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The Churches

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Day
20
Month
April
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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- Rev. Mr. Emerson, of Newton, Masa., will preach in the Congrega tioual Uhurch on Sunday next. - Grouud has been broken for th new Catholio Churah in NortUfiell. T. E. Keating, of this city, has the job for the mason work. - i'ather Van Erp will give his views of the Red Ribbon reform movement on Sunday next, at 10 1-2 o'clock a. m., at St. Thomas' Church. - Rev. Dr. Cocker will preach in the M. E. Church next Sunday morning, and the pastor, Rev. R. B. Pope, will preach, at the same hour, in the Presbyterian Church. - The Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Baptist Church will hold their aunual Flower Festival Wednesday evening, April 25, at theil rooms in the church. Supper served from five till eight, Admission 10 cunts. - The subject of Rev. C. H. Brigham"s discourse on Sunday forenoon, at the Unitarian Church, will be : " The Apostolio Doctrine of the Sabbath." Evening subject: "TheSacred Things of Human Life." Studente' clasa at 9.30- Parable of the Net. - At St. Thomas' Church last Suuday, the pastor, Father Van Erp, informed hia congregation that he should soon tuke a three months vacation. We understand that he will visit his old home in Belgium, also go to Rome and pay his respects to the venerable Pius IX. - The following committees have been appointed to arrange for the coming session in this city, May lóth, of the State Coiuregational Association : On General Arrangement! - Dr. Angelí, Dr, Dunster, Rev. Mr. Holmes, Prof. Adams, Austin Wood, Prof. D'Ooge, and P. L. Page. On Entertainment- S . Austin Scott, J. B. Davia, Elisha Jones, D. S. Wood, Loren Mills, Mrs. J. E. Sumner, Mra. Selleck Wood, Mrs. James Morwick, Mrs. D. S. Wood, and Mie Ada Tripp. On Saturday laat a sealod envelop was left on the tabla of the County Clerk, which was found to contaiu $100 with the following letter without signatures : "Oue hundred of the friendi of Rice A. Beal, reslding in Ann Arbor, haTe, without hia knowledge, contributed the amount necessary to pay the fine imposed upon him by Judge Huntington, and hereby tender the amount (100) to the clerk of the court. In doing this they do not desire to ca8t the slightest suspicion upou the aotion of the judge. We ainiply say that we have known Mr. Beal for yeara ; we have seen hia unbounded charity to the poor ; his Bympathy with the afllioted and the wronged ; hia readineaa to devote time, money, and peisonal enae to the defenee ot those whom he believea to be innocent ; and we contribute this money to expresa our aympathy with him ia the atruggle, and our confidence in and love for the man whose heart is always in the right place and whose judgment ia oftener right than wrong. We believö, further, that full and complete freedom for the defense of those whom we believe to be innocent is a God-given right, whatever human law or human judgment may say to the contrary." IE Bro. Beal did n't " laugh in his sleeve ' when he read the above in Monday's Post, it may and may not have been because he had seen the original. The Post correspondent accounts for the absence of signatures as follews : " No namea were appended to the document for obvious reaaon, but your reporter has seen the names of most of ths contributora, and they are prominent business men and influeutial citizens of thia place." ïhoughtful contributors. - Since the above wag in type we learn by the Detroit Tribune that the " one hundred citizens " sent a note to Mr. Beal advising him of tbeir action, and saying : " To you, individually, belongs the honor of being the flrst American publicly fined for contem pt of court for publishing sworn testimony taken in a public place by a committee of a State Legislatura, upon a matter of great public concern." Considering the fact that the coutempt consisted in not publishing the proceedinga mi full, in facetious if not libelous headings and various severe editorials, the declaration of the " one hundred citizens " is evidently to be taken in a Fickwickian senae. Our cotemporary of the Ypsilanti Sentinel really feela bad over the result of the Court House loan vote. Witness the following from the last issue of that paper : " The county is now in for a new court house. The large majority by which the proposition was camed is certainly the greatest encouragement the projectors could possibly receive, and tends to embolden them in whatever ulterior designs they may have. The citizens of Washtenaw will find that it was no part of those designs to limit the expenditure to sixty thousand dollars. That sum will be expended where it will do the most good, in.laying broad foundations for future contracta and additional appropriations. From the strokeof the first piek to the driving of the last nail in the remóte future, jobbery will stick in every crevice, corner, vault or moulding. It will flourish in furniture and finish ; in heating, lighting, and watering ; everywhere and all around. Where one dollar is usetully applied ten will be stolen. The University lode being pretty well worked out, the court house bonanza is to be opened. We shall keep an eye open to see how it comes out." We beg to repeat for the consolation of our cotemporary that Ann Arbor will be satisfied with having the terms of the resolution literally and atrictly complied with,- 160.000 expended in building a new Court House. It don't hanker after the privilege of contributing to the erection of a coatíier building. And aa Ann Arbor has but three of the twouty-five members of the Board of Supervisors it relies upon the good faith andjudicious management of the outside Supervisors to save them against being bull-dozed into paying miy larger suia than is nomlnated in the bond.

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