The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-23
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PosT-oFFICE HOURS.
 Mails east and west: Open at a. land Close al
 7p. m.
 Mail for Colorado River. Opens at 5:3o D. n and
 closes at 5:3o a. m. of days upon which stages
 arrive and depart.
 SATURDAY, JAN. g, 1886.
 TOWN AND COUNTY.
 Keep your boys out of the saloons.
 Babbetts metal for sale at this office.
 Things look lively about the railroad the past few days.
 The mail for Clip was ferried over the Gila yesterday.
 Read the proceedings of the Board of Prison Commissioners.
 The Gold Rock miners now come to town on railroad velocipede.
 Mails are now coming from the west, but not from north of Los Angeles.
 A great many strangers in town the past week broke tho usual monotony.
 Both rivers are on the rise and the pros. poets of another flood are encouraging.
 The pen may be mightier than the sword, but with the average editor the scissors are way ahead
 Sheriff Tyner says that handcuffs were made for two wrists. We think that the Sheriff is Yuma rist.
 One of our local doctor thinks that the only way to prevent the Indians from break ing out is to Yaccinate them.
 Dog buttons are being successfully utiliz- cd in Yuma and several dogs have been car ried of on a shutter recently.
 The coyotes have been making a lunch counter of Capt. Ingalls, chicken coop, and devoured several Plymouth Rocks.
 The washouts are delaying the mail and express again, and causing immense losses to the Southern Pacific Company.
 A correspondent of an English paper call ed 'The Editor" stopped few days in Yuma this week and was much pleased with her advantages.
 A clerk in A. Franks store made the as- tosnding discovery Wednesday that water was intoxicating, and to prove the assertion he showed us several barrels that were wat CT tight. There is a bob-tail cat at John Gandolfo's store, and that is what makes his clerks so proud. Those who have had bob-tail flush es are also proud-and poor, yet the two are no relation. It it is claimed by the Phenix papers that l there are l5O, 900 hogs in the Salt River val ley. We don't wonder that they wanted the lnIane Asylum and all the other terri toriai institutions Prescott is second on the list. We have for sale an entire newspaper of- | fce, including everything necessary to run an ll-at-home paper. Also as extra Wash | ington hand press, either six or eight col umn. All material in fair condition. For | terms and particulars address to this office. | Some time since we publish an item that 1 two crops of babies could be picked a year Yuma, and gentleman contemplating settling here, passed on, on this account, We will inform the gentleman that he need not be alarmed on this account as this fertil- ity applies to ladies only,
 An excursion train passed west yesterday evening, from Chicago. The train stopped here about two hours, taking supper at the Southern Pacific Hotel, and monkeying with the classical Yuma Indian much to the amuse- ment of the Indians, who had never before seen sample of Chicago cheek.
 The first annual ball of the A. o. U, ". was given at the court house on Thursday night last and was the most enjoyable event of the winter. The attendance was very large, and dancing was kept pp until a late hour to most excellent music. The ban quet which was served about two o'clock a. m., by Hoo Boxin, was most elegant in every particular and hugely enjoyed. The A. o. U. W. have prov en themselves competent entertainers whose object seems to be s'brotherly love and good fellowship to all men,"