Fire And Fire Limits

We onderstand that the Common Cotincil, at their meeting on Tueselay last, vir tually repealed the ordiHauce of Fire Liinits by rendering it of such a flexible chaiacter as will make it of little account. i'his was done to enabie tlicm to pass a resol ut ion permitting the ercctlon of a wocxlen baru lo the west of the Grcgory House. A resolution to tliat effect was offered and would doubtless have been passed had t not been declared out ot order by the Mayor; btit wliich ivill be In order at the end of two week. We su;gest tliat it would be well forevery property holder in Ann Arbor to look to tliis mat. ter before it is too late, and avert the great calamity of a general conflagration. Many former residents of tliia city were sufferers in the late Chicago disaster. We have endeavored to obtain a full list, but presume It is still incomplete. J. Weil & Bro., Wm. M. Sinclair, Win. A. Martin, and Scott Quuckeubush, all had their business places destroyed, while E. S. Jennison, - tlie Uiiivi'rsity architect- and A. II. Castle, well knowu to most of our citizens, suffered siinilsrly. J. E. Ilenriqiies, who was in the Fourth National Bank, has been home, and reportó most of the Ann Arbor boys who were employed therc all right. Frank F. Bandall, with Pullman Car Co., and his brother Fred., have also visited their home here, sincc the conflagration. Frank Loomis, Dau. Danforth, Arthur Kellogg, Will Judd, Win L. Mead, líale Bliss, Fred. Nye, C. M. Wells, and C. D. Bllss are among the boys who uscd to live here, and are all safe, S. D. Goodale is missing, and rumor has it, wasburned to death, but will not vouch for the truth of the report. It will be scen by the council procced ings that a commitlee was appointed by that body to take into consideratlon tho establishment of a pólice forcé in our city This loqks like a move in the right dlrection. The present foreo seems hardly ade. quate to the demands, and a larger one would certainly do uo harm ; while on the contrary it would incitase the safety o' persons and property, and have a tendeney to allay much of the anniety now feit by our business men, and bless some of our clti.ens with fewer sleepless niglits. We hope to hear a favorable report from the committee. Rev. C. II. Brigham will begin on Sunday eventng next, at the Unttarian Church, a course of lectures on the " Ancient Heliglons of the World," to bc contiuued on Buccessive Sunday evenings. Subject lor next Suuday evening, " The Sources of Religión." All interested are lqvited.