The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-08-01
Local Intelligence.
TUESDAY.

WGtermellon season has arrived. City tax collector J. NJ. Dodscn is gather ipg in the scads.
 Tiptop is down TO 77 cents, ana Silver King to SC. What is fhe matter. Several very fine loads of baIed hay passe ed through town, to-day from Kirkland valley. Remember. and put away 100 cents for the Variety Troupe Performance, on Saiur- day evening.
 Joe Cook, from Williamson valley. reports
 heavy rains ID his neighborhoOi as we'll as
 a; Lees, Mint valley.
 Jake Hinkle IS in from Lynx Creek and
 says everything looks green and fresh in
 that section since the rains.
 Judge Alsep and family, and County
 Treasurer Shaw and wife, of Marieona
 County, leave for home tomorrow, after T
 brief sejourn in Prescott.
 People of Bradshaw are very anx;ous to
 have road built from the Peck to that place
 which would connect them by wagon road
 with the Capital of the Territory.
 John J. Gosper has done the work of
 Secretary since his advent into the territory
 ana more than half the time has shoulitred
 the duties of Governor.
 Darth's train. and that of Tomas Cordoba.
 passed the Point of Rocks yesterday. en
 route to the Tiger vla Walnut Grove. win 1
 100000 pounds Of salt for the Tiger Com
 pany.
 Joseph CoBdroD, John Shelton, Mr. Hay |
 and Mrs. Holmes are up from Walnut |
 Grove. Mr. Condron informs us that com |
 and beans vill be raised in ihe valley and |
 large amount of Truit in the event of lit-
 tie rain visiting that section.
 Book BINDING.-AI persons having mag
 azihes, book-. music, or other matter which
 they wish bound, can be accommodated ai
 the MIXER OFFICE, within the next few days. Work equally as we'll done as in San Francisco.
 Secretary Gosper and Mir. A. M. Smith go out tomorrow to their Cherry Creek mines They have purchased and sent out a complete kitchen outfit accompanied by supply of provisions. They will put men at work grading and preparing for their new mill soon 10 arrive.
 The eccentricIties of hot waves and inc habits of well-ragulated thermometers neca 10 be investigated as much as perihelia phenomena. and the man who will tell his fellow men how to keek the ills of bot summer from the doors ol the average cifi- zen, will be remembered when the perihcli- on prophets are all forgotten.-Ghicago h. fer Ocean.
 Mr. E. G. Peck authorizes us to state tat the writer of the recent article in the Ex. posltor, PheniN, is an unmitigatcd iasifeT. and we on behalf of oarself. say that the brute who peGned the article, is a liar. cow | arJ, eff and everything else that Is low, e degrading and mean, and if the person has f the first principles of manhood within him q he will come out and acknowledge the fact | and receive the consequences. t
 Joseph Standing, a Mormon missionary, a was shot and killeJ Ly mob of ten men h m Catoosa county, Ga, on the 2lst inst q
 The Central Pacific Railroad Company Q has for the ensuing year elected the follow c ing officers: Leland Stanford, C. F. Hunt 0 ington. E. W. Hopkins, E. II. Miller, Jr W. N. Huntington, First Vice President: Charles Crocker, < cond Vice President; E 1T W. Hopkins, Treasurer; E. II. Miller, Jr., q Secretary. e Chas. Spencer, the scout, interpreter and m old pioneer in the Wa'lapai country. came n in to-day from his home in Mohave county, c, for the purpose of interceding with the :, of the department on behalf of c; hi, friends. the Wallapai Indians, who are in just at present in a starving condition, no rs seeds, berries or bugs this season. The ot drought has killed them all and the red n sons and maidens of the forest are hungry. iii MmITARY.-Tne contract of Acting As al sisiant Surgeon J. H. Strom, U. s. A., will 1,, lat his own request be annalled, 10 date ., Aug. 5fh. 1863. st Settlement of the gay accounts of Acting :. Assistant Surgeon StrOm, will be deferred .e' until he properly accounts for the public 'u property for which he is responsible.
 Transportation will be furnished Acting n, Assistant Surgeon Shom, frou. Fort Bowie, a, T. to Fort Yuma, Cal. al Brute 0Reily waited until Mr NJ Gold !, water got beyond the territory before he q. had the courage to vIlify him in the black E's mailer. One thing is certain. NIT. Gold ', water does not care what 0'Reily says about =, him. Why he knew the old hair-tooth v Drute when he ran with Indians, slept pB a ;' lat-boat ana even when he stole James ~; irant's stage horses. What do the villii- " ,auous of such man amount tc. | John Woodmsn, m excellent workman eh In iron. has again returned to Prescott and tu aSen up residence afief an absence of DC nearly year. NIT. W, ccmcs from LeaG m .liie, the celebrated carbonate camp in ln. J"loradu, and informs us that there is noth- an ns m Colorado or New Mexico that com gi' psteS with Arizona. II, has established SIT 'imseif Tn business once more at his old 1e ''and, on Cortez Street, opposite the feed AT 'aFd, where he will be pl, ased to attend to my calls in the blacksmith line.
 PROSPEROUS BUSINESS. has only been rrc wo maAths since N. X G. Ellis started into m 'anness ia Prescott, nevertheless, their eX mi en>ive stock of Merchandise has been two 6 T three times exhausted, sn great has been oU oe rush after tleir goods, which are fresh am ihd being sold at lower rates than any o,, .ouse has ever offered the same class of vr, .oods m this section of Arizona. Tester an ,ay they received fresh supply direct from fe, 'an Francisco which will last unfil others :