The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-08-25

SaIuruay aDQ cuuuay btas0s "cie AS" hours behind time on account of large num- bers of passengers and delayed mail matter.
 Hereafter Church services will commence a half hour earlier This was the announce ment made from the different pulpits last evening.
 The Citizen says Death has of late been playing full hand in Tucson. Not day passes that the Cathedral bell does not toll the requiem of some departed soul.
 Carey x Gessnger's two teams with 30, GOO pounds of barley for James Stew art, and McCuen's teams also loaded with barley for the same party got in to-day from Phenix.
 We have received the August number of Roster of troops serving in this department. It is a credit to the typographical skill of Messrs. Allabach and Shafter, the Fort Whipplc printers.
 The recent rain in southern Arizona caused great damage to the mud roofs of Tucson. and now because a large number of men are employed in repairing the same, the papers of that ancient hamlet compla- gently remark that big building boom has set in
 The Phenix Gazette says that gentle man who recently arrived from Tonto Basin states that the citizens there still carry their guns with them, and the presence of slaughtered cattle on the range yet denotes that the hostilesin great or lesser number, are in that section.
 Sundays coach brought in two or three days accumulation of mail, which had been delayed on account of the recent washouts. Mir. Otis and his obliging assistant, Mir. ..ikens, were kept pretty busy, but man. aged to get it all distributed so people could read their letters and get to church in time. A large watermelon was left at the MINER office to-day with compliments of MT. Brown. If there is anything that printers have weakness for it's the gay and fest i've 'watermillyum," and as hungry jaws wagged merrily OCT the delicious fruit, a series of endless praises went up for Mir. Brown and his water melon patch.
 Jennings, the stalwart irrepressible prospector from the Hsssayampa. fitted into our sanctum to-day, gobbled up a bundle of exchanges and hied himself away to the mountains, to study np the latest doings of Arabi Pasha and the British.
 c. D. Brown, who has charge of the Ti- ger mine, left for that camp this morning. Since the mine has been cleared of water work has been pushed forward on the va rious drifts and levels and in short time enough ore will be piled on the dump to warrant the starting of the mill. Speed the cay The Tiger is too valuable property l to be allowed to remain idle.
 The detail for the court of enquiry, which meets at Whipple Barracks this week is as follows: Col Edward Hatch, 9th Cav Col. Luther P. Bradley, 18th Inf; Col. Henry NJ. Black, 23d Inf. and 1st Lieut.. s. w. Groesbeck, recorder. The court is appointed on the application of Col. Eugene A. Carr, 9th Cavalry, to inquire into SC much of the Adjt. GenPs letter of Feb. 13, 1882, conveying the views of the General Of the Army as to the three specifications to charge one in certain charges and speci6- catione preferred against Col. Carr by Bre- vet Major General o. B. Wilcox, Colonel 12th Inf, commanding the Dept. of Ari- zona, as is contained in the following words of said letter: "he' (the GeneraD ''can only do so by informing him" (Col. Carr) ''thro' his immediate commanding officers that he regards the conduct of Col. Carr at Cibicu and Fort Apache during the last days of August, 1881, as set forth in the first three specifications of charge l, as unsatisfactory"