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The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
27l VAUGHAN ST.. PORTLAND, March 8, 1854

271 VAUGHAN ST.. PORTLAND, March 8, 1854.
MESsRs. SIICKNEY 4 YOUNG:
Dear Sirs: Having been advised by friend to
learn shorthand taught i'll the Portland School of
Stenography, began, without any previous knowl-
edge of the art After a few lessons l was enabled
write great deal faster tn an in onghand. Gain
ing in speed from lesson to lesson was able after
taking rem lessons to write seventy words minute
having prac iced about half an hour daily.
Respectfully yours, l.. NJ BIcKFoRD.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22

Congressman Barksdale testifes that he
cannot remember whether the Democratic
procession be addressed at Hazelhurst the
day before election was armed with shot
guns or not That is very significant con-
fession. 1t means that Democratic process
sions In that locality are SO frequently armed
with shot guns that the circums'ance
makes no particular impression on the spec
tstor. Mr.. Barksdale is perfectly certain,
however, that the people of Copiah county
have very strong love OF law and order.
Perhaps 1t lie to vindicate law and preserve
order that they take their slot guns along
with them when they attend a political
meeting.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
THE P r Es s.
SATURDAY MORNING. MARcH 20.

We do not read ANONYMOUS ,etters and conlnunl
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases indispensable. not necessarily for publica
Hon bat a. guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com.
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
Lucy W. CHASE.
14 MroHAN1c sr.. PoRr1ANp, MARCH 5. 1ss

ID MECHANIC ST., PORTLAND, March 8, 1884.
MEssRs. STICKNEY & YOUNG:
Gentlemen: L can cheerfuly recommend your
method of teaching Shorthand. l commenced under
your instruction nine weeks ago with no know edge
of the AT and at the present time, having taken
seventeen lessons, ana averaging half hours
practice daily. easily write from dictation
hundred words minute. and am gaining at each
lesson. Yours very truly
ALTON H SPEAR.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22

Is SPRUCE ST., PORTLAND, March 10, 1854.
MEssRs. STIcKNEY & Young:
[ am glad Of an opportunity to show my apprecia-
ton of your method of teaching shorthand. With
no knowledge of phonogra by when began taking
lessons with you, have gained in speed from the
first and before completing the three months am
enabled to write one hundret and thirty words per
minute. Yours truly,
LUCY w. CHASE.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
Republican District Convention,
CONGRESS HALL, PORTLAND.

The Republicans of the First Congressional DIE
trict are invited to send Delegates to convention
TO be held in
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22

The people of Ontario are growing FESTIVE
over the interference OF the Dominion gov
eminent with the management OF the rail-
roads of that province which were built
largely by the municipalities, and one of the
Ontario ministers boldly proclaimed in the
Legislature the other day that if the govern
ment did not cease its interference the prov
ince would secede. With bribery scandals,
railroad scandals and the Manitoba and On
tsris fisaffections to contend with Sir John
Macdonald is having hard time of it.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22

Buffers friends have apparently estab-
listed literary bureau in his behalf. Chi
cago was flooded the other day with PAM
phets advocating his nomination for Presi-
dent by the Democratic national convention
on an anti-monopely, labor reform platform.
Mr.. Reagan of Texas was named for the
second place on the ticket.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
HNTkRTAaNMEETs.
IVY LODGE NO 5, D. OF R., / O. 0. F,
supper and entertainments.

The members Of Ivy odge are invited to attend
Supp-r and Entertsinment, 10 he given by the
Lodge, on SATURDAY. EVENHNG March
80 ~apper at =. So. Tiehets so cents-of
the committee aud at the door. mar2Od3t
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
Letter From Aub rey District .

i From an occasional COT respondent.
 Thinking few items from this part of
 t!ls ,unty woulG bs of interest to yoQr rsaGers, and jsing firm believer in tile r nsn a of mOrs work and less talk rrgar l.
 inI mining claims, propossto tell you oL'y | abo.,t what Is actually being done here and
 not wha; is proposed to be done in the ea- productions of our mines should be made to speak for themselves, instead of wasting
 tiIns. money and breath trying to sell pros
 poets for prices that only well develo ped
 zlines will bring. l am fran believer in
 the future of Mohave county. When the
 time comes that owners of claims will go to
 work and mine practically to obtain the
 frIi of thoir laboTs from the output of
 their niIes and hot hold back for buyers
 to Ter fig price for prospect then Mohave
 conn: y will begin to receive the attention it's m1neral -resaurceS deserve. Then the ifou, -.Juked tor boom Will come, as capital
 always seeks invest t'pen.s where good re- turns can be had on q reasonable outlay
 We have markets for our ores both at home and abroad and in my opinion there ara hundreds of prospects in MohaEe county that " ill produce enough good ore i'll tao work of development to pay the expenses of the same.
 have been in a dozen different districts in this county and have tho first one yet to see that has not only one but Seyer Il fiac prospects, the equal of which Is not to und in the territories. The developments as yet are hardly sufficient to attract the attention of heavy capitalists. The Walla- pai range has an extraordinary showing For length of well defined belts, strong ledges, contact formations, good character and quality of ores on the surface, it's equal oAnuot be found and future developments will su bstantiate 1t. Inside of two years Moh>ve county will take it's proper place in the estimation of the mining community, | and labor will have its reward. I base my opinion on observation and tests of ores i taken from the different districts, not talk | ing anyonss say so regarding the quality of | the ores, as believe the furnace is a better rest than either the eye or judgment.
 ms part Of the county Is coming to the front, especially that portion called the Grocms Peak country by some and Tillnlan basin by others.
 Geo. D. Frost, w. T. Stevens, NJ. E. Josephi, Sam 4. Butler, Eugene Desty, w. B. Ridenour, John Tillman and many others are all having more or leess work done on their claims.
 Geo. H. Frost will shortly open a store in this new camp, with B. Fredericks as mana ger, and learn that he proposes to make to handle all the ores extract ed III this vicinity, which will be a great to the miners heIe. But I am stretchn out this letter to considerable length and will stop right here, promising to give you more news and less prose in my next. OCCASIONAL.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
MINING IN MOHAVE.
WHAT OUR MINERS ARE DOING IN THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THIS
 COUNTY.

Work is progressing favorably on the new
 melter of the Matilda Mining Company al Planet.
 We would like to see smelter put up il Mineral Park also one at Chloride, Stocftor and Cerbat. There is plenty of ore in this district to keep them all running. w. A. Cole, who has been working on the McCracken mine for some time past came in on Monday. lie will leave i'll a few days for Silver Reef for the purpose of nc sotiat- ing the sale of some mining property at 1intic.
 The road from the McCrackin mine to the mill at Signal is being mao.d tmIzed the road engine belonging to the company being used for the purpose of hauling rock etc, for that purpose.
 There ars from 8)9, to 1G19 tens of ore al ready at the dump of the 1lcOrackin Mill awaiting transportation to the mill Ib is expected that the road from the mine to the mill will be completed by the tn wheH-she road engine will at once commence haul ing ore.
 Tke Lester mill at Signal has shut down temporarily to await the completion Of the road. It is proposed to mix certain DOT ton of old tailings with the ore and run them through the mill together.
 An average of thirty-three assays taken from ten different claims near Grooms Peak in the old Aubrey mining district went $196 in silver; pretty good showing. All of the samples were taken from surface rock
 The Blackberry mill and the hoiSting works st the mine are using coal for fuel. In the assay office coke takes the place of charcoal. This is good for the company but bad for wood-choppers and charcoal burners.
 Jack Johnson has had a pack train at work this last week packing ore out from his c. o. D. mine.
 c. P. Sherman is working on the Iude- pendence mine at Chloride.
 Smelting charges are entirely too high, the poor miner has little left when the snelting complny gets through with him.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
MINING ABROAD.
ITEMS FROM THE VARIOUS MINING
 JOURNALS OF THE COUNTRY.

:'Monumsntal fends' is what they call the fellows in Qdijotoa who do nothing but locate claims without regard to any signs of mineral.
 mine is worth just what it will bring, and as rule it will bring about what 1t shows in sight, the same as wheat, wool or ron.-Star.
 One hundred and fifty miners have been discharged from the mines at Cole City, G. :. to make room for large invoice of convic5s received.
 A Virginia City John NJ, Davell, miueE at the Norcross, fell down the winze from the 2,6JO to tho 2,8O) foot level and was instantly killed.
 Tae gold imported by England from the United States in 1882 was &6, ,099, 7SG, and ill 1883 only e9,777.
 The article of fullors earth has been brought into prominencs by the discovery of an extensive mine i'll the State of Mis- souri.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
New Suits iI tl,c District COssrt

M. w. Scott vs Henry Bowman. Appeal ed from the Justice Court, Sandy pre- cinct.
 Vulcan Powder Go. vs W. H. Hardy. Ac tion is brought to recover the sum of $4837 57 for Vulcan powder sold to defendant.
 l.. A. Sandersoa vs Harley Fay. An attachment suit to recover the sum of $GG9.18 on two promis5ory notes.
 Paul Brcon and B. H. Spear vs William Freeborn. An attachment suit to recover the sum of $G92.26 and interest on two promissary notes.
 Paul Breon and B. H. Spear vs Caldwell Wright. An alta jhment suit to recover the sam of $356.50 and interest on two pr. lnis- sary notes.
 Wm. Jackson vs The Arnold Gold and Silver Mining Go. Action to foreclose u mechanics lien for the sum of $60510
 Jeff Sailing vs Lester Mining Company On appeal from Justices Court of Owens Precinct.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
SREEYsEANF'S SALE.

By virtue of an execution issued out of Justice J. J Hyde's Court, of Mineral Park Precinct, county of MOhave. Territory of Arizona, dated the eleventh day of Febru- ary, A. D. 1884, in a certain actl Il wherein William Lake, as plaintiff, recovered judg- ment against E. H. Smith and Elizabeth Smith for the sum of one hundred and six teen (S1l6) dollars damages and s1Xty-n1ne (S69 25) dollars and twenty-five cents costs of suit, and all accruing costs and costs of sale, on the 11th day of February, 4. D. 1Sot have levied upon the following Ge- scribed property, to-wit:
 All the right. title and interest of the said E. II. Smith and Elizabeth Smith in and to that certain lpt of iand, designated on the plat of the town of kingman as lot nine, i'll block three, said lot having :. frontage of twenty-five ieat by a depth of enc hundred and twenty-five feet. with q c0nvdss Eou5e thereon, and situated on Front street. Tn the town of Kin2nan, county of MOhaye, Territory of Arizona.
 Also all the right title and interest of the said E. II. Smith and Elizabeth Smith iu aud to th. certain lot of land. des7Snated on Tho plat cf tie town of klngman IS lot eleven, i'll block three. said lot having a frontage of twenty-five feet by a depth Of one hundred aTra twenty-five feot. with house thereon, known as Mrs. Smiths Ladg- ing House, and situated on Front Stioet, Il the town of BinGman, county of. Mohaye, Territory of Arizona
 Notice is hereby given that on Saturday the 29th day of March, A. b. 1884, at one o'clock p. m. iu front of the county Court House, in the town of Mineral Park, l will sell all the right. title and interest of tho said B. H. Smith and Elizabeth Smith in and to the said above described property, at public auction, for cash, to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said execution and all costs.
 Mineral Park. March Sth, 1881.
 ROBERT SHEEN. Sheriff
 By O. F. KUENcER, Under-Sheriff.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
Railroad Matters.

is completed which is expected to occ1r about April 1st, the Northern Pacific will put on fast through express from St. Paul to Portland in four days to run in connec- tion with fast train over the Milwaukee and St. Paul road from Chicago, making the time from that city to the Pacific c1as in five days, thus saving one day by any fo rmer schedule.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
John Burns is in town.
 Where is "Old Probabilities"

]
 Where is ''Old Probabilities"
 Sec the notice to lien holders in anOthe
 column.
 Jerome Burns is expected home from tn,
 east in few days.
 Another mill site has been located below the concentratOr.
 Time is getting short in which to settle
 up delinquent taxes.
 The Sheriff advertiSes some choice town
 lots in KingInan for safe. The community would like to know wheth. CT Judge French is to be reAppointed or not
 Charley Beecher and lawyer Stephenson left yesterd y tor a flying trip to Hackber- ry.
 Wm. Jennings. of the Sandy was i'll town
 ast week. He left for home yesterday after noon.
 Two or three more vet winters like the present one would turn Arizona into all agricultural country.
 Capt. Hardy has leased his two gardens to NliIldiuCsla tbAS fhAASsNAJ lAOuAaO pSNA- ding veSet lbles every day.
 TAs Board Of School Trustees are to meet tomorrow for the purpose of appoi lting a school telcher for the next term.
 The continual wet weather of the past two months has caused the wood piles around town to shrink to an alarming extent.
 The action of the School Trustees in de- claringa vacation till the first of April seems to have caused good deal of dissat- isfdction.
 NJ. Katz and D. Fichthorn, elitor of the Independence, Waverly, Iowa, are in town looking after some mIning interests, and taking i'll the beautiful scenery of Northern Arizonl. They will probably visit Califor- mia before they return.
 It was thought that the big $9 assessment on Northern Bell stock was to pay the $360,0J0 judgment to the Holmes Co.,, but it IS reported in the EurekA Sentinel that It is an attempt to ''fresze out" the Holmes people who are large holders of Northern Belle stock.
 One of the first prospeotors in the Quijo- toas was John Young, who is well known to all old-5imers in Southern Arizona. In 1869 Juhn drove stage from here, and went through all the unpleasant vicissitudes of thai life, then made unpleasant and full of tragedy by the Apache. He was the man, who after all others refused, took out a stage with the mail and treasure box, reply ing that, ''ru pey through, or be found dead by the thirgs," at a time when drivers colld not be had on ao count of the Indians. -Star,
 A dispatIh from Charlotte, N. C., says: Gieat excitement prevails at KIng's Noun tain, 8 village about twenty-five miles from here, over the discovery of a valuable mine of tin ore. Tae first p5o5o assayed yielded 'eveuty- three per cent of pure tin, while others gave an average of forty-three par ,ert of pare tin, or S70 pounds of tin to .lch ton of ore. The tests were made at the United States assay offices The veins will pay handsomely. Real estate in the neigh )orhocd has advanced six hundred per cent, md the people have formed stock compa- ". and have secured all lands believed to be ,e letrated by ore veins. Several N)rtae II apit .list5 have promised to advance all he money necessary to coHsrruJt fdce0rie5 t once.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
Sinking Fund.
TREAsURER's OFFICE, | rIN

TREAsURER's OFFICE, Mineral Park, Mohave County, A. T.
 February 20th 1884. ] Bids for the surrender of Mohave Coun ty warrants will be received by me at my office until 2 o'clock P. M. March 10th A. D. 1884.
 Amount in the Sinking Fund to be bid for is Nineteen Hundred [$1900.] dollars. Bids must bs in the form of sealed pro- posals, accompanied by the warrants offer ed addressed to the County Treasurer, and marked Sinking Fund.-
 w. NJ. KRIDER,
 Treasurer.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
Letter List.

List of letters remaining in the postoffice at Mineral Park for the month ending February 18th, 1884:
 l. Gatchell. Joseph Lamere, Vim. Rich ards, W. s. Shrewsbury, Frank J. Spioer, James Shea, c. A. Tweed, Sor Antonia Erealante.
 If not called for within 30 days. will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, Washing ton, D. (. ". M. KRIDEG, P. NJ.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
A CAESD.

Ed. MINER:-In your issue of last week you say estimate my loss of tailings at Green wood at SEQ, ,OO9. I do not, nor never have, placed any such estimate on my loss. lost 150O to 2Cs0 tons tailings that sampled about &20 per ton, perhaps six or eight dol lars profit could have been realized from working them. Yours truly
 F. DSxTe
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
MINERAL PARK, MARCH 9, 1884.
ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE OF MAIL.

Mineral Park to Kingman and all points east and west, daily, except Sundays.- Arrives T. ln., leaves l p. m.
 Mineral Park to St. Th0mas-Arrives Monday and Thursday at 6 p m., leaves Sunday and Wednesday at ?. m
 Mineral Park to Signal-Arrivcs Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Il q. m., leaves Monday, Wedne esday and Friday at D. m.
 VIM. KRIDER. P. M.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
Local BreVities.

He lived life of glorious eass,
 Ne'er soiled his hands by labor; And seldom prayed upon his kneese, But often on his neighbor.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09

Special notices in the reading columns of the MINER will be charged at the rate ot Fen Gents per line for each insertion.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09

FUN AND CANDY.-It is impossible to have more fun these long evenings than by ma king candy at home. You can learn how to make every kind of fine candy sold at the best confectionery stores in the cities, from that valuable book. "How To MAKE CANDY. No home can afford to be without it. Sent postpaid for 30 cts i'll one or two cent stamps. Address
 THE HOUSEWIFE, Rochester, N. Y.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09

Trains will not be running between Los Angeles and San Francisco before March 18th.
 c. ?. Huntington has been elected Presi- dent of the Kentucky Central.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
MOHAVE COUNTY MINER.
OFFICIAL PAPERoFT THE COUNTY.

L. P. Fisher and E. C. Dake are authoriz- ed agents in San Francisco cf the MoHAvE COUNTY MINER.
 Eugene Pannenbsrg, Attorney at Law, Prescott, A. T., is the gu uthorized agent of the MoHAvF COUNTY MINER in Yavapai county.
Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09
NOTICE.

Collection of Delinquent Taxes.
 CoLLECToR's OFFICE, Mineral Park, MOhave Co.,, Arizona.
 February 23d, 1884. The sale of the real property for delin- quent taxes for the year A. D. 1883 is here by postponed until Monday, the tenth day of March, A. D. 1884.
 ROBERT SHEEN, Sheriff and ex -offlcio County Collector.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-16

him by firing over the spot where he had
gone down, the plumber installing the
sounds for bursting water pipes. =
philadelphia Ne,Os.
A YOUNG man, dressed in tho heightof
fashion, and with poetic turn of mind,
was driving along country road, AMI,
upon gazing at tho pond which skirte,l
the highway, said: "oh, how 1 woulI
like to lave my heated head in those
cooling waters" An lrishmau, over
hearing the exclamation, Immediately
replied, "Bedad, you might lave it there
and it wouldn't sink"
A POOR memory is very inconvcn-
Isn't thing. So man found who called
on friend, and in tho course OF thee
versation asked how his good father was
" lie is drad-did you not know it?" an
swcred the friend. "Iudcedl Tam dis
'ressrd to hear it," said the visitor; |
had no idea of it." and he proceeded Ia
"xlress his sympathy. A year after liz
rallcdaga aud iorgetfully asked: "Anr
hw is yuIw COOL fathrr?" The Glove,
clly was: "St,il dead"
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Cerro Gordo Williams and the
Bugler.

Old Ccrro GordO Williams is the
handsomest man of his years in Ken
lucky, not excepting General Will
liam Preston, formerly minister to
Spain and at the court of susceptible
Isabella. Williams is six feet two
inches, with grizzled iron mustachc
and curled wig, piercing gray eyes,
the frame of giant and voice of
fine, melodious ring. lie is as vain
as a peacock. While travelling in
Southern Russia, when young man,
he alighted at village where the
Emperor Nicholas was hourly ex-
pected. Williams was taken for the
Emperor. 1t took the Russians an
hour to get over the mistake, but
Williams has never entirely recover
cd. lie won his title by gallantry
before the walls of Cerro Gordo, a
captain in SCOTS army, and he has
maintained his fame for proves by
many personal encounters since, in
all of which he handled himself we'll.
lie affects the quality divine to poll
ticians-or an infallible memory for
names and faces, and is not above the
crudest arts Of a demagogue. One
evening, while he was dining with
some friends in an upper room at the
town hotel, one Of his admirers
stumbled across "Buck" Combs, who
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-16
Books Made Of Clay.

Far away beyond the plains of
Mesopotamia, on the bank of the river
Tigris, lie the ancient city of Nincvch.
Not long since huge mounds of earth
and stone marked the palaces and
walls of the proud capital of the great
Assyrian Empire stood. The spade,
first of the Frenchman, then of the
Englishman, has cleared all the earth
away and laid bare all the remains of
the old streets and palaces where the
princes of Assyria walked and lived
The gods they worshipped and the
books they read have all been reveal
ed to sight of wondering world.
The most curious of all the curious
things preserved in this wonderful
maner are the clay books of Nineveh.
The chief library Of Nineveh was
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-16

had been bugler in Williams regi-
ment during the war. They had not
met since Combs got his bugle and,
accompanied by an immense crowd,
went down to sercnade his old COM
mandcr with war melodies. Stand
ing under his window he lifted up
the old regimcntal call 10 "boot and
saddle" lie repeated it once and
again.
"Tom," said old Williams to his
host, 'whcre is that stage starting to
this time of night, and what is the
driver tootin' so ID much
about?"
"Why, Senator" explained his
friend respectfully, "that's Buck
Combs, your old bugler, screnalling
you. told EN- you would remcm-
Der him and his bugle, and they want
speech"
The old general stepped out of the
window on the balcony, and lifting
his voice as silence fell on the crowd
began:
"That bugle CALL" he said with a
choking voice, chat buglc call, my
friends, is like dear echo of memory
If had heard it in the untroddcn
wildS of painless wilderness, l
would have known that old Buck
Combs was winding its sweet notes
Often has it called the old command
to field of carnage and the thrill Of
victory. [Checrs.l There is but one
bugle in the world who could evoke
these sweet notes, and thatis Buck
Combs, of the old TIL Kentucky.
[Chcers. | knew it the instant heard
it. Chcers. Cor. Philadelphia
Times.