Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-05-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The current number of Judge con- tains an excellent portrait O! Blaine.
 |. C. Herndon and Judge Berry are the delegates to the St. Louis conven- tion.
 John L. Sullivan has been on another champion spree since returning to Bos' ton.
 Paddy Ryan was siugged out of the ring at Duluth Minn.. by John r. Don- ner.
 The Phenix Gazette IS correct wher it says that Prescott IS the finest summer resort on the Pacific coast.
 Superintendent Mahoney of the in' sane asylum, IS vindicating himself through the columns of the Gazette.
 The Albuquerque Democrat has been enlarged to an eight-column paper. Ws congratulate Col. Albright on his pros perity.
 Secretary Fairchild has accepted the following bonds: Registered 4s$a, 589. .ooe at $I.2o to $I.2tH. Coupons, 4s $I2o.o 900 at $I.26T.
 inc people of Arizona. irrespective oi party, are in favor of home rule. Both parties, in this territory, contain as good material, as any the government sends 10 us.
 A duel has just occurred in France m which one man was killed-accident- ally, no doubt. The duelists were M. Herbert and NJ. Dupuis, the latter being killed.
 James C. Blaine will be the nominee of the republican party at Chicago 0 a.s out and paste it in your hat. He vii be the next president of the Un.i ties.
 A Buffalo, N Y., telegram says that five hundred union employees in the brew cries of tha: city are on strike. They are evidently at ..'lager sheads" with their employers.
 Indiana has an organization of regu' lators, called "White Caps" They do their regulating with hickory switches. Drunkards and loafers receive their special attention.
 The extremes of civilization met in Phenix a few evenings since when a pack train of burros surveyed the street cars. by the aid of the illumination from an electric light
 Col. Lamonte late editor of the HOl- brook Standard, has skipped. He has turned up in Fl Paso, Texas, in his old role, that of confidence operator, where he victimized a merchant to the extent of $2o.
 Butte City, Montana, claims to pay about $4o. 900 per year, to the govern ment through its postoffice, in excess of the expense of 1t, and IS somewhat dissatisfied on account of the refusal on the part of the government to give free letter delivery.
 Phenix has street railroad and cleo tric light system and now she proposes to tackle sewerage system. On accoun, of the unfortunately low situs- tion of the town her people will find that one of the most serious problems they have to solve
 The Albuquerque Citizen published the speech recently, ot Geo. H. Tinker, delivered before the county republican convention in Prescott It was the greatest oratoricaI effort of MT. Tinker's life, and we are sorry that the JOURNAL = MINER was not favored with copy of 1t.
 The district woman's suffrage associa ,ion, tf Washington. has ordered boy colt agalnst the Methodist church, by resolving that it IS the duty of every woman Tn the Methodist denomination to withdraw from any church where the pastors uphold the action of the general conference now assembled m New York City. Tn refusing to receive noble women sent there as lay delegates.
 The Philadelphia Times publishes special from friend of James G. Blaine Tn which he says: "I have entirely reliable information that friends of Blaine have within the last three days received direct from him his assent to the aggressive movement for hrs renom- nation for president and the assurance that { nominated in face of his Flor ence letter of declination he would not feel at liberty to decline"
 At the recent city election in Phenix SPA votes were polled. from which the Herald figures up population tor the town of s.6oo inhabitants. "And more cheering stilP', it says, ''is the fact, now proven beyond doubt. that Phenix IS republican city, and had there been but one candidate in the field for the other offices. as for the mayor, the party would have eleted straight ticket"
 Democrats forced a partisan issue in the recent municipal election in Phenix by meeting and nominating a ticket. which received the support of both of the democratic papers. the Gazette and Arizonan. The only single republican being for mayor, for the other officers there being more than one candidate. In the case of the mayor the republican was elected by good major ity, demonstrating that Phenix is a re- publican city and can be counted as such for the November election. Although it is about two months yet until the Fourth of July. it is time that our people were arranging for a good. <.iI <~~ ~f