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The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
The Reception by the Tombstone Cluh

The Reception by the Tombst0ne Club
 The Tombstone Club gave Its first re- ception last evening at their rooms in the Grand hotel The members manifested their good taste in inaugurating these bril- liant gatherings by tendering this initial social event to theIr lady friends.
 As 8 banquetipg hail the room of the club tar exceeds, in point of elegance, any thing of the kind throughout the terri tory.
 Splendid paintings were suspended on the gilded walls and graceful stretches of evergrecns depended from the handsome chandeliers. The guests were received by the committee on arrangements, who, be- sides welcoming their friends there, saw to it that no one was wanting in attention.
 About one hundred persons were pres ent, being composed of about half of each sex
 The gentlemen were all members, with the exception of number of invited guests.
 Among the many there were c. St. l.. Abbott, Frank B. Boarrnan, John II. Be. han, Free E. Brooks, P. T. Colby, 10. Dunbar, H. c. Dibble and wife, C. F. Gil. lingham, c. E. GoOdfellow, C. W. Good. ale, A. T. Jones and wife, W. K. Meade, A. II. Emanuel, J. c. Mather, Richard Rule, NJ. E. Joyce, Judge J. F. Lewis and vie, George $. Rice, A. II. Stebbins, NJ. A. Smith. W. II. Sesmans, H. NJ. Wood, Ali. Tregldgo and wife, T. E. Sumner, F. c. Hawkins and wife, Arthur Haynes, A. Mcbride and wife, A. Springer and wife, of Charleston, Judge Berry and wife, Ed. ward Willy and wife, Charley Leach and wife, II. Solomon and wife, Misses Annie Brown, Mattic Colby. Owlsley, Minnie Wallace, the Misses Mugan, Mrs. Wade, Mrs. Chapin, Major and Mrs. Tupper, Mir. and Mrs. Bernard, John P. Cum, K. c. Brown, of the Tucson Citizen, Lionel Js- cobs, also of Tucson. and NJ. J. Mcdonald, Esq, ot San Francisco.
 Mr. Joyce was the efficient floor mana ger and the may dance held sway through all the dreamy hours, stopping only for refreshments, which were served in the Grand restaurant at II 80. Very pretty boquets had been arranged and each guest was the recipient of one of these sweet tokens of favor.
 It would consume too much space to describe the elegant dresses of the ladies' Suffice it to say they were gorgeous, while the costume of the gentlemen would have done credit to a more metropolitan event. Intense good feeling was manifested throughout and the perfect unison which prevailed was highly creditable to the donors of the evenings festivities. Tomb stone can indeed be proud of its social club
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A Nau nra Tar

From the Crested Butte (Col.J Republican.
 We have been shown new and improved style of ore car, which has many advantages over any we have ever seen before. It is the invention of Nathaniel B. Burpee, of Crested Butte, and is especially adapted to inclines, although it works equally well on levels. The car is made of heavy sheet iron pressed into the shape of an ordinary car, but the running gear is of novel design and greatly reduces the cost of mining.
 Instead of requiring four wheels and two tracks, but one track and two wheels are used, and the car is hung below the raii. The entire rig weighs less than the running gear of an ordinary car; thus enabling much more dirt and ore to be removed with a given power than usual. A s.ngle rail of the lightest pattern is sus. pended on brackets near the roof of the tunnel or drift, on which the two wheels, which are set i9 line, work. No ties are requ red, and where up rights are used in the tunnel, no additional timbers are re- quired. From these wheels, which work on steel pin, bands run out and down around the car which hangs below. In this way the loss by friction IS reduced to a minimum, while the saving in rails brings the new style car within reach of every miner. At the top of the incline, the rail is bent down for a few feet and ends in curve upward, by means of which the car is given an impetus forward and suddenly stopped, so that the dirt is suddenly thrown forward and the car dumps itself. Two cars can be used on the same rail and by single rope, by introducing we'll known switch ar engagement, and the power still fur ther reduced by the weight of the descending car. With little inge- nuity the men working in the breast of the incline can remove their own dirt and ore without leaving their places. MT. ..Burpee has applied for a patent on his invention, and in. tends to make arr angements to have the car manufactured extensively and introduced.
 The car has had a practical test and found to be superior to anything of the sort previously used. The in- ventor intends using the car shown us on some mines he owns on Treas ury mountain, in the Rock Creek district.
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The Flood at Mi,iigan's Bend.

ST. LOUIS, March 2l.--The clerk of the steamer City of Providence, just from Vncksburg, gives some in- formation about the floods in the lower rlver, not before published. The worst point in the whole river is Mllligap's bend. There is an over, flow and counter-overhow in that district. The waters from the Mis- sissippi are gong over the levee and floods back. The waters from the Yazoo are coming Tn from behind, and when these two meet whirl. pool is formed which destroys every thing in It's course. The locality of the whirlpool is changing constantly and every day it completes new des- truction. A large yawl, filled with
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LOCAL PERSONALS.

Archie Mcbride, Esq, accompanied by Mir. John w. Taylor, will leave today for Yuma. Mir. Mcbride goes for his health. It is hoped that he may be so much bene. ti,ed as to be able soon to return and as. sume the management of the trst-class hotel he has opened here.
 Major Tupper and MT. Bernard, with their wives, left for Camp Huachuca this afternoon.
 MT. R. c. Brown, of the Citizen, left by coach this noon for home.
 Col, J. $. Mccoy and lady returned this afternoon from the Huachucas.
 J, N Thacker, Esq of San Francisco, is at the Cosmopolitan.
 Abe Heyman, Esq, of Virginia City, New, arrived In town yesterday, and has taken apartments at the Cosmopolitan. MT. Heynan is partner of the enterpris. ing firm of Shoenield X Heyman of this city,
 MT. AL Liehcnthal, of San Francisco, Is registered at the Cosmopolitan.
 Mir. Springer and lady are registered at the Grand from Charleston.
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negroes, was caught in it the other day, and upset and all its occupants were drowned. The whirlpool struck church few days ago, in which several people with their stock had
 been taking refuge. -s The- churcis ,wasSinSa-few minutes, torn to pieces, the Aock drowned and the people foated around in the water some hours, but were finally rescued. The vortex struck the residence and stable of an old paralytic farmer by the pane of Jameson, anu totally annihilated them. The old gentle man was drowned.
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Dos Cabexas Gold Notes.

Our miners generally are feeling veryjubilant over the success of the mill. Many of them now see their way clear to getting supply of the FneeHul, which has been scarce with them for some time past.
 Messrs. J. V. Vickcrs, the we'll known real estate and insurance agent of Tombstone, and J. c. Parke, U. $. mineral surveyor and mining engineer, from the same place, were in town on Friday.
 The mill is now running on ore from the Juniper mine. Two hun dred tons will be worked before cleanup is made. The owners of this large gold mine expect large re- turns, and we believe they will not be disappointed.
 The committee appointed to take steps towards procuring patent for our townsite are busily at work, and are making good progress. It is thought that it will not be long ere those claiming town lots will be able 10 procure deeds for the same. F A rain set in on Friday night Awhich has continued without ceasing sup to the time of going to press. In consequence the ar is fresh and |sbracing, and the grass Is beginning to look green. Everything betokens the advent of spring.
 The Road Side mine, belonging to c. w. Barrow & Co.,, is showing up some very fine ore. The shaft is now down twenty seven feet with a we'll defined vein over two feet in width. The ore is principally gold with traces of copper and carbonate.
 Two miners, sleeping on the side of one of our mountains, were vis- tied by a polecat the other night. The unwelcome visitor proceeded t, announce his arrival, when one of the sleepers awoke and exclaimed: "ln hell, by J-s, l smell the sul- phur." s~'.
 Two civilians and two soldiers were arrested at Wilcox last Mon- day, for stealing government prop erty. They plead guilty as charged before Judge Burke. The soldiers were turned over to the military au- thorities and the civilians were bound over to appear before the grand jury.
 We have been reliably informed that P. w. Smith has sold out his one.ha!f interest in the rich mines of Winchester to Gen. Gashwiler and others, of San Francisco, for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This property was bonded by P. w. Smith for $50,0O0, he selling one- half to Geo. Hearst for the amount of the bond. He now disposes of the other half for the above named sum, it being clear gain.
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Recorders Court.

The following business was transacted in Judge Wallace's court today;
 Alfred Martinez, who was arrested by Officer Kinney for being drunk and disor. derly, was sentenced to fifteen days in jail, he not being able to meet the fine imposed by the court.
 Edward Sanford, arrested by Policeman Solan for assault and battery, was commit. ted to jail to await his trial tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
 Jim Clark was sent to jail for fifteen days, having been found guilty of the charge of being drunk and disorderly. and not being able to pay the fine.
 The case of Maria Letang, charged with assault on Louisa Delancore, was set for 9 o'clock this afternoon.
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The Chinese Biil m the House.

WASHINGTON, March 21..-Discus-' sion on the Chinese bill in the house will be resumed morrow and will probably be allowed to continue until about three o'clock on "Wednesday afternoon, when, according to Pages present intention, he will demand the previous question. Friends of the bill do not think It advlsabie to limit the debate to any earlier period. Pa cilic Coast members are meanwhile assiduously laboring to gail votes, both among republicans and demo. crats, and @ satisfied that they lost nothing by delay. Page, who has the immediate charge of it, will endeavor to prevent the adoption of any amendments, and for the reason here tofore Stated is particularly earnest in refusing to give his consent to any reduction of time of suspension.
 By maintaining the stand he has to encounter serious embarrassments which were not experienced tn the senates namel y, 8 positive knowl- edge on the part of many members that President Arthur would like to nave the period of suspension re- duced to ten years, aud they have widely circulated the rumor that in case the bill be brought to him with out amendment of its twenty years suspension clause he will veto it on the ground of alleged infractlon of the spirit of the treaty. These re- ports find but few believers in up. prejudicad circles, but are exciting a considerable amount of influence in the house, and their circulation is lndustrioasly promoted by what seems to be pretty we'll organized lobby made up representatives of Chinese six companies in the Bosten and New York shipping interests, and by sentimentalists from all parts of the country.
 General Rosecrans is confined to his room to day by threatened cry sipelas in the wounded foot. Hopes to be at the capital by "Wednesday to speak and vote on the Chinese bill.
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ditional work was done. All the, prospect work in one of the lea ding mines of this district is done by fol. lowing up the veins of ore, no mat ter how small the beginnings may be, and the results have uniformly been most successful. By tunneling, were all other things equal here, such results could not have been attained '.
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ANOTHER KILLING.
This Time the ThunderbOIt ef Death
 Strikes the s,ther ~tde


 Strikes the s,ther ~tde.
 The people of Tombstone were startled this morning with report from Tucson that Frank Stillwell, we'll known per sonage In this county as late deputy sheriff at Bisbee and as one of the alleged Bisbee stage robbers, as also suspected of having killed an old man at the Bronkow mine same two or three years ago, had been found dead from the effects of charge of buckshot, near the Porter house, at the de- pot in Tucson. By a special dispatch to the EPITAPH, in another column, the re. port is confirmed and the full particulars given, so far as at present known. The dispatch is in error when it states that the remains of Morgan Earp were on the train. It should have been that Virgil W. Earp and wife were on the train, they having left Tombstone for Colton, yester- day
 As the dispatch says, there are two theories of the killing here as at Tucson. One is, that the comrades of Stilwell, tear ing that he might turn states evidence, have silenced him; and others, that it is the work of the incensed Earp brothers for the assassination of Morgan, it being stated that there is positive evidence that StlweIl WAS in Tombstone Saturday night at the time Morgan Earp was murdered, and that he rode into Tucson on horseback on Sunday. la either case his taking of veriiies the ing that the way of the trsnsgressor is hard"
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LOCAL SPLlNTERS.

UNCLAIMED tclegrams: F. F. Thomas, T. Young
 A CERTAIN lawyer in this city is now enabled to see the point"
 THERE is letter at the EpITAPH office for Jerry Quinlan from Mary E. Quinlan, of Virginia City.
 THE bar at the Grand hotel opened yes. terday. Mir. J. Piercy is the manager and will insure everything of fine quality In his line.
 SOLOMON LODGE U. D., F. & A. M, will hold a special meeting tomorrow (Wed nesday) evening, March g, at 2 80 o'c!k, for work in the first degree.
 The last bullion shipment for the Tomb stone NJ. & NJ. Co. was four bars, weigh. ing S32 pounds and valued at s10,971, shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express.
 NoTwITHsrASDING the continued ia. vorable developments in the mines in apd around Tombstone, there is great dearth of news and the town is exceedingly quiet.
 AN official map of Southern Arizona and the Mexican states of Sonora. Chihus, hua, Sinaloa and Durango has been pre-. pared for the Mining Record, and IS now for sale at Robertsons bookstore. The map is one of the best of the kind and those desiring reliable information will do well to consult this drawing ...
 SPRING fever is the prevalent disease in Tombstone at the present time. Thus far there have been no fatal cases. The treat. ment most in vogue is n horse and pack or wagon and few weeks rations and a start for the mountains or Mexico. The disease is sure to succumb to & few weeks of this treatment.
 AN interesting surgical operation was performed upon one of our prominent young attorneys day or two since, full report of which will appear in the next number of the London Lancet It was of that delicate and moral (net to say relig. ious) character winch should be touched upon lightly by that eminent medical journal, in order to spare the young mans feelings
 HE city council seems to have dropped the sewerage question. That this town needs a system of sewerage, such as will render the people tree from the liability of maladies as generate in cesspools and the like, is self.evident, The only point to be determined is just the plan to adopt and how to meet it. Let the committee appointed by the council receive such sug- gestions as the citizens may have to make, and then act accordingly.
 THE EPITAPH has been favored with Roster of Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of California, to which department Arizona belongs. There are fl posts, Of which Burnside, Tomb stone, A. T., is 36 on the list. Tucson's post is Negley No B. The objects of the Grand Army of the Republic are social, fraternal and beneficiary, and strictly non. partizan. It is one of those institutions whereby men are made more social and' humane, and which is calculated to en- balm in the memory of the present gener- ation the names of the brave comrades who laid down their lives for liberty and man.
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LEADvILLE, March 17.-Joe T. Dixon, city editor of the Democrat, and Heiderhoff, late managing editor of the same, have been arraigned for criminal libel. The suit is brought by John J. McGowen on account of and article intimating that he had seduced a Mrs. Bateman while her husband was in jails A cloud of wit nesses have been sub9pnaed, and nearly all the lawyers in town have volunteered for defense.
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GENERAL GRANT is said to have lost a great deal of money lately in speculation. He never was fortu- nate in his business ventures. He either catches on too late or strug- gles along with the procession too long, and the consequences are that he is generally hard up. He has only one consolation: The money he. loses bv using his head he can regain by using his hat.-Denver TribSne.
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SOME idea of the size of the match trade may be gained by glance at the figures paid for stamps. The government eXacts a revenue of one cent per 100 matches manufactured. During the year ending May, 1881, one company paid for stamps s4,5OO,. O00. This year the amount will be increased to s5,00U,000. There are 200 matches in a box. The tax is 2 cents; they are sold to the grocer for 3 cents, ard retailed at , cents. Four million five hundred thousand dol lars represent 450,0OO,O00 1-cent stamps. As each stamp represents 100 matches, the grand total manu- factured is 45,500,Oj0,000 matches, or 277,500,000 5-cent boxes.
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Lleut. MeIyilIe'a Report.

WASHINGTON, March 2l.-A very long and complete report of Engin- ger Melville, of the Jeanette, has been submitted to the secretary of the navy, in which he furnishes a detailed account of the cruise, suf- ferings and hardships of the explor- CTS, and furnishes little or no nope of the rescue of Belong and the re- mainder of the crew.
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The Assassin.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Guiteau is making $50 day on the sale of his photographs and autographs, and uses it in getting out his book. He is rational on every subject but stall wartism, but is furious at the name of Gorham, and says those papers were all abusing Garfield till Gods man came to remove him. He is de- lighted at Rosecrans attack on Gar. field.
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Ge0rgia Independents.

ATLANTA, March l7.--The leading independents of Georgia are in eau. GUS to day. They have formulated an address to the people, urging the formation of new party and calling for mass meeting here of the Geor- gia independents, on June l.
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Petition for Pardon - Private Land
 Claims.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Peti- tions for the pardon of Sergeant Mason are pouring in by every mail.
 The house committee on private land claims have agreed to report favorably on the bill confirming the title of J. McGarrahan to the rancho Panoche Grande. The bill provides that bona fde purchasers o. a portion of the tract shall be protected, and McGarrahan reimbursed.
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Another Resurrection.

CHICAGO, March 2l. A Times Washington special states, on the authority of a trustworthy person, that President Garfield promised Dorsey, out of personal friendship, that there should be noprosecutions, and that lie subsequently, allowed Dorsey to see and examine all official papers, memoranda of evi- dence, etc., and that Dorsey made notes of the same and has prepared a thorough defense.
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Asks 1t Quashed-A Denial.

WAsmINGroN, D. C., March 20- Soteldo's counsel asks that the in- dictmen: be quashed for informality.
 Marshall Jewell denies having sent campaign money to Senator Dorsey of which no account has been de- manded.
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ONE week ago to-day Mir. Phillip Dei.- esheimer, ex-supcriutendent of the Hale & Norcross mine, at Virginia City, was pre- sented with fine gold headed cane by the surface employees of the company. MT. Deidesheimer leaves the Comstock for So- nora this week, where he vii, superintend the Santa Marla mines.
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Sympa,hy for Sergeant Mason.

ALBANY, March 1.-The assembly has adopted a resolution that the President be asked to commute the punishmer of Sergeant Mason to dismissal from the army.
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Ono of Tomb.tone's Hotels.

The Grand hotel is now opened for the reception of guests. All of the furniture has not arrived and the finishing touches have not been applied to the improve ments; but still things are in such order that parties can be well entertained.
 Mrs. Mcbride very kindly trck the trouble to show an Ep.TApn reporter over
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and phenomenal six-day runner, healthy youth with combination of the best of endurance, digestion and gait, would cover nearly, if n quite, 7O0 miles.
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A MOVEMENT has been set on foot for ;he annexation of Mono, Alpine and Ingo counties, California, to Nevada. Much as Nevada may desire it, California will nev- CT consent 10 the proposition.
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More Consolidation.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Authori. ties state that the Mutual Union Tel egraph Company is about to be con- solid ted with Western Union.
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|kE "man proposes and God disposes'

IlkT "man proposes and God disposes" ~ lIl0etrated in the case of the Virginia &{Haiele, which said on the 17th: In
 the sky indicates that the snow 'D2a(ld Is over, and the barometer gives 'signs of clearing up." Our dispatches yesterday, from San Francisco, said that a furious snow storm was raging at Virginia City, and dispatch from Carson says the road is impossible between there and Reno.
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ON HIS GUARD.

The authorities here are deter. mined to go to the bottom of this matter, and if the parties are appre- hended there will be no sham exam ination, but a trial on merits, and the guilty parties, whoever they may be, will suffer the penalty of the law.
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MHssRs. MARLETTE < FOLSOM have a contract for cutting 3OO0O cords of wood near Lake Tahoe. Nevada. This wood goes to supply the Comstock mines.
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WERE it rot for the limited circu.
 lation of our contemporary, the great prominence gwen the recent trouble by rehashing the old story would work great injury to our county. We feel as strongly as any one on u 0 subject, and as earnestly con demn all acts of lawlessness, more especially the diabolical crime of as- sassination. But we likewise con demn the ghoulish spirit which would keep Haunting in the face of the out
 side world the details of a by gone tragedy which prostrates business, leading strangers to belive that their lives would be endangered should
 they visit us for the purpose of en- gazing in business or inspecting mining property with view to pur- chase. It is ar acknowledged fact that the city of Tombstone, like all prosperous mining camps, has its full quota of hard characters, who hold life very cheap, but that shss run the town, orssinss7e cfy " .. " &z s ~ n 7 q si. c.sss 'l|I I l X aslgstshce cannot guard against. He is usually paid tool of still greater coward, and he lives in all communities, even the most respectable. What we most strenu- ously object to is that our citizens should be made the sufferers by the
 couscant and useless publication of thread bare stories calculated to work injury to the entire community.