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Day
17
Month
August
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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ív puouc meeting ot the Ketorm Ulub was held in the Opera House on Saturday evening last. Hon. E. A. Storrs, of Chicago, had been aunounced as the speaker oí the evening, but his long argunieut in the laboratory case, which closed Saturday morning, had so told upon his voice and lungs that he was uuable to iill the bilí. Dr. Cocker and Judge Clioever were calleé into service and each gave an interesting talk, after which Mr. Storrs made a brief address, the cuttings up and final return of the prodigal sou furnishing his text. President Sehumacher presided. - On Suuday afteruoon the usual public meeting was held in tlio Opera House, the speakers being George Sleator, a young lawyor irom Dexter, and J. W. Huil, President of the Saline Reform Club. ïhere was a good atteuflance. - Prof. Evans, of Adrián, is to addresss the Reform Club ou Sun'lay afternoon next, at the usual hour, in the Opera House. - A iarge and riue portrait of President Schumacher, executed by Miss Speechly, photographer, of this city, has been hung up iu tho rcaduig room of the Reform Club. - Mayor Cramer vvill address tho Reform Club of Pinckuey, in the red ribbon tent, on Suuday eveuing uext ; and on Suuday evening, Aug. 26, will address the Saline Club. - Several hundred excursiouists, representing the Reform Clubs of ürass Lake, Chelsea, and Dexter, went eastvvard yesterday morning, bouud lor Put-iu-Bay. Michigan Ckops.- The Secretary of Stat lias sent to the press of the State, in advance of the publication of the f uil erop statistics as gathered by the Supervisors while taking the laat assessment, a tabular statement of the acres and busliels of wheat, corn, oats, and barley raised iu the State in 1876, and of the number of acres of wheat sowed in the fall of of 1870 and just harvested. The total wheat production in the State in 1876 is given at 16,839,476 bushels, and the average per acre is estimated at 13.75 bushels. The acreage for 1877 is put at 1,228,836 ; the estimated production is estimated at 21,049,345 bushels or over 17 bushels per acre, - a low estímate according to all reports. Washteuaw Couuty had 45,098 acres and 728,677 bushels in 1876, a yield of 16.16 bushels per acre. The erop for 1877 is given iu the table as 44,319 acres and the production estimated at 716,195 bushels. Iu other grains our county is credited for 1876, in acres : corn, 20,338 ; oats, 11,629 ; barley, 3,417. But six counties produced more bushels of wheat in 1870 than Washtenaw, as follows : Calhoun, 975,371; St. Joseph, 840,104; Oakland, 810,2C9 ; Kalamazoo, 785,663 ; Jaekson, 753,503 ; and Ionia, 738,669. Each of the same counties has a larger acreage for 1877, as also have Barryj Livingston, Hülsdale, and Clinton, though the productiou of the three counties last nained is not estimated so high as Washtenaw. In the number of acres of corn raised in 1876 Washtenaw Couuty was the 1-lth ; iu oats, the 13th and in barley, the 3d. This paragraph, clipped trom the Ypsilauti Sentmel of August 8, is full of good sense ; " Tho Common Council of Ann Arbor is a tie on the questiou of enforcing the city ordinance requiring saloon-keepers to takeoutlicense. lt does not seem to us thero can be much questiou about it. The city imposed the lioeuse, and ït was sustained by the courts. Sutwequently tho Legislature imposed the State tiix, and it is now allegefl a hardship by the saloen-keepers to pay both. That is the Logislature's business, not the Couucü's. The State law does not supersede the Council's ordinauoe, or interfere with it. Enforce the ordmance, orrepeal it. Tliat is the way." That is it: and if a majority of the Couucil cannot be brought to vote for its repeal, it is the duty of each and every member of the Council, a duty which his oath of office makes it imperativo upon hirn to discharge, to see that it is enforced in good faith. Aud, beyond this plainest of principies, no oíficer has the riglit or authority to prohibit any other oflicer from doing his duty in the enforcement of this or any other ordinauce, aud such prohibition or ordor will not protect an oflicer in neglectiug his duty. Neithor can tho Council as a body legally order the nou-euforcement of an unrepealed and valid ordinance.

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