Local Brevities

The fire hydrants are being painted red. The city fathers indulge in the luxury of a wagonnette. M. C. Peterson will build a new house on E. Liberty street. An increase of pension has been granted to Dina E. Robinson. Germán day will be celebrated in Chelsea this year on August 9. J. Q. Á. Sessions delivers the memorial address at Fowlerville. The Brahma chickens of President Levi D. Wines have been stolen. The last social of the Unity club this season will be held next Monday. The council visit Jackson tomorrow to look into the matter of cement crosswalks. H. T. Morton is building a large addition in front of his house on S. Thayer street. Owens King gives a dialect entertainment at the A. M. E. church this evening. Admission 15 cents. The Ann Arbor Light Infantry will attend services at the Congregational church next Sunday morning. Reserved seats for the June festival at Watts' jewelry store on Saturday morning and any day there after. George Cole, Edward Schairer and John Haarer, jr., have been elected members of the Light Infantry. The city is to have four patrolmen instead of two. This is four times as many as the city had four or five years ago. The suit of Eames vs. the Lucy W. S. Morgan estáte, at Watertown, N. Y., has been decided in favor of the Morgan estáte. Mrs. Wright, of South State street, will rent her handsome house and go to Europe with her family Í for a six years' sojourn. Clara Josie Jacobs will sing the solo, "Massa's in the Cok!. Cold Ground," at the Memorial day exercises in University hall. Alderman Prettyman, chairman of the ordinance committee, is doing good work. He worked hard on the lateral sewer ordinance. William Frank was bound over to the circuit court Tuesday by Justice Pond on the charge of keeping his saloon open on Sunday. Remember the concert and dramatic entertainment of the St. Andrew's vested choir and friends in Harris hall tomorrow evening. The important lateral sewer ordinance will be found in another column. It should be preserved for reference by all our city readers. Rev. J. Neumann preached the annual sermón at the conference of the Michigan District of the German Evangelical synod in Muskegon, Wednesday. The board of review of Ann Arbor township will be in session at the supervisors' room in the court house next Monday and Tuesday, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Mrs. Sunderland will speak next Sunday, at her noon Bible class, in the Unitarian church ón " Hypnotism or Throwing Light Upon Spiritualism and Certain Religious Phenomena." The bill posters office on the corner of Main and Catherine streets was torn down this morning, preparatcry to a msat market being built the: e by Charles Pardon. The lateral sewer ordinance assesses the costs of the laterals on land values. Buildings and other improvenients are not taken into account except as they give value to adjacent land. The closing social of Unity club will occur in the church parlors on Monday evening next. It is hoped that all persons Interested in the club and its work will be present. An enjoyable program may be expected. Sick section society, K. U. S. No. 27. of Ann Arbor Lodge, A. O. U. VV., will give an excursión to Toledo, on June-ioth. Tickets for the round trip $1.00. Train leaves at 7 a. m., returning at 7 p. m. Standard time. A reception was given in Chelsea Wednesday evening in honor of the fifty-sixth birthday of M. J Noyes, at which twenty of his old friends, including A. J. Sawyer and H. M Woods, of this city, were present. The friends made Mr. Noyes a present of an entire fishing outfit. Mr. Stewart, the manager of the Boston Festival ürchestra, which stopped at the Cook House, expressed himself greatly pleased with the treatment he received and the the way tiie clerks held their temper when he became excited at the apparent slight misunderstanding as to rooms. The colored peopie of the city have an alternative candidate for patrolman. If William E. Blackburn can't be appointed, it is understood that Shirley Hunter is a candidate. As there are two more patroimen to be appointed, the colored republicans feel that their claims for recognition are strong. Emil F. Meyer died this morning at the resirlence of his father, on the corner of Fourth avenue and Brown street, of scarlet fever, after an illness of two days. He was eighteen years of age. Up to about five weeks ago he had been a compositor in the Argus office and had the making of an excellent workman in him. Capt. J. C. Fischer has issued the following general order to the indiuidual members of the Ann Arbor Light Infantry: Headqüarters Asn Akbor Light Infantry, Company A, lst Inl'autrv, M.N 8. You are hereby jotified to appear at the Armory in full state uniform on Sunday morning, May 27th, at 9:30, to attend the Memorial services at the Congregational church. You are also notified to appear at the Armory on Wednesday morning, May 30, at 8 o'clock, for street parade, according to state rules and regulations.