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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-09

The President states that he will not, Accord
ing to his present intention, conVccc the extra
session Of Congress until about the first OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-09

The dead body of man named Washington
McGraw was found, with the neck broken, iu
front of tho western entrance 10 the Capitol, 10
Washington, Wednesday. An inquest devel.
oped the following facts :--McGraw and man
named Thos. Mahony were coming through
the Capitol grounds when one Of them struck
a colored bootblack. Soon afterwards the boot
black, with severa! colored men, met McGraw
and Mahony Oh the first terrace of the west
front of the Capitol, near the fish pond, and
began an attack upon them. While the fight
was going Oh passing colored man struck Me.
Graw with stone on the back of the neck with
such force as to break his neck, and he fell
dead. Mahony was also severely beaten, and
the dead and the wounded men were both left
lying beside the fish pool, while their assailants
made of, and have so for made good their cs.
cape. Both McGraw and MahoDy were in
toxicated. The jury returned o verdict Of
death from dislocation of the neck, caused by
blow from some party unknown" All the
efforts of the detectives have failed, so far, to
discover the murderers, although several wit
nesses testify to having seen some men fighting
near the spot where the body was found.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-09

And now the question arises, was Gen. Joe
Johnston really rendered place 10 Mr.. Hayss's
Cabinet
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-09

LtteIl's Living Age, fer this week, has been
received.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Yuma Items.

From the Sentinel of June 2:
 The Plcacho mill has been making regular shipments of gold bullion.
 Placer gold from the Santa Rita placers to the amount of some $500 was shown here this week by man en route 10 California.
 Persons have recently been compell ed to leave Yuma because they could find no dwelling houses. We have seen twenty persons hunting houses within the last two days.
 We are informed that the entire tract lying south of the Gila, between Fiji ibuster and Mission, has been taken up under the Desert land law.
 Twenty-fOur car loads of men, tools, etc, were dispatched last Friday even- ing from Colorado Station to go tO work on the direct line from Bantas to San Francisco.
 Machinery brought in this week comprises seventy tons of quartz mIll, etc, for the Signal Mining Company of Greenwood and a smelting furnace for the Haskins Company of Globe district.
 New mines have been found lately in Granite Range, near the Wicken- burg road. NIT. Carlisle of Desert Sta ton, has ore from them that assays $2500 to the ton.
 A railroad cutoff is talked of be tween Yuma and San Francisco. The proposition is 10 build a road from Mo have station through the Cajon Pass to COltOn. This new road would cut of much distance, avoid the San Fernan- do tunnel, and materially shorten the time between Arizona and San Fran cisco.
 On Tuesday a gang of ChinamenI were brought across the river on tOI the Arizona side. They pitched their camp at the edge of the river just above the quarlermaster's depot, and on Thursday commenced grading the site of the Arizona end of the failroalI bridge. Tweniysix carts and thirty four horses were brought over on Wed nesday and put to work the next day.
 Articles have been filed of the in- of the Colorado river cop- per and gold mining company.
 IncOrpOrators l. C. Baleman. John Garber H. $. Smith, E. B. Mahon and Oliver Smith. Capital stock $5,000, ,000I in 1S,000 shares. This company pro- poses to operate on the mines in the of Eureka Flat and Williams Fork.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
PrOsecutiOas for Cutting Timber
 on the Public Lands.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
 Gr-,-r.r. [ AT, Or.r-rc.r.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
 WASHINGTON, (D. O. May ,, 1877.
 To Registers and Receiver of United States Land Offices-Gentlemen: The Secretary of the Interior has conclud- ed 70 change the method formerly ad- opted for protecting the timber on the public lands, by which you were made agents for that purpose within the limits of your respective land districts, as per circular of December 24, 1855. Pursuant to directions from him of the 9th ultimo, the instructions of that cir cular are hereby revoked
 Hereafter, as il may be found adyisa- ble, from time to time, for the end in view, clerks or employees will be detail ed from this office 10 act under in suuctions of the Commissioner in as- certalning when, where, and by whom depredations have been committed up- on the public lands, and to report to him the facts in each case.
 If, upon an examination of the re- ports so obtained, the Commissioner finds that the facts elicited in any case warrant the commencent of legal pro- ceedings to punish the trespassers, or to collect damages for the waste al ready committed, or both, he will re- port the same to the Secretary of the Interior, with his opinion thereon, in order that such further proceedings may be had in lhe premises as the case may require.
 The clerks or employees detailed as aforesaid will not be permitted to make any compromise for depredations committed on the public lands. If any propositions are submitted to them with hat object, they will be required to report the same to this office, with a full statement of the facts in the case, showing the nature and extent of sad depredatiOns, when and by whom committed, the amount and value of the timber when cut, and the value of the land in its present and former con- dition, all of which, together with the opinion of the Commissioner, will be submitted to the head of the depart ment for further consideration.
 If, in any case, the emergencies should seem to require more prompt acton than is contemplated in the rules above indicated, in order to ar rest the offender, or 10 secure the Gov ernment for the damages suffered, it will be the duty of the clerk or en- ploye detalled 10 act Tn the matter 10 make direct application to the United States District Attorney for the district in which the waste was committed to institute the proper legal proceedings for that purpose, This course, how ever, must be taken only in cases where the evidence is clear and indis- putable.
 The foregoing is communicated for your information. You will obser'e therefrom that you are not hereafter toI act as agents for the protection of the public timber, although your cO-opera- ton is expected whenever you may be called on 10 render assistance to off cials charged with the duty.
 Very respectfully,
 J. A. WILLIAMSON, Commissioner.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
The Black Hills.

Among the many letters we see pub lished by people seeking their fortunes in the Black Hills, hardly any recon. mend going there, and nearly all con- tam expressions like these taken from letter written at Troy City, May F;
 This place is about two miles from DeadwOod, and 1 have been down to look at that place My advice to you is to stay away from the Black Hills. Thousands of people are wandering about who can get nothing else 10 do. Murders and robberies are of nightly occurrence. Placer mining is already played out, and the only good prospect the country has is in the development of quartz lodges. The indicati 4s in this direction are undoubtedly very en- coUraging, but capital is needed for that work.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

THE total banking capital ot Califor mia is $SO,0OO,0OO, of which $44,5OO. 900 is paid up. The total number oi depositors in all the San Francisco banks and Tn the savings banks of the Interior is 144,S01. and there is owing to them, or was on the first of the year, Sl2l ,542, 7S5. According to these fig ures about every seventh person in the State has something to his or her credit in the bank, and the average amount to the credit of each depositor is up. wards of Ss3o.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

THE Los Angeles Herald has the an nexed: Extensive locations of lands are being made on the Colorado Desert under the Desert Land bill. Forty odd thousand acres were so located In the Los Angeles Land Office the other day, We understand that heavy cap italists are behind these locations, who intend to dIg ditches and irrigate the lands, and who will probably disburse in this work some $60,000.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Our govern ment is entirely satisfied that there is nothing in the stories that filIbustering enterprises, either on the Pacific or Atlantic, are projected as parts of the Lerdo movement. Filibustering colo nies from California may rest assured, therefore, that all parties in Mexico will unite with the American military forces iL stamping out every such it. legal adventure. It will be a fatal de- fusion to suppose our Government will wink at them. On this point our mil ltary commanders are instructed un- iequivocally.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

ALTA, May %: The Vazura Consol dated Mill and Mining Company filed articles of incorporation yesterday. Ob iect, to mine in Cerro Colorado Mining district, Pima county. Arizona. Di rectors-J. P. Arey, B. L. Tiffany, E Sniffen, Caleb T. Fay, J F. Cumming, II. P. Luby and $. F. SnIffen. Capital, Sl0OO0.O0O.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
HARPER'S BAZAAR.

The ladies best appreciate the merits ol the Bazar, a weekly devoted entirely tc their interests in all its various depart ments Of literature. fashion and domestic arts. It is an admirably conducted illus trated paper. containing essays, editorials stories, andI general information Of a su- perior order.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

FOUR hundred years ago but seven metals had been discovered, and We are now acquainted with the existence of fifty-one, thirty of them, nearly thlree-ifIhS, having been made known Ito us since the beginning of the pres ent century.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
T E E NJ s

HARPER's MAGAZINE, One Year. a4.eo HAMPERS WEEKLY, One Year, 4Oe HARPER's BAZAAR, One Year, 46O One copy Of either will be sent for one year. POSTAGE PREPAID by the Pub fishers, to any Subscriber in the United States or Canada, on receipt of Four Dol lars.
 Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly
 and Harper's Bazar. for one year,
 5000; or any two for s7.OO:
 Postage free.
 An Extra Copy of either the Magazine, Weekly. or Bazar, will be sent gratis for every Club Of Five Subscribers at S4OO each, in one remittance: or, Six Copies for s2OOO, without extra copy: postageprepaid by the Publishers.
 Address,
 HARPER & BROTHERS, NY. Subscription taken for Harper's Periodf- calls by Booksellers and Periodical Deal- CTS throughout the United States and Cam ada. l2-9
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
HARPER'S WEEKLY.

Harper's Weekly should be in every family throughout the land, as a purer, more interesting. higher-toned, better H. lusiTated paper is not published In this or any other country.-Commercia Bulletin, Boston.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

POSTAGE FREE
Now Is the time to Subscri be
 To HaFper's Periodicals.

The success Of Harper's periodicals is among the remarkable facts Of the pub fishing business Of this or any other age or couutry.-Chrlstian Advocate, NY.
 or these standard publications 1t is mol necessary to say more than that each re- Eumes in Itself the history and progress oi the time in a certain department; one containing the. cream Of current litera- ature, second preserving and Illustrating all events Of importance the world over, the third anticipating fickle fashion and chronicling it's changes, and all com mending themselves equally to the read CT. no matter Of what sex, age, or condi- ton.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Mining Work Notice.

IVNO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE STE l ven Richard or any person or persons lclaiming right or title from him or the es- tate in or to any portion Of those certain mining locations or claims known as the |" Hannibal" "Three Sisters" "Mary Ann,"" Almaden, ," Mammoth" May Flower" North America" and Pride Of the Vest" situated in Globe District MaricOpa county, Arizona.
 This is to notify you that In accordance with provision Of the Mining Act of May 10th, 1872, that fin compliance with require ments Of said Act, work has been done on said mining claims for one year back past ending on March 9th. 1877, by the under signed. and that without any assistance or expenditure on the part Of the said Ste- ven Richard. his administrators or heIrs.
 Now therefore, if within ninety days from The first publication of this notice, you dc rot come forward and pay your proper proportion Of the cost of the said work. the undersigned will claim forfeiture Of all your right, title and interest in and to every portion of said mining claims.
 Globe Di-trict, Maricopa county. Arizo- na, March 10, 1871. J. A. YEAGER
 March r. 24-l3 V
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Summons.

| IN THE DISTRICT COURT, FIRST JC- U dicial District, County O: Pima, Teri. tory Of Arizona. Albert c. Benedict, plain- | tiff, against Henry Mims, defendant Action brought in the District Court O. the First Judicial District in and for tho County Of Pima, in the Territory Of Ari- zOna. The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to Henry Mims:
 You are hereby sum mOned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff in the Ds. trict Court Of the First Judicial District tn and for the County Of Pima, in the Ter iritory or Arizona, and answer the com plaint filed with the Clerk Of this Court at Tucson, in said county Ca copy of which complaint accompanies thiS summons within twenty days (eXcIuSive Of the day oI Service) after the service upon you Of this summons, fl served in this county; but 1T served out Of the county and within this district, then within thirty days; in all other cases forty days.
 And you are hereby notified that if you fall tO appear and answer to the com plaint as above required, the plaintiff will Ca ks Judgment against you by delalt ,u and will apply to the Court for the relief demand ed Tn said complaint.
 Given under my hand and the seal Of the said District Court at Tucson, thls twenty-fOurth day Of April. A. n. 1877.
 JOSEPH NEUGASS, Cle;k. April 2S. 3o-lOv
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
HARPER'S s MAGAZINE.

That HsTper's Magazine has become a literary institution and an educator Of the people half million Of readers know to- dAy.-Boston Transcript.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

SAYS the Los Angeles Star: The United States recruiting office, corner of Los Angeles and Arcadia streets, is getting quite Inst of names of young men who desire to visit Arizona and grow up with the country.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

pOAD STATION RECEIPTS READY 1Cprinted and for sale cheap at THE C+r- HEN office.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
The Citizen for Sale.

lVIHE ARIZONA CITIZEN IS FOR SALE | at an advantageous price 10 peiy1'SS or persons thoroughly famIiar with sns t printing business.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
THE OLD STAND.
GEORGE FOSTER, Proprietor ON DECK NIGHT AND DAY.

Corner Meyers and Mesilla Streets. A Quiet and Pleasant Place to Pass an Hour. The Latest Papers. Fiue Stock of Choice Liquors
 and Cigars.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

PLANK POWERS OF ATTORNEY FOR O sale cheap at CITIZEs office.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Sale of Town Lots.

There will be sold on the first Monday in April, 1877, at the Court House in tho town of Phenix, at II O'clo k A M.. twen- ty-f1ve town lots, tO the highest and best bidder for cash; and like number on tns first Monday in each succeeding month, until all the lots belonging to the PheniI Town Association are disposed OL
 In all cases, deeds will be executed sI the cost Of the purchaser.
 Dated, Phenix, A. T.. March 24, 1877.
 c. H. OURY, Chairman Board Trustees. JOHN W. SHOEMAKER, Secretary.
 March 3i. 26-H
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Post Office Directory.

Office hours on week days, from o'clock &. m. 10 o'clock D. m.
 Sundays the office will remain open half hour after the distribution of Inc mails from the East and West, and from 8 o'clock p. m. to 330 D. m.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
To Miners and MIllmen.

ASIT IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR the Territory, l am compelled to call ou miners, millmen and others for facts to be published in the forthcoming book enli. tied
 Mining Resources Of ArIzona.r Upon application in person, or by letter. to my office, blanks will be furnished 10 all parts of the Territory. Address:
 JAY G. KELLEY, Compiler,
 Prescott, Arizona April 28. 3O-n
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Ranch for Sale or Exchange.

ID ANCH KNOWN AS TORRION, CON' IL tanning i60 acres, with exclusive WaDsI right, and Improvements. Situated oh'
 mile south Of Tubac
 Terms reasonable, or will exchange loI Cattle. For further information appLy CHARLES A. SHIBELL,
 May I9 33-tf Tucson, Arizona
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
EASTERN MAILS.

EASTERN MAILS.
 ARRIVE DAILY:-At l2 m; Stage alternalea with horseback mail.
 DEPART. DAILY:-At II a. m; stage alternating as above. These mails close at 10 3Oa.m
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

GRAND OPENING
 LORD & WILLIAMS MILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN w spection one Of the Largest and Most Attractive Stock of Goods ever before Brought
 to this Market. The Grnat EasterA show 0i New
 Goods. They have arranged to have arrive Month ly, a complete assortment Of such goods as the people Of Arizona want, and they Can Sell them at Wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be
 Afforded from any other
 Market, Not excepting the much s1t0lled Quay
 mas route. We have taken especial pains 70 import ine goods, such as we can warrant, and in he line Of
 Nice things to Eat. Te have sIdeavored 10 cater 10 the tastes ,f all.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
WESTERN MAILS.

WESTERN MAILS. ARRIVE. DAILY:-At s o'clOck a. m.; stage alter. ating with horseback mail. DEPART. DAILY.-At4 { o'clock D. m.; alteratinR a, above. These mails close at S.3O o'clock ! p. ID. MAIL FOR TUBAC, MONUMENT AND CRTr, ITENDEN, departs weekly on Monday at ? a. m., and arrives weekly, on Saturday ss 5 a. m.
 MAIL FOR SASABE FLAT AND SONORA. MEXICO, departs weekly, on Monday zi II a. m., and arrives weekly, on Saturday at 10 a. m.
 MONEY ORDERS AND REGISTERED Mar. TER will receive attention at any time dur ing pOstoffice hours, except during diStri. button of mails. Sundays excepted.
 c. H. LORD, P. M. By c. R. DRAKE. Asst. P. M.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

ARIZONA CITIZEN
 Job Office
 - has a New and - FIRST CLASS MACHINE PRESS.
 together with A.
 NEW STOCK OF JOB TYPE LATEST EsIGNs AND STYLES
 -T The PRESENT OUTFIT OF JOB MATERIAL has been selected in the SAN FRANCISCO TYPE BOUNDARIES.
 with great care and - ssion al T'as te, Keeping in view the especial demands and needs Of this market.
 No necessity whatever to Send Outside Arizena fer Jsh Work. The late unanimous evidence Of all par ties who have had work done in this office is that they could have got NO BETTER DESIGNS OR FINISH
 -Of-- IN SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, And that the work was done as Cheap ly as If executed in the large cities,
 and at c - PRICE THAN EVER BEFORE
 KNOWN IN ARIZONA. PROMPT ATTENTION AND ExPEDI-
 TIoUs WORK.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09

The most ordinary Job will receive care ful and prompt attention, and the most difficult styles Of work Till have full jus- uce done 10 their merits.
Arizona citizen., 1877-06-09
Close Buyers

Will ind it to their advantage to examine our goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
 LORD & WILLIAMS
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-10-04
 LETTER FROM SAXET,
LEwIsBuRe, ARK, Sept. 24, 1877

LEwIsBURG, ARK, Sept. 24, 1871
 EDITOR DEMOCRAT: I am always glad to see 8 copy of your excellent paper, but the issue now before me which speaks so distinctly on the finance question, has a clear ring of defiance to your assailants that en- lists my warmest admiration. l am not sufficiently versed in the intri- cacies of this financial problem to give me the right to pronounce a positive opinion, and l am only re. cording my approval of the clear and distinct manner in which your views are given to the public-presenting, as you do, the figures upon which you base the faith that is in you. Your tables amount to a direct challenge to those of contrary views, and if those who assail your position cannot prove that you are wrong, it will not be for the lack of an oppor
 tunity to do so. This is mode of warfare that meets my appreciation. A mans words may be misconstrued or distorted, but not so with his fig
 ures. They cannot be laughed out of existence. There they are: if correct, they proclaim the ruth; if in error that error can easily be proven. You have taken the right way of demonstrating the correct ness of your theory, and your manly stand for the right will give the DEMOCRAT stronger claim to public good will and general approval.
 went out to the Carroll farm on Sunday to inspect that semi State institution. 1 found Mir. J, C. Ward in charge as agent for the lessee. He has about one hundred convicts at work, and cultivates some eight hundred acres of cotton, which Mir. w. thinks will yield a bale to the acre. The conyicts give evidence of being humanely treated, while being made to labor in atonement for the damage they have been to tn State
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-10-04

call upon the farmers, manufactur- CTS, miners, mechanics, merchants, and business men generally, of the State, to forward to me, at Little Rock, or to Gen. J. F. Pagan, Secre- tarv of the State Fair Association, specimens of minerals, farm pro- ducts of all kinds, manufactures, etc, first to be exhibited at the State Fair, which begins on the 22d of October, and then to be forwarded to Philadelphia. It is desired to load, at cost, one car with these articles, immediately on the close of the Fair, free transportation for which has already been profered by the St. Touis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway as far as St. Louis. The same company, through Hon. Thos. Essex, laad commissioner, proposes do transport free all arti- cles forwarded to this office, or to Gen. Pagan, for the purposes herein indicated.
 With the display of Arkansas products now being made at the St. Louis Exposition and Fair by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and South ern and the Little Rock and Ft. smith Railways, similar display by Col. T. B. Mills at Hamilton, Canada, together with our own State Fair, much will be accomplished to, ward making known the advantages possessed by Arkansas for the immi- grant and the investment of capital in manufacturing farming and other industrial pursuits. A permanent Exposition at Philadelphia, however, where parties in quest of new homes can at all times see for themselves the many varied advantages offered by our State, It is thought, will add greatly to this work. Will the peo pie of Arkansas assist this enter- prise? The cost to them will be nothing.
 Put up each article securely, leave with the railroad agent at any of the stations, and direct either to the Commissioner of State Lands or to Gen. J. F. Pagan, Secretary of the State Fair Association, Little Rock, marked "for permanent exhibition" Each article should be marked with the name of the doner, where grown, where from, where manufactured, etc.
 The newspapers of the State will confer a favor by publishing this circular and calling attention there to. The time being very short be- tween this and the Fair, a great ser vice may be rendered the State by them in urging the people to action at once.
 Which will be the banner county?
 J. N. SMlTHEE,
 Commissioner State Lands.