Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-01-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

SkIrmishing continues all along the line of the Sioux country.
 There is trouble in the ranks of the Salvation Army in London.
 C. Meyer Zulick aspires to be presi- dent of the legislative council
 Parnell has expressed willingness to retire, provided O'Brien is made the leader of the party.
 The statement is made in Irish papers that Parnell and Mrs. Kitty o Shea will be married shortly.
 Banker Kean, of Chicago, has made an offer for settlement on the basis of so cents on the dollar.
 Troops are being sent to the front from San Francisco, the number in the field being abou, S,soo.
 General Carr, in command of the Sixth cavalry. is perhaps the best In- dian fighter now in thehe
 The Republican announces the trans fer January Ist of the Phenix Gazette to T. E. Parish and ]. L. B. Alexander.
 A great many papers endorse the JoURNAL-MINKR's proposition of pay ing supervisors SIo per day and fixing q days session at six hours.
 Another republican postmaster has been ordered to leave the south or be shet. This time it was at CatharIne, Alabama.
 Buffalo William cleaned up round half million dollars with his wild west show in Europe.
 Stephen M. White will probably be the democratic victim for sacrafice on he senatorial altar of California.
 The mean term of human life has gradually increased in the last fifty years from thirty-four 10 torty-two years.
 StonswaIl Jacksons grave in the Lex ington (Va.) cemetery is found every day covered with flowers, placed there by un- known hands.
 French Canadians have formed an emigration society with view of set ting on abandoned farms in New Hampshire aud Vermont.
 Count Dea and Count DeLutzen, of Vienna, fought bloodless duel recently over c quarrel as to which shonld have social precedence.
 British Consul Lyall, stationed at Galveston, Texas, has been recalled on account of alleged imrsrtinence to Gov errcr Ross. of Texas.
 Prescott is the only town in the world where newspapers are compelled to pay license for doing job printing in con- uection with their business. It IS about time that city council was elected that will repeal this ordinance.
 A telegram was received this after ternoon at Whipple announcing that General Miles had been killed in an en- gagement near the Pine Ridge agency, Dak ota, this morning.
 Newspaper business must be prosper our down in Honduras. An editor, who was sentenced to be shot there, pur chased his life and freedom with SI5,- 900.
 Ittakes a2,ooo bonnets year to cover the heads ot the female soldiers in the Salvation Army. The army has prop erty amounting to more than $3,ooo.- oeo in the various countries where it is established.
 One of the first things for the new city administration to do will be to advertise for proposals for printing. The city at present has no off cial paper having had no contract now in force for printing for several months.
 Mrs. Dslph, wife of the Oregon sena- tor, is spoken of as one of the pretty women of Washington. She is a bru- nette, oi fine figure and handseme face. She is . farmers daughter and was | dairymaid in her youth.
 Jay Gould's income is said to Dc SIa, ,ooo per year. On six per cent basis this would represent capital of ! Ssoo, ,ooo,oo or Sos, 5,ooo.eeo more than is attributed to Coal Oil King Rockefeller.
 The San Francisisco Chronicle equaled all its preuious efforts in this direction iE its New Years edition. The edition consisted of forty pages, two which were full page illustrations. The Chronicle is the best paper published west of the Mississippi river and has few sGpsriors in the United States.
 About the handsomest Christmas paper received st this office w.s the Helena, Montana. Journal Itwas ten- page edition with very handsome col- orsd cover. In addition to the usual full and complete telegraphic news, it contained an exhaustive description of the resources of Montana. Colonel Masten has authorized the Phenix Herald to say emphaticaIly, as New Years promise to the good peo-t pie of Salt River valley, that, immedi- ately upon the passage of tax exemp- ton law for five years, work will be be- gun upon & north and south railroad and pushed through steady ytocompletion. to The Herald adds that the colonel can