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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
A Sad Family History.

A Washington telegram of a recent date says: "The appointment yester- day of H. NJ. Dixon, of Mississippi, as a cadet at large to West Point, brought to light sad family history, probably without parallel ill the tragic features which mark it: The appointment was secured by the young mans grand mother, Mrs. Annie Dixon, who told the following story which was verified by records at Washington. Mrs. Dix on is the widow of Major Henry T. Dixon, the only man in Fauquier county, Virginia, who voted for Lin coin for president in 1860. He had to send to Washington for ballot, which he deposited in the box with his left right. He had been warned that for ty men had sworn 10 kill him if he voted for Lincoln Some time after ward he went to Alexandria, Virginia, on business, to be gone two days. Af- ter he had gone Q friend informed Mrs. Dixon that her husband would be shot on the depot platform as he alighted from the cars if he returned. She telegraphed her husband not to return home, and he did not see home again for four years. He served through the war, was one of the de- lenders of the capital, and was alter ward commissioned as paymaster. During the war Mrs. Dixon suffered much persecution and was several times taken prisoner Their property was destroyed and six weeks after the war closed Major Dixon was assassin ated by an ex-confederate officer, being shot in the back. The family was left in destitute circumstances, and at the request of General Grant, who was ac- quainted with the circumstances 1 Postmaster General Randall gave the widow employment in this department After ten years of service she left il and is now old and feeble, penniless and without home. Her son Henry M. Dixon, went south during the war amere boy, and married in Mississipp at the age of eighteen, his wife being $ native of that state. He opposed tho democratic ticket at his home in YazoC City in 1879, and was warned by !; mob to leave town. This he refused to do and in August 1879, he was sho down from behind as his father befor, him was. His wife did not long sur vive him, and six small children wer thus bereft of their parents care anC love. It was for the eldest of these named for his father, that Mrs. Dixol asked the appointment. Accompany ing the application was package 0 papers that were mutely eloquent. On of them was letter taken from tn
 hip pocket of Henry NJ. Dixon, througl which the fatal bullet had cut its dead ly way another was a letter from tn
 widow to the widowed mother, full c tenderness and pathGs. These wit
 the rest were referred to Secretar
 Proctor who was as deeply touched a
 the president, who determined to al
 point the boy if there was place fO
 him.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

'FYou've lost him for good this time," said the boss barber to one of his shavers as customer went out and slammed the door be- hind him.
 ''Yes, but forgot"
 "That's no excuse. If you can't attend to business you must Go"
 "What is the troublea" queried reporter of the boss.
 ''He didn't brush the mans head"
 But his head was as bald as bone"
 Certainly, and that's why he should have brushed it. Bald headed men are very sensi- tive, you must use the brush the same as if they had plenty of hair. To do so gives them an idea that you don't take particular notice of their badness"
 And won't that man return?'
 ''Never. He'll try some other shop next time, and will even advise his friends to keep away from here. n-Detroit Free Press.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
An Act

Empowering the boards of supervisors
 ol the several counties i'll the terri
 tory to authorize survey to define
 the boundaries and make d correct
 map of the said several counties.
 Be it enacted by the Legislative As sembly of the Territory of Arizona.
 SEC. Whenever, in the judgment of any boards of supervisors in any county in this territory it may be deemed necessary that the boundary line separating said county from any other county, should be defined so that it may be easily determined, then said board of supervisors may notify the board of supervisors of the con tiguous county in their discretion, and within thirty days after said notice the county surveyors of both said counties shall proceed to survey said boundary line and establish posts thereon one mile apart.
 SEC.2 ? The expense of making said survey shall be borne equally between the counties interested, and the said expense shall be paid out of the gene ttl llillNl Ol lllC
 SEC. 3. The boards of supervisors of the counties ordering said survey shall have map made of it's respect i've county, defining the boundaries oi road and school districts, voting pre- cincts and the exterior boundaries of the county, which said maps shall be filed with the clerk of the board oi supervisors.
 SEC f. The expense of making said maps and surveys shall be borne by the respective counties and paid out of the general fund of said counties as determined by the boards of supervis ors of said counties.
 SEC. ,. All acts or parts of acts il conflict with this act are hereby re pealed.
 SEC. s. This act shall take effec and be in force from and after its pass age.
 Approved March Dist, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

sian ambassador to London. His sue cess in misleading the British govern ment as to Russian designs in the east (Turkey) is matter of recent history. It astonished the world. Justin Mccarthy says that "beforc the English public had time to recover their breath and observe what was taking place the victorious armies of Russia were almost within sight of the minarets of Stamboul."
 This was late in 1871. The Russians had embroiled the Danubian principalities in war with Turkey, had succeeded in hold ing back the English, in whom the Turks had trusted, till they were on the verge of ruin, and had restrained Ger many. All this time Count Schouvaloff was smiling and chatting in London drawing rooms, and had gained such a footing with the Austrian and German diplomats that in the final settlement he carried his points against other powers as well as against a furious opposition at home. For his services the cZar made him knight of the first class of the Or der of St. Vladimir Since retiring from the Court of St. James Count Schouvaloff has lived in apparent retirement, but in Russia that may mean the most intense activity by secret agents. In his death Russia loses one of her very foremost men,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
Good Placers.

Yuma county's placer grounds are attracting the attention of capitalists and work has already been inaugural ed at Gila City and the Laguna. There is large area of pay ground in both of these vicinities as well as in the neighborhood of Ehrenberg, La Paz and Plomosa. Dry washing has prov en unproftable, but whenever water was available the returns were rich. There has been no placering of any consequence done in the country fot years, yet the stores here purchase from three to ten thousand dollars of gold dust per month.
 The working of our placers means additional prosperity for Yuma, the successful outcome of the first enter prise will be the .Aeans of inducing others to invest ii he gold fields of this section. The bineral wealth of Yuma county is Immense, both in lodges and placers, requiring but capi- tai and energy to develop permanent and rich mines.-Yuma Sentinel.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
CURIOUS THINGS OF LEE.

It is against the law in Mexico for any one to read a newspaper aloud.
 In digging among the ruins of Pompeii they have found piece of brass made to fit over the human cheek.
 In China people in easy circumstances buy their collins long before they need them, and exhibit them as ornamental pieces of furni- ture.
 There is q man in Los Angeles, Cal, whose business it is to travel east with the corpses of people who go to southern California to find health and who die instead.
 Guns are now being made so powerful that the objects which their missiles are intended to strike will be out of sight. Consequently the guns can only be directed by the map.
 mushroom, described by physician of Portland, Ore, as having sprung up in a single night near his doorstep, measured 24 inches in circumference and weighed 111 pounds.
 A shrewd citizen of Montezuma, Ga, swapped horses ten times in one day and made $125 and galloped home that night possessor of the same horse to impart the news to his family.
 New wonders are being unearthed every day, and new and rare one has just turned up in Paris in the shape of fine bust of Mime. de Stael by Canova. It was found ir a second hand shop, where it had lain fol years, submerged under rubbish, with it. value all unguessed.
 A gentleman in Columbus, Ga, has z razor which has been in constant use 10- years. It bears a close resemblance to { broad ax but does good service yet, ant may cut many whisker before it is finally laid away among the relics of bygone day or used for trimming corns.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
THE BACHELORS EGGS.
He Triad to Get Them Boiled Soft, but
 They Came Out Stone Hard.

He TI2ad to Get Them Boiled Soft, but
 They Came Out Stone Hard.
 A Scranton bachelor who boards at one of the hotels and rooms outside, got so tired of eating stale eggs a while ago that he thought he would see if he couldn't change the pro gramme little. So he bought three dozen new laid eggs and took them to his lodgings and when he went to tea that night he carried a couple of the eggs in his pocket and told the pleasant faced waiter girl to have them boiled soft. They came back as hard as rocks, and the bachelor boarder declared that no one in that kitchen knew enough to boil egg The handsome waiter girl said she was sorry that the cook hadn't done as she had ordered her to- and she volunteered to have two other eggs boiled soft, but the boarder told her she needn't The next morning he took two more eggs over to the hotel and gave special directions as to how they should be boiled, and he had to swear when he opened them, for they were as hard as base balls
 At supper that night he took three eggs, got another girl to take his orders, and gave the same directions. Result; Three eggs as unyielding as bullets The bachelor said he guessed it was time for him to change his boarding place, and he uttered other unpleas- ant remarks regarding the interior manage ment of the culinary department of the house. But he was on hand the next morn ing, and he had three nice large fresh eggs in his pocket. Calling his favorite waiter girl, he said:
 "Now, want you to open these eggs, drop them in hot water and poach them very soft, and, my dear, want you to stand by them and see that they are cooked right" ! She said she would and away she went, but In a minute or so she returned looking sad, and with the three eggs in six halves on a dish.
 ''I am sorry, sir" she said, and her light soprano voice trembled, "but these eggs were already boiled as hard as they could be when 1 broke them," and she placed them on the table in front of the irate bachelor.
 He smeled a rat right away, and he left the table at once and started out to verify his suspicious. His investigations were finished by the middle of the forenoon, and what he found out was this: A married friend of his who lived in the house where the bachelor had his lodgings, is a practical joker of the first order He had taken all of the eggs tc his kitchen boiled them as hard as he could and then placed them back in the bachelors basket.
 Its all right" said the bachelor to another friend, "but I'll lay for him with O tricl that'll make him hate himself like Satan for { year and half "-New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

brooded over the house. Slowly turning to the lady, and making her a comically ironical bow, he said:
 Madame, may be permitted to ask you to fan in time with the symphony? Otherwise, either the music or the fan ming will have to cease"
 The lady retired, amid the mingled protests and cheers of the audience, and with defiant flourish of the arm Won Bulow again began the symphony.
 In 1857 Won Bulow married Cosima, the natural daughter of Liszt and the Countess d'Agoult. His wife subse- quently deserted him and was married to Richard Wagner before she had been divorced from Won Bulow. The divorce was afterwards secured, however, and this little incident did not in the least tend to interrupt the life long intimacy that existed between Wagner and Won Bulow.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
hD AN 1AU11S UT lhhlUAl1ON' The Old System of Irrigation Known to
 the World.

MT. John Newall of Boston says: IT, rigation is the oldest system of agri- culture known. It was understood in the infant days of the race, on the plains of Persia, Babylon and Assyria, where it is in practice now. Adam, probably, after being driven out from Eden and compelled to earn his living by the sweat of his brow, must have learned to raise crops by irrigation on the plains of Mesopotamia. The rich est and most productive regions of the earth have been cultivated in this manner for thousands of years. The valley of the Nile, the greater portion of India, the green plains of Lombardy, the beautiful fiells of Castile, have al- ways depended on irrigation for crops.
 Though subject to such system for thousands of years, they are to day the most productive spots on the earth, and support a dense population in India zoo to 600 souls to the square mile; in Piedmont, Italy, 270, and 390 persons for Lombardy. Irri- gated portions of Spain have a popu- lation of from 200 to 400 souls to the square mile. Egypt, "the granary of the world" has population of 4S3 to the square mile. In the United States irrigation Is practiced ill southern Cal ifornia, New Mexico, Arizona, Colora- l do and Utah.
 One cubic foot per second will flood 300 acres of loamy soil, but by care ful economy, distribution of pipes, HOP to 1900 acres are cultivated by one c1bic foot per second. Seventeen l thousand acres of land in Los Angeles county are irrigated by this means. This judicious application of water has made Los Angeles the garden of Cali fornia. The immense valleys of Gila, Salt river, San Pedro, Sulphur Spring and San Simon of Arizona, have an abundant supply of water for irriga- ton. These valleys drain vast ex- tent of country, and the waters which flow through them have their source in the lofty mountains thousands o feet above, and contain inexhaustible quantities of water.
 Congress could never put a smal portion of the surplus public money to better use than to furnish flowing water for these dry plains and valleys The benefits to stock-raising and farm ing industries would be incalculable as the area of agricultural and graz ing land would be increased a thous and fold. Congress or capitalists hav, only to observe what has been don in California with q limited water sup ply, and there are valleys in Arizon; superior to any in the Golden state
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
Prospector Probably Got Even.

A Papago Indian brought the re- port to town this morning, says the Tucson Citizen, that Pima Indian in coming over the Santa Catalina noun tains had discovered the body of a dead man, supposed to have been murdered by the Apaches. On inves- tigation the sheriff ascertained that it was not in the Catalinas but in the Tortilita mountains where the discov- cry was made. From what could be gathered from the Pima Indian the remains were that of an Apache and that he had been killed about month ago.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
Bradstreet,s Resort.

An article in Bradstreet's a recog- nized authority in the United States upon matters pertaining to finance and commerce says:
 ''It is English money that Is to drain the valley of Mexico, English money that is to open the best coffee and tobacco lands in the republic by means of the Oaxaca railway, and when the railway comes that Is to connect Guatamala and Mexico, it will be B itish soverigns that will build 1t. At this moment railroads are going forward in Mexico that will cost not less than $40,000,000, all of which is being raised in Great Brit ain. Funds will ultimately be secur- ed in the same quarter for the propos- ed line from San Diego to Guadala- jara via Ensenada, the mouth of the Colorado river and Mazatlan, connect ing with the Mexican Central at Gua- dalajara. This project, when accom- plished, will open a direct line from the City of Mexico to San Francisco English merchants are likely to in crease their trade with Mexico to some extent in consequence of these chang es in the control of the transportation facilities of the interior
 American manufacturers and mer- chants have never gone to work in the right way to cultivate the Mexican market. The conditions of business in the neighboring country are so diff l ferent from those at home that an en- tirely new commercial training must be had to ensure even a moderate de- gree of success. Recently, moreover, q new "treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation" has been concluded between Great Britain and Mexico, which contains provisions of no little value to the commercial interests of the United Kingdom. While the 1 United States consistently refused to take advantage of reciprocity treaty, the British government has improved a splendid opportunity. Investments, however will, without question still be made by capitalists of the United States in mines, cattle ranches and other projects, and these investments must influence trade more or less Various Mexican products are sold ir this country to better advantage than elsewhere, and reciprocal trade is in evitably encouraged thereby. While therefore the United States may in crease its hold on the commerce O Mexico less rapidly hereafter, if at all there is no immediate danger of losing the existing pre-eminence."
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
VALUE OF THE BEST GEMS.

Opal is worth s15 to $40 per calat.
 Cats eye is worth s15 to $50 carat.
 Oriental ruby is worth S1OO per carat.
 Emerald is worth $50 to s200 per carat
 A diamond is worth $50 to $50 per carat. A sapphire is worth s10o to s150per carat. England, since the battle Of Hastings, mas had thirty-five rulers, whose average length of reign has been twenty-three years.
 The American flag was first used at Cam bridge by Washington Jan. 1, TIC; legally established by congress June II, 1117.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

ing a profound
 egotist. On one occasion, w hile he was directing a symphony in
 one of the great music halls of Europe, his sharp eye caught a lady flaming herself in one of the boxes. Quick as a flash he brought
 the music to a sudden stop. A deeD Silencp e
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

Save money by buying railroad tic kets cheap, of Sam Drachman, Tue son. Louisiana Lottery tickets for sale; agent for Little Louisiana Lot tery.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
XOn lSuIOw,

Herr Hans Guido Von Bulow, the pianist, is in America for the second time in his life. He made a tour of the United States in 1S15.
 Won Bulow is man of many extraor- dinary characteristics. Some startling stories are told of his curious conduct be- fore audiences in Europe. He is ex- tremely sensitive and nervous, besides be-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
Boomerang Mine Jumped

 WHEREAS, TT HAS JUST COME TO MY w knowledge that it is claimed by one of the owners of the Boomerang mine that said mine has been jumped by one Patrick Morgan. or about the first day of January, 1889. No tiee is hereby given that said Boomerang mine was not open for location and warn all persons against purch asing said Boomerang mine or any interest therein from said Morgan.
 JOHN c. LOSS
 Co-ownerin Boomerang mino, CASA GRANDE, \. T., Feb. ,, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

The Florence Bakery is the place where you get full value for your mon ey ill choice goods.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

Lace applique with velvet flowers and leaves in natural colors is much in favor with Parisian dressmakers.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
COUNT SCHOUVALOFF.
He Was Man of Consequence in Euro
 pean Politics.


 pean Politics.
 Tie death of Count Peter Gregorovitch Schouvaloff seems to most Americans matter of comparatively little import ance, but it means much to Europe, es- pecially to all the powers interested in the much discussed Eastern Question" In the curiously involved intrigues that Russia has so long engaged in Count Schouvaloff was among her most expert intriguers. He was man of remarkable suavity, attractive bearing and kindly presence; he could charm a circle of cul- tivated people and read their thoughts at the same time that he concealed his own. The impression he made upon all who met him was that of a boon companion and delightful talker, without a conceal ment or reserved design, yet he proved the only man capable of misleading Brit ish statesmen, and actually influencing public opinion in favor of Russia in coun- tries naturally hostile to her. In short, he was an almost perfect diplomatist
 Count Schouvaloff was born in 1928 and entered the imperial guard as soon as his stature would allow, earning pro- motion before becoming of age. After rising to the rank of colonel of cavalry he was sent as military attache to Paris when but 25 years old. He was governor of the Baltic provinces of Russia from
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04

1864 to 1866, and
 t h en b c a m e chief of the po-
 litical and secret
 police, with eX- traordinary pow
 CTS. Finally, in
 1874, he was se-
 lected for h e highest post in A Russian diploma- acy, and at that ltine the most i'm portant post in
 Europe-as Rus
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
NUMBER 5
H. N. ALEXANDER, X TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR ATLAw, h Irvine Building. Phcuix. Arizona.
pr. ALBERT s. ADLER
w. IT. GRIFFIN

DHISICIAN & SURGEON
 l r Office at residence, Main Street, Florence,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
A Curious Case.

If you want to buy or sell country produce try the Florence Bakery.
Evening journal., 1889-10-17

either 20 be so exaggerated as that the
goverBment or people would not allow it, or
70 be ~ disparaged as that nothing could be
obtained. II you cnn drop man who is re-
ceiving 81 per month from tho pension rolls
ON mere opinion Of a commissioner, you
can drop Oft great mnny others receiving
more, ON the same principle II is q mere
question OF whim and caprice. II IS upon
this that Il has been insisted that the law
should be adhered TO, and the preccdents
established should have weight. IL must
also be obvious in oil this that there is no
expression as there is no disposition, 10 pre-
vent any deserving soldier from acquiring
all the pension his disability entitle him to-
either by original application, or application
for increase. All that is being done is TO
maintain the law, TO be literally construed,
but by no means disregarded, and TO allow
each in his turn without partality all he is
entitled 10.
II She law Is abandoned, the weak, tho dis.
tant and those without powerful friends will
suffer, while fav0rites viii flourish.