Local Brevities

Mrs. Susan R. Davis has soldjiijr house to Martin Seabolt. A little baby girl arrived at the house of E. A. Cadieux Tuesday morning. The Christian Union give a box social at the Presbyterian ohnroh this evening. The colored people have been having a big camp meeting at Dixboro this week. :.: A. Lentz has put a new glass front in his tailoring establishment on "Washington street. The lateral sewer on Washington street was choked up the other day by a beer glass. Rev. L. Allinger, presiding eldér of the district, preaches at the Germán M. E. church next Sunday. The gas main has been extended from the corner of Fifth avenue and William street to put gas into the house of Gottlieb Luick. _____ Little Irene Collins, daughter of Jerry Collins, was run down by a careless driver on the Arlington house corner Saturday evening and her foot injured. E. B. Bushnell, father of Mrs. George H. Pond, died at his home in Noble, Monday, aged 70 years. Mrs. Pond reached his bed side an hour before his death. John E. Travis broke ground Tuesday for a $5,000 residence on the corner of Huron and División streets. -The new house will have;,a forty nine foot front and will be cwo.and a half stories high. James Goodhéw has moved his honse and all his hot houses one block farther north and is now on the corner, of Belser and Observatory staeets where he. has more room to spread out and inerease his business. Mrs. J. N. Crouse, director of the Chicago kindergarten college, will speak in the Unitarian church in this city at 3 :30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to young women interested in kindergarten work. On Friday lightning struck and killed nineteen sneep on the farm of H. V. Watts in Lyndon. Twelve of the sheap were insured in the Washtenaw Mutual, the balance of them not having taken out life insuran.ce. Dr. Jfohn B. Dowdigan, of this city, has opened dental parlors in Kalamazoo, and if he meets with the success he richly deserves, will soon be njoying one of the most lucrative dental practises in Kalamazoo. The $15,000 house of James Br own, now being erected on Kingsley street, is rapidly going np. It is situated on the most eligible building site in the city, and it will shut out from the publio one o f those delightful glimpses of nature which makes Ann Arbor the delightful spot it is. A quick job of shaving was done over in our neighboring city of Ycsilanti Saturday night by two barbers named Ambrose and Harris. Dick McCBffrey walked in the shop and said he wou ld give $5 if he could be shaved in a minute. He was accommodated, both barbers going at him, one on each side of his face. They went over his face twice, applied the towels, bay rum and powder and combed his hair and had him out of the chair inside of the minute. He paid the $5. The barn of B. H. Tracy, of the Hillside stock farm near Ypsilanti was burned Saturday evening with most of the contents inclnding two work horses and a valuable calf. Mr. Tracey had gone into the hay loft to throw down some hay with a lantern which was accidentally overturned and caused the fire. All the fast stock was removed from the burning building. The loss on the barn was considerable over $1,000 and on the contents $2,300. The barn was insured for $1,000 and the contents for $3, 500. Continued reductions on all wool in grain carpets, Art Squares, Smyrna Rugs, Chenillie, Derby and Lace Cur tains. It will pay yon to select youi carpet and curtains now and have them stored uu til yon wish to nse them. We have already put a good many goods away for parties who took advantage o: this great sale. Respectfully, Martin Haller, 52 South Main and 4 . West Liberty streets. Fred G. Schleicher is making his store thirty-five feet longer. George Craig is rebuilding his livery barn, recently burned. The printers expect to play another game of base ball August 10. The farmers' picnic at Whtmore Lake, August 24, will draw its usual large crowd. The Y. M. U. A. Register base ball game will be played tomorrow. The new stoue crusher crushed 103 tons of stone in ten hours Tuesday. Samuel Krause has sold his house on West Thjrd street to Joseph Polhemus. William Pieske has moved into his new residence on South Main street. M. Staebler has furnished 150 tons of coal for the court house and jail. Rev. Lawrence Cole will conduct the morning services in St. Andrew's church next Sunday. M. Goodale is out with a new gasoline and oil wagon in place of the one ruined by the recent fire. Frank Allmendinger, aged nineteen was attacked by tramps Monday night on Traver street. The tramps went through his pockets. The annual meeting of the board of directors of the Washtenaw Mutual Fire Insurance company to close up the year's business will be held July 29. Charles L. Palmer and Miss Mary A. Kane, of this city, were married Tuesday evening by Rev. Fr. Kelley. They will reside at No. 47 North Fourth avenue. Herman Maiefckei was fined $3 and $18 costs by Justice Pond Tusday for assault and battery. He paid. This item is inserted to give the funny man of the Adrián Press a chance at the name. Mary Henry, whose father was killed while excavating for the main sewer, died Saturday of inflammation of the bowels, aged 18 years. The funeral was held at her mother's residence, 16 Spring street, Monday afternoon. It is reported that the supervisors of Washtenaw do not want W. W. Wedemeyer, the new school commissioner, any longer. They say he's long enough already, being over six feet. - Grass Lake News. Certainly they didn't care for him any shorter. Frederick Staebler, the only son of Mrs. Sarah Staebler, of West Liberty ( street, died Saturday, of brain fever, ( af ter a two week's illness, aged 18 years. The funeral was held in Zion j church at two o'clock Monday after( aoon. j The Aun Arbor Arbeiter Verein has 150 members in good standing and . 150.59 in its treasury. During the ! past six months it has paid in sick benfits to its members $204, in death '■ essments tó the State organization, :394. 40 anti $150 to tiWO members whose wives died. A Mrs. D. É. Davis died in Chiqago last veek. Her remains were brought to Dexter Thursday for burial by the side of her father and brother. Her maiden name was Ida Austin. She was S6 years of age and a graduate of the Ann Arbor high school. J;She had been married two years. Rev. Dr. Ryan, of Ypsilanti will preach in the Methodist churehi next 3unday morning. The reverend gentleman has made himself well known by lis violent attacks on card playing, lancing, the university authorities, the Ypsilanti city authorities, and various other persons and things. Marshal Peterson started to get an order to send six of the children of the Tacques family to the state pubilc school at Coldwater. The famil" have been living in great squalor on North Fourth avenue and consisted of father mother and nine children, seven of whom were tmder twelve years of age. Only one of the children had ever seen the inside of a school house. The mother hearing of the intentions of the marshal left the city taking the children with her. One of our exchanges tells us about a farmer who tried an experiment last year to flnd out whether potatoes paid him best sold from the field at current prices, or stored until spring. He put away 100 bushels at 60 pounds to the bushel. In the winter he weighed them and found them shrnnk to 83 bushels. These at 60 cents per bu3hel brought $46.80; and for the same he could have gotten in the field at the time of digging, $75. In addition the cartage would have been saved, interest on money and valualbe time in the spring. - Conrier. The Knights of Phythias lodges of Howell, Owosso and Ann Arbor will give an excursión to Put-in-Bay on Thursday, August 1, 1895. A special train will leave T. A. A. & N. M. depot at 8 :15 standand time, connecting at Toledo with the steamer City of Toledo, arriving at Put-in-Bay at 12 m. Returning steamer leaves Put-in-Bay at 4 p. rui, giving excursionists fonr hours on the island, connecting with special train at Toledo which leaves at 7 p. m. Fare for round trip, $1.25; children, 65 cents. Put-in-Bay has a prominent place in the history of our country. Here Commodore Perry gathered his war vessels and lay in wait for the British neet. Near this island was fought the great naval battle of Lake Erie and to this perfect harbor he "put in" and sent to the authorities at Washington his famous dispatch, "We have met the eneiny and they are ours. " Everybody cordially invited to take this trip. A first class band will accompany the excursión. The street railway company has ordered two more open cars. Mrs. H. N. Chute, of this city, oaught a twenty pound muscalonge in Turtle lake last week. Harvey Stofflet was sixth in the great Detroit twenty mile road race last Saturday, with a large field of entries. The St. Thomas festival and open air concert Wednesday evening was a very enjoyable and highly successful affair. The city officials base ball team say they have not yet enjoyed the supper the county ball team was to set np for them. A second son has arrived to Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Adams, of Lnwrence, Kansas. Mrs.' Adams was wèll known here as Miss May Breakey. Miss Rena Stofflet, of this city, won the half mile handicap for ladies at the Jackson bicycle races Wednesday, making the half mile in 1 :27. The Detroit Free Press says that among the women of national repntation attending the Hackley Park assembly is Mary Wood Allen, of Ann Arbor. The road roller was at work yesterday on the two blocks on Main street beween Catherine and Huron streets and crushed stone was being put on. A large crowd watched the experiment. Morgan Barber, of Oakland connty, put up at a hotel here Wednesday. That evenng he took nis valise from the hotel and retired to rest in an alley. He and the valise were taken to jail,the valise being much the soberer of the two. . Walter F. O'Brien, of Ann Arbor townshp, died of old age Wednesday. He lacked only ten days of being eghtyfive years old, and had lived in the vicinity for twenty years. The funeral will be held in St. Thomas church at ten o'clock tomorrow. Miss Mary Sullivan, registry and assorting clerk in the Ann Arbor post office has had her salary increased frorn 600 to $800 in the recent revisión of the salaries of the postoffice clerks throughout the country. Never was an increase of salary better deserved. Rev. Wm. Collins says that they arehaving a fine .attendance at the A. M. E. church carnp meeting in Mattson's grove, ofx, the Disboro road. On Sunday afternoon at three o'clock there will be a fox chase.to which all are invited. - Times. Can this item be trae? Sheriff Judson oh Saturday arrested E. C. Fiiller, for stealing a horse in Mason, which he drove to Lansing and left there. There was a rewaxd of $35 for his capture He formerly resided in Chelsea, and is also charged with being iniplicated in a big diamond robbery ín Chicago. Burglars entered the drug store of Mann Brothers Wednesday night by outting a hole in the glass of a back window and thus moving the catch. They pried open a cash drawer that was Qot locked and got about $3 in change. Nothing else was missing. They also attempted to enter the store of Lindensohmidt & Apfel by breaking a light out, but found their way barred by a shutter on the inside. Jacob Teufel, who for the past eight years, has been living in Detroit, threw himself in front of a Mt. Clemens car, Sunday and was instantly killed. The affair was a peculiar one and the unfortunate young man was undoubtedly insane at the time. He was thirty years of age and had been married a year. He was the son of highly respected parents, who reside in this city. "The late rains have been too late to help early peaches, they will be small," remarked Capt. James Parshall, the well known peach grower and farmer of Ann Arbor. "If we get more rain it may help the late peaches, because they have a month and a half to grow yet. A few days ago I visited west of Milan. The corn in the lowlands.called the elm lands, looked well, but' away f Onn there the corn looked worse than with us. Some corn planted had never got oxit of the ground. The farmers had not received a drop of rain. My corn has been looking remarkably well, but the heat made it curl. I dislike to see my corn in that condition. The rain has made it look nice and bright green again. rt