The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-26
WEDNESDAY,.

&AtCA&aufd otDFe.
 Crops along the Verde are said to be yer, fine. Not so around Prescott.
 Jacob L. Miller and Attorney R. B. Have. left On Saturday last for Signal City.
 Look out for the suns black eve on Mon day next. Prepare your smoked glass ir time.
 Mr. A. H. Peoples, now superintends tho Postofice at Wickenburg, and we hear nc complaints.
 Twenty-two thousand dollars arrived last week at Yuma, from the McCrackin and Hsrkbery mines.
 The King South mine, Globe district, has levied an assessment of 121k cents per share delinquent August l7.
 Mir. Wm. Kerr, from Thompson Valley, cams in this morning, with a load of green corn, which he readily sold.
 Several Saltriveritcs have loaded teams at Curtis saw mill during the week and are now hemeward bound.
 Hen fruit is now worth $f, per dozen in the Prescott market. It would be we'll for the old ladies to louk after their hens.
 MoDEsT.-The Sentinel does not even con- 5eesad to mention the birth of the Erposi- Cor. Don't bc so terribly cruel. George.
 John X. Lavoie & Co, of the Tiger stable, arc getting a new stock of carriages and buggies, whi h will be here in two or three weeks.
 Professor Fleury, the connoisseur of West Prescott, IS as happy as "big sun flower in his solitary fife among the roses and big pines.
 X letter from Tucson states that although the flood did much damage, the good effect of the rain, since, has more than overbal- anced the loss sustained.
 The consumption of lager beer in Pres colt of late, has been considerable. The different disti:lcrys are kept quite busy supplying the demand.
 irst Lieutenant l.. A. Abbott, 9th Cav airy, is about to be promoted to Captaincy, and in the mean time, is assigned to the command of Camp Thomas.
 Mfr. Samuel Latti, who is farming in Kirkland Valley, has raised good crop of potatoes this season, and is selling them on the ground at seven cents per pound.
 Extensive placcrs exist near Kirkland Val ley which will pay largely, any company who will take hold and work them to their full extent and in 8 proper manner.
 Yesterday was a scorcher on all kinds of plants around Prescott. An experienced farmer informs us that everything seemed to parch and burn bsfore the rays of the scorching sun.
 Mccormick street is fast filling up with dwelling houses. The last house under construction is a two-story dwelling house, LOW being roofed and soon ready for occupancy.
 Frederick & Hills new tin and hardware store will be model institution and credit to Prescott. Both proprietors are experi- enced, hard work ny men, and deserve pat ronage and success.
 Capt. Porter, on his way to the Idaho sailed down the raging Colorado. The Sen- tinel says the freight list consisted of two sacks of water melons.
 Mir. J. D. Cook, of the Point Rocks dairy, is punctual as the coming day in his visits to the many milk customers he has around different parts of our Village. The milk he sells is spoken of very highly.
 Clark S Adams have now eight teams em- ployed hauling lumber from their mill to their lumber yard in town. They have a fine assortment, comprising about 100000 feet, on hand and are daily adding more.
 David Essex Porter, eldest son of Admiral Porter, is to be Secretary to Gen. Fremont in Arizona. So says an Eastern paper. Essex" used to be pretty tough case. We nope he has at last reformed.-IStoc Re rort.
 The Blackberry mill, is running steadily | ,n good milling ore, and the owners are on | he sure road to fortune. The Mineral Park mill, is also turning out bullion in | quantities, all of which looks | IS though Mohaveites are bound to prosper.
 Mr. Joseph Ehle, who has one of the most comfortable dwellings located in the pleas .ntest portion of our village, thinks of sell | ng the same. If no purchaser appears soon hen the premises will be for rent to some | .areful, responsible person.
 N. R. Stanton, of Walnut Grove, will be n t1wn in few days, with load of toma- oes and large, ripe, luscious water melons, .aised on the Peck ranch. Look out for | nm, and secure a nice melon for your wife md sweetheart before they arc all disposed #.
 THEATRE PRosPEcTs. Seats for the first performances at the new theatre are being ecured rapidly. The diagram at c. r. Head lS Co.'s shows that about half the1 ,ody of the house hss already been sold, Iud from present appearances there will not ,e seat left by Saturday night.
 Many people who have invested heavily | n Tiptop stock, think that the recent as- essment means freeze, and they are deter uined that the significance of the word shall lot be realized just yet, especially when very thing is hot, and the thermometer anges along in the hundred notch.
 Quite a number of street circuses are now rganized by juvenile amateurs. Ryland riIl soon be eclipsed. Master Albert Be an is the hsary man and can already stand to have quite large stone broken while aying upon his breast. Master Woolen- ,urgs are the sledge hammer performers.
 All our embryo astronomers are getting heir pieces of smoked glass ready so as to bserye the eclipse of the sun next Monday, ulv go. The sun will be almost totally oD- cured at this point. The moon will com ,ence to cross the suns disk at about :5O N. and will be visible until about 5 S:45.
 We learn from Mir. c. Hathaway, who as hut recently returned from Mohave ouuty. that the Sacramento Valley, receiv- d a thorough dreuching of late, and that '. ,,-h<ia .ossnfrv r,resansed the appearance