Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-07-26
SMALL TALK.


 there. The east bound train got in at l:30 and the west bound train arrived at 433O this afternoon.
 The bridge at Yuma will be repaired ready for through travel dming the first week in August.
 Mrs. Mark Ezekiels and daughter have gone to Nogales and Magdalena Oh q pleasure trip.
 There is a mocking bird in this city that sIngs ''Grandfather's Clock" with ont missing a note.
 Colonel w. 4. Saylor. Collector of Customs for this district is reported to be dangerously i'll at Fl Paso.
 There will be meeting of the Select Knights this evening. for regular work and work in the select minor degree.
 Four opium fiends were arrested by chief Johnson last night, and paid n fine of Sl0 each to-day to Judge Meyer.
 G. J. Harris has resigned the position of customs officer at La Noris, and Geo. B. Shephsrd has been appointed to sue ceed bim.
 The board of equalization were in ses- sIon until II o'clock last night and all day today They will also hold ses- sion tonight.
 The passengers by the east bound train to-day looked as though they had passed through a sard storm. The dust was certainly thicker than their cloth ing.
 IL is about time that the San Fran cisco Examiner should have such aD editorial paragraph ss this: Cleveland is all wool and yard wide and wouldn't tariff he could
 II. E Strauss, charged with selling liquor by wholesale without a license, was acquitted upon h.s trial before Commissioner Gregg yesterday.
 Daring the thunder shower few nights ago the electrlcity ran along the telephone wire into the store of l.. Zeckendorf X Co. and burned out the telephone. It was replaced by new instrument yesterday.
 The Fl Paso Lone Star is offered for sale, one-half the price to be paid Tn cash and one-half the day after the ln- auguration of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States. This IS a neat way of selling out at half price. Alex. Marshall was seized with fit while m bathing at Silver Lake yester- day, and came very near drowning. He was rescued by a railroad man and after | a vigUrous application of the usual res :oratlves he returned to consciousness. The days may come and the days may go. and life's brief span be run; but Tn summer days there are many ways to escape the heat of the sun. Many pee pie know just where to goa pleasant, cool retreat-and all them thmk that the pest to drink can only be found at the Elite.
 In view of the nehr approach of the election for school trustees, and the i'm portance of the selection ot the pest men for such position, i5 has been suggested that the citizens and taxpayers of school district No. l, should hold a publIc mass meeting and express their preferences for candidates.
 So many people stop to look at the ! Golden cons in the snow window of ". A. Scott's office, that it suggested to that gentleman bit humor, and he has written upon sheet of paper to which is attached a Mexican S2O goli piece, the sign: For feeling II once, 2sc. or three feels for 50c." X bit ot sarcasm on the hard times.
 The police court this morning was occupied only by fou- drunks, one of . whom was allowed to go hls way re- 1 ioicing. as he had long road to travel | tO reach Muhaye county. One other paid the necessary five dollars, the amount of damages assessed for the wounds to the law, and the two others were laid away in the city jug for five days recuperation.
 Tom Porter, an old saloon man Of ! Tucson and one of inc best men ever ] behind liquor bar in the Territory, IS now in this city. He has inst returned 1 from tue C0ur i'Alene mines where instead Of making q raise he was out of pocket. He wants no more Of the north ern country ID his, and thinks Phenix Is the test town in tae Ierritory.-Pheniz Gazette
 Some Of the enterprisIng boys nave developed a new industry. The electric light seems 10 attract a grea: many grasshoppers during the night, aud early in the morning they are in a half par a,yzcd condition. The boys gather them mp in quite large quantities and sell them to owners Of birds. One boy made SljJ yesterday, m this manner and the birds thanked him in more vigorous songs.
 Joe Sresovich has returned from Crit tenden. where he visited the orchards on Richardson's ranch. He reports U fire lot of fruits growing, among them a loi of Bartlett pears which are almo-t breaking the limbs of the trees with their weight. and many late varieties of apples. These Mir. Sresovich will pnr- chase and ship to Tucson by the ear load when they are ripe.
 The Benson Herald says: Judge Mundell returned from Tucson on Mon day, whit her he had been to experiment with some gold ore from his Nigger Ben mine by the Cannon Ball mill proce. & The result was eminently satisfactory, and the Judge IS enthusiastic in his cOmmendstion of the new fangled ma chine and insists that its work IS done m superior manner. One of these mills has been purchasel by mIne own CTS on the lower San Pedro and it will shortly be put m place.
 l.. G. Radulovich, who, in the absence of \. V. Grossetra has charge of the latter store near the depot, while sleep ing in the open air ,n the rear of the store. was suddenly awakened a few mornings since by a singing sensation around his neck. He found a red and burning wound across the left slde of hi- neck, and was told that it was the poisonous track of a csrtipsde. He applied ammonia copiously, aud had the satisfaction of a complete recovery after