The Phoenix herald., 1879-08-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.

James Stewart arrived from Pres colt last night
 The Prescott minstrels will short ly visit this city
 The mails now arrive with con siderable punctuality-
 A great many strangers faces ap- pear on our streets daily.
 There are now some fifteen inva- lids at the Agua CalIente-
 The telegraph line to Tucson was down the first three days of this week.
 JW. Evans, U. S. Deputy Mar shall has been spending week in Phenix.
 Don. E. Abbott has been appointed agent for the Firemen's Fund Insur ance Co.
 Phoenix Lodge No2 I. o. O. F., meets to night All visiting mcm- bers are requested to attend.
 Sunday school at the Tabernacle to morrow morning at nine o'clock. Preaching in the evening.
 MT. Willcoxson, charged with be- ing an accessory in the murder of Monihon, has been discharged.
 The property of King s. Woolscy at Aqua Caliente has been appraised by Messrs. Noringer and Dennis.
 The hearing of the petition of J. E. Wharton for order of sale in tue es tate of Levi Pitts is set for Monday, Sept 8th.
 Captain R. T Hafford, of Maricopa, awhole souled genial gentleman spent 8 few days with us last week This is his first visit here.
 The petition of Sarah E. Monihon for letters of administration on the estate of Luke Monihon will be heard next Saturday.
 Next Tuesday the Probate Judge will hear the petition of T J. Green naw for an rder to sell the property of J. Glccson.
 C. W. Beach, editor of the Miner arrived in Ph9nix during the early part [, f the week He speaks well of our city and was surprised at is re markable growth.
 A. Rosenihal received big lot of raw hlde ci ai h c ar II e est a d q elpcst chairs eSor b ou ht to this market He has also a nice assort- anent of ammunition on hand.
 We are indebted to Prof NJ H. Sherman, Superintendent of Public Instruction, for copy of the Ariz- ona School Law, carefully compiled from the re-o rds by himself.
 As su indication ef very fair times in Phoenix We would say that in con versation with our merchants they all report business as extraordinarily good for this season of the year.
 Arthur Rogers las been busy dur ing the week in clearing the ditches leading to town, of weeds and dirt. Crossings have been built on several streets; this rendering travelling bet ter. MT. Rogers is the right man in the right place.
 The following personal appears in the Times of San Bernardino; A young man wishes to correspond with limited number of young la dies. Object-fun and pastime. Address Pima" Maricopa, A. T.
 Mr Cash, presented us pamphlet, giving full information concerning the new freight tariff, which went in- opperation Aug 18th, 1879. It is headed Special Through Freight | Tariff of the Ccntal Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroad, between | San Francisco and Los Angeles and | points in Arizona.
 o. H. Curry. our popular watch | maker intends visiting Tip Top rext week and introducing a novelty in the line of watch he has had made | purposely to suit the requirements of miners The energy by this gentle man as shown is worthy of comment. 1 J. NE Cotton and A. Decker with their families have returned from quite 8 lengthy vacation in Green | Valley, northeast of Old Camp Reno. They left Judge Porter, one of the party, out there working on mine | he discovered In a piece of the rock shown us by Mir. Decker, a nnmber of specks of gold were plain Iy Aisible. The judge will return shortly. MT. Cotton is much i'm | proved in health after his vacation.
 MT. Henry Morgan had his Exam tnation before Justice Greenham, on