The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-31
TAoNA, TALK.
Interesting News Gathered by Scraps
 at this Thriving Settlement.

'
 Quail shooting is becoming popular ev ening sport in this vicinity.
 Rabbits in the hash, and ood-pecke
 soup adorn the daily festive board. There are wagon loads of watermelons be
 ing destroyed by stock, and going to waste
 where MT. Fryer planted this spring.
 The Gila has bold, strong, warm stream
 at Antelope mountain, and the ca.nel-bacE
 fish are searching for the shady side anG
 deep holes along the rocky banks.
 Those refreshing southern breezes from
 the Gulf of California ale like invisible visits
 from some heavenly abode, that freshen the
 dropping spirit and vitalize the gait of man
 and beast into lively activity.
 There is newly married couple stopping
 at the Mohawk section honse where there is no more favorable spot on the globe to con-
 template the majesty of the mountains, the limits of space, the distant streams of life, and the eternity of the sands, where the gentle zepher flicker, in beams that never de and warmth that never chills
 The weather is pretty warm now but the work on the canal goes steadily on, the con- structors of which are to be compared to the miner who, not wishing to be disturbed from work to answer any foolish questions as to what he was doing, placed placard on his back which read ''Oil, Hell or China.
 Some enterprising man, who has the means, can make arrangements to furnish the money necessary to plant one hundred acres in raisin grapes for portion of the proceeds of the crop for number of years, land ready fenced and cleaned and water ready to be turned in at any time. Here is an opportunity for heavy return from a small investment, and give start to an in- dustry that is the salvation for Southern Arizona.
 Speaking of cheap fencing, there is Mex ican at Antelope who fences the rabbits out of his melon patch by stretching a cotton string around the ground, about 10 inches from the surface, which is claimed will scare rabbits away if they approach at a walk, vouchsafed for. A similar process has been known to keep hawks away from the poul- try, only the string was or ten feet above the ground instead. In this case the hawk must not approach at walk, as it would great y interfere with the success of the theory, besides being an unfair, ungenerous move on the part of the talon tribe.
 On the theory that any body can make a newspaper, inexperienced capitalists every year are entering the lists, and it is simple statistics that there is an average of ten dead newspapers every day of the year The average of newspaper life is i've years. Most of them die of cholera infantum. It is high time it were understood that the most successful way of sinking fortune and keep ing it sunk is to start newspaper. Almost every intelligent man during his life is smit ten with the newspaper mania; start news paper or have stock in one he must, or die. But let me tell you, oh, man, that if you have an idea, on any moral, sociel, renslous, or political subject, you had better charge on the world through the columns already established Do not take the idea so preva- lent that when man can do nothing else he can edit newspaper. To man and propel newspaper requires more realities than any other business on earth. If you feel called to start a newspaper, take it for granted you are threatened with softening of the brain -Talmage.
 The unprecedented movement of through freight over the Southern Pacific railroad gives evidence of more active condition of | commercial affairs and indicates general | revival ofall kinds of trade and industry | through the country. The freight activity Is, necessarily, in response to a demand, 1 which must be closely followed by further production, and when the spindle and fur mace blast are put in motion, and the hun- dreds of auxiliary industries are breathing with renewed live, then the country will prosper, and its people grow happy and con- tented, We hail this prospective prosper ity as the beginning of a long era of peace and plenty Citisen.
 D. Balsz is one among our few orchardists, that has a large yield of peaches, and his crop exceeds any previous year. Some of his peaches are as large as an ordinary Les Angeles orange, and the flavor is exquisite. He is now shipping to the railroad alone about P boxes of fruit day.-Phenix Ga zette
 For the office of Sheriff we have heard the ollowing gentlemen mentioned: A. Tyner, ;. V. Meeden, Jos. Godfrey, M. c. Nu- yent, O. F. Townsend, Will Smith, Walter Miller, and William Werninger. You pay 'our money and take your choice.
 It IS said that the scalp of the In lian killed last week near Clifton, has 'een sent by express to Mrs. Cleve- and.-Tucson Star.
 Phenix has park where public 'musements occur nightly. i Tom Kelly, miner, died of thirst n Mohave-co last week.
 A Wise Reform.
 The habit of administering quinine in owerful doses, as an antidote to malarial