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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13


 HERE have been SO many storIss told
 about General HancoCk's ccrdItrou. ..
 hate. that the following statement lf D.. Janway, Post Surgeon, who attend tlm will be read with interest:
 "Ihe primary cans of hI- illness vls cold. The General went dovl To sandy HO' k about two weeks ago un q - tug Ordi ance. The day was cold ar- rhe wInd was blowing pretty st-ru Z when they cane mp the hay at n.glt. The water was unusually rough and tLs tug plunged abuut a' a great rate. mak 'ng 1t exceedingly difficult to malutair The upright position when mov,nr aIou- the bOit. The General musr hfv- bruised himself against the beat. fortEe next day he was takeu to hia bed wilt considerable fever. I was called Co at- tend him He complained of an mn plrasaDt feeling in hIs right thigh. J could not form a dia pnO-i- ht that timt. hut the following day the limb dsveIofeI the abscess. It was located ID the inner -lde of the thigh and Was about fO.- inches m length. The General had much lever until Saturda, last. when | lanced the atscess It discharged very freely-in all over piut and hall of matter. Since Saturday he has 1een on the rapii road 10 recovery. He bas been confined to his bed f- 'en days, but I nm happy c. say that le has good apretitr and wiIl with 'nt dnubt soon b. able to attend Co L.-
 flee duties"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

AN order has Deen issued establishing
 daily exchange Of through registered
 pouches between the cfi.es of Helena and s. Paul. on the Northern Pacific. Now, if those Washington officials wd. give the southern route some attention. the people ot Arizona wall be grateful. and thank them for small favors. For the past eight months the malls on the route have been gong astray, and there does not s. em Co be aoy prospect of au improvement We are toll that thert are too few postal clerks for the anouni of work on hant, and that it Is next Co impossible for them C. do th work properly; local mails are sent up and d Vu tle Toad as often as three O four times |. fore eiI-ctiuE g. landing. and there j. uo certainty about wb-r letters and papers will reach their G,s- uuatIon- Letters and papers wiicL should reach Guason Ia from three Co SIX hon are somstimss as many Jay on the road The CITIZEN has com plained of ihis irregu.a-.ty two or thr,e e times within tle past few moaths, ba; the abusss continue, and the people suf- fer from them.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
Suurre of the Yuk,n

In the Schwatka party are Su-.e--
 Cf. F. Wilson, C. \. H1man, 0t the I..
 p"graphIcal ourvey, Sergeant tiI >tar..f
 the Seventh Cavalry. Corporal S1u---
 ,llh, of the SscOud luiartry, and E.t.
 ut Company ], Of the Fu-t Iuf.t-g.
 lhty left Portland, Oregon. a1ua. f.z
 month ago tu survey the ur4Iuatr-, .f
 he Yukon river. They went tJ Srs.
 uy steamer, and there taking alun.
 party of Indians, cut acros, Co th--
 destination, winch Occupled about f,-
 days. They struck the souce uf H-
 Yukon about 2,5iO miles from its mouth.
 and, building a raft. The whole usrtg -ur
 aboard and went down It about l,>U
 mlles. Many narrow escapes urre ulste ID shooting terrific rapId-, a.I "a s..- erHl occasions the lives of the whole
 party We're saved by what could
 be only accounted for by miracles.
 Lieutenant Schwgtka ty thIs tup las earBcd the reputation for bav u. made
 the longest raft journey on rrcrrd uy mas also made tbe longest sltigs ..g-- uey. Leaving the raft, the party sat aboard a steau boat Uf the Alarka Con merclal Company aI went Co s. Ill., chaels, a small town S me seventy mlies north of tue mouth of the Yukon -iyr-. Here they waited several days. when he Leo came Alrng and brought them Go thls clty. On board tae Leo at til- tIrs Was k A. Mar. of the Clast Sury-.. who had gone to Point Barrow Co -sWrH- tue pendulum," but oVIug Co Che lacEo.
 me d cl"udy weather. h.s jul-a-y into he far nor;h Was without maternal result. LIeur, ns14t Schwstku leaves fu- morrow for Oregrr, and within a far days Lieutenant Ray departs for Nas.-
 ngt"n tU make his reIo
 Signal SsEyire Officer Leavitt, vhoLa. been stationed at St Michatls frrLetry three yeurs, returned on tie L,o. Mr. Clark, tO' mrTlv Cf thus station. rtmBl-- Iug ID his place. Mir LsavItf, over one ' ear ago, asceL ded tbe Yukon rIyer L0tH mules from Fnrt SelkIIk, wLere a SIgua oe wee Station Was established lt- 'rlp was made in a small steamer belong ing to the AlH-La Fur Company. On ihe way up Mir. Leavitt, wherever tls 'oat stUI ped, banned out some dirt for gold. and ID nearly tvery instance color was obtained. Mir Leavitt has iu hls Dossessif D small quanlty of gold co.- ''tcu tulo way. The uhuu l~ one ll l.r argest rivers n the world, discharurE 70 per cent more water than the Nls-.s- 'Il pi. By many if IS rated at the thi-i iver Tn size m the world. Al some points It is seven miles wide During ,b"ut five mOu'h- in the year it IS clear }. lee from its mouth 70 its source. In be interior of Alnska the suu mFrs are -rry hot ard the winters very cold. the emperature rangiDg from S6 degrees hove Zero tO 6f below But in this Iorthern TegiO1 @ extreme cold Is not elt as would be supposed, owing t1 fLe bsencs of wIni. It k more cumforta- le with the thermometer af 4J below gro than when near the fretZlHr pIlrt- inter life iu Alaska iz, acco-iiug Co ttr counts of those who have wlure-rJ here, anything but comfor.able.-Ss 'rlucrGep BritarTrr
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
Emersnn on Channing.

attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Charming, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens n this country of that large criticism which ID England had
 lIven power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were widely read, and ot cOIrse immediately fruitful ID provoking emulation which lifted the style of jour nalism. Dr. Channing, while he llvsd, was the star of the American church. and we then thought, If We do not still think, that he left no successor In the pulpit. He co i'd never b. reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose their best iu losing them. He Was made for the public; his cold tempera- ment made him the most uuproft- able private companion; but all America would be impoverished in wanting him We could not then spare a single word be uttered ID public, not so much as the reading a lessen III scripture, or a hymn; and IL IS curious that hIs priuted writ ings are almost history of the times, a. there was no great public interest, polit Ical, literary, Or even economical flor be wrote on the tariff, on which he dId nui leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion. A poor hltle invalid all his life, he is yet one of those men who vIndlcate the power of the American race to produce greatness October Atlantic.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

TIE Carson Appeal of the 7th instant interviewed J. W. Mackay on posta l telegraphy. He stated that the schem,
 was now fairly launched. We have
 started several lines, and our factory lI
 AnsonlR, Connecticut, IS turning out
 fifty miles Of steel and copper wire O.
 day. The wire is copper, with steel
 core running through the center to give
 1t strength. It wlll last for years. Look
 tt these old iron wlres (waving his naud
 ont of the car wIndOw); they wear ou'
 and It keeps men repairing all the while
 They are of very little account: ouI wire is a world beater.
 Between New York and Chicago We send five hunuTed messages a day wl,h four operators. Under the new system the dispatches are fixed on cyliudei and then it goes like flash. We chargt twenty-five cents for twenty words. anu my Itea Is that such tarIfT k too high
 There ls big money in half cent a wort. l hope to see the tariff red lcel to twelve and Oue-half cents for twenty i've words. The greatest expense iH tho delivery, and We expect 10 adopt sys- tenn by which the dispatches can bt turned over to the postnfii,es and pu' into the delivery boxes the same Hs lr, ters. By combining the Postal Tel.- graph with the pOstoffices in the irge cities We can give the public the cheap est system for the area oi country GOV cred ID the world"
 'We will pay { @ highest wages foi skilled labor. and l consider that a tel egrsph operator must be man of ths highest intelligence. Some of the Western Union men, who have grown old in the service, get S40 month. Our new machines are labor saving, and We can aford to pay the best wages. N, can handle ten times the amount oi business that the Western Union doe- and will make extra business by placing telegraphy where poor men can use it. Guuld's lines are capitalized for over one hundred millions. and it can be du- plicated to-day for twenty millions, if not less"
 In answer Rs to press rates. be said: Most assuredly. We will give them rates that will astOnish the publishers who have been in the habit of passing iwo-thirds of their earnings over to the Western Union. cannot say what rates, as that part of the business has | not az vet been given much considera- l flOn. We just want to build our lines. 1 We will unierbid any rival company on | press dispatches If we have to furnish | them free"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13


 WE are iold that some surprise has been expressed at Washington that d court martial should convict an officer pi conduct u0becoming an officer and a gentlem ID, t'r marrying a woman he ,l1uld have kept away from, or married s good wh Ie before. When au officer marries an objectionable woman or in ot CT words woman who has DO char gcter, he can bring her to his quarters v1ere she cam It be ignored, as might easily be done iu civil life. It Feems, therefore, that the only way officers wth respectable families can protect them from such undesirable society is 10 get the womau's husband out of the army. While as 1t IS stated an exact precedent for the present case is not re- called, il ia remembered that an officer ou the retired list who recently com mI,ted suicide in Baltimore wns retired ou account of his iutemperance and his marriage with a disreputable woman. T. may be thought that retirement IS a light penalry for habitnal drunkenness: 5ut in view of the executive clemency that has of late years been exercised ID avor of disgraced officers, it may have 1ren deemed tEe most reliable way of
 citing the culprit cut of the society of respectable officers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
New Almaden Mines.

The quicksilver mines at New Alma den are turning out large quantities of ore at the present time. Five hundred and fifteen men are kept fully occupied, working fen hours per day. The m1ipr Ity of them are Euglishmeu ard the bal auce Mexicans and Chilians, and few Chinese. Miners are paid from g. to S2 90 and surface men Sl % t0 g. per day. Out of these wages single men have to pay 75 cents per diem for board and from 8 to 26 per month for l0dg ing. Married men have houses to live ID, but have to pay rent. There is a Cathohc and also Methodist church or the hill, g handsome schonlholse and cOmmodious hall for amusemeuts. Four shafts are worked, lhe lowest at a depth of 2,OO0 feet, or 3,0O0 feet below the level of the sea; and there are esti- mated to be fifty miles Of underground drifts, all well timbered and ventilated; {; and the system of water supply is most complete. This is conve, ed from a neiRhbcring mountain by means of two and one-half inch pipe, at the rate of thirty gall OBS per minute.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

HE recent fire in Dallas, Texas, was the most destructive that has visited
 that place. It broke out ID the engine room ot the city elevator and compress company's building at noon to day. l. 7pIead rapidly, and soon communicated to the large cotton ysrd- of the compres- ses, m aId aiOund which were upwards or uuO bales, and fully 3.200 bales of cotton are estimated to have been de siioyei, the yaiue of which is set down at Sl65,OOO. The large compress wa saved by the most heroic eff .rts Os th, hremen, and the rest Oi the cutton war removed out of danger by the citizens
 The elevator bIilding and the old cum- press were destroyed, the loss on Whicb, including machinery, is put down at SSO
 ul In the elevator, ". C. Howard S OO. had S20,OUu worth of oats, S5.0Ou of wheat, aud $500 worth of corn, ml
 e, etc. On this grain there was about Sl5OOO insurance.
 The Dallas electric light works were totally destroyed. Loss estimated ai Sf.OOO; insurance, g. 800.
 Slnker, Davis tS Co. lost machinery ir their warehouse estimated aU about $40. UOO, covered by insurance.
 II. Loeb < Co, wholesale grOcers, stock dam sged about S6.0O0; covered by ib surance.
 Fhe sale stables of l.. Hirsch were destroyed, but all the horses and mul Eere saved. Loss on feed. etc, SLIGO insurance, $500 Loss on stable, S2OOO; -oyered by insurance.
 Bates restaurant, loss $1l,OCO; no iu surance.
 Mrs. Smart's boarding hous., los. S3,UO; no in-ursnce.
 Alter burning above rroperty tb, | mes spread tO tbe residence and ten ment-hcuse neighbOrhoOd close by. md turned almost two full blocks bs for | tt Ire department got them under con 'roL The fire department If For l Worth was telegraphed for, and mad. 1 -Le run Of thirty two nIles ID thirty five 1 minutes, via the Texas and Pacific rail -"ad, having been furnished with a To. ,nmotive and special train by the Fnu Worth aad Denver City railway. Tn. ire was under control when the depart. nent arrived, but She Fort Worth mer nd gallant work never heless. The to al l"-s by hre is estiu ated at about ;7j0,Dr
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

TIE legal fraternity of New York will entertain Lord Co.erldge to-mor- TOW evening. It wlll perhaps bs the grsndest ovation ever given to a foreign cItizen in this country. The reception committee will con prise I50 of the most prominent men of the State with John Jay as chairman. Among other com mittees are Charles Andrews, William Choate. Charles P Daily, Chancy M. Depew, William DorsdeImer, William N. Evarts, David Diiley Field, Hamilton FisE and William c. Law. This Is tae kind of resspuon that IS always appro- priste. It Is given by the brainy men men of New York, t5 an Enghshmau who has the reputation Of possessing legal talent Of the ghest order. IL is not the tisle of lord that these men de- sire to honor, but the superior parts that the llrd possesses.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13


 LIE Qlsen has ordered lie size monument Of John Brown to be erected on the grounds at BIlmJral, jest to the south of the castle, where she can gaze upon II from the palace windows. This is to be supiimeuted by similar bust st Frogmore, and a memorial tablet in St. Georges chapel It's believed that the enlogy which the poet laureate has been ordered to write will be as cold as the marble busts the QIeen will set Up. IL is quite evident that the Queen is III her dotsge and Is not responsible for her special acts. It IS about time for her to sbdicate in favor Of the Prince Of Wales who would put an end to such nonsense.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

THE election ID Oli' seems to bav, disclosed the fact that the people haV, voted at random, and did not settle down upon auy stated policy, but scat tered the.r shbtIa every direction. B. this prom iscuous firing the democrats have game temporary lease of power m Ohia, which like the rising up of William Allen a few years ago, will ou- ly dggravate the republicans Co renewed action, which wi.i brlns increased ma jorities at the coming presiden ial elec- t1a7
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
A Champion ,,r-rr.

Sherman W. Platt, oi Newton, Conr.. tfarmer, about 35, fell int a deep sleep a his bed just before Christmas and la, n II, without rOusing. Till the last O, January. Toward spring he manif. ste, ID inclination to move, but did not opeI lis ey e-' and during three months st. carcely enOugh to sustain life. T. March the family succeeded in gettlp, nm dressed and m April he walked "tle, but during all this tune be Deve poke. He was cared for like an ii fan, After a while he scented his way to tb. antry, and now oe moves from his cbai, % the cupboard shelves, sleeping b. wen his neais. Ills lethargy has lasted ly! days.-Ex.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13


 A gentleman of Bergen county, New Jersey, imported eighty sky-larks from England, winch he released on hIs prem ises three years ago. Great anxiety was felt as to whether they would be able Co withstand our cold winters. The birds remained in the ne ghborlood until late Tn the autumn, but disappeared as soon as winter set in. On the follOwIng spring a few of the larks returned though a part of the flock either perished or re- mGined in the sou-h. Another winter coming on the sky-lGrks again went away, but last spring, the third since their arrival in America, they gave satis- factory proof that they had become ac- climated, and B nest containing four lit- tie sky-larks was found in the town of HDhokus. The larks are now heard singing over the fields Of Bergen and Passaic counties, and will no doubt soon spread to other localities.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

FoR awhile the sound of the hammer st work on the new Territorial building al Bismarck was waited over the bleak plains of Dakota. This kind Of music was not pleasant to Yankton ears. SC they brought the legality of. the ap- pointment of the commission into court, which selected Bismarck, and the iuig, deci led the act creating the commission unconstitutional, and the hammer is st,Ilad
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

THAT Jay Gould is among those who have come to the assistance of the Northern Pacific is no longer a question of doubt on Wall street. Gould and Willard have been seen together several times of late. The Northern Pacific has made app ication to the Stock Exchange for the holding of S3,750OJO 0f bonds representing 15) miles Of new road. The recent depression in the Willard stocks las entailsd heavy losses t many capitalists. One prominent operator who made hIs fortune ID min ing stocks IS said to have lost upwards of S6,O00,O00. As Jim Keene is the only man who made his money 10 mining stocks and who IS operating in New York to the extent named 1t must be him. George NJ. Pullman of the Pull man Car Company, Is reported from Boston as being in financial straits from the same cause, but General Horace Porter, vice president of the company pronounces the report absolutely un- true,
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

HE Clifton CiarIon refers to the New Mexican Editorial Association which met at Albuquerque a few days ago, and wants to know what has become of the proposed association in Arizona, which the CITIZEN adv catei a year ago. We will state that the proposition was made by the late management Of the CITIZEN, its present management is Of the opinion that but little good Is to be derived from such an organization. Turn it into press association, which, by a united effort on the part of the newspapers Of Arizona will tend to secure better and cheaper press reports and the CITIZEN will be with you.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
EASTERN.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. I0.-The Times Democrats Montgomery, Alabama. spe- rial says; "The Stale Health Office tele- yraphed from Brewton one death with black vomit on Sunday; one yesterday three black vOmi; cases on hand: nine other cases prevailing; two new case reported; also the death of Colonel E 8rewton. Quarantine rigid.
 BosIoS, Mass, Oct. 9.-A large and
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

OUR democratic brethren who are now exuldn over the result ID Ohio. occup, much the same positi n that N ses did They can view the promlsel land fror afar, but they can oeyer occupy it. A republican Aaron wIll rise up and leaa the hosts safely over the river of Jordan at the coming presidential election.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

WE are glad to see the Star stirring up our delegate in Congress. It says:
 Let the people in all of the territories sur up their congressional delegates Co the importance of making the Indi,u question the leading issue, and by thIs means force IL into the next national campaign.
 The suggestion IS a good one, but We know Of no way by which our delegate can be stirred up, unless "that smart boy" of the Callender's be employed to follow him up with goodly supply ot tscks, and see to 1t that he places the belhgerent ends up.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

IHE handsome residence of Geoera McCleilan, on Massachusetts avenur Washington, has been leased, and vii be occupied by Misses Narrower for !, school for youug ladies. The geaeu bas never had much use for bis Wa-L. lngtoH residence, and probably ueYsr will have occasion to occupy if.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

THERE Is a certain newspaper core spondent, not more than thirty mic. away, who is in the habit Of sending CITIZEN specills to the San Francisco Chronicle and saying "A special 10 tle Star says so and so." Nov, th14 is a very naughty wly to do, and eye advise that correspondent, whoever he may be, to gv5t i+
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

IT is sand that Mason and Dixon's lin. has been tom down. the poles cut uI into fence pos's, and the line strung be- tween two barbed wires, which auswer, very well for 8 pasture fence. lis thus the rehcs of ant-hellum pass awayi
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

rHE New York metropolitan journal numbered with things of the past ihe hul1 ai the people now live Tn tht l-ssISsippi valley, and those once grea' tenders of public opinion have degener. ,,ed into "local papers Of New York"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

Mrs. Langtry was certainly very iniu- dicious in allowing Freddie to remain all alone and unprotected in Paris What if be should fall m love with Bern hErdt?-New York World. There would be nsir-pullinG between a woman of parts. and no parts.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

TIE Tucson postoflice rates highe under the new adjustment o, sala i- than Los Angeles office. the salary O the postmaster being SlG0 more in Tu, son than n that place, and S5J0 mor, than any other off, in Arizona.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

WISCONSIN, has got the tramp question down Go paying basis. Under th, tramp law of that State Martin Wues ster was sent from Baraboo to he Stat, penitentisry for term Of ten months at hard labor. This was perhaps a tes- case, as well as the WIsrs-ser one iu the Stata
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

THE Beuscn shelter, 1t Is said will 'dd another stack, which is the best in i,atlon of its success, and is conclusive evidence that reduction works at given points easy Of access by rail and wagon oids is the true plan for the reductio. f ores in Arizona..
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

IRE spanish are quietnS down, su, speak of Alfouso's yi-it to France wi, | ss bitterness than they did d few day ago. Many consoliug letters and di, patches from French citzens ha mellowed them down somevhat
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

A SAILOR has been convicted of snug linE monkeys in New York. It is t, 'e hoped that no efforts will be made to musgle dudes into Gotham until tn, Irssent crop IS destroyed.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

An electrIc tram-car has just been successfully tested in Paris, which bids falr to do away with horse railways, ele- vated railways, cabs stages and other forms of street lOcomotIon. This ve- hlcle, perfectly roiseless, runs itber n metal rails or smooth asphalt, and the cost Of maintaining 1t is said Co bt, one hall that of horse-cars. At the recent test the tram car, laden with engineer and journalists, among whom was M
 Ferdinand De Lesseps, traversed the streets and bouievards of Paris for H distance of thirty English miles, the time occupied being about three hours
 The vehicle was under perfect control and there was no hitch or breakdown of any kind. This new car does not take ihe electric current from the rails. after the manner of the electric railways, but carries its motive force in a set O Faur. accumulAtors. Its chief difficulty now IS its cumbersOmeness and weight, the tanre aecumulators weighing twn ton and a half. This defect it Is 4ou-ht will be overcome ID future experiments.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

ARIZONA Is settling down to business ss usual, at this season of the year, and pus' ness of all kinds IS -eviving.