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" erdy johnson made a similar blunder;
''even Mr.. o'Conor. He says Grant de-
''cided that Kellogg was duly elected.
''This decision, he says, was wrong; but,
having made il, he could not correct it.
"On this point johnson has the advan-
"tage, because the truth is they are both
s'wrong in their premises and both quite
"botch in their conclusions. In my opin-
lion Grant. did nothing but extend the act
"of Congress. 1t has been my effort for
two years TO keep the Democracy from
"the great error Of making an improper
Tissue with Grant on this Louisiana mud
"dle. The strength of the Democracy
lies in the truth. What they should as
& sail is the radical construction of acts of
Congress, from which all these troubles
spring, and not this man who executes
the acts Of Congress as they stand upon
"the statute book"
There is more sound logic and much
clearer views upon the question in these
few terse sentences than are contained in
all the lengthy arguments of the three
great disciples of Blackstone who have
been breaking lances upon it in the Herald.
and we commend these opinions of Mr..
Stephens to the careful consideration Of his
Democratic friends.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-23

THE Contractors Association" of this
city have gone so far in the direction of
sntagoniziRg the influences recently devel-
oped for the purpose Of reducing the value
of District securities, as to admit of no
compromise with the clique or combination
OF curbstone brokers who have done so
much to injure their interests. The report
Of their meeting last night, in our news
columns this morning, sufficiently explains
our meaning. If the contractors cannot
sustain themselves against the combination
70 which we refer they will deserve the
reprobation Of the entire community.
Every public-spirited citizen will sustain
them in their effort to maintain the credit
of the District government. Pluck, gen.
flemen, pluck
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RoN - sTEPHENg LoU1sL4NA

hon a. H. STEPHENS LOUISIANA
LETTER.
The New York Herald, which has set a
lot of the great legal minds of the country
to splitting hairs upon the Louisiana ques-
ton, prints in its issue of yesterday letter
from Judge Black, Mr. Buchanan's Secre-
tary of State and Attorney General, and
another from the venerable Alexander II.
Stephens, of Georgia Judge Black, like
Messrs. Reverdy johnson and Charles
O'Conor, proceeds to set forth a suppo-
sitious state of facts as existing In the State
of Louisiana at the time of the Presidents
interference to protect the dc fgeto govern
ment, and then brayely and manfully goes
to work 10 show from these alleged prem,
ises that the course of the Executive was
unwarranted and Illegal. Judge Blacks
allegations and arguments occupy a full
column in the Herald. showing that he was
obliged TO turn some very sharp corners
and elaborate some exceedingly fine legal
points.
In most refreshing contrast to the fine
spun theories of Messrs. johnson, O'Conor
and Black, all great legal luminaries, and
yet all differing as to the exact degree in
which the Executive was wrong in this
business, because all persist in starting
from their own alleged premises, instead
of speaking by the official record, we
present the case as succinctly and clearly
set forth in the letter of Mr.. Stephens; 81
- do not agree with Mr.. o'Gonor in his
premises or conclusions. He sets out
with asserting that Grant had decided
" that Kellogg was duly elected. Now,
''in point Of fact, Grant has never decided
"any such thing. Alter Kellogg brought
chs suit in the Federal Court, as he had
ga right to do under the abominable En-
e forcement act so-called, all that Grant
" did was to aid in the enforcement Of the
judicial process, as it was his duty to do
"under the act. He had no right to in
"quire either into the correctness Of that
Judgment Of the court or the validity
g Of the election of either Kellogg or Nc
{" Emery. These were questions he had
emo right to decide, and he said 50. He
only enforced Judicial process. Mr.. Rev.
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son and secession, and it is impossible that
majority of the people of the country are
in favor of them. In indorsing them the
Democracy have ,fearfuHy Numbered, as
time win show, but the Republican party
must in the future depend upon something
more substantial than the crime and folly
Of its opponents. 1t must have intrinsic
merits of its own and prove its faith by
work. Setting down the October defeats
to the third-term agitation, civil service re-
form and similar matters is, as the Graphic
says, ''to show a lamentable ignorance of
the real condition of things"
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DIED.

sMITH.-on Intervening of the 2ist instant, Mrs.
ANN SMITH, in the seyenty-fourth year OF her age.
funeral from her late esidence. No. ll85 Twelfth
noon,
ABBoT.-Dn the I'd instant, at O'Clock q. m,
GEohGE d. ABBOT, at his residence, on Bridge
street, GeorRetOWn
The friends OF the family are invited to attend
afternoon, a. oscieck
RIDGELY.-On the a1st instant, at p O'Clock,
MARIA klD9ELr consort Of the late David Ridgely,
o. Annapolis Nd, In the seyenty-ninth year Of
LOCkE.-Ou the 21st instant. at 1870 D. m,
WILLIAM @, youngest son OF the late Andrew n
and Sarah A. Locke, in the thirty-fourth year Of
The funeral win take place from the residsnce Of
his mother Ne. oal d street northwestern FRIDAY
morning atbo'eioek. Mass &C S.. Patrick schurch
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FRIDAY NoBNINe::::.:.:':::oCToBER q, ls74

In ORDER that our readers may have an
idea Of how the Democratic organs treat
the Third Term we reprint in another col
umn an article from the Louisville Courier
Journal Of Tuesday last. Much that it
contains is untrue, and much more absurd
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TEE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, has A
LARGER CIRCULATION ZRAE ANY OTHER
looming PAPER IN TIE DLSTRTCT0F Co
LUKBLA.
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TEAS,

Our FIFTY cent OOlong and Imperial Teas are
the best be had in this city at the price, money
refunded. We also have on hand, and In large sup
ply, FIFTEEN other different grades, Including
veryhigh grade OfsILyER LEAF Japan and choice
Moyune Gunpowder, at moderate prices.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the evening Of
the 10th instant, at RyiAnd N. 4. parsonage, by
Mrs. MARY CATHARINE STEPHENS. both Of WASH
ington city, d. c.
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Ja@. .. C1eRhane,
o. 8. Commissioner ana Examiner IN chaucsrys
eH0RTHAAD WR1TER
AND Law REPORTRR
0ncs-No. i1oC street. bssween Fhri ana second
tIeii<. facing Indiana aTenas. ain
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COFFEE

Old Government Java, raW..............33e cents.
Old Government Java, roasted. cents.
Old Govt Java, raw, extra quality......SS cents.
Old Govt Java, roasted, extra quality. 40 cents
Maracaibo, raw, IS cents, roasted.-...--SS cents.
Laguyra raw, 9S cents, roasted. b cents.
Rio, raw, % and 90 cts, roasted, "a and 80 cents
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THE national capital-moYers, who met at
Louisville day or two ago, did not make any
impression upon the country, and their Quix-
otto scheme has ended in merited ridicule. OF
this capital-moving convention the Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph says: "About once In
two years q capital-moving convention is got
ten up, and great deal Of empty talk is in
dulged in about the absolute necessity Of
transporting the machinery Of the Federal
Government to the Mississippi valley. A con-
vention to forward this ridiculous notion was
called recently, and the Governors of the cen
trail Western States made great parade of
delegates appointed to attend the affair. The
convention met at Louisville, but only twenty
seven out of some hundreds of delegates put
in an appearance. These talkative individuals
have had their say, and have gone home, and
that is probably the last that viii be heard of
the proposition to move the capital West for
couple of years." The New York Express
speaks of the movement as ''the ridiculous
proposition to remove the Federal capital"
and says: sfWith the facility of railroads, the
enormous expenditure in and upon the present
Federal capital, the soon-to-be dominant power
of the West in the popular branch of Congress,
respect to Gen. Washington as the practical
founder of the capital, there is no occasion for
the change. Nor is there at the West any one
place where location could be agreed upon.
Omaha or Cheyenne are as near the great
centre as any other point, and yet who in Gin
cinnai, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago or New
Orleans would like to see the Federal capital
in the central territorial part Of the country"
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SELLING OFF, TO REDUCE STOCK
TO MOVE.
FALL DRY GOODS AND CARPETS.
LARGER STOCK THAN EVER BEFORE,
AND CHEAPER PRICES.
Frutt Of Loom Bleach Cotton, 21 cents
Dark Calicoes, 81, ard 10 cents.
Ladies' All-linen Ha1dkerchiefs, 81 cts, worth 10.
All Wool flannels, %. 3, a, G1<, 50 to SIX cents
Embossed skirts. 81, wei nth si.55.
Shaker and Pine Flannels OF best makes.
Cassimeres, from 50 cents up to hne gnods.
Wide Sheetings, wholesale prices, IS az, az cts.
AL the new things in Dress Goods very cheap.
Al-yool Diagonals and serges, 50 cents, worth %.
Black Dress Goods, in Cashmeres. Serges, Bonn
baxines, n erinoes, Tamise, satines, and Mohairs.
Black Alpacas specially cheap, at ., ~ and 20
cents.
shawIs, Blankets, Spreads and Comforters,e cheap.
English Ingram Carpets, In new eolors and de-
English Tapestry Brussels s1.2S. worth s1.T4
MY STOCK Is CHEAP. GALL AND g E IT.
4. n. EABDAIN.
-Ocs sc Pennsylvania ave-, south side.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
ISS.sHoI1NEss USTo THH L6R6.s

KEYS. j. s. Inskip, Mcdonald and others OF the
s'National Association for the Promotion OF Hole
ness' VIII hOlda tabernacle meetng on the tCircus
Lot. y near the Batlmorr and Potomac railroad,
commencing NEXT SABBATH. October y and
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LAWYERS and the lovers Of the curious in
letters viii be interested in the republication,
by James Cockcroft & Co., New York, of
the famous trial of Queen Caroline. The trial
is in three slightly volumes, Of clear type, on
good paper. The same firm have also pub
lished the lives Of the Chaneellors of Eng
land. They have in contemplation the publ
cation of the trial of the claimant" as Itch
borne is called in England. The famous trial
has not been committed to the more permanent
book form, 80 that the Messrs. Cockeroft have
to pick up the trial from the daily papers.
The London Times had complete report Of
the trial, aud the probabilities are that from
that source 1t viii pass into volumes that viii
carry the celebrated case down the centuries.
The admirers Of Washington Irving-and we
are glad to learn that their number rather in
creases than diminishes-wfn be glad to learn
that the plates of his famous books, which
for some time have been in the possession Of
Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, have got
back to the old imprint name Of Putnam, the
sons of the late highly esteemed George P.
Putnam having the publication of the volumes
which their father made successful in the early
days. The Messrs. Putnam will publish in
few days book on Iceland, by Bsyard Taylor,
whose early volumes Mr.. Putnam also pub
ushed
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RATEs oF ApyERr1srNe.

twenty-five cents per line. AdvertisementsEnder
thehesd Of FOr Sale or Rent - WANTED - s'Lost
and Found, y and Personal" twelve and q half
cents per line.
~ All communications, whether on business or
for publication, should be addressed TO WM. J..
MURTAeH, Proprietor, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
washington. d.
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~ IMPORTANT no TAxPAYERs
OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
By the terms Of the set of Congress approved
June 20, 1874, evYing tax upon real estate in the
District of Columbia,
DISCOUNT OF ONE PER CENTUM
is allowed upon all
BILLS PAID IN OCTOBER,
PENALTY OF ONE PER CEETUM
IS ADDED
AFTER NOVEMBER 1,
and an additional penalty OF
ONE PER CENTUM
upon each month thereafter.
1t will thus be seen that . saving OF
TWO PER CENT.
is effected by the payment Of this tax before the
MONTH or OCTOBER EXPIRES,
an advantage which will not accrue during any
other month Of the year.
Taxpayers should avail themselves OF the last op-
pOrtunity for discount that Will be offered, and
the percentage by paying the taxes Of the cur
rent year before the LIST of November. oc2i-2w
R@DR. ". ID. MYERS.
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French
Table Luxuries, every description.
OLIVE OIL, new crop; OLIVES, CAPERs, PEAS.
sARDIHEs, our own importation. packed ex-
pressly for our trade, WITHOUT SKIN, WITHOUT
BONES, put up in the best quality on. TRUF-
MUSHROOMS, HARICOT's FLAGEOLETs,
D'ARTICHAUT squartiers, AsPERGEs, extra;
FRENCH OLIVES in OIL, STUFFED with AN
CHOYIEs; FRENCH and ENGLISH PICKLES;
MUSTARD, SAUCES, ALBERT BISCUIT,
SUGAR WATERS, SPICED MEATS. JAMS,
JELLIEs, SCOTCH MARMALADE, CANTON
PRKsERVED GINGER, Ete., Etc, Etc.
In fact have hne stock and great variety Of
FANCY GROCERIES, as any housein this country.
Kellar
son, SHAW, HGaMoSD. D
New Orleans
MOlAsses, CAROLINA Rice.
30 cents
%J m RSEG nae pound Of very nns
So cents
viii purchase pound OF Best oOLoNG.
$lr4U GunpOWder,
Choicest. Good for 81.
Boston
FISH, all kinds,
Oregon
SALMON, in one and twO-pOund cans.
New York
BUTTER, from jamestown.
Remarks.
We are constantly adding to our stock. both
OF FOREIGN and AMERICAN production, differ
ent varieties Of Table Luxuries.
We guarantee EVERYTHING sold BY US to give
satsaction and II not satisfactory can be returned
Orders delivered TO any part OF W Arlington and
Georgetown twice q day. Any order LEFT before
O'Clock delivered the same day; II after O'Clock,
delivered the next morning. Goods delivered At
Mt. Pleasant twice per week.
We deal in CHOICE GROCERIES only, and
make FINE TRADE . speciality.
Orders called for daily, or As often during the
week our customers Wish.
Orders packed and shipped By express 20 any part
OF the country. A1y paokage not exceeding four
pounds in weight can be shipped BY mall 81 9 cost
% 10 cents per pound, Except glass.) FRENCH,
GERMAN, SPANISH and ENGLISH spoken.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

~ A4N(A%AAA ~ - = >(-ANla
RS~THE SEWER CERTIFICATEs, In
- Guiding those LEFT At the ONCE o. a four
anda half street, are now really TO be delivered 70
the parties. on presentation Of receipt az the or
Cor Four-and-a-haif st. and virSIiis ave. 5. W.
Ocz5-st IstarI
e~5FTHE MARYLAND REPUBLICAN
- ASSOCIATION will meet THIS (FrldAy)
enue, at 7:30 O'Clock. to make hnal arrangements
for the coming election. full attendance Is de-
sired. =. WRIGHT NEWMAN,
oc8 President.
ITO THE NEW YORK REPUBLT.
~ CAN ASSOCIATION.
WASHINGTON. October =, 1874.
Reduced rates have been obtained over the y orth-
dAigua, New York. and points between, ct POUR
cents per mile round trip, 20 take effect Immediate
ly and good for thirty days from date Certificates
for tickets can be had from Samuel Wailace Treas
uT s, Once, Treasury Department This can be
Acting see,y n. Y. R. A. Campaign Committee.
oczS
eNEW YORK REPUBLICAN, AS
- ISOLATION. = The following dispatch
eAPi0'Hs PHILADRLPHIA, Oct. .. 1874.
P. b. EGtoa, Treasury Department:
nave requested Mr.. Young TO Issue excursion
ticke.s to your association to points In Western
New York, via Northern Central railway.
Assistant General Passenger Agent PennsyIvaDiA
Railway.
The following are the rates:
To Elmira and return e2 25
To GanandaiguA :, IS %
TO BuualO ....s.......................L u W
OS@o
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49, COLLECTORS OFFICE,
~ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON, Oct. q, 1874.
Notice Is hereby given that on SATURDAY,
October 81, 1874, VIII expire all licenses given by
the District OF Colum bia 20 all apothecarfes, Ruc
tioneers, banks and bankers, bill posters brewers
brokers, book agents, butchers in the several
commission merchants, dealers Of merchandise Of
any kind whatever, dealers In distilled and fer
mented liquors, wines and cordias; distillers, in
surance agents, ice dealers, manufacturers Of iu-
minating gas, life and IRE insurance companies,
patent agents, paWnbrokers, photographers, pro-
prietors OF bar-rooms- sample rooms, tipping
houses, BILLIARDS, bagatelle and Jennie Lind
tables bowling alleys, hotels. livery stables, intel
lgence Offices, junk shops. restaurants and eating
houses, theatres, real estate agents, recttners,
All parties engaged in said business. trades or
professions must promptly renew said licenses, In
accordance with the provisions of act tue Legis
lstiye Assembly, approved August % 1871, and the
act amendatory thereto, approved Jane % ISL,
ssThat every person liable for license tax who
may fail to pay the same before engaging in the
business forWhlch license may be required shall,
or penalty Of no less than ave nor more than nifty
dollars for each offence
Dealers in distilled and fermented liquors, wines
and cordials, in quantities not less than pint,
are further notified that boud, with two citizens
as sureties, each in the peual sum OF two hundred
dollars, must be given unto the District OF Column
bia successor to the Mayor, Board Of Aldermen,
and Board OF Common Council, &C., previous 20
obtaining license to trainc therein, In accord
anee with existing laws. ro1,,r ooou
DI-9w Cnllaqf0r n
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- COLLECTOR,s OFFICE,

R~DR. ". d. MYERS,
~ Dentist,
Has removed TO
oc21-lm No. I227 PENNSYLVANIA AVE.
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

The Law Department OF this University COM
menced its firth annual session SEPTEMBER Z.
Greater advantages are offered, both 10 cost and
character OF instruction, than In any other law
school in this country. Graduates from other law
schools can probably spend one year at least N
this University. Lecfare-ROOm rs Seventh street,
(Ballantyne,s BuildinE,) where further Informs
'- -- : WIN. B. wEDeWoOD, IL. D.,
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p~ SPECIAL NOTICE.-WE WOULD
~ call the attention Of our friends and the
public generally TO the fact that we give con-
slant attention to REAL ESTATE in all its
branches. Sales at auction specially attended to.
Loans can always be negotiated at short notice on
favorable terms, where Che property offered Is rst
class, DOWNMAN GREEN,
Real state Brokers and Auctloneers,
OclT-tf ~ Seventh street northwest.
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EDUCATIONAL.

FTHEO. 1. KING.
Teacher Piano, organ, &C. p. y. Box 515.
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10
MARRIED.

In Tucson, January 3, 1874, by Gov. A. P. K. Stafford, William Morgan and Salon. ie NeiasQueZ.
 In Tucson, January }, 1874, by Vicar Jou- venceau, Nelson Van Alstine and Theo- dora CamachO.
 At Whipple Heights, December 2, at the residence of fBTigadier-General Geo. Crook Lieut. F. L. Dodge, 23d U. s. Infantry, and Miss Laura, daughter of the late Major F. Clement, Prussian army. No cards.
 Tine welded parties spent a week or so in Tucson some weeks ago, and made many new friends, returned to Prescott, were joined in wedlock as per notice, and are now in Tucson on their way to Camp Apache, where Lieut.. Dodge is assigned. They expect to leave to-day. On Tuesday evening, they and many of their friends were nicely entertained by Gen. Carr of Camp Lowell, and on Thursday evening by Major Furey at Dr. Lords rooms. May cOntentment and all other desirable bless ings attend them through life.-ED. CITI- ZEN.
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10
SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO, January S.-Capt Hig- gins, agent of the Pacific Mail Company, states in Tine Chronicle that c. ?. Taggart, agent at San Diego, has not been and will not be removed. Taggart's administra- ton of the agency at san Diego is approv- ed and he possesses the confidence Of the company.
 steamship opposition to San Diego and way ports is assuming very lively shape. Higgins is determined to run the steamers for benefit of the public and company, and cut off all subsidies to opposition steamers.
 Meanwhile the Mail stock steadily ad- vances in New York day by day. New and magnificent propeller sails for San Diego en route 10 Panama on the 245h.
 Gold in New York $11l1l. Greenbacks in San Francisco 90@9l.
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10
FROM YUMA.

YUMA January 9.-FOr week past there has been very cold and diSagreeable weather. A sand storm prevailed for two days and wind the rest of it. Yesterday and to-day clear and pleasaHt-last Mon day morning ice was formed an eighth of an inch thick.
 An eruption of a volcano in Lower Cali fornia was noticed last Sunday night.
 Steamer sailed for mouth of river to meet Newborn on Tuesday morning.
 Sheriff Goodwin left here on Wednes- day mornings stage for San Francisco via san Diego to bring BlancO the Mission Camp murderer, as per requisitiOn of Gov. Stafford.
 Steamer and passengers from mouth of river are expected on Sunday, llth.
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10

NOWADAYS dealers in almost every thing but bread and whisky are offering their customers, and the following is a choice take-off on this kind of popular swindling:
 The climax of premium offering was reached in a protracted meeting over in New Hampshire the other evening, when an enthusiastic speaker proposed to give a nice chrOmo to every one who would rise for prayers. Such "getting up" has rarely been witnessed in a similar meet ing, and it is hoped that the speaker was better able to fulfil his engagement than some other parties have who have offered such premiums. We do not vouch for the authenticity of this story, but we simply repeat it as it was told us. It is, at least, a good story and well illustrates the tenden- cieS of the times.
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10
Notice.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES IN ents that, l, JOsefina NJ. ROca, of the town of Tucson, county of Pima and Ter rltOry of Arizona, do hereby give notice that I intend from this date to carry on business as Sole Trader in the town and county aforesaid, in my own name and on my own account, pursuant to an Act of Legislature of the Territory Arizona, nass- ed December 30, A. D. 1865, entitled "Of the rights of Married Women" and sec lions 24 to 2 inclusive of the Act amend ing thereof and supplemental thereto. The nature of the business, trade or pro- fessiOn, or art. I intend 10 carry on, is that of a general merchandising and buying and selling and dealing in real and per sOnal property in the town and county above mentioned, and from this date I will be personally and individually re- spOnsible in my own name for all debts contracted by me, on account of my said trade, business, profession or art.
 JOSEFINA M. ROCA.
 Tucson, A. T., Jan. 8, 1874. 4-3w
Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, January r. Efforts are to secure mail service from Delano station, California, to Mojave.
 . A bill will be introduced in house Mon day providing for restoration to govern ment all lands west of Missouri river granted Atlantic Pacific Railroad Com pany.
 Delegate Mccormick presented house memorioal of Arizona legislature asking grants of land in Territory be made in- habtants who sink artesian wells. Me mOrial referred to committee public lands.
 Various efforts which are made for adoption of measures favorable to recla- nation of desert lands, will, it is believed,