Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES.

See call for Second district legislative convention.

Several correspondences were crowded out of this issue.

Goodspeed & Co. have a box of Mexican jumping beans in their show window.

The Rev. E.M. Duff will hold service and preach in Geddes on Sunday next at 3 p.m.

Beginning on Sunday next, the evening service in St. Andrew's church will be held at 7:30.

Baptist Church. Rev. T.W. Young, of Louisville, Ky., will preach at 10:30 a.m. next Sunday.

A man bound from the Indian reservation to Jerusalem was in the city today. He's going from bad to worse.

The Tagmakers and Dutchtown Wonders will bat ball for $15 or $25 a side. Articles of the scrap soon to be signed.

The Dutchtown Wonders are now greater Wonders than ever. They have won the championship of the Ypsilanti city league.

Total vote at the Ypsilanti school election, 682. Female vote, 137. D.C. Bachelder and D.C. Griffin were elected; D'e C?

The buyer of the Star Clothing House returned Tuesday with a new stock of fall and winter goods. It will pay you to see them.

The Union Sunday evening services will be held next Sunday evening in the Presbyterian church. Rev. J.W. Bradshaw will preach.

So far as possible people using the city water for drinking purposes should boil it. --Times. Wouldn't it be better to bake it?

The devotional meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association will be held in the Presbyterian church at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. All are invited.

The difficulty between the chief and the fire department committee at Ypsilanti has been unexpectedly and happily settled without the apprehended loss of good red gore.

Officers of the Ann Arbor Art School for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. W.S. Perry; vice president, Mrs. Z.P. King; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. L.H. Walker.

At Indianapolis, yesterday, Robert J., broke his own late record and paced the fastest mile ever made, in 2:02 1/2. The 2-minute horse will come before the century goes.

Ducks, geese, snipes and plover can be lawfully shot Saturday, but you can't shoot partridge and quail until November 1st. Hand-organ grinders and grinders of spring and fall poetry may be shot the year 'round.

The Lenawee County fair opens Sept. 24th and closes Sept. 28th. Lenawee has come rapidly to the front in recent years in fair matters and in agricultural meetings of that county now fairly rivals the best in the state.

The Atlantic ball club of Ypsilanti is boring with a big augur now. Walloped the Detroit wheelmen awfully Monday. Fr. Kennedy has recovered from his hurt of some weeks ago, and is again one of the best of the Ypsilanti players.

The Times Ypsilanti locals mentions an "animated rag dog that resembles a mud turtle in the fact that it is hard to discern which is his business end and which goes by the name of 'Vic'" This name, then, is for only one end of the dog.

A reunion of the 2nd brigade 1st Division of the 5th Army Corps, which includes the 4th Michigan, will take place in Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 12, at the court room. Robert Campbell, of this city, is chairman of the executive committee.

John Gilbert of Ypsilanti, died Tuesday morning, Mr. Gilbert was about 75 years of age, and came to Ypsilanti from Onondaga in 1831. He was one of the first conductors of the M.C. railroad, and was in the service of that road many years.

Contract has been let for driving experimental wells on the Cornwell property and work will be begun next week. The Water Company has secured privileges on several tracts of land and the hunt for water will be in earnest. There is need of it.

Mr. Lewis Freer, or near Chelsea, is willing to stand up before the world and be pointed at as the man who has this year grown a peach of the Honest John variety measuring 9 1/2 inches in circumference one way and 9 1/4 inches the other. Mr. Freer gives this as an "Honest John" fact.

On Wednesday Frank Kapf while digging in a gravel pit near the Central depot was buried by a cave-in. He was dug out in time to save his life, but had a dislocated shoulder when the resurrection was completed. He was taken to the hospital.

Miss Clara Josephene Foley, of this city, and Charles Richard Moore, of Davenport, Iowa, were married Wednesday evening at St. Thomas' church. Mr. Moore is a graduate of the university and the bride a member of the senior class. Both were popular in university circles. Mr. Moore is an attorney-at-law.

Under the heading of "Democratic Ward Caucuses," the Ypsi. side of the Times prints the announcement of the early return of Rev. M.M. Goodwin. Another article headed "Rev. M.M. Goodwin will probably return to this city the last of this month," introduces a full account of the aforesaid caucuses. Accidents will happen.

Walter S. Hicks returned Monday from New York, where he had successfully corralled the ale and beef business. Mr. Hicks is in excellent spirits, having successfully carried every point. A new company has been formed which will manufacture its own ale. Mr. Hicks' usual patience and perseverence has again conquered, and the future of "Ale and Beef" seems rosy.

The disastrous success attending the recent liquor prosecution at Ypsilanti has led the council to instruct the marshal to undertake no further prosecutions except by advice of the city attorney. The council is rather of the opinion that Ypsilanti is too much governed. Still, it is likely that the liquor dealer who fancies that now is the era of free whiskey in Ypsilanti will be let down with a jounce that will make him grunt.

Sam Smith, of Osseo, went to Hudson for plow points. He didn't get them, but got some others. He was asked by tramps to drink from a bottle, and remembers saying, "Here's lookin' at ye," and nothing more, till he awoke to find his money, watch and the tramps gone. Then Smith lifted his right hand toward the zenith and called the lion, the bear and numerous other fixed invisible consternations to witness his affidavit, that so long as he lived he would never, never touch another drop of liquor--that there was reason to suspect was drugged.

Tuesday will be a big day in Manchester. Everybody will break loose on that day and "go it" boots for all that is out. Those without boots will enter barefooted. Cash prizes of $100 will be given on base ball and the various races. Brooklyn and Chelsea, and North Adams and Manchester will tug for $10 prizes. There will be three, two and one legged races; sack race, ballon ascension, Manchester band, and everything going wild. A 50-cent ball will follow in the evening at Arbeiter hall.

While Justice Childs was sitting on the stoop of his home, one evening last week, listening to the music of the tree toads, Duane J. Zackarias shoved a marriage license under his nose, and demanded marriage with Demand J. Scott. "Great Scott," yelled his honor, adding before he fell into a state of coma, "I have never married a couple." But it is over now. He married them without a skip or a break, kissed the bride, pocketed the fee, and exclaimed: "Sold again and got the tin, and now we are ready to sell again."

ROUNDABOUTS.

Dr. A.W. Smith, of Adrian, has been placed at the head of the executive committee of the republican state committee. Lor' but won't the campaign literature fly!

Dr. J. Marple, of Lansing, whipped a carpet for his wife, blistered his hand, and is now suffering from a bad case of blood poisoning. He is sorry now that he didn't whip his wife instead of the carpet.

The editor of the Grass Lake News, whose unromantic soul could not be stirred up by the muse with a two-inch crow-bar, asserts that there is one creditable thing to be said of Tom Barkworth--"he never wrote poetry."

The Adrian sports are very level headed. They all left their pocket books at the Park hotel. They did not for a minute doubt their boys' ability to down the lotus club, but ------. ---- Monroe Democrat. But had a suspicion that they might have their pockets picked, eh?

The fellow that wants to be president of the village, senator, minister to China, a benefactor of his race and get solid with the girls, should take a tight grip on a hammer and drive the nails on the sidewalks down about two inches,