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lsloha Chronicle.

The Chronicle comes to hand this week under an entirely new manage. ment. It is we'll filled with interest ing local reading matter, and under it's present management can scarce fail in being of great service in aid ing the development of the resources north of the Gila. Following is what is promised in the future:
 Attention is called to the change in the proprietorship of the Chroni' cle, it having been purchased by MT. George w. Sterritt. It is the inten' ton of the present proprietor to make the Chronicle the most reada- ble weekly newspaper in Arizona should it have the support which both proprietor and editor will strive to merit. The late editorial manage ment remains unchanged. We may add that the subscription list as well as advertising patronage is con stantly increasing and, in time, we hope to be able to print daily with the Associated Press dispatches.
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TUCSON ITElIS

From the Journal. ......
 It is stated that a gang of conf dence men are operating around the depot, having for their game the in. experienced emigrants passing through. .,
 Mayor Huchins left last evening for Los Angeles, on business con nected with the commissary depart ment U. s. A.
 Rev. 0. c. Wheeler, of Oakland, will preach the dedicating sermon of the new Baptist church, on Stone av- enue, next Sunday. .. The large addition to the round house of the s. P. R. R., in this city, is fast approaching completion. It will furnish room for ten more loco. motives.
 MT. B. F. Bivens, of the Gunsight mine, leaves for Eastern cities this morning, to be gone several weeks. He goes on business connected with his large mining interests. Judge Campbell, of the firm of Earll, Smith, Campbell & Robinson, leaves for Tombstone this morning. Judge Robinson of the same firm is expected here from Tombstone Tn a couple of days, on his way to Cali. fornia, where he goes for recreation and rest, to be gone for few weeks From the Daily Star.
 MT. o. NJ, Gibbs, recently of Tomb. stone, has received the appointment, of manager of the Telephone com pany of Tue son.
 1 c. H. McNeil, of the Phenix Ga zette, arrived in Tucson on Sunday, and will leave for the East this morn | ing, to be absent some six weeks. He may return by way ot Tucson; if not he will reach Phenix by the A. x F R. R. The Gazette will meantime be conducted by his brother. Yesterday Mir. Thomas Gates 1 caused a small silver brick to be
 made from the first product of the | Abbie Waterman mine, and for
 warded it by express to Miss Abbit
 Waterman, young miss of some | twelve years, who resides in San Der
 nardino, California, after whom thu
 mine was named, to fulfill the wish l of tine late Mrs. Gates.
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flowing bills as allowed
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From:the Star.

fromitne Star'
 The Clifton copper mines are now running but one furnace, and are welding about five tons of copper per day.
 The furnaces were shut down two months last year on account of dam. ages sustained by the floods. With this exception one furnace has been running steady during the year.
 The Detroit copper mines, it is thought, will outrival the Longfel. low. The Detroit company are build ing furnaces about five miles below Clifton on the San Francisco river. One furnace will be in operation this week. '9 i.' The miners and business men are in great hopes that the starting of the Detroit smelters will be the be. ginning of new era for Clifton. The owners of the Longfellow have been the cause of the district being held back for more than two years, and 1t is believed they have given the camp black eye on every occa- sion.
 We understand that Mir. John Will. liams is putting up the Detroit com pauy's furnaces. If this be so, the company have shown excellent judg- ment in their selection. He belongs to family who perhaps understands copper and its reduction better than any other class of men on the coast, or even in the United States. They have made Bisbee and the Huachuca companies what they are by their thorough practical knowledge of the business.
 With Mir. John N illiams in the Clifton district, we will expect some intelligent results and a copper | boom. -~.
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The Relic of the Past.
n the 8. F. Daily Exchange

From the 5. F. Daiy E1chhnse
 In the long drawn out "debris suit" at Sacramento yesterday, J. w. Marshall, the origina. discover of gold at Sutter's mill, was placed upon the stand to testify as to his experience of floods in the Sacramento valley. He said that the whole valley was flooded in the winter of lS45 and lS46. He was told at that time by the Indians and those who had re- sided there in 1880 that during the winter of that year the entire valley was deeply submerged, the only land visible in the valley being the buttes. He says evidences of the debris lodged in the tree tops, which was still remaining in lS45, convinced him that their statements were true. In l843 there was in the whole valley of Sacramento fifty persons exclusive of Indians. The highest water he ever saw in the American river, a, Coloma, was in the winter of 1861 and 1862. Evidence along the banks near that town, shows. that prior tc lS48 the river at some time had been two or three feet higher than it has been since that time. He was sup erintending the construction of sawmill at Coloma when he made the discovery of gold. In 1852 aLd lS5s there were 30,0O0 people in the county of El Dorado, and her dele gatlon in the legislature was six sen ators and ten representatives.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
The Guiteau Trial.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - When Guiteau came into court, as he pass ed his brother he whispered to him to come over to the dock. "I want to see you about something of great importance" Then, taking his seat, the prisoner laid down a large bun. dle of papers and spreading out the manuscript busied himself looking it over. , wa
 Judge Porter began his argument shortly after 10 o'clock, and at once fixed the attention of every one in the room. Guiteau prctended to be engrossed in his manuscript, but soon laid it aside and listened with rapt attention.
 At the conclusion of Judge Por- ter's able and eloquent argument, Judge Cox commenced reading his decision, which began with lengthy review of the subject of jurisdiction. He said that jurisdiction is com plete in the place where the wound IS inflicted, consequently the court has full cognizance of the offence. He next took up the question of legal tests of insanity, and decided that knowledge and appreciation of difference between right and wrong must be taken as the correct test. s.
 Judge Cox concluded his decision at l2, having consumed an hour and forty minutes, speaking rapidly Upon every material point his rulings were decidedly against the prayers of the defense. The only grain of comfort for the prisoner was offered when he reached the question of req sonabls doubt. Upon this sui ject he said, "I shall not charge the jury to acquit if they find reasonable doubts as to any one element, but l shall take into consideration and charge them relative to the elements and that if from all the circumstances and evidence they have reasonable doubt of the commission by the de fendant of the crime as charged, ther they shall acquit." r.r- ag. ns
 As Judge Cox finished speaking Guiteau called out, "I am perfectly satisfied with that exposition of law | After consultation between counsel the court adjourned until Thursda, morRing, when Davidge will mako the opening argument to the jur! for the prosecution.
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Tsnbsts.. Ceu. q. q g. M. e.

Nearly year ago Messrs Ogden, Mauk and Thornton, entered into contract with George s. and Charles Montgomery, of San Francisco, for the sale of the Friendship, Standard and Huron mines, and the said Montgomery's incorporated company iE San Francisco with the above name The validity of the deed of trust that was made to secure the vendors was contingent upon the beginning of work within sixty days and the uninterrupted prosecution of the same as fast as the nature of the ground would admit Mr. J. H. Jackson was made superintendent, and the enormously sum of $200 was furnished him to prose- cute the work of development with. When that failed, like an honest man MT. Jack son suspended work, and SO reported to the company. Since that date there has been no other evidence of the existence of such company than what the court notes in the San Francisco journals showed, over the alleged theft of some 125,000 shares of the stock The failure to comply with the trusts specified in the deed to said Charles Montgomery has long since worked for. feiture of the whole matter, and the orig inal owners are now in the quiet and un- disturbed possession ot the propcrtyi but the stock jobbers are not done with the stock, for by the news in our telegraphic column, it will be seen that an assessment of two cents per share has been levied, which will aggregate $4,000. This is probably done to pay office rent in San Francisco, as they have nc other indebted. ness in Tombstone that we are aware of than an unpaid subscription to the EPI- rAPH, which the secretary will obligc by remi,ting upon receipt of this notice. Had the compsny complied with the terms of their contract, and pushed the develop. ment of the properties, there is reasona' ble probability that today they would have had good mines and stock with cash market value As 1t is, they have but | the baseless fabric of violated trusts, which we apprehend will have small cash value in San Francisco or elsewhere.
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THE movement to depress the Tombstone Mill and Mining Co.'S shares, says the Bullion Miner, Is about through with, and the instigs- tors have realized their folly. The false reports about the property and production have fallen flat and failed. The board of directors are gentle
 men in every way worthy of respect and confidence, and it may be said, a fit board for other companies to pattern from. Engaged as they all are, like. their honorsd president, George Burnham, in commercial and manufacturing business, they carry with them in the management oi the Tombstone Mill and Mining Com. pany, those business principles that have placed each in his several busi'
 ness-ahead of their competitors, The financial standing of each places them above any stock juggling or the manipulating of the company's affairs to benefit themselves. The false and malicious reports that have been so industriously circulated are nailed by the following copy of tsle- gram, received at the company's office, in this city yesterday: "Tomb' stone, Arizona, ijeC. 2S, 1881. To George S. Corbin, 432 Walnut street, Philadelphia: Mines and equipments both above and below ground never in such good condition as now. Ore in sight sr ficient to run both mills to their fullest capacity for one year
 Mills in better order than ever before
 Bullion shipment this month to date
 one hundred and thirty thou sand dollars. W.J. CHEYNEr.'
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cenxression.i Proceedings.

WAsHiNGToN, Jan. 10.-In the house Whtthorn introduced bill for q reciprocity treaty with Mexico. Thomas of Ills. bill proposing an amendment to the constitution pro- hibiting polygamy.
 The president sent a message to the house on letting mail routes, sug- gesting, as there would necessarily be considerable delay before the con tract could be awarded, if any change in the law was considered desirable, it might be made immediately appli- cable and take effect before the let tings took place. .. Id 7r. . -sa aa.-
 The house resumed the considera- ton of the Utah contested election case. Pending the resolution offered by Haskell, declaring Allen G.. Campbell entitled to be sworn as A delegate on his prima facie case, Reed offered as substitute a resolu. tion referring to the committee on elections the question on the prima facie right between Cannon and Campbell to be sworn in, together with all certificates and papers pre-. sented on each side, with instructions to that committee to report as early as possible.
 SESATE-I.ogan introduced bill l to give all the proceeds of the inter- nal revenue tax on spirits to the edu- oational funds, to be distributed among the states. Hoar's resolution for special commission on women's rights passed--S5 to g. Miller of California presented memorial from the San Francisco chamber of com. merce for an appropriation for harbol defenses to the Bay of San Francis co. A resolution passed instructing the committee on foreign affairs tc inquire whether the Hawaiian treaty ought to be terminated. Jones in troduced . joint resolution to termi' nate the treaty. .-s.. ] The senate committee on forcigi relations referred the various bills fo restricting Chinese immigration to ! subcommittee consisting of senator
 Miller of California, Edmunds, Pen dleton, and Hil! of Georgia. " l Bayard, from the Finance commit
 tee, reported the Merriam tariff com
 mission bill fayorably, and Garlsn'
 the bill adversely. Bayard made al
 argument s,ating his views on tn
 tariff. He arraigned congressions
 lobbyists like those of the Credi
 Mobilier. The house had delaye
 action on the tariff and protectio
 was being fostered by quest,onabl measures. He was willing to try tn experiment of an honest practic' commission. Buck addressed tt | senafe
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Irwill be seen by reference to the proceedings of the hoard of super. visors, which appear in another col umn, that they have duly notified all the public officers that prompt settle ments with the county must be made. This is step in the right direction, and if followed up in every respect the board will deserve the thanks of the people who are called upon to foot the bills.
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Commercial Value of Metals.

Cor Inc LeauVi!le muck
 In your last issue noticed the discovery of dechenite or vanadate of lead and zinc, and a statement that the metal vansdium is worth $22 per gramme, or about $10,O00 per pound avoirdupois. The price of the metal few months ago was $5.5O per gramme, or about $2,520 per pound. The above figures are from Professor Henry G. Hanks, of San Francisco, who is manufacturer and dealer in rare metals and chemicals. While on this subject I will give you the value of different metals, a fact that will perhaps astonish many prospec' | tors. Very few, however. of the metals winch l quote are found in l nature as metals. The following are the prices per pound:
 Indlum, $2, 2,520; vanadium, $2, ,520; ruthinium, $l,400; rhodium, s7O0; palladium, $653; varanium, $576.5Si osmium, $325.2S; iridium, $3l7 A; | gold, $3O1 1.46; platinum, $ll5.2O; thallium, $lO8.77; chromium, $5S; magnesium, $46.5O; potassium, $23 silver, $l8.25, cobalt. s7.75; cad mium, $6; bismuth, $3.63, sodium s2.5O; tickle, $2.5O; mercury, 42c antimony, 14c; tn, 22c; copper, 2Oc arsenic, l0c; zinc, 6c, lead, 5c; and iron, %.
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Psstofaes Rehbery In Rnxland.

From the 8. F. News Letter.
 It has been ascertained that the total worth of the precious stones and jewelry lost by the robbery at the Hatton Garden postoffice is fl4,300. The deeds, cheques, post office orders and lottery tickets stolen bring the total up to fl5,000. Most of the packets were insured for more than their value. In all, 35 regls. tered letters were stolen. These. m. cluded II packets of cut and anout diamonds, insured respectively for f4O0, s24, E32, E5, 900, @ ,5CO, f275, fl00, f500, f4, 900, f200, f503, f43C and two packets of sapphires, fol $500. The inquiry into the robbery has been closed SO far as Scotland Yard is concerned. No clue has been obtained, and. owing to the clever way in which the robbery was per petrated, it is not expected that tn. thieves will ever be brought to jus. tice, unless at some future time on. of them should peach upon his ac complices.
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Assignment of Bucxalew A Oehoa

From the Star, Jan lo'
 The assignment of Bnckalew x Ochoa, merchants, doing business at Florence, Silver King and Casa Grande, was a surprise to our people, as it was generally believed the firm was far from insolvency. The total amount of their liabilities will reach s6U,OO0, the principal part of which is in San Francisco. l.. Zeckendorf & Co. are creditors for about $l4 1000, part of which is secured. The Pima bank and two or three others are in for small sums. It is believ. ed that the firm, if given time, will come out all right.
 The embarrassment is to be regret ted, as both of the members of the firm are hard working and honest gentlemen.
 Mir. Buckalew is one of the mos, responsible and respected of our cit. izens, a close business man, and | economlzing in every way. He has been identified with Tucson for many years, and has large circle of friends who will regret much to hear of hi: l embarrassment. -.-.-,
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Another Coed Property Tied Up by
 Litigation

Suits were commenced Thursday against Wm. Tweed, D. s. O'Brien, John Murphy, er al., by the Hidalgo Copper and Silver Mining company and w. s. M. Wright and E. T. Farmer. The matter in controversy is the O'Brien and San Carlos copper mines, recently sold by the first named parties. The O'Brien mine is claimed by the H. c. and s. NJ. Co. under the name of the Hidalgo mine, and the San Pedro mlne is claimed by Messrs. Wright and Far mer, under the name of the Sonoma mine. The suits were brought by the plaintiffs to quiet title, and their attorney, Judge G. L. Wratten, of Florence, forwarded the papers to Globe, yesterday, to be filed. The property involved in this suit is very valuable, having been sold for $l5O,- 900 and . portion of the purchase money paid over. The result will be swaited with interest.
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THREE MEN SHOT.
Accidental Discharge or a Revolver
 Yesterday.

Yesterday. From the Journal.
 Intense excitement was occasioned in the club room directly back of Pierson's Fashion saloon, by an ac- cidental discharge of a revolver, yes. terday about noon. It appears that while a young man named Wm. l.. Kennedy was acting as case keeper at one of the faro tables, bis revolver, Colt of A caliber, slipped from 2 back pocket of his pantaloon, and rested upon the seat of the chair. Wh, n he arose to allow another man to take his place he failed to notice the weapon, nor was it seen by his successor, who just before sitting down, slightly tipped the chair and the revolver fell to the floor. This caused the explosion of one cartridge which sent ball flying through flesh, wood and space in disastrous and astonishing manner. Near the table, at tine time, were eight or ten men, players and spectators. Among these were: John Began, road overseer residing at Arivaca; Frank Burns butcher on Congress street near Church, and d Mexican named Juan Moreno. These three were hit. Burns was first struck, the ball passing through the Aeshy part of the right shin, and, speeding upward, the lead en missile entered Bogan's left leg hit Moreno on the left hand, badly acerating the middle finger, and also tore piece from the top of the chair on which the Mexican's hand rested. The bullet, happily, by this time, had spent itself aud fell to the floor. ] he wounds of the men were promptly dressed by Drs. Handy anc Holbrook. It was found necessary to amputate Moreno's finger. The other wounds are net considered dangerous. Nc bones were injured and the men will speedily recover unless some unforeseen change II their condition occurs
 Immediately after the excitement had sufficiently subsided, so that tht cause and effect of the accident could be ascertained, Kennedy, the owne of the revolver, sought Judge Brags and explained the circumstances o the shooting. The judge required him to make deposit of money a an assurance of his appearance for hearing this morning at 10 o'clock.
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John Doe Accused Of . New Crime From the s F. Daily Exchange.

Joh. :Doe Accused Of . New Crime From the 8 F. Daily Exchange. ...,
 The venerable Mr.. Guild, who married a little girl, and then pro cured divorce, has alleged that one of the reasons for the severance of the marriage ties was her criminal intimacy with party known to him only as John Doe. What meddle. some fellow this Doe is. When he and Richard Roe put their heads to- geti CT they can make more work for the lawyers than hundred ordi. nary men. But uP to date we had some faith in John Doe's virtue. He has been accused of assault and battery, illegal possession, grand larceny, murder, etc, etc., scores of times, but this is the first time his chastity has been called into ques. ton. And while the infamous tres. pass on . husbands rights was going on, doubtless Richard Roe was keep ing watch outside the door.
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Another Candidate.

CHICAGO, Jan. 10. -- Journals Washington special: Hon. J. w. Eddy of Aurora, ill.,, seems to have good prospect for the governorship of Arizona. A-s -. .u
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Cabinet M eetInE.

NEW YORK, Jan. l0.--Washington special: At cabinet meeting to-day one of the principal topics discussed was thu. international monetary con.
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LONG editorial are easily written !; we wrote one last week, and could write one to-day or any other day.
 or consideration, we will enter into a contract with bond and ap- proved securities, to write an editor. ial every day that shall be as long as and stupid as an average leader in the Albuquerque Journal.-El Paso Independent.
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AMONG the arrivals by yesterdays coach from Benson was Mir. H. NJ. French of Boston, Mass file will remain m town for few days looking over the mining field
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MONDAY night was the coldest of the season, but yesterday came of warm and pleasant and remined one of pnmer.