Local Brevities

A premier of Spain named Sagata Kemarked : "I don'toare a piaster! The Cubaos, we need 'em, I won't give 'em freedom!" But, oh, he will find that he has ter! - New York Journal. C. Lincoln McGuire has enlistad in Co. C, Second Regiment of Michigan Volunteers. Seven oarloads of Ann Arbor people went to see the boys in camp at Island Lake on Sunday. Roland Reed will iiiake his next appearance in Ann Arbor at the Athens Theater. Deo. 9. Dr. H. K. Ijum will shortly open au office in the Henning block, in the rooms formerly oocupied by John R. Miner. About 50 people were out at Hamburg Junction Sunday and enjoyed the first excursión of the season to tbat popular plaae of lake reeorts. Leónidas Hubbard, who has been a reporter on the Reigster for a long time, has aocepted a position on the sfcaff oL the Detroit Evening News. John B. Hillman enlisted in Co. G, First Regiment, Sunday. He passed the medical examination all rigbt and was niustered into the Qnited States servioe with the oompany. Mr. W. D. Crocker, one of the proprietors of the Ypsilanti Commercial aud Miss Josephine Hemphill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hemphill, of Ypsilauti, were married in that city at noon en Wednesday. "My visit to Cuba" will be Rev. J. T. Sunderland's subject at the ünitarian churoh next Sunday eveniug. The lecture will be illustrated with about 40 stereoptioon views of Havana and other parts of the island. An exoursion will be run to Detroit on tbe Michigan Central f'rom Jackson, Saturday, May 31, for the benefit of the Dexter Soldiers' Monument Associaticn. Fare from Dexter $1.05, Aun Arbor 90 cents, Ypeilanti 75 cents. Times, YpsilaDti end: "Four traveling mexioans with instruments that were a cross between a suokling pig and hobois made tbe foioe of antique eggs to up this morning. " Now, what on earth was Cramer trying to get at in that item. Two great preachers were at the First M. E. ohuroh od Sunday last. In the morning Bishop Fowler, of Buft'alo, N. Y., preached to an immense congregation, and in the evening Dr. George A. Gordon, of Boston, Mass., leotured iu the Wesleyan Guild course on "Tbe temporal and the eternal in the Bible." A ïï FARMER. There is a farmer who is yy Enough to take his ee. And study nature with hi9 il And think of what he cc. He hears the chatter of the jj Ae they each other tt. And gees that when a tree dkk It makes a home for bb. A yoke of oxen he will uu With many haws and gfe, , And their mistakes he wfll xqq When ploujrlimg for his pp. He little lm s, but much he sells And tlieivfore little oo: And wli. n hu hoes his soil by spells He als'i -oils his hose. There have been 78 deaths in this oity sinoe Jan. 1, 1898. Wïn. B. Johnson, the janitor of the School of Musio, was married last Sunday, at London, Eng. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will return here to reside abont May 25. The Ann Arbor pastoral conferenoe of Evangelical obnroh ministers was held here Wednesday and yesterday. Abont 12 delégales wera present from out of town. Charles F. Meyers, finanoe keeper of Johnson Tent, K. O. T. M., bas received a oheok for $1,000, beinp the amount of insurance carried by the late Gruy W. Stevenson. Willie Maulbetsch, aged 14, was on Tuesday sentenceel by Justice Duffy to the reform school at Lansing to remain until he is 18 years of age. Marshal Sweet took him there on Wednesday. General Manager Ashley of tbe Ann Arbor road bas issued an order calling fpr a mass meeting of employés at Durand next Snnday to t?ke steps toward the organiation of a sick and aooident insurance company. Edward, the 12 years old son of Emil G-olz, died of inflammatory rbeumatisru Tuesday evening at the home of his parents. The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon,, Rev. Jobn Neumann offleiating. MiltOD W. Guy's oration has been approved by the seoretary of the Peninsular Oratorioal League. He will represent tbe Ann Arbor high school in the oontest wbicb takes plaoe bere öatnrday, May 28. The semi-annual apportionment of primary school money has been made on the basis of 50 oeuts for each ohild nf sohool age. Washtenaw oouuty's share is $(,015 for 12,030 ohildren. Aun Arbor's share is $1,270. Courier: Now that Dr. E. A. Clark has been appointed bealtb ofñoer of tbe oity it is hoped he will have sand enougb to take hold of tbose public nnisances, tbe alaughter houses, next door to the Fifth ward school house. Harry Saunders, Don Stark, Don Turner, Charles Campion and Charles Roney, members oL .1. T. Jaoobs Camp, S. of V., have been examinad by Dr. John Boylan for admission to the S. of V. oompany to be raised in this state and passed successfully. VVeloh Corps, V. R. C, sent "housewives" to eaoh member of Co. A, Tuesday. Tbe little books contain shears, needies, thread and buttons and will be very convenient things for the boys as buttons will come off and holes will come when there is no woman around to fix theru. On Friday moruing Justice Dntïy sent William S. Collum tn jail for five days for being drank and disorderly. Monday afternoon he died there of delirium tremens brought on by his constant and exoessive use of intoxioating liqnors. The reraaios were taken to Lake Ridge Wednesday morning for interment. Mrs. Gardener W. Nichols, mother of Drs. W. W. and A. C. Nichols and Charles Nichols, of this city, died about 4 o'olook Wednesday morning at her home in Hudson. A telegram was received here at 12 o'olock on Tuesday night that she had had a stroke of paralysis and oonld not survive. The brothers left Wednesday to attend the funeral. Mrs. Nichols was over 80 years old. , A three days' meeting of the Western Drawing Teachers' Association was held in Detroit last week. Among the exhibits displayed tbere was one which was the work of pupils in the Ann Arbor sohoqls. It reoeived a great many words of' praise, espeoially on its free hand outting and illustrated work. The assooiation inolndes stat.es froia Michigan to Utah. Six oities of Michigan were representen by exnibits. Mrs. Anna B. Baob, president of the school board, and all the prinoipals of the ward schools were present at the exhibition. Bom, Friday morning to Mr. aDd Mrs. Wm. Keedle, of the Nurthside, a 80D. New flags 6x10 feet in size now float from the flagpoles oa the several ward schools and the high school. L. L. Frazier, of Cantón, 111., has rented .T. H. Cntting's hoose on S. Ingalls st, and will take posseesion at once. The Michigan Telephone Co. is fitting up the rooms over Martin Schaller's store for its exohange and will remove there about Jnne 2. Leonard Bassett has sold his house and lot on Thompson st. to Mrs. Cornelia Newman, of Almont, who will oconpy the premises about the flrst of June. Rev. T. W. Yonng will deliver the annual address before Welc:h Post, G. A. R., and Women's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans on Sunday, May 29, at 10:30 a. m., at the First Baptist ohuroh. The Ann Arbor High Sohool baseball team defeated the team from the Detroit High Sohool at the fair grounds Friday afteinoon by a score of 14 to 8. Tbe battery for onr boys was White and Bennett ; for Detroit, E. Badger and J. Badger. Ann Arbor Commandery, No. ]3, K. T., presented its past eminent commander James R. Baoh with a handeome diamond emblem ring, of whicb he is exoeedingly proud. Bat it does not equal tbe $400 diamond giveu him by the Elks. At the annual meeting of Michigan Commandery, Loyal Legión, held atGrand Rapdis Thursday of last week, Justice Claudius B. Grant was elected commander. Dr. W. F. Breakey, of Ann Arbor, was oh osen a mem ber of the commandery council. John T. Forohue, tne colored barber who wants to raise a company of colored men for servios in the war, has received word from Secretary of War Alger and Assistant Adjt. -Gen. Richardson, of Lansing, that if more troops are needed he will be given a ohance to recruit his oompany. Mr. Charles Williams, formerly of this city, now in the employ of th Ann Arbor Railroad Co. at Alma, was married Tuesday to Miss Nina Cahoon, of that city. His brother James Williams and his sister Miss Theresa Williams attended the wedding, the former aoting as best man. George Morgan, law '93, who bas worked many a day in the Argus offioe whileworking his way through college, and who was reoogniezd as one of the tastest compositors that ever set type in Anu Arbor, now holds a position in the Modern Woodmen, at Rock Island, 111., whioh carries with it a salary of $1,800 a year. At the meeting of Fraternity Lodge, No. 262, F. &A. M., on Friday evening, the qnestioD of obanging the meetDg nigbt to Wednesday instead of Friday was voted on. It was jast about uuauimoDsly deoided to hold to the present night. The decisión gives general satisfaction among the members 1 deut in the city. Dr. W. B. Hinsdale, dean of the Homeopathie medical college will give a lecture in the Unitarian church next Monday evening (May 16) on "The Dangets to onr Army from Disease, íd oase of an Invasión of Cuba." Thia will be the last lecture in the Unity Clnb oourse for the season, and takes the place of the "Heine Evening." The vote for the teachers' special prizes at the coming county fair up to April 12 is as follows : Miss W. L. Bender S Miss Emily Gundert 7 Miss Emüy Marstake 5 Miss Anna Shannon 27 Miss Sarah O'Brien 5 Miss Anna Clinton 4 Miss Carrie Reed - 5 Miss Mabel Koot 5 Miss Lena Mallory 7 Miss Laura I. Mills 35 Several newspaper ohanges will take plaoe in Ann Arbor next Monday. Alvick A. Pearson, who has for two years past had oharge of the local department of the Times, will resign to take George H. Pond's position on the Courier. Seward Cramer is to be transfeired from Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor on the Times, and George Halier will assuiue Mr. Cramer's duties in Ypsilanti. At the same time L. Hubbard, local editor on the Register, severa his oonneotion on that paper to take a position on the staft' of the Detroit Evening News. B. A. Finuey bas purohased J. T. .Taoobs' lot on Tappan st. The senate has confirrued the appointmenfc of George H. Pond as postm aster of Ann Arbor. Henry J. Brown has been eleoted secretary and treasnrer of the Forest Hill Cemetery Association ín place of the late E. B. Pond. The Y. M. C. A. oleared $42.80 from its lyoeum oourse. Coinmittees bave been appointed to seonre anotber higb class oonrse for next year. Grasa Lake News: City Engineer Key, of Ann Arbor wears false moustaobes and baving Jost bis best pair a reward is offered in the Conrier for their recovery. Tbe latge tile tbat are to be pnt into the storm sewers on Main st. look arnply big enougb to oarry off all tbe snrplns watei. Tbey are larger even tban those in tbe rnain sewer. John Schneider, jr. , bas bad bis saloon on W. Washington st., tboroofihly novated and tbe walls fresoqed and tinted. He now bas a very neat and tasty place of business. The grand lodge A. O. U. W. of Michigan, bas issned a general order stating tbat all members of tbe order who 20 to tbe front will reoeive proteotion, insnranoe being paid to their families in oase of deatb. On aooonnt of the May Festival, tbe regalar montbly meeting of tbe ; tal Cirole of tbe King's Dangbters will be deferred for one week. It wiJl be beid at Harris bal), on Sattmlay afternoon, May 21, at 2:30 o'olook. Messrs. Crane and Sawyer applied to the supreme court for a mandamns compelling Judge Kinne to grant a cbange of venne in the case of Howard Stockwell vs. Joseph Doane. Wm. Judson, et al. On Friday the court issned an otder reqniring Judge Einne to show canse why he sbould not allow the case to be heard in another oounty. The Miohigan Central has jnst adopted a handsome trademark. The design is of a wiaged feinale figure indicating speed, beating above her a sbield emblazoned with a view of a Miohigan Central train at Niágara Falla, tbe crest of tbe sbield being a great looomotive. On a tablet lielow appear the nanies of tbe principal cttieu touched by tbe line. Elijab P. Brown, better known as "the Ram 's Hom Man," by reason of bis baving been the fonnder and editor of that paper, and whose pointed sayings and witty paragraphs have been so widely anoted, bas reoently severed bis oonnection with it. He is preparing some of his writings for publication in book forrn, and will devote a part of bis time to leotnring. A prominent merohant took some pille home with him the other day and laid them on the dresser tbiaking that he would nse them in tbe evening before retiring. Daring" the afternoon bis wife saw them therë and thonght they were sweet peas and took them ont and planted them. As a result that part of the city is all in a state of - physio. Mrs. .M. Pratt, of Pawaino, Mioh., an aunt of Coroner Harris Ball, cama bere 10 days ago to nmiergo an operation for the rein oval of several tumors wbioh would have speedily terminated her life. Tbe operation wae perfornied Wednesday at tbe homeopathie hospital, bat sbe only survived it a few honrs. Mrs. Pratt was 68 years old. The remains were to Pawamo for interiuenr last evening. The Detroit Soap Works factory in Detroit was destroyed by fire Saturday morning involving a loss of $100,000, on whioh there was $62,500 insurance. Tbe Detroit Soap Works Co. comprises Samuel Post, sr. , of Ypsilanti, and his two sods. Mr. Post is negotiating for a faotory in Chicago and one in Zanesvlile, Ohio, in which to carry on the business until a new factory can be ereoted in Detroit. Miss Eliza Doty, sister of Mrs. H. P. Finley; of S. lugalls st., died at the home of her brother Duane Doty iu Pullman, Dl., on Friday, after an illness of two weeks with acute pneumonia. The funeral serivces were held at the home of Mrs. Finley Saturday afternoon, and weie conducted by Rev. Henry Tatlock. Interment was in Forest Hill cemetery. The deceased lady was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Doty, of W. Huron st. Manchester Enterprise: We hear some of onr citizens complaining beoause they have not ordered tbat big cannon from Fortress MoBrne. Pshaw, there is time cnough for that. When we wbip Spain we will have lots of cannons on hand, and big ones too. Let us attend to the war business we have in hand first, then we will return to peaceful pursuits, consoious of having done our duty to those who are living as well asto those who are dead. At its animal meeting Monday night the Epworth League of the First M E. ohnroh ohoee the following offloers for the ensuing year: D. W. Springer, president; Miss Carrie Dicken, first vice president-, Miss Gertrode Fales, seoond vioe president; F. L. Mulholland, third vice president; Miss Jeanette StormB, ïourth vioe president; Miss Nellie Wilcox, seoretary; Clarence W. Noble, treasurer. The affairs of the LeaRue are in a prosperóos condition. The Ladies' Auxiliaiy of the Y. M. C. A. has a newplan for adding ruoney to the association building fund. It is to boom the sale of Kirk's "White Cloud" soap in this city and to gather in the wrappers. The soap manufaoturers will pay $12.90 cash for 1,000 wrappers. The ladies, therefore, earne&tly request all friends of the association to purobase "White Clood" soap of their grooers, and preserve the wrappers. Central points will be chosen where these wrappers may be left. The boys of tbe association have voted to uid in tbe sóbeme.