The Clifton clarion., 1885-07-15
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

mates that Qe DaS COHFeTteu 10000 souls since the beginning of his evangelistlc career.
 In the opinion of Commissioner Atkins, it is not a serious matter if the Indians retaliate for the broken pledges of the govern ment by killing a few score of exposed settlers on the frontier.
 From it's ranks as third in the list the United States has leaped to the position of the greatest cop per producing country in the world, Chili in its palmiest days not coming near the record of our own country in 1883 or 1884.
 J. D. Fish, late president of the Marine bank in the City of New York, now looks through the bars of the Auburn penitentiary, and wonders. "Why is this thusly?" For ten years he will remain in durance vile unless executive clemency is successfully invoked in bis behalf.
 The Bullion complains and says that we have not responded, for the CLARION fails to reach Socorro. We plead that the fault is with the mailing clerk, but from this time forth there shall be no cause for complaint, for the Bullion is numbered with our most valued New Mexico exchanges.
 The Phoenix Gazette says: Crook will get the Chiricahuas this time, his last campaign into the Sierra Madres affording expe- rience that will aid him essentially. The General is a good Indian fighter, and we will not lose faith in him until the result of his pres ent campaign is announced"
 ASan Francisco jury f12 linen" has acquitted Mir. Claus Spreckles of all blame for having failed to kill NJ. H. De Young, of the Chron- icle. Had he murdered De Young the jury would, no doubt, have passed congratulatory resolutions. Well may the law abiding people of San Francisco ask the question, When will the Cincinnati riots be repeated in thelr city7
 For a town so blessed with churches and ministers, Prescott can boast of possessing more Bible backed" psalm singing, sanctimonious, hypocritlcal and lying slanderers and villifers than any town of the same size in the world. An intimate ac- quaintance with the majority of Prescott's "unco gude" will con- vince any respectable man that if God Almighty has ever bothered himself by preparing mansions in the skies for such canting cattle, he has wasted much valuable time. 
 It isn't true that Frank Pixley's mother was Washington Market 6shwoman; but it is true that Franks father was a Chinaman, who was traded to the Chiricahuas, many years ago, did the cooking in Geronimo's fathers family, became victim of the green-eyed monster and would have been tor tured to death had not Frank lied the old man out of the difficulty. This, with the fact that Gen. O. O. Howard educated young Pixley, or Ape-ixley, as his brother Geron- imo, used to call him, accounts for the tiswin and mescal in the great Argonaut's essays on his red brethren.
 An Albany special says: Rev. Cuclarini delivered an address in the Italian language before the St. Georges society this evening in reply to an attack made upon the Catholic orders in Miss Cleve- lands book. After reviewing the good work done for years by nuns, he said in conclusion, 'Nol., after so many centuries, in Washington, United States of America, an in- woman gives to the world a book to show that the Catholic religious orders are use less and unnecessary for the good of mankind. We forgive her and pray God to enlighten her and all others who live in her shadow"
 Since the close of the war, throughout all the long years during which the Republicans had control Of the government, the hundreds of thousands of union soldiers who were Democrats