Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-09-29
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c. H. AllAbach, chief printer left this morning for Groom creek to look after some mining property in that locality, which he has been working more or less during the past five years and which he says is making . remarkably good show ing.
 Contractors are delivering hay at the rate of from eight to ten loads per day and the principal portion. judging from the appearance is Al.
 That Miss Georgie McClintock's un- dertaking of teaching the rising young Americans of Whipple how to shoot at so much per shoot, is complete success is amply corroborated by the increased number of her scholars.
 Dame Rumor has it that one of Whip ple's most prominent young men is about 10 shake the dust of single bless edness" from his pedal extremities and slip his head into the matrimonial moose" for better or for worse. Go it, old boy, bu. don't forget to "set em up" all round, after the ceremony.
 Henry Ofdencamp, military telegraph line repairman, returned from Camp Verde Saturday evening, where he has been acting operator for the past three w eks, during the temporary absence of the regular operator, Mir. Day. MT. Offdencamp reports business quite brisk around Verde for this season of the year Troop I, 10th cavalry, is expected in that post every day, also that Troop NJ. 10th cavalry,is under orders for whipple.
 We have heard quite a number of per sons here express themselves :o the effect that they would like to know how much the Courier paid their stenograph- CT for the reports of the two political con ventions. We believe in giving the Devil his due, in all things. and on the sams basis we give the Courier credit for certain amount of journalistic enterprise (provided they paid fair remuneration for the work) but to be continually rel terating the fact that We published the full proceedings of the two political conventions" (and it has did it no fewer than six times since the meeting of the two bodies) has a grating ofect on the nerves of the reading public in general
 The choir meeting, at the post chapel last Thursday was very ably assisted by Mrs. J. c. Martin and Mrs. F. w. Blake of Prescott. It Is intended to keep up these meetings every Thursday evening, for an indefinite period and cordial in- vitation Is extended to the local vocalists of Prescott to attend and assist in the good work.
 Were it not for our modesty (and we are blessed with an unusual quantity of that commodity and fear of transgress- ing on your valuable space we would send you soIae verses taken from the American Encyclopedia of Printing, illustrating how easily it is to make typo graphical errors in printing. That there are numerous errors and "bulls" occurring in all daily papers we do not deny, but to hear outsiders. wbo know nothing about the business undertake to criticise this or that paper because of some error going through it's columns is certainly mortifying to those who under stand the intricacies of the trade.
 Some day JIM, when you are short of "copy" we will send you the poem re- ferred to, to which you can write a salu- tatory and as it carries its own valedic- tory it may possibly have the effect of convincing some of the would-be news paper critics of this community that the majority of typographical errors are very readily accounted for. QUAD.