Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-29
lRIZ0NAJOURNAL-MINEk
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29. 1893
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Cuba if offered to him.
 The newspapers continue tO ap- point Secretary Alger's successor. The latest appointment from this source is that of General Porter
 ambassadOr Co France
 Monday was Omahas fire day. It occurred iu the Patterson block and spread SO rapidly that many occu- pants of the building were compelled to jump from windows with the usual fatal results.
 According to n prisoner captured
 by our troops, Aguinaido has au-' nounced that be will personally con duet the reserves at Malolos and march into Minsl within twenty days unloss the Americans withdraw m the meantime. This threat will scarcely be the occasion..of the Americans withdrawing.
 pbilsdolPhIa paper aonounces that boracic acid has been used as a meat preseryer for number of yearF. Accepting the statement as true, we prefer to take onr boracic acid and meat in separate portions and not combined.
 The JOURNAL MINER had a notice of the death of John Sherman m type on March =, such information being contained in the telegrams of the 2lst instant Later telegrams however contradictod the report and stated that he had arrived at Santi- ago and was somewhat improved in health.
 National democracy Is now divid- ] ei squarcly into two parties or fac l tions. One Is the ancient and hon orable Jefersonian democracy, the | other is the modern article, known | now and which will go down in | history as the Chicago platform Bryan democracy.
 While declining to eat wlth Perry | Belmont and other JeneIsonian 1 democrats in New York. Col. Will liam Jennings Bryan has accepted l an invitation from the Chicago l platform dinner committee 10 din nor to be given in Chicago by tLe Chicago platform. democracy.
 That tax exemption is a demo cratic measure was again demon strated by the recent legislature 1 The first tax exemption law on the statute books of the territory was passed by a democratic legislature | and the last one will have the same honor.
 General Russell Hastings, of New York, who was selected for director of the bureau of American republics some time ago, will take charge the first of April, relieving Froder- ick Emory, who has been acting di- rector since the death of Joseph P. Smith. General Hastings is an Ohio man and great friend of President Mckinley, having served iu the same regiment with the pres ident during the civil war.
 Col wm. J. Brya4 refuses to break bread or to sit at the same table with tae Jodersonisn democrats ot New York. He declined au invitation To a banquet there tcudcrcd him by a democratic club His letter of de cllnstiou was addressed to Perry Belmont, aud in it he says: "lou wall pardon mo # suggest that a banquet presided over by you will iulUrc rather than aid the demo cratic party
 John Henry Nroom. a graduate of che University of Pennsy ylvania, and of thc rrincctoa Theological Sem mary. has published . statement concerning tho abandonment of what was known as the "Cgcyclaud Farm School" which Mir. Nroom was Co have started on land belonging to OK President Cleveland near Prince ton. iu which he accuses Mir lovc- land of having deceived him in sev ersi ,'nportsnt instances. We don; kuow about this chargc. but We have very distinct remembrance of Mir. , Cleveland having drccivcd the whole country. n
 On the morning of September ., l, lS'S. two houses wcrc destroyed by , fro ,a Pleasant street m East Pros , @ (. rcsulttug ru the death of three , persons. One ot thc buildings was , entirely consumed hy the flames | while the charred and hlackeoed skrl- | ctou of tho other remained standing < itstill stands therc toda, as hor- | fibic reminder to the residputs of that section, and particularly to those who lost loved ones m the firc. |, ot tho horror ol that September D, urbt Tho ci,irous iu that vicinity |. drav ,. s,Aa of rol,et about thrce , wecks az, whou workmou aproarr1 s on the scene ani vrmmvucpj the ., removal of thc wreck The work a. va, only spasmodic, Ns it was dis. ;. continued hcfore it had progressed very lar sud thc hlackpued reminder V oi death has hoen permitted to rc " main The ,jy authorities could confer nc greater favor on the rcsi dents of East Prescott than to cause thc immediate rc,uaval ot this char ' rod building
 Speaking of the failure ot thc leg h, is,stbra to pass bullion tax hsli the ,l rhon5N correspondent ot lhe Les !, Angeles Times says; The governor ,,, in has messsro tc tho legislature ,, warmly ajv,catcd law wherchv n miupS ip thc tatr,tcry ,h e 'uld ha compelled to pay thelr just ,,., proportion oi taxation. Several bills -. lutrnjuccj iu tuttherauco cf thi. q .f.,a v,..,r-., .i,f.,,f.,g ,., fl... t ...-- .