Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-09-04

The bank failures are coming 10 the front again. Thirteen closed last week, and more are trembling.
 Thecarbclic acid route, like many of its victims lately, is daisy pro cess to wind up this earthly career with.
 Big buildings are toppling over everywhere. The one story banks of last year evidently started the ball rolling.
 It may be news to our friends from Erin to state that home rule for the Emerald Isle has gone the way of the shelylah.
 A Salt Lake editor wants to be senator. When men go to Wash in yton on their ability solely, there will be a fighting chance for the fraternity, and not till then.
 The latest startling sensation in the weather line is heIalded in the Herald of Phenix, which says that a Salt river man came back to Phenix to cool of. This is a "hot" one.
 The administration democrats seem to be getting the best of the political game so far in the east and south. In Arizona politics, how ever, they were knocked out early and often.
 A populist leader in California is in jail for making counterfeit money. This is sincerity, if it is dishonesty, as the principal plank in the pops platform calls for the free and un- limited coinage of the metals.
 Phenix is booked for the next Ma tional Irrigation Congress. Pres colt is far ahead of the salinas city in the line of irrigation, in one sense.
 The Trilby craze has been in vogue for generations in Arizona notably among the maidens at San Carlos, so far as showing their pedal extremities go.
 The Sunday saloon closing law is now in full force in New York City, and an exchange says there are more whoop 'em ups noticed on the Sab bath now than ever before.
 Albuquerque is rustling hard to raise S5,OOO for her big fair. Pres colt raised SS,OOO in four days for a 4th of July celebration, and never lost a wink of sleep over it either.
 According to 2 federal decision lately, the Indian can hunt where and when he pleases. The Wyom- ing settlers threaten to enforce the law, however, according to their own desires.
 Eastern democrats are kicking in- tensely hard over Sl0,0OO,0O0 grab of one of their party on the last bond issue. If one democrat in Arizona scoops the other for Sl0 bill, the yell that goes up is terrific, and silences the big guns over the range.
 Pleading poverty and whining over hard times will help no section. When once started it travels every where and reacts on the section from whence it emanated. Prescott and Yavapai county are forging ahead, and no community in the southwest is blessed with as healthy and pros porous a future as we present to all to-'9v
 The arrest and conviction of the Seventh Day Adventists for viola ting the Sunday law of Tennessee, is in direct violation of the constitu- ton of the United States and dis grace to American civilization. It seems to be the fad just now to bring forth the dusty laws, enacted in the days of ignorance and super stition to satisfy a pack of ranting hypocrites. who are more anxious for notoriety than for the purifca- tion of the moral atmosphere. It is not to be wondered at that the journals of Europe take up such outrageous proceedings and criticise our laws and government. It would be well for the federal government to see that the laws that conflict with the federal constitution are expunged from the statutes of the older states. Thank God the west is free from all such nonsensical laws. The people are allowed to worship God in their own way. The east and south are furnishing an example to the world of intolerance and bigotry that would put to shame the days of the Spanish inquis ition
 Skull Valley Items.
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