They All Do It

EüiTon OF Couriek :- Will you pleaso inform a reader in this week's paper, whether thcre is any doctor In town, who met electricity to effect cures. Please give desired information. Editob Coürier:- That "Inquisitive" [jcrson wbo asked two quoations in the Courier last week either does not ununderstand what hc is talking about, or else he is trying to be smart at some one'í expense, lf the "gentlemanly burglar has entered the commou council," he entered it sotne time ago, and at the request of sevcral of the heavy tax-payers of the city. Goiug back to the Decoration Day of 1884, itwill be found that at the urgent request of several prominent citizens who claimed to pay a great deal of the city's taxes. the council was asked to pay and did pay flOOJand over for the expenses of the services held -that day. What right had the city council to pay that bill? Were the citizens beneflted In any way by thoee services' Again, the council chosen in the springof 1884 tendered au invitatlon to the American Association for the Advanceii 1 j i of Science to hold their next kanaal meeting in this city, which invitation was accepted. Of course if they came they must bu entertaitied, and it was argued by the mayor and other memberg of the preeeding council (elected in '84) that the present body was responsible for their acts and must put their foot into the" boot which had been so slyly prepared for them. When the time for the entertainment of these Scientists arrived, a large number of the heaviest taxpayers of the city petitioned the council to appropriate $800 as an entertainment fund and several of theee tax-payers attended the meeting of the council and insisted upon the money belng appropriated, though admitting that the council had no lawful right to do il. As they represented the wealth of the city they had n right to demand of the councilmen to do a wrong, and the council did a wrong at their request, very sensibly cutting oñ' $300 from the amount asked for. When den. Grant died th rnnnrn held a meeting and appolnted a committee to act with a citizen's committee in respect to holding memorial services. And on the day of Gen. Grant's funeral appropriate memorial services were held in the Methodist church of this city, and I am informed by a memoer of the finalice committee of the council, that the expenses ineurred by these committees were paid out of the city's funds, the council being urged to such action by many prominent citizens. When the council met last Monday anc' appointed a committee to attend the funeral of the vice-presldent of the United States, who was a resident of a neighboring state, they did nothipg worse than had been done by the council chosen in 1884, and nothing worse than they were fairly torced to do by the request o eminent citizens of the city. If that action was a "steal," as it has been termed so were all the other appropriations referred to "steals." In the opinión of the writer the council did right in showing s( ïnuch respect to the memory of the secom official of our country, and had as muel right to appropriate the funds of the city for the committee's expenses as they had to pay for the Grant memorial services or for the Decoration Dav services, etc.