Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-15
EASTERN.

NEW ORLEANS. April 7.-Incident to | the ceremony of decorating the graves | Of the confederate dead ln this city yes | Jerday, and laying the corner stone of a monument to be surmouuted by au | equestrian statue of Albert Sidney ! Johnston, an oratiOn delivered by Jeffer- son Davis. n which he eulo2ized the character of the dead leader. h John 1 stOn he rec guiz -d strong pillar to the l roufederacy, aud when he fell on the | ield of Shiloh, the mightiest column which sustained 1t had fallen. He died m a moment Of victory, and had he lived half an hour longer he wuuld have made 1 Grant prIsOler or fugitive. I he 1 runiederacy nad tnree great leaders: Lee, Jackson and Johnston, who would compare with the leaders of antiquity or modern times. At the banquet ID the evening the speaker reiterated the sem Jiments.
 CHAELEsTOwS, Mo, ADrIl 6.-Howard Underwood, white, was hanged here to- day. Underwood killed Belle Lucas, a colored woman, by shooting her and beating her head to pieces, more than q year ago.
 GALENA, IL, April 70. H. Burch, advertising himself as the UalOn Man nfacturug Company of this city. and recently posted by the postOtfice anthor- iiies as a swiudlrr, ha- disappeared. It is estimated that he succeeded Iu swiu- ding innocent people, mostly Swedes, by promising to send articles through the malls, to the extent of S3j,O0J. Since lis public exposure, three hundred .A ..a.. nave been returned t tne seuders.
 BosToS, Mass, April It now trans pires that Governor Buffers fast day proclamation, for the omission m which le is severely criticized by the press, vas the same proclamation, verbatim, promulgated by Governor Gore in lSlO. Butler says: "All criticisms are directed against that learned and pious man. not agaIust mo-
 NEW YORK. April 7.-Henry Bergh, defender of all animals, has written a letter to Baruum, the circus man, con- l-mning tue killing the elephant Pilot. His argument is that kindness instead pt cruelty would srbdue the animal. Barnum- reason for killing Eliot was that ne considered |; safer than tO subject his JatrOns tO danger.
 DEs MoI IFS, Ia, April Tine Ari- cultural College here has been tempOra- fly closed on account uf she breaking out ot the scarlet fever among the stu dents.
 ST PAUL, Mlnn., AprIl It is rtport- ed that hor-e, are suffering ia localities ID thIs State fr m pink eye, glanders and d kindred nervous disease, termed Dy some the spinal meningitis.
 ST. LOUIS. April 9-A dispatch from New Mexico says: Indians have been seen on tue plaIus between Lordsburg ,nd the GIla, uut nO depredations are heard Of
 Capt. Eskridge with Company K, Tweuty-third Infantry. from Fort Ba yard, has jus; returned from Hn unsuc- .essful sc .ut -f the c la.
 Gen. Mckenzie ls at LJrdsb lrg direct Ing the movements.
 No hostile Indians are in New Mexi- co.
 The trail reported two days ago was made Mexican smugglers.
 Ctl. Forsvthe an.l four companies of the Fourth Cavalry will go into temper ary camp at Richmond.
 Capt. Black. with the Shakespeare guards, has returue 10 Shakespeare and the company been relieved from duty.
 WAsHSGToS, April 9-General Sher- man. when, in June, he starts upon his last tOuc as commander of the army. will not take any ladies with him, as he almost invariably has done hitherto, Tor e prop sed trip will be altogether too rough a oue for laiies. The party will travel on horses, sometimes on mules and sometimes over rough roads in the mountains. Chef JustIce Waite, Jus tice Gray and General Tilba!l and Col. Bacon, of the Generals staff will be of the party. They will % first to Detroit, and thence through the northern DOT tIOus of the Territories, including the outpcsts m Alaska and on returning, they will visit California and Yellow stone Park. They will not start unll after SbeTman has attended the grsdua- tIug exercises at West Point.
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April s9.-The Central UnIOu Land League is arrang- ing for the National c CInveution on the 26-h inst. Governor Pattison will be asked Co preside at the ParneIl reception at the Accademy oi Music. The Catholic Total AbstIence Union has decliHed the invitation of the Land League to send delegates to the National Convention. stating that It Is under the protection of the catholic church and desired to keep aloof from politics.
 DE SoTo, Mo, April 9.-Marsden, the leader ot gang or cattle thieves who made himself the terror of the country within the past two years. was overtAksn