Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-03-31
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY:

FROM TUESDAYS DAILY: E.C. Payne ana wiie returned from their eastern visit last evening, A. E. Baird. the champion musical in- strument salesman, returned last night from . trip to the Verde. C, :. Hutchinson and wife ere due m lre,cots this evening. W. .. Flint came iu from Jersey Guich
 today. He reports an abundance of snow and water s,ill in the Gulch. The Chinese are good patrons If ali games of chance. Astronomers promise us two brilliant comets in May. The Grsys wIll play baseball l. morrow afternoon in East Prescott. Overland passenger rates are being ad- vAnced tn San Francisco. The Gray. will give . calico hop on their anniversary, the 9th of May. Wells H. Bates. one of the owners of the Marcus mine, is in PhenIx. Services will be held iD all the churches, except the Bsptist tomorrow, Prof. Thomas is giving instruction in music to . large number of pupils. Sheriff MuIvenon will leave for the Verde nlley on official business tomorrow.
 There are seven games in operation in Prescott according 10 the books of ti e Ii. cense collector. Tickets for the sheet and pillow case
 party are out and can be procured from the
 invitation committee.
 There will be preaching services Tn the
 Congregational Church tomorrow at 10 30
 .. m., and z: 80 p m. Rev. c. B, Summer,
 of Las Vegas, N. M., will occupy the pull
 pi,. The public is cordially invited
 The Tucson Star has failed to illumiue
 our sauctum for over week. Whst is the
 matter Bro. Hughesl
 Master Robbie Burmister has an amateur
 printing outfit, and is becoming quite an
 expert ID the art preservalve.
 Probate Judge J. J. Hawkins ih,s morn- ing issued letters of guardianship to Mary
 Bowen of the person and estate of Reese N.
 Ling, . minor.
 Judge Fitzgerald, associate justice of this territory, at present under suspension by order of Grover Cleveland, has lucrative lav practice in Los Angeles, Cal. Judge sumnsr Howard and family and A. E. Foo,e ard wife will leave shortly for . visi, to tbe east. They expect to return to ,he territory again about the firs' or June.
 A Phenix man says the proper name for Tempe is 1ame-pea; it having received its name from the. discovery of s specimen of
 this vegetable bv Jack Swiling, who gave it lts name.
 Chinese cooks in Prescott are receiving e.5 per month and board, while Cninese house servants refuss 70 do any family washing while receiving salary of 44O per month and board. This help would all be replaced with white labor if good rslia- ble and sober help could be obtained. Work E progressing nicely on the insane a.ylum. Mir. Abernethy carrying on the brick laying in the place of the sub-eon- | tractors who failed. The main buildir g las reached the second story windows and is now lev.l with the west wing. The exterior of the east wing is about completed, win dows being in and the structure needing but the roofing, on which timers ere now work ng.-Gszst,e.
 It may sound little "loudr 10 the peo- pie of ,he north who are just beginning to think of thswing out fer the season, 10 learn
 that new barley h.y IS being haxked about
 the streets of Tucson by Mexican ranch' men, the stalks of which are from three to five feet long, and are fully headed. Some | of the barley Ii Id. are now changing to the golden hue that precedes the harvest. And ye, it is only . h,tle past tbe middle of March !-CitizeD.