Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-10-23
ARIZONA J0URNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY. OCT g, 1895
1.-The announcement is made that the Durrant trial will soon close.

The Atlanta folks can't make their show popular by exacting unpopu- lar prices from the visitors.
 Joe Blackburn tried to call Adlai S:evenson's silent silver bluff, but he didn't succeed.
 Every outside editor who buys New York paper doesn't increase his bank account; ask John E. McLane if he does.
 The high priced publications, daily, weekly and monthly, will not go into mourning when the paper trust puts prices up.
 Secretary Herbert has doubtless pleased MT. Cleveland by his anti silver Alabama speeches, but what about the Alabama democratsl
 Miss Vanderbilt's duke kicked al- most as much at being made to keep off the grass" in little New York town as Coxie did in Washing ton.
 Most people world have supposed that Senator Elil would have his time fully occupied in New York this fall, without going to Ohio to add to the hopelessness of Camp bells campaign.
 A bloomer-arrayed female jumped from a boat at New Haven, Con- necticut, the other day and rescued a man from drowning. She at tributed her success to the freedom ofmovement afforded by the bloomer costume.
 Who is responsible for the absurd incongruity of naming a warship after a saint, anyway3
 After. reading the New York pa pers one naturally wonders how ex- Senator Platt ever finds any time to give to his express business.
 Democratic editors are trying to appear surprised because Speaker to-be Reed has not consulted them about the makeup of the house committees.
 Perhaps NIT. Cleveland will shake the moth balls out of that "vigor- ous foreign policy" now, and give the people a chance to judge whether 1t has been over-advertised.
 Maryland democrats are all spht up this year. They are tired of Gormanism, and the Baltimore Sun, the oldest and staunchest demo- cratic paper in the state. has bolted 1 the ticket.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says that Delegate T. B. Catron has a bill | providing for statehood for New Mexico ready, and will introduce it as soon after the assembling of con gress as may be advisable.
 The much discussed 'blue laws of Connecticut were not all either objectionable or unreasonable. For instance, this one: "Whosoever pub fishes a lie to the prejudice of his neighbor, shall slt in the stocks or be whipped fifteen stripes"
 The Phenix Gazette gets of the following bit of cutting satire: President Cleveland will stand firm by the Monroe doctrine. The Ameri- can people love a brave man and Grover Cleveland is one of the brays est men that ever held high office in the nation"
 The goose fiat water advocates seem to be convinced now that their water theories are erroneous. If One-quarter of the amount that has been spent on the removal of the water works to that place and in prospecting for water there had been judiciously spent at the old dam on Miller creek the city would, We believe, now have an abundant supply of water.
 It is officially announced that since beginning the campaign against the insurgents in Cuba the Spanish forces have lost one briga- dier general, twenty-six superior officers, I59 other officers and 1Sll soldiers, who have either died of disease or have been killed by the enemy.
 It isn't surprising that the demo- cratic party's accession to power should have been followed by an immense increase in the importation of foreign shoddy; it is a shoddy party. For the year ending August 3l, 1894, when the Mckinley tariff law was still in force, we imported but 2l0,404 pounds of shoddy, while for the year ending August 3l, 1895, the first under the democratic tariff We imported I7,66S,563 pounds of shoddy, which meant the use of just that much less wool.
 Greeley, Colo, claims to oproduce the finest potatoes in the world, but there is no doubt but that the high lands of New Mexico will, at some future day, equal if not surpass our Colorado neighbor in that edible product" - Albuquerque Citizen Flagstaff, Arizona, the natural home of the potato, can beat the rest of the world on the quality of its spuds. Professor Lemon, some years ago, f,u,,l ' ha Y,ot a tp c,rot,yin er wi ld tbara l