Local Brevities

Register next Tuesday. Mayor Darling positively declines a renomination. The Wolverine Cyclers gave a hop last evening. The prohibitionists name a ticket next Monday night. A new front is being put in Wahr & Miller's shoe store. A better feeling seems to pervade business circles in Ann Arbor. See that every democrat in the city is on the registration HstS:-next Tnesday. Bradford & Co., Ltd., the grocers in the Weinrnann block, have put in -a telephone. Dexter village spent $1,791.35 last year. The liquor tax put $1,158.50 into the village treasury. The democratie town caucus in Scio will be held at the Dexter opera house, Saturday, at 2 o'clock p. m. The Dexter township democratie caucus will be held at Smith's school house next Monday afternoon at two o'clock. The delinquent taxes returned this year in the city of Ann Arbor were $1,405.12, a much larger amount than usual. Ypsilanti returned $1,104.51. At the Young Men's club of the Congregational church, Sunday night, Rev. Bradshaw's subject will be "Pïabit. " The Cheq.uamegon orchestra will be the attraction in music. Solomon F. Sears, one of the lust settlers of Webster township, died last Sunday at his home in Northfield township, aged 79 years. He came to Webster with his parents in 1826. Joseph E. Kirby, of Hiscock st., has been sent to the Detroit house of correction for ninety days for beating his little seven year old daughter with a stick until her back was covered with ugly welts. Miss Nettie Sawyer, of Saline, dropped dead of heart disease at her home Sunday morning. She was a school teacher and had just finished the winter term of school. She was apparently perfectly well on Sunday. Mrs. Edward Clark died at her home on the corner of Huron and Ashley streets, íuesday morning, aged nearly 88 years. She was the widow of the late General Clark, who was appointed register of deeds in this county as early as 1835. She was married in 1841, her maiden name being Julia A. Hickox. She leaves one son, Edward Clark, of this city. Registration day occúrs nfxtl Tuesdaj . The republican wani caucases wil! bc held tliis evening. Kire extinguishers are to be placed in the University buildings. Henry Lodholz has opened his confectionery store on Broadway. The prohibitionists of Ypsilanti have nominated William Deubel for mayor. James M. Ashley, jr., is the republican candidate for United States senator from Ohio. The confirmation class on Palm Sunday in Zion church will consist of thirty boys and girls. The Lotus Glee Club appears at University hall to night in the Student's Lecture Association course. G. Frank Allmendinger is talked of as the candidate of the namby pamby administrationists for mayor. Henne & Stanger want to buy a team of horses for their furniture wagon and hearse. Weight about 1,100 each. The democratie caucus for the township of Ann Arbor will be held at the courthouse Saturday, the 23rd, at 2 o'clock p. m. Dean & Co. have sold 2,500 pounds of Cream Tartar baking powder of their own manufacture, in this city, during the past year. The Woman's Home Missionary society of the M. E. church meets at the home of Mrs. P. B. Rose, on South State street, this afternoon. William Quish, of Dexter, who went to Grand Rapids three months ago, was found dead in his bed last Sunday. He died of heart disease. Edward Horsky, a iaw student, ïas broken down mentally from overwork and has been taken to Philadelphia for medical treatment. Remember the democratie ward caucuses are held Monday evening. Let every democrat be out and see that the best men are placed in nomination. Drs. C. G. Huber, S. P. Budett and M. Cushing have been ranted leaves of absence from the University, that they may spend the summer in European laboratories. Mrs. Loto H. Crane, wife of the late Judge Alexander D. Crane, of Dexter, died in this city, Tuesday, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. James R. Sage. She came to this county in 1835. The funeral services were held yesterday, and the remains were taken to Dexter Eor interment. Dr. S. A. Steel, of Nashville, Tenn., will deliver the second lecture in the Epworth league lecture course at the M. E. church, Saturday evening, March 23, at 8 p. m. His subject will be "Backbone." Dr. Steel has been spending the last week in New Vork state. Concerning his address in Buffalo the Herald says: "The largest auditorium between New Vork and Chicago was filled in every corner. Dr. S. A. Steel was the speaker of rhe afternoon. An expectant crowd looked into his eyes as he aróse. Steel was never in better form. He never spoke with greater effect, and he never captured an audience more completely. Applause punctured his best periods." Eugene Ysaye (pronounced Easy) the famous violinist, who is to appear in University hall on Monday evening, is thirty-five years oíd, a native of Liege, Belgium, and is a man of striking personality. He has a wife and four children, and lives in a luxurious home in Brussels. He has been the chief violin professor in the Brussels conservatory of music for the past nine years. He came to this country last November, to give forty concerts, appearing first' in New York under the auspices of the Philharmonic society. He is the most faraous of the graduates of the Liege conservatory. No lover of music can afford to miss this opportunity to hear him.