Day. IdsOn's Springs, by the discharge of a gun he was pulling out of wagon. We wonder if it was the Ben. J. Virgin, a inning man well known in Southern California, that met so untimely a death. We hope not, for those who know our Ben. Virgin best loved him most.
 There was a smash up on the railroad on this side of San Gorgonia pass, Cali fornia, on the l4th inst. The freight, while descending the heavy grade, parted a coupling, and after the for ward section of the train had gone on ahead some distance, the rear section came laundering down upon it, teles- coping several freight cars and killing some four hundred sheep in transit to Texas. One man was killed whose identity could not be established. He was a young and fair looking person, dressed well, and had a small sum of money but no papers upon his person.