Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-02-01

) AUSTIN, January 24-News is received
 of a serious affray in Blanco county. , For yeers there has been trouble over the attempts to mote the county seat from Blanco to Johnson City. Finally an election was held on Monday and
 Johnson City was victorious. When
 the result was announced their was a
 free fight at Johnson City and a general
 shooting.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Shortly after 4
 p. m. carriages with Miss Nelly By and
 her party arrived at the World office, in front of which more than 5000 persons had congregated. The carriages moved briskly, but despite this they were ac- companied by shouting, seething mob of people. In ten minutes there were nearly 10000 people in Park Row, cheer ing and waving handkerchief: and stop ping the immense traffic of that tho roughfare. The scenes at the Pennsyl- vania railway depot, at the ferry, and in the street, thence tO the World office, were of a like description. Very few persons have received so t1attering a pO- pular welcome ill New York as Nellie By received this day. It being a semi holiday and the arrival of the litt'e lady tolerably certain probably added to the enthusiasm, good nature and size of the crowd. The young woman, it Is found by use of figures consumed 72 days, SIX | hours and eleven minutes in circling the earth. The name she uses is not her own. She came to New York from Pitts burg, Pennsylvania, where she was known as Elizabeth Cochran.
 WASHINGTON. January 25.-Immed- ately after the reading of the journal the house went into committee of the whole on the customs bill.
 Bland of Missouri offered an amend ment providing that articles purchased abroad by the exchange of products of agriculture exported from the United States shall be admitted free.
 Amendment lost.
 The committee having completed con sideration of the bill. Breckenbridge of Kentucky moved it to be reported back to the house with recommendation that | it be referred to the committee on ways ! and means. Lost 100 to 423.
 The committee then arose and report ed the bill to the house favorably. The first vote was taken on the nend meut to the cartoon section," adopted yesterday, on motion of Breckenbridge, of Kentucky, providing that the section l shall not apply to merchandise import ! ed in cartoon, etc, which is subjected | to duty equal to or exceeding sixty per cent. The action of the committee was reversed and the amendment reject | ed 102 to 115. The bill then passed, yeas 138, nays 121.
 MT. Hit, of Illinois, offered a resolu- tion increasing the membership of the worlds fair committee from 9 to 13, pro- viding that the committee shall have ! jurisdiction over all questions relating to the fair. except that as to location. | The location Is to be selected as follows: On one day the representatives of con- peting cities shall present their claims, and on the following day members shall vote for their choice of location.
 Referred to the committee on rules. The house then adjourned and repub lican caucus was announced for Monday evening.
 BALTIMORE, Jan. 25.-The delegates to the Pan American Congress were enter tained in Baltimore to-day by the Mer- chant and Manufacturers Associations. Al the banquet this evening Hon. Jose Maria PlacidO Camano, ex-president of Equador, said:
 ''The Americas should be practically as one people. They should be bound by closer ties than the mere commercial union existing between the nations of the earth. We, of South America, are anxious to estab ish closer relations with the United States, and it only rests with your people to establish it. I like your railroads, your public buildings, your
 
 and most especially your newspapers" Carlos Martinez Salvini, secretary of the treasury of Columbia. responded: "To the close relations of the American public" The project of strengthening the ties increasing the commercial re- lations which exist between the United States and the people of the rest of the American continent Is of vast import ance. It is a work of peace; of civiliza- tion, of progress; to strive for this end is to labor for the good of all humanity. Three things are necessary to cement this bond of rapid and easy communica- tion by land and sea for commerce Is sO- ciety, and society is language, and the language of exchange Is money, and the promulgation of credit that powerful lever which like faith can move noun tains and sever continents. We are all anxious to see the proposed three Anne rica's exposition in 1892 made successful and all southern American countries l think will officially recognize it and be largely represented.
 AUGUSTA, Jan. 2l.-A young man named Worr9ll, telegraph operator at Midville on the Georgia Central rail road, shot Jessie Thomas three times to- day. Two shots entered the stomach Thomas is a prominent lumber dealer and manufacturer of Augusta, and is president of a construction company formed to,build the Augusta and West Florida railroad at Thomasville.
 VEsALIA, Cal, Jan. 27.-The water in the city is receding but IS now still i'm l passible. Streams still full; damage ! heavy.
 JACK ON, Jan 27.-Saturday the l streams were higher here than for years the Volcano mail stage was swept fifty | yards in a small gulch and narrowly es- | capped. The main pipe of the gas works | was swept away. No gas for two nights; | no mail since Friday. Serious damage | to mining. Gro bridge, below Drytown, swept away. Storm over and sky clear now.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.-The South l ern Pacific confidently expect to raise | the blockade in the Sierras soon, but | oonoede that another twenty four hours will elapse before they are able to do So. Track is practically cleared through the mountains except half mile at Cas- cade. The snow blow attempted to clear this last night but stalled in the snow drift and cannot be dug out before tonight. In addition to this it has, been found necessary to clear the track of ice