Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-06-26
ARIZONA JOURNAL-MlNER
WEDNESDAY...J JUNE 26, 1895

seats in the next congress.
 There seems to be an epidemic of suicides at the present time.
 The Globe-Democrat feels conf dent that Kentucky will be found in the republican colum this year. It is said that the Corbett-Fitz.. simmons fight is being more talked about in Texas than silver.
 Those Georgia folks played it low on MT. Cleveland by inviting him to visit them after the watermelon season closes.
 There was wisdom in the reply of | the man, who when asked if the fig l ure of a woman acquaintance was made-up said: q can't say; never saw her in wet bathing suit"
 A pet lion,at Bridgeport Connecti- cut, prevented a burglary in the residence of its owner. The lion secured a portion of the burglars pants as a lnemento of his visit.
 No; Vice President Stevenson hasn't gone to Cuba to help the rev olutionists. He has only gone into hiding to escape committing himself on the silver question.
 MT. Cleveland may be successful as a singer of infants lullabys, but no song he has yet sung has had a pacifying effect upon the democratic party.
 A great many women have found the adoption of newspaper career but a step on the way to wifehood and as their husbands are mostly newspaper men it would seem that they are feared as rivals.
 Oh yes; "Dave" Hill is very likely to work himself to death trying to carry New York, in order that "Bill' Whitney may get the democratic presidential nomination. Hill is just that sort of man.
 A dangerous, but perhaps not an unusual precedent, was established on Thursday by the jury in a mur- der case, returning verdict of ac- uuittal, in favor of man who had shot down an unarmed man, after having had drunken quarrel with him, in which the man who did the shooting had come of victor.
 Richard Crocker seys he will leave his estate in England in September for while and come over and man. age Tammany hall for the cam paign.
 Wilberforce University, the oldest institution in the country for the education of negroes, a few days ago conferred the degree of L. l.. D. upon President Cleveland. The President declined the honor.
 A Pittsburg firm has contracted to manufacture a lot of torpedo boats and army canteens from alum inum for European countries. The canteens will be only One-third as heavy as the old ones.
 The administration now claims to be able to defeat the free silver democrats of Kentucky, but the real victory-the election of gover- nor and legislsture-is confidently expected by the republicans.
 The idea has been very forcibly presented to the JOURNAL-MINER that impecunious attorneys should be pensioned after they reach the age of 80 or loo years, in order to give younger men a chance.
 The report that Joe Blackburn will turn preacher after his term in the Senate expires is doubtless the work of hls administration enemies. Mint farming would be more to his taste.
 The story that Mir. Olney would not become Secretary of State until MT. Cleveland pledged himself not to interfere with his direction of our foreign relations is too thin even for summer wear. There is only one man connected with the administration who directs any thing, and his name is Cleveland.
 Millionaire Sage of New York, who used his clerk as a shield to protect him from the bomb thrower in his office has made such a fight against paying damages for the in juues which his clerk received that there are people uncharitable enough to think it pity Sage was not killed.
 The press of the country is after the bicycle beats and buns. The Albuquerque Citizen says: Every few days some loafer who wants to get out of working, ''starts around the world on a bicycle without a cent" These persons presume to beat their way, and are just as much tramps as if they proceeded on legs instead of wheels"
 Certain Ohio democrats must consider votes marketable commod- ity. Senator Brice, Congressman Sorg and ex-Congressman Tom Johnson, are said to have pledged themselves to contribute a half million dollars to the democratic