Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-27
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)sund at Green Valley and did no
 arrive until tonight. The drive
 reports the heaviest fall of snow eve
 known Tn that section. The snow i
 waist deep. StOckmen are cOncerne,
 about inc safety of cattle, and it j
 feared that many will perish. The roa'
 over ths Pinal mountains is showed 6,
 that II is impossible to vehicles. Tn
 mail Is now carried on pack animals
 kellners < Breemens saw mills in th'
 Pinal mountains are crushed by th,
 weight of snow. The weather is moderat ing.
 Nav ORLEANS, Dec. lS-Ten thou sand chairs had been placed ID the hal and galleries. These were soon filled and every available standing place 1T the aisles was occupied and thousand: ! gathered on either side of the hall from which a view of the platform could bt obtained. usic 'aRil, where the cere monies took place, was elabOrately dec | orated with flags Of all nations and l cua.s of arms Of all States. At one o'clock Dr. Talmage made the opening prayer h the ceremonies attending the opening of the Worlds Fair. He in- yOked the divine blessing on the officers directors and managers of the exposi- ton. COurier's military band, of Gin cinnati, then gave the Grand Exposition March. Dlrector-General Burke, when the applause which had greeted him and the repeated cheers of the people had subsided, made a short, eloquent speech surrencering the expedition into the hands of its management After the Mexican baud had rendered some selections, concluding with their national air, the audience stand ing meantime, President Richard SOD, oi the Exposition Association. de- liyered his address, which WAS wired to Washington. He then read President Arthur's address, which had just been received ty telegraph. When he con cluded the sentence declaring the Worlds Exposition open. at the same moment the President m Washington closed the electric circuit and the ma chiuery here was put Tn motion. \ large portrait ot President Arthur was placed 10 position on the center of the platform and greeted with round after round of applause, amid which Mayor GuIllotte briefly and feelingly welcomed the visit ors to New Orleans.
 Governor McEnery delivered an ad- dress ID which he reviewed the history ol the organization Cf the exposition and SC. forth the great advantages to accrue tO the State and people of the wh ie country from the grand enter prise Alter this speech poem in honor of the exposition, by Mrs. Townsend, was read by Page NJ. Baker. Almost every country of Europe and on this continent was ] represented on the platform. Among other personBges on the platform were the officers of the French war vessel Bou- vet, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Bos- ton, and n staff Ot the ladIes of the NOmen's Department, Secretary of the Interior Teller, Postmaster General Hat;on, Commissioner of Education Eaton, Chief Justice Manning, of Lou isIana, and several assistant justices and judges, Federal officers, Senators, Rep resentltives and city officials. Tonight the city Is brilliantly illuminated. The most notable buildings are those of the Times Democrat, which has erected triumphal arch in the street, and Plea yuue, which has a superb multitude of colored rows of lights and lanterns GOV ering the entire front. The sky is gorge ous with fireworks and the air resOunds with the explosions Of gunpowder. The general expression is that the day has been a complete success ard a credit to ihe management. Possibly 2J,OO per sons found their way to the exposition grounds. The only cause of regret Is that the delay of some exhibitors pre- vented the first day from presenting the displays at their best. The complete array of exhibits preseIted by the States of Oregon, Colorado, California and Nebraska and the Territory of Dakota exhibit attracted universal attention, being magnificent.
 SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1S.-Detective Hume, Of Wells, Fargo & Co, this morn ing received the following dispatch from Detective Thccker, who sent up to Milton, Caiayeras county. a few days ago: Have arrested three men this morning for the Milton stage robbery of the l2th inst. Lon Aldrich, Albert Ald- rich and Billy Lynch. We have got them dead to rights. They are farmers, livIng in San Joaquin county, eight miles from here"
 CHICAGO, Dec. 1S-The northwestern railway lines held session this morn- ing, taking up the question of reducing the rates from northwestern and western points on grain and merchandise, in view of the prevailing low price of cereals and in difference to numerous applications, aud possibly also Tn deference to the movement actually inaugurated in Iowa to this end. NothIrg definite was accomplished, the sentiment of the meeting being some what Averse to any immediate reduction in the existing tariff The subject, how. ever, will be further debated before any definite vote will be taken. The proposI- tion was also laid before the meeting of sung passes to manufacturers at con- peting points, but this being in direct violation of the agreement only recently entered into concerning the pass system 1t was vigorously opposed, one of the roads declaring that if 1t was adopted il would proceed Co issue trip passes and ignore the recent agreement.
 SANTA FE. N. M., Dec. 19-The rail road freight war, which has been II progress between the T,xas Pacific ana the Atchison, Topeka < Santa Fe fol three months and involving the hsu from Missouri river points to Fl PasO to-day assumed a new feature of in terest by the Atchison, Topeka < SantI Fe cutting down the rate from Kansal | City to Mesilla and Las Cruces. New Mexico, from s3.65 to s1'per hundred The Texas Pacific has been hsulinI freight from Kansas City to Fl Pas' for n nths at fifty cents per hundred i and many merchants of southern Nev Mexico have taken advantage of the GU
 by shipping goods 10 Fl Paso an, thence freIghtiDg by teams to thei | destination. This one dollar cut of th
 Santa Fe company Is construed to meal
 that the war will be carried into Africa
 as far as New Mexican points are con cerned. A heavy cut in freight rate
 between Fl Paso and New Orleans
 also reported here, the Morgan line
 having reduced the rate to the uupre ! rg eFs.-