Local Brevities

County Christian Endeavor meeting at Ypsilanti today and evening. The Good Templars give a social tonight on State street, in their hall over Calkins' drug store. Fred. Brown, of Miller avenue, is the proud father of a nine pound boy. He arrived on Tuesday. Mrs. Spencer Eisenlord died at her home in Detroit, Tuesday. She was formerly Miss Hattie Kellogg, of this city. The Supreme Court last week handed down a decisión reversing the case of Liesemer vs. Burg, carried up from the Washtenaw circuit court. Theodore Buss, son of Charles Buss, of the township of Freedom, recently fell from an apple tree and injured his spine. He is in quite a serious condition. The io-months-old daughter of Wm. Fletcher, of Belser St., died Wednesday morning of diphtheria and was buried in Forest Hill cemetery in the afternoon.' DMaríin Haller has a telephone in hi= furniture store now. The Lyra mixed chorus will meet Monday night, at their hal'., for rehearsal. Every member should be present. A fire in the cellar of Tuttle's restaurant called out the fire department at about midnight Wednesday. The fire was soon extinguished. Subscriptions to the Bethlehem church fund, something over $13,000, will, with other promises, nearly complete the church. The opening social reception of Unity Club will be held in the Unitarian church next Monday evening, October 8, at 8 o'clock. All liberal students are invited. The Harugari Maennerchor will give an evening entertainment on Monday, Nov. 5th. A good time is assured. The Harugaris have a reputation as entertainers. Until the convention meets, the Y. M. C. A. will hold devotional devotional exercises in their rooms each evening except Wednesday and Saturday. J. V. N. Gregory bought the horse "Trixy," Tuesday, at the Milán sale, for $150. The horse "Coraline," which has a record of 2:22, was sold for $575 to a Toledo man. The Harugari Maennerchor will show their friends what they can accomplish, Monday evening, Nov. 5. Be sure and attend, even if you have to steal and sell scrap iron to get the money. Friday, Oct. 12, will mark the meeting of cyclers at Ypsilanti. There is a feeling among those who have as yet never scored great successes, to do it about Oct. 12 on the Ypsilanti track. George Moorman, the other day, endeavored to regain possession of the Occidental hotel at Ypsilanti, but offsets were presented before the commissioner by Mr. Lewis, and the jury was divided. Iri the final shoot of the Gun Club at Ypsilanti, Monday, the Dodge brothers carried away three out of the four prizes. There is no dodging the fact that the Dodges are marksmen. J. B. Colvan won the 100 shells. Evening services will be resumed at the Unitarian church next Sunday, and will continue regularly thereafter. At the close of the morning service (12 noon) the students' Bible classes for the year will be organized. The young men and women of St. Andrew's congregation interested in the vesper service, are invited to confer with the rector, in Harris Hall, on Sunday afternoon next, at five o'clock, with reference to inaugurating an evening service for young people. Rev. E. M. Duif, of this city, has received and accepted a call to the pastorate of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Grand Rapids. The Argus congratulates Mr. Duff and Grand Rapids on their mutual good fortune, but regrets the loss of so genial and pleasant a gentleman from Ann Arbor. Mr. Duff has a bright future before him. The bicycle riders in Battle Creek are to hold a state tournament on Oct. 11. A number of the best riders in the state will be there and participatee. Prizes consisting of diamonds, watches, jewelry, etc. will be offered. F. C. Stillson is secretary. It is expected that a number of our riders will go down and take in the sports. The first meeting of the U. of M. prohibition club will take place in room 12 of the law building next Monday evening, Oct. 8, at 7:30. Wm. B. Hatch, president of the law class of '94, Georgetown, D. C, Miss M. Otis, president of the Y. W. C. T. U. of the University, and others, will speak. Music will be provided, and all interested are urged to be present; ladies and gentlemen, new students and old. The Argus has received with compliments of E. S. Rice, general western agent for the Dupont smokeless powder, and agent for the Hazzard, Austin, Lake Superior and other well known powder companies, an elegant copy of a work, handsomely illustrated, and of vital interest to sportsmen, and bearing the "catching" title, "Pussy Wants a Corner." The book, which is in heavy paper covers, with a pretty title-page picture of Mr. Rice's little daughter, contains 100 pages of matter, including the game laws of every state in the union, together with elegant World's Fair news, in which every state building is represented. The book is a valuable souvenir, and patrons of the powder interests represented may probably obtain copies for favored customers through Mr. Rice, 62 Wabash avenue, Chicago. Campaign uutrages are already being commnted. In Pekin, China, i nurober of British residents have been violently assaulted by the ' tails. " Among those assaulted was ' Dr. Dudgeon. The doctor's name indicates the temper of the British , government over the outrage. A real estáte deal of some consequence is reported from Ypsilanti. W. H. Deubel, if matters have gone as he expected, has acquired about ' $65,000 worth of Windsor, Ont., lots. If Mr. Deubel has made some i mohey out of the deal, as he doubtless has, let him turn his eyeball'on that much needed home enterprise - a new opera house. Milüons in it. A petition is before the Saline council askingthe construction of a cistern in the school yard for use in case of a fire. The idea is excel lent. The cistern would be a safeguard against fire, and when not otherwise in use would furnish the children a half holiday now and then, io attend in a body the funeral of little drowned boys, who had been ''frogging." ■'In the name of every pure minded and right thinking man and ! woman in this community," Rev. C. M. Cobern protests "against the assaults upon decency" which have recently " covered the bulletin boards and filled the windows of this city." The Argus has feit all along that the campaign on the republican side was not being conducted as it ought to be. Some women get snappy and make trouble for a man on the least little provocation. Now there was Mary James, of Ypsilanti - she's had Wm. Long sent to the house of correction on a 60 days' sentence, and all in the world it was for, was just because he happened to knock her down and maul her around. Slowly the boasted liberties of this country are giving way to the tyranny of petticoats! J. O'Hara's milk team, near the Catholic school, the other day, ran away, and trying to make a turn, was unable to curve, and the whole aggregation went down a bank, horses and wagon taking turns about being on top, with honors pretty even. When the fracas was over the wagon was a wreck; it rained milk for a quarter of an hour, and milk cans kept falling from the sky for some time afterward. The team was little injured. Deputy Chris. Brenner went out in the storm, Tuesday night, and caught a severe cold and Burt Amsden, wanted for engaging in the illicit poultry trade. And it comes to this, that a man cannot follow that profession around here and get caught at it, without getting into the house of correction, in the absence of 15 benevolent dollars. So says Justice Pond, and he knows. No more fresh yellow-legged chicken for Burt for 65 days. It is now beyond doubt that the attendance at the University this year will be larger in all departments than last year. A baseless apprehension was feit that the Chicago University would be built up at the expense of the U. of M. Not so. We have no professors here, it is true, who have discovered vegetation on the moon, like they have in Chicago, and it may be we do not know how to piek the in'ards out of a bug with the celerity of a Chicagoan, but it is certain that the Chicago University is not rubbing any of the shine off of the U, of. M. Ladies' genuine Dongola button boot, in opera and Chicago toe, 75c. Chicago Cut Price Shoe House, 20 Fourth ave., city building. There wil] be a public sale on the Ernest H. Oberschmid farm in Scio, Fhursday, Ort. ir, at which time ind place a lot of valuable property vil] be disposed of. The University bids fair to show i large increase in attendance over ast year. Up to the present time :here have registered 350 more than :he same date last year, yet it is not jrobable that this will show entirely is increase in the final totals. So :ar it is the literary and not the law, is expected, that shows the larger ncrease. Last night a gentleman whose name could not be learned, said to De one of the ministers at Saline, 'ot off a train at Pittsfield Junction ind s:arted for Saline. When about i mile from the junction he was set apon by three men who knocked um down and searched him. No i'aluables were found on him. Three persons were concerned in the assault. Later in the night two houses it Saline were entered and robbed. At one house ari open-faced gold watch and about six dollars in money were taken, and at the other 1 hunting-case gold watch and about six dollars in inoney. Up to the present time no clue to the thieves tías been secured.