Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-11-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Phenix advertises for proposals until December ,d for $I 5000 worth of her bonds.
 Ii was Colo. C. Bean that introduced 2 bill in congress for the relief of John Dobbs.
 Twenty thousand people assembled in Albany, New York, to hear ames G. Blaine.
 Tucson boasts of six crops of alfalfa th,s year from :he same ground in the Santa Cruz bottom.
 American reside nts Ot London want Lord Dufferin appointed to succeed Grover's champion, West.
 President Cleveland has issued his Thanksgiving proclamation TOT Thursday. November a9th.
 With bath tickets four for a dollar there is no reason why any man ID tnis town should be democrat.-Albuqusr- que Citizen.
 The Pall Gazettee says: "We owe Cleveland thanks for showing that the sillies, man in Washington was not born in Englrnd.
 At present all the vessels of the not'n Atlantic squadron are lad on m the navy wards for repairs, except the "Roston" :" which IS out of reach of tele- grams.
 An English workman earns an elgnt- dollar suit of clothes in eight days. An American workman can pay $Io for the same kind of a suit and earn the money in five days
 MT. Cleveland's administration has cos, the country $I,ooo. 900 more than the last republican administration ana yet democratic speakers presume to tax about republican extravaganza and dern' ocratic economy.
 Claimants of land grants do not wan' any tribunals established to settle then claims. They do not want their posses sory titles disturbed. So long as they are in possession they do not care fo' title.
 In an order issued by Justice Brad lev, of the supreme court of the United States. it was declared unconstltutiona for a state to impose a license upor commercial travellers not residents O the state imposing the tax.
 According to the New York Herald in one county alone in that state tnf votes of no less thah six thousand persons depend upon money. Int paper says that well-to-do. farmers hant around the polls all day. waiting fo' some one to buy their vote.
 The United States express on the New Orleans and North Eastern railway was robbed between Lacy and Derb! stations. Express officials decline te state the amount of the robbery, but | IS understood the loss is between $40. ooo and $5o,ooo.
 Hon. Michael Henry Herbert ha: been appointed British minister d'afaires at Washington. Lord Sack vllle returns to England imme diaiely on leave of absence. It | understood the government will allow hi case to rest until after the presidential election.
 ,o1al votes cast Tor citeveiisHHd ctSsiHd fhe tSSfa tSf& popular vote was 4 9II,oI7; for Blaine 4,S5S.354. Cleveland's majority, Ga. .6Sa The electoral vote was, Cleveland, alo Blaine. ISs. Clevelsnd's majority it the electoral college, g.
 Congress appropriates thousands of dollars for public buildings and other Improvements in other territories, al the solicitation of their delegates. Marl Smith, so far as we know, did not ask for dollar for Arizona for public build. ings. and consequently Arizona got nothing.
 The government at Washington can appropriate money to send spies out in this country to harass and annoy hon. est settlers on government land and parties engaged in cutting wood and lumber for domestic purposes, but mary" a cent for any kind of public i'm provements.
 It is learned that the work of con- struction IS progressing very slowly on the Blsbee railroad. At the present rate f speed the completion of the road can not be looked for before March ,st In this ennection it is stated that there is strong possibility of the work of con- struction being placed in the hands of Superintendent Ben Williams, of the copper Queen.
 Dr. Harris, of Washington, is the inventor of a new system of machine by which the message is printed at the farther end, the sending being similar to a type writer. It Is claimed to be able to send 200 words minute, and will revelutionize ,elegraphy. making it | cheaper ts send by wire than by mall. John I. Davenport declares that Cleveland was elected in 1884 by 10. 900 Illegal votes cast in New York City. and accordingly, at an expense of $50. 1000 he republican national committee has an elaborate and complete directory of the city. so that fraudulent oting will be made nearly if not quite impossible. An army of special detec- ives are now securing the city verifying he election lists. and will also closely 'atch the polls on the election day. In his Phenix SD 'ech. Mark Smith, iaimed the credit and honor of securing he $Ios. 900 appropriation for investigas-