Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-04-08
LOCAL NEWS.


 John F. Blandy of Prescott is ln the city.
 Rev. D. Githens will leave tonight fol New Mexico.
 The guests who arrived st the Sar Xavier hotel last night forgot to register Judge Marshall, and E. P. Drew the veteran stage man Of Casa Grsnde, were in the city today.
 Jesse N. Converse went to Yuma last flight on business connected with the Arizona Magazine.
 Mrs. M. J. Smith was fined sl0 by Sudpe Culver yesterday for using lm- proper language on the streets.
 fine stock of Hughes. Stevens Co. wyll be sold by the Assignee. Slae wlli commence next Tuesday, April i.
 A 'keep of the grass" sign has been placed in the court house yard. People, however, seem to think it refers to some other grass.
 Mrs. E. W. Boggs and Miss A. O'Melvany arrived from Los AngelHs Sunday morning and are guests ot Mrs. dV broWn.
 fOyipp to the more serious Illness ot her daughter Mrs. Grubb will not speak at the Methodist church on Thursday evening as has been announced.
 The sky was overcast with clouds yesterday and at about noon slight shower of rain fell, but not enough te |. be noticed.
 After today 30 per cent. will be added to the redemption fee of delinque Ut ia X sales. Yesterday tw0-thlrds Of the alphabet was gone through, s75 being realized.
 Miss de Yelling will lecture in the Methodist church next Thursday even ing on "Prison Reforms and the Parole Fstem" instead of Mrs. Grubb, as pre- v5ously announced.
 The Can Can restaurant building and the Palace hotel of Bisbee have been lately put in thorough repair inside and > out, by the enterprising owners Messrs. Norton & Johnson.
 The sssiguee'e sale of the stock of the late firm of Hughes, Stevens & Co. commenced today. Sam Hughes, the assignee, says that goods will be sold at the very lowest price just to close the matter up.
 The review of the delinquent tax sales Saturday showed that most of the de- stable properties have been sold. From A half way through the alphabet the sRles were only 75.
 SC. E. Denton, the watchmaker, has just received 8 fine chronometer, that is warranted not to vary one third of a second day.
 Mir. Gust Hoff of theTucson Grocer O., lost his little girl yesterday. It is re- ported that the child died of malignant diptheria. In consequence of the death the store WAS closed today.
 The engagement of W. 4. Phelps, formerly foreman in the CITIZEN office, but now of Lae, Mass, to Miss Cora D.. Starkweather Of the same place, IS an- nounced. The marriage is to sake place in May.
 T. The report of the weather bureau for
 6rch shows that there were IT cloud Hss days in last month and seven cloudy. The remaining seven are marked as "partly cloudy" The highest tempera- ture recorded was g degrees.
 The water from the new wells that are now supplying Tucson, has been analysed by Prof Colhngwood, of tfse university, and pronounced more desirable than the old wate. It ccL- tains a very5low percentage of soluble salt and no organic matter at all.
 Easter services at the cathol church were beautiful and elaborate. The in terior was decorated with flowers and plant4. The ceremonies were solemn and Ehpresive and the editice was much too anall for all who sought admission. A. A. Bulard, an old California watch maker will open a jeEelry store and watch repsiring shop at 2l3 Congress st., MT. Bulard has had great deal of ex- perience in h.s business and has made up his mind to make his homs ID Tue sen.
 Capt Johnson of the Mammoth mine arrived from New Jersey last night. His daughter, whose serious illness called him away from Tucson has So far re- covered health as to be able to be out of doors and walk without fatigue.
 Some villanous Eastern manufacturer, wno evidently has 8 grudge against Tucson has imported lot of toy bows aEd-srrows for the amusement or our rising generation. They maybe very good things in their way bat the arrows are mean things to dodge and have pecu- liar habit of getting into the windows. The man who made them should be brought out for the boys to practice on.
 MT B. W. Tichenor has beea appoint ed Referee by the U. $. District Court of the Southern District of Ohio in the celebrated Minas Prietas mining suit in- yolying the title of the mines of that name in Mexico. He left this morning for Hermosillo and ether places in So- nora to hear testImoney in the case, an array of counsel from Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, accompanies hlm.
 Yesterday morning MT. B. w Tichenor recIved from Washington the appnint- mAnt of Commissioner for the U. 5. Court of Claims throughout the United States. He takes this means or inform ing persons having business ln that coert of the appointment in order that they may communicate with him and arrange for making up their cases. We take this oportunity of adding that no better appointment could have been made for the couteous, exact and prompt discharge of the duties of the office in which many Arizonians are interested.
 'The First Miilennlal Faith," by the author of Mot on Calvary" Bound in blue and white cloth, with gold stamp ing. Price 50 cents. Saalfield x Fitch publishers, l2 Bible House, New York ciX. Much that is received as truth by religious people is out of joint with the earliest and best type of Christia- nifty. Human systems of theology have covered over and ooscured the truth. Ii IS refreshing, then, to take up such