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John Sherman Has Been Dubbed "the

John Sherman Has Been Dubbed "the image
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Day
13
Month
April
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Witfgins of ühio Politics." The New York World proposes tliat a fund be raised for the Republican uufferers by the Democratie fioods in the West. _ Secretabt Chandler ought to feel perfectly at home in Florida, as it has been only a few years since he took a leading part in stealing that state. The Ypsilanti Commercial has jumpd out of the Republican pasture, because it has been cleaned out, and lit into the Prohibition clover patch. Now, would it not be more sensible for our Ypsilanti contemporary to quietly walk around to the front gate of Demoeracy and get a square meal of political honeaty. angry agamst the United States on account of the dynamite outrages, and the raiaing of money for that purpose in this country. During the late war in America the people of this country were tolerably angry, but they waited for peace, and allowed an arrangement board at Geneva to settle the matter. England can have an arbitration wlien this is all over. Rev. Db. Oookeb is dead. A noble spirit has fled, and hisdemise isdeplored 6y all classes of people. As an educator and preacher he had not only a State, but a national reputation. It can be safely said that he endeared himself to every student with whom he carne in contact. He was beloved by those who received instructions from him, and as the news is heralded throughout the Btate the notice of his death will be ceived witn proiouna sorrow. íes, a Rreat and good man has gone, but his memory will linger in the hearts of the people who knew him, long after his ashes have returned to duat. a ■ - - Pbofocnd sympathy for our gormand President must stir every true American breast when it ia known that the caterer for his party, upon the Southern tour, failed to secure those delicacies without whioh life for him is only a miserable existenoe. But sympathy will hardly restrain a smile when it is known that the caterer sought such delicaciea at Petersburg; and, as a last resort, triad Weldon, N. C. Weldon was celebrated all over the confederacy during the war, from Virginia to Texas, for the tenacity of its steaks, the vileaess of its coffee, the diabolical character of its black-eyed peas, and the number and variety of hair pins and other bric-a-bac discoverable as the residuum of its soups. It was of Weldon that a soldier remarked to a oomrade, who asked after the news, that there was nothing in particular except that the old abode of the lost was full and the de vil was taking in souls at Weldon. The effort to exposé the delicate palate of our reflned President to Weldon fare was the most diabolical attempt at a new and coarse variety of assassination ever devised in. any country. The big suit of Prof. Donald Maclean against the Detroit Evening News termiaated Tuesday, and a verdiot for 820,000 was hia recompense. The case ha created a great deal of interest in this oommunity, and those persone who have carefully read the evidence were astonished at the verdict. It was in direct man. The News, commenting on " an outrageous verdict," says: "We are no more surprised at the verdict of the jury in the Macizan libel case than are the vast majority of the people of Detroit and of the State, who read the evidence in the case and the charge made by the court. This surprise is not uoniinad to the friends of the Evening News. lts bitterest enemies, not engaged actually in the suit before the bar or in the jury room, were as much Mtonished at the result as the defendant himself or his counsel. "At the yry most, those who, for various reasons, sympathized with the plaintiff, hoped for a disagreement, while many of them expected a disagreement on the faot and a verdict for the defendant on the question of privilege, under the court's oharge, which, on the latter question, all but charged the defendant out of court. " Whatever might have been the general expectation at the opening of the trial, and immediately after the opening speech for the plaintiff, setting forth the allegations which he offered to prove, the plaintiff had scarcely called his last witness in chief before the tide of opinión - we say nothing of sympathy - had set in one way. The offers of proof on that side so completely failed of fulfilment on several of the most important matters presented, that opinión became settled before the defense began." A. juryman who wlll vote to give $100,000 damagos where $50,000 was only asked for, must have been a fooi. It was generally believed by those here who reviewed the evidence, that Dr. Maclean could not possibly win in th cae, ana aitnougn ne did gain a judgment tor $20,000, it will go to a higher tribunal for final disposition. According to the verdict of tliis foolish jury, no newspaper in Michigan can clip and publish an item without subjecting itself to a libel suit. Prof. Maclean carne home from Detroit last evening, on the 7:40 train, and was met at the depot by a body of about 1,000 students and a large number of citizens. He was escorted to a carriage, ii procession formed, headed by the city band, and the carriage drawn from the depot to the residence of the professor on Huron street, where he was welcomed borne by a neat little speech, to -which the doctor feelingly replied. Dr. Frothingham followed with a few remarks, when the students re-formed and proceeded to the campus, where bonfires and fireworks %vound up what the students and friends of the professor intended as a celebration of the vindication of his character by the verdict in the late libel suit. Make yourself necesary and success certain. acta n rod ink appear ink-red-ible.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat