Arizona republican., 1896-11-19
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.

As'sO' Oos'
 The News of Day in Phoenix and
 Its Tributary Region Presented in
 NutshelI-Doings of People and
 Other Matters.
 The main street of Yuma is being paved.
 Phoenix will be lively socially this winter.
 Mexican oranges are on sale in Phoenix. ir
 How about the Phoenix midwinter carnival?
 Jerome will soon organize lodge of Odd Fellows.
 The limited train on the Santa Fe railroad will carry mail hereafter.
 The Arizona sky would take first premium at a heavenly county fair.
 Hasn't been wedding in Phoenix in long time and leap-year is rapidly waning.
 Globe, the copper camp, is growing rapidly and is one of the liveliest towns in the territory.
 Territorial Veterinary Surgeon Nor ton left last night for Arizola, where he has been called to investigate mat ters coming under his jurisdiction.
 The Ladies' Sewing Circle of the Woodmen lodge will meet at the resi- dence of Mrs. w. N. Tiffany on East Jefferson street this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 Rev. J. M. Weems, who succeeded Rev. MT. Harris as pastor of the M. B. church south, is holding series of revivals at the church. They are we'll attended.
 The United States grand jury met yesterday morning. The jury will only be in session a few days, as there is very little business to be brought before it.
 Santa Fe conductors say the trees are entirely bare of foliage twenty miles north of Albuquerque. The thermometer gradually falls as one goes north.
 Early Tuesday mornig burglar en- tered Merrill Bros store at Jerome His movements aroused neighboring lodger, who took shot at him and scared him off
 Randsburg, in the Mohave mining country, is attracting great attention just now, and fortune hunters are flocking there. It is expected to be a lively camp this winter.
 A musical and literary entertain ' chuch Friday night by the Ladies' Aid society. Refreshments will be served after the exercises are over.
 Thomas Simms, Lewis Haley, Peter Lyons and w. s. Brown were arraigned yesterday in the district court on charges of burglary and the trial of their cases was set for today.
 A. Buerke, president of the Harcuvar Copper company, is expected to arrive in the city today from St. Louis. It is understood that the company will soon resume operations on the mine.
 The territorial grand jury, having exhausted the volume of business brought before the body, yesterday de- voted it's energies to examining the records of the various county offices.
 The many Phoenix friends of Miss Grace Monroe, who formerly resided here, will be pleased to hear of that young lady's marriage to L. B. Gordon The event occurred at Nogales several days ago.
 The second annual session of the Ar izona Agricultural association will be inaugurated tomorrow, when well-pre- pared papers upon topics of interest to husbandmen and fruit growers will be read. The session continues two days. The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres byterian church are actively engaged in making preparations for the grand bazaar to be held next month for the purpose of raising funds to be devoted to the building of an addition to the church.
 In mood of anger a Mexican girl at Jerome who had quarreled with her lover, swallowed dose of carbolic acid, undertaker's size, and nearly crossed over into the kingdom of per petual night A muscular doctor and a stomach pump saved her.
 Thomas Gray, the jolly head clerk of the Commercial hotel, is considered a bureau of information by strangers arriving in the city. He is a well in- formed man on all topics and gives information with the cheerfulness that is one of his chief characteristics.
 The territorial grand jury yesterday brought in the final report of crimina matters investigated by the body. In