Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
LOCAL NEWS.

The building and loan associations in this city stand high m favor with the public.
 The third series of the Citizens Build ing and Loan assoclation has been issued and about eighty shares sub- scrlbed for.
 The threatened rain storm reached no further than the mountains where the downpour is said to have been good.
 At last accounts the railroad sub- scription in Tucson amounts to S3l5O. From $500 to S700 is expected from Mo- gales.
 Work on the Antelope reduct ion plant is almost completed. When under way good returns are expected from this mine.
 Snow can still be seen on the distant mountain tops, but that is its nearest approach to the beautiful valley of the Santa Cruz.
 Mir. T. N. Marsteller, at one time with Dr Geo Martin, is now, located at Minas Prietas ID Sonora, where he IS said to be doing well.
 On Sunday night last Rev. MT. Bill man preached & sermon in the Copgre- gstional church. He took for his text "Who despises small things?" and ap- piled it to the everyday life of men and people in Arizona. It was eloquent, suggestive and instructive. An effort to secure the same for publication will be made.
 The English department of the Uni versity of Arizona has recently received additional equipment in the way of val usble literary works of American and English authors. All the works pur- chased for this department are standard, {, and the aim is to secure only the best library editions.
 Many of the articles offered by the St. Vincent de Paul society are indeed beau tiful and will undoubtedly be the oo- ject of much competition at the time of their disposal. This work now on ex- hibition at the drug store of pr. George Martin, is the handiwork of the good ladies of the society, and the money re- good cause of charity. For particulars inquire of pr. Martin.
 Today was St. Valentines day and the god of sentiment was out Tn force. His votaries placed their nickies and their dollars on good, bad and indifferent re- presentations of their friendship, love and ridicule. Dealers however, report the sale of these saintly remembrances as on the decline, much less having been sold for this occasion that on any previous years.
 The dance on the Washingtons birthday in the opera house will call out the youth and beauty of the town. While ostensibly fancy dress affair il is not strictly so, but it is knows that many handsome costumes will be worn. Fancy dress however will be matter wholly within the judgement and wishes of those attending. Good music hes been engaged and pleasant time is assured.
 Mr. D. Markham, the we'll known cat tlemsn, is in from the San Pedro. He reports that section of the country as prosperous. The rainfall has been es- pecially propituous and the earth is wet to a greater depth than it has been at any time within the past ten years. It came in slow but continuous showers and penetrated the ground without run ming of in the gulches, and the result is fine prospect for the cattle industry. MT. Markham also says that the snow fall in the mountains vas unusually light.
 The Chapel car service will probably continue here for week or more yet. It is in charge of Rev. E. G. Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler lectures to children every afternoon and is said to have aroused considerable interest among the little folks by her kindly discourses. Next Sunday Mir. Wheeler will lecture to linen only" His subject will be moral purity. It is expected that about half the men sinners in town will fall over one another ID thelr efforts to get there.
 A preacher once said that DO newspa- per that told the truth could make pecuuisry success. We say, by the way of returning the compliment, that the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the truth about his members, alive or dead, will not oc- cupy the pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he will find it necessary to
 
 the pulpit go hand in hand with white wash brush and pleasant words, mapni- flying little virtues into big ones. The pulpit, the pen and the gravestone are the great saint making triumvir8te.- Prospector.
 It IS one aim of the University of ArI- zons to impart 70 the students the prac- ticsl knowledge needed by those who will at some time be engaged in these and other industries, and who will be instrumental in building up the Terri tory. The Department of Chemistry is excellently equipped for teaching and IL lustration. The apparatus available for the use of students is abundant and the books and collections of chemicals are extensive. The classes in chemistry have made good use of their advantages during the current college year, ,snd it IS believed that as the excellence of these advan tages becomes better known this depart ment will aid in attracting many earnest students to the Territorial University.
 Harper's Bazar for February 2d con- tains portrait and sketch of Amslia Kussner, 8 young girl from India barely B years cid, who two years ago came to
 
 only her brave heart and her deft hand, and who, in two years, has achieved phenomenal success. Her miniatures are in great demands, and she has paint ed scores of society women. beauties, beIles, ard leaders of fashion, having more orders than she can fill, and charg- ing very large sums for her work. In the same number of the Bazar are elso 8 number of her most charming DOT traits in miniature. The fashion iea- lures are as usual extremely attractive; and the short story, Salvage" by Grace Livingstone Furness, is full of quaint Nantucket phraseology and dry hunor.
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