Editorial Notes

Col. Wattles 1 Kalamazoo's Wiggins, and he predicts an open winter. He probably judges the coming winter by his month. Where is that business boom tliat the country was to experience as soon ns Cleveland was elected? Has it not boomeil the wrong way t There are six barber shops and two banks In Caro now, and tliey talk of putting In another bank. YVhat a sight of sliaving must be done in Caro! The Adrián Press has the supreme cheek to clip items out of the Courier, credit tliem to the Argns, and then approve of tliem. See Press of Dec. 5. Isn't it about time to kick ? Mr. Cleveland is not president by popular majority. No candidato has a popular majority, but Mr. Blaine has a plurality over Cleveland on tlie popular vote of aboat 8,000 or 10,000 despite the solid south. Hon. Geo. M. Dewey, of the Owosso Time?, has been proposed as a fit man for the position of sergeat-at-arras of the state senate. The suggestion is a good one. Mr. Dewey is a veteran journalist, a veteran republican, and we believe in the party's rewarding that class of men. Two New Orleans girls whose "felIers went back" on them recen tly, met their recreant lovers on the street and pertorated their bodles wilh bullets. In otlier words murdcred lliem ; and a New Orleans jury ncquitted tht-rn tliereof. Our boys who are goin; down there this winter better " look a leedle out." In the Evening News of Monday is a very flatteiing notice of Judge Frank II. Thomas, of Caro, a democrat, who has beer. elected judjje of probate by an overwhelming niajority in a strong republican county. Unless we are greatly off our base, Frank will come to the front in the politics of this state, and make bil mark too. The Pontiac Oazette is autiiority for the statement that the face of Hon. Byron ü. Stout wears the first smile that lias illnmed it in twenty years! How lonesome t must feel. But if he could have been present at the joint sessions of the legMature two years ago, and lieard Senator liomeyn, of Detroit, answer promptly "Byron G. Stout," when his name was called, certainly a eritn smile must huve played over his features. In order to prove that Mr. Cleveland was innocent of the charge proferrcd against blm by IJev. Oeo. II. Ball üurlng the campaign. sonie friends of the president elect attacked that gentleman's resIdenoe in lUitt'alo, N. Y., Moiulay ntglit, smaahed doois and Windows, and tbrew ohunks of eoal and other misslles iulo the sleeping room of Mr. Ball's daughters. That is wliat tnay be termed freedom of tlioughl nnd speech, trom a democratie standpoint. In other words "Keform." Rev. John M. Arnold, D.D., dled very suddenly, of heart disease, at his home in Detroit, on Friday afternoon. 11e was the manager of the Michigan Christian Advocate publishing house, and was widely known and universally respected and esteeined. He was 00 years of afe, carne to Michigan in lSiO, and made his way up by dogged perseverance, improving every moment by dllllgent study. He was for many years an active minister in the M. E. church, hut his principal work has been to establish an M. K. book depository in Detroit, wliicli lias grown to mammoth proportions.