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Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
sEMI-wEEKLY EDITION.
Saturday, --------Feb'uary I 1879.
Improvement. in Adobe Land.

The fact that q large portion of the leval or valley land of Sonoma county is adobe soil js welt known, but we think that the fact thai il k improving each year, may noEhe gen erally understood. Those farmers who have for years cultivated adobe soil can hardly be induced la leave il sor sandy or loamy land. Trey say. while the latter is worked so much easier, that the crops produced are not as great by large preccntagc; while the adobe soil produces, when under q proper state of cultivation, more abundently than any other. and meth Ods of reducing it to q state cabablc of being easily worked are of the greatest interest. Persons residing near, and upon that Vast and fertile tract embracing nearly all the level, or bottom land in the southern part of Santa Rosa, and all Ncl!eiO townships. inform us that owing to the alluvial washings caused by the winter rains, that in the past ten years the soil has increased in value fully 100 per cent. The sand and loam from the mOun- tain sides having washed down and mingled with the s!icky-. claycy adobe. have taken from it, in q great meas urc. that peculiar characteristic that makes it so difficult to cultivate We have friend residing on the adobe who used to haul straw from the stacks left by the thrashing machines and scatter it along the lower part of his land, thus making a sort of seivc through which the water pcrcolatcd. and the rich alluvium was left on the soil. By this simple cXpcri ment he rendered his farm one of the most valuable Vcllejo township. The improvement of this soil, of which there are so many thousand acres in So noma county, is an important malIer, and one deserving the attention of those residing on such lands. They are inexhaustible, and while the hills and mountains are lOosing their soil much ot it can be saved by such sim pie experiments as the one mentioned above.-SOnoma (Cal.) Dcmocr,r.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
R. s. THOMAS. Sheriff of Mnrint.ona r,,untv
notices

The stockholders of inc Griffin Di'ch C,m- pauy ard hereby notified than an assessment of Twenty dollars ger share has been levied on each sliaae in said company, by the lo.rd of directors to pay inc indebtedness uf ile com pany and the expenses of incorporation. dne on or before inc 3d day of March. 1879. All per sons holding certificates of shares in ile Griffin Irricafng Canal Company must pre- sent 'hr same iO the board of directors and pay said assessment or before said date
 M. WuENsEE.
 ". D. FENIEE
 M. r, GEIFFIN.
 Directors. 23itW
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS
BOW EMS Yeast Powders.

We the und rSigned Wholesale grocers tal Q pleasure in remarking the increas sed demand for Bowen's Premium Yeast Powder. and of te tifying to the general satisfaction given by this Brand: WELIMAN. PECK X co. ROOT < SANDERSON. LEDDEN, wiIIrPLE X co. MEBII.S IS co.
 HAAS EROS.
 TABEE. HAEEER X co. J.M PIKE < co.
 ]. X. FOLGER S co.
 NEWTON. BROS. X co. W. " DODGE S co. MILLIEIS EROS.
 CASTLE BROS.
 KRUSE X EULER.
 JONES X co.
 NJ. HERMAN < co.
 ADAMS, McNEILL < co. F.. DANERI X co
 M. X c. MANGELS.
 TILLMANN < BENDEL. ALBERT MAU X co. BOOTH X co.
 ALLEN X LEWIS.
 DEILEPIANE < co. THOMAS JENNINGS. <. FOSTER X co. 30 w F. \ B E o S. MANUFACTURERS 10 California Street. san Francisco BOWEN KNOWLES & co. Prescott, Agents for Arizona.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
LEG-iL.
saherInS SaIe.
TnrFitory of Arizora
 SS

Inrritory oi Arizora ,
 County of Maricopa )
 BV virtue of an execution issued out of ike Justice co Ii of Phen:X township. in and for tho county oi Maric"pa and Territory of SIiz- oHa and to me directed and delver,d q. l have levied on and taken all thc right title and in tercst of l.. C. IIolley. in and {" inc following property. io wit The lease held by siid l.. C . Holley on Ike American Hotel. executed bv HumplTys X Wright November 2nd. lS19 and running to the l9rh day of September. 1879. win the privlage of one year more from said 18th day of September, 1S7g together with the furniture and fixtures of said hotel and all he right and privllage of said l.. C. Hollcy un- der said lease. Said leased property is situa- ted upon lot number two. in block number sev- enty.eighi in the town of Phenix. and county of Ma icopa and Territory of Arizona, which slall expose to sale at public veudue as ihe law directs on the 1tn day of February. 1872 at o'clock r. AT.. in front of the door of the Cour Humse in Phenix. in said c,.IInfy of Mari cOpa. Territory of Arizonq will alsu :i' inc same time and place. sell all inc joint right, title and interest Of John HUlley with said l.. (. H"lley in said property.
 January lJih, 1879.
 R. z. THOMAS.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
WEEKLY BULLETIN

Contains all the SIn Francisco. State and Coast News oi the week, while its extensive correspondence and voluminous dispatches keep iie readers advised Of all important events of the world. The MERCHANT. the MINER, the MECHANIC and the FARMER cannot af- ford to be without it. Its Financial articles, Min ing stock and Market reports are accurate. and its Agricultural Department is made an impor- ant feature. Single subscription, g per year: six months sl J0 Clubs of ten or more, to one ae- dress, will be furnished at S2 70 per c'ry Per y-sr. and one copy free to the party getting up Ie Club.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

A man never keeps diary long. At the beginning of the year he re cords aroW to swear of. After that there are entries of few simple drunks, a couple of headaches and the book closes.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
The Atlantic for 1879, x
EDITED sY ". D. HOwELLs


 Will maintain its high rank aS literary Nigga zine. with Serial and Short Stories. Parers Social Political Industrial. and Economic subjects Travel and Description, Poetry, Crit icism, and Essays on Art, Education. Music, by II. ". Longfellow, J. G. Whittier, O. W. Holmes. Mrs Stowe, T. E. Aldrich. F.. C. Stedman CD. Warner. iRichard Grant White, Mark Twain, Miss II w. Preston, R. II. StOd- dar1, A. G. Sedgwick, W. w. Storey, c. F.. Norton, Col. C. F. Waring. Henry James, w. II. Bishop, Bi"rnstjerne Bjornsen, Miss C. F. Woolsen, Miss Sarah O. Lewett H.H., Mr. and Mrs. Piatt. Rose Terry Cooke, the author of Certain Dangerous Tendencies il Ameri. can life, ," and other well known writers. The editcr and pub ishers intend to make the Atlantic so full and vigorous in all departments , conspicuously able and interesting. that every intelligent and thoughtiul American must read it.
 Terms-Si O0 year in advance, postage free; with superb life size portrait of Lowell, Whittier, Bryant O. LOngfellow. SJ co; with two portraits S6 OO: three portraits, S1 %; with all four portraits, s OO.
 Relniitances should be made by money order, draft or registered letter, to
 HOughtOn. OsgOOd X Co.
 Boston. Mass.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

And in accordance with law and an orler'f the Board of Directors. made on the 20 day of January, ls79 many shares of said stoci as may be necessary will be necessary will be sold at public auciin at the office of the com, pany. Washington street, Phcnix. on Tuesday the ;.jth day of February, ;s79 at the hour of 10 oiciock. A M, of said day opay said delinquent assessment thorcon, togethr with costs of ad- veatising and the expenses of the sac
 24td VIM. A. HANCOCK. Secretary
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

"Sir,' said, imprcssively, young gentleman who was monopolizing the fire place. Sir, l was born the son of poor but honest miner. and before 1 was twenty I was the son of a bonanza king.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
SILVER MINING COMPANY

NCMILLEN SILVER MINING COMPANY '' Location of principle place of business San Francisco. California, Location of works GI bs District. Arizona Te; ;riiury--Noice is hereby given. that at meeting of inc Beard of Direct nrs, held on the 2al day of November lS1S an assessment (NO. D of twenty five cents per share was levied upon the cafital stock of the cor. P"ration, payable immediately in United States gold coin, to the Secretary. at the office of tho Company, room 2i. Safe Deposit Building San Francisco. California.
 Any stock upon which this assessment s!iall remain unpaid. on the second day of January, ls19. will be delinquent and advertised for sale, and unless payment is made before. will be sold on Wednesday. the 29ih day of January. 1879. to Pay the delinquent assessment. togeih- with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale, By order of the Board of Direetois.
 \. C. MCMEkNS Secretary. Office Room 2i Safe Deposit Building. San Francisco, California. I9.d
 DISAPPOINTMENT.
 The fay of delinquency of the above assess ment has been postponed to Monday. February 10, le79, and the day of sale to March 6. 1879
 A. C. MCMEANS, Secretary.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

THE HERALD is the only semi weekly newspaper in Arizona.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
Notice of Sale.
Grand Canal Company.

Grand Canal Company.
 Location of principal place of business, Pine nix, Marieopa county, Arizona.
 Location of Canal Salt River Valley, Mari copa couny, A. T,
 Notice there is delinquent upon the following described stock on account of asseisments lev jed the several amounts set opposite inc names talla.,.-s
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
Mining Notice.

To whom fl may concern: !. M. Oral C. or any others claiming interest in that certain mining location claim known as ilIe FAVoEITE min ing claim siiHated in McAlillen Mining District Maricopa County, Arizpna, this is to nDiify v,-u that in accordance wit. provision of Mining Act "f Ma! 10. 1879, and in compliance with ihe re- Irirnrnis of said act, work has been d,ne on said mining claim for one year past ending on inc 20 of November, 1878, by the undersigned. Now. therefore. if within ninety days from the firsi publication of this notice, you do not come forward and pay youT proper proportion of the cost cf said work the undersigned will claim forfeiture uf all your right tile and interest Tn and fO every portion of said mining claim.
 RICHARD O'CONNELI..
 McMilleayille, ATizona, December 7th, lS1S.
 r3tn
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01
PRESCOTT.

New Saw Mill. Two and one-half miles south of
 Prescott. Having now completed, and in full operation, my new Saw Mill, am prepared to fill or
 dcrs for Merchantable, Clear,
 Surfaced and Rustic Lumber
 Matched Flooring. Castings, Mouldings,
 Panelings and Shingles OF THE FINEST QUALITY In short, everything in my line for the cOnstruc-
 tiOn of FIRST CLASS BUILDINGS TERMS: Cash on Delivery. All orders sent by mail. or through the merchants attention.
 GEO. W. CURTIS.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

F. C. rArKEE. GA. PARKER. J. C. WILEY.
Salt River herald., 1879-02-01

HOughtOn. OsgOOd & Co.
 Boston. Mass.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
The Calling Gun.


1t appears that the Calling gun has done
some powerful service for the British in their
late conflict with the Zulus in South Africa.
The action OF one gun, particularly, which
was taken from a snip, and was commanded
by midshipman, did effective work. But
the prelud,ces of the artillery commanders
as well IS these of the infantry, placed tbs
midshipman with bis handful OF marines,
in actual command of an independent force;
and the midshipman, as commander, was
obliged to report to the first lord of the Ad-
miralty, q distinguished honor for an officer
of his class 1t appears that the mil
itary officers hardly know how to
class the Calling gun, and decline to
designate it as either an arm OF the
artillery or the infantry service. Their
superiors, however, in this country and in
Europe, should place it with the artillery
and give it the prominence which its terri
BILE power deserves. A few OF these guns,
properly manned, would have turned the
late disaster in the British army to q defeat
of the Zulus; and had Custer had dozen OF
these little go forward guns, he could have
driven the Indians who butchered his little
command, from their positions. While the
brass II Founders sent among the Western
INDIANS are generally of little service, and
always q burden in that broken country, the
Getting guns, easily transported and han
died. would be far more effective. But 1t
takes time to break through the prejudices
of military men, and bring them to just
Appreciation Of such an invention and i'm.
provement a. this OF DIR. Calling. But
their prejudices must finally give way to il
power and great advantages.
The London DAILY News OF March J,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02

What He Has to Say About the Offers OF
Money to George ID. Prentice.
New Orleans Democrat

What He Has to Say About the Offers of
Money to George ID. Prentice.
New Orleans Democrat
In the telegraphic dispatches of the oath
Instant it was mentioned that General Beau
regard had during the war offered to George
D. Prentice, the editor of the Louisville
Journal, $500 600 to remain neutral in the
struggle. 1t was also stated that the general
had offered to Prentice $25, DOG for the publ
cation of a single editorial in favor Of the
Southern cause. A representative of the
Democrat called upon General Beauregard
yesterday 10 hear what he had to say concern
ing the above statement. The general denies
sation or correspondence, direct or indirect,
with Mr.. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
relative to his remaining neutral or other
wise during the late Confederate war.
81 have Just now returned from trip
down the coast" said General Beauregard,
with an intimate friend. On Sunday morn
ing he came to me with newspaper in his
hand and read aloud that portion of the
telegram referring to my alleged trans
actions with Mr.. Prentice. / thought
at first that he was joking, and had substi-
tuted my name for another; but l was
convinced of the fact when took the paper
and read the article. ! wassurprised at such
statement; the more so as l had never met
or seen Mr.. Prentice during the war. True, 1
had heard of him, but never was near him
or corresponded with the gentleman.
1.-The only time | met Mr.. Prentice was,
think, in 1868, when the Gait House in
Louisville was Inaugurated. was intro
duced to him and we spoke of politics, en-
gineering, military matters and other SUBJ
jects. II is absurd to think that l would
have been party to making such an offer
to Mr.. Prentice, when We bad such inhuen-
tial men as Bragg, Joe Johnson, Sidney
Johnson, Breckenridge and Buckner, to en-
list the sympathies of the Kentucky people
on our side.
81 certainly would never thought of the
absurdity of offering Mr.. Prentice $4,000
for an editorial article in favor of the cause,
or of attempting to buy him into neutrality
with $500 600. l think thst Mr.. Prentice
could have been made very serviceable to
the Confederate cause, If his talents could
have been secured to egitate in England the
questions that led 10 the war. His able and
vigorous pen could. no doubt, have created
public Sentiment there in our favor, by
showing that the Southern States had not
taken up arms to defend slavery, but for the
purpose of putting a stop to sectional op
preston, and defending the sacred doctrine
Of States rights under the constitution. But
there was no question of this, and the story
told, in the kilograms, as far as am con
earned, is simply absurd and Ridiculous"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Iowa Baptist churches tell of very general
revivals.
Nebraska has 135 Baptist churches, about
half of them self-supporting.
Baptist ministers are soliciting mission
WORK in Kansas at $500 per ennum.
The Jewish Times computes the number
OF Jews all oyer the world 70 be {, sos. 900.
In 1000 English church yards 1t is still i'm
possible for q dissenting parishoner to be
buried by his own minister.
There are now four Catholic dioceses va
can't in the United States-Chjcago, Hart
ford, Marquette and Columbus.
Sunday morning breakfasts are given to
600 or 700 people in Philadelphia every week
accompanied by religious exercises.
Nearly all the religious papers denounce
in severe terms the walking match that re-
Gently took place in New York City.
Rev. +. f. Emerson. one of the ablest min
tsters of Hartford, who has left the Baptist
church ON the communion question, will
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
Cheap TeIegrarhy.

A new telegraph company, which threat
e.1s to do big things. has recently been char
tered in New York. It is known as the
American Rapid Telegraph company. The
capital stock is So, 000. 000 and great care has
been taken to prevent it from falling into
the hands of the great monopolists' who
make 1t point to chew up all the new and
small dealers IN electricity who enter the
field. Mr.. Reed, the president of the COM
pany, announces that it is the intention %
proceed at once with the construction Gu
line of double wires connecting BostoD,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, Chicago and ST. Louis and all inter
mediate points. The lines will be built of
cast steel and copper plated conducting
telegraph wires with extra large size
poles. 1t is claimed that the company is
the owner of American and European patents
for machine telegrahing, which over its own
patent wires will transmit 1000 words q
minute, and over the wires now in ordinary
Use 500 words aininute. II IS stated that
the new system has been thoroughly tested,
having been in practical operation for four
months over circuits of 500 and l 900 miles.
and it is claimed .or the system that with
three wires it can perform the whole tele-
gragh business of the country. Accuracy,
rapidity and cbeapness are the three prin-
cipal features claimed for the new system,
| but the company when in operation propose
| to establish the following new features in
| telegraphing:
]. Express Messages-To be dispatched in.
| stantly at uniform rate of % cents for &c
words to all stations east of the Rocky Mount
/ aims.
2. Mail Messages-To be dispatched within
one hour and delivered through the nearest
postoftice or by messenger within two hours
| from date OF message at 25 cents for 50 words.
| 3. Night Messages-To be delivered before
| o. IN. at Is cents for SO words.
4. Press Reports-For exclusive publication
in one journal at 10 cents for 100 words.
o. Stamped Messages-IG is proposed undel
| stamps for messages.
g. To utilize The street letter-boxes fol
stamped messages, to be collected every Il
minutes during the day.
This Is an extensive programme and il
carried out will doubtless supply the crav
/ ings of the journals not included In thu
a matter of fact. the prospectus seems to b
entirely too glorious.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
THE GENUINE
DIR. e. McLEANE'S
Celebrated American 81
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

THE countenance is pale and leaden-
4 colored, with occasional fiushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu-
pills dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is If
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears: an unusual secretion of
saliva; Shiny or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with knawing sensation of the stom-
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels II
regular, at times costive; stools Shiny;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid ;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener-
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.. c. 'McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepare
ton, not capable Of doing the slightest
injury TO the most tender izfank.
The genuine DR.. MCLANE's YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of c. Nc
LANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
MranDer o.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
IN THE SPRING.
R. K. MUSKrFTRIcK.

tf ss4F'3s. 49, - ts5k tf 81 Is
In the spring the merry robin Jumps about
In thu, spring Adolphus Riley puts his seal
skin cap in pawn.
In the spring fair Musidora wears rosebud IN
her locks; -.-.-.s.,, .1rso
III the spring the painter paantetn' USE
Jones' Salve, upon the rocks.
In the spring the oxlip blossoms in the leas
and on the hiliss ,
In the spring the blushing maiden taxes ner
share of bilious pills.
In the spring the weary husband beats the
carpet in the grove; ..,.n
In the Spring the weary husband wrestles
with the parlor stove-
In the spring unto the poet ~ saith the editor
"Get hence" ., a., .
coal-yard fence.
In the spring within the forest blows the
violet, the fern:
In the spring the small boy shivers as he gazes
on the churn.
In the spring the happy poet thinks forever
In the snring the cans connected with the
te CANNES narrative.
In the spring the downy cloud-ship sails Sc
renely DER the flats;
In the spring the maiden IS fancy ugnIly turhs
to thoughts of bats.
In the spring through rosy bowers doth the
brOOklet wend Its way;
In the spring-but wherefore should l thus
give "Gentle Spring" away?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-02
speaks as follows of the midshipman In COM
mand OF the Gatling gun among the Zulus:

speaks as follows OF the midshipman in CON-
msnd OF the Gatling gun among the Zulus:
We congratulate Mr.. Midshipman Coker on
his first dispatch. II 1t is the ambition of an
highly must he prize the dignity OF writing
them. In his report OF the doings Of the naval
closed separate dispatches from his lieutenant
of marines and from Mr. Midshipman Coker,
in whose charge, 1T appears was placed the
land. The marines and Mr.. Coker's Calling
were placed in rear on the line of march; but,
c oa V orders to take bis gun to an eminenee
commanding the enemy, in which position he
seems to have occupied an independent
naturally what young officers look
forward to as means OF dis.
ker's separation rom his naval commander
was probably of short duration, it gave him
the right to sit down and write dispatch, Of
some credit. The carriage OF his gun, he tells
u.s. got injured a bit in transit, probably from
action; but this does not appear to have de-
layed matters much. for Mr. Cocker got OF sew
eral hundred rounds before the enemy were
out OF range. There has been some difficulty
in classifying the Calling gun, for the Horse
Guards can not quite make up Its mind
in the meantime have failed to supply
our army at all with the wea.
active has settled the question for Under f his
orders the gun has done good service in Zulu
land. In fact that young officer enjoyed an
opportunity which has seldom, If ever, fallen
to the lot OF one of his rank before. We DO not
think fertile as was Captain Marryat's imagin-
alton, that he ever contemplated midshlp-
man writing a dispatch to be forwarded to the
first lord fine admiralty, and printed in The
London Gazette. The incident is probably
unique in our naval history. and 1t is one, we
may be sure, that the authors of boys books
and juvenile literature will not be slow to ia Ike
advantage of. Running about with Gati1ug
gun is perhaps of all kinds of warfare the best
suited for an active young midshipman, and
we trust Mr.. Coker will live long enough to
try.