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

A LARGE consignment of lumber was re. ceived yesterday at the Chiricshua lumber yard.
 THE stage was several hours behind time last evening on account of delayed trains.
 JOB printing and book k-binding executed at this office with promptness and in the finest style.
 ON the 18th the Texas Con. M and s. Co. shipped one carload of bullion, valued at $3,274.
 WE learn that grading has been stopped on the branch leading from Contention up to Tombstone.
 THE case of Gillian, before Justice Spicer, was postponed from yesterday until thts morning at 10 o'clock.
 MEssRs. GEO. HEARST, J. H. Jackson and Geo. A. Berry, left yesterday on a trip to the new camp at Point of Mountains.
 ADDITIONAL machinery and improve. ments are being added to the Charleston ice works, which will treble their capacity.
 THE cross-examip pation of Prof. Blake by Col. Thornton, yesterday in court, was particularly spicy, and rendered the pro ceedings quite entertaining.
 PARTIES who have recently been on the summit of the Huachucas report from four to six feet of snow. and that the game has been all driven out by its depth
 IN the United States commissioners court-Jsdge Spicer-the aseof Territory vs. Rokohe & Brooks was on trial during yesterday, and continued until today
 FROM the Citizen we learn that Hon. Theo. L. Stiles has gone to Washington, D. C., in the interest of parties who lost property during the recent Indian out. break from San Carlos.
 IN the Philadelphia Press opinion, the one financial peril to this country to day is the "grcenback" This may be, but this peril is still received at the EpITApH office in payment of subscriptions.
 A NEW hotel, which is to be two stories high, is being erected in Charleston by New York parties. It IS thought the building will be ready for occupancy by the 1st of March.
 RUMoR hath it that members of the ten. percent ring are decidedly unhappy. In fact they are kicking like wild steers be- cause of their inability to control the pre-, sent council in the matter of a certain ap. p0intment.
 THE walls of the new building new in course of erection by l.. Zeckenderf, on Allen street, are fast approaching con- pletion, and ere long another handsome building will add to the business makeup of the city.
 PREPARATIONS are being made to open the Grand hotel in fine style by the incom ing management The hitherto unoccu. pied store in the west front is to be used as the dining.room. We would suggest tn at the name of the hotel be changed to the Grand Central.
 A. B. BLooMER, one of the jurymen in the case of the Contention M. Co. vs. the Head Center M. Co. appeared in the court yesterday in state of intoxicatlon, and was fined by the court in the sum of $1O0, and ordered to be confined in the county jail tor two days, and longer until said fine should be pald.
 FROM MT. L. W. Blinn, who has recently returned from El Paso. we learn that both in Deming and Fl Paso the business out. look is very promising. From thirty to forty carloads of lumber per month are being shipped into Fl Psso, most of which is taken by the Mexican Central railroad. Deming is constantly growing under the increasing improvement of the Lake Val ley, Eureka and Victoria districts-notably the tgo former.
 ONE of the great needs of Tombstone now is the construction of more good side walks. Prier to the letting of the contract for sprinkling the streets the earth imme. diately absorbed the rain, no matter how heavy the fall. We are now we'll ri1 of the dus, in the business portion of the city, and if our citizens would follow the con- course of MT. Brown they would enhance the value of their property and add to the comfort of pedestrians
 TIE tables at the New England ianch rooms were we'll filled on yesterday, prov ing that the many goodies served were much appreciated. If excellent eatables, in the way of all kinds of meats, tarts, pies and delicious coffee, together with Inc honor of being waited on by the ladies, is not incentive enough to attend the lunch rooms, then go because the object is highly commendabie one. Lunch today md tomorrow yet.
 FATAL cases of smallpox are reported rom all sections of the eastern states and dong the lines ot railroad communication to California on the northern md Fl Paso on the southern route. Tue 'on is taking measures to prevent any nroad of the pest, and while Tombstone ioes not run the same risk from its ap- ,roach as railroad town, steps should be aken by the council looking to the clean