President Cleveland Has Vetoed The

River and Harbor bill. It looks now as if it wduld be passed over liis veto. The city of St, Louis has lost upwarda of $20,000,000, and 400 human Uves by the re.cent cyclone. She has the sympathy of the world in her loss, and her people left destitute, will receive something more substantial. M. M. Pomeroy, who is better known to the people as " Brick " Pomeroy, is dead. He gained considerable unenviable notoriety during the war of ihe rebellion by editing and publishing a copperhead paper at LaCrosse, Wis. Is it not the dut)' of Ann Arbor to do something for the people of our own Michigan who are left destitute in the cyclone districts? Can this city afford to o nothing? Are we as aconimunity lacking in that noble quality, generosity? How is it? Harper's Weekly opposes the nomination, and vrill oppose the election of McKinley. The same paper opposed Mr. Bhiiue because he gave another house than Harper Bro's his book to publish. Perhaps Major McKinley has been writing a book. It looks extremely suspicious. On tlie Hth of June, 1777, congress passed an act establishing the stars and stripes as the national embletn, and the anniversary of that day is now observed by comraon custom as Flag Day. Thé 16th of June will tliis year be Republican JJay, with William McKinley as the leader. The Adrián Press, in its usual terse and vigorous marnier, jumps on a sentence taken from the Courier claiming it to be ungrammatical, according to the construction of the English language as absorbed by it from Kirkham'a gratnmar. We are excusable, for we don't know any better. But Bro. Stearns gives his readers a lot of free trade and free silver slush each week that he knows to be as far from the truth as an Anarchist is from Heaven. He ought to be ashamed of himself. TJio íivo slíver wtog of the prohibirion party needs worae spirits- ar(lcnv. at that. Mark Twain is just now receiving a benefit from the illustrated journals of the nation. Well, he is deserviug of it. Hope it will do him some good. The Courier does not. give the date ■-toen Swtbfield farmers began to feo out of the sheep_ business.- Adrián Press. Well, if yon wan to le particular about it the Courier can teil you. It was an the first Tuesday followiiig the ürst Momday of November, 1892. Ex-Congressmaai Toni L. Johnson of Ohio, is a democrat, but he doesn't like the way hiB party lias been, running things. Her els what he says: "What trast lias been removed? ■Vliat buJ-den removed ? Wages are Kwer and tmis harder than in '92. W'ise men care mothlng what parties cali tliemselves, but what they do By t.heir fruits shall ye know them." He has asked some very hard questions for liis party to answer. The Greater New York bill is now a La-w. A city of 359 square' miles, includimg Brooklyn ;md New York mul m-amy country towns, luis been tentatiTely formed. It has a-bout 3,500,000 inhabitants, 1,100 churches, 90 postoffices, a debt of $170,000,000, tax aggregate $2,583,000,000 ; 37,000 business houses ; 130,000 dwellings, 6,000 acres of parks, 900 miles oí pared 6 1 reets, 1,100 hotels, 350 public schools. Right smart village.' The McKinley taviif was in operatiooi until August 1894.- Adrián rre. Very true but the people knew they had put their foat in it two years betoi'e Ulvat time, in November 1892, and conmienced preparing ïor democratie fi-ee trade and hard times. As a cousequence down went tlie prices and factoiry after factory closed its doors -wailing for fae worst, which we are Iiaving no'w, and have leen liaviiig since that time. The oft rerterated ingwong of the Press is tso very st.ale that it fairly emells bad. "The Pennsylvania railroad," it Is announced, "has taken the novel step of oïferimg the prize of an animal pass to the farmer along the line who will öö the beet in a giTeai time to beautiiy his groundis adjoining the railroad." The Michigan railroads could improve on thiB plaji by offer.ing prizes to. the farmers along their lines who make the best crops of amy kind for the general market. It is a kind of liberalit y that would help the roads quite as mueh as the farmers, or more. A few farmers would win the prize:-'. The roads would haul all the increased crops. A dispattíh from Mexico reada thii? v,iy : "A sensation has been caused in the state oí Tabasco by the appearanc eoí a yovmg Indian propheter, who predictls a general conílagration to be preeeeded by sigas and wonders, among tüierri the falling of edifices and tihe premature speaking oí infante. Several bridges have fallen, and ie Indians, believing these in ■ cid-ente to be the fullfilment of the prophecy, are alarmed. The bishop ot Tobasco has semt for th esirl ivho claims to have had celestial visitors during her recent sojourn in the foreste alo'ng the Grijalva river." It is time for the Adventista to get on ttieir robes a.nd prepare Tor ascensión. In respect to tïie telegraph monopoly, brief abstracts of a paper foy Parsons in the Arena for 'March gives Btatiistics in proof ol the assumption thiat the "Western Union Company defrauds the public by watering its stock ; the present stock of $95,000,000 represemts a total expenditure of $16,000,000, wfoich added to $15,000,000 in bonds makes $31,000,000 as the actual cost of the System ; he estimates that the actual valué oí the property iis about $20,000,000, leaTing there?ore $5,000,000 as the vaiue leftfoy th estockholders ; after paying interest on the bonds the public slumld not be asked to pay tihie etockholdens more tha.n 6 per cent. on $5,000,000 ; for 1895 it appears tliat there was a proïtt of $6,000,000 oin less tioan $5,000,000 oí property ; it is tlhought that at least Jiialf the receipts were profit ; the $6,000,000 have in large part been receiTed by mem who put almost iiothing into the plant.