Local Brevities

Mrs. Andrew Smith was thrown out of her buggy, Tuesday, and broke her wrist. William Kaercher has been appointed postmaster at Weinsberg. Communion services will be held at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. George W. Bullis is building a fine new residence on Washtenaw avenue. A stone walk has been put down on the north side of the Hangsterfer block. The colored democrats of the county will hold a rally at Ypsilanti, September 16. For the Maccabee excursión, Tuesday, there were 1,172 tickets sold in this city. The stone sidewalk around the Ilamilton block is one of the handsomest in the city. L. T. Limpert is building a fine residence on the corner of Thayer and Monroe streets. Eighty-one candidates for teachers' j certiücates were exarained in thecourt house last Friday. Rev. A. B. Storms, of Detroit, will preach at the M. E. church next Sabbath at 10:30 a. m. A fine crossing has been put in on Main street, between the opera house and the Duffy block. A number of town caucuses have been called. See the calis at the head of our editorial columns. Caspar Rinsey is having stone sidewalks laid on the north and west sides of his store on E. Iluron street. The grade has been fixed for a plank walk on the north side of Kingsley street, between Main and Ashley. Morning services will be resumed at the Unitarian church next Sunday. Evening services will begin Oct. 1. The season for trout and grayiing fishing in Michigan closed Wednesday. The duck shootiug season has opened. Henry B. Dodsley has been ringing door bells and enquiring the rmmber of persons in each house of school age. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the C. M. B. A. of St. Thomas church will be held on Tuesday evening- Services at the Congregational church will be resumed "hext Sunday. Rev. Mr. Bradshaw will occupy the pulpit. The Scio Democratie caucus will be held, AVednesday, September 7, at three o'clock, at the Dexter opera house. It is reported that Rev. Charles Young will conduct the union services at the Baptist church next Sunday evening. Edwin F. Gay, formerly of this city, bas been married to Miss Louise Randolph, of Toledo. They are now on their way to Europe. Work on the new Maccabee hall is progressing in a very satisf actory manner, and it may be completed by the middle ot this month. The wagon shop of Frank Sheftold, in Dexter, burned Wednesday night. Nothing was saved. The loss was $1,000 with $300 insurance. Three handsome new frame houses are in course of erection on the east side oi' North Fifth avenue immediately north of Kingsley street. The examination of George W. Burkhardt, who was arrested last week on the charge of working a graveyard insurance scheme, has been postponed until September 9. Quite a number of thefts f rom freight cars between the station in this city and in Ypsilanti have been made in the past two years. The latest articles missing are some shoes. Am Hall, of York, and Miss HarrietLitchard, of Lenawee county, were united in marriage by Justice Butts, yesterday, in the justices best style of tying the marriage knot. James Mams, of Chicago, and John McCauliiï, of Port Huron, were brought before [Justice Pond, Saturday, charged with begging bread. They were given three days in jail. The Sharon, York and Ann Arbor township Democratie caucus are called for Saturday, September 17. The chainnan of the town committees should send in the hour and place. Rev. Ross Parish, of Midland, officiated at the union services at the Presbyterian eburch, last Sunday evening. His discourse was a very able one and held the close attention of a very large audience. His subject was Reciprocity. Complaint has been made against VictorBenz, of Webster, for taking indecent liberties with a little girl. It is reported that Benz has left the county, although denying his guilt. The long vacation is over, and the city schools wiH resume business on Monday, and the children are tlocking home from far and near, some of them glad to resume study and some not so glad. Mr. D. Iliscock has unloaded at his coal yard ninety-five car loads of coal, or in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred tons, and has more coming. Coal is now up to $7.00 a ton, with the tendency still upward. Some people do not appreciate the beauties and advantages of nature as she is, or was, rather. The street commissioner or somebody else has made a cut Ihrough the hill on Summit street just west of Fountain. This hill used to afford a fine view of the rolling country westward; but now, alas! The large erop of Canadian thistles on the grounds of the Standard Oil company on Felch street is in full blossom, and the seeds will soon be I ready for the winds and the birds to carry them broadcast. This thistle is the hardest possible to erádicate when it once gets a foothold. They should have been cut long ago. Who is responsible? Ed. C. Greve and John Walz, jr., members of the "Wolverine bicycle club of this city, will leave on Sunday morning for a trip on their wheels intended to cover about 600 miles. They will eo from here to Jackson, where they will help celébrate Labor Day on the 5th; thence to Marshall; Kalantazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Detroit, and then home. Two advance cars belonging to the Sells Brothers circus are side-tracked on the Toledo road, near Summit street. They contain all the necessary materials for billing the city for the great show on the 22d, and a forcé of men to do the work. The cars, whieh are quite attractive, are now under" going critical inspection by all the boys in that neighborhood. Gertie Carmo, the aeronaut who was injured in this city last f all, by falling in a tree, theparachute refusingto act, was killed in Detroit last week while making an ascensión on the Exposition groiiHds. The wind carried the balloon against a tower, against which she struck with considerable forcé. She was unable to hold on long after this and was killed instantly. An Adrián dispatch to the Evening News saya; "J. DouglassUnderwood, one of the brightest young colored men in the state and very popular in Lenawee county, has just passed a creditable examination into the ministry of the African baptist church, and accepted a cali from the. Ann Arbor society of the denomination. E. L. Scruggs, whom he succeeds, has accepted the presidency of a Baptist seminary at Macon, Mo. Mr. Clinton Eider, leading tenor of the Agnes Huntington Opera Company and iate solo tenor of St. Thomas' ! church, New York, gives an invitation concert at the Unitarian church, commencing at eight o'clock, The concert is given at the request of a number of ladies and gentlemen of this city. The concert will be a great treat to lovers of good music. Those of our readers who have heard Mr. Eider will unite with us in admiration of his fine voice. Luick Bros. are making preparations for the erectïon of a Cleveland and Stevenson pole at-their planingmill on Kjngsley street. As their new chimney is 91i feet high, and would there. fore, from certain points of view, hide any ordinary campaign pole, they intend to erect one about 150 feet in heiglit. It may be of interest to state that the cliimney mentioned above is nine feet square at the base, and tapers to six feet square at the top. Look out for their Democratie streamer. Rev. Robert A. Holland, for the past year assistant rector of St. Andrew's paris and curator of Harris hall, has accepted a cali to the rectoi'ship of St. Luke's church, Boston. This church is situated on Beacon street in the suburb and has a small but wealthy congregation. Rev. Mr. Holland is a preacher of talent and his friends while regretting to lose him from this city will rejoice at his good fortune. He leaves for Boston next week. "From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand," (only you should turn the couplet end for end, so to speak,) would pretty nearly describe the ilop the weather has taken here this week, the mereury having fallen from somewhere up in the nineties to between lifty and sixty degrees. This is pretty trying to most people, and may be dangerous for many. There is one grain of comfort in it, however, and that is that it is very unfavorable for an inroad of cholera in this direotion. At the Sylvan Democratie eaucus held Tuesday eveuing in Chelsea the following delegates were elected tothe county convention to nomínate county oiïicers: II. Lighthal], W. Caspary, Martin ilerkle, F. Staffan, Tim. McKone, Luke Hagan, C. Klein, C. Hummel, A. U. Pierce, and James ïaylor. It is stated that Peter J. Lehman has Mr. Staffan 's proxy. The delegates elected to the representativa convention were J. Beckwith, Thomas McKone, Charles Kaercher, J. II. Egan, J. Hagan, George Beckwith, Michael Merkle, Gottlob Grau, Charles Whittaker, and Thomas McNamara. The cauens was very harmonious. Ifit were possible that the reporter for the Argus could be ubiquitous, he might have been a little more "previous' in noticing the handsome row of new houses on the south side, of Cherry street, in the third ward, immediately north of the old Bower property, and extending between Spring and Fountain streets. The street is only one block in length, but contains live of these new houses, all built within a year. They are indeed architectural beauties, and belong respectively to George Crocker, engineer on the Toledo road, Nelson F. Estabrook, Andrew Ii. Peterson, of the City milis, George II. Groh, and William Grenman, the latter two being also employés of the T. & A. A. company. An unsuccessful attempt was made last Saturday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, to steal three horses from the barn of Comstock HUI, of Lodi. It is surmised that three men were concerned in the transaction. That they effected an entrance into the barn was evidenced by the large number of burnt matches strewn about the Hoor. They found it irnpossible, hovvever, to get the horses out. and for a very substantial Some time ago a similar raid had been unsuccessfully made upon Mr. Hill's stock, and he had since then taken the precaution to place iron bars across the inside of the doors in such a way as that the thieves were unable to remove them and get the horses out, and were tlnis balked in their designs. There is as yet no clew to the thieves.