Wben a borse is stolen a reward is at on...

Wben a borse is stolen a reward is at once offered by the sheriff for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thief, but when a man is foully murdered aud the house ransaoked and a large ainonut of rnoney taken, not a dollar of reward is offered. Are horses so muoh more valnable tban bumao lives or large sums of money? Or is it beoause a life snnffed out has no vote, while the owner of a horse has one? Last week's Ypsilanti Commercial says: "The Courier compiles some interesting statistics of marriages in the connty the past year, frora whioh it apipears, " etc. Now, Bro. Smithe, if yon bad substituted the woid "Argus" for "Courier" in thatjitem it would have been all right and you would have givèn the credit where it belongecl, as the Courier did. We forgive you this time, bnt doD't let it occur again. The compilation of those figures represeuted sevral bours of bard work and we don'fc care to lose the credit of having prepared the artiole and flrst pablished it. The city attorney of Adrián, who visited this city recently, acquired a rast amonnt of misinformation conuerning onr charter. In faot it is doubtful if any other man ever acquired somuch ïnisinformatiou in so short a time. If; dees not cost the city so mucb more to collect tases tban.it does Adrián, and the people of this city are not iu favor oí aboli8bing tbe board of publio works. It is trne tbat the board bas not always acted in accordance with public judgïnent aud that a few are now striving to abolish the board, bnt the ii.ass.of tbe people uphold it and few wish to return to the old system when street work was ouly done for the benefit of ward heelers and money was spent as a matter of ward politics only.