Local Brevities

The Lyra chorus spent Snnday at Whitmore Lake. The covincil have been reviewing the lateral sewer assessments. L. C. Noble will reinodel iiis hcrase on South Fifth avenue. The Y. M. C. A. made over f 100 by the excursión to Detroit. A. J. Mummery is building a new house on Observatory street. A hor se belonging to the American Express company died Sunday. Blmer Stofflet and Harry Eichards open a news stand in Lansing. Charles Stabler has been repainting the St. Thomas school building. Chris. Brenner's livery is now connected with the telephone exchange. The nnion servies will be held in the Presbyterian church next Sunday eve.ning. There were 890 tickets sold for the Y. M. C. A. excursión to Detroit last week. Three trains are at work on the Ann Arbor road ballasting near Howell. It needs it. g Rev. Lawrence Cole preachedan. excellent sermón in St. Audrew's church last Sunday morning. Goethe Commandery of the United Friends gave a lawn social at the residence of Charles Grossman last evening. Hon. Byron Waite has decided to' remove from Menominee to Detroit, where he will continue the practico of law. Mack & Stabler-have sold their wool purchased in Manchester - about 30, 000 pounds - to Keyer, Fisher & Co. ,Philadelphia. , ' The Ann Arbor light infantry attend services Sunday morning at Trinity Lutheran church, Rev. W. L, Tedrow preaching the sermón. ■ There were 125 tickets sold here Sunday for the excursión to Toledo. There were 1,100 passengers on the train, packed in seventeen coaches. Loais Sims, aged fifteen, was sent to the reform school by Justice Pond Saturday for two years for assaulting bis mother. He is the boy who was let off on suspended sentence for stealing diamonds from bis mother. The lightning during the storm early Saturday morning was very sharp. Lightning struck the Hoffstetter house, 25 West Liberty street, an.d eñtirely deraolished the chimney, sending some of the bricks across the street. It followed the eave trough along the side of the house and to the ground below. There wasn't a brick left above the roof. The noon train of the Ann Arbor road Monday while passing through the fifth ward was stoned, one of the stones passing through a window of a passenger coach. Marshal Peterson and Dep uty sheriff Canfield investigated and found it the work of little boys from four to six years old. The little boy who threw the stone through the win dow was soundly whipped by his father The young republicans of the Lincoli club of Detroit had a noisy meeting on Monday evening in which two we] known gradnates of the University fig ured . Attorney Eli R. Sutton, th protege of Pingree, led the latter' forces which suffered a big defeat anc apparently were betrayed in the hous of their friends. Dr. Gu" L. Kiefer the president of the club, elected a yea ago as a Pingree man, had a change o heart and assisted the anti-Pingree men in capturing'tho election. Dr. A. Kent Hale, who for the past two years has been managing the Ann Arbor water company, has ftnally decided to remove here from Adams, N. Y., and will make a very desirable addition to the phyicians of this city. Dr. Hale had a very large practice in Adams aud was frequently xsalled in consul tation in Rochester, Syracuse and New York, his specialty being the diseasesJJ of wome". The leacling physicians of these uities huve ritten very flattering testimoniáis for the doctor which are unnecessary, as.he has already built up quite a reputation for himself herO. '■%&&& J. W. Maynardísrepairing his 'store. ; Michael Condón is extensively ' ng bis residence on Thayer street. Yellows Commissioner Jacob Ganzorn is inspeoting the fruit trees of the ity. ; J. M. Silkworth, of Reading, has ented the house of Mrs. L. B. Lee, on Ann street. The Ypsilanti leagurers have decided ;o bring their liquor oases before Justice I 'ond in this city. The boys of St. Thomas school will )lay the Cbelsea base ball team in Dhelsea tomorrow. There are 11 silos in Washtenaw ounty, and iu 1893, 262 acres of corn were raised for silage. Ou Monday next the parochial school f the Bethlehem church will be repened for the summer. The street cars have been unable to pass Huron street this week owing to ;he construction of the lateral sewer. W. S. Parks hasbought a lot of John Goodspeed on the corner of Catherine and Ingalls and will erect a fine house on it. County Clerk Dansingburg has leasd thehouse of Col. Orr, on East Jef'erson street, and will become a first warder. A horse belonging to John Carroll was found in the pasture Sunday mornng in a state of paralysis. It cannot je cured. The monthly meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary wil be held on Monday afternoon, August 5, at three o'clock, in the Y. M. C. A. rooms. A meeting of the collectors of the lalb Batzen verein of the Bethlehem hurch will be held next Monday evenng at the parsonage. The Pitts Roller Company were so lated over 'selling a road roller to the ity that they gave a dinner, Wednes[ay, at the Cook House to the aldermen and other city officials. A barn belonging to Andrew Dort, of near Ypsilanti, burned Sunday night. The loss was $600, insured for 375 in the Was ttial. It was probably the work of an incendiary. __ Frank Kopf paid $3 costs in Justice Gibson's court for assaulting J. IX Smalley, ft-om whom he attempted to collect seventy-five cent, failing to get which he proceeded to "take it out of his hide. ' ' The horse barn of C. T. Conklin, of Sylvan township, was struck by lightning Saturday and burned. It contained- a large quantity of hay. The loss s $900; insured for $600 in the Wash;enaw-County Mutual Fire Insurance company.' " Mrs. Lizah Baldwin Hyde died July 26 in Chicago at the home of her grandson, William F. Moore. She was neary eighty-=ix years of age. She was the widow of Hon. David L. Hyde, who died in this city in 1862. The remains were brought to this city last Monday. The Y. M. C. A. ball team defeated the Register nine Saturday in a seven mniug game by a score of 20 to 5. Three of the five scores made by the Register nine were in the first inning. whüe the Y. M. C. A. scored fromjone :o six in every inning except the fifth. The fruit and candy store of John Carmella was closed on attachment Monday. The attachment was for $25.63. Four rnore attachments were at ouce taken out, all f or small amounts. Deputy Sheriff Zenus Sweet was put in charge of the stock. "I think orchard grass stands the drouth better than clover or any other kind of grass" said Dr. J. A. Dell the veterinary aurgeon. "Stock will eat i( off and it still goes on growing. It must root very deep. I am goingto try and procure seed and sow my pasture with the grass." A mission festival will be held at the Germán Lutheran church in charge of Rev. Mr. Schrieber iu Saline township next Sunday. The morning service will be held at 10 o'clock and the af cernoon at 2 :30 o'clock. Good speakers from abroad will be present and a large at tendance is expected. Prof. T. C. Trueblood while on his recent trip east spent a week at Cape Ann fishing. The party he was with of ten caught 100 pounds of cod and pollock au hour. The largest fish he pulled in was a pollock 34 inches long The fish are sent to the Boston market For the regular fishermen it is not spor any longer but hard work. The sixth annual convention of the Epworth League of this district will be held in Chelsea August 13 and 14. A large number of papers will be read among which is one by Miss Sara Whe don, of this city, on "The Optimisti League Worker," aaother by J. H. Van Tassel, of this city, on "The Brains of the League," and still another by Miss Hattie Crippen, of this city, on "Ou Responsibility to Our Junjors. ' ' The Salvation Army was at Ypsilan before coming to this city. A big rally was held at Cleary's hall Tuesday even ing. This city was visited by the army last evening, fifty-five strong. Heaaec by aband,they marchedup the prncipa streets about six o'olock. A meeting was held at 7 :30 on the south side o the court house square, just opposit the Cook house. The excellent ban that accompanies the army attracted large crowd of people of all ages an sizes. Af ter a half hour's singing.play ing and exhorting the army started fo the Presbyterian church, wnere a meet ing was held. The meeting was large ly attended. A new depot will be built at Delhi, 'he luinber is on the ground. A little boy now makes happy Mr. nd Mrs. Laverno Bassett, of Detroit. Rev. Dr CoHern addressed a meeting f the young people's societies at Bay View last Tuesday. Have you seen Jacobs & Allmaud's hange of ad? pf you haven't.look it up t once. It will pay you. Prof. Hinsdale lectures in Room 24 efore the students of the summer school tiis evening on The Teacher in Literaure. The handsomegrey team belonging to McOmber, Ryan & Douglass, ranaway n William Street last evening and one f the horses broke its ankle. The total fees of the summer school mounted to nearly $5,000 this year, n strikiug contrast to the result last ear. It was a good thing for the intructors. Richard Zeebs, a former Ypsilantian, has been brought to the jail here on uspicion that he was concerned in the burglary of the Pittsfleld Junction sta;ion house on the 22nd of May last. Ie was brought from Columbus, Ohio. The Knights of Pythias' excurson to Put-in-Bay yesterday was a great sucess financially and every other way. A hundred and fifty people attended rom this city, and every one had an legant time, especially those that had he private car, "City of Ann Arbor. " The I. O. G. T. have elected the following officers: C. T. Thomas Godkin; V. T., Mrs. Goodale; F. S., Gertrnde Bangs ; treasurer, Sid Bangs ; marshal, George McCollum ; chaplain, Ella Perkins ; secretary, Sarah Felch ; guard,' Will Godkiri ; sentinel, Frank Garlinghouse. During the year ending June 1, 1894, there were sold in this connty 12,034 tons of hay, bringing to the farmers $93,383. In other words outside of i .tuf feeding, eggs ,were more profitable in this county that year than hay. There were also sold 1,250 tons of sraw, bringing in $3,374. The road roller broke down the covers of two manholes on Fifth avenue this week. So far it has been handled in a careless manner. And the state agent did not succeed in making friends for it during his stay here by the rash manner in which he talked to the people and the idea he seemed to have that the only thing in Ann Arbor was the new toy, the roller.