Salt River herald., 1878-09-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.

Saturday evening. The speaker was introduced by Judge Cox. Mir. Da- wis spoke for nearly three hours, and was listened to by an audience Ofover four hundred people. He consumed most of his tune on the abuses of the postal service in Mohave county, and invited MT. Stevens, who was present, to reply to charges made. MT. Davis then said that in the event of his cleo tiOn he would try to secure aid from the government to build road over the MogollOn mountains; the i'm provement of the Colorado river; to sink artesian wells in various places; to erect capitol buildings, thereby settling that question; the erection of n college, free for all, giving the poor tine advantage of an education in the higher branches, and many other things the man of many words prom ised, but as he will never go to con gross it would only be wasting space to enumerate.
 Hon. II. s. Stevens followed next. He remarked that for the first time in four years he was called upon to make speech. His inexperience, together with the fact that he was suffering with a bad cold, would be sufficient excuse for making his talk short He stated that many changes detrimental to the mail service in MOhave county were made previous to taking his seat in congress, and that he had rectified them aS far as possible. He stated that various committees had under consideration bills of much benefit tO Arizona Upon finishing he retired to take a social drink with AlonzO, while Hayes. of Prescott, put in q worl in behalf of Davis
 Judge J. II. Cox and \. D. Lemon followed, occupying but few mo ments, speaking in behalf of King $. Woolsey. The meeting broke up about midnight, and upon invitation of Davis and Stevens, the crowd smiled" at q cost in the neighbOr- hood of $500, which amount was promptly paid the following morning, by the man from the extreme north west and the fellow from the fur southeast.
 A good room, 30x16 feet In Henry Garfias' house, has been rented and the primary department of the public school will open next Monday morning under the tuition of Miss Martha Edgar. Both departments will be under the supervision of the principal, MT. Conrad, and no pains will be spared to give every pupil the beet possible opportunity for instruc- tion. Over eighty pupils will attend, and there are not enough books in town for one-third of the number. The few books Obtsinable are of sev- eral different series, so that it is i'm. possible to classify the pupils or even tO hear the different recitations dur ing school hours. The only remedy for this serious defect is to have a suf- f1cient number of books belonging to the school for the use of the pupils. It is proposed to raise the necessary funds for this purpose by subscrip- tion. The books will be ordered in San Francisco, to be sent by mail in packages of four pounds each, and will cost comparatively little. Being the property of the school and under direct control of the teachers, they will last several years and be great saving to parents as well as a lasting benefit to the children. It is expect cd that parents will contribute sufii- cicnt to at least cover the expense of books for their own children, and it is hoped that business men and others will gladly aid an enterprise of such acknowledged utility. As time is precious, subscribers arc requested to be as prompt as possible. Subscrip- tiOus received by the school trustees or the principal.
 A few since, by request, Messrs, B. M. Watts, Win. Isaacs, E. K. Buker and P. Moore visited the wine cellar of J. M. Cotton, for the purpose of testing some wine manufactured from this years crop of grapes on the ranch of MT. Gordon Wilson, and for which MT. Cotton is sole agent. These gentlemen, having large experience in the wineries of California and af- ter duly testing and canvassing this wine, they being experts in such matters) unhesitatingly pronounced it to Do far superior in body and flavor tO any found there Of like age. and assert that if it improves with tune. as other wines, it will be second to none.
 Marriage is getting quite the rage now, A very quiet compact took place last Sunday at the residence of NIT. ChenOwth, about three miles be-