Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-13

! Michigan farmers are in high feather owing to the splendid condition Of the crops.
 A guild has been organized in New | York for the distribution of free ice to the poor.
 A Kansas paper says that 6,0O0 acres of black walnut trees have been planted in that State.
 Sponge beds are being established at | Pine Key, Florida, on plan similar to | that of the oyster beds. The assessment roll of Nebraska just completed places the value of property | in that State at S9S,537, ,475. Over 10000 persons are said to be members of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron and Steel Workers.
 A lpcal dinner to four at $50 per plate, exclusive of wines, is exciting the aston- | ishment and admiration of Bostonians.
 A blind man is locked up at Cincin- natl for fatally stabbing an acquaint- ance who had started a quarrel with some woman.
 A Cincinnati boy, who stole pigeons | to sell, went to the work house to work out hls fine rather than let his sister pay ! his fine.
 | A Chicago doctor has testified in li- | bel suit that be himself wrote and pub lished testimonials" to the value of his patent medicines.
 A conspicuous increase is noted in the importation of foreign wares. The en- I tries of drygoods alone for July at New | York foot up Sll ,370,0i0.
 Peach baskets are manufactured in the Eastern States now at from S6 to SS per hundred, although few years ago they cost from twenty-five to thirty cents each.
 An order has been approved by the President allowing the shipment of liquors to Alaska for medicinal pur- poses during the prevalence of the present epidemic of measles and scarlet fever
 During the late hot spell East Boston ians were compelled to carry umbrellas to protect them from the rays of the sun, a thIng which the Boston Traveller says they had never done before.
 4 good farm in Indiana has been al- lowed to run to weeds for five years be- cause of a belief that 1t Is under the curse of a former owner, whose ghost walks the fields at night and would make it unpleasant for a tenant.
 4 marriage at Cobb, Wisconsin, was between a widow aged seventy-twO and her adopted son aged twenty-three. Her first husband on his deathbed advised the match, as a means of preventing the raising of certain legal questions regard ing his estate.
 A plaster cast of the face and hand of Miss Fanny Parnell have been success fully taken by Philadelphia artist, who will at once cast plaster bust to be taken to England. The cast of tine hand was taken at the request of the mother of the deceased.
 Lieutenant Winslow, of the United States navy, has recently planted, as an experiment, l0O000O0 young oysters upon bed in Long Island sound. The oysters planted were only ten days old, and could only be discovered by the aid of strong magnifying glass.
 It is charged by inmates of the Sol diers' Home at Hampton, Virginia, that the Superintendent, Governor Woodfn, has within the past four years withheld over Sj0,0O0 Of pension money paid to him in trust; that he has ip his employ an ex-rebel, and that in various ways his conduct is deserving of censure. Me morials embodying these accusations have been received by Congress.
 Being called to save the life of a wo- man who had swallowed poison, Phil adelphia physician refused to write prescription until his fee of S2 had been paid. As the money was not forthcom- ing he left the house, and she died soon after. A simple antidote would have been enough at that time, but sn hour or two afterward, when she was taken to a hospital, 1t was too late.