It Is Astonishing What Grasping Fellows

some republicana are. Sorae half dozen candidates for the various county offices reside in the burg of Ann Arbor. - --"■■i The question of prohibí tion, itis claimed, will figure quite promineutly in the politics of this county this f all. Prohibitionits will nomínate a candidate for congress, and possibly county offlcers. A prominent republican- greenback- prohibitionist of this county, is of the opinión that the prohibitionists of the county will pole 2,000 votes this fall, and in the state 150,000 votes. If so good bye Jerome. Notwithstanding the democratie county convention has been called as usual on Thursday, a full report of the proceedings will be published in this paper, which will be a little late in consequence. Ben. Butterworth, republican member of the house, from Cincinnati, on Friday became in vol ved in a discussion with Mr. Cox of New York, and used language so vulgar and indecent that it was not permitted to remain on record, and received the censure of all parties. Mr. Cox characterized Butterworth's language as that of a low blackguard.- [Bill Poster. Dubing the last ñscal year Uncle Sam sold 15,000,000 acres of his domain. The railroads and states parted with at least 7,000,000 acres, and most of it was sold to actual settlers. That means wealth and prosperity in the future. It is not the men in cities but those on the fertile acres who hold the keys that will open the vaults of the old world. The Demockat could most cheerfully support suoh a man as the Hon. Julius Houseman of Grand Kapids, for governor, and the state convention couldn't do a -wiser act than to nominate him. He is very popular wíth all classes and would pole a large republican vote - just what the demócrata must get to elect their man. Let us have Houseman for governor. Colonel Brigham , the tall granger of the sand-hills of Fulton, Ohio has been nominated for Congress in the sixth district. He is going to make the issue on total abstinence and strict Sunday observance. His opponent,. Hill of Defiance, has been known to take a drink and use euss words ; henee Brigham's sublime derlance of the wicked elementa.- [Toledo Sunday Journal. Ir ís stated that General Chalmers "the hero of Fort Pillow," has received official assurance from the republican national committee that "no republican opposition will be made to his candidacy for congress from the shoestring district of Mississippi." Henee we may infer that if Chalmers should be elected, he can be safely counted on hereafter as a good enough republican for all practical purposes. The Kegister carne out yesterday for the Hon. Andrew Jackson Sawyer for congress. This congressional district is republican, and as long as we must be inüicted with a republican, we don't know of a man who would better discharge the duties of the office. Mr. Sawyer is an able lawyer, aclever gentleman, and has a host of friends, not only in Washtenaw county, but throughout the entire district. It is said he will have the vote of every man in the Washtenaw delegation. - - --. m The demócrata oí California seein to have made a good choice in selecting as their candidate for Governor General George Stoneman. He is wealthy; he has a most creditable record as a military officer; he is very well educated ; he is by no means a professional politician; since his retirement from the army he has heen engaged in agriculture, and his private character is spotless. The republicana ■will have to put up a very good man to beat him. The following words were spoken by James A. Garfield: " The modern barons, more powerful than their military prototypes, ora our greatest railways and levy tributes at will upon all our vast industries. And, as the oíd feudalism ■was finally controlled and subordinated only by the combined efforts of the kings and the people of the free cities and towns, so our modern feudalism can be subordinated to the public good only by the great body of the people, acting through their government by wise and just laws." Acebtain paper is endeavoringto give itself a little notoriety by vague and indefinite insinuations in regard to the eitent of immorality and vice in the oity. 80 f;ir there has been nothing developed which seems to have had any foundation in fact. The effect of such articles is to give outsiders the impression that Ann Arbor is a sinkhole of vice and immorality and bring it into discredit, when the truth is that there are no cities in the state of the size of our own that are freorer from immorality and debauchery. A newspaper ought to be able to support itself without resorting to methods that are the peculiar province of the Pólice Gazette and other paperï of like oharacter. Mks. Inoersoll the mother of E. C. Ingersoll the well-known Washington lawyer, who was recently taken to an asylum to be treated for inaanity, attributes her son's mental abberation to the habitual use of quinine. In a letter to the National Kepublioan, Mrs. Ingersoll says: "Thinking it a safe thing to do, my son has been in the habit for months of carrying quinine in his pocket, and taking it in small but frequent doses, and the result is an elated, sanguine Btate of niind quite beyond the bounds of reason. His memory has not yet been impaired, and the marked improvement already consequent upon being deprived of the drug gives his friends reason to expeot complete restoration in a short time. Meanwhile, let this case be one of many others to teach us all that, excellent as quinine may be in many cases, it is like choral or opium or alcohol, exceedingly dangerous to trifle with." -III , ■ ■ Detroit Chaff: My friend Harry Harris, dramatic and sporting editor of the Post and Tribune, in company with Frank Bower, the newly-fledged theatrical manager, and J. H. Riggs, of thia city, went down to Grosse Iale last week and rented a cottage in which to pass their leisure hours during the summer. On the fuut night of itsoccupancy Harris and Bower occupied a room together, and haring disrobed and "doused the glim" they lighted cigars and proponed to enjoy them in their separate couches. Frank finally threw his cigar out the window, as he supposed, and juat as both were dosing offinto dreamland ahorrible stench arose; - like powerful incensé on the air lt waa; then followed a blaze, and the frightened Harris jumped from his bed and made for the chair where he had placed hiu clothes. Horrors! The blaze proccedèd from his new summer pants ! Frank's lighted oigar had feilen upon the brodest part of those pants' and their beauty was ruined forever. Not having his wardrobe to the islaud with him, Mr. Harris was obliged to borrow a Prince Albert coat to return with on Monday. Harry may now be seen about town wearing green glasses. Perhaps it was the blaze that effeeted his eyes, and perhaps it was the smoke.