Local Brevities

C. P. Lutz last week purchased of George Schaible two fat steers which weighed 2,600 pounds. Fred Staeb is having plans drawn and will have a new honse built for himself on S. Fourth ave. The Ann Arbor Organ Co. has received an increased order froru one of its cnstomers for 240 organs. Teachers' examination for all grades of certifícales will be held at tbe court house Thursday and Friday of next week. The $75 and $50 testimoniáis whioh will be given the winners of the oratorioal contest in University hall this evening were donated by the Students' JLeoture Association. The ladies of the uorth side will eive a New England dinner from 6 to 9 o'olook next Friday evening. The proceeds will go towards the bnilding fund of the new chnrch. Charles A. Saner will build a new honse tbis summer faoing on Jefferson st. on the Lewis property, at the corner of that street and S. Fifth ave., recently purchased by him. Prosecuting Attoruey Kirk is in deraand all over the oounty. He has a case in Milán where the defendant is charged with stealing an armful of wood, and one in Chelsea where a man is arrested for drawing a revolver - Times. Monroe G. Carleton, editor of the Grass Lake News, has been elected president of that village. If he administers the affairs of the village as well as he does the affairs of his newspaper he will be a howling success as a village president. In Justice Pond's court, recently, Isaac Perrine was convicted of raising a disturbance in the opera house. Tbe case waB carried up to the cirouit conrt and on Friday morning the court deoided that the young man was not guilty of violating the city ordinance. On Thursday next J. M. and G. H. Naylor will sell at auction the farm stock, implements, etc, on both of their farms whioh are looated on the town line between Northfield and Salem, one mile from Bmery post office. The list of property to be sold is a large one. Fred Krause will wield the auctioneer's bammer. If you want the sewing school to continue its good work buy a ticket for the entertainment at High School tonight hall. Admission 10 cents. It will be a charminsr entertainment including selections by the Ann Arbor mandolín trio, guitar solo by Miss Cortland Marsh, plantation songs by Miss Cora Minoks, songs by James E. Harkins and recitations by Miss Clarabel MoMonagle and Miss Nellie Mingay. A bus load of ladies and getlemen enjoyed a very pleasant tima at the home of Capt. and Mrs. C. H. Manly, 128 Broadway, on Friday evening. A pianist was taken along and dancing and card playing were indulged in. Charles N. Manly and his sister Miss May proved themselves to be admirable hosts and they were ably seoonded by the captain and his wife. A nice supper was served shortly after midnight. Mrs. Christine Heinrich, widow of the late J. D. Heinrich, and who was seized with an apoplectic stroke Tuesday morning of last week, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. F. Stein, Friday evening, aged 75 years. Two daughters, Mrs. G. F. Stein and Mrs. E. C. Spring, sürvive her. The funeral servioes held at Zion Lutheran ohuroh Monday afternoon, Rev. A. L. Nicklas offloiating, were largely attended by the relativos and friends of the deceased. The adjutant-general of the state has taken the preliminary steps toward procnring from the ordnanoe department of the United States army the necessary number of Springfield rifles to fully arm the National Guard of Michigan. These rifles, which were turned into the arsenals by the regular army when the latter was armed with the KragJorgenson, have beoome available through a recent act of congress which prmits theru being issued to the governors of the various states. The Forty club give a dauoing party at Granger's academy this evening. A decree of divorce has been issued in the case of Ernest h. Hundertmark vs. Mary F. Hnndertmark. A special meeting of the officers and noD-oommissioned officers of Company A will take place ia the arruory this evening. The IJ. of M. calendar, owing to nnforseen delays, will not be out until May 1 tbis year, several weeks later taan usual. The üuiversity Comedy Clnb will produoe "The Private Secretar}" at the opera house in Ypsilanti, jiext Fiiday evening. Henry Bliton has the contraot for the ereotion of a new $8,000 reRidence for Prof. T. C. Trueblood at the corner of Hill st. and E. University ave. Ann Arbor Lodge of the Star of Bethlehem has been organized in this oity, by Mrs. Robert Henderson, of Detroit, suprema depnty, with a membership of 35. The next entertainment in the Choral Union series is tbat to be piven by Plunkett Greene, the great English tenor. It will take place, Friday evening, April 9. The canse for the boarding np of the south face of the oourt honse clook is 'ound in the fact tbat during the storm Fiiday night the glass was blown in and broken to pieoes. The Ypsilanti Commercial has entered upon the 34th year of its publicaion. It is bright and newsy as ever and bids fair to live to see its semi-cen;ennial anniversary. if not longer. Mrs. Heimes, whose son and only means of support, was killed by a faling tree in a tornado, while on duty n a military camp ac Ishpeming, bas been voted $3,000 by the legislatnre. The funeral services of Charles Ulrich, who d mí at bis home 4 W. Sixth st., Thursdnv uf last week, were held at St. Thomas'-church, Saturday mornng. Mr. Uirich was 60 years old and eaves a wife and family. The date for the lectura by ex-President Harrison has been changed from Monday evening next, March 22, until Tuesday evening, March 23, at University hall. The price of admission will be 50 cents, and not -fl as bas beeu reported. The Kalamazoo Gazette claims that the telephone competition so far in that city bas been of little value to the business men, because their houses had to have 'pbones of both companies in order to be of any value. Fred Doulittle is in jail on a charge af larceny. He left his job at the Port land Cafe, where he had been working Eor some time, last Sunday morning, üressed himself in his roommate's jlothes and went to Detroit. He was brought back by the officers Tuesday. Judson Curtis has been to the industrial sohool for boys at Lansing, on a sharge of truancy, brought by Truant üfficer Martin Clark. Three others have been convicted of truanoy whose sontence has been suspended according to law because it is their first offensec. Through the courtesy of Manager Keech and tbe telephone exchange, paities in this city, Kalamazoo, Adrijn, and other places listened to the ?ocal and instrumental musió at the meeting of the Young Men 's Sunday Evening club of the Congregational jhurch Sunday night. McClure's Magazine for April will 3ontain a series of ünpublished letters written by General Sherman to ayoong lady between whom and an army offi3fir the General undertook to re establish a broken romantic relation. The letters embody a story as good as any Diece of fiction, and exhibit Sherman in a very charming way. Charles H. Major, who has been with Moore & Wetmore for several years past, and during that time has dune ?ome of the best decorative work that aas been done in the city, will open up in business for himself. He bas sejured part of the store occupied by J. F. Schuh, at 23 E. Washington st., and will keep a full line of artistio deoDrations, wall papers, shades, mouldings, eto. Charlie is a good workman and will get his phare of public patronage. A Morenoi man published his wife as a deserter from his "bed and board" and warned all persons "not to harbor sr trust" her on his account. Sbe got back at him with a knock-out blow, however, when she published the statement: "I would say he has yet to con tribute the first cent to my support. By weeks' work I have supported rayelf, and am ready to go to housekeepng anytime when he shows himself a gentleman and provides a suitable place." The Fowlerville Observer says: 'Take a dollar bill and fold it many times each way. Then unfold it and pon will fiud it in creases. Keep the ncrease hut send the original bill to the printer who pnts you on to the acheme. Then take a silver dollar and 3rop it on the counter and notice the ring it makes. Send the ring to your best girl and the dollar to the printer and everybody will be happy." This is most excellent advice to follow and the Argus hopes to reap a benefit from publishing it. A large andience greeted the Imperial Quartet at tbeir concert in the Students' Lecture Association course at University hall, Friday evening. The program rendered was composed obiefly of popular inusic and was a popular one in every respect. The selections "Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Canoe" were the most heartily applauded. As is usual tbe encoré business was overdone, every number being encored without any disorimination being used whatever. Prof. Carnes, the elocutionist, established himself as a favorite with the audience, partioularly in his selection from "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Down to the Capitol." ' - - „_ Jadge Kinne has isseued a decree oi divoore in the case of Wm. Popkins vs. Nora 8. Popkins. The republicans will hold their ward caucusesnext Thnrsday evening and tba city eonvention Friday evening. The I. O. O. F. will give the fifth and last of their series of parties at their hall on the evening of April 1, Hon. A. J. Sawyer officiated as toastmaster at a banquet given by the Lansing Lodge of Elks Wednesday evening at their rooms in Lansing. The remains of Jacob Lawton, a former resident of this county, who died in Battle Creek, March 11, were brought to this city for interment Saturday. Mrs. Augusta Kranich died quite suddenly at her home 42 Wall st., on Wednesday morning. The funeral services will be held at the house this afternoon. The remains of Mabel Dennis, colored, aged 12 years, who died in Detroit, were brought here Tuesday afternoon and interred in the Fifth ward cemetery. An entertainment will be given in ;he Popkins' schoolhouse, Ann Arbor town, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, ;o which an admission fee of 10 cents will be charged. As an instanoe of how mach interest was taken in the Fitzsimmons-Corbett ïght in this city, J. S. Gole, the De;roit Journal agent, sold 975 extra copies of that paper on Wednesday night. The Rider Plumbing & Gas Fitting Co., of Detroit, is about to open up a jrauch establishment in this city. F. W. Rider, the senior member of the irm, was here this week looking up a ocation. Mrs. Ellen L. Upson, for years a resident of Ann Arbor, died Tuesday night at the home of her daughter in Topeka, Kansas. The remains arrived here this morning and were interred in Forest Hill cemetery. Sewer Contractor Andrew Sharp was bound over to the circuit court by Justice Uibson on Tuesday afternoon on he charge of embezzling money enirusted to bis care. Be is in jail in de'ault of giving a bond for $500. A number of the friends of Joe Jaco)us called on him Monday night, it béng his 24th birthday, and gave bim luite a surprise. Musio by the Gilt ïdge Band, a tootbsorne supper, and other amusements passed away a very )leasant evening. Ellen Rííilly has entered suit in the ircuit court for $5,000 damages against Hiram Marsh, who she says has slandered her. She claims Marsh accused her of poisoning her mother, and said she was none too good to do likewise with her father. Mrs. Will H. Krapf perpetrated a surprise on her husband Tuesday evening by inviting in a number of friends to spend the evening it being his birthday. A very pleasant time was spent with music and games and the disoassion of a fine supper about midnight. Rev. W. L. Tedrow will Ilústrate bis address on "Sorne important teacihings of Jesus" next Sonday evening with a number of excellent stereopticon views. These services are interesting and instructive and are drawing good audiences at the English Lutheran church. Mrs. Barbara Meyer died at her home, No. 2 Swift st , on Sunday of pneumonia, aged nearly (10 years. The funeral services were held at the house and afterward at Bethlehem ohurch on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. John Neumann officiating. She leavfis a family of three daughters and one son. The local camp of Modern Woodmen of America will give a popular musical entertainment in the I. O. O. F. hall in the Henning block Thursday evening, Maroh 25, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the aid of the Woodmen camp in Ontonagon, wbich. lost so muoh recently by the great fire. Admission will be only 10 cents and a pleasant time ie assured. General Iseal Dow, the father of prohibition, will round out his 93d year tomorrow. Not on!y all temperance societies in this country and England, but also the great Christian Endeavor society, will join in honoring the event. Tomorrow evening a public meeting, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., will be held in Newberry hall in observance of this anniversaiy. On Tuesday Marshal Peterson served noties on all the 38 saloonkepers of Ann Arbor that in accordance with the action of the counoil in rejecting the proposed ordinance to allow them to remain open froin (5 a. m. to 10 p. m., they would in future, commencing with tbat day, have to conform to the provisions of the state law which flxes the nour for opening at 7 a. m. and for closing at 9 p. in. standard. Friday evening, March 26, at 8 o'clock P:of. F. G. Peabody, of Harvard, will deliver a lecture in the Unitaiian church on "The Cambridge Idea"; in which he will tell how Cambridge, a city of 80,000 inhabitants got rid of its saloons and the results that have followed. As Cambridge is the seat of the largest eastern university (Harvard) Prof. Peabody's lecture will be especially interesting to all citizens of Ann Arbor. Come and hear him. Auspices of Anti-Saloon League. Rev. 1. T. Sunderland will preach next Sunday morning on "The Brahmo Somaj," that remarkable religious removement in India which is attracting so much attention among the religious thinkers of the world. In the evening he will give a lecture on "Emerson" which was prepared in India and delivered in Calcutta, Bombay and a number of other leading India cities. Emerson is coming to be widely read and admired in India; hence the desire to hear more about his thought and life.