Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-29
BreYitIes.

Near DlhLcly, bh-t n gOkc OA OAcA m away while the driver was standing behind them lighttipg.a .I hi' PiRRee P2RRe suit of the runsways. The pine straw took fire, and the fire spread, sweeping all before it. Some farmers lost nearly all their fencing, and Mir. Davis, who was sick in bed. lost every building OD his place except his dwelling, and that was saved with much difficulty.
 Mir. J. J. Reason, of Colombia, has thirty chairs which have been ID actual service for fifty-two years. The lot in- cludes a bsby's low chair. and also the high chair for the table. He does moi know how old they are, but they hay, been in the family and iu use tifty-twU years to his certain knowledge. He also has lot of marble covers for mIlk pane which have been in use thirty years.
 A fresh Georgian asked to deposit a valise with a merchant ID Dublin, Texas, stating that it contained $500 in money. The merchant refused, unless the money was taken out and specially deposited, vhereupon the Georgian proceeded to comply, but tound-nOthing. He then said he had been robbed, but finally concluded he did not know exactly how the leash balance" stood.
 On the outskirts of Syracuse, New York, lives a man named John Murphy, who claims never to have ridden m an kind of vehicle save a wagon. Two years ago his wife succeeded in gettinI him on board a train, destined for n neighboriDg village, but before it had started he changed his mind and left the car.
 Benjamin J. Smith, of SesfOrd, L. l., executor of the estate of Horace Row land, began suit against himself st eIecutor, claiming that the estate owed him money. He thus became both plaintiff and defendant. The surrogst, says that such conduct will not b. tolerated by the court.
 No less than five hundred spiders are 9usrtered in an old attic in Cincinnati occupied by John Madison, who attends their wants as best he can. The room is completely covered with cobwebs and they even hang over the little bed in the corner in something of the style of 8 mosquito net.
 The house of representatives of South Carolina made short work of the lien law, repeating it except as to liens to landlords and lsborers.
 Mississippi has gained 100 per cent in five years Tn manufacturing industries, having at this time s7,O00,000 invested in such enterprises.
 A storekeeper in Toronto, Canada, has been fined S20 and costs for selling chances to guess at the number of beans in bottle for prizes.
 A negro girl Tn Lsurens county, Geor- gis, bears the following poetic name: "Fsir Rosa Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me Not"
 Since the decision of the United States supreme court on the civil rights act. five colored conventions have been held in Alabama.
 A phenomenon known to scientists ss the "polar band" has been observed in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is very unusual for this section.
 A disease, apparently much like the "pink eye" in horses, has made its sp- pesrsnce among the school children of Cortland, New York.
 Quail killing will be illegal m Catts- raugus county, New York. for the next four years, under . penalty of S25 for each offense.
 Wheeling dispatches report a gigantic deal in West Virginia wildcat" land, by certain parties in Wash ington city.
 A log cut in Suvsnee county, Florida, last week, required sixteen mules to haul 1t, and made fifty thousand feet of lumber.
 A curiosity on Kent island, Maryland, is an old colored man who never had but two teeth, and these he was born with.
 The hair is the most indestractible portion of the human body. It has been known to survive 4,0O0 years in Egypt.
 A gentleman living near Tupelo, Ms sissippi, found 8 heavy gold cross, long buried in one of the battle fields al that place.
 A citizen of Meridian. Mississippi. got , postofiice order at that place and paid he amount with $50 copper cents.