Will Not Go Back

"Why, yc9," said un olil farmer to ye scribe j'esterday, "I remember well wben saloons were not conilned to the villages and cities, I do. We used to have them on every cross roads in the country, wc did, and these country heli-holes - you niiglit as well cali theni by their right nanies, for that is wliat they were - why sir, these country hcll-holcs ruineil many a likely farmer boy. The boys for a grcat circle around would gatber in them evenings and teil stories, and treat, and they formed habits that many of them never got oyer in all their lives, and some of them fill drunkard's graves they do. And now," said the gray-headed old veteran, waxing earnest, "do you suppose we are going to vote back a law that permitted such a state of things? No, sir; we won't. Wc were mighty glad to get a law that run them out of the country into your cities and villages, we were, and we will take good care in oursection, at any rate, to keep them just as far away from the farmer boys as we can get them." Then he put his hands in his pockets, walked off a few steps, turned around and came at us ngain. "Now ee here, I am no licker man, I liaint. I hate the pizen stuff wor8e than the evil one does the ten commandments, I do, and If my vote would banUh the tarnel stuff from off the face of the earth I would give it quicker thau a toad ever caught a íiy, I would, but the trouble is that 'twon't do it. The cured evil is here with 119 and the ouly thing for us to do is to tight it the beet way we can. I believe in taxin' the trafile, I do. Put on the taxes and reduce the places where they sell it. You can drive them out of the villages just as they were driven out of the country. That's the way to reach prohibition. I'd like to see every man who engages in the liker business made to p ïy fl,000 lor the privilege of selling the stuff, I would." How rnucli longer he would have pronkbed to us we can't say liad he not been oalleil away just then. But who can dispute that he had sonie pretty sound ideas ou the subject, if he ilid not clothe them in polished language ? The uuholy alliance isended. Neither the demócrata nor the greenbackers feel really first rate. The Lanaiog Republican hended its column of news from the "new party" coiiventiou last week: "Still i-Borning.'' Alter tliis it miglit be appropriate to leare out the a and cut off the tij;. At last the ra il rond coinpanies hare woke up to the neccessity of heating passenger cars by other methods tlian by stores. Rousted human beings ure beeomiugtoo uuuierous for even corpjration's souls. There Is a rumor tloatiug about the state to the effect tlmt the Detroit Eveuing News willspend 8Oinething like $50,000 in aid of Judge Campbell's reelection. No affidarits to that effect hare been published, however. Noah W. Cheever, oi' tliis city, for the short term; and Lemuel Clute of lonia, are the prohibition candidate for justices of the bupreiue court. Darid Preston of Detroit, and A. B. Cheney of Sparta, are the candidates for regent. Tiiere o grtat strit'e just now between tlie Detroit Eveiinig News aud the Ypsi1 tnti Suiitiiicl :is to whirli oiiu du the most frrowllng in the smallest spaee. Tlie impiession in these pirt3 is that all the News need do to equal the Seutiuel 8 to 1-jt its h:iir grow. Major Hewitt, of New York City doesn't swear by the laborinr men, or by George, either. It U intimated thut the mayor' liver is out of order. Ir iie wants to be president he wlll have to Hew-it out on some other line. Huw would it amwer for tlie worthy mayor to run down üill? The name of Hou. A. J. tí iwyer ivas preseuted to the republican stute conventior. last Wednesduy by the Washtenaw delegation for the office of Justice of the bupreme court, and althoujfh he entered the liald after all the other euiulidates, he stood third in the race. A compliment over whicli Mr. Sawyer m.iy well l'eel proud. The demócrata thiuk themselves trong enough to go it alone this year, and so kicked out their greeuback allies at their state convention yesterday and nominated a straight ticket, as follows: For justices Levi T. Griffin.of Detroit, 8 years; Chas. B. Camp, of Saginaw, 10 years. For resentg, Jíiirtley Breen and H. F. Sprague. Representative Maiily shoiild reverse h is bilí probibiling raiiroads f rom braing passes to governinent, state,c unty or judicial oflkials, and liave the lawcompel the isiuing of passes to these olticiale. That would take away any obligatloii to the recipiënt, and would in no way injure the railroatls. ])on't let tlie coiDorations have tilinga too easy. Make theui my sume lax fur doing business. The Dexter Leader refers to the Chinese as "the most benlghted people of the globe." If the writer of that senteuce will eome down tu Ann Arbor, look through the Chinese collection and see the skiil displayed in maiiy of the beautiful ainl useful things tliere to be seeo, he may possibly chance his mind. The Chinese are far from being an ignorant or benighted people. They are ahead of us " uivilized '' folks in sometliings, and are intellectual also thougli ierhai)S not progressive. The noiniiiatioii of Col. Cha?. D. Lonji, of Plint, for supreinn julre, worries our democratie contemporánea considerably. They don't like liis empty sleeve, or the rebel bullet hecarries u his body. They don't like his reputation for honesty, gobriety and work. They are very mach ufraiil that he belongs to the class of men wtio "get there." For tlieir especial benefit it might be well to meiition the fact that no better man than Col. Lon? ever asked their votes for this high offlee. He will make a good judge, also, and one that will conimand respect upon the bench. The telephone brinca the news of a big lire at PiDCkney this moriiing, the flre starled in Caldwell's hardware store at about 8 o'clock. The losses as near as we can learti were: Caldwell's hardware store, total loss, $7,000. The postofflee building, $600. Mann's dry good store $8,000, insured for $3,000. The People's link damaged to the exteut of $1,000. ('lark's inruim fhop total loss, and üeo. Syke's dwelling house total los?, no iiisurance.