The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk Railway

a. If ever a road built has benefited a city, the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk railroad has been a benefit to the city of Ann Arbor. b. Thousanda of dollars have been lost by the stockholders that built the road, but all that they have lost has been gáined by the property holders of this city. e. The road haa a hard time fmancially as most all other new roads have. They are, in fact, poverty stricken. d. We are sorry to see some of our citizens, at this time when the road needs every friend that it can have, doing all they can to embarrass it. This is not right and should be condemned by every patriotic eitizen. e. It is true that the road, running through a narrow ra vine in the city, may cause some little embarrassment at times, ƒ. We have taken considerable pains to look into matters and have enquired around aniong the people of the city. We find that it is the prevailing opinión that the best interests of the city demand that our people do all they can to sustain the road. - Courier. a. True. Do you suppose the eitizens of Ann Arbor and vicinity would be likely to invest some 8200,000 in stock, aid and right of way, to obtain the road, if they had supposed it would be an injury to this city. What they do complain of is, it is managed in disregard of private right and convenience. No complaint is made of any act which could not have been easily avoided. b. Not only have the stockholders lost their stock, but a large amount was raised for this roád by donation of money, work, material and right of way. Our citizens responded in a manner which showed their friendly feelings toward this road, and this makes the inconveniences they are subjected to less excusable. c. That the road is poverty stricken is no fault of the citizens of Ann Arbor. Perhaps while the writer of the above article was making inquines he might have ascertained whether a quarrel with a benefactor of the road did not prevent its oompletion to Pontiao over a year ago- and whether a series of suita and quarels with agenta and capitalists, has not placed the road in the pitiable condition he mentions. He also might have ascertained whether the road could not have been Bold to a live Corporation for a sum sufficient to pay all its debts and left a competence for its builden If it is poverty stricken who is to blame for it ? d. How have any of out citizens embarrassed the road? They have asked that the road should be properly fenced along the line so that they might have the legitímate use of their fields. They have asked that proper street and farm crossings should be made for public and private use. They have asked that the streets and sidewalks should not be obstructed longer than the law allows. They have asked that proper proteetion should be given their citizens trom danger of surprise from backing trains across the streets. They have asked that life and property should be protected. Is this embarrassing the road? If so it must be easily embarrassed, and the next legislature should be applied to for their exemption from the ordinary regulations governing railroads. e. If the road runs through a narrmo ravine, which is not the fact, so much more care should be used to avoid unnecessarily incommoding the public. f. The writer of the above article could not have taken conmderabU pains to have ascertained that our citizens are ready to suBtain this or any other railroad in the legitímate exercise of their corporate powers, and that they will sustain the road when they are right, but they will not sustain any road when they impose upon the people avoidable inconveniences. The mercantile agency of B. G. Dunn & Co. has just published its semi-annual report, giving the figures of failures for the first half of the year, ending yesterday. The total nurnber of failures reported to the head office in New York by the various branch offices is 3,597 as compared with 2,852 for the first six months of 1881. The liabilities for the time were $50,000,000, against $40,000,000. The percentage of increase, therefore, both in the number of failures and the amount of liabilities, is 25 per cent. The circular contains a condensation of reporta from almost all the leadmg cities of the country as toj the prospects of business and promise of the crops. The conclusions reached seem to be almost universally favorable to the future prospects of the business of the country. The circular is a very comprehensivo and comple document, and very fully photographs the general business outlook. This is the hottest day of the season. The next circuit court calender will be light. Fred Stimpson, of Toledo, is visiting his brother William. Coup's circus, it is said, will make this place in a month or so. Dr. J. W. Vidal has gone to Jamestown, N. Y., to practiee. Mrs. G. W. Halford- twins. Mother and children doing well. John Moore has purchased of Aretus Dunn a lot in this city for $2,700. The Minnis orchesra delighted the people of Fowlerville on the Fourth. Lew Hoffman, one of the best musicians in the state is leader of the city band. The small telephone polls re being taken down to make way for taller ones. The father of Joe T. Jacobs died at Newark, Ohio, on the Foiirth, at the age of 80 years. Mrs. G. R. Whiting, of Union City, has been visiting her brothes, C. E. Holmes, the druggist. Mr. Newton, editor of the greenback paper published at Chicago, is visiting his o ld friend J. Sprague. Vanderbilt went through a few days ago on the M. C. E. E. at the rate of 60 miles an hour. At Geddesburg he sent word to the engineer to hold up a little.