The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-04-04

'HS party oi 1V,VVV or more that may cscor
 General Grant from San Francisco 10 Pbila
 delphia.
 Tomorrow the elegant saloon 6xture.
 belonging to Biting of the Bank Fx
 change, are to be closed out at suction. Bt
 on hand with your gIeenbacks gentlemen
 lbe sale takes place at II a. m.
 Mime. Bonsparte, the famous old lady ol
 Baltimore, is very sick, and there is little
 nope oi her recovery. She is in her ninety.
 sixth year and used to say she was going to
 live to be hundred.
 CetewayO, the Zulu King, has been known
 to kill fifty women and children to feed his golden eagles. A soldier of his with q scratch on his back must be killed as one
 who turned from the enemy.
 Owing to the state of the weather or something else, the telegrAphic wires are hard 10 control anu refuse 10 work as they should th.rtf"re news thr. ugh that chan nel Is cut of to-day
 Mr. Martindalc, who has for long time credIiably flied p sition in ihe mercantile establishment of Bowen, Knowles & Co, is about to leave for country where the atmosphere Is tseiie more moist.
 Whiteiaw Reid is sending newsbovs to Kansas, where he rrovides them homes anu wolk on farms. The country might have been spared poor editor if somebody had done the same by him when he Eas Il boy.
 W. J. Tompkins has received great many signatures to petitions asking the Postmaster General to appoint a special mail agent for Arizona. Something the Territory actually needs.
 r. W. Blake, the very popular manager of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S business in Prescott made tlIe first shipment from Prescott to the new station at Gila Bend. The ship mcnt being about 10000 pounds of ba.e bullion from the Agua Fria smelter.
 Dan Thorne, who is acknowledged to be one of the best financiers in tlns section, let thetimes change as they may. always has a full house. The Cabinet" ss a popular. we'll regulated establishment, and does more business than any similar house east of San Francisco.
 The Pittsburg Dispatch, believing it to be fixed fact that J fl Davis is to succeed NPA'sAf VI IthHtht DihNfs Oi nASHtcSlh ''iIc last representative the cOiOTed race will ever have ln any American Congress" thinks sectional lincs will toe so orawn that Davis vii very possibly wish to be elected Presi- dtut of the United States.
 Tucson is to be we'll supplied with law yeTs. Formerly they had more than could find business. Now. however, Pres coit has sent three, and Los Angeles two, who are to be adG1d to the lisI Tucson is cheap place, and we conjecture that ihc Blackstones of that city will be mod eIa,e in their demands.
 A new solar theory has been advanced by Prof. Ben jamin Pierce, of Howard Cniver- sity. He holds that around the entire solar sytem is spherical shell of matter, from which Iall the mttcors which supply the heat To the sun, and to which return the comets and meteors whicn pass around the sun.
 Nineteen Days from Chicago.
 Hon. W. NJ. Butfdm got notice this morn | ing of the arrival at Yuma, of d car load of ' bacon, lard, etc, for him, only nineteen days from Chicago. The ear will at once T be ordered tO GIla Bend. where the freight will be loaded on teams for Prescott, and if ! no bad luck overiakes 1t, it will reach Pres | colt within thirty-i days from the time it left Chicago.
 MT. Crum, the gentleman from Oaks and l Willows, IS once more in town in the charge I of the Sheriff. Crum was brought in here few days since charged with infringing | on the Revenue laws. This time it is for | selling COW to Mr. Marlow, of TIptop, | which belonged to George Cornell of WIl- ! iamsOn Valley. Crum is in for all the Iittie | ctums that ne can conveniently gather up, l cut this time it seems he gbbbled a whole | loaf, for which he will be Impelled to an- swer and pay pretty scvereiy.
 REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.
 James Douglas and Tom Burke. two of | Williamson Valleys oldest stand bys, have ! disposed of their ranches in that Valley. | MT. Douglas has solu to a gentleman by the name of Cowen and NIT. BaTKe to another named Wright Mcssrs. C1wen ana Wright ! have recently arrived from California each bringing with inn a large family with the oi making Williamson Valley their permanent home. What Messrs. Dou- glas and Burke propose Co engage in for the future we have not learned.
 Mir. Geo. Ba1ghart, of Chino Valley, in digging new cellar found the bones of three old ancicnts. who evidently perished pr were killed and buried in the ruins of in old town that once adorned the beautiful itue valley where he resides. These rufus ire of the most ancient found in this Terri sry and probably date back at least d thou sand years. Many articles of household use Ire found in the ruins at Chino, such as oi- as, ladies, aattatdS, etc. The bones found ire generally quite large, indicating that he race of people who once inhabited Ari- .ona were no dwarls.
 sherIn-s Sale.
 Four thousand and sixteen troy ounces Jf Blackberry bullion were sold by auction at he Court House door at noon to-day, to 'atiSfy two judgments, one of F. W. Bake, md tic other belonging to Mir. Bigby of Mohqve county. Sol Lewis became the nurchaier for s2,500.
 At the same tune and place, the interest ,f R. C. Wood in the Kit Carson mine was sld to M. Godwater 10 satisfy judgment n favor of J. Goldwater X Bro. The bid vas something over $l000.