Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-02
Prescott Paragraphs.
Democrat.

Prescott Paragraphs. Democrat.
 Michael Welch, county charge, native of Ireland, age 8, died March 2Ath, at the Sisters Hospital and was buried Sat urday evening.
 Mir. Mundy Is up from the Verde and says that everybody and everything looks lovely down there. Farmers are busy planting their crops, and a larger acreage of small grain will be put m this year than ever before known.
 Our friends, young and old, are slowly but surely being downed by that arch young chap, Cupid. We hear that sev- eral others will soon fall by the wayside Well, If man wants to get into such an entangllng alliance as matrimOny ap- pears to be, he can find no fairer mate than Here in Prescott.
 We are informed by Mir. Sims that the wsrkmen in the header of his tunnel made connection from both sides on Fri day morning. It will take about six weeks to finish up the work, when 1t will be ready for the ties. The tunnel pro per IS nearly 400 feet in length, but there IS nearly as many more feet of heavy rock cutting leading up to the face
 The many friends of MT. 5. r. Behan and Miss Lillian E. Jones are cordially invited to attend their wedding at the Congregational church, next Wednes- day evening at 7:30 o'clock. After the ceremony there will be reception at the residence of the groom, at which Mir. and Mrs. Behan will be pleased to meet all their friends. We congratulate our D-f,a Il la parture He has chosen for his com panion through life one of Prescott's most accomplished and charming daugh- ters, and bIs future is bright with the rosy hues of happiness and prosperity.
 INiner.i
 Felix Gallegos and John Connors, who were very unfortunate on the line Oi raIl- road, nee .ssitatIng the amputating Of each's right arm, are getting along un- der the careful management of Dr. Aims worth, as well as circumstances will ad- nit, considering the serious nature of their wounds. At present there are in the county hospital, as county and other patients about 24. In the absence of Mother Monica Sister Teresa showed us through the new and capaeious hospital.
 Courier.
 Mir. James Nee came in yesterday with over SOg pounds Of bIi.ion from the Tuscumbla mill.
 From Mir. J. x. Marlow We learn that l23 men are employed in the Tip Top mine, and that the mill is running to Its full capacity.
 The Quartermaster at Whipple yes sar hot, r..,, thousand dollars in new silver coin, just from the San Francisco mint.
 We are informed that, on the 2lst of March, there was born, to The wife of George Wood, of Verde Valley, a but since learn that the little one died on the 26th.
 We yesterday learned that Chaplain Mitchel, U. $. A., departed this life at Bowie, Thursday last, March 3. Those l who knew the deceased say he was good and upright man.
 Firman Mejia, our Mexican mining friend, is up from Walnut Grove wher, he worked some five or six hundred | pounds of ore from ledge that formerly l belonged to Fred. Henry. The result l shows that the ore worked will yield l
 
 MT E. J. Reed IS back from Bill Will | liams's Fork, Signal, etc. He says that a clear clean up WAS made, after d recent | short run, made for the purpose of try ! ing the McCrackin mill, and that six dollars in bullion was obtained. | He inspected Tom Hall.ck's mine also the old Plane: copper mine, and has a good opinion of them.
 Mir John M Roberts, who arrived in this part of .AaTi556Hiiies Al s&4st & oif Prescotf, where he has as good cattle range as iRy in Arizona, well stocked with cattle and horses. He recently built himself ! good dwelling house, has about fort, icres of wheat growing, and is going to erect wind mills, etc Knowing him to )e good man We are pleased with his 
 Henry Sioddard, who mysteriously dis Ippeared from Big Bug some time last December, has been heard from. and Is low en route from New York City to this Territory. StOd1ard, 1t will be recollect d, left his wife at Big Bug, and his un- xplained absence was the cause of mach peculation in that camp. Mir. Stoddard as volunteered no explanation of his lngular conduct, which may be set down 8 one of those eccentricities occasion lily met with in this wild country.
 MT. J. W. Ambrose, q goe q and ener- , etic citizen of Walnut Creek precinct. | rived in Prescott yesterday and in Drmed us that few days ago W. c nook lost his hay press and some fenc lg by a fire, started accidentally, no onbt. The farmers and stock raisers Walnut Creek and vicinity are, MT. l, .mbrosc says, prosperous and hopeful. Is about thirty miles east of Prescott, ] one of the most beautiful timbered ections of Yavapai county.
 Colonel Henry c. Hodges, the late [ hief Quartermaster of the Department. ayes to-day for New York, where he pes to take charge of tine Principal Depot of the Quartermasters apartment. In taking leave of Colonel odges, the Department Commander : ,presses his regret at the separation, ! ld highly compliments him for the CT. siency of his conduct of the Quarter z asters Department of the Army in the ' cent Indian campaign. On behalf of any warm friends and admirers of Gen al Hodges, we desire to add the regretA h IT citizens at his departure and to con- V y their best wishes for his future wei ; -e in the new station to which he goes. ii