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The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-06
The Chinese Bill,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The man. ner in which the Chinese debate has been opened inspires additional con- fdence. The senate will by amend- ments intended to be offered to the bill submitted to-day and ordered printed, first by Senator Grover, who proposes to amend by adding a new section declaring the words "Chi- nese laborers," wherever used in the act, shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers, and Chinese employed in mining. Another by Senator Farley to add section prohibiting State and United States courts hereafter from admitting Chinese to citizen ship, and repeating all laws in con- flict with this act. Both senators will probably address the senate in advocacy of their respective amend ments and in support of the measure in general.
 After Senator Miller concluded his arg ument a motion was made, at the reques; of Senator Voorhees,, by which he was to be allowed to de- liver prepared speech at half-past one tomorrow, on the need of ad- ditional accommodation for the con gressi onal library, the Chinese bill to come up as unfinished bnslness when he gets through. There is no probability that vote will be reached on the bill before Thurs lay, and the discussion may probably run until Friday. The only senator known to have prepared set speech against the bill, is Hoar, of Massa- chusetts, who is expected to speak tomorrow.
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LOCAL PERSONALS.

MAJOR DOWNING and John c. Davis, Esq, return to Dos Csbezas to day.
 MAJOR F. $. EARLE returned from a thirty days tour in Sonora last evening.
 MRS. BRIGGs GOODRICH left on the coach this morning for vis,i to her friends in Texas.
 W. H. Ev,Ss, Esq, and r. C. Donovan, of Los Vegas, N. M are at the Cosmo- politan
 MR. F. Nj. SMITH arrived yesterday from Tucson, and has taken rooms at the Cos mopulitan.
 MR. j. E. WATSON and sheriff II. C. Stillman, of Bisbec, are registered nj the Cosmopolitan.
 JOHN HEsNEssEY, EsQ., and Mir. L. F. Burke arrived from Denver, Col, and have taken rooms at the Cosmopolitan.
 T. E. SUMNER, ESQ, is home again from roughing it in Mexico We fancy palace car trips would be more congenial to MT. Sumner than "roughing it Tn the bush" of Sonora
 MT. J. E. EARLY, locating engineer of the Atchison, Topeka & San;a Fe road, is to run a trial line through from the Sul- phur Spring valley, via Bisbee, to Here ford
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The LeadNiIIe Index Primer

HIS IS mining reporter. Is he "on"? He understands his business. If you were to ask him to take some- thing with you he would. If you should wait for him 10 ask you, you would have to go dry until Robinsoa reached $l4.50. He is very positive, and will not tell you, even confden- tiai'y, what he knows until he has been liqnida,ed. Do you pity him$ You do not have 10.
 This man owns placer mine. See his large boots and red shirt. He is d "wolf." Can he sell or sto,k a mine successfully? Yes, tha, is his speciality, What is that muzzle loading shotgun foI? That is to "salt" the mine SD that it will not spoil on his hands. After he shoots you can pan out .'colors." Does the Olathe placer need shooting? Very badly, to make success of it.
 What live" town! You arc mistaken, this Is Leadvile, and she is " dead" She only produced Si3,, 100000 last year. The Dunkin mine is located here; it is also dead; they only have six or eight inches oI' horG silver? Doyou think the camp will ever amount 10 anything again? It Is doubtful, she was good camp m her day. Let us go to Chalk Ranch, and get away from the dead thing.
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National Notes.
connection

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The house committee on naval affairs favorably reported on the bill strengthening the navy.
 RatIons are now on the way to Southern sufferers.
 The Comptroller has authorized the First National bank of Durango, Colorado, to commence business. Capital, s50,000.
 The treasury will have $33,0OO,0OO to disburse during the first half of March on account of interest, unless it anticipates payment during the present month.
 Captain Hall, of Burlington, Iowa, has been appointed inspector of ihe office of the delivery service by First Assistant Postmaster.Gene Hat ton.
 The house committee on Indian affairs agreed to report to the house the recommendation of the secretary of the interior for ratification of the agreement with the Crow Indians for the sale of portions of their reserva- ton in Montana for the use of the Northern Pacific railroad.
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sonora News.

From Mir C. aW. pinkham, ot the So. nora stage line, who came in from AriZpe last evening, the following items of inter est have been learned:
 In the St Helena Q4os Delicas) mine a development of great importance has been made. They had opened up large body of rich gold ore that, it is thought, will pay $l00 per ton. Mir. Pinkham saw spec linens that will go Sl,000 per ton. F. Carmen is working large number ct men and fifty miners arc expected iu :, short time from California To increase the present force. The machinery is arriving for their mill. Mir. Pinkham having met six wagon loads of it on the road The season is far advanced along the Sonora, the farmers being now engaged in cutting. wheat for hay. The trees are all leavcd out and grass good. The Mexicans say that there has been more rain this season than for sixteen years past. The tide of American travel is rapidly increasing. ihe Stewart party had passed Bacuachi. all well. MT. PInkham met Elmer Dan- iels at Jannavericbi, on his way Ia over. take the Stewart party, He will return Friday morning having A full load of pas, sengerS engaged
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VIII ERE Is ITs
What Denverite Has to Say About the New Camp South of Tombstone.

From the Denver Tribune.
 Col. Amos Green arrived home yesterday from the new mining camp of Pyramid, seventy-fve miles south east of Tombstone, in the extreme southern portion of the territory, near the Old Mexico line. A Trib une reporter called on Mir. Green shortly after his arrival to learn what he thought of the prospects of the new camp and what was going on in that section of country.
 "Pyramid," said Mir. Green enthu- siastically, "has HOW a population of 1000 souls, and we expect an influx of five or ten times that number be- fore the end of the year. The camp has been established only about one year, but has grown with rer arkahle avidity."
 What are the names of some of the best mines?"
 "Well, there is the Viola, Penel- ope, Last Chance, Golden Gate, Windward, Galatea, and dozen more with as good chances and equally favorable location"
 "What is the character and nature of the mines?"
 "The ore lies in true Assure veins and has so far proved to be remarka- bly, rich and promising. All the strikes have been good ones and at tracted large numbers of miners to the vicinity"
 "Have any notorious, not to say famous personages, such as Jack Haverly or Bob Ingers"ll invested any money there?'
 "No; Ingersoll's Ivanhoe mine lies about l50 miles north of us."
 "The cljma;e," said MT. Green, '.is perpetual summer all the year 'round." Mir. Green thinks that Pyr- amid will soon become a rival, if not the predecessor, of Tombstone in success and the richness of its min eral productions. Tombstone has now population of y,O00, but the Pyramidites are confident in their ability to see that number and go a few better before many months.
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AN inflammable sha.e mine has been found near Yankton, Dakota. I.burns we'll in ordinary coal stoves, and it is believed that it will answer for fuel on locomotives. It owes its infammsble qualities to oil which it contains in apprcciable quantities. The shale is found thirty.six feet from the surface. Over it is q roof of slate and underneath & bed of earth that is neither loam nor clay. Great things for that northern coun.
 try are expected from this discovery.
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into the Sierra TvrdilMs sh l.ok a sunc copper mines they have i,. ;bai raEi.r. Alter an exanl.nalicr oi tBclr fiiints ,hcy struck across ihe mruntaius. ~ i.ic;. .yrr. said io be impossible i'r T !; agon, io Batua chi, where iiiry mel ;ilr iieu-l pAity. From Baruachi thpy vent to Ihiare lnd Arizpe' wiiers they me; Cnl. 8uiium. NJ ho was their hos; whtle n town. After H,us. ac'ing their business thot re'rar,,i tlcir sISia |" Fr"n'eiaS over lnc S;.,ac iauuh route they t"ok in going Gowh the co,t,. try. From FrunteiaS they went la the coal fields, which Major Earle thinks i'm. mense. Major Earle is enthusiastic over the prospects of Sonora as mineral c0un- try, and says the people were friendly and hospitable wherever they came in contact with them.
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:sg s- Six-Page Edition.
This Page is from the Daily
 of Wednesday, March 1.

SENATOR MILLER, of California, opened the debate on the Chinese immigration bill yesterday, and so far as we can judge, from the meagre synopsis that was telegraphed us, he made strong case against the unre- stricted and unlimited importation of Mongolians into the United States. The debate will be watched with in- tense interest by the entire popula. ton west of the Rocky mountains, whose destiny is being, to large ex- tent, shaped by this invading horde from Asia. That there is no divided sentiment upon this subject on the Pacific coast, is evidenced by the unanimous vote upon the question at the gubernatorial election in Cali fornia in 1879, when the total vote for unlimited immigration was only 8S3. The vote for restriction was l54,G3S. If our national govern ment ignores so important fact as this, then there is no hope for relief for the laboring classes of the Cau- casian race upon the American con- tinent. We do not believe, how. ever, that congress will stuitify itself by going back upon the blanks in troduced into the platform of both the republican and democratic par ties at the last presidential election. Such action should and would damn any set of men who are party to it.
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criminally ccnsurable or blame. worthy for utter ignorance and in capacity.

GOVERNOR SAFFoRD of the Tombstone mines who recently visited the Lake Val ley mines, offered the company $50 900 to work twelve hours with a pick and shovel and have the mineral he should mlne This to be from his own personal work One of the finest twenty-stamp mills ever put up in this country is being put up.- Leadville Herald.
 These are the mines of which George Daly states "the very weeds above them will assay very large percentage of silver" Col. George D. Roberts IS the principal owner, but his native modesty restraints him from allowing his name to appear in connection with them. It is reported that General Thomas Ewing (not of Ohio) will shortly assume their super intendency. This will afford fine opportunity for the exercise of his extraordinary talent as mine super intendent. The stock IS divided into four companies, under Philadelphia auspices, the property being so di- vided as to allow each company to commence on $36,0O0,0OO in sight. This equal division permits the shares of each to be offered at the same price, and tends to allay any feeling of jealousy that may be engendered from an uneven start. The small fragment of wealth that appears on the surface of each is, of course, no criterion as to what future develop ments may show. Visitors are not allowed to extract any of the high assay weeds, placards being posted over the property somewhat similar to those on our public parks to pre- vent the sequestration of flowers N. Y. Daily Stock Report.
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THE year 1881 will long be re

THE year 1881 will long be re, membered as phenomenal one in the way of meteornlogv. The entire area east of the Rocky mountains was subjected to an unprecedented drouth accompanied by great heat. The crops were cut short from twen- ty-fve to fifty per cent in most of the country, while the death rate from causes growing out of the lack of rain and great heat was larger than was remembered for any similar period of time. On the Pacific Coast an entirely different state of affairs existed. The rainfall was abundant and the heat in no way excessive. The advent of 1882 has reversed the above noted condition of affairs. The winter on the Pacific seaboard has been cold and dry, the rainfall thus far throughout California, being far below an average, and the outlook for crops is that they will be below those of 1877, if not down to the minimum of 1864. East of the Rock ies we read of tremendous floods, such, in fact, as have not occurred for decades, and in consequence the inundated regions are calling for help for the despoiled laborers of the low. CT Mississippi valley. Here, in Ari- zona, while the cold has been more intense than one year ago, the rain fall has also been greater, and the prospects for early and abundant grass were never better.
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Geld Notes from Dos Cabexas.

Maj. Downing has returned from his visit to New Mexico, where he has some valuable mining property.
 The superintendent of the Com. monwealth Mining company of Ari- zona, will arrive here next Monday, and will be the guest of Jas. Smith for time.
 A detachment of soldiers from Fort Grant passed through here last Thursday, en route for the boundary line of Mexico, where they intend to scout the country after Indians.
 The new mill has been running most of the week on tailings, the ob- ject being to thoroughly charge it, and fill Tn all cracks and crevices before starting on outside ore. The mill is perfect and works smoothly.
 Messrs. Basset < Scow have taken contract to haul ore for the Chiri. cahua M. < NJ. Co.,, from the mine to the mill. The contract requires them to deliver twenty tons per day for six months. These gentlemen are also running two teams hauling ore from Silver Camp.
 Thos. Holson, the superintendent of our new mill, informs ms that the stamps will be set in motion on next Monday, from which time they will be kept running regularly night and day. There are about fifty tons of ore at the mill, Mir. Holson has ordered that the whistle shall not be used until the mill IS ready to run regularly.
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Curious Cave.

Near Winslow, in the Sunset mountains, says the Albuquerque Journal, cave has been discovered which is one of 'the greatest wou. ders of Arizona Territory. It $ % unknown proportions, having never been explored, and the phenomenon connected with it that causes the wonder of beholders, is the fact that a strong current of air rushes into the cave of sufficient force to draw down into the Plutonlan depths all light articles placed near the en. trance. The roaring of the winds into the cavern may be heard two hundred yaeds away from the open> Ing.
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Postal Facilities for Globe.

rTom tnc rloOc SnrOniCIc.
 Mir. R. D. McGaughey, postal in- spector, left Globe yesterday after an examination of the postal affairs of this section of Arizona. He was well pleased with the management, and especially with the arrangement and security of the postoffice at Globe, and highly commended both Post Master Spence and his faithful deputy, Mr. Thos. Baker. Some suggestions made by Mr. Spence, as to change of service, were approved by him, and will be recommended to the department at Washington. The service between Globe and Wilcox which Is now tri-weekly is recom- mended to be made daily, , hen the eastern mails required to be sent every day eau be withdrawn from the present route and have a dispatch of at least twenty-four hours over the present route. It is proposed to make Globe the terminus in lieu of McMillen, and to supply the latter place tri, weekly via Richmond Basin or Nugget. A new route is proposed from Globe, via Stanton, stanton, Salt River, Tonto Basin, Reno, etc, to Prescott. The service from King to Globe will be made tri-weekly, or every other day, n special route established to Pio- neer, while Riverside will receive its mail direct from Florence and Tue son. The old route over the Finals will, of course, be abolished. It is believed that tn" proposed change will b" nc, only economical t. the
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ConkiIpg's Nomination.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The sen ate judiciary committee argued, and informally decided that Conkling's nomination be reported back to the senate at its next executive session, with the recommendation for confr- nation. One or two of the commit tee, it is understood, regard the nom. ination with disfavor, but there will be no probability of any formidable opposition to confirmation.
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The Mexican National.

COLORADO STRINGS, Col, Feb. 2S. At meeting of the stockholders of the Mexican National Construc. ton company, nineteen. twentieths of the stock was represented. By unan- imous vote the capital stock was in creased by s3,000,000. Nearly the entire amount of the New York stock was taken by present stockholders. This amount will enable the com pany to complete, equip and put m operation 729 miles of road. The completion of the mileage will en,i- tie the company to s5,400,000 in sub. sidies from the Mexican government, payable. in stipulated sections as con- pleted, Of this mileage, 302 miles are completed and in 0, eration. Rails and rolling stock are already provided for 729 miles, grading com pleted $50 miles, and ties have been bought and delivered for 582 miles. It is expected that ,29 miles will be completed and in operation before the end of the year. The system for which concessions have been granted covers 2,962 miles. When 129 mil are completed there will remain gap of 475 miles to connect with the City of Mexico.
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More Telegraph Lines.

OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. 2S.-A bill is before the dominion parliament to give the American Telegraph & Ca ble company the right to land cables on the west coast of the dominion, with view of making an Asiatic connection.
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EASTERN people have sa


 EASTERN people have said and written volumes Tn relation to the California system of stock and mine manipulation, which, we grant, has not always been the mos. direct and straightforward in the world. But, as the Pacific coast manipulation has been, in individual cases,we challenge the record to find worse case than the following Tn New York. The subjoined circular, issued by the company, will expla,n the whole matter:
 No. ' CoURTLAND ST., RooM c
 NEW YORK, Jan. l4, 1882.
 DEAR SIR-At the annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Mo. have Mining X Milling company, held at this office, No. 24O Broad way, report was read by Mir. Boyd, acting secretary, showing that ow- ing to the failure of the company to raise funds and make the necessary payments on the property bonded for it at Prescott, Arizona, the bond has expired and the company was without any i.ioney
 The report of the Treasurer, Mir. Chapip, was read showing the lia- bilities to be S12,000 with assets of 2S,000 shares in the treasury, none having been sold since last yearly meeting,
 The debt can be compromised fora small amount and a good prop erty can bc obtained on most advan- {, tageoue terms, if the shareholders .eci inclined to raise he funds nec- essary for the purpose within thirty days from this date.
 Respectfully Yours,
 JAS. R. BoYD, Chairman.
 The Mining Age & Conservative has the following pertinent comments on this case which we most heartily endorse:
 1t is not necessary in this issue to discuss the legal aspect of the case, nor dwell upon the grievous wrong done the mining interest at large and the Mohave stockholders in par ticular. We may, however, remark that this IS not the first time that the company has come to grief under Mir. Clark's administration. The property originally acquired disap- peared, was sbandoned or otherwise lost, and it is nov in order for those responsible for the loss to explain or stand before the public as either
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COYOTES and foxes boldly eli .r houses at the northern end of Vir- glnia City. Is the International hotel at Virginia to become the home of the lordly Piute and the County building to be the lair of the coyote and the den of the fox? and shall the bats and owls find shelter in the quartz mills and hoisting works?- Daily Report.
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DR. M. T. MASTERS has made the start ling discovery that an apple is no; fruit. He says: "The flesh of tbe apple or pear IS nothing whatever but the end of the flower stalk, which gradually swells out into succulent mass, and which holds embedded within it the true fruit-the core" The question next ia order to ie. settled IS, whether the fruit or the end of the flower stalk should be eaten. 1f
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TELEGRAPHTC.
Special Dispatches to the Epltaph.
Pcroration of BIalne'. Rulogy.


 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Follow- ing is the delayed peroration of Blaine's eulogy:
 He did not quail, even fur the one short moment, in which stunned and dazed, he could give up life. Hardly aware of its reIinquishment but through days of deadly Ianguor, through weeks of agony that was not less agony because it was si- lently borne. With clear sigh, and calm courage, he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell. What brilliant broken plans, what baffied high ambition, what sundering of strong, warm, man. hoods friendships. What bitter rending of sweet household ties. Be hind him proud expectant nation, a great host of sustaining friends, a cherished and happy mother, wearing the full rich honors of her early toll and tears. The wife of his youth whose whole life lay in his. The lit tie boys not yet emerged from child. hoods days of frolcs. The fair young daughter. The sturdy sons just springing into closest comp anion- ship, claiming every day, and every day .rewarding a fathers love and care. In his heart the eager, re- joicing of power to meet all demands. Before him desolation and great darkness and hls soul was not shaken. His countrymen were thrill ed with instant, profound and uni. versal sympathy Mesterful in his moral weakness he became the cen. ter of nation. Love enshrined in the prayers of world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him in his sufferings. He trod the wine-press alone with unfal- tering front; he faced death with un- failing tenderness; he took leave of life above ths demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet; he heard the voice of God with simple resignation; he bowed to the divine decree. As the end drew near his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the weary hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls; from its oppressive, stifling air; from Its homeliness and from its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will. Within sight of it's heaving pillows, within sound of Its manifold voices, with wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze he looked out wistfully upon the oceans changing wonders, on its fair sails whitening in the morning light; on its restless waves rolling shoreward to break and die be- meath the monday sun; on the red clouds of evening arching low to the brink of the horizon, on the serene and shining pathway of the stars. Let us think that his dying eyes read misty meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in tho silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, that fell already upon his wasted brow ID the breath of the early morning.
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X Krntur Convict.

MARSHALL, Tex. Feb. 2S.--Israel Legran6, convicted of kukluxing colored man in Camp county last May, was sentenced by the United States district court, at Jefferson, to five years in the penitentiary and fined $500.