Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-22
TUCSON PIMA COUNTY TERRITORY SATURDAY AGTST 1

cite by s4ying that the charge of sedu,
 ton was false and tnat 1t Was case cI
 DlackmaI of a peculiarly bId kind
 For this statement Frances brings suit
 he says be thought Pearce had done him wrong sufficiently cruel ID betray-
 lng Lls daughter under the guise O. } Friendship without adding tue insult oi : describing the family Rs blackmailers. ] fearee IS a rich conservative and he ] he'd been selected by the Tories to stand 1 as their candidate for Glasgow iu The , coming election Mr Frances is & zen tleman oi respectable standing in soci- ! ety and Is member of the Government civii service being an Inspector Ot Gus ! toms.
 NEW YORK, Aug. I3.-1bs Tribune. in
 speaking Oi the existing mail troubles
 DetWeen the United States government
 and the mail steam .hip companies,
 says: It appears that the United
 States received from the British govern
 ment, Tor transportation of Australian British closed mails between New York
 and San Francisco. 52ls cents per
 pound for letters and l7ll cents per
 pound for papers. Out of this the gov
 ernment paid to the overlanI railroads,
 for transportation of mail which is nev-
 CT opened, handled or inspected, only
 20 cents per pound frr letiers. pocket
 lpg the residue and paying not one cen
 10 the steamship company for convey
 ance of mails from San Francisco 10
 Australia, so that the government earn
 ed a clear profit of 26l cents per pound
 on malls for doing nothing. The over
 land railroads received 2j cents per
 pound for carrying the mails 40O0 miles,
 aud the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
 pany received for transporting them OOO miles-from San Francisco to Aus
 tralia-nothing from this government:
 SC that 1t may be fairly estimated that
 at everydepRrture of the Pacific Mail steamer from the port of San Francisco for Australia, the government rerlized a profit of 5000 and upwards.
 HARTFORD. Aug. 13.-Charles Wright. of Wethersfield, aged 74. was found dead in his barn last Wright was one of the leading bOtanists of the country. He was employed by the gov ernment in an expedition to Texas and Arizona. and has alsoiexplored Cuba for the Spanish Government.
 CAMILLE, Iowa, August l5.-The col ored church circles were excited here last Sunday night. Anna Sapp, If years old, attended the Methodist church, and during the excitement was baptized. This coming to the ears of her aunt and | guardian, Mrs. Rose A. Strong, she swore out a warrant against the preacher for assault on her neice, consisting in pour | ing water on Anna's head against her will. The preacher has how sued out a warrant against Mrs. Strong for disturb ing public worship.
 LONDON. Aug. 15.-Lord Chef Justice Coleridge was msrri, q this afternoon to an American lady named Amy Augusta Jackson LawfCrd. The wedding cere- moniss were conducted privately.
 NEW YORK. Aug. Ij--The typhoid fever made Its appearance m the New Jersey asy lum for the insane, at Morris Plairs, and d. zen persons are Tros;rat- ei with the disease, which is supposed 10 have originated in bad drainage.
 MADRID. Aug. I5.-4Sl9 new cases of throughout Spain.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 15-The schedules in the matter Of assignment or JO m Roach were filed in clerks office of ,h6 Court of Common Pleas this morning The liabilitIes are g 262, ST; nominal assets, $5.25S eos and actual assets Si.- 63l .43S. The preferred ere iltOrs with omOnnts and 'lms are William Row i'tnd. for money loaned and work done, S62, ,2l5; Merchants Lnd Traders bank of Brooklyn, S20.000 Eon@y loaned; note due Sept. l3 1885; securing by mortgage the bonds of A. II. R-y- holds and Alfred c. Reveling for S39, ,I37; P. ". Gallanudet & Co. New York, S40,OO0; money loaned and ad- vsnced. ss follows: S'O.OOO Jnne 27th, 1885, Sl00OO, July llih, 1885. These loans were in advance of the sale Of the notes of assIgnOF and the amount due them IS to be determined q by the adjustment of their account. Ibe total amount preferred IS Sl22,2lI.
 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1L-Auother seizure cf F, oria whisky was made :O- day a. tue railroad depot m this city. | The cargo numbered about ljJ pack ages and was composed of "!unny' bar rels of the same pattern as those recent l ly found in certain wholesale HquOr establishments. The barrels have ex- tra thick slaves opposite the bung. It is stated that thIs fraud upon the reve- nue is confined, so far as known, to sev. l eral large concerns in Peoria. Three O. them have already been detected, II is alleged, Tn using the barrels and ship pIng them far and wide. To just what extent the fraud has been practiced 1 cannot be told but the schem Is regard ] ed as one of the most gigantic swinjleS ever perpetrated upon the government. ! It is said that the entire country has been flooded with crooked barrels. ! They are so constructed that the gaug CTS rods and csllipers do not give the true register of the contents of the pack ! age. When the liquor has been poured into the buckets 1t has been found tO l measure a greater quantity than the 1 gaugers rods showed. This led to in vestigation and the seizures.
 SAy JOSE, Aug. 14-The bank rob- 1 bery of yesterday continues to be tine | sensation of the hour. Tue bank now | offers $500 for each rObber convicted l and twenty per cent of the coin fecoy, T. ed, or $500 for the conviction of all | concerned and the return of ell thr | money. The officers now claim that five men were concerned m the affair.
 PARIS, Aug. lj.-Stringent measures ] are beng taken 10 keep the cholera away | from this oity. Travellers from the south are Guarantined. Tue streets are cleaned every night. The Paris "Na- l iionsle" the first iouu al tO announce l the appearance of the cholera at Mar sellles, insists that the number of deaths l that have occurred there from cholera IS l still much under-rated.
 SAN FRASCIsCo. Aug. 1j-While en- gagged in raiding Chinatown this morn ing Tn search of cubic air law viols-ors, the officers found a leper m the last stages oi the horrible di-ease. When being sesrched at the city prison one of the wretch's fl gers was knocked off He presented a most shocking spectacle of physical corruption.
 CITY or MEXICO, Aug. 1.-The cabi net. after a protrseted discussion. has decided upon the nature of the reply to be made to the representatives Of the railway companies on the question of whether railways shall be exempted | from the operation of the degiNs of l June 22nd. The government has decih- 1 I sE I~n Aa sv Fr-