The First Annual Meeting Of The

igan Sbeep lireeders' Association is to be held at Marshall on Weduesday ne.tt, December 18. It is announced that Henry S. Sleeper, of Kalamazoo, is to be the deputy in the State Land office under Comrntssioner . ensmith. - - ■ - - . - ■ Allegas haa aspirations to be a city. Better puttcrn after the "big village1' a little longer. Small cities are too couimon to be of any account. Tiiere is talk ot' several Cahinet changes : that Attorney.General Devens is going out, and that son-in-law Hale is to be made of the Navy, etc, etc. i -- -" - One of the Adrián wheat "jobbers" - Charles Hough - has been convieted at Kalamiizoo, it taking the jury but ten minutes to agree on their verdict. The case is to be taken to tbc Supreme Court. Tuk N. Y Tribune has discovered a "hair in the Administration butter." "Hangman Foote" is the man, and why he has been appointed to office is more than the puzzled man of the Tribune can teil. Ex-President Grant is to visit India, China, and Japan, sailing froin Ville Francho on the U, S. steamer llichmond, Kear Admiral Patterson commanding, which is soon to leave this country for a cruise through the Indian and Pacifio Oceans. The ex-President simply goes as a dead-head excurüionist aud not as a diplomat. Ax exchanoe puts it in this wise : "Washington thinks the House will give tho Indians to the "War Department, but that the Senate will take them back." Judging by the past, the Indians scarcely need the aid of the House : they havo been in the habit of giving it to the War Department, or its officers and soldiere in a rough gort of way these many years. Blue ruin once more stares the country in the face : the Senate, by a vote of 39 to 21, ha ving passed a bilí whioh autborizos the appointment of Dr. Junius L. Powell, who served in the Confedérate army when a minor, to the position of aasistant surgeon in the armyWouldn't it be well for the aggrieved and fearful to sing, " Ou wliat a. uarrow ueuk of land 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand." TlIF. Legislature at its coming session should grasp vigorously the tramp problem. The proportious it is assuming are staggering to courts and officials having to do with the administration oi juetice and the measuring out of punishment for the so-called lesser offensea and orimes, as well as tothose in charge of the charitieB of town, city, or county. ïiightly, poorhouses and stationhouse are besieged by able-bodied men deinanding meals and lodgings, and the oalls upon private oharities are freOUent ATi rt.oia4-rt TT"?,1110! „_ '-i i ij. to tl mum and halt anc blind, to the sick and the afflicted, to the old and infirm, and we would by no means have them turned away hungry from almshouse or station, but would have all such comfortably hoased, fed, and ciad at the public expense : just so long as they are unable to work and earn a living for themselves, and not a day longer. But the lazy and thrif tless, the vagabond and vagrant, the ablebodied tramp and petty pilferer, each and all of them should be required to " earn their biead by the sweat of their brow." Either city, oounty, or district workhouses shouid be provided, or the authorities of each city and town should be authorized to put begging trampa at work on the streets and highways, breaking stone and macadamizing the roadways. The rule should be forevery man physically able, pay for lodging and meals in work : so many hours for a day's board. If they will not do that under the supervisión of the local authorities pass them on to the district work-house, and not to a jail to eat and sleep in idleness for weeks or months. Something must be done in this direction at once. A specially sharp correspondent of the Detroit Evening New propounds this among other equally bright conuadrums : The disgraceful stite of affairs at Ann Arbnr raises the senous question whether the State of Michigan sbould coutinuo to mainttiin a hospital where the lame, halt and blind from in aud about Ann Arbor may go and be treated at tbe public expensa. Would not the abolition of tbe hospital be the most certain preventton of further " milis" between the rival professors P Now let it be understood by the New, its correspondent, and tho people of the Stat at large, that the patients treated at the University olinics or in the hospital do not come largely from Ann Arbor or vicinity. Scarcely an Ann Arbor patiënt has found a bed in the hospital since it was opened. The patients come from all sections and almost every county in the State. They are patients who cannot be sucoessfully treated by local practitioners, needing in addition to surgical operations that after attention and care which cannot be given them at their homes. These patients are divided nearly equally between aurgioal and eye cases, and a large proportion of them are cured and converted from burdens upon their friends or the public to salf-supporting citizens. We are told of a single patiënt who had been for four years a poor-houne resident - and not in Washtenaw County either - who is now êarning bis daily living. We have no hesitation in saying that the University hospital saves or returns to the State more each year than the State coutributes to its support, or in fact to the support of the Department of Medioine and Surgery of the Univeraity. It is the cheapest and most productivo charity that the State directly orindirectlycontributea to. If there is wrong in it management let reform do its perfect work ; meantime such attacks aa thoae of " Juatitia" smack either of a disgraceful gnorance or an imana jealousy. The Michigan legislator who will first come orward witb a feaaible scheme to abolinh the ee systeiu of compensating county ortioor.s will aar and receive a well-deserved credit mark. l'he first working day o( the session is the lay to begin - Frre Press. lf the "feasible sohemo" proposed by our ooteinporary can substituto a simli plain, understandable fee bill for the several cotuplicated fee bilis now regulating the oharges made by oouuty offiours, and guarantee that the presoribed fees shall be faithfully collected and covered into the troasury, we can sec no objection to making all the county officers salaricd ofticers, except n the difficulty of determining the uecessary number of clorks or deputies. But we protest in the outsot against any change in the laws whinh símil give county clerks and registers of deeds, salaries, and romit entirely the fees now ;axed against litigauts in the one office or for the recording of conveyances, etc, in the other. There is a trite proverb whioh reads, "ho who dances must jay the fiddler," and there is no good reason why the honost, peace-loving business man, the man who is never seen kuocking at thedoors of our courts, either as plaintirT or defendant, thould e taxed to pay the expenses made by chronio litigants, by men who oouldn't ive without a law-suit on their hands. These litigious people now have the botter of their neighbors who have no trouble in understanding the contracta they make or disposition to avoid fulfilling them. The jury fee of $3 - the supposed pay of twelve men who spend a week trying a case which should never liave beeu brought into court, and which involves lesB than the daily exponses of court officials - is an illustratiun in point,- the tax-payers who never have suits being oalled upon to pay the same jurors each $2 a day.and at the same time the same per dieui allowance to twelve other jurors in waiting, with all the other expenses of the court. It is no doubt for the interest of the burdened, oppressed, or abused poor man that access to the courts should be made cheap oreven free to hiin ; but it is detrimental to the true interest of the public to encourage litigation by relioving the litigating classes of all fees by taxing the large body ofthe people to enable them to enjoy the real luxury of dancing attendance upou evrey term of oourt without being called upon to pay anything save their own attorneys' bilis. A to the register of deeds, if his fees are too large let them be reduced, or let thom be colleoted and paid into the treasury. It would be certainly unjust to tbe general tax-payer of either Wayne or Washtenaw County to levy upon him to pay the salary of the register and his necessary clerks. The man who owns a house and lot in Detroit or Ann Arbor, or a farm in Wayne or Washtenaw Couuty, who has owned it for twenty, thirty, or fifty years, or will own it for that number of years to come, and in all those yeais has had no occasjon to have a dned, mortgage, or other instrument recordad, should not be assessed to pay for rocording the papera of a professional real estáte dealer or of a chronio buyer and seller. Theso are points to be considured while clamoring againat feo bilis and non-salaried oificers. will be asked to eetablish a separate State lnstitntion for the eduoation of the blind. The whole accommodations of the building at Flint are needed by the deaf and iliimb, and besides it is claimed that the association of the two classes in one school or institutiou is detrimental rather than bencnuial to either : that different managemont and different courses of training are necessary Os Tuesday, Gov. Hampton, of South Carolina, had a leg amputated ju3t below the knoe, and on the same day the Legislature eleoted him to the United States Senate for the term of six years froin the 4th day of next March, - to suoceed Senator Jfatterson. The Republicans regret that his head was not amputated instead of his leg. Zacii Chandler has withdrawn his libel suit against A. C. Buell,- the latter having become convinced that he made his charges on information entirely fal ne.