The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-12-12
Prom Wednesdays Daily,

OUR TELEGRAPH LrNE.-we stated, in | yesterdays issue, that about the sum of S5,0O0 was left of the S50,0O0 which Con- gress appropriated to build our military tele- graph line, and went on, speculating as to how this small sum could be expended in building line to the Verde. But, we now see that it will require the greater portion, if not all of this sum, to put the recently constructed line in good condition. Running as it does, for the greater part of its length, through a partially settled country, and a sandy one at that; erected, as 1t was, in a hurry, little wonder is it that 1t has been the plaything of every storm. On the desert, the wind whirls the light sand from the bot tom of the poles, which topple down and leave us to conjecture what Is going on m 'foreign partsn Now, this will never do, as, in order to make this experimental Govern ment telegraph line anything like self-sup- porting, people must have faith in it's uprigM- ness, and its past mishaps and didos have been of nature to afford but little confidence in its reliability. The section built by Lieut.. Trout, frotn Prescott to Msricopa Wells, is old reliability tself and every other section will have to be made as good as this one, be- fore we can count upon the sonding qualities of the entire line. Crook can make of 1t a kood, euurtouttot itbc, eho w Ptsy oOstfh- ment to give him means and authority to do so.
 YUMA COUNTY IrExs.-we glean as fol- lows from the Sentinel of November 29:
 The "leader" cries for water, water, just as if the editor had not an unholy horror of that fluid.
 II. N. Alexander and II. E. Lindsey had applied to District Court for admission to the Bar. Alexander's request was granted. Capt. Steve Thorne and Mr. Dan McDou- gall had taken passage on steamship New bern, for San Francisco.
 The "Gug" attended a party and, as usu- al, got spooney on a widow. Poor man he is again a ''goner," and talks foolishly about bowers of lotus-eaters," meaning, we pre- sume, right bowers, since he is but ief bower.
 The weather was fine.
 Facundo Gonzales died recently, at Smiths
 Ferry, on the Colorado.
 Three hundred fat sheep had arrived from California, and the "Gug" was ramming around among them, feeling more sheepish
 than ever before. Poor man, he fears lam booming.
 The mercantile and forwarding house of
 Win. E. Hooper < Co, have, says the Senti- nel, dispatched by their own trains and by those consigned to them, since September 24,
 1873, eighty four thousand one hundred and
 forty six pounds of quartermaster and com
 missary stores to Tucson Depot and to Camps Lowell, Mcdowell, Grant, Bowie and Apache. At this date nothing remains on
 hand for shipment to any of the above men tioned posts.
 Qua PUBLIC SCHOOLS, the pride of our Territory, are in a fourishing condition, as
 will be seen by the following letter from Gov
 Stafford, who takes e deep interest in the mat
 ter of educating the youth of our Territory:
 TucsoS, Nov 2s, 1873.
 To J. H. Marion Editor Miner:
 am just leaving for . look at some mines -f in the Patagonia mountains, and have but a
 moment to write. You have made some good
 points on schools.
 Our schools here are getting on splendidly,
 Mir Ochoa went to school with me day or
 two ago and was quite surprised to find such
 teachers. Our boys school is about full and
 will be more than full soon; and the girls
 school is increasing Mir Nash writes from Yuma that his school is increasing and he is
 much pleased with the country. His wife has
 been employed to teach there, and young lady will come with her to teach at Ehren- !. berg. The teacher at Florence is we'll liked, as also, at Phoenix, and have no fear now but our schools will live and flourish. We have but to add that the public school at this place, which is taught by Miss Kelly, has a regular attendance of A, and is emi- nently dourishing and worthy institution James R. Osgood & Co. have sold the
 "Atlantic Monthly" and "Every Saturday to Hurd Houghton of New York, and , "Young Folks to Scribner & Co.,, of the same city.
 7 The following piece of Oriental iattery is quot ' ed by the Moniteur (Paris) "An American diplo matist, MT Wade, having lately died at Pekin, ths
 Chinese attributed his deseass ito the inexpressi U ble emotion which he experienced at seeing thu - august face of the Emperor"
 Deluded mortals. It was the smell that caused his death.
 = Mir Benj. P. Avery is now editor of th' t Overland Monthly. We knew Mir A. severa t years ago, ID California, and can truly sa! }, that he is worthy and we'll qualified to ac r as editor of the Overland.
 A Montana editor-one of the staff of tn T Virginia Montanian-wouldl like to drop int U the {" Nifty" saloon, of Prescott, which adver . tises ''the very best of liquors and tsIerabl water.n Ask him down, Barnard. n The Washington Capital, just before th III or MT hiCNbIuilCh HA'oo l. man, said "The Governor gets for wife !, young lady who has much of her fathers in IF tellect and all of her mothers grace" + Hrsr TO DAL-MoNGERs.-The stor
 is told of woman who freely used he !, tongue to the scandal of others, and mad d confession to the priest of what she had don' n He gave her a ripe thistle top, and told he h to 90 out in various directions and scatte 3, the seeds, one by one. Wondering at th Il penance, she obeyed, and then returned an m told her confessor. To her amazement, b st bade her go back and gather the scattere In seeds and when she objected that it woul Id be impossible, he replied that it would t
 still more difficult to gather up and destro t, all evil reports which she had circulate k about others. Any thoughtless, carelei he child can scatter handful of thistle seed b' Id fore tlie wind is Amoment, but the strooge m cannot gather them again. ..... '''p' n. MExIco.-Mr Nelson, our Minister to Me, Inf ico, was in Washington, short time ago, ar - .a;d that tha raiIroad ara had commenced