Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-08-04
Editorial and isceIlaneous Items.

Judge W. w. Porter has been confirm ed.
 The Neucans are still inviting thrashing.
 "A public office is . public ,rust"- Chestnut. The Mexicans must eishe. let go or get whipped. Cutting is ''bigge. man. than old Cleveland now. : Aspirants for congressional honors are becoming numerous. The California legislators have no. yet decided what to dc. The Apaches are said to have given Capt. Iawton the slip. Tucson seems to be afflicted with a deluge of of6ce-seekers. Ex-Gsv Tritle and F. NJ. Murphy left St Louis for Prescott to-day.
 Chatto stands good chance sf receiv- ing federal appointment in Arizona.
 Opium smuggling into San Francisco keeps the custom house officers busy. An elevator is being constructed at Patsburg that will run $50 feet in one minute.
 The war-cloud is rapidly passing away. Mexico has decided not to annihilate the United Statex Usurpers1 "Ah yes upon reflection" those asylum fellows are usurpers. but they still hold the fort.
 They were '4oo previous" on the Headquarters proposition. We are sorry for you Albuquerque. Salisbury is experiencing eensidera- ble trouble in forming a new cabinet in England.
 "Septembes will De soon enough to seceivethe Insane, it wiIl be cooler then. {" An, no doubt John Shaughuessy a prize-hghter was shot by U. s. Sergean, III self-defense at Vallejo. Cal, July 90. The Moaris of New Zealand aye reduced to less than 4a,oeo, and will soon become extinct Fish is a good brain-sood, except in instances when it doesn'. find any thing to assimilate with. The continued drouth in the upper Mississippi valley IS having very ser ious effect on the grain crops. The house of epresentatiyes refused 10 agree to conference to report the harbor bill, by vote of Io2 yeas to
 Is5 nays. There will be nine can did ates for governor before the democratic conven- ton of Texas. ard . long wrangle IS foreshadowed. Arizona securities are apprsciating ] under the present. territorial aimis;ration. Star. Ah yes upon reflection they ares P?
 The governor of Texas says if the genera! government does not pro,ec. American citizens on the Texas border that the state Will take the matte. in hand.
 fla permanen, coal vein has been dis. covered near the line of our branch road as has been reported, it is very good news for this section of country. We are inforned that the members o: the republican county central committee have been notified ts meet in the city ot Prescott, Angus, I6, or ,hereabou,s. Prosperous times are approaching slow. ly but they are coming. A north and south railroad across the territory will settle the eA,-hop. The Tucson Cluzen now occupies the brick building erected for and recently occupied by the Star. The latter paper has taken more humble quarters. Cutting is said to be "Rat" printer, the principle involved by his imprison- ment is just the same as though he were one Of the most respected and infien- tial c!tizens of the Country. Democr atic attorneys should not give advice io republicans without frs, asking permission of 'the powers iha, be" or rather the powers tha, would be if they could.
 The washout on the Santa Fe. besides delaying the mail has been very incon- venient for several hundred GAR. men who are detained thereby, enrou:s 10 San Francisco.
 Some impulsive Irishmen are blaming Gladstone for resigning. They should remember that Gladstone is no, an Irish. man. He knows when hs is licked Alta
 Editor Cutting should be release from his dungeon in Mexico. IL ;sa deplorable state of affairs wnen man can be called to account in Mexico for utterances made in the United States.
 The democratic S,. Louis Post-Dis- patch is happy, It exclaims: ''Ex- Governor St. John is in active training fer 1888 He did some beautiful work ih 1884, and can do i, again.
 Turning out republicans because they ;