The Phoenix herald., 1880-12-17
MARiCOPA MATTERS.
Local Events of the Past
 Week.
As They Appeared in the ''DailY
 Herald"
MONDAY

Major Chailec of Fort Mcdowell
 is in the city.
 The Board of Supervisors were in
 regular session this morning.
 Pistol firing is becoming quite
 common on our streets at night.
 Barney Martin left last evening
 for his home at Antelope Peak.
 AS we % to press the sale of the
 Woolsey estate is in progress.
 Messrs Dexter and Garcia have returned from a prospecting trip to the mountains,
 Four arrests of drunk and dis orderly were made yesterday by
 Under Sheriff McDonald
 Yesterday was Santa Guadalupe Day and our Mexican brethren eel kebrated with good deal or spirit.
 Sheriff Walker of Yavapai county, passed through Phoenix this morn ing with prisoner for Yuma.
 The net proceeds of the Union Sunday School entertainment held on last Thursday night were S49.5O.
 Gilmcr and Salisbury, thc popular stage men, are at present in Tucson but we understand will be in Phe- nix shortly.
 George Brown and Deputy Sher-
 if of Yayapai county, with two in
 sane persons in charge. left this
 morning for Stockton, Cal.
 L D Norton, J R Walker, " II Reavis, Mrs Stenbrook, 3fr Dexter, MT Garcia, R B Thorburn, are regis. tered at the Bank Exchange.
 Senor Reyhetti gave a ball last evening at his residence in the northern part of town. Our Mexican reporter states that it was a mug fno affair.
 Quit6a number of street brawls occurred in the eastern portion of town yesterday, in ono of them e Mexican woman being slightly h. jured.
 There has been quite @ boom of | tax paying at the Bank today, so BIT lIazeltine informs Us. Remember 1 that your taxes will Leoome delin- qufpt # not paid before the 18th of | this month.
 The increase of travel 10 the Ter | ritory at present is enormous, and Phoenix is beginning to get share of it, as will be seen by the list of our hotel arrivals.
 The announcement that Rev J. A. Merrill would preach at the Presby- terian church yesterday morning drew out quite large audience. Tine gentleman delivered very elo- quent discourse on the subject of the '' Prodigal Son.
 At the meeting of the Union Sun day School,yesterday, it was resolved that vote of thanks be rendered to the Phenix Brass Band for their gratuitous services on Thursday eve ming; also to the ladies who helped in the entertainment, and the public for their patronage.
 The following are inc arr1vals a Hotel: G Buckingham, D " Anderson, Mrs Blair, Carmen AL varez, W H Seamans, B F Ames, J A Merrill and family, Carl Bedding, z P Clark, J ' T Smith, R E Light burne, Mnjor Chaffee, wife and child, Charles " Lafavre.
 Calt ". II. seamans, Deputy U. S. Revenue Collector, passed through Phoenix on Sunday from a visit to ' Tip-Top and the Peck Districts. He I reports everything as looking well a though comparatively dull. The ( Peck mil is soon 10 start up on Sil- yer Prince ore, which he thinks will make things lively in that section. MT. B. F. Ames, capitalist from ] ihe quaker State, and who has been T n Tucson for the ast few months, a on our streets yesterday, having E returned from a trip 10 the mines in | .he northern section, in company f with Capt Seamans. He is well t. oleasel with Phoenix and the sur Il ounding country. | A petition is being circulated l Irounl town for establishing a daily V nail scr-ice between Ph9nix and } 'ic<et Post by way of Tempe and a Mesa City. The increase of popula- | ion and the business connections W which so closely unite these two t' places demand this additional mail | rcIlity and It is hoped the petition [. will be granted. The sugar cane planted on Super ,1 -isOr Wormser's ranch has reached :. he height of six feet ana is two T nches thick. He has made some - 'xcellent moIasses and panocha from !, t and will send some of the cane to ', T, iajor Hooper, the gentleman who It Vill be remembered, introduced the @ ane into :he valley and who is ' much iDterested in tho advance nent i, nd development of our section. ', After smoking one of Soman & U IeInc's fine cigars, our printer felt a a reat deal like the poet did when he D xpresscd his feelings in the follow b 1g quaint and terse sianza: s, acred substanccl sweet, serene; tF sorrows saddcst scene: W cent-suffusing silv'ry smoke, N oftly smoothing suffering's stroko ,l sn silently U till so swift, so sure, so sly; h