The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-01-18

Governor Gosper has fine vaquero horse which he wishes to sell or trade for good American brood mase-
 Mir A. Allen, an excellent mechab.c, is adding improvements to his house on Carle- ton street.
 J. NJ. Moore, from Upper Kirkland Val ley, was in town this forenoon, purchasing supplies for his ranch.
 Mfr Blair, of Burnt Ranch, was in town to-day, accompanied by his better half
 ]. NJ. ochoa, of Sanford, came in last evening from his home, and will remain a for few days in Prescott.
 Tiptop was worth on the streets of San Francisco, this morning, g before the Board opened.
 Kirkland Valley is now thickly settled for distance of IS miles with industrious citi- zens, and the lands command high prices.
 The roads which have been almost inn passible for large freight teams for some time, are beginning to dry, and the fonnda- ton becoming solid.
 Rich strikes are reported In Humbug District. Nothing unusual, however, from that section, which is permeated with silver threads.
 A large number of two and four-horse teams afe finding lucrative employment just now furnishing fuel for the use of Uncle Sam, at wiiippIe.
 Geo. Haacc has been moving his fine band of sheep from ilIe IUwer Agua Fria to the Verde Valley. where he intends to remain during the winter, and personally superin- tend their care.
 SUPREME CoURT.-This Court, Chief Jus tice French, and Associates Tweed and Porter, has been in session two days, hear ing argument in the appealed case of Cole IS. Bean. Judge Rush is now speaking.
 Loud and discordant singing, not such as ''softens, soothes and lulls to sleep" filled the air last night in the western portion of the town, and bordered very closely on to disturbance of the peace.
 PRESS SHIPPED.-The press, supply of paper, and other material for the Salt River Herald, were shipped from San Francisco, yesterday, by rail, and will be in Yuma about Sunday next.
 Geo. W. Curtis, wife and daughter, will leave for San Francisco on Saturday morn ing's stage. The old folks will be gone five or six weeks, and Miss Hettie will remain there and go 10 school.
 We learn from Messrs Bowen, Knowles & Go, that during the last 30 days, their re- ceipts have amounted to over ten thousand dollars, and that in the face of tax-paying and general scarcity of money, and only a portion of their stock of goods on hand.
 LADIES UNToN.--This society will meet, this Wednesday evening, at tbe resi- dence of Judge and Mrs. H. H. Cartier, on Alarcon street. The ladies ofPrescott, their families and gentleman friends, are cordially invited to be present.
 Northern Arizona has companies of troops, against 12 in Southern Arizona, aud still the cry comes from the never contented people of Pima, that Yavapai and Northern Arizona has everything, while the poor peo- pie of the South are unprotected and entire forgotten.
 MT. Henry M. Stanley's return from Africa is sort of triumphal march. At all the principal points he has touched he has been lonored with the most marked attentions, he latest reported demonstration of the kind being at Cairo, Egypt.
 The Large Manufacturers and the Treas Try Department agree in opposing a re- | iuction Of the tax OF tobacco, but for very | different reasons. The government wants | he revenue, and the manufacturers do not want the competition of small dealers.
 Yesterday we neglected Billy McCloud, d our notices of those who came under Marshal Dodson's care. Billy took notion o chaw up Cheap John, and Dodson trotted | i'm over to Cartter's Court, where he con- ributed his mite towards the cause of pop liar education and was admonisked to de- part in peace.
 John Arden, who was for number of | Iears engaged in sheep raising in this sec ion of Arizon3, is now residing at Fort | Concha, Texas, and still follows his old avo- ;ation, that of shepard, and is much pleased with that country for the raising of sheep.
 White & Denman's sheep herd, of about ! 1000, under the management of Charles Shower, Is wintering near Black Canyon. n the SD ring they will move on to North western Texas.
 In mentioning the case of the Territory | IS. Thomas Dunbar, in our daily of Monday, ye, or the compositor, made it read as fol ows: "Court ordered that the writ be dis missed at the cost of the petitioner, an error appearing in the record"
 The word "ann should have been mo which would have made the article read no error appearing in the record"
 We have thought proper to correct this light error from the fact that we hear that | lis holiness, Judge French, has been