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Day
18
Month
November
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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Ownbttta is Prime Minister of Frailee General Sherman is attendlng the Atlanta Exposition. Sollcltor General Pbillips, of the dcpai tment of juslice, has been appointed acting Attorney-General bv the President, lie can hold the office ten days only. Twclve men have been found in V;i-liington so thoroughly unable to fortn an opinión for themselves thatthey have been chosen as jurore iii the Guiteau trial. The BepabUoani hara lot control of the New York lejrislature. Tlie Tribune claims that it was tlone by ballot-box sttifñng in several district. The Hoadjnstera have carried Virginia. There is no party tor them now except the Republican. Their principies are a free ballott and fair eleotions. By the time of another president ial election the Readjusters will join the ranks of the Kepublican party. Then the 10 of that party will not depend OpOB Nrw Vork. _________ According to tlie latest M siiji iias shown by far less Democratie majority than at previous elections The election also indicatea another change In the state of affaire in thut State and that is nn acknowledged ri;lit OBjtlM part of any oiif, no matter what his politics is, to run lor office. There were several parties in the field at the recent election. The strongest of these were the Republican, Democratie, Independent andGreenhack paiücs. [ndepmdHtt p:irty Is composed of deserters from the Bourbon Democratie party. Thus the rightsnf .Uffi-rcnt iiaitio are binalog to be re.-pected and among the rest the rif;hts of tliose who vote the Hcpublican ticket are acknowledrt-d. Judge Cox rendered a decisión in tlie star route cases last Thursday, November lOth. The conclusión arrived at was that the crime was "infamoiif" and that the only way to irocced against the defendants is by jndlctmeut. fn- mil as such was his decisión he said "nothing remains for me but to grant the motion made by the defendants and order their disnhigii" Tiii wiVl probably tender all action against Bradj-, the arch criminal of them ;ill, Impoaibla. Mr. Cook, attorncy for the government, says tliat tlie eOM "t delay in thonc cases is due to the assas.-iu'.bnllet. The remaining crimináis will be procetiUd at; linst at once. It appears to one unversed in the Uchnicalitics of the law, that a system of law that will protect ¦ nriadler from pantsbme&t is dalbotivt somewhere. If mattere continue in their present course, it will soon be considcrcil a virtue to bc able to defraud the government on a large scale. It is hoied th:rt tlie government may succeed in its endeavor to obtain an indictment acainst the parties that have been discharged, upon a b allcgeil similar offenses of later date than those charged la the information. The cases will be taken up accain as soon as possible.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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