The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-12-12
Local Intelligence.

..a Mach money was bet by outsiders. The p.Jliek < Felend animal won ihc race.
 vur freight trains of Mcssrs. Jones, werningcr '.A cb,pman arrived in Prescott from La Paz
 ,iy ,bis week. with large amount of freight ,.incipaIly for Fort Whippc. They started lack Wednesday last, with lumber, shingles. etc. t. ssull and Kirkland Valleys Wickenburg and .r,mp Date Creek" The trains belonging to rb,rles W. Beech. Miller Bros, and J. A. Che ,,rth arrived from La Tag yesterday, with .,od. for our merchants, but no provisions.
 p,pge.-By Jones train we received supply fbis. 10 us necessary article, and hereafter ,c hope to Co be able to make the connection .sou,ary. We sent for large stock of paper and of conrse expected 1t all but the ways of Providence are inscutible, and we were disap- ,ooted. Nearly half the pile was rendered worthless for printing purposes by the breaking of a large vessel containing some sort of acid which said acid eat up over 32O quires Of paper
 HINTON HOOPER, & Co.-As will be seen by notice in another column Geo. F. Hooper has withdrawn from this, the oldest and heaviest mercantile firm in Arizona and Francis Hinton one of the original founders of inc house has taken the place of Mr. Hooper at the head Of the firm We regret that Mr. II. has severed his con ncction with the Territory, but feel satisfied that Mr. lIintons soldi'y as a capitalist, his excel lent business qualifications and sterling integrity of character win add Co the good name of the house. Mir. Hinton has amassed fortune iu the Territory and Is now using it for a good pur- po,e-the development of the mineral resources of ihe Territory.
 NEW house for a restaurant. Is being built on Gurley street, between the store of E. J. Kerr and Dunns butcher shop.
 MR. GENTLE requests ns 10 Inform those who are hanging back until be lowers his prices for taking pictures that his present prices arc as reasonable as he can afford and that be does not intend 10 lower them. Persons dicing 10 see themselves as others see them sh9ald be governed accordingly.
 SEE advertisement of V. \. Le-ty. He is pre- pared to administer to the wants Of man and beast.
 ATTENTION is called to orders recently issued y the Supreme Court of the Territory. chang z the times of holding terms og the District ,5urts Of the Territory, which Is published else Eherc. Sorry the Court did not fix upon diff ierent months for holding court in this district Ws KING, who was wounded by Indians some time ago. paid ms visit during the week. He has been stopping at Fort WLipple Hospital. Thanks to Dr. Middleton, his wound is healed up and be Is gaining strength rapidly.
 CUTTING and shooting are getting to be quite common practices in this community, and stop should immediately be put 10 them The other night maa was shot in the leg. and short time ago. one Mexican cut another with knife The Sheriff. Deputy sheriff and some citizens tried ts secure the one who d.d the cutting. but be elu- dcd them and has probably gone to Sonora or Tucson. The law against firing guns and pistols in the streets. if rigidIy enforced might stop the evils complained of A night in the calaboose. aai few good fines might cure some Of the bavo&
 c. T. RoGERs Gray Co.'S obliging salesman. q! this place will accept our thanks for his pres cot of the wced-a sample or lot of smoking and chewing tobacco recently received by him rom La Paz.
 Wv. II. HARDY has commenced suit (see sum- aons) in the District Court of Mobave county to recover $50 900, balance due for crushing rock rom the southern Gross and Michigan mine, in that county.
 sroP Ir.--Dariog our editorial career in Pres colt, we have never. until now. had occasion to scold any of onr citizens for meanness but oui carrier informs us that copies of the MINER lcft at the doors of subscribers by him, are frequent ly stolen. Now this Is minute meanness. and a grown person who will stoop so low. must in deed be mean.
 CoRN MEAi--Since our last. several wagon loads of corn meal wero brought here and sold by citizens of Walnut Grove. Thursday last Aessrs Postle & Shivers brought q load up. Oul merchants sell it for II cents per 10, gold. and lhere being no -four in the country, it sells read Ay.
 DE MoEIIER's new billiard and drinking sa loon was opened to the public Saturday evening 'a'L lt is. We think. the largest; bcs; finished aud furnished saloon in the Territory On the opening night the crowd assembled there wa. lage Bucking Rt Faro. billiard playing and onhking were lndalgod iH Co a great extent ihe two amiable bar-tcndcrs, Bill Linn and Jos ''ane had all they could do to keep the thrsty crowd moisiened.
 On- JACKSON & O. have received two hnc billiard tables and lot of furniture for theil '"'oon' on Montezuma street. They have also purchased the buildinp oeennied by tbep C,,