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Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
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The mysteries of "Oficill life" are
 wonderful enough, but the wonders of ! female ofiicial life far surpass it. This
 winter, through the WidOuerhood Of Alr. Arthur and Senator Anthony, Mrs
 Carlisle becomes the official leader of society. Every one, save Mrs. McElroy, the presidents sister, ar q Chef Justice Waite's wife, will have to call upon her first. It k simply awful to see the grlmaces which the dainty queens make at this. Mrs. Carlisle IS rather an angu- lar woman, with the most marvellous costumes, who has been snubbed more or less for several winters. and now will revel in the glory of cOndescensi0l toward the suub bers. Then she will return all the calls. Even the eminently proper spCuses of the cabinet will have to
 make their first bow to the speakers lady, something which IS not relished ID the Brewster coterie. Every one may call upon these official ladies, but they prize most tbOse whose card bears the Lame, without a street number. for then there IS no obligation to return the clM As 1t is. the cabinet ladies have from 5CO to 2,j00 names upon their lists. The calling business Is simplitied by having the ladies in certain sections ,f the cIty select one day in common. Thus. those on Capitol Hill have Mon dave, those Ot the West End Saturdays. tue regIon about McPhersOn and Far ragut squares Saturdays, aud so on. But win all the help of regular days. carriages and flotmeD, it k an ontrous task, and l do not blame the ladies for iindIug fault. Mrs. Lincoln does not pretend to d. anything. Mrs Freiinc- huysen shuilies 1t off on her daughters, while Mesdames Chandler, Brewster and Teller go through the regulation path. lt IS simply a matter of duty with them. and for the sake of the wives Of future cabinet officers l hope that some one will be able to break down this calling system. There IS no reason why Mrs. Secretary Blank should have To visit every stranger from Colorado who chooses to drop card iu her box. still Mrs. Blaine tried 1t, only Go make an ig- EOminICus failure, and her example has deterred the Washington Core spondeHce.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

A MEETING was held at Albuquerque, \. A., the other night, under the aus p;css of the Board of Trade, with 8 y.ew 70 carrying out the narrow gauge 'ystem of that lively burg. Eastern 'spitalists having given the projectors 3, the "Texas, Santa Fe and Northern ay Co" to understand that they will not invest their money in that enter prise without an assurance that the road vii be constructed to Albuquerque,i that city has been called on to contribute it's mite, and in response, has declded to ask the county commissioners to submit proposi i,n to vote bonds to the amount of S250,OOO to sid in the con- structiOr of connection at or near Cor rillos.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

STRANGE as 1t may seem, from a report of State Engineer Seymour of New York, the use of the canals as a mode Of tran sporting freight Is no longer practicable. He estimates that 1t will cost over s. 5O0OO0 to place the New York canals in good repair. He declares the experi- ment of free canals failure, and sug- gests that an amendment to the Consti- tution be authorized re-establishing tolls, or leasing or selling of the canals out right. He thinks the latter plan would prove best. ss Pennsylvania and Ohio have found 1t to their interest to sell their canals. Nr. Seymour concludes his report as follows: Tn any event 1t may be safely assumed that canals, as a sue cessful and necessary means of transport, have outiiyed their usefulness; and also, that as between railroads and canals, when considered with reference to their relative merits as afTording means of rapid and economical transport, 1t must be regarded as forgone and inevitable conclusion that the canals must go." Mir. Seymour, the retiring official who makes this report. has been the con sulting engineer of one of the trunk-line railroads, and his view on the value of the canals Is not generally accepted as Q disinterested one. It Is c0ntended that he presents as gloomy picture as possible of those artificial waterways. | with an evident purpose to create public | sentiment against them, and 1t is behey l el that when the report of the Super intendent of Public Works, who has the care and management of the canals, is received 1t will be found that the canals are not in as bad a way as the railroad engineer places them.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

TIE retirement of Judge McCrar, from the bench of the eighth United States judicial district. which embrace, Ihe states of Iowa Missouri, Arkansas Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Colo raio. has developed a number of men Eho think they are capable of filing tE, position equally as well at the reti-iu. judge. Judge McCrary resigned the position to accept the less ardrous. Ju perhaps better paying one of general so- Hcit0r of the Atchisor, Topeka and Santa Fe railway company It was moi long ago that Judge Dillon resigned tba sane position after serving for a few years. It is evident, from the resigua- iicus of the judges who have been ap. pointed to i'll the place, that there is more vo-k than honor or cmolumenls 10 the office. Yet there are plenty of good mea m the district who are willing to serve. Judge McCrary will settle down n Kansas city. where he will make his future home.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12


 4 woHrHY sssemblage, consisting of representatives from the democratic gresnback, labor reform, and all other sorehead offshoots from the republican and democratic parties met in Kansas, on the 3rd inst, and formulated call tor mass meeting on the 18th of this month, to nominate candidate for congressman from the Second District vice D. c. Haskell, deceased. Among the leading candidates are Nelson F. Acers, E. 5. Moore and J. D. McCleav- erty. all gayward sisters in the army of former disappointed aspirants for public honors and emoluments in the republi- cS,n,.anks.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
TucsoN,s PosrMAsTER.

The appointment of NJ F. Freeman as postm aster of Tucson gives general sat isfaction to all parties. MT. Freeman is well qualified to fill the position to which be has been appointed. He will attend personally 10 the dutes of the office. something that has not been done by any postmaster since our arrival here, nearly six years ago. It is very healthy change to secure postmaster vino is not too big for the office. It will be rather pleasant to look through the pigeon hole and see real, live pOstrnas ter ID his hive, a sIght which but few cit izers of Tucson have had an opportunity Of enjoying
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

iHE story started by the Silver Belt hat the sale of the Peerless group of mnes in the Quiiotos moutains to Flood and Mackey is contingent on their fnd- ing water at 1.50O feet" Is mistake. The sale was outright and bona fde with no is nor anis about it. The Bonanza men have, as published in yes ie7day's CITIZEN, organized four com 9snies out of the group of mines, and the stock of the companies is being sold. : reasonable supply or water has already been struck on the west side of Mount Ben Nevis. which may be in- creased 10 any extent by sinking. Bu, what t5e company Is now doing, is testing the water question on the east side of the mountain. which if success ful will enable them to put all their mills and works there and cut of some SIX miles of roundabout road neces- s4ry to reRah the west side.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

WHES Crown Prince Frederick William was in the Gulf of Lyons CD route to Spain the commander of 9 French iron clad refused or failed 10 salute the royal fleet. He undoubtedly represented the feelings of the French people as we'll as his government, but he now suffers for his rash act in the way of a dismissal from his command.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

HE verdicts of petit juries are tn, qmcksands on the shore Of justice through which everyone eutangled iu the meshes Of the law must pass. Ever when one is safely borne over its dan. gers, there is sometimes a popular yer dict more potent than all else. This was demonstrated in he case of the aequittal Of John Montgomery and Clement charged with the Emma Bond outrage They have both been compelled 10 tiy for their lives.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
THE WAY OF IT.

The wind IS awake. littie leaves. little leaves, il ed not what he says-hs decsiycs, he dece.vas
 Over and over
 To the lower clOFar lie has hsped the same love and pledged him self true, AS he'U coon be lisping and piedEiug io you. The boy i- abroad. dainty maid. dainty mad, Beware his soft Word--lm afraid. I'm afraid.
 He's sad them before
 Times many @ score. Az, hr died for "a dO1cn ere his beard prickeii through. AS hell soon be dying, my pretty, for you. The vay Of the boy Is the way uf th= wind. AS lght as the leaves Is danny ruHIi-kiut.
 One Co deceive
 And one to believe That IS the way of lt. year tO year; Bul 1 know you will learn .. too late ny dear
 John !. Ihenav U Inrr.a-y Can-nrr
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
Ttah Mines and Prndnciion.

The Salt Lake Tubuns's annual re- port of Utah and adjoining territories, sn'ws Increased prospects ani growth The total bullion product of the Pac fic coast Is placed at S6j,OOO0OG Utah pro cHced eight millions in the past yea- Total for the territory silce tae opelI1. of the mines by tho gentiles, seventy million dollars. Utlh's population IS ltO,OUU. Sali Lake City'- populatiOI -s.OJ), increased 1000 since 1880. New buildings erected in the city -be past year, 900, costing a million and hall. Miles of railroad instructed, li3 Mo-- mon emlgrants for the year, 5000. As 5essed valuation o' the torri.orr, thirty millions.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THE murder of Lieutenant Colone Sudeiken, chef the Department of Mil itary Governorship Ot St. Petersburg by the nihilists, and their success II obtaining his private papers, has ere ated intense consternation and terror iu Russian government circles. Nihilism Is the horrible cancer Tn the viiGls Oi despotism, whose dreadful ravages are almost beyond the most potent human remedy. It has assumed such gigantic proportions, and is s7 insidiously ag- gressiye and subtle that it may yet sue ceed ia reyolutionizing the great gov ernment of all the Russias.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

Ing estimate of the Treasury for the current fiscal year, contemplates an appFopriatIon of S45.sl6,000 to the slnGlog fund, and a surplus revenue in addition of S39, ,1S3,0O0 total of some SS5e000OO to be applied to the ex- tinguisbment of the national debt. As the frst halt of the year has yielded about two-thirds of this amount, 1t IS fair to expect that the net surplus at the close of the year will overrun the estimate somewhat
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

IT IS feared tha. General Mackenzie will never be any better. The physi- cisns have pronounced hls trouble par alysls of the brain: the last glsam of reason is gone; he does not know where be is. and cannot recognize anyone.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

IT wIll now be ID order for newsps- pers to prepare obituaries of Henry Ward Beecher, as he publicly expressed last week the premonitory conviction thst he is serving his last year m the ministry and upon earth.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THF CITIZEN learns from reliable source that between twenty and thirty Apache children will start for the Car lisle schools, Pennsylvania. to-day. Four Apache chiefs will accompany them. The chiefs will return in Febru- ary. This is good as far as it goes, but the CTIzEN would like to have all the Apache children sent to the Carlisle CT some other schools, and the bucks and squaws sent to the Indian country and put to work where they could make homes for their children to come to when they get throuI Ih school.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

Some mon bs ago a sli.k-t0ugued in- divldual calling himself D. J. Collins aruve1 ID tHEeh county, Georgia, and by his easy manners soon gained access Ca tua best families of the covnty. He rendered himself SO agreeable that he hec4me great favori,e with tho ladies, and by loving words and good promises soon became engaged tO a handsome -ad wealth. yoVus widow of .he vicia- ltv, wrO for yeu-s had been "the apple ot the eye Of many of the young men. The announcement of the.- arprouch- lug marriage ar used bitter feelings m tue hearts of tue jealous young mea agWlst tEo new conner, and as nothing hal been hcfrd oi tu- prev.uus history oi -'i-. Collins, tue young men, ID COZ Jgucl with tE- brides relatives, who Were a.-u opposed tr .he welding, set about an investigation of the grOom's past lie. As ,ha lay uf the welding Approached, .G- relatives became alarm @ ove7 ticir discoveries. and begged lie bride e. postpone tpe uup- t..ls mt. tuc matter wGs fui'y iuvsstl- gated. Their eE-rgI'ies had DO effect on tUr brIt-, who was Wore determined anu tlt lav-r ug-s ciamorou5 irr mar rla -e. which look place las' month The relatives aud j aloU- rivals, however. co nund il- IF inquiries wr,ch resulted
 n the dis cIvary t-at Collins was na- tive If EmIugel county. where he had been married r.. several years and had a wife ant siS children. Collins is now i7 jaIi for uiEamy, and the young widow whose name Ar=. Liudi= D.ckersou, ,'i- dep.orIng her uuiG-iy choice.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

TER bill introduced in Congress by General Rosecrsns to equalizs the bounty of soldiers of the late war, provides that all soldiers, non-commis- stoned officers, etc, having served for ninety days or more, between April 2Oth, 1881, and May 9th, 1865, and were honorably discharged, shall be paid eight and one-tbird dollars per month for the term of actual service, the amoant Of all previous bounties paid to be deducted from this sum.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
in serious Trouble.

From Mojave county comes the .ew7
 that F. H. Smith, (Fattyl had got h,u- self into serious trouble, and left tlht section. IL seems that a -euOus discus
 sion t-OL place between Fatty and an englneer on the \. < P. road, which re- suited in the engineer receiving a beat ing from winch be subsequently, dleI.
 Between the time oi the beating and
 the death Of the engineer Fatty left Molave county. He vas subseIU IUtuily seen ID San Francisc'. when he stated
 that he was going either to Oregon CT
 Washington Ter-itory.-E. taph.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
Dimes and NIckels.

The s5O,O0O in dimes coined at the Mint in this city under the direction O. the Secretary of the Treasury are now ready for distribution upon the same terms and in the same manner es the standard dollars. No cause for com plaint now exists on account of incou- venience in obtaining dimes and nick Is, as they may be had at the office of the Assistant Treasurer in this city.-S. F Chronicle.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

ACTRESSES are not alEays generous t- each other. and some of the most crue' thrusts they receive are from rival starr of their own sex. Clara Louise Kellogg does not think Emma Abbott a grea; singer, but considers her "sn intelligent woman" And Emma says she remem- bers a Clara Louise Kellogg "who, years ago, was quite a singer"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

SENATOR MALONE seldom wears an overcoat, and in he coldest weather can be seen on the streets of Washington with his Prince Albert uubuttoned. Ma hone is not much of re-sd!uster after all-going around with his coat unbut- toned
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

BRAZIL has taken the preliminary steps toward freeing the slaves of thai country. A tax of S1O0 head is now assessed on all slaves. 4 law has also been passed prohibiting tie renewal Of slavery in all municipalities where it has been abolished. It is believed that thousands of slaves will be liberated by their owners rather than pay the tax.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

IT is said that those who attended the charity ball at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on the Sd instant, represented s4O0,OO0,OO0. It cost s7,OO0 to decorate the building and $l,OO0 for ;he supper. It would seem that such rich people were able 10 pay for their supper, or could have gone home for if. which would have enabled the managers to turn S4,0Oo-the cost of their supper --over to the poor.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

MEASLES and congress constitute the double affiction that Washington is now suffering. It is an open question whether the measles will take congress. or that body, from its well known taking ways. will take the measles.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THE Mexican government has declared forfeited the concession made to Gen eral Grant for submarine cable con nect;Dg Mexico, Central America and the United States, no work having been done within the prescribed time. Il seems that money as well as name + required to put through such enter prises.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THE Globe Chronicle is delving around hunting for the remains of General Crook, whom ii is trying t. resurrect. If that journal has "any ides of the value cf time" it had better throw up tha igb
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

TIE smallest pony in the world is the pet of the Baroness Burdett- Coutts- Bartlett; he stands thirteen inches high Yet the barren BurdeIi- Coutts- Bartlett has no pet child of her own to ride the little pony.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
syOWFLNKES

Falling al aha night time. Falling al l. day. Cry-tal winged and vuiceies-. On their down ward way. Falling through the darkness. Fu llrg through The night. Covering with helnfy
 Vale and mountain night Never umuer hiYs-ou- Uwclt SO fair az these. Never l1y lake glory tu the ntlis and trees. RarC the aIry wreatlinr. Deity turned tte scroll, Hung iI woodland arches, Browning usaoovF knoll. Forest. cnastest faucIef. Notlvy art. ma7 be. ~ Inter -cu ptor- rear Co Summers memory.
 J. '. Cheney iu ths Critic
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

The ice crop of the Hudson. in conse- 4uence of additional ice houses having oeen erected during the past year. is now et 1 o.l 4gHiU0O tons, and it takes from .iir5y 10 tlirty-five days o' good weather o mouse lt When all the houses are .aeing m Ice, fully ten thousand men a.l all ooys, two thousand horses. and fifty steam engines are employed
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

Probably the largest 0learder tre1 iE ,he world IS near Spsnishtowu, Florida It covers a space of ground tl,r-y-siX feet m diameter; from the ground Co the hP or the topmost limb IS twenty-five ieet; at the surface of the ground the trunk IS divided into twenty or twenty nve separate stems, the group being at least hive feet through, and one single stein k, by actual measurement, four teen inches thick.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat makes the statement tha. General Crook will shortly be recalled from Arizona, and will be succeeded by Gen. O. O. Howard.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

IF Henry Willard had renamed in the newspaper business be would have had left st least a respectable thresdbare sr,ft
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
JANUARY F, lssi
rur r.AnnR nrEsrroN m rHE EAsT.

If the lsboring men who work in the
 iron and steel mills, and the various other manufactures of the east aud north, would raise & fund to assist m sending emigrauts from among their own class west to settle upon agricultural lands. instead of investing their surplus funds in strikes. from which they have never dsTived any benefit, nor never will, they could do more for themselves toward bettering their condition in ten years, than they can as they are now do- ing ID fifty years. It is fact that there gre more men and women to d. he work than there is work to be done, and the excess Of labor is constantly increasing. IL is foolish and short-sighted for tit,y or any other number of operators to settle down ia a little or big manufacturing town and depend upon the wages they receive from week to week for living through life, when there is not work for more than one-half to two-thirds Of their number, with no. possible prospect of change for the better. 1T they could only be made to understand how much better they could do by settling upon the wild lands 0f the west under the leadership oi competent parties, their condition and prospects for inc future could be increas. el more than hundred fold. The! could save up a fund in prosperou, times, and send few pioneers to the front to break the way. and establish homes when others who may be 80 ln- chned could follow. There is only about so much work to be done in the mills and factories of the east which cannot be pushed beyond the demands of the country for such manufactured goods But if at least portion of this class oi labor would engage in agriculture, il would have the effect of bettering tue condition of those who remained. while those who engaged in il would soon be, come free and mdependen. land Owners
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

THE annual circular ot R. G. Dun < Co. shows over nine thousand failures in business during the year 1883, a greater number than any year since Io7S
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

On Christmas eve. in San A-to-ir, Texas, tre Mexican pastors FaiEel iu shepherds costume, with Eayly teco- rated crC0ks and iiugl!ng bells, visiting the babe of Bethlehem ID many private houses, and finally celebrating midnight mass in San Fernando cathedral This is au old Mexican custom
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

Vernon; has Q pecuiIar way of ar- rl0ging it's property for tax4,ion. It makes up what is called grand lisi, % which Is Sl on every hundred 0f it's actual valuation, sO that town that has grand-h-t os S10G0) has a va.na- hon ot Slol),0& And on tUis basis If grand-list taxes are laii Many of the towns vote tax oi from 3) Co 70 Cents ou dollar o' tis grand list, while occasionally towns more expensive or more in dcht lay tax larger than he RranG-iist itself
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

IT is called ''lady suffrage" in Wash ington Territory; it will next be lady suffrage in the first circles"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

RUSSIA has successfully utilized pc troleum as motive power. which IS said to be superior to that secured from coal.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

The committee on public lands ex- De,t to report a number of separate bills declaring forfeited lands granted Co certain railroad companies. The compauies most interested therein are northwest and south The amount of and involved Is reported Oy the chairman of the committee, COob, at between fifty ard one hundred million acres. The Texas Pacific land grant, II is expected, will be reported forfeited
Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12

The District Court Clerk has received a telegram from Judge Sheldon, at Pres colt: "There will be no adjourned term Of the supreme court, but the court VIII remain in session unul attorneys can arrive and business disposed of; notify members of the bar.