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- There is ill teeling and open war among the saloon keopers of Detroit. Since the Sunday demonstration at Arbeiter Hall and the arrest and conviction of some oL the participants, the aggrieved ones and their friendï have made common cause against the down tovvn dealers.claiming that they sell on Sunduy and that the pólice wink at their sins. So last Sunday a self-co'ustituted detective force went on a mission, and one of the reformers claims to have taken 101 drink. On Monday a largo number of complaints were made in the tlie Pólice Court. The Saloon-keepers' Agitation Society has also concluded to take a hand in the suburb regulation business, and Jacob Beller, the oflicers of the Schuetzenbund and others have been complained against. ïhe oíd proverb, " When rogues fall out, &c," can well be made to read, ''when saloon keepers fall out." We shall wait with interest the progress of the new temperance crusade. - Mr. 13. L. Farjeon, author of " Blade-o'Graas," "Joshua Marvel," "Loudou's Heart," ''Bread-and-Cheese and Kissea," etc., proposes to come to this country in üotober, and the coming season will give public readings from "Blade-o'-Grass." Mr. Farjeon has met with great success as a reader in England, and durmg a visit to his father-in-Iaw (Joe Jefferson or "Eip Van Winkle") laat November, he gave two readings iu Brooklyu and one in Now York, which were received with the warmest commendatiou. We shall hope to welcome him to our city during the coming lecture season. - Lord Dufferin, the popular retiring Governor-General of Canada, received a deputation of admirers at Quebec a few days ago, and in response to their address took occasion to eulogize in no measured wovds Lord Lome who is to succeed him, as also the Princess Louise, but the outside public will be lett in doubt whether it is the lord or the princess who is really to represent royalty in the Dominion. - A few days ago Judge Lawrence was regretting the Democratie disagreements and the then proposed appearance of another Democratie paper And to the suggestion that the Democracy were entitled to two papers as well as the Republicans, his response was, ". Perhaps so, but we are harmonious." Whereat the by-stauders smiled visibly and audibly. The harraony of the " Kilkenny cats " is what the Judge must have had in his mind. - ïhe Treasurer of the M. E. Conference now in session in our city, carefully locked his satohel aud funds in a closet in his room, an evening or two ago, together with the coats of himself and chum, using a key of his own in the absence of the regular key. Next morniiífr, after a trial of all the keys in the house, two ministers were engaged iu tryiug to piek a lock. They worked like esperts and were ready breakfast on time. - The last Legislature in prohibiting the sending of any insane persons to county alms liouses aftei1 the opening of the Eastern Michigan Asylum seems to have closed the doors of both of the State Asylums against insane paupers. Heretoforü such insane went to the State Asylum through the county houses, and we can discover no provisión suprseding that method. Can anvone else ? - At the State Teachers' Institute recently held at St. Joseph, Berrien County, Prof. I. N. Demmon, of this city, gave one of the evening addresses, his subject being, " Why we should study other lauguages than our own." The instructora in charge of the Institute were Profs. Putnam and Bellows, of the State Normal School. - James Donovnn, au Ann Arborite now sellmg goods at North Lansing, has made a subscription of $5 a week to the yellow fever aid fund,- to be contmued while the fever iasts. Good lor James.