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Day
16
Month
January
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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In DISCUSSING tbe recent decisión o the Stpreme Court of Texas, holding th law under which the last State electio waa huid uncongtitutiorial, the Detroi Tribune says : " Of course the interpre tation put upon a State Constitution b its Supreme Court is the binding one, an the late election must, therefore, be con sidered invalid." Not necessarily, or th Tribune has heretofore been at fault An nppeal might be made in some way perhaps, to the United States Supreme Court, and that fair minded unprojudioed, and unpacked body, induced to ignore the consturction put by the Texas Snpreine Court upon the Texas Constitution and its provisión. At least this is what has been done touching the Constitutious of other States and the "interpretations" of other Supreme Courts. - And the Tribune has not baen slow to advocate and urge a rovorsal of decisions of our ovvn Supreme Court : is it too much to say in the interest of certain railroads aid bondholders 'r1 - At a recent meeting of the Michigan Homeopathie Institute, at Lansing, tho University Committee reported the refusal of a mandumus by Judge Crane, adding : " This ends the secourt law providing for hotneopathio teaching in the University. The profession are not disappointed. The inconsistenoy and incompatibility of inixing truth with error in the same crueible, as teaching hoineopathy and allopathy in the same school, has been evident t,o every sensible meinber of the profession, and we think must now be to the people generally." Sensible at the last, though the agitators will probably keep up a fire f rom all the sinall arms at tbeir command. - In the -Suprema Court, on Monday a decisión was made in a suit for dam' ages agair.13t a liquor sellar, brought by the wito of the purchaser, underthe act of 1871. The law was held valid ; the seller was a'.so held responsiblo for sales of by a. ser vant, even though his instructions wer-e disregarded in a particular transaction; but that to entitle plaintiff to eieniplary damages the conduct of the seller must be " willful, wanton, reckless or otherwise deserving of punishment beyond what the requirement of mere compensation would impose." - Wnting of Sheriff Brennan, of Now York, and h-s sentence to a fine of $250 and board in the county jail thirty days, the Detroit Post rogrets that he is not to be " locked up in prison several years," and also avers, "If there is any way to kick him out of office, it should be done as soon as possible." A thing which can hardly be done, even to gratify our friend of the Post, when we consider the f-tct that said Sheriff's term of office expired with the dying hours of the old year. - Don Piatt had the bad tasto to criticise Mrs. President Grar.t for holding receptions so soon after her father'sdeath, and Lieut. FreJ. Graut beat hiin in the bad taste line by niaking a threatening cali at Piatt's residence. Piatt was fortunately "out" and so a colusión was avoided. The pólice protected Piatt a day while young Grant cooled. - The House did a good thing on Tuesday by postponing the consideration of the educational bill until March. Indefinite postponmeut would have been a better thing, however. The several States are abundantly competent to es tablish and manage their own educational system. - We omitted last week to pen-scratch the then latest revolution in Spain; but then as Spain is out oí' onc revolution and into another so frequently and ofteu, it is scarcely worth while for a weekly ournal to attempt to keep track of her : lian ges. - It is given out that Alex. Agassiz, sjn of the late Prof. Agassiz, and who il, is claiiued ranks next to the father as a, scientist, is a believer in the peculiar theories of Darwin. " Train up a child in the way he bhould go." - Ex-Senator Geah.'.m, the defaulting President of the Walkill National Bank Middletown, N. Y., has been convicted of embezzlement and sentenoed to ten yoar's service in the Albany Penitentiary. - The fight between the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Eailroads goes bravely on : the latter having reduced the fare from New York to Chicago to $18 50. - Are not the multitude of reasons as signed why Attorney-General Williams should not be Chief Justice equally good against his continuance as AttorneyGeneral? - Ex-Gov. Claflin and nineteen others have petitioned the Maesachusetts Logislature for the rescinding of the resol utions of censure upon Senator Sutuner. - Judge Moore, the able and popular Judge of the Saginaw Circuit, has re . signed. Tho only reason assigned is the iusutiiciency of the salaiy. - After Williams, Cushing ; but after Cushiug, who?

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