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Day
18
Month
May
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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We predictj (bat Mr. W. H. Brearly will make a great raoetM of the Evening Journal, notw thstanding the atteinpts of envlous rivals to prejudice the public astainst hiiii. The committee of the Business Meu's association must feel very niuch pleased over the statement in the Ui-gister last week, that they were iu pol ludo n with the COL'RIER. In the trhüof Frecl Joslyn at Curuuna, the school teacher who shot Tho?. Morrison, a parent who enne there to thresh him for punishing his boy, the jury disagreed - five for conviction and seven tor acquittal. Something sliould be done by the city authorities to prevent the reielt'on of such a scène as was enacted on the banks of the mili race last Sunday. To allow such indecent exposure as was done at that time, in sight of a larjre number of people, is against the laws of all decency and honor. Chairman Weston ot the democratie state central cotnmiltee, has disgusted the leaders ot his party all over the state by wriling a letter favoring the most stri ngent liu.uor,legislatlou. Weston will take walk nnw probably. LaUr -Weston takes it all back. Swallows it llke a veritable crow eatina cirrion. According to the best record of gain and loss, the government seeins to hold title to 1,616,101 fquare miles, or 1,034,330,84-2 acres. It as Is clalmed, one acre, thoroughly tilled, will subsist one person, the public domain alone as it now stands is sulllcient to support i populatiou a dozen times as large as ours is at present. There sei-ms lo be a strong tide throughout the country setting iu towards a uigher tax on saloons and local option. Bills to sucli an eft'ect are before the leglslatures of Michigan, New York and I'ennsylvania. That is the moet practical kind of prohibition. We hope to see the $500 tax put on in all these states, especially iu oui own. It is yery probable that the legislators have at last come to their senses and will now do somethiu for the people regarding the reduetion of rail rond fares. A bilí for this purpOM wa.s )imod by the house in committee of the whole, last weck, and is set down for special order to-morrow, when it wil! undoubtedly be passed by that body. To charge such men as Dr. W. F. Breakey, G. K. Allraendinj.'er, and A. W. Hamilton, the committec of the Business Men's association who awarded the contract for printing the descriptive pamphlets of the city to the Courier, wlth having resorted to tricky and uuderhanded work iii awarding this contract, is an insult uot only to these uien but to the cutiré assoclalion. General Lawtou, the newly appolnted Minister to Austria, repudiates the idea of a "New South," and says that the phrase is a misnomer. The same men are at the front now, he says, as under the old regime. The General is a living illustratlon of the fact. He even refused to apply for a reinoval of hls political disabilitiej betore he tound that It was necessary before he could get au ofllce. The Kalamazoo Sentid liad tbis fine pull fortlie slugger agjjrcgrttion: "John L. Sullivan.thechnmplon prize-rlghter.drunkard and boodlum, arrived here to-day noon with hls gang. Sullivan and Shecdy are registered with their wives. The noble party are billed togive a slugging exhibítion to-night, to which the elite of the Boiler avenue district re cordially invited. The Herald offlee will close proraptly at 3:30 o'clock tliis afternoon and the city editor may be found in Gilkey's woods, but these are his sentiments anyhow." The "blue law" resolution of our coancil has been severely comtnented upon, but what woukl our people think if tin-v lived at the western terminus of the F. & P. M. R. K ? The News says that the "boys in Ludington have got to get off the streets at 8 o'clock now, by order of the city dads. The city hall bell will ring at thitt liour, and il the boy are digcovered out after that hour they will be run in by the truant offlcer. The people are well pleased by the ordinunce. The council has il-n decreed that the saloons slmll be cloed at 10 p. m., and has detailed an offlcer to see that they do." The legUlature has made important chunges In three sections of the statute relating to taxes for township purposes and the auditing of bilis against townships. Under the law amended no more than $1,000 can be ral.-ed by tax in one year, asa contiiiKent or general township fund. Any further money required uaM be raised as a special fund for a particular purpose, whlch must be entered in i the records of the township, umi the i money so raised be used only for sucli 1 purrott. All the bilis auditrd by the I board must be made out In items, and ' kept on lile for inspection by the ( payers. i Tbe Washtonaw county paper ought to organizo a proas associatlon for mutual beneflt and social Intercourse. Many counties throughout the state have such organizatiune, und they work inuch good for the publishers, gets thcm better acquainted with each otlier, and ciinses thein to labor harmouiously together without the unnecessary and injurious opposition in business wliich oftentimes occurs without regard to good sensc and the interests of the profession. There are flfteen local papers in the county, and an association could easily be organized. Let some of the county seat papers broach the subject, andifthought best calla meeting there for the purpose named- Saline Observer. As the eounty editors are all a very good mitured set. it might not be dangerous to get tlirin all together. The action of tne legislature in rooting out the "graveyard" Insurance companies of thts state is a cominendable thing, and sonie law to effectually crush them out of existence ought to be enacted. The attempt to kill an old man at Coldwater by parties who held a policy for several thousand dollars on hls Ufe, is luit a fair sample of the crime these companles tend to bring upon the people. It is even said that there are physicians in the state who take out policies on the Uves of their patients whom they consider but short-lived. With a policy of a few thousand dollars upon the Ufe of yourself or a near relative or friend held by the attendinj; phyaician, how much would you consider that life worth. Of course no honorable physician, or honorman would go into thls business, but there are tho.e wlio care little how they obtain money as long as they obtaiu il. This dlsreputable species of insurance shoulü

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Ann Arbor Courier
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