Local Brevities

William Herz bas the contract to do the painting on the new law building. The administraron of the Lord 's Snpper will Ije observed in the Presbyterian chnich next Snnday rnoming. The Kalamazoo Elks are taking steps looking to the organization of an Elks' regiment to take part in the Spanish war. The university hospital has buen offered to tbe United States war department for military puproses shonld war break out. On Monday morning the hearing of the charge against Aaron Canine in Josrice Dnffy's oourt was further adjourned until next Tuesday. The sale of lands in this county on whiob the taxes are unpaid will be held at the treasurer's office next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clook. The Wayne village oouoil bas ordered the Detroit, Ypislauti & Aun Arbor Electric Railway to plank its enlire traok within tbe village limits. George H. Pond preseuted the members of Co. A with a oou[jle of boxes of good oigars Friday nigbt with bis best wishes for all kinds of good lack. The Trinity Lutberan congregation bas now been five years in existence. It was organized Easter Sunday, 1893, with a membership of 40. It now bas 182 mem bers. The period of revival services at the Cburoh of ChrisC olosed on Snnday evening. It is said tbey have been a profitable series of meetings from a religious standpoint. Rev. Ohr. F. Weiser, professor at the Detroit high sohool, delivered a leotore at Bethlebem churcb Sunday evening, on "Fanatioism and Progress, or, the History of Spain up to the Present Time. " Manohester Enterprise: Parties interested in the building of an eleotrio line from Ann Arbor here drove over last Thursday, ooming tbrough Freedom and returning by way of Saline in order to determine wbioh is the more favorable route. They thought the Freedom route pretty hillv. W. A. Gwinuer, Miohael Staebler, Abraham Polhernos, P. F. Reimold, Christ Spaeth and Bmil Golz, charged witlj iufraotiuns of the liquor ]aw oü evideuoe furnished to Marsbal Sweet by the Antli-Saloou League, were arraigned before Justioe Dnffy Saturday. They were repreeeuted by Attorneys Sawyer, Lawrenoe, Brown ana Merrithew. The further beariuj; of the case was adjotiroed nntil May 20. Director Fisober is the only male mernbsr left in the Bethleberu chnrch cboir. All the other mernbers have gone.to Island Lake with Co. A. Lient. Winans, Fifth cavalry, bas been detailed to muster in the Michigan volnnteers. Lient. Winans is a son of the late Gov. Winans of Michigan. Miss Alice ïï. Bacon and Miss Jennie Bogner, u.f tbis oity, have volnnteered thei' services to Governor Pingree to go to the front as nurses shonld oocasiun requite. Consins & Hall, the florists, sent Co. A 100 beautiful red oarnations to the armory Tuesday morning and the boys wore tbem in their hats as they went to tbe depot Wallace G. Palmer has sold ont bis drug business on State st. to George P. Wilder, who for the past two years bas been with E. E. Calkins, and has gone with Co. A to the front. The Ladies of the Maooabees will give a May party at their hall over the post offioe next Thursday, May 5, from 8 until 1 o'olook, aDd a party for cbildren from 4 to 0 in the afternoon. Ice cream and oake will be served. Arthur Brown bas been appoiuted prosecntiug attorney to aot during Capt. John P. Kirk's absenoe with the state troops. Wm Murray, tbe assistaut proseouting attorney, is a raember of Co. A and has also gone to the front. Karl E. Barriman has resigned from the editorial staff of the Detroit Journal to aooept a position on tbe Free Press, commencing May 1. Mr. Harriman has been a regalar contributor to -the Free Press ever since he first went to Detroit. , ■-,-.. Ambrose Miller, of Florence, Mon., bas been recenrly discbarged from tbe Homeopathio hospital oured of a fraoturei lea tbat bad troabled him for 25 years. He was in tbe hospital just three weeks and is lond in his praise of the treatment he reoaived. Edmund Shields, lit '94, law '96, of Howell, bas ealisted for the war witb Spain. He is well known in Ann Arbor as one of the most popular baseball captains the U. of M. aver had. His many friends in Howell are endeavoring to have bim appointed captain of tbe company iieiug organized in that village. Tbe 49tb annual fair of the Michigan State Agricultural Society will be held in Comstook Park, Grand Rápida, during the week of Sept. 2G to 30 inolusive. The special premiums will be a strong feature tbis year. The regular premiums will leave little to be desired. The speed department will exoel all provions efforts. Josepb Soott, the negro chimuey sweep who bas sueb a loud voice, tried to kill Mrs. Theodore Jackson with an axa Saturday morning. He was too druok, bowever, to be succesful in his design, and was arrested and plaoed in jail. When arraigned before Justice Pond Monday morning he waived examination and is now in jail awaiting trial in the circuit court. The Anu Arbor Railroad will run an excursión to Island Lake to see Miobigan's soldier boys, next Sunday inorning, leaving Aun Albor at 9 :15 o'clock standard time. The fare for the round trip will be 75 cents. The Argus would advise tbose who may go to take their lunch boxes with them as there will be but slim cbanoes of their getting anytbing to eat unless tbey do so. Washtenaw Evening Times: "Certain prominent oitizens ask tbe Times for information wby Street Commissioner Ross does not repair the city's sidevvalks as ordered. The Times pauses for a reply." There are other citizene besides the "prominent" ones who would like to know wby the oouncil's orders in tbis respeot are not carried out and they are also "pausing for a reply." Let's have it. The Ypsilanti oommon connoil bas granted permission to the D. , Y. & A. A. Electric Railway Co. to oross tbe Congres st. bridge with its oars under a systern of yearly permits. Tbe railway company is to put the bridge in a safe condition for its use and stand balf tbe oost of a new bridge when it shall beoome neoessary to build one. It is also to take up and abandon the track on Cross st. frorn Washington st. east to the depot, and to oonstruct and maintain a street railway on River st. from Congress se. north to the Miohigan Central. The remains of Mrs. Mary Comiskie, who died in Detroit, were brongbt bere Tuesday and interred in tbe Fit' tb ward cemetery. A meeting of all tbe ex-members of Co. Ais callad at the armory this evening at 8 o'olock. Let nveryone be on band. Tbe oommittee appointed Tuesday wil! make its report. Mrs. Ross Granger will continue the business of the academy on Maynard st. during Capt. Granger's absenoe Witb bis oorapany. Her plnok is to be commended and sbould be crowned with a great measure of suooeas. The oity board of ednoation at a speoial meeting held Monday deoided to grant diplomas to all seDiors in tbe high school in good standing wbo enlist for servioe in the war with Spain. Several of the boys are meinbers of Uo. A. Snuday evening, May 8, a leotnre in tbe Wesleyan Gnild conrse will be given at the First M. E. ohnroh, by Rev. George A. Gordon, D. D., New Old South churoh, Boston. Subjeot, "The Temporal and the Eternal in the Bible." Lansing Republican : George W. Hedges went to Ann Arbor this morning to snbmit to an operation for the removal of certain of the nerves of bis face. He was presented with a purse of $50 by the employés at E. Beruent's Sons' to defray tbe expenses. Sunday afternoon at 2:45, W A. Reid, of Kalamazoo, will speak to men at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Mr. Reid is, at present, general secietary of the assooiation at Kalamazoo, but expects to go to the Klondike very soon to enter Y. M. C. A. work there. Mrs. H. S. Carbart bas presented the Y. M. O. A. with a set of the Amerioan Cyolopedia and sorue bound volumes of tbe National Magazine. Mrs. J. Rice Miner has also given a large number of volumes to tbe asociation. These gifts are appreciated by the boys. Oomplaint haviug been made that a number of tbe cement walks recently laid about tbe oity were not what tney sbould be in quality, the oomrnon oouncil has ordered the city engineer to inspect thein and see that tbey conform to the speoiflcations as adopted by the couuoil. The Town Line oorrespondent of the Milan Leader says a friend of bis informs him tbat tbe word - love in tbe Indian dialeot is "schembendamonrbohevagar. " A fellow woald have to stay later f ban 10 p. m. if he wan teel to teil an Indian maiden that he "scheiabendarnouihchevager-ed" her, very often. The May Festival dates are May 12 to 14. Everything now points to a moet suooessful series of ooncerts. The Ann Arbor Courier says: "Prof. Stanley oan make a great hit by working into sorne of tbe ooncerts sorne national air." Seoond the'motion. Profesor, did you attend Sonsa's band conoert and hear how tbe people "entbused" over popular music? Tnesday morning Justice Duffy rendered bis decisión in tbe damage snit brougbt by Hugb Johnson, oolored, against James H. Lepper, Iandlord of tbe Cook house, for defamation of character. The verdict given was for j six oents damages. Tbis wonld compel Mr. Lepper tu pay the oosts of the snit. It is said be will appeal the oase to the cirouit court. F. E. Mills, seoretary nf the Washteuaw Fair .Society is anxious to obtain tbe name and addiess of eaob person who attended tbe iirst fair of the society held in Ann Arbor, on the ground where tbe old fourth ward school building now stands, in the year 1848. If you know of any suoh person or were yoxirself one of those present at that time and place drop him a postal. Adrián Press : C. il. Cady, an Ann Arbor cbap, last week anuonaoed a great "closing out" sale of crookery, inoluding plates cops and "bowels. " When a man disposes of bis bowels, he ought to be pretty well olosed out. Any man witb a heart wouldn't sell his bowels unless bis stomach was out of order. A man must live in Ann Arbor, right in the shadow of our great university in order to underatand scieutiflo physiology, whioh classifles bowels as crookery. Must be something wroog with Cady's department of the interior. Bowels must be a sort of vegetable dish. James Kettletot, of Dexrer, bas been grauted au original pension of $6 a morith. A special meeting of the connoil will be held tbis evening to pass on the liquor bonds. A staff bas been placed od the city building from which a brand new flag uow floats to the breeze. Dr. George F. Burke, of Detroit, brother of Dr. H. J. Bnrke, of this oity, is a member of the Detroit Naval Reserves and is listedo go to the front when the naval deparcmeut gets ready to let them do so. Adrián Telegram: TbeCitizens' telepbone lines are now conneoted with Detroit, JVIonroe, Auu Arbor, Mt. Clemens and many other towns, and have begon state service. The new circuit is a metallio copper line, and the company expeots to offer flrst clags servioe. James E. Scripps is thinking of reruoving tbe Ünversity of Michigan to Detroit. Guess not, right away, James. Anu Arbor is plenty large enough for tbe university, and wben the institution gets crowded, it can fiud plenty of room to grow right where it is. - Penton Independent. Prof. M. E. Cooley evidently thinks that war with Spain will not prove a snap. Hesays: "We bave bitten off an awful montbful. Wben we see the people of Spain going down into their pockets for oash to carry on the war, we may deoide that they are in earnest aud will flght to the last ditoh." Detroit Free Press: A papil ata school in Volina township, Cass oonnty, wrote the following pointed essay on Columbus: "Columbas was the father of our country. He killed many Indiana and discovered America. He was a very smart man beoause he graduated at Ann Arbor. Tbis is abuat all I know." Airs. Mary F. Armstrong bas filed a bilí for divoroe from Sylvester Armstrong on theground of extreme cruelty and also asks for tbe care of tbeir son Stanley aged nine years, Mrs. Neil Corazzi, of Ypsilanti, bas applied for a divorce from Harry Corazzi on the groDDd of desertion. She also asks for tbe oare of tbeir dangbter Grace Corazzi, aged 14 years. A student went into Parker's saloon Tuesday nigbt and left bis new bioycle standing in tbe alley. Wben he carne out be fonnd it in ruins. Tbe tires and saddle bad been ent in pieces, tbe wooden rims smasbed, and tbe spokes kicked and trampled all out of chape. It was a dastardly, mean aot. A fellow student is euspeoted of the orime. The case is in tbe hands of the marsbal. On Tbntsday evening, May S, at High School hall, "Aunt Jernsha's Family Album" will be opened for the first time to tbe public view. Aunt Jerusba bas many pictares of men and womeu of local and national repute wbich will prove very interesting. Those who enjoy a hearty laugh will do well to remember this date and place. Ten cents admission will be oharged. George R. Kelly, local agent for the American steamship line between Pbiladelpbia and Liverpool, has been notifled by tbe bead offices tbat he can continue to book passengers as usual since the steamsbips belonging to tbat line will hereafter sail nnder the neutral tiaga of England and Belgium. This is a war measore only, but aesures against annoyance all passengers traveling by this line. - Times. Health Offioer Gibbes, of Detroit, is tbreatened with a $10,000 law suit by James Naeyart who charges tbe health offleer and Milk Inspector Farrand with malioious proseoution in a oase where Naeyart was charged with peddling milk wben hn had a case of scarlet fever iu bis house. He was atquitted and anotber charge was made against bim for baving his closet too near bis dairy. Tbe healtb board w441 stand solidly bebind Dr. Gibbes. At the regular meeting of the common counoil Monday evening a new bicyle ordinance will be presentad. It will require ligbted lamps after dark, bells or wbistles and allow wheelmen to ride at a six-mile gait. During wet weather wheelmen can use the sidewalks in certain distriots. Tweutyfive patrohnen are to be appointed without pay from among wbeelmen to aid in enforcing the ordinance. It is expeoted that these provisions will be generally aoceptable to wheelmen. The conditions of tbe present moment give a special interest to Mr. Hamliu Garland's intímate story of tbe last year in the life of General Grant, published in MoUlure's Magazine for May, sinoe Grant is still our proudest memory and our readiest inspiration in a season of particular warward impulse. VVbile in it s main lines Mr. Garland's story is, of neoessity, tbe familiar one of nnspeakable suffering. borne witb heroio patience, yet it adds a nnmber of new incidents and nnpublished passages from Grant's lest oonversations tbat are of great interest. Rev. C. T. Allen delivered a most powerful sermón to Co. G, at the First M. E chureb, Ypsilanti, Snnday morning. Over 2,000 people were present and sucb a scène as was tben presented bas not been seen in Ypsilanti sinoe the war of the rebellion. In closing he gave the boys sound advice, based upou personal experience in tbe last war. Wben in his remarks be asked tbat tbe names of widowed ruotbers aud sisters be left with tbe ministers in order tbat words of oomfort be giveu, there wae soarcely a dry eye in the oongregation. A happy little incident bappened in front of tbe cburch as the boys were marchiug up to the service. A little girl stood on tbe steps and violently waved an Amerioan flag at them for a welcome. "Salute colors, " ordered fiieut. MoKeand and every soldier uncovered bis head in honor of tbe flag.