The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-12-19
Local Intelligence.
SATURDAY.

Nights asiulIy cold.
 D.R. Poland Is up from Big Bag.
 A number of small freigh. teams arrived from Maricopa to-day.
 A large number of delighted little folks attended the circus this afternoon.
 Born, in the Verde Valley, Dec. I, 1879, to the wife of J. W. Johnson, a daughter.
 Goldwater Bros. are rapidly getting their. immense steck of goods arranged in their new store.
 Geo. W. Hance and family propose to spend tine holiday season ia Prescott and witness the glory sf PiBafore.
 All those wishing plain or fancy New Years calling cards can have the same printed cheaply at the MINER office.
 MT. Geo. Jackson. sturdy granger. of Walnut Grove, is ia town today. He says that nothing new has .ranspired in that vicinity.
 Two passengers, Frank Shultz and D. K. Sutton, went out in last nights stage. One passenger came in this moFning-Rev. G.. H. Adams.
 The case of the Territory vs. II. T. Crum, indicted for grand larceny, occupied the attention of the District Court the greater part of the day.
 Chas. B. Genung has been appointed postmaster at Antelope Valley, this county, and David P. Wright at Wickenburg, MAricopa county.
 James Miles, indicted for the murder of J. T. Shannon at Tiptop, oa the 7th inst, was araigned at o'clock Monday morn ing fixed ss the time to plead 10 the charge.
 We publish the Grand Jury's report to- day in full It is the shortest document of the kind and oSntnins less ''taffy" than any report heretofore handed in by a Jury. Everything is to the Point.
 The MINER will publish daily the list of passengers passing Colton on the s. F. K. R. bound for ArizOna, so that all of our read eas will hereafter bc apprised of the com ing of any of their friends.
 The Grand Jury came into Court this morning. made their final report, and were discharged. District Attorney Masterson had everything that had to be brought be- fore that body SO arranged that no delay was occasioned.
 Hon. John J. GoSper, says the Chicago Inter Ocean of the 2nd, fs stopping at the Palmer Mir. Gosper is very thoroughly in formed regarding the mineral resources of that section, and one of the most successful mining men of the Territory.
 A grand ball will be given at the school house in West Prescott on Christmas Eve. Extensive preparations are being made, and everything calculated to make the sfsir cnioyahle social gathering IS heln8 prepared. The Hudson Bros. have been engaged to furnish the music. A large humber of invitations have been issued.
 T. c. Bray and Co, the popular Boston and New York Store proprietors, have an advertisement in to-day's MINER. Messrs. Bray < Co. keep nothing but the best quality of goods, and considering the dis tance from the Eastern markets, their prices will compare favorably with any house on the Coast.
 O. Aliens smoke house, in the rear of the meat market on Gurley street. was discov cred to be on fire yesterday. The alarm was solnded,and the bucket brigade quick ly put in an appearance and soon smothered the flames No damage worth mentioning. | Jimmy Behind-the-Stove got so excited | that it was with difficulty that his vocifera- lions could be stopped.
 Mack Morris, who formerly owned the | now celebrated Mack Morris mine, in Rich | inond Basin, which he sold for a snug little | sum, is now visiting his old home, St Louis. | Representatives of the Republican and the Globe Democrat interviewed him at the | Planters Hotel, In regard to Arizona, and to each paper he gave enthusiastic accounts of the wonderful richness of the Territory.
 Besides the discoveries in Lane district, Hon. J. '. T. Smith has been quietly sink ing on a gold ledge, about fifteen miles north of Phenix and close to the Prescott road, and, at depth of thirty eight feet, has ledge four feet wide, averaging $70 | to $l50 per ton. This ledge was located by MT. Smith some ten years ago. but was not worked until within a month.-Expositor.
 PISAFoRE-Mr. Matt F. Larkin has at last, after great deal of correspondence, AA0uSCA AuS tt NiSit colt and let our citizens witness this, the grandest and most popular play of the age, performed by a company of irst-class artists. The price of Season tickets has been placed at a very reasonable figure, and will enable all who may wish 10 have real holiday season of smusements an Up- portunity of gratifs ing their wish. See the advertisement.
 Col. Hinton, formerly of the San Fran CISCO Post, but now of the New York Eve ming Mail, is at present in Tucson. Mir. Hinton spent month or so iu Prescott, little over two years ago, when be was gathering material for his "Hand Book of Arlzona,n almost the first work that spread before the people of the United States the character of our varied resources, especially the richness of the vast mineral sections of Al. TT l. E1l ,t