Farmers Of Washtenaw Invited To Unite In Common Defence

ai a regular meeting ot tnerirst Uistriot Grange of Washtenaw county held at the residenoe of J. W. Wings, township oi' Scio, Junuary 25, an organization was formed anxiliary to the Farmers' Mutual Dcfence Association of Michigan, and the following officers were elected : President, Bobert Bu chañan ; Secretary, George H. Peters Treasurer, Daniel Lyon. The following were unanimously adopted : Wheareas, It has cometo the knoirledge of this grange that certain parties residing in the city of Ypsilanti have purchased a patent on a farm gate issued to A. C. Teel, December l 1863, andaré threatenting tocoinpel farmers to pay royalty thereon ; AND whereas, we feel confident of our ability to prove in a court of liw tha use of the gate in tbis county, whioh they claim ia an infringement, as far back as the year 1847, oonsequently A C. Teel was not the first tind original inventor ; therefore Resolved, That we earnestly reques the farmers of Washtenaw to joiu tho Defence Association and refuse to pa; aud use all honorable means to preveu brother farmer f rom paying royalt; on said sude gate until a decisión as to the validity of the patent is reached b; the courts. Resolved, That wo recommend to tu Farmers' Mutual Defenco Association o Michigan that they araond their arti cíes of association in such way as to de fend their members against all patent right swindlers. Resolved, That we appoint as an exe cutive committoe, J. W. Wing of Scio F. Litchfield of Webster, W. L. Smith o Dexter, and E. A. Nordman of Lima their business to be the soliciting of mem bership to said association and to tale suoh other action as the common Ínter est may seem to need. Supta. of Poor, Edward Dutty of Arm Arbor, D. B. öreene of Ypsilanti, and David Willsey of Pittsfield attended the annual convention of Superintendents of the poor held in Lansing last week. From the Free Press report we observe : Mr. D. B. Greene, of Ypsilanti, spoko of tlio iriii[j tjuusliun and thealacming extent of the evil, me st of the subjects being youngmen from 18 to 28 years of age. The general sentiment of all who spoke was in favor of devoting the liquor tax to the support of the poor, it baing contended that the country towns would have less objection to the county system if the cities contributed their liquor tax to the support of the poor, thuslessening the inequality of taxation for their support. Mr. Duffy, of Ann Arbor, spoke of the trampa, holding that they were not all as bad as represented, and favored an industrial establishment by the State where unemployed men might be furnished with work under proper regulations. RE80IUTI0NS. The Committee on Resolutions, by their Chairman, Mr. Duffy, reported a series of resolutions, the first of which declares it as the sense of the convention that the Legislature now in session be urged to lócate in some central part of the State a home of industry, where the trampa, now so abundant, may be consigned by the Superintendents of the Poor, where they may be enabled to heljrtneuiselves, tbe state to próvida at least the neeussary buildings, whore the industrious tramp uuay fiud labor, and where the worthleBsand iudolent portion of thera may be made to earn a subsistence, the State to pay transportaron to the home; also, that the power to coramit persons to the State home be conflned to the Superintendfints of the Poor of the vanous counties. The seoond resolution favors the establishment of an economioal home or industrial school for girls free from any criminal taint, wherein they may be insttucted in industry and morality. The third resolution instruots the Committee on La ws and Legislation to bring the subject of the roaolution to attention of the LegUlature.