Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-27

I AnA 4OuHC nCIC NdH OuTQeU tf the ground last night. The total loss i ter len thousand dollars. No insurance The place Is owned by T, N. Delano.
 SAN FRANcIsCo. November 22-Th, customs officers of this city made [ selzure to-day of thirty-five thousand collars worth of opium in the house ol Charles K Bronson at Alameda, It if supposed the opium was brought to this city from China by the steamer City of sydney and removed to the place where 1t was seized.
 WASHINGTON, November 22-The president. Secretaries Bayaru, Lamar and Whitney and Postmaster General Nilas arrived in Washington at 9:l0 to- night from New York, on a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad.
 SAN FRANCESCA, November 22-The Eighth Infantry is relieved from duty in the department of Arizona, and will pro- ceed to the following stations in the de- partment of the Platte. designated by the commanding general of the division or the Missouri: The colonel, heuten- ant colonel, regimentsl staff, band and Oompauies A. E, E, F, G and Fl, to Fort NiooraTs, Neb., the major and Compan- les C and to Fort Robinson, Neb., and Companies D snd K to Fort Bridger, Utah Territory.
 CHICAGO, November 22-At a meeting Of the representative lines interested in the east bound Pacific coast passenger business he'd to-day, the matter of the regulation of payments of commissions was referred to the lines west of the Mlssourl river and those east of Chicago 10 agree upon a satisfactory method. The point Is already provided for by the roads between Chicago and the Missouri rIyer, the contract limiting the cOmmis Q sion on each single ticket to one dollar. This commission business has so badly iemUralized the Francisco market that none of the lines are known to have made any profit on sales for the past two years. The committee will report their conclusions to an adjourned meeting to be held tomorrow.
 NEW YORK, November 22.-The Her aids Washington correspondent says the senate upon meeting will hear the sn- nOuncemeDt of the death of Senator Pike of New Hampshire. This may lead to the adjournment of both houses of congress out of respect to hIs memory. thereby delaying the delivery of the pre- sideut's message until Tuesday.
 HUESEME. Cal, November 22.-The schooner Nslante was blown of the beach at high water yesterday by the of shore gale. A vessel supposed to be her IS in sight near Ancspa Island. The tug RelIei. now here. will go after her and take her to San Francisco.
 SAS FRASCIsCo, November 22.-Re- garding the rumOr that the Southern Pacific Co. has purchased the South Pacific Coast Railroad, CllOnel O. T. Crocker says there is DO truth therein and that the property remains in Senator Fairs possession. It Is stated that the original price of four millions placed on the road has been raised to six millions, and that this prevents the econsummation of the sale.
 ENPoRIA, Kans., Nov. 23.-A mos. uu- provoked and fiendish murder was com- mitted in this city last night. It appears that l. D. Collyer, son of Rev. Robt. Laird COllyer. of Kansas City, had been in the employ of the AtchisoD, Topeka S Santa Fe railroad as material ageDt at this place and he employed J. H. Marlborough to fill his place during his temporary absence. Upon his return he told Marlborough that he was snr- prised to find that he had neglected his business. He being under the influence of liquor became furiOusly angry and struck COllyer, whereupOn COllyer re- turned the blow knocking him down. Marlborough afterwards went to COllyeT's house and shot hID. killing him instant ly. Marlborough IS now ID jail.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-H. NJ. Hosre. general manager of the Gould South western System. dled this morning al the Broadway office.
 NEW YORK, November 23-Erastus T. Brooks IS severely Ill, It wss stated st his home this morning that he could not possibly recover.
 LONDON, November 23-Princess Bes- trice, wife of Prince Henry, of Batten- burg and youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, has given birth to a son.
 HALIFAX, Nov. 23.-Lt. Percy, who has been on an expedition to Green. land for the purpose of sytisfying him. self as to the feasibility of travelling across the country and thus opening up new route for Arctic explorers, arrived here yesterday on his way home in the United States Ills observations from the journeys :msde satIsfied him that Greenland could be crossed from west to east by expeditions to the north pole by a one hundred mile trip. Reaching a point, loo mile inland, the elevation above the sea was found by Percy to be 7,5O0 feet.
 SAS FRANCISCO. November 23.-The freight agents of thIs city have agreed to restore the rates to and maintain them at fifty per cent of the old tariff
 ALBANY, \. T., Nov. 23.-The Court of Appeals has confirmed the judgment Of the court below m the case of Budden- seik, the New York builder, convicted of manslaughter, having been declared re- sponsible for the death of the wOrkmen employed on a row of buildings which fell while ID course of erection under bis supervision.
 LONDON, November 23.-Advices from Durban of November 3d, state that a general and apparently successful revolt is in progress among the natives against the Portuguese authority iu southeast Africa Am American missionary, Rev Dr. WilcoI, has arrived in Durbsn from Portuguese settlement on the east coast above the Iransvaal. He reports as follows. The natives at Innsnbane, Portuguese port and town POO miles above Dslagoo bay, rcse up against Portuguese taxation and murdered the collector. On October 2Sd a battle was fought between 5000 Portugues and friendly natives on the one side, and 3D. 900 hostile natives on the other. The Portuguese were defeated and routed and the loss on both sides Is estimated at 5000 men. Mir. Wilcox says the gov eruor of Mozambique has gone into the country to endeaver to suppress the re- volt and save the port of inhanbane from falling into the hands of the Insur- gents. The town wss barricaded when the missionary last heard from 1t and the women and children had been re- moved to ships lying in the roadsiead The entire country round about the town had already been abandoned by the Portuguese and arrangements had been made to remove the inhabitants of Inhanbane out to sea if the natives at- | tackled the town m force.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 23-In accordance with the agreement signed by .he repre- sentstIves at the express companies yes terdsy the classification on all lines to-