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Day
17
Month
May
Year
1878
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- (Jccasioiially persons are heard talking as though a drinking man ought to be able to stop drinking without signing any pledge o tying on a bit of red ribbon. The same per sons scout the idea that the moderate drinke is in any danger, and declare that ttioy can drink or quit drinking at pleasure. Tliey also lose no opportunity to sneer at the hfe-long temperante man who joins a red ribbon organ ization and wears its badge. A little reflection ought to teach these persons that the pledge and badge are elementa oi strength to the conflrmed drinker who is seeking to break the chains that have bound him ; that thoy inlorra the wurld of the resolution he has formed, aut inüure tho countenance and aid of the best portion of community in keeping the pledge of reformation. Ubservation shonld also teach them that the ranks of the drunkard havo alwaya been recruited trom the ranks of the moderate drinker, and aiways wiü be. As to Che man who doos n't need to stop drinking, il may be that for him to tie on a red ribbon is the one way he can reach and aid in saving some friend or neighbor or fellow citizeu who looks to him as an exemplar. -The Vourier of last week mude a covert and cowardly attack upon each of the four judges of the Supremo Court over the " poverty " exponed shoulders of tiie editor of tho Asaus. When the good Methodist brother who sit next to Beal in church shall absorb their religiou9 creeds and opinión from liim, and in addition to making him their oracle in all political and secular inatters shall commiasion him to bear them on 11IS prayers up to the throne of grace, it will be time enough to question " by what authority " the Akocs speaks, or to assume that it reriucti tlic opinioDS of any judge or other officia!, for no other reason than because its editor lires " next door to Judge Uooley." Such a reason for uot appealing the Inboratory or any other snit would be aj.signed by only a fooi or a kuave. -In noticiug Ta Democratie gathering of which its reporter had somehow got wind, the Eveniny News of Friday last made this pleasant mention of one of our citizeus : "Amoiig others who will be present is the gailant Sena, tor Burleigh, from the Fourth district, whose presence is expected to give super-abundant tone to the meeting. He has a certain defined notion of how the machine should be run, and will advocate the policy of capturing the greenback rote. He has strong hopos, by thia scheme, to carry the State tor the Demócrata. The Senator, it is aaid, haa an eye on the gubernatorial chair." On Satimlfty the News slated our Senator as a candidato for Congress in nis district, and ou Wednesday it entered him br State Treasurer. Is the STevs giving the ;enial Bnrleigh away ! - The remark of tho late eminent Judga Grover, of the New York Court of Appeals, o a young lawyer who tras bestowing bis blessings upon a Court which had falled to meet hls viows, mlght well be made both to an ccasional lawyer and an occasional cliënt in riis section. It was : " Young man, when I iractised law a lawyet who was beaten could o one of two thiugs. He could appeul or he ould go down to the taveru aud swoar at tbe udge. It is my opinión that you Cftu't take oth remediei." - The animal meeting of tlie American Social Hcience Afwociatiou wil! commeucd atCincinnati o tlie 18th Saturday unit. The opening aildre will be given by Prof. Pteice, of Harvard, ou " The Xationul Impurt:ince of Social Science ; and on Suuday Bishop Jaggnr, ol Cincinnati, will give a tonnen on " Social Sri ■ ure Ki iN Iíi'IkI lona to BallgiOU." On Tuesday Judge Cooley's paper on " '1'nxatioii '■ will be read ; ou Weduesday a paoei will be rnad ly Prof. Kent, ot the Uuiversity ; and ou Thursdny, befóte the (Conference ot Gliaritien Hou. HemyW. Lord, of Detroit, will read a puper on ♦' I)fie!nlnnt jntd Delinquen ('hildrttn." - We are intlebted to Mossri. S. M. Pntten„ill & Co., ot 37 Park Bow, New York, tor a copy ot their Xeiespatcr Directory and Advertiters' limut-Bouk ior 1878. It is convemoutly arranged, compact, completo, and a munt : ahle book of referauce both to newspuper pub i here and their advertisiug patrons. lt %men the uuinber ot newspapers and othor periodi;nl.i in tho United State as 8,133, clasailied as iollows : daily, "ó'l ; tri-weekly, 61 ; semiweekly, 111; weekly, 6,185 ; Bemi-monthly 111 ; monthly, 831 ; bi-monthly, H ; and qimr-, torly, (il. - Tlie State Medical Society mei at Lnnsin.; on 'J'uesda}r. Ainong the lia t of deleyitea re[lorled in attendiuiue werp. Dn. Duuster, Macleuu, Herdman, and Georg, of this city ; llotwoll und Owen, ot Vpsihmti ; Hall, of Saiin, and Oakley, of Mooreville. Private advice intiniatii that the old folies of the Society will refuae aduussion to the lecttnt graduaten of the Department of Medicine itnd Surgery of the Uuiversity, and that a new ociety will be organized. - This from ti Miison dispatch to the Patt and Tribune under date ot May 14: ' A hearing in tho Rose-Douglas controvorsy w had here lastevening liefore Judge BoutingtÖB, tu ceitifíy to evidence and exhibitt prepuratory to removing the case to the Supraim; Court. Judge Douglas wan here with a laifto m;ss of docuineut, bnt Hoo'. sido tmli'ci in appear or to furnixh exhibils." - A Í7' prize is to be giyaii to the engiuetr on tho Chicago and Iake Hurón Kailroad who kills the smallext nunilier of cattle during a period ui bïx niontht, and f60 to the ninn who slnughters the next mallHt nuniber. And now trams will (prjbally) como to a full -top wheuever an animal is seon on tho tntr.k anti tho train men be sent to drive it oft'. - This lrom the Lansiug Journa-l of May 0 : "Judge Cooley ha been in town som time past preparing au addresa to le read betore the Social Science Couvention to bo held in Ciuciuuati, aud also propurmg matter fer a legal work to be published. He keeps two clerks busy at tho business." - We welcome the Poutiac Cantmcrcul to our list of exchanges. It is a well-tilled 4(1 column quaito, published by Messrs Chapman & Sale. We have a personal acquaiutanco with the latter gentleman and with his newapaper work. He will give the Oaklaml Demociacy some sound doctrine. - We have uumtentionally oimted to notice the appearaDce ot the Lapeer Vernoemt m a new dress. (ilad to note so evident a sign ui Bro. Goulet's prospenty. , -m -Ê- . -

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