The Arizona sentinel., 1885-08-08
PENCIL POINTS.

Where is John Haley?
 Flee from the wrath to comel . A voluntary, boorish, bobolink.
 Mrs. J. G. Post Is visiting in Tucson.
 Leuls Riel will hang on the 1stt proxino.
 The screws are being frightened on the Yuma bridge,
 Capt. Polhamus left for San Francisco last Monday.
 Mrs. E. Mulvehill Is visiting her parents in Los Angeles.
 Old Vulcan has been forging thunder bolts around Yuma lately.
 All labor is honest-yes singing whis- key Is honest-even for dead horse.
 John Costello is back from his trip to California. His health is not much better
 The Grant memorial services will con- mence today at II o'clock 4. H., at the Court House
 John Gandolfo returned last W-dnes- day night from his extended trip through California.
 Three prisoners, Carter, Morgan and Smith, were released from the peniteu- diary yesterday.
 Nearly all the business houses in Yuma are draped in mourning in honorof the late U. &. Grant.
 There is no blame attached to Sheriff Tyner for the escape of the prisoners lately from the county jail.
 In pursuance Of an order from the Postmaster-G the postofice in Yuma will be closed today from 1 to 5P-M.
 The highest temperature this summer reached in Prescott, was 10S degrees; in Phoenix. III degrees; Tucson, lO7, and ln Yuma, il2 degrees.
 La Fiesta de San Augustine begins at Tucson on the 27th instart. Bull fights and other cruel Mexican sports will be isdulged in as usual.
 We reiterate the Prescott "Courier's" words: "Let us encourage the men who are engaged in developing the mineral resources Of Arizona"
 To lay on square acre of land, meas ure two hundred and nine feet for each side of your square, and it will contain an acre within an inch.
 Heavy rains along the lme of the SoDo- rs railroad, in the vicinity Of Quocobabi, has caused further washout, and traffic Is sgaiu temporarily impeded.
 Hon. Thomas Fitch and wife, formerly of Tucson but latterly of California. have zone to Stka, Alaska, where they will make their permanent residence.
 According 10 reports brought by Wal ter Miller, his company are taking out betweea Sl6 and s2O per day, dry wash geld at the Gila Placer mines, near Gila City.
 The Board of Supervisors for this county. meet next Monday at 10 o'clock, 4. M., in regular session. The Board will also meet again the Monday follow ing, the l7th.
 The treasury shipments from this place during the month of August, as follows: Currency, $76OS; gold corr, $S,Ss2; gold bullion, q. .425: silver coin. Sll4; silver bullion, $l4,95O. Total s26,674.
 The members of Yuma Lodge, No. 2, A. O U. w., will attend in body :he memorial services to be held today at the Court-House at II o'clock A. M, in memory of the late U. s. Grant.
 Hon. J. W. Darlington, proprietor of this paper, is in San Francisco attending the memorial services of the late U. s. Grant. We are glad to hear that NIT. Dor Tington's health is much better.
 F. NJ. Murphy, Commissioner from this Territory to the New Orleans Expo- sitiou. advises letting the Territory's ex- hibit remain in New Orleans until after next fair, when it would be well, he thinks. to have it transferred to London.
 The Wallspai Tribune" published at Kingnan, Mohave county, says: "This county has now been without rain for over three months, and, if we do not soon receive come. stock will have arid graz ing. The grass is being fairly scorched by the hot winds that now pass over i:
 A white man was found dead near AdOnde. close to the railroad track last Saturday. The remains were buried by H.