The Arizona sentinel., 1885-02-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.
There are 5000 unemployed men in Buffalo, N. Y.

The Miner says that the mem- bers of both Houses are overload ed with Legislative duties at pre- sent, which would require at least an extra session of sixty days to dispose of them in satisfactory naanuer.
 Archeologists will be interested to learn of the discovery of a cu- rious stone pavement beneath the stratum Of mud at Stockton, Cali fornia. It is supposed to be the work of Aztecs and to mark the site of well>built city of days long gone by.
 Governor Tritle has been elec- ted member for Arizona of the Executive Committee of the Ma tional Bi-metalic Association. The Territory is entitled 10 two members, and the Legislature is now speculating as to who shall be the second appointee.
 Governor TritIe and his legal advisers have established an inn portant precedent for future &C., tion, to wit: That the territorial superintendent af public instruc- tion is not an elective office, but an appointive one by and with the consent of the legislative council. il.-Star.
 Texas is proving a discOuraging field for the Mormon. Elders have, of late, been canvassing the State for proseIytes, but the recep- tion accorded to them by the citI- ZeDs was of such personal nature that the bigamists felt constrain- ed to pack up their valises and fade away.
 The Miner says that the pro- position of changing the time of holding the Territorial legislative sessions from winter to summer, IS being seriously discussed by the members of the Legislature. The superb summer climate of Prescott would be a strong in- ducement to attract many who do not care to experience the hard. ships of the trip in winter.
 The "Tucson Daily star," a Democratic paper, says of Gov. Tritle: The fact that the legislature refused to sustain the resolution asking President Cle- veland to re-appoint Governor Tritle is no evidence that our pre-. sent governor is not by far the abIest and most satisfactory that Arizona has had since it's organi- zation, but when his time expires the Star wants to see good De- mocrat appointed.
 The first good act towards the suppression of polygamy in Utah is the precedent established by 8 recent decision of the United Sta tes Court in affirming the actions of the courts of Utah in sentenc- ing Rodger Clawson to pay fine of $500, and to an imprisonment of four years for the crime of poly gamy. This decision will be likely to check the increase oi polygamous marriages.
 A SIGH FOR THE FRONTIER OF OLD.-An old-timer once said tO me: "I've about decided, Bill, that the west is matter of his. tory. When we cooked our grut over a sagebrush fire we could get fat and hunt Indians, but now we fill our digesters with the cold pizen and pewter of the can- ned beech; we go to big tavern and stick a towel under our chin and eat pie with fork, and heat up our carkisses with anticrist coal, and what do we amount to: Nothin'! used to chase Indians all day, and eat raw salt pork al night, bekuz I dassent build a fire, and I still felt better than do now with a wad of tin-can sol der in my weather>beaten breast. ''No, we don't have the fun we used to. We have more sWarees and sciatica and one blooming thing and another of that kind, but we don't get one short of pure