The Argus wishes all its readers a fiapp...

The Argus wishes all its readers a fiappy and prosperous New Year. Two new exchanges have reacned the Argus tliis week, the Dexter News and the Fowlerville Observer. Both start out with well filled pages, both of news and advertisements, and the wish of the Argus is that these inf ants may thrive, prosperand grow in wealth and influence. The proprietor of the Argus was kindly remembered Christmas with an elegant upholstered rocking chair, the gift of the employés of the Argus office and Miss Jennie Shadford, formerly book-keeper. The kindly sentiments which inspired the gift and the gift itself were most highly appreciated. The supreme court of this state on Wednesday sustainetl the action of the last legislature in giving Senator Fridlander the seat which he was justly entitled to. The Detroit Tribune comes out the following morning with the head line "Work of a Partisan Court." Does the Tribune mean to convey the idea that Justices Long and Grant acted from purely partisan motives when they wrote the dissenting opinions to the decisión of the majority of the court? For the first time in nearly a generation the democrats have control of both houses of the New York legislature, although in all that time, with the exception of one term, the state has been presided over by a democratie governor. This state of afiairs has arisen from the republican legislature refusing to make reapportionments of the legislativo distriets. It takes several times as man y votes to elect a democrat to the legislatura in thé state of New York as it does to elect a republican. Now that the demociats have control a fair reapportionment Will be made, and the next U. S. senator from New York will be a democrat. It is said that thecommittee on sewerage which went over the line of the proposed main sewer for tlie city Tuesday discovered a bad state of affaire at the foot of Thirteenth street, the outlet of the university sewer and the proposed outlet for the city sewer. Although it may be true that the university sewer is not carried far enough out into the river, the condition of affairs thus revealed ought to cause a committee actuated by a spirit of looking after the best interests of the city and without prejudice in favor of any particular plan to report in favor of carrying the main sewer further down the river so that the stencil which miglit arise would be less deleterious to the public health. If the Huron river was as large as it once was a different condition of affairs would have been found Tuesday. The committee will have to take the river as they flnd it. They cannot make it larger. Another year has passed by, and as we are about to commence another, the Argus takes occasion to review the work in Ann Arbor during the year. AVe think that Ann Arbor has nothing to complain of, and but one thin„' to regret- the number of deaths which the Argus is obliged to record, arger than usual and containina the names of many who have endeared tnemselves to all who knew them by long years of usef ulness. Whüe Aun Arbor has had no boom in a business way, our merchante have all thrived and prospered, but a single failure being recordetfduriiig the year. In buildings and improvements Ann Arbor has sustained her established reputation, as the hundreds of tasty, home-like residences which have sprung up all over the city bear testi" mony. In every way the city has improved, and the best wish of the Argus is that she may do as well in the year to come as she has in the past, escaping with the same good luck, all epidemics, conilagrations and disasters.