Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-10
MONDAYS Daily. April 8.
City council meets tonight.

MONDAYS Daily, April 8.
 City council meets tonight
 The work of fencing in the race track has been commenced.
 About thirty passengers from the east passed south last evening on the $. F., P. & F. road.
 Passengers on the s F., P. &P. road are supplied with good meals, by Mrs. Smith, in Skull valley.
 The weather has assumed its normal condition again and is as nearly perfect as it could be desired.
 The city council is advertising for proposals for the erection ol a building for the Prescott fire depart ment.
 A special tIaia oI twelve car loads of fat cattle, en route to Denver, passed north Saturday evening from Phenix.
 A. J. Head is excavating for the foundation of a new building on CoTtes street to be used as a furui- turs and secohd hand store. It will be 50xlO0 feet.
 The engineer corps of the Duran 20, Flagstad and San Diego railroad left Jerome this morning to survey the line of road between Flagstaf and Jerome. The total cost of the road is estimated at S7,000000.
 P.J. Mccormick recently shipped ninety head of horses aud mules from Pheuix, over the s. F., P. X P. and A. < r. roads, to Los Angeles, where he has them at work grading streets.
 The opening of the s. F., F. & P. road has opsned up a splendid market for Salt river valley beef cattle. One Denver firm recently purchased l.400 head for shipment. The demand has been SO active of late. that buyers 6nd difficulty already in securing choice cattle.
 The initial number of The Cactus, a neat little paper published at the University of New Mexico, at Albu- querque, has been received at this office. A Yavapai county young man, loyd ]. Gibbons, son of Mr.. J. K. Liston, of the Old Reliable mining camp, is the editor in chief If the paper, which is really creditable little sheet.
 A talk with the author of a rriiby. Mir. Georg4 Du Maurier, wherein with the same frank kindliness and goodssllow-ship that have made "Trilby" the most popular noyel of the period, be tells the story of his adventurous life, and how be became an artist and, later, Q novelist, and how he draws and how he writes, appears with portraits and other pictures, in McClure's Magazine for April.
 During this, Holy Week, there are services in the Church of the Ad- vent as follows: Every morning except Thursday and Friday at 9 o'clock; Thursday, the day of the of the last supper by Jesus Christ, Holy Euchanst ct 7:S0 | 6. m.; Good Friday, the day of the Cruci6xion, morning services and sermon at II o'clock; evensong and 1 reading every afternoon during the l week at 4 o'clock. Everybody is invited to attend these services, and l that the events of this week are so important that they are the subject of nearly two -tirths of | the Holy Gospels. It is for this reason that the Catholic Church, l whether Greek, Roman or Anglican (in America Episcopalian) empha. sizes it with repeated and solemn services, and as the b idle of Christ. | calls to her children, "Is it nothing unto you all ye that pass by; beholl ,, l and see, if there be any SorrowS like | unto my sorrow" The offerings ou Good Friday will be given to the | to the Jews.
 PERSONAL MENTION.
 Geo. W. Sines is in town from his i Cherry Creek mine.
 Hon. G. W. Hull came in from | Jerome this morning.
 G. G. Henderson, the Lynx Greek | was in town today.
 Frank Earle representing the Fl | Paso smeiting works is in town.
 W. E. Hazeltine was a passenger on this mornings south bound train.
 Mrs. J. H. Dickson came in on this mornings train from Skull Valley.
 John B. Power, representing the Chrome Steel Works, of Brooklyn, New York, left for the south Satur- day evening.
 Mrs. T. J. Corrigan and her two children came in this morning from Phenix, where they have been visit ing for month.
 Hon. E. L. Gobin was in town to- day from the Crowned King, and a hearty welcome from his numerous friends here.
 Barry Goldwater has returned l from his trip east, where he pur- chased a large stock of spring and summer goods for his firm.
 H. o. Wasmann of the Standard Oil company is visiting Prescott after the company's busi- neas heFa-