Bro. Tatlock, Stand Up!

Rev. H. Tatlock, Rector of St. ew's Church of this city, has rete, tly placed himself in such a position that some explanation is required. He recently drove over to Tecumseh from Ann Arbor, with a small gray horse and buggy, of which, as far as is known, he was the proprietor. During his stay at Tecumseh the minister stabled his horse in the barn of S. W. Temple, who, knowing Mr. Tatlock's divine mission, supposed, of course, that he could be trusted. How far this confidence was betrayed, let the Tecumseh News witness, and herewith is submitted the testimony of that paper : "Mr. Tatlock's horse is a rather small gray animal, while Mr. Temple ons a draft horse, of the same color. When Mr. T. went out to hitch up his horse he was gone so long that the ladies in the house became a little uneasy and finally they heard him calling from the barn for assistance. On going to him they found him working and tugging very hard in the attempt to buckle a harness onto the horse, but it was no use. Either the horse had swollen enormously or the harness had shrunk greatly. The gentleman declared that somebody must have replaced his own harness with a smaller one. But he was simply mistaken. However sound may be his judgment on a theological question, it seems to have misled him in judging of horse flesh. He was trying to harness the wrong horse." It is no small gratification to the Argus, which has hitherto been and will still endeavor to be the clergyman's good friend, to know that the News has placed the affair in the most charitable light. Acquainted with che eider, as the Argus is, it will be slow to accuse him of attempted horse-stealing ; but why he should have fallen into the error of mistaking Temple's draft horse for his own, "Robert J.," or tricking himself with the delusion that his own harness was oth;r than his own, - but away with speculation. The Argus knows that Rev. Tatlock has no habit that could possibly subject lim to criticism. The theory of the Mews in without doubt strictly correct.