The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-01
Miller & Bro- arressed on an order of tt

T Miller & Bro, arrested on an order of tk,
 Court in Bankruptcy, requiring the Marsha to keep them in custody, or to execute ans give bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for their appearance before the sais 1 Court in Bankruptcy. from time to time. ant further, to deprive them from disposinc O certain property to the detriment of ffeil creditors. appeared in Court, this afternoon
 and asked to be released from the custod,
 of the Marshal without giving said bond Mr. Morgan appeared for respondents and
 Thomas Fitch for plaintiffs. Argument.
 were made for and against the motion of the prisoners, but up to the time of going te
 press, four o'clock, the order of the Cour,
 had not been made.
 The recent rain with every indication oi
 more, will cause the various mountain streams
 to run as they did in yeaLs past. supplyin
 placer mines with the means of working the
 innumerable gravel beds that contain large
 quantities of the precious metal, and the re-
 suit will soon be felt by every person in the
 community On former years when water
 was psenty, several hundred miners could be
 found on the different streams washing out the gold dust and, the revenne coming from that source was one of more than ordinary importance.
 "OURs. .-Robertsons celebrated comedy. "Ours, was performed at Whipple Theater last light. to a crowded house, notwitistand- ing the prevailing rain storm. Business and the inclemency of the weather, combined, prevented us from attending, but we learn that all the characters were admirably sus- tained, and everybody delighted with the play. The following was the cast of char acfers: Mrs. Martin, as Lady Shendryn:' :' Mrs. Smith, Blanche Haye;n Mrs. Kautz, Mary Netley;r Lieut. Whitney, Sir. Alex ander Shendryn,n Bart; Lieut.. Kingsbury, "Augus McAlIister;" Col. Martin, aHugh Chalcot;" Lieut.. Thomas, sergeant Jones"
 DROPPED DEAD.-Henry Darr, native of Pennsylvania, aged about 40 years, drop ped dead this morning at Urfcrs lodging house, opposite Office Row, on Ct,rtez St. Mir. Darr has been in the employ of the Peck Company, and has for sometime been sui fering from what appeared to be incippient consumption. This morning he arose as usual, dressed himself, walked out into the hall and dropped down dead. MT. Darr was formerly employed in the New York mill at Silver City, Idaho, where he was well known and much respected.
 Granite Creek is up on her heels, and has taken on the airs of quite a respectable stream. Still we fear she will have to go back again without oyerhowing her banks, unless the clouds are reinforced bya addition from California, where they appear to have more Iain just now than is needed. An old resident stops us in the middle of this para graph with the assurance that he thinks we shall plenty of rain yet, before it quits.
 Frederick < Hill received large lot of tin and other material for their tin shop, to- day, per Bryan's teams. Several new pieces of improved machinery for use in their es- tablishment were also received, and placed in proper position for use. There estab- lishment now presents the appearance of factory in the large cities, and is by far the best concern of the kind in the Territory.
 THE RAINFALL LAST NIGHT.-We are in. debted to Chief Operator, Hunter, through his obliging messenger, Yowles Oliver, of the Signel Service, for the following report | of the rainfall on the 27th:
 Commenced at 4 p. m., and stopped about | 10 p. m. Total fall during the time .75-or Ii of an inch.
 Barometer lower this morning t2Stl) than ,ver before noted at this station. Corrected | barometer, 297S.
 Four mammoth teams heavily laden with Iuartermaster and citizen freight, belonging O J. NJ. Bryan, under the management of Blue, an experienced tcamster, uhloaded to- lay. These teams were fortunate in getting n before the storm of yesterday and to-day, which is leaving the roads soft and almost mpassable for heavy laden teams.
 J. W. Rover, was hung at Reno New, on he 18th inst for the murder of I. N Sharp hree or four years ago. Rover died protest ng his innocence. He was attended on the caffold by Rev. Fathers Petit and Tormey Iho administered to him the cancellations f the church. The rain last night was welcome, not n it broke into the calculations many who had their tickets bought and made to attend the theatre, nd were de tered from going on account of ne threatening aspect of the weather. We iould esteem it good fortune to be detaiu- l from attending even wedding feast, by l rain storm nowadays. John Dixon has gone to his ranch in kull Valley, to guard of intruders. Mr. s ]. has owned the ranch some seven or eight ears, and had only temporarily moved to ,wn for the winter, when to his astonish- ent, he was informed that parties were lotting and blaming some means whereby ley might jump the place and leave John . lt in the cold. THE RAINFAII.-In thetwenty- -four hours ,ding at 8 p. m, yesterday, 36 inches of ? in fell in this city, according to statistics 2 the Signal Service office, making the total | IT the season, s663 inches, against 9.29 at 2 ] the same time in 1877, and 22, ,19 in 1876. | s. F. Chronicle, Feb. 20. The attention of our readers is called to r le postponement notice of Sheriffrs sale, r herein A. 0. Moves is plaintiff. The prop F -ty is to be sold on the 2d ot March, in c ont of the Courthouse door in this village, Id the lucky purchaser, whoomsoever he f' ay be, will get valuable property.
 ". H. Weber received letter from his other, Paul Weber, Esq, dated ar San rancisco, few days since, in which he s ated that he was about to leaye for Pres it, and would have the company of Geo. ' :. Curtis and Hon. Clark Churchill on his . urney homeward.
 Paul Weber writes that he had met Chas. P lent Esq, the newly appointed Justice