Local Brevities

; VVelch Post, G. A. .R., install , officers tliis evening. The ladies of St. Andrew's church gave a social last evening. - Skaters are making the best of i the ice on the Northern Brewery's pond. J. V. Sheehan has been elected a director of the Michigan Iron Mining Co. N. J. Kyer has been elected a director of the Michigan State Millers association. Hugh Johnson and Miss Ora Green, of this city, were married last Saturday. Another delightful faculty concert was held in ïïrieze Memorial hall last evening. Otto Kirchner, Esq., of Detroit, opened his lectures in the law department, Tuesday. Mrs. Philip Bach recently found in her front yard an old Roman coin of the year 44 B. C. li. E. Barney died in Springrield, Mass., this week. He is a brother of S. R. and R. C. Barney. The Knights Templar give a reception and banquet to Rev. M. M. Goodwin, of Ypsilanti, January 30. Rev. Dr. Cobern leads the last meeting of the week of prayer in the Congregational church this evening There were 41 persons f rom Ypsilanti admitted to the opera house Tuesday evening to hear Sol Smith Russell. Augustus W. Fellows has had his pension reissued at the old figures and dated back two years ago, when it was reduced. John B. Moloney's old Aon Arbor friends cougratulate him upon his appointment as collector of the port of Detroit. The funeral of Thaddeus Thompson, Tuesday, was conducted under the auspices of the Masons, and was largely attended. William C. Spohr, of Dundee, and Iviiss Addie Lidster, of Ridgeway, were married by Justice' Bennett on Wednesday. Rev. Dr. Holland, of St. Louis, Mo. , will begin his course of lectures on the Slocuni foundation in Harris Hall, February, 18. Dr. V. C. Vaughn responded to the toast "The Relation of the Miller to the State," at the Miller's banquet in Lansing, this week. George Green, treasurer, of Ann Arbor town, will be at the court house Saturday, Jan. 20, 94, to collect the reniainder of the taxes. Prof. Iïinsdale on next Sunday begins a series of lectures on fesus as a Teacher at the Church of Christ, after the morning service. The receipta of the M. E. church ïor 1893 was 4,980.0 and the expenditures were exactlv the same. Tlie pew rents amounted to $3,058.t6. Young People's vesper services will be resumed in St. Andrew's chapel at 6:45, next Sunday evening. Mayor Thompson is expected to speak. The Young Men 's Christian League will hold a meeting in their rooms, No. 12 E. Washington St., 2nd rloor, Sunday, at 3 p. m. All young men are invited to attend. A house in Salem belonging to I Louis Hagen burned down Sunday night. It was not occupied by any one, but was stored f uil of hay and farming implements. The First National Bank elected the following directors Tuesday: Philip Back, Harrison Soule, Moses Seabolt, Wm. McCreery, Henry Cornwell, John F. Lawrence, E. D. Kinne and James L. Babcock. Miss Theresa C. Brenner, of this city, was married last Sunday to Joseph S. Orr, city attorney of South Bend, Ind. The marriage was solemnized at St. Thomas' parsonage, Rev. E. D. Kelly offlciating. The Ann Arbor Schuetzenbund this week elected the following officers: president, John Meyer; vicepresident, Dr. John Kapp; secretary, Gottlieb Knapp; treasurer, Christian Martin, shooting master, Louis Kurtz; second shooting master, William Wermer; steward, Reuben Armbruster. The Gesang Verein Lyra electéd the following officers this week: president, Simon Dieterle; 1 president, Mrs. R. H. Kempf;j secretary, Herman D.Allmendinger; tfeasurer, August Koen; janitor, Robert Gwinner. , The opera house on Thursday night was packed to its capacity to witness LaTosca's Opera Farce Co. i It was the grandest production that has ever visited Chatham, and LaTosca has few equal as an operatic singer. - Chatham, Ont., Flanet. The Lady Maccabees held a regular meeting on Tuesday evening. About nine o'clock they were surprised by a number of the Nnights of the Maccabees, who marched in on them and invited them out to the dinningroom, where they had provided an oyster supper. Something nevv and attractive will be presentedat the Baptist church on Monday evening, Jan. 15, in the way of an orange party. Oranges produced in Ann Arbor will be sold f rom the trees, and oranges grown in Florida will be served in the dining room. 1 There were 237 new estates pfobated in the Washtenaw Probate court during the year 1893. This does not include the old estates which have been probated anew, which would easily run the number up to 275. The number of new estates probated last year was comparatively light. S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, will soon issue a book by John P. Davis, a gradúate student of the University, on "The Union Pacific Railway: A Study in Railroad History, Politics and Economics." The book is said to be a work of high order and will certainly be received with interest by students all over the country. Prof. G. H. Hicks.of Agricultural college, has been given a position in the agricultural department at Washington to determine the germinating quality of seeds. His salary will be $1,200. The position was obtained under the civil service rules. Mr. HicKs has been pursuing sorae studies in this city for the past few months. The Equal Suffrage association of Michigan will hold a convention at Newberry Hall on the fifteenth and sixteenth of January. Rev. Anna Shaw will speak on Monday evening next. Rev. Caroline Bartlett and other eminent speakers on Tuesday evening - afternoon session from 2 to 4 p. m. All interested are cordially invited to attend these meetings. The Masonic year book is just out and contains excellent portraits of the foilowing prominent Masons in this county: VVilliam G. Doty, Charles E. Hiscock, W. W. Watts, osegh Clark and C. IJ. Davison, of this city; F. B. Duebel, E. P. Allen and Tracy W. Towner, of Ypsilanti; George H. Kempf, Wiliam J. Knapp and John A. Palmer, of Chelsea. Unity Club will resume its meetings on next Monday evening. The entertainment will take the forni of a social for which arrangements ave being made, in which all of the different church organi.ations will particípate. The entertainment is what is known as the "annual church meeting and. supper." Everyone interested in the church and Unity Club is cordially invited . By request, Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderland will repeat at the Uniterian church next Sunday evening the address she gave beforeWorld's ment of Religions in Chicago on ■ "The Value of Comparative Study of Religions," and a week frotn Sunday evening her address given in the Womairs building of the VVorld's Fair on "The Inrluence of the Higher Education of Women upon Domestic Life." Rev. J. T. Sunderland will begin next Sunday morning a series of six sermons on " Some of the Great Dead of the Past Year: Lessons from their Lives. " The subjects in the series will be: 1. " General Armstrong and Hampton Institute, or the Educational Solution of the Negro Problem"; 2. "Lucy Stone,and the New Day Coming to Women": 3. "Gounod the Musical Composer," illustrated by selections from his music; 4. "Elizabeth P. Peabody, and the Modern Kindergarten Movement in Education"; 5. "Professor Tyndall, and the Relation of Science to Religión"; 6. "Edwin Booth the Actor, or Religión and the Theater."