Our Man About Town

In every city, village and hamlet are candidatos for ofiSco. I know of a number in this place who are anxiously awoiting tbe summons to cali thom to 8ome position of profit under the government. Some of them will wait in vain, if I am to be the judge. I don't understand - only four citizens of Washtenaw are candidates for the circuit judgeship, on the moe rat ie ticket. They are Judge Joslyn the present inenmbent, J. Willard Babbitt, üeo. W. TurnBull and D. Cramer, but from the last-mentioned personage good Lord deliver ub. From a con versation I overheard, the other night, I am convinced that the many fishermen in this vicinity are determined to bnng the owners of mili dams along the raging Huron to time, on the shute question. Being a lone fisherman I trust the movement inay be suocessful. I could but notice on the beautiful afternoon of Tuesday how the enakes and mudturtles came out to sun thomselvos on some of the street oorners. But then, it is the nature of such reptiles to bask in the sunshine and then retire to their loathsome dens to await the coming of more springlike days. While I am not a prohibitionist in the general acceptatioa of tue term, I wouid not for a moment interfere with the rights of saloon men and others who be lieve in liquor-dnmking, from voting in favor of the constitutional amendment. I hear a great deal about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A I walk about this beautiful city nnd notice the piles of rubbish that are left here and there around the streetcrossmgs.I am led to express the opinión that some one is derelict in disohai'ging their duties. If teams can not be obtained here, Ypsilanti is only nine miles to the eastward, where, I am informed, plenty of assistance coud be obtained at a moment's notice. There is a growing evil that the authorities should no longer tolérate, and I refer to the practico of carrying concealed weapons. It is no longer aga than Monday that a prominent business man had lys hand severely injured by the "premature discharge of a revolver. He now oarries his arm in a sling, and if the M. D. ia. correct in bis opinión, it will be several weeks bef ore he will be able to handle wood. Why the board of health persist in holding their meetings at a private residence, when the council cbamber is acknowledged by all to be the place, is a mystery that 1 am unable to solve. The city, at more than $1,000 expense, fitted up a room for meetings of this kind. The board should meet here so that citizeus can attend, and public opinión will uphold its decisious without recourse to the courts, in whioh the board has hitherto invariably failed to enforce lts demands. How about free postal delivery, is a questiou I bear asked on the streets. No one seems to know whether the city is to have it or not. While everybody ie anxious and everybody desires it, no one cares to assume the role of a leader. And why? I am inolined to the belief, however, that the petition, which I uaderstand has been forwarded on to Washington, will yet be heard from. It can not be that the government, who said that Ann Arbor was entitled to free delivery, will ignore tho three thousand or more signers to please a few persons, who oppose it from purely etelflsh motives.