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An election was held in Maine last Monday and the résult is briefly told. Maine, the rcpublican state of Maine, which the republicans claimud by from 5,000 to 10,000 raajority went fusión, and Plaisted is elected over Davis, republican, by nearly 2,000 majority. The radical press attempt to explain their defeat, but their argumenta are too thiu. Maiue is uo longer a republicau state and the leaders of the party when they state their honest eonvictions admit it. As Maine went last Monday, so she will go iu November, and don't you forget it. The Evening News, Independent, says of the Maine election: It will be the baldest folly for tho republicans to ignore the signiflcance of the Maine election. But making all due allowances for partisan hopefulness on both sides, the fact stands out that the republican party, instead of regaining tho ground it lost in Maine two years ago, has actually lost more. This fact remains, even though they should elect their governor by a email niajority Partisan stupidity like that which flnds its rnouthpiece in the Detroit Post and Tribune may gabble about local causes and peculiarities, but intelligent politicians, like James G. Blaine, for instance, will concede, as he does, that it is a great defeat, ominous of national disaster. To appeal frora this election to that ia Vermout as a truer index othe wo:kings of tiie national uiind, which have been more occult this year than ever before in our memory, is a piece of folly worthy only of the local party organ here, whose chief purpose seems to be to misinform its few readers. As well might a democrat point to Alábanla or Georgia. . These are no more fixcd and unreasonini? iu their democracy than is Vermont in her republicamsm. She is the opposite pole iu the national . political magnet to the south. lier bleak mountains, by a natural law as irresistible as gravity, give forth the opposite sound to that which is heard from the semi-tropical south. She never went democratie in her whole history. and never will. Though the republican party should dissolve and disappear, as did its predecessor, whiggery, she would keep on voting against democracy if she had to vote blank. Vermont can always be caucclled off in advancc against just so mauy democratie votes. The population and civnization or Mame are more diverse, and therefore more subject to changos of interests and sentiments. Her fideüty to republicanism ever since she helped elect Ilanibal Hamlin vice president in 1851) has been due not to permanent social conditions, as is the case in Verniont, but to the same permanent social conditians and issues which liave kept most of the northern states in that party. Those conditions and issues have been changing in the last decade, and she has been"changing witü them. The election of 1878, wheii the averasje republican majority of 15,000 for IS years was anmhilated, might have been explained away by local and temporary causes, but when the same phenomenon re-appears in 1870-80, ït must be ascribed to something deeper and more permanent. It is a republican defeat, and it indícate chango not merely in Maine but all over the country. The peoplo of Maine are of the samo üesh and blood as the rest of us, and the arguments which havo alïected their minds have been operating all over the country. It has been a dull campaign, and it lias been hard to teil if the contidence which the democrats have shown wan, or was not, justifled by the facts. The Maine election proves that it was. Tho Ypsilanti fair promiscs to be a success. Moorc & King, of Ypsilanti, havo samples of wool on cxhibition at the state fair. Mr. John P. Littlc.who haa been a resident of this place for 20 years, has gone to Three Oaks to live. The Ypsilanti fair commences next Tuesday. The secretary,Mr. F. Joslin, has our thanks for a complimentary. G. L. Stone, M. D., who has been engaged m the practico of medicine in this city for the past six years, has been compelled, on account of his health, to seek a western climate, and h goes to Keokuk, Iowa, which place he will make his future home. The doctor leaves a lucrativa practice, and his many friends regret exceedingly that lic is obliged to go from licro. Some thrco years ago Dr. Stone was elected a memoer of the board of health, and it was the first time in the history of this city that a homtepath was given a position in the board. The peoplo of Keokuk are to bc congratulated that the doctor has concluded to locale there. He is strictly a houiuepath, and stands high in his profession. Wc wish lam success in his new field of labor. To the Editor of the Dcmocmt: The freo thrusts of the Democuat's lance, in pncking the bubbles that came to the surfacc bcfore the late democratie county convention, may not have been judiciously aimed in all cases, but no one at all conversant with county politics will regret the thrust that helped to lay out the statesnian (f) f rom Scio, Mr. üregory. The writcr of this has been a toierably close observer of conventions and elections in Washtenaw couuty for the past twenty years, and, as I remember, in no case whero Mr. Gregory has been an unsuccessful competitor for a nomimition has the successf ui candidato received the rty vote as cast in the township of Scio. the years 1872, 1870, and 1878, Mr. jregory was a candidate tor the legislative nomiuation at the several district conventions, butfailed in each instance to i-cccive it. In that township Mr. Haire, the democratie nominee, in 1872 lost 49 votes as comparcd with the mujority for govenior. In 1870 Mr. Norris was the candidato and he lost 9 votes, and in 1878 Mr. Robison, the democratie cancüdate, lost 18. As Mr. Gregory was au unsuccessfulciindidate for state senator at the late democratie couny convention, will Mr. Rose, the suecessful candidato get his party vote in Scio? It is wcll known tliat Mr. Gregory caused the defeat of 1 atnck McGuinness, the democratie candidate for supervisor, last spring. In fuct, lie publicly boasted of the work hc had done for the republican nominee, and for the reason that he feared "McGuinness would assess his morlyages if elected." And now rumor has it that Mr. Gregory ia looking for the representative nomination at Chelsea the 25th inst. Can a more notable instance of brass mounted impudence be shown in the politics of our county? Occasional. September 13, 1880. Go and hear Barrett Monday night. The regen ts adjourned yesterday uniil November 9th. A larga number of persons are attending the Toledo fair. The reform club will be addressed Sunday afternoon by Mrs. E. A. Warren. Mrs. M. V. Richards, of Ft. Riley, Kan., is visiting her mother Mrs. Prof. Williams. Proteclion engine and hose company eive a dance at Hangsterfer's on Priday evening of fair week. B. E. Naegle has been appointed assistant in the pharmacy department. He gets $200 per year for his services. The treasurer of the university has been instructed by the board of regents, to transfer $1,500 from the general fund, to the museum case fund. The regente last Tuesday appropriated 850 to buy more iron to stick into the new museum building, for the purpose of strengthening it. Theve is iron enough in it to build one five times ita dimentions. The matter of the bequest left by Mary Porter, of Ohio, to the university, the increase of which amounting to about $1,000 a ycar, has been referred to the committee on the law department. The school board met and organized Tuesday night by electing the following officers : President, Wm. D. Harriman ; secretary, W. W. VVhedon ; treasurer,' Leonhard Grunet. The President ap pointed the following committees. Teachers and text books, W. D. Harriman, C. Hack, W. B. Smith ; flnance, P. Bash, J. L. Burleigh, Isruel Hall ; buildings and grounds, L. Gruner, P.,'Donovan, "VV. W Whedon.