Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
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! | to men who lost limts ID the late war, and the governor has just announced | his readiness to receive applications for the states second payment. There were, | the Augusta Chronicle says, between $50 and 1000 applicants in lSlS. There are four classes of applicants those who lost legs ampatated above the knee, who are allowed Sl0O; legs cut off below | the knee, SGj; arms above the elbow, | S60; arms below the elbow, $40. The aggregate cost to the state is about s50,- | GOO The money IS to enable the rtcipi- ents to buy artificial limbs.
 A strange attachment exists betweenG e dog and COW in Chattanooga, Teunes- see. The dog will follow her the entire | day. If the COW lies down the dog will | lIe down by her side and remain there | till she gets up. He does not allow other cattle tO come near her. In the even | tug he wIll accompany her home, and guard her during the night The next morning he is ready to go out with her again. The COW receives his cRresses and attentions in the kIndest manner, and SO far as can be observed the affec- ton seems to be mutual
 The road from San Joss to the sum- mt of Mount Hamilton, on which the Lick observatory is approaching com | pletiOn-a distance of tweuty-seven miles--was constructed se a cost of SS0,- | coo, and has already become one of the most famous drives of the state. The road ls so smooth, so well maintained, and of such easy grades that q good span of horses attached to light wagon can eas ly make the ascent in four hours.
 4 youthful runaway couple, John | Henry Jackson and Miss Nellie Dunn, were married in parlor car over in the Indian Territory, opposite Denison, | Texas, few days ago. The bride IS a reputed heiress, and only daughter of a wealthy cattleman of Wheelock, near Hearne, and tue groom, like Jacob, had kept the old mans cattle, and took his pay in the old mans daughter by run ming of with her.
 Amanda Mackinder, of Geddes, and | Charlts O. Bowles, of Syracuse, \. T., are the latest couple whose acquaintance cOurtship and marriage was attained through the aid of a newspaper. The groom inserted the want in a Syracuse newspaper, the bride, who was widow, answered it, and everything proving lovely, they were married.
 Another centengrIan, in the person of Mrs. Elizabeth Louderback, of Sickler- | vile, Camden county, N. I has left this earthly wickedness. She was lO4 years | old, and has resided in Salem county, New Jersey, where she was born, and
 Camden county, Of the same state all of her life.
 New Haven, Conn.,, girls don't like to have their names printed when they earn pocket money by teaching in the public schools, and the board have amended their rules SO that temporary teachers can be hired without getting their names in the papers.
 The days of fabulous rates of interest in California seem to he past. The sav- ings- banks in San Fr nciscO are lend ing money on mortgages at 6 per cent. and paying the mortgage tax, and yet they can not find a market flr more than third of their money.
 Pierpoint Potter, of Jamaica, Long Island, \. r., now in his ooh year, still acts as clerk to the Queens county board of supervisors and keeps the rec ords of the bills audited. This Is the tiftieth year he has performed the same duty.
 Collamen, a suburb of Cleveland, O., IS excited over marriage of a young Swede, aged r, employed as a hired man to a wealthy grass widow" 5j years old. The bride has been divorced twice has children older than her new husband, and also hss several grand children.
 J. Covington and his bride, of Colum- bus, Ga, left home for a bridal trip tu Louisville two weeks ago, and Mir. Gov ington and his wife are both dead at their Georgia home by smallpox, some | where contracted in their journeyings. !
 young lady claiming Co be the daughter of Judge Crawford, of the supreme court of Maine. is under arrest l in Philadelphia charged, in connection ! with Nellie Watson. with the larceny of | a horse and carriage valued at S3Sj.
 Mrs Nathan Huntingdon, of Buffalo, ! \. Y, Is convert to the faith cure," considering herself entirely cured from | an active cancer by visit of some . length to the faith cure establishment iu !. Boston, Mass.
 Eddie Boomer, Q Brookfeld, (Conn.) | lad, tried to crack walnut m the pelvis | of his hand by pressing the other against | it. He cracked the nut and dislocated a | bone in the wrist, making a bad wound. |
 It is said that it would have taken a wagon train 32Sls miles long to have moved the wheat crop out of Walla | Walls valley, Washington Territory, and Umstilla county, the present season.