Arizona republican., 1898-07-29
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 eraI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DoingS of People and Other Matters.

The appointment of Selim M. Flank. lin of Tucson as agent of record ot the Orc Mining company in southern Pima county was filed in the office of the secretary of the territory yesterday.
 Two divorce suits were filed in the office of the district clerk yestrday The first was by Victoria Para against Rosalia Parra. The other was Car men T. Escandon against Francisco Escandon. The ground in both cases is desertion.
 In the last batch of army orders the following paragraph appeared: Leave of absence for one month, on account of sickness, with permission to leave the United States, is granted Ma1oI Alexander O. Brodie, First regiment United States volunteer cavalry.
 There was a sight on the street yes- terday which somewhat alleviated the suffering entailed by the mercury at 11O and relieved the tedium of dull day. It was an Indian who had been made the recipient of an assortment of ready-to-throw-aw clothing. He was arrayed in 8 dilapidated silk hat, two coats and an overcoat and a pair or linen trousers. He was also barefoot
 Miss Hattie Cornelius will be re- membered as a curly haired prlma donna who added greatly to the gaiety of the Capitol saloon fer several months and was followed about by a train of admirers. According to dis patch from San Francisco where Miss Cornelius now is, she has lost none of her attractive force with the youth of that godly city. A few days ago young man was visiting her in her apartments in the third or fourth story. Instead of sitting by her on sofa or a tete-a-tete chair, he was Cc cupying a seat in a window. He was subsequently, picked up from the sidewalk with a broken leg.
 Postoffice officials are greatly an moved by people who do not know the difference between a revenue stamp and a postage stamp. The "1. R. printed on a postage stamp makes a good enough revenue stamp, but de- stroys it's usefulness for postal pur- poses. Yet every day letters are re ceived at the postoffice with these stamps attached. Rnother thing gives the postoff1ce people a great deal of trouble. There are fixed hours for closing the mails. The mail from the north is closed at 7:45 p. m. and the southern mail at 7:20. People rush to the office up to the hour of sending the mail bags to the trains. Of course the belated mail does not get into the bags.
 A letter was received in this city yesterday from Walter Gregory Of the Rough Riders'' It was written after the last battle before Santiago and in part described the proceedings of a shell carelessly dropped by the Span iards in that part of the battle line where the writer happened to be. He saw the shell hit the ground and he thought, but was not sure, that an ex plosion occurred He recovered cCn- sciousness some hours afterward and asked what had happened to the she1.. He was told that it had exploded, whereat MT. Gregory was glad, for it couldn't explode any more and shock peoples nerves. MT Gregory's joy over the complete destruction of the shell was mitigated by the informa- tion that it had shredded four of his comrades.
 A great many people in Phoenix are suffering from prickly heat and in many cases this irritating cause has been followed by serious blood dis eases. This usually results from dry ing up the prickly heat and the patient is attacked by more boils than he can count. There is only enc safe way of curing prickly heat quick. That is a bath in water as hot as one can stand A little sea salt may be added with good results. Powdered ta1cum also af- lords relief, but does not effect a cure It is also observed that large ma- jority of the victims of prickly heat are persons who habitually bathe in cold water upon the mistaken theory that they are cooling themselves off It is just as wise and very little more harmful than overlooking the system with Arctic drinks and frigid food.
 The new 'block" to which the wo- men of the town were driven when block Al was abolished. is said to be the toughest spot in Arizona. It has been in operation about a month. Within that time four men were shot at, one man was stabbed and there have bsen numerous robberies of uIuuheu ulou. It IS SdlQ that IL IS worth as much as mans life to go there. This statement is not made to raise discussion regarding the worth of the life of a man who would ire l quent that locality. The place is be- yond the jurisdiction of the police and it has happened that the county au- thorities have not been called upon to interfere. The last grand jury recom- mending reduction of immortality ad- vised the removal of the block and pledged the county to prevent the women from settling just outside the city limits. A representative of the | county offered the same pledge in a meeting of the city council So far nothing has been done by anybody. In