Local Brevities

Wolverine cycle race, Sept. 6. Prof. Wines will soon occupy his new house on Oakwood avenue. County teachers' examination next Friday and Saturday at the court house. Thus far the Co. A has succeeded in concealing all evidences of i 1 1 - ness while at camp. Miss Emma Bower will be one of the speakers at the great Maccabee picnic at Long lake, tomorrow. A fire in the marsh by the water works made a run for the fire department, Saturday afternoon. The hindmost man in the coming Wolverine cycle road races, will receive a sole-leather medal of bull's hide. Some novelist could receive sufficient inspiration in Ann Arbor, to write a book, entitled, "Dogs that Bark in the Night." The young people of the various churches will give an "equality social" at the Presbyterian church next Fnday evening. Capt. Chas. A. Muma, of this city, delivered the oration at the reunion of the 23d Michigan infantry, held at Mayville, last Wednesday. Mrs. M. Lydecker, of S. Thayer street, will be the matron of a lady frat. society the coming year, at the residence of Prof. Wines, on S. State street. The annual Mite-box opening of the W. F. M. S., of the First M. E. church will occur at the church parlors this evening. Refreshments will be served. The adjourned meeting of the stockholders of the Ann Arbor street railway will be held today. The projected extensión of the line will take place this season. Prof. S. B. Jones, M. D., of Atlanta, Ga., will give an illustrated lecture at the Second Baptist church tomorrow evening. The lecture will be backed by a lunch, the whole for ten cents. The catalogue of the 44th Hillsdale county fair to be held October i to 5 is received. Copies can be procured by those interested by applying to Secretary Mills of the Washtenaw Agricultural society, whose headquarters are in the Argus office. Dr. George C. Palmer, medical director of Oak Grove sanitanum at Flint, died last Friday. He graduated from the University in 1864, and for twenty-seven years filled the position of medical superintendent at the Kalamazoo asylum. He was the author of valuable papers relatto insanity. A meeting of the Young Men 's Christian Association will be held at the room in the Masonic block back of the sitting rooms, next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. All members and friends of the association are requested to be present as business ot importance is to be transacted. Water Works Receiver Hale, has contracted with Mr. Smith on the north side of the river for land on which to develop a water supply and a test for water production will be made. If all other prospects fail, it is said, that other wells will be sunk in the vicinity of the present supply. More water is certaily needed. Through the treason of one of its members, who at the risk of having his head fastened in a wire cage with rats and left till gnawed to death by the starving creatures, the outside world has learned that freshmen who at the coming term will be initiated into the mysteries of the Phi Kappa Psi will be inspired to forward motion by the encouragement and backing of an actual, live goat. The army has returned from the war, having conquered every foe, every frog and every serpent that raised its hooded head at Islarid Lake. The Liberty street lateral sewer will cost between $5,000 and $6,000. The assessment will be about $20 per $1,000 on the assessed valuation of $300,000. Rev. Andrew Bell, of S. División street, died this morning at 3 o'clock. after a long illness. He leaves a wife and four daughters. He was greatly respected by a large circle of friends. Frank Vandercook, of Saginaw, while visiting his parents at Ypsi#lanti, was arrested last Saturdayand placed in jail. The crime forwhich he is wanted at Saginaw is not yet ! made clear. The car barn of the street railway will be built on the corner of Lincoln avenue and Wells street. It was found that the old site would not accommodate all the new cars. The new trolley wire has arrived. A brace of bagpipe tramps were in the city last Friday, wrecking the nerves of all living creatures within ear-shot with the most atrocious assault and battery ever perpetrated upon harmony. Persons whose good fortune it was not to hear them, can have no conception of the discordant possibihties of sound, under mistalented direction. Some people actually believed that the old opera house orchestra had been revived.