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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
WISCONSIN CROOKED wHIsKEY.
HoNoRED CITIZENS DENOUNCED As I,xPIIcArE1
IN THE CONSPIRACY.

IN THE CONSPIRACY.
MILWAUKEE,. May 16, 1875.
The defence closed It's case in the Jonas conspiracy
trial to-day with tho evidence taken In rebuttal
half OF the prosecution OF the testimony Of witness
for tho defence relative 10 Rendskoprs alleged attempt
to suborn witnesses Chicago.
1t appears now that Conkl,n, ex-rovenue agent, on
receiving written undertaking OF immunity signed
by the prosecuting counsel, has executed lengthy
statement involving honored names In this State In
the whiskey frauds. This statement will not be- made
public until the Grand Jury meets but II Understood
be complete history Of the Ring, and that II shows
that certain large sums were paid to prominent poll
ticians In order procure the reinstatement OF dis
charged revenue officials employed by the whiskcy
Ring
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
A RAID IN VIRGINIA.

william o. Austin, Depdty United States Marshal Of
Virginia, reports raid made By him on Stony
Creek Scott county. Virginia resulting In the capture
OF ave illicit dstiIIercs with the contents Of copper
stills and over TO- 0O0 gallons OF mash and beer. lilo
also arrested nlno men engaged Ia dsstIng Stony
Creek has long been place dreaded by the ohcers,
where the disIiliers fcit safe In dcfytng them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
OFFENBACH'S CONCERTS.

To rnx EDITOR OF TIN HERALD:-
am sure the management Of these concerts would
confer favor upon largo number Of music loving
people by publishing daily the programme for the
evening II 10 impossible to know otherwise whether
You wish to 60 or not, q matter which you decide
easily II you know what is to be gwen One does not
always care tc nnd oneself listening to the Same
pieces second time or to be obliged TO hear pieces
one does not articulary care for. X.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17

and rhythm OF the movements. and yet have had the
honor OF conducting after the advice and In the
presence OF Liton You will therefore allow how
great your authority critic may be, TO prefer
that OF Ltoln DO then be surprised II continue
rendering Robesperrc in the way. for IL Is tho
only true one In asking you TO insert these few lines
In an early ISSUE beg TO present my compliments and
remain, MARfUS BOULLARD.
New YORK, May TO, 1870
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
DISTILLERY RAIDS.


WASHINGTON May 16. 1875.
Major wagner's mounted revenue force having been
removed from South 70 North Carolina, has just
plcted . successful raid on Hunting Greek. Reddes
River and Lewis Fork In Wilkes county, N. C.,
twenty Illicit distillerics wero sexsd. with fourteen
copper stills and 30 900 gallons Of mash and beer AZ
one place Of deposit thirty-hve barrels. containing
80 gallons or unstampcG Illicit corn whiskcy,
found concealed, and safely removed 10 states
willie 10 be sold for tho benefit Of the government
Several arrests wero made.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
SACRED CONCERT.

At st. AIMS Roman Catholic church, In East Twelfth
street, . grand sacred concert will DO given, CON-
mcncng At eight O'Clock next Sunday evening, in aid
Of the association tor Bericnding Children and Young
Girls A number Of prominent artists have volun-
teered their services Tor the rendition Of we'll
ranged programme Of choice selections Of sacred
music.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
VESSEL BURNED.
Dxrsolr, Mich. Nav 10. 1870.

DETROIT, MIch, May TO- 1870
AT Point Tawas. at four O'Clock this morning,
known vessel was observed IRE In tho oling
Luke Huron. Later in the day the steamer Benton
arrived IRON Bay city, and reports passing several
floating mattresses Blankets cedar post with bottle
attached, &c out osing the heavy sea she was
able " pick anything up
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
MOODY AND sANKEY.

ST. LOUIS May Is. 1870
Moody and sankcy, who have held number or
dcnsely throngcd meetings here since Friday
excited great religious among nearly all classes
lett last night Tor Kansas CITY, where they will partiei-
pate sunday school Convention 10 convene there
morrow.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Miss Minnie Hauck, now a short visit to America,
will not IL 10 said sing public until her 10
Germany.
Mr. J. N. Pattson, the pianist gives recital every
day at o'clock in the Main Hall, Centennial Expo
sItion. 10 the Weber department.
song or two by Mile. Aimee would prove great
help to the Onenbach concerts The management
should also put forward Levy VINO IL engaged a. the
Garden.
concert will be given at chickerIng Hall this
ing which tho Trinity Glee Club. Miss Annie Boric,
Mile. Marguerite selvi and large number Of other
popular vocasts will appear
The programmes for tho ensuing week at Gimore's
Garden comprise works by the following composers:-
Wednesday, Bcrlioz, Strauss, GouDod, Bounrd and
Onenbach; Thursday, Aubcr, Nesvadba, Gounod,
Meycrbcer. Strauss and Onenbach; Friday, Weber,
Gounod, Strauss and onsnbsch: Saturday, Rossini,
Berlioz, Strauss, Gounod, BoulIard and 0nsnbach;
Sunday, Beethoven, Rossni, Gouno1 and 0nenbach.
Tho bills might be probably varied 70 stll erester
extent and other musical changes would benefit the
performance.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
Verde Items.

Our Verde correspondent sends us the fol, lowing items for which we tender thanks:
 A horse race is to come of on Christmas day between two horses belonging to Camp bell and Steadman for SlO0-a side-Messrs. Davis, Montague, Brown, Elliott and Day, returned recently from Bakers Butte; on the new Camp Apache road, where they had been hunting, bringing with them 50 deer and quite number of turkies &c. A new school house has been erected and splendid school in full blast.
 Parson Groves has permanently located himself in the Verde Valley and will preach to the residents and others who may feel in- clined to visit his sanctuary.
 Farmers arc busy blowing, preparatory to planting large crop the coming season. A large pumpkin was raised by one of the farmers of the Valley, weighingover 100 ibs.
 A great many thefts have been committed of late and still no exertions have been made on the part of the civil officers to arrest and pnnish the offenders. VIC.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
Valley Items.

Mir. Coats found the band-box, advertised in Thursdays DAILY MINER, and left it at Moore's sheep camp, at the head of Kirk land Valley.
 The ball at Bowers ranch, in Skull yalley. on Tuesday evening, was well attended by gentlemen, but there was a scarcity of the gentler scX, only five taking part in the dan- eng; but said five were true grit, and made il pretty lively for two or three times their number, including Squire Johnson of Pee pies Valley, who on Friday passed Kirkland, on his way home, in a dilapidated condition having danced himself nearly to death.
 Robert Garside, having purchased Mir 1Saac's corn crop on the McDerwin ranch those two gentlemen, with several assist ants, are now engaged in shelling the same with large shelling machine.
 John Moon is training his Prize mule Polly" preparatoryto to rounding up Beach's cattle at Date Creek. which are to be iuarkep and branded next week.
 William Gilson of Date Creek, his sister. Mrs. Bracken, and her daughter, stayed at John Eh!e's, in Skull Valley, last night, q. ro,ae for Prescott.
 Capt: solomon shoup, whose leg was am- putated some time since, is now at Solomon .Iackson's, in Kirkland Valley, and has grown in strength and acquired the use of crutches 50 that he gets about over the ranch very nicely.
 s. Jackson is thinking of fencing his fine ranch in Kirkland Valley, without waiting for the passage of the Fence Law.
 Joe FOurshea is staying the buck deer at Blacks place, below Wickenburg, and dress ing their hides.
 T. J. Butler started this morning from Judge Kelsev's place, in Kirkland Valley, to Walnut Grove, to look over that thriving valley, and examine the smelling works of tho Pinal Company. ARAB.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
FRIDAY, DEC. 22, 1876.
The Delegateship.

It will be seen by a dispatch from Tucson
 that Secretary Hoyt has taken the same view
 of the matter of canvassing the votes of the
 different Counties as that urged by Judge Goodwin before the Board of Supervisors, sitting, as Board of Canvassers in this County viz: that under the Statutes of this Territory the Recorder, and not the Board, is the proper authority to canvass and transmit to the Secretary the result of the election for Delegate in each particular County. The Recorder acting under the advise of Coun- sel, forwarded not only the result, as arrived at by the Board, but the returns which the Board had rejected. The latter were not canvassed by the Recorder, and in that at least, as it seems to us, they were certainly informal and ought to have been either re- jected by the Secretary or sent back to the Recorder with instructions to canvass them
 The only, effect this unwarrantable action of the Secretary can have on the final result will be to give Stevens the certificate and place him on the defense with his salary, otloiHcy lecs, eiC- pdiu Uy dic OofeiHHhcnt, whereas Hardy will be forced to prosecute his side of the case at his own expense and without salary until such time as he gains his seat. The contest was bound to come, and there has ever been in the minds of the people here a feeling that some scheme would be cooked up in Tucson by which their fsvorite would have all the advantages that could he given him, and its verifcation in this dispatch seems to create but little sur prise. Had the Recorder canvassed the vote of this County and reported the result to the Secretary, and his report had in: cluded the rejected Precincts there might have been plausible pretext for the action of the Secretary, under the view that the Recorder is the proper person to canvass and make such report, but the simple act of send ing the original returns, affords no such pre- text and the whole proceeding seems to us to be about the thinesst attempt to count in favorite thst has ever came under our obser- vation.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

Turkish rule in Eastern Europe is charac- terized as follows by Dr. Edward A. Free.
 man, a British writer of note, whom the
 British Quarterly Review pronounces "by far the greatest historian of the day" pr. Freeman says:
 Christian government, however bad, is capable of reform. The government of the Turk is incapable of reform; because, in truth, it is no government at all, but simply organized brigandsge. This last truthis one that should be clearly understood. The rule of the Turk Is not government; it is not even miSgovernmcnt. It is the mere domi- nation of gang of robbers. If burglar breaks into house we do not call it misgov- ernment; and the so-called government of the Turk is simply an act of burglary pro- longed for centuries. hedominion of other conquerors became lawful as soon as their dominion became government" as soon as the conqueror and conquered became one nation with a common interest. As soon as the sovereign gave protection, the subject owed allegiance. But in the case of the Turk, The conqueror and the conquered re- main as distinct as ever; the so-caled "sov- ereign" gives no protection; therefore the so-called subject" owes no allegiance To the people of Roumanla, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and the other enslaved lands, the Turk is not a ruler; he is not cOuntryman; he is much an alien enemy as when he first cross ed the BosphOrus.
 The so-called Ottoman government is simply rule of q gang of robb rs; and it is the rule of gang of robbers without captain.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
Wickenburg Letter.

We have received from an old friend and resident of Wickenburg the following items:
 nBT Wickenburg, Dec. 19, 1878.
 Times are looking up here little. Messrs. Akins & Rosenthal are pushing the compile tion of their shelter Mir Akins informs us that they are not going to depend upon the Vulture tailings to run the smelter but are going to work rock from a silver mine they have purchased adjacent to this "burg" which bids fair to pay handsomely. Then again we are to have cigar manufactory owned and run by MT. Luhers. MT. Stan- ton is in and reports the Mexicans at Weaver getting out big money dry washing on the flat below the old town (you will remember the spot), 80 you sec we old residenters feel as if come good things are yet in store for ma. NosREIP.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
A G eneral Change in Arizona Journalism

On our fourth page. will be found the val edictory of Mir. T. J. Butler of the Arizona
 MINER. and the announcement that the con- ccrn is sold to Charles W. Beach and John
 H. Marion. Among our Yuma items will be seen the statement that the Arizona Sen tnel has been sold to an association of gen. tlemen, and Judge WI. Berry, the late pro- prietor, promises to, in the next paper, in- troduce his successors and say something regarding himself. This number of the Citizen announces the entire ownership in John Wasson, and he gives public notice that it is for sale, and this notice will stand until it is sold, and there is a reasonable hope that sale will soon be made. This will be an entire change in proprietorship of the Arizona Journals, although it returns NIT. Marion to the MINER with which he was so long connected and mostly sole proprietor. So far as we can learn, not change has oc- cured because the papers have failed to meet the business expectations of the owners, nor because the owners have lost faith in the Territory or desire or intend to leave it. Speaking for ourself, we have never regard ed the future of the Territory with so much favor as now, and with our present faith in the Territory, and our good health for active labor, have no disposition to change our place of residence. For over six years of full or part proprietorship in this paper, we have never been able to give it continuous per sonal supervision and feel confident that we cannot in the future, and hence a fixed pur- pose to sell. To properly write up, super wise in detail and attend to the financial part of this paper, is most laboriors task for competent man experienced in all the details and we will not try to perfom it all day beyond Jan. 1st 1877. unless it be impossi- ble to sell by that time. at the moderate price fixed upon it. And in this connection we will say that if we do sell, we hope to ' i've such friendly although limited assist ance to the Arizona journals, as shall be &C., ceptable to them, and our time will reason ably permit-Tucson Citizen.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

HE WAS A WIDowER-The cars were running through deep cut, the rocky wall of which hre-echoed the noise of the train with startling effect. A pale, dejected looking man sat by an open window, through which came the deafening roar. A lady on the next seat expressed her dislike of the noise in such terms that gentleman requested the pale man to lower his window. This the pale man refused to do, and sat drink ing in the confusion of sounds with an ex- pression of great satisfaction. As soon as the cars stopped, the passengers expressed their contempt of the pale man for his rude ness. The pale man stood up in his seat and said: 'Gentlemen, I don't want you to think me hog but I've been married for eleven years, and last week my wife died I've lived a terrible lonesome life since then. until heard the noise of the cars coming through that cut, and you've no idea how it brought back old times. and revived me. The passengers forgave him.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
General Orders.

We are under obligations to Department Headquarters, Fort Whipple, for Special Orders from that office, extracts of which we publish below:
 Privates Thomas Barnett, Company H, Eighth Infantry, and Thomas Dooley, Com pany c, Twelfth Infantry, are detailed on extra duty in the Quartermaster's Depart ment at Ehrenburg. A. T., as laborers, to date from the 18th instant.
 Second Lieutenant T. A. Touey, Sixth Cavalry. is appointed Acting Assistant Quar- termaster. in the extension of the military telegraph line from Camp Grant, A. T., to Ralston, N M, and will report at once to the Superintendent of the Military Tele- graph Line, for instructions
 The Board of Survey which convened at Whlpple Depot, A. T., by virtue of para graph l, Special Orders No. 129, current series, from these Headquarters, will re- convene at that place at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, Monday, the 27th instant, or as soon there after as practicable, for the purpose of making more thorough investigation, and report respecting the deficiency of hay re- ported upon by the Board.
 Leave of absence for one month is granted Acting Assistant Surgeon George s. Old nixon, L. s. A., to take effect upon return of Assistant Surgeon Walter Reed, to Camp Lowell, A. T.
 First Lieutenant Austin Henely, Sixth Cavalry, (recently promoted) will proceed without unnecessary delay to join his com pany (A) at Camp Apache, A. T.
 Leave of absence for one month is grant ed Major James B. Roche, Paymaster, |. s. A.
 A General Courtmartial is appointed to meet at Camp Verde, A. T., at 10 o'clock, A, M., of Thursday, the 14th inst, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial of such persons as may be properly brought before it:
 DctaH for Me Court:
 Assistant Surgeon Henry NJ. Cronkhite, U. s. A.
 Captain Charles Porter, Eighth Infantry. Captain Adam Kramer, Sixth Cavalry. First Lieutenant Gordon Winslow, Eighth Infantry.
 Second Lieutenant William c. Roundy, Eighth Infantry.
 First Lieutenant Sebree Smith, Sixth Cav airy, Judge Advocate.
 A General Courtmartial is appointed to
  on Wednesday, the 20th inst, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial of such persons as may be properly brought before 1t:
 Detail .for the Court:
 Captain G. W. Bradley. A. Q. M., L. s. A. Assistant Surgeon, L. '. Loring, U. s. A. Captain J. L. Viven, Twenlfth Infantry Captain D. T. Wells, Eighth Infantry. Second Lieut.. J. A. Huttan, Jr., Eighth Infantry
 First Lieut.. c. A. Earnest, Eighth h. fantry, Judge Advocate.
 Capt. J. II. Lord, A. Q. M.. L. S. A., is appointed Special Inspector to report upon the condition of certain public horses and | mules for which First Lieut.. P. H. Ray, | Eighth Infantry, is responsible and which l are reported to be unserviccable. The General Courtmartial of which Sur 1 yeon D. L. Magruder, U. S. A., is President, which convened at Fort Whipple. A. T., on the a9th of September, 1876, by virtue of 1, Special Orders No. 1OS, cur -ent series, from these Headquarters, IS dis 'olvcd.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

We noticed, one day recently, g large sacks of mail matter unloaded from one of the c. & X. Co.'S. stages. The number of sacks fre- quently reaches Is. These facts argue loudly in favor of daily mail, and this people will not have had their rights until the tri-weekly service between here and California is increas- ed to daily. Whether it be Hardy or Ste- vens who is to represent us for the next two years at Washington he wills not have done his duty to neglected people until daily mail service shall have been procured via Ehrenberg and tri-weekly, through to Cal ifornia via Hardyville and the Mohave towns,
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
THE COLORADO DESERT.

We find the following interesting arti-
 cle in late number of the San Francisco Alta:
 This formidable barrier to progress, VIC
 are glad to record, is likely to give way
 before its march. It has doubtless been
 century or more since it ceased to be a sheet of water and became dry land, since which time its sirocco nature has rep,lled and forbidden man tO traverse it. It has
 been some eighteen years since the plan was conceived and measures taken 10 con vert this jOrnadO dc la maerta Desert of Death) into a fruitful field, bill having been passed by inc Legislature of Califcr- mia granting the right of the state to said desert lands to o. M Wozencraft. the orig nator and progator of the measure. The Committee on Public Lands in Congress agreed to the passage of bill ceding the General Governments right to the same, but owing to an unfortunate blunder, it was placed on the calendar instead of pass ing and there 1t has rested until the present time. But it Is about to be revived, and it is probable that it will pass at an early day during the next session. The patient persistence of the propagator of the meas ure is worthy of endorsement, ard thepub- lic of California should wish him success at last because that success can but prove highly beneficial to the Slate and Nation.
 This is an age of achievements in useful works-tunneling the Alps, spanning the globe with electric wire, constructing the Suez canal, building the Atlantic and Pa cifc Railroad, and many other great works among which are the proposed tunnelins of the Strait of Dover; the Isthmus Canal; the great North Sea Canal connecting Am sterdam with the North Sea and making it seaport for large ships, through the canal. with an artificial harbor at its mouth; the proposed canal to food portions of the Desert of Sahara, by French scientists; ant last but not least. this projected work which proposes to convert vast desertinte afruitful field, covering it with verdure by means of boun,iful introduction of water thereby reducing its temperature and mak ing it habitable for man.
 As 1t Is now, sirocco blasts not only repd the traveller, but destroy often the ove- venturesome. and its whitening breath e. tends to adjacent lands and marks then with sterility. The reduction of the ten perature of the desert, which is very grea, would cause an increase in rain fall in tie adjacent country, and that of itself shouH be sufficient reason and justification for the General Government to cede the sterile Desert to any one who may engage to introduce water upon it. It is hopd that no more impediments may be throvn ID the way of the accomplishment eff tiis needful work, but thatwe may have to ,e- cord this as one of the great acbievmeits of the age. As the Desert is and is ikey, It not quite certain, to be, should the Goven- ment continue its pas policy, it will bean abomination and horror to all who nay have tocross it But redeemed, it maybe made tropical garden, fruitful and le- lightful.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

WOULD EE REvENeED-An eight-yeer old boy was trotting up Woodward avenue yesterday, when snow-ball struck him on the ear and laid him out. He uttered few dismal howls and started of, but q gentle man halted and asked:
 Why don't you go over and lick that boy?"
 "I hain't big enuff," was the reply.
 "But won't you do anything at alll"
 Not now. l know who he is, and I'll fix the hull family. His father is going to run for Congress some time, and my father will get on the Returning Board and count him into the middle of last week. Detroit Free Press
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

AMERICAN BEEF FOR EURoPE.-The New Jersey Abattoir Company has made arrange ments for the transportation of beef to En- gland by-th White Star Line of Steamers. in addition to the Cunard and National Lines. The demand for American beef in the English markets, which decreased during the latter part of October, has revi- we'd, and large shipments will be made dur ing the Winter months. By this vigorous competition, the prices of English beef in the home markets have been greatly redu. ced.-N. Y. Herald.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22

The California and Arizona Stage Con- panys fine six-horse coach Jesus driver) arrived early this morning, bringing large mail and two passengers. The Company are compelled to transport more mail matter than any other mail line in this Territory or Southern California, showing the need of more service on the route. We are reliably informed that their coaches very often carry the enormous amount of 2,000 lbs. of news papers packages & letters that come through the F. O. Department. Let us have daily service; we need it.