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The Supervisors -- the Court House

The Supervisors -- the Court House image
Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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A special session of the Board of Supervisors was held in thii city on Tuesday, to oanvass the vote for and against the Coart Houe loan, and take the stupa to begin the work. The Board was temporarily organized at 10 o'olocfc a. m„ by calling D. LeBaron, oj Bridgewater, to the chair, and at 2 1-2 p. m. a periiuiuent organization was made by electmg George S. Wheeler, of Salem, chairman, the voto benig for Wheeler, 13 ; for LeBaron, 10. The vote was theu cauvassed, and declarad as iollowa : For the loan, - - 4,477 Agaiust the loan, - - 2,049 Majority for the loan, 2,428 Messrs. Yeckley, LeBaron, Gregory and Hatch were appointed a committee to report some plan of action, which committee, at the session held Wednesday forenoon, reported the following resolutions, which were considered separately and adoptad ; Resolved, That the Court House be located in the center ot the Court House Square. Resolved, Tbat the Building Committee heretofore appointed be malmeted to proceed iznmediately to procure and adopt a plan for the erection of a Court House, the same to be subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors. Resolved, That the Building Committee shali in no case exceed the amount appropriated, for the entire completion of the building, including the necessary apparatus for heating the same. Resoloed, That the Clerk be instructed to cali a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, at the request of the Building Committee, to take action in regard to plans approved by said committee, and a notice of time of such. meeting,. by postal card, will be deemed a good notice oi the same. Au effort was theroaftur made, but unsuccessfully, to chang the Building Committeo previously appointed ; also, without success, to reduce the committee to three uieinbers. During the session, Mr. Hess, of Detroit, the architect of the Michigan building at the Ceutennial, presented the floor plans of a building and explained the arrangement. Mr. A, E. Marshall, of this oity, also exhibited and explained his plans which hare for sometime been in the Probate Office. Mr. Marsh, another Detroit architect, also dhcusaed the subject. A nuinber of citizens of this city were also oalled upon to give their views, and concurred in expressing themselves in favor of keeping within the appropriatiou, and in advising igainst so large a building that it could not be Imiltffor the money, tastetully and substantially. The Board adjourned on Wednesday after:ioon to meet on cali ot Clerk. Thb Rbd Ribbon Bots.- The Red Ribbon Reform Club held another large meeting at the Opera House on Sunday afternoon, Stephen iloore, Vice-President of the club, presiding in the absence of Preaident Schumacher. Alter singing, the Kot. Mr. Haskell read an appropriate scripture lesson, which was lollowed with prayer by Prof. Ten Brook. The meeting was then addrassed by E. S. Fassett, Janes Wood, Charles H. Davis, Barney Moriisou, Wm. Jacobus, H. Oatman, Stephen Moore, and Dr. A. W. Chase, The speakers, or uearly all ot them, spoke from sad experienee, and gave a vivid portrayal ot the struggles to couquer appetite. Tliat large class of young men who drink for " mere social purposes," and who imagine or assert that they "can quit when they please " should have heard the ea ra est words in which these men told how they had been bound captivei by the demon of the cup. Another public meeting will be held next Sunday afternoon. - Morrison said that he had been drinking for 31 years ; that he couldn't teil how much liquor he had drank, but the two biggest hogsheads in town wouldn't hold it ; that he was pretty well intoxicated when he signed the pledge, but knew what he was about ; that he never had spent two happier weeks in lus Ufe, and he knew that his wife had never been so happy for two weeks, and that he really believed she had taken a new fancy to Uim. It was an effective speech and ought to lead inany a man, who like Barney has squandered both his money and the best years of his life, to take the pledge and tie on the red ribbon. - Charlie Davis said that putting on the red ribbon, and showing a determination to persevere in reformation, had made his mother look and appear five years younger. - Stephen Moore had had many narrow escapei because of his drinking habita, had while in the army drank liquor thick with gunpowder, and had sen euough of the blightf ui ravages. He proposed to tight the desperate struggle and let the accursed thing alone hereafter and for all time. - A delegation from thé Club go to Saline on Sunday evening - to relate their experience and aid in the good work in that village. - A meeting is to be held at Leland's Church, Nortbfield, this evening and a Reform Club organized. V Charter AMENDMBNTS.-The conglomérate! charter, or so-called revisión, - a compound of ] the Detroit, Saginaw, Jackson, and Grand j Rapids charters, with few of the good points of either, and which cost the city about f 150 for brain work and expenses,- carne to grief in the Legislature on Friday last. The House Coramittoe struck out all after the enacting clause - a wholesale slaughter - and reported a short bill inatead amending two sections only of the present charter. The first amendment próvidos for the appointment by the Council of a director of the poor, and the second authorizes and eutpowers the Council to issue the Court House loan bonds in accordance with the conditions of the resolutiou already ratified by a tax-payers' meeting. A typagraphical " tramp " furnishes us the following incident as recently ooining under his own observation at a station on the Michigan Central Raílroad (cali it Michigan City) : While at the depot a few evenings niñea we noticed a little four-year old girl, who, with her mother, were waiting the arrival of the western train. Noticing the shrieking of the locomotives with their flashing headlights, the rumbling of trains, and the diabolical appearance of the place, she nestled close to her mother's side and inquired, in an awe-struck whisper : " Ma, is this heil ? " Was that one of the babes t whom wisdom is giren P