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Day
9
Month
March
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The proliibitlon8ts are urging republicans to vote for the prohibitory amendment, and at the sanie time they are endeavoring to elect the democratie ticket for j tulges of the supreme conrt to nulllfy the amendment if t is carried. The election of two democratie justices of the supreme court this spring will put that body completely in the hands of the demócrata, and who ever heard of a democratie judge upholding a prohibitory law? For right sharp political flgurers tho prohibitionists take the whole barber shop. lt is proposed to adopt n law in Michigan, prohibiting its citizens from drinking intoxicating liquors. Why notenact luws to proliibit people from commiting tlieft, murder, ndultery and other crimes? Such lawa would be as sensible and as practicable. Ifliquor drinking is a crime, would it not be far more practicable toenact laws to punish those who cotnmit the crime? just as our laws now punish t'iieve?, murderers, etc, if lt can be proven against tlietn. Why put the c;irt before the horse in tliis matter? The nction of the Cjngregational minfstcra of Chiciifro in refusing to send a tclcfrr.im of coiidolence to the wife of Henry Ward Reerher last Monday, Is to be rafiéUed for the rcason that it CMti ¦ renection upon the Christianity of the Christian clinrch. It inight be well for those gentlemen to study the old version of the new testament, and gain a more tliornugh understanding of the life and teachings of Hiin who died upon the cross. On the same day the Methodist ministers of the same city iinanimoiisly agrced to send such a tcleram. Representative Cole's bilí for the payment of bounties for killing English sparrows, has passed the house of representatirrs, :it Latisinj;. The terms of the bilí allow a bounty of one cent a head tor cacli sp.irrow killed. The heads of the hirds are to be presented in lots of not less tli.-m 25 to the city, village or township clerk, who is to isne to the ent rpriainr hunter a cer'itieate for the amount of money due liim. The certificates are to be paid by the county treasurer. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher 3 dead. The entire civilized world will regret this annouiuenient, for whatever may have been alleged against him, be was a power intellectually. His mind swayed the entire religión world to a greater or less cxtpiit, and his utternnci'S have found lodgment In the heads and hearls of niillions of people. He was one of the distinfruished men of thi century whose niemori' will never die out. A democratie house refuseil to jrrant tlie wife of the late Gen. John A. Logan a pension. There was uo trouble n gnintintj one to Mrs. Gen. McClellaii, bowever. It s susgested th.it thoold Gen. Fitz John Porter die mil leave a widow, she would ensily obtiiu a pension alo. Tim Tarsney, of E:it Siiginaw mijjlit wax eliiquent over it. The nction of the prohibitionists in putting a tirket in the field this spring shows Uifit it isn't proliibition, they care for half as much as the offlees.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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