Local Brevities

Justice Gibson sent three vagrants to jail, Tuesday. The Huron river is nearly overflowing its banks. GeorgeMaulbetsch, of Northfield, has been granted an original pension. Mrs. WoodBridge, widow of the late Lieutenant VVoodbridge, has been granted a pension. The Knights of Pythias of this city will hold an anniversary celebration, February 19. Kenny & Quinlan have been employed to take charge of the heating of the city building for $10 a month. Prof. J. C. Knowlton will lecture on "The Trial of Jesus" at the English Lutheran church next Sunday evening. Lucien Baker, the newly elected United States senator from Kansas, graduated in the law department of the University in 1869. Eugene K. Frueauff has joined the staff of the Bay City Tribune. He is an excellent reporter and the Tribune is to be congratulated. Mr. Geo. E. Dawson, who is lecturing before the University bible class, will speak next Sunday on "The Temptation of Macbeth." Hon. James M. Dunn, of Milwaukee, speaks in the Unitarian church next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock on "Success in Business and the Relation of the Liquor Traffic to lt." Among the numerous parties on Wednesday evening was one of three loads, which swooped in on Mr. and Mrs. Murray White, of the river road. The evening was spent in dancing, card playing and singing, and all had a fine time. The party was composed mostly if not wholly of Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees and their families. The Argus is indebted to some one for a copy of th,e Great South, a weekly journal of Southern I'rogress, printed at Birmingham, Alabama. It is an able journal and finely gotten up. The number received contains portraits of Senator John T. Morgan, Gov. Oates and other prominent citizensof Alabama. If the editor of the Great South is representative of the citizens of Alabama generally, that state ought to get to the front all right. Fur overcoats at Fred Theurer's. The VV. W. C. A: give a soc;a! at their rooms this evening. A passenger elevator is to be put in the American house. The Lyra chorus give a concert in A. O. l'. VV. hall this evening. A social will be held in the l'rinity Lutheran church parlors tonight. The junior social at the Waterman gymnasium is the event of this evening. The new Ypsilanti high school building will be dedicated Tuesday, February 5. The prohibitionists hold a county convention in the court house on Wednesday, February 13. Tracy MacGregor speaks on "Our City Missions' at the S. C. A. cliapel exercises, Sunday. President Angelí delivers the dedicatory address of Kirkwood hall of the Indiana state university at Bloomington, Indiana, today. Editor Blackman, of the Hillsdale Detnocrat, has been appointed postmaster at that place. He is a fine, clean cut young man and will malee ati excellent postmaster. To date there are three candidates for the republican nomination for county commissioner of schools, V. VV. Wedemeyer, N. D. Corbin, and Prof. W. N. Lyster, of Saline. William Vogel and Miss Bertha E. Kuebler were married, Tuesday evening, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tohn Kuebler, Second street. Mr. Tracy McGregor, superintendent of the Helping Hand Mission, Detroit, will address the Epworth League of the First Methodist church at 6:30 p. m. next Sunday. He will speak of the work of his institution. Mrs. A. Buck died at her home, 38 Church street, in this city, Wednesday evening, aged about ninetyfive. The funeral services will be held at two o'clock this afternoon, and the burial will be in Highland cemetery, Ypsilanti. John Lindenschmidt and George Apfel will leave for New York the first of next week to buy goods. They will open a clothing store very soon in the place now occupied by Chas. K.ingsley in the Keek block. Some fine invitations will soon be out for the Odd Fellows' banquet, which will be held in the rink, Thursday, Feb. 14. The Odd Fellows are niaking extensive preparations to make this the finest event of the season. "To us a son is bom, an heir is given," quotes John J. Ferguson, of 16 West Summit street. The litle fellow arrived yesterday moming, and is the joy of the whole household, being the first-born son, and a lusty one. His four sisters rnay look out for "squalls." On next Sunday evening at 7:30 Prof. f'. C. Knowlton will deliver his lecture on "The Trial of Jesus," in Trinity English Lutheran church, corner of South Fifth avenue and E. YVilliam street. The lecture is delivered under the auspices of the Young People's society of the church, and a free will offering will be made for the benefit of the society. A goodly number of the Knights Templar, of this city, took in the ceremony of the laying of the corner stone of the Masonic temple at Detroit, Wednesday. There were about forty swords in line. Many more" would have gone had the weather not been so extremely cold. They report having had a very enjoyable time. So mote it be. Mrs. Jennie Morton reports business good and improving in her line. She says that each day of last year her cash book shows more cash taken in than on the corresponding day of the previons year, and that the outlook at the present time is for a still further revival o trade. Kx-Representative Mills walks with a cañe these days. Wednesday afternoon, while hitching up a frisky horse, the animal gave him a smart kick on the inside of the knee of the left leg, and he went down uickly. The limb was not broken, however, and he is up and around, but does not care to try the thing over again. Last evening occurred the first annual ball of the Ann Arbor Light Intantry in armory hall. It was a most happy affair in every sense. Eighty couples were present and participated in the dance which was kept up until a late, or rather, early hour. The management did themselves proud and were complimented by one and all. The program of dances was sufficiently varied to please all tastes and everybody was happy. The music was furnished by the Chequamegons and was up to their best.