It is stated tliat nearly all the alderm...

It is stated tliat nearly all the aldermen were personally pledged to elect one doctor city pbysician last week, but the party lash was wielded and another was elected in violation of the pledges of a good majority of the alderruen. The party lash has no busi. Dess in the common council and the quicker it ceases to have any effect the better opinión the public will have of the couDcil. But to return to this matter of the city physician, there is no such office known in law in this ity. The charter does not establish such an office, but the council may by ordinance. The council never has done so, and there is no warrant for paying a salary to anyone for such work. The council should establish such an office, giving the mayor power to appointand the mayor will undoubtedly appoint some resident physician, whom people know, subject to the confirmatioD of the council. The editor of the Argus had occasion the other day to inquire the street number of a well known resident of the city. "I haven't got any," was the reply, and the speaker spoke the truth. There are many streets in this city where the houses are without numbers or bear such numbers as the caprices of the owner díctate, some taking their lot numbers and others counting houses already built to determine what their number should be. On older streets a number in some places covers 40 feet and in others about 200 feet, so that on some streets houses epposite each other are as many as 25 numbers apart. No city was ever more unscientiflcally numbered tban is Ann Arbor and it is high time our streets were so numbered that by merely hearing the number we can determine in what part of the city any house is situated. The Argus repeats, let Ann Arbor be renumbered this spring. Some of the republicans are charging up the reappointment of Mr. Mclntyre to the board of public works as part payment of a political debt to the democrats. The democrats entered into no political bargain when they endorsed Mr. Hiscock. They simply wished to put him into a position where he would have no political debts to pa'y; thus enabling him to better serve the whole city. The board of public works has always had a minority representation upon it. Except for a brief peri od when the republicans dragged it into politics, there has never been any politics in the board"s actions ;and there should be none. The precedent of giving the minority one representative on this board is now well established, and Mr. Hiscock could not be expected to break it, especially when the term of so deserving a member as Mr. Mclntyre expired. This precedent of minority representaron has also air ways applied to the other boards of the city.