Christiancy Resigns

On Honday evtuing Gov. Croswell sent the Senate a messago conveying the news of Senator Uhristiancy's resignation. The resignation was dated at Lansing, Feb. 8, and ordered to take effect at noon on the lOth. Under the law an eleotion will be held on the 18th. The ex-Senator says to press reporters that he resigned to accept the Peruvian mission on account of ill-health. Denies in the most vigorous manner tha he was a party to any bargain in th tran8action. He expects to start fo Peru about the last of this month. He visited Monroe on Monday, leaving fo Washington on Wednesday. Charles Etheridge of St. Paul, Minn. defrauded a bank of forty thousand dol lars, and fled from the State. He wa overtaken by remorse, and has fully re imbur8ed the swindled iustitution b; turning over to it the bulk of bis rea and personal property, and ho now ask to be reinstated in the church of which he was a member. In a letter to hi former pastor he saya of bis crime that " tho step was one bom of desperation, leaping blindly as it were off the high ground of integrity into the deop anc to me unknown abyss of crime," and he adds that "atonement for woakness in yielding to temptation and pruycr to be sustained in that object and to keep me from temptation will be a daily am hourly self-imposed duty." Matters can not truthfully be said to be dull in Michigan just now. Wha with the senatorial electiou carrying to fever heat its politicians, there is the University difficulty which largely ab sorbs the attention of the people of thi city ; Detroit is alarmed over the deca dence of political moráis among her city fathera ; Kalamazoo is indignan over tho necossity of looking into he favorito publio institution ; Corunna i intensely excited over the postmaster ship ; Port Huron politicians are quar roling over federal spoils. Northern and western portions of the state will have to be up and stirriug if they expect to equal eastern Michigan in ori ginating important news. The Utica, N. Y. Daily Iiqnillkan (lied ast week, af ter an existence of about one year. It was one of the best dailiesexant, well and sprigntly edited, thoroughly localized.and contained a digest of the news happening round about. 3ut it was begotten inspite, because tho ditor of the Ilerald would not bow own and worship at the shrine of )oukling, and laudato overy politica] act of that distinguished gentleman. - t was not needed for the field was aleady covored. lts decease was expected although its sponsors let it die earlier han was expected. The experiment ost $40,000. Thero is a rumor in Washington that he Texas and the Southern Pacific railoads have entered into a compact simiar to that made by the Central and Jnion Pacific, the Huutington inerest to build tho western and the Scott uterest the eastern half of a single hrough line. This certainly would be a very sensible ending of the fight. 'he Southern Pacifio already is being perated from San Francisco to tho edgo f Arizona Territory, and the Texas Paine has not been idle. Tho through ine is only a quostion of a few years. Tho Deraocratio National Committoe nd the Democratie candidato refused o bo the buyers and the warea wore ;hencarriedto the Eepublican managers, y whom they were purchased. What VIr. Smith M. Weed did not do, the two 3handlers and others did - and what kir. Tilden refused to be let done, Mr. layes procured to be done, by paying he men who did it in Federal offices 'ielding $792,000 during the four years of the stolen rule. - Albany Argus. President Hayes has a soft spot in his leart for unfortunate members of Conjress who have been repudiated by their constituents. Banks has been made Jnited States Marshal of Mass., and Martin J. Townsend of Troy, U. S. Disrict Attorney of ihe northern district of N"ew York. It is fortúnate for disabled politicians that adtninistrations ïave patronage to bestow. It is a coincidence worthy of notice hat about the time Gov. Tilden testifies 10 would not engago in a contest for ;he Presidency when it was put up at auction, Zach Chandler, who was one of the principal bidders in 1870, leaps to .he front as Michigan's senator. The difference between the men is plainly apparent.