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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

TIE Star published confession this morning under the caption of A Story with a Moral" Sad as 1t Is, we will give brief synopsis of the terrible compact. The confession says that not many years ago. the devil, iu the gulse of a gentleman, appeared before Pov- erty stricken individual, presumably the editor of the Star, and tendered him unlimited wealth in exchange for hls soul. The proposition was eagerly ac- cepted with a provisO that fl tue money exchanged should be exhausted n five years the terms Of the contract SD lar as the soul was concerned, would be null and void. There Is no explanation Of the motive inspiring the devil to pay so great price for so small a soul, but Il We are to believe the confession, the double-eagles were made to fly after the most approved fashion of rapidIty. He built houses, supported churches and stlll the strong box kept full of gold; he then changed tactics aud went to the Park varieties, bought champagne and even silks and jewels for the sirens, but the coin still held cut. It WAS then sug
 gested that be pay his debts and run hls newspaper upon business principles. He followed this sensible advice for a brief tlme and utterly exhausted the devils purse and regained his hypotheca,ed eoul which had worried the devil almost to death. The sympathy of the pubic is entirely with the devil in this matter.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE State of Georgia is seeking through legislative enactment, to im- pose an annual tax upon bachelors. There is an appropriate sense of jus tice in such a tax. and in behalf of a long list of marriageable beauties now, languishIng Tn the uncertainties of lone some and unprotected maidenh0od, We maintain She unappreciaiive bachelors Of Ar!z6na should be required to contrib ute a sum annually to the school fund that will fairly approximate the cost of the aiTectioaate tokens in crystalIzed coDiections that erpertain to the bliss full period oI ec-tatic courtship by the one who evades the tax in solemn VOWS at the hymenial altar. This should be a land of equal aud exact iustIce.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

nm March 24tn, last and it showed that be fully contemplated destroying hls Gfs. Another letter addressed to hls wife. states that continued i'll health IS the cause of the net.
 I,oSpoN, Aug. Salisbury wlll start on Saturday for fortnlGht's holiday ai DIeppe. Re denies the reports that he vi!I meet Bismarck and Premier De Prietis on his return. He will open the eIectorial battle with speeches Tn the province.
 MADRID, Aug. 13.-There were 4433 rew cases of Cholera reported through ont Spain yesterday, and l645 deaths,
 LONDON. Aug. I3-Ruskin's illness has become critical
 NEW YORK, Aug. 13-The Suns Lon ion special says, of the recent togglDg ease which caused much excitement Tn London, that the man who yielded the stick Is n Glasgow gentleman named Frances, and the victim is Pearce, chlet of the great Glasgow ship building firm of Elmer E Brother and member of the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade. Frances states that Pearce, while an intimate friend of his family, seduced his seveniesn-year-Old daughter and tbsn secretly established her in priyate lodgings ID London; but that later. tiring of her, had her incarcerated in "A lunatIc asylum, where she was dis covered by her father and removed.
 MONTREAL, Que, Aug. l3-The local board of health declares that the small pox is now epidemic here. The city hospital contains thirty six patients, and IS crowded A new wing Is being built which will hold fifty more.
 PARIS Aug. 13.-Pspers received to- day from Marseilles state that the chol- era there has received fresh impetus, owing to the extreme heat, and that the number of new cases has steadily h. creased and that the disease Is gener- ally fatal m consequence.
 TRoY. N. Y. Aug. I3-James Horall James was hanged m jail here this morning, for the murder of his wife on July 8 lsSi-
 VALLEJO, Cal, Aug 13.-HOn. c. B. Denio dIed suddenly this morning at , o'clock of heart disease, at his home. deceased was aged about 66 years, and for F consecutive years represented the Galena district in the Illinois legislature, associated with the lalnented LIncoIn and Gen. Logan. He came to this state in July. 1861, to accept the position of master mason on Mare Island, which position he filled fortwen- ty years. He was orce Republican can didate for congress ID the old third dis trict. He leaves a wife, five sons and one daughter.
 MADRID, Aug. 13-There Is great ex- citement in Seville over the govern ment proposal to abolish the power of the local authorities during the prevail ance of the cholera, because Of their inelliciency in sanitation, and to itself assume the direction of the cities local affairs. The populace are hostile Co the doctors and GverSe to any interference in family affairs, and yet they strongly support the cal authorities. \ great crowd assembled in all public places last evening to discuss the situation and the civil guard was called upon tO disperse them.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15
Ci1T Of Tucsrn.

Tucson, which is not very far from Tombstone, Is said .o have been fouud- ed by one of the Spanish expeditions that came up the Santa Cruz Valley searching for Aztec treasures Tn the lE- aginary land of 'CIbOla;" 1t bears TO trace of it's founders now. While the people gamble, play roulette and fayo Tn the saloons, there Is none Oi the wild life" of Tombstone. In the vicinity of Tucson, about ten miles to the south, Is one of the most beautiful historic re- mains of the old Roman Catholic faith CTS, on the reservation of the Christlan PapaRO Indians, in the Santa Cruz Valley. The old mission church of San Xavier del BRc. There Is nothing sur passing this, even in Mexico, for its col oring, quaintness, and peculiar artistic beauty, though time has used some parts of 1t pretty badly. The odd sweet toned bells hang m their tower, and the gables are wTeathed with foliage and escutcL- cons, niches containing statues over grown with vines aud flowers, and brok- en columns stand around the door vas
 The interior with dOmes and recesses, frescOed with angels, martyrs and saints, and ornameu ted with gliding. m many
 
 no. carried out in the building; but it has a certain charm of coloring and de sIgn that strikes an artistc eye. The date has crumbled off tho church; it T. believed to be about lC6S, or the con- mencement of the building III l654. when the Mission was begun by the PapagO Indians. A painted and gild- cd Virgin stands in a high central niche, ard large angels holding ban ners, are attached tO the main chancel piers. IL seems n pity that these old Mission Churches should have been left.tO fallinto such decay. There hangs about them a peaceful sanctity, sort of speaking trace of such men as Las Cssas and the sRintly Father who strove by gentle means to bring the nativ- IS of the new world under the shadow of the cross, their cherished emblem In this poor, peaceful Indian hamlet, the Papagos live and travel to and from, un- der the shadow of the old Mission Church of San XavIer del Bac, with their water jars aud queer contrivGnce of twIne and sticks for carryIng loads of hay ard faggCts on their backs. The women wear a sort of picturesque half Indian costume, and spend their time m the discharge of their simple house hold duties. They can be seen carry ing their small bake ovens, pounding corn into meal, or sitting at Ihe doors of | their adobe houses stringing squash seeds and weaving coarse kind of l straw.
 If any one travelling through Arizona wants to see contrast, let them visit l the modern city oi Tombstone, with its noisy, gambling, money-setking and l mOney-spendiUg crowds of cowboys, | miners and ranehmen, and then go on to Tucson, and from there take a vehicle | and find out the little settlement of | Christian Indians at San Xavier del Bac, l m the Santa Cruz vsliey.-Philadel- | phil Telephone.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

IT Is a trite saying that republics are ungrateIul. It IS also a common re- mark that the old days were better days. That the mea of former times were bet ter, braver and more patriotic than those ot the present. This Is not true. In the tune of Christ one man in twelve picked men wa- thief. We do not be- lieve that the ger centage of rascality Is as high today. The world, we believe. is getting better in spite of the state ments of pessimists to the contrary. Our observation of the treatment which e grateful country has given to General Grant and his family lead us to believe that the people Of thIs day and genera ton would not have allowed man like Robert Morris to occupy a jail as a prisoner for debt, as did our fathers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

4 WASHINGTON special says: A naval officer who has been much in South American waters, and who has just re- turned, says: "All the Spanish-Ameri- can nations despise us aBd lose no op- portunity of expressing their contempt. I know if the Chilean government had consulted the wishes or ambitions Of some of its military and naval officers that the alliance which Ecuador tired to effsct would lave been made, and then We would not have got Santos out of Ecuadonan clutches without Q fight In Santiago the people showed their dislike for us in every possible way. Their oiii- cIals openly declared that the Chilean navy could destroy ours Tn athree hours conflict, and that nothing would please them better than a chance to loot San Francisco
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

Now that the eventful career Of Gen. Grant has been closed and he has ceased to be a troublesome political factor, his enemies both inside and outside his own political party are able to do hin justice
 The circumstances which called the General to civil life exposed him to the th.usts of the enuiCus and the jealous and large amoum. of the abuse he has been subjected to was due to that fact. now the accom-: is closed and these mo- tIyes 10 longer prevent full justice be- ing done to the man who played the most cobspIcuous part Tn the great drama of the late civil war, and who though victor never by act or word sought to add to the humiliation of his defeated foes. As years roll on the kindly feeling entertained !or General Grant will increase in all sections of the country. In the north he will be re- membered as the preserver of the Union and in the south as the represen- tative of an honest fraternal feeling winch Is necessary for the harmony and perpetuity of the country. The stories and the absurd calumnies of bitter par tisans will fade away and be forgotten like the contemporaneous attacks upon the ac.s, motives and character of ihe father of our country, which for bitter ness oqualled the most violent partisan attacks of to-day, and his name and rec ord will take that pre-eminent plsce in the history of this country and the world to which their greatness entities them.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE official report of Superintendent W. Ii. Smith, published today, makes public the facts that our people have auxiously looked forward to for many months. It shows. in a small measure, the great bodies of high grade ore that have been developed in Mount Ben Nevis. and that all the facilities are at hand for their economical reduction. The twenty stamps of the mill will be ready to drop during the coming week and the bullion output begin. The great climax has been nearly reached when the silver tide will turn and flow back into the channels that will benefit all our people. The success of the bonanza company will inspire others to follow in their footsteps and the result will bring into existence one of the most notable mining camps the western world has ever known.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15
TLe Niagara Falls Park

Among the good works authorized by
 the legislature of New York is the forml- ton of a park at Niagara falls by which all the grounds and waters necessary for the preservation and pu Jlic access to those great wonders of nature are secured tO the people in per etuity. The sum of Sl.- jOO UOU has been appropriated by the state to secure the purchase of private prop erty. auds equal to little more than 100 acres have been bought The grounds and buildings on both sides of iver and Canal streets west and south of the hy- draulic canal have been taken by the park commissioner The lines extend To the main channel of the river. and middle of Horse shoe falls. being the boundary line between Canada and the | nited States. and the purchase takes in Goat island and all the little islets with their various mills streets and passage ways.
 By the terms of the act the whole tract is tO be restored as far as possible to is original state of nature and when this is accomplished. the trees grown. and all the improvements perfected. the attractions of NiaCara will be increased a thousand fold The original inception of this ad. mirablc project Is due tO Lord DulTerin when he was governor general of Canada in 1S.S. His plan was that the Canadians on their side. and the Americans on ours. should undertake tO beautify and preserve the approaches tO the falls. His proposal was most cordially appreciated by our governor. Lucius Robinson. and the grand project is now in process of being realized
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15
Kate Fieid'. Opinion of Cremation.


 These are times that are trying mems and women's bodies quite as much as their souls. The zymotic diseases break ing out in what were formerly healthy villages may set even the blindest to seek for causes, and. perhaps th- most preiudiced may finally be forced to admit that one great source of water -contamina- tion is the existence of multifudinous graveyards contiguous to habitations.
 In my daily excursions on horseback. which cover about fifteen miles. I count seven graveyards perched on hills. the occupant of the adjacent towns reparinr for speedy exit from this world by 'li-in, below the dead and using well water. Suggest to them that the prevailing malaria may be due to drinking up the remains of their deceased ancestors and s howl of ~sacrilege' rends the air. learned by terrible experience when very young the horrors of earth burial. I now know its crime against the living. The moment a cremation society was incorporated in New York l became a member
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE New York Tribune's Washington correspondent has been making a care
 ful search to learn what appointment the President referred to ID his vither- ing denuDciEtion of the Cincinnati party who endorsed the application and afterwards wrote the President that he did so only to get rid of the bore, who was not qualified for the position. The correspondents research has caused him to suspect that the appointment of Judge Wm. B. Fleming, Of Kentucky, to be associate justice of New Mexico, was the one referred 10. The proximity of the Judges residence to Cincinnati and the dates of the correspondence all point to the correctness Of this suspicion.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

The latest from the scene of the war in which the ChIricRhuRs are the hos tiles, Is that Gen. Crook, m person, is after them and has got close upon the trail of a small band oi the offenders, after pursuing them for sixty mics into Mexico. The San Francisco Call pays its respects to the grea; @ Indian fight CT in the following: Suppose Gen. Crook should come up with these h. dians, what then. They were his pet ted wards on the reservation; would be in anger fire upon and kill them if they dId not surrender? He would rather not do that. but cOmmanl a barley, and tell them if they returned 10 their homes they should re- sume the status they maintained be- fore they went on the warpath. Possi- bly he might deal differently with them, but there IS no assurance that he would, since this Is the fourth time that they have gone on a raid of robbery and mur- der, and three times had thelr offenses condoned.
 Captain Wood accompanies General Crook. How many troops they have with them Is not stated, but surely there ought tO be enough to ''clean out" a small band" Of Indians-that is, if they are overtaken. They have hereto fore been SO adroit m winding upon their pursuers, and Tn escaping punish ment, that the idea of their capture or annihilation will not be believed in un- til one or the other has been actually et- fected."
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

OUR lady readers who aspire 10 be piano players will be pleased to learn that by surgical operation they can acquire greater facility n the use Of tine third or ring finger. This is done by dividing the accessory ten6Ons connect ing it with tle mdsck Of the other fingers. Dr. Forbes, of Philadelphia, has performed fourteen operations upon manipulaiors of the piano forte which in in all cases have been successful In giy- ing ease in the use of the third finger In the case of would-be performers We would suggest that to have the surgical operation done at inc wrist would be a blessed relief to their long suffering friends.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

GRANT wrote his own euiogy when, Tn 1880. be wrote the following about Abraham Lincoln: "A man of great ability, pure patriotism, ,unseliish nature, full of forgiveness to his enemies, bear ing malice towards none, he proved to be the man above others for the great struggle through winch the Nation had to pass to place itself among the great est in the family of nations. His fame will grow brighter as time passes and his great work is understood. - Los Angeles Times.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15
Attention to Details.
rIIeralI of HenltlI

Health. like success in life. is to be gained by paying attention 10 details IL is better tO try to keep from catching cold than Co be always trying to avoid in lection. More can be done to cheek cholera by keeping houses clean than bv using tons of disinfcctants Nature gives health. lt IS mans Teryersity in depart ing from natures teaching that leads to disease. Nature intended all 10 have fresh air. sufficient plain food. uncontarn. mated water, and exercise. Let us accent natures bequest, if VIC prefer health to disease
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE current reports relative to the unsafe condition of the new school building are without any truthful toun- d4tion. It is now two years since the construction of that edifce was com mencel and 1t IS to-day the firmest and most substantial building in Pima coun- ty. Seven men were standing upon the top ot the dome during very strong gale cf wind yesterday, and not the slightest vibration of that lofty struc- tu!e could be detected. To make as surauce doub.y sure, the School Trus- tees have awarded a contract for con- struc;ing solid partition walls in the upper story, directly upon those in the lower story, which will give no further grounds for dyspeptic comments. So soon as the prejudice has died out the people of thIs School District will man iiest marked pride in their excellent school building.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

4 few years ago suCh @ having been suggested it Was .. with ridlcule gs incompatible GAL lures order, and the fear 0f fi l.s-. kept all from braylug the .rr.--. but now science i-self i= tl-rl-. -.-.- ance aud lts own prCiurd;y l--.- at the accomplished result Il. ing is done Iu the orj-l.sy l.ar. -s the growth and y.eli Is vau-.--.- large tree t5.iy gTa;ted v.L . three years hundreds co u.r.-- beans annually and beng ll- .-. wlE prove a wealthy lLtC-.t.-.- CeueratlCLs.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

ACCORDING to the alleged opin-on of several phy ysicians, the malady that so fatally atilIcts the residents 0. The Needles, is Asiatic cholera. If this be true, We must admit that the disease has strayed a great way from its home. The Needles las aimed high ID it's bid for notoriety, but if the genuine and only original cholera has any respect for its own peculiar aches and pains, 1t will sue the Needles malady for infringing upon its prerogatives. Indeed it is dis couraging for these who have died by the Needles route to learn that they were plagued to death.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE Postmaster General Is now trying to have the mails transported to tAe west coast of America, to the south, by any means of transportation that may be found available for that purpose. The grave question ID me meantime is, "what are the wild waves uavipur'
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15
The American Type.


 Though nasty errors are constantly made. and in many respects We are no; up to the superiority we claim, yet Americans fsIl tO grasp a general super Iority which they possess and which Is a far deeper and greater thing than news papers, art and riches. The American has grown without knowing it io be the finest type of character now on earth. The highest average of living and of education, the average ofroom tOspread and to wander. the wider vision which fellow citizens from Ireland, Ger many France, England and Italy have forced him 10 take; the variety of soil, climate, |, and the consequent extreme development of Bp- itude and adsptability-these things, acting upon a strong quality of Anglo Saxon tenacity, have produced a new type of manhood. It's characteristics are mind of rapid and penetrating acuteness, body of average size, but of more than average strength, and a manner alert, graceful, and engaging. If we may belleVe the opinion of un- prejudiced travellers, genuine American men and women are more beautiful than any other race now living. Our highest-bred men are better speakers, better takers. 6nd better-lookIng by far than their English cousins.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

JUDGE CLoUGH, of San francIsco: who has recently recovered his reason ID the Stockton Insane Asylum, has resigned, and Governor Stoneman, will appoint Walter II. Levy in his stead. The un- fortunate mental condition of Judge Clough was brought about by the intem- perste use of alcoholic drinks.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

SOME of the political manipulators hope to get Appointment Clerk Hig- gins elected doorkeeper of the house of representatives, ostensibly because his love of hls party friends IS greater than his patriotism, but really to conclllate the mugwumps.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

RELIABLE reports from Sonora report the presence Tn many places Of small bands of Indians, still plying their bloody svocatIon whenever on opportu- nlty occurs. It is therefore quite lm- probable that the troops will find any serious opposition in penetrating the Sierra Madres, and they will find the strongholds tenantless. Tine Indians are too cunning to be caught in their own trap, and until the troops return to
 the American soil and abandon the cam paign they will be heard from only in small bands and in isolated localities.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

THE indiscIeet assertion that when Cleveland vent into the Adirondscks fishing he carried his bait in jug IS denied on good authority. The fact that Parson Murray once saw a snake in those mountains Is what suggested the propriety of taking along the antidote.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

The five-stamp mill known ss the Ada mlll has not been purchased by the Putnum Bros, as reported in the Index, but IS still for sale to any one who wish es to purchase 1t. Mir. Schultz will % out tO the Catalinss tomorrow to try and sell it.