Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-10-30
ARIZONA JOuRNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY. OCT 30, 1895

SettS, dled suddenly OctOber %@u.
 Fighting the tiger is once more the serious business of the best c'u- zens of New York.
 Dear. good Mr. Peifer has showed up the date when the populists are to elect the president, from 1896 10 1900.
 Phenix is having a paro1yism Of morality. Her officers have com menced a raid on the opium joints of the city.
 San Francisco has started in to raise SlOO,OO0 to secure the meeting of the national republican conven- tion next year.
 A Fresno, California, man drank pint of whisky and then topped it of with three schooners of beer and fell dead in his tracks.
 With all the bluff and bluster made by Durrant's attorneys they have made very poor showing for their client. It was probably the best they could do.
 It is not surprising that govern ment clerks at Washington should object to being made to chip in their cash to help along such a hopeless cause as that of Campbell in Ohio.
 It may be, probably is, true that Lord Sackville West is an internal ass" but he has all the same sue ceeded in worrying MT. Cleveland and Cuckoo Bayard to a consider able extent.
 Justice Johnston, of Phenix, has decided that Commissioner of I'm migration T. C. Jordan, of Maricopa county, is entitled to his salary. The district attorney will appeal the case to the district conrt.
 Secretary Olney is said to have decided on a decidedly vigorous foreign policy, and it is also said that he will resign if not permitted to carry it out. Who says that Olney may not be a possible candidate for president
 The New York Herald's core spondent in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, says that it is authoritatively stated by the press in Rio Janeiro that Brazil is prepared to recognize the Cuban insurrectionists and,grsnt them bel ligerent rights as soon as the United States shall take the lead. Here is a chance for NIT. Olney to get in his vigorous foreign policy.
 A London telegram says that Lord Dunraven received a visit from the mayor of Cardiff yesterday and ac- cepted an invitation delivered by him to attend a banquet in that city, He also promised on that oc- casion to make a statement of the Americas cup races which would throw an entirely new light upon the event.
 The appeal of Colonel Romero, the Mexican duelist, has been de- cided in an upper court which sus- tained the sentence of the lower court as to the duration of the sen tence, which is three years and eight months imprisonment, but the amount to be paid annually for eighteen years to the family of his victim, Verastegui, is reduced from S4,5OO to SI 900, and he is also re- ieved of paying funeral expense.
 A writer in the Populist says: Time has shown that the rebel against the oppression of kings was right; the future will show that the rebel against the oppression of wealth is equally right" In the very next sentence he says: "Be- tween wealth and labor there is no fight" This is a parallel case to some of the South American revolu- tions-a case of rebellion but no fight on hand.
 Thomas Hughes, of the Albuquer- que Citizen, has been fined Sl and sentenced to sixty days in the jail at Santa Fe for contempt of court. The contempt consisted in the pub ication of an article in the Citizen criticising Chief Justice Smith, of the New Mexico supreme court, for his action ia a certain case. On learning that through misinforma- ton he had done an injustice to Judge Smith Mir. Hughes made ample retIaction and apology in the columns of the Citizen, which should have satisfied any reasonable man, but the wrath of His Most E1- cellent Highness Smith was not to be appeased in this manner, and after harboring and nursing his anger for two or three weeks, he imposes the above excessive penalty on him. That the dignity of the court might be sustained no one will dispute the fact that Editor Hughes should have been punished in some manner, but no unbiased man will sanction the severity of the sentence imposed and to-day we would rather be Tom