Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-01-02

If Breckinridge succeeds in break ing into the senate, his friends will call it "vindication," but what will the senators call it2
 Why Mr. Cleveland should have gone south to hunt when there is So much game m Washington, is a Christmas puzzle.
 4 police captaincy must be soft snap in New York. A policeman who was recently promoted to the position admits having paid Sl5.OO0 for it.
 It was, perhaps, unkind for those objecting democratic editors to call the ridiculous foreign policy of this governments ~Greshamania," but the name sticks all tho same.
 The Atchison Globe says: Dis count your expectations at least so per cent" It is still better, however, to have no expectations.
 Perhaps it is because of the love that misery has for company that Stnator Hill is growing more popu- lar with democratic congressman.
 Ambassador Bayard is still being banquetted by his English admirers. He hasn't enough American admir- CTS to get up a moderate sized banquet,
 The sherifFs office of Msricopa county should be presented with leather medal for the efficiency dis played by them in keeping prisoners at large.
 It is simply silly to talk about pressure" having to be brought to bear upon any man to accept the republican nomination for the Presi- dency. IL Is an honor no man ever declined.
 Two of the democratic members of the house committee on banking aud currency had the nerve to vote against the railroading process being applied to the bill.
 Ex-Congressman Perry Belmont, having made fzzle of politics, will try a ''gon at New York society this winter. He has the principal requisite for social success-money.
 Secretary Hoke Smith has a red card, reading Scarlet Fever With in" nailed to the front of his Washington residence to keep away democratic congressman and office seekers.
 The Alabama negroes have got an enormous idea. There k no need of a new law to prevent lynch ing. What Is needed is officials with nerve enough to enforce existing laws.
 The Chicag0-S.auford foot ball game was ealivened by a scrap between players of the ri7al teams. Three or four of the Stanford team were disabled, but the game ended without any body being killed.
 The democrats of the house did not determine to push the so called Carlisle currency bill through, until l they became certain that nobody 1 wanted such a law.
 The administration is making | faces at Spain just now. Mir. Greshams foreign policy has been such a dismal failure up to date, that the country takes but little i interest in what he does.
 During the present year, new mileage of railroads in the United States has been less than any one fir the last thirty years, except three-lS65, 1866 and 1s67-being only 1,9I9I3. Arizona heads the list, with four roads. and an aggre- gate of l4s miles.
 Diphtheria is committing fearful ravages in some of the inland towns in New York. In the New York infant asylum at Mount Vernon, more than eighty children were | down with the disease, and sixteen of these proved fatal.
 Tucson is circulating a subscrip- ton paper this week to secure the building of the s. F., P. & P. rail road to that place. Tempe and wilt join hands with Tue son in offering inducements to secure 1 it's construction.
 4 lawyer, recently, in a San Fran cisco court, called another lawyer a liar. The judge immediately ad- journed court, in order that the one to whom the epithet was applied might thrash the other without being guilty of contempt of court.
 Democrats seldom profit by expe- rience. The disasters which followed the driving of the Wilson tariff bill through the House under whip and spur have not prevented the appli- cation of the same tactics to the currency bill.
 Peoria, in Maricopa county, is quite elated over the building of the $. F., P. x P. road, and offers loo lots in the place to 100 settlers, who will build l0O residences on them.
 The cost of the territorial reform