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The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
= CONGRESS-.

The Senate on the 9th ult.. passed a
| resolution setting apart the 14th Of April next
! as a holiday for government employees to allow
| them to witness the uaweiling Of Lincoln mon
ument. Another bill was offered for the reg
ulation of Sd class postage The bill for pom
toon bridge across the Mississippi at La Crosse
was reported favorably The consular and
diplomatic bill as passed by the House was
next taken up, and the salaries Of the minis
ters to England, France, Germany, and Rus
| sia, which the House had fixed at 81, ,O56 were
raised to $17 $40. Pending discussion on re-
storing Italy to its former position, the Senate
adjourned.
Mr.. Willis, in the House. introduced
a bill for funding the national debt in 4 per
cent. bonds. Mr.. Payne moved to suspend
the rules and pass his finance bill, known as
the t'Payne bill" The motion was lost by a
vote of 81 yeas-an Democrats 156 nays,
of which 66 were Democrats and Independ-
ents. In committee Of the whole the silver
resumption question was considered at length,
but no vote reached The debate was quite
lengthy and Spirited being participated in by
Randall, Townsend, Garfield and others. t.
A bill passed the Senate, on the 28th,
removing political disabilities from. S. J.
Sholfon, of Mississippi. Amendments were
offered including names of persons who have
not applied for pardon, and the chairman OF
the Judiciary committee stated that it was a
rule of the committee to consider no case
until application was made by the person in
terested, and satisfactory evidence received
that the applicant had behaved himself since
the war.
In the House, a bill was passed es.
tablishing the city of sheboygan as port Of
delivery. The United States Marshal for
the District of Columbia made application for
the custody of Hallet Kilbourne, that he be
tried in court for misdemeanor on five counts
The House, by a vote of 80 to 1872 refused to
deliver up Kilbourne, who is the recusant
witness in the District of Columbia
land pool investigation. On recommendation
Of the conference committee, the Red Cloud
Sioux deficiency appropriation of $3.50, ,OO0was
concurred in.
The Senate, on the Goth took definite
action on the consulor and diplomatic appro-
priation bill, refusing to concur in the House
reductions. All posts wiped out by the bill
as it passed the House, and every salary re-
duced was restored-35 to II. Morton's Mis-
sissippi election-frauds bill was made the un-
finished business of the day, ands4he Senate
adjourned. ~.
| After the adoption of several resolu
tions Of no. general importance, the House
took up the bill to regulate the pay of army
officers. Mr.. Banning said the committee re-
porting the bill had acted in accordance with
the advice of Gen. Sheridan, who said ssscut
off at the head and not the foot.' The nav
of general officers only was cut down by the
bill, which was passed by vote of 141 to 81.
Mr.. Kasson Of Iowa moved to amend the title
OF the bill to read: "a bill to punish the
army OF the United States for the gallant
Iservices rendered by it in preserving the
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

Why is it that the managers of bank
rupt savings banks are allowed to es-
cape judicial investigation for fraud ?
The poor laborer and the widow and
orphan go to them and entrust their
savings-their all, to the bank for safe
keeping, and day later the bank sus-
pends. Every officer of the institution
knows it's condition when the money is
taken. They know they are robbing
the depositor of his all, yet they take
it with smile of innocence and purity.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

Stocking the Fox river with shad
has proved a great success, and now
some country editor away up in the
northern part of Michigan, proposes to
stock Lake Superior with whales. a
very good idea. since Duluth and Su-
perior City illustrate that it's shores
maintain elephants.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The Cologne Gazette hears from Mad
rid that marriage has been arranged
between Nine. Rattazi, nee Bonaparte-
Wyse, who has been living some time
at Madrid, and Gen. Pavia, the author
of the coup d'etat of the I'd of January,
1874.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

At least one citizen of Nebraska may
live at his ease without fighting grass
hoppers. 1t is man named Webber
who is thus fortunate, and he has just
inherited four million dollar fortune,
unless he has fallen into the hands of
some of News York shyster- -sharpers.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

In deciding the Grant Parish cases,
under the enforcement law, the Su-
preme Court held that the federal gov
ernment has not the power, and is not
required to do mere police duty in the
States, and declared the law unconsti-
tutiOnal.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

Mrs. Swisshelm and her daughter
Zoe have gone to Europe, where the
latter will complete her musical educa-
tion under the best masters. Miss Zoe
gives great promise in the art divine,
and may ere long be heard from in a
professional way:
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The halter is rarely 50 justly earned
as it has been by the man Piper who
murdered little Mabel Young in the
Boston belfry, and the sentence which
consigns him to death at the rope S
end has been passed by the Supreme
Court of that state.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The good Queen of England has gone
on trip to Germany to negotiate a
marriage for one of her numerous
daughters. A member of parliament
Was curious to know why Victo-
riu should leave the country during
{" session of that body, and was told
t''at it was a purely family affair.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

\ trapeZe performer named Gurr fell
from his trapeze last week, while per-
forming in Ontario, and smashed a fid-
die in the orchestra, himself receiving
only slight bruise. He did't kill the
fiddler.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The telegraph says: ''The peace in
Mexico is again disturbed.' Well,
now, that is the crowning of meaning
less dispatches. No such thing as
peace was ever known in Mexico since
its invasion by Cortez, in the fifteenth
century.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

Among other claims Of greatness, Chi
cago claims to appreciate musical tai
ent, and for that reason is very much
hurt down in it's little musical heart
because Nine. Titiens returns to Europe
without coming West. y
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The Hudson river was discovered
260 years ago, and it is much to it's
credit that it has never since been
guilty of anything that we'll regulat-
ed river should be ashamed of.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
TIMELY TOPICS.

The New United States Treasurer
will not resign at present. The Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Treasury
have specially requested him to re.
main.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

And now it is France which is get
ting expositionally inclined, and a
grand worlds fair is being projected
for the year 1878. The idea is not
fully ripe, but is taking body.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

MISCELLANEOUS News Items. ~
Work has been resumed in the Phil.
adelphia and Reading coal mines.
Fifty thousand dollars has been re.
covered from the wreck of the German steam
er Schiller. @v..- >> .e.
}, In the great California race at San
Francisco, the horse Chance won the two mile
and-repeat race.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties.

Crimes, Criminals and Casualties. /:
The spring floods are reported to be
unusually great, everywhere. ..,. 49,,
st. Louis had the heaviest snow storm
of the season ON the 29th ult.
The Chicago whisky crooks have
been declared guilty on four counts. r.. =,
A snow storm at Buffalo, on the 10th
ult, detained all trains from four to six hours
| A Brooklyn bank teller has abscond.
ed with 81, 600 belonging to the Fulton Bank
The Fort street Presbyterian church,
Of Detroit was destroyed last week, with all
its contents.
Bismarck had wife.shO0ting trag.
edy last week, but names are suppressed ssfor
obvious reasons"
A young man was burned to death by
the explosion Of the gas works Of the Tre-
mont House, Chicago.
The steamer Jorrad was lately wreck
ed in the Arabian sea with five hundred pill
grims on board, of which only three escaped.
Hopkinton, Mass, has lost 5000, 900
boot and shoe factory by fire.. and Pittsburgh
large block with goods valued, all told, at
$100, 900.
Four boilers exploded in the Fletcher
mill, Providence, r. l., killing two men and
wounding several others. A boiler also ex-
ploded near Sand Ridge, Pa, killing four
men.
The direct ocean cable has parted
again, forty to sixty miles off Rye Beach,
and it is supposed to have been broken pur-
posely for'the benefit of the old cable COM
pany.
During a recent storm in Brooklyn
a house was blown down, and a woman and a
little boy killed. A steamer and two barges
were sunk in the Hudson, and the fast mail
train was delayed three hours.
The emigrant ship, Strathmore, from
London to New Zealand, struck rock in the
South Pacific in July last, and sunk. Forty
four persons were drowned, and the remain
der have just been rescued from a rocky
island where they have lived on birds and
birdss eggs for six months. Their suffering
has been terrible.
Before the House sub-judiciary COM
mittee, on the 25th ult-, Gen. McCook testified
that house was presented to Gen. Reynolds
by army contractors in San Antonio, and that
citizens agreed to raise SCI, 900, with the un-
derstanding that that sum would bring head
quarters of the department Of Texas there.
He did not know whether the money was COL
lected. Alvin Leighton and ether post traders
testified that Gov. Hendricks received large
sum for obtaining post leadership, and that
$500 month was contributed to Orville Grant.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The Chicago Times wants to know if
t'we fellows whose grandfathers
fought in the Revolution are not going
to have our expenses paid to the Gen.
tennial
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

The New York politicians say they are
going to economize in city expenses,
to tho full extent of ten millions,
the coming year. Ten millions is a
great deal of money, even for New
York. 1t is over ten dollars a head for
every man, woman and child in the
city. If ten millions can be saved now
it could have been saved every year
for the last ten, and is it any wonder
that the city is poor and work scarce
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

When Congress met in December,
one Of the subjects most urgently
pressed for prompt action was a rem
"dy for the bad blunder, made in the
last hours of the previous session, by
which postage on transient newspapers
Was doubled. But nothing has yet
heen done on that head, except to pre-
sent bills and amendments which seem
to go undiscussed and unconsidered.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05
Personal, Impers0nal and Political.

ACA0O4AUA, AApCAoVA IARS l. O1AIAC0As
Ex-Gov. Jas. E. Smith, of Rhode
Island, died on the 9th ult~
The Scotch and Irish rife teams will
be at the Centennial, but no English team
Hoffman Atkinson, of West Virginia,
has received the appointment Of Secretary Of
legation at St. Petersburg
A Berlin dispatch say the czar is to
retire the czarovith being made regent and
temporarily invested with the full sovereign
power.
Gen. Crooks victory over Crazy
Horse was complete one, and many Of the
Indians must starve, as all their provisions
were destroyed.
The Reeves story about Bristow has
been effectually laid on the shelf by Reeves
making all affidavit that it was all lie, told
when he was drunk
The majority of the English minis
| try on the Irish borough bill-the latest test
vote in the house of commons, was only 13-
the vote being 179 against 1862.
At a meeting Of the London (Eng. }
school board, Sir Charles Reed, chairman, an
nounced that he would sail May 9th for Phil
| adelpnla as the Englsh representative IN the
educational section Of the centennial exhibi-
ton.
Gov. Ames simplified the Louisiana
question by Internationally resigning his
Office. He says he finds himself connected
with hostile legislature, and is batfied il
all his efforts to carry out his plans for the
benefit of the State, and he asked that the
impeachment articles be dropped after which
he would resign, which was done.
The Grange advance., 1876-04-05

A Battle Creeker is the happy posses.
sor of pine tree shilling of 1852.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
LEGAL.
NO. 7.
An Ordinance Relating t0 Nui.
 S0mceS.

An Ordinance Relating tO Nut- Rf If Oy.ained by the Mayor and CospeSyaes ef hs
 viliagx ef Prescoa, 4risOnd:
 Section l. If any person place in any street. alley. lane or other public place in this Village animal or vegetable substance filth of other matter which is likely become offensive unwhole>me. or any rcr son shall allow such matter remain his ~ her preni- sss in such manner become wholesone ofen- ve to the he she shall forfeit o the Vl lage not less than five than fifty doas for each and every offence and five dollars in addition fur every she shall allow the same fs remain after notice to remove the
 Sec. . The owner occupant of any livery or ofner .abe within the limits of the Village of Prescott shall keep his stable and sabeya eieany and shall not permit manure or filth of any kind b aceamuate in or near the same ,be day o May and the frs, day of November iu each year, under penalty of not five than fifty dollars or each offence and like penalty for every day the same sha be per med o remain sfer due notice Co remove II shall have been given
 See ! That all hogs young and old. sornd running at large within the limits of the Village o Prescott and shall be declared a nuisance. and any such animals co found shall be arrested and impounded and ros redeem ed in three days the shall forfeit such hog or pg shall be sold by the Marshall his deputy to the highest bidder for cash.
 Persons owning hogs in the Village hioits. will be required to keep them up in suitable place that See. 5 That this ordinance shall be rubshed in the ARIZONA MINER three weeks and take effect and be n force e and after such publication.
 Approved. Feb. r. 1876. GEO D. KENDALL. Attest: J. C. OTIS Recorder. Mayvr.
 feblet3
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
Declaration of Married Woman
 to become Sole Trader.

TERRIroTY OF ARIZONA. COUNT OF YAvAPAL Notice is hereby given thai Sarah Jane Arnold, of the County of Yavapai in the Territory of Arzena (we o Wales Arneld do declare that from and after the date hereof intend to carry business the said County o Yayapai in Arizona Territory, in name and on my account pursuant to act of the legislature o the Territory of Arizona entitled Of the Rights of Mar red Women. and of the Act supplemental thereto. ap- proved December D 1865 The business that intend carry that of farming buying. selling and raising stock. And further declare that the amount of funds have 10 and carry the business aforesaid does exceed the amount of five thousand dollars Yayapai County, A. T., February l2th 1876.
 SARAH JANE ARNOLD. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, l.
 COUNTY OF YAvArAI, ss
 On this twelfth day of Feb ruary A. ID. 1876 before me, George W. Hanee Nota- " Public in and for Yavspai County in ArzOna Trrro- ry duly appointed and commissioned personally appear. ed Sarah Jane Arnold personally known 10 be the individual described in an who executed the foregoing instrument who acknowledged to that she executed the freely and voluntarily and for the and pur poses therein mentioned.
 In with, whereof have heseunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written in this certificate. GEO W. HANCE IL.S.l febls Notary Pubic
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
s U NJ M 0 N s

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JU- dical District i, and for the County of Yavapai. in the Territory of Arizona.
 FRANCIS F.. SHRREFF. Plaintiff,
 against
 WILLIAM SHIR.EFF, Defendant Action brought the district of the third judicial district in and for the county of Yavaps in the Terri tory of Arizona
 The Territory ef ArisOna sends greeting to Wiiiidn Shirreg, D.fenderf
 You are hereby summoned and required to appear in action brought against you in the district of the third judicial district in and for the county of Yavapa in the Territory of Arona by the above named plaintiff and the complaint filed with the clerk of this court, Prescott in said county. copy of which paint accompanies this surnnobs) within twenty days (excusve of the day of service aer the service upon you of this summons if served in this county; but if served out of the county and within this district then within thirty days; in all other forty days.
 This action brought praying for decree of this court dssolving the bonds of matrmony existing between tho said plaintiff and defendant and for other relief in the complaint in this particularly set forth and averred And you hereby pofed that if you fail appear and the complaint above required the planin will take default against you, and will apply the court tr the relief demanded in said complaint for costs and disbursements in this behalf expended Given under my hand and the seal of the district
 afsTesaid. at Prescott, this lst day of February.
 A. D. ls76.
 LIS WILLIAM WILKINSON, Clerk RUsu WELLS, Attorneys for Pia. feb4d60
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
Probate Notice.

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF YAvAPAI CouN-
 ty, Arizona Territsry
 In the Matter Of the Estate of zApoc JACKSON decd.
 It appearing to Judge of said court by the petition presented and filed by Elmer Van Buren the executor of of Zadoc Jackson deceased praying for an or der to sell the real belonging to said estate that h necessary sell the said real estate pay the allow family the debts outstanding against the de- ceased and the debts expenses and charges of the ad mnsration of the said esae I,is ordered by the Judge said that all persons interested in the said estate appear beme the said Probate Monday, the d day of April A. h. 1876 being . day of the regular April term of court eleven o'clock in the forenoon of said day che court of said ecnr in the town of Prescott in said county of YavsIa in the Territory of Arizona to show why order should not be grant ed the said executor of said esate sell much of said real shall be necessary And that copy Of his order be published for four successive weeks in the A IONA MINER newspaper published in the town of Pres colt in said county of Yavapai
 HARLEY II. CARTIER. Probate Judge.
 February IA, 1876 feblst4
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
GOVERNMENT.
Proposals for Forage and Fuel.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT UF ARIZONA, , z OFFICE OF cHrEF euAKfEshAsTEk !
 PRESCOTT. A. IT., February {. ls.6.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA, 2 s OFFICE OF rHuF QUAKfEsNAsTEk
 PRESCOTT, A. T., February {. ls.S) SEALED PROPOSALS. in tripicase. subject to the us.l coalitions will be received this office until IF o'clock. nocu March 18th. le76 at which time and place they will opened in presence of bdd-A fos fur sshng and delivery of military supplies dung the fiscal year -on,fencipg July l. ls76 and ending Jnne 0 ls.. as ts!iows: BARLEY. BRAN, CORN. HAY. STRAW, HARD and SOFT WOOD and CHARCOAL or surh of said supplies may be required al Fort WhiPpie and Thpi,le Depot Yuma Depot Fort Yuma Camps Apache, Bowie, Grant Lowell. MeDoveli, Meiave and Verde.
 Proposals for either class ef the stores mentioned os for quantities less than the whole required will be re ceived.
 The Government the right to reject any or all proposals preference will he given to articles of do mestic prodnctiou. r.....-s X ..s ~
 Blank proposals and rs nsed circulars stating the kind and estimated quantities required each Depot and Fos and giving full instructions to the of bidding conditions be observed by bidders and terms of con tract and payment, will be furnished application to this oce to the al the various DePo' and Posts named Envelopes containing proposals shoad be marked. Proposals Tor Harley, Cora. Wood. &e, tas the case may bel at here Depot PostI and addressed ts the undersigned.
 proposals be addressed o quarterma'ter of the Depot Pcst for which fhe bid Is intended, and marked as above. J. G. CHANDLER, febllti Major and Chief Quartermaster Dept. Arizona
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
Proposals for Land TranspOr-
 tatiON.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT or ARIZONA.
 OFFICE OF CHIEF QuARIEgMAsTER,

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT or ARIZONA. OFFICE OF CHIEF QuARIEkMAsTER 4
 PRESCOTT, A. T., February l. lss6 SEALED PROPOSALS, in triplcate, subject to the usual conditions. will be received al this oce until IF o'clock noon March 18th. 1876 al which time and place they will be opened in presence of bidders for the transportation of military supplies the following de- scribed roues in the Department of Arizona during the fiscal year commencing July 1876 and ending June 90 le77, by wagon.
 Route No. I.
 Comprising ile posts now existing or which may be established in ihis Department during the fiscal year East of the Colorado river and South of the h parallel of North latitude which supplied whict may hereafter be decided 10 supply from Yuma Depot direct The posts now established this route are Camps Apache, Bowie, Grant, Lowell, and Mcdowell.
 Route No. 2.
 Comprising the posts now existing which may be established in this Department during the fiscal year North of the 3h parallel of North latitude and East o hervater may be decded supply via Ehrenberg. The posts established the Camps Moaye lnd Verde, Fort Whipple and WhiPple Depot Proposals will be received for supplying Camp Mcdowell by this Contractors may be required 10 transport supplies and from points reasonable distance not exceeding 25O miles outside the limits of the regular routes, and bidders requested specify in their proposals tie at which such transportation should t be required will be perfomed-tob be stated separately from for service within regular limits of route.
 Proposals for transportation any all of the routes above named will be received The Government the right 10 reject any or all proposals.
 Bauk proposals form of contract and printed circulars stating the estimated quantities of supplies to be trans ported and giving full information the manner of of and payment win be furnished application 10 this oiiice
 Envelopes containing proposals should be marked, Proposals for Wagon Transportation, Route No or the may bel and addressed to the undesgn
 J. G. CHANDLER .ebll4 Major and Chief Quartermaster Dept. Arizona
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
Application for Patent.
T. LAND OFFICE,

U. N. LAND Dft1CE,
 PREscoTT, 4. T. Dec. 3l, 1875 Notice is hereby given. that F P. r. Temple by his attorney fact Caldwell Wright whose P O. address Cerbat Mohave county A. IT, has this day made arpli- cation through this office for U. $. Patent thou sand (lOOo)ncar feet of the Schuykill vein lode bearing precious metals with surface ground three dred C3oO) fee, in width, situated in waapai Mining District county of Nohave Territory of Arizona and described In the plat ard field file in this office as follows. viz:
 Commencing at Original Monument near the north. west corner Of south sha thence s5cO East 227 chs to monument on East line of ciampoint of beginning thence \ 4oa0 West 909 chains NE corner and mopu umen. of stones; thence s5o:G W 454 chains 10 stake in monument of stones for NV corner; thence 4OoU East 15l chains to and of stones thence eJoU East 44 chains stake in monument of stones at SE corner thence \ 4o3O W 6O6 chains to poiat of beginning From the NE of claim the corner between Sections 2. 3 H and B on Townshp line between Townships 2 and 24 North Range ls w. Gila and Salt River meridian bears 5lo ls 50 chains distant. ContaiRiDg 6s7 acres.
 WILLIAM N. KELLY. dec'iiio Register.
Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-03
N o T ICE

John Doan or any other person or pe,,oos dsrv,.r tneir title sy deed from the original Iscator, in tbs District, Yavapai county. A. T.: "''s
 You are hereby notified that if you Ss ass within pis, ty days from the da'e of this Botce pay - ,be under snea oi 70 ;. hargrave, at his once rs Preseott A said mine or location. required by the C.ns-.so.sl law approved May 10, 1e72 the undersigned ;ii s,., forfeiture Of your interest in said min, ''.'"
 Prescott Jan q. 1876. w. lsc