The weekly Arizona miner., 1884-07-18
SATURDAY.

Mrs. P. L. Hyde gave birth to l2- pound boy baby yesterday.
 The case of the Territory vs. Thos. Will son was given to the jury to-day.
 Mrs Jas Simpson and three soldiers left by stage for Ash Fork this morning.
 George Curry, our popular jeweler and optician, is overcrowded with work.
 The Democrats failed to epthuse last night. The grand old party" has lost its grip.
 A number of men who came in from Ash Fork to work on the new water works have returned.
 P. H. Trotter's condition remains practically unchanged. He feels very well and wants to get up.
 Hon. Clark Churchill left for Phenlx this morning on business connected with the Arizona Canal
 The dispatches in the Courier this morning run principally to Democrats and cholera-a hard combination.
 The scketch, by Jules Baumann, of Prescott and environs, displayed in the window of Dr. O. Lincoln, attracts much attention.
 Ft. Verde base ball club will be in Prescott about the 10th instant, to play a match game with the Whipple nine, and possibly with the Prescott nine
 Leave of absence for one month, on surgeons certificate of disability, has been granted first lieutenant H. F. Reed, first infantry, with permission to leave the limits of this command, and to apply to the proper authority for an extension of one month.
 County Treasurer E. J. Cook has re- ported to County School Superintendent . o. Moves the receipt of s2,7O5. 14 from Collector R. N. Fredericks, of the special school tax levy. Of this amount warrants have been paid amounting to S1,O11. 70 leaving balance to the credit of the diL-- trict of S693.44
 About two o'clock on Tuesday morning last, the bridge of the S. P R. R. Co. at Yuma crossing of the Colorado river, finally succumbed to the vast volumes of water passing through it's piers and partially gave way, destroying one pier and two spans of the bridge of about 16O feet. The steamer Gila plies the river almost hourly transfer ring passengers, baggage and freight. The same morning two more spans and one pie of the bridge were swept wholly away leaving nothing but an abutmenl on the California side and part of the draw bridge on the Yuma side, being length of 320 feet. The original cost of the bridge was $20O, 1000, and it was considered one of the best built bridges on our waters.
 A summer Sunday, bright, restful, un- changing, with religious calm seeming to pervade the very air and hush to repose the jar and hustle of business life,-sucb was yesterdays Sabbath. Such clear skies, such bright sunshine, such gentle breezes were calculated to Hull the reatless and tame for time the energy of the most indefati- gable. The streets were bright with sum mer costumes, and while the bells poured out their slow religious mnsic on the air the portals of the ecclesiastical edi6ces re cei7ed an unceasing train of degotees. Quite number of equipages whirled through the shade and sunshine out upon the open roads that stretched off bare and glaring to the Point of Rocks. Everybody seemed happy and contented.
 The patent dioptric eye meter recently imported by Geo. H. Curry for taking the different refractions of the eye, and adapting lenses to suit is very correct and beautiful in its manipulation Go and have your eyes tested and obtain true Tense, thereby saving that most precious of mans gifts-the eye sight. Read the advertisement in to-days paper.
 County Treasurer E. J. Cook reports s2, ,553. 63 in the county school fund for the quarter ending June 3Oth. The amount will be apportioned by Superintendent A. O. Moves among the several districts of the county on Monday. No report has been received of the Territorial school fund.