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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-23

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Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

The weather was fearfully hot at Cincinnati
 during the late convention, and there, unlike
 Arizona, 1t is as hot at midnight as at noon.
 Don Piatt tells of dozen drunken editors
 from as many different cities who were hay ing glorious time, barring the heat, which was not diminished by the champagne and other feverish liquids they had imbibed, who had taken refuge in the basin of a public fountain of which the people of PoTkopolis are very proud. Here they sat with their heads just above water receiving . shower from the palms of statue of Mercy, and got into discussion as to the chances of the different aspirants for the Presidency, in which they soon became so earnest and loud as to attract the notice of policeman who hailed them with "who are youi''s sansweredsby "the Editors. "Who said you might get into that fountain?" Here a drunken voice broke in, "Fact is, (hic), you voted us the freedom of the City, (hic), and as we were given the liberty of the city, we took the liberty of getting in here that we might survive the dirt and heat of this-we beg pardon, citizen, we mean nothing per- sonally disrespectful-this breathing hole of he'll"
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

terms upon which he will accept the noml- nation for Vice President. This letter is put forward as an ultimatum and states that the House must before adjourn ment pass bill repeating the resumption act, and thus seal the pledge of the St. Louis platform and bring the whole party over to the imitation ground, or so near it that Hendricks and his followers can profess to be satisfied. If they can secure this con- cession in advance they will vote for Iilden on the ground that he cannot stand in the way of their schemes since the first impor- tant step has already been taken.
 Chicago, July 1s.-Dispatch received at Army Headquarters says "eight hundred Sioux and Cheyennes who left Red Cloud Agency to join the bands against Crook have been driven back to the Agency.
 5000 citizens have signed a petition for executive cleneancy to indicted distillers. San Francisco July 19.-Alpha, 3s; Bel cher TIE; Cal. 6o2l; Con. Va, 5s; Point sA; Imp. Con-, 54 G. & C., 154; Justice Sl /2 ACusuSh iiI4 OPiiii 1os Asoy hAOhU " Ely s1{.
 Gold in New York, 1115s. Greenbacks in San Francisco, s91a@9O1l.
 Washington, July 19.-House has granted the widow of Custar pension of $50 a month.
 San Francisco Call of July 16th says 250 cases of small pox in San Francisco since May 18th.
 Postoffice at East Phoenix, discontinued.
 Washington, July 1S.-Bristow declines the invitation of Grant, to testify before the Investigating committee.
 Phoenix, July 20.-Nineteen head of hor- ses and eight sets of double harness, belong ing to theA & N. NJ. Express Company sold here yesterday at Sheriff's sale, for $1,260. They were sold to satisfy judgment to the amount of $S4S. Although the sale has been published 15 days neither the Con- pany nor its Agent here made any effort to release the steck. The c. & A., Stage Con- dany are again favoring the public, by run ming their elegant open air summer buck boards.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

Dr. Day received letter yesterday from N. L. Griffin, at Globe District, in which he says several sales have recently been made of mines to parties from San Francisco. He says they have some of the richest silver ore there he ever saw, but no mills, or other ap- pliances for working it except arastras and Mexican furnaces. There are five small stores there but they are out of provisions half the time, and people have to go to Florence for supplies. He thinks a mer- chant who would buy rich shipping ore at fair price, could make fortune there.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

THE FOURTH AT MINERAL PARK.-The
 Enterprise of the 9th gives an elaborate account of what was done at the Park on the 4th, and in addition we have receiv- ed quite lengthy communication from @Citizen" accounting substantially the same facts, and as most of our Prescott readers have seen the former, and we are cramped for space, we shall be obliged to omit most of the latter. This much however we must say: In the published account we see no allusion to one of the speakers, Mir. NJ. J. Malone, who, our correspondent assures us, came upon the stand after repeated calls, was introduced by the President of the day, and '.in few powerful oratorical remarks eulogistic of Thomas Payne and the Mar quis de Lafayette, and their connection with American liberty, showed himself master of the elocutionary art"
 Our correspondent also furnishes us the following list of ladies at the ball in the evening, with a description of each one's dress, which destinations we shall be ob- liged to omit: Miss Mattie Tucker, Miss Decay, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Davis Mrs. Lasselle, Mrs. Shelton, Miss Ida Baker, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Knobman, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Seavers, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. McMurtry, Mrs. Riggs, Mrs. Weaver, Miss Shelton, and Mrs. Judge Welcome.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21
STATISTICS OF YAvAPAI COUNTY.

EDITOR MINER:-I give below brie
 transcript of certain statistics which have
 lately cOllated for Eastern papers, and
 which may be of interest to your patrons | It must be remembered that these statistics
 do not cover the whole ground, as many
 parties have shipped or sent away Wool, | Gold-Dust, Silver and Gold in large
 amounts, of which have not been able to
 obtain any record. The Eastern part of
 Yavapai County, embracing the Valley of
 Chiquito Colorado and surrounding coun-
 try, in which are no doubt much the largest
 portion of the sheep in the county, is not | represented in this statement, as the wool from that section is all, or nearly all taken cast via the Rio Grande, I expect answers soon to letters of inquiry addressed to par ties there and when received will give you such facts as may be obtained
 Total amount of gold-dust and bullion received by the merchants of Prescott, from January 1st to July 1st 1876, and sent out of the Territory, $1Os,1OO.
 Total amount of gold and silver coin and bullion shipped to San Francisco by A. &N. NJ. Express Company, from February to June inclusive, in 1876, $44,O644s.
 Total amount shipped by c. & A. Stage Company, from January 1st, 1876, to date, $37,22O.
 Assays by Chas. Pletz, Assayer, from Jan uary 1st to July 1st, 1876, as follows: Sil. yer and gold, 2O7; average per ton, $17s.3s. Silver, 242; average per ton, $l62SI. Cop per, 21; average per cent, 122. Lead, IT; average per cent, 57.S9. Gold Bullion, A; average fineness, 6s2; total value, $53, ,ss2 .72. Silver Bullion, 76; average fineness, .949; total value, $5,s56.35. Total value of Bull. lion, 59,539.O7.
 Assays by Jay G. Kelley, Assayer, for the months of May and June: Silver, g.; ave- rage per ton, $423. Gold, Al; average per ton, s6o. Highest assay of Silver per ton. s6,l54. Highest assay of Gold per ton. | s645. Assays of Lead, 6; average per cent, i5.s. Highest assay of Lead. 96 Assays 'f Copper, z; average per cent, A. High 'st assay of Copper s2. Assays of Gold Bullion, 5; average fineness, 941-total 'alue, $l,654. Silver assays, H.; average ineness, s13-total value, s3,O25.25.
 Assays by J. Rosenthal, from January 1st o July 1st, 1876: Total number assays of told and Silver, 1s0; average per ton. S04.6s. Total amount of Gold and Silver Bullion in value, $7,2OO.sO.
 Total amount of Wool shipped to San by Prescott merchants in the months of May and June 1876, 162, 900 lbs.
 Total number of Mining Claims recorded the County Recorders Office at Prescott ,29s.
 Total population of Yavapai County. by he Census of 1876, as taken by John H. ehan, Census Marshal, 13,73s.
 Among the statistics received from Yum, 'unty IS the following: Population in 1876. ':12. Mining Claims recorded, 5sO. Hoping to be able to give you further sitistics before leaving for Maricopa, Pinal. ,d Pima counties, am
 Yours very truly, H.CHopee Prescott, July, 1876.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

NoHAvR MAILs.-We have made inquiry
 and such investigation as we might, into the
 matter of the Mohave mails, of which much
 just complaint has been made, and are con-
 vinced that the fault does not lie with the
 office here. The care and particularity
 with which our local mails are handled
 lead us to believe that Mir Otis is correct in
 what he tells us with reference to his agency
 in sending the mails to Mohave County.
 He says there are always tour packages put up,-one for the postoffice at Walnut Greek, one for the Park, one for Cerbat and one for
 Hardyville and beyond; and that besides these there is usually lot of loose mail Tn the bags which he has not time to arrange and put into the respective packages, and which he expects each postmaster on the route to overhaul and take his own, just as he has to do here, and if anything has gone by the Park, as charged by the Enterprise, 1t has been loose in the bag, and overlooked by the postmaster, and not in the Hardy vile package. Of this he has been SO care. ful that he feels he cannot be mistaken. and his habit of exactness in everything pertain ing to the duties of his office here faycrs this conclusion. No one wonders that the people of Mohsve should feel sore about their want of proper mail facilities; but neither the people of Prescott, nor the post master here should be held responsible for . condition of things that they have had no hand in bringing about. We know nothing about the personal ill feeling, or the cause of it that the editor of the Enterprise mani Tests towards Postmaster Otis, other than it exhibits itself in his paper. Yet it appears from certain expressions, in which the right | of religious belief and practice is questioned, l that the editor of the Enterprise is little | 'of" on right guaraffeed to everybody in 'his country-the right to worship as he please, or let it alone if he choose. 'Paalm:sipging" is allowable, provided the inger dpes not disturb his neighbor.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21

Among the postal changes noted July 9th, are the establishment of Postoffice al Sunset Yavapai County, A. T., Alfred N. Derrick, Postmaster, and one at Williamson Valley, Yavapai County, WI. Simmons, Postmaster. These offices have been much needed, and we hope the new postmasters will qualify at once and open their respec- tive offices.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21
MARRIED.

Al sprngerviile. Ysvapai county 4. T.. \. ,h. ,..; o oeaes ss os Aiex Jordan. by 0. A. Franklin J I
 I' io'o Jacob H. ONeii to Miss Cara B. Modern. '1''
 At Spsingerviile Juue 9, 1876, by c. A Fr.,.u,. F., Asa Walker so Sarah Humphrey. A'Ahn; '' At the rss'derce Of Hon. L. A. stevens. on wirov Grsex Sniy Io, by Rev Alex. Gilmore Chsps;n m Vivian C. Hesssr Esq to Miss Elizabeth BarSsO,s.'
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
To Village Taxpayers.

Village taxes will become delinquent Thursday, Au- gust To- 1876 the Council having extended the time 1opth FRANK MURRAY,
 Prescott July le Village Marshall
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21
BORN.

sea. weighing nine pounds. Esas Prescott, Jaly l7, to the viii. of ch.. u.n
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-07-21
FRIDAY, JULY 2l, 1876.

Teddy Nichols, has been to Mohave regu- lsting the running of the mails in that di- rection, and says it is all right now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
THE HEROE> OF PKUG 1E~SIVEREV-
OLUTION IN MEXICO.

American military leaders should recOg
nize the vigor and ability of Escohedo, il
lustrated in organizing and leading an
army. His recent triumphs are due wholly
to the celebrity of his movements, and
though the soubriq let Orej0m Qong- -eared)
has been given him he is neither hare nor
an ass. Originally an unettered teamster
or driver of pack mules, he has won his
way to distinction by inherent forces of
genius. 1t was Escobedo who gave the
first terrible blow to the French masters of
his country when, with a handful of fol-
lowers, he captured treasure trains bearing
five m lions of Austrian gold. II. moves
his sandaled soldiers, shOd with strips of
rawhide, twenty leagues, fifty miles, each
day, and on his recent march from
Central Mexico he fought a battle
and marched twenty-eight leagues Ga
league is two and tve-eighths mIlesl.
AlatOrre, next IN command to the
President, marched, not long ago, fifteen
leagues in one day, with two thousand five
hundred men, and stormed and captured
heights in O4xaca, very like Lookout
Mountain, held by seven thousand ''rebel
MeXicans. MexicanS, under the training
gwen by the French and Austrians, have
become most effective soldiers, and of Mex
lean leaders Escobedo and AIatorre are
hardly surpassed in genius for war by Diaz
whose fame is greatest on this side of the
RIO Grande.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13

The scheme of making Don Carlos, now
in this county, Emperor of Mexico be-
gins to receive share of attention in Muxi-
can newspapers. 1t is said that Cortina
will espouse the cause of the exiled Span
lard.
Gen. Diaz was attacked by Gems. Fuero
and PalacIOs. Dir and his men stood their
ground bravely until II e arrival OF c i. Lo
ziuO with a large body of government
cavalry. when he was forced to retreat
The government TT, op. did not pursue Dl
~ Several of his officers were captured
10y Fuero. Diaz has disbsnded his men
and left for the interior with a small cavsl-
~ escort. 1t is believed he has gone to
O,xaca.
Cnrtina has wr tten to rela i've on this
side of the Rio Grande for 100 Remington
rifles. He was them at his ranch at Ca
mile, fourteen leagues from San Fernando
He will soon raise the - along the from
tier, our soldiers will cross the river to sup
press or capture, and war with Mexico
will RESULT. such is the fear of the people
along the confines OF the two countries
MeNicans are jealous of the United States,
and CnTtina's influence with the rabble Is
great, and LerdO may lose all power along
the river.
Djaz was badly beaten at Hicamol Cor
tina Is said 10 be IN Matamoros Escobedo's
headqu Irters are at SaltillO. Fuero and
PAlac.us are at Monterey. Ordones is near
San Fernando, aud R'vuelta occupies Mier,
Camar"o srd Matamoros. Quiroga, with
~ elvc hin'ireu Federal troops, is at Mon
clovis. The only organized rebel force,
eight hundred strong, is st Lampazos, un-
der Narango and Trevino. Lerdo's power
in the east is, therefore, almost perfectly
restored. Small bands of rebels are in
Tamauhpas and Nuevo Leon.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
u HE STATE OF TEXAS,
TO the Sheriff of Travis comfy, greeting:

TO the Sheriff Of Travis county, greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon by pubica
ticn of this citation for eight successive eks prior
To the day thereof In newsp per published III
and residence are unknOwu, 10 be and appear De
fore the District Couit to be holden in and for the
county OF Travis the court hUuse thereof in the
city OF austin the fifteenth Monday after the first
Monday in July next then aud there to answer the p5
titon OF Edward 1. Compton, hed in said court
against the aid heirs alleging in substance as
follows, to-wit: That the plsintIH resides in the
county Of Travis and State Of Texas that the names
aud PAGES Of residence OF the defendants are un-
known the plaintiff; thst Henry Tin hart, who Is
now dead ON the hf ,eenth day Of Junr, A ID. 1910.
the Of headlight Land certificate No. % in
the name OF William Johnson issued by the board OF
land ssiOners OF Jack county, for onethird
league land that afterwards, the twenty fourth
day Of May 1857 plaintu became the owner and pos
sessOr Of sad cerli cate and the EuIiments Of title
to the through Intermediate transfers and
de Neries Z the snid eerdhcate Hnd muninehts OF
title from said Rnehart down to himself and has ever
sincc had continuous, open quiet and adverse pos
session Of said certificate, by reason 81 which facts
and OF limitations OF two years, which he
sp caly pleads he the legal and equitable wner of
said certificate; and having had the same l1wiuily
located and surveyed in several survey he Is apply
ing for patents ON the sa e, but the defend
an are hindcriug aud Obstructing hun from
obtaining said patents, claiming that no
transfer has been Uadc for aid certificate
from said kneh ri aud that the u le to the same is in
the heirs Of Rinehnrt To the damage 81 petitioner III
tue Of two thousand dollars, which Il the value
OF said certificate; nnd plaintiff pr va Judgment
against the defendants thl he has full and complete
title sad hcAte and erjO Mug them perpetualy
from setting up tte to the sane Tor costs ana gen
Herein fail not hut have You then and there before
said court this wit with your return
thereon showing you have executed
s., ! the same Given under my hand
Sc'h aud the seal OF said court in the
CT nf Austin, this he eighth day
OF June, A. ID 1870
f. HALLMANN,
jc9-DItWst Cler ID e. Il. c.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13

THE platform of the Republican party is
its record for ten years past. The effort TO
make another at Cincinnati and place u man
on it whose first act was to notify Blaine
Of his love and admiration must fail signal
ly. 1t is no; that Hayes is not to be pre-
ferred to Grant; but Hayes will be as clay
in the hands of the potter, and Blaine or
Morton, if Hayes nominally fill the office,
NAV be President II Tilden be elected
TiIden will be the President, and however
hungry his adherents for Office, Tilden is
the confessed implacAble enemy of extrAva-
gance and corruption in government and
for this, IL there were no other reason, he
should be supported by every taxpayer and
every toiling, honest citizen The Federal
government, IS administered for fifteen
years. has existence for the aggrsndiEement
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
The Edlbl,l.y Of Hats.

/ myself have eaten rats (says an EngliSh
clergyman), and found th EN- good eating.
was on board ship at tie time, aud il was
found necessary 10 smoke the hold out 10
get rad OF the rats that infested the ship.
Three hundred and ninety rats were found
sufocated round the fires. French third
mate, who was on board, proposed TO cook
some Of the finest of them. These tasted
and, indeed, ate Of them. Chiefly the hind
legs were eaten. They were exceeding
white, delicate and tender, aud, as FAR as 1
remember, Put me In mind OF chicken, with
slight havoT Of game about IL. They hsd
been well nourished znd were plump and
in good condition would not object 70
them perfectly prepared, and should regard
such food as great boon after snlt-junk
and picked pork Of six years storing
After carefully cleaning, I believe tie
Frenchman Tried them. At all eveats they
were eatable. Speaking Of this 20 a esun-
try friend Of OUTS lady-she informed
ms that her husband once bad pie niaae
Of rats. They were caught In q barn where
the wheat was just th.eshed, 40 that they
were very nice and tender from their ieeo-
ing
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13

THE nomination of Elden and the en-
thusiaSm that greets the uplifting of hon
esty and probable overthrow of ruinous
wastcfuiness and corruption in government,
have begutten extraordinary hopefulness in
the South that manifested itself strongly in
celebrations of the Fourth everywhere in
Texas. Great crowds were gathered. as
shown by our dispatches of yesterday, in
the towns If the State. Speeches were
made ami earnest prayers uttered, not 10
the nation rs here, but for the people
and the reprod duction of the Union" as our
fathers made it. Judge Bell, always de
voted to the old flag and to the Union, in
his speech in the Capitol, was most vocif-
erously applauded by more than thousand
ex-COnfederates when he said that If any
foreign invader set his foot on the shores OF
the continent he would be as vahantly met
At the cannon's m 'uth by South'rn as
Northern heroes. VIII the North never
believe, or do newspapers lie deliberately
when they declare that the South, because
they prefer TiIden, is plethoric of ''rebel-
liong
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13

second of February, he was again at the
head Of powerful army and fou sht a des
perate battle at Cerro Gordo on the eigh-
teenth of April. The man seemed ubiqui-
tous and almost omnipotent. Routed at
Crrro Gordo he reappeared with fresh
armies in defense of his capital, and, what
ever may be said to the contrary, with
forces disciplined, provisiOned and equip
ped "a were those Of the United States,
Gen. SCOTS triumphs would hardly have
been as speedy and brilliant and ruinous to
Mexico As history tells. In reference to the
III Issacrc at the Alamo 1t is due to truth to
say that when Santa Anna demanded a sur
render his flag of truce was fired on,
Justified the massacre as at Fort Pill
low. Santa Anna ever denied that he
authorized the bu cherry at Goliad. But
before he left his capital he had issued a
proclamation denOuncing foreigners in the
armies of Texas and ordering all these to
be put to death. He declared, however,
that if he had known that Fannin had made
terms of capitulation, of which fact Urea
failed to inform him, the massacre at Go
lad would never have occurred. Urea
denied the innocence in this behalf of his
willy master. But the time has hardly
come, even yet, when the history of the
warrior president of Mexico can be
properly written. Passions were aroused by
terrible events IN early Texan history which
survive the great leaders in a terrible con-
flict, and we would only advert to leading
facts in the life of a man whose personal
vices were as shocking as his craftsmanship
and genius for war were admirable.
His failures were the fault of his race and
people; his depravity, of the country in
which he was born, and of the moral at
mosphere which he breathed from child
hood to age.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
SANTA ANNa,S DEA ATH-HIS VIR-
TUBS AND VICES.

Santa Anna, who died few days ago,
was born in Jalapa, about the year 1898,
though he said, when captured at San Ja-
cinto, that he was then As years old, and
was leaving public life when most men OF
his fame and trium, hs were just entering
it," He then supposed that his career had
eliminated, and that his sun had set. Forty
years have elapsed. and we may now do
share of justlc" to the IN, m"ry Of u man
whose name IN Texas has been the syno-
nym Of Infamy. That he was a great sol
dier, none deny; that he was faithless and
trcacheruus, posterlty must ever confess.
When he went u prisoner to Washington,
accompanied by the late Gen. Bee, of tins
State, in the winter Of 1867, whence he
was sent tn Vera Cruz by Gen. jackson, on
Federal ship of war, he agreed with Gen.
Bee to bear half the cost of the journey
made on horseback and IN stage coaches.
Al Washington, when accounts were ad
justed between BE and the Mexican Gen
eral, he gave the Texan a draft on his
bankers at Vera Cruz for Ss50o. This draft
was returned protested, and paid by Gen.
Bss, and ON it was the endorsement OF
Santa Anna: - recognize no obligation
to paw this debt, since l was a prisoner at
the time it was created" the Republic of
Texas relieved Gen. Bee, but hardly forgot
the treason to asserted personal friendship
of which the Mexican was guilty. Santa
Anna spent many recent years of his life at
ST Thomas, and British steamers plying
between that island and South American
States were accustomed to crafty the taste
and minister to the pleasures OF the old
master of Mexico by supplying him with
game cocks and with bevies of pretty
women with which he constantly stocked
his serSgliO. of private personal virtues he
knew nothing; but he was the ablest and
wisest ruler, not even excepting JuareZ,
that ever governed Mexico. He moved
20, 600 men without rest or food, eighty miles
TO light Gen. Taylor At Buena Vista. His
soldiers died Of starvation when on the bat
tleHeld and the stomachs Of the slain
were wholly empty. Beaten aud utterly
overwhelmed At Buena Vista on the twenty