Arizona miner., 1868-05-16
LOCAL NEWS.

, fire for several days past. Our citizens should ,. careful about starting fires in the woods. We taco plcnty of timber, but it should not be con .7mci or destroyed in this way.
 bpuys are said to be plenty just now in the ....rity of Prescott. Cal. Jackson. who recently .osa trip through Walker and Big Bug Dis ..,.s report. seeing plenty of fresh sign. Jas. Voribon who, last week, went down to Will hanson Valley, says he saw footprints every ,bcre. Look out for them.
 CHARLES BEAcus train arrived from La Paz Wednesday, last with goods for wormser X Co.,, and Levi BA.hford. Charley made the trip in ,.n days. He says several other trains are on hc way here.
 HENDERSON X Co.--Rcad the new advertise mca,s of this firm in to-day's paper They have thousand and one things that are not enumera- .sl in their advertisements. Go and look al Her stock, and you will have more faith in the .an,ry Store and warehouse are crammed full Q. goods and yet they say that in a short time another train will arrive with more goods. They have plenty of everything hankered after by tI. community. and promise to sell for fair pri ces. During the past winter their circulating library has been a source of pleasure, and a naat of information to our people, and we know that it will please book-worms to learn thai 1t is now reinforced by several hundred more vol urc. which were selected with care by D. Hen d.l.on the head of the firm, in San Francisco Ncs,rs Abe Henderson and \. Kelley are al- ways ready and willing to wait upon customers and do the fair thing by them.
 Jrsr WHAT WE NEEDED-Ha Hathaway, of the Granite street butcher shop, sold us badly the other evening. The heartless slayer of fat kline invited us behind his blocks and benches, in presence of group of carniyerous looking nd- ydaa!s whispered in stentorian tones, that lr bad Q nice present for us-''just what we needed This raised our imagination, and we believed we were about io come in possession of something very nice.n Imagine our surprise and lb4bment when the sturdy cuss lifted the "kiycr from off can of brains. and with puck cred mouth and distended nostrils. broke out into an un-Ch-is.ian gufIaw in which he was nobly seconded by inc bystanders. Although slightly
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 POSTMASTER MEAcnAM is the owner of a gay and festive turkey of the gobbler gender. and Toe way the cuss struts around the post office is caution. For a baekwoods turkey he puts on an enormous amount of style, fully as much as lovernor Mccormick. Recently. he percheJ dmself on top of the chimney, and to his great disgust, had his tail feathers the pride and orna- ment Of his latter cnd-scorched. Since then he feels exactly like Richard has felt since that illus 'rious aspirant crossed the Gila-dejec.ed in spirit and cir-iaiiod in splendor.
 TuE family of J. r. Osborn has moved into Dr. AIsap's house, on Granite street. The Doctor .s taken up quarters elsewhere.
 No Coz. Darling, of the Pioneer Drug Store, took it into his head recently, to try and improve our health, happiness and beauty" To this end be bitter-ed'us, plastered us gave us numbcrless bottles Of odontolinc, or cothes-line. we forget which. which he said, would beautify our hemp crop, but which added no more to our charms" than coat of paint would add to those of butterfly, or a gaelic. We are still as ugly as John Roberts and a good deal leaner than Judge Berry, and Darling has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to make an Apollo out of us, and swears "by love- that ugliness is a disease no medicine can unseat He is now feeding us on excellent iine-cut chewing tobacco-the diet We were raised on--and should he keep up his lick we will expectto-rate with any tobacco worm this side of Wickenburg.
 DURING the week train Of ox-wagons arrived in Prescott from Wickenburg. loaded up with Iinber and returned again.
 SELLING AT CosT.-Manuel Ravena offers to sell his large stock of dry-goods, boots. shoes. etc. for cost and freight, in order to make room Tor new stock now on the road from San Fran cisco. Call at the Brick Store and Frank will Go the fair thing by you. myl6
 INrRoyEuENrs.-The dancing hall of the Elys- Ian Club is completed. It is neat frame build !hg' 2i by A., and contains, besides the dancing Aa'l two dressing rooms-onc for the ladies. inc olAer for the gentlemen. The hall, we are told, capable Of afording room for six sets-2i couples. It was built by Mcssrs. Blair S Elliott.
 H. Felt has just finished an addition to his 'aAery, on Montezuma street ltis a plain frame Dl!Iling, size IS by 24. The work was done by 'o'' Kerr and reflects credit upon him as a car pen'cr, although, he informed us, while at work upon It, that it was the first job of the kind he AAl undertaken for a number of years past.
 Carpenters were at work during the week upon "e old Arizona Gdzette building fitting it up for