Local Brevities

'Sotternell. The Light Infantry are to go to camp in brand new uniforms. The Hausfreund-Post has presented the Harugari with a new flag. Mrs. Duncan, of Miller avenue, has had a new roof put upon her house. The Turn Verein celébrate their twenty-fifth anniversary in their hall tonight. Harvesting on the county farm is nearly completed, and it is an excellent erop. The new flag for the court house cost $22.80, and is a splendid one for the money. The genial face of Deputy Sheriff Pat McCabe, shed its effulgence in the city this week. None but the most devout Christian male or female, can refrain from swearing at the continuance of the intense heat. Schuh & Muehlig have the contract for various repairs and alterations in the boilers and steam fittings at the county house. Goodspeed & Sons are having a plate glass front put in their store and a twelve foot extensión added to the rear of their building. The new and commodious house of Wm. P. James, corner of State and Packard, is ready for occupancy. It is constructed in the best modern style. Ann Arbor Encampment, I. O. O. F., will install officers this evening, and also exercise their goat in the initiation of two applicants for membership. Notwithstanding the recent strikes at the coal mines, our coal dealers in this city have stocked up with a full supply in all sizes of that commodity. Mr. Daniel Hiscock has completed the construction of his sidewalks on Summit streets, much to the satisfaction of residents on that thoroughfare. Miss Tilly Wall, while stepping on the dock from a boat at Whitmore Lake, yesterday, misstepped and feil into the water, but was rescued when almost exhausted. We regret to learn that that good oíd citizen, Isaac C. Haudy, is seriously ill. If the good wishes of innumerable friends could restore, he would be enabled to take up his bed and walk. There was a joint meeting of the Superintendents of the Poor and the Building Committee of the county at the poor house on Tuesday, and several important improvements were ordered. A petition signed by sixty residents on Maccabee hill and vicinity, for postal delivery, has been presented to the postmaster, and there is a good prospect of their request being granted. Sidewalks have been laid on the east side of Gott street from Miller avenue to Summit street, except in front of three residences. Maccabee hill is right in it in the line of progressiveness. So mote it be. Wm. Frank, formerly of the Germania hotel, this city, will have a grand opening of his new restaurant at 265 Gratiot avenue, Detroit, on Monday, July 23. Good music will be in attendance. The self-closing valves recently put upon the drinking fountains in the court house have effected a saving of about nine dollars a month in the charges for water. They were ordered by the building committee. B. F. Watts now drives one of the handsomest teams in the city, having traded one of his horses in order to get a perfectly matched pair. He is justly proud of them. Hasn't asked us out to ride with him yet, but we look for an invitation at any moment. The letter carriers, during this heated term, have a hard time of it, and return from their arduous duties with rivulets of watery excretion coursing down their spines and other convenient channels, and in a generally limp condition. They have our profoundest sympathy and condolence. It will be cooler later in the season. Information received by Hon. J. T. Jacobs from his son, is to the effect that he has left Denver with his party and is at Great Falls, with baggage wagons and camp outfit, ready for a wild, free, catamount killing life. Incidentally it may be remarked that the company hope to lead a cinnamon bear into camp; that is, they hope to be considerably in the lead, toward camp, when old shaggy starts after them. The Plymoth-Atlantis ball game will be played next Wednesday. The Independence club hold a social this evening at 45 E. Liberty street. A. J. Murray, of Ypsilanti, last Tuesday shipped 40,000 pounds of wool to Boston. The Ypsilant Athletic association starts out with thirty names, not including that of Mattie LaFere. Martin Cook, of Ann Arbor township, died Tuesday at his home, of consumption, aged 50 years. A new plank crosswalk has been put down across Main street on the south side of Kingsley street. Mrs. Polly Bruehr, of Eaton's Mills, died last Monday, "old and full of days," lacking only two years of having reached the century mark. The Turn Verein will this evening celébrate their 25th anniversary, at their hall. Of course there will be a general attendance. The occasion is an important one. The Courier states that through the efforts of Col. Dean the old flag of his regiment, the 22nd Michigan infantry, is likely to be restored at the next encampment. The foundations for the new building on the old Hyland property on the corner of Main and Catherine streets have been laid, and the superstructure is now under way. A challenge for a game of baseball has been issued by amateurs on the east side of Main street to any who daré come to the scratch from the west side, and there is blood on the moon, but no other special developments in the matter as yet. It is the intention of the building committee of the board of supervisors to remove one more tree from the court house lawn. It is one on the south side which is partly decayed and is overcrowding two healthy neighbors. In regard to the desire of the stockholders to be allowed to discontinue the running of the depot street cars at Ypsilanti, they contemplated only abandoning its use until such a time as it could be made to pay. - Daily Times. The devotional meeting of the Young Woman's Christian Association will be held in the Presbyterian church, Sunday afternoon, July 22, at 3 o'clock. AH members of the association and any interested in the work are invited to be present. Because no " squealing " cards have been addressed to the Ypsilanti water office, "giving away" "that pusilanimous neighbor of ours" for sprinkling lawns after hours, the Daily Times believes the water users are all honest. Probably, however, all are guilty, and have resolved to protect each other. Mayor Seymour, of Ypsilanti, has fired his first veto at the city council. Some rotten sidewalks around the gymnasium were ordered by the council, replaced from the contingent fund. The mayor maintains that the walks were past mending and new widks must be built from the ward funds. The top of the mayor's brain seems to be in a horizontal position. Ex-Gov. Alpheus Felch, president of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, having prepared an elaborate history of the Indian tribes and treaties in this state, was in Jackson, Friday, to consult Col. Shoemaker and obtain suggestions from him with reference to this important paper, which will be printed in a forthcoming volume by the society. - Jackson Evening Patriot. Armed with a warrant, deputy Chris. Brenner started out the other day to find a colored lad who had fractured the peace and dignity of the people of the state of Michigan; also the head of another colored boy, using for that purpose a stone. The deputy walked four miles, fell in the river, and returned to find his man up in the justice office. Incidents like this greatly relieve the monotony of the hot weather and tend to keep the flies off. Wednesday morning witnessed a procession of between three and four hundred Bethlehem Sunday school children marching like a band of happy strikers toward their excursión train, in which they were soon stowed away for their trip to Whitmore Lake. There were seven coach loads of those upon whose shoulders will rest the future of the country, after those who now think they are running the universe and that it would fall down like an old barrel in the sun, if they should get separated from their breath, have become mouldy memories of the past. The young people had a great time. The Harugari and Lyra Maennerchor will hold a picnic on the 2C)th. Miss Mary E. Flynn gave a lawn party to her boarders. Wednesday evening. Three hundred tickets and over were sold for the excursión of the Ann Arbor Rifles Wednesday. Nu services at the M. E. church during the next four weeks. Sunday school will be continued. The church building will in the meantime receive repairs. At the recent commencement exercises of Alleghany College, at Meadeviüe, Ia., the degree of ü. D. was conferred on Rev. C. M. Cobern, who is one of its graduates. Chicken-lovers, too proud to beg but not too honest to steal, have lately rioted on the flesh ot Third ward poultry. Among losers of spring fowls are John Karberg and Geo. P. Stauch. George Sigfried, of Packard st., died Wednesday evening of heart trouble, aged 32 years. He was a young man of wide acquaintance, and there are many who will be saddened by his death. Republican county convention in the court house, next Tuesday. Repairs in the roof of the temple of justice will have to be made immediately afterward. Republican oratory is very wrenching, this year. John A. Jenkins-Malloy will occupy one of the spare rooms in the Hotel Brenner for the next 90 days. He keeps his name wound up on a hose reel, when it is not needed in Justice Court to aid in the construction of a certifícate of good standing. Captain Woodruff, of Ypsilanti, has caused the arrest of of Ed. Reader and Ed. Wint for failure to report when the company was ordered to the armory during the late labor troubles. The case. will be tried today. There will be a legal fjgrit. A civil service examination of candidates for positions in the Indian department, will take place in Detroit today. The examination will include any persons who have the muscular strength and the patriotism to take their lives in their hands and draw salaries ranging from $2,000 down. Incidentally, candidates are expected to know something about teaching school among the savages. A soap peddler was before Justice Bennett, Tuesday evening, charged with violating the license ordinance. He was required to pay the costs - -3, the justice having explained to him the enormity of peddling unlicensed soap at this critical penod, and creating a scarcity "among the politicians," (this term is rented of the Register), at a time when they are doing all they can to raise "soap" for the campaign. The prisoner having paid, entered into an exhaustive argument against the ordinance and proved beyond a question its rank unconstitutionality. His honor, at its close, brushed a fly off his nose and adjourned court. Some insurrectionary boy at Ypsilanti exploded an air gun charge at the post office, Wednesday, and smash went. a píate glass. A militia corapany coraposed of the boy's mother armed with a shingle, should move upon his works. He is dangerous. While painting at the hospital the other day, Theodore Mast fell from his ladder, and with great presence of mind flirted his heels in the air and stuck his head in a pail of paint, thus breaking the force of the fall. Some people when they fall, fall any way at all, and are injured. A sad case of a painter is in the Argus' mind. He was lettering a sign, and falling, neglected to shove his head in a pail of paint, and the local paper said of him, "He died and made no sign. " Capt. Allen comes forward in a j card to the Daily Times and informs that paper that if the Washtenaw republican candidates want a combine neis "in it". This arrangef mant contemplates the solidifying i of the Washtenaw republican fortes, for the man who in the county conI vention shall exhibit the largest folllowing. The Argus does not know I how much the membership fee is, in i the combine against the other counI ties; but it must be high, for thus far it only amounts to a trinity - and not a very "holy trinity" at that.