The Phoenix herald., 1882-08-18
Suiture Items.
YrLrunE, August Il, 1899.

ED. HERALD: The Htssayampa river has been on the rampage dur ing the last week. Not much dam age done U the company water works.
 Mir. Brill was in town day, and said that tue wind storm of last week done him considerable dam age by blowing down his barn and, uprc oting his fruit trees, and de- stroying everything in general. Mir BrlII's damage cam ,t De estimated, but hs said that it 'annot be les than a thousand dc, lars. Most all the cottonwoods around his house were destroyed, and the place l'oks now as It did twenty years ago. No one hurt.
 We had very heavy rain here to- night, but think that this i+ a gen. eraI rain anI won't do any damage, and it looks as if the rainy season had set in now in ea7n est.
 Any amount of strange faces cn our streets every day; so numerous that we cannot keep track of them
 Mrs. Grant and Miss Grant, of Wickenburg, arc in the city visiting friends.
 Mir. Dan Burke, of the Hassayam- pa, is in inc city on business.
 Mr. Robert Christy, of this city, left with the Saturday stage for San Francisco.
 Mir. William Felo vs left on same stage for Phoenix. He was mem Der of the old bachelors lodge of this place, but we understand from good authority that he has backs i'd, and that he is about-or has done It by this time-joining the rag club down there, somewhere on Salt river. We, the brctherhoo', had meeting lat night concerning thls backsliding business, and the meeting was a very gloomy one Brother Wilson said that he did not know what te do LOW as Brother Fellows had been our president for a long time. and that q nun as good as he is trapped by good and ac- complished lady never entered his brain: ana when he saw him falling he said, "Gnl help the rest Of us" < good many others spoke, ani re- gretted to lose Brother Fellows from our society, but two or three were Of the opinion that he is by this time happier, wiser, and q thousand times better man, and the whole congregation gave three cheers for 1 NIT. Fellows and his happy bride l Brother Tobbin said, Brothers, he is a disgrace to our society, and a sure sign that all of you would do as Brother Fellows has done if you could get half chance" The so- ciety closed up in a row, 10 meet next Saturday night to elect new officers, and to prepare to give fel- lows and bri de d grand reception or their comin g 10 camp.
 There is another circus in town and this evening they Lad grand parade through the principal part ot the city. In the parade l could dis tinguIsh the towering form of the clown on horse back all painted IT to the T, five or six boys on foo running around the clown 5 horse and next came tie band of one vic lin and 8 guitar. The music wa very good, I guess, but about tn tune they were ready te commenc, a load of hay came to Mir. Barne livery stable, and the tent had to b torn down, so that the hay could pass in, ana tue wagon ran over two dogs and a pet cat, and the tail enc of one of our Chlnamen, and in tn general racket all the dogs in towI had fight on general principles At this time it looked very muc, like rain and left.
 Mir. sarne1 has gone to tnc Gila c. little recreative trip for fe7 weeks.
 Mir. Moriuo went on q visit to Sc nora; will be away for about
 month.
 Ed. Kirklqnd, Monroe 6 Co.,. hay struck a good ledge in Pickax
 mountains. They have fine speci meus in Kirkland's store from thi ledge, but we could not ird ou how rich the ore is T. CoRwIN.