Local Brevities

A new front is being put in the store of E. F. Mills & Co. J. D. Williams is rebuilding his residence on North University Ave. A. P. Ferguson has taken out a new patent for an improved road cart. Henry Cornwell will build a large and handsome residence on North División street. The regular meeting of Arbor tent, Knights of Maccabees, will be held this evening. Peter Egenoff jumped off a Michigan Central train here Monday and cut a gash in his cheek. Emanuel Wagner is making a good quality of cigars in his new factory over Rinsey & Seabolts store. Fred Rentchler has a record of taking 800 photographs on the World's Fair grounds in one day. Arbortent, Knights of Maccabees, is planning to give a basket picnic at Whitmore Lake in the near future. Seven hundred bushels of black and red raspberries were shipped from the M. C. R. R. depot last Monday. A. W. Hamilton is rebuilding one of his houses on the Hamilton, Rose and Sheehan addition recently destroyed by fire. Dr. Frothingham's new house on Washington street is rapidly approaching completion, and will be occupied by a society. A young son of Mr. Hammel, of Pittsfield, was kicked by a horse Sunday over the left eye. A few stitches repaired the wound. The Ann Arbor school board at a special meeting Tuesday night, decided to pay Prof. McClenahan $460 for commercial college suplies. County Treasurer Suekey deivers an address, August 19, at Whitmore Lake, on "Agriculture as a factor of our National Development." The cellar for the new Greene block on N. Fourth Avenue, where the city offices are to be located, is being excavated. The rooms for the city offices will be heated by steam. Washington dispatches announce that mail messenger service between the station on the Ann Arbor Road at Whitmork Lake and the Whitmore Lake postoffice has been discontinued. David Henning, the old pioneer, is visiting many old friends in the city. He was once the largest apple dealer in America. He now owns an eighty-five acre orange grove in southern California. Frank S. Bourns, of Minneapolis, who has just returned from the Phillipine Islands, was the guest of Fred Schmid, Sunday. The collection of animáis and reptiles with which he returned is worth $20.000. He left here for Minneapolis. Miss Carrie Gallor, of Maynard street, was married to H. C. Wood, a young Chicago attorney, at St. Thomas' church, Wednesday morning, by Rev. E. D. Kelly. After a wedding breakfast at the Cook House, the happy couple left for Chicago. William DeMott, of Flint, got drunk in Ann Arbor. He pawned his gold watch for fifty cents and got so gloriously full that Saturday he landed in jail. He is out again and has recovered his gold watch, of which, let us hope, he may take better care. G. J. Van Horn has been appointed postmaster at Pittsfield in place of E. W. Brown who has removed from the station. There is no need of the Conner's question mark after the word resigned. Brown's resignation was a genuine one and was not requested. A lawn social will be given at the residence of Miss Emma Bower on North Ingalls street by the Women's Relief Corps on Tuesday evening, July 25. A cordial invitation is extended to the G. A. R. and S. of V. and their friends and all interested in the good work of the society. Ice cream and cake will be served. We sell Parks' Cough Syrup 011 a positive guaruntee to cure all throat and lung troubles. It has stood tlie test for many years and to-day is the leading remedy for the cure of colds, consumption, and all diseases of the throat and lungs. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Sold by Eberbach Drug & Chemical Co. A full account of the World 's Fair was unavoidably crowded out this week, but will appear next week. The democrats of the third ward hold a caucus to nomínate a candidate for alderman, in the basement of the court house, Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. H. L. Millit, of Chicago, will preach at the Church of Christ next Sunday morning and will address the Union meeting at the Congregational chiych in the evening. Dr. J. C. Wood has accepted the chair of gynecology in the Cleveland Medical College. He has been a professor in the homeopathie department here for the past eight years, has met with good success, and made many friends in the city. The coal bunker of the University of Michigan, containing 300 tons of (al, took fire Wednesday night from spontaneous combustión. It was extinguished by the liberal use of salt and water, after about a ton of coal had been consumed. Engineer Sanford is watching the coal bunker closely, for fear of a repetition of the combustión. Edward Duffy has been granted the contract for keeping the store house at the military encampment at Island Lake this year. It is a big contract and calis for the supplying of all the vegetables, groceries, and food to the soldiers with the exception of the fresh meats. Mr. Duffy is well qualified to undertake the task and the military boys will find themselves well provided for. Deputy-Sheriff Brenner last evening arrested Mary Beach, a woman fifty-seven years old, from Fremont, Ohio, for drunkenness. She had been insulting people on Main street. When arrested, she laid down. An omnibus was called. She struck at the officers and when put in jail again assaulted them. She was a woman with one hand and although last night she heard perfectly, this morning she pretended to be deaf. Justice Bennett this morning gave her five days in the Detroit House of Correction. According to the supervisors returns filed in the county clerks office, Freedom had more births last year than had the city of Ypsilanti. Thirty-seven births were reported from Freedom and only thirty-six from Ypsilanti. Only two births were reported in the second district of Ypsilanti composed of the fourth and fifth wards, from which a big return might have been expected and these two births were twins. The only explanation that can be given for the above state of facts is :hat the birth returns are worthless Decause incomplete.