The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-04-04
NEWS FROM OHIO.

ohio. as it has been for the past eighty wears, is a centre of attraction. For inter nsl improvements, the means for religious and intellectual attainmcnts by churches and schools. and for men of renown, schol- ars. ministers, governors. generals, and for the presidency of the |. s., Ohio has been unsurpassed.
 The productions of cereals and fruits. last year, as we'll as meats, were so abun- dant that besides supplying the 100000 in Ohio millions of bushels have been ex- ported and other millions have been stor' ed for the future If Arizona had had the apples that went to waste by rotting in the orchards, or egen those fed 10 swine, there would have been nc -carciiy With you.
 Notwithstanding the string ncy of the money market and the small demand for Isbor there has been but little suffering of fine poor: albeit this has been a long and somewhat severe winter. l believe l am safe in saving there has been seen snow falling sixty days of thus winter, and which has aggregated during the season hfIy inches. On the 18th. of March, five years ago, l left Prescott wben the plaza was covered with four inches of snow and more was falling, but in six bonfs We were where no snow could be seen save I'D on ibe noun tain snmmits; and in two days Wo saw ln SAi. River Valley, wheat headed out and a large variety or beautiful aBd fragrant blooms. But to-day, nearIy all of Ohio IS blanketed witb peariy Es many inches ot snow as was the plaza of Prescott, with scarcely a blossom in tha State except of house plants. Every rof apd tree has been laden with this equiDOctial snow storm the abundance of which seems all tho more remark able because Ot the quantities which have preSioasly fallen. On yesterday ] saw the remnanta ot the larger snow drifts nt least three months old. We have had over two months of sleighing this season. Sleiyhs have been runniag and sleigh-beils have been liugIing night and day. while the merry hearted pleasure seekers auI church ooers and honest tOilcTs iD their wraps and muffs, secured against the rigors ot the temperature when at zero, haze not failed to improve iils passing opportunity, ~heth' er by day or l,y night. The light ot the king of day, of the qusep of night and the twinkling stars jn ths distaai heavens, though less brigat than in Arizona, has i,ecn reflected ly tEe g.it;sr'ng snow vhlell has been so well used by your cousins m fhe Buckeye State.
 No woader the poet, Edgar Poe, wrote as he did when he said
 ''Hcsr the sieiges win iae b,u-
 silver bus.
 What world of ua.rr Ilicut thlf ncsaiy foTctsIsl
 How thry tiRklc, tnkle. ti,kI-
 IA. The icy ar of night;
 vyhle the stare that @ oegsYrinklr.
 al ths heavens to twinkle
 With a Nsf4iine delight;
 Esepinr tssss, iiHne. time,
 lS sort nf EgsSa rhyme.
 To the untinnabulsiiou tkai Ep talt-lcally wells
 From the bcils, bells. h.iis, pCls,
 Belle. bei-. bClls-
 From the jingiins aud the takliRg of tas hslla.'
 The time for the singing of the bird' has come. ss the time for the use ol the sleigh ard bells has past. and hence forth We are Ia expect to sec the sprnging up ef the veriuTo aud tho bursting forth ot the buds into blOam. Already the maple orchards have been pouring oai their sweet waters, which have been coagesfe,i into molasses and sugar-the most paistsblf sweets known to man.
 Tb0ngh three and half years have pass ed since l left the Territory. vet the same desire foT tue prosperity of Arizona siii warns the heart of
 ~. |. REEpER.