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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19
SALE OF 4 YEW-JERSEY ROAD.

William Muirhead, Master IN Chancery of Jersey
CITY. yesterday sold the Rdseield Park Railroad At
Hackensack \. j., under the foreclosure of a mort
gage The road is bonded tor 100000. aud Is u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19
THE STATE CAPITAL.
rnr crNrpAI- pARK nFEENnED.

THE CENTRAL PARK DEFENDED.
STRONG OPPOSITION TO TIE PROPOSAL TO Use IT
Asa PARADE GRoUND-TwO DAYS RESERVED
FOR NEw-YORK BILLS.
Mr.. Langbein's bill to devote part of the Central
Park 10 the use of the National Guard az parade
ground was yesterday laid the table after a
spirited debate, which showed that the measure en-
counters strong opposition. Thursday and Friday
next have been reserved for the consideration OF
important bills concerning tins city. II IS expected
that the Legislature Will not adjourn before May 10
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-03-29
Description of the new Ten Dollar
Certificates.

The model for the proposed ten dollar
certificate has been designed by the Bu-
reau of Printing and Engraving and re-
ceived the approval of Secretary Sherman.
1t will be Il little larger than a legal tender
note. In the left hand corner of the OBJ
verse side appears appropriately Wig
nette OF Benjamin Franklin. In the centre
is the legend U. S. refunding certificate,
$t0," with handsome square and other
fancy figures. Below, i'll script, is the
legend; This certifes that the holder
has deposited with the United States
Treasurer $40, according to Act of Con-
gress FEBRUARY rs, 1879, for refunding the
debt J" On the reverse side the border
is made up of scroll and geometricar lathe
work. The legend is displayed, One
cent for nine days, ten cents for three
months, and forty cents for one year"
Also, in script, that these certificates,
when presented TO the number OF five, or
muluples thereof, will be exchanged for
four per cent. bonds. The Bureau will
be able to deliver these certificates in the
course of q couple of weeks The bill
authorizing their issue originated in the
House and received two amendments in
the Senate. One changed the rate of in
terest from 3.65 to four per cent, and the
other extended the use Of the proceeds of
the sales of these certificates to the 1910
bonds as well as the 5-2O's-W WaShinqtoR
Departmental ReoieIC.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-03-29
YUMA ARIZONA. SATURDAY, MARCH 29 1879.

! the gardens, with their hyperbo-
rean gifts, have all passed away;
and the vast space between these
consecrated walls dedicated to
solemn offerings in the sacred
guise of chants, genufleXiOns and
benedictions, is one vast pile of
indistirguishable ruin.
The mountain scenery from
this place is picturesque, sublime
and enchanting. There is one
point upon the road, though, say
half way between San Xavier
and Tumacacori, which presents
d view at once grand and incom-
parable. You have left the
Santa Catalina range and its de-
tached combinations of castella-
ted peaks sweeping northeasterly
away to the far-Off horizon, and
you gaze first upon the Picacho
del Alamo Muerto, which rises
mJestically over your right
shoulder, and then upon the
Santa Rita mountains in the
northeast, which lift themselves
like colossal ramparts before you.
Further south you incline your
vision again to the west, and the
Sierra PaiaritO and Atascoso
mountains, like Titans, stand up
along your path; again you turn
to the east, and a matchless pan
Drama with Mount WrightsOn in
the foreground. and the Patago-
mans in the distance thrills the
delighted senses. Each succeed
ing turn in this ~ osaic highway
presents, like the Kaleidoscope,
Il new and pleasant picture to the
enraptured eye. b. G. T.
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Census
From 1870 to 1870, and expenses

THE four pound package law whereby
merchandise up to that limit can be sent
by mail FOR one cent per ounce, and regis
tered for ten cents additional, is 4 great
boon to the general public. But it is
greatly abused by merchants living in sit
uations remote from railroads. We have
seen as high as eight tic sacks, weighing
nearly ton, pass through here on one
train bound for Arizona, and nearly all
consigned to merchants. Uncle Sam car.
ries this stuff for Is cents pound when
freight charges would be almost double
that, and express charges four times that
much. We have no remedy to propose
but merely call attention to the fact that
such practices crowd the mails, put vast
amount of labor on Route Agents and
seriously delay the letter mails, because
contractors cannot take all that
comes.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-03-29

Goods sold at greatly reduced rates.
Highest prices paid for all Arizona pro-
ducts.
DAVID NEAHR,
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Defy Competition.

Buyers will find it to their interest to cali
and examine my stock before purchasing
elsewhere.
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All merchandise consigned to my care
will receive careful handling and be for
warded with dispatch and by experienced
freighters, at lowest market rates.
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| DAVID NEAHR.
Main Stree Yuma, a.
40 California Street, San Francisco
Wholesale and Retalt Dealer in
GENERAL MERcAAnD,se.
Invites attention to the best selected snd
most complete stock ever offered in
this market, consisting in
Groceries, Provisions,
Wines and Liquors, Cigars and
Tobacco, Hardware,
Tinwaro, Crockery,
Miners Tools. Sporting Goods
Wagon-Lumber, etc.
LADl AIS' and @ ENTS'
FURNISHING GOODS.

Ory UoOuS, ca0cy GoodS.
Boots and Shoes, Clothing,
And is constantly and regularly receiv-
ing fresh California products, consisting o
Butter, Cheese, Bacon.
Ham, Onions, Beans
Barley Potatoes, Corn,
Wheat, Corn Meal Buckwheas
Flour, California and Oregon Flour,
Cutting & Cos. Canned Fruits, Vegetables
etc. etc. etc.
All of which is offered at prices which
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of loud and sub

Vandalism and time have to
gether performed Il medley o
irreverent work upon this nObl,
landmark of Christianity and civ
ilization. Either the one or the
other, or both, have touched will
unsanctified hands its outer an(
inner wall. Select Latin inscrip
tions have given away to rude
hieroglyphics of the ignorant ant
irrelig iOus native here and tt
the manor born," or to the
empty scrawls of the irreverent
and uncultivated "looket on in
Venice" Solid gold ornaments
and altar appointments have
gradually disappeared until moth
ing of great value is left. Even
the gilt and veneering and colCr.
ing are either besmeatHd or other
wise defaced. The eighty odd
pieces of statuary, representing
Jesus, the Apostles, and many
other celebrated characters of the
great Passion Play of Christianity, C
are many of them mutilated and
broken past renovation or recon-
struction. The large fresco paint
ihgs of the "Last SUPPER" the
" Pentecost," the " Nativity of
Christ" the" "Annunciation," the
" Visitation of the Wright" ETC.,
are almost past recognition, and
it is only matter of time when
the walls upon which they are
suspended will fall and crumbIe
into ruin and dust.
l can conceive of no more de-
lightful drive than that from Tue
son to San Xavier and below,
even to Tubac and Calabasas. 1t
is between six aud seven miles
from Tucson to the renowned
Church of San Xavier, for the
most part through a wilderness
of the largest mesquit trees in the
world. They do not grow to such
a height as those in Texas, but
the branches shade two or three
times as much ground. Il IS not
the venerable structure above
that commands the attention of
the tourist-the tribe of ever
Indians, known as the
Papagos, with their civilized
ways and Christian virtues, divid-
ing with the edifce in which they
worship the observation of all
These Indians not
)nly never have been and are
not murderous, but they are uni
ike all ether tribes, including the
Pimas and Maricopas and the
coed Indians in northern Arizona
they will not steal. They dress
Is much as possible, or as much
IS they can afford to, like men
md women outside of Indiandom.
rhe men and women all work,
the women do the
greater share. | think the Papa
,os are smaller in stature than
my of the other tribes of Arizona.
have seen little Wonfen who
lid not seem over four feet or
our feet and a half in height,
great baskets of mesquit
food, containing stacks Of fuel,
n SOME instances, ten feet in
ieight, and must have weighed,
t the least calculation, two,
hree, and even four hundred |
'Ounds.
Two miles below, the traveller
ONES to Punta del Aqua; and 10
niles further on, Saganito, two
retty pieces of ranch property.
Between these two ranches a
melting works will soon be COM
leted for th'e' concentration of
he productions of the San Xavier
linas, situated a few miles west
f the travelled road: II miles
urther is What is called Cauve
and where tie eccentric
anita Cruz river takes a subter-
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The Arizona Sentinel.

Published every Saturday by the
Sentinel Publishing Company.
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SOutheaGtern Arizona &.
[Corresponde,ice of the S. r. Bulletin. ]

visit and inspect the famous edi
fee, nine miles from Tucson
known as the Mission Church o
San Xavier, and no traveller wht
has written of Arizona, and wht
has gazed upon this venerable
structure, has omitted giving {
description of the sacred pile, {
delightful paragraph in his book
or correspondence.
Almost all who have writer
thus, however, disagree regard.
ing its age. Some say that the
structure was commenced more
than two hundred years ago,
while others declaie that it is not
over a century old. AS / stated
in my last Notes." l have seen
a manuscript diary of marriages
solemnized under its. sacred roof
$50 odd years ago.
From all l have learned con-
corning this architectural rem
nant of Franciscan dominion in
this part of America, l ain entire
ly convinced that this temple in
the wilderness was commenced
and consecrated more than two
centuries ago, and it, or former
church on its site, may have been
commenced over three centuries
ago! for it is now 319 years since
Coronado and his army camped
on the Santa Cruz river, at or
near the site of what is now Tue
son.
This church is built in one of
the most ctafihing and pictur-
esque portions of the Santa Cruz
Valley, and, although its exterior
is tantasticaIly frescoed With the
finger-tfiarks of Time, and its
massive towers are being ruth,
leSSly tottched by the hand of de-
cay: is, even now, a magnificent
monument to Christianity, and
Stands like an imposing mile
stone along the difficult pathway
of faith.
The chutcK PROPER occitpies
$3.50 square feet, and is crucifotth
in style, or; more particularly
speaking, is shaped like Latin
cross. The highest point that can
be reached is standfng-room in
the west tower, which is about
sixty feet from the ground floor;
ten or fifteen feet more
for balance of height, would
give the real height seventy-fve
feet, more or less. The edifice
has two towers and a dome, the
latter surmounted with a cross.
The eastern tower is in a remark
able state of preservation, but the
'avages of tin!e have played sad
havoc with the western tower,
however, had never ap-
preached a perfectly finished
state. The ascent to the bell
tower is by fight of steps cut
into and worn into the masonry.
Omitting all eXtravagant de-
tail, l will proceed to state that |
the building is constructed of |
tone, and brick, and character
)f cement which has no equal at
.hs present day in this country. |
The interior is plastered, stuc-
;oed and frescoed, and is in many
'espectS like the best of the Mis- !
sion church buildings in Califor-
lia during the palmy days of
Franciscan authority, except that
lOne of the California edifces
we're So richly and elabofately
iulshed, nor supplied With SO
lrtistically executed paintings
md statuary; nor were any of the
California churches possessed of
uch rare, costly and impressive
lltar and other appointments.
The walls and ceilings still dis
,lay unmistakable evidences Of
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-03-29
z E M @ v a l..

GA j. c. COGSWELL, DenHsr,
fss@-S. "a has removed his office from $50
%FFt2 Kearney street 10 the Young
NS8G-L1 Mems Christian Association
Building, 292 Sutter street near Kearny,
san Francisco. The rooms are elegant, con-
venient and well ventilated. Friends and
patrons are invited to call.
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course, is Tubac, with it's savag
and romantic history. Tubac i
situated In the northeast cOrne
of the Calabasas concentration O
ranch lands. From ubac Whicl
will always remain astage station
and teamsters' camp, travel by
stage and team branches off fO
the Arivaca and ORC Blanco min
ing districts on the east, and the
Aztec, Tyndal and Toltec district:
on the west. This road, from
Tucson to Tubac, and even below
is filed with teamsters, traders.
travellers and tramps. You can
not travel MANY miles at any
time during daytime that you
do not meet parties going either
in one direction or the other.
THE RUINS OF TUMACACORI MIS-
SION.
Next to the we'll preserved
Church of San Xavier del Bac,
the ruins of The Mission of St.
Joseph, Tumacacori, command
attention. These ruins are lit
tie to the west of the regularly
travelled road, between three and
four miles from Tubac. The first
mission erected, or established,
in this immediate locality was
consecrated at Tubac, in 1850, and
was called the Santa Gertrudes
Mission. This building was
shortly afterward destroyed by
Apaches. In 1751 church was
built upon the site now occupied
by the ruins above named. This
edifice shared the same fate as
that Of the Santa Gertrudes Mis-
sion at Or about the same time.
In just fifty years afterWard a
new church was erected and the
ruins of Tumacacori constitute
what is left of it, it having also
been destroyed, or partially de-
stroyed, by the Apaches eighteen
years after its Conservation.
While the above-named church
structure did not approach San
in architectural beauty
and grandeur, the outer and COM
municating buildings were more
extensive, and agricultural ex-
pectations greater. At this late
day; however, the ruin is not so
complete but that the passer-by
may see a good deal to reward
him for the qualification of an in
ruisitorial turn of mind, The
seeker after Information will dis
cover that the main building was
at least 100 feet in length by 80 in
that its shape describes a
Greek cross; that 1t was substan-
TALLY and efaborately constructed
Of sun-burntand kiln-burnt brick,
which were put together with a
sort of cement and concrete; that
it was well timbered and we'll
rooted; that it was surmounted
Oy two dOmes-one over the chan
eel, and one upon the eastern or
corner; that there
we're pretentious residences for
he padres and their master work
men and soldiers, and comfOrta-
Die abodes for their poems and |
leOphytes; that there were |
with oranges, lemons,
lines, pears, figs and pomegran-
ties, and gardens with flowers,
zines, exotic plants, shade trees |
nd possibly fountains. The
lone above the chancel is still in
fair state of preservation, but |
he walls and the surroundings
AVE crumbled Or are crumbling
nto decay; its splendid timber
nd tile roof has been shivered by
ime and the elements, and its
My covering now is the illimita-
lie canopy of heaven with its inn
erishable consultations; the Or
hards, with their outrageous
hade and fruit trees, through
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GEORGE TYING, Editor
AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENT.
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Job Printing;
Legal Blanks, Briefs, BilI-Heads, Letter
Heads, Circulars, Labels, Cards, Pro-
grammes, etc, printed in every style, with
deafness and dispatch.
sB Currency taken at par.
G. w. CRANE, Agent, 32S Montgomery St.,
SAN FRANCISCO.
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All goods consigned 10 me carefully at
tended 20. THOMAS HALLECK,
15-3lr Aubrey, A. T.
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AUBREY FREIGHT.

TEAMS FURNISHED AND FREIGHT RECEIVED AM
FORWARDED PROMPTLY.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09

Louisville Courier Journal: We saw it We'd
nesday-we did, we did! 1t was about two
O'Clock, and we were hieDg us dinuer-ward.
The sun was beaming baptismally; the why
air was like an Inspiration to the lungs and the
blood; the sky was blue and dim as with the
white smoke Of burning stubble Pink-cheeked
girls. with buoyant steps and luminous ewes,
threaded the sidewalks; the heels of the busi.
ness men resounded on the pavements resonant
ly,as with new activity and hopefulness; wagons
clattered; carriages rolled; street-cars rumbled,
and the tunefnl notes Of the newsboys and the
demoniacal walls of the rsgmeu echoed over
all. Then it was that we saw it-a little dun
colcred English sparrow which hoped about
in the town slush and picked up dirty straw
wherewith to lay the cornerstone of its nest
and OF the spring. What though bped clad
in that most unsightlY thing under the SUR, an
ulster, tossed his cigar at the bird, it was never
theless the first welcome harbirger Of that
beautiful near by and by when the ulster shall
be no longer an eyesore in the land; when the
but one should be poet to write of this.
What limitless opportunities it would afford
him to gush and SIP beer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09
Gleanings from the Mails.

The prospects for large wheat crop in
Kansas we're never better than at the present
time.
The Unitarans commsmoTated the 99th
anniversary Of the birth of William Ellery
Charming at Newport, R. l., Monday sndsinsu-
gurated movement for the centennial
celebration of his birth on an elaborate scale.
Mrs Jefferson Davis believes in the educa-
tion of the blacks and sees increased signs
of Intelligence aud self reliance among them
as the result of what little schooling they have
obtained.
Laura joyce has petitioned the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts to have her alimony
increased from $500 to $1,000 a year. aud that
the other child may be taken from its father,
james Valentine Taylor.
rhs story comes from ST. Petersburg that
Shere Ali isn't really dead, bat is confined In
Siberian mine under the name of Paul
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Sparring Exhibition at Lancaster Hall,
WEDNESDAY Ev'G, APRIL
on which occasion the following Boston talent will

Tommy Drohap, Kelly Brothers, Champion Feath-
er Weight Boxers Of New England, Prot John Con-
Kelly, Johnny Sullivan. the Strong Boy; Patsey
O'Hara, the Drohans Thomas aud Mast. Johnny,
in their Silver Club Act the Champions of America.
Mast. Johnny, who is only II years old, can swing
and juggle Indian Clubs with any professional in this
country; Sol Aaron, JACK Hogan, Denny Costigan.
A Grand Club-Swingng Match for the Champion
ship of Portland, for pair of Indian Clubs, to be
presented to the winner by Mr.. Drohan. Entries
free to all.
The evenings entertainment will conclude with
Scientific Display between Steve Taylor of New York
who has kindly consented to appear for Mr.. Drohan,
and Martin Mcmahon the Irish Giant, who is feet,
81 inches in height and weighs 22O pounds, who has
lately arrived from England, and ready to box any
man in America for $1,000.
Cdrd-Mr Drohan wishes to state to the public of
Portland that he himself has engaged every perform
on the bill and will positively appear. Also. the
Irish Giant, who will arrive by the boat Wednesday
morning, and stop at the United States HOTEL max
ing this one of the best shows given in Portland.
Admission, 35 cts.: Reserved Seats, 80 cts Doors
open at O'Clock, Performance commences st
o'clock. Pete DAILY has kindly consented to oiciate
as Master of Ceremonies. ap5d4t
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WASHINGTON dispatches intimate that the
price of the National votes for the Army bill
was Mr.. Speaker Randall's promise to give
tnem certain committee places OF otimportance.
1t is known that the Rev. Mr. De La Matyr
had, recen tly, confidential interview with
the Speaker, at which the arrangement is said
to have been made.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09

THE debt of Tennessee seems to rest upon
different basis from that assumed by the
Legislature, for no less lawyer than Charles
OConor has given an opinion that the rail
roads of the State, valued at something like
hundred millions, are liable for the full
amount of internal improvement bonds is
sued to them, and amounting TO about fif-
teen millions with overdue interest. The
State proposed to fund these on the same
conditions as the rest of the debt, but Mr..
O'Conor says that the railroads can be made
to pay. II this view is sustained by the Su-
preme Court Of the. United States, it will be
good news for the bondholders, and it will
put the State in very sorry plight.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09

IhE South American Republics usually
prefer civil war, but Peru and Bolivia have
now Joined hands against Chill, and there is
prospect OF war between nations in real earn
est. Inc interests of civilization would not
be materially injured if the number of inde-
pendent nations in that part of the western
hemisphere were reduced somewhat.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09

The familiar give twenties" will now
drop from the Stock Exchange lists. The
success ofsthe four per cent loan has been SO
marked that all six per cents subject to call
will be cancelled within ninety days, the linn
it allowed by law. The ''fve-twenties" were
legacy of the war: their replacement by
bonds bearing two per cent. less interest is
one of the quiet victories Of peace. 1t is a
subject for congratulation that the country's
finances are on such healthy basis.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-09

EX-SENATOR BARNUM of Connecticut,
chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee, who has been assisting Speaker Ran.
dali to arrange the standing committees in
the interest of party harmony and to secure
a contract for supplying marble to be used in
the new government building at Harrisburg,
Pa, talks with much freedom regarding the
political situation. He says that the Demo-
Gratis have injured the party greatly since the
present session began by their unwise course
in the House regarding the army bill, having
raised an issue which will not stand before
the people. he believes that the Democrats
in the Senate committed grave bunder in
filling the two most important Offices in their
gift with men whose past records are not
pure or free from stain. The Senate Demo-
Gratis should have chosen men against whose
integrity no charges could be brought. Mr..
Barnum does not consider the outlook for
Democratic success in the future as be-
ing very bright.
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THE Marx Lane Cypress. the leading

The Mark Lane Express, the leading an
thority upon The British grain trade, says
that the weather has greatly delayed the
spring tllage for wheat, and that the acre
age sown this year will be less than the aver
age. The Express anticipates very large
demand for American wheat and -four, al
though supplies are beginning to reach the
United Kingdom from Germany and South
ern Russia.