The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-06
LOCAL SPLlNTEssS.

NEW houses are springing up like magic all around the suburbs of town, many of them being substantial adobe structures.
 EXTENSIVE repairs are being made at the livery stable of J. O. Dunbar. The stables will be mrch enlarged and i'm proved otherwise.
 THE rear enlargement of Satford's block, on Fifth street, is nearly completed. This makes the stores in that building far more desirable than heretofore.
 4 REPORTER was shown this morning a very pretty bric-a-brac painting in oil by MT. Belgrano, also some fine drawings. They are very creditaDle to the artist.
 THE coach from Contention came in this afternoon with none but local passen- gers owing to the delay caused to the east-bound express by the collision at Sweetwater.
 TIE recorders office was moved this morning from its former place oposlte the EPITAPH, to Richie's building, on Fifth street, where every thing can be found in convenient order.
 l. THE bullion shipment this morning by Wells, Fargo x Co.'s express, for the Tomb stone NJ. & NJ. O., amounted to three bars, weighing 626 pounds and having total valuation of $S,552.
 The statement in Mondays ErITAPH that Dr. McSwegan had been appointed to attend to the patients at the pest house, IS mistake. That gentleman would not accept such an appointment.
 SEVERAL excellent articles on the life and writings of Sir Walter Scott, songs, and other entertainment, were the order of exercises al the debating club last even. ing. The hours of meeting were passed right pleasantly.
 In few days tine Grand restaurant, which occupies the front room of the irand hotel, will open. The apartment to be used ss the dining room is being fitted up in an elegant manner, and will be dI- vided into two parts-the front as gene ral eating-room, and the one hack to be select. It is the intention of the proprie. tors-Messrs. Fraser < DeGraw, to render this thoroughly frstclass establishment
 TIE Eagle Brewery barber shop, which has lately removed to Eagle Brewery building, has reduced prices as follows: Shaving, l5 cents; haircutting, 35 cents; shampooing, 35 cents; sea foam, 10 cents. The artists are all we'll known to the pub lie, and the same attention and treatment will be rendered as Tn the past. Four of the best barbcrs in the city are constantly employed, and hrst-class work is guaran teed.
 THE western mail did not arrive tlis afternoon owing to delay in the east bound passenger train, caused by the west bound express running into the rear of the west bound freight train at Or near Sweet. water station, beyond Casa Grande. While there was a general smashingu p of cars and engine there was no one killed or seriously wounded
 TUE Vizina Consolidated is the subject of almost daily blunders with the New York press, which confounds it with the Virginia Consolidated of Nevada. No less than two oi our New York exchanges have credited ths last dividend of Vizina to the Virginia. This fact has had no effect on the share market of either con- pany, thus showing that the mining pub lie are better posted than some of the lead ing eastern journals.
 TIE fine weather of the last three days has been calling loudly for personal" but so far without avail A gentleman in complimentng the weather to Charleston ore-hauler, this morning, got the suspicious reply, "yes, winter may have broken, but now the March winds will begin to blow" His disposition had evidently been soured by the long continued cold and storms of January and February.
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