A Tribute To Michigan

Ia the inaugural address of George L. Maris, President of the Pennsylvania State ïeachers' Asaociutiou, delivered at Erie, Aug. 7, 1877, the following hearty tribute waa paid to the educational system of Michigan, especially to that feature of it which so intimately coimeots the public schools and the University= Ia America the best system of schools is to be fouud iu Michigan and Massachusetts. Iu the fortner State the ideas advanced in the colonial days of the latter, have been most tully developed. While Massachuaetts has a good system of elementary and secondary schools, she has failed to carry out her system to its logical eud - a regular grad&tion hom the priinary classes to a complete uuiverBity course. Had she coutinued her system so well begun two hundred years ago, aud made Harvard Uuiversity the culuiinatiug poiut of a grand orgamzation extending over the entire State, so that the whole were governed by the Umveraity, as a head, she would to-day deserve the proud diatinction of rivaling the best Germán University, and even now, it is nottoo late to avail herselt of th adantage she already possesses. It has been left, however to a State that was not admitted into the Union until after Harvard had celebrated her two-hundredth annivsrsary, to be the first to carry into effect a complete system of schools, with each grade looking to the one above, and deriving from it inspiration to iiicreasad effort. Though the University of Michigan has been in existence but a little over a third of a ceutury, it takes rank among the foremost in the land, aud by its influence upon the Union Schools throughout the State, it has elevated them in all their grades, until now the State of Michigan can justly boast of a system of schools unequalled in the United States. . Further along in the address Mr. Maris also says: Michigan filis an important place among the younger States of our sisterhood of Republics, but there is no brighter gem in her coronet than the broad hberality she displays toward her sons of toil. In Michigan, as iu no other State iu the Union, is the tree school system carried out in its fullness ; her Public Schools are open to all her children, and in the greatness of her soul she opens the doors of her noble University to students trom all parts of the Union, regardless of sex, color or condition. Oh ! Pennsylvania, would that thy legislators could take a lesson from the Lake State ; would that they could be made to understand that the true proyince of the State is to elévate and ennoble her chiUreu, and that the best legacy she can give is a well-educated, well disciplined mind 1 School Distbiot Yotebs. - As it may be of interest to the public to know just who will be voters at the annual school meeting to be held on Moiutay nest, we quote section 3,705 of the compilad laws, as amended by Act No. 106 of the session laws of 1875. : " Every person of the age of twenty-one years, who ha3 property liable to assessment for school taxes in any school district, and has been a resident therein three months preceding any district meeting, shall be a quklified voter in said meeting. And all persons who are entitled by the laws of this State to Tote at township and county elections, and who have resided in said district three months as aforesaid, shall be entitled to rote on all questions arising in said district when the raising of money by tax is not in question, and all such persons shall be tligible to office in snch school district." Undor this section any man or woman who has resided in the district three months and has property liable to be assessed for a school tas, or on the regular tax roll, is a voter both for trustees and on all questions of appropriation or taxation, and i's elligible to the office of trustee. Non-taxpayers who are voters at other regular elections of State, county, or city, may vote for or be elected trustee, but cannot voto on any question of taxation. Three months rcsidence in the district- iastead of ten daya in the ward - is necessary. On the afternoon of the 25th a young man giving his name as Milo Powell attempted to dispose of a $200 draft, made by the First National Bank of Constantine on the First National Bank of New York, selecting Messrs. Dudgeon & Cobb as his victims. But they saw at once that, notwithstanding the draft appeared all right, the helder did not, and after questioning him called in the Bheriff, who was then passing by, and he took charge of him. A telegram was sent to the bank at Constantine, and in a few inoments a reply oame back that the draft was stolen.- Kalamaaoo Telegraph. The asse8sed valuation of Coldwater is $1,035,885 ; the real Taluation would therofore ainount to something over $4,000,000.