The Phoenix herald., 1879-04-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.

ne DclnOCIdtiC OCHti al NSili-Ai't tee meet tomorrow morning.
 Castenada's store is almost ready 10 open to the public
 The board of supervisors have been in session for the past three days.
 Work has been commenced on Luke * Thalheimer's new building.
 Owing 10 the absense of Judge Por- ter no court business has as yet been transacted.
 Fair progress is being made on the brick buildings on Washington street adjoining Goldberg's.
 For building lumber, at bedrock prices, address Clipper hIill Lumber Company. Prescott.
 The 3IcMillen mill, it is expected, will be so far completed as to be ready 10 run by the 25th inst
 Mrs. Belle Lynch, at one time edi- tor of the Democrat, Ukiah, Cal, will start a newspaper at NIaricopaville in about a month.
 G. H. Rothrock has under course of construction on the southwest corner of the Plaza, building to be used as photograph gallery
 Many improvements arc being made at the Phoenix hotel, the most important Of which is the addition of several new rooms.
 We return thousands of thanks to Mrs. Montgomery for a handsome boquet of roses. Her example is worthy of imitation.
 Hams, Recon and Lard, in qnauti- ties to suit purchasers, and cheap for cash or good Colaterals. Apply to GEO. E. MOwRY.
 1hs Mcintosh Property for sale. Consists of dwelling house and six. lots Centrally located in Phoenix. Terms made easy. Apply to GEO. F. MoWRY.
 It is believed among well informed parties from the South that an effort will be made this congress to remove the disabilities of Jeff. Davis, and he will then be elected senator from Mis- sissippi.
 The Democratic caucus has decided to retain the old employees of the Senate The sentiment of the caucus was in favor of restricting the busi- ness of the session to the appropria- ton bills.
 Mesa City, of this county, has population or about 260 persons. \ free school is maintained of about thirty three pupils. It is a new, and one of the most flourishing settle ments in the territory.
 At the bullion club meeting held in New York on the 9th inst, Dean, ! ex-president of the San Francisco l Stock Exchange, said he knew that 1 there were three bonanzas covered up in the Comstock lead, while the man | agcrs were corralling stock.
 A large number of Yuma Indians, 1 bucks and squaws, are paying PhG- nix visit, having come as far as Gila Bend on the cars. The female portion of the party are evidently not used to city life as they make their appearance in dress particularly mo- ticable tor ifs brevity Madame Renzs' female minstrels, now causing such stir in San Francisco for the same reason, couldn't begin to make comparison. Oh, dear, they really shock the editors modesty-
 \ board of officers to consist of Capt. A. R. Chafce, 9th Cavalry, It. II. NJ Kendall 9th Cavalry, Second It. Edward Dravo, 9th Cavalry, is ap- pointed to meet at Camp Mcdowell at 10 o'clock, A. a@p Tuesday, the 18th of April, or as Soon thereafter as practicable, for the purpose of pur- chasing horses for Company I, 9th Cavalry.
 Maj Geo H. Weeks has awarded the following contracts at Camp Mcdowell for fuel, forage, etc: F. NJ Fowler, 100000 pounds hay, s1915 100 pounds; \. Ellis, 237,O0O pounds hay, S13O; Sheridan & Clark, 33j, 5000, S5 cents; Nathan Ellis, 100 tons straw, S17,4O; Slank- ard 6 Blake, 800 cords hard wood, SS2O; same, 800 cords soft wood, S795; same, 900 bushels charcoal, @ cents; John T. T. Smith, 25O,OOO pounds barley, SID; same, 250,000 pounds barley, S1.85: same. 10000 pounds bran, S18O
 \ Journal Wash ington special says: An important point was brought out in the examination of Duncan 5. Wal ker. Secretary ot the Democratic Con gressional Comittee, by the Wallace Comittee today. He was forced to admit that during the last campaign the Democratic Committee had used Government envelopes to send out one million printed campaign documents, and that the work necessary to be done to fold these documents and ad- dress them had been performed by