Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
BreYitIes.

disease, IS sad tO be playing sad havOl among the cattle and horses Tn tn, . southwestern part of Si. Landry parish T near Point aux LOups. La. Large nun s bers have already died. A man, who's, n name could not be learned, while skin
 ming a beef. contracted ihe disease and
 died in few days.
 There Is a gentleman in Wiunegance, Me, who Is a great fowl fancier. He has twenty-four Brahmss, and every ; morning al o'clock be takes a lantern and, lighting 1t, puts 1t in the hennery.
 SO the hens can see Co Jump from their : roosts and find their nests. One morn ing last week he got SIX eggs before day light.
 Efforts are making at the east cad of Long Island. New York. to promote the
 extensive culture of oysters. 4 com
 pany has been incorporated to foster
 oyster culture m Peconic and Gariiner's
 bays, and another company has been
 formed and Mecox bay has been bought
 for the purpose of growing oysters.
 They have begun to enforce the -four
 mile" law in Tennessee IL is virtual prohibition. As result the river
 steamers are freighted with jugs of
 whisky for private consumers. The W
 A. Johnson recently steamed away from
 Paducah with eight hundred jugs for
 distribution along the river bank
 A Cleveland woman trIed holding
 heuy as collateral security for 5o'4rd
 bill She took care Of the child, so that
 its mother could work in s,0se. when
 the mother failed to pay the ball refused | fn TN uvsH ha YF ha | property had to seek courts of law and
 get a writ of habeas corpus. A captain of Jacksonville, Fla. has contracted with an English electrician, now ID that city. to build for him a | launch thirty-fOur feet long by seven | feet beam, which Is to be driven by electricity. The boat will have an aver age speed of from fourteen to sixteen ! knots an hour.
 The Personals" in The New York Herald are always instructive and some times entertaining. Here Is one that is both: "L. Stations, Solitaire-Goyem Yerhudim, love VOW; no 'tishabuT but 'shervoOhus for 'sclitHire kosher. Young Solitaire
 A boy of l5 years started west on horseback from Livermore, Me, a few days ago, without the consent ot his parents. His irate father pursued him and overlook him after he hsi ridden twenty five miles, with the thermometer close to zero.
 A blow boy on ranch hear santa Barbara, Cal, plOweJ over a forgotten well. Both hor-es fell in and were killed, 1 and the boy would have followed them ! only he was caught on the ploN-haudles | and thrown clear across the tois un- | hurt.
 At Burlington, Hopkins county, Ny, | one day last week, child of Charles | Gennings died from sCms queer disease. | The flesh cracked open, bleeding at the | open places followed, and caused the | death of the child
 4 prominent gentleman of Athens, | Ga, has a record Ot all the slaves hls l family owned, one thousand in number, | and Is confident that some day he or his l descendants will receive pay for them | from the government
 Capt. Long. sn aerial jumper, who at- tempted to jump from the Brooklyn | bridge on May 30, 1880, aud was prev ented, will, 1t Is said, try again to &C., complsh the feat for a wager of $500 on or about February 22.
 There are six brothers in Carter O., Kentucky. who have never used lutoxi- eating liquors, tobacco or been guilty of profanity. The oldest is II and the youngest 22 years old.
 Of the twenty-eigh- congressm smer who HN q Legislature, all but three are republicans and all but three were born within thel states limits.
 Senator Mahone appears to be cold proof. In the cOldest weather be g.es about Washington, by day and by night, without an overcost on, and with lis Prince Albert coat unbut.Oued.
 Great dissatisfaction prevails in the towns near Concord, N. H., on account of the city authorities not giving the farmers a market stand in some central place.
 There have been eleven thousand bushels of star fish killed on the oyster- grounds of Bridgeport. Stratford and Muliord, Connecticut. during the past two months.
 The cowboys at American Falls, Indi- an Territory, who stopped an excursion train last week and made the band play for their diversion, have all been ar- rested.
 An Adelaide, South Austral-. pHpcr lately advertised for one thousand cats, which are tO "go for the rabbits which are such pest there.
 A firm in Americus, Georgia, Las ob- tained 5,0OO cents from the north. and will endeavor 10 put them in circulation in trade iu that place.
 Ostrich plumes valued at Sl,JJ1 were taken to San Francisco from tlc Ana helm, California, ostrich farm. few days since.
 One of the students at Harvard O l. lege is said to have eIpended SLlJO ID | fitting up his room in the dormi'1-y.
 Southern California is in receipt of the heaviest ram storm that has visited that section for several years-
 The output of bsdstcads in Chatta- i nOOga, Tennessee, for the year l--3 will ] reach about 5000.
 Icemen on the keruebec rIysr, in [ Maine, are working hard, as tl- wafer { has frozen ID a splendid coudlrn.
 The mercury at South COveutrg. Con- nectlcut, week ago. reached SO d -grees below zero.
 Some one advcrtises in @ W ather- ford, Texas, paper, for uu Tor a good baby"
 John Degarmo. ot Milford, N.fs!and. captured five foxes in three i4 last . week.
 Chester, Connecticut. has ele'-n, of i the fourteen bitter factories ui the