The Arizona champion., 1885-08-29
LOCAL MATTERS.

They are troublesome.
 School opens Monday.
 Court buslnessylively, as usual.
 More agreeable weather could not be desired.
 Read our interesting correspon- dence column.
 The kids will have to toe the mark under Van Horn.
 Mir. Clarkson and wife left Sunday for San Francisco.
 Go to Sanderson's for school books, stationery, and periodicals.
 Lawyer Norris made flying trip to Peach Springs this week.
 Wm. Garland, the well known cat tie man, was in town Tuesday.
 MT. A. E. Fay, ye editor, has been absent this week at Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
 Col. Eggers, prominent lawyer of Prescott, is in town and will re- main till tomorrow.
 Mrs. Howard Perkins, nee Miss Carrie Brothers, is visiting her people in Flagstaff this week.
 Dr. D. J. Brannen will be appoint ed administrator on the estate of P. B. Brannen, deceased.
 Quite a number of ladies and gen. tltmen from Albuquerque have been visiting our town this week.
 Mir. James Percy will soon return to Wilcox. His wife and little son, Steve, will remain another month.
 The Albuquerque Sunday Journal reports the death of Sister Mary Jose phine, mother superior of the Catholic order, at that place.
 MT. Wm. Black and Miss Mary Black came in from the ranch or Tuesday and attended the uecktie party in the evening.
 Mir. Stephen O'Neill, Of Dry Lake, brother of our ''James," has been whispering to his many friends in Flagstaff this week.
 THE ELpREpGE B. SEWING MA- cHINE.-For sale or rent at F. w. Middleton's. This machine ranks among the best in the market.
 To RENT OR FOR SALE.-Eldredge B. sewing machines, the best for dura- bility and good work, ever offered in this market. Inquire at the hardware store of +. W. Middleton.
 The Newell brothers returned from Prescott the first of the week, where they had been attending court. They feel highly elated over the decision of the case in which they were in- volved.
 Mir. Joseph Brannen and sister ar- rived in Flagstaff Tuesday evening in company with their brother, Peter j. Brannen, who met them at Albuquer- que. They will be welcomed in Flag staff, where they intend to make their future home. They come from Cana da.
 Sanderson has just received a large supply of fruits fresh from California, including apples, peaches, and pears, which are beauties to look upon and just delicious to taste. Sanderson all so gets all the latest publications, in cluding the leading newspapers of the country.
 Messrs. Burge and Whittock, who were "viewing" the Grand Canon and who visited the Moqui Indians at the time of their great "snake dance," returned to Flagstaff on Sunday last. Our next issue will contain commu- nica,ion written by MT. Burge, Tn which he gives splendid description of the Moqui snake dance.
 We cannot refrain from expressing words of praise and encouragement for our young and wide-awake lawyer, MT. H. J. Miller, whose ambition and advancement we have watched with great interest from time to time, and we are pleased to note his increas- ing popularity in our county and his recognition as an able and rising au- taority in his profession.
 of body meet a body coming thro' the rye, if body kiss body" --and is heard between three board partitions and sounds like a mule pulling his hoof out of the mud, why well, such things have been known 10 frighten the tea leads off of school