Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 4

If boa UsmaiobrisM? oaoxUn SoSdnot KSUth RepoUIta ete1 MVan 1 I noo 216? 40 CO A Democrats but by their convictions of duty or their estimate of party need If they deem the election of a Republican President hopeless without taking the choice away from the peo ple they may take it away and if they de cide to do so there is nothing the Democrats can do in the way of disregarding duty or making concessions which will change them the Tribune to the contrary notwithstanding It is a colossal contract the Tribune under tala when it promises to give or withhold the votes of a dozen Eelatures more or less and it would be utterly unsafe for the Maine Democrats or anybody else to predicate im portant political or other action upon the pos sibflitv that thacon tract can bo carried out The doubt on this point is not wholly a Demo cratic doubt So far as the Republican Legis lature of New York is concerned the doubt is shared by the New York Commenting on the proposal which it describes as based on the theory that are at liberty to do anything that will place beyond doubt their the Times says Our high toned contemporary bids the Democrats beware lest the Legislatures of all the doubtful Northern States which happen now to be Republican profit by the oppor tunity and take unto themselves the right of choosing Presidential electors By such a measure the Tribune notifies the South New York Connecticut New Jersey Ohio and other States ordinarily considered doubtful may suostantiany aeciae tne rresiaentiai question in advance How the citizens of the States in question might like thus to be robbed of the power of deciding for themselves when the proper time arrives is a matter evidently not thought of by those from whom the Trib une draws its inspiration "What are fhe peo ple that they should be consulted the mat ter! What are decency and wisdom that they should block the way of partisan idiots? rom every point of view the scheme whether as nresented bv the Albanv correspondent or ah enlarged by the Tribune is utterly indefensible The Republican ma jority in the New York Legislature cannot af ford to trifle with the subject to outrage the moral sense of their party and to provoke the retaliatory measures that would surely follow the adoption of the course proposed That Republicans in other States mentioned by the Tribune will entertain the plan or in any manner prejudge the vote of next year we do not believe The folly which tolerates the most outrageous suggestions if offered under the pretense of perpetuating the lease of power is one of the peuliarities bf New York Republicanism as at present managed Its manifestation this instance is rendered ex ceptionally offen ive by the plainness with which the purposes to be promoted are avowed THE STAR POSTAL SERVICE Judging from the developments which begin to be made concerning enormous deficiencies in the star postal service appropriation an in vestigation of the whole business is one of the most pressing demands upon Congress One of the cases cited to show the manner in which the service has been mismanaged is the route from Prescott Arizona to Santa New Mexico a distance of 462 miles In March 1878 this route was let to one McDon ough for service to be performed three times a week In October following the ser vice was increased to seven times a week and the compensation increased by the addition of Under the original contract the rate of speed required was three miles an hour but shortly after the change from three trips to seven per week the rate of speed was increased to five miles an hour and an additional allow ance made for the increase in speed of The original having thus grown to 19 McDonough failed His bondsmen who were probably the real parties in interest offered to continue the service upon the terms in force at the time of failure but for some reason the Second Assistant Postmaster General refused to permit th is to be done Without advertising the service was reduced to that required by the original con tract and let to one Walsh for per annum for the unexpired time of the contract Then began a repetitiorf of the increasing busi ness practised while McDonough was carrying bn the service The rate of speed was in: creased and an allowance of made for the increase our more trips per week were ordered find compensation grew" for this" at the rate of so that tbtal com ara Verted they iqustbe aia mxtal not mounted on wood Local on Rrst or Second irst day 20c ncr line etwhKUbssquet day irst cclumnfim per inch ant column cth page 6c per lino Deaths 25 ctota Marriages 24 centj WEEKLY REE PRESS May be procured of all newsdealers in the United petcopy1 0 Ionwdtfa ot Canada Price 5 centsn toJ TunWrcKLY reb Pnxss Readingriotices sot in nonpareil tpye leaded 4J cents a line displayed advertise incnts 25 cents he or $3 jer' inch each insertion Liberal dis counts on long time advertisements a CORRESPONDENCE coireapondence of Interesting character in Invited Ail business news letter or dispatches must bo addreued to Tasr xjIKK Ifjtera and packages should be properly denied and full postage paiTto insure tbeir delivery Rejected communications will net be returnee 80 requested and postage stamps be fur nisnea Correspondents names are invariably required not necessarily for publication but as a gnarante or good faith Anonymous comtnunlcauoiul wC be rejected ly letat $13313 per annum is now per annum It is nos surprising that with expenditure increasing in such an alarming ratio the $6 000003 appropriation should have proven insufficient for the service What grounds there were for such an enormous in crease and who profited by it are questions in which the public haveand the adminiat tion of Hayes ought to have a vital interest' With intense anxiety that exists the part of the pres ent incumbent of the Executive Chair to retire without any breath of scandal upon his administration there may be effort made to discourage or smother investi gation but it ought not to succeed Sootier or later the facts must come out and what ever they may be their disclosure cannot by any possibility damage the administration as much an attempt to conceal therfi orto shield corrupt officials It was not the whisky frauds or the Belknap corruption that ren dered administration so odious but the manifest efforts to shield the ENT sk lebmiffitteearein favor of Senator Bayards We publish elsewhere a letter from' Mair 'resolution and three of the four Republican Twain in replv to a note from Postmaster I njdrnbers are opposed to it If same ra irTv La Tuesday morning December ip The Eate Hon Uszlel Putnam HOUSE The following resolutions of respect have Introduction and Reference of B1I1 DL been furnished The ree PRESS fog publics trlct of Columbia Business Omca Board of Corbectxoxs axu CaARmss I Iaansing TtecemhAi" 11 1R7Q I AmoDgf ths uills introduced and referred this Wheretu Since the last meeting of thia board the I JornnS were two by Mr Morse (Dem Mass) for Hon Uzziel Putnam's connection has been severed I by his death occurring on the 10th of I ttnufacturera and for the appointment of a con last uary i mission to ascertain and report a basis of a red As his associates in the work committed to us bv I between the L'nited States and Brit the State we recall with respect and affection our intercourse with him and we esteem it our duty I T'enr inr as it is our pleasure to put on record the interest 15? To P1111 taken by our departed associate shown in his 11 blU except a genera ap presence with us in our visitations even when I shailrentainmore than the iihj physical debility would liave fully excused his ab ID sence I that no appropriation bill shall embrace legislation We desire to convey to his family the expression rolaxlnS to the subject matter of the of our sympathy in their bereavement while with I them we appreciate the comfort of recalling a life I Mr COffroth (Dem Pa) urther to of honor and usefulness I tJe pensions to Jiegolvfd That the above minute entered on nien including volunteers and a our records and a copy be furnished for publica I men of the Lnite i tion and be sent to the famfly and to the Governor V1? survlvinS widows and dependent of Michigan 7 I fathers and mothers cmgau WALKED By Mr Warner (Dem O) Requiring Henry Lord President I silver certificates to be paid outin lieu ot com ou Secretarv I demand therefor in sums of and multiple I thereof also that the redemption ot I national bank notes under the act of June I') IM ruitport may be in United States notes or in standard gold ruitport on the Chicago West Michigan the Secretary of the Railroad is destined to some time become a I By Mn Converse (Dem O): or reservation a place of great activity notwithstanding busi public parks of the territory on which Bedoodor ness has been rather stagnant and progress I the big trees of California stand not exceeding aa slow since the burning of the Pomona House I aggregate of two townships some five or six years ago Early last spring By Mr Houk (Rep extend the provs the Spring Lake Iron Company was organized Arrears biU to pensions under ichafre McMillan (Dem Tenn): To establish an furnace located on the banks of the lake at' income tax this Work was commenced early in I By Mr New (Dem Ind): To remit the duties on July and the furnace is now in process of com I when used in curing fish or curing and packing pletion The blast furnace is built after the I beef and pork most modern plans under the supervision of By Mr Martin (Dem Del Allowing appear Maj Pickands and has an ordinary ten court martials to United States Courts in tune pacity of I Steele (Dem C): Changing the time nu v5 thirty nve tons per day Iron ore I for the meeting of Congress to the second Monday will be brought from Escanaba a distance of I in January 200 miles across the lake and it is thought the i By Mr Monroe (Rep p) or a commission on furnace will be in operation by March 1 The I a11 alcoholic liquor traffic company is officeredas follows: I By Mr Gillette (G la): Requiring the Secre Samuel Marshall Milwaukee I tary of the Treasury to pay out all gold an sir gwretarv and coin legal tender notes and national bank notes Manar Maj Ts the treasury not required for current expenses Rhod as Bradley Chicago fbill to regulate I the manner of counting the votes for President anu The or Tlanrl Vice President of the United States ins xrox island Explosion Hedrd at St By Mr Briggs (Rep H): Annulling and re Clalr I voking court martial findings and sentence in i no ST CLAIR December 13 About half past 8 Gen itz John Porter restoring him yesterday (12th inst) moises were EXd lnt vt8 Principally on to September 1 1866 andafcolonel thereafter vS thirty five or forty feet By Sir Belford (Rep CoL): Providing that above the St Clair River the character of the I case of the nowsurrender of the sound being described as nearly the sim I Kgcd in the White River massacre within tnin liar to a blow or shaking on a doorMv im tlie tribe siiall ba declared public enXn pression was that it waTan earthquake for the shts lte vi brAti nn wm rbiA qaytia fhaT kAm I shall be declared forfeited experi By Mr Clardy (Dem Mo): Providing for West India Islands in slight I payment of arrears of pensions to shocks As this was doubtless caused by an I minor children of persons who died of injuries earthwave arising from the ox Isidnd exnlo I ceived in the war of the rebellion es sion the above information mavbe interesting I Mr De La Matyr (G Ind in a scientific point of view showing the diT I tabnshment of a branch mint in at I By Mr Chalmers (Dem Miss) To encourage I tlie education of the colored race North Bradley I By Mr Hill (Dem O): Granting The woods hereabouts are full of rural Nim I to of tfae United States who servea rods who are making a good thing out of PmrMnErerett (Rep Pa): or the erection of Partfwe3 hmr quail which are I public buildings in Pittsburgh thicker than ever at the present time One I district or colvjubia busixkss old sport brought to Bis thirteenth' deer killed I The House then considered the i or the this season on riday last He received District of Columbia and took for it and at once returned to the woods to settlement of all outstanding claims and CkV dr on the bill for the setti 9h ers domg proportionately well in mtof all outstanding bills against the shooting partridges for notela They bring and without final action the House adjourned TrndS any perceptible change to 1 mrtnv or we value been compelled to answer the question and had answered it to the negative she would not have strengthened her testimony lor even a Connecticut juryman would see that a witness who had not hesitated to perjure herself for an adequate object would certainly not hesi tate to deny the merely because such jtonial involved a repetition of the crime Stator Bay areTa Anti Legal Tender Beao The Business Interests of the Country Demand Its Adoption To the Editor of the Detroit ree PTess When the President to his message and Secretary Sherman in Jus annual report rec ommended the repeal of the legal tender fea ture of our greenback currency many mem bers of the Democratic party were afraid the Democrats in Congress would oppose the meas ure and that the Republicans by coming spk Sly to its support would place the Democracy at a disadvantage before the people but it now appears that their apprehensions were with out foundation at least as far as the Senate inance Committee is concerned our of the five Democratic members of that a a CV We publish elsewhere a letter from 'Msirk I 'resolution and three of the four Republican Twain in reply to a note from Postmaster I are opposed to it If same ra private secretary who had sent Twain I should prove to prevail among eot er mem some documents explanatory of the late order I bers two Congr8 sending 'to the Dead Letter Office defectively certainly be very strong evidence favor of addressed letters Mark Twain site down upon the presuming youth with considerable Legislative Department and of also tupung severity and apparently in the best of I toe Executive Departmen ove temper quite ignoring the main pqtajtin the I t1 bas8 conclusion upon a ac ixmtroversy or Twain is but mal and fllU business confidence and a probablv disposed like other mortalsrfo make I revival of industry prosperity the most of his success and not spare those ednnot be secured without this legislation who encounter him At the present time treasury notes and coin But the private secretary has daredLto issue I 4 same value that is of the same lnlThiC rsee and respected mformmghim that he of coin in the vaults of the treasury and the has concealed his thoughts to the wealth of his I condition of trade and commerce is favorable illustrations that there was nothing to Experience has shown however that there first letter personal to himself and that he did and finance are constantly not so consider it that its I pperatinj'and that it is not improbable the pf the regulations of the Postoffice Department I favorable conditions now existing may cease I to exist within a comparatively short period were in thmselves no more worthy qf notice Qne Hliftoost potent influences for good or thau those of a hundred irresponsible ignorant respect is the state of our and unknown4 newspaper writeri1 whose I foreign ade and a tendency to re marked effusions are daily sent to the: depart i ni 1 I imprudent but plausible legislation has already ment by their misguided the I manifested itself ml Congress What guar orders of the jPostoffice Department need no I auty therefore have the people and the busi defense because any man who has sense cani ness community that contracts for the puy atglanc that they had letter appeared to the Backhonestead I mg over? a few or as is true to many cases Bugle of reedom from which Kirbyfthought I quite a number of years may not by virtue of it had been extracted until he outedtoT toTr signature no notice would have been taken of I fency that is largely reduced below ite present it but that Kirby thought another good I dr coin value? We have no such" coin guar man gone grievously wrong a man that I 4ay and never will have untilgreenbacks 1 cease to be a legal tender in the payment Kirby had been in the habit of looking up to ofprivafe debts If they were not a as guide philosopher and friend a man whose 1 legal tender any depreciation or subsequent fame covers the hemispheres as the ihventorl appreciation which might occur would only I UlivVV vllv UA MV XadKA SAAAXSAAX I when the chance in their value took place only man who ever dared to speak irreverent I floes this loss occur but in addition thereto ly of members of the Boston Mutual 'Admira 1 every species of contract every kind of re I tounerative employment and every piece of tionfiociety in the presence of a meeting of I property real or personal is affected There that society and this man has been writing 1 js no way of measuring tbe hardship and in about a matter of which he is so utterly and I justice which result from a legal tender paper hopelessly ignorant that he thinks he knows all It upseteall calculations imder uvjjwtOTij 1ouvau vuau wuuu uonuuwa oit i mines all legitimate business and reduces the about I industry and frugality of the people to a mere So out of pure benevolence he sent him some I gambling basis Letme illustrate the point documents which would prove that he was I nn example that will be readily recognized I by many of vour readers: Suppose a me wrongand put a stop to his chanic or laboring man when our the darkness and shedding the same upon his I greenback currency was only worth fifty He didn't suppose Twain would cents on the dollar and toe price MtwouU th as paxtment bad rocdcd from I hk mortga ga of ccmtractreen which ho had plated it He is glad not I backs should appreciate to par that would re disappointed but surprised to find Twain lay duce tne value or ms nouse ana lot measurea 5 I by your legal tender paper money firty per ing the responsibility of his former ignorance! Just one half butitwould leave his debt upon the department His personalities' I at the original figure and he would be obliged would be regarded as natural in eoni 'l to Py one hundred cents where to reality he duly contracted to pay fifty cents Suppose mon men but he supposed when Tw ain I further that afthe time he bought his house killed Ibis conscience he had also and lot he was getting his two dollars day made way with ms sensitiveness a pro I wnicn averagea mm say mty aoiiarsa month fessional humorist a man who makes his liv he agreed to pay on his house arid lot I twenty uve dollars a month which would mgby prodding other people a thin skm is I leave him alike sum for the support of his fam even more inconvenient than a I ny Subsequently your paper money made and he had not the slightest idea that Twain I By law the standard of value reaches par land as a consequence bis wages are reduced woud get mad at a little thing like his letter I a dollar a day or an average of twenty five He concludes by asking the humorist to stir I dollars a month just enough to make his pay up the particular one of his eleven secretaries I mente on his house and lot but leaving nothing whose duty it is to return the newspaper slip I or living nas also been con espondingly re he sent him I duced and he can get along on twelve dollars Klrbvhas decidedly the advantage of Twain I and a half a month but he is still twelve dol in which is the soul of and to I onh payments and per goad temper The humorist bad humor hehare of just such throws away his weapon Leases as this among the laboring men of De I troit since the war and in fact everybody IS PEKJUKY EVER EXCUSABLE? I rich and poor have been more or less af I fectea to the same way It has indeed been The examination of Mra Hayden wife of Dbes the country ckre to the alleged murderer on trial in Connecticut 1 repeat it and is there any way to avoid as a witness to behalf of her husband isnatur doing i so except by requiring all kinds ally exciting considerable comment and there ny he I ernment or not to circulate and float for what is a good deal of speculation as to the question jt fa worth? The country would then know asked her whether as loving wife convinced what it is about and coupled with light taxes: of her innocence and knowing if I Ree an of prosperity found guilty he must suffer an ignominious I world unequ in history death she would not perjure herself to save 1 ANTI LEGAL TENDER him from punishment Thequestion was ruled out as improper but it really is a very inter The supreme Court Reports esting inquiry whether in the common judg AThe Bemen County Journal the ment of mankind perjury under such ci cum 1 discussion concerning the action of the State stances would or would not be justifiable Auditors in reference to printing the Supreme Stealing to save a husband wife or child from I reports as follows death by starvation is commonly spoken of as legislature at its last session passed an excusable if npt meritorious though the criminal law makes no between gan Heretofore 8 George Co had been larceny committed for such a purpose I allo wed to print them and charge an exorbi and that committed from the mere P00 alld this firm taking I advantage of the public' asked lust of unlawful acquisition In the prices for the reports Our Supreme Court code of law and of morals perjury is a crime I reports with inferior bindings were sold for precisely as stealing is a crime and if the I nearly three times as much as the reports of community would excuse the latter when paw BacOto lttoTBoTrd ol StateAi committed to save life why should it not ex tors was directed to commence in the first cuse the former when committed for a similar I yeek in September of this year to advertise purpose? If the admission that th couftouH pr jt the reports fpr the term of eight years and mty would make such excuse involves ary ad 1 thei contract was awarded to the low mission that the standard of public morality jsi est I bidder at a price not exceeding two not high still we are afraid the admission I dodars a must be made In a noted Chicago case tried tonj received a bid from the publishers of the many years ago it was popularly believed 1 New York reports at SI 50 per volume The that one of the witnesses' perjured himself I the Legislature took effect July 14 not to save life but v0 a woman from a ai purpose or defeating the will of the Legisla disgrace Yet there was no marked exh(li 1 ture did two or three days before the law tion of popular disapproval and the teok effect let the contract to George reported 'declaration when challenged as te IS1 one dollar more than 1 toe bid from New York and fifty cents more his testimony that there were some things a I thaa the act allowed to be paid The New great deal worse than perjury was accepted York firm hasi applied for a mandamus to more widely than it would have been if the I State board to cancel the contract public standard of morality had been much let the contract 7 7 I tnem ine bupreme Court has issued the higher than that of the witness I writ andthe case will be 4 argued and decided The question asked to the Hayden case 'dbes rjn January not therefore seem so highly improper as the time the jieople should turn their judge regarded it With a tolerably well de I fled steifflcontein fined public sentiment excusing or looking I an opposition ma jojity so that the doings of leniently upon perjury committed under great I State administration could be investigated temptation the compel for the might well desire to know the sentiments of I the people and would add a definition to the the witness on that point It is not at all I that the Lansing Republican likely however that the exclusion of the ques I mention late editorial on that tion had any effectone way or the other The jury undoubtedly received the tes 1 Victory or Defeat? timony wflji a full consciousness of the temp I Worn the Emmet County Democrat tation she was under to testify falsely if by I Democratic party to day areon the eve aotag Ulludhr boband nd statement of her own on the point would have 1 qefeat There is more than enough opposition Wornu Erade an Injonctlon I 4 kJ Special Dispatch to ThaDefroit ree Press RApids 15 was I A Record of Proceediu learned for the first time to night that on De 3 cember 6 an to junction was issued to toe United pw a np States Court restraining Julius Worms of oLJi AlrL Grand Haven from disposing of his stuff An Amendment to the Bayard The writ was returnable December 20 Sines I Proposed InvestiSau0Q ol then Worms sold but at Grana Haven andj Negro Eiodns Ete started for Detroit where he was captured and taken to Muskegon arriving there to day Ind) presented the petition of 700) and sailors praying to be paid in giwnbacS the difference between the value of gre nback in The Worms Case I which they were paid for services to the gove a Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press I ment and the value of gold at the time of ply I ment Laid on the table Grand Rapids December to Henry 1 AN AMENDMXXT TO THE BAVARD RESOLCTXV Worms was not here yesterday A relative of Mr Butler (Dem C) introduced an amend that gentleman was here tailing counsel to be the Senate joint resolution introduced br I Mr Bayard (Dem DeL) withdrawing the leeal half of Julius Worms tender quality of greenbacks The resolution6 I proposed to be amended will read: "That from ruuefitiHMia I and after January 1865 trqasuiy notes of tb Death of Daac Stevens United States shall be receivable for all dues to Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press' I United States except duties on imports and shin Kalamazoo December 15 Isaac' Stevens not be otherwise a legal tender and any of 7 1 ool I notes thaLshall thereafter be issued shall bear th a resident of Kalamazoo Township since 1834 I Referred and a life long Democrat died Sunday aged wn iRonrcED AjD referred I By Mr McMillan (Rep Minn): To authorize the TV St Paul Chicago Short Line Railway Company i I construct a bridge across Lake St Croix and to I establish it as a post route i towil I By Mr Vest (Dem Mo): A bill for the organiza Gagetown Tuscola County is situated I tion of the Territory of Oklohama out of the pns the Township of' Elmwood sixteen miles lent Indian Territory northeast of Caro the countvseat ive main I By Mr Saunders (Rep NeK): A bill extendi? traveled wagon roads center here? It is sur I of reenuon 2397of the revised tqjces grounded by one of the finest and best fanning tort of oSi (countnes in the State of Michigan It is Hy Mr Hereford (Dem Va): Bills making I gently rolling and the timber is beech and I appropriations for the improvement of the Eil (maple mixed with ash oak and rock elm The! Sandy and Elk Rivers in West Virginia: audtr richness of the soil cannot be surpassed to the I costinufng the improvement of New River and th State and wild land can be bought for to Great Kanawha River West Virginia per acre Our crops this season were I good Wheat twenty to sixty bushels per on Territories reported a substitute for the bill acre oats forty to fifty corn seventy five to I extend the northern boundary of Nebraska one hundred (ears) potatoes 150 to 200 bush I Placed bn the calendar els per acre We have good roads and we can 1 the postal service draw from fifty to seven tv five bushel? of: I The VkThident presented a communication wheat to Caro witi6nwrdiary horse team I reco'nroendirg rhe Gagetown is villacre of SOidhabitants four I appropriation of for exigencies of the ser us vi xuiuiuiuauw iwui i caused by tlie extension of star routes an 1 for general stores one boot and shoe shoptwo I other Referred blacksmith shops one wagon shop one the negro exodus hardware store end hotel school house L' Mr Voorhees (Dem Ind) introduced a resoititior saw mill and shingle mill and postoffice I providing for a committee of five Senators to in The place is in want of a grist mill for I Y081110 leadinsr negro emigre though there was a good grist mill at this diana place it was destroyed by fire to the fall of gSffira (Eep" to ts PR ISTS and it has not been rebuilt There is no RosEctnoN for desertiov water power here but a good chance for steam I Senate bill to amend rule IM rules and articles of power as there are two never failing springs I the war so as to provide a rule of limitation for the The Water is soft and does not create any limp I prosecution for desertion was laid over to allow in the boiler ruit pf all kinds does well here further examination of its provisions and this year we had a fine drop of peaches I tni plums pears apples and other fruits Wheat chase land to enlarge and protect the United Statesbids fair to be a good crop next year This Arsenal at San Antonio and appropriating part of Tuscola County is rapidly being set I for the purpose was passed tied up with a good industrious class of citizens I After a short executive session the Senate ad from the Canadas and the United States I journed 4 The new Chinese Encyclopedia is now pub lished and ready for subscribers This inter esting work as tbe Post would say consists of 5020 volumes and is sold at the low price of which is only 33 a volume at which no one can reasonably grumble Those who have read through the Britannica and Conversations Lexicon can settle down to this' Seriously it might be well when judging of the Chinese by the few laundrymen which find their way to this country 'to reflect whether a nation capableof producing a work of this sort is to be des pisod for want of intellect or of mental re sources The truth is we know almost as lit tie of them as they of us it be as curious as unexpected if the next form of freight vehicle were to carry its own road with it and to be vehicle and wheel in one The first tjqie is on exhibition at the Garden of the Tuileries to Paris where three filled with thirty children are With ease drawn by two goats The wheels have two flanges around the whole system of wheels turns an endless chain of jointed rails so that the carriages constantly laydown their tracks just in front of them and take them up behind The same weight on an or dinary road would require a dozen gdats The other" type occurred to a Minnesota farmer while watching his children by rolling a big spool across the floor The idea occurred to him that natural products like grain ore coal etc might be transported in nyUnders rolling directly on the rails with suitable frame work for attaching them to other cars Various ad vantages of speed loss of friction cheapness durability ease of load ing and unloading etc are suggested By combining the two ideas cylindrical cars car rying their own track as well as their freight might be seen rolling all over the country 7 The hard fighting which the British have had io retain possession of Cabul and the thraatened difficulties at Candahar and Herat will remove any lingering belief which may have been entertained to Great Britain that Afghanistan could be held without a force sufficient at a notice to overcome all the tribes which might De roused into hostility against British domination IV ith this lesson fleshly enforced there is not much danger of a repetition of the policy which led to so dis astrons results nearly forty years agof when the British left a 'small force to maintain the 5 ruler' they had forced upon jthe people of Af ghanistan But the people of the United King dom may well ask themselves whether British control iu Afghanistan is worth the price which must be paid for it Of course the bearing which the occupancy op Afghanistan has upon the safety of India is a consideration of great weight to this connection but there there is not much doubt that England could make India absolutely secure from outside foes without being under the necessity of keeping a permanent military force at CaW and Candahar I Mart Have a Bel! Bunch Vy Snpirloas toward a tax upon Last Saturday evening Brainard PetAT of instead of upon ite fe manfacture vrifpiSh taw Brainard fell off irom thS sttotionality would not be questioned Egelston and the jurv 4 rm a I Brainard Peterson came to" at MTHH TCI Al 4 I rtrangutatioii His uncle Mr hy DULVALlVrXLL5 Muskegon took charge of the ldv I Tuesday The deceatedwas bad 11 I News and Reporter Jeai The Ludington Ejectment Sults I 4 Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press General items Grand Rapids December 15 or a week I Th a first number of University by John A Roach of Goshen Ind againjt University of Michigan in tb chaf citizens of Lndington have been on trial in the I quality and arrangement of the United States Court Defendants claimed title tar superior to the average college paper under a sale of execution which a to day sustained and directed the jury tore I interested in the welfare of the mines turn a verdict for the defendants Tbe cases to learn that the mining schools below vniiffl beppeted to tb United State Suptafi Court I that the' partial eclipse of Jupiter fi P1 11880visible only in Africa Banished by the Governor I pqned P0 Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press I Kalamazoo Gazette There was a bi TA vsTxa December Gov Croswell to at Dewing establishment dav nardoned Ada Shay who was convicted afternoon Without any am ia paxuouCT the first floor sunk at least six inches before Justice Levi Shackelton of Ludington fiends in the building fled as fast as of being a common prostitute and sentenced could carry them One wall was pulled to Detroit House of Correction for three years I the other out and all the machine frote January The pardon fa pranted did upon the condition that said woman forthwith I rtble calamity ter leave the State and remain out of it during I said sentence I rr riT rrm THE MAINE MUDDLE AND THE PRESI DENTIAL ELECTION The denial by tbe Maine courts of the man damus asked for to compel an exhibition of the election returns by the Governor and Council should exonerate thwie oflicials to the minds of intelligent and fair minded Republicans from the charge so freelj' made against lem of violating the law Probably it will'baye that effect with that class of Republicans hut vita the other class represented by journals like the New York Tribune and in a smaller way by journals like the Post of this city the effect will be to create a still more bitter feeling against the Governor and Council This class knowing very well what it would expect of a Republican Governor and Council under sim ilar circumstances is unable to conceive Democratic officials acting honestly and will prefer to accuse the Supreme Court of cor ruptiofi rather than accept its decision os to the legality of all that the Returning Board of Maine has thus far done Such a view of the matter would no more stupid or bitterly partisan than the view which the New York Tribune actually took before the decision of the Maine Meas uring4 the Maine Governor and Council by some peculiar standard of its own the Tribune came to tab conclusion that they officials who could be out of of duty and deliberately proceeded to threaten them The matter of the threat was as re markable as the effrontery which made any threat possible In plain terms the Tribune threatened that if Governor Garcelon and his advisers did their duty according jto their own conception of it the Repub lican Legislatures "of New York Con necticut New Jersey Ohio and every doubtful Northern States should pass bills pro viding for the appointment by themselves of presidential electors for 1S S0 This terrible threat it still holds over the heads of the Slaine Democrats though it is good enough to suggest a probability that contemplation of the consequences may lead the Democrats to from the meditated or the discovery of the awful possibilities embodied in this frightful menace the New York Tribtine is indebted to a correspondent of the Albany Journal Where it discovered that it had the power to control all the Repub lican Legislatures of the country we are not It certainly claims control when it declares the power shall De exercised if the Maine Democrats do not behave themselves and that if they do behave them selves the Legislatures will kindly leave the choice of electors to the people in the old fashioned way But notwithstanding the mag nitude and confidence of the claim we feel im pelled to notify the Maine the Gov ernor and his Council that there is nothing to it Having the constitutional right to pro vide for the appointment of Presidential elec 1 Kv tha islatnres will be governed in their action not I a scrap book the inaugurator of the move by threats or the conduct of Maine I ment to erect a monument to Adamnaud the I but when they are a legal tender not only The light has successfully crossed the qbean a Liverpool steamer just to having been lit with it during tbe whole voyage Un like other light it traveled at the rate of only twelve or fifteen miles an hour 4 Of 16623 persons whose names are on the tax rolls to the City of New York as liable for taxes oh personal property less than 2000 swear to the possession of any 6210 swear to none and 8505 swear not at all This places the whole burden upon real estate I I I progress through Scotland is to the nature of a triumph He is greeted by immense audiences' eveiy where At the Edinburgh' Exchange 20000 people waited hree hours for his arrival The mass was so great that it began surging to and fro 4 Men were thrown down under the pressure and picked: up white and breathless Others fainted from toe overpowering beat caused by the gas But when he began speaking con fidcnce and quiet were restored he was LMrd throughout the vast hall "Under the present taw marriages in England cannot without a costly license the fees of which go to the Archbishop of Canterbury be solemnized except bgtweeiythg of 8 a and noon member of the House of Commons has given notice of a bill to repeal this law and allow them to be celebrated to the evening It may pass the House of Commons but the long experience with tbe bill for re pealing tho law prohibiting marriage with a deceased sister makes it improbable that it will run the gauntlet of the House of Lords The conservatism of that body is al ways to be rejied upon especially when as to this case a prerogative of one of its members is in jeopardy LEuterefl at the Pdstofflce at Detroit as second class mat ter I SUBSCRIPTION kATBS 2 in advance Itaay by carrier per month' pan 5 tltoUe waek proc may wade either bv draft rx registered 10 insure attantion Kubscrtbe Andrew TH bcTEOIT REE CO RATES ADVERTISING uisATED AovruTisExzrrra ria ixca baht JPy L8t Wl Days pt 8(X 'i 4 2 2 eeki?" 4 14 3 Ono iWih.