The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-09-06
MONDAY.

Mr. Henry Connolley arrived to-day rom the Rio Grande, by special ambulance.
 The Tiptep Company have shut down work for the present on their Foye Mine, and discharged the hands.
 The new Theatre building is being plas- tered, and in many respects greatly im- proved from the original plans.
 Pima doctors cure by "laying on hands" and when the patient dies the doctors are clubbed to death. Very proper.
 Mir. Drew, candidate for the Sheriffalty, has been on trip to the Valleys south ol this place, and reports good success in the canvassing line.
 Allen CuIIember an old pioneer settler in Yavapai County, is up from his home in Walnut Grove, and reports all kinds of farm produce as growing rank and fast.
 A letter from the Peck states that finders Alexandra, which is said to be very lively camp at present.
 Company II, 18th Inft., en route for Camp Thomas, left Yuma on Thursday last. The other companios of this Regiment are en their way North.
 V. V. t1Cdu 0lll Olhtio, liOh Walnut Grove, last evening. Mir. B., re- purchased last week and wlll immediately set the stamps in motion.
 MT. R. Grigsby, recently from Colorado, and who enjoys the reputation of being a very able mill man, has been engaged by Mr. Buffum as amalgamator at the Crook mill.
 Judge Kutz, from Bradshaw, has been doing Prescott for the past two or three days. The Judge has been residing at Bradshaw for elght years and has unlimited confidence in the mines thereabout.
 Ben. Baker, of the Santa Fe mail, line came up from the Verde on the last day of August, and informs us that the rains have been much heavier with the people along the Verde than here at Prescott.
 Sheriff Boxers has received a telegram from Tucson stating that the runaway pair, Blackburn. Waite, were being held subject to orders from Prescott. The Sheriff has decided to send deputies from this place for them.
 The California people continue the cry of ''the Chinese must go" and they send them By the last two stages from California, Prescott has received seven head of these romantic emblems of filth, low wages and usurpcrs of white men's rights.
 GEN. SHERMAN CoMINe.-Gen. Wilcox received dispatch from General Sherman, to-day, saving he would visit his Depart ment before returning to Washington. The wires went down between San Diego and hafo fha r,,as xrae fad
 Coles A. Bashford, son of L. Bashford, of the firm of l.. Bashford < Co, who has been salesman in the house here for several months, left bv stage for San Francisco Sunday morning, where he will probably act as clerk for his father, who resides in that city.
 A bluish roan, stray horse, followed S. c. Rogers from Prescott to Williamson Valley last week, where he was stopped and put in pasture, but jumped out and went on to Walnut Creek. He is branded J.S. F., all connected in the form of a monogram. This may put the owner on his track.
 OPENING OF ScuooL .-The Prescott Free Academy, under the management of NJ. H. sherman, the efficient teacher, commenced its Fall fern this morning. The attend anee to-day was quite general, and 1t is thought the average will reach near 200 during the term.
 Messrs. Bowers & Richards received about S2,000 in gold bullion from their Senator mill this morning. Now that there Is an abundance of water for milling and placer purposes. gold bullion will begin to make its appearance around town, as in days of old. Plenty of bullion, wood, water and grass just now.
 E. s. Junior is in town from his mine the Cougar, situate in Bradshaw districts. He informs us that he has sunk four shafts on the lead, and each has large body of high grade ore. MT. Junior has good mine, a mill-site, and thinks soon of mak- ing arrangements for a mill to work his valuable ore. Hope he will succeed.
 The Peck stage which arrived in town on Saturday evening, brought in two bars of bullion worth $500, making S40.000 for the month of August. Twenty thousand dollafs will cover the expense of milling and mining the same, which leaves twenty thousand clear. A business that will pay a profit of $20000 every thirty days we con sider quite healthy and desirable one for the owners and the county.
 FREIGHT TRANS ARRIvrSe.-The train of BryaE was at Marines on Saturday last. % days out from Ehrenberg. The train of Rusher X Atkinson, on the same day, WAS at old Camp Date Creak. It ssailedr from oH the 9th of last month, but owing to the s'roagh sea- from Cuttings to Marines, was anchored much of the time, and made but lisle headway. Geo. Youne's fast-freight team will be in tomorrow.
 Joe. Walker and Henry Herbert returned yesterday afternoon from an electioneering trip to the Verde. They report everything lovely in that sirectinn, and Walker stock at a premium Joe. Drew is still cut rust ling and supds in encouraging reports of voters docking to his standard The three corncrtd fight for the office of Sheriff is an interesting ont, and is absorbing nearly ali 4. .-