Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-15
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kRiyoNA JOCRNAL-hINER
WEDNESDAY APRIL l5, 1896
rnIroRIAL NOTES.

tions before passing them.
 ACape Town, South Africa, lele- gram says that loo whites have been killed in t-e Matabe,s rising.
 Congress can now say to Mir. Cleveland concerning the Cuban question: Its up to you, Grover
 Harrity thinks e1-Governor Patti spn might be made to accept that democratic presidential nomination.
 Our literary standard may not be any higher than it was, but the dialect writer IS no longer general fayorite.
 Popuist Allen, of Nebraska. de- clines to sacrifice himself on the altar of populism as a presidential candidate.
 Spain is commencing to realize the belligerency of the Cuban in- surgents, even ii she fails to recog- nize theu as belligerents.
 Those diamond robberies could not have had anything to do with zdvertising the Florida hotels. Oi course not; perish the thought.
 The Sound Currency Committee, of New York, are wasting lots of good postage stamps in sending their gold bug literature to Arizona.
 That revolt" against the athority of iepeaker Reed over the House filled much more space in news papers unfriendly to Mir. Reed than it did in the House.
 There are still a few democrats who think that a majority of the voters of this country do not favor a protective tariff. but they are get ting fewer all the time.
 Grover burned his hands once on that school land bill, aud therefore ll> not touch it a second me, per hitting 1t to become a law without r's sigma Ire.
 ne Nv York legislature has pa. ,sd bill defining bicycles as baggage, and declaring that they sha', be transported as baggage on all railroads.
 Col. Breckinridge, of Kentucky h.s decided to enter the race agalu for congress. The announcement has raised the ire of the women oi Kentu ky, who will oppose him.
 A Causdian claims to have in vente' a noiseless and smJkelesi gun ths. discharges 260,OO0 shots a minute, ald we are expec;ea to swallow the claim, notwithstanding our abi. to pro luce good liari ourselves upon occasion.
 Since Perry Belmont has taken to writing letters on the silver question 1t IS fair to infer that Perry has so Tar forgotten his congressional e1- peEience as to be again hungering after public life.
 The Texas man who blew himself up, after killing his daughter and the man she wanted to marry, made . good job oft. His friends could not find enough of him after the ex. plosion to fill a cigar box.
 Col. Henry Waterson gives his one-tims friend this side swipe in his lecture on Lincoln: "I gather from what I have seen of Lincoln that he was no civil service reformer of the style of Grover Cleveland"
 Senator Faulkner, of West Vir- R.nia, whose rainbow chasing af- 'orded the republicans so much amusement in the last congressional campaign, has again been put al the head of the democrat campaign conn .lttee.
 4 Washington telegram says that a~decision has been reached by the United States supreme court on the constitutionality of the California Wright irrigation law, and it will be announced in a few days. It holds the law valid.
 Delegates Murphy, of Arizona, and Cstron, of New Mexico, are --orking like Trojans for the ad- mission of the two territories, and, despite the opposition, have hopes o. winning. They certainly deserve success for their untlring efforts.
 al 'tor-.4a republicans will ID all ..D1aL.li.y, elect U. s Grant, Jr., IS delegate at large to the St. Louis convention, while Jesse Grant will pro ably be elected from this terri tory as a delegate.
 Small fry democratic and still smaller fry poPulist papers are de- nouuciug Governor Mckinley as a gold bug. while the New York Sun, deu cratic paper, makes him ap- pear as a good silver man.
 A Washington toiegr.m says that tbe reason E. J. Franklin wa SC lectsd tor governor Of Arizoa. was because assurances were received by the pre- elt that he is a sound money democrat. The place was offered to a New York democrat who C lined 1t with thanks.
 The labor leaders of Chicago have ked that Mr. Carlisle. on his visit