Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-09-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Maine election was held yester- day.
 Vermont is small state, but she rolls up big republican majority.
 Clevelands letter of acceptance was given to the world on Sunday evening. It has not reached Arizona yet.
 The democratic party in this territory is running this year on the merits of Its failure during the past three years.
 Speaking of Charles Akers, the repub- lican nominee for recorder, the Courier says: "We know naught against him. 7
 The most serious charge urged by our democratic contemporary sgalnt the ticket nominated on Saturday IS that the nominees are republicans and some of them are accused sf being rich.
 The San Francisco court room cpl code with David s. Terry and wife was dispraceful in the extrsme. Had the affair happened in Arizona our eastern neiehbors never would have tired rela'- ing 1t.
 Our contemporary probably referred to Slater and Bevans as the land officials who wanted to steal government land for Reavis. If not, then who were these lasd officials with thieving prcpensities for land1
 Drug Clerk Lamar. of New Haven. Con-, put tincture of aconite. instead of syrup, in the soda water drank by Hor- ace Bishop. aged IS, and Charles McAp- pleber. aged I6, and both died. Lamar has been arrested.
 General Mahore says that now the nat,onal committee has settled the dispute between the party factions in Virginia, he has not single doubt of Harrison and Morton carrying tn e state by at least twenty thousand major ty.
 Life is said to hang on brittle thread but n does rot seem so brittle after all vnen 1t comes to snapping the threads of life of San Francisco murderer. Colo enson will probably get another respite by going through the farce of a trIal for insanity.
 Scientists assert that the newly dis covered cities of Arizona are the same as sought by Cortez and the early Span ish adventurers in their expeditions af- ter gold. The cities are seven in num- Der and show evidences of former civili- ration and wealth.
 The Winslow News says, cit IS hardly probable that nominating convention will be held in Apache county before the close of the grand jury" From this we would infer that candidates will be chosen from the material left over by the grand jury.
 A Mrs. King has written to gentle man in this territory making inquiries about her husband Charles Andrew David Hanna Jackson King who she thinks is headed in this direction. If he has hts name with him he will probably arrive here in sections, f he should sue ceed in getting here at all
 Coming events cast their shadows be tore" is again demonstrated in the result of the Vermont election. Small though the state is, 1t has rolled up a republi- can majority of sS,ooo at Tuesdays election being the largest since the war It locks brighter every day for Harrison and Morton carrying every northern state.
 The following is the resolution intro duced by w. C. Bashford in the con- sention on Saturday: Resolved that we note with interest the action of the democratic territorial con- vention iu refusing to endorse the national and territorial administration and are pleased to welcome them to the victorious republican fold"
 At the meeting of the democratic territorial convention in Tucson reso- lution vas introduced endorsing the na- tioual and territorial administration, but vas voted down, being virtual admis- sion on the part of the convention that democracy has made failure since its ac- cession to power. The republican party