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Norria of Grand Rapids, are mentioned as possible candidatos to succeed Judge Withey of the United States supreme oourt for western Michigan, who died in California, Ap ril 24. Rev. Dr. Zimmerman of Chioago staUs publioly his belief that intemperance amoug workingmen is oaused chieüy by the ills and annoyances they suffer in consequenoe of the meager wages they receive. Temperan ce agitators should make a note of this and act accordingly. Robert Griffen, President of the Statistioal eociety of Lot don, has shown that while the hours of labor hava diminished 50 per cent ín the last fifty years, wages have risen 30, 30, 40, 50, 70, 100, and even as high as 150 per cent. Nor had the price of products risen to corresponding degree. According to Air. Griffen they ware now very much the same in England as forty or fifty yeara ago. Meat and house rent were the only two things that had risen. Crimináis were fewer by 7000 than forty years ago, and pauperism had deolined trom 934,000 in 1840 to 803,000 in 1881. Insane paupers f rom Europe are shipped by their home government and add to the burden of taxatiou of this country. In the past five years 1,845 insane persons have found refuge in New York state insane asylums immediately after landing at the port of New York, entailing an annual expense of $184,500 upon the state. There secms to be no question but that most of the persons have been sent out of their native country for the purpose of fastening the expense; of their keeping upon us. The subject demands the attention of congress. That we take good oare of our own insane paupers is no reason why we should take care of Europe's. - Adrián Record. Perhaps the greatest labor demon - atration ever known in Detroit is announced for to-morrow and Monday next. There will be present John Swinton, Henry George, John Jarrett, the expresident of the Amalgamated iron and steel workers; James Redpath, the present managing editor of the North Amerioan Review; Edward Everett Hale, the great authority on practical charities; Henry C. Adams, the political economist of Michigan university Frank Lawler( the Chicago representativo in congress; J. J. O'Neül, the author of the O'Neill labor bilí; Senator Stanford, of California; Hon. C. C. Comstock, Hon. W. D. KelleyjW. T. Harris, the philosopher, and many other well-known personages . It is stated that there is a strong movement on foot in New York in favor of abolishing the ward system of electing members of the municipal council, the proposition bemg to have the entire board of aldermen chosen by the city at large. If this would do away with the "reward system" of procuring the support of New York aldermen tor knavish jobs, the reform effected would be vastly to the advantage of that metropolis. But would it? It is pretty difflcult to eleot honest men to office in New York, no matter undor what system they are chosen. The trouble is with the voters, who are shockingly corrupt.and until they are reformed there is but little hope for purity in lts munici al affaire. - Mining JournaL Mb. Powdkblt seems to be a man of a contemplativo as well as praotical turn of mimi. In his statements before the congressional committee at Washington, Wednesday, he said: All strikes and boycotts are the outgrowth of a failure on the part of the knights of labor to comprehend its principies." This ia a pretty severe arraignment of the organïzation by its head. It confesses that the organization can not be controlled by those who have sound ideas of the employer and employed. Mr. Powderly clearly sees that boycotts are repulsivo to American public opinión. In New York the boycotts have proved a signal failure, and strikes fail to accomplish the purpose of restless agitators who are seldom employed except in stirring up mischief.- Mining Journal. The best work now going on about Detroit, so far as I know, ia that being done by the Woman's Christian assooiation, wliich has a house in the rear of Newcomb & Endicott's store. The objeot is to initiate girl olerks into the mysteries of housekeeping. Every Wednssday evening from 17 to 20 girls get together and are taught to sew and to sing, and they will be taught to cook. You would be surprised to learn how few girls know how to thread a needie. The oloth is furnished and the girls make garments. Tbey go to the rooms as soon as they leave their work, and find a good supper there awaiting them. The ladies take turn in rurnishing these suppers. There is no begging done for the institution. Mrs. Morse Stewart, the president, does not believe in begging. Mrs. Frice has the singing in charge and bas composed some music especially tor the girls. There is a big work here. John B. Prioe inthe Evening Journal. A BKMAitKABiiE change made manifest by the disturbance of the labor market is the disappearance of combinatiou as a leading feature of operations of the capitalista and the prevalence of combination among the laboring class. In the building trades of this city, for instance all classes of wageearners have their unions, which are very powerful, while every employer operates substantially by himself. The builders and contractors have no understanding as to the course they will pursue, much les any unification of their interests that would enable them to act as a body. They simply sit stül and await the movements of the laborera. When it is deflnitely decided what the latter class are going to do, they will theu as individuals determine whether they desire to enter on any new enterprises and put up any more new buildings this season. Many of them think that, after the artisans have tested the feeling of the community toward them and have found out that the market will not stand any considerable advance in the cost of constructing buildings, they will quiet down and go to work at substantially the present ratee; but the employing class do not care to put out their money so long as there is so much uncertainty as'to the price o( labor. There bas been no need of just complaint as to combinations of capitalista in the last few years, and it is a little curious to see the condition of things thus reversed. It is a time when such combinations are breaking up, particularly among the railroads. The combinations, the weight of which the public is now feeling, are of