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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22

and heard every word that was said.
Corrections" cannot change the
status of the measure a garbled
journal cannot make unconstitu-
tional legislation valid. 1t would
be a genuine dispensation of mercy
to the house, if the Supreme Court
were to declare the dog law uncon-
stitutional.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22
On SatuEdaY, Mareh "a, IS77,

in legal hours, in front Of the Courthouse.
Memphis, Tennessee, proceed 20 sell. to the
highest bidder, gor cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
Lying in shelby county, Tennessee, II being
an undivided one fourth interest in 9% acres
lying in the town Of Cuba. and bounded thus:
Beginning at A.. Wares west line; thence
south To- west 10 links 10 a white-Oak marked
W Q, black,gum and poplar pointers; thence
south 7 chains 3 links to a stake whence west
800 north Is links to a email black-gum aud
large poplar pointers; thence west ID chains
As links to a stake in the Main street Of Cuba;
whence south 2Oo west 81 links to a hickory;
thence north TO- east with the Main street Of
Cuba chains and 3links to a stake 6 links
north of black-gum marked W U; the, &c east
u chains so Links to the beginning. this being
the interest conveyed to said Williams ky q.
b: Harrell BY deed recorded in the Registers
Office of said county, in Book 81, a z 3i5.
Also on the folio wing tract OF land lying in
section ), ranges . and !, Of the Eleventh sur
vegor's and sixth OWL district; Beginning
at the northeast corner of q 70-acre tract;
thence west 1872 chains 10 a stake on Joho
McGallum's east line north 6lAo vest "a links
from a blackjack marked NJ w; thence south
with McCnllum's line l0.3 chains to n stake
north 55Ao west 33% links from a White-oak
marked W and g; thence east lS% chains to
a stake ~ links east from = black-gum and
dogwood pointers marked W; thence north
1865 chains TO- the beginning, being 20 acres oil
the north end Of the 6ogan 7Q-acre tract
bought Of j. j. Wood, all Of which viii be
seen BY reference to the dsed.tosaid Williams,
Of record in Book s., pages az aud 473.
Levied on as the PROPERTY Of defendant, v.
W. Williams, to satisfy said judgment. inter
est and costs.
Memphis, 9Th day Of February, 1877.
g. l.. ANDERSON,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
By THOs, r. TAYLOR, ID. S.
Wilson & Beard, Attorn sys for plaintiff,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22

Cameron says the price of a breach of
promise is too high for the hard times.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22

WHEN gold gets down to 1044,
a fresh, crisp greenback looks
sweeter than ever before, This is
the lowest quotation since 1861.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22

As GRANT is packing his trunks
to move out of the White House, it
is time some other man was packing
up to come in.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-22

Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn
By THOs, r. TAYLOR, ID. S.
Wilson & Beard, AttOrn sys for plaintiff,
1ig.1iA-k11
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
The Aztec Mine.

We are pleased to get the following good news fro m this mine from Man ager John E. Magee:
 Cut No. is in 45 feet clear across the vein. Actual width of vein in the bottom of the cut, 13 feet and seven inches; solid body of metal six feet wide, with stringers on each side car rying four to six inches of metal. Depth of cut on the vein is twenty two feet. On both sides of the cut the vein is gradually enlarging and becoming more solid. The character Of the met al Is slowly changing, and assays from S1O0 to $310 per ton. The wall and country rock is granite and syenIte. The vein matter is fine quartz and some tale There are about sixty tons of ore on the dump. Grading for large ore dumps is under way, and general ly work Is being done to put everything in shape. Within ten days, will be hoisting ore from a depth of thirty five feet. Everybody about the mine is feeling good The miners eyes are glistening with pride over the devel- Opments we are making, and none bet ter satisfied than Superintendent Da- wis. By the middle of September, we will be ready to keep a ten-stamp mill running steadily.
 This is surely fine outlook for the Aztec, but no better than MT Magee has all along claimed would be the case. We regard prosperous future for the Aztec as foregone conclusion, and are assured that the Santa Rita noun tains all through that section are liter ally threaded with veins of silver ore equal to the Aztec. Mines. described elsewhere today, in the Orc Blanco district, are on the same general min eral belt, and alone must, ere long, fur, nish profitable employment for many mills and furnaces and many thous- lnds of miners.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Gov. McCOrmIck on Finances and
 Labor.

The New York Tribune has inter
 viewed Coy. Mccormick on these sub
 jects, and among hIs replies, that paper
 gives the following:
 Money is accumulated in all the
 banks and al all the money centres oi
 the country, and interest on conner
 cIal paper Is lower than it has been
 for years. There is no contraction of
 currency, but the greatest abundance
 and excess. It is idle currency and not want of currency that makes the trouble"
 First, the want of confidence is caus- ed by enormous losses in all kinds of investments made during a period of great imitation; second, the falling of Of the demand for manufactured pro- ducts, especially iron. This is not caused in any respec. by the want of currency, but of over production, not only in this country, but in all the mar kets of the world. The present distress Is general among commercial nations, with thls strong advantage Tn favor of the United States-that here our farm ing interests are in the highest degree prosperous, our crops are good, and our markets are excellent, mainly be- cause of the war in Europe In com parisOn with Oth-T nations, our finan- cial condition Is far better than any other, and now, just at the time when our prospects are most hopeful, comes this strike of labOrers against labor. This effort of men now employed, against men unemployed, this refusal to allow laborers to make their own contracts, forces distress and rum. merely that certain men now in employ ment should be kept in employment and paid higher wages. In the natur- al course of things, when crops con- 10 move, wages would have and soon the money set in motion by the crops would quicken all industries and give employment to many idle people. The money now lying idle is ready for active use the moment it can be safely employed. A long pc riod of dejecIion was about to be fol- {. lowed with activity and industry. ! Surely nothing has happened in the history of mankind so plainly injudi- ,Ious as the present movement to pre- rent laboring men from working Even if they were asked to work for wages, they had no right Q prevent other people from working. | The first effect of their movement is to make it still more difficult to get food l0d labor, and to bring distress upon he very class of people to which they lalm to belong Il
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
PinaI MInes beyond Florence.

Wm. c. Garrett writes us August 4,
 as follows:
 Times are dull owing to the King
 mine discharging all its working men
 but seven. As to the King mine itself, it supersedes all other mines yet dis covered in Arizona. left Tucson last February and came to the King, but found everything located and no chance for strangers, so I went prospecting land ten miles northwest of the King,
 l discovered a mine known as the Key holds, after which the district is nam led. This mine is sixty five feet in
 width, and can be traced six miles by its mineral, and on it are thirteen loca- tions of 1900 feet each. have q shaft down fifty feet on the Randolph, and the vein is about 90 per cent. free mill ing ore. Experts pronounce it a No.
 mine. Six miles from the new district is the pinery, and all the mines, Inclu- ding the King, will have 10 build road to tLat point to get timber for building and mining purposes. The road will star. from P Hewitt's station and run through Randolph district Tn a short time. Every class of business, l think, will be in a prosperous condi- tion.
 l have lately discovered the Emma mine, the ledge bearing silver some thing similar to the Randolph. It runs almost north and south, and inter- sects the Randolph about two miles to the northwest. All the leige is loca- ted and recorded. On every claim on the Emma lode, there has been discov cred good paying ore, and I think we will soon have a large camp of miners.
 There is no water in the Gila at the crossing between Florence and the King mine, and unless ram comes in his month, it Is doubtful if any corn will be raised in the valley thIs year.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Items from The Sentinel.

l. Col c. E. Gray, Chief Engineer
 was here this week and asserts posi-
 lively the railroad company's intention
 of pushing on to Gila Bend without
 delay.
 Castle Dome shipped one lot of sixty tons of clean ore this week by rail tc San Francisco.
 ! Average receipts of freight at Colo rado Station since July l, have been twenty y-nine to thirty tons per day.
 Kenyon Station has been purchased by William c. Ayres, long and favor ably known on Kerens & Mitchell's stage line, who will do his best to make travellers comfortable.
 The village council has accepted the railroad company's proposition of con- structing the levee for ten cents per cubic yard, about three cents per cart load
 Hoods engineers are running final line from Gila Bend down the river to iconnect with the final location made by them last spring between Yuma and Gila city.
 Samaniego's, Noriega's and J. Con- .treras' trains were sent out this week by Col. J. NJ. Barney, with full loads. This shipment cleans out all citizen and government freights now here
 One hundred and twelve thousand hounds of machinery, being part of q ten-stamp quartz mill, were shipped this week by David Neahr, per teams of Brash, Amabisca, \. ContrcraS, Pe- reg, Arujo and Mendoza The ma chinery was consigned to White & Allen, Globe district in Pinal county, but as W. & A are only contractors for erecting mills, we guess the truck be longs to the Miami or some of the oth- CT fiourishing companies in that dis trict.
 The Gila and the Cocopah arrived from up river last Saturday. The Co., copah brought down some S30,00O in silver bars from the McCrackin ard Fl Dorado Canyon mills She took up 213 cords of wood, leaving some 400 or 500 cords still at Cottonwood Island. On the 7th, the Gila took up a large force of mechanics to finish the Signal Company's mIll at Green wood. When they get through that, they are to go to work on the new Me Crackin mill, and then they will go over to Globe to put up the mill ship ped from here this week. Several par ties have come out to the vicinity of to begin active operations on the Constancia, Apache Chief and other mines
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
WOrkinEmen's Political Move
 meuIS.

COLUMBUS, August 11.-At a Work. ingmen's mass meeting tonight, reso- lutions were adopted denouncing the Republican and Democratic parties, and Hayes Administration, and ap- pointed an Executive Committee to take steps toward calling State and County Conventions to nominate full Worklngmen's ticket.
 CINCINNATI, August IA mass meeting here of Workingmen nomina- ted full State ticket: Governor. L. H. Boad, of Cincinnati; LieutenantGov- ernor, Frank Skadd, of Cleveland {; State Treasurer l.. A Hinc. of Cincin natl; Clerk of Supreme Court, Freder- ick Amesperger, of this city.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special Dispatches to THE CITIZEN, by
 United states Telegraph Line.

1 SAN DIEGO, August 17.-Eastern news meagre. Labor troubles now chiefly confined to the mining regions in Pennsylvania
 From report of annual meeting of the Texas Pacific company, held al Philadelphia, August fl, it appears that the receipts of the road last year were Q million and quarter; net prof its over $300,000; entire liabilities un der nineteen millions.
 The President announces the inten- tion of giving the charge of Indian outposts to experienced army officers and doing away with agents altogether.
 The hostile Indians in Montana are now thirty-five miles south of Ban mock They have massacred many settlers. Generals Gibbon and How ard are following with troops.
 The war in Europe seems going steadily against Russia, the Turks hay ling developed unexpected military ability. The Russians have withdrawn ! their main armies to north of Balkan mountains In Asia the Russian for ces have been largely reinforced and are on the aggressive. The Turks are exterminating the Christian population in Bulgaria. TheIr atrocities exceed belief. In two districts alone they have butchered upwards of 15,000 men, women and children. This news is given by British correspondents and is therefore not exaggerated.
 Greenbacks 951l@9524; Silver 42s@ .5lf discount.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Terrible Indian Fight In Montana
ollowIng tells its own story

Following tells its own story;
 DEER LODGE, August 11.-9 d. m.-
 w. II. Edwards has just arrived from
 Big Hole, bringing accounts of ter rible battle between Gibbons command and the Neg Perces on the Big Hole river on August g. Gibbons con- mand, consisting of 1S2 men, (17 off cers, 133 regulars and g citizen volun- teers) crossed over from Ross Hole 10 near the Big Hole. On the same night they moved down all the troops with the exception of few left to guard the transportation a few miles above, close to the Indian camp, which was made on the Big Hole, about three miles below where the Little Root and Bannack trail crosses. At daylight this morning the fight opened by the volunteers firing on and killing an In dian going after horses. Hard fight ing occurred for the next two hours, during which tune many men and In diane were killed The soldiers then on the lodges, but were repuls ed in the attempt The Indians then to cut them off from a high wooded point, but the soldiers charged ard driving the Indian advance from 1t, held it and at once fortified it. The fighting continued here all day and was still progressing at eleven o'clock Captain Logan and Lieutenant Brad ley were killed; General Gibbon, Cap tain Williams and LIeutenants Cool idge, English and Woodruff were wounded, General Gibbon only slight ly. The messenger says he thinks 100 Indians were killed, and nearly half -he command, including citizens, were killed or wounded.
 A later dispatch says eighty out of one hundred are killed or wounded.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Maricopa Affairs.

4 friend writes Us on the 18th as fol lows:
 It is fearfully dry. Thermometer 1O7 here now. have made an even bet of twenty-five cents that il never rains again. To make things a little com fortable, we have bushels of large, red checked peaches and luscious grapes, 10 say nothing of our wagon loads of melons, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and such sass" and we have more barley and wheat than anybody. Firstclass flour is selling at from $4 to S4.5O per 100 pounds. Salt River Is very low. but there is a good,y river below the dams of all the canals. Some rood citizen, not having the fear of God be. fore his eyes, has furnished E. NJ. Fur man with means tO cut his irons and escape from jail, and has not come back NPi
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Mining in Orc Blanco District.

Governor Stafford returned last Tues
 day, from the Gro Blanco mining dis ltrict, and obliges us with the follow | ing news from that section:
 Last May a company of six mer commenced prospecting in that dis
 trict. Their names are J. M. Kirkpat
 rick, Isaac Flood and two sons, Jos
 Haskins and J. B. Richmond. These
 gentlemen first went to Sonora, intend ing to engage in mining in that State
 having previously obtained a fail knowledge of Its mineral resources, but they were met near the border with
 what they considered exorbltant exac
 tions in the way of duties on the prop erty they took with them, and this fact induced them to return to their own
 country, which circumstance, we be
 lieve, will not only prove of great ad- vantage Co them but of vast importance
 to the best interests of the Territory They have already done much work as follows: A shaft has been sunk on the Alaska eighty feet deep. A cross cut at forty feet shows the ledge to be we'll defined and fourteen feet wide, IeIght feet of which is mineral. An assay was made each foot across the eight feet, and the lowest grade ore proves worth $37 per ion, ani the high lest $146O. showing an average across the cut of S46135.
 On the Warsaw a shaft has been sunk forty feet The vein is eight feet wide, and assays across the lode show the lowest grade to be worth Sl5 per ton; the highest S613, and an average of $24S.
 On the Idaho a shaft has been sunk twenty-eight feet deep. The ledge is fourteen feet wide 9 ith metal all the way across, which assays an average of $500 per ton.
 The Montana is a lode about thirty feet wide, and the whole width is gale na ore, carrying from $50 to $1O0 per ton in silver.
 These gentlemen have made several other locations that prospect remarka- ply well, and have sufficient ore in sight to warrant them in erecting a furnace. They expect ID the course of a month to have 5-ton per day fur mace in running order, and they have an abundance of ore of the quality above described 10 keep it running. MT. Kirkpatrick is an experienced and has full set of tools with him; he has also had a large ex perience in erecting smelling furnaces and smelling ores. They also have a complete assaying apparatus, so that they work advlsedly in all they do. They are all hard-working, temperate, men; do all their own work, aud there IS not drone amongst them. Such men are blessing to any coun- try, and we anticipate that their opera tions will soon practically demonstrate the richness of their mines.
 Holden & Co. are working on the Louisa, adjoining the Warsaw, with good prospects Miller & Hawes are also working on a mine in the same which is prospecting very well and Pat OM, ara and Miller have discovered a large amount of galena ore just over the Sonora line that as- says from s1OO to $500 in silver.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18

WORK will soon be commenced on rbe Inca mine in the Aztec district This mine is on the Empress of India lode, known twenty odd years ago as the wonderful Mascasa lode. Ne,srs. Wrightson, Grosyenor and Pumpellv. ID 1S56-7 or s, prospec,ed the Mascasa with the most satisfactory results. In their old reports of the Santa Rita min ing company, the Mascasa was con sidered the best lode they had. As says were made from this lode show ing $400 to $500 and as high as s987 per ton The Inca is one of the finest locations on the lode Assays of the ore, lately made in San Francisco. show S75S per ton The mine has been incorporated in San Francesca.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18

SONORA affairs, according to our lat est reports, continue uncertain. Many fear that revolution will soon be upon the State. A Guaymas letter of date August , says: Nothing has yet trans pired as to the programme of General Huerta on the Sonora elections. The people are still Tn suspense. The Mar iscal and Serna party unite in saying they will not stand or submit to a new election. They do no; acknowledge the right of Diaz 10 interfere in the State elections. The report that Pes queira returned clothed with great off, eial powers, is a mistake; he returns as a prlyate citizen. The State Con gress has granted leave of six months absence, with salary, to Gov. Mariscal, but the Governor will not leave until he knows how the State elections will be treated by Gen. Huerta. Some say Huerta is carefully examining the pub lie mind and will act accordingly.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18

THE Mesilla Independent says one mercantile firm, (evidently H. Lesin sky & Co., during the last twelve months imported one million pounds of merchandise and exported ,50O,OO pounds of copper and 50,OOO pounds of wool, and that a member of the firm will examine into the Texas route, via Austin, with a view to ship by it. The same paper says a vein of good coal has been discovered about fifty miles from Mesilla,
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
Prosperous Future.

The average indications are in favor
 of 6 prosperous future for most parts
 of Arizona. We listen with great care
 to the many reports as to what is go- ing on and what advancement is be-
 ing made, and there seems no doubt but the future of mining, stock grow ing and tllage of the soil in Arizona,
 is encouraging. This is year of ex- eessive drought all over the Pacific Coast, and Southern California espe- cially is suffering for want of rain
 The Prescott Enterprise, as quoted on our first page, tells the story for Yava- pal. The late crops in the Salt and
 Gila valleys, we are informed, will be partial failures, except in the Upper
 Gila in this county, where the corn
 crop will be quite abundant But bar ley and wheat crops have been very
 good and large. The fruit crop in Salt
 and Gila valleys is above an av&rage
 in quantity and of excellent quality
 Here the July hail storm destroyed much of the fruit, yet there will be considerable of fair quality Sheep and cattle continue in good order Our meat markets are supplied with excel lent beef and mutton, fattened on grass alone. Here and there water regarded as permanent has disappeared, yet we have not heard of a single case of suf
 fering or death among the sheep and cattle tor want of water, and stock men are preparing to enlarge their herds by importatiOns from California and Texas Our season for rain will not be past for month yet. Pima county can stand a severe drought as we'll as any and perhaps with less dam age than any other As to mining prospects, what Is said in to-day's pa- per IS to the point and surely encour- !. aging. We have some reason to be- lieve that the Pima Mining Company will ere long go to crushing their mil lions of tons of pay ore, and perhaps further develOpe the mine Our latest advices from San Francisco operators with regard to the mines in the Santa Rita and surrounding mountains, are all that we ought to expect As soon ! as the weather cools of on the Cobra ! do desert, we are assured that CalIfOr- l mans interested in mines to the south 1 ward, will come and give personal at tention to them. While money Is and | may continue for some time scarce, | the accumulation of valuable prop I erty is quite rapid. All in all the fu- ture so far as can be foretold or fore seen, Is rather cheerful than otherwise
 Then the indications are that the railway will soon be extended east i- from Yuma from l50 to 200 miles. This will tend to the speedy improvement |, ~f ti-s nil~ ~Nllny. ona attract the bulk of the shipping of the Territory to the valley. It will enable many mine own CTS to either ship or reduce ores al home, which cannot now be handled I without loss. IL is almost a business necessity for the Southern Pacific to i, do what The Sentinel says Chief En- glneer Gray says will be jone-extend the road eastward without delay Ii
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
DENVER. CoIorado. was thrashed il

DENVER, Colorado. was thrashed in a lively manner about the Sth instant, by hail storm Windows on the west side of houses were nearly all broken. Some tin roofs were lifted of, and a few structures blown down. and also trees in all parts of the city Rain also fell and some baSements were suddenly filled with water. The storm was the heaviest ever known in Denver
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18

JUDGE PAUL WEBER announces that he has purchased the Prescott Enter prise. Those who have a personal ac- quaintance with the Judge, are free to express the belief that he will intro duce much more truth and honor into its columns.
Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18

WE learn that Maj Downing of Las Cruces, who shot a Mexican teamster lately in southern Colorado, was re- leased upon giving S4,OO0 bail to await the action of the District court. We have known Maj. Downing for some time, he is peaceable well disposed citizen, and must have had just cause for his action in the premises.-Mesi- lla News, August II.