The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-08-26
SATURDAY.

Jerry Sullivan departed today for Oregon.
 Mir. Delk is in town from Camp wallapai.
 Many "toodles" visited the auction to- day.
 The hose cart is receiving repairs and i'm, provenents.
 Street cleaning goes on under the surper- vision of Mir. Price.
 business at the Verde.
 Catholic Church, Sunday, Aug. 2l: Mass at l0:30 A. M No Nespers.
 For good living we would recommend the public to Prescott restaurants.
 The rcsds are beginning to dry, and team ing will resume its former activity.
 N. scarcity of water, wood and grass in this section. We can all go camping.
 J. ". Dougherty. of the 70. K. store, is doing good business in quiet way.
 The new comet can be seen carly in the night It is located west of the North star.
 Local, and in fact all other news, is scarce and has raised in price fifty cents on the dollar
 The dwelling house going up for Johnny Akers on McCurmick street will soon be completed.
 Mir. Oliver, of whipple and wallapai, s buying large quantities of merchandise for his two stores.
 The postmaster of our city is having an easy time of it since the rainy season put in aH appearance.
 Ackers < Smith are in receipt of fine fat beef; also Hall tS Poe have full supply of all kinds of meats.
 NIT. Abe Kiewe, the Big Bug merchant, arrived in Prescott to-day. NIT. Jasper Smith also came m.
 We hear that near Big Chino large amount of fine gramina hay will be cut and put up for sale.
 Mir. Johnson and his very estinable wife are in town from Big Bug, the richest mining camp in Arizona
 Judge Fleury is lonesome and complains that not person has been around to have the ''knot" tied for two weeks
 Mat Lynch has treated himself tos sett of fine harness from A. !. Mls"ns. He now swings the lines over fine team.
 D,ct Lincoln has ventured on a trip to the country. He took life preservers with hiin, for fear of accident m crossing the rivers.
 Ateleqram fiom Postmaster Mowry to Post master Otis, to-day, states that n" eastern or other mail matter had arrived at that place.
 The wh"pping cough has had tight grip upon many of the children of Prescott, and also some of the adults, among whom are F. w Blake and John RaI6'e
 R. R. Contractor Price came in from his camp yesterday. He IS out of certain ar ticlcs of provisions, which he IS supplying from the Prescott market.
 \ blackboard departed this morning for Holbrook, on the Little Colorado, Co which point the cars of the Atlantic X Pacific K. K. are now running.
 A letter from City Treasurer Vim. Yer non, dated at his home m Washington City. states that ne was to have left for Prescott on the 20th inst
 Mir. James Oneal will sell 5000 worth of wool this season from his fine flock of sheep. He has also sold to Price, King Co. one thousand muttons at g each. The w"ol IS sold to Head X Co.
 Miss Given, a very exemplary young lady, having decided to leave Prescott on visit tu the States, had Auctionoer Fisher dispose of her household effects to-day. The arti- cles were all good and went at moderate prices.
 Mother Monica the energetic manager of the hospital, has gone to the railrnad in order to make a contract for the care of railrnad patients As soon as she returns, the hospi- tai building will be enlarged. according to a plan drawn by Mir. F. G. Parker. Mir. Mitchell, q reader of the MINER, who owns a line ranch "n the Lower Agua Fria. IS m town. He reports heavy fi"ods in his section Trees tw" feet through were torn bodily from the ground and borne away up.n the surface of the water like astrsw. Mr. James o'Ncal, the sheep raiser, is in town from the san Francisco Mountain country. He has just finished shearing his large land of sheep, and isprcparing [" send the wo~l t" m Eastern market via the At lantic S Pacific R. H., through C. r. Hes'l X Ca. Professor Jennings, the monarch "f all he snrvcys' "n the HassayaInpa and the owner of inuumcrl',le gold. silver and copper ledgcs which contain real merit and other pr-l-,stcr''us names only known L" the scien tIiic world. Is m town. It IS rum"rcd that lie has made another sale. Future move menus uf the gentleman will verify the truth or falslty of the report. Geo. N. Curry. a very IndustI1"us, eN- einp!aTy young gentleman, and thorough master of the iewelry bust ness. and for a t'ng time with the late T. !. Morgan. has purchased the business from the admins trat"r MT. C. has also an elegant assnrt- ment of new jewellery recently purchased III San Francisco, which, together with that purchase belonging |" the estate, will make his assortment complete and beautiful. It strikes the Prescott public very f"rcibly that good express line should be establish cd between Prescott and Flag Staff with d comfortable coach to convey passengers. We believe 1t would pay and a movement should he started immediately to secure the establishing "f the same with gordstock with N hich |" do the work Business men of Prescott should put the thing on f""t and see to 1t that Ii Is nun nj ship-shape style.