Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-11
LETTER FROM PHGNIX.

h EDrroR MINER Well, Thursday night me, as all nights that record the great .snss of life are sure 10 come while this | sndane sphere continues ies oiurnal and nuai revolutions; and with Thursday i, .ht came goOdly sized and expectant k,jiie7ee to the PhDnix Opera House, to
 tness the consummate failure and abjcct |nfcat of the ambitious amateurs who, for
 n; first time, were tO assume the "sock and l skin, iiguratively speaking, for the laud- purpose of increasing the small stock
 smoral and entertaining literature which xeraces the shelves of the Sunday School Ffary But "he who came to scoff, re- | ined "-to applaud, for the gentlemen Iadies, lads and lasSies who had shirked
 huofk in the preparation of their respect |r, parts, presented very creditab!e exhi- lon For ,he delectation of the Phpnicians |-t suburbans. The programme was long, t contained some features that might f' C been left out, without detrimeGt ta the eral effect. After the conclusion of the formance, tine Company and their audi fHb adjOurned to the old store building of nett X Block to prolong the festivities b,s fhe night with a social hop which f'sHd of equally pleasant with the dra- ic.
 0tha programme Is too extended to repro
 here, and where SO many strove to do |sIsr best comparisons are almost inyidious. itmay be mentioned that Miss Olive rtop achieved decided success in the F-acter of Servant" and the comidtta of itsingles." In the latter, she was par D ilarIy good. as the ''Girl of the period" | ina the Grecian bend, character a trife fin the States, but as good as new here he frontier. In the same play, Mrs. Gvkins was markedly natural and original he old farmers wife, and won mcrited
 Aiause Her spouse, represented by Dr. Es arton, was not far behind in the quaint iircments of the part. Miss Murray. Na ease, grace and self-posse>sion. med the role of the sensible country
 | in, while MT. Larkin, as "Mr. Fitzoodic, l. lie gDod the name, as the counterpart
 accepted lover of Cousin Josephine. @ Wharton). The minor parts were sustained. In the concluding farce tmc Old Mans Coattails," Mr Lutgerding Master Richter brought down the sc, the former, as a misery old skin {, ana the latter aS his half-starved Irish efant Mir. McNulty, as the S0i fiSdat chman, in The Servant" was good, and lim much of the success of the entertain it Is due, as he has been indefatigbc in labors. Declamations, tablcaux, and |hs sic were interspersed, and the Company .scecded in pleasing somewhat cynical
 hence so well, that an earnest demand has Ign made for a repetition, but the troupe
 sken on another effort during the "warm Fnr One of the goad results is, to in- asc the popular demand for suitable
 | for social and literary gatherings, and kr ther Fall will probably see the erection building suited to such purposes. kTFs sre tempted ,o think ourselves civil
 I again, since our telegraph office, which D been closed for time, is open again MT t aasumed charge on Friday, and will ainre this week. after which we will
 f< cur old operator, C. NJ. Clark.
 DESERT LAND ACT.
 ] seems a pity that the late act regarding |hsert lands could not have been made a |na ai one, and confined to the State for the |. Iedt of which it was intended. It is no Hi"h law, Dut, on me contrary, Is >d Illustration of that quotation from the iptures which so puzzles the mathemati- mind of our youth, "For unto him that kulI- shall be given, and from him that hash
 shall be taken. even that he hath" Last r Inc poor emigrant coming to Arizona response to the glowing invitations sent by her newspapers, could, at least, come sn here and take 160 acres of Salt River q, and by thrift and toll for years, make iseh home. But now, the man who k sling his Sl60, cash, takes four of these