Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-30
PLEASANT PARTY,

sixty-first birthday and that although
 his religious light was dim, took time
 by the forelock and visited him Satur
 day evening, in order not to disturb
 his Sabbath reveries. They found hin
 at home, shut up in meaSureless con
 tent. His son, Eugene, had just put
 an additional stick in the stove anc
 his daughter-in-law was regaling hi,
 ears with melody from the piano, when
 no uncertain sound from the band
 rattled the window panes, which
 startled the old gentleman from his
 reveries of the unsigned for past and
 caused his religious bent of mind, for
 the moment, to take the left hand
 road.
 In marched the crowd, and as luck
 would have it the Doctor stumbled to
 the racket" and bade his friends a
 hearty welcome, when almost in a
 twinkling of an eye everything was
 arranged to make a night of it, and
 not only night of it, for the hours
 were permitted to unnoticedly glide
 until morning, and still joy was un- confined" The climax was reached
 by the Doctor and Judge J. A. Ander- son, of Los Angeles, dancing a dance, without a name, unless it was a med ley. During the evening, progressive euchre was introduced and Charles A. Fisk and Charles T. Cornell ezcelled as being the poorest players and con- sequently each was awarded a leather medal bearing suitable inscriptions They said they were happy in thus being honored, but blind man could see It was not that klnd of happiness that makes the heart glad. William Ransom and J. I. Coffin were next to receive: they stood in TOW, by them selves, with their blushing honors thick upon them, and happy in their conscious rectitude that honor had taken so deep root in them that they won on the square, and did not find it necessary to deal from the bottom or play a commanding card twice, in or der to be acknowledged victors, and correspondingly rewarded. Next in order was the concord ofsweet sounds; Professor Aeschlimann on the violin, Dr. Trippel on the flute and Dr. Cook at the plano, such a soul of music shed as to awaken the vocal spark in Hal McNelly and Harley Hitchcock, who were exceedingly happy in their se- lections and execution of the several pieces. The band also discoursed most excellent music which lingeringly wandered among the surrounding hills as 10th to die.
 It was now midnight and the hun gry edge of appetite was provided with something more substantial than music. A supper had been prepared and in such profusion and such variety of dishes as to suggest the danger of a surfeit. Under the mellowing inau- ence of the wine no one thought of home or the probable reception from wives, who had tired of watching for husbands coming, until a foreign born rooster, in broken English, admonished the hilarious assembly that morning was dappling the east.
 Mrs. Eugene Trippel, Mrs. J. c. Ogden, Col. George E. White, A. L. Walker, J. II. Canavan, Ed. Lynes and J. c. Ogden are suspected of being the arch-conspiratorS who surprised the Doctor and took his house by storm, and now they ask who did it? and in sinuate that the gentlemen composing the brass band are the guilty ones.
 The POst-oGice Department has call ed upon ex-Postmaster W. E. Spence to pay $42769, which the Auditor says stands to his debit on the books of the Bookkeeping, as an art, has not attained the highest perfec- ton in the postal Department in Washington. It is evidently a slip shod affair and has not profted by civil service reform, as it was expected it would do when the law regulating the requirements of government ac- countants took effect. MT. Spence makes a contra statement and refers the Auditor to acknowledgements of money and stock received from him by the Post Office Department, and gives the date of their receipt and partic- ularizes in what branch of the depart ment the postal Numan Noggs may find them without the necessity Of ob- taining a search warrant to assist him in running the vouchers to their holes. The account stands as follows: Total indebtedness of Spence to government, S1,O19.50; credit due Spence, S993.51; due by Spence, S25.99, which has been remitted, and now the account stands thus 0,OO0.00.