The Resolutian Of Alderman Dieterle

offered at the council meeting Monday night relative to the title of the old cemetery lot is a move in the right direction. The location would make a beautiful little park, thus transforming an unsightly place into an attractive resort. ________ The contest between New York City and Chicago for the world's fair in 1892 affords an excellent oppotunity for those two cities to show which is the more enterprising. The fact that the water supply of New York City is liable to be insuffieient for its own use, gives Chicago the advantage to start with. Thi?. with her western push, will 110 doubt enable her to secure the fair. MlCHIGAH is able to furnish its quota of prize fighters as well as murderers. It will be interesting to compare the result of prize fighting in Michigan with the penalty for asimilar offence in Mississippi. Will the participants go to jail, or will they be let off with a light fine it theshapeof bail? The Register is much mistaken if the law breakers in Michigan do not pay the full penalty of the law. Tuis time it is Owosito that takes a half-pyge advertisement in the Sunday Free Press to " boom " the town. Ann Arbor will come in on the home stretch as it usuaily does, and take any prize Ihat may be ofl'ered. The efForts of Detroit to have our hospitals removed to that city and its failure in the attempt shows very conclusively that Ann Arbor can rise to the emergency when occasion requires. Tur. State Agricultural College has just had its annual commencment. There were 43 graduates. It would be interesting and at the same time furnish some valuable statistics if a careful record could be made of the work each of these 43 young people do during the next ten years. It would, we think, show conclusively that the purpose for which the institution was founded is realized only to a very small extent. _______ Kileaix will soon be called upon to face the same court which bas just passed upon Sullivan. He no doubt beginsto think his case is already decided. When, however, he thinks of the silly petitions -which both the petit and grand jurors ha'e made for the change in the sentencs against Sullivan, he can resonably hope to escape, as Sullivan no doubt will by forfeiting the thousand dollars bail which he was required to give. Such proceedings are a mere parody upon justice. Thk feeling among the English people towards the hanging of Mrs. Maybrick is an unusual one. Usuaily , the decisions and sentences of Her Majesty'a judges and juries are accepted as always being just and a final settlement of the case. The subjects of John Buil seem to be waking up to the fact that even judges and juries are mortal and may make mistakes. Two or three generations from now it may be expected that this truth will be generally recognized in England. If the citizens of O wosso had waited a B week longer before attempting to ''boom" the town byanad. in the Detroit Free Press.they would have been able to have mentioned one more attraction which that citv can offer to prospective residents, namely, that of prize fighting. Sullivan and Kilrain need not travel so far next time in order to have a mili. It will be more convenient to come to Michigan, and then, after the slugging is over to slip across the line into Canada, and thus avoid the officers the law, and also the bother of a sham lawsuit. i is a lommendable thing for those who have tar walks to keep them in repair, but those who find it necessary to fence them up while the walks are hardeninc should thiuk of somethiiii; else besides the walk they are tryiug to protect. They should be compelled, if they will not do it without, to place a ed light where such obstructions are placed, to wam people against them. Sunday night a gentleman was thrown headlong upon a sticky tar walk on Ann street, by a board which had been placed across the pavement at a point where the electric light is entirely shut off by the shade trees. Some one will be called upon to pay damagos if they are not careful about leaving obstructions atross the walk during the night. Mayor Beakes' veto message relating to the Gas Company's franchise is an ably written document. Evidently the mayor has looked up the matter carefully, and prepared himself to sustain his position. By so doing he has made it possible for the citizens of Ann Arbor to obtain gas twenty per cent. lower than they could have done had he agreed to the resolution passed by the couacil two weeks ago. For this he deserves the thanks of our chizens. A similar stand in the interest of the taxpayers taken in regard to the city printing would have been even more commendable. The location of the University hospital isstill an unsettled question so far as the people of Ann Arbor are aware. The probabilitiesarethatthe committee appointed to look upa suitable location will report in favor of some one of the sites offered west of Main-st, at least the offers comrng frotn those in the western part of the city seem, so far as The Registee is able to learn, to strike the committee most favorably. Perhaps the more liberal offers coming from that direction may have more influence than some people think for. The great cry of the Maclean faction has been that the medical department would greatly diminish in numbers in case the hospital remained here and Drs. Maclean and Frothingham should leave theinstitution. Figures talk quite differently. The enrollment to-day for the coming year is fiiteen per cent larger than at a corresponding date last year and is constantly increasihg. If this is the sort of ruin to which the departmeiit ia doomed hy the changes, it is apity thatthere are not some other professors who need bouncing. The University can afford any amount of such ruin. Tni: readiness with which people become indifferent to real danger is, at times, truly amazing. Had the suggestion been made six weeks ago that the South Fork dam above Johnstown, Pa., would be rebuilt it would have called forth a perfect storm of criticism. Now. even before the relief committee has finished its work, itis coolv proposed to rebuildt he dam above the city. It would not be surprising if, a year from now, with the lake full of water, the people of Johnstown should be warned of danger, little heed would be paid to the warning. Such peculiarities of human nature are diffiult to explain. The judgment which the Mississippi Judge passed upon Sullivau has the right ring abount it. If we could hear of more such judgments being passed in that section of the country, and of their being carried out, the outlook fcr the Suuth would be more hopeful. The course of the jurors and the citizens in petitioning tbe Judge to change his santence shows, howe ver, that the Judge is uot likelv to be sustained in his course by the honorable citizens of Miseissippi. The admission of Sullivan to bail after having been convicted, and at a ridiculously small bail at that, appears very much as if the whole thing were a farce after all. If the Detroit Exposition does not succeed it will not be because of a lack of advertising. The managers seem to understand the merit of the free use of printer's ink. The indications are that the Exposition will be a complete success in every respect. There is an immense amount of money being put into the undertaking and it is proposed to make it not only worthy of Detroit, but of the country as a whole. A visit to the grounds and an inspection of the buildings, now nearing completion, will certainly convinceone that the Exposition will be all that has been claimed for it, even if it does not surpass what the newspaper reports have led people to expect. The shooting of ex-Judge Terry by Deputy Marshall Nagle removes another, and one of the last, ante-bellum " fire-eaters." His career has been an unenviable one. His notoriety was due to his murder of Broderick, for it was nothing less than murder, rather than to his ability as a judge. His marriage with the woman Hill, showed only too plainly the character of the man. His wife seems to be a woman after his own heart- a desperate character and anadventuress. Terry's attack on Judge Field was in all probabilty due as much to her malice as to Terry's enmity toward the Judge. There can be no doubt that Terry and his wife were a hard lot. It is scarcely to be supposed that any charge which may be made against Nagle can be sustained ; at least it is to be hoped that he will not be held responsible for obeying the reasonable orders of his superior. PoSTM ASTER GENERAL WaXA MAKER ÍS considering the question of doing away with SunO.ay mails. There are no doubt two sides to this important question. The argumenta, however, seem to be principally on one side. Looking at it from a purely economie standpoint only, there is much that may be said against Sunday mails. Everv prominent physician in the land will sny that the American people are living too intenso a life, and at the same time neglecting to take a sufticient amount of rest. A compulsory cessation of business, such as would result from the inability to secure mail on Sunday, would without doubt be fraught with good resulta to a large majority of the people; another ad vantage is that it would afford much needed rest to the thousands of mail clerks who, on account of Sunday mail?, scarcely know what tbe Sabbath is. The advantages of such mails are certainly small when compared with what can be said against them. Still it is very doubtful if any change will be be made. There are so many people so anxious to increase their share of the "almighty dollar," that we may expect to hear a vigorous protest should it appear that there is a possibility of a change.