Again The Nation Is Called Upon To

monrn the Iosb of a brave general in the person of the late General Winfield Soott Hancock, who died sudenly Pues day afternoon. The full particulars of the sad occurence will be found on the first page of this paper . ■ i ■ The council should take steps at once to supervise the expenditure of city funds for the poor. The expenditure is rapidly increasing without any apparent and necessnry cause. The marshal should look up and iboroughly investígate every applioation for assistance. It will never do for nina to sit in his office and aid from the city treasury everybody who asks it. Fraude, dead beats, loafers and swindlere, under the system practiced at present, stand just as good a chance to secure aid as the deserving poor. No aid should be granted to permanent residents of any ward without the knowledge and approval of the aldermen of that ward. This would stop the leak to a large extent. Sinck the university clock has been set on legal time, and the schools are governed by it, many of our citizens are adopting it. The banks run on standard time, and the courts, and as a writer in the Register last week suggeetod, it looks rather ridiculous for a court house clock to be set and run on illegal time. The common council has also, by resolution, as was its duty, adopted standard time. The board of supervsiors directed the court house clock to be set on what Judge Joslyn calis "God'st ïme." But a graat many silly and ridiculous ideas of ours, for whieh we try to make God responsible, have had to give way to the progresa of science, intelligence and common sense. The almanacs will all soon be gaged to standard time, and the supervisors of Waslitenaw county, even, will have to Bubm.it to the inevitable. Senator Kempp continúes quietly and gently to nurse his congressional boom. There is no use for demócrata to attempt to conceal the fact that he would muke a strong candidato. He is sound on the wool question. He is also sound oa the beer question- that is he will be during the canvass, - and he ought to be sound on the currency question,, ae he runs two banks. There seems. to be a determinntion among many. leadiug republicans not to nomínate a prohibitionist. This Iets Capt. AJlen out, beaides Allen was a soldier, and the republicans, especially in tbis congressional district, have never acquired the habit of nominatang soldiers. When they had a majoriiy of thousands in the district, fiom 1865 to the election of Eldridge, they never once nominated a soldier. When the republi cans have a good rattling majority they never cali upon lrishmen or soldiers, but when they are in a minority they show considerable affection for soldier, andeven Celhc fellow citizen aiiisis More than a year ago The Dekocrat suggeated the propriety of securmg a cily market- a building for selling fruit and vegetables, and other perishable articles. Such markets L-.ave been found a great convei'ieiice in other towns, not only to f „miers and others bringing in produce for sale, but especially to the people of the city. No grocerv dealer oould object to it. Most of them would like to get rid of the fruit and vegetable trade. There is no money in it. The fruits and vegetables which spoil on their hands now and then balance their profits on sales. If the city could erect or secure a suitable building in a convenient locality, it could no doubt realize rents enough from stalls to pay the interest on the investment. Everybody would know just where to go for vegetabies. We could see at once what there was in the market - without going to a dozen places- and we should get better articles at lower rates - at least this has been the reault in other cities and no doubt it would work the same way here. Our former townsman, C. J. Kintner, at present chiet examiner in the depaitment of electricity in the patent office, delivered a lecture a few days ago before the Franklin instituto, in Philadelphia, upon the history of electrical iuventions. BefoTel881electncal apparatus was a subdepartment under the head of philosophïcal instrumenta. That year it was made a separate class - the business has so increased that it now makes mne classes. From the time the first electrical patent was issued in 18:33, to 1876- forty-three years- nineteen hundred patents were issued. Since then eight thousand have been issued, which shows the rapid and cnormous increase of the business during the last ten years. Mr. Kintner is said to be one of the best qualified men for this position in the country. Fortunately he is not compromised in any way with the frauds by which it is claimed Bell secured his telephone patents and which are about to be inveetigated by a suit instituted by the governmeat, a matter which is likely to cause the withdrawal of Attorney-General Garland from the cabinet. It is our paittf ui duty to announce the death of J. Emmet Bobison, a membe r of the Detroit Free Press staff and son of Hon. Jno. J. Kobison of this city, whieh occurred sometime Tuesday night, from the effects of chloroform used to overeóme sleeplessness. He would have reaohed hig 25th birthday March 25, nest. He was a gradúate of Detroit high school. In 1883, while a member of the hterary department of the university, he was compelled, on account failing health, to forego' college work. He held the position of deputy county clerk under his father, Jno. J. Bobison, and was correspondent for the Free Presa. When his death was announced in the VVayne circuit court several membare of the bar paid a handsome tribute t' the wortn and high character of the deo:jSAil. The press representativos of Detroit tock action and passed appropriate resointions. The remains were brought to this city yesterday afternoon, and met at tne depot by many old friends of the young man. The funeral taber place tbia morning at 11 o'clock. The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends and acquaintances in their sorrow.