Local Brevities

I The attraotion at the Athens Theater t toinorrow evening is "Christopher Jr. " Twelve deaths were recorded at the f city olerk'e ofHoe during the ruouth of í September. - The hour for holding Sunday school ' at Triuity Lutheran churoh has been E changed frona 9:30 a. in. to 11:45 a. ra. Last Saturday afternoon a Girl's ' Branch was forrued at the Y. W. C. A. rooms. Five charter noembers were enrolled. Anybody having bilis against the ! Washtenaw County Fair Society should send them to the secretary, F. E. Mills, at once. The first number in tho Y. M. C. A. Lyceum course will ba the Kellogg Bird Coooert Co. at tbe Athens Theater 'f next Thursday eveniug. Six tramps were arrestad Monday for destroying property at Hangsterfer's ioe houses, and were sent to jail for fivo days by Justice Duffy on Taesday. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will hold i te regular rnouthly ! business meeting Monday next, Oct. , 11, at 3 p. rn. in the rooms of the associatiou. Andrew Slavin, of Jackson, former)y a resident of Ann Arbor, died at Jackson Monday morning. The remains were brought here Wednesday and iuterred at St. Thomas cemetery. Aid. Huston, of Ypsilauti, was brought to the university hospital Saturday, and an operation was performed on him for appendicitis. The chances for his recovery are considered good. The old Diehl hotel oa Detroit st., near the M. O. depot, is to be torn down, and its owner Mrs. Margaret Diehl will ereot a uioe dweiling house on it whioh she will oocupy herself. Henry G. Pipp has the oontract for the woik. Miss Louise Belser, daughter of Rev. H. F. Belser, wbo with her sister and two brothets had been ill for some time with malarial fever, died Friday moruiug. The funeral services were held at the resideuce of her brother F. H. Belser, 49 S. Thayer st., Sunday afternoon, Rev. W. L. Tedrow officiatiug. The death of Miss Belser is a great blow to her family. Frank M. Daniels, of Ypsilanti, is haring his final paper made oot for his patent truss for railroad ties, a caveat for which he filed some time ago. The arrangement will do away with fish plates where the rails meet and good expert authorities who have seen the drawings olaim that Mr. Daniols' seheme is liabln to revolutiouize this Part of railroad ooustruotion.- Times. Tho B. P. O. E]ks' buffet has been reopened for the winter eeason foi ; ruembers and ont of town visitors. i The balance in the state treasury at the close of business Sept. 30, the end of the third quarter, was : 67. The Salvation Army is holding 1 meetings in its old hall on Detroit st. i svery night ar. 8 o'clock. All are . iome. ! Mr. Heriü in Alltnendinger, of this oity, was ruiiiried at the home of the bride's pareuts in Preedom, on . 3av of last week, to Miss Minnie . nart. Rev. J. F. Orwiok, pastor of the i Baven st. M. E. chorch, Jackson, has ' been appointed chaplain of the state prison to succeed Mr. Hickok, who i signed. Marshal Sweet is on the warpath for yiolators of the oity ordinance which Eorbids tbe posting of advertisemeuts on ' the telegraph aüd telephone poles in the city. The attendance at the school of ; o exceeds that of last year. The total ' snroilment will exceed 200. Seven of '' tbe pupils are froru States west of the : Rocky mountains. ' Street fairs seem to be the fad in mauy oities in the state at present and ■ it has been suggested by more than one ' persou that it might ba a good thiüg to ' bave one in Ann Arbor next year. Mrs. Enimett Srnith, of Jackson, a ' former resident of Ann Arbor, died at her home in that city Satnrday, after an illness of saveral months. She had many relatives and friends in this city. At the opening party to be given tomorrow evening at the academy by Mr. ! and Mrs. Ross Granger to tbeir protpeotive pupils, former pupils and friends the musio will be furnished by the full Chequamegon orchestra. If some of those students who are Su fond of riding their bicyclas on the side walk will bear in mind that there is an ordinauce which prohibits sach action in this city, they ruay save tbemselves a fine and costs in the near future. A high school student, to whom a number of compliruentary tickets had been issued, was discoverod selling tbem yesterday outside the entiance. His explanation was hardly satisfactory and the matter may possibly get to the board of education for final adjustmeut. - Times. The mission Suuday schools of St Andrew's parish at Geddes and Foster's will be reopened next Sunday. Mr. H. O. Robiuson will take charge of the work at Foster's, and Mr. C. W. Whitney of that at Geddes. At the latter place tbere will be, next Suuday, the usual eveuiug service with an address by the Rev. Mr. Tatlock. Dr. Huber, secretary of the medical faoulty, statPS that the report of 90 students leaving the departmeut is a "fake." Oedits have bean giveD a number of students not because they asked for them, but because tbey were back in their work. The Argus is glad to hear a denial of this report froin so good an authority as L)r. Huber. Within the last year the village of Pinckuey has had six seoret weddiugs amoug its inhabitants. The sixth aud last, so far, was celebrated in Ann Arbor one day last week, and Miss Ida Miller the leading dressmaker of the village, and Mr. Frank Mowers, of Dexter, carne here ostensibly to attend the county fair and were quietly married. Plaus for a unión depot for Durand, to oost $20,000, have been prepared by the Chioago & Garnd Truuk Railway, aud submitted by them to the Ann Arbor Railway, and if accepted by the latter, construction will be commeuced at once. The plans oall for a two story structure 42x124 feet, with all modern couvenieuoies. The headquarters of the Grand Trunk aud Ann Arbor Railways will be looated in the building. Mrs. W. S. Perry, who has been president of the Ann Arbor Art Club for the past 18 years, resigned her positiou at the meeting of the club last week, feeling that she could not louger give it the attentiou it requires. The om'cers eleoted were Miss Alice L. Hunt president, Miss Kate Douglas and Mrs. M.L. Walker vice-presidents, Miss Mary Hill secretary and treasurer. There is t!Ot a member of the club who does not feel a sense of personal loss at seeiug Mrs. Perry resigu the presidenoy. The flrst Chöral Unionjconcert of the year will be given by the Thomas orobestra Nov. 18. Several young men have organized an art clnb and will meet for practice in rooms in the opera house block. E. E. Calkins, the druggist on S. State st. , will furnish the drugs for the university hospital this year and A. E. Mnmmery will snpply the homeopathie hospital with what it needs in that line. Josèph Marphy, conductor on the Ann Arbor train which runs between Ano Arbor and Toledo, had his hand badly crushed Tuesuay afternoon by getting it. in between some cars he was soupling together. Students' Lecture Association tickets 3an be fouud at the State Savings Bank, the Sugar Bowl, S. Main st., Palmer's Phartnacy, W. W. Wetmore's bookstore, Beal's shoe store, Sclialler's bookstore and Haller's jewelry store. The tiuant law has been amended so as to include all children between the ages of eight and '46 jears. Attendance must commence with the fall term and contiuue for fonr conseontive months. School offleers are obliged to aöforce the law. George Rupff, an aged resident of S. Ashley st. , made a false step wben coming down the steps at John Goetz &Son's store, and feil, fracturing his hip. Mr. Rnpff is an old man and nite feeble and it is considered doubtful whether he will ever entirely recover froin the injury. At a meeting of the Washtecaw connty faii association held Friday mojning the followiug resolation was adopted : "That the members request the board of managers to take the preliminary steps to change the constitation at their regular meeting so as to hold annual eletions on the fair grounds durng the fair. " A. G. Studer, physical director of the Detroit Youug Men's Christian Associatiou, will deliver an address at the local association rooms next Sunday afteruoon at 2 :45 o'clock. Mr. Studer is a Y. M. C. A. hustler, and all those who have heard him will eer;ainly eay that he is a splendid speaker. He shouid be greeted with a hall fall of men. The editor of the Courier says: "If Heury George shouid run for mayor bere, where his contemptible land valué theory has been tried in assessiug the cost of the sewers, he would never know he was a oandidate. Of all injustices ever perpetrated on a public, that system has accomplished it. " And yet there are people in this city who have a never failing faith iu Henty George theuries. Next Sunday will be Uapt. and Mra. Sparke's farewell at tho Salvation Arniy hall, as they expect to leave Ann Arbor next Wednesday for their uew appointment. There will therefore be special farewell meetings all day Sunday as f.ollows: 7 a. na., knee drill; 9:30 a. m , jail meeting; 10:30 a. m., holiness meeting; 3 p. ra., union meeting; 4:30 p. m., special childreu's meeting; 8 p. m., a great farewell meeting. All will be weloome. The anniversary services of the Youug People's Society of Zion Luther an cburch w'ere held Sunday evening and an immense oongregtiou was present. Rev. Cari Ackerman, president of Lima college, Lima, O., and Rev. A. L. Nicklas, pastor of the chnrob, both preached eloquent and foroible sermous, the one speaking in English, and the other in Germau. The excellent masic was rendered by the choir of the churoh uuder the direction of Mr. L. Boes. The society enters upon auother year in a prosperous and euoouraging condition and gives proiuise of much future usefulness. Last fall there was a movement on foot to form a state high school oratorical league, oomprising Detroit, Kalamazoo, East Sagiuaw, Bay City and Labsing. This year that league will be formed. Eaoh high school will hold preliminay contests and the pupils receiving flrst bonors at theso contests will represent their respective high school at the final oontest for state ohampionship. The Aun Arbor High School Oratorical Assooaition, at its meeting, decided to offer a first prize of $25, and a seooud prize of .$15, in the local oontest. The high school associa tion has a membarship of 80 and is iu . n flourisliing couditiou. W. H. Butler wrota 10 fire insurance polioies Monday without leavicg his offioe. The Times, office is to be heated by steam and Hutzel & Co. have the job of putting in the apparatus. The Arm Arbor Sohutzenbnnd will bave a picnic at the shootiDg park next Sunday and will bave a shootiug oontest for prizes. A Btudents' reoeption and souial will be held in the Unitarian chnrcb this evening at 7:30 o'clock. A general, invitation is extended. Miss Georgina Orcntt had an exbibit of over 100 paintings at the Wahtenaw fair. A laige exhibit for one person. It embraced both oil and wateroolors. The foundation of the new chnrch on the North side is about completed and the rest of the strucfure, which wil] be frame veneered with brick, is to be pnsbed right along. Tnesday, Oct. la, at 4 p. m., a meeting will be held in the Ladies' Library on E. Hnron st., to plan for the formation cf an art clnb. Anyone wbo would like to belong to snch a club is invited to be present and arrange for joining it. Rev. J. T. Sunderland wil! speak nest Snnday morning at the unitarian church on "Some World Aspects of the Temperance Qaestion;" embodying observations made on the subject in j England, France, Germauy and India. In the evening he will speak on "How to Stndy the Bible." Mr. John H. Taylor and Miss Maraie E. Waters were married at St. Philip's churoh, Battle Creek, Tnesday afternoon. It was a brilliant social affair. The groom is a brother of T. Frank and Miss M. Emrna Taylor, of this city.who offioiated as best man and bridesmaid at tbñ wedding. Dr. Samuel A. Jones who was the first honorary mernber of The Rowfant Club, of Cleveland, a club of 125 book lovers, has edited James fiussell LowelTs lectures ou English Poets wbich were delivered in 1855, They had never been pnblished, and it was only by acoident they were preserved as clippings from the Boston Advertiser in a scrap book which Dr. Jones discovered in the University of Michigan library. The work is in the elegant print joí the De Vinne press, and is a valuable addition to thougbt in the fresb, enthusiastic vein of the youthful Lowell. - Courier. "Man and the Machine;' is the title of a striking article from the pen of the Right JRev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., Bishop of New York, in the North American Review for Octobsr, the bishop discussing, apart from other tbings, the tendency of the increased employment of machinery to naechanicalize the workman. No one, he asserts, can fail to perceive the enormons gains in couvenience, ccmfort, and lnxury from the application of machinery to the arts. Bnt the great gain is not without cost in rnany ways and cf ruany kinds, and to the individnal wbo works at a handicraft it is real and serions. The assessment roll of sewer district No. 7, or W. Liberty st. sewer, was reviewed Monday moruing by the common oouncil, sitting as a board of review. Only about half a dozen objections were made to it. The total amount of rnoney needed for the sewer is $2,056.77. Of this 169.29 comes out of the general sewer fund - that beiug the estimated ' proportion for street crossings, leaving $1,887. 48 to be assessed on the adjoining property. The board raised the assessed valuation ?(i,200 net, the total valuation then being 137,000. Adjoining property will thus be assessed $50 60 per $1,000 for the construotion of the sewer. Ex-Justice Gibson was confined in he connty jail for about two hours Monday morning. Now, it was not for any offeuse that he had committed, lint simply through the forgetfulness of a deputy sherifP, aud the ex-justioe's feelings are considerably ruffled over the fact. He had been allowed to go into the jail to see one of the prisoners whom he was to defend, and the daputy locked the iron doors npon hiru and there he was. It was not until his name was called on the roll of {the Washteuaw oounty bar wben the cirouir court couvened that the depnty recollected where Mr. Gibson was and went aud released him, steamiug with perspiratinn and indignation.