The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-01-23
LOCAL sPLlNTERS.

ONE minute day is the rate at which the afternoons are now lengthening.
 THE entertainment of the Knights of Pythias on the 11th proximo will be one Of the select events of the season.
 DENNIS McCARTY. city assessor elect, qualified yesterday, his bondsmen being w. K. Gird and Chas. Fredericks.
 IT is announced that Mir W. K. Lever. idge contemplates the erection of an ice machine, to be in operation by the 1st of May.
 THE Redpath branch of the Irish Land league have engaged Schieffein hall for q grand entertainment on the night of the 17th of March.
 WE are happy to state that the reported accident to Father Bloise near Contention yesterday on his return trip from Tucson had no foundation.
 IN the case of J. H. Jackson vs. the Fairplay M. Co.,, tried in Judge Wallace's court on yesterday, the plaintiff, claiming $299.99, was allowed $6.
 WELLS, FARGO & Co.'S express shipped yesterday for the Tombstone Mill & Min. ing company five bars of bullion, weighing 1O30 pounds and valued at $13, 3,29639.
 WE understand that an option of give or take at $2 per share was recently offer ed to the Anglo Californian BaLk for the controlling stock in the Bob Ingersoll.
 Co., J. D. HENDERSON, of New York, arrived by private conveyance last night and has taken parlors at the Grand. The Colonel is engaged in mining business
 MRS. Richard Gird and Miss Emma Gird arrived in the city yesterday from California, en route for the East. They are the guests of W. K. Gird, Charleston
 PREPARATIONS are being made for the placing in position of the new boiler at the Tombstone company's main hoisting works This is done merely to guard against delay in case ofany flaw occurring in that now In use.
 OUR fire bell rang out its first alarm last evening about 2 o'clock The fire broke out in little house belonging to Mir. Bay less on Fremont street just below the West End Corral, but few willing hands and d number of buckets of water vanquished the dreaded foe before the fire department got out and without doing any serious damage.
 TIE office of the city auditor and clerk of the common council has been moved from the post office to the office of $. c. Quigley, city auditor and clerk, at 3O5 Fourth street, below Fremont, The situa. iion is very convenient. Mir. Quigley in forms us that his office will be open from 5 a. m. until 8 p. m., to accommodate those who may have business to transact before this department of the city government.
 ON the 9th of February an entertain. ment for the benefit ofthe Catholic church will be given at Schieffelin Hall The en tertainment will consist of concert and ball. Music, both vocal and instrumental, will be furnished by the best talent in the city, and screaming farce will be played by the Tombstone Dramatic and Relief Association Tickets, which can be found on sale at the principal stores, can be had for fifty cents.
 WE learn that the Tombstone M. & M. company have received patent for the Goodenough claim. Those who attended the late trial of that company against the Way Up will remember the strenuous ef. forts of the defense 10 deie4 the title of the company to that mine. Similar efforts were made in Washington to prevent the issue of the patent no less than five hear. lngs being had before the commissioner of patents and one before the secretary of the interior. The points involved are of in. terest to every mine owner in Tombstone, for in this case, as in some other recent cases, the peculiar circumstances of out crop in this district were used against the application, and the failure of these at. tempts is an assurance to other bona fide owners that this district is not without the pale of the law, as some interested parties would like to have the authorities believe.